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I Never Heard of a ‘Fair Fight’

Posted on | March 19, 2012 | 17 Comments

Have you ever been sucker-punched or kicked in the head? I have.

These are not experiences I would recommend to anyone, although such experiences can be quite valuable life lessons. When you’re in a fight that begins when somebody punches you without warning and if, during the course of such a fight your assailant then kicks you in the head, you understand that rules of “fairness” are not universally recognized.

When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is “fair,” you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.

Jeff Goldstein ponders the progressive “morality” of Stanley Fish and, of course, the only morality Fish recognizes is the Triumph of Progressivism.

This is what Amy Alkon discovered when the Left tried to destroy her career: The radicalism described in Herbert Marcuse’s notorious 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance” is now almost universally embraced by the Democratic Party and its supporters. These are not your father’s Democrats.

Anyone who thinks today’s Democrats are interested in “compromise” or “bipartisanship,” is a fool. You cannot negotiate with them. You cannot expect fairness from them. You can either defeat them, or else be subjected to their absolute authority.

Category: Democrats, Protein Wisdom

Palin Documentary Director Stephen Bannon Announced as Breitbart Chairman

Posted on | March 19, 2012 | 5 Comments

Stephen K. Bannon, who directed the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated, has been named executive chairman of the board of Breitbart LLC, the conservative New Media company announced today. The parent company of Breitbart.com also announced that Larry Solov, an attorney and longtime friend of the late Andrew Breitbart, has been named as CEO and President.

“Andrew and I were like brothers our whole lives and have been business partners since 2007,” Solov said in a press statement (full text below). “Steve was a great friend of Andrew’s and has been there the last several years helping us build Breitbart News. Andrew possessed a very specific vision of what he wanted the company to become. Steve and I share that vision, which we will pursue relentlessly.”

Bannon praised the company’s founder for his “unique visionary leadership,” and vowed “to pick up his torch and forge ahead.” The company also made official announcements of a number of other top management positions at Breitbart.com: Joel Pollak as editor-in-chief, Alex Marlow as managing editor and Ben Shapiro as editor-at-large. Read more

Category: Andrew Breitbart

We Must Support Our Attorney General

Posted on | March 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

This blog wholeheartedly concurs with the Attorney General. If the immature, irresponsible attitude about firearms is allowed to spiral out of control, our citizenry may be reduced to looking for rounds in all the wrong places:

I am, of course, referring to this bloviation from Eric holder:


In the finest spirit of “nutrition is not a private matter” Holder behaves as though gun violence is a problem that the government should combat through propaganda means. Existing laws don’t matter. The various weapon safety courses offered by, for example, the NRA? Why mention that?

Rolling forward 15 years, and we’re in the middle of Fast & Furious. Now, I’m confident that Holder has a signed pardon #OccupyResoluteDesk in a safe already, just to keep things simple, and give him the confidence to emit his verbal flatus into the Congressional record. However, given Holder’s record and this clip, I don’t think that there is any shred of ambiguity remaining that Holder is an enemy of the Constitution and all we hold dear.

Holder is so atrocious that I think it’s a feature that he hold on until the end. He makes a far better albatross than he would a symbol of defeat at this stage. We should support our Attorney General by continuing to point and laugh at him while he adds to the drag coefficient of the Administration.

Update: linked by That Mr. G Guy

Category: Eric Holder

LIVE AT FIVESIX – 03.19.12

Posted on | March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Romney Sweeps Puerto Rico; On To Illinois, Louisiana

Mitt Romney demonstrating his learning of Donald Rumsfeld fighting technique

Picks up 20 delegates

SSG Bales’ Multiple Tours Call Attention To Strains On Military
“Lots of soldiers have four deployments, and they’re not accused of things like this.”


