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  • The two problems with that choice: (1) even if 40-50\% of the population disagrees with President Obama on issues like taxes or gay rights, probably only maybe 10-20\% of the population (those whose Facebook pages include fanhood of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, for instance) really sees him as "tyrranical" enough for 1700s "tea party" and "constitutional convention" references to resonate; and (2) politics are cyclical enough that as bad as things look for Republicans now, it's entirely feasible to plan for a Republican rebirth in 2012

    Concurring Opinions 2009

  • Now, whenever this little runt wants some publicity and an air of legitimacy for his tyrranical dictatorship, he knows all he has to do is take more westerners prisoner.

    Kim Jong Il pardons and orders release of 2 U.S. journalists 2009

  • What you are saying is that the great mass of people are forced to settle for living under a system of tyrranical, arbitrary and unreviewable diktat — over the barely concealed near-tribal conflicts for supremacy — and in addition — that they must suffer under abusive, poorly run governments, as well?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010

  • We have seen again and again what absolute power does to the egos of these tyrants or tyrranical regimes.

    Egypt: Dangerous games | Editorial 2011

  • What you are saying is that the great mass of people are forced to settle for living under a system of tyrranical, arbitrary and unreviewable diktat — over the barely concealed near-tribal conflicts for supremacy — and in addition — that they must suffer under abusive, poorly run governments, as well?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010

  • The intelligent, genuinely-Scientific, American knew well in advance of Copenhagen that so many bureaucrats congregating in one mercilessly-policed place was never going to be other than a heavily-disguised tyrranical-power world-money grab by Uber-power-starved Bureaucrats and the always-Under-funded Banksters.

    Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference? 2009

  • We environmentalists are happily switching to bicycles anyway, with or without any orders from a tyrranical EUSSR or from the renegade UN communists. by hommedespoir (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 99 comments [66 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 at 6: 10: 35 AM

    Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference? 2009

  • In a practical sense, this is essentially the return of the dreaded "general warrant" of King George's times, a tyrranical practice that the 4th Amendment was specifically written to protect us against - hence insistence of probable cause affirmation in front of an independent judge with a warrant containing list of items to be seized.

    Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues 2009

  • We environmentalists are happily switching to bicycles anyway, with or without any orders from a tyrranical EUSSR or from the renegade UN communists. by hommedespoir (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 99 comments [66 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 at 6: 10: 55 AM hommedespoir

    Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference? 2009

  • We environmentalists are happily switching to bicycles anyway, with or without any orders from a tyrranical EUSSR or from the renegade UN communists. by hommedespoir (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 99 comments [66 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 at 6: 13: 27 AM

    Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference? 2009

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