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Tone Policing Only Goes One Way
The thing about tone policing that is so galling to liberals particularly is it only goes one way. Even while the tone police cluck their tongues and accuse “both sides” of lowering the level of discourse, the only examples they ever give a crap about are the ones—often straw examples,…
On election’s eve, Japan’s conservatives appear poised for dramatic comeback
On election's eve, Japan's conservatives appear poised for dramatic comeback Japan’s political carousel is about to revolve yet again. By late on Sunday evening, the world’s third biggest economy is expected to install its seventh prime minister in six years, with polls predicting a dramatic comeback by the conservative opposition…
I Want To Meet these Mythical Single Mothers Who Rejected Great Guys They Love
Yesterday, I wrote at Slate about how conservatives aren’t going to let little things like evidence stand in the way of blaming crime on women living without male supervision. For a long time now, conservatives have blamed single motherhood for high crime rates. This claim contains within it a prediction: That…
You Don’t React Like This to a Simple Question Without Being an Outrageous Misogynist
The most reliable way, it appears, to cause conservatives to completely lose their minds is for an attractive woman under the age of 40 to speak words in a public forum that suggest she’s been exposed to the idea that women might have value outside of cleaning up after men,…
Clearly, the Phrase “Pro-Life” Is Ironic
Someone on Twitter sent me this poll today, on the grounds that it was interesting that the choices apparently boil down to “all women are dirty whores” and “perhaps a few dirty whores should be shown mercy if they weren’t at fault this time”. What I thought was interesting was…
Southern Poverty Law Center takes heat after D.C. shooting
Conservatives on Wednesday blasted the Southern Poverty Law Center after a gunman shot a security guard in the front lobby of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. The Southern Poverty Law Center had labeled the organization a hate group in 2010 “because of its dissemination of false and demonizing…
Former right-wing teen star: Some conservatives have been vicious
Former conservative teen star and author Jonathan Krohn on Monday said the right-wing movement had “not responded nicely” to his changing political views. Krohn was eagerly embraced by conservatives after giving a speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Committee when he was only 13-years-old. But after becoming enchanted by…
Maher: Republicans have declared war on common sense
On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher took aim at the tendency of conservatives to reflexively object to anything that liberals advocate, no matter how middle of the road or sensible those positions may be. Take for example, he said, “pink slime,” the gunk…
VOTE: What’s the dumbest thing conservatives have trumpeted in 2012?
Political pundits often refer to election years as “the silly season,” to denote when politicians are working so hard to get the public’s divided attention that they’ll say almost anything to rate a media mention, even if it sounds jarringly idiotic to the average American. By that standard, the silly…
Obama gets it
The Obama campaign just posted this on their Tumblr: While conservatives are all getting the vapors and claiming that women on the pill must be pulling trains night and day, let’s be clear about the real issue here: The basic right of employees to have a private life out of…
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