Tag: Noted & Quoted
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Noted & Quoted, Mark Twain edition
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
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Noted & Quoted, Legal blasphemy edition
LGBT advocacy groups overreached this week when they pressured King & Spalding, representing the U.S. House in upholding the Defense of Marriage Act, into dropping the case. An unfortunate legal precedent has been set, explains Geoffrey Stone, a constitutional law scholar from the University of Chicago. ‘To condemn a lawyer for representing a client is a problematic…
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Noted & Quoted, right-wing smackdown edition
Gotta love Mike Huckabee’s retort after Glenn Beck called him a “progressive” for supporting Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity efforts. The two have been engaged in an escalating feud that has served Huckabee well. This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a Progressive, which he has said is the same…
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Noted & Quoted, fatwa edition
“We’re a religion of peace and if you don’t agree we’ll cut your fucking head off.” Bill Maher, on that religion we’re never supposed to criticize.
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Noted & Quoted, Deluded dinosaur rocker edition
“Van Halen was a good-looking band,” says Sammy Hagar. Van Halen’s “other” lead singer also reveals he was once kidnapped by aliens. “It was real. [Aliens] were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren’t even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was…
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Noted & Quoted, statesman edition
There was a brief window in time when Southern voters elected smart, prudent politicians like Sam Nunn. “Today our airwaves and public debates are filled with attempts to not just denounce opponents’ logic but to impugn their motives. Demagogues and rabble rousers are not new to American history — but the economics and the technology…
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