Liberals Have Difficulty Telling the Truth

Liberals thrive on widespread fear, pessimism and uncertainty.  But the socialist platform doesn't stand up to the simplest factual tests.  To convince gullible people to vote for liberal candidates and support their agenda, liberals spread fear, distrust and jealousy wherever they can.  Things like truth and facts and honest debate don't matter to liberals as much as winning elections and retaining power.

Most liberal Democrats wouldn't know an honest debate if they walked into one.  If you engage a liberal in conversation, be prepared for a series of vituperative cheap shots, half-truths and ad hominem attacks.  When confronted with inconvenient facts, most liberals just resort to shouting.

Socialist fear-mongers are so tiresome because they predict and expect the worst — about the economy, the war, the next election, the weather, and everything else.  Their solutions always involve bigger, stonger government and higher taxes.

Note:  The material about Jimmy Carter's new book has been moved here.

There is a separate page about Leftist lies, misconceptions and disingenuousness in the gun control debate.

There is also a new page about the smoke and mirrors being used by the Obama administration to make bad ideas sound good -- and to make lies sound like truth.


Crying Bigotry:  Last Refuge Of The Liberal.  Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed.  Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people.  But the people have proved so disappointing.  Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the 40-year liberal ascendancy that James Carville predicted into a full retreat.

For Liberals, Deception Is an Important Tactic.  Jonathan Strong of The Daily Caller notes an interesting and instructive conversation that was held publicly between lefty blogger Matthew Yglesias and National Review's Mark Hemingway.  During their exchange on Twitter, lefty Yglesias claimed that lying is a legitimate tactic for "advocates" to use to win the policy argument, thereby admitting that liberals think it is OK to lie in order to get their policies in place.

Because of a scheme to put fake Tea Party candidates on the ballot...
 Dem official in Michigan forced to resign.  In Michigan, a group claiming to be the "Tea Party" has put 23 candidates on the ballot around the state, despite not having any known connections to established conservative or tea party groups.  It was suspected that this was part of a plot by Democratic operatives to split the Republican vote in November.  Now a Democratic party official is being forced to resign for his role in the scheme, and may even have engaged in illegal activity.

Judge overturned Prop. 8 while claiming he wasn't changing anything.  Judge Vaughn R. Walker's opinion purporting to strike down California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative banning gay marriage is a screaming advertisement against the appointment and confirmation of renegade judicial activists like Elena Kagan.  The labyrinth of twisted reasoning Walker constructs in his opinion is a testament to the depth of deceit that inhabits the modern left's thought processes.

Requiem for a Heavyweight.  The Democratic march to the majority in both houses was aided through the slander of two congressmen and one senator:  Congressmen Mark Foley (falsely accused but cleared of having engaged in pedophilia with House pages), Congressman Tom Delay (indicted by Texas Prosecutor Ronnie Earle but not yet tried for what appears to be a phony baloney charge), and Ted Stevens, Senator of Alaska (who contrary to longstanding Department of Justice practice was prosecuted just before an election and whose subsequent conviction was overturned for egregious prosecutorial misconduct).

About the Left's New Palin-Confronting 'Teacher,' Turns Out She Lied.  Earlier today the left sent up cheers for an Alaska "teacher" that is seen on video attacking Governor Palin as "the worst Governor ever" as the sign she was putting up read.  When Gov. Palin interacted with her, the woman told Palin she was a "teacher."  Looks like the woman, Kathleen Gustafson, is a liar.  As we find on GatewayPundit, she isn't a teacher but a theater tech.  Even more absurdly, the woman belongs to a band that features drag queens as its attraction!

The desperation of Stephanie Herseth Sandlin.  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is South Dakota's lone member of the House of Representatives.  She is a Democrat and a reliable member of Nancy Pelosi's team in Congress.  Now that it's time for her to face the voters back home, however, Herseth Sandlin is selling herself as an independent.  She must think the citizens of South Dakota are first-class rubes.

Dems in denial.  The great Democratic revolution of 2008 is entering its pitiful stage.  If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a guillotine, Robert Gibbs' head would be rolling around in a basket.  His offense?  Uttering perhaps the most unassailably accurate statement of his tenure as White House press secretary:  that there is "no doubt" Republicans might take back the House.  Theories abound for why Gibbs would say such a flatly true thing.  The simplest is that Gibbs was asked whether the House is in play on "Meet the Press" and in the flush of the moment slipped up with an honest answer.

Far-left Think Progress Fabricates Examples of Tea Party Racism for Bogus Video.  Liberal activists are so desperate to paint the Tea Party as racist that some, apparently, are willing to fabricate evidence and fallaciously draw unsupported conclusions to support their point.  Lee Fang, a writer for the far-left blog Think Progress, recently posted a video purporting to show racism at Tea Parties.  But the video was a total fraud.

Kerry and his energy companies.  For all you curious as to why Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is so inspired to cut a deal on energy reform, wonder no longer.  Apparently, the senior senator from Massachusetts is positioned to hit the jackpot if a subsidy-laden energy "reform" bill passes.  In some years, Kerry makes more money in dividends and capital gains from these holdings than he does as a senator.

Efforts to 'Deem' a Budget are a 'Fraud'.  [Scroll down]  House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said America didn't accept "deeming" the passage of Obamacare and they won't accept it for a budget.  "You all remember when the Democrats back in March were going deem the health care bill passed and Americans were outraged at the idea," Boehner said.  "Well, here we are today, where the Democrats are scheming to deem a budget in place.  It's not a budget:  all it is is a set of numbers so Democrats can continue their out-of-control spending spree here in Washington."

House Democrats 'Deem' Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget 'as Passed' .  Last night [7/1/2010], as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget.  The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.  The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

A Cynical Budget Maneuver.  In January, they were co-sponsors of the legislation to create a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, whose recommendations for closing the budget gap would be guaranteed an up or down vote in Congress.  The commission legislation was defeated when seven Republican senators who had initially co-sponsored it defected on the roll call.  At that point, President Obama stepped in and rescued the idea, creating the commission by executive order.  Now, in a stunning reversal, the Democrats are using the existence of the commission to justify their abandonment of their long-term budget responsibilities.

Democrats deeming themselves defeated come November.  On the first day of July, the House of Representatives passed a "budget enforcement resolution" that "deemed as passed" a $1.12 trillion budget.  Thirty-eight House Democrats voted no, perhaps because they sense in this year of the Tea Party Movement it isn't good politics to engage in such a sham.  But pass it did.

Dems' decision to forgo budget means no more 51-vote Senate majorities.  Congressional Democrats have correctly concluded that not passing an official budget for next fiscal year won't be much of a trouble for them ... but they may not have anticipated another consequence of this strategy:  without an official budget, Senate Democrats cannot use the parliamentary trick of "reconciliation" to evade Republican attempts to filibuster bills.  Long story short, this means that reconciliation, more famously known as the method used to shove President Obama's healthcare bill through the Senate, cannot be used in 2011 no matter which party controls the chamber.

The Last Refuge Of The Incompetent.  With their own economic policies in complete disarray, Democrats have turned to a tried-and-true tactic:  Blame the opposition for your failure.

When Lame Ducks Bite.  This year, for the first time since modern budgeting began, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has simply refused to pass a budget resolution.  Presumably, the failure even to take up a budget would free plenty of time for the Congress to complete the rest of its work.  But remarkably — and disturbingly — plans are already in the offing to postpone important legislative business until after the November elections.

Obama and Dems heading for electoral disaster.  All around, there are Democrats telling us their prospects for November are looking up.  Things aren't as bad as Republicans say!  Health care is becoming more popular!  The country wants financial reform!  People still like Barack Obama!  Isn't Joe Barton awful!  They're fooling themselves.  The basic indicators of voters' intentions — their general mood and attitude toward the policies of Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid — are clear and solid.

A Bad Lie, At Best.  [Scroll down]  By waiting until December, Hoyer has conveniently scheduled the budget to be passed after the November elections, which are looking worse and worse for his fellow Democrats.  That allows Democrats to tout their fiscal responsibility while avoiding any hard votes on the matter.  Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, called it "bizzarely dishonest."  "It makes it appear that the whole point of the deficit commission from day one was to hide from what Congress is really doing, and let Congressmen run in the November election claiming to be for some imaginary budget restraint that they're not actually ready to vote for," said Norquist.

Harry Reid's son leaves last name out of first campaign ad.  Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) is on the air with his first campaign ad and it's missing one thing: his last name.  Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), doesn't say his name at any point during the ad, but it prominently features his campaign logo, "Rory 2010."

Harry Reid's son avoids surname in governor bid.  The Democratic nominee in the Nevada governor's race is the son of one of the most powerful politicians in America, but you wouldn't know it by his campaign.

If You Can't Budget, You Can't Govern.  "If you can't budget, you can't govern," Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., proclaimed in 2006 when the House GOP leadership chose to dispense with passing a budget resolution.  Now that the Dems run the House, Spratt is chairman of its Budget Committee and the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution is a niggling detail, easily ignored.  House Democrats have decided to not even try to pass a budget resolution before this fiscal year expires on Sept. 30 — and may well delay passage until after the November elections.

Fixing What Ain't Broke, Hiding What Is.  The financial-regulatory reform bill currently under consideration in Congress highlights a recurrent theme among the left.  Whenever liberals want to pass legislation intended to solve a particular problem that increases the size and scope of the federal government, they revise history and create imaginary villains which their bill is intended to combat.  They never admit that it is they and their previous polices who are at fault.

Homo Politicus.  Al Gore has a huge carbon footprint... and people are shocked?  His fairy tale of global warming is meant just to help him get money, honor, and attention — and nothing else.  Barack Obama is a closet socialist who does not help his impoverished family.  Why?  He no more believes in redistributing wealth than a snake oil salesman in Dodge City believed that his tonic cured gout.  Feminists flack for Clinton's savage treatment of women and ignore Moslem crimes toward women.  Leftist instructors leave their students profoundly ignorant, instead of truly educated.  Leftist pseudo-ideology is a convenient fraud used by those who would be our masters.

Fictitious anecdotes rarely fool anybody.
 What's the Good Word, Nancy d'Alesandro Pelosi?  The Big Question For Nancy Pelosi has nothing to do with unemployment or taxes or even the nearing financial collapse of her home state and the municipalities she represents.  No sir (and madam), the question often asked of our Speaker is, "What's your favorite word?"

The Enemies Within.  It was not long ago that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano unveiled a national safety report singling out peaceful pro-life protesters as potential terrorists.  Yet hereto, the only person officially charged and subsequently arrested for threatening to kill a public official in connection with the Obama health care debate happens to be a loyal DNC donor.  You may also recall that on the heels of ramming ObamaCare through Congress, several Democrats projected that right-wing extremists would likely retaliate with violence.  Yet virtually every credible reported incident of politically motivated vandalism since then has been perpetrated mostly against conservative politicians who vigorously opposed the measure.

Obama Revises History.  [Scroll down]  But the relationship between regulators and the industry they regulate is always "cozy."  This is true for at least two reasons.  First, businessmen know far more about their businesses than regulators do.  Regulators routinely defer to the superior knowledge and expertise of the regulated.  Second, most regulators are young people who are planning a career in the regulated industry.  A typical career path will begin with law school graduation, followed by a stint in a federal agency, followed by a highly-paid job with one of the formerly-regulated companies ... This is not exactly a secret.

Blumenthal and the Liars' Party.  [Scroll down slowly]  There is a pattern to this misbehavior. Blumenthal, Edwards, Clinton, and Kerry lied about their personal lives, hiding sins or inventing heroism.  Each man was very specific in his false statements.  All four of these men were lawyers, and three out of four were married to lawyers.  Two of the four — Clinton and Blumenthal — were chosen as Attorney General for their home states, a position that should be held by scrupulously honest men.

Blumenthal's poll numbers tumble after Vietnam lies surface.  Following bombshell revelations that he claimed he served in Vietnam when he hadn't, Connecticut Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal's once-robust lead in the polls has hit record lows. ... He claimed he didn't mean to lie and that he'd merely misspoken when he said he served "in Vietnam."

For Democrats, Hits Keep on Coming.  Senate Democrats just can't seem to catch a break.  The revelation Monday [5/17/2010] that Democratic Sen. Christopher J. Dodd's would-be successor — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal — made misleading statements about his military service added one more headache to Democrats still reeling from unexpected retirements, unplanned and contentious primaries, and other disappointments on the 2010 campaign trail.

Media Also 'Misspoke' On Blumenthal's War Record.  Tuesday [5/18/2010] was clearly a day of deep embarrassment for Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who was fighting for his political career after The New York Times raised questions about statements he made distorting the extent of his military service.

Another Phony Democrat War Veteran.  No one is more abhorrent to us veterans than the jerk who never served but dons a uniform, adorns it with badges and patches, usually of some special operations organization like Army Special Forces, Rangers or Navy SEALS, and awards himself multiple medals for valor.  Of course, some of these phonies did serve but in some much less glorious capacity than that in which they depict themselves.  The latter situation seems to be the case for Connecticut Democrat Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal who has been exposed as a phony Vietnam vet by no less than the NY Times.

Lies And Blumen' Lies.  Can someone who misrepresents his military record be elected to the U.S. Senate?  Connecticut's Democratic attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, has little enough shame to try and find out.  Falsely claiming to have served in Vietnam should be a death sentence for any politician of any party or philosophy, from town clerk on up.

