The Feds managed to spoil a new plot by apparent amateurs who wanted to try and kill Barack Obama.
Repudiating any attempt to take a life is easy. Seeing what this can mean is a little harder.
Strong emotions are clearly evident across the country, and varying degrees of violence are queuing up to be released in very short order. I am watching people on both ends of the spectrum, and even many in the middle, becoming so charged with anger and frustration, and yet often end up misdirecting their fire. I’ve been on the receiving end of that recently, and[...]
Wow! I totally missed the Lieberman confrontation with YouTube (owned by Google) until it was mentioned in an email exchange I had today.
From CNN:
In a Monday [May 19, 2008] letter to Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, Lieberman asked that YouTube “implement its own policy against this offensive material,” by removing the videos. [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Feb 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm Filed Under: Bill of Rights, Constitution, Courts, Gun Control, Liberty, Rights, Second Amendment, Shootings, US Congress, US Politics
I’m still a little overwhelmed by the events of Valentine’s Day.
People died or were injured and should not have been. It never should have happened. As with any other shooting of this type, we will have days of analysis about the drugs that this young man stopped taking, about the easy availability of [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 at 3:58 pm Filed Under: Bill of Rights, Courts, Religious Stupidity, Rights, Westboro
My good buddy Bithead made passing mention yesterday of yet another of Westboro’s (the “church” from Topeka Hell) planned outings, this one to Heath Ledger’s funeral. He rightfully calls them the “slugs” they are, but then says (to Westboro):
You’re in the business, in the end, of changing minds.
Sorry, my friend, they’re not in that [...]