» Is Ours 'The Weakest Generation'?

if the Constitution doesn't mean anything, if all of the founders' sacrifices went for naught, if all of those American heroes who fought and bled and died for the flag mean nothing, if all your parents and grandparents gave you doesn't amount to a hill of beans, well, then our generation will be forever known as the weak-willed group that let the American dream slip from our fingers.

And we will be known forever as the generation that allowed American exceptionalism to be stolen from us by a radical leftist from San Francisco, a crooked, power-hungry weasel of a man from Nevada, and an Alinsky-trained community organizer who rose to the presidency without qualifications or even so much as a background check by the media.

You don't have to bleed for your country. All you have to do is rally our forces to vote in November.

» Our Dying Constitution

Our Constitution is dying. It is being killed by judges who ignore the actual text of the Constitution but find previously unknown devices in its "penumbras and emanations."
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For instance, the "Commerce Clause," which, inter alia, authorizes Congress to "regulate commerce ... among the several States..." was redefined in 1942 in the Wickard v. Filburn decision to basically no longer require "commerce" or "among the several states." In Wickard, the Supreme Court interpreted the Commerce Clause to mean anything "affecting" commerce can be regulated by Congress. Of course, an argument can be made that everything affects commerce in some way. Now, this once limited grant of power has become almost unlimited, which helps to explain why members of Congress think they can do almost anything.

» We Won't Let Terrorism Stop Us From Appeasing the Terrorists

... when it comes to walking across the bodies of his own dead citizens in order to shake the hand of a terrorist and a murderer, Netanyahu is a piker. Past Prime Ministers have shown up to negotiate after bus bombings with two digit casualties. They have sat across from Arafat, even as that greasy thug's henchmen were busy firing their AK-47's into the air in Ramallah to celebrate the last batch of arms and legs strewn across a shopping district by another martyr for Allah, Al Quds and Palestine. Perhaps when the terrorists manage to do more than kill four people, an unborn baby, wound a Rabbi, his wife and 12 year old girl-- and the Prime Minister of Israel still shows up ready to give away the store to the terrorists, then the US government and the media will be convinced that Israel is absolutely serious about peace.

» Why the Right Fears Transforming America -- and the Left Seeks It

» The sublime genius of the Democrat Party: a marvelous selection of headlines from Illinois certain to inspire voters around the country

Please consider the following news stories, which I believe amply demonstrate the infallible strategies of Democrat governance.

» Injustice Department Sues Employers for Asking to See Green Cards

Employers who hire illegal immigrants can be fined, but the Obama administration warned this week that they also can be fined for asking legal immigrants to show their green cards before hiring them.

» Police spokeswoman moved after remarks on fairgrounds fights

Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw reassigned her department's spokeswoman Thursday, two weeks after Sgt. Lori Lavorato said it was "very possible" fights near the Iowa State Fairgrounds had racial overtones.
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A supplemental report ... said, "On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it 'beat whitey night.' "

I reckon so, Bradshaw. Shame on you ... 'beat whitey night' coulda meant a lot of things, but you had to jump to the conclusion that it was racial.
For future reference, it can only be racist if the people starting fights were saying 'beat anything but whitey night'.

» Of course they're hoarding money

According to the Federal Reserve, businesses are hoarding about $1.8 trillion in cash. There are three reasons for that phenomenon: It's their money. It's their money. And it's their money.
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The likelihood of tax increases, more federal spending of money we do not have, banks tightening their lending requirements, the continued housing and construction crises, the unfolding negative effects of the forced health-care bill, the threat of more anti-business legislation, national security threats and a persistently stalled economy encourages uncertainty and discourages economic growth.

Unlike government, businesses spend money to make money instead of creating jobs they do not need or ones that are too risky. It's called good business.

» Letting Leftists Limit Language

Winning political battles is important, but winning the battle for our language is essential. Everyone grasps that the common heritage of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Mussolini is evil. Reject the “ideological spectrum” with its bastard words and the enemies of ordered liberty have no sword and no shield. Champion the liberation of mankind at the behest of a Blessed Creator, when those dull armies of false words are exposed to sunlight, and victory – final victory – is won.

» Gaza Islamists, Led by Hamas, Vow Wave of Attacks Against Israel

» Hamburg Islamist Speaks of Threat of Attacks in Germany

» Muslim Cleric Calls for Beheading of Dutch Politician

» Profiles of Valor: U.S. Army Maj. Sheffield Ford

» Godzilla in the Mirror

The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has continued since "the Cluster of Copenhagen, when world leaders assembled for the single most unproductive and chaotic global gathering ever held." So says Walter Russell Mead, who has an explanation: Bambi became Godzilla.

» These Talks Are Doomed

... realities, reflecting as they do the unreadiness of the Palestinian people for peace with Israel, have been and will continue to be ignored by the Obama administration, the so-called international community, and most journalists. Instead, world leaders, very much including President Obama, speak of borders, confidence-building measures, and opportunities for peace, as if the problem were one of details. This thoroughly misconceives the nature of the dispute. An Israeli saying (now decades old) captured the essence: If the Palestinians were disarmed tomorrow, there would be no conflict. If the Israelis were disarmed tomorrow, there would be no Israel.

» Questions Raised About Rauf's Nonexistent Mosque

The federal government considers the Muslim group founded by Ground Zero Mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf to be a tax-exempt church. But federal records show the group obtained that status by claiming to hold prayer services for up to 500 people in a Manhattan apartment building that has no space to hold that many people.

