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The massacre in Tucson was a horrendous tragedy. Everyone in the country, of every ideological stripe, should have been allowed to mourn the victims’ deaths and injuries without the imposition of having to defend people who had nothing at all to do with it. But where normal people saw tragedy, the far left saw opportunity. They jumped at the chance to implicate an entire movement, and their leaders, (most notably Sarah Palin) as accessories to the crime. They did this before anything was even known about the assailant. They did it because of their own visceral hatred for their political...

Media Matters employee and Con Web Watch proprietor Terry Krepel is almost masochistic in his inability to disengage from a debate. I thought I was being charitable in giving Krepel the last word and quietly ending the debate over whether Media Matters and the Left were "smearing" talk radio host Glenn Beck in accusing him of lying about his mother's death. Then Krepel just had to rip the scab off before the wound had even started to heal: 2009 October 15 Terry K. permalink I’ve explained why I do not consider this to be a smear. Swindle has decided not...

When I'm engaging NewsReal's leftist commenters in the threads to our blog posts, some of our conservative regulars often caution me that I'm wasting my time. I'm not. I know exactly what I'm doing. There is indeed method to my madness. And this is the secret: give a leftist enough rope through continual engagement and they will eventually hang themselves. Continue to poke and prod them and soon the "liberal" mask will slip and the destructive, radical monster will reveal itself. That happened with Terry "Con Web Watch" Krepel in his most recent response to my calling out him and...

I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent. The Left tells us what is racist. The Left tells us what we can and cannot say. The Left published a cartoon depicting former black Secretary of State Condolezza Rice as an Aunt Jemima; another depicted Rice as a huge lip parrot for her Massa Bush. Neither were considered racist by their creators or publishers, or even widely condemned on the Left. In opposition to black Republican Michael...