Apparently the SPLC and the Global Warming folk use the same statistician. Things being measured only go up.

Michael Chrichton's "State of Fear", though technically fiction, describes the dynamic of these organizations perfectly. To keep raising money there needs to be a "crisis" that your donation can avert if you donate big and donate now.

That is the kindest motivation I can attribute to these people.

The no stock/no vote analogy is excellent. I like the "skin in the game" notion mentioned in one of the comments when I saw it on a sign at a Tax Day Tea Party. The long term health of any representative government depends on the majority not being able to oppress the minority. When the majority of voters pay none of the costs of Federal government but receive benefits from it we are treading on very dangerous ground.

... and 60 Minutes. At some point shortly after Watergate the goal of journalism for most "journalists" stopped being informing the public and became "making a difference". This just about guarantees that the information will be presented in a way that supports the change the presenter wants. What reduces the tendency of conservatives to become such crusaders is that they tend to be more concerned with individual freedom and therefor less prone to impose their views on others. Conservatives are no less likely to share their opinions forcefully, but more likely to identify it as such rather than risk misleading someone else by presenting opinion as fact.

60 Minutes hurt by making it know that you could actually make money with...

I can't assess Mr. Marhofer's political views, but he advertises heavily on Christian Radio in Cleveland. That may be enough to get you shut down with the bunch in control now.

You don't use fourteen letter words with small children and you don't call it "terrorism" with Liberals. The Libs fixate on it not being non-combatants or not being centrally controlled and miss the point. Giles hit it when he called it Jihad. Even Liberals eventually catch on that religiously motivated murder is a bad thing, no matter who is the target or who is pulling the strings.

Or perhaps she was just being redundant when she said that the first porkulus was a payoff to Democratic constituencies and dead people. Everyone knows that dead people are a key voting block for Democrats, and particularly for Democrats from Chicago.

13% of NEA educated Americans can't find North Korea on a map, so a favorable impression from them is meaningless. Statistics can be used deceptively, particularly when the gambit used in this article by representing that aberrations disprove the norm. Lebanon isn't the U.S. It isn't Iraq. It isn't Afghanistan. The statistics that mean something are the percentage of total suicide bombers who are influenced to do so by Radical Islam. I don't have those statistics, but I am confident you will find more Jihadist mass murders that Buddhist or Roman Catholic mass murderers (no pun intended).

Hasan may have been simply insane. As a result he may even have done the same thing without the influence of Islam, but his association with...

"The alleged Christmas Day bomber" is all you need to know where this guy is coming from. I suppose the guy with the burns all over his body will be suing McDonald's for making their coffee too hot since it isn't clear that they were self-inflicted while trying to blow up the airliner he was on when he received them. Criminals are "alleged". This guy is a terrorist and doesn't deserve the rights of a common criminal. Calling him "alleged" implies that the author equates terrorists with common criminals. Too bad rank stupidity isn't considered a crime in this country, but even then the author would only be "alleged".

Everything Ann says about MSNBC is true, which weakens her argument that "being from there" doesn't make you correct about the people there.

It is ironic that Kathleen's distaste for Palin is largely because she is polarizing, and Kathleen has become polarizing. I must give her credit for being thoughtful. I often disagree with her, but she is one of the more thoughtful writers from any point on the political spectrum.

The SEIU is an example of what happens when the absolutely corrupt get power. Unions must be taken out of the political influence business.