The Hate They Are Not Talking About

The Guardian goes full Orwell
I realize the UK’s Guardian is pretty far down toward the Left end of the scale, but does Commissar Simon Jenkins realize just how… dumb this headline and summary sounds? Free Speech can’t exist unchained. US politics needs the tonic of order If America is to speak in a way that heals, as Obama wishes, it needs the curbs and Regulations that make freedom of expression real Didn’t guys named “Benito” and “Adolph” say much the same thing ...

About Blood Libel
Although few in numbers, Jews have been my classmates and good friends since grade school and even though I knew very little about their religious beliefs, I respected those differences and went about my business, just as they did.  I know for a fact that at least a few of my FaceBook friends are Jewish and, undoubtedly, a few Jews are reading this post at this very moment.  That’s great, but I honestly don’t think you’re reading because your Jewish and I’m Cath...

Everybody Was Blood Fu Libeling
First the headline from JammieWearing Fool because of its pure awesomeness: Tucson Shooting Survivor Blood Libels Palin, Boehner, Beck and Angle Yeah, they’re kind of giving that expression a work-out. Now the story: A wounded survivor of the Tuscon shooting that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is blaming Sarah Palin, House Speaker John Boehner, Fox TV host Glenn Beck, and former Nevada GOP Senate Candidate Sharron Angle for the tragedy. “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron A...

Hannity And McGuirk Forget About Violent Comments At Palin Rallies As They Continue To Attack The Left
Hannity set the tone early as he whined about Robert Kennedy, Jr. referring to him as a “merchant of hate.” And then in the next breath, Hannity said, “It was a committed Marxist that killed his uncle, Lee Harvey Oswald, not a conservative.” Panelist and Civil Rights Activist Ron Daniels cited “all of the venom… all of the hatred” that erupted at some of the McCain rallies. Hannity interrupted. “What? You’re giving me generalities. I never sa...

Jared Loughner's G-String
Eric Fuller, a 63-year-old Veteran and survivor of the Tucson shootings pulled no punches in assigning authorship for Jared Loughner’s actions. In an interview with Democracy Now, Fuller related the thoughts he wrote down while in the Hospital.  “How many other people? How many other demented people are out there? It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled—senseless hatred leadin...

Hadi Ghaemi: Who Is Afraid of Talking about Iran's Human Rights Crisis?
Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes As the latest round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group is about to resume, the ongoing Human Rights crisis in Iran is once more being overshadowed and ignored by the international community. The question of holding the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable for grave Human Rights violations has become deeply politicized and distorted. The lives of innocent people are being lost or devastated, Victims not only of their own governments' intransigence, but ...

Palin doesnt threaten pogroms
Last night on Chris Matthews David Corn said that Sarah Palin’s blood Libel comment was the kind of thing that had brought forth Pogroms against Jews once. He offered a similar fearful idea at Mother Jones: Yet for her to equate the criticism she's received with the genocidal persecution of an entire people demonstrates either ignorance or narcissism. Or both. "Blood libel" is a term that refers to Jews using the blood of Children (mainly Christians) for religious practices, and this false a...

10 Years Of Right Wing News: The Best Columns From The Last Decade
I started Right Wing News back in January of 2001 and as of the first of this year, I’ve been running the page for 10 long years. During that time, I’ve pumped out a lot of great content and I’m going to be posting a little of the “best of” material this month. Today will be the “best of” my columns. Confessions Of An Isolationist Wannabe (August 21, 2002): This got some attention, I think because it sums up how so many Americans feel. We really would ...

ATTN: Right-Wing Insomniacs
I’ll be on Redeye tonight, 3 a.m. Eastern, hosted by NR cruise superstar Greg Gutfeld. From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars. On Democrats’ criticism that House Republicans should not bring up a vote to Repeal ObamaCare: This . . . Go A follow-up: In that same Speech, Senator Leahy repeatedly professes a desire for Bipartisanship. His profession might be easier to . . . Go North Dakota Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad now has at least one potential challenger: Public Service Comm...

Did Jokes About John McCain's Anger Contribute to Climate of Hate?
"John McCain stands now less a paragon of straight talk and independence for new members to admire, and more like an object lesson of how f*#@ing mad someone gets when they don't get their way." - Jon Stewart, announcing a new initiative to annoy the hell out of John McCain "The lights are too bright and it's burning my skin! You're going to make me look like a Mexican. Build the dang fence!" - angry puppet John McCain, making his debut on The Daily Show last week. From columnist Ron Hart,...

Death Threats Against Palin Caught on Youtube
Death threats against former Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin have spiked on the Social Networking site Twitter ever since the January 8 Tucson Shooting Spree. An individual who goes by the Nom de Web of "trackerkan" screen captured a rather large number of "tweets" that either advocated the Murder of Palin, or wished violence upon her in different situations, such as hoping she'd commit Suicide. "Listen. I don’t want much from Sarah Palin. I just want her to admit pa...

More Than Half of All States Now Suing to Stop Obamacare
This Wednesday Maine Attorney General William Schneider announced that the Pine Tree State would become the 23rd state participating in Florida’s multi-state suit against ObamaCare. With Oklahoma and Virginia each pursuing their own seperate suits, that brought the number of states fighting Obamacare’s Budget busting Medicaid expansion to 25. It didn’t take long for that number to become 26. The Kansas City Star reports: Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sent a letter Wed...

