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The Science Is Settled!

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 88 Comments

Having a married mom and dad is better for children, according to a Canadian study that, among other things, finds “daughters of gay parents displaying dramatically low graduation rates.” Fortunately, despite all the noise about gay marriage, most gay people have zero interest in raising children and, because gay sex obviously doesn’t produce offspring, very few gay people ever procreate.

These are just facts, people.

Jeff Goldstein notices that facts are unfashionable nowadays:

Rejection of common sense biological and evolutionary observations are much in vogue among the social engineers and their activist counterparts. But it bears repeating — yet again — that wishing something were so, because in your mind a just world would make it so, does not, in fact, replace what is. And yet it is we who are labeled anti-science — albeit by those whose idea of science is the politicized kind that can be “settled” and based around contemporary consensus when empirical data doesn’t fall their way.

We are descending into a new Dark Ages of mystic belief, where socialized medicine is fiscally responsible, where illegal immigrants have more rights than do American citizens, where sodomy is normal and people who don’t regularly engage in sodomy are considered weird.

 

Category: Gays, Marriage

Why Is @Allahpundit Surprised?

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 57 Comments

“Unbelievable,” he says, that the White House press corps is so servile:

[Obama’s press conference] ran for one hour and six minutes, with 12 different reporters being called on 00 although, notably, not Ed Henry of Fox News — and between them they couldn’t muster one question about the catastrophe that is Healthcare.gov or the spectacle of National Park Rangers locking senior-citizen tourists out of war memorials and/or inside their hotels.

Try this, Allah: Watch MSNBC all day long and keep in mind that, for the vast majority of the reporters covering politics in Washington, MSNBC is the Gospel Truth. Realize that the ambitious younger journalists in the White House press corps dream of the day when they’ll have their own regular spot on MSNBC or, perhaps, they will be appointed to a job in the Obama administration itself, like their hero and mentor, Jay Carney.

All of these reporters are Democrats. They hate and despise Republicans, and consider it their most important duty as journalists to help elect more Democrats and then to help the Democrats to advance their political and legislative agenda. To these reporters, the superiority of the Democrats is an objective fact, and anyone who says a word in favor of Republicans is therefore a liar or a fool or both.

No reporter in the White House press corps watches Fox News, except for amusement, to laugh at it as crude sport. Nor, for that matter, does any reporter in the White House press corps read conservative blogs or Web sites. Insofar as the Internet has any influence on them, the sites that are most influential among D.C. journalists are such venues as Think Progress, Media Matters, Mother Jones and Salon.

Go read Brian Beutler’s savagery toward Republicans and realize that Beutler therein expresses the sentiments of the White House correspondents for ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today and the Associated Press.

Was it “unbelievable” that Obama faced no tough questions at the press conference? It would have been unbelievable if he had.

The press corps is a constituency of the Democrat Party in the same way that the AFL-CIO, the NAACP and Planned Parenthood are constituencies of the Democrat Party. If any of them have any criticism of Obama, it arises from the feeling that he is not liberal enough.

Our nation’s “mainstream” media are, actually, Democrat Party propagandists. Let’s stop pretending that they are interested in truth.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Brian Beutler, Democrats, Hot Air, Media Bias

The Problem Is, You’re Losing

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 29 Comments

Why are you losing? Because you are a loser:

Matt [Lewis] made his regular appearance on Morning Joe to discuss his column. Are the hardball tactics pushed as an answer to the tactics of the Left pushing idealistic young Christians out of politics altogether?

You can read the whole thing and watch the video at Hot Air, where Ed Morrissey’s take on the situation is closer to the reality than is Matt’s, but still not right. If “young Christians” are not excited about Republicans, it’s for the same basic reason that nobody else is excited about Republicans now: They’re looking and sounding like a bunch of demoralized losers afflicted with a horrible burden of psychological guilt: “Vote Republican, maybe? Because, like, whatever?”

A party which, in successive presidential elections, nominated the vicious backstabbing crapweasel John McCain and the Massachusetts moderate Mitt Romney, is not a party that is confident in the rightness of its own principles and which is communicating to its own constituents, “We are ashamed to have to represent you trash.”

Democrats are Satan’s own party. Maybe someone should mention that.

 

Category: Matt Lewis, Republicans

Virtue by Proxy, and Thoughts About Books That Liberals Have Never Read

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 97 Comments

Republicans “can’t stand the fact that a black man is in the White House!”

