CNN, Huffington Post Urge Violence Against Republicans

Two of the most popular liberal news sites are calling for violence against Republicans for obstructing the radical agenda of President Barack Obama.

CNN and Huffington Post have each published op-eds this past week by regular contributors with headlines that explicitly call for Obama to use violent gangland tactics against his political opponents.

CNN published a column by Roland Martin on February 11 with the headline, Time for Obama to go ‘gangsta’ on GOP.

Martin concluded the article with a plea for Obama to emulate the violent tactics of the Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss Al Capone.

Obama’s critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let ‘em know that if they aren’t with you, they are against you, and will pay the price.

The Huffington Post followed-up with their own call for gangland violence against Republicans with the publication on February 14 of a column by David Bourgeois with the title, Obama Better Start Breaking Kneecaps.

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Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 9:23 am in Culture, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics | 75450636 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/ktaylor/2010/02/15/cnn-huffington-post-urge-violence-against-republicans/CNN%2C+Huffington+Post+Urge+Violence+Against+Republicans2010-02-15+17%3A23%3A19Kristinn+Taylor

Sunday Open Thread: Fatwa Edition

Today, in 1989, Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on Salman Rushdie, encouraging Muslims to kill the author, because we wrote a book. (Also today, Al Capone delivered his own fatwa on the North Side Irish gang of Bugs Moran.) Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Posted Feb 14th 2010 at 3:03 am in Open Threads | 74914102 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/14/sunday-open-thread-fatwa-edition/Sunday+Open+Thread%3A+Fatwa+Edition2010-02-14+11%3A03%3A38Publius

Treating Wall Street Like the Mafia

Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman. In 1890, Ohio Sen. Sherman set out on a mission to establish “just competition” laws and level the economic playing field. His quest culminated in the dismantling of monopolies—such as American Tobacco and Standard Oil—and the passage of new laws prohibiting malicious competitive practices. In a similar way, Dodd now seeks the power to tear apart any company he considers a risk to the national economy. But unlike Sherman, Dodd isn’t out to create the best possible conditions for competition to thrive. He’s out for blood.

Dodd’s plan for overhauling Wall Street regulations, released mid-November, includes a proposed new organization: the Agency for Financial Stability (AFS). This new regulator would be tasked with identifying and addressing “systemic risks posed by large, complex companies as well as products and activities that can spread risk across firms.” This represents one piece of the most extensive proposal to reform financial services regulation—topping even the ridiculousness of the Obama plan and Barney Frank plan. Which is saying a lot.

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Posted Nov 28th 2009 at 2:51 pm in Congress, Economics, News, Politics | 3437037 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/arandazzo/2009/11/28/treating-wall-street-like-the-mafia/Treating+Wall+Street+Like+the+Mafia2009-11-28+21%3A51%3A30Anthony+Randazzo