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Politics as a Blood Sport

October 14, 2010
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Politics as a Blood Sport

The plot of “Inception” turns on using dreams to implant ideas in the minds of others, a game of thought control. It’s playing now in the theater of your mind as each side tries to capture your vote. If I can find any sense in this senselessness, it is this: cast your vote where...

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Whitewash Armageddon

March 1, 2010
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Whitewash Armageddon

It's worked before and it's likely to work again.

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Silencing your critics

January 26, 2010
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Silencing your critics

After feeling the sting of public disapproval for his unprofessional behavior, Longmont's Mayor Bryan Baum chose a simple course: close the podium.

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El Rushbo’s Heart Condition Explained

January 19, 2010
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The humanitarian crisis in Haiti, caused by a massive earthquake, has helped doctors diagnose El Rushbo’s chest pains: he does not have a heart.

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Longmont Mayor Bombs Photovoltaics

January 17, 2010
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The Longmont City Council’s opposition to green energy was affirmed at the January 12 meeting, and Mayor Bryan Baum told one critic to move elsewhere if he didn’t like it. However, the critic in question, Steve King, had already moved to Nederland.

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Fox in the Garden

January 17, 2010
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It all began in the beginning, the Garden of Eden, where God planted two trees: the Tree of Life sustaining all creation and the Tree of Knowledge, planted smack in the middle of the garden, laden with fruit. Only the Big Guy said, “Don’t eat that fruit or you will die. In fact, don’t even...

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"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
— Mitch McConnell, Republican Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate - interview in the National Journal, October 25, 2010

“This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise..."
— John Boehner, soon-to-be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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Secular schools can never be tolerated. — Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933

They Said What?

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike." - Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors." - Ann Coulter