Fighting Erupts In Damascus
Syrian rebels attack the capital



POLITICS
#OWS Anniversary Protest Ends In Police Sweep

NYPD officers haul off an occupod

A dozen protesters arrested; NYPD looking for person who tweeted threat

New Jersey Among Leading States In Fighting Corruption

High School Graduation Rates Up

Release Of 1940 Census May Be Treasure Trove

House Pumps Up To Whack White House On Gasoline Prices

Elizabeth Warren Survives Southie Political Roast Where Scott Brown Is Native Son

California, Where The Left Deals With The Far Left And The Right Gets Left Out



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
No Relief In Sight At Gas Pump
Gold Follows Oil Higher
Apple To Announce Dividend?
Yen On The Back Foot, Hits Five-Year Low Against Euro
PRC Buys Fewer Weapons Abroad As Domestic Arms Industry Expands
Kia To Temporarily Suspend Operations At Georgia Plant
Housing Data To Take Center Stage For Investors This Week
C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb To Step Down As CEO
Locked And Dammed: Ohio River Project Decades Late, Billions Over Budget
Pew Study: 27% Of Americans Get News From Mobile Devices
Windows 8 First Impressions
CIA Chief: We’ll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher
So Did The New iPad Sell Out Or Didn’t It?
New Internet Explorer 10 Coming In Two Flavors



SPORTS
Furman Bisher Dies, 93

Furman Bisher, 1918-2012, R.I.P.

Dean of Southern sportswriters dies of massive heart attack; only writer to interview “Shoeless Joe” Jackson

Sunday NCAA Tourney Recap: What You Missed

Sweet 16 Look Ahead

Free Agent QB Matt Flynn Joins Seahawks

Flyers Keep Crosby In Check, Beat Pens 3-2 In OT

Burks Takes Center Stage As Jazz Beat Lakers 103-99

Blackhawks Top Caps 5-2 For Third Straight Win

Keselowski Triumphs Again At Bristol

BC Leads Four Hockey East Teams Into NCAA Tournament

Nationals Option Harper To Triple-A Syracuse



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Charlize Theron Available To Work With Michael Fassbender’s Junk Any Time

Charlize Theron

Dishes on size of “Prometheus” co-star’s package

Invisible Children Co-Founder Arrested For Public Drunkenness, Wanking

Jessica Simpson Celebrates Baby Shower

“Teen Mom 1”: Fourth Season To Be Its Last


Will & Jada Caught Smooching Courtside At Sixers Game

Duchess Of Cambridge Hands Out Shamrocks To Irish Guards

Rihanna Dishes On New Album, Collaborating With Katy Perry

Johnny Depp Camps It Up In “Dark Shadows” Trailer
Doomed. 🙁



FOREIGNERS
Three Killed In Shooting At Jewish School In France
Egyptian Copts Pay Final Respects To Pope Shenouda III
Indonesian Police Kill Five In Anti-Terror Raid
Al Qaeda-Linked Yemeni Group Claims Responsibility For Murder Of American Teacher
Anti-Communist Pastor Gauck Elected President Of Germany
Tonga’s King George Tupou V Dies, 63
Indian Railway Minister Resigns
Bedouin Release Brazilian Women Kidnapped In Sinai
East Timor President Concedes Defeat
Japan Contemplates Shooting Down Nork Rocket



BLOGS & STUFF
Israel Matzav: Obama-Approved Media Continue To Insist Iran Not Developing Nukes
AmSpecBlog: NYT Calls J Street “Pro-Israel Group”
Doug Ross: Surprising Shortage Of Gullible Rubes
The POH Diaries: 1995 Eric Holder – Brainwash Against Guns Like Cigarettes
Weasel Zippers: Obama Tapes One-Minute Intro For Bullying Documentary
Jammie Wearing Fools: Former Tea Party Leader Suspected Of Rape – Oh, Wait, Not Affiliated With Tea Party After All
Clayton Cramer: I Was Tempted To title This “Democrats Gone Wild”
Protein Wisdom: Progressivism And The Authoritarian Impulse
Powerline: Behind The Failed “Grand Bargain”
Breitbart: Pelosi’s Daughter – HBO Uncomfortable With “Freeloading Welfare Queens” Video

Category: Live at Five

One Thousand Miles to Drive

Posted on | March 18, 2012 | 11 Comments

Rick Santorum will be in Mandeville, Louisiana, at 12:30 p.m. CDT Wednesday, and that’s more than a thousand miles from here.

Google Maps says it’s an 17-hour drive, so if I left Tuesday evening and drove straight through, I’d arrive in time: Exhausted beyond words, yes, but in time.