Liar pol's polls get Viet-conked.  Embattled Connecticut US Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal's double-digit lead in the polls plummeted yesterday — as another instance of him falsely claiming he had served in Vietnam surfaced.  Democrat Blumenthal — who had easily been the front-runner to replace retiring Sen. Chris Dodd — has dropped to a 3-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger Linda McMahon, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll taken on Tuesday [5/18/2010].

The Taranto Principle Vindicated Again.  The exposure of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as a hoaxster boasting of a nonexistent record of service in the Vietnam War is a splendid example of what is known as the Taranto Principle.  Someday the Taranto Principle will be taught in all the journalism schools, assuming one or two survive the present detumescence of journalism.

Richard Blumenthal's rolling blunder.  Connecticut's Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is taking heavy fire for a series of statements he made over several years in which he either explicitly or implicitly claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, when in fact he is not.

New York Times Hits Blumenthal Again.  To their credit, the Times isn't backing off on the Blumenthal/Vietnam story.  They've found yet another instance of the Connecticut Attorney General misstating his service record.

Americans are Drowning in Our Government's Lies.  It's not just the lies about climate change.  It's not just the lies about renewable, wind and solar, energy.  It's not just the lies about so-called endangered species.  It's not just that the Obama administration refuses to name Islam as the source of the terrorist attacks on America. ... It is a combination of these and other factors that are based on a contagion of lies told to Americans by their own government.

How ignorant would you have to be to believe this?
 Speaker Nancy Pelosi:  Democrats reduced taxes to historic low.  Congressional Democats are responsible for the lowest U.S. tax bills in a half-century, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday.  Pelosi was responding to a USA Today report that said Americans' tax bills in 2009 were at their lowest point since the Truman presidency.

Seven reasons not to vote for Democrats.  In a speech earlier this week, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine gave a preview of the Democrats' 2010 national election message.  "We have more accomplishments to run on than any party in a long time," Kaine said.  Kaine then proceeded to lay out seven Democratic talking points so transparently unconvincing, I began to wonder if he's not a Republican double agent.

The Times Square surprise.  [Scroll down]  Finally, when President Reagan faced down the Soviets with a vast arms buildup and a resolute, albeit flexible, foreign policy, his liberal critics warned that we faced nuclear world war.  Of a sudden, the Soviet Union collapsed.  And what was the liberals' response?  Well, it was one of history's surprises.  The liberals announced that the Soviet Union had been a paper tiger all along.  It had been destined to collapse from day one.

Son of Amnesty.  Everyone with a brain wave knows the progressive drill:  illegal immigrants aren't illegal, they're "undocumented."  They do the work "Americans won't do."  Because they've lived here illegally for x number of years, they are now entitled to live here.  We may as well legalize them, because we can't possibly deport twelve million people.  Enforcing border security is akin to "re-building the Berlin Wall" on our southern borders.  And last, but not least, my personal favorite regarding an integrally related issue:  requiring picture ID for voting is "unfair."  Let's whack these odious notions one by one.

Bertha Lewis' Lunacy.  [Scroll down]  Every time you read or hear of some liberal mentioning Tea Party hatred or Tea Party violence, think "liar".  None of it is or ever has been true.  The hatred and the violence is and always has been on the left.  Mao was a liberal.  Stalin was a liberal.  Hitler was a liberal.  Castro was a liberal.  Pol Pot was a liberal, and the list goes on.  It wasn't a Republican President who dropped the atomic bomb, it was a Democrat. In Arizona it wasn't Tea Party supporters who were throwing bricks, rocks and bottles at the police or attempting to murder a couple of people who had the misfortune to wear pale skin, it was Obama supporters.

An Incurious Media or a Four-Leaf-Clover President.  [Scroll down]  Remember when we were supposedly in Iraq to steal oil?  We've certainly been there long enough to drain that nation dry.  Only one problem — we didn't do it.  Or maybe it was the oil company conspiracy to lower gas prices and fix the election.  CNN's Jack Cafferty was just one of many media voices to say "if you were a real cynic, you could also wonder if the oil companies might not be pulling the price of gas down to help the Republicans get re-elected in the midterm elections a couple of months away."  That conspiracy was also proven bogus when gas prices didn't plummet until after the 2008 elections.

Can't We All Just Get Along?  Make no mistake about it, this is a dishonest age.  That our daily lies are purportedly advanced in the cause of the common good, nevertheless do not make them any less lies.  Beware of sudden and apparently reasonable "calls for civility."  That pathetic mantra is usually voiced by a liberal administration and its supporters when criticism mounts that they are taking the country too far to the Left — like the Clinton implosion in 1993 or Obama today.

An Age of Untruth.  Almost everything said in association with "illegal immigration" is false.  No, the now stalled fence is not a futile symbol of apartheid; in places where it is finished, it has discouraged illegal entry and reminded us that all counties have rights of autonomy.  Do not believe that "illegal alien" is necessarily a hurtful or inexact term.  Everyone who crosses the border without proper authorization is both doing something "illegal" (not a mere "infraction"), and is an alien (not a U.S. citizen; "alien" = "not of this place".)

Bill Clinton, Still Smearing Conservatives.  Throughout all those years of ultra-left civil disruption, there was complete silence from Clinton.  So hypocritical.  So ... Clinton.  The most maddening thing about this repeated phenomenon is that the Clinton-adoring media helpfully paint these speeches as the plea of a unifier, a humanitarian voice for sanity and civility.

The Equal Pay Day Reality Check.  Today is Equal Pay Day.  Feminist groups and political leaders have set aside this day to protest the fact that women's wages are, on average, 78 percent of men's wages.  "This date symbolizes how far into 2010 women must work to earn what men earned in 2009," says the National Committee on Pay Equity.  The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has enlisted supporters to wear red "to represent the way the pay gap puts women 'in the red.'" ... Excuse me for interrupting, but this holiday has no basis in reality.

Applying Clinton's logic, there's no such thing as liberty.  For a stumbling, disingenuous, self-contradicting commentary, you couldn't do much better than a Bill Clinton op-ed piece in The New York Times that on the one hand states the obvious while coming very close to saying people fearful of big government ought to shut up, only they shouldn't.

Obama and the New Civility.  During the Bush years a dangerously heated rhetoric became commonplace.  Now, lo! a new age has dawned.

Fixing the Financial Crisis:  Fire, Aim, Ready.  Late-night economist David Letterman summarized the situation:  "Republicans in power previously for eight years deregulated banks, and that was a contributory factor."  Key words:  Republican, deregulated.  That might be a plausible explanation... if Republicans had deregulated anything.  Perhaps Mr. Letterman mixed up Republicans with Democrats.  Glass-Steagall's partial repeal was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1999 and passed by the Senate with a vote of 90-8, including the votes of Senators Biden, Kerry, Edwards, Schumer, and Dodd.

Racism and Obamacare.  Democrats have passed government health care with no Republican votes.  Their leadership threatened and bribed their own members to eek out a majority.  They resorted to an arcane procedure that maybe 100 people in the whole country can explain in order to pass a massive bill that polls show a majority of Americans don't want.  The federal government, for the first time ever, will force every American to buy, with a big chunk of their income, a product designed by government bureaucrats, with an army of IRS agents snooping on each of us to make sure we did it.  And how are many liberals explaining why so many Americans are ticked off?  It's because our president is black.  It's about racism.

Obama's Poll Numbers Down, Imaginary Racism Up.  [Scroll down]  Most sickeningly, the mainstream media continue to spread the despicable lie that someone called civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis the "N-word" 15 times during the anti-ObamaCare rally in Washington.  Fifteen times!  That turned out to be another lie.  About a week after the protest, Andrew Breitbart offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who could produce a video of Lewis being called the N-word even once — forget 15 times.  (That's the most we can afford.  Hey, who do we look like over here, George Soros?)

The Real Anti-Americans.  Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken Glass," was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages.  Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed.  Shattered glass covered the streets.  Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered.  After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.  To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.

The Grand Illusions of America's Liberals.  America's liberals are consumed with guilt.  If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all.  Bent on rewriting history, or else entirely ignorant of it, they deny that the United States has brought more freedom and well-being to more people most of the time than any other nation in history.  They also accuse our country of racism and imperialism.

Tea Parties targeted by the Dems' Alinsky Attack Machine.  [Scroll down]  It is clear that in terms of racial politics the Alinsky Attack Machine tactic is to accuse the conservative / Republican leaning Tea Parties of the Democrats' segregationist actions in the South during Jim Crow and the civil rights' marches.

Absolutely Fabulists:  Liberal Mythmaking.  What has historically distinguished conservative (or what used to be called "classical liberal") political thought from that of leftists is that conservatives remember their mistakes and consequently can learn from them.  Conservatism adapts its ideology to contrary evidence; liberalism reinterprets contrary evidence to fit its ideology.

Don't rush to judgeship for Liu.  The hypocrisy of Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy knows no bounds.  The Vermont Democrat insists on expediting a hearing for the wildly leftist, fundamentally dishonest appellate court nominee Goodwin Liu before committee members have received adequate access to Mr. Liu's records.  Throughout his career, Sen. Leahy has insisted on seeing — and sometimes leaking — records that properly should remain private.  Yet in this case, concerning records everybody agrees should be public, the senator acts as if they are irrelevant.

(Tea) Party On.  [This article illustrates] what happens when the liberal worldview — so much of which is based on lies, distortion and character assassination — isn't met with equal amounts of force and determination to provide Americans with the truth.  The failure to do so was the tragic flaw of the Bush administration.

The Democrats' Fake Hate Crime.  On March 20th, something truly extraordinary happened.  On the eve of the health care vote, a group of black Democrat Congressmen (eschewing the private tunnels they usually use to cross from their offices to the Capitol) chose to walk en masse through a crowd of protesters, confident that the knuckledragging Tea Party goons they and their media pals have reviled for a year now would respond with racial epithets.  And then, when the crowd didn't, the black Congressmen made it up anyway.

More examples of hate crimes that aren't.

Cleaver changes his 'I was spit on' story.  It's too late to affect the narrative about the tea party protest a couple of weeks ago, but indicative of the rank dishonesty involved in the smear.

Rep. Carson:  Tea Party Protesters Are 'One of the Largest Threats to our Internal Security'.  As our readers have already learned, Rep. Andre Carson gathered Capitol Hill reporters around him and told the tale of racial slurs and menacing crowds on the verge of hurling rocks at the congressmen.  Our first few videos showed the congressmen coming out of the Cannon Office Building, walking down the steps and into Independence Avenue from various angles.  None of those videos revealed the racial hatred Rep. Carson conveyed to reporters that day and none of the videos showed a mob rushing or in any way impeding the congressmen.

Against ObamaCare?  You're a Fascist Racist Hater.  Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the opposition against ObamaCare.  Yet to shut down the effort to overturn ObamaCare's unpopular assault on freedom and prosperity, the left resorts to a frequently employed tactic.

More Thoughts On Liberal Political Violence.  The Democrats have tried to change the subject away from their health care debacle by claiming that conservatives are threatening violence against them.  Their complaints are pathetic where they are not out-and-out lies (e.g., Clyburn and Lewis), and they have taken a lot of well-deserved criticism.  It is liberals, not conservatives, who rely on ad hominem attacks, outrageous allegations and violent imagery.

Welcome to the Real Revolution, Alinsky Fans:  It Ain't For Wimps Or Sissies.  How far will Democrats go to ensure that their revolution against American liberty succeeds?  As for me, I put nothing past them now.  Will Collier has just explained in exacting detail the most probable explanation for how Nancy Pelosi (along with Axelrod and Emanuel) could have staged their "confrontation" with Tea Partiers outside the capitol on March 20.  Claims that the N-word and spit were employed as weapons by Tea Partiers have yet to be corroborated by a single witness or video recording.

Not exactly terrorists.  Despite numerous requests from Senate Republicans for more information, the Justice Department waited until Friday [3/26/2010], just as Congress was leaving town for a recess, finally to provide support for Mr. Holder's assertions.  At one point, the department ridiculously claimed that federal regulations precluded it from providing such a list. ... Rather than bolstering Mr. Holder's position, the data dump showed that Republicans were right to look askance at him.

Caution:  This article is replete with vulgarity.
 Violent Liberal Hate Rhetoric:  Fifteen Quotes.  In an effort to distract people from the destructive, illegitimate power-grab-of-a-bill masquerading as health care reform that the Democrats just passed over the objections of the American people, liberal members of Congress have spent days over-hyping threats against them.  Of course, the sad reality is that EVERYONE who achieves any notoriety at all in this business gets death threats, but it's only treated as noteworthy by the press when it happens to liberals.

Do Democrats commit hate crimes against black Republicans?  Given the Democratic Party's 150-year record of racist rhetoric and racial violence — from the days of slavery until today — it is astonishing to see Democrats sanctimoniously playing the race card.  A display of unmitigated gall describes how Democrats are falsely comparing anti-ObamaCare protesters to the anti-civil rights racists of the 1960's who were Democrats.

We Are Expected to Believe.  [Scroll down slowly]  We are expected to believe that Obama's signing rendered the bill benign.  We are expected to believe three thousand pages of shalls and shants, musts and mandates, have drifted away on the breeze and can no longer come between our doctors and us.  We are expected to believe that a half-trillion in new taxes and a half-trillion in Medicare cuts will suddenly go unnoticed.  We are expected to believe that Enron-style CBO accounting will be transfigured into wondrous sums for our grandchildren to behold.  We are expected to believe that our newly disciplined government will never let this entitlement break the bank.

More lies about Obamacare.

Coercive Charity Destroys the Human Spirit.  After the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate's health care bill (without changes because they could not craft and pass a bill of their own), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that the effort reflected American's founding declaration of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."  Nothing could be farther [sic] from the truth.

