Shuffle The Deck

A RedStateVT Exclusive
ABC News is investigating reports today that Aurora, Colorado shooter James Holmes was active in Republican party politics and had expressed admiration for Mitt Romney. One source told ABC that Holmes was rumored to be a supporter of the party's "War on Women." Other sources - who spoke on the condition of anonymity - said Holmes favored voter ID laws, development of the XL pipeline and deficit reduction. 


Easy A
The latest shootings will almost certainly lead to efforts to tighten gun laws. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued a statement that laid the blame on lax gun laws: “The horrendous shooting in Aurora, Colo., is yet another tragic reminder that we have a national problem of easy availability of guns in this country.” (NYT, 7/20/2012)


A real life scene of murder and mayhem is tragically played out directly in front of graphic simulated scenes of violence of the kind served up regularly by Hollywood. The juxtaposition be damned, Liberals see the problem as guns and not the ongoing and relentless degradation of the culture. It is not, they say, the constant exposure to violence that must be tempered for that would offend the Hollywood elite who lend their prestige and financial support to the Liberal agenda. No, they say, the problem is access to guns.


Off Topic
Elizabeth Warren has been so prodigious in raising money for her Senate campaign in Massachusetts that she is on track to become the top fund-raiser for the Senate this year, as well as one of the top Congressional fund-raisers of all time. (NYT, 7/20/2012)


An entire article on the Elizabeth Warren - Scott Brown race in Massachusetts and not one single reference - not one - to the controversy over Warren's claims to be Native American. In Liberal Land, if the media does not report it, it did not happen.


The Great Beyond
The argument between left and right is about what you do beyond infrastructure. It’s about transfer payments and redistributionist taxation, about geometrically expanding entitlements, about tax breaks and subsidies to induce actions pleasing to central planners. It’s about free contraceptives for privileged students and welfare without work — the latest Obama entitlement-by-decree that would fatally undermine the great bipartisan welfare reform of 1996. It’s about endless government handouts that, ironically, are crowding out necessary spending on, yes, infrastructure. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 7/19/2012)


The philosopher-king gets to the heart of the debate over "You Didn't Build It."