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Posts Tagged ‘suffrage’

NATIONAL REVIEW ALL STARS

National Review Writer Wants To Eliminate Women’s Suffrage, Civil Rights Act

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Derb in his salad daysFrothy British Tory and leisurely National Review writer John “Salad Days” Derbyshire, most famous for being a pervert and excoriating students at Virginia Tech for not properly defending themselves against that gunman, has a new book coming out, just like every other asshole. Within this anger-pamphlet is a section called, “The Case Against Female Suffrage.” Radio host and aged goblin carcass Alan Colmes recently asked Derbyshire to explain this section. Why does he hate nice ladies so much? Any other historic civil rights achievements he wants to dial back? etc. MORE »


MACHINE POLITICS

Philly Election Official: Everyone Quit Whining About Voting Problems

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Fred Voight, the adorably rosy-cheeked Deputy Election Commissioner of Philadelphia, says that antsy-pantsy voters need to just “get a life” and wait in the rain for hours and hours to vote on a single not-broken machine on election day. And then he’s all, “do not get your knickers in a twist, Philadelphia’s 5-to-1 Democratic, so we know how this election will go anyway.” He is the most refreshingly candid public official since Joe Biden. [American News Project]


VOTING RIGHTS

Your Constitution Forbids Voting For Ladies

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

This can only happen in fictional moviesAre you and your mother-in-law still thinking about voting for Hillary Clinton? Well, wake up and smell the Constitution’s great and glorious ball-sack, which tells us explicitly that ladies cannot be elected President. One brave New Hampshire citizen ventures this brilliant legal observation in the Concord Monitor. Read on to discover how Hillary Clinton will never be the president even if everybody votes for her. MORE »


MUSIC

We’re L’Trimm and We Approved This Message

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

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Yes, it’s a candidate for Georgia Secretary of State promising to protect the disenfranchisement of voters. It most certainly is. MORE »