Dissembling, Death, and Deficits.  Democrats enacted the first step towards nationalized health care, where $500 billion of Medicare cost savings are fiction but $400 billion of tax increases to finance new entitlements will be very real — depriving both from reducing the national debt.  Deliberately misstating and sidestepping the devastating financial consequences of this fraudulent takeaway-giveaway, the Democrats were happy to construct their own alternative reality rivaling the best, from Lewis Carroll to George Orwell.

Sunday's socialist triumph.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday launched the Democrats' argument for the health care bill, claiming, "This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country."  Does that suggest that opposition is un-American?  And what are the traditions that are American that this law fulfills?  The Democrats argue that the bill fulfills the "right" of all Americans to government-assured health care services.  The congressional Democrats claim many other things that a majority of the country believes to be inconsistent with truth and reality.

Digging the Hole Deeper:  The greatest of all the many painful ironies in the health-care debate of the past year may be that the Democrats' closing "argument" is to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility.  Their leaders are doing their best to twist yesterday's [3/18/2010] CBO score of their reconciliation bill to suggest that their plan will not only solve America's health-care financing problem but reduce the deficit too.  It will do neither, and will make both problems worse.

Pulling the Plug on the "Living" Constitution.  [Scroll down slowly]  This "living" Constitution means the real one is dead in practice, but it is not so dead in the minds of ordinary Americans that liberals would ever attempt to hold a constitutional convention to package their enlightened new understandings into a fresh one.  They still have to proceed by deception, casting every new affront to the Constitution as a suddenly accurate "constitutional" reading of it.

The Progressives' Perfect Trojan Horse.  Democrats say that their mission is to give all Americans health care.  The Democrats are lying.  Signing ObamaCare into law against our will and the Constitution is tyranny and step one of their hideous goal of having as many Americans as possible dependent on government, thus controlling our lives and fulfilling Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America.

Was Coffingate A Fundraising Stunt?  I know a little something about coffins.  And I know when I'm being lied to. ... After a brutal 48 hours of press retractions about an incident regarding a coffin placed near his house, [Missouri Secretary of State Robin] Carnahan is attempting to hustle money for intimidation that did not occur.

Man linked to arson at congressman's office was ex-campaign worker.  A man questioned by police in connection to an arson at one of Rep. Russ Carnahan's campaign offices used to work for his campaign, the Missouri Democrat said Wednesday.  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that Carnahan said a man linked to the arson was fired just before the Aug. 17 incident in St. Louis.

A Little Social Engineering is Death.  Obama has lied continuously to America and he is doing so now.  Nancy Pelosi laughed when she was asked if politicians should be held to their word.  Harry Reid has yet to tell the truth, and other than Robert Byrd, it seems that the primary talking point for every Democrat in Washington today is lie, lie some more and keep on lying until they believe it.  The strategy isn't working.

Talking Points vs. Reality:  [Scroll down]  I can say that I can afford to buy a Rolls Royce, without going into debt, by using my inheritance from a rich uncle.  But, in the real world, the question would arise immediately whether I in fact have a rich uncle, not to mention whether this hypothetical rich uncle would be likely to leave me enough money to buy a Rolls Royce.  In politics, however, you can say all sorts of things that have no relationship with reality.  If you have a mainstream media that sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil — when it comes to Barack Obama — you can say that you will pay for a vast expansion of government-provided insurance by taking money from the Medicare budget and using other gimmicks.

Heads Liberals Win, Tails We Lose.  Liberals are the ones who knowingly lied in saying that "Bush lied; people died," that supply-side tax cuts are "just for the rich" and that Bush left people on the rooftops in New Orleans after Katrina because they were black.  These weren't just harmless rhetorical barbs; they had and continue to have serious, substantively damaging consequences.

An Orwellian redefinition of the Constitution:  The proponents of the most regressive idea of government on the planet (Centralized control by a small group of elites who rule "for the people's own good") are now relabeling themselves as "Today's Defender's of the Constitution."

Obama's Proposal is the Illusion of 'Reform'.  One job of presidents is to educate Americans about crucial national problems.  On health care, Barack Obama has failed.  Almost everything you think you know about health care is probably wrong or, at least, half wrong.  Great simplicities and distortions have been peddled in the name of achieving "universal health coverage."

The War on Truth:  The greatest danger to our wealth, our liberties, our values, and our safety today comes from the deconstruction of truth.  We live in a world driven by information.  Almost all real wealth today is based upon information and knowledge.  Almost all real power today is based upon mass communication, education, and entertainment.  Even military power relies upon data and intelligence, not brute force.

5 Ways Liberals Misjudge the American People:  [Scroll down slowly]  Because the Left controls the mainstream media, they can often get away with lies no conservative ever could.  Put another way, conservatives tend to be more honest because they have to be while liberals are used to having the mainstream media cover up, ignore, and explain away their lies.  The problem with that is that over time, the MSM has become less powerful and the new media has filled the gap.

Not Buying the Democrats' Excuses.  Democrats have two excuses for what has gone so terribly wrong in the last year.  The first is the "America is ungovernable" meme.  Well, it has been impossible to govern from the Left, certainly. ... The second excuse is that this is all a communications problem — from the most eloquent politician (we were told) of our time who had a sycophantic media at his feet for the better part of a year.  Really, no one is buying this one.

The Farce Otherwise Known as PAYGO.  [Scroll down]  But already, the Senate has issued itself a waiver from the provisions on three of the four spending bills its has considered by declaring several bills to be emergency spending, including a $15-billion jobs bill, a $10-billion measure for unemployment benefits and a $100-billion package of tax extenders.

Pocket money for politicians:  [Scroll down]  It's hardly surprising that irresponsible government stewardship of public resources trickles down from Washington to the local level.  Lawand Johnson, director of Louisiana's St. John the Baptist Housing Authority — which is funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — racked up more than $2,000 in personal expenses on a government credit card.  "I thought it was my card," Ms. Johnson explained, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Gov's media guru quits as more officials say Paterson should resign.  Another staffer quit yesterday amid Gov. Paterson's meltdown — Communications Director Peter Kauffmann, who said he couldn't take the lying anymore.  "As a former officer in the United States Navy, integrity and commitment to public service are values I take seriously," said Kauffmann, who joined Paterson's administration almost a year ago.

What do we do about Barbara Boxer?  Politicians' reliance on scientists has perforce also increased with the selection of those scientists all the more open to bias and distortion.  As this occurs, it is particularly incumbent on politicians to seek the judgment of scientists on all sides of an issue, not just the side they want to believe or find expedient to believe.  Few seem to do this.  And Boxer is the poster girl of those who do not.  She goes on and on as she was, talking to the same people and spouting the same conventional opinions as if they were fact.

When Liberal 'Journalists' Attack, Real Americans Suffer.  Andrew Breitbart's recent smackdown of Max Blumenthal at CPAC (for his vicious smears against James O'Keefe) serves as a reminder to us all that when Liberal "journalists" attack, they have one goal — and it isn't reporting the truth.  It is to win at any cost no matter what the damage is to the victim.  It is called the politics of personal destruction and it reflects the utter nihilism of Liberalism.

The Sham Summit:  Thursday's much-hyped health "summit" seemed mainly designed to show the president telling Republicans, "Those are all legitimate points."  Democrats admit it was a setup to pass their $2 trillion plan.  Not long before the president assembled Democrats and Republicans at the Garden Room of Blair House for a health care powwow, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., let it all hang out on the House floor, roaring that "every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry."

Pay-go gets passed, then it gets bypassed.  The ink is barely dry on the pay-as-you-go law, and Democrats are seeking to bypass it to enact parts of their job-creation agenda.

Rewriting History on Abortion.  "There's absolutely nothing in anything that [Susan B. Anthony] ever said or did that would indicate she was anti-abortion," Planned Parenthood founder Gloria Feldt.  Absolutely nothing?  A quick Google search disproves that in a hurry.

Deception as a Principle of Governance.  Every economic indicator during Clinton's last year in office turned decisively downward — the surplus, government revenues, and the markets included.  Economic projections made at the very top of an economic bubble are foolish, but the dot-com bubble had long since popped, and everything was going south by the time Clinton left office.  Consequently, the Democrats' projections of surpluses years into the future at a time when all indices were falling are not just foolish, but dishonest.

The Fallacy of "Fairness":  If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word "fair."  It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it.  This mushy vagueness may be a big handicap in logic but it is a big advantage in politics.

Ignorance is strength and...
 Food Stamps Are Not Welfare.  With the help of the statist media, Big Government is making progress in its drive to corrode our culture to the point that dependence on coercively funded handouts is both socially acceptable and ubiquitous.

How to Blame Bush:  Lie.  Has this happened to you? You start reading an article written by a Democrat, wondering if it is just possible that he has a legitimate point.  But one or two paragraphs in, you find yourself so deep in outrageously false premises that you wonder if you share the same planet.  How do they manage to pack so many falsehoods into so few words?

Paranoia Strikes Deep in Obama's America.  One of the greatest threats we're facing is this:  There are a lot of paranoid/delusional people running the show.  Pelosi tars health care opponents as Nazis.  Charles Schumer calls average Americans "teabaggers."  Obama insinuates that a white police sergeant is a stupid racist.  With each vicious utterance, Democrats foster a paranoid atmosphere.  Branding opponents as Nazis and racists is disgraceful, beyond the pale.  It's also a dangerous practice, since mass hysteria can prove deadly.

The Electorate vs. Obama's Agenda.  This being a democracy, don't the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff?  Don't they understand Massachusetts?  Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms:  (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad.  Result?  The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly.

Pelosi tells C-SPAN:  'There has never been a more open process'.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defended Congress' work on a healthcare bill Tuesday [01/05/2010] saying the process has displayed historic transparency, just as C-SPAN mounts an effort to open the negotiations. ... "We will do what is necessary to pass the bill," Pelosi said.

In Other Words....  Irritated at the bumps on the road to the Democrats' Thousand-Year Reich, liberals are now claiming that Republican Sen. Tom Coburn requested a prayer for the death of Sen. Bob Byrd during the health care debate last Saturday night.

Barney Frank and the "Democratic" Senate:  Since the early twentieth century, the Progressives have been very good at using the term "democracy" to undermine federalism and State power.  Don't continue to be duped.  This rhetorical assault on the founding principles of the United States is not grounded in reality.

Rigging the Numbers:  [Scroll down]  "We need to develop a greater resiliency in this country on security issues," Sarah E. Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the New York Times.  "The administration needs to remind the American public that we have convicted 195 international terrorists in federal courts since 2001."  That 195 number is making the rounds.  It is both false and an exercise in hypocrisy.

The Great Hate of the Left:  The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers.  We stand for law and order, but they call it fascist oppression.  We attend Tea Party rallies to express passionate opposition to the radical agenda and policies of the Obama administration, and we are called hateful racists.

Liberal Hate Speech.  Normally, according to the media elites' rulebook, when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives rant, it is hate speech.

The Lies of Obama:  When politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché:  all politicians lie.  But that is itself a lie:  most don't.  Even among those who do, there are enormous differences in the importance and frequency of the lies.  And it is surely now clear that this nation has a far from routine problem in the scale and regularity of President Obama's lying.

When Is a Person Not a Person?  Socialists have the most incredible lack of intellectual ability, and they lack the most basic tenets of morality.  Why is this?  It is because their lives are predicated on political philosophy rather than on facts and truth.  That is how the Kenyan, Obama, came to be the Great Pretender in the White House.  In essence, he spoke well, but didn't have an ounce of truth about him.  Yet, people voted for him, to the astonishment of more rigorous minds.

Liberals play by their own rules.
 When Conservative Felonies Become Liberal Misdemeanors.  Why in matters of stupid behavior do liberals and Democrats often get second and third chances from the media and general public not accorded to their conservative and Republican counterparts?  We're seeing it now in the national reaction to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's reported racial gaffe.  Compare how he's being treated to what happened to Trent Lott in 2002.

Climategate:  This time Al Gore lied.  Al Gore's claim last week that the Climategate emails were insignificant relied on two main defences.  Both are so flagrantly wrong that it's not enough to say Gore is simply mistaken.  No, Al Gore is a liar.  Last week we showed that the first of his Climategate defences was so preposterously wrong that it was doubtful he had even read the leaked emails he tried to dismiss.

As you know, she lost the election.
 Race is in a spinout.  Martha Coakley made a jaw-dropping declaration earlier this week at the only live televised debate in Boston that she has deigned to do.  She said, and I quote, "I've traveled the state and met tremendous people."  If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name.

When the Charm Rubs Off.  His Dec. 8 televised economics speech at the Brookings Institution was followed on Dec. 10 by his televised Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which was remarkable for 38 uses of the pronoun "I."  And for disavowing a competence no one suspected him of. ("I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war."  Note the superfluous adjective.)  And for an unnecessary notification.  ("Evil does exist in the world.")  And for delayed utopianism.  ("We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes."  But in someone's.)  And for solemnly announcing something undisputed.  (There can be a just war.)  And for intellectual applesauce that should get speechwriters fired and editors hired.

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare.  [Scroll down slowly]  The Democrats are not only making disingenuous claims about the costs of their proposal, they are making similarly disingenuous claims about its effects on the deficit.  Democrats claim that this massive expansion of government would somehow reduce the deficit.  But the CBO says otherwise.

