Jon Voight: You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone’s enemy – and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm’s way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world. […] You have brought to Arizona a civil war, once again defending the criminals and illegals, creating a meltdown for good, loyal, law-abiding citizens. Your destruction of this country may never be remedied,

Okay. So maybe those weren’t his exact words. But as a paraphrase, it’ll work. Plus, bonus! — it has that younger voter appeal that “our team” needs! So, like, you’re welcome. OUTLAW!*

From the LATimes. In related news: “Whopping 31% of Americans Found to be Fucking Imbeciles”

I’m pretty sure that’s what you call a rhetorical question. Thomas Sowell: […] [A] democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive. In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it. The president’s poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree

Michael Barone, Washington Examiner: Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to BP’s Gulf oil spill. Take Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s remark that he would keep his “boot on the neck” of BP, which brings to mind George Orwell’s definition of totalitarianism as “a boot stamping on a

I’ve got your populist pragmatism right here, you sniveling, finger-wagging cowards. (h/t John Bradley)

— Namely, by the institutionalization of a fear of shame, and the creation of enough shame — by way of demanding the present answer for the past — to place everyone in constant worry of covering himself in it. All of which leads to a culture of sanctimonious finger-waggers who, as I noted last night, are afraid of their own shadows. Herd animals. Looking for scapegoats. And as is usual,

Otherwise the Dems might have been able to shape those remarks into a cudgel. Here’s an idea, Team R: if you want to turn the 2010 election into “a referendum on President Obama, the Pelosi-led Congress and their culture of incompetence that has resulted in the mismanagement of the federal bureaucracy, the economy, and the ballooning deficit,” it helps if you don’t run away from statements by one of your

There’s no denying it anymore. Studies prove it! If you think $50,000 doesn’t buy what it used to, think again. For that rough sum, a professor at UCLA has agreed to draw up a report that proves opponents of the Democrats’ health-care bill aren’t motivated by a sense of fiscal responsibility or a general distrust of back-room deals, but by race. The kicker? Taxpayers are funding the study. According to