en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1162290 Comments by gwilson314 http://tv.breitbart.com/cain-blacks-brainwashed-into-supporting-dems/#IDComment200945436 Cain has momentum now, which is extremely important. With Romneycare haunting Mitt and immigration/NAFTA/poor rhetorical skills/out to lunch look/etc. haunting Rick, it looks like HERMAN (not Herb) Cain is the man. Now if only Sarah Palin would go away... Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:51:06 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/cain-blacks-brainwashed-into-supporting-dems/#IDComment200945436 http://tv.breitbart.com/cain-blacks-brainwashed-into-supporting-dems/#IDComment200944705 +1 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:49:33 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/cain-blacks-brainwashed-into-supporting-dems/#IDComment200944705 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/13/the-divinely-sad-bunny-rabbit-christopher-hitchens/#IDComment193183126 I'm sorry, I can't join in the celebration of a man who calls Tea Partiers racists. I can't honor a man who attacked the Glenn Beck rally for being too white--as if this were a crime in a country founded entirely by white men. His rejection of traditional Western values (especially Christianity) makes him no conservative. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:32:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/13/the-divinely-sad-bunny-rabbit-christopher-hitchens/#IDComment193183126 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/09/12/islamists-protest-at-us-embassy-during-911-service/#IDComment192577647 Somewhere Ron Paul is blaming the hatred of British Muslims against us on the fact we seceeded from Britain 235 years ago. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:38:34 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/09/12/islamists-protest-at-us-embassy-during-911-service/#IDComment192577647 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/09/12/ousted-yahoo-chief-these-people-fked-me-over/#IDComment192576916 Yahoo!'s stock jumped about 20% the day she was fired. Probably a good move. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:36:22 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/09/12/ousted-yahoo-chief-these-people-fked-me-over/#IDComment192576916 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191796962 Moriarty wrote this due to Hitchen's rejection of conservative American values, or at least his utter disdain for them. It isn't that he disagrees with these positions, it is that he oftentimes is completely unfair in his characterization of them. I can link you a story about his scathing rebuke of the Tea Party, full of economic illiteracy and bereft of truth. He accuses conservative Americans of the same old schtick the left has been harping at for years--racism and wanting to institute a theocracy. If he was as brilliant as everyone says, he would have had a substantive economic argument for his Socialistic and Keynesian beliefs. The fact is, he likes to be different, even contrarian. He is completely aware of the religious foundations of the United States, yet pretends its true value is in some secularist's reading of Thomas Jefferson--a strong believer in God. He likes to fly the flag in opposition to Islamists (which I can reflect), yet rejects a healthy, morally strong religious Christian community that served and continues to serve as the bedrock for classical Western values, morals, and law. Apparently he believes Islam and Christianity are no different. That is about as obtuse as one can be. Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:21:47 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191796962 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191766933 Hitchens lost all respect of mine after his inane reading of the Tea Party. Despite the fact the party does not focus on religious indoctrination (like the Americans for Separation of Church and State) or racial politics (like the NAACP), Hitchens accused Tea Partiers of being ultra-religious racists in his typical post-modern British sniveling. He has no tact, no nuance. In what universe do you live in? Why do explicitly radical anti-religious bigots get away with saying an economic movement wants to institute a theocracy when they themselves are on record as saying all "religion" needs to be abolished? How do La Raza and $PLC get away with race-baiting when a group that goes out of its way to mention its color-blindness gets accused of racism? Yet Hitchens is along for the ride, continuing the idiotic, un-nuanced dreck of the modern left. And this is somehow *deep* thinking? His ideas are stale, mocking cynicism tiring, and morals lacking. He should be ignored. Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:24:04 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2011/09/09/christopher-hitchens-an-atheists-gift-to-sarah-palin/#IDComment191766933 http://biggovernment.com/lkudlow/2011/09/09/tiny-targeted-and-temporary-the-presidents-plan-falls-short/#IDComment191754857 Anyone who thinks a top-down approach to economic recovery can happen needs to have his head examined. The Obama minions have been pushing for continued Keynesian "stimulating" despite the fact it clearly hasn't helped the sluggish economy. Instead, the "stimulus" and "green-jobs" initiatives have only grown the government. The problem is that these centrally planned initiatives take capital out of the private market and launder it through needless bureaucracy before hiring union-backed construction workers who demand ridiculous pay and benefit wages to build fairly useless public works projects. Notice how Washington D.C. has added jobs, population and wealth over the past decade and contrast this to other areas in the US--particularly the rust belt. To get America back to work, first slap a tariff on China. Then end all illegal immigration by actually enforcing the laws and building the fence--including near the Rio Grande which *is* possible Rick Perry. This may not help all facets of the economy, granted (construction projects may go up and a head of lettuce may increase), but at least unemployment should go down and at least Americans could return to self-reliance. Other economic improvements can only be made by the private sector. But businesses will begin to hire once a stable, sensible leader is in the White House. If money is to be made, innovators and entrepreneurs will find a way to make it. We don't need central planners dictating what will is going to add wealth to the nation and what won't. Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:44:17 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/lkudlow/2011/09/09/tiny-targeted-and-temporary-the-presidents-plan-falls-short/#IDComment191754857 http://biggovernment.com/fsalvato/2011/07/29/the-debt-ceiling-is-actually-not-the-issue/#IDComment178414043 A sobering and honest look at the current state of affairs. What is funny to me is that the Republicans are being blamed *before* the deadline--a completely arbitrary date--for doing what they promised to do if elected--cut the spending. It's too bad they don't have control of the Senate so that they can force Obama to veto--therefore finding a way to shift the blame. But, the House can still pass measures and put the pressure on Harry Reid to compromise. But Republicans most seriously consider other types of spending cuts--military included. The Afghan and Iraq wars are mercifully ending (or rather we are drawing down), so this should help. Other modest and intelligent cuts can and should be made here. Much of the spending on national defense should be shifted--from defending Europe, Korea, and Japan to defending the US at our Southern border from the invaders. Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:55:26 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/fsalvato/2011/07/29/the-debt-ceiling-is-actually-not-the-issue/#IDComment178414043 http://tv.breitbart.com/klavan-why-do-black-people-vote-for-democrats/#IDComment169513641 The so-called logic of Klavan fails me. If it is truly the Democratic Party in Democrat-run locations that has failed black people in this country, why has it only been adverse for blacks? For instance, Jews also vote heavily Democratic. Yet they are perhaps the most successful sub-group in the US. Furthermore, liberal Democratic-run areas like Marin County California, Vermont, Boulder, Portland, and Seattle are all clean, peaceful, wealthy areas. Of course, these areas are also predominately white...with some Asian populations as well. Could it be that...[gasp]...black people are to blame for their continuing crime, welfare, illegitimacy, illiteracy, and poverty? Or would saying that be unPC? My question is this: When has the Right lost its collective balls? When have we decided that truth should be sacrificed and obscured so that a subgroup of people who vote 90% against us anyway won't be offended? Instead of blaming politicians just because they have a "D" behind their name, let's realize the free will choices many blacks make have an adverse effect on the community they inhabit. Mon, 4 Jul 2011 05:25:18 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/klavan-why-do-black-people-vote-for-democrats/#IDComment169513641 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/26/nyc-pride-parade-turns-into-celebration-of-gay-marriage/#IDComment167277818 Marriage is, by definition, the union of one man and one woman. It was given to man by God as a gift...it was not a social construct despite what feminists might think. In one sense, your overt sarcasm has some truth to it. Yes, two women getting "married" does not diminish a traditional marriage...but only because two women together aren't "married." Just because a government recognizes it as such does not make it the truth in the eyes of God. But, applying your logic, we shouldn't be worried about rape because "it doesn't diminish my ability to enjoy sex." So what if a few, overhyper young males feel like getting their rocks off? It ain't bothering me! Maybe anything that does not affect me personally can be okay. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:23:37 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/26/nyc-pride-parade-turns-into-celebration-of-gay-marriage/#IDComment167277818 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/26/nyc-pride-parade-turns-into-celebration-of-gay-marriage/#IDComment167276247 Except for polygamists, those practicing beastility, adults wanting to marry children, and men wanting to marry their sisters. If you were as truly tolerant as you surely claim, these groups would be as accepted as homosexuals are...yet I don't hear many on the left pushing for the relaxing of these marriage restrictions. Civil law--which regulates adoption, inheritence, custody, alimony, divorce, etc. will be turned on its head when marriage is extended to groups outside one man and one woman--and it won't stop at same sex marriage. "Personal liberty" has nothing to do with it at all. It was legal to practice homosexuality before two members of the same sex could get married, but now the State of New York has made a mockery of an institution that has literally been around for millenia. