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Democrat Attacked After Vitriolic Rhetoric From Sarah Palin … No? Never Mind.

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 13 Comments

Actually, the attacker only intended to attack Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Missouri), but mistakenly slashed the throat of Penn Valley Community College Dean Albert Dimmitt:

That happened last September and the reason you never saw this story in the national news is because the attacker was a left-wing anarchist:

In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.
At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.
The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.
Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others. . . .

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, it seems that not everybody at MSNBC got the “tone down the rhetoric” memo.

Category: Crime, Missouri

Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 16 Comments

OK, that’s not the headline on the Politico story, but the order of finish in the New Hampshire GOP straw poll was lots more interesting than the news that Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul:

Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul by 24 points in the WMUR-ABC News straw poll of members of the state Republican Party. In third place was former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who won 8 percent — just one point ahead of Sarah Palin, who drew 7 percent. . . .
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won 5 percent, pizza mogul Herman Cain took 4 percent, and Santorum won 3 percent — tied with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

That puts Cain in the top six. I doubt Bachmann will actually run, and Christie has already said he won’t. If Ron Paul doesn’t run this year, where will his voter go? Certainly not to Romney, Pawlenty or Huckabee.

So leaping waaay ahead (which is what liberals are doing when they proclaim this poll a portent of Palin’s certain doom) what would happen if Herman Cain finishes a solid third in the Iowa caucuses? Wouldn’t that pretty much finish off whoever placed fourth and fifth?

And how would such a result affect the undecided GOP primary voters in New Hampshire? I’m just sayin’ . . .

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Election 2012, Herman Cain, New Hampshire, Polls

‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

“. . .especially where the ideas of Rousseau are linked,” to paraphrase ol’ Jean Jacques.

If Kabul was a movie, it would be Groundhog Day. I can’t lay any claim to the big picture, but I hope all the blood and treasure invested here amounts to something.

The tempermental WiFi service was OK the other day, and I bought Pawlenty’s book after its mention on Insty. Read more

Category: Minnesota, Sarah Palin

Religious Left Infiltrates Catholic Agency?

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 10 Comments

Lisa Graas reports:

According to a document revealed by Creative Minority Report (CMR), we now have definitive proof that the pro-abortion mindset dwells even at the highest levels of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The document is a public campaign finance report for Planned Parenthood-endorsed pro-abortion candidate Wendy Davis listing Ralph McCloud as campaign treasurer during his first year as the Director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

Davis is a Democrat who won a Texas state senate seat, previously held by a Republican, in the suburbs of Fort Worth during the Obama “wave” of 2008. So why would the USCCB appoint a pro-abortion politician’s campaign treasurer as head of a major Catholic agency?

Does the name George Soros ring a bell? Since 2005, Soros’ Open Society Foundations has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good:

John Podesta, who runs the Soros-funded organization, Center for American Progress, admits that he works closely with Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United.

This Soros-backed effort has been exposed in a documentary called Obama’s Counterfeit Catholics:




Michael Voris has compiled extensive documentation about this Soros-backed project. Like the oxymoronically named “Catholics for Choice,” the purpose of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is to convey a simple message to ignorant people: “God wants you to vote Democrat.”

Learn more about the Religious Left.

Category: Catholics, George Soros, Liberals, Lisa Graas, Texas

We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 2 Comments

Otherwise, all this extremist talk about “choice” and “women’s rights” might lead to mass murder: 

A massacre perpetrated by a deranged man is not about the deranged man; it’s about “rhetoric.” But a massacre perpetrated by an abortion provider whose violations against laws of the nation and of humanity were overlooked for years is “not about abortion.” It’s about criminal behavior, and that’s all.

More civility from Ace of Spades and Ed Driscoll.

