Walt Disney Co. has announced it will no longer allow cigarette smoking to be depicted in its films on the basis that it encourages kids to try lighting up. Anti-smoking zealots advocates are hailing this move and urging that other moviemakers do the same.
Our first elected Muslim Congressman has given a speech analogizing President Bush and 911 to Hitler and the Reichstag fire. As you would expect, he’s of course a Democrat.
For the historically-challenged, the Reichstag was the German parliament and, in 1933, the building which housed it was substantially consumed by a suspicious fire at the time blamed on Communists. Hitler’s National Socialist Party (”Nazis”) used this event to arrogate to Hitler as newly elected Chancellor the power to pass laws by decree. It is suspected that the Nazis were complicit in that fire knowing that it could then be used by them for political purposes.
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