Tag Archives: suicide

Blaming the Social Conservatives

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Lee

As readers will know, I’m certainly no apologist for the social conservative movement in either its style or purposes. But it seems to me to be an awful injustice to lay at their feet the defeat of John McCain, in … Continue reading →

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Jason Linkins is a Crazier Guy

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Lee

Jason Linkins takes exception to my reading his Huffington Post editorial about the silly ‘lipstick’ controversy as a suicide fantasy. He protests in his defense that he didn’t want to shoot himself, he wanted to shoot other people. Wonderful. How … Continue reading →

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Jason Linkins is a Crazy Guy

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Lee

I would agree that the ‘lipstick on a pig’ controversy is a manufactured bit of political silliness, expressly designed to fill a news cycle. But that’s pretty much all it is in my view. Jason Linkins on the other hand … Continue reading →

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Fannie and Freddie Taken Over

Posted on September 7, 2008 by MikeR

Redstate A good description of what just happened to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some reasons why. This made me laugh. “If we were in China, they’d probably have “committed suicide” with bullets inexplicably entering the backs of their … Continue reading →

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