Posted on 02/03/2024 4:34:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
Because leftists cannot win in the war of ideas, they will inevitably choose violence over reasoned debate.
In 2004, when I got curious about what blogs were, I started investigating blogs on both the left and the right. I quickly realized that leftists dealt with obscenity, invective, and America hatred, and that I preferred the polite, reasoned debate on the right. One of my favorite sites was Power Line, started by a cadre of four Minneapolis-based attorneys. I still check in with Power Line on a regular basis, which is how I learned that leftists firebombed the offices of the Center of the American Experiment (“CAE”), a conservative think tank. John Hinderaker, one of Power Line’s founders, is president of the CAE. The arsonist(s) also attacked two other conservative businesses in the building.
Writes Hinderaker:
[L]eftists firebombed my office last Saturday night. At around 2 am, they broke into the building that houses Center of the American Experiment and two other conservative organizations with which we often collaborate, along with many other businesses. The arsonists set two fires: one was in the first floor corridor between American Experiment’s office and the space we sublease to Take Charge, Kendall and Sheila Qualls’ organization. A second fire was set on the third floor, immediately outside or perhaps actually inside the office of the Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve.
He includes with his post a picture of the office hallway, which has been reduced to a burned-out skeleton. The Center of the American Experiment has further information about the fire, along with this video:
One would think that a multi-office firebombing in a Minneapolis suburb would be a newsworthy subject. However, as Scott Johnson, another of the original Power Line guys, wrote early this morning...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thanks for posting. Criminals destroy stuff.
"The Star Tribune hasn’t gotten around to covering the story yet. Someday soon, but not yet."
“I quickly realized that leftists dealt with obscenity, invective, and America hatred, and that I preferred the polite, reasoned debate on the right.”
Interesting comment.
“ The Star Tribune hasn’t gotten around to covering the story yet…”
…probably because they set the fire
Please refer this person to the offices of the Bulwark or the Dispatch. We're in a street fight, not a pillow fight.
**Crickets**. 🦗
Why the blackout?
Correction
Fox just had a blurb 8:17
You didn't even identify where that quote came from or who made it. It's as it you were trying to attribute that statement as yours. By today's standards, that makes you a Harvard College Presidential material, but only if you possess a certain amount of melatonin content, which I doubt you do.
So let me provide the source that you ignored to reference where it actually came from:
Andrea Widburg: Leftists firebomb a conservative thinktank affiliated with a well-known blogger
It’s the second line of the post. Even by FR standards, that’s not too much to read.
To be honest, I didn’t look to see what thread she was addressing me from, as she had sent me many comments that I was responding to when I woke up this morning. So, while it was actually easier for you to make that connection, since you were in that thread, I was not. All I am seeing is the quote, without quotation marks and her comment. It didn’t dawn on me that she might be sending this from a totally different thread than the rest.
You can’t conduct yourself without insulting other people? Why is this so difficult for you?
“It’s as it you were trying to attribute that statement as yours.”
You don’t understand how quotation marks work?
Perhaps you some day will find that you have been blessed with macular degeneration, and then you will understand the impacts it presents . Until then, enjoy your eyesight, & I sincerely hope that you can remain ignorant on the issue for your entire lifespan.
Speaking as someone who has macular issues, that’s no excuse.
Learn how to be polite. It’s fun!
Sorry to hear of your eye problems. Knowing this perhaps you should refrain from accusing me of plagiarism until you check for quotation marks or a citation.
Probably because it would have to be treated as an act of terrorism and/or a hate crime.
Lay off the vodka, Mr. Solovyov.
You can’t conduct yourself without insulting people?
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