Hillary Clinton, frantically flailing to keep her brand fresh until 2016, this week compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler and then, having secured the requisite attention, “clarified” her remark, saying she wasn’t comparing Mr. Putin to Mr. Hitler. Got that? You might say Ms. Clinton was invoking Godwin’s Law, which states: “As an online discussion […]
By floegel
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Also posted in Civil Liberty, Energy
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Don Rumsfeld, George H.W. Bush, George Schultz, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Josef Stalin, Lyndon Johnson, Michael Godwin, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin
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A chain store? A casino? Two stories in Wednesday’s Washington Post: The first was about Father Tim Jones, an Anglican priest at the parish of St. Lawrence in York, England. From the pulpit last Sunday, Fr. Tim said shoplifting is not a sin, if the act was caused by need instead of greed. He encouraged […]
The Catholic diocese of Burlington is litigating a long series of sex abuse cases, in which it is accused of covering up pedophilia by its clergy. I think it’s lost or settled every case so far, but that hasn’t stopped diocesan attorneys from doing all they can to humiliate the victims of abuse on the […]
See You Soon
My mom died last week. I’m hesitant to write about it because I’ve rarely seen funereal journalism done well, also because my head is in a netherworld and I can’t quite seem to get to it. It’s where my head was when I wrote the last post, you can tell by the fragment that passes […]