Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,FloydReports.com Mao taught his follower,“Politics is war without bloodshed,while war is politics with bloodshed.” Obama practices his politics as the master taught. In his speech before the mourners of the January 8,2011,Tucson shooting,he said,“As we discuss these issues,let each of us do [...] Sandy Rios,Townhall.com …Organizing for America has been a steady presence in Madison,Wisconsin. And this is their report on Saturday’s massive welcoming to the fourteen democratic senators who returned after three weeks hiding in Illinois,refusing to come to Madison for a vote: “This is what democracy looks like!”the people are chanting [...] Don Feder,GrassTopsUSA.com About a week ago,I had another lesson in liberal civility. I was pulling into the parking lot of a burger-joint when an agitated young man drove up next to me. He rolled down his window,as I did. I thought I might have cut him off in traffic [...] Doug Book,FloydReports.com On December 14th,Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in an Arizona border shootout,presumably with Mexican illegals. Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano eulogized him a week later,saying “he put service before self,which is the mark of heroism.” After the Arizona shootings,the Left gleefully blamed conservatives [...] Not everyone appreciated Barack Obama’s Tuscon shooting memorial. The Rev. Franklin Graham,the son of Billy Graham and founder of Samaritan’s Purse,told the Christian students of John Brown University:“There was no call for God to put His loving arms around those who were hurting. Why did they leave him out? They scoff at [...] Don Feder,GrassTopsUSA.com Last week,the Left was saying that conservatives from Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Parties had blood on their hands – that the Right created the climate of hatred that somehow caused/provoked/impelled/influenced a g-string-wearing,Communist Manifesto-touting psychopath (whose brains are “scrambled,” according to one of his [...] The following article is a witty satire of those calling for greater “civility”following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords by a mentally deranged person. At FloydReports.com,we know civility means censorship,especially of conservative ideas,which is the liberals’ultimate aim. Tom Purcell makes the same point with great humor in this satirical [...] David A. Patten,NewsMax.com Using a shooting tragedy to bolster a political argument,Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggested Friday that Americans should support President Obama’s healthcare reforms if they want access to the quality of care received by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,the Arizona congresswoman recovering from a gunshot wound received during [...] Dan Loos,BigGovernment.com Apparently oblivious to recent calls for civility,Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and teacher union boss Randi Weingarten (who the union paid more than $600,000 in 2010) gave speeches in front of a “No Justice – No Peace” banner at Al Sharpton’s prayer breakfast. Weingarten even closed her speech in [...] Danny Tyree,FloydReports.com What a party that must have been! I’m speaking of the time that Lee Harvey Oswald,John Wilkes Booth and James Earl Ray hopped into their Hot Tub Time Machine and journeyed to 2011 to listen to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and get brainwashed into entering the assassination [...] Josh Gerstein,Politico It may have been inadvertent,but a passage in President Barack Obama’s speech to a memorial service it Tucson Wednesday night could undercut a criminal charge federal prosecutors have leveled at suspect Jared Loughner for the death of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll in a shooting rampage Saturday. “Judge Roll [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com This may not be my most popular column,and if that is the case,I can live with it. I never thought I’d get to write these words,so I had to take the opportunity while I could still do so:Barack Obama Did Something Right. This “Man Bites Dog”phrase [...] by Ben Johnson The president’s speech on the Arizona shootings last night was magnanimous and worthy of his office. But I have an unfortunate thing for those forced to listen to political rhetoric:I have a memory. One passage in his speech struck my ear. Discussing the greatest tragedy of the shooting,the murder of [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com One of the phrases attributed to St. Augustine is,“Roman locuta est,causa finita est”—Rome has spoken,the cause is finished. Unfortunately,today’s Roman Catholic politicians have no trouble ignoring the moral teachings of the Pope. But for three years,the American Left has invested plenipotentiary authority [...] Susan Stamper Brown,FloydReports.com Once upon a time in America,civility inspired citizens to pause from partisanship long enough to acknowledge horrific tragedies like the Tucson,Arizona,massacre for what they are rather than use the tragedy as an opportunity to twist,spin,distort,pervert,and misrepresent facts and hurl unfounded accusations [...] | |