That’s what a studid liberal shouted at Joel Pollak, and I could name, off the top of my head, two dozen books that liberal has never read.

Ronald Reagan once said that the problem with liberals is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t true. They are prejudiced, and they have never had their prejudices challenged.

Most liberals, “progressives,” or whatever else they may choose to call themselves, are really just partisan Democrats who hate Republicans.

It’s that simple.

The pretensions of liberalism to being a coherent, rational political philosophy are absurd. The core of the Democrat Party is a collection of interest groups, organized with the aim of assembling a majority coalition by two means (a) promising the sun, the moon and the stars to these interest groups, and (b) demonizing Republicans.

Having been born and raised a Democrat — I never even met a Republican until I went to college — I once shared that mentality.

Dude, I voted for Walter Mondale in 1984.

The same year I voted for Mondale, David Horowitz, a Marxist radical who had been a “red diaper baby” raised by Communist parents, joined his longtime friend Peter Collier in voting for Reagan:

When we tell our old radical friends that we voted for Ronald Reagan last November, the response is usually one of annoyed incredulity. After making sure that we are not putting them on, our old friends make nervous jokes about Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly, about gods that have failed, about aging yuppies ascending to consumer heaven in their BMWs. We remind them of an old adage: “Anyone under 40 who isn’t a socialist has no heart; anyone over 40 who is a socialist has no brain.”
Inevitably the talk becomes bitter. One old comrade, after a tirade in which she had denounced us as reactionaries and crypto-fascists, finally sputtered, “And the worst thing is that you’ve turned your back on the Sixties!” That was exactly right: casting our ballots for Ronald Reagan was indeed a way of finally saying goodbye to all that — to the self-aggrandizing romance with corrupt Third Worldism; to the casual indulgence of Soviet totalitarianism; to the hypocritical and self-dramatizing anti-Americanism which is the New Left’s bequest to mainstream politics. . . .

You should read the whole thing. My point is that if a guy as far left as David Horowitz could change his mind, no one else has an excuse. Collier and Horowitz, who had been editors of the radical journal Ramparts, subsequently published a book no liberal has ever read, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties.

When I say no liberal has read that book, I mean it is powerful enough that, if you were a liberal when you started reading it, you wouldn’t be when you were finished with it. And I think the same could be said of Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.

A Ph.D. economist, Sowell describes the moral narcissism at the root of the liberal worldview — they support bad policies because doing so makes them feel good about themselves. Do these policies actually help the people they’re supposed to help? It doesn’t matter, Sowell explains in Chapter 4, “The Irrelevance of Evidence.”

What matters to liberals is the sense of virtue by proxy they derive by espousing the cause of helpless victims allegedly oppressed by evil greedy Republicans. What matters to liberals is their feeling that they’re “doing something” to advance their own good intentions.

Of course, there is really nothing good about their good intentions.

That is to say, if the only reason you want to help people — those poor downtrodden “masses” — is to flatter your sense of yourself as a generous, tolerant bien-pensant, your motives aren’t truly philanthropic. And this is especially true when, (a) your allegedly charitable activity involves spending other people’s money; (b) you don’t bother to examine whether anyone is actually helped; and/or (c) the only effort required of you is to spew liberal platitudes and vote for Democrats.

Wrecking the country and ruining people’s lives just so you can think of yourself as enlightened? No, those are not “good intentions.”

Once you wake up to the reality of what wretched messes liberals create through their supposedly “progressive” policies, you will be far less indulgent of their pretenses of enlightened tolerance. Perhaps no book I’ve ever read makes this point more clearly than Fred Seigel’s The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities. Where else have Democrat politicians and liberal policies been given more opportunity to succeed than in our nation’s major cities? And yet where else have liberal Democrats created more poverty, misery, crime and corruption?

If liberalism worked, Detroit would be a booming hub of prosperity and Texas would be mired in hopeless poverty.

Instead, Detroit is bankrupt and Texas is booming.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Is Latin racist? Are facts “hate”? Is basic logic unfair?

Should we permit liberal Democrats to wallow in their own ignorance while they impose policies that are harmful to the country? Or should we inform them that their ignorance could be remedied and their errors corrected by these books they’ve never read?

As I said, I could name two dozen such books, but have here named only three, and I can guarantee that the stupid liberal who shouted at Joel Pollak hasn’t read any of them. If Joel Pollak were to send that liberal this 900-word column, he wouldn’t read it, either.

