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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Drawing Lines in the Sand
Steve Benen comments on the right’s campaign against birthright citizenship – and how it seems to be intensifying. Yes, Republican Senator Russell Pearce of Arizona – a state senator and the man who shepherded SB 1070 through the Arizona legislature … Continue reading
Posted in American Exceptionalism, American Xenophobia, Illegal Immigration, Immigration Policy, Real Americans, World Cup Soccer
Tagged American Exceptionalism, Americans Hate Soccer, Anchor Babies, Arizona Inspires National Racism, Demography is Destiny, Fourteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment a Threat to National Security, G. Gordon Liddy on Soccer, Glenn Beck Hates Soccer, Immigrants are Drug Mules, Janet Brewer, Liberia, Louie Gohmert, Most Illegal Immigrants are Drug Mules, Real Americans, Repealing the 14th Amendment, Republican Party Shrinking, Republicans Purify the Party, Russell Pearce, Soccer Un-American, The Browning of America, Throwing Away the Hispanic Vote, World Cup Reactions
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Punctuated Wrongness
Who knows anything? What experts do you agree with? Who do you cite? And how do you know they’re experts? Who told you that? Why did you believe them when they said this person or that was an expert? You … Continue reading
Posted in Claiming Expertise, Political Epistemology
Tagged 27 Percenters, Authority, BP Escrow Payment, Canned Unicorn Meat, Claiming Expertise, Claims of Authority, Crazification Factor, David H. Freedman - Why Experts Keep Failing Us, Everyone an Expert, Expertise, Glenn Beck and Ezra Taft Benson, John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey, Matt Ridley - The Rational Optimist, Obama is Hitler, Palin Says Obama is Hitler, Sarah Palin
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