Sam from Day by Day explains.
I’m so damn angry that words fail me. Read Duane Patterson’s account of Dingy Harry’s recent case of verbal diarrhea — complete with audio.
Now, excuse me while I fight the urge to throw my laptop across the room…
Technorati Tags: creep, global warming, harry reid, witless opportunistIf you missed Meet The Press yesterday, the full interview video and transcript of the interview with Bill Cosby and Alvin Pouissant are online.
Update: The sparks fly at Booker Rising’s comment gallery.
Rush Limbaugh opens both barrels on Sen. Harry Reid (D-Media Myrmidons):
Senator Reid, it is time for you to stop hiding behind the speech-and-debate clause and your Senate immunity.
You want to come on this program and call me unpatriotic, come on this program and call me unpatriotic. You want to call me a liar, you want to tell me that I did not say what I said, you come on this program and you tell me to my face that I said what I did not say. Stop hiding behind your special protections as a senator and spewing the talking points of an embarrassing, partisan hack media group called Media Matters for America. Hillary Clinton didn’t serve in the military, by the way, Senator Reid. She just voted against General Petraeus. Barack Obama did not serve in the military, Senator Reid, and he didn’t even show up to vote in support of Petraeus. John Edwards didn’t serve, and after voting to send our troops to war, he has undermined them ever since. It is unconscionable for an esteemed United States senator to launch an all-out assault on a private citizen, which is a lie from front to back, in order to cover your own actions and words, which have been the true demoralization of the US military — and if anybody owes the military of this country an apology, Senator Reid, it is you. It is Jack Murtha. It is Dick Durbin. It is any and all who have joined your effort to secure defeat of the United States and the United States military in not only Iraq, but the war on terror.
Sir, have you no decency left? Have you no shame whatsoever?
The answer would be no to both questions.
Harry Reid is a scheming, conniving coward who is unfit to serve in the Senate. Any decent Nevadan should shun him on sight — and toss his sorry rear end out of office come November 2010.
(thanks to Jim Rose)
Technorati Tags: , harry, limbaugh, reid, rushI only have two things to say about Justice Clarence Thomas:
1. I’m looking forward to buying and reading his book.
2. I would like to meet him in person.
Those who have wrongfully maligned and vilified him over the years owe him the mother of all apologies.
End of discussion.
Technorati Tags: clarence thomas, justice, supreme courtThe Morgan State debate is in two days. Still, Thompson, Romney, Giuliani, and McCain still won’t change their minds to appear. In short, to quote J.C. Watts, it is “a stupid decision” on their part.
“I think the best that comes out of stupid decisions like this,” said former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts, is “that African-Americans might say, ‘Was it because of my skin color?’ Now, maybe it wasn’t, but African-Americans do say, ‘It crossed my mind.’”
All four GOP presidential front-runners — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson — have said they will not attend a PBS debate at a historically black college in Baltimore hosted by Tavis Smiley. […]
Watts pointed out that some of the candidates with more liberal histories on issues such as guns and abortion have reached out to conservative groups that don’t share their views.
It’s not just black conservatives complaining. White conservatives are shaking their heads in disappointment. Commentary from Redstate:
The fact that our major Republican candidates have decided to skip out on a debate hosted by NPR’s Tavis Smiley at an historically Black university is a travesty. I’ve never been so disappointed in this Republican field as a group as I am about this issue. Even the CEO of Wal-Mart has appeared on the Tavis Smiley show to talk about his company, address concerns and objections, answer tough questions, and present himself and his company to Smiley’s audience and let them make up their own minds. It’s a real pity so many of our prospective Presidents aren’t willing to do the same. Don’t tell me the CEO of Wal-Mart isn’t as busy as any of these guys.
