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Labor thugs threaten murder to preserve payola“I’m not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly.” So predicts “Goldfish,” a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., “on the Front Lines of the Class War.” Now, “Goldfish” is predicting a general strike, like the ones in Greece whenever the bankrupt government tries to cut ruinous spending. A bigger fish, film director Michael Moore, announced on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Wednesday that, “This is war. This is class war,” and that a national walkout of government school students would happen Friday....

On display once again in the wake of the Wisconsin Republican vote to destroy collective bargaining for public workers: the fetish of self-victimization that conservatives seem to possess in spades. In the aftermath of their most successful power grab in history, Wisconsin Republicans are in some cases too distracted to feel celebratory; instead, they're feeling assaulted and persecuted. Even when they are the very top of the piggy pile, they perceive themselves at the very bottom of it. Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker and brother of state Senate leader Scott Fitzgerald (whose father was recently appointed by Gov....

The Democrat unions have given us a clear view of what defines them. All any sensible person needs to see is the video of these protestors to rightly conclude they are savages. Their behavior speaks volumes. There are jobless people hurting all over the country and these cretins are acting like their plight is that of early 20th century Russian peasants because they may have to pay a small percentage of their health benefits instead of the tax payer paying all of it. They represent the lowest common denominator society has to offer and they deserve to lose their jobs...

Maybe you’ve heard this one. What do you get when fourteen Democrat Senators go AWOL from their jobs in Wisconsin? You get fiscal responsibility, the tools to balance an out-of-control budget and a boatload of evidence that the Progressive Left is prone to violence and thuggery over process. Thank you very much and goodnight. Be sure to tip your waiters, waitresses and bartenders on the way out. You’ve been great. Seriously, does anyone else find it abhorrently hypocritical for Progressives and Democrats to proclaim an abdication of process in the Republican’s out-maneuvering of them on the issue of limiting –...

Eric Kleefeld catches Sarah Palin, with some amount of relish, talking about the responsibility of union leaders to tell their supporters to chill the hell out. "These union bosses that are acting like thugs, as they are leading some of their good union members down a road that will ultimately result in, unfortunately, somebody getting hurt, if you believe the death threats that are being received by those who just happen to support amending some collective bargaining privileges of state unions. Well, it is these unions bosses' responsibility to turn down the rhetoric and start getting truth out there, so...

So this is what the new age of civility, where we are all carefully watching those horrible and violent conservatives, looks like. The Wisconsin DOJ is investigating a rash of death threats against Wisconsin Republicans after the GOP representatives passed a bill stripping collective bargaining privileges from many state government workers. Of course, when a few Democrats received violent threats about health care reform, the response was lavish attention in the left-leaning blogosphere, culminating in sweeping accusations towards all conservatives of complicity in violent and abusive discourse. Liberal luminaries sagely shook their heads sadly then and after Tucson, wisely lecturing...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. For a freshman, he's entirely fluid on the issues and easily navigates between specifics and larger themes. I asked him about Wisconsin. Why did Gov. Scott Walker take so long to pull out the "fiscal" elements and pass the legislation without a quorum? Johnson first made clear that he and the governor believe this "is not about individual workers . . . but about rebalancing the equation" so that the taxpayers' interests are being protected. As...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice says it has identified a person behind at least two threats made against elected officials in recent weeks. The suspect admitted to sending two e-mails threatening to kill Gov. Scott Walker and seven Republican Senators, presumably including La Crosse's Dan Kapanke. The case will be presented to the district attorney where the threat originated, according to the DOJ, which did not identify the suspect. "If you and your goonies feel that it's necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives," one e-mail read, "We will ‘get rid of' (in which I...

Picture this scenario: hours after the vote on Obamacare - one year ago today - a Tea Party protester sent an email to leading congressional Democrats with a detailed description of plans to murder both those legislators and their families. The sender claimed to know where those Democrats lived, and said he had planted bombs in various places, including the capitol building. What do you suppose the media reaction would be? Odds are it would be a whole lot louder than the near-total media silence thus far over an email sent to Wisconsin Senate Republicans Wednesday night that states plainly:...

Below is a "Letter to the Editor" of the Missoulian of Missoula, MT regarding a performance presented on Jan. 23, 2011: Open letter to MCT director Curt Olds: First I would like to compliment you and the entire staff of "The Mikado" on the beautiful sets, costuming and professional performance we experienced on Sunday, Jan. 23. However, I must call you on something that was inserted into the play which I am almost positive was not in the original book. The comments made in such a cavalier and oh-so-humorous way were uncalled for. Now, I realize you play to a...

