Our foreign invaders? You mean like . . . Osama bin Laden?

Oh, no, wait, Obama had bin Laden killed. The Republicans were incapable of that, or didn't want to.

On Slashdot, saying that pretty much guarantees you'll be modded up to +5, no matter what else you said.

Your "history" stops at the 1960s. You are aware, aren't you, that huge numbers of conservative Democrats moved to the Republican party in the '60s? Look up "Solid South."

So you are basically claiming that a significant part of today's Republican party is racist.

Brilliant.

Because News Corp. already has an extensive background in surveillance.

And a long, successful background in indoctrination, for that matter.

I know it's not politically fashionable to say this around here, but the government should put its boot heel on the throat of any business that has killed eleven employees through negligence and destroyed the livelihoods of many small businesses on the shoreline. And at the time Rand Paul said what he said, many of the facts were already known in any case.

Wasn't he the one who said it was "Un-American" to criticize BP?

It is, however, allowable to (inversely) correlate intelligence with someone's inclination towards setting up straw men.

No no NO! What are you talking about? Slashdot has the best armchair lawyers on earth.

Haven't you figured it out?

Mentioning iAnything causes Nerd Rage.

Nerd Rage brings page views. Lots and lots of them.

Page views bring profit!

Who cares if the summaries are misleading or don't tell the whole story?

Fascist communist/socialist?

You don't have the slightest fucking clue what any of these terms mean, do you? You're just stringing together a bunch of terms that Fox News tells you vaguely to hate.

Since when is Roy Blunt not conservative?

Or do you just make things up to support your political agenda? Not surprising.

According to this article, the full list of senators who introduced the bill is: Enzi (R-WY), Durbin (D-IL), Alexander (R-TN), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Boozman (R-AR), Reed (D-RI), Blunt (R-MO), Whitehouse (D-RI), Corker (R-TN), and Pryor (R-AR). Six Republicans and four Democrats.

According to this article it was ten senators—six Republicans and four Democrats.

You're seriously suggesting Newt Gingrich doesn't want to shove religion down our throats?

A really quick search (actually, I went to the Wikipedia page for Newt Gingrich and glanced through the citations at the bottom) turns up this. Scary stuff, and it's only the first article I looked at.

Also, isn't Newt a huge supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act? That's huge government forcing religion down our throats right there. And after he has been divorced a couple times! Hypocrite.

How is what you said even related to what I said?

Everyone wants freedom for themselves. Heck, even criminals want "freedom" to commit their crimes.

The Tea Partiers seem to be all about getting as much freedom as possible for themselves, and taking away freedom from anyone who is different from them. And they will use Big Government to pass laws to take other's freedoms away. Have you asked a Tea Partier for their opinions on abortion lately? Medical marijuana? Gay marriage? Integrating (their own) religion with government?