Month: January 2021

Riot? Definitely. Incitement to Insurrection? Not Really

Do you remember James T. Hodgkinson? On January 12, 2017, Bernie Sanders tweeted that an additional 36,000 people would die every year if the Republicans repealed Obamacare. Later that month, the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune made similar claims (although Glenn Kessler in the Post gave Bernie’s tweet four Pinocchios). As early as 2009, Democrats’ mantra was that the Republicans’ health plan was, if you get …

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Spare Us the Hypocrisy

Everyone I know and have read about, on the left and the right, has condemned the protesters turned rioters turned invaders of the Capitol Building last week. Losing five lives, including a police officer, was horrific. Seems like everyone agrees on that.  Some protesters who entered the Capitol -or were let in by the Capitol police-have …

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