Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The New Sophists

Victor Davis Hanson  "There are plenty of prizes, honors and degrees among our policy setters and experts, but very little experience in running a business in Oklahoma, raising a large family in Kansas, or working on an assembly line in Michigan, a military base in Texas, a boat in Alaska or a ranch in Idaho.
"In classical sophistic fashion, rhetoric is never far from personal profit. Multimillionaire Al Gore convinced the governments of the Western world that they were facing a global-warming Armageddon, then hired out his services to address the hysteria that he helped create."

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Pat Oliphant cartoon

Pat Oliphant, with whom we rarely agree.

Responsible Journalism

http://townhall.com/cartoons/lisabenson

Left-wing violence and it's defenders

Colin Ferguson Trial: 1995    A caller to Rush Limbaugh recalled the motives of mass murderer Colin Ferguson:
"When Ferguson was arrested, police found notes in his pockets expressing his hatred of Caucasians, Asians, and "Uncle Tom Negroes." Kunstler and Kuby held that Ferguson's behavior could be tied to a study entitled Black Rage. In this 1968 study, psychologists Price Cobbs and William Grier observed that in order to function in society, African Americans suppress feelings of intense anger over racism. Kunstler and Kuby would try to expand this thesis into a "black rage" defense, arguing that continual racist mistreatment was the catalyst that caused Ferguson's delusions and paranoia to explode into violence.
Critics accused the attorneys of manipulating the sensitive state of race relations in New York in order to excuse the acts of a cold blooded killer. Kunstler and Kuby vowed to press ahead with the "black rage" defense. Their strategy, however, accepted that Ferguson was the killer and that he was mentally unsound. Ferguson rejected both assumptions."

Ron Kuby
Ron Kuby joined forces with his idol 13 years ago. With Kunstler's death, he's trying to keep legacy alive--and a practice solvent."Kuby shrugged and worked on. He was in Minneapolis to help Qubilah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter, beat her murder-for-hire case. He's represented the Arab defendants in the World Trade Center bombing." 
Refer to "useful idiots" here.
If you commit mass murder on innocent American citizens and you hate this country, you may want to hire this man to defend you.

Obama’s Anti-Drilling Agenda

Heritage  "President Obama’s oil spill commission will release its long-awaited final report this morning, recommending new government regulations and limits on drilling. These conclusions could shape the future of the oil industry — and impact our nation’s energy policy for years to come."
By Rich Terrell at http://terrellaftermath.com/

Right Wing Hate Speech Quiz

Test your knowledge now! Grading scale:
8-10: You are very well-informed.
5-7: Decent. However, you should consider finding more news sources.
2-4: That newspaper you read everyday is good for only two things; fish wrapping and bird cages.
0-1: Please do the rest of us a favor and emigrate to Cuba or North Korea  

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We originally misattributed thie above illustration. It is now corrected and we regret the error
 
 

Monday, January 10, 2011

Eric Allie cartoon


http://townhall.com/cartoons/2011/1/10/77413

Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and right wing group

Washington Post  "...the Web has been alive with speculation that the Arizona shooter has some sort of ties to a right-wing group called American Renaissance. The primary source for this claim is a Fox News report from yesterday saying that law enforcement had made this determination based on information provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
"But a DHS official tells me that the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim."

Westboro Baptist Church  plans to protest the funeral of the 9-year-old girl slain in the Tucson shooting.

Constitutionalism

Charles Krauthammer  "The most galvanizing example of this expansive shift was, of course, the Democrats' health-care reform, which will revolutionize one-sixth of the economy and impose an individual mandate that levies a fine on anyone who does not enter into a private contract with a health insurance company. Whatever its merits as policy, there is no doubting its seriousness as constitutional precedent: If Congress can impose such a mandate, is there anything that Congress may not impose upon the individual? "

Glenn Foden Cartoon


http://townhall.com/cartoons/glennfoden

(Updated; his mug shot) Who is Jared Lee Loughner?

Examiner.com  "But of great curiosity are his self-described favorites--'Mein Kompf' by Adolf Hitler and 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx. Loughner was reported to have been in the process of reading Marx's Manifesto at the time of the shooting.
"Even more curious are Loughner's 'heroes.' He mentions by name Venezuelan Communist Hugo Chavez, Latin American Communist mass-murderer Che Guevara, American Socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky, and even Barack Obama."

Call Off the Media Dogs… Loughner Fixated on Giffords Since 2007 Way Before Palin  "Democratic operatives planned to exploit the disaster and blame the tea party and Sarah Palin before the victims were identified."

Loughner’s mugshot: 
http://yfrog.com/hswfvlj via Hot Air