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• Biden Wants Pastors, Rabbis and Nuns to Tell Their Flocks: Enacting More Gun Control Is the Moral Thing to Do

  May 8, 2013 at 3:41am

  misunderstandings, fallacies, and lies. the law of unintended consequences. Animus, apathy, and fear. These are the things that lead to bad decisions.

  It my pastor EVER tows a political party line, my tithing with that parish is over, forever, immediately.

• Could Boston bombing suspect actually be buried in Arlington National Cemetery?

  May 8, 2013 at 3:27am

  Black headstone, away from the heroes.

• Obama: Debt Crisis? There’s No ‘Immediate’ Debt Crisis!

  April 14, 2013 at 4:25am

  Bad decisions are fueled by misunderstandings, fallacies, lies, and the law of unintended consequences. In this case, fallacies and lies dominate.

• Dianne Feinstein Battles Ted Cruz in Heated Senate Showdown Over Guns: ‘I’m Not a 6th Grader’

  April 14, 2013 at 4:21am

  Bad decisions are driven by misunderstandings, fallacies, lies, and the law of unintended consequences. That’s what we try to teach sixth grade minds, even if they were borne in 1933.

• NY Town Removes Veterans’ Gadsden Flag For Being an Offensive Tea Party Symbol

  April 12, 2013 at 8:27pm

  Shame on that city council for not even trying to separate fact from fallacy

• MSNBC Anchor: Yes, Of Course We’re Liberal

  April 12, 2013 at 8:18pm

  A lower case L liberal would pursue truth and attempt to identify the misunderstanding fallacies and lies that lead to bad decision making.

  Sorry but MSNBC accelerates bad decisionmaking.

  Frankly, most small-L liberals I know are independents or libertarians. They seek the truth.

• TIME’s Joe Klein: It Is ‘Anti-American’ And Paranoid to Think the Government Might Oppress You

  April 7, 2013 at 9:23pm

  Joe Klien is an idiot, and a fine example of the failure of journalists to fulfill their role in separating truth from the misunderstandings, fallacies, and lies regarding the social, economic, and political issues of the day.

  Their failure is feeding the acceleration of bad decision-making that drives us toward the ultimate collapse of what was a functioning society.

  It took roughly 250 years to build this society that Joe Klien’s brand of ignorance can destroy a society in a mere 25.

  History shows collapse happens that quickly, and journalistic pursuit of the truth is that important.

• ABC’s ‘The View’ Reportedly Firing Show’s Lone Conservative Over ‘Extreme’, ‘Right-Wing’ Views

  March 9, 2013 at 3:05pm

  I heard Joy Behar is leaving because the audience was moving right.

• ‘This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For’: Yep, the White House Actually Responded to the ‘Death Star’ Petition

  January 12, 2013 at 10:29am

  “We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it,” he said.

  Excuse me? Show me the evidence.

  Reading between the lines, I think the real response could have been this:

  The White House has discovered significantly easier ways to drain $850 quadrillion dollars from the global economy, and they’ve been making great progress over the last four years. Truth be told, we’ve been making reasonable progress for most of the last 40 years.

• ‘Unconstitutional Laws Aren’t Laws’: Marine Who Penned Blistering Letter to Sen. Feinstein Over Gun Control Speaks Out

  January 5, 2013 at 4:02pm

  Evil triumphs when people can’t or won’t take time to think.

  Most of us accept the adage that all that is necessary for evil to triumph in the world is for good men to do nothing, but when good people let emotion push logic, reason, and careful though aside, evil triumphs through their actions.

  So it is with knee-jerk reactions to gun violence. Well-meaning people driven by their emotion propose various arguments to take weapons away from good people, inadvertently but ultimately leaving those weapons mostly just in the hands of evil people. Evil then triumphs.

  It’s been said that evil is obvious only in retrospect, but I think that may only be for the folks who can’t or won’t balance their emotions with due diligence of reason.

  Evil triumphs when people can’t or won’t take time to think.

  What makes the world a better place is simply this: Those that would do evil choose to abstain because they believe they are outnumbered by a larger group with both tools to define, and ability to deliver, quick justice. That idea is a central theme underlying the concepts of due process and equal justice under the rule of law in our Constitution.