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February 8 2012, 0 Comments

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The Culture War Turns Hot

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A Tale of Two Shootings

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Anti-Christian Terror Attack in the Nation’s Capital

August 15 2012, 0 Comments

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The Culture War Turns Hot

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was at the hospital just before midnight last Wednesday when Leonardo Reno Johnson was wheeled out of surgery, a bullet having been removed from his left arm. Earlier that same day, Johnson was in the lobby guarding the conservative Christian think-tank when a man possessing a Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun, two loaded magazines, 50 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, attempted to enter the organization’s offices.

When an alert Johnson stopped the unfamiliar visitor and demanded identification, the man pulled his weapon and fired, wounding Johnson in the arm. Injured but undeterred, Johnson rushed the armed man, wrestling alleged shooter Floyd Lee Corkins to the floor and...

A Tale of Two Shootings

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

When television reporter Brian Ross erroneously reported that the Colorado “Batman” shooter was a Tea Party member, Ben Sherwood, president of ABC News, said, “Our mission is to tell people everything we can that is relevant about a person who has just committed a terrible crime. If, in the course of our sweeping everything we can about the person, part of it turns out that he was a member of a particular club, a member of a particular organization, he has a particular hobby, if we judge that it is journalistically relevant to a profile, a rich profile of this guy that will help our viewers understand who is this, why did he do this, then we would report the facts,” the New York Times reported.

Sherman did apologize for getting the...

Anti-Christian Terror Attack in the Nation’s Capital

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

At approximately 10:45 a.m. Tuesday morning, a man carrying a Chick-fil-A bag entered the lobby of the Family Research Council (FRC), a family-oriented Christian think-tank in Washington, D.C.

According to news reports, having failed to pass himself off as an intern to the lobby security guard, the man allegedly pulled a handgun, shooting the guard in the arm. The guard returned fire, wounding the suspect, while lobby bystanders wrestled the deranged man to the floor.

“Don’t shoot me, it was not about you,” the shooter told the wounded guard, “It was what this place stands for,” Fox News reported.

The FBI is treating the incident as an act of domestic terrorism.

When controversy erupted after Chick-fil-A CEO...

The Cult of Progressivism

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

They called themselves the Hydra Club, a group of underpaid writers whose literary genre earned them no more than a penny a word. Their passion was writing science fiction.

In the documentary film “Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth,” the sci-fi author recalls that “the Hydra Club was a writer’s drinking and schmoozing society. They would get together once a week, or once every two weeks … and they would just talk …”

He remembers one meeting in the early 1950s with writers Lester Sprague de Camp and L. Ron Hubbard in attendance. “Ron was complaining that he was breaking his ass writing … there was no annuity, no insurance, no nothing and you can’t keep it up forever … and Ron said, ‘There’s got to be a better way to...

Paul Ryan, Nature and God

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

In accepting the vice presidential spot on the Republican ticket, Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan said, “America is more than just a place … it’s an idea … Our rights come from nature and God, not government.”

That single remark is simple yet profound. That single remark separates those who embrace the tumultuous uncertainties of freedom from those who seek security at the expense of individual liberty. That single remark is what divides the Founder’s philosophy of limited government from the Progressive project’s march toward authoritarian dictatorship. That single remark differentiates two stark visions of man in relation to his creator and his fellow man.

The remark also pays homage to two great men: John Locke and Thomas...

Obama’s Liberal Fascism

By Mr. Curmudgeon

“Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including the economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the ‘problem’ and therefore defined as the enemy. I will argue that contemporary American liberalism embodies all of these aspects of fascism...

Obama’s Post-Apocalyptic Economy

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

While Team Obama presses on with its campaign to frighten anxious Americans away from freedom and its residual energy, capitalism, Obama’s anti-free market ethos is etching an indelible mark on our society.

Friday, the “official” unemployment rate in America bumped up to 8.3% from its previous 8.2%, and the Department of Labor Statistics’ U-6 number (the jobless rate for Americans who have run through their unemployment benefits and still cannot find work) stands at a staggering 14.9%.

The Labor department also broke down the jobless U-6 figures for the states: Nevada (Harry Reid’s state) 22.1%; California 20.3%; Rhode Island 18.3%; Florida 17%; Ohio and Pennsylvania stand at 14%.

“The lack of improvement in state U-6...

Of Poultry and Political Correctness

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

Americans ate a whole lot of chicken on Wednesday; in particular, Chick-fil-A chicken. Here in South Florida, where I live, the area’s powerhouse talk-radio station provided updates from listeners who reported standing in long lines around the fast-food chain’s various locations.

“They are making a lot of noise,” Celio Fonseca of Boca Raton told the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel of the gay lobby’s attempt to intimidate the fast-food chain’s president, Dan Cathy, for stating that his organization’s corporate culture is Christian as are its values. “But they are in the minority,” continued Fonseca, “Everyone has the right to express what they believe, and we are here to support the chain.” Fonseca is a member of the Church of All...

Holder’s Withholding

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

A U.S. District Court ruling supports the House Republican’s claim that Attorney General Eric Holder is a contemptible withholder of evidence and the Obama administration’s cover-up artist extraordinaire.

Since the news of Operation Fast and Furious broke, Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Darrell Issa, has buried the Justice Department in enough subpoenas to wallpaper every office in the joint.

To date, Holder has failed to provide House investigators the names of Justice Department personnel responsible for selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels and high-level Justice officials privy to the operation.

Now, the first controversy to embroil the nation’s top law enforcement...

The Out-of-Context President

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

It’s difficult for supporters of the smartest man in the world to admit he makes gaffes. Instead, President Obama’s acolytes insist his detractors take him “out of context.”

When conservative talk radio and Mitt Romney pilloried Obama for saying “the private sector is doing fine,” Obama’s main man in Chicago, David Axelrod, said, “They’re more eager to have a debate over an out-of-context clause in his [Obama’s] remarks than the substance of what he said,” he told CNN.

Axelrod failed to enlighten the paltry CNN audience as to Obama’s context, changing the subject instead. “We need to accelerate job creation in the private sector,” said Axelrod, “One of the ways that we can do that is putting teachers and fire...

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