"That's not to say that the comic book industry isn't full of libtards with a dim view of America. It most definitely is..."

The irony of that is they live in a country-culture that invites them earn a living by drawing freakin' cartoons! And lets face it, most of the doodlers we know -- God bless 'em -- are geeks who have almost no other professional quality. In Cuba, they'd be government propagandists and in saudi arabia they'd be the half-time beheading show at the soccer stadium.
Earn on brave truth speakers!

IT"S OFFICIAL: Mickey Moore and Roger Ebert have morphed together. Can 'it' not to anything about the melting?

I went to the fights and a rap awards ceremony broke out... ba dum ching

good thought, but totally disagree. Hate is still the cornerstone. 'Pity' is just how they market it

"Participation in Government Class" uggghh. Never mind the content, just the existence of such a course is so gross.

"The fact that their targets are almost consistently attractive, independent-minded women is for students of Freud to figure out, but the game-plan is as obvious as it is perverse."

Actually, with respect, it makes perfect sense. This is the demographic -- along with black men and other visible minorities (See Clarence Thomas) -- that the left fears the most. Because these people don't fit the white-middleaged-curmudgeon-selfish-racist-male (WMASRM) profile of conservatives that the Left has been marketing to everyone since the 50s.

Why? Because it makes it very easy for anyone who isn't a WMASRM (not an acronym you can force any fluidity out of -- I tried) to hate conservatives, who are portrayed as wanting to crush everyone else.

So when people outside of the WMASRM camp -- smart, pretty women, visible minorities, gays etc -- stray off the intellectual reservation and appear to share some of the same ideas WMASRM's have, well that's very very dangerous. Ideas are infectious, so what if these apostates' crazy opinions they share with conservatives actually start rubbing off on everyone else? What demographic, then, does the left have beyond of college kids and their instructors?

Palin is a special case because she threatens Democrats' grasp on women voters -- 50% of the population regardless of class & race. If they lose the 'Oprah' crowd to a conservative, middle america 'Oprah' (as Palin is sometimes described) -- who has much of an effect on the political culture as any politician ever has -- well, goodnight.

Their knee-jerk response is Alinsky 101. That 'cause they're scared s--itless. Because when you're scared, you can't think. You scream and let your arms flail. That's before you huddle in the corner and sob. That day is coming too.

I admit I get it. All my bones are conservative with thick Libertarian enamel, but I've been a Pearl Jam fan since I was 16. I know, I know, I'm inviting some well-deserved scorn, but I can't help it. I love the music, despite the adolescent sanctimony of Eddie Vedder or Bono or whoever. Thankfully, I have a gift of being able to sideline what I know is the artists message and translate it intellectually into something completely different -- something uniquely mine. I know it's a cliche to say that, but it works. If I wasn't able to do that and took to heart directly what rock bands or film directors are telling me, well frankly, I'd be a miserable SOB, not being able to enjoy most music or movies from genres of my time.
In an ironic way, it's a bit of revenge on these lefty songwriters. I doubt they're impressed with people like me taking their social justice messages and twisting it around to the point my brain is able to digest a conservative or moral one. Or most probably, they just want me to buy their CD. :)

It's tragically ironic how the same group of people who in unison blame the tea party and Palin for this are the first to dismiss the idea that the "rhetoric" (to put it mildly) that currently fills Islam against ALL religions and cultures different than it can lead to young, impressionable ideologues committing political acts of violence.

I'm not saying this is the case in the Ariz shooting – surly the evidence as it stands points to a deranged (likely in some way schizophrenic) individual without any coherent political ideology – but in order to accept that he was motivated by political anger and 'hate-filled' rhetoric, the Left by definition have to accept the same must be true in regards to the motivations leading up to New York on 9-11, London, Madrid, Bali, Israel repeated, The Washington Sniper, Ft. Hood, Alexandria, and the TENS of THOUSANDS of Muslim Brotherhood-inspired attacks on civilians since sept. 11.

Of course, that itself is rhetorical. We all know that even the fools that blame 'right wing' politics on this shooting cannot bring themselves to draw a similar parallel in the Islamic world.

I hesitate to use this word so loosely to describe the motivations of the left. But it's the only word that fits. Evil. Yes, it's pure evil to ghoulishly use this tragedy – in reality triggered by, as we know, mental illness – to sink political opponents.

Shame on them and shame on America if we let them get away with it.

This time, at least, I believe it's a business decision. I'm conservative and catholic and I hate 90% of Christmas movies. Have no time for them. Once in a while a Home Alone or Bad santa comes around to shake the xmas movie mold, but most are tacky, cliched drek.

I'm still waiting for Mr. green czar to address the very basic point (and frankly, the only one that matters) that if governments simply put the money road users pay in fuel taxes back into the highway system rather than general coffers then there wouldn't be an issue at all. Menzies is right -- and it's far from controversial -- that road users already pay for their roads, but once upon a time governments thought that 96% of that revenue would be better funneled into general coffers and wasted along with the rest of our tax dollars.
But the green commissar (no that's not a typo) would rather that road users dip even deeper in their pockets while their fuel tax money is dumped only McGuinty-knows-where (or does he?)