If we elect Rudy Giuliani president…

(via Eschaton) It’ll be so awesome if we elect Rudy Giuliani president, because then we could celebrate 9/11 every day! If Rudy is elected president we can mint a special coin worth exactly $9.11. (It’ll double as tokens to his fund raisers, of course.) If Rudy is elected president, then every year we can sing … Continue reading “If we elect Rudy Giuliani president…”

Is Rudy Giuliani a Fascist?

(via email) What we don’t see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. — … Continue reading “Is Rudy Giuliani a Fascist?”

Terror! Terror! Terror!

(via Eschaton) Credibility of JFK terror case questioned When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as “one of the most chilling plots imaginable,” which might have caused “unthinkable” devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed. The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never … Continue reading “Terror! Terror! Terror!”

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