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Skip ahead to 2:04. I believe him, actually. The uncanny sense one has listening to Matthews is that his mouth moves faster than his brain. When you’re saddled with that handicap, you’re bound to talk your way into analogies that come out … the wrong way. Besides, I think we have to grade him on the curve. By MSNBC’s standards of violent imagery over the past 24 hours, this was pretty tame.

Sept. 30, 2009 | Every so often, sitting down to your Cheerios, you open the New York Times to the crossword puzzle and find clues such as "_ Van Winkle" and "_ of 1812" and "Buried in Grant's Tomb" and you finish the thing in five minutes flat feeling brilliant and unappreciated, some sort of national treasure, and then you spend an hour searching for your glasses and car keys and that brings you down smartly to earth. For some reason, you've parked your glasses in the top drawer of the bureau next to the pewter soup spoons and the...

... one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

Proposition 8 Donor Maps, for San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Orange County, are now posted at EightMaps.com. Proposition 8, of course, was the proposition that amended the California Constitution to bar legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The map is built -- presumably automatically -- from the data reported by the California Secretary of State's office. (The site I linked to contains the committee id's, but if you click on the committee name, you'll see the individual contributors.) Many of the listed contributions are $50 or below...

Protestors of California's Proposition 8 (the marriage amendment) shoved aside a 69-year old woman bearing a cross, reportedly spit on her and stomped on her cross. They then aligned themselves in a human barricade, blocking the media from getting to or interviewing the elderly woman Prop. 8 supporter, Jose Nunez, 37, was brutally assaulted while distributing yard signs to other supporters after church services at the St. Stanislaus Parish in Modesto. Calvary Chapel Chino Hills was spray painted by vandals, after they learned that the church served as an official collection point for Prop 8 petitions. Letters containing white powder...

WICHITA, KS, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Two pro-life volunteers participating in a round the clock prayer vigil were sickened last week, after being exposed to fumes from an oily substance that had been spilled across the driveway at George Tiller’s late-term abortion clinic. Operation Rescue, citing a similar incident that occurred in 2007, alleges that the spilling of the substance in such close proximity to where pro-life volunteers were participating in the 40 Days for Life campaign was an intentional “chemical attack.” One of the pro-lifers, Jennifer McCoy, was treated for four hours at a local hospital emergency room...

King County GOP booth at Bumbershoot vandalized  08:55 AM PDT on Tuesday, September 2, 2008  By KING5.com Staff  KCGOP Vandals tore open the tent, flipped over the table holding candidates' literature and set parts of the display on fire.  SEATTLE - The King County Republican Party reports that their booth at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival was vandalized Sunday evening. The vandals tore open the closed tent, flipped over the table holding candidates' literature and set parts of the display on fire. A person at a neighboring booth saw the flames and extinguished them before more damage was done. The KCGOP says...

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I just talked to my wife, who is a Rhode Island delegate at the convention. The news media has not fully reported the destructive activities of the lefty activists. They have: Attacked an elderly man and put him in a wheelchair Attacked some Iowa delegates, pushed them to the ground, doused them with ammonia, and then took their credentials (thank God that they did not light them on fire). Delegates are now being told not to display their credentials except when safely inside the convention center. Destroyed the windows of an entire downtown street

ITHACA--A long running private Christmas light display was vandalized in the days before Christmas, with the perpetrators singling out the crosses.According to the Ithaca Journal, "vandals cut wires supplying electricity to a large merry Christmas sign and three large crosses that stand 12- to 15-feet tall" on the property of Ithaca resident Bill Lower.Jay Gartlein, who helps Lower put up the decorations, said he found some of the vandals' targets curious."They bypassed other decorations and went out of their way to wreck the crosses,” he said.The Lower property has 300,000 to 400,000 lights on it, most of which were not...

United for Peace and Justice, the lead organizer for a mass march and rally against the Iraq war to be held in Washington, D.C. next month is promoting a music CD that features a song about murdering Halliburton executives.Released in September, the CD by David Rovics, Halliburton Boardroom Massacre, is being sold online by Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Overstock among other online retailers.United for Peace and Justice is being given a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD.The title song on the CD is written from the perspective of (an anti-American leftist pretending to be) an...

