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The Fallacy of Positive Rights
Pajamas Media — ... compassion or sympathy for these things. I simply deserve them because it is my right. I’m here to say what is rarely said. Neither you nor I have an undeniable or unalienable right to take something from somebody else. We have no right to take what is not ours. This principle extends to all things, even water and food. We are born with no inherent right to someone else’s water or food no matter how little we have or how much they have. Stephen Gutowski is the founder and editor of The College Politico .

Jonah Goldberg Should School Himself, Not CNN, on Blogosphere
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, MediaMark Preston over at CNN wrote an interesting piece, earlier today, about the pitfalls facing liberal bloggers in the Age of Obama. Some highlights: * Mark Preston: Liberal bloggers who cheered on Obama now become watchdogs * Challenge is line from "destructive criticism to constructive criticism," a blogger says * Blogging is to liberals what talk radio has been for conservatives, Preston says * Blogging lets Democrats of all stripes express themselves, says founder of one blog ...

Blogging in the Obama era
Hot Air » Top Picks — Blogging in the Obama era posted at 2:58 pm on March 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly CNN asks the question : Whither the liberal blogosphere in the Age of Obama? Mark Preston asks Markos Moulitsas and Jane Hamsher how having a Democratic shutout in Washington DC will affect their blogging (via The College Politico ): Liberal bloggers were the cyber cheerleaders for Barack Obama in the 2008 race for the White House. But now that he has won, these “netroots” activists face a major challenge: criticizing the new president and his ...

Frisco police union accuses Ayers of 1970 bombing
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn may have another round in the media spotlight coming.  The police union in San Francisco has accused the radical couple and allies of Barack Obama of setting a bomb in 1970 that killed a police sergeant.  The union cites testimony from a former government informant (via The College Politico ): A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1970 bombing that killed one sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The union, in a letter to a ...

Caught on Twitter: Karl Rove Thanks Blogger for Trashing Meghan McCain
Politics Daily — Filed under: Republicans, John McCain, MediaOn Monday, I wrote about Meghan McCain's critique of Karl Rove's Twitter feed, among others. To make a point about the right's deranged reaction to Meg, I linked to a particularly vicious rant by conservative blogger The College Politico. In the 12 paragraphs of his post, the guy calls her an imbecile, idiotic, clueless, and compares her to a 5 year-old. As far as I know, Karl Rove hasn't publicly responded to Meghan's Daily Beast column, but I have learned that he did read The College Politico's anti-Meg screed, ...

Did AOL fire Tommy Christopher for criticizing Playboy?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... at AOL’s Politics Daily immediately denounced and heavily criticized the article, but the article mysteriously disappeared shortly after PD published it, the first time the editors of AOL-PD ever dumped a story down the memory hole with no explanation.  Tommy reprinted it at his own site, and prepared an alternative version for AOL-PD — and was told he no longer worked there, after two years.  Stephen Gutowski at Newsbusters ...

Video: Hoyer’s townhall roiled by well-dressed sophisticates
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... dismissed protesters at town-hall meetings as obvious fakes because, as Boxer explained, they’re too well-dressed to be sincerely angry about health care. The College Politico has an answer in this clip from Steny Hoyer’s attempt to pontificate to a hostile and casually-attired crowd.  The older voters in this row wear shorts, t-shirts, and apparently Democratic Party registration cards: The gentleman with the obviously-expensive cap gets the zinger of the day by challenging Hoyer on how Congress could try to force the takeover of the American health-care industry in roughly ...

Specter: “I don’t have any requirement to be here”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... not to allow people to ask questions live from the floor.  One constituent had to initially be restrained when he found out that he couldn’t ask a live question, but Specter handled the incident well by giving the man his say — and admitting that his office needed to do better in adopting a process that allowed for live interaction in his meetings.  He then angered the crowd all over again by reminding them how lucky they are to be in his presence at all, as this video clip by The College Politico shows at the end: SPECTER: I’m encouraging constitutional rights.  I’m ...

Video: The origin of the “Nazi” references at town-hall protests
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Stephen Gutowski does the job the media wouldn’t do in tracking down the origin of the “Nazi” references at a handful of town-hall protests, including one oft-referenced poster showing Barack Obama with a Hitler moustache. Does that come from conservatives opposed to single-payer health care systems? In fact, it comes from a fringe group that opposes ObamaCare for not going far enough (via ...

