It is so easy to make fools out of liberals that it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Tim Tebow's parents let it be known they were going to be in a Super Bowl ad sponsored by Focus on the Family.
Libs went nuts. They assumed it would be an ad suggesting that women choose not kill their babies before the infants are born. This is anathema to the left.
Instead, it was a short, warm message. But it directed the millions of viewers to this link, which is the real Tebow story.
How many more viewers saw the ad because of the left's foaming at the mouth is subject to speculation, but it had to be substantial.
Tebow is a phenomenon. In addition to being one of the greatest football players ever, he is one of the best role models a young person could have. His family made the right decision.
Monday, February 8, 2010
One that got away
Before I could get it written, NRO beat me to the punch.
Since I mentioned this idea to a golfing buddy two weeks ago, I can prove it was original. But if I wrote it now, some fool might accuse me of plagiarism anyway. I've never plagiarised anything and I'm not going to start now, hence the link.
In any case, Henry Olsen hit it on the head. Republicans better wake up, or find themselves in the history books. Or, given that liberals write the history books these days, just gone and forgotten.
Since I mentioned this idea to a golfing buddy two weeks ago, I can prove it was original. But if I wrote it now, some fool might accuse me of plagiarism anyway. I've never plagiarised anything and I'm not going to start now, hence the link.
In any case, Henry Olsen hit it on the head. Republicans better wake up, or find themselves in the history books. Or, given that liberals write the history books these days, just gone and forgotten.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
PC news from Britain
In British schools, mention of the Holocaust is being dropped from history classes because of fear that it might offend Muslims, the Daily Mail reports.
In Britain, the Muslim population is growing rapidly, from immigration and from a higher birth rate among Muslims. Meanwhile, the non-Muslim British are having fewer children. There is talk of the possibility that England will be a majority Muslim nation in the not-too-distant future.
Another trend in schooling is that mention of the Crusades is being downplayed, for the same reason. The British version differs from what is taught in the mosques.
This, in the nation that once encircled the world, invented parliamentary rule and gave birth to the Magna Carta. What the Spanish Armada and Nazi hordes could not accomplish is being done by tolerance for intolerance, and political correctness.
In Britain, the Muslim population is growing rapidly, from immigration and from a higher birth rate among Muslims. Meanwhile, the non-Muslim British are having fewer children. There is talk of the possibility that England will be a majority Muslim nation in the not-too-distant future.
Another trend in schooling is that mention of the Crusades is being downplayed, for the same reason. The British version differs from what is taught in the mosques.
This, in the nation that once encircled the world, invented parliamentary rule and gave birth to the Magna Carta. What the Spanish Armada and Nazi hordes could not accomplish is being done by tolerance for intolerance, and political correctness.
A disheartening tale
Danny Williams, the premier of a Canadian province, is going to the United States to have heart surgery.
Canada's "free" health care is the envy of U.S. liberals who want socialized medicine here.
A story in the Toronto Sun said Williams could have had his surgery in Canada. "You just have to wait a bit longer, and the accommodations aren't as nice."
If you're facing heart surgery, wouldn't you want to do it soon, in "nice" facilities?
Canadian doctors quickly insisted that Williams could have gotten the surgery in Canada and that heart surgery in Canada is as good as, and sometimes better than, that in the U.S.
The Fraser Institute said 41,000 Canadians sought treatment in the U.S. last year.
Meanwhile, this headline from CBC in Canada: A 12-year-old boy is in a vegetative state after having his tonsils removed at the Winnipeg Children's Hospital.
Canada's "free" health care is the envy of U.S. liberals who want socialized medicine here.
A story in the Toronto Sun said Williams could have had his surgery in Canada. "You just have to wait a bit longer, and the accommodations aren't as nice."
If you're facing heart surgery, wouldn't you want to do it soon, in "nice" facilities?
