Prevailing Doctrines

Precedents
The increase in Texas is taking place even as the Obama administration says it has achieved unprecedented control over the border with Mexico. The administration, President Obama said last week, has “put border security in place,” with illegal crossings “near their lowest level in decades.”

Apprehensions at the Mexican border — the single best indicator of illegal traffic — are still far below their peak: there were 356,873 last year, compared with 1.6 million in 2000.

But after nearly a decade of steady declines, the count has started to rise again over the past year, driven by the rise in the southern tip of Texas, where the numbers so far this fiscal year are up 55 percent. (NYT, 6/16/2013)

So the Times is saying that Obama is lying about securing the border?


Home Alone
More than 50,000 New Yorkers slept in city homeless shelters and on the streets last night. About 21,000 were children. These numbers are huge and appalling, higher than they were in 2002, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office, higher than in the dismal days of the fiscal crisis, the Reagan ’80s and the surly administration of Rudolph Giuliani. (New York Times editorial, 6/16/2013)

During the Reagan and Bush presidencies Liberals made the issue of homelessness a national one. Namely, it was all about the mean-spirited policies of Republicans. With Obama in the White House, the Times is content to make it a local issue and pin it on Bloomberg. (And this on the day that Bloomberg announces he wants NYC residents to start composting their food scraps!)  The mayor learns again that with Liberals you can support gay marriage, climate change and recycling, but you cannot cherry-pick: you have to embrace the whole agenda. 


Likelihood
News organizations are far more likely to present a supportive view of same-sex marriage than an antagonistic view, according to a content study by the Pew Research Center to be released on Monday.
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The study lends credence to conservative charges that the nation’s news media have championed the issue of same-sex marriage at the expense of objectivity. Others have argued that news organizations are right not to overly emphasize opposition to what many see as a core civil rights issue. (NYT, 6/17/2013)

So if conservative critics of the Legitimate Media are right about this, might they be right about how other issues are covered as well?

And catch that last line about "core civil rights." As we have noted in the past, Liberals never want to engage in a debate about issues. They simply want to declare everything they want - abortion, euthanasia, dope - to be civil rights issues. 

Not just any civil rights, though. Core civil rights. 

End of discussion. 

It is an intellectual cop-out as well as moral evasion. 


Yes Sir
With characteristic hyperbole, Biden introduced the former Vice President (Al Gore) while praising his political career. “This man was elected president of the United States of America,” Biden said according to the pool report. “No, no, no. He was elected president of the United States of America. But for the good of the nation, when the bad decision in my view was made, he did the right thing for the nation.” (from MichelleMalkin.com, 6/17/2013)

OK, Biden wants to play this game, let's play:

Barack Obama was NOT born in the U.S.


Sins of the Son
The father of the former NSA contractor who leaked details of the government's massive Internet- and phone-tracking programs made an impassioned plea to his son to stop leaking, telling Fox News that "I hope, I pray" he does not do anything considered treasonous. (Foxnews.com, 6/17/2013)

Too late.