Robert Novak, RIP
Ace of Spades HQ — Robert Novak, RIP "The Prince of Darkness" (as he jokingly called himself, sometimes, as a parody of hysterical liberals' reaction to anything he said) goes on to God's reward. Thanks to the College Politco (which double-tipped me this one and the Favre story. Posted by: Ace at 12:42 PM Comments 1 Mark Steyn gave a nice tribute. Robert Novak, RIP Posted by: maverick muse at August 18, 2009 12:44 PM (F1b/5) 2 Fantasy Football on Yahoo for morons lurkers and bloggers not endorsed by Ace® league id 623277 password: valurite also, sad day for the news media, we lost a fellow ...

Video: Gibbs declines to issue statement of confidence in Van Jones
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and Major Garret now report that the White House has signaled, at least subtly, that they may be preparing to toss Van Jones under the bus. Robert Gibbs did not offer the customary statement of support of the Green Jobs Czar after multiple occasions of Jones’ support of paranoid-conspiracy theories about 9/11 have come to light over the last two days. Instead, Gibbs made it sound as though another shoe could drop soon (via The College Politico ): Asked if controversial White House official Van Jones continues to enjoy the confidence of President Obama given recent revelations ...

Obama science czar: Redistributionism as the cure for American exceptionalism
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... has outlined Holdren’s odd views from the past, including statements in books published in the 1970s that suggested forced sterilizations and social pressure for abortions, among other things. The College Politico finds something a little more recent in this interview in 2007, conducted in the virtual-reality environment of Second Life, in which Holdren discusses his views on science and economics: HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so ...

Yet Another Socialist Czar: John Holdren
Stop The ACLU — ... Holdren’s odd views from the past, including statements in books published in the 1970s that suggested forced sterilizations and social pressure for abortions, among other things. But more recently, Holdren gave a speech advocating Obama’s ideals of socialism and “spreading the wealth”. HOLDREN: There has been a strain of what many people call “US exceptionalism” in the United States, the notion that the United States is so big, so important, so powerful, so technologically advanced that it can and should do what it wants. I think this strain is misguided. Q: Will Americans ...

Politico getting greedy for domain names
doubleplusundead — Politico getting greedy for domain names How can you tell that Politico is made up of old media types? Because of shit like this . Yeah, you're reading that right, they sent a cease and desist to a guy for naming his site The College Politico , and are demanding control of his domain. Any of you lawyerly types want to comment? If this is the standard we're going by, Insty could send out cease and desists to everyone who goes by _____pundit, and shut down half the fucking blogosphere, the Moron-in-Chief could go after Flopping Aces, and anything else with the name Ace or Ace of Spades, on it. Politico is way ...

Who owns the word “politico”?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... it as an in-the-know slang word of sorts in discussing elected officials or candidates, sometimes shortening it even further to “pol” or “pols”.  It’s no surprise that the word gets exercised in the blogosphere, and also no surprise that a journalistic enterprise would want to use it for their somewhat unconventional approach to political coverage.  But does that mean that they’re the only ones who can use that word? According to Patterico , it appears that they think so: The College Politico has received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers for Politico, ...

Politico Threatens to Sue the College Politico
Stop The ACLU — ... been especially fond of the word for decades, using it as an in-the-know slang word of sorts in discussing elected officials or candidates, sometimes shortening it even further to “pol” or “pols”. It’s no surprise that the word gets exercised in the blogosphere, and also no surprise that a journalistic enterprise would want to use it for their somewhat unconventional approach to political coverage. But does that mean that they’re the only ones who can use that word? Patterico: The College Politico has received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers for ...

Can You Copyright a Word?
The Sundries Shack — I’m not quite sure how The Politico is going to get away with this . The College Politico has received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers for Politico , demanding that he stop using the word “Politico” in his name — and that he give them control of his domain. Stephen Gutkowski, the operator of the domain, has broken several stories, including one that proved that Obama=Hitler signs were being wielded by Lyndon LaRouche supporters. The Politico’s case seems to rest on the “likelihood of confusion” standard as they claim it’s likely that people who come across Gutkowski’s site might think they ...

Politico Threatening Conservative Blogger with Lawsuit
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — The Politico is threatening blogger Stephen Gutowski with legal action to wrest control of his TheCollegePolitico.com domain on trademark infringement grounds. Gutowski -- full disclosure: he serves as the content editor for the Media Research Center's EyeBlast.tv -- gives readers details and offers his argument for why the claim by Politico is specious here at his blog. You can catch Gutowski live on Breitbart.tv's "The B-Cast" Web program at 5:15 p.m. EDT by clicking this link or watching the video embedded below the page break:  

Leahy: No one questions our authority to impose federal insurance mandate
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... captures this moment of either forced or natural obtuseness by the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee (via The College Politico on ...