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Violent rhetoric for we, but not for thee (Update – Twitter account deleted)
If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to College Insurrection for Rhode Island prof demands NRA chief’s “head on a stick”, regarding University of Rhode Island assistant professor Erik Loomis. Loomis...
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Best fiscal cliff metaphor ever — Republicans propose Plan B
Please tell me this is not happening, Boehner offers ‘Plan B’ in ‘fiscal cliff’ talks: House Speaker John A. Boehner has launched “Plan B” in budget talks, announcing Tuesday that he will bring for a...
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Dear @SpeakerBoehner, it’s time for Plan C — The Christmas Strategy
It is very frustrating to watch John Boehner and House Republicans twist themselves into contortions in a futile attempt to appease Obama. Plan B failed before it was swallowed because Obama believes...
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Elizabeth Warren to be first Native American in White House since …
It’s bad enough that people already are talking about Elizabeth Warren being a serious candidate for President in 2016, President Elizabeth Warren: Few people have a better and more appealing story and...
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Does the cultural War on Young Men contribute to mass murders?
Via @RightInAcademia, 22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America: When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation...
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Cultural shift — McDonald’s urges stores to stay open on Christmas
After a greater number of McDonald’s stores stayed open on Thanksgiving, resulting in an estimated $36 million additional sales this year, an internal memo from the company is urging franchisees to...
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Benghazi Report — No protest, deteriorating security conditions ignored
The State Department has released the independent review board report, available here. It provides many details, but ignores the big issue, which is the White House response once the attacks started....
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Which is more offensive?
Using a sports team name which may be offensive to Native Americans, or ripping off their heritage and identity for your own professional gain? The team bus of the Liberal High School (KS) Redskins, in...
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A priest and a rabbi walked into a gun shop
If this didn’t come from long-time correspondent, photographer, reporter, bumper sticker aficionado, and music impresario Danelle, I wouldn’t believe it. Made a quick stop at my favorite firearms shop...
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Robert Bork, R.I.P.
Robert Bork has died. Roger Kimball (via Instapundit), has a good summary of Bork’s importance, which unfortunately ended up being not his scholarship but the vicious attacks by people like Ted Kennedy...
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And the Award for the most snide and offensive NY Times Op-Ed of 2012 goes to …
This reprehensible column about Tim Scott by Adolf L. Reed, Jr., a U. Penn. Political Science Professor, The Puzzle of Black Republicans: … But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret...
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It being necessary to cut through the blather about the Second Amendment...
The president has just promised to submit gun-control legislation (though not a budget) to Congress in a matter of weeks. So now is a good time to point out that our national debate over a citizens’...
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So Plan B is it, no Plan C?
Obama held a press conference today about gun legislation, but almost all of the press questions were about the “fiscal cliff.” Obama’s responses were truly amazing, a spiking-of-the-football approach...
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I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism
The New York Times today ran a demeaning Op-Ed about Tim Scott, the Republican Congressman from South Carolina who was just appointed to the seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. The Op-Ed was written by...
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Free speech academics rally around academic who wanted to shut down NRA free...
You’ve heard about Erik Loomis, the University of Rhode Island assistant professor of history who launched an almost psychotic, foul-mouthed Twitter tirade against the NRA, accusing it of being a...
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It worked
I’m overwhelmed. I can’t zero in on any one bumper sticker. It worked. From Jon, taken at the Perimeter Mall in Atlanta/Dunwoody, Georgia, with images of the other sides of the vehicle to follow: Here...
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Remembering Mike Spann and others
The first American killed in the Afghan war, on November 25, 2001. I’ve told his story before (also here), but it is worth remembering every year. As we just finished Hanukkah and approach Christmas,...
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Oppose Plan B, Support Plan C
I agree with this assessment by Erick Erickson: Republicans in Congress intend to vote today on Plan B, John Boehner’s fall back plan on the fiscal cliff. The President says he will veto it. In other...
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I would never be so insulting as to accuse the U. Penn Political Science...
This is a follow up to my post, I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism, regarding the demeaning accusation by University of Pennsylvania Political Science Professor Adolf...
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Hopeless in Rhode Island
John Robitaille is the type of moderate Republican we constantly are told is needed to win over centrist Democrats and independents. But it’s not true in Rhode Island and many other blue states. There...
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