Everybody's Everything
The Obama administration has long been bumbling along in the footsteps of its predecessor when it comes to sacrificing Americans’ basic rights and liberties under the false flag of fighting terrorism. Now the Obama team seems ready to lurch even farther down that dismal road than George W. Bush did. Everyone wants to keep America safe. But under President Bush and now under President Obama, these changes have occurred without any real discussion about whether the supposed added security is worth the harm to civil liberties. (NYT, 6/18/2011)
Heads up to President Obama. If the Times is after you, chances are you are doing the right thing. Also, another clue that the other side is wrong is when they use the construction: "Everyone wants......but." It is a dead giveaway that, in fact, they do not want (or in this case truly believe that there is an issue) what they say they want.
Vote Early, Vote Often
An attack on the right to vote is underway across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot. If this were happening in an emerging democracy, we’d condemn it as election-rigging....The laws in question include requiring voter identification cards at the polls, limiting the time of early voting, ending same-day registration and making it difficult for groups to register new voters. (E.J. Dionne Jr. Washington Post, 6/19/2011)
Why is it that when Republicans want to enforce the laws (e.g. show your ID when you want to cross the border into this country or when you vote), liberals like Dionne immediately scream discrimination? Dionne and his crowd still live in a world where white intimidation scares helpless blacks from the ballot box. It is insulting to Republicans and even more insulting to African-Americans.
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