So vain is Newt about his intellectual aspirations, he actually committed a moment of intellectual honesty.
Once the logjam was broken by his consideration that perhaps 90 instead of 180 million skimmed off the bust out would have been "enough", Newt has gone full tilt Socialist, talking about "common" goals, and "common" good.
Dispatch from the siege and fall of the Patriarchy
Ever since human females, alone among mammals, evolved the ability to hide from their reproductive partners the onset of estrus, human males have responded with varying levels of paternity insecurity syndrome.
As the few substantive pros and many cons have been hashed out here almost to death, can we step back and make a reasoned estimate of the impact of the current struggle upon the likelihood (Oh, please Jesus, you could have my pony back) of a Ron Paul third party run.
Aside from the entertainment value, I pretty much think it would lock in Obama, though he'd lose some votes (like me) to Paul.
I wonder about the down ballot races? Would the additional turnout to be expected be leavened with dem or pug leaners as to congress? I have no clue.
This is a pivot from the justifications elsewhere raised in connection with the assasination of Anwar Al-Alwaki (and, parenthetically, his minor son--too bad Al-A's father didn't include the kid in his original lawsuit, he mighta won on the standing issue if he sued for his grandkid, but who'da thunk we'd snuff the kid too...)
I have earlier flirted with the lure of the one-issue constituent, or more precisely in Paul's case, three issues...) and I have humbly swallowed the inevitable scorn that (deservedly) is heaped upon one who would ignore acres of batshit crazy evil, so blinded by the beacon glare of an end to oppressive adventure abroad and at home.
I know that I am overworking the Thelma and Louise reference, but surely the astonishing, unprecedented, failure of a front running aspirant to get his name on an important ballot is a direct consequence of having lost his entire staff of professionals.
Jacked directly up by Sean Hannity after the most recent debates, Ron Paul flat out repudiates the disgusting racist crap published in his eponymous newsletter some time ago.
I'm inclined to take him at his word--He could, after all, only have two acceptable responses:
Showing a nimblenss of adaptation that somehow eludes the more cumbersome apparatus of our multileveled governments OWS is putting up large cold weather tents that will empower the continued and ongoing anchoring of the uprising and also permit them appropriately to extend their hospitality to the otherwise unsheltered.
So wrote the great Chief Justice John Marshall, in 1819.
He probably did not mean the phrase the way I do, but if we deconstruct it just a tiny bit, it can show us the way to a new world, free of the plutocrats, the kleptocrats, the malefactors of great wealth (h/t FDR) and the rest of the thieving, rapacious parasites that prey upon the life of the people (h/t Patty Hearst aka Tania)
Today Michael Moore rallied the Occupy Wall Streeters, and his cry included the demand that the rich be taxed.
I have framed the title of this post in a conscious parallel to the chant from the Wall Street Occupation ("show me what democracy looks like...) because sometimes the only way to really appreciate the devil is by having in mind an angel for comparison.
In this case, (and ain't it tiresome) evil looks (yet again) like the oppression in Gaza.
Women there afflicted with breast cancer are dying because the isotopes they need are embargoed, and they are unable to travel out of Gaza to receive treatment.
