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2007: Dick Armey sticks up for illegal aliens, "bless their hearts" - 9/04/2009

... been available for a while at Reason Magazine (including a couple comments from me: reason.com/blog/show/125183.html). Not only that, but FreedomWorks hasn't been trying to hide his comments and has Reason's post re-printed at their site: freedomworks.org/news/dick-armey-on-illegal-immigrants-bless-their-heart

John Stossel /ABC: "Bailouts, Big Spending, and Bull" (TV, libertarian, Drew Carey, Reason, cosmos, rainbows...) - 3/13/2009

... political enlightenment thanks to Reason Magazine. Yes, that's right: the "cosmotarian" publication that helped block the Ron Paul movement is having their big TV break. If you want to strike back a bit, go to reason.com/blog and other sites that discuss the segment and point out all the ways it was wrong. For instance, here's the bit about the border (link): Run for the Borde...

"Tea Parties": an astroturfed Koch family movement (FreedomWorks, Instapundit, Rick Santelli) - 2/28/2009

... groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society. ...ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named...

Does Glenn Reynolds really oppose the stimulus, or is he just playing a game? Let's ask. - 2/10/2009

... let's-make-Obama-fans-look-bad video from Reason Magazine (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/69330/)? I mean, really: if Insty really wanted to prevent a multi-trillion dollar looting, wouldn't he do something a bit more substantial than sending people off to call Charles Schumer (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/69357/)? I'm sure Insty is smart enough to figure out that people from outside...

Harmless beliefs pose imminent danger to all, non-expert warns - 2/07/2009

Penn Jillette - one of the only two (2) Celebrity Libertarians to ever exist - draws (reason.com/blog/show/131559.html) our attention to a ludicrous website called "What's the Harm" (whatstheharm.net) which attempts to show the harm in beliefs and activities that most people - in their ignorance - would consider harmless. They say it "does not pursue any hidden agenda, other th...

Dave Weigel /Slate /Reason Magazine lies about Obama birth certificate issue - 12/04/2008

Dave Weigel of Reason Magazine takes to the webpages of Slate to offer "Change They Can Litigate/The fringe movement to keep Barack Obama from becoming president" (link). It contains at least one lie and several misleading statements (I didn't read the whole thing, so there's probably more). The lie is his claim concerning the "state of Hawaii's official statement tha...

Ramos/Compean: who's on the Bush administration's side? - 2/08/2007

... 2007, link * David Weigel at Reason Magazine (link) * Duke1676 (link) and smokeymonkey (link) at DailyKos * Patterico (link) he says he's not necessarily coming down on Sutton's side, but it seems quite clear to me * People for the American Way's Kyle Mantyla, January 31, 2007, "The Law and Order Border Crowd Backs Criminal Agents", link * Jeralyn Merritt, TChris, and han...

EFE admits Goldwater "concentration camps" smear - 6/28/2006

... smearers: * David Weigel at Reason Magazine with "In Your Heart, You Know He's Batshit Insane": How much of this has been hyped by the "Mexican news service"? Apparently not much; Goldwater has said the same thing before. * "Joe in DC" at AmericaBlog: "GOPer proposes forced labor camps for illegal immigrants": Those right wingers...they're t...

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