"People are not stimulus-response machines"
Garry Hamilton is speaking truth to the nonsensical: I continue to see assertions that "speech creates thought" or that "symbols are violence" and variations on the idea that thoughts …
Author: Rick
Rational thought be damned
Bill to ban crosshair symbols to be introduced in Congress: Representative Bob Brady of Pennsylvania told The Caucus he plans to introduce a bill that would ban symbols like …
"There's a climate of hate out there, all right…"
Glenn Reynolds at The Wall Street Journal: There's a climate of hate out there, all right, but it doesn't derive from the innocuous use of political clichés. And former …
Because I think we need some levity
Via my brother John, what the newscasts failed to show when Ms. Pelosi passed the gavel: Next thing we know, some Religious Leftist will be lamenting the violence this video might …
Christina Taylor Green: The face of innocence
Politico: Christina Taylor Green, the youngest victim of Saturday's shootings, was born on Sept. 11, 2001 - a date of bloodshed that shaped her tragically brief life, the girl's …
"Can someone tell me why Sarah Palin is not in Jail?"
I want to piggyback onto Locutisprime's post where he had this (and much more) to say about yesterday's tragic events: The smoke had barely cleared and the dust barely …
Muslims offer their bodies as human shields…
... for Christians no less: Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as "shields" to Egypt's threatened Christian community. …
"if he'd been a black writer; his prose would stand unassailed"
Random Thoughts is waxing eloquent on the efforts to remove "offensive words" from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: I've never agreed with banning the book because of Twain's use …
"…the world is full of dark, evil places…"
The Anchoress brings us a righteous rant: Look, I know the world is full of dark, evil places, none darker easily conformed to evil than the human heart itself, …
"Except Obama, except Obama!"
You know... this smells funny to me... smells like a leftist plant frankly: A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution …