Relentless Advance

Whistle Stop
In a new statement, the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden said President Obama was employing “old, bad tools of political aggression’’ in his campaign to prevent Snowden from gaining political asylum. 

"Although I am convicted of nothing,’’ Snowden said, the Obama administration “has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person.’’ (Washington Post, 7/1/2013)

So taking a page from the Democrat playbook, Snowden announces that he is a victim. We prefer to think of him as something else. A traitor.


Count Down
New York Times IRS Scandal Article Count for the Day: Zero

New York Times Unemployment Rate Article Count for the Day: Zero

New York Times Gay-Themed Article Count for the Day: Six


Defiance
Mayor Michael Bloomberg answered his critics on Sunday with a defiant defense of his comments that the New York Police Department doesn't stop minorities often enough based on murder suspect descriptions.

"The numbers are the numbers, and the numbers clearly show that the stops are generally proportionate with suspects' descriptions and for years now critics have been trying to argue that minorities are stopped disproportionately," he said before the city's gay-pride march Sunday. "If you look at the crime numbers, that is just not true. The numbers don't lie." (WSJ, 6/30/2013)

We are not big fans of New York's Mayor Nanny Bloomberg, but he gets a RedStateVT tip o' the hat for standing up on the issue of profiling criminals. Yes, the numbers is the numbers!


Imperativo
Conservatism will flounder unless it remembers the imperative of addressing the interests of the many, not the few. (E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, 6/30/2013)

Dionne's ditty today is another one of those helpful columns that Liberals write in which they try to help Conservatives. Their advice typically runs to the need of Conservatives to embrace (pick one) abortion, gay marriage, higher taxes, socialized healthcare, drivers licenses for illegals...you get the picture. He ends by repeating the old canard above: Conservatives are so selfish, all they care about is themselves! It's a schoolyard taunt, devoid of any measure of reality. 

So we'll say it again. Conservatives want everyone to succeed. They want to create a society where anyone (even the mixed race child of an absentee father and a wanderlust mother) can achieve their dreams through hard work and perseverance. Liberals want to create their version of a just society by taking from the achievers and giving to the non-achievers.