On Friday Governor Haley Barbour defended pardons for the four murderers who had impressed him with their repentance and redemption while working as trustees at the governor’s mansion. In an interview with Fox Insider’s Bret Bair, Barbour used a line of reasoning based on Christian forgiveness that was lampooned in the Coen brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou as an ignorant misunderstanding of the relationship between religion and one’s debt to society.

In this video, we consider what might happen when researchers get results that make everyone who signs their paycheck look bad.

Study Accidentally Reveals Psych Differences of Liberals and Conservatives
A study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) shows that there are measurable psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. However, don’t expect to get a fair reporting of the results from Scientific American or even from the researchers themselves. Both have published comically contorted interpretations of the data.

Take a look at the skillful arguments against central planning in the first two minutes of the clip below. Why don’t we see any Republican officeholder taking on such fundamental issues, like the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with such clarity?

Film made in the Truman era explains what Republicans don’t.
Progressives will call the rest of this video over-the-top anti-communist scare tactics.  They may call those who made it intolerant sexist jingoists. This means that their arguments need not be answered with reasoned responses. There’s a name for responding to …

I’d like to establish early on that you ignore what the Walt Disney Company has to say about crowd control at your peril. For example, in bidding to provide the event management for the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976 Disney proposed to stage an evening that featured first fireworks, then a free concert, then a second free concert. They knew from experience in their theme parks that everyone would stay for the fireworks, but far fewer would stay for the first concert, and fewer still for …

If you haven’t watched Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations in September, 2009 and you like the plain speaking of Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan, you should watch. He gets right to the speech part of the speech in 10 seconds.
By way of  comparison it took Barack Obama a minute and 34 seconds to start the speech proper. First was a lengthy salutation followed by an “I come before you humbled” line that, coming so soon after the preening he did during the first applause line, left me …

The innauguration date of this web site, which was reserved a couple of years ago for testing but now I actually have a use for it. A YouTube video we edited called Jack Webb Schools Barack Obama on Healthcare (see video below), thanks to early postings on HotAir and InstaPundit, has become a minor YouTube hit among conservative circles. Below is a brief description of how we created it.
From SplitCoastStampers Forum:

The only motivation for the video was to do something cool on YouTube with my son, who is just switching …