Case in point: Ferguson, Missouri.
Even some supposed conservatives are conciliating with nonsense about "conflicting testimony." Let us observe that the original narrative to which the Leftists adhere still was advanced by three "witnesses." One of them was Michael Brown's criminal accomplice. One of the other two has admitted that she never actually saw anything until Brown was in the street, dead.
This is weighed against genuinely courageous eye-witnesses who came forward at great personal danger to tell the truth and a mountain of forensic evidence. At worst, the real witnesses and evidence are ignored while borderline dull/imbeciles run onto football fields mouthing slogans and guilty white liberals march with the pre-printed signs of the Socialist Workers Party.
At "best" we are exhorted by our own side to weigh evidence equally against lies, and accept that, at the very least, both men could have "been right" from their own point of view. This is craven nonsense masquerading as peacemaking, and it is time to stop it.
So in the instant case, we are getting the "there is still a rape culture on college campsues." NO! Rolling Stone has committed defamation per se, and needs to pay dearly, and the UVA President needs to be told to stop kowtowing to these despicable liars, and made to apologize to all the members of the UVA fraternity system for acting on a story that she had no evidence whatsoever was true.
The scaling down of the Welfare State in America is not a question of “if,” but “when.” The status quo is unsustainable.
“Unsustainable” is one of those Washington D.C. words with a history of meaning little -- like Foggy Bottom’s use of “unacceptable.” But unlike unacceptable, unsustainable, when applied to the Welfare State, is a derivative of mathematics -- a major determinant of the wealth of nations.
The American Welfare State is unsustainable -- destined for significant downsizing by cold, impassionate, apolitical Arithmetic.
All except the most hardcore leftist pols inside the Beltway know this to be true, but it remains mostly unspoken."....................
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Remember the 5 month-long siege on Wisconsin's state capital early in 2011?
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Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future "..........At the same time a campaign to recall Republicans who had voted for [Gov. Scott] Walker's budget was put into motion. (A smaller number of the Democrats who fled were also targeted.) These recall elections are still overhanging the senators.
With the bill headed for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the left next targeted an ordinary state Supreme Court election, importing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to defeat incumbent David Prosser, a centrist conservative, in favor of Joanne Kloppenberg. Thanks to a comically inept local election official, it seemed at first that they had succeeded, but when the smoke cleared, Prosser had won by a healthy 7,000 votes.
And finally, we have the latest purported incident, in which we are asked to believe that Justice Prosser, in the midst of a discussion in the chambers of his liberal opposite number Ann Walsh Bradley, suddenly and apropos of nothing bounded across the room and attempted to strangle her in front of most of the other justices. The man is even worse than Clarence Thomas.
This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.
What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States."....