» Obama, Immigration & Mosques: Rivers of Blood?

A chilling, recently released undercover video shows a scene that ought put fear of potential cataclysmic revolution upon all Westerners. Pictured was a typical street in Paris, France. Both ends of the avenue were blocked by private security. Meanwhile, what appeared literally thousands of Muslims knelt in the prayer position as the adhān call to prayer rang out. No residents of the street could enter or leave their abodes as all perambulations on the street ceased. The voice-over explained while the act was illegal, authorities decided not to intervene.

» Wanted: One Honest and Fearless Judge

Our collection of judges may have many, if not all, who could be in a position of being able to rule fairly and Constitutionally on such a question as Obama’s eligibility but finding just one who is not in fear of making such a ruling or is not in the pockets of those who favor leaving the question unanswered, as the presidential usurper does, is doubtful.

... if Judge Lind is correct, what is the purpose in having people entering the military service swear to uphold the Constitution? Why swear to uphold something that does not apply to you?

Either this woman has been strong-armed and cowed into following Obama’s way of doing things or she is just not fit to serve as a sitting justice in any court; or perhaps both.

» Perhaps President Obama could start the Middle East Peace Process by halting the slaughter of Shiite Muslims by Sunni Muslims

Before we worry about peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, perhaps President Obama should extend his outreach to the Muslim world community by brokering some kind of peace deal between the Shiite and Sunni sects.

» The Hypocritical Left Trashes “Universal Human Rights”

If the Left actually believed in universal human rights than it would stand up for those values whenever, and wherever, they are violated. This, however, is clearly not the case. The Left’s interest in such things is entirely dependent upon the skin color of the alleged perpetrators and whether or not they happen to be Jews.

» Tea Party Movement Tames The NRA

The National Rifle Association has learned a powerful lesson. That lesson is that they are not the all powerful group they thought they were whose members jump at their mere request. Whether or not they will retain this lesson for use in the future however?

» ‘Bush … Come Back, Bush, Come Back’

Various polls report that George W. Bush in some states is now better liked than President Obama. Even some liberal pundits call for Bush, the now long-missed moderate, to draw on his recognized tolerance and weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque or the Arizona anti-immigration legislation. Apparently the erstwhile divider is now the healer that the healer Obama is not.

As President Obama’s polls dip, as Congress is widely disdained, and as the economy slumps, suddenly George Bush is missed. Why so?

» When Will We Have Another Black President?

President Obama wanted us to discuss race; lest we be called a nation of cowards by his attorney general yet again, let's do it.

» A 7 Million Increase In US Population Results In A Labor Force... Decline? Why The US Has Really Lost 11.2 Million Jobs This Recession

One of the most peculiar observations of this depression started in December 2007 is that while the total US population has increased by 6.8 million from 303.3 million to just over 310 million in July 2010, over the same 32 month period, the civilian labor force has declined from 153.9 million to 153.6 million. This makes zero sense ...

» A mouthfull at Day by Day

America established Kosovo after the U.N.'s failed defense of the muslims of Srebrenica. No muslim nation helped.

Indonesia, with 200 million muslim followers, was struck by a tsunami. America gave nearly 2 billion in aid. Saudi Arabia? 10 million.

America liberated the 2.5 million muslims of Kuwait from a secular baathist, Saddam, who suppressed muslims. America the lost 4,000 men and women against anti-muslim forces in Iraq. America also ended the Iran-Iraq war that killed one million muslims.

In America, you can worship as you wish. There's no question America treats muslims better than anyone, period.
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Read the rest.

Islamophilia is the new Anti-Semitism
Don't skip this one, go read it ... carefully.
» A Tale of Two European Remarks: De Gucht and Sarrazin

» A madman with an agenda acts alone, except when he doesn’t

In sum: If you lamented how “the climate of hate in America” drove Michael Enright to violence, but now insist that James Jay Lee was acting alone and how dare anyone say otherwise, you are not to be trusted.

» al Sadr back to threatening the Iraq government

From his cushy apartment in Tehran where he’s been hiding since the surge began and wiped out the troops al-Sadr abandoned with “fight to the death” orders, Mookie ... feels safe enough to warn Iraqi forces from working too closely with US troops.
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Anyone else think it’s coincidental that al-Sadr makes this threat just hours after Obama’s speech to the nation about Iraq?

al-Sadr shoulda, coulda been removed from planet earth in the beginning stages of the Iraq war .... but no, we had to go stifle our sanguine instincts and give the Osama-wannabe a free pass to Iran. Another opportunity wasted.

Big word 'sanguine' learned just this morning from Mike at ColdFury

Suddenly I felt that I was indeed in the presence of a community organizer...
» Chrysler closings were politically motivated

... the closings benefited certain Democrat donors and minorities and had little correlation to sales, service or regional need.

We found dealers that, despite having numerous judgments, defaults and fines levied against them, kept their dealerships -- no doubt completely unrelated to the fact that they had maxed out donations to Democrat candidates.

... it was obvious, even after a cursory examination, that the process was more political than economic in nature. It smacked of favoritism, revenge and skulduggery -- to the point that even legacy media had to pick up the story.

