Category Archives: Media Criticism

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

“You Didn’t Build That”

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The policy consequences.

As Glenn says:

The key policy implication is that if he can convince enough people that you didn’t earn your success, he’ll face less opposition when he tries to take the fruits of your success for himself. And that’s what this whole “you didn’t build it” thing is about. I’m not taking your property away — it was really mine all along!

Yup.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Huma

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Andrew McCarthy has some questions for John McCain and Speaker Boehner:

So I was hoping maybe the speaker could explain to us: Hypothetically, if Huma Abedin did have a bias in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and if she were actually acting on that bias to try to tilt American policy in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, what exactly would the State Department be doing differently?

Yes, I’d like to see an explanation of that, too. But Huma’s not really the problem — Barack Obama is.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Guns Save Lives

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The science is settled:

With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms.

The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, like others run by the chain around the country, displayed warning signs that it was illegal to carry guns into the theater.

This applied to all nonlaw enforcement personnel, including individuals with concealed handgun permits. In other words, despite more than 4% of the adult population of Colorado having concealed handgun permits, a gunman intent on killing a lot of people could be confident that law-abiding citizens there would be sitting ducks.

Isn’t it funny how no one ever shoots up a gun show?

And yet morons like Mike Bloomberg are willing to break the law in order to disarm us, while he has his own police bodyguard.

[Update a few minutes later]

Bloomberg’s fascist suicide cult. No, I don’t think that’s too harsh a description.