We have scolded the African-American community for its lock-step support for Democrats. However, as the avoidance of this debate demonstrates, Republicans haven’t exactly beaten down doors in an attempt to engage these voters, either. Given that these invitations went out in March, the campaigns had plenty of time to schedule one debate to address one of the largest voting blocs in the country, and one whose loyalties could help the GOP turn national elections. […]
Because Republicans don’t engage, we allow the Jacksons and Sharptons and Wests to define the GOP rather than define ourselves. We have to get aggressive in engaging black voters so that we don’t leave a vacuum. And if we ever want to gain their votes, we have to answer the barbs tossed at Republicans and get past the self-appointed gatekeepers with our answers.
Knowing that about nine out of 10 black voters have cast their ballots for the Democratic presidential candidate over the past two decades, the candidates can have little doubt that the audience at the All-American Forum is not likely to be receptive to Republican candidates or Republican policies.
But how can Republican supporters, many of whom labeled Democrats “cowards” for refusing to debate on the Fox News Channel, remain silent while their candidates run and hide from Tavis Smiley, one of the most congenial black talk show hosts on TV today?
It’s not too late. There are still two more days until the debate.
Yes, two more days. I already voiced my opinion on the subject, and it still stands.
It’s time for the frontrunners to step up or step off.
Related: Jim Geraghty offers up “reasons” why the Fearful Four won’t debate this Thursday. Frankly, I’m not buying their excuses.
Related #2: Shorter Bob Herbert: “Go away! I’m race baitin’!” (via Sister Toldjah)
Technorati Tags: debate, Giuliani, McCain, Morgan State, Romney, Tavis Smiley, ThompsonPlease pay a visit to Michael D. Cobb Bowen’s blog. He has an open letter for you regarding the Morgan State debate.
Rather than quote it, I think you (as well as other interested individuals) ought to read it in its entirety.
Technorati Tags: debate, Fred Thompson, Morgan StateI prefer to think of the Democrats as a starter party. You try out its philosophy of corporations evil, government good and you feel good about yourself. Then you get a job outside the academia, media or government and you discover FICA, regulations and the incompetence of the government. That’s when you trade up.
Recently, the FairTax proposal has been under attack by numerous critics; the most vicious screeds coming from Bruce Bartlett, who had the audacity to falsely link the proposal to the “church” of Scientology.
FairTax proponent Neal Boortz comes out swinging:
I’ve long had a great deal of respect for Bruce Bartlett. I’ve cited his commentary countless times on my radio show. Lately Bartlett has become perhaps the country’s most vitriolic opponent of the FairTax as evidenced by a series of recent columns in which he makes a weak attempt to tie the FairTax to Scientology. The best that Bartlett can come up with is that years before the FairTax was developed there was a group called Citizens for an Alternative Tax System that developed a plan for a national retail sales tax. The plan was wholly different from the FairTax in that it called for an exclusive, rather than an inclusive sales tax, it did not eliminate payroll taxes, it had no provision to rebate taxes paid on life’s essentials, and it left our corporate tax structure in place. […]
Bartlett’s attacks on the FairTax smack of desperation. Does this plan upset him so much that he has to resort to such a weak attempt at guilt by association? His attacks on the FairTax don’t stop with the Scientology smear. Bartlett completely (intentionally?) mischaracterizes the FairTax prebate, the FairTax provision that insures that no American family would pay the FairTax on the basic necessities of life, by stating in two columns that the government would have to track individual family incomes to implement the prebate plan. A sixth-grader could read the bill or The FairTax Book and understand that the prebate is predicated on the size of the family, not the family income; yet Bartlett continues to insist that income must be tracked! Desparation, carelessness or ignorance?
For the truth on the FairTax, visit here and here. Don’t believe the hype.
P.S.: Just for fun, I created a “shame on…” banner in reply to Bartlett’s recent columns — and Boortz mentioned it on his website.
The Ryskind Sketchbook has the original ad MoveOn.org really wanted to run:
In my previous post, I made a call for remembrance. Now, more than ever, is the time to stand up to those who threaten our culture and way of life.
