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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Discriminatory Attack Took Place in GA, Not DC

Posted by: Jillian Bandes at 3:32 PM

I reported earlier that Rep. David Scott's office was defaced by a swastika, though the location of the vandalism was unclear. Now, it's coming out that the defacement took place in his Smyrna, Ga., office. Capitol Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

Scott is both a fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

GA Rep's Office Vandalized After Heated Health Care Exchange

Posted by: Jillian Bandes at 10:56 AM

Yesterday, GA Rep. David Scott (D) yelled at a doctor who waited four hours to voice his opinion on health care at a community meeting. The meeting was about an $80 million highway bill that cut through dozens of his constituents homes, and because of the importance of the issue, Scott felt as though the doctor was being inappropriate by asking an unrelated question. However, the doctor was told by Scott’s officials that he would be permitted to ask whatever he wanted – these were instructions given to him before the doctor even opened his mouth.

Now, Fox News is reporting that Scott’s office was vandalized with a four-foot by four-foot swastika. ~~Apparently the office of Scott’s that was vandalized was located in D.C., though~~ the news at this point is not entirely clear. Scott had said previously that he believes the "town hall" protesters who are concerned about health care have racist undertones.

The relevant part of the video starts at around 2:03.

“I was standing up for the people of Douglasville,” Scott said in his defense, after this incident took place.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Teachers 86 Kid's Obama-Masked Talent, Fear Of 'Offending People'

Posted by: Greg Hengler at 7:51 PM

Tolerance is a puzzling virtue because the whole point of it lies in putting up with some things that are immoral, offensive, erroneous, in poor taste, or in some other sense bad. In the “old school” years of Bible-believing/God-fearing folk there was tolerance shown to those who broke an objective standard rooted in Judeo-Christian values. This idea of an objective reality rooted in Judeo-Christian standards of right or wrong has given way to the “it’s all good” generation of people trying to “keep it real” (see real stupid). How do they keep it so “real”? Their feelings tell them how real it tiz. So we got what we have here in the video. Someone’s delicate feelings were scratched and that was enough to shut the kid out of the school's talent show. A perfect example of liberal “tolerance.”

As we see here, the most formidable obstruction to free speech on campus, however, is not the direct censorship code but a political and social environment in which people with politically incorrect opinions are downcast, slandered, ostracized, and ignored. Even though they do not constitute a majority, politically correct campus activists (especially teachers) do make up a kind of “moral majority,” enjoying tremendous leverage within an environment that is already hypersensitive to any indications of racism or bigotry. In several instances, some highly publicized and others relatively unknown, professors/teachers who have opposed politically correct nostrums have found themselves unemployed, or shamed by administrative reprimands and sanctions. Numerous other professors and students have received the message: rather than jeopardize being pulled into a vortex of allegations, sensitivity indoctrination, or censure, they naturally refrain from articulating unpopular sentiments; they censor themselves. This kid will quickly learn to follow the party line or simply shut up.

In this country, for the foreseeable future, the chief danger to moral, cultural, and religious toleration arises not from our avowed religions (as many on the Left adhere to) but from the unavowed and illiberal religion of liberalism itself.

Local school says no to Obama act

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

DUI Defendant Says He's His Own Country

Posted by: Greg Hengler at 3:11 PM

Moral relativism run amuck.

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Murphy Will Lose

Posted by: Ericka Andersen at 7:17 PM

Scott Murphy ought to take a lesson from Tom Daschle, cash in his cards and get out of the way. The venture capitalist Democrats have chosen to represent them in the upcoming special election for Rep. Kristin Gillibrand's NY seat, is another in the long line of tax cheating Democrats -- as Amanda reported here yesterday. In light of this issue, the DCCC has kept quiet, essentially paving the way for Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco to take the seat.

Carelessness? No. Democrats feel so confident in their majorities they aren't willing to go out on the line for another tax evader right now. If Murphy loses, Republicans will take back a seat they lost to Gillibrand in 2006. Jimmy Vielkind writes that "If [Tedisco] were to win the seat, his victory would be the first Democratic loss since the Democratic tsunami that elected Barack Obama. It could be spun as the start of a movement."

Politico reports:

In a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning at the Capitol Hill Club, Delaware Rep. Mike Castle took the lead in making the pitch to members of the House Republican Conference. Reps. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Mike Coffman (Colo.), Wally Herger (Calif.), David Dreier (Calif.), and Howard McKeon (Calif.) all gave $10,000 on the spot for the GOP candidate in New York’s 20th congressional district, according to sources involved with the meeting.

Republicans are far more determined to win back a seat that they desperately need.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Tell me we don't all feel like saying THIS to Washington about now...

Posted by: Kevin McCullough at 10:03 AM

wick-a, wick-a, wick-a, yeah...boy!

I don't mean the headline to be a rube, just to celebrate the return of television's funniest show... but if you did miss it:

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Talk Radio is racist or marxist?

Posted by: Kevin McCullough at 12:42 AM

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"bringing back da fairness doctrine..."

"You gots to EARN son!"

"Fleece it out!"

"Bippity Boppity give me the zoppity."

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Monday, December 03, 2007

Rudy and Huck - ABSOLUTELY so fast!

Posted by: Kevin McCullough at 5:05 PM

"Well...maybe I am a whatever you need kind of guy!"

Our own Matt Lewis posted, what I believe (and if I'm mistaken - please set me straight Matt) to be a post that was designed to sort of defang the idea that Huckabee isn't jockeying for a VP slot with Rudy. He cited a clip from my buddy Scott Wilder's show in which the Huck-Wagon makes a very clear assertive statement on abortion - and it's importance to the GOP:

Mike Huckabee: It Means President Hillary Rodham Clinton. It means the Republican Party loses a whole lot of folks including people like me who didn't become pro life because of my politics I became political because of my pro life convictions. That's what worries me when I see some of the people who say I've argued it both ways, I can be for or I can be against. Hey whatever you need. Well I'm not a whatever you need kind of a guy.

Spotting this I tuned into Scott's program at 6pm EST this hour only to hear Scott express throrough dismay at Huck's less than straightforward answer to George Stephanopolis on ABC yesterday when asked very clearly what it would mean to have a pro-abortion candidate leading the ticket. The Huckster panned on the substantive question by saying it would be a cheap shot... thus putting him at complete odds with his earlier answer FROM JUNE 15.

The difference now - as Scott pondered aloud - is that Huck possibly sees himself a spot on the ticket or perhaps in the cabinet of a Giuliani administration.

Something I was publicly speculating about weeks ago...