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• Royal Society Report Recommends Birth Control, ‘Wealth Measures’ to Achieve an ‘Equitable Future for Humanity’

  April 28, 2012 at 8:43am

  Did these “scientists” note that economic freedom is the most effective way for a country to lift itself out of extreme poverty, or simply focus on taking from the wealthy to give to the impoverished?

• Budweiser Threatens to Yank UFC Ads After Nazi Tattoo-Clad Fighter Allowed to Compete

  April 27, 2012 at 9:23am

  Hmmm. Nickname “white steel”, same as a tattoo along with “88” (apparently code for Heil Hitler). These aren‘t exactly a swastika across the guy’s forehead. The UFC — and Strikeforce, which actually held the bout in question — looks to the state in which fighting occurs to vet fighters by licensing them to fight in the state… Ohio licensed this guy.

  Are we really policing people’s beliefs, such that a white supremacist shouldn’t be allowed to compete in a sport? What’s next, boycotting a grocery store for hiring a NBP member as a checker? Are we saying here that someone convicted of a felony — or maybe just felonies related to child molestation? — and who has presumably served the time allotted by the courts cannot compete in a sport that involves no contact with children?

  This is all ridiculous. Blaze, you should be ashamed of the first and last lines of this article. Many are the tales of people heading down the wrong road rescued by the opportunity to turn their attention to the ring instead of the streets. Many UFC fighters are fine, upstanding citizens… yet you’ve smeared them one and all, in a story about a fighter who in my opinion A) has the right to his beliefs B) apparently expresses them in very subtle ways and C) presumably paid for his crime. Conservative voices cannot fall down the same rabbit hole where liberals live, crying offense at damn near everything.

• ‘Real News From The Blaze’ Discusses Buck Sexton‘s New Book ’Occupy: American Spring’

  April 25, 2012 at 10:37am

  In reply to Steelhead.

  Only the government “extracts” my money. Aside from (excessive) taxation by force, I am an individual of free will and select the expenditures I make. Thanks for your concern, but I think you’ll find the majority of readers — as the majority of Americans — find nothing wrong with competing for peoples’ interest and money in the free market.

• ‘Real News From The Blaze’ Discusses Buck Sexton‘s New Book ’Occupy: American Spring’

  April 25, 2012 at 10:34am

  In reply to Steelhead.

  Don’t worry, sir. If you simply go away you will be readily forgotten, and you in return can forget about the Blaze. Why you think it would be important to “delete [your] profile” is beyond me. It seems much more likely that you want to publicly announce your displeasure, about which I assure you no one cares.

• Romney Gets Heat for Hiring Gay Spokesman

  April 22, 2012 at 10:39am

  Some folks need a trip to the woodshed for some straightening out. It is one thing — the reasonable thing — to hold the line on the definition of marriage and fight the indoctrination of our children to a twisted tolerance that equates all sex between any parties as morally equivalent. It is another to blacklist people for their legal choices. If it is your Christianity to blacklist gays, to throw them out, to castigate any who would employ them, then you have missed it.

  Consider Romans 5:8
  But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  And Matthew 22:37-40
  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
  This is the first and great commandment.
  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

  It is not on us to cast out the sinner, but to love our neighbor as ourselves. Bryan Fisher simply misses this in his single-minded focus on what he feels is required to protect the family, and as far as I can tell so do many of those commenting here.

• Teacher to Sue After Being Fired From TX Christian School Over Unwed Pregnancy

  April 12, 2012 at 9:29am

  This situation seems pretty simple. Moral conduct according to this ministry includes no sexual relations out of wedlock. She’s not being fired for the pregnancy, she’s being fired for the sexual behavior. The pregnancy is simply the proof. School wins, hands down.

• ‘The Beginning of Serfdom’: Beck Exposes the Surprising Hole in the Buffett Rule

  April 11, 2012 at 8:05pm

  In reply to SickandTiredAmerican.

  There’s an interesting chart out there about the rate of personal income taxation and the amount paid. Historically, no matter where the rate is set, taxation pulls roughly 19% of the country’s income. There is inevitably a bump in one direction or another with each change in rate, but within a couple of years we’re right back at 19%.

  There is a simple and long-standing truism worth considering: if you tax something, you get less of it. The logical flip is equally interesting: if you want more of something, tax it less. In the case of investment, there should be no question that we want more of it. The US competes for capital in a global market, and capital strongly tends towards the places it can earn the highest (post-tax) returns. If you mean we should use a flat \rate of taxation at the current level used for investment income, OK. If you intend to raise the tax rate on investment income to some higher number, that’s folly. Our best path to government funding and debt reduction is by growing the private economy,m which cannot happen if you drive more capital to other countries.

• Dramatic Vid: Chaos as College Students Pepper Sprayed While Trying to Crash Board Meeting

  April 4, 2012 at 9:02am

  You kids are welcome to a free education. Grab a backpack worth of supplies and hike Mexico for a year… you’ll end up one hell of a lot more educated than you are now.

• Media Matters Apologizes to Drudge Over Trayvon Martin Tweet

  March 28, 2012 at 10:08am

  In reply to RepubliCorp.

  No, I don’t see how it could be a “function of percentages” actually. If a population is 50% white and 25% black, this does not create a likelihood that blacks commit violence on whites twice as frequently as the other way around. While it’s true that there are twice as many whites available to be victims, it is also true that there are twice as many whites available to be perpetrators.

  It’s also true that the most obvious conclusion — that blacks perpetrate more violence than whites — is not the only possible conclusion. The 50-to-1 article itself doesn’t exist, so it’s not clear where the underlying statistics are coming from. There is clear racial bias in the policing of crimes, and in the justice system itself… that’s been proven repeatedly by well-crafted studies, although it it’s highly unlikely to be the whole of the difference. If, for example, blacks are 10 times more likely to be convicted when charged with a violent crime, the 50-to-1 statistics will reflect that difference if based on convictions.

  There isn’t really any question that there are higher prevalence of things like hard drug use, property crimes, and violence among blacks v. whites. It’s not clear that these remain the case if you control for things like income and neighborhood. The color of a person‘s skin certainly isn’t the cause.

• Limbaugh Advertiser Accuses Boycotters of ‘Terrorism’ for Targeting His Company: ‘Hissyfitters’

  March 26, 2012 at 6:27pm

  In reply to The Third Archon.

  If you are going to post repeatedly, I do with you would at least make sense. It’s obvious that “protesting” and “boycotting” (especially when the latter describes a contact campaign on a radio show’s advertisers, much less threats to same) are not synonymous. In the same vein, all “protests” are not equal. Consider, for example, the difference between Tea Party “patriots” protesting overgrown and intrusive government by peacefully assembling in a public space, lawfully behaving while there, and picking up after themselves before leaving. Compare this with another “protest,” OWS… where they illegally camp, defecate on everything in sight, destroy public property, and threaten police.

  Personally, I prefer the term “chickenshit” to describe people who cannot engage in public discourse but instead work underhandedly to silence voices that do not agree with them. That, sir, is the domain of the left in this country. If you agree with it, simply own up to that and show your true colors.