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Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Still pawns in their game

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Digby has a (as usual) excellent post today in response to David Frum’s observation that Republicans would be ahead even among the youth of this country if we only count white people. Frum makes no attempt to hide the fact that his underlying assumption is that white folks are the only legitimate Americans: the legacy […]

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Calling a spade a spade

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Just an observation. In this morning’s Courant we learn that the Libyans used “harsh interrogation techniques” on the Palestinian doctor that they accused of infecting children with AIDS. Except for some reason I can’t entirely fathom, the word “torture” is used. I noted a while back that the New York Times (and the Times is […]

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Ignorance of the law-the Republican excuse

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I’m really puzzled. I found my way to this article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune about the Senator from Louisiana. It seems the normally law and order Republicans have an awfully forgiving attitude about criminal behavior, providing it’s one of their own that is committing the crimes. Then again, that’s been standard operating procedure since […]

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Hypocrites in training

Thursday, July 19, 2007

College Republicans, brought to you be Max Blumental. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs[/youtube] (This post dedicated to one of my commenters, who exhibits a similar mindset.)

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Pulling out motes

Monday, June 18, 2007

From the Moscow Times we learn that Colin Powell, Bush enabler par excellence, has seen fit to lecture the Russians on Democracy: Walking a tightrope between praising Russia’s post-Soviet progress and encouraging the government to open up, General Powell reiterated Washington’s line that the Cold War was over and U.S. military expansion would not hurt […]

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