Defenseless Enviro-Thugs Go on Offense.  It's the same old leftist playbook:  Approach every desired major policy change as a crisis, and demand immediate action. ... We saw it in our domestic politics in the United States when President Barack Obama's leftist Democrats manufactured a simulated crisis over health insurance, deliberately overstating by multiples the number of uninsured as a predicate to Obama's demand that a comprehensive bill had to be passed before Congress' August recess.  Shortly thereafter, it came to light that Democrats had also grossly manipulated the projected costs of their proposals and flagrantly lied about such issues as rationing and government-funded abortions.

The New Big Lie:  Climategate Emails Are Not Significant.  The criminals at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in England brazenly defend the indefensible.  It is stunning to watch Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, who even look alike, staring directly at the camera and denying the significance of their emails.

The Supporting Cast — Thought Police Anyone?  The most insidious activity included controlling climate information through Wikipedia.  When I ask students how many use Wikipedia for their research all hands go up.  I know most media rely on it.  Most have no idea how the material is entered or edited.  William Connolley knew and exploited the opportunity. ... His activities are shocking.  He established himself as an editor at Wikipedia and with a cadre (I use the term deliberately) of supporters he controlled all entries relating to climate, climate change and the people involved.  This included putting up false material about skeptics.

Harry Reid's main focus:  Harry Reid.  Harry Reid began the week in familiar fashion, by detonating an improvised literary device on the Senate floor.  It bombed.  Instead of merely scolding Republicans for their filibuster of the health-care legislation, he compared them to slaveholders and racists.

Reid's Teachable Moment.  Harry Reid is an obvious product of a government education that he and other Liberals are inflicting on the rest of America, and he should be the poster child for school choice.  In his recent comment regarding Republicans' efforts to block "healthcare" legislation, Reid invoked the ghosts of Democrats past, claiming that Republicans tried to block emancipation and civil rights for blacks.  I believe Reid gave America yet another teachable moment.

Al Gore Photoshops Hurricanes Into New Book's Cover.  The cover of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's new book "Our Choice:  A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere as well as reduce the amount of ice present in the Arctic.  Maybe even more ominously, Florida was so diminished it's almost totally gone.

Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells The Weekly Standard that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.

Democratic deficit duplicity.  I nearly fell out of my chair as I read this New York Times headline:  "Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit."  From the headline alone, I couldn't tell whether this was before, during or after they supported President Barack Obama's intentional, exponential escalation of the deficit to $1.4 trillion.  That's simply immeasurable chutzpah.

They Call It Fiscal Responsibility; We Call It Socialism.  As others have noted, Obama and company have employed multiple gimmicks to conceal and misrepresent the true costs of Obamacare.  Like other groups wanting to destroy America from the outside, liberals are patient.  By backloading their spending, they hope to deceive Americans into thinking their plan is budget-neutral.

ClimateGate Is Not The First Time Progressive Scientists Have Lied To The World.  Back in the early 1900's, up through World War Two, the progressive movements of America and Europe committed large scale genocide with their progressive Eugenic "science".  In fact the term genocide was coined to describe what the Progressive Eugenic movement did in this country and in Germany.  Not many people understand the crime these American Progressives committed, because public educators and other liberal professors just can't wrap their rigid minds around the concept that the origins of their current religion are soaked in the blood of their own dark history.

Did someone mention ClimateGate?

Four Tactical Steps That Will Defeat Obamacare.  [#1.]  Denounce this bill for the lying fraud scheme it is:  Just as an example:  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) "scored" the Pelosi bill to cost $1.055 trillion — far above Barack Obama's $900 billion ceiling.  Pelosi immediately held a press conference and announced her bill would cost $894 billion — a figure that did not appear in the CBO report and which could be reached only by subtracting projected IRS-administered penalties from the actual cost.

Hoffman alleges vote fraud in NY 23.  Even as he faces near-impossible odds of pulling ahead in the count, Doug Hoffman announced Wednesday night [11/18/2009] that he is officially revoking his concession from Election Night, and is accusing labor unions and ACORN of stealing the election for Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.).  Hoffman posted a message on his campaign site Wednesday alleging dirty tricks by Democrats, and is asking for additional campaign contributions to fund a legal challenge to the election results.

Can America Survive its Sharp Left Turn?  In the Left's Utopian world, one can lie while accusing an individual of lying.  One can ride in limousines and live in a big house while telling others to ride bikes and live in un-air conditioned huts to save the planet.  One can make millions of dollars while bashing capitalism.  And one can cheat on their taxes while telling others it is their patriotic duty to pay more taxes.  You can demand women's rights and claim that forced sex is not "rape-rape".  You see, the left are special.  They are better educated than you or I.  They are smarter, healthier, better looking, more talented, and just plain nicer than we will ever be.  So, they are above criticism, and above the law.

The Left's World of Fairy Tales.  Dogma explains why it is useless to point out to the left how the left has economically crippled California, once the most prosperous, most adventurous, most successful "country" in the world (it has an economy that would make it about the seventh largest country in the world).  Likewise, it does not matter to blacks what Democrats have done to their cities.  As they watch their cities crumble, they will once again vote overwhelmingly for the party that oversaw this destruction.  None of these facts matters because religious-like dogmas are not derived from facts.

Great Myths of the Great Depression:  Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era.  In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed debunks the conventional view and traces the central role that poor government policy played in fostering this legendary catastrophe.

No public funding for a private act.  [In 1973] So-called "pro-choice" advocates hadn't thought up the term "a woman's right to choose" just yet.  Then they found themselves in a quandary:  Poor women couldn't afford abortions.  How then, could they exercise the "right to privacy" and have an abortion without government interference they had championed in the Roe decision?  They came up with the notion that poor women had the right to use government funds — taxpayer dollars, public money — for the result of what was essentially the most private of acts.  So, of course, the phrase "a right to privacy" had to go.  In came "a woman's right to choose," even if the choice was funded with somebody's money other than her own.

Camelot and Obamalot.  Even when the Left tries to hide the sins of their heroes by canonizing them, we see through the charade.  We know that effusive tributes and mile long processions do not exonerate immoral behavior.  For us, personal behavior matters.  If a man abandons a woman to die, or sleeps with little boys, or calls his grandma a "typical white woman," this speaks volumes about his character.  So the Left detests us because, to them, we're the spoil sports.

Sen. Kerry Recycles Greenpeace's Lie About Arctic Ice.  Radical environmentalists love recycling so much that they recycle lies — and the lies are even bolder when reincarnated.  Sen. John Kerry proved it this week when he recycled Greenpeace's lie about an ice-free Arctic and said it will become a reality even sooner, by 2013.

More about polar ice.

Michelle is Right:  America is Mean!  Michelle, you are right, America is mean.  The Obamanation is the meanest America I have ever known.

Liberal Lies About National Health Care.  [Scroll down]  Apparently, promising to cut costs by having a panel of Washington bureaucrats (for short, "The Death Panel") deny medical treatment wasn't a popular idea with most Americans.  So liberals started claiming that they are going to cover an additional 47 million uninsured Americans and cut costs ... without ever denying a single medical treatment!  Also on the agenda is a delicious all-you-can-eat chocolate cake that will actually help you lose weight!

Health care event attendee lied about being doctor.  U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Thursday [8/13/2009] distanced herself from a University of Houston graduate student and Texas Obama delegate who falsely identified herself as a pediatric physician at the congresswoman's health care reform town hall meeting this week. ... Jared Woodfill, chairman of Harris County Republican Party, on Thursday said Mayer's misrepresentation "shows you what we've known all along."  "The Democrats," he said, "will do anything it takes to pass Obamacare, whether it's misrepresentation, deception, trickery or outright fraud.  It appears there are no boundaries to what they are willing to do."

'Oooh. Van Jones, alright!'  The problems with Van "change the system" Jones are not just his serial slurs against much of American society ("an apartheid regime") as we know it (e.g., capitalism, the coal industry, American farming, the white population, the Bush administration (for causing 9/11), the [Republicans], etc. — but that he simply cannot tell the truth about his own history, in disavowing almost everything he has said, written, or signed in the recent past.

The Liars Club.  Leftist Democrats simply lie about everything that they think will help them politically and that they think they can get away with.  The Liars Party (also, to an amazing degree, the Lawyers Party) does not care about any of the policies which it professes to advocate. ... Members of the Liars Club do not even merit the dubious honor of being called Leftist ideologues.  They are simply utterly selfish and profoundly amoral liars who view the moral conscience and fidelity to truth of conservatives as more dangerous to them as any notions of market theory, natural rights, or rule of law.

Liberalism is really about money and power.  So many things that liberals argue about economics are simply and demonstrably wrong.  But even when you prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that they are wrong, the liberals keep mouthing the same basic untruths.

Suspect in vandalism leftist, not Republican.  A suspect in a case of vandalism at the Colorado Democratic headquarters was once a paid campaign worker for a Democratic candidate for the legislature, despite the state party chief having blamed hate-fomented opposition to Democratic health care plans.

Nancy's Nazis:  Both Hitler and Stalin hated real science.  They had real scientists sent to concentration camps.  The reason is of course that real science is about telling the truth.  That is why "global warming" is also a totalitarian scheme; it's fraudulent science.  It is also why the Left cannot openly debate the pros and cons of Central Planning in American medicine.  They are not happy with searching out the truth.

Pelosi's Swastika Claim Is A Crock.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed that those attending health care town hall meetings are "carrying swastikas."

Obamacare's Fake Doctor.  I guess since Obama's spent the last month insulting surgeons and otolaryngologists, it's no surprise that Obamacare supporters would have to get a fake doctor to come as Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee questions about it.  The Houston Chronicle is just catching onto a story about Obamacare's non-doctor that California conservative blogger Patterico broke last week after the Chronicle credulously publicized her question as "from a physician."

Preparing for War:  Boning Up on the Left's Health Care Myths.  [President Obama] enjoys saying — incorrectly — Americans pay $6,000 more per year on health care than people of other advanced nations for no better care.  The statement is abominably false.  Just as Obama is manipulating the cost and benefit numbers to enlist popular and Blue Dog support for his socialized medicine conspiracy, he distorts statistics to make the specious claim that our health care system isn't far superior to all others.

Some of the Democrat's Healthcare Lies Discussed.  For example, the new government run plan will supposedly "compete" with private companies; however, the bill exposes employers operating group health plans to state law remedies and private causes of action, but the government run plan can only be sued in federal court.

Obamacare is losing support for good reason.  During a town hall meeting by telephone this week, U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes discussed his support for a trillion-plus dollar health care reform package with his constituents.  "We've got to lower costs for everybody," he said.  Who does he think he's kidding?  If we "lower costs for everybody," where exactly is the trillion dollars going to come from?

Beware the Counterrevolution.  When their evil intent is revealed, the leftists retreat and then re-package it in different wrapping paper.  Socialized medicine becomes Hillarycare becomes ObamaCare.  Healthcare is a right for everyone, they say.  Who would dare oppose that?  Environmentalism becomes global warming becomes climate change.  Who could be against saving the planet? ... The problem for these strategies is that once people have had a chance to examine the packages, they are discovering that they are Trojan horses.  They do not save the planet nor provide quality healthcare for all Americans.  Their sole purpose is to dramatically expand the power of the government over its citizens, providing the potential for complete enslavement.

The Evasions and Misstatements of Sonia Sotomayor.  There is plenty of reason to conclude, as [The Washington Post's Eva] Rodriquez did, that Sotomayor was being less than honest in her testimony.  Many of Sotomayor's misstatements were blatant and easily revealed.

Democrats are relying on deception again.  Support for any Democratic policy initiative requires dishonesty, and the health plan being pushed by President Barack Obama is no exception.  Let's examine what the proponents of government health care are saying.  First, there are 46 million uninsured people in the United States.  Even though this may be literally true, it is deliberately misleading.  And, it is often stated as "46 million without health care," which is not just misleading, it's an outright lie.

Joe Biden:  'We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt'.  Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

Taxing The Truth.  President Obama, a smart man, says that tax cuts for the wealthy are the main reason we're now in such economic trouble.  Someone needs to tell him how utterly — and dangerously — wrong that is.

Pelosi vs. CIA: Why It Matters.  "Bush lied, people died" became a refrain uttered endlessly by Bush haters.  But Bush didn't lie — and the Democrats know it.  Indeed, to extricate herself from Torture-gate, Pelosi now compliments the CIA, the very agency Bush relied on in making the case for war.  But public opinion turned against the war.  Then waterboarding became "torture."

Typically dishonest Democrat tactics:
 Louisiana House unknowingly votes for stimulus override.  The Louisiana House unanimously agreed to override Gov. Bobby Jindal's rejection of $98 million in federal stimulus dollars to expand unemployment benefits.  But it's unlikely most representatives even knew what they were voting for.  Rep. Avon Honey, D-Baton Rouge, quietly slipped the language to sidestep Jindal's refusal of the stimulus dollars into a worker's compensation bill on the House floor Monday evening in the final minutes of House work for the day.  There was little discussion about what the changes did.

This is Torture?  [Scropll down]  The administration's other mistake was to endorse the view, promulgated by the Left, that the techniques described in the memos deserve to be called "torture."  Even a cursory examination indicates otherwise.  Indeed, so far from being "brutal," as the New York Times has reported, most of the interrogation techniques are remarkable in their mildness.

Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco:  [Scroll down]  All of these things are happening at a time when natural gas is abundant and cheap. ... Many cars could run on natural gas, much like many buses do already. ... New technologies continually revive old oil and gas fields and make new ones economically viable.  So it's little more than socialist Malthusianism to argue that the world is running out of cheap energy.

Spend Or Starve.  Congressional Democrats are taking disinformation to a new low.  Before now, we were on a "starvation diet," claims one, adding that failure to spend nearly a trillion dollars will trigger "Armageddon."

