But it’s the Tea Partiers who are craven, intolerant, and dangerous. Just so you know. Remember: dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Unless crazed extremist rightwingers who actually believe the Constitution “binding” (I mean, come on. It’s over 100 years old, for Chrissakes!) are doing the dissenting. Then it needs to be stamped out by, say, the Fairness Doctrine, or some kind of new legislation that would eliminate the

via Trace Gallagher, being interviewed by Sean Hannity. Not sure what’s going on here, but I thought it worth mentioning. Also worth mentioning: Giffords is able to move and respond to simple commands (Gallagher intimated on both on the left and right side) suggesting that she’s able to process language (her eloquence brain seems unaffected) and retains gross motor function. Developing…

As a rough estimate, about 51,999,999 households, responsible for the legal care of 259,999,999 guns, did not shoot up a political meetup at a Safeway this weekend — despite the climate of overheated political rhetoric and conservative-bred HATE that practically compels them to do so. You’re welcome.

Bullitt, Hot Rock, Friend of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, The Deep, Eyewitness… They don’t make ’em like that anymore. And don’t even get me started on Mother, Jugs & Speed…

Tommy is Rae Dawn…: Is America becoming less politically stable? A glance at some foreign newspapers would certainly give that impression. This is an important economic question. The global primacy of Treasury bonds and the dollar stems mostly from the nation’s massive economic might. But confidence in U.S. political stability also plays a role. The shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though tragic, shouldn’t alter those perceptions — unless freedom

So says Pennsylvania’s Bob Brady who, in response to the Arizona shootings, plans to introduce a bill that would ban heated rhetoric and symbolism that, well, some interpretive community (presumably made up of those “reasonable people” who happen to be in power at any given time, having weighed all the pros and cons of determining how their ruling might payoff politically) determines is threatening. Having myself been told that my

Quick! We must act now! Maybe later, when the smoke clears, we can ask Congress for our freedoms back. I’m sure they’ll happily comply.

Doug Ross fills in some blanks. Naturally, we all knew the media would go full-throated in blaming the evil right wingers for an horrific act by some nutjob. Because they have no shame, and because, as the propaganda arm of the progressive movement, they won’t let any crisis go to waste. Don’t cow to it. This shooting was no more the fault of critics of the left than it was

Krauthammer, on “Constitutionalism”: Americans are in the midst of a great national debate over the power, scope and reach of the government established by that document. The debate was sparked by the current administration’s bold push for government expansion – a massive fiscal stimulus, Obamacare, financial regulation and various attempts at controlling the energy economy. This engendered a popular reaction, identified with the Tea Party but in reality far more

Barton Hinkle: So look back at two of the chief disputes from 2010. You will find something curious in the kernels. The first debate concerned health care reform. Strip away the seemingly endless details, and the argument from advocates boiled down to a simple proposition: that health care should be “a right for every American.” That is how Barack Obama put it in a 2008 debate. A year and a