Video: Sarah Palin on Hannity: I receive a lot of death threats—my children do. In Sarah Palin’s first TV interview since the Arizona shooting, she was finally able to express herself at length and answer the hordes of liberal attack dogs who have been exploiting the shooting in tying it to her. In an interview that lasted almost a half an hour, Palin succeeded in putting certain things into perspective after a week when the liberal media essentially blamed her for the murder of six fellow Americans. Viewed in the right context, there is no doubt at all that the...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords supporter and Tucson massacre survivor J. Eric Fuller, who was reportedly arrested Saturday at a ABC News townhall meeting for making a death threat against a local Tea Party leader, is a barking moonbat according to an interview with him by Media Matters for America.Fuller is a 63 year old Navy veteran who says he has post traumatic stress disorder. However, his comments and reported actions today bespeak a barking moonbat who has had his brain basted in the toxic hate of the Democratic party, MSNBC, Air America, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, etc.Fuller's outburst today, where he...

A four-minute video montage of “hate tweets” on YouTube directed at Sarah Palin and calling for her death is creating outrage on the Internet. The video was posted on Tuesday, before President Barack Obama’s Wednesday address calling for unity in the wake of the Tucson shooting rampage, which killed six and injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. Sarah Palin, death, tweets, YouTubeThe montage is set to Alice Cooper’s song “School’s Out.” Among the tweets: * “Why couldn’t Sarah Palin get shot instead?” * “I hope Sarah Palin dies an ugly death and takes her moronic hate with her.” *...

After blaming the tea party for the mass slaughter on Saturday one tea party leader is receiving death threats. The sheriff’s office told Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries to stay home. The Tuscon Tea Party leader started receiving death threats since the shootings at the Safeway on Saturday. Talking Points Memo reported, via Free Republic: Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest tea party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords...

Ever since the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, liberals have sought to blame Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for the attack. Shortly after the shooting, Jane Fonda sent out tweets blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party. Encouraged by irresponsible and shameful reporting, a number of twitter users have expressed their desire to see Sarah Palin dead, and some tweets actually call for her assassination. “So…will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assassinated? You know she’s next,” writes one twitter user. According to a report at The Blaze, some are downright vulgar: “Palin is a...

This is now the national equivalent of a brawl breaking out in the stands at a Little League T-ball game because Joey’s dad thinks he was safe and Billy’s dad says he was out. Except instead of headlocks and punches, there’s fake anthrax and professional security involved.Are we sure this is still a “liberals hate the Palins” story and not a story about DWTS fans investing psychologically in this moronic show to a near-psychotic degree? We’re told the threats began to come in last week, after Bristol and Mark made the finals. Execs on the show told Mark to stop...

An UNRWA director has apologized after his comments on the “right of return” led to a backlash. Andrew Whitley, the outgoing head of UNRWA's New York office, had said that the Arab world's focus on “return” to Israel was a “cruel illusion.” On Wednesday, Whitley said he had realized his previous statements were “inappropriate and wrong.” The statements do not reflect UNRWA's views, he said. He sent a written apology to UNRWA headquarters, saying, “I wish to put this letter on the public record out of concern that what I said in Washington could be interpreted in ways that negatively...

October 13, 2010 "FLA: Sahar Mohammed To Evangelist Bill Keller: “Jihad Upon You" - “Your Days Are Numbered.”" SNIPPET: "NaplesNews NAPLES — The Collier County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible death threat made against a Naples-based online evangelist who has called Islam a “false religion” about “death and hate,” and who is trying to build a “Christian Center” at ground zero in New York City in response to the planned mosque. Bill Keller, 52, who hosts a paid-programming television show on MyTV8, which he described as the O’Reilly Factor from a “Biblical perspective,” said the threat was on his...

It was a startling breach of security when the now-infamous shoe thrower got as close to President Bush as he did. Equally sobering was Sajid Ali Khan‘s “daring, courageous, lunatic” book plugging on Sunday. While the image of something nearly sailing over an oblivious Obama’s head arouses immature giggling in some (read: me), we certainly should take these incidents seriously and protect public officials at all costs. Most people harbor no ill intentions, but it only takes one deranged person to inflict maximum harm—and they only have to be successful once. Sarah Palin has received her share of threats from...

Molly Norris is a cartoonist. On her blog she suggested that there be a "Draw Mohammed" Day in a tongue in cheek effort to protest the Comedy Channel's censorship of a South Park episode. It blew up on her. If the Internet respected intentions, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris might have had a good May. "It's been horrible," Norris said from her home Wednesday. "I'm just trying to breathe and get through it." It is a culturally, religiously and even racially charged viral movement Norris sparked in April when she drew a cartoon to protest Comedy Central's decision to nix a...