CommentsDisplaying Holger Danske's 10 most recent comments.

• UPDATED: N.C. Teacher Suspended For Telling Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking Badly About Obama

  May 21, 2012 at 1:21pm

  In reply to Shockwave222.

  And good for the parents for teaching the kids. Seems like those parents ended up enriching the education of a whole class, not just their own kid.

• UPDATED: N.C. Teacher Suspended For Telling Student He Could Be Arrested for Talking Badly About Obama

  May 21, 2012 at 1:20pm

  Wow. That teacher just made President Obama King of Thailand or the Prophet Muhammed. Because it really is illegal to speak negatively of the King and the Prophet (though not in the US). I guess she must have gotten confused while reading all those social studies books.

• Krauthammer Blasts ‘Buffett Rule’: ‘An Embarrassment, It‘s So Shameless’

  April 22, 2012 at 12:03am

  I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I once thought the same way. It is the dominant mindset in Scandinavia (where I grew up). It’s a little hard to explain because it is not rooted in rationalism, but I’ll try: It goes back to a principle that people who do better than others should never be allowed to think that they ARE better in any way. Doing better than others is merely chance, happenstance. If you can bring yourself around to believing this, then it becomes possible to conclude that it is fair to disproportionately punish those who do better than others (regardless of the effort or chances they had to take to get there).

  Interestingly, it is also the case in Scandinavia (as it is here) that Social Democrats (approximately equivalent to an American communist from a policy perspective) and leftists generally are curiously entitled to thinking that they are better, but only because they represent a fictional “the people”. People in the center, the right or merely apolitical may never put on airs.

• ‘Fairness’: Labor Sec Says ‘Millionaires & Billionaires‘ Have an ’Obligation’ To Pay More Taxes

  April 12, 2012 at 7:00pm

  I still can’t figure out how making some people more more in taxes results in or is linked to everyone getting a fair shot.

• NBC Fires Producer Who Edited Tape of Zimmerman 911 Call

  April 6, 2012 at 10:11pm

  Trust NBC? No Bloody Chance

• Fed Appeals Court to DOJ: You Have Until Thursday to Explain What the President Meant by ‘Unprecedented’ & ‘Unelected Group’

  April 3, 2012 at 11:21pm

  In reply to abbygirl1994.

  Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. The states are our next to last hope and the people are our last hope. We can choose not to be subjugated. We can choose to stand up for one another and, when necessary, up to one another. We can choose not to be cowered.

• Fed Appeals Court to DOJ: You Have Until Thursday to Explain What the President Meant by ‘Unprecedented’ & ‘Unelected Group’

  April 3, 2012 at 11:14pm

  In reply to TheBoracle.

  It is unprecedented. Never before would the Supreme Court have struck down ObamaCare.

• Obama Crack About Former President May Not Line Up With the Facts

  March 18, 2012 at 8:06pm

  In reply to drago.

  Right — I’m with ShowMe — it wasn‘t Bush’s fault … it was REAGAN’S! Seriously, can this guy take responsibility for anything? Where does the buck stop?

• Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Leads to Formal Investigation of Award

  February 1, 2012 at 6:15pm

  In reply to Libertyrevolutionary.

  Ironic isn’t it? A peace prize created by an “industrialist” whose industry just happened to be dynamite. I’d say the prize recipients match the founder reasonably well.

• ‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate

  January 30, 2012 at 10:45am

  In reply to Anonymous T. Irrelevant.

  Precisely! If liberals take Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists seriously and consider it a guide to understanding the first Amendment, then they must also accept this paragraph from the letter: “Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.” None of our natural rights can be in opposition to social duties — that is, we cannot be compelled by government to act against rights bestowed on us by God, including life.