April 2010
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RealClearPolitics - The Poisonous Politics of... →
Obama’s approach was politically necessary. On a simple calculus of benefits, his proposal would have failed. Perhaps 32 million Americans will receive insurance coverage — about 10 percent of the population. Other provisions add somewhat to total beneficiaries. Still, for most Americans, the bill won’t do much. It may impose costs: higher taxes, longer waits for...
“Crying racism whenever there is a legitimate policy dispute is an old, tired,...”
– More on Democrats’ Fake Hate Crimes - Peter Kirsanow - The Corner on National Review Online
Read the whole thing.
Newest liberal hypocrisy: Anger over calling the... →
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Leftists really think that most Americans are idiots. The term “Bush regime” was part of the left’s vocabulary for over eight years, including Matthews himself! The fact that they don’t except the American public to remember that is rather telling.
“To Media Matters, anyone who disagrees with them is “right-wing” and obviously...”
– » Media Matters Criticizes Study Without Even Looking at It - Big Journalism
The Democrats' Fake Hate Crime - Mark Steyn - The... →
Jonah mentioned this the other day in his column, but the tireless Andrew Breitbart returns to the theme, to devastating effect.
On March 20th, something truly extraordinary happened. On the eve of the health care vote, a group of black Democrat Congressmen (eschewing the private tunnels they usually use to cross from their offices to the Capitol) chose to walk en masse through a crowd of...
“Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded...”
– Juan Williams: Tea Party Anger Reflects Mainstream Concerns - WSJ.com (via sds)
Only Indicted Militia Member With Party... →
But I was assured that political violence and fascist impulses were a phenomenon confined almost entirely to the right?
Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday.
One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined.
Jacob J....
“I thought liberals rejected guilt by association as McCarthyism. Or are we to...”
– The Hostility Follies - Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online
“Frank Rich of The New York Times and Colbert King of The Washington Post are...”
– Mark Davis: The dubious logic linking Tea Parties to racism
“Watching the Commander of the Pacific Fleet’s deadpan face as Congressman Hank...”
– Mark Steyn (via nomosshere)
“During President George W. Bush’s two terms, you couldn’t drive far without...”
– Monica Crowley (via nomosshere)
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Compare & Contrast: Protests from the Right and... →
(via nomosshere)
What an idiot.
Why Palin Drives Us All Mad - The Daily Beast →
So we have, on the one hand, a rejection of Palin by liberal intellectuals that can border on the hysterical, and, on the other, a clearly overblown evaluation of her by her proponents on the right. Both sides, I reckon, are quite wrong. (A question for Podhoretz: What should one do if one wants neither Obama nor Palin in the White House?)
Part of the liberal hatred (or fear) of Palin lies in her...
March 2010
32 posts
Republican racism, Tea Party racism, time to turn... →
What he and the GOP (Frank Fahrenkopf, who I knew), didn’t do was run a campaign reminding people that it was the Republicans who ended slavery. It was the Republicans who made the great Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s become law. Dr Martin Luther King was a Republican. Not once did they refer to the indecencies heaped on the blacks since LBJ as the “new plantation” it had in fact become....
‘Change’ Is Not New - Thomas Sowell - National... →
On climate issues, as on many other issues, the biggest argument of the Left has been that there is no argument. The word “science” has been used as a magic mantra to shut up critics, even when those critics have been scientists with international reputations as specialists in climate science.
Dems Win Dirty but Still Lose the Argument - Mona... →
The Democrats have their narrative, and such is their influence with the press that they can circulate it widely: Virtuous liberals enact far-reaching, benevolent legislation in the face of violent, racist, homophobic opposition. Their fans at MSNBC and the New York Times may even buy it. But for most of us, it’s the boy who cried “racist” once too often.
Note to Liberal Elite: It's Not About Race →
This is the logic that suffices for argument. Rich tosses out the most loaded charge in American life, racism, without evidence. All he has are anecdotes of angry white activists. So he stereotypes. It’s like a white person who watches a black criminal on the local news and draws racist generalizations.
Pajamas Media » How Should Conservatives Deal... →
Jonathan Haidt, a professor at the University of Virginia and author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, found that conservatives could more readily put themselves in the shoes of liberals and understand morally where they were coming from. The reverse was not true of liberals. They have little understanding of those with opposing views to their own.
Part of the...
So all Tea Party members are racists? – Telegraph... →
The trouble with playing the racism card is that is an attempt to stifle dissent – what you are saying is illegitimate because your real rationale is that you hate blacks. Understandably, it drives people crazy. And just who is being racist by looking at a predominantly white crowd and leaping to the conclusion that they are all motivated by racial hatred?
“Perhaps, I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (303) (via wordsinbooks) (via kaching)
Power Line - More Thoughts On Liberal Political... →
The Democrats have tried to change the subject away from their health care debacle by claiming that conservatives are threatening violence against them. Their complaints are pathetic where they are not out-and-out lies (e.g., Clyburn and Lewis), and they have taken a lot of well-deserved criticism. It is liberals, not conservatives, who rely on ad hominem attacks, outrageous allegations and...
