My brother took the
Battleground God quiz, so I thought I’d see how I did, too. I “bit a bullet” twice (meaning according to them I hold onto beliefs that are logically consistent but most people would find odd or offensive) and took no “direct hits”—meaning all my answers were logically consistant (again, according to [...]

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As long as it doesn’t cost anything.
We all know Bush has been starving first-responders. Police, fire departments, and the like. Yeah, he requested more money for them from Congress, but he also requested they cut practically every other program they had to make up for the “increase” in funding.
Well, now the Army Times is [...]

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[warning, this entry is *long*]
OK, so this morning I was walking downtown thinking about _Lawrence v. Texas_. A lot of conservatives are upset because they think the court’s opinion logically leads to a forced legalization of (in Scalia’s words) “bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity.”
Now, when I first read [...]

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Anyone else getting the impression Justice O’Connor is voting by coin toss?
Anyway, to the meat:
bq. Reading his dissent from the bench, a signal of particularly strong disagreement, Scalia said that the ruling “effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation,” and would pave the way for “judicial imposition of homosexual marriage, as has recently occurred [...]

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Today I am participating in a little bit of fun. Talk show host Michael Savage has been annoying a few bloggers out there with lawsuits because he doesn’t like what they have to say about him. Savage been trying to sue them for using his name for commercial gain.
Neal Pollack has suggested we all take [...]

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