Rick Santorum offering branded sweater vests with donations: Because, really, any self-respecting conservative should own one of these #(&!ing things.
Side note: You have to cough up $100 for one. I wonder what sleeves would cost?
How much for his panties?
Source: theatlanticwire.com
Obama Says Bill Breaks with Our Values, Signs It Anyway
Seriously, does he even care about my vote?
When Reagan says it the Republicans love it. When Obama says it’s a crime against capitalism and the free market and the Republicans all vote no.
I don’t like the use of the phrase, “their fair share,” because I think it turns something logical into something that could be construed as emotional, or weak.
BUT.
I definitely support the closing of loopholes and tax breaks. I think Scrooge McDuck still needs to pay property tax on that money bin, knaamean?
Source: reddit.com
Emerging megaregions in the United States (click to enlarge)
Looks like the perfect places to put high speed rail and get those infrastructure updates every keeps asking for.
“We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they’ve done.”
— Jean-Luc Picard, Captain
The Overton window, in political theory, describes a “window” in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue. It is named after its originator, Joseph P. Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
At any given moment, the “window” includes a range of policies considered to be politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too “extreme” or outside the mainstream to gain or keep public office. Overton arranged the spectrum on a vertical axis of “more free” and “less free” in regards to government intervention. When the window moves or expands, ideas can accordingly become more or less politically acceptable. The degrees of acceptance of public ideas can be described roughly as: unthinkable; radical; acceptable; sensible; popular; and policy.
The Overton Window is a means of visualizing which ideas define that range of acceptance by where they fall in it. Proponents of policies outside the window seek to persuade or educate the public so that the window either “moves” or expands to encompass them. Opponents of current policies, or similar ones currently within the window, likewise seek to convince people that these should be considered unacceptable.
Other formulations of the process created after Overton’s death add the concept of moving the window, such as deliberately promoting ideas even less acceptable than the previous “outer fringe” ideas, with the intention of making the current fringe ideas acceptable by comparison (This might be a form of the “Door-in-the-face technique” of persuasion.)
Interesting.
Source: Wikipedia
Fiscal conservative my ass. (via Who raised the debt ceiling? - The Washington Post)
Source: Washington Post
To put the current political climate in [philosopher Karl] Popper’s terms, if liberals are not willing to defend against the rigid demands of their political opponents, who are emboldened by their own unwavering opinions, their full range of open-minded positions will be destroyed. Liberals are neutered by their own tolerance.
Liberals pride themselves on being tolerant. Are they really just suckers?
Nice piece by Sally Kohn. It’s how I’ve been thinking. Like, fuck me for believing in the rule of law. Fuck me for giving a damn about truth.