Repeated Patterns
» Cook County's Democrook Party: $7M in mystery checks issued, CFO gets herself a $54K raise and county budget deficit set to top $500M

Democrats have raped and pillaged the public coffers in Illinois for decades ...
25 checks worth more than $6.7 million were paid out before receiving the required board approval ...
After he lost the election, Stroger appears to have spent his lame-duck tenure doling out favors at taxpayer expense ... And losing control of millions of dollars ... budgeting process that leaves the taxpayers $500 million in the hole

It is the dhimmicrat way. Suck as much blood as you can while attached, ravage and destroy as much as possible on the way out.

How much damage will they be able to inflict between November 2010 and January 2011? You can bet they will give it their best shot.

Gimme Some Mixed Signal, Unky Sam!
Those nutty feds, I do declare, seems like they just wanna keep us all guessing about what is and what ain't profilin'.

Let's say you're in Texas and looking at a couple of fellers that are obviously hispanic, speak Spanish and they're wearing cowboy-style clothing.
Should you ask them for ID to determine if they're illegal aliens?

The answer, according to our federal agencies, depends.
If you're a state official, like say ... a sheriff ... and you ask the question, you get sued by the Attorney General.
If you're a private citizen selling a gun, and fail to ask the question, you go to jail.

As did Paul Copeland ...

» Feds Convict Texan for Selling a Gun to Illegal Alien With Texas Drivers License

In Federal District Court on July 20, 2010, the ATF won a conviction from an Austin jury that defies logic and reason.

Oh! It's ATF, my bad. Federal laws don't apply.

In a trial before Federal Judge Sam Sparks, government lawyers conceded Texas resident Paul Copeland did not know his buyer was an illegal alien, but the jury they should convict him anyway because he “had reasonable cause to believe” he was selling to an illegal alien because the two men and a boy who were present at his table at the time of the sale: 1) were Hispanic, 2) spoke Spanish, and 3) wore cowboy clothing. And the jury did as asked. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Freel acted as lead prosecutor in the case.

The stupid just lasts and lasts ....

At Copeland’s trial Huerta admitted on the witness stand, that he is in the country illegally, (Huerta Sr. had previously admitted this fact to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Leo Buentello). ATF Agent Shawn Kang claimed he saw Huerta later hand off the gun to Aviles. Despite these admissions, Huerta Sr. was never arrested, charged, or deported. Instead, his presence at the gunshow was used to entrap an American citizen into an unwitting violation of a federal gun control law. Huerta Sr., who is a resident of the City of Austin, appeared as a witness at the trial, admitted he was in the country illegally before federal prosecutors and a federal judge, yet he was allowed to leave the courtroom under his own power. To date Huerta Sr. has not been prosecuted for his purchase, possession, or disposition of the handgun he bought from Copeland, while Copeland is now a convicted felon.

I'm just wonderin' out loud now .... how much more of this kinda stuff are we willing to tolerate?

» Labor, Progressive Groups to Hold Oct. 2 Rally to Counter Beck

Labor leaders, liberal religious leaders and the NAACP will hold a rally on the National Mall on October 2, one month before the fall midterm elections, in an attempt to show they too have political clout and momentum in response to last Saturday’s massive gathering of Tea Party types led by Fox News host Glenn Beck.
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Besides the NAACP, the Oct. 2 rally will be supported and organized by other labor organizations such as the SEIU and the American Federation of Teachers.

The entire 8/28 event is available for anyone to watch online. If there's any debate on the "flavor" of Beck's massive rally, it can only be said (in true honesty) that it was a blend of religious and patriotic flavor. It was as Apolitical as any event could be - unless you judge it only by the political philosophies of the majority of participants.

The fact that the people on the stage and in the audience were regarded as rightwing by the media and leftists - while only eschewing the principles on which our country was founded - is a strong indication of the anti-American flavor of the opponents of the event.

Furthermore, consider the participants of the proposed counter rally and the stated purpose. Well, so far the stated purpose is not much more than countering the 8/28 rally, but the bulk of the participants so far is Unions and NAACP.

What message are they trying to send?

I look forward to relaying exposure of the planners' and participants' socialist backgrounds.

» Big Labor’s Bloody Legacy

To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka’s organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement’s violent and corrupt foundations.

Meet Eddie York ... A nonunion contractor ... was shot to death during a strike called by the United Mine Workers ...

... head of the UMW ...Richard Trumka: “I’m saying if you strike a match and you put your finger in it, you’re likely to get burned.”

.... Trumka told UMW members to “kick the s**t out of every last” worker who crossed his picket lines

When you compare Trumka to all the other Obama affiliates, how can you not conclude that he fits right in?

» New evidence undermines feds' case against Arizona

Failing to find proof of real discrimination in Maricopa County could ultimately doom the administration's entire crusade in Arizona. The much-publicized suit against the new immigration law is based on the possibility that it might result in future discrimination, but at the same time the department is struggling to find evidence of civil rights violations in Arpaio's office, which uses enforcement techniques similar to those outlined in the new law. There's a real chance that in the end Obama's war on Arizona will come to nothing

» The Revolt of the Bourgeois

This was the revolt of the bourgeois, of the responsible, of the orderly, of people profoundly at peace with the traditional mores of American society.
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A New York Times survey earlier this year occasioned shock when it found that “Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class.” We’re so accustomed to the notion of a revolt of the dispossessed that a revolt of the possessed (in the non-demonic sense, of course) strikes us as a strange offense against the nature of things. But it’s threatening to wash away the Democratic congressional majorities in a historic wipeout.

