Sunday, March 09, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Why the GOP Makes Sense for Millennials

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Nation

Why the GOP Makes Sense for Millennials: AmSpec
RNC building list of voters who lost insurance due to Obamacare: Joel Gehrke
“There is no one who can be trusted with political power”: Cold Fury

Sen. Rand Paul Wins Major Presidential Poll: ConTrib
Ted Cruz Wins SCF Presidential Straw Poll: MinorityReport
Blown away: Ben Carson gives AMAZING speech at CPAC: YoungCons

Are bans on high capacity magazines constitutional?: Hot Air
An Open Letter to Lt Vance of the CT State Police: SSI
Some Connecticut police refusing to enforce AW law: David Hardy

The Silence of the Tax Lamb: Debra Saunders
Domestic Cold War: Christian Mercenary
Obama nominee for Surgeon General: banning guns is medicine: Howard Portnoy

Economy

Socialism vs. Capitalism: Which is the Moral System: C. Bradley Thompson
Blue States Scheme to Keep People Dependent on Welfare: GayPatriot
Big Labor: ObamaCare is making income inequality worse, you know: Hot Air

Scandal Central

Senate judiciary committee kills Ted Cruz bill requiring IRS impartiality: Poor Richard
White House doesn't explain how off-budget ObamaCare money got spent: Hot Air
Jeremiah Wright's Daughter Convicted of Fraud: Breitbart

Climate & Energy

Dept. of Energy Uses Phony Climate Change ‘Study’ In Order to Push Spending: BlurBrain
KXL in Perspective: Ace

Media

Ann Coulter on Illegal Immigration and Demographics: ‘No, You’re Raping Me.’: R.S. McCain
Thoughts as I pack to go home from CPAC 2014: DTG
The Dark Debut of Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Susan D. Harris

Pat Caddell: GOP Consultant's Strategy of Do Nothing Is A Hell of A Way To Lose: Marooned
The First Woman President: Matthew Continetti
Conservative gathering reflects challenge for GOP: LAT

World

Ukraine's Military Mobilizes: Trucks, APCs, SAMs, Howitzers, Tanks Rolling Out: ZH
The Iron Curtain Goes Up In the Ukraine: Sara Noble
Mysterious case of ‘two stolen passports’ used on Malaysia Airways flight: EuroNews

Rep. Keith Ellison addresses chapter of Hamas-linked CAIR: JihadWatch
China’s Muscular Civilian Fleet Threatens, Irritates Neighbors: TAI
Report: North Korea to Execute 33 for Contact With Missionary: David Bohon

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

+1 Million Children Stopped Eating School Lunches Because of Michelle Obama: Daniel Greenfield
The largest center fire rifle ever made: Bits & Pieces
This concept makes most email clients look ugly: Verge

Cornucopia

Pictures From Blog Bash at CPAC 2014: Glob
The Obamas’ Advice: Get Out of Bed And Do It Till Your Butt Comes Off: MOTUS
Porsche Is Bringing Two Insanely Rare Spyders To The Amelia Island Concours: FlatSixes

Image: +1 Million Children Stopped Eating School Lunches Because of Michelle Obama
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Fire Mitch McConnell: Support Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "Mr. Stewart is the host of a fake news show, the genesis of which probably was a conversation that went approximately like this: Brother-in-Law: “There’s nothing funny on Saturday Night Live except the ‘Weekend Update.’ They should really just do that for the whole show.” Jon Stewart: “Hey…!” Mr. Stewart is among the lowest forms of intellectual parasite in the political universe, with no particular insights or interesting ideas of his own, reliant upon the very broadest and least clever sort of humor, using ancient editing techniques to make clumsy or silly political statements sound worse than they are and then pantomiming outrage at the results, the lowbrow version of James Joyce giving the hero of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man the unlikely name of Stephen Dedalus and then having other characters in the novel muse upon the unlikelihood of that name. His shtick is a fundamentally cowardly one, playing the sanctimonious vox populi when it suits him, and then beating retreat into “Hey, I’m just a comedian!” when he faces a serious challenge. It is the sort of thing that you can see appealing to bright, politically engaged 17-year-olds.

...The thing is, people actually get their news from his show. Fans, many of whom cannot quite spell his name, swear that the program is “more accurate than any other news show.” Ignore, for the moment, the judgment exhibited in that quotation and focus on the word “other.” In the minds of many of his admirers — and in the minds of those news-site editors who report on Mr. Stewart’s fake news as part of the real news — there is no substantive difference between what Mr. Stewart does and what, e.g., Ezra Klein does (“Ezra Klein Destroys Romney,” “Ezra Klein Destroys David Brooks,” “Ezra Klein Destroys Republican Opposition to Temporary Payroll Tax Cut,” etc.) because for the Left the point of journalism is not to criticize politics or to analyze politics but to be a servant of politics, to “destroy” such political targets as may be found behind one’s crosshairs. For the Left, the maker of comedy and the maker of graphs perform the same function. It does not matter who does the “destroying,” so long as it gets done." --Kevin D. Williamson

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Millennials can be counted on to resist counterfeits and the GOP can do it. Counterfeit government, counterfeit health care, counterfeit nanny state oversight, counterfeit RINO's, counterfeit growth and opportunities - the list is long. Show them the genuine article and their lust for freedom will take root.
The era of "fast food" should be brought to a close. Mooch and Jug Ears are out there telling us what to eat but baby, it's not home cooked. Been to the Doctor lately? Goobermint is turning Medicine into fast food by ignoring attention to detail. Learners are drawing blood and leaving huge hematomas, x-ray technicians are cranking out pictures but technique is unacceptable, Doctors recommend procedures but don't follow up properly, the list is long, but these are the counterfeits they think they can groom us to accept.
Elections are coming, we can hope for a fire storm, a "cleansing of the temple" that will see Politicians fleeing Washington because The People decided to make room for the genuine article. In America, that could happen.