News of the Week for April 13th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mozilla only made things worse by letting CEO Brandon Eich go<\/a> $1000 Worth of Digital Fascism from Mozilla<\/a> We don\u2019t have a \u201cgay mafia,\u201d we have a \u201cgay Soviet\u201d<\/a> Hey gay rights militants: your fascism is showing<\/a> The Liberal Gulag <\/a> Mozilla Is For A Wide Diversity Of Views, But Not That Wide <\/a> After Eich, What Is the \u2018American Way?\u2019<\/a> Eich<\/a> Pale Faces, The Left And Gay Marriage<\/a> Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Mozilla<\/a> The New Pitchfork Persecutors <\/a> Mozilla\u2019s Statement on the Brendan Eich Controversy, Explained <\/a> Vanishing Point<\/a> OKCupid Founders Promoted ‘Dis’ Generator with Gay Insults <\/a> OkCupid’s CEO Also Guilty of Anti-Gay Campaign Donation<\/a> The Liberal Con, Cont\u2019d <\/a> Brandon Eich, Soft Totalitarianism, and The Progressive Purificationist Hangman<\/a> What The Mozilla Incident Has Wrought: The New Thought Police<\/a> Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law<\/a> New Mozilla Add-Ons<\/a> You Didn’t Think The Progressive Mob’s Thirst For Scalps Would End With Mozilla, Did You?<\/a> MOBZILLA. The Purging of Brendan Eich<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Poll Shows Rick Scott Ahead in Florida\u2019s Gubernatorial Race <\/a> Scott Brown Pulls Ahead 5 Points In New Hampshire Poll<\/a> King may flip to GOP in 2015<\/a> Wendy Davis Voted for WHAT in Texas Classrooms?<\/a> Gawker Bullies Geek Culture To Prop Up Fake \u201cWar on Women\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n GOP Report on IRS: Only Tea Party Groups Received \u2018Systematic Scrutiny\u2019<\/a> Panel holds Lerner in contempt<\/a> <\/p>\n 13-year old boy suspended for twirling pencil in \u201cgun motion\u201d manner<\/a> Eric Holder wants gun owners to wear \u2018smart gun\u2019 bracelets<\/a> <\/p>\n America\u2019s Brains Move South<\/a> NIPCC report \u2018Poking Very Large Holes\u2019 in Climate Alarmist \u2018Consensus\u2019<\/a> Communication Dilemmas #1: Wishing Death on People Without Losing Them<\/a> <\/p>\n Obamacare eclipses low-cost NJ health plan for middle-class kids<\/a> Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov<\/a> Issa Accuses Cummings of Colluding with the IRS <\/a> Vermont’s Single-Payer Dream Is Taxpayer Nightmare<\/a> Vermont. Or, \u2018Why #Obamacare will not lead to single-payer.\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Donetsk protesters claim independence from Ukraine and ask Russia for military help <\/a> Device exploded in bomber’s face after he ‘forgot about clocks changing’<\/a> <\/p>\n Female Reporter Bullied by Feminists at the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Mozilla Fallout<\/h1>\n
\nLast week, Mozilla Corporation, makers of the ever-popular Firefox web browser, appointed co-founder Brendan Eich to CEO. The move was not surprising\u2014Eich, after all, invented Javascript, the web\u2019s lingua franca\u2014but it would turn into a PR nightmare for Mozilla after it was made public that Eich donated $1,000 to California\u2019s now-infamous Proposition 8, which would deny LGBT Californians the right to marriage. The appointment shook up not only Mozilla\u2019s development staff, some of whom took to Twitter to call for Eich\u2019s resignation, but also Mozilla\u2019s board, three of whose members resigned upon his taking the position.<\/p>\n
\nAs we can see from the despicable actions against Eich, Progressives have no love of freedom. Seriously, if you don’t like it here, just fucking leave. It’s a big wide world out there with plenty of restrictions placed on everybody. Some of us enjoy our country the way it was and don’t want it changed.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m not a Bill Maher fan, but he occasionally shows an intellectual honesty that makes it worthwhile to keep an eye on him. Last week, he exposed Leftist hypocrisy about racism, when he got Leftist guests to denounce \u201cracist\u201d pronouncements from Paul Ryan, only to reveal that he was quoting Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n
\nDear gay rights militants, dear progressive tyrants, dear liberal fascists, dear haters of free speech, dear crusaders for ideological conformity, dear left wing bullies: You will lose.<\/p>\n
\nThe Brendan Eich case brings out the nature of liberal fascism.<\/p>\n
\nMozilla CEO Brendan Eich is the latest culture war casualty, pushed out of the Firefox company over his donation several years ago to California\u2019s Proposition 8. \u201cWe have employees with a wide diversity of views,\u201d Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said in a statement. \u201cOur culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public.\u201d Thankfully, they dealt with this problem as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
\nThe majorities in California and Texas don\u2019t agree with each other on very much. The two states have radically different social policy perspectives, the party that dominates in one is nearly unelectable in the other, they have near polar opposite views on business, on taxation, on personal liberty versus the \u201ccollective good\u201d or whatever you want to call it, on the Second Amendment, you name it. California and Texas just don\u2019t agree on very much. They don\u2019t even agree on what to do with each other, really. Californians apparently want Texans to be just like them, while Texans just mostly want to be left alone.<\/p>\n