This would be completely crazy, but I’ve done crazier things.

Romney won Puerto Rico, and Illinois votes Tuesday. Certainly Santorum made news with this prediction Saturday:

Rick Santorum told crowds in Illinois’s conservative downstate that a victory Tuesday would be the key to his nomination.
“This is a pledge,” he said Saturday afternoon. “If we’re able to come out of Illinois with a huge or surprise win, I guarantee you — I guarantee that we will win this nomination. We will nominate a conservative, and we will beat Barack Obama.”

Pat Austin blogged about Santorum’s Sunday in Shreveport. I figure Louisiana’s primary on Saturday will be decisive one way or another. If Santorum wins, he’s definitely the last man standing against Romney and Gingrich is done. If Gingrich wins, he has an excuse to keep going. If Romney wins . . .

Perish the thought. But I plan to be there when the deal goes down.

 




Category: Election 2012, Illinois, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Rick Santorum

Guess Who Loves Him Some Cable Porn?

Posted on | March 18, 2012 | 44 Comments

James Wolcott praises “the porn that can be the only source of solace on those lonely nights away from the aggravations of home.”

Obviously, this is why Vanity Fair pays him the big bucks: To tell us what he does in his spare time. But you probably suspected this, didn’t you?

Apologies to readers disturbed by the mental image of a sweaty Wolcott in his undershorts getting his jollies watching pay-per-view cable.

Category: James Wolcott

Humor-Deficient Charles Johnson Sides With #Occupy Movement vs. NYPD UPDATE: NYPD Investigates Occupier’s Twitter Death Threat Against Police

Posted on | March 18, 2012 | 72 Comments

Raised during the Cold War — when my uncles and cousins and neighbors were fighting the Viet Cong and the NVA, when American troops stood on guard against that doomsday moment when the Red Army decided to make a try for the Fulda Gap, when any blink of an eye might bring down a worldwide thermonuclear Armaggedon upon us — I developed a profound loathing of communism.

It was a highlight of my journalism career when the news came across the wire that former CPUSA chairman Gus Hall had died, and it was my honor to write his obituary, thus bringing good news to the world because, as every patriotic red-blooded American knows, the only good Commie is a dead Commie.

Has such a perspective become archaic or obsolete, merely because the Soviet Union collapsed into the ash-heap of history 20 years ago? Or, as I think, is it important to remember the deadly evil that Marx and Lenin unleashed upon mankind, and to stand eternally vigilant against any prospect of its recrudescence?

You may disagree with my belief that the Red Menace is still a specter that haunts us, and if you disagree, you probably don’t share my opinion that the Occupy movement represents a new iteration that menace. I understand this and so, when I denounce the Occupiers as “Commies,” it is both a serious indictment of their leftist worldview and a self-conscious jest, satirically invoking the old Cold War mentality toward beatniks and hippies and other such pinko Bolshevik sympathizers.

“They’re the kind of commie scum who give commie scum a bad name and my trademark ‘hypothetical atrocity’ rhetoric was intended to signify nothing other than my bottomless well of contempt for such people. Therefore if I were the commander of the NYPD riot squad, my orders would be to open fire and shoot to kill. We’d make Kent State look like a Sunday school picnic. The brutality would be something more on the scale of Guernica, complete with Predator drone airstrikes.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Oct. 8, 2011

If you don’t understand this, OK. But your lack of understanding is not my fault, and if I have to explain that I was friends with such refugees from Communism as the late Balint Vazonyi, if I have to remind you that Communist governments killed 100 million of their own citizens during the 20th century, if you don’t realize that Julius Rosenberg and Alger Hiss were both guilty as hell — well, why do you blame me for your own ignorance? And speaking of ignorance . . .

Little Green Footballs has evidently attracted another fool:

This “Silvio Breckman” is a useless nobody with 41 followers on Twitter, who could be even more easily ignored than his idiotic hero.

Whether Breckman is evil or merely ignorant, I don’t know. Read more

Category: #Occupy, Charles Johnson, History

FMJRA 2.0: Throw Your Hatred Down

Posted on | March 18, 2012 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Power

Asking the Important Questions: Why Does Gillian Anderson Want Me to Blog About Her Teenage Lesbian Affairs?

