Category: Awards

"As far as conservatives care, the world will not be perfected until the last oryx is strangled with the intestines of the last lowland gorilla, their bodies burned in order to fuel an oryx-and-gorilla-powered Humvee. If solar panels could be weaponized, conservatives would demand we spend billions on them. If polar bears crapped gasoline, their futures would be bought and sold on Wall Street. But they don’t, and they aren’t," – Hunter at the DailyKos.

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"Christian conservatives have been rising, most recently, for 30 years in national politics, since they helped elect Jimmy Carter. They care about the religious faith of their leaders, and their interest is legitimate. Faith is a shaping force. Lincoln got grilled on it. But there is a sense in Iowa now that faith has been heightened as a determining factor in how to vote, that such things as executive ability, professional history, temperament, character, political philosophy and professed stands are secondary, tertiary.

But they are not, and cannot be. They are central. Things seem to be getting out of kilter, with the emphasis shifting too far," – Peggy Noonan, WSJ.

Fundamentalism, by its very nature, abjures the kind of moderating spirit Peggy supports. That kind of total religious certainty is simply incompatible in the public square with pluralist democracy. And it is a genie now unleashed. The chapters in my book, "The Fundamentalist Psyche" and "The Theoconservative Project" try to explain why. And why honest Christianists like Huckabee and dishonest tools like Romney are so dangerous to America.

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"Not that what one blogger thinks matters that much, but if Huckabee gets the nomination, I’m voting Democratic. It’s not just an idle threat; I just won’t vote for him and in fact won’t even vote third party or stay home. I’ll vote for the Democratic candidate, even Hillary. I won’t be a party to selling out everything the party is supposed to stand for to a liberal ideology," unhinged Jacksonian, Ace Of Spades.

"You know, the Gore-leone crime family is now the number one crime family in the world, when you think about it. He’s about to pull off the biggest scam in the history of the world. It’s bigger than any bank heist, bigger than any drug deal. It’s bigger than any counterfeiting scheme, and he’s doing it all nice and natural with a little help from the socialist perverts in Norway, who gave him a Nobel Prize. Why do I call them socialist perverts? Answer: because they are. By and large, 90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child pornography and molestation, according to the latest scientific studies," – conservative media darling, Michael Savage.

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"If you reject Giuliani because he thinks that Judith Nathan is his wife, then why shouldn’t Huckabee reject Romney because he thinks Lucifer is Jesus’ brother? I don’t want bad living or bad theology if I can help it, but I will put up with either if I get good government in the bargain. I will put up with it more willingly if I get great leadership too.

I wish the social cons for Romney well in their Huckabee firefight. They asked for it, if they didn’t foresee it," – Rick Brookhiser, NRO.

"Not every claim of rape is true; we all know that. But in this case, Jamie Leigh is making a claim that, quite frankly, sounds realistic to me.

This is no Duke Lacrosse situation; from every report I’ve found, her story has not wavered for two years. Texas Congressman Ted Poe, a supporter of the war, knows her family and takes this case very seriously, jockeying with the State Department over the treatment of a constituent," – Ben Domenech, RedState.

"It’s obvious in retrospect that the waterboarding of animals like Zubaydah was an exercise in restraint, not an orgy of mistreatment," – Bryan at Hot Air.

"What should be done with these people? Should they be given all the rights U.S. citizens charged with crimes in the U.S. have? I’m not sure about that.

But I do know that the procedures in place now just don’t seem fair. If you can’t find out what evidence the Government has against you; if you can’t present your own evidence; if you are arguing to a tribunal that is told to presume that the Government’s position is correct . . . that’s not fair. It runs a real risk of causing us to hold people who are innocent. There has to be a better way," – Patterico.

"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, whose judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, ‘how ’bout just washing the one square out,’" – Sheryl Crow. Ewww. (Update: apparently, Crow was joking.)

"Every newborn baby in Australia represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80 years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources typical of our society. Far from showering financial booty on new mothers and rewarding greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour, a ‘baby levy’ in the form of a carbon tax should apply, in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle," – Professor Barry Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia. (Hat tip: Environmental Economics.)

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