“Thanks, but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere” Palin keeps saying.

Chris Matthews is now driving the point home:  Sarah Palin is a pathological liar.   She fully supported the bridge to nowhere, but here she is, seven times, claiming she didn't support it. BTW, Sarah Palin claims to be quite religious. See her performance at her church here.  She believes in…

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That connection between disgust and morality – John McCain clearly crosses the line

I've written previously about that penchant of many conservatives to base their moral sense on visceral disgust.  As psychologist Jonathan Haidt has demonstrated, this connection is much more readily made by conservatives than by progressives (also, see here). It is in that context that I must confess that I felt…

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