GOP PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: SANTORUM WINS ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI: ‘WE DID IT AGAIN’

Pornographic Politics: Did the Daily Caller ‘Pull a Media Matters’ on Rick Santorum? UPDATE: Romney and Gingrich Both Made January Pledge to Fight Porn

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.16.12

‘Take Our Country Back’: Chris Cassone Tells the Story of His Tea Party Anthem

Why the Heck Does Guam Get Nine Delegates to the Republican Convention?

Axis Of Socially Inept

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Cites Virginia Ultrasound Law in Fundraising E-Mail

Erstwhile #Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Scores Six-Figure Book Deal, Raided by FBI, Denounces Snitch

‘This Is All About Alinskyite Control Of Who Tells The Story’

SANTORUM SCORES ‘DECISIVE’ WIN IN KANSAS REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES

Podhoretz Writes a Powerful Paragraph

Don Surber Makes The Tactical Point, Misses The Strategic

FMJRA 2.0: Spring Forward!

Busted: Why Is LGF’s Charles Johnson Now Embracing Louis Farrakhan?

Rule 5 Sunday: Substitute

NY GOP Set to Botch Re-Districting Plan?

That Popular #OccupyResoluteDesk

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.12.12

What America Really Needs Today: Meghan McCain Talking About Her Boobs

Expectations, Inc.

Voter ID, Eric Holder and the Increasingly Partisan Nature of ‘Civil Rights’

‘Alabama Deserves Better’

Why Did the Santorum Campaign Leak Its Strategy Memo to Liberal Media First?

Arlen Specter: ‘Blinded By Passion, You Foolishly Let Someone In / All The Warnings Went Off In Your Head / Still You Had To Give In / Just When You Think You’ve Got It Down / Resistance Nowhere To Be Found / They Whisper, Promises In The Dark.’

Two Worthy Bloggers

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.13.12

Hillary Clinton ‘… Reject Efforts To Marginalize Any One Of Us*’

We Need To Nail This Down Before Somebody Wants To Name Her After #OccupyResoluteDesk

Mr. Inevitability, Mitt Romney

Fox Not ‘Fair and Balanced’? Santorum Finally Mentions Pro-Romney Bias UPDATE: Exit Polls Show Mitt Wins Mississippi? Newt 3rd in Alabama?

Handy Dandy Fluke Translator

Inevitability?

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.14.12

What We Need Is An MEP Rant

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Mathematical Impossibilities Happen

Right-Winger Provoking ‘Insane’ ‘Racist’ Tea Party Violence … by Chris Rock?

Please: Hurt Karen Finney Some More

A Santorum Miracle? ‘So Be It,’ Says Mitt

Shapiro Is Far Too Kind To #OccupyResoluteDesk

Rick Santorum for President Because …

Nostalgia Is Not a Business Strategy

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.15.12

Obama in 1990: America ‘Mean-Spirited’

I’VE BEEN BLINDED BY HATE!

The NRA Has 10 Reasons To Worry About BHO Re-election

They Told Me If I Voted For McCain, Politicized Economists Would Engage In Class Warfare Instead Of Speaking Truth To Power, And They Were Right!

Why Do You Hate Italians?

Come On, Bill: Newt Has Always Been An ‘Ideas Guy’

Two Reasons VP Rand Paul Isn’t A Bad Idea

Did Somebody Hear a Dog Whistle?

Darleen Click Hasn’t Lost Her Touch

Public Radio Liar: ‘I Wanted to Tell a Story That Captured the Totality of My Trip’

His Newtness and His 176,000 Donors

Missouri Gone Wild: Caucuses Disrupted By Ron Paul Supporters

Top linkers this week:

  1. His Excellency The Emperor Blogwhoricus Maximus (18)
  2. Daily Pundit (10)
  3. The Rio Norte Line (8)
  4. (tied) Don Surber, Da Tech Guy, and The Lonely Conservative (7)
  5. Republican Redefined (6)

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery! Deadline for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, March 23.

Category: FMJRA Award
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