Because you should never let a crisis go to waste. The left is on something of a roll lately, and to maintain the momentum, it becomes necessary for activists to seek out expressions of hate to show how much work we have left to do.  After all, what's an activist unless there's something to protest against? Unfortunately, some activists are apparently having trouble finding hate crimes and have to invent them.  Recently, a black man admitted placing a Confederate battle flag at a monument to black soldiers, claiming he didn't intend the act as a racial issue but instead as a protest against the flag.  That unconvincing story has kept him out of jail, for the moment. No such luck for two other liberal activsts who blatantly faked hate crimes.  The first, a gay man who carved "homophobic slurs" into his arm and told authorities he was beaten because he is gay: A man who reported someone beat him and carved a homophobic slur into...(Read Full Post)