» Our Distracted Commander-in-Chief

During the past week, 22 Americans were killed over a four-day period in Afghanistan. This is not a place about which decisions should be made in order to placate congressmen, pass health-care reform, and thereby maintain a president’s political standing. This is a place about which a president should make decisions to best succeed in the military mission he himself has set out.

» Two Crazy Greens

Every movement has its crazies, but not every movement is as crazy as the one that calls itself “environmental.” Almost entirely devoid of any real scientific justification, the Greens have devoted decades to literally inventing one bogus crisis after another, culminating with “global warming.”

At the heart of the Green philosophy is the belief that the Earth’s problems are all caused by human beings.

We can dismiss Lee as a lunatic, but what are we to do regarding Dr. John P. Holdren, the top science advisor to President Obama?

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James J. Lee is one less environmentalist thanks to a SWAT team, but what are we to do about Dr. John P. Holdren and the host of other environmental crazies seeking to eliminate humans from planet Earth?

Indeed, what are we to do about Dr. John P. Holdren?
I have a few suggestions .... but they are intolerant, insensitive, politically-incorrect, mean-spirited ... and effective.

» Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrorist' latest in long line

With such toxic fumes wafting their way through the environmental movement, some were bound to pick up where the Unabomber had left off. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) carried out acts of violence all across the U.S. By 2003, the FBI estimated that the two organizations had committed over 600 acts of terrorism over the preceding seven years. ELF terrorists set fire to a ski resort at Vail Mountain, Colorado and torched an apartment complex in San Diego, California. ALF activists trespassed on a mink farm in Washington state and “liberated” 10,000 minks.

According to the Maryland Gazette, James Lee was influenced by Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” While Gore’s controversial documentary does not advocate violence, the film’s catastrophic vision of earth’s future and man’s alleged role therein, will weigh heavily on the psychologically vulnerable among us. Let’s hope that Lee’s case is an isolated one and that we’re not facing a resurgence of eco-terrorism. The country has enough problems as it is.

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By the way, the liberated minks? They died ... way to go, greenie-punks.

There was a time when unions served a noble purpose, that time is long gone.
» While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns

Today’s labor movement claims to hold its individual members’ welfare paramount. So what message do its leaders send when they opt to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigns while members continue to suffer very difficult economic times?
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For decades, union negotiators have steered dollars toward such things as political campaigns and generous pay and benefit packages, rather than responsibly funding retiree pension obligations. Now, with pension obligations climbing and fund assets dwindling, union executives realize that they can’t satisfy the years of promises that they irresponsibly made.

Their solution? Dump union benefit obligations onto taxpayers.

Another example of Mexicans doing the jobs Americans won't?
» CBP confirms two Mexican helicopter incursions in Starr County

The Air and Marine Operations spokesman said that a long-standing agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada allows for temporary incursions for medical or law enforcement purposes.

Yea, I reckon so. Our top-notch federal government can't (or won't) enforce the law (of border security) so they're willing to allow foreign military to do it for them.

While the Parasite-in-Chief prosecutes and sues Arizona officials for trying to enforce the law, he allows Mexican military to invade.

» In 2007, Then-Senators Obama And Biden Joined Fellow Dems Who Voted Four Times To Cut Funding For Troops Deployed In Iraq
Let not the facts detract from the narrative. It is to Obama the praise for victory must be directed!

Despite the obvious detours he took to avoid use of the word victory.

» Lt. Col. Allen West: A Voice for the Leavenworth 10

Is somebody watching over you today? Is there someone somewhere that is willing to put your well-being ahead of theirs? Those are powerful questions that we seldom ponder here in America. Why? The answer is that safety, security and most importantly freedom, the delicacies sought in so many places in the world, are things we in America nonchalantly pile upon our plates daily like hungry diners at an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord. Say what you will, but the reality is that even in the worst of times we really have it good. However, America, the magnet for so many people of the world, has been maintained and has flourished by the blood of the American soldier. The soldier’s willingness to fight and if need be, die on foreign soils against vicious enemies for the nation’s survival is often underestimated.

That excerpt alone is enough to warrant reading the whole article, but it's only the appetizer.

» Ron Paul Backs "Ground Zero Mosque," Splitting with Son Rand

"... the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia...never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars."

There. That's the Ron Paul I'm talking about. That's the man whose supporters I've been seeing (for several years) mixing with the CodePoinkers, ANSWERers, MoveOn(dot)Morons, SDS and 9/11 truthers.

Ron Paul is a moonbat, a rightwing moonbat. I say that because he has demonstrated, over and over, his ability to ignore the obvious threats to security and liberty of Americans while finding fault with the Americans that fight against those obvious threats.

Paul, and his radical supporters followers would step over the headless bodies of American victims of Islam, to put cuffs on the troops that volunteer life and limb to protect and defend.

"This is all about hate and Islamaphobia ..."

Always looking at America from the point of view of America's enemies ... requires that you actually stand with the enemy.

No coincidence that Paulbots mix well with jew haters, neo-Nazis, communists and a wide assortment of anti-America whackjobs.

» Paris Streets Being Illegally Blocked off by Private Security Guards For Friday Prayers, Police Shown Doing Nothing…

» Justice files suit against Ariz. sheriff
What do you call it when the President and his Attorney General insist on threatening and badgering citizens in matters that's none of their business?

I calls it Clobberin' Time.

DEFIANT: "Now it's time to take the gloves off," Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday.

Sounds like the sheriff agrees.

Feds Sue Arizona Again, And Again…

Today the U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio, again. This time alleging discrimination, unconstitutional searches and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against those who possess limited English skills.