President TelePrompTer® compares Model T to SUV.  At a visit to at the Edison electric car factory in California, President TelePrompTer told the employees that "A Model T got better gas mileage than today's SUV".  Not wanting to take a man of his stout reputation at his word alone, let's look at the specs for each.

Editor's note:
 As far as I can determine, the word TelePrompTer is not a registered trademark, and the designation as such in the preceding title may be in error.

The Great Left Smear Machine.  Liberals have created a powerhouse propaganda machine that helped Moveon.org smear a four-star general, promotes endless environmental scares and brags it can place its left wing themes in the nation's leading newspapers.  Fenton Communications pitches for trial lawyers, collectively the largest contributors to the Democrat Party, as well as for the hard line environmental group Greenpeace; Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez; anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan; and gay and abortion advocates.  Its account executives arrive from such left wing outposts as the office of ultra liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich, abortion provider Planned Parenthood, the anti-Bush ACLU, Greenpeace and the news media.

The warmist PR con job.  It's almost a left wing harmonic convergence on global warming fraud.  Chris Horner writing for Big Government reveals that the principle warmist blogsite, Real Climate, is a Fenton operation.  Fenton Communications is the left wing PR operation that promoted the Alar scare and other bogus health scares, and are the poeple who created the infamous "General Betray Us" ad attacking Gneeral Petraeus.

The "Depression" for Us Idiots.  I feel like Winston Smith in Oceania, confused about all the doublethink coming out of Washington.  Great Depression — no Great Depression.  Recession for years; its end at the end of this year.  Signing statements bad; signing statements good.  Fundamentals hardly strong; fundamentals really sound.  Earmarks terrible; 8,000 wonderful.  Bush's $500 billion deficit reckless; Obama's $1.7 [trillion] sober and judicious; Iraq horrific and the worst whatever; Iraq suddenly quiet, democratic, and hopeful; highest ethical bar in an administration ever — Richardson, Daschle, Killefer, Solis, etc. cannot meet the lowest; ... Obama not to be blamed for massive collapse of stock prices since November; Obama to be praised for modest gains last week.  At some point, someone in the media must be getting embarrassed that they are all working at the Ministry of Truth.

Maher:  Glenn Beck Increasing Chance of 'Horrible Action' on Obama.  Fox New's Glenn Beck is increasing "the chance for people to take horrible action" on President Obama.  So said HBO's Bill Maher Friday evening [3/20/2009] in a lengthy discussion about FNC's new primetime star.  I guess Maher missed the hypocrisy concerning his disturbingly caustic views of the Bush administration while they were in power, in particular his expression of regret that the March 2007 assassination of Vice President Dick Cheney failed.

Liberals, time to face the truth.  The flourishing liberal dictum that the public should keep its paws off the funding and practice of science is a serious and dangerous fabrication.  Among liberal rhetoricians, this erroneous diktat blossomed when then-President George W. Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.  They said Bush and others with moral qualms about destroying human life to advance scientific knowledge were "anti-science."  So, when the political left found they could advance their own scientific agenda by painting conservatives as anti-science, the slander became an embedded component of liberal group think.

The Pride of the Liberals:  [Obama's] ambition may wreck his presidency, or it may make him the world-historical figure he aspires to be.  But what is more troubling is the unwarranted intellectual self-confidence that liberalism in the age of Obama increasingly exhibits.  The debate over the economic-stimulus plan illustrated the point.  When that plan was criticized, President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate majority whip Dick Durbin all resorted nearly immediately to the "argument" that they had won the election.

Why I Love Big Government:  I was against government taking all of my money until Paul Krugman opened my eyes to the multiplier effect of public spending.  Krugman claims that a dollar spent by government raises the GDP a buck and a half.  I don't think even Bernie Madoff promised that kind of return.  I suggest Krugman do everything he can to get the federal government to take over the New York Times.  I mean, it is pretty obvious the paper can't get a fifty percent return these days, and without the Times I would not have been exposed to Krugman's magic money theories.

Obama and the Liberal Freeloader Culture.  Liberals have made freeloading into a way of life — even for the well to do.  There's the well-to-do woman who cadges free meds from a physician relative.  There's the well-to-do woman who's signed up for her state's basic health plan.  There's 2007's S-CHIP poster child whose parents can afford late-model cars and private school tuition but not health insurance.

Slurring Thomas Jefferson.  When, in the course of the Clinton presidency, it became necessary to normalize sexual misbehavior among presidents, the memory of Thomas Jefferson was soiled, with the compliance of academic and journalistic liberal elites.

Was Thomas Jefferson Really a Liar and a Rapist?  [This story] appeared to be a handy red herring to drag across the Clinton scandal trail [in 1998], since there was a story circulating that President Bill Clinton, while governor, had fathered a child by a black woman prostitute named Bobbi Ann Williams.

Why We Don't Celebrate 'Historians Day'.  Being gracious winners, this week, liberals howled with delight at George Bush for coming in seventh-to-last in a historians' ranking of the presidents from best to worst.  This was pretty shocking.  Most liberals can't even name seven U.S. presidents.  Being ranked one of the worst presidents by "historians" is like being called "anti-American" by the Nation magazine.  And by "historian," I mean a former member of the Weather Underground, who is subsidized by the taxpayer to engage in left-wing political activism in a cushy university job.  So congratulations, George Bush!  Whenever history professors rank you as one of the "worst" presidents, it's a good bet you were one of America's greatest.

A President Who Needs Misery.  Democrats are, more than anything else, power junkies.  The morals of society, the welfare of others, the hopes of posterity — all these mean nothing next to the pure political power of right now.  The normal assumption is that political parties that create prosperity win political power, but that is not an entirely accurate assumption.  FDR gained more political power when the nation careened into deeper dependence, deeper poverty, and deeper debt.

Can you say, "audience plant?"
 Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy.  In view of latest developments in the Homeless Henrietta Hughes matter, Canada Free Press (CFP) is suggesting "Housing For The Needy Not The Greedy" as a more realistic slogan than "Hope & Change" for President Barack Obama.  Obama's Homeless Woman of Ft. Myers, Florida Stimulus Package Promotion fame is in reality a Real Estate Investor.

When 'Freedom' And 'Choice' Are Neither:  The doublespeak coming from Washington these days has Orwell twirling in his grave. ... Today's political climate is the closest we've come to Orwell's vision of 1984.  We've had the old doublespeak standby of "choice" in abortion around for decades.  Of course the only one making the choice is the women involved, the father and baby don't get a choice, they get an outcome.

Worst Liberal Lies of 2008  Liberal ideology, and the average liberal's self-image, is founded on — let's be polite about it — myth and misinformation.  Throughout the 20th century, liberals have excused and explained their latest utopian "solutions" to manufactured "problems" using twisted history.  As it turns out:  DDT isn't dangerous, Alger Hiss was a spy, the Rosenbergs were guilty, the Samoans weren't promiscuous, one-our-of-four women aren't rape victims, AIDS isn't a threat to "everyone"... This list is long ... .

Is it 2008 — or 1984?  For years now we have been preached to that Guantanamo is a gulag where Korans are stomped and flushed (not laptops provided to the chief architect of 9/11), that we waged a foolhardy, amoral, and hopelessly 'lost' war against the Iraqi people, that the rich plundered the economy on the backs of the poor, and that the Constitution was burned so that covert agencies could play James Bond.  I could go on, but you get the picture.

Democrats try to brand earmarks as good.  Capitol Hill's top Democrats are making a full-throated effort to rebrand earmarks as good government, not a dirty word synonymous with pork-barrel hijinks.  With President Obama's vow to clamp down on earmarks putting pressure on lawmakers to change their ways, congressional leaders have set out to educate voters about why they think Congress should direct dollars to districts or states for specific pet projects.

It's a Recession, Not a 'Catastrophe'.  President Obama, writing in The Washington Post, said, "By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression."  But how would we know if and when this crisis is really more "deep and dire" than others?  Many may believe we're in the worst recession since the Great Depression, if only because politicians and the press keep repeating that claim.

From hope to doomsday.  The way things are going, we can expect to wake up one morning to find the president of the United States wandering the streets of Washington in sack cloth with a placard predicting, well, the end.  He's already given us everything but the exact date on which the world will end as he leads a chorus of his supporters demanding that Congress adopt his every nostrum lest our economic crisis transform itself into a "catastrophe," as Mr. Obama put it, or "absolute collapse," as Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) warned, or even "Armageddon," in the words of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.).

$300 Million for Golf carts/Hybrids in Stimulus.  $300 million has been allocated in the stimulus bill for modern golf carts and other forms of environmentally friendly modes of transportation.  The Democrats thought they could fool you by renaming the money earmarked for golf carts in the stimulus bill as paying for "neighborhood electric vehicles" and "low speed motor vehicles."

The Editor says...
 I'm already driving a "low speed motor vehicle" — my 14-year-old Saturn.  And I'm surely not going to drive a golf cart to work, especially through the kind of neighborhoods I'd have to cross.

Lies And Liars.  Random House dictionary defines lie as "a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive."  Technically, this makes Obama a liar.  Ditto the majority of politicians who lace their coveted face time with political spin that has no connection to existing facts.  Changing the name of an apple to an orange, doesn't make the apple an orange.  And lying convincingly to millions of people doesn't make the lie truthful.  All it means is that, once again, the liar has gotten away with fooling most of the people, most of the time.

Benjamin Franklin Was Not An Animal Rights Activist.  Benjamin Franklin was a writer, humorist, businessman, scientist, inventor, musician, diplomat, politician, political theorist, and civic leader.  What he wasn't:  an animal rights activist.  But don't try telling that to vegan extremists who have been claiming the great inventor as one of their own.  It's not the first time wishful activist thinking has been substituted for facts.

Sarah Palin:  Conservative of the Year.  The same media that couldn't be bothered to investigate Obama's ties to former Weathermen or Syrian Nationalist Tony Rezko was soon hot on the trail of a rumor that Palin's church had a speaker 30 years ago who spoke in tongues!  Let me think now:  Were there ever any unusual or otherwise noteworthy speeches or sermons given in churches where Obama worshipped?  Hmmm...  it's on the tip of my tongue.  Liberals also suddenly decided that a woman with children could not handle the stress of higher office.  Until Palin reared her beautiful head, this is precisely the sort of thinking liberals would have denounced as the Neanderthal, backwards, good old boy network attitude that had created a "glass ceiling."

Say Goodbye to America.  Democrats believe that if they lose an election it's because their opponent cheated.  It's never their fault.  It's never because they ran a poor campaign.  It's never because their opponent ran a better one. ... It's always about voter fraud, disenfranchisement, not enough ballots, faulty machinery, hanging chads, negative advertising, intimidation tactics, campaign finance abuses, you name it.

Accountability.  It is a funny — though not ha-ha funny — double standard:  When the GOP ran the show, it was always held responsible for every "bad" outcome.  Now that the GOP is in the minority, it's still held responsible for every "bad" outcome.  I suppose it's a similar standard that somehow allows the Democrats in charge of overseeing the financial sector to whine that there hasn't been enough oversight without even the slightest sting of embarrassment.

Pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today.  Why we are told otherwise?  Proponents of human induced warming and climate change told us that an increase in CO2 precedes and causes temperature increases.  They were wrong.  They told us the late 20th century was the warmest on record.  They were wrong.  They told us, using the infamous "hockey stick" graph, the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) did not exist.  They were wrong.  They told us global temperatures would increase through 2008 as CO2 increased.  They were wrong.  They told us Arctic ice would continue to decrease in area through 2008.  They were wrong.  They told us October 2008 was the second warmest on record.  They were wrong.

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost.  Perhaps you think the problems causing the market meltdown are economic and financial in nature.  If so, think again.  Such problems are mere symptoms of the malady.  The root causes are moral and ethical in nature.  For decades, secularists in America scoffed at religion and her offspring, morality and ethics.  They removed religion from the realm of "truth" and reduced it to mere "opinion."  Truth was limited to that which could be objectified, quantified, and verified.  Since that could not be accomplished with religion (at least on this side of eternity), "religious truth" was deemed an oxymoron.  Absolutes were out, relativism was in.  Morals became "relative" and ethics became "situational."  Virtue was rejected as an antiquated notion.  Results were all that mattered.  These ideas began to permeate society, including Wall Street.  And since ideas have consequences, they began to influence the way business was conducted on the Street.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.  It's true the left relies on symbolism over substance.  They have to.  It's all they have.  Symbols, speeches, posters, politically correct language and harangues.  In other words, the Nanny State.  A corrupt self-enriching Nanny State.  If you've ever wondered why the left constantly mocks the good and the decent, it's because they're angry contrarians.  They say goodbye when they mean hello.  They say love when they mean lust.  They're cynical, angry, with issues galore.  They think they're important, they think they're funny.

Vote-fraud-seeding ACORN deserves a good cracking.  It used to be that Americans — even American political candidates — would simply accept the little Election Day miracles and move on.  When the dead rose in Chicago to put John F. Kennedy in the White House, Richard Nixon said one of his many goodbyes and faded into the wallpaper for eight years.  When residents of a certain precinct in Texas voted in alphabetical order to send Lyndon Johnson to the U.S. Senate — hey, it could happen.  Right?  Then Al Gore lost in 2000 and John Kerry lost in 2004 and the conspiracy theorists decided it was time to build a conspiracy that could win for them.

