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THIS is the new tone of civility?

Gatekeeper — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:08:55 +0000

The kind of base, junior-high, mean-spirited discourse we’ve grown to expect on Internet bulletin boards and blogs has now been “elevated,” or perhaps I should say “mainstreamed,” or “endorsed” by the President of the United States. After the Clinton-Lewinsky escapades, I didn’t think the office of the Commander-in-Chief could sink any lower. But now we have a president who jokes about people with Down Syndrome and laughs at Wanda Sykes wishing Rush Limbaugh would die of kidney failure or be tortured as a traitor and terrorist. For those of you who voted for Barack Hussein Obama, is this what you think “the One” had in mind when he promised to restore civility to our public discourse?

Read as the London Telegraph’s US Editor, Toby Harnden, describes what he witnessed of this sad display at White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

You also might want to watch this small excerpt to see it yourself:

Miss USA: Christians Need Not Apply

Gatekeeper — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:41:42 +0000

The Missing Votes or … Revenge of Franken-stein

Gatekeeper — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:55:27 +0000

Democrats want to portray Mr. Coleman as a sore loser and make the Republican worry that he will ruin his chances for other political office. But Mr. Coleman has a legitimate grievance that not all votes have been treated equally. If the Franken standard of disparate absentee-voter treatment is allowed to stand, every close election will be settled by a legal scramble to change the vote-counting rules after Election Day. Minnesota should take the time to get this one right. Read the editorial

Wham! Bam! No thank-you, ma’am

Gatekeeper — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:25:25 +0000

It’s Friday the 13th and the trillion-dollar trick is on you and your children and your children’s children. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) warned of what might lurk amid the 1,000-plus-page, late-night concoction, which the House passed 246-183 with 0 Republican votes.

“Not one member has read this bill,” Boehner said, as he dropped the foot-high, $787 billion bail-out bill on the floor of the House with a thud. “Bad process leads to bad policy.”

“The American people have a right to know what’s in this bill,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind) said Thursday. “Every member of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — voted to post this bill on the internet for 48 hours, 48 hours ago. We’ll see if the Democrats keep their word.”

They didn’t.

New U.S. Geological Survey Report is Sobering

Global Warming — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:46:04 +0000

Global warming skeptics – fringe scientists or silent majority?

Gatekeeper — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:04:05 +0000

Conventional Wisdom: Man is causing global warming and permanent climate change, and the problem is accelerating, or as Seth Borenstein of the AP (Associated Press or Arrogant Propagandists?) writes, it’s “a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid” and “time is running out.” There is a consensus among scientists on the subject, and the only scientists who remain skeptical are on the fringe.”
The Truth: Hundreds of scientists publicly refute claims of man-made global warming. Many scientists say that many of their colleagues share their views, but have been intimidated and will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution.
Why Care: The average person will suffer higher taxes, pay higher costs resulting from increased taxes and regulatory costs on business and industry and struggle because of an economy weakened by government policies — if those pushing the man-made global warming claims succeed in changing government policy.

Joe the Plumber meets Big Brother

Gatekeeper — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:51:25 +0000

From the Columbus Dispatch …

An Ohio state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on “Joe the Plumber” were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.

Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher.

Harris called the multiple records checks “questionable” and said he awaits more answers. “It’s kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket,” he said.

Read the story in full

‘Apalling’ election coverage embarrasses journalist

Gatekeeper — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:37:38 +0000

From a column by Michael S. Malone …

The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.

The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I’ve found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I’ve begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living.

Read the column in full

Obama’s image masks Marxist affinity, liberal record

Gatekeeper — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:14:27 +0000

From FOXNews.com reporter Bill Sammon …

Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.

Read the article in full

Is there a different standard for Obama, Biden?

Gatekeeper — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:43:11 +0000

From By Patrick J. Buchanan …

Contrasting McCain with his hero, Joe declared a few weeks back, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and … said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929, Hoover was president, and there was no television.

Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had she exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?

Joe gets a pass because everybody likes Joe.

Read the column in full