I have a lot of respect for honest liberals who put truth before politics and are driven by compassion rather than resentment (e.g., George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens, Nat Hentoff, Juan Williams). The problem is liberals who are driven by resentment who want to win at all costs. They are all Robespierres, Maos, and Pol Pots waiting to happen if they ever get real and unaccountable power.
I hope Andrew Breitbart's name remains a part of the new look and I've been looking forward to new "Bigs" and look forward to BigEducation.com.
Part of the liberal narrative is to make conservatives believe that all young people are liberal (all women are liberal, all minorities are liberal, etc.) and that history marches in a one-way ratchet in their direction. The goal is to dispirit conservatives, make them doubt themselves, make them believe they can't win, and make them give up and stop fighting. Andrew Breitbart understood that, which is why he got in their face and fought back.
Not sure what to say other than a prayer for him and his family. This is like losing Barbara Olson on 9/11. Way too young.
If you want a question that would make Barack Obama's head explode (metaphorically, of course), because there is no safe way he could answer it, try this one (taking everything he's said himself at face value):
"President Obama, your father was a Muslim. Your stepfather was a Muslim. Your stepfather listed your religion as Islam in your elementary school registration at St. Francis Assisi school in Jakarta. You talk about attending Koranic studies in your book Dreams of My Father. You recited the Muslim Call to Prayer, in Arabic, for a New York Times reporter and called it one of the prettiest sounds on Earth. Clearly, you are familiar with the Muslim faith and know quite a bit about it, yet you chose to be Baptized by Reverend Jeremiah Wright and be a Christian. Why did you choose to become a Christian rather than a Muslim?"
Let's seem him answer that one without offending anyone.
Yes, and a woman needs to consent to be intruded upon in that manner to have a surgical abortion and the ultrasound would be part of that procedure, as it already routinely is at many abortion providers for early abortions (a 2003 survey of 72 abortion providers showed that more than 80% *always* performed vaginal ultrasounds before an early abortion). Why? So the abortionist knows what they're doing and to make sure that the woman doesn't have a life-threatening problem like, say, an ectopic pregnancy. So, are those abortionists who routinely perform a vaginal ultrasound before any abortion rapists who have no concern for the woman they are treating? Is that what you really think? Or is this just political posturing?
Of course they didn't show the ultrasound images they see to the woman getting the abortion, which is what this real controversy is all about. Showing women that what they are killing has a beating heart is a darned effective way to convince them not to have an abortion and the pro-abortion people can't bear to have a woman decide not to have an abortion, right?
Somehow, the same media that always fretted about campaign money never points out that Obama outspent McCain nearly 4:1, and that's not counting the free media massaging by those in the mainstream to run cover for him.
While I'm tempted to say "yes", the same argument could be made about some of Fox News' programming and talk radio to Republicans, which is maybe why the US government shouldn't be in the business of controlling political speech or controlling how much people contribute to or spend on it.
If you are going to vote in the poll, copy the URL link from the article and paste it into your browser. If you click on it, they can tell where you clicked on it from. If you paste in, they can't. Make it hard for them to exclude conservative votes on polls like this.
I cancelled my HBO quite a while ago and only have Starz left. John Nolte has been pointing out that "bundled programming" is an evil because it's welfare for leftist losers. I'd argue that HBO and Showtime (and their other channels) are self-contained "bundles", where people pay for them to watch movies and wind up subsidizing left-wing propaganda. Drop HBO and Showtime. If you really need to see any of their original programming, rent it, stream it, or buy it on DVD.
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