Sarah Palin and the Experience Factor.  Why is it that liberal misrepresentations are never fully addressed before they become established as received wisdom?  Whatever the topic may be, the left is consistently allowed to set the terms on which the argument takes place. ... In the past few years we've seen "WMDs were the sole reason for invading Iraq", "CO2 is the major driver of climatic trends", and "Karl Rove is the Devil Incarnate", to consider only three.  Each case is demonstrably false, yet each case has been allowed to dominate the public debate.

Factors that Could Lead to Obama's Downfall:  [In his campaign ads, Bill Clinton] told voters that he was for a middle class tax cut and for "ending welfare as we know it." ... When Clinton promised those things, the economy had already begun, and was maintaining, a steady recovery.  That didn't stop him from referring to it as the worst economy in 50 years, though, and the nation bought it.

Why Dogs, Not Liberals, Are Man's Best Friend.  To blame a liberal for lying and blatant hypocrisy would be as heartless as blaming an alcoholic for drinking.  In fact, I suspect that, like alcoholics, liberals suffer from a chemical imbalance.  Otherwise, how would you explain the enormous gulf between what they say and what they do?

Truthless Joe.  Neither [Jimmy] Carter nor Bill Clinton, whose twists and turns before a grand jury led to his impeachment, ever stared into the camera and spouted such a string of outright fabrications as if they were gospel truths the way Barack Obama's running mate did last week.  Thankfully, the blogosphere has been having a field day cataloguing Joe's whoppers.

Religiosity Without Religion.  Secularism, of course, never has to explain itself or prove its claims, a curiously privileged position for an ideology that rests on skepticism and relativism.  Apparently everything is unknowable to secularists except the obvious wisdom of their holding a dominant spot in public debates.  How we know with certainty that secularism is synonymous with "reason" and religion synonymous with "mere opinion" is never explained.

Diminishing Palin:  Starting with Gerald Ford, the inside-the-beltway class and its amplifiers in the media have routinely decided that Republicans who seek national office are dullards.  Literally every Republican candidate for president since 1980 has had his intellect belittled.  Even Bob Dole, a candidate who had spent decades proving his remarkable mental acuity in Congress, had to face such salvos because his age had allegedly dulled his mental edge.  Sound vaguely familiar?

Who is a hypocrite?  Liberals are fed up with conservatives for trying to regulate their "private" behavior.  Yet it is they who want to regulate every minute aspect of our lives, from smoking to eating to weapons to energy consumption to confiscatory taxation to health care to retirement security.  Liberals insist that what a public official does in his private life is irrelevant to his public fitness or conduct.  Yet they're now telling us the private conduct even of a relative of a conservative candidate is fair game.

Axelrod Astroturfs an Attack Against Palin.  The media love covering grassroots attacks on major political candidates.  The attacks signal a large base of Americans disturbed by a particular candidate or issue.  When those grassroots attacks are manufactured by public relations firms, they aren't real:  they're astroturfed — fake attacks designed to look like a grassroots movement.

Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns and the People that Run Them.  Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well know astroturfing campaigns.  Hmmm, it sounds to me like we're on to something.  We have backups of all the deleted websites, and have now included them in the post.

Whoopi Goldberg and the Slavery Question.  On the September 12 edition of "View," host Whoopi Goldberg asked Senator John McCain, "Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again?"  Goldberg's question was obviously a loaded attempt to either stump McCain or force him into saying something politically incorrect.

The Editor asks...
 When was Whoopi Goldberg released from slavery?

Energy Myths:  Many in Congress seem either disconnected from reality or intentionally disingenuous about our energy crunch.  They have well-honed negative responses to common-sense ideas about solving our energy crisis, particularly drilling for more oil.  These responses are based on a number of widely held myths.  Sadly, they've become the backbone of the Democrats' energy policy.  They include:  "We can't drill our way out of our energy crisis."  Actually, we can.

Now it's 'swift-boating'?  It's only dirty pool if you lose.  That's the apparent Democratic approach to presidential politics.  In 2004, Democrats tried to use film, in the form of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, to discredit and bring down President Bush in his re-election effort.  CBS even got into the fray, using obviously forged documents to try to tarnish Bush's National Guard service.  It led to news anchor Dan Rather's retirement.

Dems' Doublethink on Drilling:  High gasoline prices are good.  A high price, imposed through federal carbon taxes or carbon caps, is precisely the mechanism by which Democrats hope to curb carbon emissions. … [But] High gasoline prices are bad.  With constituents irate over gasoline prices that are pushing $5 a gallon, Democrats complain that high prices are a bad thing.

Why Liberals Lie About What They Believe:  The liberal agenda is, in many respects, the same as it was in the thirties.  Whether you call it communism, fascism, socialism, liberalism, or progressivism, the only real difference is how much they believe they can get away with, the way they sell it to people, and the latest trendy name for what they believe.

It Can't Get Any Worse?  I hate to burst the dystopian bubble the Leftists have persistently inflated during the nightmare known as The Bush Administration, but people have never had better food, medicine and housing than they do at this very moment.  A typical home in America today has central heat and air, the cheapest car is a paragon of safety and efficiency compared with its ancestors, and people are routinely treated for, and survive, conditions which were fatal less than half a century ago.

Dems Skip Town:  Empty Promises Revealed.  Right now middle-class Americans are suffering from expensive-energy induced inflation.  We all know the adverse consequences pain at the pumps has wrought.  So what does "the most open" House majority of all time do when a fair and honest debate over drilling doesn't exactly help them?  They dodge the debate for weeks.  They disingenuously lead the American people to believe that oil and gas won't necessarily be a part of our energy needs in the future.

The Democrats' Big Problem:  The War In Iraq Wasn't About Oil.  Since the liberation of Iraq in March 2003, liberals have been screaming that the war to remove Saddam Hussein and his henchmen was a facade.  They have been shouting for years on end that the real reason for U.S. presence in Iraq was to secure resources for the Exxon/Mobils of the world.  They have been shrieking that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, oilmen both, hijacked American foreign policy to pad their pocketbooks.  There was only one problem with that logic, of course:  The price of oil has been skyrocketing since the invasion of Iraq.

Democrats: The Missing Years.  The DNC website section labeled "Party History," … is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. … So what's missing?  There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery.  There were six from 1840-1860.  There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves.  There were seven from 1800-1861.  There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject.  There were 20, from 1868-1948.  There is no reference to "Jim Crow" as in "Jim Crow laws," nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them.

Obama the Postmodern Candidate.  Mr. Obama is on a nodding acquaintance with the concept of "truth."  It appears that everything he says and does must be viewed "in context" and that the framing of that context is the sole province of Barack Obama.  Take the whole Reverend Wright issue for example.  Over the course of six weeks we were told that he had no idea these things were said; he had a vague idea they were said; he knew they were said but could no more disown them than his occasionally racist grandmother; he had been personally disrespected and was through with Jeremiah Wright.  Quite a bit of "context" to get from his initial statements to the end point a mere month and a half later…

Democrats more dysfunctional than ever.  Barack Obama's people have said that Hillary Clinton will probably not be the Democratic vice presidential candidate because of her husband, Bill's past. … Aren't these the same Democrats that less than a decade ago defended the then sitting president during impeachment proceedings brought about as a result of Bill's perjury and suborning perjury?

Harkin Suggests Military Background Makes McCain Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.  Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is catching grief for suggesting John McCain's family history of military service makes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee unfit to be commander-in-chief.  Harkin, who has a history of embellishing his own military record, told Iowa reporters last week that McCain's background as the son and grandson of Navy admirals creates a "dangerous" situation because he can only view the world through the prism of the military.

The Editor says...
 Eisenhower worked out okay, didn't he?

It's Obama's Character, Stupid.  I picked up a copy of Time magazine yesterday, in which a columnist declared that issues of "character" were a "distraction" in the Presidential race.  Obama actually said the same thing in his North Carolina press conference, that the Reverend Wright affair has been a "distraction."  Isn't this what liberals usually say when their own characters come under public scrutiny?  What a heap of pure poppycock!  Character is the primary issue in every Presidential election.

Oil Lessons.  "We can't drill our way out of the problem."  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said it.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said it.  It's one of those bromides sincerely repeated by Democrats with such conviction that for years left-leaning audiences duly nodded their heads, never questioning whether the truism was indeed true.  Until gasoline leaped above the $4-a-gallon mark.

Biblical Scholars Challenge Pelosi's 'Scripture' Quote.  In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship.  To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' … Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn't exist — it's "fictional."  "It is not in the Bible," Mariottini said.  "There is nothing that even approximates that."

More Prisoners, Less Crime.  Last July, Obama said that "more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities."  Actually, there are more than twice as many black men ages 18 to 24 in college as there are in jail.  Last September he said, "We have a system that locks away too many young, first-time, nonviolent offenders for the better part of their lives."  But Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, writing in the institute's City Journal, notes that from 1999 to 2004, violent offenders accounted for all of the increase in the prison population.

Shattering Three Myths About Liberals:  (#3) Liberalism is the ideology of science.  It has been said that if we ever have fascism here in America, it will be called anti-fascism.  Similarly, it's liberals who politicize science to fit their ideological goals and then declare that their opponents are the ones who have rejected reason.

Dem and Dumber in Ohio:  Democratic congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy sent a look-alike to rural parade.  Much like Saddam Hussein, Ohio 15th congressional district Democratic candidate Mary Jo Kilroy uses body doubles when she tires of having to deal with all of the little people she intends to represent.  Such was the case last week when Kilroy sent her campaign body double to represent her at the Plain City Steam Thresher parade.

How the Left Intimidates the Media.  Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was recently paid $20,000 by Virginia Tech to tell the students that there aren't two sides to the global warming debate and that the problem with the media today is that we don't have a fairness doctrine.  Those positions, which sound contradictory, betray the modern liberal agenda.  They want to bring back the fairness doctrine not to ensure true fairness and balance in journalism but to intimidate and censor those expressing a view contrary to their own.

That's a lie.  Ten often-repeated Democrat canards, half-truths and misconceptions.

The Wages of Sensitivity.  The Democrats are the party of self-conscious inclusion, of identity politics, of sensitivity training, of hate crimes, hate speech, and of rules to control them.  A presidential campaign, on the other hand, is nothing but "hate speech," as opponents dive deep into opposition research, fling charges true, half-true, and simply made up against one another in an attempt to present their rivals as slimy, dishonest, disreputable, dangerous, and possibly the worst human beings who ever drew breath.

Phony Pflegerism:  Normally the Democrats encourage priests and religious to misuse their office, to treat the binding teachings of their church as debatable while treating the platform and causes of the Democratic Party as doctrine; to put on their religious garb at political meetings, then take it off for catechesis.

Swift-Boating for Truth:  Democrats never think they lose a fair fight.  The fix is always in and it is against them.  When the 2006 midterms came around and Democrats won, of course, that was accurate.  If Democrats win, it is a fair outcome, when they lose — the response is the personal destruction of anyone in their way.

Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down,' Congressman Says.  A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the "black hawk down" battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.  Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Liberal Smears Unchallenged.  The general election season is under way, and the leftists are already displaying their hypocrisy.  They've launched pre-emptive warnings against a Republican "swiftboating" of Barack Obama at the same time they're making up wild allegations about the villainous ultraconservative plots against goodness planned by John McCain.

The Tanker Dogfight:  The Air Force has fumbled the bidding for new aerial refueling tankers for seven years now, and suddenly it's John McCain's fault.  That's election-year politics for you. The Democratic National Committee claims it was Senator McCain who steered the $35 billion tanker contract away from Boeing and toward Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co., or EADS.

Right-Wing Perverts.  [Former presidential candidate, Gary Hart] claims that the right's strategy is:  "Continue to demonize liberals, blame them for all social and economic problems, and soon enough no one will be willing to admit to being a liberal.  Claim that liberals and Democrats are too soft to combat terrorists and soon enough a majority, even in the oldest democracy on earth, will believe it."  Would that this truth were so easy to convey!  If Hart's charges weren't so pompously humorless, you'd have to laugh at his calling conservatives "radical perverters of language," coming as it does from the former darling of a party whose most recent president had us scrambling to define the meaning of the word "is."

Hillary:  Stand By Some Other Man.  Liberals believe, often accurately, that if they say the same thing over and over again 1 billion times, people will believe it:  "Bush lied, kids died," "We've lost in Iraq," "Reagan is stupid," "Bush is stupid," "Republicans are stupid," "Global warming is destroying the planet," "Gloria Steinem is good-looking" and — their most provably false assertion — "Bill Clinton is the most talented politician of his generation."

Obama's Deceptive Anti-Oil Ad:  'I Don't Take $ From Oil Companies'.  It has been illegal for the last 100 years for an oil company to directly donate to a political campaign.  So, while it is technically correct that Obama isn't taking money from oil companies, it is ALSO true that neither is anyone else!

FDR's dream comes true as nightmare.  When the US Mint was closed to gold in March, 1933, by Roosevelt and the country embarked on the sea of managed currency, a very large number of individuals and organizations urged a prompt return to the gold standard. The question arises as to what has become of those opposing voices in the intervening years. Why, some were silenced through bribe and blackmail. … All knowledge about gold money was systematically purged from university curricula and from institutes of advanced studies, replaced by a claptrap of pseudo-mathematical bunk.

The Surreal World of the Progressive Left:  Misrepresentation of facts, distortion of motives and general acts of character assassination are the preferred modes of progressive discourse, as any conservative who has acquired a public persona can attest. … Efforts by the targets of this malevolence to correct fabrications and mis-statements of fact are guaranteed to fail nearly every time, in part because progressives don't regard their judgments as opinions but as a received moral (and therefore incontrovertible) truth.  Eventually an alternative reality is created by this process which no one would even think to check.

