Category: GOP
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Virginia is for lunatics
E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, suggested that yoga could open individuals to Satan, according to a report.
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Missing Bob Dole
Nice article in GQ on 88-year-old Bob Dole, one of my favorites. I appreciated his biting humor — at a reunion of former presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon, Dole dubbed them “See no evil, hear no evil and evil” — along with his openness to compromise. All that is anathema to today’s Tea Party Republicans,…
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Onward Christian robots
The Republican Party of Texas seeks a ban on critical thinking. You can’t make this stuff up. We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose…
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The Apocalypse Party
Hyperbole almost always loses me. No doubt yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling was consequential, but, come on, conservatives … benshapiro@benshapiro This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott. This is the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration. Does that mean John Roberts is worse than Hitler? Fortunately there are some reasonable…
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Ga. a global punchline, thanks to Cobb Republicans
The Economist reports on the moronic conspiracy theories who are driving GOP opposition to the one-cent sales tax for the next ten years to fund transportation projects. It also raises an insane question: are Atlanta’s Democratic mayor, Kasim Reed, and Republican attorney-general, Sam Olens, both agents of the United Nations determined to advance the cause of one-world…
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Loony GOP conspiracy theory du jour
There are rational reasons to vote against T-SPLOST, Georgia’s Transportation Investment Act, but this ain’t one of them: The tax and the people behind it are part of a United Nations plot called Agenda 21. Laugh if you like. The topic is now center stage in Cobb County, as part of the debate over the…
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