These are just great. Sum it up incredibly well. Definitely worth a share…
I actually just saw that myself and immediately went searching for death penalty data. The ACLU (which I guess Prager will dismiss as a crazy left-wing conspiracy organization or something) has an entire section on it…
http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/race-and-death-penalty-0
And here’s a specific article (although it’s quite dated)
And here’s another writeup from another organization
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides
And here’s the straight facts [stats] [pdf]
You can find more links in the comments of this article that agrees with Prager:
Top comment…from none other than David Friedman:
“…it’s striking reading the comment thread to see the contrast between lots of posters providing links to evidence supporting Ron Paul’s claim and lots of other posters insisting that Ron Paul supporters aren’t interested in evidence…”
Just thought this was interesting. Of course, an uninformed person might jump to the conclusion “CAPITALISM!!”
John James pointed out this video critique to me, but I am unsure how many people here know if it:
Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 1 of 4
Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 2 of 4
Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 3 of 4
Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 4 of 4
The Story of Stuff shows how liberals and many Americans understand the economy. The above critique is outstanding. My only nitpick is in Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 3 of 4. In his response to women buying two different shoe types again and again, Lee Doren’s response was unsatisfactory. He should have said, “Yes, social pressure can influence people to make silly decisions. What do you want to do? Ban free speech? Force human beings to stop making a social hierarchy based on clothing? In modern society, if clothing was not the comparison, the comparison could be religion or skin color or physical fitness or music taste or etcetera.”
The so-called Paulbots absolutely wrecked National Reviews’ idiocy in the comments section. I love it! ![]()
I was driving home from one of my classes today and heard Mark Levin pleading the case for Gingrich and Perry to drop out of the race so that the conservatives can get behind Santorum in order to “defeat Romney and Paul.” I never thought I would hear Levin be worried about Ron Paul outperforming a “conservative” in a Republican primary. This has been a crazy election cycle.
Also, how about that Dennis Prager video? 89 dislikes to 0 likes as of this moment. Talk about a complete failure of a video, granted it was catering to Paul fans, but still.
For anyone interested, here’s a collection of his best (including a link to a playlist of all his critiques).
List of upcoming Republican caucuses, debates, and primaries
Heh, interesting:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2490#comic
There’s actually a better list in the thread I created for the debates…
The Debates
A surprisingly nice report on Ron Paul by CNN.
A lot closer to what news reporting should be…
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. This is what people think of when they think of “excited young supporters”…ignorant morons who have no real idea why they’re there, and couldn’t tell you the first thing about the guy whose name is on the sign they’re holding. Kind of like the last election.
The great part is, you really don’t get this with Paul supporters. It’s what the establishment would like everyone to think about the Paul camp, but Paul supporters by and large seem to tend to be the most knowledgable of any voters. They can speak intelligently on a host of issues, and more importantly can tell you where their candidate stands on those issues and why they agree with him. No one else can claim that kind of support. Not Obama. Not Romney.
They already admitted it months ago…
Federal Reserve Admits It Was a Complete Failure in Forecasting the Great Recession### Bernanke Admits He Is Clueless about His New “Tools” and How They Might Impact the Economy
Or you could just look at what Bernanke was saying at the time…
Something I had found when Obama won last election that is still in my bookmarks.
One thing you can say for this Ken doll is he’s not a total idiot. He already knows he needs Ron Paul’s supporters if he’s going to win an election…and he knows it would take a miracle to get almost any of them. But that doesn’t mean he’s not gonna be extra nice…