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Integrity: A Core Army Value

DADT is far from over– note that the opposition to the recent House vote allowing its repeal was almost exactly partisan Let’s continue to look at the hypocrisy and obvious lack of integrity (words have specific meanings, incidentally, and the word “integrity” refers not just to honesty, but to forthright consistency and coherence– ask a soldier: [...] [...]

Why are we arguing about THAT?

Again, we see that the problem with the “debate” in American politics is not one of ideology (The US is harshly divided between humans and non-humans, and so are its two major political parties, so it probably should be) but one of rhetorical idiocy. Apparently the contest is to see who can be the [...] [...]

Words have meanings

Today’s post is, of course, not intended to be particularly opinionated, contentious, or otherwise argumentative, but for the most part, just informative and educational. It has come to my attention that a lot of folks are tossing around a lot of ideological and political labels that they themselves don’t fully understand, with a nearly [...] [...]

Corporate Welfare?

The typical right-wing response to President Obama’s declaration yesterday that it was “time to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies and use the money for clean energy R&D” was, predictably, a doom and gloom outcry about increased consumer prices at the gas pump. Well of course gas prices will [...] [...]

Dumbassed comments (no, they really are dumbassed)

You can often recognize political comments online (usually after news articles or following blog posts) that aren’t worth bothering with by their form, even without paying much attention to their content. These tell-tale signs ought to indicate to even the most casual reader that the statement is relatively illogical, untrue, or devoid of content. [...] [...]