Bitsy

Anyone got a link to the original mudslinging article? I do not need to read an opinion from a newspaper competitor, I rather decide for myself.

What part of speculation by the targets is ‘spreading false news”?

Highly doubtful that I am confused, it is very difficult to disguise one's prejudices and their posting prose.

Jake, I am too old and don’t have enough time left to run around the country tilting at windmills, so please tell me where we are endanger of Sharia law being forced on us. I think it is important to understand the background and the backstory of groups who prepare white papers for public dissemination; this group is definitely not an objective, non-partisan source. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy

Actually, the moral relativism is from the right in the US; our Constitution is a secular document and our conservatives are attempting to rewriting it as a Christian Constitution, I say, shame on them and their moral relativism. Radicalism is not exclusive to Islam; I see it in Christianity, I see it in ideologies, I even see it in parenting. The danger in radicalism is when it is used by people in power to gain control over the reasoned, mainstream majority... the bogeyman approach. The left in the US sees suicide bombers, regardless of their age, as the tragic results of this fear mongering. The suicide bomber is willing to die for their mistaken belief while a radical Christian, like Timothy McVeigh, prefers to view from afar the destruction he wrought; radicalization in any form is to be condemned. .

I am still not clear which of “these cultures” we don’t get. I hate to assume which ones frighten you, although from our past association, I presume it is Muslims.

Yeah, they petrify me too when they reach in their pocket for one of their gospel tracts and start witnessing, hard to escape in the confines of the plane. However, they are even worse when they are in our classrooms revising our history, science and social study books; or in our bedrooms; or in my womb, now that is where they really frighten me.

Which culture do you see the US having problems with, Jake? Jewish, black, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, Eastern Indians, Muslims (none of which present any problem in my neighborhood) or maybe it is the Mormons or the Amish. Actually, I wish the US would wake up and recognize the problems born-again Christians create for us.

The awakening prevailed.........Hosni Mubarak resigns as president http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121125158705862.html

There are many conservatives who support the people of Egypt in their awakening; the words of one of our neo-cons, William Kristol....... .http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

I have to give the scriblett credit, when her original objective is refuted and shown to be bogus, she likes to change the subject...I guess detours work in some forums.

As was pointed out previously, PDS is the last refuge for those who are unable to offer reasoned analysis. Pass the sick bag, Alice!

agreed!!!

No way , her free speech argument is as bogus as her security fantasy. Palin is not a victim in any sense of the word, and her free speech certainly has not been curtailed.....her speaking engagements from Jan to March. Safari International Club, January 29, 2011, Reno, Nev. Young America's Foundation, February 4, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA. Long Island Association, Feb.17, 2011, Woodbury, LI, New York Distinguished Speakers Series, March 23, 2011, Naples, FL

Only in your dreams, Shady, only in your dreams. Uh oh, is that s where Jared Loughner threatened Gabrielle Giffords? If you had bothered to read the rest of the article you linked, you would see that he had never threatened Giffords specifically but of course that does not fit into the altnernate universe you have created for yourself.

I knew you couldn't substantiate your uninformed opinion but courtesy demanded that I asked.

Would like to see your substantiation for this provided you have any.

No specific threats; no police reports; no ticket sales….. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/onslaught-of-personal-attacks-that-forced-cancellation-of-palin-event-police-claim-no-problems/

What is complete nonsense is closing one’s eye and mind to the radicalization, ideologically and religiously, of the Republican Party. Rockefeller Republicans have disappeared from the political landscape and have been replaced by a group who call themselves moderates but they are moderates in mind only; they do not vote their conviction. http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/82420/tuesday-group-gop?page=0,0

Obviously, you think there are moderates within the Republican congress but the litmus test is in their voting record. Check out your example of Charles Bass. He may speak to being a moderate Republican, which usually means fiscally conservative, socially liberal, but his voting record belies his claim. http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Charlie_Bass.htm

Then give me the names of 30 moderate Republcians in congress today. I decided to use that number since it would be about 10% of the Republicans serving.

Now that was a Republican today's liberals could embrace...even his Supreme Court appointees.

Did you vote for him?

There are no moderate Republicans today, Shady. If there were, I would probably still be a Republican. When Reagan allowed politics to be co-opted by the religious right, the moderate Republican soon became a dinasour. This outlines the fallacy of your position better than I can; however, one thing I shall add is that a big component of Reagonomics was deregulation, and JFK did not support deregulation. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/01/26/the-myth-of-jfk-as-supply-side-tax-cutter

I listened to the address when he first delivered it and I have read it several times in the ensuing years, he was challenging our better angels to be kind to each, to work together, to never waver in our commitment to freedom and democracy for ourselves and the rest of the world. Remember this was during the Cold War. http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/John_F_Kennedy/5.htm