Archive for January, 2011

Liz Carter

I remember the story told years ago of America being one big wonderful melting pot, a land where individuals could pursue and obtain their dreams if they worked hard enough. I reflect upon those teachings and wonder, when did they change? Or was it simply that my teachers were believers in the greater good of the country, instead of one group of people?

That's what they keep telling us.

The focus on diversity, our differences and image has become so dominating that it has become damaging.  When we want to advance and move forward, one typically begins by finding common ground. Common ground needs to be found in values, not race, gender or social behaviors. One group of individuals should not have more rights or “say” than another. We are, and should be, treated equally. So why are we still pandering to race and gender?

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Dan Calabrese

There’s no way I can publish an interview with Herman Cain without putting this on the record: I absolutely love the guy.

I have known Herman personally for five years, ever since he first signed on to write a column for this syndicate. We’ve only met in person once – in Atlanta in 2007 – but we know each other well through five years of telephone and e-mail dialogue.

Meet the new boss?

He has been helpful both with advice and encouragement as I’ve worked to succeed at this and other business ventures, and he has stuck with us through thick and thin, when I’m sure bigger and more established syndicates would have been happy to snatch him away from us.

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Brett Noel

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Dacia Nichol

I’m jumping on the bandwagon of what I think is a fantastic idea.

I must say that it’s been an underlying belief of mine that General David Petraeus has the potential to be a modern day Dwight D. Eisenhower. The man’s talent for leadership is outstanding (an understatement), and he has steered the course of a war that didn’t seem to have a course to begin with – the War on Terror.

Well deserved.

MoveOn.org be damned. Ironically, this man is one of the great fighters for their ability to make such ludicrous accusations. But I digress.

Vets for Freedom, an organization on the front lines calling for victory in Iraq and Afghanistan, has taken the position of advocating for a fifth star for General Petraeus. I’ll be the first to admit that I completely forgot there even was such a thing. Then again, it’s only been awarded some eleven times, one of which was to Eisenhower himself.

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Bob Maistros

After reading Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, there are two things we know for sure:  it’s too easy for the mentally ill in America to get guns.  And too hard for them to get treatment.

Let’s start, shall we, with some world-class reporting by Journal scribes Vanessa O’Connell and Gary Fields, who investigated what states are doing to keep guns out of the hands of folks with emotional issues.

May be a little less of this?

Suffice it to say they are dealing with some challenges.  You see, it’s been illegal to sell guns to the mentally ill for more than 40 years.  But ay, there’s a rub:  who is mentally ill?  As it happens, someone a court declares to be mentally ill – and that, according to the reporters, involves a “very high standard.”  Not to mention a lot of hoops to jump through for authorities, often hampered by privacy laws, and families who may not want to admit there is a problem, or who may find their own hands full.

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Dan Calabrese

Have you ever known someone who had backed so hopelessly into a corner, there was simply no move left but to just surrender – but they stubbornly refused? And in their continued determination to fight on, they got themselves so messed up, and looked so ridiculous as a result, that no one could ever respect them again?

Rise up, servants!

All right. We’ve established to death that the media should never have picked this fight with Sarah Palin. The public completely rejected their suggestion that she was responsible for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords. The claim that the use of the term “blood libel” was somehow beyond the pale was easily disproven.

You’d think, after another day of this, they’d give up and move on. It’s not like they could find anything even more ridiculous to say about her, could they?

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Brett Noel

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From The North Star National to the White House . . . isn’t that just the way it always goes?

We’ll have an exclusive interview with Herman later this afternoon, and yes, we will continue to publish and syndicate his column as long as he finds time to write it and campaign. Here’s what he told Neal Cavuto on Fox News yesterday:

Dan Calabrese

My friend James Taranto, who writes the Wall Street Journal’s outstanding Best of the Web Today column, has been doing yeoman’s work finding examples of the media and others freely making use of the term “blood libel” in recent years.

Debunker.

He’s been posting the examples for the past several hours on his Facebook page, and he’s on a roll so keep checking.

The idea that Saran Palin crossed some sort of line by using the term was always ridiculous on its face, but Taranto is demonstrating just how disingenuous the media howls truly are. Great work, James.

These idiots just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper with the crap they’re throwing around, and it seems they’ve forgotten how easy it is to research a claim – in this case, that no one ever uses the term “blood libel” because it’s somehow beyond the pale, and demonstrate that it’s completely and utterly false.

Dan Calabrese

Boy, were the left and the media eager to change the subject.

The whole right-wing-vitriol-causing-shooting storyline was blowing up in their faces so badly (violent metaphor alert!), they needed something, anything, ASAP . . . no matter how far-fetched.

Reload.

So when Sarah Palin posted a video this morning, commenting eloquently on the shootings, but letting them have it for trying to politicize it, they seized their new narrative with Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” to characterize the false claims of culpability on Palin and the tea party.

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