I think I read somewhere the verminous and turdlike LaPierre has been causing members to leave the NRA in droves, though I suspect it has a long way to fall before it has less members than Salon.com has followers.

The temptation to pay out Tarentino and Oliver Stone (surely the Ralph Nelson of his generation) and Mr O'Hehir (whoever he is) in the same kind of language is hard to resist.

Unfortunately, we are in the position of having to persuade people to think rationally and act in their own interests, while they only have to stir up unreasoning fear and hatred.  They are talking to an audience they have been corrupting for years.  We need to get people sober, while they are handing out "free" drinks.

If you're swimming with sharks, don't have a nose bleed.

Who's to decide what the words "extended" and "needs" mean? 

Couldn't they have leased Aaron Sorkin's replica?

All the news that fits the agenda.

Nice find, Atipodius.

I think the probability of the assault media taking up biloxi1's argument is zero.  Allegedly conservative Republicans are only slightly more likely to take it up because they tie themselves in knots trying to appear "fair and "reasonable".

The left have no such scruples. Remember the stampede to characterize Jared Loughner as a creature of the right on the grounds that he was an admirer of Hitler? And the attempt to make Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh responsible for his actions? Remember their glee at finding a Tea Partier named James Holmes? Their failure to check their facts before going public and the grudging back down when the truth came out?    

It all makes sense, given the kinds of deployments this administration likes to make and the rules of engagement they set.  Women make ideal hostages.

There would be no market for it.  Why do you think the stores move things around frequently?  They want people to spend more time in the store searching and buying additional stuff on impulse.

It is possible.  Look how thoroughly the loony left has taken over the Democratic Party.  The term "blue dog" is now only ever heard in the context of maudlin nostalgia binges.

Of course, career politicians will probably be harder to pry loose than patriots, but they are good at telling what direction the wind is blowing from.

Conservative rhetoric resembles Democrat defense policy.  Damn, if our enemies won't agree to disarmament, we'll just do it unilaterally.

They can't all be giants like Oprah and Couric.  And some people like Hannity.

I think you're laboring the point a bit but Obama's presidency does represent the rich kicking away the ladder behind then so that no one else can ascend.  High earners are being punished and the proceeds are being used to welfare trap the poor like medieval serfs unable to leave their lord's estate.

Woodrow Wilson: President March 1913 to March 1921

Benito Mussolini: Prime Minister October 1922, Dictator January 1925 to July 1943.

Margaret Sanger: First birth control clinic 1916. Founded American Birth Control League (Later called Planned Parenthood) 1921. Founded National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control 1922.

Adolph Hitler: Became leader of the NSDAP (Nazis) 1921. Published Mein Kampf 1925. Chancellor 1933. Dictator 1934 to 1945.

Can anyone else see the problem?

American Progressives/Liberals did not learn anything from the European fascists.  The tutelage ran in the other direction.  Mussolini,  was loved by the Progressives because he flattered them.  

I thought Jonah Goldberg made that point.

Someone pointed out that Mussolini is unknown to many Americans, so dragging him into the argument is pretty pointless.  Conservatives should practice using "Progressive" as a four letter word (again).

Inspiration moves individuals.  Fear moves mobs.

A majority will never read Jennifer Fulwiler's article.  It's too long.

Not only can numbers be manipulated, they usually are.  Anecdotes can be made from whole cloth, and Oprah can slip a few in between the celebrity interviews.

What did you think about the suggestion that governments should pay women to have abortions?  It would certainly throw out some interesting numbers the public would be unable to ignore.

Can I take it then that you really like the Beatles?

I never said Paul would not have sold a lot of detergent and candy bars had he been left to his own devices.

I know they will never be content.  On the other hand, they haven't really had a new idea in a century.  Though their tactical range and flexibility is amazing, their goals have not changed an iota.

Bearing in mind Irving Cristol's observation that rot and depravity are no longer by-products of the liberal agenda, they are the agenda.  Once they have forced us to accept and even celebrate pederasty as a normal expression of human sexuality (all love is good, isn't it?), it's hard to imagine where else they can go.

As any boy with ugly blisters could tell you, they really are insensitive brutes. And furthermore, they don't fight fair.