Some might object that this crime was committed by a soldier in an occupying army, not by a civilian police officer. That objection has merit, if only to underscore what should be an obvious fact: Our militarized government police force is an army of occupation. [More]I've had a chance to revisit over recent days The pH Factor.
I'm in awe of giants like William N Grigg, and select other liberty writers, and deem their voices to be essential ones to heed. Yet outside of the liberty movement, they remain relatively obscure.
Meanwhile, our good friends with real reach would have us believe the meaningful debate among "conservatives" is what this shallow, privileged idiot, who couldn't get a writing gig if her life depended on it without the freak advantage of her name, thinks about Anne Coulter.
I know I digressed from Mr. Grigg's article, but I wanted to get that off my chest. It has bearing because great and thoughtful writers are ignored, and dilettante poseurs are offered up as authorities. For a reason. In this case, it's to advance the leftist meme that the republicans aren't socialist enough. And Meghan McCain and her old man are just the useful idiots to advance it.
And while everybody is distracted by the sleight of mind sideshow, the occupiers fortify their positions.
[Via Ron W]
If Coulter is a bad for the republican party, I believe that party murdered one tenth of the United States population with Lincoln as the head of the party.
ReplyDelete300,000 Southern people lost their lives to the federal government troops. The US population at that time was 30,000,000.
So what is the big deal with the republican party but to hijack the Constitution by dividing the American people with party politics.
I'm on subject David. I'm just going full circle. How can anyone make the republican party look worse than history in its true light. That party murdered one tenth of the people in this country. That party burned everything standing from the north to the south east coast. Not only did they burn they murdered, raped, looted and every inhumane degree of conduct known to mankind in the process.
So what can Coulter say that would hurt the image of the republican more than truthful history.
I'm just wondering why daddy McCain would allow his kid to bad mouth a woman who is doing everything she can to stop the murdering of babies. Why on earth did daddy McCain allow his kid to get on a TV show with a known promoter of the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies. Nice!
I'm not particularly enamored with Coulter either, but I learned something a long time ago: she can take care of herself, so I feel no reason to defend her.
ReplyDeleteThough it won't mean much in the grand scheme of things, Meghan McCain is going to get lampooned by Coulter at some point in the near future. This is why it will be entertaining:
"I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time."
Ms. McCain is confused because she apparently is unaware of "humor".
300,000 / 30,000,000 = 1/100, not 1/10.
ReplyDeleteI had many relatives of mine die for the North, including one dying as a POW in the detention camp at Salisbury, NC which compared to Andersonville in atrocity.
It is my recollection that the first shots fired were by the South at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC.
The South gambled and lost. Deal with it.
AveJoe, you have a minor arithmetic error: 300,000 is one hundredth of 30,000,000 -- not one tenth.
ReplyDeleteThat aside, the 300,000 number is way too low. Battle casualties alone are estimated at 620,000 -- greater than _all_ other U.S. wars combined (neglecting the Indian wars, although that may not change the result). No doubt civilian deaths from direct and indirect effects add quite a bit to the total.
In all fairness, Ann Coulter is a bitch and a blowhard that doesn't understand the first thing about Liberty as an idea.
ReplyDeleteCorrect it is one percent. My thinking was the US was one tenth of our population then as now. Which would have been equal to three million.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I type faster than my mind can keep up.
Chef,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all your blog rocks. Post more, ya? :)
Second of all, you're right of course. But who cares? If Republicans want to be the party of the individual (so much as any political party can possibly be) they'd better get over this silly bickering. Maybe a few party schisms would help things along.
The only way I wouldn't piss on McCain or his daughter is if they were on fire.
ReplyDeleteAs to Griggs' article he is correct. However, his solution may not be doable. The situation he bemoans will not change until the miscreants fear us more than they love abusing and killing us.
Coulter may or may not be anything you want to ascribe to her. But she is correct in her assessment of the socialists. I only wish she would say more about them. I find that her detractors are often less able to remove liberal hides with their tongue than she is. It's called jealousy. The same reason Mark Steyn gets so many threats.
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