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<harveyj> Someone ask Sarah Palin if we should ban the NRA from Oklahoma City
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<harveyj> * Aerion makes a cheap shot about John Boehner rooting for the Dutch team
How to make BP pay
We’ve been discussing how to make BP pay for the cleanup of the oil spill for a little while. It’s common knowledge by now that BP’s liability is limited to $75M, and the fund that is associated with that liability cap can pay out $1B for the incident. In doing some half-assed research on the [...]
Experts on making black water
Rather than cleaning up the mess, it might just be easier if BP changed its name to “Xe”.
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Rand Paul has lots of black friends. Some of his best friends are black.
Rand Paul, Liberatarianism, and You
I would like to pose the following question: What the fuck is libertarianism?
I will propose the premise that to be a legitimate political school of thought requires both a guiding ideology and a basis for implementing that ideology through policy. For example, as a first order approximation, I would say that modern progressivism is based [...]
Does it mean it’s shaped like a mushroom?
20% of respondents to a Zogby Interactive poll (yeah, yeah) this week said that they are not buying gas from BP because of the oil spill.
I think these people are making a very important statement. And that statement is, “Hey, everyone, I don’t understand what fungible means!”
[Constitutional] Amendments
We have them. Republicans are clearly aware of this, as noted by the oft-cited second and tenths such item. (Well, half the of the second, anyway.) There’s also this:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they [...]
Quick test
In any immigration reform debate, I think there’s a quick test each participant should undergo: In a few sentences, explain why Mexican immigration should be limited.
Pencils down. Does your response contain the word “Spanish”? Congratulations, you might be racist!