After a year of trying to convince voters that all Republicans are corrupt because of the actions of a couple of rotten apples, the Democrats now find themselves with not one, but two senators under fire for crooked behavior. Minority Leader Harry Reid promised to amend disclosure reports after it became known that he earned $1.1 million on a real estate deal for property he hadn't owned for three years. Not a bad deal. While Reid was busy trying to sweep this questionable transaction under the rug, another "clerical error" was discovered. Apparently, Reid used $3,300 in campaign donations for...

CTV's Natalie Yammine brings us live footage of students storming the stage during a speech by the Minutemen Project on October 4, 2006 at Columbia University

Minutemen Project founder Jim Gilchrist was attacked by angry, violent protesters last night who stormed the stage during his speech at Columbia University in New York City, forcing an abrupt end to the event. An African-American member of the Minuteman board who spoke prior to Gilchrist was taunted with the "n-word," according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi. Corsi had been scheduled to follow Gilchrist with a speech of his own, but after university security personnel whisked the Minuteman leader offstage, the New York Young Republican Club meeting was shut down. A video of the chaos at Roone Arledge Auditorium, shot...

Homosexual Activist Targets Colorado Family with “Hate Crime” Fire in Front Yard Fire starter leaves note accusing family of being terrorists for opposing homosexuality By Gudrun Schultz COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A family displaying signs opposing homosexuality on their front lawn have been the target of accelerating harassment by homosexual activists, culminating in a Klu Klux Klan type of blazing fire started in their front yard in the middle of the night, Focus on the Family’s Citizen Link reported yesterday. Christina Sewall woke up about 2 a.m. in her Colorado Springs home to discover a large...

A previously unknown group on Friday said it had kidnapped three Hamas officials in the West Bank, accusing the Islamic terror group of putting itself above the law. Palestinian security officials confirmed the kidnappings of Bassem Abeido, in Hebron, Hassan Safi in Bethlehem and Riad Abdel Karim al-Raz in Tulkarem. The three men, all local leaders of the Islamic militant group, were abducted by gunmen late Thursday, though Karim was released early Friday. A group calling itself the Omar bin al-Khatab Brigades claimed responsibility for the abductions. "Hamas doesn't care about the Palestinian law," the group said in a leaflet.

April 20, 2005 Islamist 'mob' threatens Galloway with gallows By Philippe Naughton, Times Online George Galloway A mob of young Islamist extremists allegedly threatened to hang anti-war campaigner George Galloway last night as as the country's most bitter election battle spilled into violence on the streets of the East End. The Respect candidate, who is fighting Labour’s Oona King for the Bethnal Green and Bow seat in East London, was meeting locals in a tenant association’s room last night with his daughter, Lucy, when a 40-strong group of militants burst in, his spokesman said today. Locking the door behind them,...

Terri Schiavo's widower has gone into hiding because of the furore over his wife's death and has sought police protection. Michael Schiavo, 41, is under guard three days after his disabled wife died from dehydration at a Florida hospice. She had spent 13 days without food or water after a United States judge upheld Mr Schiavo's claim that she would not have wished to continue life in a persistently vegetative state. "His goal is to find safe housing because of these death threats," said a friend, Alan Shoopak. "It's not over. Unfortunately, it's just beginning." Mrs Schiavo's parents, Bob and...

Fewer than two weeks after expressing concern for former state Sen. Dino Rossi's safety, the State Patrol this week ended the round-the-clock security it had been providing to Rossi and his family. "We are not protecting Mr. Rossi any more," Capt. Fred Fakkema, spokesman for the State Patrol, said yesterday. Fakkema said the decision to stop protecting Rossi was made last week. But for security reasons, he said, the State Patrol did not announce the decision. The patrol's Executive Protection Unit had been guarding Rossi since November, when he was declared governor-elect after winning the initial ballot count in the...

As someone who believes that life is full of unexpected big and little ironies that eventually catch up with the bad guys, the last few days have made me think. What if the producers, writer, actors and others had given us a fair, honest, decent portrayal of the Reagans, emphasizing both politics and the their remarkable 53 year old ( at that time) love story? Recent events have shown they have many admirers. I believe the show would have done well initially with good ratings. Now eight months later the death of Ronald Reagan would have given CBS the opportunity...