Stop it George, yer breakin' my heart.
» George Clooney Says Darfur Involvement 'Greatest Failure of My Life'

Clooney and his journalist father Nick smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps four years ago to show the impact of the civil war that is estimated to have killed more than 300,000.

Since then, Clooney said little has changed.

Putting aside the fact that Clooney is a lefty radical moonbat, I can say that his heart is in the right place in regards to Darfur. Unfortunately, like too many sniveling liberals, his brain don't work nowhere near as good as his heart - he's trying to fix something without understanding why it's broken. His ignorance of the causes of the Darfur tragedy doomed his efforts from the start.

Instead of placing the blame on the root causes, liberals naturally assume that if anything's rotten in the world it has to be America's fault. That assumption blinds them and prevents them from taking real productive action.

Darfur is about islam and racism. It's about arab muslims vs negro muslims - and as usual, the arabs are not all that loving of their brethren in allah.

So taking pictures of refugees don't do diddly to help the situation as long as you allow the genocide to continue.

Wake up, George. If America is to save Darfur, we will have to send Marines not cameras. We would have to stomp mudholes in arabs, not take their pictures.

But those mean ole Marines just dont fit into your perfect little world, do they?

» The Genius of Mark Levin: The Time Is Now

The modern left is an explicit enemy of the Constitution. The modern left dominates the Democrat Party. And that is why the Democrat Party must be wiped from the political landscape in November. And in every election henceforth.

It is time for action. And you must be an evangelist for the destruction of American socialism in our time.

» UCLA Cans Professor James Enstrom for Thought Crimes

Under a hard tyranny, if professional intellectuals fail to toe the official line, they are imprisoned or killed. What happens to them in a soft tyranny?
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One month after coauthoring an op-ed for Forbes.com expressing his concerns with these obviously pernicious regulations, Enstrom got a letter stating that he was getting canned because his "research is not aligned with the academic mission of the Department."

That academic mission: to help the moonbats running California use faulty science and phony environmentalist posturing to destroy the state's economy, with the rest of the country soon to follow it down the drain. Out of the ruins will arise a collectivist utopia, in which the inequalities unavoidably associated with freedom will never trouble us again, and enlightened experts will make all our decisions for us. Surely such a glorious end justifies any means.

» Don’t ever complain to me about the money spent on Iraq, again

For years -years!- under George W. Bush, the Democrats and their Leftist allies cried rivers of crocodile tears over the money being spent to first liberate, then stabilize that land. They claimed so often and so loudly to be worried about the debts incurred and the deficits run, that they convinced the electorate that they would actually be better stewards of the public’s money, and partly for that were given control of Congress in 2006.

In less than two years, the Democrats have made spending on the war in Iraq look like pocket change:

» Wyden: For imposing the Obamacare individual health mandate before he was against it

Far Left Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon championed a federal individual health care mandate, wrote it into his own legislation, and voted it into law.

Now, he’s not so sure he wants to impose it on his own constituents ? and he’s searching for an exemption for his state.

» Beck's 'Obsession' with Black Liberation Theology Thoroughly Justified

That Glenn Beck is now reviving this issue and spreading a little truth on Obama's bold religious claims makes liberals understandably nervous. And it would take a ninny living under a rock in Los Angeles not to have noticed that the only church at which Barack Obama has ever -- before or since -- regularly worshiped was the one that unabashedly preached nothing but Black Liberation Theology.

Big Whoop?
» What Recession? Michelle Obama Wears $635 Shoes on $4000 Per Night Hawaii Vacation
Why should we care how much the First Wookie pays for a pair of silly lookin' shoes? Are we indulging in a little class envy?

Context. It's the context, stupid.

Obama has lectured Americans about how they can not expect to live their lives as indulgently as they have in the past. He has lectured businesses about their travel and pay.

It's not class envy ... it's class contempt. We have boiling contempt for the class of parasite that is currently sucking the life out of our Republic. The parasites have the audacity to tell us we have to tighten our belts, do without AC, give up our automobiles ... and stop resisting the fundamental transformation. The Parasite in Chief takes a moment or two, once in a while, to step outside the current celeb-commie infested whitehouse party, wipe $2000 worth of grease off his purple lips and launch into a teleprompted speech about how us spoiled brat American commoners have got to change our lifestyles.

Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn't Michelle Obama live like a queen?

The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela.

The shoe style is called "Leather open toe flat pumps." It features a "thin nude leather strap across the top of the toe."

A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour would have to work 88 hours (without taxes taken out) to make enough to pay for Michelle Obama's shoes. If she can get them on sale, they would only set her back $445 for 62 hours work.

The Obamas are staying at an $8.9 million estate for an estimated $4000 per night. To cover the Obama's ten night stay, the minimum wage worker would have to work two-and-a-half years (before taxes) to come up with the $40,000 Obama is reportedly laying out.

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The news media has yet to call him out on his extravagance when there is 10% unemployment with no sign of the employment picture improving this coming year.

So yeah, it is a big whoop. While the Obamas enjoy a week vacation ... every 7 days ... they stand in $600 shoes to lecture us about our decadence.

Bite me

Armed and Dangerously Defiant
» Island evacuations start as Earl nears

Gov. Bev Perdue declared a state of emergency ...

I'm not arguing the necessity of declaring a state of emergency. It's a big hurricane, and the two week aftermath of hurricane Fran made a lasting impression on me.

