It’s called syndication. Jacob writes the articles, Townhall and other outlets choose to purchase them, or not.

Are these the same libertarians who, in hit and run, posted a photo essay in which they conveyed the profound libertarian truth that cops beating hippie protesters must be a laff-riot?

This posted on a blog that has: “Rope. Tree. Conservative. Some Assembly Required” as a suggested t-shirt. How accepting of different views you are.

I saw the post at Hit & Run.

I’m curious: Are these the same libertarians who, in hit and run, endorsed Samuel “All Your Uterus Are Belong To Us” Alito because they thought he’d be teh shit on eminent domain specifically and property rights in general? Are these the same libertarians who, in hit and run, posted a photo essay in which they conveyed the profound libertarian truth that cops beating hippie protesters must be a laff-riot? Are these the same libertarians whose former editor of Reason, Matt Welch, was one of the biggest Instapundity anti-idiotarians — meaning, that he he spent more time and energy bashing the powerful and pernicious lefties Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag than he could manage for the poor poor good-faith-acting, constitution-guarding Bush Administration?

Yeah, tell me about how we should be so fair to such principled libertarians.

I believe most did vote against him at least once. The vast majority of whom did so the second time.

Moving on…

Indian tribes must also prove that their membership is based on historical tribes that have functioned as a political entity in the past — none of which will be required for Native Hawaiians.

Oh my God, this woman is a raving lunatic! After reading the article, it’s obvious that the legislation in question is merely granting Hawaiian Natives the same status as Alaskan Natives — surely something she’d hyperventilate over were it to happen today. What a fuckwit.

Yeah, Clinton apologized on behalf of the United States to Hawaii back in 1996 on the anniversary of annexation. We still get to keep it, though, so that’s cool.

Also, Magneto is Nancy Pelosi.

Man, I wish Nancy Pelosi was Magneto!
“Well, Mr. Boehner, you make a good point about CAFE standards, but…”
[a Hummer H2 flies through the House chamber, and flattens the Majority Leader--all the more impressively, it uses no gasoline in doing so]
The House proceeds to vote to raise gas milage standards….

Um. Yeah, see, that whole scene with Iceman and his family in X-Men 2 was pretty much a coming-out scene. It wasn’t even remotely subtle, and director Bryan Singer — himself gay — while not beating audiences over the head with the mutant=gay theme per se, surely expected audiences to get it.

Come to think of it, didn’t we white folk basically just steal the entire state of Hawaii from underneath the natives’ feet at gunpoint? I don’t even think any of the Western countries had declared jurisdiction over the property yet.

Dude… what the fuck? Hawaians have that shit in spades. If anything, they’re one of the most qualified peoples to be included in that act.

I would assume that it’s not required because it’s fucking obvious to anybody who has ever even heard of Hawai’i that the people there meet that standard.

And I love how we white people are perfectly within our rights to form a sovereign state, and kick out odd-coloured foreigners, but if the Hawaians do the exact same thing it’s a travesty.

And don’t even get me started on that douchebag whinning about how white people can’t steal indian religious sites and fuck them up. How do you think he would like it if the government took his church by eminent domain and bulldozed the building?

God-damned racists.

If you do, Travis, here’s an album to inspire you.

[bonks head on desk]

There.

Yeah! I mean sure, the quickest way to dodge being held accountable for being a war-mongering fraidycat who wants free access to guns and no access to contraception/pornography/whatever violently offends the precious sensibilities without being a Republican is to call yourself a libertarian, but libertarians are generally disgusted with this administration and its war overseas and at home on the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Good point, except that libertarians are pacifists who are generally in favor of abundant contraception, pornography and offensiveness. But we’ll take the free access to guns!

Hmm, Googling his writings, Sullum actually doesn’t appear to be as bad as the typical TownHall denizen. Maybe we should understand it as “As much as it pains TownHall for me to say it…”

I respectfully disagree with…okay, I’ll get to the point. I think maybe you’re right, and I was just inferring what I know of Prof. X from the comic book, fanboy that I am. Prof is always presented as the hero of the book (which admittedly I haven’t read in a while, so cut me some slack and fill me in if I leave out any pertinent details), struggling to do what’s right in a morally ambiguous (I keep using that word) world. I think the point was that Xavier was right about her not being able to control her power, not because of her gender, but because it was too much for anyone to control. (Perhaps there’s even a feminist message there, since the most powerful mutant is female.) Also, Wolverine killing her was a combination of another story in the comic book about him having to kill his lover Mariko because she’d been poisoned. And yes, Wolvie is teh 4w3s0m3, and I’m totally looking forward to the upcoming movie.

I do agree though that the wail into the uncaring sky (can I steal that? that’s good) is overdone. And as far as killing off characters, they do it in comic books and moview about comic books all the time, regardless of gender. And it’s usually some sort of noble self-sacrifice. And some bitter friend/family is left behind brooding, with Significant Consequences on the horizon.

And M de M, we’ll geek out if we want to! So there.