The Beck Rally in a Picture
Driftglass at Crooks and Liars provides a brilliant image of Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial:...
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August 31, 2010
Driftglass at Crooks and Liars provides a brilliant image of Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:09 PM • 99 Comments •
Remember the Indianapolis cop who ran into three motorcycles that were parked, killing two people and critically injuring another while drunk on duty? The charges have been dropped against him for a rather convenient reason. Balko reports: Prosecutors initially filed...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:30 AM • 40 Comments •
Here's an entirely unsurprising story out of South Carolina: Filling up your car up with gas is a mundane chore. You drive up pop open the tank and screw off the top. But at one gas station, you get a...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:05 AM • 59 Comments •
Two weeks ago, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued a very important ruling saying that police could not secretly hide a GPS device on your car to track your movements. Now the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:31 AM • 50 Comments •
Yet another instance where someone is arrested -- and convicted -- for ailing to obey a clearly illegal order from a police officer. The officer from Salisbury, North Carolina pulls someone over on a residential street. Many in the neighborhood...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:00 AM • 22 Comments •
From Congressman John Fleming (R-Louisiana): "We have two competing world views here and there is no way that we can reach across the aisle -- one is going to have to win," Fleming said. "We are either going to go...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:34 AM • 48 Comments •
From Gary North, in a 1982 article called The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right: So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:01 AM • 35 Comments •
August 30, 2010
The premise of Glenn Beck's rally was "restoring America's honor." So these folks went around asking those who attended when exactly America lost its honor. Here's my answer: America hasn't lost anything. We are today what we have always been,...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:03 PM • 36 Comments •
David Frum nails Mitt Romney's problem winning over the public: Romney has had many fewer abrupt changes of mind than, say, Newt Gingrich, who (you may recall) used to be an environmentalist, among other things. Yet Newt escapes the flip-flopper...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:31 AM • 19 Comments •
In case you were wondering where all this demagoguery over the Islamic center near Ground Zero leads: Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb. Ben Goodwin...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:05 AM • 67 Comments •
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