Why is there an anti-meat advertisement sometimes popping up in the side banner of this site?

It is all good that NB is selling these... no problem there.

 But why would this group be targetting NB readers?  Is there some mass movement of conservative vegans that I should be told about? 

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Well, it's California. And though it had headlines yesterday and today, watch it disappear quickly from the MSM. 'out of sight, out of mind,' as they say. I just love how those who were for overturning the laws against sodomy said that doing so would not lead to gay marriage being legalized, and yet how long was it after that when the first talk of legalizing gay marriage began to be an issue?

Of course, those who are for it will liken the will of the people to the era of Jim Crow, where people voted for things that kept segregation.

 I'm reminded of Dorothy Parker, when hearing a lesbian talking about gay marriage.

'of course they should marry. think of the children!' 

The court should not overrule something the voters clearing overwhelmingly wanted.

It's just another step in the moral corruption started in the 60s with the sexual revolution. Contraception was the first step, then abortion, gay marriage is next, then we go on to remove what beastility, pedophilia, something else I've never even heard of?

"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather

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I've had my differences with her over the years. She writes a lot better than she comes off on TV (smug & arrogant). But today's column is absolutely outstanding. It lays out the huge challenge we face. We've talked a lot here recently about LEADERSHIP or the lack thereof. Noonan provides re-enforcement.

I know I'm gonna take heat for this one, but I wanted to mention how Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) seems to be running rampant through Republican ranks and turning lots of folks into the same mindless zombies we've accused Democrats of being for decades.  For example:

1.  Rev. Wright.  The action line here is that Obama has been hearing racist sermons for 20 years but never left the church so he must share those racist views.  The only facts in this discussion are that Obama has been a member of the church for 20 years, Wright was the pastor when he was a member, and there are two DVDs of sermons from 2007 that show Wright making racist comments.  Every one of Wright's sermons was taped and available for sale, so why is it after all this time, no one seems to be able to find recordings of any racist sermons aside from those two?  Wright also made some anti-US statements after 9/11, but they were of the same type that many religious folks were saying, so I don't hold that against him.  There is absolutely zero proof that Wright has been making racist sermons for 20 years.  None, zip, nada... and yet many Republicans have bought into the echo chamber effect and believe with 100% certainty that this is true!  This is no different than when the Tin Hatters claim with 100% certainty that Bush was behind 9/11.  We keep asking "where's the evidence?" and when they can produce none we write them off... and now here we are doing the same damn thing.

2.  Speaking of Wright, there are lots of Conservative pundits making statements like Obama should renounce his church, his pastor, etc., because the church and pastor said things they don't like.  Many are also saying that Obama shouldn't be President because of his church.  For as long as I've been a Republican, we have always held religious freedom very highly, and never attacked it.  We have attacked national religious figures like Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan, and the Left has attacked Falwell, Robertson, and Graham, but going after a specific candidate's personal minister was never done... and now we're doing it.

Also, our candidates have often been members of churches that made statements derogatory of gays, divoricees, women who had abortions, Jews, Christians, etc., and we have always held that the views of the church are not necessarily the views of the candidate.  We told Gays they should vote for a Christian candidate despite the fact his Church hates gays because they are electing the man and not the church.  And what are we doing now... because a minister said something that offends us for a change?  We start acting exactly like Democrats.

3.  Negotiations with our enemies is another issue.  It's true that opening negotiations with Syria or Iran is no guarantee that anything useful will happen, but the truth is there's no guarantee that nothing will happen.  The Norwegians succeeded in getting a peace agreement where we totally failed in the early 1990s, so in my opinion the only way to guarantee a diplomatic solution will fail is to never try one.  And yet here we are, after seven years of berating Democrats for their refusal to accept options and just wanting to cut and run, acting just like Democrats.  Many of us are lockstepped to the idea that negotiations should never be done as they are guaranteed to fail!  Guaranteed by who?  Why do so many of us rush to agree with the party line, despite years of faulting Democrats of doing that very thing?

4.  Experience vs. Liberalism is another case of ODS.  We have lots of Republican voices rushing about saying how Obama has no record... we don't know about him... he has never done anything... then we hear that he's extremely Liberal and has always voted for Liberal causes!  Well, wait a minute... if we don't know anything about him, why do we know he's a Liberal?  If he's never accomplished anything, how do we know so much about how he has voted?  These are the types of contradictory attacks that the Democrats have made for years and that we've agained condemned them for.  And what are we doing now?  Again... the same damn thing!  Why can't we say that Obama has a solid record in the Illlinois State and US Senates of writing and voting for Liberal issues and attack him on that?  Why must we lower ourselves to the Dem level by saying something stupid like "this guy has never done anything, and based on all the things he has done we think he's the most liberal Senator there is!"

5.  Yesterday we had someone trying hard to equate someone's personal investments with the investments of fundraisers.  Your personal investments are under your control, the investments of fundraisers are under their control, and yet ODS enables some of us to make the same inane conclusions that the Dems have tried for years to make about Cheney and Halliburton (Cheney was once accociated with Halliburton = He's still calling the shots for them!)  We've denounced these rediculous conclusions for years, and now ODS is leading some to try to make the case that Obama should be as aware of what investments some campaign donor has in a mutual fund as Cindi McCain is aware of investments that are in her personal fund.  If the reverse allegation were made, we would be howling like crazy at Democrats for making such a rediculous charge.

6.  This is the biggest one... ODS is leading many Republicans to start thinging that Hillary Clinton, one of the biggest lying, deceitful, disreputable, egotitstic, and slimy politicians in our history is being upfront and honest!  Almost everly attempted smear that the Clintonites offer up gets eagerly accepted as fact by ODS sufferers quicker that an anti-Bush allegation gets swallowed by Rosie O'Donnell.  Flagpins, his middle name, is he a muslim, wa she a dope dealer, is he crooked, etc., time and time again, when we should be attacking him on Lib issues like universal healthcare and increased taxes, we're all playing in HRC's echo chamber and denouncing a guy for not wearing a lapel pin.

Remember back to the days when attacks like this on Republicans used to bring our ire to the Democrats?  And what are we doing now... the same damn thing as we used to attack them for doing.

I think if the rank & file of Newsbusters wants to retain their reputation as always seeking the truth in the media, many of us need to get some ODS innoculations as I'm seeing more and more cases of Republicans blindly accepting stories that are based on supposition and innuendo and not facts, accepting contentions without really thinking about both sides and applying a degree of onjectivity and fairness, and basically doing all the same crap we've rebelled against for decades.  Acting this way will bring about the end of the Republican party far faster than any war.