We need to see the Left pushed harder, and comparisons drawn between gun control and abortion, if for no other reason than to demonstrate the hypocracy of the Left on one compared to the other.

Thanks for posting!

Doubly so when it comes to women’s issues. Whatever position NOW, NARAL-PCA, or Planned Parenthood take, so does she.

If a person with a similar skin tone came up to her and said “Thank you for all you’ve done for the us in the negro community” would her response be something other than a glare which would express incredulity as to the whereabouts of the speaker for the past 40 years?

Who thinks that Sarah Palin in order to remain relevant should run for the Senate in 2016?

I think that’s a great idea. It would give her a fine platform. And I don’t think it would hurt her candidate-building activities very much.

I will endeavor to remember your libertarian approach in the future.

mixitup: There are left-leaning libertarians, and right-leaning ones. I am one of the right-leaning ones. On any number of occasions I have had to treat sf as a leftist because his comments or stance were of the quality of a typical leftist, and/or functioned to support leftism. He can say ‘libertarian’ all day long; it impresses me less, perhaps, than some others.

the same unanswerable question when people talked about winning the Global War On Terror

Not “unanswerable” at all. Bush explained the answer, at length, in several important speeches. I guess some weren’t paying attention, and/or have chosen to forget.

The NSA surveillance revelations give that an odd sound. Wonder how the Germans took it?

That is the point. Leftists like Vince Smetana call women whores. They endorse calling women whores. They will continue to call women who disagree with them politically whores. It is what the Obama Party does, it is what the Obama Party endorses, and it is what the Obama Party believes.

So this is yet another demand for a piety dance from a hypocrite. Indeed, since the woman involved is an Obama puppet who fully endorses calling OTHER women whores, she can choke on her own medicine.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/former-miss-america-called-street-walker-local-gop-001954765.html

Her crimes? She’s black, pretty, and Harvard-educated.

[Jeff adds: It’s easy to condemn the ill-advised name-calling of an obscure State Senate candidate, and I hereby do… while also noting the element of hand-waving. It got to be time to change the subject, eh?]

Euphemisms can also serve to recirculate words that have passed out of use because of negative connotation. The word lame [in the sense of "crippled in the feet or legs], having faded from the vernacular, was revitalized as a slang word generally meaning “not living up to expectations” or “boring.”
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In the early 1960s, Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter Bill Veeck, who was missing part of a leg, argued against the then-favored euphemism handicapped, saying he preferred crippled because it was merely descriptive and did not carry connotations of limiting one’s capability the way handicapped (and all of its subsequent euphemisms) seemed to do

Given Mahar’s past, we’re *seriously* supposed to buy into the idea that he meant it in a positive and uplifiting way?

PUHLEEZE

“The short bus” has entered the vernacular as the special ride for “slow” kids. It may be offensive to some to mix some special needs kids other less acceptable special needs, but that is not the concern of the comedians.

I have members of my immediate family who have and have had extensive speech therapy, suffer from autism and other societally branded “disorders.”

The “short bus” vernacular has been set. Whether the comedians have it correct or not is another matter.

I can understand your angst if Maher said your child is a retard because he rides the short bus. Maybe Whoopi and Walters could explain to you why Maher was not being mean.