Category: Abortion, Ace of Spades, Crime, Ed Driscoll, The Anchoress

Mom’s Boyfriend ‘Person of Interest’ in Texas Cheerleader’s Disappearance

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

This is one of those missing-girl cases that Nancy Grace is always covering. If you’ve seen enough stories like this, the patterns become familiar, and this one’s starting to look like a murder investigation:

Dogs searching a landfill in Abilene, Texas, found evidence in the case of a missing 13-year-old girl from West Texas, a spokesman for the investigation told the Associated Press.
Authorities did not elaborate on the evidence discovered and why the investigation led them to a vast landfill in the town, which is 70 miles east of Colorado City, where Hailey Darlene Dunn went missing last month.
Hailey was reported missing by her mother on Dec. 28. . . .
Authorities have said that her mother’s live-in boyfriend, Shawn Casey Adkins, is among several “persons of interest” in the case.
According to a police affidavit filed in the investigation, Adkins remarked to a relative that hurting a teenager would be “like killing a deer.”

Police say both Adkins and the girl’s mother lied on polygraph tests. Here’s a clip from a recent Nancy Grace show that includes video footage of Shawn Adkins:

Of course, Adkins is merely a “person of interest” and we don’t know how this case will turn out, but as I’ve warned before the most dangerous man in the world is “mom’s boyfriend.”

“[S]exual abuse does not randomly occur throughout the child population. Rather, it occurs more often in single-parent or reconstituted families. . . .
“Virtually all studies of child sexual abuse report that girls living with stepfathers are at high risk. . . .
“In sum, mounting divorce rates, soaring nonmarital births, and the ubiquity of cohabitation combine to create a profoundly negative consequence for young girls: the prospect of sexual exploitation.”
— Robin Fretwell Wilson, “Children at Risk: The Sexual Exploitation of Female Children After Divorce,” Cornell Law Review, 2001

Category: Crime, Texas

The Decline and Fall of Lizardopolis

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 41 Comments

During yesterday’s Little Green Footballs dust-up, I recalled that a couple weeks ago, Diary of Daedalus posted these interesting charts illustrating the declining participation of commenters at Little Green Footballs:


What you see is that, at its peak in 2007-08, LGF routinely had 1,500-2,000 different people — identified in the chart as “unique nics” (nicknames) — commenting each week. That was essential to the functionality of LGF, which was always more of a comment-driven “community” blog, where the commenters provided more content than did the brief headline-type posts.

The number of LGF commenters appears to have peaked in late summer 2007, when 2,000-plus commenters were regularly participating, but by mid-2008 noticeably sagged toward 1,500. Interestingly enough, there was a period in 2008 when the number of comments increased even as the number of commenters declined. 

The real freefall began in 2009 and, by late that year, the average number of “unique nics” commenting in a week fell below 500 for the first time. By early 2011, the core commenting community at LGF was down to about 250 people — which is to say, about one-eighth of what it had been in 2007.

That a site could lose more than 80% of its regular commenters in less than four years is remarkable. But it seems there is limited interest in railing against creationists, global warming “deniers” and, of course, those dangerous Belgians.

Category: Diary of Daedalus, The Flemish Menace

Bank Crisis Continues; United Western Becomes Biggest Failure in Five Months

Posted on | January 22, 2011 | 4 Comments

Isn’t “recovery” wonderful?

State regulators shut down four banks on Friday, bringing the new year’s total number of bank failures to seven, following 157 bank closures during 2010.
Three of the four failed banks — Enterprise Banking Co., CommunitySouth Bank & Trust, and The Bank of Asheville — had been previously included in TheStreet’s Bank Watch List of undercapitalized institutions, based on third-quarter regulatory data provided by SNL Financial.
United Western Bank is the lone exception. Its failure represents the biggest bank to go belly up since August.

I’ve previously explained that lawsuits and regulation hindering the foreclosure process spell economic disaster for the real-estate market. A further collapse of real estate could take down the banking industry with it. Calculate Risk reports that the (unofficial) problem bank list now includes 937 institutions.

Thanks to Smitty in our Kabul bureau for the e-mail tip.

Category: Economics
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