For Occupants Of Glass Houses

With leftist commentators shamefully and nonsensically (though not unpredictably) blaming "tea-party rhetoric" for the shootings in Tucson this past weekend, it's worthwhile, I think, to check out a small sampling of "liberal rhetoric" from the not so distant past.

http://www.binscorner.com/pages/d/death-threats-against-bush-at-protests-i.html

Consider the likely reaction of the media and the left if these threats had been directed at our current president.

Update 1/12/2011 - Krauthammer's commentary

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256935/massacre-followed-libel-charles-krauthammer

Living Well

A fallacious liberal talking point (one of many) is the alleged stagnation of Americans' real income over the past few decades. A couple of recent columns by Victor Davis Hanson and Michael Barone debunk this myth, arguing that our standard of living has improved immeasurably over the period.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255835/every-man-king-victor-davis-hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256159/its-about-more-money-michael-barone?page=2