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Conservative vs. liberal TV

As if more evidence were needed that liberal-leaning Americans are more intelligent (and have better taste) than conservatives: The top-ten Republican-tilted shows are “The Office,” “Rules of Engagement,” “The Mentalist,” “New Yankee Workshop,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Castle,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “The Biggest Loser,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” The top ten most Democratic-leaning [...]

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Obama’s rhetoric vs. Obama’s policy

Mm, tasty: But as liberals have repeatedly learned to their dismay, the devil is not in the poetry of the president’s election-time rhetoric but in the prose of his apparent eagerness to seek out a compromise on almost any Republican proposal offered him. Liberals have spent decades trying to adjudicate the claims of their conflicting [...]

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Bye-bye, Barack Obama

Tonight, I make a pledge to myself: when November 6, 2012 rolls around, I will be voting for anyone but Barack Obama. Halfway into his presidency, what has President Obama done for our country? He has escalated the increasingly hopeless war in Afghanistan and has staged a fake drawdown of troops in Iraq. He’s failed [...]

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Targeted assassinations of U.S. citizens

Every passing day gives me another reason to be disappointed in our president and our government. Not, mind you, because Barack Obama too “liberal” or “socialist” or “fascist” or “communist” or any other nonsensical and insupportable-by-reality slur but because, quite to the contrary, he has ushered in what seems to me a stunted, overly-measured, carefully [...]

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Immediate thoughts on Scott Brown’s election

I’m pretty pissed that my senator—a representative of Massachusetts, no less—supports torturing prisoners, opposes health care reform, opposes cap-and-trade, opposes gay marriage, opposes reproductive rights for women… We gave the Republicans eight years to run our country into the ground, and now we’re pissed at the Democrats because they haven’t fixed all the damage in [...]

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Safety, symbolism, or both?

Donning protective masks the second the American cyclists arrive in China… how symbolically pleasing for someone concerned with China’s rampant human rights abuses. Photo from the New York Times. Share this entry:

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Ledger runs opinion piece, Justin cracks up

The Patriot Ledger ran an opinion piece by a Weymouth reader, Irving Murstein, in today’s issue. After the first few paragraphs, my mouth was wide open in disgust. After a few more paragraphs, I was cracking up. It’s past time for the president to come on TV in a living room chat about the energy [...]

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John McCain, and other tidbits

I need to wake up in 4.5 hours for work. I’ve been trying to take the T to work, but the garage at Braintree is always full and I have nowhere to park my car, so I just get on the highway and deal with traffic and construction and gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [...]

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Senior Class Representative election

Well, I’ve officially thrown my hat into the ring, so to speak. I am running for Senior Class Representative in the Wesleyan Student Assembly, and voting started about twenty minutes ago, at midnight. I’ve got my slick campaign website finally finished, a Facebook Event started up, and campaign posters on the way. I plan on [...]

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I knew Cafferty was a good guy!

China’s pissed that CNN’s Jack Cafferty insulted their Communist government! Oh no! “I don’t know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different,” Cafferty said. “We’re in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They’re holding hundreds of billions of [...]

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