How Do You Spell F-R-A-U-D?  Many politicians "stretch the facts" at some point in their careers, but this was more than that.  While Republicans do the same thing on another level — like campaigning for spending cuts and then outspending Democrats when they become a majority — what [Congressman Paul] Kanjorski has admitted to is outright fraud.

Camelot or Cesspool?  The Kennedys recently endorsed Barack Obama, and Teddy Kennedy drew a parallel with President Kennedy — a vision of a new Camelot rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the Bush administration.  Either he was addressing the largest group of amnesiacs ever gathered in one place in history or the media and much of America have been eating funny mushrooms and are in the throes of a mass delusion.

Obama's Bible Defense of Same-Sex Unions Wrong, Experts Say.  Kiera McCaffrey, director of communications for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said it is a mistake for Obama to look to the Bible as a playbook for his political aspirations.  "It seems pretty bogus using (the Bible) to justify civil unions," McCaffrey told Cybercast News Service.  "He should be using secular reasons to back it up.  "He can search the whole Bible and not find anything that justifies gay marriage or same-sex unions," she said.

Hillary's Record:  Lamenting the healthy U.S. economy, a certain senator from New York says "it takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush."  But the Clintons' brand of soap always seems to be a mix of sleaze and socialism.

Bending The Truth:  Eyebrows were raised early this year when the Senate's chief Democratic fundraiser, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, was made chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) — a panel on which he wasn't even a member.  The suspicion was that Schumer would scrap the JEC's serious economic analysis and make it his own political tool that plays fast and loose with numbers.

The audacity of phoniness.  Now it turns out that [Senator Obama's] top adviser, David Axelrod, often credited with masterminding Barack Obama's campaign strategy has a double life, too.  Thanks to the excellent reporting of Howard Wolinsky of Business Week, we know that the left wing campaign consultant by day also by night works for big corporations, creating phony front groups to pose as community groups who just happen to agree with his clients on controversial public issues.

Attack on President Bush Continues Past SCHIP Veto Override Vote.  Democratic Rep. Pete Stark launched a shocking one-man assault on the Bush administration Thursday [10/18/2007], interrupting floor debate before a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the so-called SCHIP bill to suggest that U.S. troops in Iraq are getting their heads "blown off for the president's amusement."

Did someone mention SCHIP?

Web of deceit:  "Bush lied, people died," has been the loopy left's mantra since 2003:  The president fabricated evidence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida's ties to Iraq to inflame support for invading Iraq.  These claims have been refuted countless times, but refuse to die.  The evidence of Hussein's WMDs was so convincing that Congress overwhelmingly approved the use of military force against Iraq and more than three dozen countries joined the United States in liberating Iraq. … Yet the news media still take it on faith that "Bush lied, people died."

Obama bin lottery.  Obama's South Carolina victory speech was the economic equivalent of a carnival snake-oil pitch.  He promised to "stop giving tax breaks to rich companies and instead put the money in the pockets of struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages", and at the same time stop the export of American jobs overseas, while raising everyone's wages.  The crowd chanted, "Yes we can! Yes we can!"  Excuse me:  No, you can't.  You can't keep inefficient American factories open without massive tax breaks to corporations, in the form of tariffs or otherwise.

A Modest Proposal to Eco-Celebs:  I'm trying to figure out why Norman Lear with a 26 car garage insists we cut our driving and Barbra Streisand from her well-staffed mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean advises her fans to air dry their laundry outside.  And Teresa Heinz and John Kerry, who use a private plane to travel to their 5 mansions and SUVs, warn us all to cut back on our energy use.

Why eco-hypocrisy matters:  This was no isolated incident, but part of what's becoming a tediously familiar pattern.  It starts when Celebrity X clambers up on a soapbox to tell the rest of us what we ought to be doing to Help Stop Global Warming.  In short order, News Outlet Y reveals that Celebrity X is, in fact, a hypocrite, owing to her frequent private jet travel, energy-sucking McMansion, and generally outsize carbon footprint.

Streisand Says 'Elections Should be Won — Not Bought'.  Really Barbra Streisand, you didn't think anyone would check?

Hollywood Hates the Troops.  "We've killed over 400,000 of their citizens."  That's what actor Tim Robbins thinks U.S. troops have been doing in Iraq.  He made the claim last week in an appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.  He's wrong, of course.  American soldiers have not been slaughtering 300 Iraqis a day for the last four years.  Even for one of Hollywood's most feculent personalities, this is an appalling slander of U.S. troops.

Harry Reid, Gen. Petraeus, and cooking data.  In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed a million Iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the invasion.  How did Reid arrive at that figure?  He probably got it from this poll.  I know of no non-poll study suggesting anything like such a high number.

10 Things a Political Junkie Hates About Politics:  [Scroll down] On the Left, comparisons of Bush to Hitler and wild claims that the United States is a fascist dictatorship have become so commonplace as to be blasé.  Allegations nearly as vile and most certainly as false — like the United States invaded Iraq for oil and the 2000 and 2004 elections were rigged — have become so ordinary that they could fairly be said to constitute mainstream thought on the Left.

Who Has Betrayed Whom?  The ad itself accused General Petraeus of betraying America and "cooking the books for the White House," of lying, in other words.  The Soros-backed, MoveOn folks made a number of scurrilous charges, most of which were easily debunked by the Washington Post Fact Checker, who gave the ad a three-Pinocchio label for dishonesty, stating that Move On's charges contained "significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions."

Reid's inconvenient theory will get House airing.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has been derided for saying that global warming contributed to last week's wildfires in Southern California.  Conservative political blogs mocked him.  Skeptics complained he was using a natural disaster to push his party's energy agenda.  The Nevada Republican Party said Reid had "lost touch with reality."

Whom to Blame for the Bridge's Collapse?  Why, Bush, Of Course!  Today, the federal government passes highway bills every six years or so, replete with pork projects.  The last one, passed in 2005, included snowmobile trails and horse trails, as well as a documentary about infrastructure in Alaska.  Some of the money never gets to critical highway maintenance.

Hillary's Texas Money Bundler.  [George Berham] Parr's most ominous pistolero was his six-gun totting enforcer, Luis Salas.  Days after the polls closed, Salas added 200 votes for [Lyndon] Johnson to Ballot Box 13 in Jim Webb County.  The fact that all the votes were recorded in the same handwriting was a clue.  But the box was never examined by those who adjudicated the election results; it had disappeared by then.  Revised returns gave Johnson a 3,000 vote margin of victory in Hidalgo County. … It all makes the chads and dimples show of South Florida look like child's play.

Progress, Actually.  The word "benchmarks" was scarcely heard last week when [General David] Petraeus and [Ambassador Ryan] Crocker reappeared before Congress.  Crocker testified that the Iraqis have actually met about two-thirds of the benchmarks, including four or five of the six key legislative benchmarks and all of the benchmarks measuring their contribution to their own security.  In reply, the congressmen who insisted on legislating these benchmarks now say benchmarks are a poor way to measure progress in Iraq.

Dems Distort Terror Report.  Democrats on Capitol Hill have complained for years that the White House "cherry-picks" intelligence.  Yesterday, that's exactly what the Dems did themselves with the just-declassified summary of a National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism.

Oscar for a panic merchant.  Take Al Gore.  While this jet-setting gas-belcher was getting his Oscar, the lights were still burning so brightly at his 20-room Nashville home that the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research yesterday announced he used more power every month than the average household used in a year.  So let's drop the terror-mongering, and calmly check something else.  As in:  is global warming really that bad, and is it really worth the pain of trying to stop it?

Al Gore Goes Elmer Gantry.  Despite the media-crafted image of the GOP as home to hypocritical religious demagogues, it is the Democratic Party in which more snake oil peddling faith healers find a home, albeit disguised as non-religious in nature.  Sadly, the Left's starry-eyed faith in demagogues like Gore, the Clintons, Edwards, John Fraud Kerry, and yes, even Obama (the White Man's Hope for Absolution of Guilt At Last), is destined to be disappointed, time and time again.

The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore:  This whole thing with global warming and its leading apostle Al Gore is just more of the political left's habit of talking the talk but never walking the walk.  Gore has proven time and again to be a complete hypocrite. ... He wants you to curb your lifestyle drastically, but on the record he's doing everything he doesn't want you to do, and doing it extravagantly.

The Editor says...
 Quite simply, the "global warming" panic is a hoax.

Mary and Joseph were not 'homeless'.  This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate "the birth of a homeless child" — or, in Al Gore's words, "a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child."  Just for the record, Jesus wasn't "homeless."  He had a perfectly nice home back in Nazareth.  But he happened to be born in Bethlehem.

The old Democrat bait-and-switch:
 Clock ticking on Dems' 100-hour agenda.  The clock is ticking for House Democrats, but it's hard to tell what time it is.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was touting a plan to push six bills through a Democratic House in 100 hours or less as early as June of last year.  She's reached the halfway point — in fewer than 20 hours, according to her count. … While the House has been in session for almost 48 hours since the 110th Congress was sworn in Jan. 4, the clock on Pelosi's Web site says only 17 hours 48 minutes have elapsed.  "We're just counting the legislative hours," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill explained.

[Yeah, right.  As if nothing gets done in Washington when the House is not in session.]

Higher Taxes, Bigger Government:  Democrats revert to form in first weeks.  "The Democrats have reverted to form," said David Strom, President of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota.  "We heard a lot of noises during the campaign and after about pursuing moderate policies, but once the Democrats started wielding real power they immediate set to raising taxes and expanding government."

The Democrats' Big Lie.  Democratic tolerance means tolerance for secularism, but absolute intolerance for religion.  Democratic tolerance means tolerance for their supporters, but absolute intolerance for their political opponents.  The proof is in the pudding:  The House Democrats are currently pursuing policies that would criminalize religious thought and crack down on political speech. … This bill is aimed at quashing traditional religious thought.

Democrats and disdain.  First it was John Kerry calling American troops child killers and rapists, as in the days of "Jenjis Khan."  Then there was his wife Teresa saying that Mrs. Laura Bush staying at home raising two daughters "didn't have a real job." … Now we have Barbara Boxer, Senator from Disneyland on The Bay, implying that a very accomplished, distinguished African American woman, Dr. Condoleeza Rice, isn't fit for her office because she hasn't given birth to children, a condemnation she wouldn't dare raise about the white Gloria Steinem, Donnna Shalala or Janet Reno.

What the US Presidental hopeful HASN'T said about his father...  It is a classic story of the American dream made real:  an impoverished Kenyan goatherd rising to become a brilliant Harvard-educated economist.  On the way he fights racial prejudice at home and corruption at work, survives the heartbreak of a broken relationship and, despite it all, leads the fight to rid Africa of its colonial legacy. … Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday [1/28/2007] has revealed that, for all Mr. Obama's reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth. … And, devastatingly, the testimony has come from Mr Obama's own relatives and family friends.

'Borking' Kerry Healey.  Ted Kennedy announced over the weekend that Kerry Healey, the Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts, is guilty of "swiftboating." … Apparently he was accusing Healey of trafficking in contemptible slurs that no one with a shred of decency should be associated with.  If so, he used the wrong word.  The term for engaging in groundless character-assassination isn't "swiftboating."  It's "borking."

The Top 1% ... of What?.  As many others have done, Virginia's Democratic Senator-elect Jim Webb recently complained in The Wall Street Journal of an "ever-widening divide" in America, claiming "the top 1% now takes in an astounding 16% of national income, up from 8% in 1980."  Those same figures have been repeatedly echoed in all major newspapers, including The Journal.  Yet the statement is clearly false.

Barack "blank" Obama and disingenuous politics of "understanding".  Who is Barack Obama?  He is a cipher running as a shaman.  He has been in the Senate for two years.  He has virtually no voting record; he has virtually no articulated positions.  Ask his advocates, and they will describe him as "a breath of fresh air" — but ask them about a single position he holds, and they will stare at you as though you are speaking in tongues.  They will tell you, however, that Obama "understands" every position you hold.

Pathetic liberal sissies.  Liberals, who in large part are people devoid of true substance and belief, who also have great contempt for God, morality and truth, are often unable to deal with facts that reflect poorly upon them.

A new low in Bush-hatred.  George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable.  He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler.  His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden.  Of presiding over an American gulag.  Of being a latter-day Mussolini.  Howard Dean has proffered the "interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. … What else can they say about Bush?  That they want him killed?  They already say it.

The standard against which all other monsters are measured.  It is therefore not only inappropriate but utterly preposterous to compare Bush to Hitler.  But this is how things are in America today.  Bush is likened to the German leader while the true monsters we are fighting that actually warrant measurement against Hitler — Osama bin Laden and his followers — are instead called insurgents, freedom fighters or jihadists.  Many of us don't even call them terrorists any more!

Anti-poverty vapors:  Everybody knows President Bush and the Republican Congress have chopped poverty spending to finance massive tax cuts for their wealthy friends. … Once again, what "everybody knows" turns out to be false.  Heritage Foundation budget analyst Brian Riedl actually looked at social spending under Republican control.  What he finds is as astonishing as it is counterintuitive:  Under the mean, nasty, coldhearted Republicans, expenditures on the poor have zoomed to record levels.  In 2004, 16.3 percent of the federal budget went to anti-poverty efforts.  This figure never has been higher.

Postmodernism:  Rejecting objective truth is the cornerstone of postmodernism.  In essence, postmodern ideology declares an end to all ideology and all claims to truth.

