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Floyd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:56:34 +0000

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled California’s Prop. 8 banning gay marriage to be unconstitutional. Over to Col. Renault who is no doubt shocked!

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional.

But backers of [...]

Ironically… When Choosing Flooring She Also Chooses Carpet Over Wood

Floyd — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:14:49 +0000

Actress — and lesbian — Cynthia Nixon, most famously from Sex and the City, has run afoul of the gay PC mafia by stating that she chose to be gay.

Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political.

The [...]

Not So Fast

Floyd — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:42:30 +0000

Robert Kagan of The Brookings Institution (and the Reagan Administration among many other posts) has an interesting piece entitled “Against the Myth of American Decline at The New Republic (of all places!):

Is the United States in decline, as so many seem to believe these days? Or are Americans in danger of committing [...]

Estupido

Floyd — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:06:58 +0000

Photo courtesy of National Geographic

A man was gored and then trampled to death by a “flaming-horned bull”:

A flaming-horned bull trampled and fatally gored a man early Saturday during a festival in eastern Spain, an official said.

Large balls of flaming wax are traditionally affixed to the beasts’ heads before they are let [...]

Closing the Door Behind You

Floyd — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:16:03 +0000

A pretty consistent question I get from students over the years is why do liberals often appear to be either very rich or very poor. The very por are easy to explain… they are often direct beneficiaries of government largesse. But what do affluent people get from big government liberal policies like the environmental [...]

Rock the Vote? Not So Fast Idiot. Rock That La-Z-Boy Instead.

Floyd — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:59:25 +0000

Just because you have the right to vote doesn’t mean you need to exercise it. Think about it lazy dudes feeding off the government teat… even voting sounds like hard work — it’s exercise! John Stossel expresses well what I have thought and talked about for a long while now. Ignorant people need not [...]

Why People Who Vote Based on Race Are Dumb

Floyd — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:24:48 +0000

Newsweek finally descends below the intellectual level of Mad Magazine. Two things… 1. Newsweek still prints? 2. I thought Andrew Sullivan was dead.

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Gun Control — Emphasis on Control

Floyd — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:14:27 +0000

Instapundit linked to a great piece by Michael Walsh in The New York Post on the origins of New York’s gun control laws:

Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of [...]

Irony is So Ironic

Floyd — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:03:57 +0000

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

This is genius… pure and simple… and maddening

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Dear LA Times: W Magazine = Also Racist?

Wankette — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:25:52 +0000

Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times:

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...]