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Since the president’s call for the end of hatful political discourse let’s determine who started it so that their voices will be forever known as untrustworthy partisan politicos who place ideology above truth. Paul Krugman, Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga and Jonathan Alter are not the only ones on the left that politicized the murders and mayhem in Arizona. However, they have distinguished themselves as the grossest continuing purveyors of fact less hateful political rhetoric. (see 1:23min video) It is time that all of these instigators of hate and lies be call out for their destructive contribution to the civil meltdown of...

Via the Daily Caller. He didn’t say “sphincter,” actually, but in honor of the “new tone” and because this is, after all, a family-oriented blog, I decided to clean up his language a bit for the headline. Is “sphincter” okay? Or is that sort of rhetoric beyond the bounds of political politesse for which mellow, even-tempered pundits like Krugman and Frank Rich are known and loved? In case so, I denounce myself preemptively. In case you missed it, here’s a neat move by Krugs from this morning’s column, which was much mellower than Monday’s rhetorical sphincter-lock: One side saw health...

A toxic level of misinformation has caused rising tide of frustration, leading to heated rhetoric, and creating a "Climate of Hate." The shooting on Jan. 8 in Tucson, by Jared Lee Loughner, which left six dead and 13 injured was a tragedy. The twisted opportunistic media coverage of the events and dismal lack of factual reporting since has left me sad, sickened and feeling truly dirty. Mixed reports whether Gabrielle Giffords was dead or alive were still streaming through the media when professional left and liberal hacks began the blame game. Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik kicked everything off...

CSI: Tucson Fade in. Chaotic supermarket parking lot, strewn with bodies in aftermath of shooting spree. Amid lights and sirens, a bearded man in black windbreaker and sunglasses ducks under the yellow police tape. COUNTY DEPUTY Sir -- sir! Please remain behind the cordon. This is an active crime scene investigation. KRUGMAN (flashes New York Times OpEd badge) I know. Krugman, CSI. This is my partner Lt. Matthews. MATTHEWS Who's in charge here? And where are the donuts? DEPUTY He's over there sir -- Sheriff Dupnik. He's in charge of the donuts, too. Krugman and Matthews cross the parking lot,...

Paul Krugman, who I continue to hold is the dumbest Nobel Laureate ever, continues his failed attempts at convincing anyone who is sane that he has a clue what is going on. Today, it is back to Obamacare. Krugman, in a piece artfully titled 'The War on Logic', attempts to dissect Republican arguments for repealing Obamacare. I personally think the Op-Ed is appropriately titled...only the attack on logic is actually held within the editorial itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8amcXcCgV8

To anyone hoping that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman would apologize for his unfounded, untrue and inflammatory declarations in a Saturday blog post and Monday column that right-wing rhetoric drove Jared Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murder six others in Tucson Saturday — don’t hold your breath.

Michele Bachmann was given the Krugman treatment in a column on Monday. Krugman had this to say: And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence. [....] I think seminary grads have a LOT to offer these political “mavens” (really, red herrings). For instance, what does the typical Bible student learn about how to interpret properly. Here is some of a larger paper I wrote a while ago entitled, “Biblical Inerrancy Defined,” on this topic: The internal test utilizes one Aristotle’s dictums from his...

In today’s political discourse there is too quick a jump to link the actions of one person to that of any group he or she associates with. The latest shooting in Arizona has brought this problem home once again. Right now there is a battle underway to link the murderer to certain groups, while others are taking great pains to say how he is not linked to any particular groups. To this I say, who cares what groups this person is associated with? Do these groups advocate the murder of Congressional representatives? If they did, why wasn’t there an outcry...

The surest way to become a folk hero on the Hard Left is to kill a human being. As Mumia Abu-Jamal, Joe Hill and Huey Newton could have attested, murder trumps even treason for establishing radical credentials. You certainly don’t get invitations to deliver commencement addresses, become the subject of folk songs, or hang with the likes of Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda by protesting a traffic ticket. Taking the life of another person elevates a radical to cause celebre status like nothing else can. So why all the carping about “violent rhetoric” from people wearing “Che” T-shirts and imploring...