I do have a problem with one aspect of the state of emergency. Having been under the control of statist dhimmicrats for far too long, the state of North Carolina is burdened with an extensive collection of stupid legislations - not the least of which if General Statute 14-288.7. That little unconstitutional piece of bigotry makes it illegal for me to carry a gun off my property this morning - because of the declared state of emergency.

It matters not that the sky is blue, the air is calm and the forecasters say my county will see almost none of the effects of Earl. It matters not that I have a concealed carry permit. It matters not that my right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

When I roll out the end of my driveway in a few minutes ... I will be an outlaw. So what's the point in stopping for all those mindless traffic lights? Heck, might as well go for broke ... I'm not even gonna wear a seatbelt.

The overall gene pool just got a dash of chlorine, and the average global IQ went up a fraction.
» When warmistas attack

Lee said he experienced an "awakening" when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

Perhaps inspired by Gore, and Dr. James Hansen’s recent call for civil disobedience, we have today’s environmental public relations train wreck turned armed hostage situation.

» James Jay Lee: Ecomoonbattery Reaches Full Flower

Discovery Communications is about as ecomoonbatty an outfit as you will find. One of its channels even runs "Whale Wars," a program dedicated to glorifying the terrorist activities of sociopathic hippy pirates who sabotage whaling vessels. But to a moonbat, moonbattery could never go far enough.

Happy, Prince Albert? Your global warming crisis has finally claimed a victim.

Not the first victim.
March 2010
Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents' 'global warming suicide pact'

In case you might think I'm trying to make comparisons between James Jay Lee the psycho terrorist and mainstream moonbats ... you are absolutely, 100% correct.
You could have replaced any anti-war hippy, CodePoink whore, dhimmicrat , Obama appointee, RonPaulie, SEIU thug, Hollywood clown, ACORN criminal, MoveOn(dot)Moron or Bill Mahr ... with the nutcase known as James Jay Lee and not been able to tell the difference.
except maybe for the cap.

~~ This Aint Hell ~~

It was worth peatin' ... it's worth repeatin'.
» Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing

» The Bankruptcy of Barack

Last night Obama delivered a speech about a war that he exploited for political advantage during the election, and ignored the rest of the time. A war that he tried to sabotage as a Senator, and neglected once in the White House. Where Bush conducted constant conferences with commanders in the field, Obama has let the clashing egos of former Clinton Administration staffers, and a few imported radicals, determine how the war will be conducted. Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never be accused of just not giving a damn. Yet that is exactly the case with Obama. He just doesn't give a damn.

» Drill, Baby, Drill Is Back, Baby, Back

Washington can and should find out what caused the spill and impose reasonable safeguards, but it should not close the door on tapping the nation’s oil resources. The American people have had it right all along—drill, baby, drill.

» Obama Is Not A Muslim

I say liberals are godless traitors. Why is one statement debatable and the other not?

» The World's Most Deadly Terror Attacks

Twenty-five years after Air India 182, a look at 15 of the globe's worst strikes

And what do 13 out of 15 have in common? huh? eh?

Remember, 15 is just a scratch on the surface.

Mosque de Triomph
» What's in a Word?

"Dawa" may be an unfamiliar word to you. It is to most Americans, but we had better learn to understand it for it is almost certainly the motivation behind the drive to build the "Ground Zero" mosque in Manhattan.

...the name of the proposed mosque-community center ... Cordoba House, is derived from the Cordoba, Spain mosque built on the ruins of a Catholic church after the Muslim conquest of Spain in the 8th Century. The Christians reconquered Spain in 1492 and Islam lost "al Andalus."

This is one of the "humiliations" that ardent Muslims want to avenge. Thus, the name "Cordoba House" stands for "conquest" and the siting of it is an example of dawa in action: Islamist triumphalism.
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Their is no Muslim constituency in lower Manhattan. Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama missed the point of Cordoba House entirely. It is not a matter of religious freedom or property rights. It is a matter of appropriateness. If it is allowed to be built virtually next door to Ground Zero, it will be dawa's greatest triumph in the United States to date.

RINO: Top of Endangered Species List
» Knee Capping Mitch McConnell: Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Joe Miller

Lisa Murkowski is conceding the senate primary in Alaska to RedState and Sarah Palin endorsed Joe Miller.

» KUHNER: President's socialist takeover must be stopped

President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.

He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship.

» Department of Justice ditches red, white and blue stars and stripes

Well, how interesting! It seems the U.S. Department of Justice has changed its website. Gone are the colorful red, white and blue U.S. flag decorations on the page, replaced by stark black and white.

And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote:
"The common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people."

Catchy, huh? Just one tiny little (too small to be relevant obviously) point -- the quote is from C. Wilfred Jenks, who in the 1930's was a leading proponent of the "international law" movement, which had as its goal to impose a global common law and which backed ‘global workers' rights.'

Call it Marxism, call it Progressivism, call it Socialism -- under any of those names it definitely makes the DOJ look corrupt in their sleek, new black website with Marxist accessories to match.

» Boehner: 'Stimulus' Spending Sprees Have Failed Our Veterans

The Obama White House is in a hurry to claim credit for our troops’ success in Iraq – success made possible by the surge strategy then-Sen. Obama opposed as a candidate for president. The President has taken ownership of the flagging economy, but when will he get serious about creating jobs and cutting spending, and specifically address the unemployment rate among American veterans, which now stands at 11 percent, above the already-high national rate of 9.5 percent?