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:17:39 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/26/nyc-pride-parade-turns-into-celebration-of-gay-marriage/#IDComment167276247 http://biggovernment.com/cyogerst/2011/05/18/breaking-university-of-wisconsinmilwaukee-fights-to-defund-college-republicans/#IDComment153583243 What do you want us to say? Should we feel pity for you? Campus politics are nothing new, those who run for Student government in college make a good little bureaucrats someday. The fact your campus is liberal isn't surprising, so is mine. But I won't be silenced or told what to do by power-hungry coeds. Quit whining, and fight like a man! Raise money privately to host conservative speakers. Brazenly hand out Ann Coulter books. Call out left-wing groups for being the hypocrites they are. Challenge the socialist group to a debate, and call them pussies if they fail to reciprocate. As a university student, I know you have to fight fire with fire. Whining about being victimized is something black farmers and gays do--not us. Wed, 18 May 2011 20:37:25 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/cyogerst/2011/05/18/breaking-university-of-wisconsinmilwaukee-fights-to-defund-college-republicans/#IDComment153583243 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/14/a-christian-reponds-to-bill-mahers-real-time-bin-laden-rant/#IDComment152225999 Great post. I finished Perelandra a few weeks ago and am now reading That Hideous Strength (the 3rd in the trilogy). The important message in the novel is that evil must ultimately be eradicated for good to reign. Until Christ's return, it is up to the Christian to battle these forces in any manner they exist--secularism, terrorism, violence, bigotry, etc. Idiots like Maher will always miss the point--that's what being an atheist is. In fact, their use of logic is only a means to something else...a way of eliminating a judgmental God who requires obediance and responsibility. (People like Maher are who Lewis had in mind when he developed characters like Weston and later, the "unman.") Once "free" from these bounds, they live a postmodern life devoid of meaning, occasionally reappearing in society to remind everyone how great their own intellectual and philosophical positions are while holding the position truth is irrelevant. Sun, 15 May 2011 02:08:40 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/14/a-christian-reponds-to-bill-mahers-real-time-bin-laden-rant/#IDComment152225999 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9N6T2L81&show_article=1#IDComment151957732 These bills do not outlaw abortion, but regulate the practice. Why aren't liberals jumping up and down in the street? Isn't regulation a good thing? Until the monstrosity that is Roe v. Wade is overturned, not much good can be done, however. The awful ruling removed state sovereignty and the will of the people under the false idea that "abortion rights" were codified in the 14th amendment. Of course only an idiot would believe the drafters of the 14th amendment had abortion in mind, therefore a "breathing" constitution had to be invented before the will of the people could be usurped by 7 judges in black robes. Sat, 14 May 2011 03:45:13 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9N6T2L81&show_article=1#IDComment151957732 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment129339363 As a Kansan, I can appreciate incest jokes toward Missouri when said in jest at a Jayhawks/Tigers basketball game, but for someone to seriously use such an inane stereotype as an argument is cause for concern. Remember, you are probably on the wrong side of a social argument when gay marriage is voted down even in California. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:43:06 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment129339363 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment129339344 As a "religious nut" you mention, I can proudly assure you the majority of residents in the state think less of liberals on the coasts than the liberals think of us in the "Bible belt." You won't see teachers in the state call in "sick" to work to protest a bill, nor will you see half the legislators flee the state to avoid a vote like in other parts of the Midwest (apparently the ones that aren't step-children but spoilt little brats who think they should get all of daddy's inheritance). Our religious culture is part of what fought to keep the state free of slavery when being founded, and Kansans correctly understand their rights come from God, not the government. As the preamble to the state's constitution says: "We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges..." Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:42:58 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment129339344 http://biggovernment.com/tmcclintock/2011/02/16/the-patriot-act-is-a-threat-to-our-liberty/#IDComment128489812 Can Ron Paul name one person whose fourth amendment rights were violated by the Act? I'm not saying I'm pro-Patriot Act--it was passed in the hysteria of post 9/11 America--but something can only be deemed a violation of the constitution if actual harm is done. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:44:54 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/tmcclintock/2011/02/16/the-patriot-act-is-a-threat-to-our-liberty/#IDComment128489812 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment128430635 6.4 % unemployment (below the national average), low crime rate, an amendment to the state's constitution barring same-sex marriage, a governor that is serious about cutting spending and closing the budget deficit left by a Democrat... Not much if you ask me --Kansan since '88 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:21:07 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment128430635 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment128047289 As someone who actually knows what they're talking about (I've lived in Kansas all 22 years of my life), I can assure you this is not a big deal. It isn't an "inconvenience" going to a liquor store to buy booze and a grocery store to buy food. I get my gas from a gas station, not the grocery store. Should grocery stores be required to sell gasoline? It would be more "convenient," right? However, the economics are what I agree with. I took a graduate economics class from Dr. Hall last semester and cannot say enough good things about the man. Our class readings were those of Sowell, Von Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter, and Collins. Hall is extremely reliable and pro free-market. If he concludes the state is missing out, I believe him. Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:09:04 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/ptuohe/2011/02/14/kansas-liquor-laws-need-modernization/#IDComment128047289