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Since the president’s call for the end of hatful political discourse let’s determine who started it so that their voices will be forever known as untrustworthy partisan politicos who place ideology above truth. Paul Krugman, Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga and Jonathan Alter are not the only ones on the left that politicized the murders and mayhem in Arizona. However, they have distinguished themselves as the grossest continuing purveyors of fact less hateful political rhetoric. (see 1:23min video) It is time that all of these instigators of hate and lies be call out for their destructive contribution to the civil meltdown of...

Paul Krugman is back to discussing income inequality on his blog, following a very negative reaction to his disgraceful column on the Tucson shootings, in which he led a left wing chorus arguing that Gabrielle Giffords was brought down by a gunman undoubtedly influenced by Arizona's climate of hate, engendered by talk radio, Sarah Palin, Fox News, and other assorted villains on the right. Krugman writes for the New York Times, and the paper's editorial on the mass murder doubled down on Krugman's obnoxious take on the event. Charles Krauthammer did the best, and hopefully lasting damage to Krugman's already...

I agree completely with Pete that Krauthammer’s column is a great blow to Krugman. It’s made all the more forceful by the fact that Krauthammer is not only a brilliant columnist but also a psychiatrist by training. I also agree that this may be a tipping point in Krugman’s disgraceful career as a columnist. For one thing, he is intellectually lazy and seems to operate on the principle that a Krugman assertion is, ipso facto, an established fact. He rarely buttresses his assertions with evidence. His one bit of evidence that ”eliminationist rhetoric” in American political life is overwhelmingly on...