\nMuch of the shock following the removal of Brendan Eich from the position of Mozilla CEO came from the realization that, in a manner of speaking, America was now at war. True it\u2019s a culture war, not a physical conflict. But if you were waiting for the moment when the Cold Civil War actually begins, this might be it.<\/p>\n
\nThe gay lobby should step very carefully in joining with the left in marginalising those holding traditional values. Should real discrimination based on sexual preference ever again raise its ugly head, they may well find conservatives to be their most effective supporters and protectors<\/p>\n
\nThe old story is familiar. It is one of the stories I remember my grandmother reading me in her chair \u2014 the chair from which I now read the same stories to my children. She had the Golden Children\u2019s Bible, with the old, beautiful illustrations. Daniel in the Lion\u2019s Den was my favorite. It was two stories past Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.<\/p>\n
\nEich and others who opposed same-sex marriage, even years ago, are being punished.<\/p>\n
\nReading between the lines of the platitudes<\/p>\n
\nThere was an interesting postscript to the Eich saga in the bizarre protest held against Internet entreprenuer Kevin Rose. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that protesters stood with signs and flyers outside of the Google Ventures partner and entrepreneur\u2019s home in San Francisco\u2019s Potrero Hill neighborhood Sunday, calling him a \u2018parasite\u2019 and a \u2018leech.\u2019<\/p>\n
\nThe founders of OKCupid, a free online dating site, made a splash last week when they joined the campaign against Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich. But before they were outspoken critics of Eich, the same four individuals founded a site which promoted a “Dis” generator which included insults aimed at gays.<\/p>\n
\nOn March 31st, users of the dating website OkCupid.com were greeted with a notice informing them that because Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich donated to a pro-traditional marriage campaign, users of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser were banned from the OkCupid website. But now it has come to light that the CEO of OkCupid also made a political donation offensive to gay activists.<\/p>\n
\nThe Mozilla affair has sparked a lot of talk on twitter and on NRO about my first book, Liberal Fascism. It\u2019s happened at a bad time for me to join the conversation, alas (I recently drove to Hillsdale College, where I am a Pulliam Fellow for the next two weeks, with my boisterous puppy dingo, Zo\u00eb as my sidekick). More on the Eich affair in a bit.<\/p>\n
\nThuggery Passes For Progress<\/p>\n
\nThis is the real crux of the issue and one conservatives should be paying attention to. My Twitter timeline is filled with calls for a massive boycott of Mozilla which completely misses the point of what this is all about. Sure, I deleted Firefox but that was my own decision. I couldn\u2019t care less if somebody else uses it. I\u2019m not interested in teaching Mozilla a lesson for what they did. I am more interested in making sure this kind of thing never happens again. <\/p>\n
\nCalifornia Labor Code has already resolved this debate. ‘Under California law,’ Van Vleck explains, ‘it is blatantly illegal to fire an employee because he has donated money to a political campaign. This rule is clearly set forth in Labor Code sections 1101-1102.’ Section 1102 begins, ‘No employer shall coerce or influence or attempt to coerce or influence his employees through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or following any particular course or line of political action or political activity.’<\/p>\n
\nMozilla has launched a new browser called BackFireFox. But seriously, folks, what’s the firing of some Mozilla CEO with old-fashioned views on marriage compared to the potential advancements in technology the progressive Mozilla team can unleash once it’s been liberated from this guy’s heteronormative oppression? <\/p>\n
\nMoving right along, meet the “Drop Dropbox” campaign.<\/p>\n
\nIt was revealed last week that in 2008, Mozilla\u2019s CEO donated over $1000 to a political campaign that was staunch anti same-sex marriage. The CEO\u2019s name is John Lilly<\/p>\n<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nHmm. The conventional wisdom on Florida\u2019s governor\u2019s race is that incumbent Republican Rick Scott is in deep trouble.<\/p>\n
\nRepublican Scott Brown leads incumbent Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire by five points in a recent poll obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD. The poll, commissioned by the Republican Governor’s Association, was conducted on March 19 and 20 and asked 600 likely voters in New Hampshire who they would vote for in the U.S. Senate election. Respondents were given both Brown and Shaheen’s names and their respective parties.<\/p>\n
