Bloody Horror shows on HBO, Showtime?

From Eric Dondero:

We are still hours and days away from finding out the true motive of the suspected Norwegian mass killer 32-year old Anders Behring Breivik. It could very well turn out to be a right-winger who hated the Labor Party. And there are strong indications that this may be the case.

But another media angle is emerging, which could be troubling for advocates of personal liberty and free speech. He seems to have been addicted to video games and horror movies.

From London Daily News (via reflector site):

[He]claims to be a fan of... bloody cinema like, “300,” and “Gladiator,” on his Facebook page.

He also claims on a page to be a fan of a young HBO vampire drama, “True Blood,” and a sequence torpedo show, “Dexter.”

On his Facebook page, Breivik describes himself as a fan of shoot-em’-up video games like “Modern Warefare 2,” as good as a anticipation epic, “World of Warcraft.”

And this odd piece of information emerging. He was a member of the Freemasons. He even appears in a Facebook post in full Freemason dress.

There is also news breaking of a possible second suspect.

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Andrew Horning delivers a July 4th, 2011 message to Indiana lawmakers and the Governor on the steps of the Indiana state capitol.

They'll magically turn Republican

From Eric Dondero:

News report by ABC News looks at a new study that shows Americans not only become more patriotic but also more Republican attending 4th of July parades. It may be permanent for the kiddies.

2nd company visited by Obama goes out of business

by Clifford F. Thies

Obama has done it again. First, he has a hot dog at a Toledo restaurant and, voila, the restaurant goes bankrupt. Next, he goes to a wind turbine manufacturer in Cleveland and, guess what, it too goes bankrupt.

There's a moral in this somewhere. How about this: Bad things happen when the President breaks wind and when he bites his weiner.

Dr. Thies is a professor of economics in Virginia

From Clifford Thies:

The North Carolina state legislature, which flipped Republican in 2010, has re-drawn the state's Congressional District lines so as to favor Republican candidates. As a result, three or four seats currently held by Democrats are likely to be represented by Republicans after the 2012 elections. No surprise there. But, what really is news is that one of these new Republican-friendly seats appears to be drawn specifically for Vernon Robinson, a prominent black conservative. The former Winston-Salem city councilman resides in Democrat Brad Miller's re-drawn district. The re-drawn district voted 56 percent for McCain in 2008, whereas the old district voted only 40 percent for McCain. In 2006, Robinson, a founding member of the North Carolina Republican Liberty Caucus, finished first in the Republican primary in a heavily-Republican Congressional district that stretched out to the west. He was edged by then state Senator Virginia Foxx in the run-off, who went on to an easy win in the general election.

Robinson's new district is more urban, which should be to his advantage in the primary, as well as sufficiently Republican, to give him the advantage in the general. Following a defeat in 2006, Robinson announced that he would never again run for political office; but, with re-drawn district lines, conditions have changed. This development, the district in Texas drawn for Michael Williams, and our two incumbents, the Party of Lincoln looks to have at least four African Americans in Congress following next year's elections.

...and they were right!

I continue to suspect that a secret program allowing thousands of guns to go from U.S. gun stores to Mexican crime sites was more than coincidentally related to a gun-control campaign from the same administration that was predicated on . . . statements about the flow of guns from U.S. gun stores to Mexican crime sites.

Professor Reynolds is not alone in his suspicion, given the Left's long established pattern of creating a problem and then posing as the saviors. The corruption of the original Operation Fast and Furious into a full-blown smuggling operation ("Gunwalker") appears to fit that pattern, as does the minority report's building a case for expanded gun control legislation and regulation.

What is surprising is the reckless, thundering stupidity behind letting thousands of guns into the hands of an enemy and the expectation that the violent, criminal nature of the fall-out would work to political advantage. What were they thinking?

Gunwalker was especially dimwitted given the Government's betrayal of U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean in 2006. In the public's eye, the DOJ, DHS and Federal Government's credibility was reduced to near zero by Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof, Prosecutor "Johnny" Sutton and President G. W. Bush. Compean and Ramos were aggressively punished for doing their job - a fact not lost on every professional and Federal Agent working the borders and not lost on the entire libertarian and right blogosphere.

Now we have the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry - and suspicion of cover-ups - a situation that expands the ill-will beyond Federal Agents and the blogosphere to the huge constituency of law-abiding gun owners. (Just think of it as... community organizing for dummies.)

If AG Eric Holder is responsible, his impeachment won't be enough to solve the problems on the borders, but it will make an excellent start.

[Posted by Ran for Eric Dondero]

From Ran for Eric Dondero:

U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists; Also Calls Israel Anti-Terror Partner
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) - In an implicit admission that Israel is so threatened by terrorism that it is not only surrounded by countries and territories that produce terrorists but also unwillingly harbors terrorists within its own territory in a way that most other nations in the world do not, the Obama administration is currently listing Israel among 36 “specially designated countries” it believes “have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.”

