I grew up in Miami. My high school graduation was postponed due to the riots of 1980. I’ve been to DC. When I tell you that some of the neighborhoods in the latter city scare me, that means they are bad neighborhoods, not that I’m a racist.

And no I didn’t grow up in a nice, wealthy suburb of Miami either. I lived in an old, working class neighborhood full of Cuban and other Hispanic immigrants, just a few miles straight down the road from Liberty City, where the riots were.

according to gawker it is racism against blacks whether they be muslim or not to be against this mosque

RSM if it will get me a fun job you bet I will put it on my resume.

By the way I don’t know if I ever told you, before I had to make money to pay grad school loans I actually wrote for a “living,” free lance, before there was an internet and blogging.

Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

1. If it was my magazine, I’d give myself a raise.

2. “Once a ‘Tator, always a ‘Tator,” as we say.

3. David Brock excepted, of course.

I live in Bethesda MD and have worked over two years in DC. Just like every large city, there are areas that are unsafe; however, if one stays aware of surroundings, there is no reason to avoid tha majority of DC. If you go looking for trouble you will find it no matter where you go. People in DC are very helpful when asked…they for the most part are also very intelligent. Southern hospitality is limited to Virginia but that’s just way it is for some reason. Race has absolutely nothing to do with anything in DC. Most all people in DC interact well with each other with no regard to race. It’s a melting pot and it’s really quite neat. I was born and raised in Florida and lived all over the world (retired military) and trust me, DC is the place to be (other than Germany) if you like culture and have a need to always have something to do or see.

Maddow owes me a public retraction and an apology.

I am not from Maine!

Tick, tock, bitch. Are you man enough?

He was speaking on MSNBC? Big surprise.

She owes the entire Maine tea party movement and apology. She owes me one too as does Matthews for his hack job.

Just found a new word in the OXFORD English dictionary: to maddow (v.), to pull a maddow: to smear, libel and vilify an innocent person or persons based on ethnic, racial, geographic or political identity, because of a failure of reading comprehension, incompetent research, and/or intellectual dishonesty

“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That’s been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

Obama on ignoring Beck rally.

Dumb and Dumber (I did not even know I was subscribed to Democrat.com, but this is enlightening):

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I’m a Canadian who worked off and on for several years for a software company in Bethesda. I explored much of DC, (excepting some of the burbs) on foot in my spare time. My American friend who hosted me marveled that I could “go walkabout” and come back alive.

Frankly, while it’s not as bad as Baltimore, or parts of Chicago and Philadelphia, a lot of DC is pretty dangerous, especially for tourists on foot. Anyone who claims otherwise speaks from ignorance.

I would challenge either of these two twits to go take a little walk around the neighbourhood of the Navy yard after dark, or perhaps even to venture a couple of blocks out of the touristy parts of Adams Morgan.

Eugene Robinson on Glenn Beck: “I think his main purpose here is self-aggrandizement on an almost Napoleonic scale.”

Huh?! And I’m sure any of the political hacks Robinson has fawned up to during his tenure with The Washington Post were absolutely nothing of the sort! What a hypocrite. I know, surprising for a liberal “boy who cried ‘racist’,” but there we are.

there is so much dishonesty from those on the left it is impossible to keep up. first amendment aside we have to find some way of shutting these morons up. i’m not sure that the truth will do it.