John Dingell (D-MI) blames Palin, GOP for rhetoric leading to AZ shooting. Flashback: linked tea party to KKK, called radio talk
By now, many have already seen this Dingell diatribe on the floor of the House via TPM: Curiously, Dingell said: "I saw the district of Gabrielle Giffords has a crosshairs put on it. As a lifetime rifleman and shooter, I know what crosshairs signify when you put them on somebody and I know what happened.Is he talking about Palin or Daily Kos? The liberal Daily Kos put a bullseye on Giffords in 2008 (via HillBuzz): More from Henry Payne at The Michigan View: Dingell just accused Palin as an acce...

If you want more civilitythen be more civil
For four days this week following the horror in Tucson our country was subjected nonstop to vicious lies and hatred from liberal-leftists in the media and, more disturbingly, from Democrats on the public Payroll.  This is a new low in American politics, a 24/7 rant that blamed the Tucson rampage on everyone the left hates, fears or blames for their crushing defeat in November. There may examples in history where individual comments were more despicable than those hu...

There's a New Sheriff in Politics
The Thread is an in-depth look at how major news and controversies are being debated across the online spectrum. Tags: blogs, Internet, Media, tuscon shooting In his Speech in Tucson Wednesday night, President Obama called on Americans to expand their “moral imaginations” and “remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.” Well, never hurts to aim high. For now, at least, the president seems to have put an end to the...

Dont kill him
Today’s New York Times reports that San Diego Federal Judge Larry Alan Burns was appointed to oversee the Tucson Murder case. Apparently, one factor in his selection was Burns’s experience in federal death penalty cases. Until I read that, I hadn’t thought much about what would happen to Jared Loughner, who committed this atrocity. I don’t oppose the death penalty in all cases, certainly not in all cases of mass murder. I don’t know very much about Loughner’s...

You think youre so clever, dont you?
From an editorial at the Washington Times: Mrs. Palin is well within her rights to feel persecuted. Since the Saturday bloodbath, members of the liberal commentariat have spoken in a unified voice, charging her and other Conservatives with being indirectly or somehow directly responsible for the lunatic actions of accused gunman Jared Loughner. Typical of blood Libel, the attack against Mrs. Palin is a false charge intended to generate anger made by people with a political agenda. They have made...

Group blames U.Md student death on 'marijuana prohibition policies'
DeSha-Overcash, 22, was shot to death Tuesday inside his house in College Park. Authorities found a large amount of marijuana there and have said they believe he was selling weed. “Police need to start looking at the policies surrounding drugs and evaluating the Unintended Consequences of prohibition,” explained Stacia Cosner, associate director at Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). “If marijuana were regulated in a similar way to Alcohol, perhaps Justin would still be a...

Serious dog bites on the rise, taking toll
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Most dogs don't bite, and most dog bites aren't serious. But hospitalizations for dog bites have nearly doubled in the past 15 years, according to recent Federal Government data. About 4.5 million dog bite incidents occur in the United States each year. Dog bites caused 316,200 trips to the Emergency Room and 9,500 hospitalizations in 2008, the latest figures from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The cost of treating the injuries is $54 million a year, or ...

In Wake of Arizona Shooting, Media Needs to Find the Forgotten Majority
"There is a need for some reflection here: What is too far now? What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There's been a desensitizing. These town halls and cable TV and Talk Radio, everybody's trying to outdo each other." Those were the words of an unnamed Republican senator after America's latest shooting rampage, this one a political Assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz. How sad-and telling-that the lawmaker refused to attach his or her name to such an important truism...

Veteran Wounded in Tucson Shootings Blames Palin, Beck, and Angle
Eric Fuller, the 63-year old Veteran shot twice last Saturday in the attack that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said today that he blames the violent Rhetoric of people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Sharron Angle. “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target,” Eric Fuller said in an interview with Democracy NOW. “Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled — senseless hatred leading to Murder, lunatic fring...

Family Of S.I. Grandmother To Sue NYC Over Intersection Death
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — The family of a Staten Island grandmother plans to sue the city, saying officials knew the intersection where she was killed was dangerous. Last May, as Beata Kurpiewski, 59, and her then 3-year-old grandson, Philip, waited at the intersection of Slosson Avenue and Windsor Road, a speeding SUV ran a red light before smashing into another car and killing the woman at the scene. “She was the most careful person. She would never cross the street without the light,R...

First lady addresses Tucson shootings
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Michelle Obama in an Open Letter posted on the White House Web site said Friday parents can teach "valuable lessons" about the Tucson tragedy. "The questions my daughters have asked are the same ones that many of your Children will have -- and they don't lend themselves to easy answers," Obama said. "But they will provide an opportunity for us as parents to teach some valuable lessons -- about the character of our country, about the values we hold dear, and about fin...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner: Living Up to Our Kids' Expectations
Wednesday night was the memorial for nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green and the other Victims of the Jan. 8 tragedy, which killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life. I'm still stunned with sadness by the horrible events of last Saturday. As the mother of two Children, one around the age of Christina who's attended similar congressional events with me, I ache for the families. What President Obama said in the memorial service resonated deeply: I believe we can be bet...

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech
To honor the fallen this week, we're going to refrain from our usual heated political Rhetoric here for a change. It's only fitting, really, after such an emotional week for America. So, just to warn everyone up front, we're not going to be heaping our usual amounts of scorn on Republicans this week. Instead, we're going to (briefly) heap some scorn on the Mainstream Media, and then after a foreshortened awards section, we are going to reprint the text of President Obama's moving Speech in Tuc...