http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial-page/from-our-readers/letters-to-the-editor/article477335.ece posted:

Mamet has exposed hypocrisy of liberalism
Jeff Simon’s review of David Mamet’s “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture” is a pathetic exercise in sophistry designed to condemn Mamet’s conversion from liberalism to conservatism. Mamet’s cogent attack on liberal dogma has obviously threatened Simon’s core political beliefs, triggering his hysterical rant and snarky allusions to Rush, Glenn and Bill.

Mamet exposes the liberals’ attempt to replace our Judeo Christian values with the deadly fallacy of wishful utopian thinking. By denying reality, liberals have promoted many misguided policies that have infringed upon our freedoms, policies such as multiculturalism, affirmative action, man-made global warming and political correctness. He sees liberal education as a means of indoctrinating our young in identity politics.

Mamet also exposes the hypocrisy of liberalism as a wicked dream devised by those who would bankrupt others, but not themselves. One need only to think of rich socialists like Soros and Streisand and liberal politicians who favor redistribution of wealth and national health care, neither of which would affect them.

Simon’s largely ad hominem attack on Mamet is unbecoming. Then again, he may have found honest rebuttal a futile endeavor.
Jim Costa

Elma

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it can stop throwing road blocks like minimum wage laws and workplace restrictions in the path of job creation

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Does anyone seriously believe that we should have to ask government’s permission to be a barber or a cosmetologist or, for that matter, to practice any profession?...These licensing laws also require a lot of up-front education and continuing education so, naturally, there is another whole group of people in the education arena who support these economically harmful laws.

dur posted:

Welp, this horrible poo poo has been posted a couple times on my facebook feed already.

http://news.investors.com/Article.aspx?id=603899&ibdbot=1


"It would be inappropriate of me to comment, but let me just say that Obama and Fluke are worse than Rush, laters."

Bruce Leroy posted:

Bruce Leroy posted:

Nick_326 posted:

Wall Street Journal

amaranthine posted:

I'd have probably hated that too, except that I was too busy frothing at the mouth over yet another case of military hero worship.

Urban Space Cowboy posted:

free magazine

Goatman Sacks posted:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303552104577438421678904222.html?mod=hp_opinion

Wherein, the WSJ blows what can only be described as a dog vuvuzela

Toffile posted:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/15/bryce-harper-conservative-hero/

It really is a thing of beauty

John Giokaris posted:

I Want to be the next Mitt Romney
Something this election year really disturbs me. It's not the super PAC spending or that Mitt Romney hasn't released 10 years' worth of tax returns. (What are we supposed to find out? That he's rich?)

It's that a guy's American success story is now being used against him.

Any other time, a guy like Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, would be admired as a great example to follow.

After receiving a juris doctorate and a master’s of business administration, he became a financial success by building an investment company from the ground up. He then went on to manage the Olympics and serve in office, where he turned a $3 billion deficit into a $700 million surplus without raising taxes. Even though they look like a Banana Republic ad, Romney's family is picture-perfect with a wife of 43 years, five sons and 18 grandkids.

Call me crazy, but isn't that the American dream?

So then why is he being labeled "out of touch"? I didn't know personal and professional success is out of touch with America today.

Has it really gotten to a point where being rich is a bad thing? We're supposed to feel guilty if all that hard work pays off?

In its latest effort to distract Americans from the bad economy and high unemployment, the Obama campaign is attacking Romney as a "corporate raider" and "outsourcer in chief," in addition to claiming he's a "vampire capitalist" who hates dogs and women. Yet investigative efforts to verify these claims, from factcheck.org to The Washington Post, have concluded that these allegations are false.

When I see everything Romney's accomplished, I'm not raging with envy and trying to think up ways we can take him down. I think, "Wow, how can I be the next Mitt Romney?"

Or even the next Barack Obama. I hate to break it to the left, but Obama's in the 1 percent too. And I respect his accomplishments as much as I do Romney's.

It was the American system that gave them the opportunity to be where they are today—the very same system that the president of the United States claims isn't "fair."

Really?

Looks like it's been plenty fair to them. Both Harvard grads studied hard, and both worked their butts off to become the financial successes they are today. And both have great families.

But somehow there's supposed to be a difference between their successes. The only difference I see is that one's an unapologetic free market capitalist and proud of it, while the other seems to feel guilty about it and reluctantly acknowledges how great the system is that put him in the White House.

Well it's not stopping me. I'm going to study and work hard to get where they are. I want to raise a big family too. And yes, I even want to run for office some day and give back to the same country that provided me the opportunity to become a success.

And you can bet I won't be making my kids feel guilty about their success or discrediting it by pointing out how they didn't get there on their own because my support made it happen.


JOHN GIOKARIS IS THE POLITICAL DIRECTOR OF THE CHICAGO YOUNG REPUBLICANS

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Corporation day

Fandyien posted:

The editorial page today was particularly full of stupid tidbits and outlandish stuff. It's usually just a generic march of "WHY DO DEMOCRATS WANT FREE STUFF" and Rush Limbaugh talking points but sometimes we get something particularly ridiculous.

Dr. Tough posted:

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As just one example, a leftist judge in New York City, Justice Lucy Billings, for two years has sat on a simple nuisance lawsuit (filed by a first responder who was fatally injured trying to save victims of 9/11) to shut down the Ground Zero mosque.

Guilty Spork posted:

The lady who thinks there's a "War on Men" is back, with a whole bundle of straw men (or straw feminists) to demolish. Also, a few more bucketloads of .

Borneo Jimmy posted:

Here's another awful article from Nick Kristof

Dumbass posted:

Antipoverty programs also discourage marriage: In a means-tested program like S.S.I., a woman raising a child may receive a bigger check if she refrains from marrying that hard-working guy she likes. Yet marriage is one of the best forces to blunt poverty. In married couple households only one child in 10 grows up in poverty, while almost half do in single-mother households.

pig slut lisa posted:

From my newspaper, a pretty toothless (both in terms of its effect and its author) rant: