Oxymorons for Our Time #214

Political Bravery

Bari Weiss Is Really Brave

Mac Thornberry Goes Out on a Limb, Makes Bid to 

Be Included in Next Edition of Profiles in Courage

Trump Lets His Hair Down

Call them 'terrorists' and be fearful.

Call them 'murderers' and be fearless.

Land of the free and home of the brave?  If you're an

American who lives in fear, you're neither free nor 

brave.

Sorry, Mr. President, but what this country needs now

is not more prayers and condolences.  What we need 

now is someone with enough courage to face the NRA, 

the gunhuggers,  and the firearms manufacturers, and 

say, "Guns kill people, and I'm going to do everything

in my power to keep what happened in Connecticut 

 today from ever happening again."

If you seek the fearless, don't bother

looking for them on Wall Street.

Barack Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize.  But

it's unlikely he will ever win the John F. Kennedy

Profile in Courage Award.

Joe and Hadassah Lieberman say they're

ready to join Glenn Beck in 'Restoring

Courage' to cowardly Israelis on

August 24, 2011. 

Razing McCain #6

Regardless of whether you're conservative or liberal,

John McCain has the courage of your convictions.

"You can't lead unless you've got courage. Nouri's got courage

and he's shown courage over the last six months. Before that,

he was a yellow-bellied, lily-livered coward."