Because liberals refuse to spend the time, energy or effort necessary to remediate their own ignorance, it is usually best to be brief in your replies to them. In fact, you can summarize it in three words.

“Fuck you. #War.”

 

 

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Books, Intellectuals, Liberals

California: The Amnesty State

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 20 Comments

Democrat-run California has passed a law that effectively prohibits cops from turning over illegal aliens to federal immigration officials, Michelle Malkin reports. Gov. Jerry Brown: “While Washington waffles on immigration, California’s forging ahead. I’m not waiting.”

 


Category: California, Immigration

Not a Hate Crime, Investigators Say

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 24 Comments

Racial hatred does not appear to be the motive for the weekend stabbing of 20-year-old Army Spec. Tevin Geike, authorities in Washington State said Monday after making five arrests:

Authorities investigating the stabbing death of a Washington-based soldier said Monday they have arrested three other soldiers who serve at the same military installation.
The Lakewood Police Department said all five suspects in the stabbing of Tevin Geike are soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. At least two of the five suspects in the case are cooperating with law enforcement, authorities said.
One of the suspects, Jeremiah Hill, had asked for first aid Saturday for a knife wound on his right hand, according to police. Authorities said another soldier stated that Hill said he cut his hand when stabbing a guy to death over the weekend.
Police described Hill, 23, as the “main suspect” in the case and said he did not make a statement and asked for a lawyer. Cedarium Johnson, 21, and Ajoni Runnion-Bareford, 21, were also booked into the Pierce County Jail on Monday morning, according to Lakewood police.
Detectives had been investigating whether the stabbing was racially motivated — and potentially a hate crime — but said Monday after interviewing those involved that it does not appear that race was a factor.

Stabbed to death by a fellow soldier? Awful.

 

Category: Crime

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 10.08.13

Posted on | October 8, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
President, Senate Hope To Break Logjam With Debt Limit Bill

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: “A disaster of Biblical proportions!”

President feeds financial panic with hastily arranged FEMA speech

Al-Qaeda Suspect Being Interrogated Aboard Sixth Fleet Ship
Anas al-Libi being put to the question aboard Navy ship in the Med

Obama’s Absence Leaves Chicoms As Dominant Force At APEC Summit
Secretary of State Kerry standing in



POLITICS
Senate Panel Uncovers Millions In Disability Fraud

Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK

Judge, attorney and doctor pocketed over $4.5 million in scam

ATF Denies Permission For Book To “Fast & Furious” Whistleblower

Arizona To Institute Dual-Track Balloting For Those W/O ID

Gov. Brown Vetoes Bill To Allow Non-Citizens On Juries

Some Agencies Have Nobody On The Job During Shutdown

Lawmakers Probe Reports Of Homeowners Kicked Off Federal Land

Colorado Gun-Rights Advocates Planning Another Recall Push

Park Service Approves Immigration Rally On “Closed” National Mall



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Mixed In Asian Trade As US Budget Standoff Continues: NYMEX $103.09, Brent $109.55
New $100 Bills Start Circulating Today
Record-Setting Diamond Sale Shows Appetite For Luxury In Asia
Alcatel-Lucent Announces 10K Job Cuts Around The World
Credit Card Use Drops As Consumer Confidence Remains Tepid
Apollo’s $2.5 Billion Cooper Offer In Jeopardy
LG Announces Curved Screen Phones To Debut In 2014
Microsoft Offers Equinix Customers Private Azure Access
Samsung, Google Working Together On Gear Glass?
AT&T, Filip Technologies Hook Up To Keep Parents, Kids In Touch
Alliance For Affordable Internet Founded



SPORTS
Juan And Done: Dodgers Stun Braves

Juan Uribe celebrates with Yasiel Puig after his eighth-inning, two-run dinger

Dodgers edge Braves 4-3, completing sweep and advancing to NL pennant series


Rays Return from Dead, Force Game 4 Against Red Sox

A’s Bash On To 6-3 Victory Over Tigers For 2-1 Lead In ALDS


Winless Flyers Can Coach Laviolette After Three Games

Cardinals Beat Pirates 2-1, Force Game 5

Rookie Geno Smith Throws Three TDs In Jets Win

Oilers Rally, Beat Devils In Shootout

Richards, Rangers Defeat Kings

Depressed Giants Fans Ruining Big Apple Strip Clubs

Impostors Contact Dungy, Del Rio About USC Coaching Job

Comak Says Goodbye To Times’ Nationals Beat



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jennifer Ehle Joining “Fifty Shades Of Grey”

Last seen in Zero Dark Thirty

Will play Anastasia Steele’s mother


Scarlett Johansson Chosen Esquire’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” For 2013
You wouldn’t know it from the pictures. >_<


Prince Harry To Marry Cressida Bonas?

