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Benghazi => ‘High On A Mountaintop’

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

I’ve been waiting to see this video. Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods did their part. Cassone has done his. Now, you know what to do for your part: make this viral. All over twitter, blogs, and inboxes.

“Who gave the order to let his son die?” indeed. I think we need to get what we know to be the truth out there, and have #OccupyResoluteDesk stand tall. He’s really adept at hiding behind Susan Rice’s skirts, admittedly.

Update: thanks, Instapundit, and thank you again, Cassone!

Category: Barack Obama, Chris Cassone

World’s Youngest Blogger: I May Have To Get Medieval On Boehner

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 15 Comments


Were these United States not begun as a tax revolt? Was taxation without representation not a cause célèbre ~250 years ago? Are Congresses on about not binding future Congresses?

So what’s the big deal here? Why is it blatantly obvious to someone in their second year of life that binding future generations with a ridiculous tax burden is so fundamentally un-American as to hearken back to that crappy Parliament the Founders kicked to the curb a couple centuries back?

Would those Founders do anything other than order the Colonials to fix bayonets, if they were confronted with the wretched hive of scum and villainy that this Congress has become?

It’s time to realize that the country has come full circle. Just get over the fact that, yes, Woodrow Wilson sowed to the wind, and, a century on, it’s time to reap the whirlwind. You’re not winning within the status quo. The GOP needs to quit trying to fight for the helm and go sound the collision alarm. This Progressive course has been our undoing. All hands brace for shock.

After the collision with the Fiscal Cliff  I’m going to track down Speaker Boehner and flog him with my pacifier.

Update: linked at Jackie Wellfonder.
Also, dad’s on this ‘Twidder’ thing. Can someone help me understand why this is funny?

Category: John Boehner, World's Youngest Blogger

Boehlert’s Nemesis @BethanyBowra Now Takes Sandra Fluke to the Woodshed; UPDATE: Pwnage Complete After Boehlert Blocks Bowra on Twitter

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 9 Comments

Bethany Bowra is a 16-year-old high school student who has already achieved remarkable success. And by “remarkable success,” of course I mean, she got denounced on Twitter by Eric Boehlert.

Of all the obnoxious bozos on the Left who hated Andrew Breitbart, none hated him more than Eric Boehlert, so it’s sort of like a Pulitzer Prize for conservatives to be denounced by Boehlert, especially when you’re just a 16-year-old high school student.

Rather than resting on her laurels, however, Bowra has moved forward to take on Sandra Fluke and the baby-hating feminist Left:

Yes, I said it:  Today’s feminists, whether directly or indirectly, are actively advocating the murder of unborn baby girls.

You go, girl.

UPDATE: After Bowra saw the post, she Tweeted thanks and I replied:

Badass lefty “intellectual” Eric Boehlert blocks a 16-year-old girl?

It’s hard to imagine how his humiliation could be more complete.

 

 

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Category: Abortion, Feminism

Speaker Of The House Shocked That President Who Likely Left Two Heros High And Dry In Benghazi Proves Incapable Of Keeping Phone Call Secret

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

For crying out loud in the dark, Boehner:

Republicans believe the administration leaked details of the 30-minute Wednesday night phone call to Politico, which is causing them to question whether they can trust the White House to keep details private, a sentiment that has caused progress in the negotiations over the “fiscal cliff” to stall.

Trusting Obama to do anything other than throw you under the bus is like dropping off your children at the Jeffrey Dahmer Day Care Center. What if, and I fantasize, you just punted and started offering a no-kidding reform platform that stabilizes the fisc and returns liberty to Americans?

Of course it’s not going to get through Chokepoint Harry in the other chamber, much less get signed into law by #OccupyResoluteDesk, but your purported base would SURE LIKE TO SEE YOU DO MORE THAN COWER FOR ONCE!

Category: Uncategorized

Science, Progress, Consensus and Doubt: Darwinism and Reason in the Balance

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 25 Comments

“My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.”
— G.K. Chesteron, 1923

“God has given us plenty of evidence of who he is.”
— Dr. Ben Carson, 2012

It seems that Rand Simberg doesn’t include Dr. Carson — a world-famous neurosurgeon — among those enlightened individuals “who are conversant with science and its methods.” Although Simberg defends Marco Rubio’s “I’m not a scientist” response to a question about the age of the earth, Simberg’s tone of snide condescension toward Christians was hard to overlook in the excerpt quoted at Instapundit:

“Now, in fact, I would prefer politicians who are conversant with science and its methods to those not, but even more I prefer politicians who are conversant with basic math, economics, and human nature, and have an aversion to wrecking the nation’s economy. And if they have to occasionally salute the sensibilities of people who believe that evolution is the work of the devil, I can live with that — particularly since we have a current president who does exactly the same thing, while flooring the accelerator toward the fiscal cliff.”