I have to take issue with the question "... when will he get serious about creating jobs", and I'm getting tired of Republicans using that argument. They, and the dhimmicrats, should know that the president cannot and should not create jobs. Government created jobs are useless.

The private sector can and will create real productive jobs when the government gets out of the way ... when the government gets of their backs ... when the government ceases to feed on them.

» What say you, SEIU, AFL-CIO and AFSCME members? Do you want a check for $1,000? Or more of your money wasted on Democrat losers?

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) -- will spend about $100 million supporting Democrats in the 2010 midterms. In addition, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME) will donate an additional $50 million to the Democrat cause.

Not only do they think you're stupid, they think their members are even dumber. After all, that money could be spent on member benefits. Like a $1,000 check for 150,000 members. Or putting some money into the dramatically underfunded pensions.

Our Daily Knish
» The Media Loses Readers and Viewers to its Own Radicalism

... turning over This Week to Christiane Amanpour is part of the growing blend of ABC News and the BBC.

The question though is who is Christiane Amanpour meant to appeal to? To viewers who wanted another foreign talking head snootily reading the news at them, not to them. Who were desperately longing for an ABC News on air personality sympathetic to Islamic terrorists? And why would those people even bother with ABC News, when they already have the BBC.
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The left is furiously blasting Washington Post TV Critic Tom Shales for stating what was obvious to everyone, that Amanpour is out of place, completely clueless about US politics and insists on internationalizing domestic issues.
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When the left turned magazines, newspapers and TV news into its own bully pulpit, they helped drive away consumers, while locking up those same publications and broadcasts into a liberal ghetto, that was still not liberal enough for them. As print publications increasingly turn their websites into masses of blogs, it becomes hard to tell the difference between Time Magazine, Foreign Policy and the New York Times-- and the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. All of them have angry left wing bloggers denouncing Republicans, America and Israel. The difference is that the official media outlets have more prominent names like Joe Klein or Robert Mackey blogging for them.
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The left's hijacking of American culture has turned institutions into rags and rubble, and it will only get worse. Because the left does not know when to stop. Does not understand that it should stop. That is why left wing revolutions that do succeed, eventually culminate in multiple levels of purges that exterminate many of the original revolutionaries, or send them off to fight and die somewhere else, turning them into convenient martyrs who look good on blood-red T-shirts.

» EPA Surrenders to NRA on Gun Control Issue

In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn't have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue.

» Liberal Media Propagandists Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are

There is no way an unqualified candidate with a communist/Muslim background and numerous radical associations could be made President of the United States without having been placed in that position by the establishment media. Any sort of impartial media would have reduced the Manchurian Moonbat to a laughing stock before his campaign ever got off the ground.

The good news is that with Obama's presidency going down like the Hindenburg, he is likely to bring the left-wing liars who dominate the media with him. After passing this guy off as presidential material, how could they expect anyone to ever believe them again?

» U.N. Human Wrongs

The U.S. State Department is holding up Arizona as America's human rights problem, fishing for applause from the likes of Cuba and Libya. But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer isn't taking it lying down.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to go lower than even Andrew Young in his Carter-era heyday by holding up Arizona as a human rights violator in its groveling "Universal Periodic Review" for the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission.

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What it adds up to is an Obama administration that seeks to take its political battles to questionable forums like the U.N., using dissident states as its villains. It's a nasty abrogation of the U.S. duty to speak out on real human rights and, in the end, will only give comfort to tyrants and criminals.

» ‘Bout Time

Think the Republicans have finally gotten the message? Is it possible they understand that the nation is in peril due to the radical agenda carried out by the Obama Administration? Is it possible that they finally understand that world respect is better than world popularity? Have they figured out that the stampeded toward a probable majority in Congress is more in spite of their policies than because of them?

"A tour through the liberal mindset is always interesting."
Especially, if you also enjoy the view at the bottom of a porta-potty.

» Huffpo,Westboro, and the Mosque

The HuffPo's Nicholas Graham finds Brick Stone's mocking interview with the Westboro Baptist people hilarious. Westboro's Jewish and gay policy is to yell names. Meanwhile, Imam Rauf graces the pages of the HuffPo advocating Sharia law -- which Ms. Darwish pointedly says includes executing gays. And, of course, there is that Hamas thing.

Will Brick Stone have the cojones to show up outside the Mosque site and mock its supporters about executing gays? Will Nicholas Graham tee off on the Imam and his Hamas problem?

What do you think?

A tour through the liberal mindset is always interesting.

» The Tillman Story

"Lies" are of course of many kinds, and the kind that were told to the family of Corporal Tillman by the Army, regrettable though they may be, seem to me to be far more benign and forgivable than the ones now being told -- or, more often, insinuated -- by the propagandists against America's wars on terrorism. Throughout his piece, Mr. Karpel suggests that propaganda is ipso facto wrong and dishonest, irrespective of the war it serves. It may be so, but you'd think he would at least give a nod to the question of whether or not it is possible to fight a war without it. If, as I suspect, it is not, then it leads me to believe that the anti-war propagandists are, in fact, pacifists who oppose propaganda for the same reason that they oppose war: not because of any considered assessment of the justice or necessity of any particular conflict but because their aim is simply to make war, any war, impossible. Theirs is the attitude of those who sport the bumper-sticker, "I'm already against the next war."

