hotair.com - 11/9/2008
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Evidently, it’s now somehow illegitimate to vote on the substance of an issue without being fully informed of the legal posture first. [...] Read the rest »
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/9/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
...but perfectly qualified to work at a big-time
news weekly. As John McCormack points out, just about...
everything in this Newsweek sentence is wrong: The day of the third debate, Palin refused to go onstage with New Hampshire GOP Sen. John Sununu ...
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Too dumb to be Veep...
sfgate.com - 11/9/2008
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sfgate.com —
In a wide-ranging interview with The Chronicle, Pelosi
said she believes some voters might not have fully...
understood the initiative, which overturned a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. The measure was approved 52 to 48 percent. ...
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Pelosi says voters misunderstood Prop. 8
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Seething Gay Activists Urge Boycott of Black People
JammieWearingFool —
... defined marriage in the state Constitution as a heterosexual act. Utah, Aravosis said, "is a hate state," and on this issue, "at a fundamental level, the Utah Mormons crossed the line. . . . They just took marriage away from 20,000 couples and made their children bastards. You don't do that and get away with it ." Typical leftist intimidation tactics. When the little babies don't get their way, they flip out, make threats and blackmail an entire state. Meanwhile, one of the dumbest people on the planet said California voters were too stupid to understand what they were ...
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damnum absque injuria —
Nancy Pelosi argues that Californians who voted for Proposition 8 were too dumb to know that a “Yes” vote on Proposition 8 was a vote against gay marriage rather than a vote for it. Somehow, that doesn’t translate into any Californians who voted against 8 having been equally uninformed and assuming that a “No” vote was a vote against gay marriage as opposed to a vote in favor of it. It’s always my side that was enlightened, and your side that was too dumb to know what they were doing, not vice-versa. In reality, every initiative in California (and by that, I mean every law ...
Allahpundit: I Would Have Voted No on Proposition 8
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Allah drops this revelation in a rather off-hand manner, in a post about Nancy Pelosi’s ridiculous whine that voters weren’t told about the California Supreme Court’s decision: ...
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Gay-marriage supporters plan Prop-8 protests
usatoday.com 11/14/2008 — Protesters are focusing on California, where the state Supreme Court declared same-sex marriages legal in May before voters tossed them out Nov. 4. California's Proposition 8, which passed 52.2% to 47.8%, "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to ...
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theregister.co.uk 12/17/2008 — Have you ever had the nagging sense that there's something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell - the author of Tipping Point ? But you couldn't quite put your finger on it? We're here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave ...
I May Be Stupid But I Ain't Dumb
talkingpointsmemo.com 11/7/2008 — TPM Reader RR is skeptical of the latest Palin leaks ...
I find all this kind of amusing, but I'm skeptical of the veracity of some of these charges. Here's why:
1. The obvious point that in a losing campaign, many folks will try to throw blame ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 11/7/2008 — Greenwald advocates repealing DOMA. Well: it's part of the Obama platform. But my own view is that the advocacy work should take precedence. I'm uncomfortable with a legal strategy alone. We need to do a much better job of communicating the moderate, ...
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