The Sunshine Empire

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Yesterday evening I received a call from my mother informing me that my uncle Kenny had passed away from an apparent heart attack. Her stepbrother was a quiet, sweet man who lived almost as a recluse. After his service during the Vietnam War he was irreparably changed. The horrible reaction of the [...]

As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced [...]

me: I’m not arguing either global warming nor Iraq with you today, but I think you missed my point
Biggus: Your point was that the administration manipulated data in the same way the climate scientists did, when intelligence is nothing like a scientific pursuit.
me: no that wasn’t the point I was trying to make at all
I’m [...]

A group of hardened conservatives and the conservative media have been gleefully declaring the issue of climate changed to be totally debunked. Despite the fact that wide swaths of Republicans are believers in the existence of planetary warming caused by industrial man, many look at the issue of climate change as a liberal sacred [...]

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“Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct. And even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different [...]

I really don’t know how to feel about President Obama’s troop escalation in Afghanistan. I remember on the afternoon of September 11th 2001 saying to my grandfather that I would be satisfied with nothing less than a full scale invasion of Afghanistan. I’ve supported the war there even while being diametrically opposed to [...]

The debate over whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should face justice in a New York City courtroom or continue in some extra-legal limbo counter to American values has made me revisit a strain of thought for most conservatives. In the days after the horrific attacks that brought down the twin towers, Republicans and conservatives insisted [...]