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The following was posted on Nov. 30:

When a guy starts shooting outside a Planned Parenthood clinic, I admit that my first inclination is to think: “He’s probably motivated by his anti-abortion views.”

This is the same reaction leftists and the media (but I repeat myself) had in the wake of the Colorado shooting that left three dead (including an evangelical Christian pastor) and nine wounded.

But after this initial thought, I did not rush to social media or my blog to attack all the people who I believe inspired the guy to murder. Why? Well, because I have no proof about why he attacked those people.

And the more we learn about Robert Lewis Dear, the more it becomes obvious that he was deranged... and had been for a long time — just like most of mass murderers we’ve seen over the last 30 years or so.

But, taking the left’s lead... I guess I could blame them all for the on-camera murders of two TV journalists.

For the assassinations of two NYPD cops sitting in their cruiser. For the executions of Christians at an Oregon college.

If this is the standard, then let’s start applying it equally to all the attackers.

But as Jim Geraghty at National Review Online documents today, the outrage and blame only seem to go one way with leftists, though.

The following was posted on Dec. 8:

 N.C. attorney general rejects due process 

So, this is pretty disturbing.

The top North Carolina law enforcement official wants to strip away the constitutional right to due process from innocent people.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times:

Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper on Monday urged Republican elected officials to pass legislation preventing people on the federal government’s database of known or suspected terrorists from buying guns in North Carolina.

With the idea stifled again nationally last week in the U.S. Senate, Cooper said North Carolina should take the lead to block firearm sales in the state to people on the FBI’s “terrorist watch list.”

“Stopping terror suspects from getting weapons that could harm our state and its people makes common sense,” Cooper said in a news release. “Even if Washington won’t act, we can.”

The “watch list” includes the No Fly List, which Democrats, the media (but I repeat myself), and the ACLU have opposed for about decade.

Indeed, these same parties have argued the No Fly List ensnares innocent Muslims who never know they’ve been placed on the list and find it nearly impossible to get off the list once they do.

The No Fly List has included Yusuf Islam (the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens), the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, and Democratic Congressman John Lewis.

So, forgive me if I don’t trust a government bureaucrat or official with secretly adding or deleting people to a “watch list.”

In fact, prohibiting peaceful, law-abiding Muslims from exercising their constitutional rights based on mere government suspicion seems awfully Islamophobic. Perhaps if we had a more objective media landscape we’d see this asked of the Attorney General and his Democratic Party allies.

Obviously, Democrats know there is no chance that this will ever become law. And even if it did, it would likely face constitutional challenges.

But that’s not the point.

It’s about getting casting Republicans as “soft on terrorism” and “willing to let Americans get murdered by terrorists because the NRA says so.”

Of course, this requires Democratic leaders to assume their voters are stupid. Because the alternative is that they really do want to strip away constitutional protections based on suspicion and not conviction.

Exit question: Does the North Carolina attorney general (and other Democrats) support prohibiting people on “watch lists” from voting?

The following was posted on Dec. 14:

Happy birthday, Dick Van Dyke! 

The famed actor and maker of childhood memories for millions of kids turned 90 years old....

From CNN:

In November, Van Dyke shared with CNN iReport contributor Julie Ellerton his secrets to staying young, which somehow include eating all the ice cream and candy he can get his hands on.

“Don’t do anything that isn’t fun,” Van Dyke said, sitting in a dressing room at the Malibu Playhouse, where he performs with his a capella group Dick Van Dyke and The Vantastix. “I may have reached that point in life where I don’t have to do anything that isn’t fun.”

He said lots of exercise and movement keep him going.

Happy birthday!