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Ron Paul has a good point

Posted on February 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Ron Paul has a good point

“…if we’re allowed to read any book that we want under freedom of speech, why is it we can’t put into our body whatever we want?”

The Texas congressman is the only wouldbe Republican nominee, so far, who has the cajones to question our insane drug laws. All they do is give the police an excuse not to spend time fighting real crime and actually protecting us.

As I was reminded the other day reading this tale in the daily of the BIG drug bust (mostly marijuana) at Texas Christian University. I could not help but sneer. What petty nonsense. Well, it keeps the police off the streets.

Very similar to the MSM’s current preoccupation with contraception, instead of focusing on the still-collapsing economy. Reminds me of how the Texas legislature biannually biennially gins up some incremental abortion or AIDS controversy to preoccupy the media and the public so the lobby can get on with the real business of seeking, paying for and receiving special deals for its clients.

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The crooked media

Posted on October 23, 2008 | Comments Off on The crooked media

My former colleagues in the MSM, at least the ones who still have jobs, have no shame. Their pretense of "objectivity" in reporting is so far from reality that even their defenders can no longer ignore it. They have been bought and paid for by the Democrat party and exist only to please Barry–the most secretive candidate since Nixon. So they drill into each facet of Sarah’s life, while ignoring Barry’s pathetic, aging fratboy Joey Hairplugs. All the President’s Men, this ain’t. If it ever was.

UPDATE: Indeed, Big Media’s attacks on Sarah are the best evidence that there is no standard of objectivity in American journalism–despite the journalism degree now required to get a job in it.

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McCain’s fabled temper…

Posted on May 28, 2008 | Comments Off on McCain’s fabled temper…

…is just that, a fable. You could also call it The Big Lie. Originated by and beloved of the news media. Here’s more proof. As I have said before, he could not have survived torture as a POW if he couldn’t control his temper. Something very few journalists today would know about because almost none of them have been through training to resist torture. The military calls it SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistence, Escape.

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Very nice, indeed

Posted on May 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Very nice, indeed

President Bush is basically a nice guy, which he proved more than once when he was governor of Texas. Which, of course, is way too nice for the rude, undereducated, overmedicated slugs of the MSM. So it’s always a pleasure to see it when he cuts loose on a supercilious one with both barrels.

Via The Fat Guy

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Obama’s free ride

Posted on January 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Obama’s free ride

Slate’s Mickey Kaus finds journalists already are admitting that the O man will likely get a free ride from the MSM, because they’ll be afraid to criticize a black man. Sounds exactly right to me. They painted themselves into a PC corner a long time ago and won’t be able to get out. My money says Obama cannot be elected president for a variety of very good reasons, all of them involving his politics and his junior status, and none of them involving his race. But his race also is one reason he won’t be elected. Presidents are elected by the most consistent voters, who are the older white folks, not the so-called youth vote (which has never been reliable yet) and they won’t be able to shake their old ingrown disdain for black people, which is strengthened daily by rap, gangsta behavior and the hip-hop culture in general. That Obama ain’t like that will be a relief to them but it won’t change their attitude. Just a fact, folks, live with it. Now, as these older white folks of my parent’s generation die off–and they are dying off every day–the dynamic will change. How it will change remains to be seen.

Via Instapundit 

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Set-recs

Posted on October 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Set-recs

Set-recs, for "set the record straight" is what the old time newspapermen called corrections, which were always plentiful although frowned upon.  After five years of pummeling from the not-always-accurate MSM’s preferred war narrative, it’s about time the defense department entered the set-rec business, here.

They’re also into argument for their side of the issue, even when rebuffed.

"Second, the issue is not Newsweek’s position versus the ‘government position.’ The issue is that your readers were given a one-sided, opinion-laced article on Afghanistan based on falsehoods—which is something that journalists and editors are usually concerned about. Your dismissive reply is disappointing, to say the least.”

More, please. 

Via Op-For 

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