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How awesome is THIS? In his quest to create an alternative media empire, it seems as though Glenn Beck has been adopting some of the practices of the existing one. This is far from the first time I've noticed it, but I'm in the mood to pick some low-hanging fruit, today. Today's case-study is an exposé on the atheist Reason Rally currently being held in Washington, D.C.filmed for The Blaze by one Billy Hallowell . In the video, not only does Billy attempt to highlight atheistic ire for Christianity, but to expose them as hypocrites. His production cites the Q&A section of the Reason Rally website , which states: Are we just going to use this opportunity to trash religion? No. This will be a positive experience... Indeed, in interview after interview, the atheists all uniformly mock Christianity and faith in general. I just have one problem--and this comes from the accompanying article--Billy specifically asked each of the interviewees to condense Christianity into on...

There are two things I do every Sunday: I wash the laundry, and I watch the morning news shows. The former is necessary, but I don’t know why I subject myself to the latter. Still, like so much dirty laundry, the news on Sunday leaves much to clean up. CBS Sunday Morning took note of a trend among GOP presidential candidates; they all rail against the failures European socialism on the campaign trail. But how does the rhetoric square with reality over there? Well, CBS found that if you cherry-pick your data, things are just fine across the pond. In fact, in <i>Northern</i> Europe, unemployment is lower than the US national average. So much for the pesky fact that the EU reported 10.1% unemployment in January. But why get bogged down in lots of boring numbers when you can simply choose to miss the point? That’s ultimately the route CBS took when they praised all the freebies Europe bestows upon its citizens—you know, the ones which are driving the Eurozone’s debt and that D...

Incredibly Versatile 

Snippets from other conversations: Andrew Breitbart (1969 - 2012) Andrew Breitbart's passing is only really a loss to his detractors. The left lost a whipping-boy while the right gained an icon. The liberal wants to live like there is no tomorrow, but instead lives as though there was no yesterday. Conservatism--as opposed to progressivism--does not resist change, it only asks that it be paced and reasoned and, ultimately, developmental rather than merely different. The counter argument runs that certain issues are too pressing for that. Yet here we sit, atop 5000 years of recorded human history, unjust all of it, and still we remain to sort it all out. Patience is not only a virtue for a man, but for mankind as well. Here is the deception of the left: it doesn't teach that the false is true, or even that impossible is possible. Rather, it teaches that the improbable is likely. People have the growing up thing all backwards: we don't built the adult on top of the child, w...