Canadian doctors quickly insisted that Williams could have gotten the surgery in Canada and that heart surgery in Canada is as good as, and sometimes better than, that in the U.S.
The Fraser Institute said 41,000 Canadians sought treatment in the U.S. last year.
Meanwhile, this headline from CBC in Canada: A 12-year-old boy is in a vegetative state after having his tonsils removed at the Winnipeg Children's Hospital.
An expert on fake news speaks up
There is something slightly hilarious about Dan Rather's latest blather.
He told the Aspen Daily News, “A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom. This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.”
So what does he want? Rather wants the government to save the newspapers.
The watchdogs over the government want to be owned by the government? Pravda was all over those Kremlin boys all the time, wasn't it?
Actually, Dan might know if he kept up with the news, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are doing just fine. They provide their customers with both sides of the news, unlike Rather's old haunts, CBS.
At CBS, Katie Couric is facing the terrible threat of having her $14 million salary cut, according to the Drudge Report. CBS is having to cut its budget because people don't want to watch the liberal version of the news. That's the same reason Air America just went bankrupt and why Keith Olbermann is likely to get sacked, with his ratings down 44 percent in the past year and Bill O'Reilly kicking his hiney.
No wonder they don't like free markets
He told the Aspen Daily News, “A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom. This is not something just for journalists to be concerned about, and the loss of jobs and the loss of newspapers, and the diminution of the American press’ traditional role of being the watchdog on power. This is something every citizen should be concerned about.”
So what does he want? Rather wants the government to save the newspapers.
The watchdogs over the government want to be owned by the government? Pravda was all over those Kremlin boys all the time, wasn't it?
Actually, Dan might know if he kept up with the news, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are doing just fine. They provide their customers with both sides of the news, unlike Rather's old haunts, CBS.
At CBS, Katie Couric is facing the terrible threat of having her $14 million salary cut, according to the Drudge Report. CBS is having to cut its budget because people don't want to watch the liberal version of the news. That's the same reason Air America just went bankrupt and why Keith Olbermann is likely to get sacked, with his ratings down 44 percent in the past year and Bill O'Reilly kicking his hiney.
No wonder they don't like free markets
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Taking off
Here it is:
This is the Obama version of spending restraint.
His PR flack actually used the words "fiscal conservatism" to describe the direction Obama is going (in an attempt to distract from the left's ongoing effort to takeover health care).
The crest on the left is the debt that resulted from winning World War II and preserving freedom. The crest on the right is the cost of diminishing that hard-won freedom.
Looks like a hockey stick, doesn't it? Except the global warming hockey stick was a myth.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Back to the drawing board
Government nannies have had a setback in their campaign against the cell phone.
Anytime new technology comes along, the nannies try to use scare tactics to justify new regulations that will give them the control they so desperately want to have over the rest of us.
Cell phones are supposed to fry your brain and cause you to crash your car.
But, the Highway Loss Data Institute has just done a study of four states that banned the use of phones while driving.
Bans were supposed to reduce crashes. They didn't.
No one has ever explained the difference between talking to someone on the phone and talking to your spouse seated next to you, and I never heard a nanny propose a Shut up Your Spouse bill.
When using a hands free device there is exactly no difference.
The truth is, some people are careless and they would be careless tuning their radio or doing anything else if they didn't have a cell phone.
Anytime new technology comes along, the nannies try to use scare tactics to justify new regulations that will give them the control they so desperately want to have over the rest of us.
Cell phones are supposed to fry your brain and cause you to crash your car.
But, the Highway Loss Data Institute has just done a study of four states that banned the use of phones while driving.
Bans were supposed to reduce crashes. They didn't.
No one has ever explained the difference between talking to someone on the phone and talking to your spouse seated next to you, and I never heard a nanny propose a Shut up Your Spouse bill.
When using a hands free device there is exactly no difference.
The truth is, some people are careless and they would be careless tuning their radio or doing anything else if they didn't have a cell phone.
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