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Look, I have no idea why being a conservative, a law professor and a blogger seems to automatically turn your mind into a blob of fetid goo. Perhaps there's a neuro-blogger who can explain why this is a more effective method of destroying rational thought than any totalitarian regime has yet accomplished in the history of the civilized world; repeated exposure to nuclear radiation doesn't destroy brains cells as fast as voting for Bush in '04 did.
Glenn Reynolds links to a piece reproducing a devastating e-mail forward about Social Security. (If you at any point think that an e-mail forward is the foundation and/or totality of a good argument, you are hereby banned from arguing in any venue other than the open bar at a comic book convention. And you may only argue that Bishop is the greatest X-Man of all time.)
So, apparently, Americans do not have a right to be godless, and we can be compelled to join some church, any church, just to keep us from marching around free FROM religion. It's the weirdest argument, though, because at the same time he's damning us for being free of religion and insisting that we have no right to be god-free, he's insisting that atheism is a religion. The inconsistency doesn't matter when your brain is as scrambled as Birdnow's; but I am amused by his most extreme efforts to shoehorn atheism into his narrow vision of what a religion is. Behold: we are trinitarians now!
Yes, Cheney is just here to speak his mind. He's not running for office, so what possible motive could he have to lie or distort the truth? Oh yeah, maybe it's relevant that he was the chief architect of all of these illegal policies and therefore has significant personal legal exposure. Other than that, though, his opinion is completely unbiased.
Sometimes during the campaign Obama wasn't as clear as some wanted him to be, but on the whole he has consistently said that the foundation of his abortion policy would be to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. But wingnuts hear the words "common ground" and "abortion reduction" and somehow think this is going to translate into a program of criminalizing abortion. And when someone explains to them that is not what he meant, they get all huffy about it.
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