What part of Christianity is this? From Raw Story: Mike Huckabee: Obama has no right to ‘believe he’s a Christian’ after inviting gays to meet pope Huck and I have one thing in […]
Frank Balsinger
Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
Ben Carson: constitutional surgeon
This is what a clausectomy looks like Ben Carson, perhaps the smartest of the GOP pack running for the nomination, and who has a book on the Constitution coming out a) doesn’t […]
Carly Fiorina’s lie that wouldn’t die
Carly either can’t distinguish between evidence or doesn’t know what it is Last Saturday I posted this on social media with my own comment: If anyone has the footage she describes, please […]
Intolerance of intolerance: how much is enough?
ISIS is but one example. What about the rest? Dr. M. Neil Browne of Ice in the Head, author of Asking the Right Questions, posted today about the merits of selective intolerance. […]
Saturday Video Roundup: Wherefore art all the protest songs?
And now for something slightly different Shadowproof posted Let us never ask where the protest music has gone ever again. Kevin Gosztola, a Firedoglake alumnus, raises a cultural dilemma and proposes his own solution. There is […]
Huckabee, in utero personhood, and unintended consequences
Have personhood advocates really thought this through? Raw Story posts: Mike Huckabee’s bizarre fetal personhood proposal would criminalize miscarriages Thought experiment time. Given: zygote through fetus is a legal person. For a legal […]
Mike Huckabee is tired of your constitutional bullshit
Forget Jade Helm and America’s invasion of America under Obama, this is how you do it This just in: Mike Huckabee: As president I wouldn’t rule out using federal troops and the […]
The offended and the offenders
Some are circling the wagons, but for what cause? I haven’t had much to say about politics of late, or society in general for that matter, and I’m beginning to like it […]
War and economics: where is Bernie Sanders’ 12th step?
There’s much to like about Bernie Sanders, but can he really help us kick the war habit? Occupy Democrats and US Uncut have a handy macro going around that highlights Bernie’s 11 point […]
#notalltranswomen, TERF’s, radfem hate, cotton ceilings, and more
All the caveats. Trigger warning. NSFW. Likely to offend many. Crass to make points. It’s Friday, and I’m hyper-caffeinated, so I’m gonna stir the pot on a hot-button issue (at least to some […]
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