Congressman Paul Ryan reflects on his bid to become the next Vice President of the United States and offers his perspective on the fiscal cliff negotiations, in which he is a key cog for the GOP.
Hearing that Paul Ryan has come to terms with the results of the election makes me realize that I haven't.
I still feel sick when I think about what almost was and what is.
Instead of fearing the future under Obama, I would be hopeful and anticipating the new administration.
So many of my family's economic decisions would be different if Obama had lost and change for the better was a reality.
Still, I'm thankful Paul Ryan remains in Washington, working to improve our country.
I'm sick that the smug Obama is playing politics with our lives.
Jason Whitlock, that sage Bob Costas quoted when pontificating during halftime on Sunday Night Football, decided to take things up a notch and blame the NRA for the crime committed by Jovan Belcher.
This much is clear: BELCHER is a murderer. He's a criminal.
Because there will be no trial, no judgement, no sentence, the criminal nature of this case is being neglected.
This notion that Belcher deserves some sympathy for his suffering, for being a tortured soul, must not displace his merciless act.
Belcher chose to kill a woman in cold blood.
A gun didn't do that. A gun doesn't do anything. Belcher used a gun to commit murder.
The discussion should be about the criminal, not his weapon of choice. Belcher, though dead, still needs to be declared what he is - a cold-blooded killer.
Instead of focusing on that reality, Whitlock is exploiting a woman's murder. He's using his "fame" to make outrageous statements about the NRA. Whitlock clearly wants to stay in the spotlight. It's a sick little dance.
Kansas City sportswriter Jason Whitlock loves to stoke controversy. So after he blamed Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide on the "gun culture" -- inspiring NBC Sports lecturer Bob Costas -- in an interview with Roland Martin, he added fuel to the fire by claiming "the NRA is the new KKK."
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JASON WHITLOCK: Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people’s eyes. You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].
I think it’s obvious if you’ve traveled abroad, and traveled to countries where they have legitimate gun laws, that we don’t have to have what we have in America, where people somehow think a gun enhances their liberty, and that people somehow think a gun makes them safer. It just doesn’t. A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene. And uh, you know, if you don’t have a gun, you drive home. You know, kids listening to some loud music, you don’t like it, you go home and complain to your wife. But when you have a gun, you open fire, potentially, and take the life of a child.
Here's the audio:
"I believe the NRA is the new KKK."
"A gun turns some kids listening to music into a murder scene."
Whitlock's statements are absolutely ludicrous.
I wonder if Costas agrees that the NRA is the new KKK. Does Costas believe the NRA is arming black young people?
I wonder if Costas thinks that a gun, an inanimate object, actually turns kids listening to music into a murder scene.
Gee, how would that work?
A gun crashes a group of kids innocently listening to music and commits murder?
A gun cannot do that.
Whitlock made a fool of himself. Costas went along for the ride.
The things that are being spewed by the Leftists since Obama's reelection are shockingly irresponsible, even when taking their derangement into consideration.
On Monday morning, NBC's Chuck Todd shared the ramblings of a "very smart White House aide."
"You're going to like this," MSNBC host Chuck Todd said this morning on TV. "So, I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aide to the president last week, and he said, 'You know, with this Republican, with the way politics of Washington are today, there'd still be slavery. Lincoln wouldn't have been able to navigate the polarization between the media between this--' It was an interesting and depressing observation from this very smart White House aide."
This "very smart White House aide" is obviously not very smart.
I can't take the idiocy of these Leftists.
Todd seems to think there's great insight here. He doesn't recognize how ridiculous the comment is.
NBC broadcaster Bob Costas used his halftime segment on "Sunday Night Football" to advocate for gun control following this weekend's murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher....
In a segment about 90 seconds long, Costas paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock.
After praising the column, Costas said: "In the coming days, Jovan Belcher's actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
Belcher shot and killed Perkins, the mother of his 3-month daughter, on Saturday morning, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in the parking lot of the team's practice facility.
Here's video:
"If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
That's a ridiculous statement. Murders and suicides are committed without the use of guns. It can't be assumed that Belcher chose to commit murder and then kill himself because he had guns. It can't be assumed he and Perkins would be alive today if he didn't possess a gun.
Of course, Costas is entitled to his opinion. He has the right to hold a misguided view.
But should Costas have used the platform of Sunday Night Football to blindside viewers with an editorial about the 2nd Amendment during halftime? Should Costas have preached to the audience and concluded that an inanimate object was at fault for Belcher's acts?
No.
Belcher is responsible, not a gun.
I think it would have been wrong for Costas to speak in favor of gun ownership and to highlight Belcher's culpability.
Ralph Nader thinks President George W. Bush was a better president than Obama when it comes to military and foreign policy.
Nader believes Obama is "more aggressive" and "more illegal."
He says Obama has stated he has the "authority to kill an American citizen or citizens anywhere in the world if he suspects them of trouble, like he is the prosecutor, judge, jury, executioner, and cover-upper, because it's all secret."
It is disgusting the way most Leftists give Obama a pass on virtually everything. They were so critical of President Bush (on virtually everything), but they appear to have no problem with Obama's "aggressive" and "illegal" behavior.
This commercial for Tide laundry detergent is based on the premise that a lot of parents can relate to the experience of having their adult children, college graduates but jobless, move back home to live with them.
That doesn't say much for the state of the economy and the value of a college education.
Former Marquette University basketball coach Rick Majerus has died at the age of 64.
Majerus was an assistant coach under Al McGuire in 1977 when the Golden Eagles won the National Championship.
Note: The Golden Eagles didn't win the NCAA Championship in 1977. The Warriors did.
He took over as head coach in 1983.
The Milwaukee native was also a head coach at Ball State, Utah and St. Louis; and an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Marquette's current head coach, Buzz Williams, reacted to the passing of Rick Majerus:
"As an institution, a program, and as a coach, we are saddened by Coach Majerus' passing. The game has lost one of the great innovators whose mark will never be forgotten. He will be missed by the entire college basketball community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Majerus family."
