From WSJ, OpinionJournal    
 
Best of the Web Today - April 27, 2007
 
- Howard Dean Endorses Lying to the Media 
- Boehner Holds the Line 
- The Politics of Hair (Quote of the Day I) 
- Exit Strategy (Quote of the Day II) 
- In the GOP, Everybody's a Front-runner  
 
Little Big Brother
 
Howard Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, once again is proving he has unusual views on the media. He says groups that want to hear candidates talk openly should bar the media. "If you want to hear the truth from them, you have to exclude the press," is how he bluntly put it.

 

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PBS shelves film on moderate Muslims

By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 11, 2007

A 52-minute documentary film exploring the struggles of moderate American Muslims at the hands of their radical brethren has also become a showcase for the struggles between right and left in the news media.
    The producers of "Islam vs. Islamists" say their taxpayer-funded film has been shelved by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in "an ideological vendetta," and because the production team includes conservative columnist Frank Gaffney Jr., founder of the Center for Security Policy.
    "This is a well-documented, textbook case of the abuse of taxpayer funding by elements in the public broadcasting system to advocate their agenda and ensure that people who have different agenda don't get on the air," Mr. Gaffney said yesterday. "The public ought to be allowed to see a film which PBS doesn't want them to see."
    His partner Martyn Burke also accused CPB and PBS of stifling the film "on political grounds."

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070411-123042-7035r.htm

Quiz on U.S. Government

 

This is really quite easy.  See if you're smarter than a 5th grader.

 

Sharpton 'Terrorized' Executives

From NewsMax.com

Friday, April 27, 2007 8:43 a.m. EDT

Don Imus' former producer said Thursday that the radio exchange that got them both fired was wrong, but that it would be horrible if people could no longer poke fun at each other.

Bernard McGuirk, a 20-year producer and on-air jester for the "Imus in the Morning" program, was fired a week after his boss for the banter in which members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team were called "nappy-headed hos."

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/27/84546.shtml?s=al&promo_code=330E-1

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Should government ban talk radio?

Ever since the rise of conservative talk radio, liberals have been calling for a restoration of the “Fairness Doctrine” to re-regulate media and silence conservative voices. After talk radio host Don Imus—clearly no conservative—was fired last week for racially-tinged comments, calls to reinstate the Doctrine have grown louder.

When they were in force through the 1980s, Heritage regulation expert James Gattuso explains, these onerous government regulations on television and radio “required broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues. The Doctrine’s effect was to discourage controversial issue-oriented programming.” In other words, government effectively barred conservative talk radio programs.

“It was not until this rule was repealed in the 1980s that talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh found a place on the radio dial,” Gattuso writes.

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Why was the VA Tech murderer roaming freely on a college campus? 

Here's your answer (from the Wall Street Journal On-line Journal):

A DANGER TO SOCIETY

Bedlam Revisited
Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed.

BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN
Monday, April 23, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

I was in graduate school, studying clinical psychology when they began shutting down the asylums. The place was California, the time was the early 1970s, and "they" were an unprecedented confederation of progressives, libertarians and fiscal conservatives.

From the left marched battalions of self-styled mental health "liberation activists" steeped in the writings of Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Though he denied being opposed to his own profession, Laing's notion that madness could be a reasonable reaction to an unjust society, or even a vehicle for spiritual transformation, helped fuel the anti-psychiatry movement of the post Love-In era. The most radical of Laingians carried revisionism one step further: Not only wasn't psychosis a bad thing, it was evidence of a superior level of consciousness.

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Cho Seung-hui run amok

Following abbreviated item is from The Wall Street Jounal, On-line Journal, Best of the Web Today:

BY JAMES TARANTO
Monday, April 23, 2007 1:22 p.m.

Was Cho an 'Imminent' Threat?
Sixteen months ago, Cho Seung-hui, who was to carry out last week's Virginia Tech massacre, had an encounter with Virginia's mental-health system. As we noted Friday, after Cho spent a night in "temporary detention," a psychiatrist evaluated him, finding that he was "mentally ill" but "did not present an imminent threat" to himself or others.

We characterized the latter conclusion in passing as having been mistaken--it seemed obviously so to us--but several readers took issue, including Barton Branscum, who is a psychiatrist:

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Congressional Leaders Moving To Pass

Gun Control Without A Vote!
-- McCarthy bill would treat gun owners

even worse than terrorists

"Another gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, is adamantly
opposed to the [McCarthy-Dingell] legislation. It said the measure
would allow the government to trample privacy rights by compiling
reams of personal information and potentially bar mentally stable
people from buying guns." -- Associated Press, April 24, 2007

 

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Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm

 

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Harry Reid: Traitor or

Latter-Day Copperhead?

From WSJ 4/30/07

"I believe . . . that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week."--Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, April 19, 2007

"Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States."--1864 Democratic platform

For Reid there's no substitute for defeat

== by David Reinhard==

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2007/04/26/for-reid-theres-no-substitute-for-defeat/
Nobody should ever again question Harry Reid's unwavering commitment to . . .
losing the Iraq war. The Senate majority leader has made clear he's determined
to see this fight through to defeat. He'll let nothing get in his way -- not
concern for our troops' morale, not their generals' guardedly optimistic
reports, not changing facts on the ground. No, he'll see failure where there's
success and, if need be, defeat where there's victory.

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There is an alternative to the ACLU:  The American Civil Rights Union.  The ACRU seems to believe that commiserating with criminals and foul-mouthed (alleged) "artists" -- among other usual suspects -- is just plain stupid.

Take a look, at:

http://www.theacru.org/acru/mission_statement/

Here's an abbreviated Mission Statement:

CAIR’s Grievance Theater, the Flying Imams and 9/11

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