Of course what they will prevent, if they are successful, is not war but the defense of America, which has a long, rich and, some would say, suicidal tradition of indulgence towards those of its own citizens who oppose its self-defense. Such people, insofar as they have any influence in the world, can only prevent us from fighting back, not our enemies from attacking us. They are still in thrall to the old hippie pseudo-profundity, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" But we know very well what would happen if "they" gave a war and "nobody" came. "They" would win and the clever nobodies who think they can avoid it by not showing up would lose. Losing a war obviously holds no terrors for them, but we might want to ask somebody who has lost one -- a South Vietnamese, a Cambodian, an Iraqi Shi'ite after the first Gulf War, for example -- how they feel about it before the rest of us accept such defeatism and insouciance as our national defense policy.

» The Magically Expanding Ribbon Rack of Connie Pillich (D-OH)

... a hard-core, left-leaning Obama supporter in a very conservative region ... Air Force vet ... parades around her ribbons while wearing civilian attire ... her ribbon rack has mysteriously grown in the intervening years.

» Obama Climate Czar Carol Browner Is Causing The Bedbug Epidemic

This is a direct result, as predicted ten years ago by The Detroit News' Diane Katz, of the EPA's zealous, anti-science ban on Dursban - a common household pesticide - under Clinton appointee Carol Browner -- now Obama Climate Czar - in 2000. The bed bugs have come home to roost.

» Sharia and the United States Constitution

... try to imagine a world in which Sharia law can coexist with the American Constitution

In my August 19 post, I almost jokingly made the following statement:

"Eventually Obammy's waffle will settle down to a steady state of dhimmitude, and he might even do something really leftist ... like give the muzzies the needed cash to finish their Mosque de Triumph. Then all the jihad-butt-kissers will calm down, wipe the foam from their mouths and fall in love with the anointed one; all over again."

One of these days, we're gonna learn to not make jokes. Because dhimmicrats turn jokes into policy.

» Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing

The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

» Black Conservatives: The New Revolution

» National Association For the Advancement of Communist Progressives

» The Left's Unlikely Alliance with Islam

The Islamic radicals are happy to use their influence with the left to forward their agenda, but when are fair-minded people who lean politically left going to realize that their allies are not allies at all -- that they are being used to forward an agenda in direct contrast to their own?

» Us and Them
Not what you think.

» What's America's biggest national security threat? According to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: It's the Democrats' Spending

» Oikophobia : Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting.

The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.

Scruton was writing in 2004, and his focus was on Britain and Europe, not America. But his warning about the danger of oikophobes--whom he amusingly dubs "oiks"--is very pertinent on this side of the Atlantic today, and it illuminates how what are sometimes dismissed as mere matters of "culture" tie in with economic and social policy

» FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims rare

CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case, has claimed that "anti-Muslim hate crimes" have risen sharply in the U.S. since 9/11. In fact, the rate of such crimes has actually dropped. CAIR knows well that victimhood is big business: insofar as they can claim protected victim status for Muslims in the U.S., they can deflect unwanted scrutiny and any critical examination of how jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence and supremacism.

Are you, or do you know someone that is ...
Stupid enough to still go to Mexico for vacation?
» Fifteen Wounded in Puerto Vallarta Resort Bar Attack
Well, I do ... know someone. Someone I love ... and someone I wish could recognize that the playground has been taken over by bullies that kill people.

Considering the hyperbolic nature of NASA's previous guess-shots at predicting natural events, it's easy enough to poo-poo this one.
However ....
» Massive Solar Storm to Hit Earth in 2012 Will Put Electronics in Danger

Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.

Since solar storms are a fact, and they have blasted the earth many times in the past .... would it not be prudent to be prepared?
After all, we're allowing our government(s) to rob us blind in preparation for global warming ; for which there is Zero (0) evidence.

NASA said that a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause "1 to 2 trillion dollars in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery"...

They claim satellites will be aged by 50 years, rendering GPS even more useless than ever, and the blast will have the equivalent energy of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

Previous generations that survived solar events unscathed, did so because they're technologies were unaffected. Ours will not be so lucky. Solar magnetic storms like the one being predicted ... eat electronics like m&m's .

Daily Knish
» The Liberal-Islamist Alliance

The Ground Zero Mosque debate is only the latest in a long series of incidents in which liberals have chosen to side with Islamists, while denying their victims a fair hearing or any hearing at all. Opponents of the mosque are painted as "Islamophobic Extremists" representing nothing but bigotry and hate. This is much the same way that the liberal cultural elite has placed the blame for over a thousand years of Muslim persecution of Jews on "Zionist Extremism". While a Koran in the toilet becomes a front page story, the ongoing persecution of Hindus, Zoroastrians and Christians in Muslim countries is only a footnote in the State Department's human rights report.

This image is a perfect illustration of the moonbat leftists: Che G., the pyscho, serial-murdering commnunist in palestinian garb, accompanied by Arabic and the words 'fight imperialism'.

» Canada Terrorist Cell Busted

The RCMP dismantled a home grown terrorist cell in Ottawa today that was the project of a number of adherents of the Religion of Peace.

The ringleader allegedly attended training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and I'm sure that as usual, there's a Saudi-funded wahabi mosque and a 'moderate' imam in the picture.

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Scarborough imam Aly Hindy — who is on record as being critical of the way the Toronto 18 case was handled - derided the “so-called war against terrorism,” and said that the threat is exaggerated.

“We don’t have this feeling of any danger. We feel very safe,” he said.

I'll just bet he does.