This “smarter than thou” gesture inspired a few Tweets last night:

Prejudice and stereotypes are not science, but the Darwinian cultists have benefitted by exploiting prejudice against Christians, as if skepticism toward evolutionary theory were synonymous with superstitious ignorance. This attitude annoys me for many reasons, including the fact that it empowers academic thuggery toward Christians:

World-renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is under fire from several biology professors at Emory University, where [he was] scheduled to give the commencement address [in May].
They wrote a letter to the school newspaper after learning Carson does not believe in evolution, calling it “deeply concerning  . . . That he equates the acceptance of evolution with a lack of ethics and morality.” . . .
“You have a theory in which you place your faith, and I have a theory in which I place my faith,” Carson said in a speech posted on YouTube. “I say you can believe what you want but I simply don’t have enough faith to believe what you believe. I’m a person of faith so I have to believe in God. You know that always gets them.”

If biologists can exclude from the scientific community anyone who doubts Darwinism — so that even an eminent physician like Dr. Carson cannot be permitted to criticize evolutionary theory — then the scientific consensus in favor of Darwinism has apparently become one of those “smelly little orthodoxies” that disgusted Orwell, and the biology faculty at Emory have deputized themselves as Thought Police.

Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver famously warned us, and the questions William F. Buckley Jr. raised in God and Man at Yale have now been answered by events: The Left’s terrifying hegemony in academia does not result from a failure of conservatives to embrace “progress,” but from a failure of conservatives to resist trendy errors and defend ancient truths, and to do so persuasively.

More than 15 years have passed since I first read Phillip E. Johnson’s Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education, a brilliant exposition of what the Darwinian domination of intellectual life means. Given that Johnson is a former professor of law at UC-Berkeley, he is not easily dismissed as an ignorant crank, and his arguments are as lucidly expressed as they are logically coherent.

In the aftermath of the recent election catastrophe, conservatives have been making lots of noise about “culture,” and it might behoove us to reacquaint ourselves with strong arguments for ancient truths, if only so that we might learn from imitating good examples.

 

 

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Category: Culture, Religion, Science

Neologism: Glenren

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

I’d like to propose ‘glenren’, a contraction of ‘Glenn Reynolds’, as a special term for the blend of faux naïveté, weapons-grade sarcasm, and systematic understatement so brutally employed by The Blogfather:

You know, I’m beginning to wonder if they tried to fake the numbers upward for the election or something.

Usage: “That there was an intense glenren.”

Category: Instapundit

Libya’s Lingering Questions

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

“Who changed the Benghazi talking points?” asks Sharyl Atkisson of CBS News, and I’m grateful that she’s still asking it. Much of the national press corps is trying to make us forget the Sept. 11 incident that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and four other Americans, and we should praise the journalistic persistence of those rep0rters who won’t let it be forgotten.

Praise is also due to the senators who won’t let Susan Rice off the hook for her Sept. 16 “blame the YouTube video” TV talk-show tour. Why was Rice chosen for that disinformation duty? Why did the White House deliberately deceive the public about the Benghazi debacle?

Category: Uncategorized

When Compromise Means ‘Damn Your Eyes’

Posted on | November 29, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

When compromise
Means ‘Damn your eyes’,
And honor is passé,

And the ship’s port list,
Has the crewmen pissed,
For capsizing’s no’ so gay,

Since Reason and Math,
Have succumbed to the wrath,
Of the hormone of the day:

A rational one asks,
While the media basks,
In a General’s tawdry straying,

Did a President fiddle,
With brave men in the middle,
Of a terrorist’s sordid slaying?

These elected clowns,
And their blaming rounds,
Ensure future someone’s paying.

How long can it last?
The ship may’ve passed,
The righting moment final.

Has liberty died?
In hedonism fried,
The culture gone all banal?

We’ll get what we mete,
Until again our feet,
Are on a path Eternal.

Category: Uncategorized
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