Before the anti-Israel noise machine begins the Snoopy-dance, they must observe that Mora's report also notes four other countries that fall into the same category. By sheer coincidence all five (including Israel), though not islamic majority "have had internal problems with radical Muslim terrorists, as reported by the State Department." (One might ask why Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Canada etc. etc. are not also on the list? We could name a very large country with a Muslim extremist problem as well...)

Tip o' the hat to Lonely Conservative & Maggie's Notebook and thanks to CNS.

We have Eric hidden away in a secret location on the west coast and until we want to let him out, Ran, Tim and I will post articles of our choosing on Libertarian Republican. While Eric is away, the other guys will play.

The story that has gotten little play in the news, at least in what I read, is the Mark Halperin Incident. Honestly, who cares if he called Obama a dick. That doesn't even scratch the surface of his Obamajesty's omnipotence at incompetence. Still, Mark had to know in his mind's eye that even calling The One a dick would get him sentenced to journalist's purgatory, he should have gone the full monty and at least fomented a charge of lese majesté. Asshole would have been closer to the truth although F'ing moron would have been more satisfying. I mean, in for a penny, in for a pound, right?

Next off we have Beck claiming he left with his soul. I mean, who gives a flying eff you see kay? While I applaud his success, I am starting to wonder if he is 15 minutes is up. With the money he's made, he could buy a soul if he lost it at Fox News.

Of course what would a crisis be without the philanderer in chief charging to the rescue? Bill Clinton, the evergreen aw shucks boy from deliverance-land, seems to be always at the ready to save the country from Disaster.

Lastly, we have the 4th of July weekend coming up. One has to wonder if Obama will celebrate this great country of ours and all its 57 states? It's actually much worse than that. Barry doesn't even know how old his kids are. Talk about social promotion. How did this guy get into Harvard? A better question which bears an answer is how did he get in the White House? They can sell, he just can't deliver.

Thank you for reading this blog and Eric will return tomorrow evening.

From Eric Dondero:

Don Gorman is a former two-term New Hampshire State Rep. elected as a Libertarian. He currently serves as a local elected official on the Deerfield Town Board. At a recent forum he posed an interesting question to GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

From Forbes this morning "Michele Bachmann On Board With Tax Holiday":

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann one-upped the competition when instead of sticking with the routine “no new taxes” mantra being recited, she suggested “no taxes.”

Bachmann indicated that she would support a one year moratorium on federal income taxes.

Bachmann made the comments in response to a question posed by Don Gorman, a former state representative for New Hampshire and considered “the most-elected libertarian in the country.” Gorman asked Bachmann what she thought about his suggestion to:

Put a moratorium on the entire income tax for one year for every citizen in this country and watch this country take off.

Bachmann called the notion “awesome” and went on to say that if taxpayers could keep their own money.

If we would have allowed every American to take that much more money home in their pockets, what would they have done? They would have paid their bills. They would have spent it. They would have grown their businesses. They would have grown the economy.

Note - Gorman himself ran for president in 2,000, but lost the Libertarian nomination.

From Cliff Thies:

Michele Bachmann: won't get into cat fight with Sarah Palin

"They want to see two girls come together and have a mud wrestling
fight. And I’m not going to give it to ‘em," Michele Bachmann.

Who, who wants to see this???

Self-proclaimed "Machiavellian"

From Eric Dondero:

Known for her extreme libertine views on social matters, Lady Gaga has now come out of the closet as a military hawk.

From Forbes this morning:

Lady Gaga, the music industry phenomenon, is surprisingly hawkish in her views on foreign policy. In an exclusive interview, at a café around the corner from her parents’ Upper West Side apartment, she laments what she terms “the pathetic U.S. policy on Iran.”

“They support terrorist groups, ferment trouble in Iraq, and are building a nuclear bomb. And what do we do? Nothing. Not that we do anything about North Korea either. Why are we so spineless?”

She goes on to add:

Influential liberals like Alec Baldwin may want you to think that celebrities are liberals, but I get a big crowd at my monthly [Prussian War General] Carl von Clausewitz reading group.”

And stunningly she takes a jab at the Queen of Celebrity Liberals:

Interviewer:“Oprah? But she’s a well-known supporter of President Obama.”

Gaga's response: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” Gaga replies, “Have you not read Machiavelli?”

Though, admittedly little if anything is known about her economic views, allowing herself to be interviewed by the economic libertarian publication Forbes sends a good signal.

Photo credit - Exiled in Paradise

Walk out of budget talks

ABC's George Stephapolos: The President is going to have to take off the table any talk of tax increases to get this started.