Eminem’s Daughter Hailie Scott Crowned Homecoming Queen


Miley Cyrus’ Ignorance On Display Again, This Time With Matt Lauer

Lauryn Hill: Home Detention Will Have To Wait – I’m Going On Tour!

Lionsgate In Talks For “Burial Rites” With Jennifer Lawrence

First Look At Beyonce’s 2014 Official Calendar

Jaime King Gives Birth To Baby Boy

Justin Bieber Claims Toking Pic Fake

Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez Get Medieval With New Baby’s Name

Snooki On Teen Anorexia: “I Went Days Without Eating”

Michael Douglas Pleads For Jailed Son

After Ten Years, Stiller’s “Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Finally To Be Released



FOREIGNERS
PRC Finance Minister Lectures Obama On Debt Ceiling: “The Clock Is Ticking”
Malala Yousafzai Favorited For Nobel Peace Prize
Putin Says US, Russia In Sync On Syria
Norks Put Army On Alert, Warn US Of “Horrible Disaster”
Thousands Attend Jerusalem Funeral Of Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Josef
Shas Without Rabbi Yosef
Telangana Protests Leave 21 Million Without Power
Brazilian Teachers’ March Turns Violent
Burma Pardons 56 Political Prisoners
Karzai Says NATO Strategy Flawed, Alliance Failed In Peace Mission



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: Economics 101 – The Lack Of Churn In The Economy
The Camp of the Saints: Time To Press Our Advantage – #WAR
Michelle Malkin: Jerry Brown Licenses Illegal Aliens As Lawyers And Okays More Amnesty Goodies
Twitchy: Reps Issa & Stockman – Vets Locked Out Of National Mall, But It’ll Be Opened For This?
American Power: #PresidentStompyFoot
American Thinker: Cory’s Booker Of Lies
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: This Stupid Week, Shake It Out Edition
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – Is There Anybody Out There?
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, October 7
Jammie Wearing Fools: Despite Obama Shutdown, Park Service Approves Illegal Alien Rally
Pat Dollard: Truckers Vow To Shut Down DC, Arrest Obama For Treason
Protein Wisdom: Jim Geraghty Is Getting It
Shot In The Dark: A Little Knowledge
The Jawa Report: Making It Painful – Administration Shuts Down Amber Alert Website, Leaves Michelle’s “Let’s Move” Up
The Lonely Conservative: Ethanol Biz Benefits From Bipartisan Crony Capitalism
Megan McArdle: GOP Didn’t Sabotage Health Exchanges, Obama Did


Category: Live at Five

Dueling Meltdowns: Bill Schmalfeldt and #FreeKate’s Disgusting Supporters

Posted on | October 7, 2013 | 72 Comments

Today, two different Bill Schmalfeldt accounts got banned from Twitter — he still doesn’t understand why being a “Team Kimberlin” member is a losing proposition — and while that was happening, there was news on the Kaitlyn Hunt story. First, Matt Philbin of the Culture and Media Institute examined ABC’s 20/20 segment:

[Matt] Gutman’s report was a masterpiece of advocacy masquerading as journalism. He breathlessly recounted Hunt’s original arrest, saying Indian River police “set a trap” for Kaitlyn. Then, “In an interrogation room, Kaitlyn is questioned, asked about intimate details most people wouldn’t want to discuss with their best friend, never mind a police officer.” Of course, people who enjoy having sex with kids in public lavatories may not be quite so fastidious about intimate details, but never mind.
Interviewing Kaitlyn, Gutman hammered her with such tough questions as, “Did you love her?”; “What does it feel like to become this icon of the gay community?”; and “I wonder if you feel that you made a mistake here? Did you do anything wrong?” (She doesn’t think so.) And he teased out such bombshell revelations as, “I felt like my senior year was, like, ruined.”

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, shockingly, Hunt’s deranged supporters are busy lashing out at famed crime-fighter John Walsh:

@Ali Abkar and I will talk about this and more tonight at 9 p.m. ET:

 

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt, Kaitlyn Hunt
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