Obama and the Holder justice department have given the clear signal to the left that violence against conservatives by this administration’s core constituencies will be neither investigated nor prosecuted.

The left is getting bolder with each passing day. How about instead of standing there and saying ‘please don’t hit me‘, we start offering the kind of response they’ll understand.

Am I advocating violence?

I am advocating self defense. If that means the use of force to stop these animals from attacking us, then so be it.

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-Cnation

Don’t know what to say except we’ve lost one of the great rock and metal vocalists of all time. Age 67, stomach cancer.

Dio’s career spanned over five decades, from the “Vegas Kings” in 1957 to “Heaven and Hell” in 2010 - with stops along the way in Elf, Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own incredible solo career in “Dio” - the guy was a tireless performer who truly lived for the music he loved.

1984 Dio

1977 Rainbow

Ronnie and the Red Caps circa 1958

Ronnie and the Prophets circa 1963

Heaven and Hell 2009

So long Ronnie, thanks for everything.

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-Cnation

Amy Bishop, UAH Shooter

Ever since Obama won the presidential election and the Democrats assumed full power, there has been a seemingly never-ending string of events, comments, gaffes, and situations from the left which have passed by virtually unnoticed by the media and blogosphere, any of which would have caused major shitstorms had they come from the right. From the Rangel/Reich discussion of keeping white males from taking stimulus-funded jobs, to the President palling around with domestic terrorists and felons, to Harry Reid’s “negro dialect‘ comment of a few weeks ago…it goes on and on, usually to the refrain of “can you imagine if a conservative had done/said that?”

On the flip side, it’s also not the least bit uncommon to see the left take the slightest, most innocuous little thing done or said by a conservative/republican and blow it w-a-y out of proportion (ie the Palin hand notes thing), very often reaching and perpetuating outlandish conclusions not even remotely grounded in fact, or to find and highlight a connection, no matter how slight, between a person who’s done something heinous and conservative efforts/personalities. Like this. It happens all the time; the conservative blogs have gotten very good at calling out those who would misrepresent a given situation, and setting the record straight.

Unfortunately, some conservative bloggers have actually begun employing the very same tactics, and that is what I am writing about this evening.

By now, everyone knows about Dr. Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama in Huntsville biology professor who killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others this past Friday during a faculty meeting.

Earlier this evening, Glenn Reynolds posted about something he found at the web site ratemyprofessors.com, where some anonymous poster - presumably one of her college students - stated that Bishop was a socialist:

This class was great. Bishop makes the class interesting by talking about her research and her friends research. That speaker she had for class was hard to understand but smart. She expects alot and you need to come to every class and study. She is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.

Reynolds’ point as I understood it was that if there had been something in Bishop’s past that had linked her to conservatism, the TEA party movement, etc…, the connection would probably have been trotted out and used by the left-wing blogosphere and/or media in some manner to disparage the right.  He was not, by any stretch, using the ratemyprofessor post as evidence that the shooter actually was a socialist.

While one might question the need to even bring it up in the first place, I don’t believe Reynolds’ intent was malicious.

But then we have Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit. I’ll state for the record that I read his site pretty much every day and often post direct links to his articles. His sensationalist streak is well-known to his readers, but his information is usually high enough quality to overlook the melodrama. Tonight though, he crossed the line.

Here’s the headline from Gateway Pundit:

Socialist Professor Amy Bishop Who Killed 3 Profs Yesterday Shot & Killed Her Brother in 1986 …UPDATE: Dem Rep. Delahunt Made Call to Release Bishop in 1986!

Is this what we’re doing now, taking the unsubstantiated statement of some anonymous college kid from the ratemyprofessors website and posting it as pure, uncontested fact? Isn’t this exactly the same type of thing we give the lefties hell over?

Hoft has been around long enough to know better, but instead ran full speed ahead with his “Socialist Professor” headline in what can only be described as an incredibly reckless and irresponsible manner, especially considering the considerable size of his readership. To make matters worse however, the headline has now been picked up and run verbatim by other so-called conservative bloggers who seemingly lack the intellectual capacity to recognize the problem with the headline, and who are apparently too lazy to perform any fact-checking of their own.

