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To: JBTFD who wrote (19679)	3/29/2010 9:28:40 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 20039

Coulter shut out, but not silenced By MONTE SOLBERG, QMI Agency Wow, that was close. We almost had some free speech break out last week at the University of Ottawa. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak there, but thankfully students were able to block her natural right to free expression by threatening violence. Don’t be concerned though, because it was the threat of violence in the name of tolerance! Frankly a university is the last place you want people hearing other points of view. After all, parents pay a lot of money so that professors can tell their children how to think. We can’t have someone from the outside showing up with ideas that are different. You certainly don’t want some crazy American arguing that her ideas are better or her worldview is superior. That can only lead to critical thinking and to students formulating their own point of view. Then, before you know it, you’ll have students challenging their professors. Thank goodness U of O students escaped the heavy burden of having to choose between competing ideas. University vice-president Francois Houle helped students dodge that anxiety when he made it clear to Coulter in an e-mail that she could speak, but if she was too provocative the police might haul her away. Tolerance bricks Other than that it was the red carpet treatment — well except for the aforementioned threat of having her head caved in with tolerance bricks and respect stones. The thing is I’m not a big Ann Coulter fan. Sure, some of her stuff is funny and insightful, but some of it makes me cringe. That’s why I’ve never read her books, but neither do I want to burn her books, which is apparently next on the agenda at the U of O. Comparatively, the charming sarcasm that you are now reading is hardly worth burning at all even if, by a miracle, it showed up in a book. That said, Coulter is a gifted polemicist with a great business plan that counts on liberals to be themselves, and they never let her down. She argues that liberals oppose free speech, which they immediately set out to prove by blocking her from speaking at the University of Ottawa. She then threatens to use the Canadian Human Rights Commission to launch a complaint against the university, which again allows her to make her point while drawing even bigger crowds at her next speech. All of this reminds me of a passage from Allan Bloom’s great book, The Closing of the American Mind. In it, Bloom speaks of student protesters striking the “noble pose.” Unfortunately, as Bloom might point out, there is nothing to the pose but, well, posing. The student protesters at the University of Ottawa aren’t the romantic revolutionaries they think they are. Warts and all They don’t realize that ultimately the judgment of history always sides with free speech, warts and all, with its ability to insult, provoke, challenge and inspire. Or as John Milton said 350 years ago, “Whoever heard of the truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter”, which just might earn him a trip to the burning barrel, too. Solberg is a consultant at Fleishman Hillard Canada and former Conservative MP. torontosun.com

To: JBTFD who wrote (19679)	3/29/2010 1:37:14 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	1 Recommendation Respond to of 20039

I'm not a "rightie". I said ALL politicians are dishonest. So much for your reading comprehension. And I can't provide a link to news I heard on my car radio.

To: JBTFD who wrote (19679)	3/29/2010 2:13:21 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 20039

Obama donor charged with threatening to kill Jewish Congressman and family Philadelphia Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Eric Cantor; (Update) Special Added Bonus: He's an Obama Donor I blame this on the climate of hate engineered by the left. Today, a two-count complaint and warrant was filed charging Norman Leboon with threatening to kill United States Congressman Eric Cantor and his family, and threatening to kill Congressman Eric Cantor, who is an official of the United States, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jan Fedarcyk. As set forth in the affidavit to the complaint and warrant, in or about late March, 2010, Leboon created and then transmitted a YouTube video to Google over the internet, in which he threatened to kill Congressman Cantor and his family. No harm came to the Congressman or his family as a result of Leboon's threats. Funny how there hasn't been a single arrest resulting from any of the alleged acts of violence against Democrats of late but here we have a real incident resulting in an arrest. Here's a video from a Norman LeBoon. If this is him he's seemingly a Muslim and a real nutcase. Norman LeBoon Sr. is indeed a Shia Muslim that the good USA has it's locks on!Allah knows ALLLove for ALL, More here. I wonder how reticent the media will be to label him a Muslim considering how quick they are to label these militia wackos as Christians. LeBoon just so happens to be a Barack Obama donor. Somehow I doubt that'll be part of any headlines. Update: In the video link above he indeed calls himself Norman LeBoon Sr., as the Obama donor is listed as. Here's a YouTube video (via MM). Dude should've put the crackpipe down about ten years ago. Maybe Tom Sizemore can play him in the TV movie. According to the HuffPost data base, a Norman LeBoon of 1653 Benner St. in Philadelphia gave $815 to Obama in the third quarter of 2008. From the affadavit at Michelle Malkin's link: Subsequently, the IP address 74.109.58.150 was subsequently provided to Verizon Internet Services. Upon being served with an “Emergency Situation Disclosure Request By Law Enforcement” form, Verizon provided the subscriber information for the user assigned IP address 74.109.58.150 between March 24, 2010, 4:48 p.m. PT, and March 26, 2010, 04:58 a.m. PT. According to Verizon’s records, the subscriber to the IP address, at the specified time was: John Hopkins, 1653 Benner Street, Philadelphia, PA 19149. Thanks to Ace, Drew, Michelle and Jim Hoft for the links. WaPo reports the story. No mention that he's 1) a Muslim or 2) an Obama donor. Recall after that nutjob flew a plane into the IRS building in Austin last month a WaPo columnist immediately insinuated he sounded like a Tea Partier. Now we have evidence he's a Muslim Obama donor and pfft, nothing. Same at MSNBC. Same at CNN. Same at Politico. Just imagine if a Sarah Palin donor was arrested for threatening a Democrat. You suppose that would make it into the story? jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com