Puffin’s Place

No More Faith: The Senate Topples Into Incompetence
by Hunter
Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 07:30:03 AM PDT
It seems absolutely assured that there is no American problem or catastrophe that will not be dealt with by our government by lavish, staggering public giveaways to the very corporations most directly responsible for the problem. We are currently mired [...]

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I’ll be returning to this blog regularly very shortly, but did want to jump in for a couple of quick thoughts.
Reading Christpher Hitchens’ God is Not Great recently and want to share a delicious last line: “We have first to transcend our prehistory, and escape the gnarled hands which reach out to drag us back [...]

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Why is Obama sustaining Bush’s Constitution-breaking faith based government office?
The first amendment makes clear “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government [...]

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Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessnes, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
President 1831-1881

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Do you know that you can set up a snopes.com feed?
If you do not and you have an email account, let me caution you against two items currently going around.
One email sets forth the theory that the Obamas funded their college educations with “funny money.” The subsequent letter is full of fraud, hysteria, and provincialism [...]

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Don’t miss The Onion’s video report on Bush’s tour of America to observe the Damage caused by his disastrous presidency.

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All of the hullabaloo about Michele and Barack Obama might remind us that being among the elite is no bad thing to be. Especially when the label is applied by others.
For reasons transparently envious, the Obamas are constant targets of the unfunny (cf Joel Stein’s strained efforts to write standup in a recent LA Times [...]

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I spent a bit of time yesterday accosting folks in shopping centers to spread the word about registration in my state and the newly-opened Obama headquarters in my town.
Perhaps it is fanciful thinking, but those who support Obama seem a bit different from those who grunted and scurried away. It is as though the sense [...]

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I continue to be gobsmacked by the sequence of miles between what Obama said and what people—not even in his San Francisco audience—purport to have heard.
One expects Hillary Clinton and McCain to make a meal of this once they have distorted his words sufficiently to raise a row. One expects the media to leap upon [...]

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And the logic behind the firestorm of the following Washington Post blog report of Obama comments is?
Obama dismissed the idea that his struggles were based on his race, and instead offered lengthy observations about working-class disenfranchisement and its political manifestations.
“In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have [...]

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