By Mark | January 20, 2011
We can argue all day all day long as to whether or not Sarah Palin’s violent imagery and rhetoric contributed in any way to Jared Loughner’s decision last week to kill his Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords. What can’t be argued, however, is that, several months ago, Palin’s fellow Fox News personality, Glenn Beck, played a pivotal […]
Posted in Media, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Add new tag, Byron Williams, FOX News, Gabrielle Giffords, Glenn Beck, irresponsible rhetoric, Jared Loughner, Karl Marx is their George Washington, Progressive Hunter, rhetoric of violent revolution, shoot them in the head, swastika, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the threat of Socialism, things that will blow your mind, threats of violence, Tides Foundation, violence on the extreme right |
By Mark | September 26, 2010
A few days ago, on the site, a conversation that we were having about Christine O’Donnell was hijacked by some folks who wanted to discuss the Constitution. I’m probably going to oversimplify this, but, according to my recollection (I’ll be damned if I go back and read through the whole thread again), there were essentially […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Politics | Also tagged Antonin Scalia, Articles of Confederation, Brackinald Achery, Constitution, Constitution worship, constitutional idolatry, constitutionalists, EOS, first principles, founding principles, Heritage Foundation, infantile, Libertarianism, Michael Klarman, nuclear weapons, states rights, strict constructionists, suitcase nukes, Supreme Court, tea party, Theodore Roosevelt, We Still Hold These Truths, Woodrow Wilson |
Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, […]
Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Politics | Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Alamo, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, Christian nation, Jefferson Davis, Joe McCarthy, John Calvin, Mary Helen Berlanga, Orwellian, removal of the word democratic, rewriting history, social studies, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Education Board, Texas Freedom Network, textbooks, Thomas Jefferson |
By Mark | August 18, 2009
Our favorite FOX News personality, Glenn Beck, has a new book out. In tribute to Thomas Paine’s brilliant pamphlet of the same name, it’s called “Common Sense.” Or, to be more specific, it’s called “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine.” Which, I guess, from a marketing perspective, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Marketing, Media, Observations, Politics | Also tagged Age of Reason, Agrarian Justice, Amazon, American history, beat downs by founding fathers, book reviews, Common Sense, estate tax, fake crying, FOX News, give to the poor, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, misunderstanding American history, origins of American liberalism, progressive taxation, progressivism, public education, social security, tax the rich, taxation, The Crisis, the progressive agenda, The Rights of Man |
“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one […]
