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A Very Reason Valentine's Day

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.12.2010 4:44 PM

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For your fiscally conservative, socially liberal sweetheart:

Or you could always go with a liberal-hating love letters from the RNC, blogged by Peter Suderman here.

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Katherine Mangu-Ward is editor in chief of Reason.

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  1. Slut Bunwalla   16 years ago

    Bill Clinton's going to give that card to Hillary on Sunday. And they'll both laugh and laugh...

  2.   16 years ago

    Feds admit wrongly tracking Wis. abortion groups
    By RYAN J. FOLEY (AP) ? 3 days ago

    MADISON, Wis. ? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security improperly conducted a threat assessment of Wisconsin pro- and anti-abortion rights groups before an expected rally last year.

    The DHS said in a memo released last year that it destroyed or deleted all of the copies of the assessment after an internal review found it violated intelligence gathering guidelines about "protest groups which posed no threat to homeland security."

    The assessment was shared only with the director of Wisconsin's intelligence-sharing center and police in Middleton, where the rally was expected to take place.

    The report was compiled prior to a February 2009 meeting in Middleton by the University of Wisconsin Hospital board to decide whether to open a clinic that would offer late-term abortions.

    http://www.lifenews.com/state4796.html

  3. Caption   16 years ago

    "No, that's not my spoon."

    1. Pope Jimbo   16 years ago

      "you've taken the curl out of my pig tail"

  4. Aresen   16 years ago

    Also on Sunday, do not forget:

    Kung Hei Fat Choi

  5. R C Dean   16 years ago

    fiscally conservative, socially liberal

    Sounds good in theory, but, oddly, in application when "fiscally conservative" conflicts with "socially liberal", "fiscally conservative" always seems to give way.

  6. dbcooper   16 years ago

    You are all welcome to buy me the To Live and Die in L.A. Blu-ray disc. That is all.

  7. Ray Butlers   16 years ago

    You people are a bunch of idiots.

    1. Binky   16 years ago

      Happy VD, Ray.

    2. Episiarch   16 years ago

      This made my day. Thanks, Ray.

  8. Fist of Etiquette   16 years ago

    "I'd like to cotton your mather."

    1. Slut Bunwalla   16 years ago

      HA!

  9. The Gobbler   16 years ago

    @stevebruskCNN Multiple victims on stretchers being brought out of building on University of Alabama-Huntsville campus to ambulances. 2/12 5:41 P.M. -
    @stevebruskCNN Just in -- Police in Madison County, AL say several hurt in shooting on University of Alabama-Huntsville campus. 2/12 5:30 P.M.

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/.....tml?hpt=T2

  10. lunchstealer   16 years ago

    lulz

  11. Jim Bobber   16 years ago

    Yeah buddy, gotta love Valentines day dude!

    Jess
    http://www.isp-logging.net.tc

  12. Almanian the Prizn Wardn   16 years ago

    Well, I certainly hope they pulled this picture from the Bent County Correctional Facility's copy of Reason

  13. Almanian   16 years ago

    "Yes, dear, I'll bet this does feel a lot like, 'big government' intruding into your 'personal space'."

  14. Brian Sorgatz   16 years ago

    "Let's have a fiscally but not sexually conservative Valentine's Day."

    In other words, let's save money by skipping the intermediate steps of dinner and a movie.

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