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Archive for November 24th, 2007

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Cult ALERT; Paul Supporters May Kill Selves, Kids

By Mona
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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch have a disturbing piece in today’s WaPo on what the Ron Paul phenomenon portends:

College kids (a key bloc of Paul’s support) have seen no recent evidence that the GOP has anything to do with libertarianism. Yet there’s no reason to believe that Democrats will do anything [...]

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Thought for the Day

Man is a featherless biped that likes to be right.

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Things Unqualified Offerings Told You Months Ago

Working-class women like Hillary Clinton.

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

More Tyranny of Unelected Bureaucrats

Frech prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case. Stupid Code Napoleon. What the hell say do prosecutors have in a third-party suit anyway? At least the officials are upholding a cherished principle of universal justice:
The FIDH said it had received a letter from the prosecutors’ office ruling that Rumsfeld benefited from a “customary” immunity from prosecution [...]