The Lie of the Liberal Arts Education →
Shame on Brian Kiteley. I mean, if a novelist is so bothered by pointed speech that he’d support political censorship, is it really any wonder that our institutions of higher learning have become cauldrons of conformity and anti-intellectual groupthink — or that students leave them with a healthy fear of ever giving offense?
Dems likely didn’t read the bill before passing... →
As the president has yet to admit, the health care reform bill does not prevent insurance companies from excluding children with pre-existing conditions. HotAir’s Ed Morrissey points out a release from the Senate Republican Conference that showing a number of other omissions as well. Is it possible that the president hasn’t read his own bill?
Flashback to the health care summit:
President...
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Riehl World View: NH Dem Likes To Shoot... →
I had a hunch there might be more to the NH Democrat and Obama supporting, Nickolas Levasseur, after seeing a report on his nuke the Japanese for anime remark.
And I was right. Did this ever make the evening news?
Medicine, biology, mathematics, anything that doesn’t involve Organic Chemistry, cars that don’t begin with “Ford” and end with “Aspire”, HBO...
More Bottled Piety - Victor Davis Hanson - The... →
Socialism and totalitarianism are tough charges from the hard right, but they seem to me about as (or as not) over-the-top as Al Gore screaming “digital brown-shirts” or John Glenn comparing the opposition to Nazis. When 3,000 were murdered in Manhattan, and Michael Moore suggested Bin Laden had wrongly targeted a blue state, I don’t think that repulsive remark prevented liberal politicians from...
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Michelle Malkin » How the Left fakes the hate: A... →
I’m still on semi-vacation, but the Left never takes a break from falsely accusing the Right of fomenting hatred and violence through political speech. The MSM never takes a break from whitewashing leftist intolerance, death threats, and extremism — and engaging in selective reporting (or rather, non-reporting) of the long history of leftists’ manufacturing of hatred for political gain. My...
Instapundit » Blog Archive » CINCINNATI TEA... →
CINCINNATI TEA PARTY condemns protest at Rep. Driehaus’s home. “We strongly believe that it is not appropriate to engage an elected official outside of their official capacity. We are urging our members and supporters to show the same respect to his family that we expect for our own.”
Well, good for them, though I’ll note that when ACORN sent protesters to the homes of Wall Street executives, the...
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Inside David Frum's Bitter Exit - The Daily Beast →
Insiders at AEI, to whom I spoke at length, told me that Frum’s version of the story is “quite, quite untrue” (as one put it). The truth, in fact, is that he was asked—unsuccessfully—to pull his weight at the think-tank. A fellow told me: “David didn’t come to the office very much, and long before his blog, Arthur [Brooks, the AEI president] arranged a lunch with him to talk about coming more...
Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts -... →
Tens of thousands of NHS workers would be sacked, hospital units closed and patients denied treatments under secret plans for £20 billion of health cuts.
The sick would be urged to stay at home and email doctors rather than visit surgeries, while procedures such as hip replacements could be scrapped.
The plans have emerged as health chiefs draw up emergency budgets that cast doubt on pledges by...
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Jonah Goldberg on the Frum Flap →
I’m going to wait until emotions cool and both David Frum and Bruce Bartlett are given time to clarify and — I hope — correct the storyline they’ve helped fuel about AEI before commenting further. I have been here in my new role less than a month and I don’t think I should be the one taking point defending AEI. But from the moment I read Bartlett’s allegation I thought it...
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Leftist Hate Speech →
The quotes are from a list at Patterico’s Pontifications. There are more, of course.
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“[M]y take on The Note has always been, with apologies to Douglas Adams:
A...”
– Duncan “Atrios” Black discussing ABC’s The Note.
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“I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic]. They aren’t in Iraq because...”
– Markos Moulitsas Zuniga crowed over the death of American contractors in Iraq.
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“He’s one more mistake away from not having any kneecaps.”
– James Carville on Ken Starr
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“[I]f we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all...”
– Actor Alec Baldwin.
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“For hypocrisy, for sheer gall, [Newt] Gingrich should be hanged.”
– Washington Post syndicated columnist Richard Cohen.
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“I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many...”
– USA Today syndicated columnist Julianne Malveaux, on Clarence Thomas.
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“[I]f there is retributive justice [Sen. Jesse Helms] will get AIDS from a...”
– National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg
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The Left's depressing response to the hate speech... →
Whatever one thinks of Rush Limbaugh, why is the Left so eager to defend the aspiration that his “kidneys fail”? How hard is it to say that wishing major organ failure on a political opponent is no laughing matter?
Are Tea Parties Racist? - Reason Magazine →
Contra Walsh, history basically ignored my “outburst,” but a fat new target marched into view the very next day, when roughly 100,000 protesters descended on the National Mall to demonstrate against Obama’s economic policies. “It was a Klan rally minus the bedsheets and torches,” William Rivers Pitt, a former spokesman for Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), wrote at Truthout.org. “It’s obvious to...
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