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Does Criticism of the President Create a “Dangerous Atmosphere”?

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Thomas Friedman thinks so, and draws a direct parallel between the political atmosphere that existed in Israel at the time of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the political atmosphere in present day America.
Others have already remarked on this analogy, but I want to add my voice because the parallels to Israel then and America today [...]

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SNL Cast Member Swears On-Air, Plans to Apologize to All 17 Viewers

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Just kidding – I made up the whole bit about the apology and them having that many viewers.
NBC Washington reports that one of the new cast members dropped the “F bomb” during a skit on Saturday night.   It’s been a long time since I’ve even watched Saturday Night Live, and I’m mildly surprised that they’re even on [...]

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The Dixie Chicks and the Glenn Beck Boycott

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Performer criticizes the president publicly.  Backers of the president go wild and demand boycotts.  Big corporations gladly oblige and the performers fans scream about protecting the First Amendment.   How does the media react?   Guess it depends on how good looking and cool the boss  is.
There’s been a big controversy over comments that Glenn Beck made about President Obama [...]

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BS on the Assault Weapon Guy in Phoenix

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Sorry, but my BS meter is off the charts on the guy carrying the “assault rifle” in Phoenix to exercise his Second Amendment rights.
A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second [...]

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The Republican Party Is Obsolete

Thursday, July 30, 2009

That’s what’s been bouncing around in my head like a big ol’ beach ball. 
Michael Steele is obsolete.  John McCain?  Buggy whip.
Initially, my idea was that they were merely impotent, but the more I think about it,  that’s mean and it’s  not really the case; the truth is that today’s RNC belongs to a bygone era – a [...]

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Rahm Emmanuel – “Sensible Gun Laws…”

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

It’s easy to forget how extraordinary the American experience is on this little planet.  We have a government founded on the belief that men had rights, inalienable rights granted to them by God, and that no man or government could take them away.  The Constitution is remarkable in that it lays out rights that were [...]

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MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Republicans Did This to Daschle (and they’ll pay)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ok, so the whispered “and they’ll pay was only implied. Newsbusters’ Scott Whitlock analyzes Andrea Mitchell’s exchange with Republican Senator Jim DeMint, and you can read the anger and hurt in her comments.   
During MSNBC’s live coverage on Tuesday of the sudden resignation of Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle, reporter Andrea Mitchell suggested to [...]

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Global Warming Bigwig Caught Falsifying Data (Lying)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Wow. Here’s something you won’t read in the NY Times. Peter Glover of the American Thinker reports that Dr. James Hansen (yeah, I only wish it’d been the Goracle), head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), falsified data to make October 2008 appear to be the hottest on record.  It wasn’t.
In October, [...]

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The Obama Administration Calls for Israeli War Crimes Investigation

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

In an earlier post, I postulated that perhaps the Obama end game in the Gitmo Executive Orders wasn’t so much to move the prosecution of terrorists into the US Criminal Justice System as it was a prelude to international prosecution in the nefarious International Criminal Court.
In the end, I don’t think prosecution under the US Criminal [...]

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Infantile Analysis Syndrome

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson (via Real Clear Politics) makes a startling, completely wrong but ultimately revealing comparison between the feckless Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization that challenged President Reagan’s resolve by openly defying him with an illegal strike, and today’s Republican Party and their unanimous opposition to the Obama Stimulus package in the House.  [...]

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