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Knee-Jerk

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, July 06, 2009 10:46:04 AM

New York Daily News blames “gun culture” for McNair murder

Steve McNair apparently died not at the hands of his mistress in a murder-suicide but at the hands of the “gun culture” of America.  So decides sports writer Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News, who must have leapt to his typewriter within minutes of the wire services announcing McNair’s death in order to indict millions of Americans who don’t kill people but manage to own firearms responsibly.  In doing so, he martyrs a man who clearly had other issues than the national “gun culture”

For the record, the murder of a boyfriend, as this appears to be, is slightly more likely to happen by knife instead of gun.  Statistics from the DoJ on murders of intimates from 1990-2005 show that 47% of murdered boyfriends get stabbed to death, while 45% of them get killed by guns.  Would Lupica attribute that to a “knife culture”?  Would the plurality of knife murders be “progress” for Lupica?

Had Lupica paused long enough to do some actual research, he would have found that murders of intimates have dropped over the last 30 years, and that the use of guns as the weapons had declined even faster than the overall drop:

But why let facts get in the way of accusing every gun owner in America of McNair’s murder?



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America's Celebrity Culture

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, July 05, 2009 5:55:26 PM
It’s official: Media has lost their minds

ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC will cover Michael Jackson's memorial service live.
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Networks Mostly Mute On Democratic Scandals

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, July 04, 2009 3:37:39 AM
MRC Study: Networks Highlighted GOP Governor Sanford's Scandal, But Are Mostly Mute on Scandals Embroiling Top Democrats

In the week since South Carolina’s Republican Governor announced he had flown to Argentina to carry on an extra-marital affair, the broadcast morning and evening news shows have gone full bore on the scandal, cranking out 49 stories even in the midst of other major stories like Michael Jackson’s death and the continuing repression in Iran.


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Repent, Heretic!

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, July 03, 2009 1:49:49 PM

The Obama Inquisition on climate change

Barack Obama promised to return science to its “rightful place” in government, but at least on climate change, it seems that Obama has the Inquisition in mind as the government model.  When a dissenting voice at the EPA warned that the global-warming theories on which Obama had predicated his policies were falling apart, the administration did not champion a scientific approach to the debate.  Instead, it took the ages-old method of silencing the scientist, as Kimberly Strassel reports

Carlin’s comments didn’t “help the legal or policy case” for the Obama administration?  Actually, Carlin’s scientific analysis undermined the entire reason for those legal and policy choices.  The effort to silence Carlin didn’t come because the EPA and the White House could easily refute the analysis.  They silenced Carlin because they couldn’t refute it.

Now that Carlin has blown the whistle, the Obama administration has embarked on another ages-old strategy: character assassination.  They have dismissed Carlin as an economist, when he actually has a degree in physics — from CalTech.  They have derided his work as “sham science,” even though it relied on peer-reviewed studies.  They’ve done everything but actually use the scientific method to rebut Carlin, which demonstrates the commitment they have to the “rightful place” of science when it comes to policy in this administration.



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All Bets Off?

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:34:37 PM

Did Sotomayor help smear Bork?

Republicans have questioned how hard they should fight against Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.  After all, they have objected the loudest to the dirty tactics unleashed by Democrats in their successful blocking of Robert Bork and their smearing of Clarence Thomas.  Now, however, the AP reports that the group that Sotomayor helped lead took sides in the political battle against Bork that kept him off the bench in 1987

Does this change the ground rules for Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing?  After all, apart from the beating Thomas took from Howard Metzenbaum, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden, the Democrats, the Bork hearing created the poisonous environment that exists to this day on judicial nominations.  If Sotomayor took part in that effort, she’s a political figure — much more so than Bork at the time, and therefore fair game.

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US Private Sector Cut Jobs In June

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:51:54 PM
Stimulusmania: Another 473,000 jobs lost in June
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Ready For Another NAFTA Dance?

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:58:07 PM

Canada - the new tax haven?

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Priorities

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, June 29, 2009 12:28:11 PM

Coups, interference, and the shifting standards of Obama

It’s difficult to make sense out of the foreign policy coming out of the White House under Barack Obama.  On the one hand, Obama insisted that he could not interfere with the internal politics of the “sovereign government of Iran,” refusing for days to even condemn Iran for its flagrantly violent repression of dissent.  When Honduras’ military staged a coup, though, Obama apparently had no such reticence in involving the US on behalf of deposed President Manuel Zelaya — a close ally of Hugo Chavez

Zelaya was violating his country’s constitution with his referendum that would have, Chavez-style, repealed term limits on the presidency.  The Honduras Supreme Court ruled the referendum illegal, and the military refused to distribute the ballots.  Instead of backing down, Zelaya fired the head of the military, which precipitated the ouster.

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Another Friday Night Dump

Posted by Always To The Right on Sunday, June 28, 2009 1:25:16 PM

The rank dishonesty of the Obama administration

Jim Geraghty first wrote that all of Barack Obama’s promises come with expiration dates, and broken promises from politicians are nothing new, of course.  However, one usually expects politicians — especially those running on hope and change — to either remain true to their professed core values and the issues that fueled the most passion on the campaign trail, or at least explain their change in the daylight.  Obama did neither, nor did he apologize to the man he besmirched endlessly on the campaign trail while adopting the policy that Obama most demonized as a candidate.

Obama has essentially endorsed the detention policies of George Bush without the courtesy of apologizing for slandering him over the last two and a half years.  Obama and his allies screeched endlessly about indefinite detentions, and not just in Gitmo, either.  They specifically railed against the holding of terrorists without access to civil courts in military detention facilities around the world, specifically Bagram, but in general as well.  Not even six months into his term of office, Obama realized that Bush had it right all along.

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Uninsured Figures Overhype The Lack Of Health Coverage

Posted by Always To The Right on Saturday, June 27, 2009 7:55:48 PM

President Obama rarely misses a chance to stress that 46 million people in the U.S. lack health coverage. But the actual number of chronically uninsured Americans is far less, experts say.

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God Love Ya, Joe

Posted by Always To The Right on Friday, June 26, 2009 1:43:58 PM

Biden: New Jersey has a great governor in … Tim Kaine?

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More Bait-And-Switch From The Democrats

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:49:57 PM

WSJ: Cap-and-tax a great deal … if you don’t measure the costs

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Cardinal Rule

Posted by Always To The Right on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:41:41 PM

Obama negotiating with terrorists for hostages?

The cardinal rule, and until now the official policy of the US, is clear: We do not negotiate with terrorists.  To do so only encourages more terrorism and makes civilians more vulnerable, as their value increases as hostages.  It also gives more credibility to the terrorists and places them at the level of nation-states in diplomacy, which allows them to attract recruits.

And, as we see here, it also doesn’t work.  It doesn’t moderate terrorists, and it doesn’t satisfy their demands.  As the Israelis keep discovering, it usually results in the exchange of live terrorists for the corpses of the innocent. It ensures more corpses down the road as well.


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Blast From The Past

Posted by Always To The Right on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:03:11 PM

Mousavi behind the attack on Marines in Lebanon?

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Payola In The Hardly-Paid Category

Posted by Always To The Right on Monday, June 22, 2009 11:35:57 AM

Blog regulation at the FTC

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