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Title: The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-3-2010 Post by: nChrist on March 08, 2010, 12:18:30 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-3-2010 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://link.patriotpost.us/?136-160-160-217154-660) ________________________________________ The Foundation "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic." --Justice Joseph Story Editorial Exegesis Try putting this on your front door "The year after the Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia's handgun ban and gun-lock requirements, the capital city's murder rate plummeted 25 percent. The high court should keep that in mind ... as it hears oral arguments about a Chicago handgun ban. Gun controllers screamed to high heaven that impending disaster would follow the court's decision to junk some of the district's gun controls. One of those screaming the loudest was Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who incorrectly predicted more gun freedom would lead to more death and Wild West shootouts. Instead, in Washington, murder rates rose when the handgun ban was in effect and fell once the regulations were removed. Chicago's 1982 ban faired no better. The forthcoming third edition of 'More Guns, Less Crime' shows that in the 17 years after a ban on new handguns went into effect, there were only two years when Chicago's murder rate was as low as it was in 1982. The Windy City's murder rate fell relative to America's other 50 largest cities before the ban and rose relative to them afterward. ... That increase in murder rates isn't surprising. Every time gun bans have been tried anywhere, murder rates have risen. Whether one looks at Ireland, Jamaica or England and Wales, the experience has been the same. Not only did murder rates fail to decline as promised, but the rates actually increased following gun bans. In general, gun-control laws disarm law-abiding citizens -- not criminals who don't care about the law. The lesson is that freedom and safety go hand in hand." --The Washington Times Upright "[Those] who run Washington, and their intellectual supporters, believe they have superior wisdom and greater intelligence than the masses. They believe they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Like any other tyrant, they have what they consider good reasons for restricting the freedom of others." --economist Walter E. Williams "In the Democrat leadership, we are not dealing with conventional politicians for whom the goal of being reelected is paramount and will rein in their radicalism. They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections. After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority. This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you've calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state." --columnist Andy McCarthy "One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... Having someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen." --economist Thomas Sowell "While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe." --columnist Mark Steyn "Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office -- like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security -- are inalienable rights. They are not." --columnist Ben Shapiro Insight "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." --American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry." --American writer and historian James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) Dezinformatsia Apologists for ramming ObamaCare through: "What [Barack Obama] really wanted to do [with the health care summit] was convince the American people, and more importantly wavering Democrats in Congress, that the Republicans are the 'Party of No.' They won't compromise and he now has no choice but to move ahead with Democrats alone." --CBS's Chip Reid "What the Democrats have to do now is pass the bill. Put back the public option, since it's their bill, and pass it.... The president has to drop his George B. McClellan mask and become Ulysses Grant. Be ruthless." --ABC's Sam Donaldson "The Democrats in the White House who are pushing for this [reconciliation] strategy, pushing for passage, say that once this does pass, the country will get it. Democrats will be unified. They'll get a huge benefit." --ABC's George Stephanopoulos on ObamaCare Arrogance: "President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous...." --The New Republic's Jonathan Chait No spin? "One man's stand. A single Senator stops the whole Congress, denying thousands of people unemployment benefits. We confront him to ask why." --ABC's Diane Sawyer on Sen. Jim Bunning's (R-KY) hold on an extension of unemployment benefits to force Democrats to figure out how to pay for them under "pay-go" rules Gut buster: "I think no one knows my politics." --ABC News left anchor Diane Sawyer This week's "Leftmedia Buster" Award: "There's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning." --L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center Title: The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-3-2010 Post by: nChrist on March 08, 2010, 12:19:25 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Chronicle 3-3-2010 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://link.patriotpost.us/?136-160-160-217154-660) ________________________________________ Newspulper Headlines: We Blame Global Warming: "11.3 Million Homeowners Underwater on Mortgage" --Marketwatch.com We Blame George W. Bush: "Desserts to Blame for Obama's Higher Cholesterol" --Associated Press That'll Teach Her: "UAH Shooting Suspect Amy Bishop Suspended Without Pay, Will Be Fired" --Huntsvile (AL) Times What About the 13th Amendment?: "Students Are Sold on Double-Decker Bus" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch That's What All the Blinged-Out, Floor-Wrecking Breakdancers Say: "Blinged-Out, Floor-Wrecking Breakdancer: 'I'm Innocent'" --RentedSpaces.com Vultures Help Woman Rid Home of Boy Scouts -- Now That Would Be News: "Boy Scouts Help Woman Rid Home of Vultures" --Associated Press Bottom Stories of the Day: "Gore: World to End, Fox News to Blame" --NewsBusters.org (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto) The Demo-gogues The meaning of bipartisan: "Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Oh please: "We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, DC, as -- it just has to stop. And that's why I've fought the special interest, whether it's on energy, whether it's on health insurance, whether it's on pharmaceuticals and the rest." --Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Demo Culture of Corruption More arrogance: "When the public sees what is in this bill ... when we show them what the priorities are and what it's been boiled down to, what it means to them sitting around their kitchen table rather than us sitting around a table at Blair House, the response will be positive." --Nancy Pelosi on the dumb rubes that don't want ObamaCare Hardly working: "It's easy being vice president -- you don't have to do anything." --Vice President Joe Biden (Considering the man holding the post, that's a good thing.) Tell that to your boss: "I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt -- outrageous in my view." --Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Keen Sense of the Obvious: "We can't control nature." --Barack Obama on climate change -- just kidding -- on the earthquake in Chile Village Idiots Look in the mirror: "[The Republican Party holds] untenable positions based on emotion and anger." --former DNC Chief Howard "The Scream" Dean ("What can one say but YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" --Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto) More hot air: "The scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged." --Al Gore in a New York Times op-ed "From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis -- inconvenient as ever -- must still be faced." --Gore, the populist potentate of eco-theology (The "rule of law" is certainly not an "instrument of human redemption," nor is it what Gore is advocating.) Doom, he says: "I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big ***** disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast." --"Avatar" director James Cameron That's racist! "The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated... There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama." --Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Short Cuts Editor's Note: In yesterday's Humor broadcast, we made an error in the spelling of Marine Corps by overcompensating for Barack Obama's recent mispronunciation -- we deleted an extra letter. We regret the error. "President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran." --comedian Argus Hamilton "The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ." --columnist Burt Prelutsky "The longest week I ever spent was the six hours I spent watching Thursday's health-care summit." --columnist Jonah Goldberg "We are repeatedly being told that we need to have a government-controlled medical care system, because other countries have it -- as if our policies on something as serious as medical care should be based on the principle of monkey see, monkey do." --economist Thomas Sowell "Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?" --columnist Charles Krauthammer ***** (Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.) |