There is no excuse for any of this. As a conservative blogger, I am both embarrassed and ashamed at the events that are transpiring this evening.

It’s bad enough when the left does it, but we’ve learned expect it from them (OK, not all of them, but enough). That’s why, by and large, they have the credibility problems they do. We do -not- need this from our own side, and we should therefore be just as hard if not harder on so-called conservatives who find it acceptable to spread this type of unsubstantiated sensationalistic bullshit. It undermines our credibility across the board and should not be tolerated, no matter how well-respected the source.

I haven’t even touched on the sheer repulsiveness of politicizing these murders in the first place, but suffice it to say that I find it unconscionable, and so should you.

Let us not forget that three families will be burying their dead in the coming weeks. They, the victims who’ve survived, the children of the shooter…all whose lives were touched by this senseless tragedy can use our prayers.

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-Cnation

I just received an email that requested I visit an anti ‘r-word’ website and pledge my support towards ending use of the word ‘retarded’, which these P.C. pussies boldly refer to as the ‘r-word’.

I went to the site. This is what I wrote:

“I pledge and support the elimination of Politically Correct insanity that would eliminate the use of a completely acceptable and accurate word from our vocabulary rather than admonish those who would misuse it.”

Yes, I’m fully aware they won’t publish it.

This uproar over Rahm Emanuel’s use of the term ‘fucking retarded’ is ridiculous; his response and the media reaction is pure insanity.

It’s not the word that is the problem, it’s the use of the word as a pejorative. I’ll even go so far as to admit that its as a pejorative is a rather large problem. But is the answer really to ban the word or refer to it - in a most infantile way - as the ‘r-word’?

Of course not.

Banning a word or referring to it as we once did as children (MOM! JOEY SAID THE F-WORD!!) does nothing but attempt to mask the problem. It’s like trying to fix rust by hiding it under a fresh coat of paint.

The idea, that by somehow eliminating a word deemed offensive from our vocabulary we will also eliminate the stigma attached to its misuse, is flawed to its core. The stigma will simply transfer to whatever word or term is used to replace it. In fact, it already has. If you haven’t heard the jokes and slurs centered on the word ‘challenged’, you have simply not been listening.

If we want to attack the underlying problem, we start - as we do in so many situations where the PC police would otherwise attempt to run the show - by teaching our children the difference between right and wrong, and that intentionally insulting anyone - regardless of physical/mental abilities or lack thereof - is unacceptable. That is where this whole argument should begin and end. Unfortunately, this would require both discipline and personal responsibility, two concepts virtually unknown to the liberal PC crowd except as the occasional punch line.

The word ‘retarded’, like it or not, is accurate and correct when applied to those now referred to ‘mentally challenged’ (or whatever the acceptable-pc-obfuscation-of-the-week happens to be as of this writing), and probably the least offensive of any of the PC-concocted terms created to replace it.

I’m not going to devote a lot of time to this, but in closing I would like you to consider the following: how many words in the English language are or can be used in an ‘offensive’ manner? If we eliminated all of them, what would we be left with?

We as free Americans need to draw the line.

American Thinker has a great piece on this very subject this morning that begins with a Confucius quote:

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”

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-Cnation

John Ratzenberger at Sunday’s Scott brown rally in Boston, via National Review:

This isn’t the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies.  I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

Heh…

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-Cnation

Ace Frehley, the heart and soul of the original KISS, plays the national anthem live for the Kansas City Chiefs on October 4, 2009:

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-Cnation

I have declared this a ‘no politics’ weekend here at the Cnation household. Why? I’m fried. See you Monday.

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-Cnation

Conservative Nation understand and fully support the use of police force against the anarchists who were rioting Thursday and Friday against the G20 in Pittsburgh. The video and photographic evidence against the anarchists was overwhelming, and the police did the right thing.

