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The twelve minute video that could make Jay Carney curl up in the fetal position
“This under-12 minute video segment is a must see. For low information voters, it is a primer on why they should be outraged. Perhaps your friends who are not yet up to speed would benefit from an emailed link.”
The fatal mistake of Modernism — part 2 Fallacies of reason and cultural decline (via The fatal mistake of Modernism — part 2)
The best of Fred Hutchison The fatal mistake of Modernism The great fallacy about how man knows (via The fatal mistake of Modernism)
it was only a matter of time before this attitude filtered down from K Street to Main Street. Now police departments across the country have adopted the new Washington “you’re on your own” attitude when faced with the dilemma of dispatching increasingly scarce resources to problem areas:
Ariel Castro, Cleveland kidnapper, is a registered Democrat
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2013 ― According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who held three abducted local women in captivity for over a decade, is a registered Democrat.
Even more interesting is the timeline: Ariel Castro kidnaps his first victim, Michelle Knight, 21, on August 22, 2002. After a month and a half of raping the imprisoned girl half his age, on October 5, 2002, he decides to register as a Democrat. In about six months, on April 21, 2003, he abducts his next victim, Amanda Berry, aged 17. Almost a year later, the imprisoned women are joined by 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.
But at least we know he didn’t vote for Mitt Romney in the last election.
‘Duck Dynasty’ Ratings Reveal Appetite for God, Guns, Family
A&E has a serious hit on its hands with a family of West Monroe, LA duck call makers whose lives revolve around guns, family and blessings before dinner.
Duck Dynasty’s season finale Wednesday trounced the competition—both cable and network fare.
(via Share) Josh Garrels is back - but this time to co-host & pick out all music, including cuts by Josh White, Kye Kye, & Laura Gibson. Plus Josh performs “Bread & Wine” live in the UTR studios.
I Know why the Lame Duck Squawks
This has not been a good week for President Obama. I think it will not be the worst week of this year or this term, which I predict will get worse as his own personality flaws and patently partisan strategies make his lame-duck term even more impotent than is usually the case.
America’s Chechens are Coming Home to Roost
“Butt back to Boston: after a day long “shelter in place” order was lifted, we have a man - who stepped out of the house for a smoke - to thank for the capture of dirtbag #2. I probably would have just called the cops when I saw blood on the boat cover, butt being a Marlboro Man, the homeowner went and got his step ladder, climbed up, pulled the tarp back and confirmed there was a non-responsive man bleeding in his boat. He’s lucky JoKar was dozing off due to loss of blood, or he’d probably be dead. Massachusetts being a no-gun state and all, he was armed only with a rake.”
Somewhere near Boston early Monday morning, he packed a bomb in a bag. It was by all accounts relatively crude — a pressure cooker, explosives, some wires, ball bearings and nails … nails which, hours later, doctors would struggle to remove from the flesh of bleeding victims. His motive is unclear. His intent is not: It was to maximize injury, suffering, pain, trauma and, yes, death. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be caught, perhaps not. Perhaps Monday’s bomber will be offered a teaching job at Columbia University. (via Tale of two terrorists - m.NYPOST.com)
Why coverage of ‘right-wing’ violence irritates conservatives | WashingtonExaminer.com
“It’s just lazy and imprecise journalism to use the term “right-wing” so broadly that it could refer to anybody from a libertarian who believes in a small centralized government to somebody who wants to restore the Third Reich.”
The Mendacious and Manipulative ‘Moms Demand Action’ | National Review Online
Ah, Dodgeball. Again, not playing a sport in school is not the same as its being banned. Not only is the weapon that the kid on the right is holding not allowed in school, but the conflation of the two activities makes it appears as if schools have outlawed Dodgeball because it’s too dangerous but happily hand out semi-automatic rifles on a Thursday afternoon and let the kids have at it.
This is precisely the sort of mendacious, manipulative, emotional bullying that the president employed during the four-month campaign after the shooting at Sandy Hook. One can only hope that it works out as well for Moms Demand Action as it did for the White House.
Unlike the current U.S. president, Thatcher didn’t have a well-oiled propagandistic social media organization in the style of OFA. Nor did the “progressive” world media advance and reverberate her message; that free service is reserved for the political left only. For Thatcher, it was quite the opposite.
And yet she exerted great influence over people. She did it merely by being who she was: informed, unwavering in the face of adversity, brave in defending the truth, and confident in her belief that the free markets are a force for good, while socialism is a force for evil. A few Western leaders may have agreed with her in private, but they didn’t have the courage to say it openly in the twisted moral climate brought on their countries by the false promise of socialism. What Thatcher showed to these men is that when one has no fear of speaking the truth and possesses enough moral conviction to push back, miracles happen. Britain’s resurrection as an economic powerhouse was one of them.
Her message came through despite all the hostile efforts to jam it around the world, shattering not just the Western establishment’s media filters, but the Iron Curtain itself. It still resonates; if only today’s leaders could listen.
