Unlike the Iowa Freedom Summit's host, Steve King, who seems to be capturing the
Alien Family Units that Newt Gingrich wants to find on the Moon, Rick Perry and Chris Christie got the expected heckling at the Iowa Ski Summit yesterday. 2 protesters were arrested and later released. But the most interesting line comes from Ben Carson who imagines how his GOP base would like to poison gay wedding cakes.
But the former doctor and Fox News commentator may need to sharpen his policy chops if he wants to become a top-tier player. Carson struggled at times through a post-speech press availability, offering vague answers on a number of topics and refusing to answer how he thinks abortion should be criminalized.
Carson also criticized political correctness as he answered a question about gay marriage — and followed up by flaunting decorum with the type of comment that endears him with the base but could hurt his cross-party appeal.
"What I have a problem with is when people try to force people to act against their beliefs because they say 'they're discriminating against me.' So they can go right down the street and buy a cake, but no, let's bring a suit against this person because I want them to make my cake even though they don't believe in it. Which is really not all that smart because they might put poison in that cake," he said to chuckles from some of his staff and dead silence from the journalists in the room.
Picking up right where John Carpenter's "Escape From New York" ended, we find Snake Plissken stuck in New Jersey with his new found freedom on the line when his path crosses that of Armando Barone, the crime kingpin of the Garden State. With his Presidential pardon in Barone's grasp, Snake is once again forced to re-steal the money that got him sent to New York Prison in the first place. Can Snake pull off the job? Will he ever truly be free? But more importantly, can he escape New Jersey?
If Muslims have no right to expect their sensibilities to be protected from offence, then nor do liberals, but they behave increasingly as if they do. The Christian bakery threatened with legal action for refusing to decorate a cake with a pro-gay slogan is a case in point. This is a free speech issue too, but is not seen as such because liberals cannot recognise their own intolerance. They expect the religious to take offence, whilst insisting they themselves never be offended.
The bright line here is of course the one that Carson's "joke" brushes against which really does raise questions about his fitness to serve as POTUS.