However, this video below looks like something else altogether - namely  unprovoked police violence against peaceful and largely uninvolved students.

I cannot comment further one way or the other without context, but see what you think. Reports are that much of this was on-campus.

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-Cnation

O’Reilly is a friggin’ idiot.

There, I said it.

I don’t know what’s happened to him, but his edge is gone. It started a couple of years ago when his attempts at being ‘fair and balanced’ began to seem forced, as though he was trying to stave off the naysayers who were accusing him of being anything but ‘fair and balanced. Never mind that the old Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t have given a damn. Still and for the most part, he managed to land on the right (correct) side of issues important to conservatives more often than not.

After the Obama interview last year though, everything seemed to change almost overnight. The forced attempts at ‘fairness’ and  often unwarranted due consideration of opposing viewpoints started to become overt to the point of absurdity. The lengths he seemed to be going to give the left a fair shake has, in my opinion, hit his credibility hard.

This evening though, it became clear to me that Bill O’Reilly has lost his way. One might even be inclined to believe he was in the tank to some degree for the Obama administration. Sounds crazy? Well, how else can one explain his treatment of Glenn beck on this evening’s factor?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you know about the van Jones resignation, due in large part to Beck’s tireless investigation into Jones’ background.

As of late, Beck has put aside the ‘crazy’ and instead begun careful, thorough and methodical investigations into the Obama administration, the czars, and all the radical connections both inside and outside the administration that tie the whole thing together. His reporting has been nothing short of spectacular, and the effort he has put into educating his viewership - as opposed to merely talking at them - has been tremendous, and has paid off in the form of a conservative populace who’s more politically astute than at any time I can ever recall.

As a result, Beck’s credibility on issues of politics as related to the Obama administration is well established and, in my opinion, unquestionable.

I want you to watch this video, watch how O’Reilly tries to marginalize Beck, even going so far as to say - and I swear I’m not making this up - “Communism is not a threat to us anymore”, and then you tell me.

And Bill, news flash for ya’ - while Communism in the former Soviet Union may not be a threat to us anymore; Communism in. our. White. House. most certainly is.
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-Cnation

In my post froma couple of days ago, I wrote that my wife and I were going to head over to the local Whole Foods and see what was up. And so we did…

There were a lot of cars in the parking lot and maybe a dozen or so people eating at the outdoor tables in front of the place. Inside, the store was packed - there was the tofu-and-sandals crowd, lots of suburban moms, a few severely overpierced goths, young people, old people, and, I suspect, a few like my wife and me who were there in support of the Whole Foods CEO.

But, not  a single protester in sight.

That’s not to say that the pro-Obama contingent wasn’t well-represented - they were - but they all seemed to work there, practicing <gasp> capitalism, and taking full advantage of the free market system that has helped make our country great.

The store itself was nothing like what I’d expected. We didn’t get to check the whole place out (it was slam packed and I wanted to eat), but what I did see was impressive. I’m a big bread guy, and they had a pretty impressive variety of fresh-baked breads. Lots of fruit and vegetables, and a killer deli section ( we got some tortellini/tomato salad, a couple of quesedillas and some deviled eggs. All completely awesome) . The employees were all friendly and professional, and I didn’t see any who looked as though they didn’t thoroughly enjoy their work.

I’d like to thank the misguided souls who thought it would be cool to (attempt to) trash the reputation of Whole Foods and its CEO. I’d never in my life set foot in a Whole Foods before, but thanks to you losers, my wife and I are now Whole Foods customers.

With that said, I don’t know whether these assinine protests by the left are having or have had any effect - I suspect not - but I still think it’s important to support Whole Foods at least until this thing blows over. Michelle Malkin today wrote about the United Food and Commercial Workers union’s involvement in organizing these protests….apparently, the UFCW has had their eye on Whole Foods for a while and may see this thing as a way to get their foot in the door. If CEO John Mackey treats his people as good as they say, I think the UFCW doesn’t stand a chance.

You know, has anyone else just about had enough of unions?

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-Cnation