\nSen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, will decide after the midterm elections whether to switch sides and join the Republicans.<\/p>\n
\nThe Texas House considered HB 1610 to make it easier for school districts to get felons out of classrooms. Sen. Wendy Davis was among a handful of Democrats who voted against the bill. The bill passed easily, without Davis\u2019 vote. Davis then voted for a loophole that would have allowed felons to continue teaching if their crimes were unrelated to teaching.<\/p>\n
\nJake Rush is a conservative Republican candidate primary-ing first-term Congressman Ted Yoho for Florida\u2019s 3rd district in Congress, a northern part of the state just west of Gainesville. It\u2019s unlikely Rush would have ever flown across my radar if not for the bizarre idea of what \u201copposition\u201d has meant in this race.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nA new report from House Republicans sheds more light on the early stages of tea-party targeting by the Internal Revenue Service, identifying the first three cases sent to Washington for special review in 2010.<\/p>\n
\nThe House Oversight Committee approved contempt charges on Thursday against former IRS official Lois Lerner, turning up the heat once more on the agency\u2019s Tea Party controversy.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThen they came for the boys who twirl pencils<\/p>\n
\nAttorney General Eric Holder wants to explore \u201ccommon sense\u201d gun reforms, like mandating that gun owners would have to wear bracelets before they could activate their firearms.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThe educated elites of coastal blue cities tend to condescend to the supposedly racist and backward South. But in recent years, while San Francisco and New York continue to enjoy their status as progressive meccas, America\u2019s college graduates have been sneaking out the back door. Demographer Wendell Cox ranks the top ten U.S. cities that are gaining college graduates most rapidly: New Orleans, LA; San Antonio, TX; Austin, TX; Nashville, TN; Louisville, KY; Houston, TX; Denver, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; Jacksonville, FL; and Raleigh, NC, in that order.<\/p>\n
\nFor the second night in a row, the new report from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) was featured on \u201cSpecial Report with Bret Baier\u201d on the Fox News Channel. Baier\u2019s show destroys its competition on cable news with about 1.7 million viewers each night.<\/p>\n
\nPart of being a science communicator is hoping a natural disaster kills as many members of the audience as possible, as soon as possible, with as much media exposure as possible. As a communicator myself, I\u2019d like nothing better than for thousands of middle-class white people to die in an extreme weather event\u2014preferably one with global warming\u2019s fingerprints on it\u2014live on cable news. Tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nWhile the federal government was trumpeting the benefits of Obamacare to boost enrollment earlier this year, about 1,800 families in New Jersey were receiving letters telling them their children would be losing their health coverage last week.<\/p>\n
\nKathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama\u2019s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n
\nThe war between Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa and the committee\u2019s ranking member, Elijah Cummings, rages on. <\/p>\n
\nOf the plans that states have hatched for the Affordable Care Act, none has been bolder than that of Vermont, which wants to implement a single-payer health-care system, along the lines of what you might find in Britain or Canada. One government-operated system will cover all 620,000 of Vermont\u2019s citizens. The hope is that such a system will allow Vermont to get costs down closer to Canada\u2019s, as well as improve health by coordinating care and ensuring universal coverage.<\/p>\n
\nMegan McArdle finished up her article on Vermont\u2019s single-payer woes by pretty much saying that, but I already knew it anyway. The basic problem? It\u2019s going to cost at least $1.6 billion a year (or about 59% of Vermont\u2019s current annual budget)\u2026 and there\u2019s no way to pay for it except via massive tax hikes. Megan notes that Vermont\u2019s taxes aren\u2019t actually high at all right now, and that implementing single-payer would immediately skyrocket that state\u2019s rate to the highest in the country. <\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThis footage cannot be independently verified, but it is purported to have been filmed inside the main administrative building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday and to show pro-Russian demonstrators declaring their independence from Kiev and appealing directly to Russian president Vladimir Putin for support<\/p>\n
\nIrish bomber blew himself up after device went off too soon ‘because he forgot to put his watch forward’<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nNational Young Feminist Leadership Conference (NYFLC) bullies female conservative reporter.<\/p>\n