The Islamists call us to submission. To paraphrase a leftist blogger, screw them. Sound the clarion call for resistance!
Islamism is a threat to Western Civilization as we know it. “Live free or die” isn’t just the state motto for New Hampshire; it should be the battle cry of every human being who values liberty over oppression. Every time there is an act of appeasement in futile attempts to pacify the cult of fanatical Islam, we move one mile down the road to sharia.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather fight than switch.
To the cowardly, the weak, the indifferent, and the complacent, I say to you what I have said before three years ago, and it still bears true today: You can lay down in denial and die if you want to. Just get the hell out of the way so the rest of us can fight to live.
“Convert or die” is NOT an option.
“Never give up! Never surrender!” That is MY cure for Islamism.
Is it yours?
Related: Pay a visit to MM’s blog. Now.
Related #2: The IMAO crew has a resolute message for terrorists everywhere.
For Those Who Have Forgotten (or Willfully Chose To Forget): Blonde Sagacity has a refresher course for you.
Walter Williams explains:
Economic theory does not operate in a vacuum. Institutions, such as the property rights structure, determine how the theory manifests itself. Similarly, the law of gravity isn’t repealed when a parachutist floats gently down to earth. The parachute simply affects how the law of gravity manifests itself.
Read the rest.
Walter Williams comments on illegal immigration:
While our immigration laws are overly cumbersome and in urgent need of streamlining, they do not violate human rights and should be obeyed.
Many pro-amnesty supporters offer the canard that there are 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in our country. We cannot keep every illegal immigrant out or expel the ones living here. That might be true, but it is also true that we can’t prevent every rape and murder. Does that mean we shouldn’t attempt to enforce the laws against rape and murder and try to prosecute the perpetrators?
RTWT.
Yesterday, a double-car bomb threat was averted in Londonistan; however, Scotland’s Glasgow Airport suffered a car bomb attack. In return, the Ostrich Guild of politicians and activists call for appeasement and capitulation, lest the same fate should happen here in the USA.
Eric of The Tygrrrr Express has penned a strong essay on our appeasers at home, and pulls no punches. That is your required reading for today. Go. There. Now.
The “progressive” Las Vegas Sun and its publisher, Brian Greenspun, are always bemoaning Nevada’s unwillingness to embrace excessive taxation and bloated government. Column after column, the limousine liberal constantly takes delight (from his cool, comfortable California perch) in bashing the “evil” Las Vegas Review-Journal, which under a joint operating agreement, stuffs his daily inserts into their papers.
Frankly, I find Greenspun’s columns to be condescending, and his overall “smarter than thou” attitude insulting. Of course, whenever the son of Hank Greenspun (whom he couldn’t hold a candle to) gets off on attacking the R-J for its libertarian stances, the R-J’s Sherman Frederick rightfully rebuts.
This week’s rebuttal from Frederick pulls no punches.
The idea that Nevadans are somehow escaping taxation is baloney. According to the Tax Foundation, Nevada ranks fifth in the percentage of individual income confiscated by local, state and federal taxes, trailing only the big-government paradises of Connecticut, New York, the District of Columbia and New Jersey.
If my esteemed colleague spent more time in Las Vegas and less time at his house in Malibu, Calif., he might remember this.
As for casting the Review-Journal as the chief advocate of efficient government and lower taxes, Brian unwittingly pays this newspaper a high compliment.
But the real point, which apparently will come to Brian like a news flash, is this: For some two years, the Sun has been distributed with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Every day for the past 630 days, he’s enjoyed the opportunity to expound his world view to the readership of the largest newspaper in the state. In literally hundreds of editorials and columns, he’s had an equal chance to sell his soap.
And guess what?
Nobody’s buying.
That’s not because the Review-Journal hypnotizes people. Readers know what they are doing. They benefit from reading two newspapers with two different views each morning. And when they see the patronizing “I am smart, you are stupid” editorials in the Sun, they reject them.
That will preach.