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"They sure can't afford tin-horn tactics," was his summing up.

Chapter I 2010

If those in power choose to repeatedly ignore the Constitution, or look for ways to skirt around it (like the recent flirtation with the Slaughter Rule), then this has become no better than a third world country with a tin-horn dictator (think Hugo Chavez), and all bets on honoring the social contract are off.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Unconstitutional? 2010

In Alaska, at that time, there were no rascals and no tin-horn gamblers.

Chapter 2 2010

The problem for teachers who are passionate about teaching is that they live in the Bushian Nightmare of educational testing companies, textbook publishers, educational software vendors, and other "monied" friends of the Republicans propping up the mediocrity campaigns of tin-horn pedagogic dictators like Johnson who want to quash the programs that will produce the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and performers of our cultural heritages.

Brian Ross: Magnet Education Attracts Unwelcome Clash With No Child Left Behind 2010

If those in power choose to repeatedly ignore the Constitution, or look for ways to skirt around it (like the recent flirtation with the Slaughter Rule), then this has become no better than a third world country with a tin-horn dictator (think Hugo Chavez), and all bets on honoring the social contract are off.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Unconstitutional? 2010

Is Bush trying to palm off the arm-twisting that Dick Cheney conducted with the American intelligence community here, or is he speaking to the large failure of his own personal intellect to discern the difference between extinguishing an Al Qaeda that attacked us, hiding in Afghanistan, and a tin-horn dictator in Iraq with a big mouth and no WMDs?

Brian Ross: Night of the Long Pointing Fingers 2009

When was the last time you saw the Swiss going half-way around the world to kick some tin-horn dictator's butt and getting nothing but criticism for doing so?

Sound Politics: CIA (NCS) Recruiting On Facebook, You-Tube 2007

What on-air cowards, what demogogue tin-horn tyrants.

Open Thread For Friday 2006

And it is a scary thought that some tin-horn dictator has the power to send thug-troops to ones home and permanently shut them up is not something normal Americans fear.

Think Progress » ThinkFast: November 29, 2006 2006

Seems to be the easiest thing in the world for a tin-horn, carny of a wanna-be dictator to decorate the chests of the slavering, gibbering flock.

Firedoglake » A Cordial Invitation…the GOP Celebrates Cheney and Goss 2006