Note to Readers: In order to make sure this article will be read by progressives, I asked a friend of that persuasion to scrub the post below for objectionable terms so please excuse the “cross-outs” Sometimes it’s very hard not to feel empathy for the progressive media; their arguments keep getting shot down rejected. While most Americans have been occupied with praying for the wounded or mourning for the loss of the dead respirationally challenged from that horrible Tuscon shooting perpetuated by the mentally imbalanced Jared Loughner, the progressives in the mainstream media have been occupying their time attacking placing...

I agree completely with Pete that Krauthammer’s column is a great blow to Krugman. It’s made all the more forceful by the fact that Krauthammer is not only a brilliant columnist but also a psychiatrist by training. I also agree that this may be a tipping point in Krugman’s disgraceful career as a columnist. For one thing, he is intellectually lazy and seems to operate on the principle that a Krugman assertion is, ipso facto, an established fact. He rarely buttresses his assertions with evidence. His one bit of evidence that ”eliminationist rhetoric” in American political life is overwhelmingly on...

Within hours after Jared Loughner's killing spree, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went straight for the gutter, proclaiming, with no evidence whatsoever, that Loughner's act was in all likelihood "political," and going on to blame Republicans for the murders. I denounced Krugman's vile blog post here. We now know that Loughner's murders were not political. He was deranged and had no coherent political philosophy. To the extent that he had any political beliefs at all, his friends describe him as left wing. He thought the Bush administration was behind the September 11 attacks. He has been more or less...

This can't be happening again. A terrible tragedy, followed by vile recrimination and politically motivated accusations. Were no lessons learned after the slander of conservatives following the Oklahoma City bombing? Aside from the terrible specter of psychotic gunmen legislating with bullets, we now have to deal with the inanities of shameless members of the nattering class in a redux of the Clinton blame-game. In a "Special Comment" segment aired the day of the Giffords shooting, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann began his segment by laying the blame for this shooting at the feet of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and others. Olbermann apologized...

Searching For Answers: From New York newspaper columnists to an Illinois senator, the liberal left is blaming the Tea Party and conservative stars for the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman. How about blaming the communist and Nazi-loving shooter? It didn't take long for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the shooting outside a Tucson supermarket that seriously injured Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and left six others, including a 9-year-old, dead. Writing Saturday, as the shooting was still fresh and little was known of the shooter or the circumstances, Krugman spoke of a...

Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews's TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday's tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped that Jared Lee Loughner's killing spree might fill the bill. With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and reporters seemed to agree that the massacre had to be the fault of the tea party movement in general, and...

Paul Krugman has noticed the looming budget crisis in the state of Texas, and he's all over it.Specifically, he is pointing out that the Republican utopia of low regulation, low taxes, pro-business policies, and tough, conservative spending decisions is no panacea--either for the state's financial condition or for the state's citizens.Despite these policies, Texas is as broke as, well, New York, with a huge structural budget deficit to fill. And it already has very low education spending per pupil and a very high percentage of residents without health insurance.And now Texas's two-year budget review is coming up, so there will...

"China Is Communist in Name Only." Wrong. If Vladimir Lenin were reincarnated in 21st-century Beijing and managed to avert his eyes from the city's glittering skyscrapers and conspicuous consumption, he would instantly recognize in the ruling Chinese Communist Party a replica of the system he designed nearly a century ago for the victors of the Bolshevik Revolution. One need only look at the party's structure to see how communist -- and Leninist -- China's political system remains. ...[F]or all their liberalization of the economy, Chinese leaders have been careful to keep control of the commanding heights of politics through the...

The chart below (found also here), from Big Government contributor Veronique de Rugy clearly shows that federal employment has grown by 98,000 jobs since the start of the recession. This bears repeating, because lefty columnist Paul Krugman is furiously spinning that the increase in employment is due to Census hiring. Krugman: But anyone paying attention knew why public employment had risen — and it had nothing to do with Big Government. It was, instead, the fact that the federal government had to hire a lot of temporary workers to carry out the 2010 Census — workers who have almost all...

The New VoodooBy PAUL KRUGMAN Published: December 30, 2010 Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they could to make those deficits bigger. And I don’t just mean politicians. Did you notice the U-turn many political commentators and other Serious People made when the Obama-McConnell tax-cut deal was announced? One day deficits were the great evil and we needed fiscal austerity now now now, never mind the state of the...