*Fake Hate Crime Alert: Denver Edition
It seems that 11 windows were broken at the Denver DNC office last night. The state Chairman Pat Waak was quick to point the finger at Tea-Partiers and ObamaCare opposition:
“We ought to be having a serious, conscientious debate about what’s best for the country,” Waak said. “Clearly there’s been an effort on the other side to stir up hate. I think this is the consequence of it.”
One problem with this narrative: the suspect in custody worked for the Colorado Citizens Coalition, a local progressive group with ties to SEIU. Bonus from the Denver Daily News: “a trail of evidence connects Schwenkler (the suspect) to ultra-liberal groups investigated by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.”
All this right wing hate is really starting to harsh my buzz amigos.
*History, Now Playing Live, by Jonah Goldberg.
“He (Obama) thinks (thought?) that his election marked the beginning of a grand new era in progressive politics, when our festering social inequities would be healed with the soothing balm of new New Dealism, when we would all unite in the spirit of unity and bipartisanship around his own hyperpartisan agenda. I see something else. The main front-page stories in the Washington Post this morning are all about how the nation is being thrown into a chasm of debt and how the CIA has released its interrogation methods — a sure sign that the CIA is out of the business of interrogating anybody. On this latter point, David Ignatius has an excellent column on exactly that, and how the CIA is going to lawyer up for years to come. For years to come, this moment will resonate. Columnists will talk about how the deficit spiraled (even further) out of control in the summer of 2009 and the emasculation of the dollar became irreversible. Hawks will blame the castration of the CIA as the fons et origo of the next terror attack or the cause of the bureaucratic calcification of the CIA that led to some other intelligence catastrophe.”
Indeed.
RELATED: The Pelosi-Obama Deficits, at the WSJ
RELATED II: The Obama Agenda and Fiscal Reality, by James Capretta.
RELATED III: Bad News Budget, at the Washington Post.
*It’s the Personal Liberty, Stupid, by Jennifer Rubin.
*The Soviet Standard Returns: Hillary Clinton mouths an old communist bromide, by Elliot Abrams.
*Obama and Redistributive Change, by Victor Davis Hanson.
*The Ethics of Ferocity, by Doctor Zero.
“A few weeks ago, Eric Holder saw nothing wrong with Black Panthers using billy clubs to intimidate voters. Today, he thinks intimidating terrorists with cigars is a crime. Holder is the one who should be answering tough questions under oath.”
RELATED: Remember ‘No Controlling Legal Authority?’, by Andrew McCarthy.
*Your Daily Dose of Awesome: SQUIRREL!!!! (Stolen from Protean Wisdom)