The liberal case study — one big dysfunctional family.  [Al] Gore practices vicious demagoguery when it comes to private enterprise, yet he campaigns on the "strong economy."  He hates "big oil" but owns $500,000 worth of Occidental Petroleum stock.  He argues for better housing for the poor — except for his impoverished tenants.  He is strong on the environment — except when it is an income-producing mining operation on his property.

Reviews of Al Gore's new movie can be found at the bottom of this page.

The Truth is Alien to the Left.  In George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother constantly reminded the citizens that "ignorance is strength" to diminish the public's desire to know the truth.  Adherence to this principle kept the government in control and the citizens in the dark.  Liberals now employ the ignorance strategy to distort the truth and deceive the public on all manner of issues, including the global war on terrorism, the economy and tax policy, border security and illegal aliens.

What About Clinton and Kosovo?  Get Over 'Bush Lied' Nonsense.  The White House — finally — began pushing back against irresponsible charges that Bush "lied" to the American people in making the case for war.

The Great Prevaricator.  Clinton's now-famous Lewinsky lie makes for an instructive comparison because it reminds us that this man, this former U.S. president, is a peerless prevaricator.  "Clinton's an unusually good liar," said former Democrat Senator and Medal of Honor recipient Bob Kerrey.  "Unusually good."  Indeed.  Even The New York Times once lamented Clinton's "mysterious passion for lying" and for "lying about his lies."  And the liberal New Republic's Andrew Sullivan noted, "From the beginning, Clinton has lied with indiscriminate abandon."

The Clinton-Gore deceitful fundraising sideshow.  Congressional Democrats and their supporting political organizations … could have aided in successfully executing the war against radical Islamist terrorism in an effort to bring it to a more immediate conclusion, but they didn't.  They could have helped to heal this country after the hard-fought and contentious elections of 2000 and 2004, but they didn't.  They could have put the good of the country ahead of their political ambitions, but they didn't.  And now they want your money so they can, "move the country in the right direction."  Yeah, right.  And Al Gore invented the Internet.

Hillary, Not as in the Mount Everest Guy.  For more than a decade, one piece of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's informal biography has been that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest.  The story was even recounted in Bill Clinton's autobiography.  But yesterday, Mrs. Clinton's campaign said she was not named for Sir Edmund after all. … Sir Edmund became famous only after climbing Everest in 1953.  Mrs. Clinton, as it happens, was born in 1947.

Middling mummery:  When Sen. Hillary Clinton, New York Democrat, began to readjust her campaign rhetoric to reinvent herself as a born again centrist, few bothered to check out whether she had shifted rightward in her voting record, too.  With rare exceptions, she hadn't.  Her rhetoric had changed around the edges, as when she talked about finding common ground with right to life advocates.  But "her voting record on abortion issues didn't change one iota," said an official at the National Right to Life Committee.

A Christian Can Be a Christian or a Liberal, But He Can't Be Both.  For the "Christian" to lean politically to the left means that he must blow off huge chunks of the Bible and replace the scripture with the make-believe notions of postmodernism's malleable "Christ."  Only after torturing the scripture can the Christian then fit liberalism into his supposed relationship with God.

The sleaziest ballot measure in America.  Are voters stupid?  The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the city's League of Women Voters apparently think so.  Both groups are pushing Proposition R on L.A.'s ballot next Tuesday.  Prop R is the ultimate test of whether the slick power elite in the City of Angels can fool the people into voting to weaken the city's eight-year term limits law by not telling voters what the measure actually does … by pretending that it "establishes" term limits already established.

Ford called himself a lawyer but did not pass the bar exam.  Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Harold Ford Jr. referred to himself as a lawyer earlier this week, but the congressman has not passed the bar exam.  Michael Powell, senior adviser to the Ford campaign, said U.S. Rep. Ford took the Tennessee bar exam in February 1997 and failed.  He said that was the only time Rep. Ford has taken the test.

Minnesota Democrat Caught Stretching the Truth.  One of Minnesota's top Democrats is catching grief after getting caught on tape telling a lie or, as he put it, "sanding off the truth."  Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson was recorded assuring a group of pastors that several state Supreme Court justices had told him they would not legalize gay marriage.

Why Democrats win.  America is not, as the current version of conventional wisdom claims, a centrist nation.  It is an essentially conservative nation, or at least conservative in the way such terms are defined these days and in comparison to other affluent democracies.  Roughly twice as many Americans identify themselves as "conservative" compared to "liberal"….  Few candidates run for political office in America as unrepentant liberals; almost all claim to be in some way conservatives.

The myth of the big bad drug companies.  The pharmaceutical industry is getting bad press.  Recent books … have harshly condemned the industry for recklessness, insensitivity and all-consuming greed.  They gain sales by spicing up their titles with inflammatory phrases about "deception," "complicity" and how drug companies "endanger your health."


Which Party Has a "Culture of Corruption"?

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Bamboozled Obama's big black lie:  I have been predicting for three years now that Obama will most likely be part of the presidential ticket in 2008.  He's got everything that democrats look for in a candidate, looks, charm, and the uncanny ability to distort truth like few have seen since William Jefferson Clinton.  In fact Obama may be better at it than Clinton.

Righting Clinton administration's wrongs won't be easy.  He convinced his cabinet, party leaders and wife to lie for him on television.  He committed perjury under oath, was impeached by the House, and was several votes away from being convicted by the Senate. … He disregarded the advice of his staff, disrespected the Office of the President and became a punch line worldwide embarrassing America and Americans.  Though a terrific orator and someone many Americans believed, he was really only a snake oil salesman.

Hillary asks gay activists for marriage amendment help.  [When New York residents] call her office her spokespeople say that she supports marriage — she just doesn't wish to see the federal government over reach.  Right … Ms. Universal Healthcare wants government not to intrude!

A confused party.  Democrats deserve an A for effort, but their strategy isn't likely to succeed.  In addition to the flagrant untruthfulness of their allegations, they still aren't presenting an alternative policy agenda.

Dispelling myths about American soldiers.  Myths abound when it comes to military personnel in the modern American armed forces.  Most are in some way related to recruiting new soldiers, who's fighting, and who's dying.

President Bush:  From "dunce" to "dictator".  [The Democrats] eventually figured out that depicting Bush as hopelessly dim would make it tougher to demonize him personally (it's hard to hate a hapless moron). … In no time, Bush went from stupid to stubborn — "a man unwilling to admit his mistakes," "mistake" being defined as any implementation of conservative policy.

Why the low jobless rate challenges Left and Right:  The latest jobless rate — 4.7 percent — is at a five-year low.  Yet, despite this and other good economic news, the Left is frantic to repeal the Bush administration's tax cuts.  In fact, even if every single economic indicator were better than at any time in American history, the Left would still want to repeal the tax cuts.

The myth of the level playing field.  The term is cliché, but it is an extremely misleading one.  The sports analogy implies that everyone should be required to play by the same rules; that all competitors should have approximately the same equipment for the contest.  Who could object to that?  Well, anyone who understands that this is simply not how the world works.

Enough with the distortions.  [Democrats] habitually misrepresent what they stand for and what Republicans stand for, and constantly mischaracterize President Bush's actions.  If they had confidence in the salability of their ideas, would they need to play word games, resort to euphemisms, revise history, distort facts and repeat patently false charges?

Are facts obsolete?  People who urge us to rely on the United Nations, instead of acting "unilaterally," or who urge us to follow other countries in creating a government-run medical care system, often show not the slightest interest in getting facts about the actual track record of either the UN or government-run medical systems.

A higher calling:  Sadly, there is recurring evidence that to liberals, one's political predilections trump everything else so that if you stand for the right things, you are virtually exempt from scrutiny. … The religious fervor of the left, in its high evangelical mode of spreading the gospel of liberalism, can be seen in its willingness to ignore the facts in furtherance of advancing its dogma.

On the use and abuse of labels:  When it comes to the issue of race, liberals have a field day.  Many of them believe that conservatives, by definition, are racists.  Some believe that Republican candidates speak in code to appeal to the presumed racism of red state rednecks.  For their part, liberals sometimes don't even bother with code.  They just come out and say that a vote for a Republican is a vote for another black church to burn.

The clay feet of liberal saints.  To be sure, Martin Luther King Jr. deserves his place among American heroes.  But it's worth noting that what makes him an American icon, as opposed to purely a liberal one, is his vision for a colorblind nation.  And colorblindness is no longer a core tenet of the American left.  President Kennedy was hardly the liberal of Oliver Stone's imagination.  And his brother, Bobby, was more hostile to civil liberties than John Ashcroft, eagerly wiretapping Americans, including King.

So Hillary Speaks For Jesus on Immigration Now?  This one simply tickled me.  Hillary made claims that by enforcing tougher immigration laws, we are in effect transgressing against Jesus Christ.  Here is a woman, who has spoken to the entire nation about adhering to biblical principles with a history that would shame the devil himself.  So I would like to find where Hillary gleaned her knowledge of scripture and question what she has said when what I have read and learned is contrary to her statement.

Hillary plays the name game.  A donation to Sen. Hillary Clinton can be the gift that keeps on giving.  That's because New York's celebrity senator uses one of the least-known but most common political fund-raising ploys that helps squeeze every last cent from her prolific hat-passing:  She sells the names of donors.

Bill Clinton Finally Comes Clean — Sort of.  In perhaps his most revealing interview since leaving office, former president Bill Clinton said Wednesday [7/7/2004] that during the early days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he felt he had no choice but to lie about his relationship with the former White House intern, because if he had told the truth, "the overwhelming likelihood is that I would have been forced from office."

A Lack of Vision or Democratic Chicanery?  The winner the last time Republicans split to a third party candidate gave us environmental restrictions that are one of the root causes of the pain you are feeling at the gas pump today.  It gave sensitive missile technology to China.  It entered into a joke of a nuclear arms agreement with North Korea, saw our soldiers slaughtered in Mogadishu and allowed Osama bin Laden time and sanctuary — in Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan — to bring to fruition a plan that slaughtered 3000-plus Americans on 9/11.

Clinton vet:  Pets were just props.  The Clintons were not the animal lovers they appeared to be in those family photo ops walking with first dog Buddy on the South Lawn, a former White House veterinarian says.  Turns out the former first couple didn't allow Buddy or first cat Socks in the White House residence, according to the Army vet.

Avoiding the Liberal Label:  Does it matter that [Melody] Townsel is a liberal Democrat and founder of the Dallas chapter of Mothers Opposing Bush?  Maybe not. … But it matters a lot that most news outlets withheld her partisan connections in reporting the story. … Many liberal groups often go unlabeled in the media, as if they were somehow unbiased and uncommitted.

The "extremism" of Judge Sam Alito:  In short, an "extremist" — to a liberal — simply means someone with whom they disagree.

Sticks and stones:  Have you noticed the irony in the Left's hollow screams about the alleged dishonesty of conservatives — when they have demonstrated again and again that they have little respect for truth?

Republicans Should Go On The Offensive.  Among Democrats however, too much opportunity for political grandstanding is presently available to be discouraged by such comparatively trivial concerns as the lives of the American people, both on the streets of its cities and in the battlefields where the terror war is presently being fought and won.  Of sole importance is the potential prize of political dominance.  So a bit of "collateral damage" among their fellow citizens is apparently a small price to pay.

CNN's 'Gay' Slash.  Comedian Bill Maher's malicious snipe on the "Larry King Show" that Republican Party boss Ken Mehlman is gay was pulled from CNN when it aired in later time zones and expunged from transcripts.  After telling King Wednesday night [11/8/2006] that the GOP was secretly run by hypocritical gays, Maher turned his tongue on Mehlman — after a little prodding from King, who asked for the names of the homosexuals to whom Maher was referring.

The difficulty of intellectually engaging the Left.  One of the more appealing aspects about being on the Left is that you do not necessarily have to engage your opponents in debates over the truth or falsehood of their positions.  You can simply dismiss your opponent as "anti."

Delusionary, insulting liberals.  It's amazing what liberals will do, say and put up with to remain politically correct. … There are myriad examples in the San Francisco area.  There are constant reminders of how incredibly insulting liberals are to anyone with common sense, two eyes to see and a brain to comprehend.

Why I am not a liberal:  This may prove to be the toughest challenge of all.  For me, it is like explaining why I am not a communist, or why I am not a Nazi.  Where does one begin?

Truth "Is".  I believe that Bill Clinton is such a good liar, he will lie when the plain spoken truth would serve him better.  Come on, Bill, you did not sleep on the couch — you only claimed that you slept there to make things seem more dramatic — more exciting to the reading audience.  You wanted more sympathy.  You wanted to paint yourself as having been appropriately punished, or as a victim.

"Flip-flopping" defines Democrats.  When you compare Republican and Democratic candidates over the last 25 years, it's hard not to notice a major difference.  The pressure within the Republican Party has been to promote politicians willing to take strong conservative positions, even if they turn some people off.  The pressure in the Democratic Party has been to promote candidates who can be all things to all people.

Proud to be a conservative.  Liberals have become so accustomed to having only their own points of view disseminated by the mass media that they now believe that any opinion in conflict with their own is an infringement on their right to free speech.  So not only do they feel entitled to spout off ad nauseam, but honest disagreement is regarded as censorship!

Liberals' Use of Words is an Effective Tool in Promoting Radical Ideologies.  Let's face it, liberals over the years have been effective in requiring the public and the media to use terminology they have reinvented to engage in philosophical debate.  While the spectrum might be broad, it is clear that liberals' use of philosophically friendly words has gone a long way in winning over people who may never have entertained liberal ideology in the first place.

The Left doesn't support the troops and should admit it.  Liberals, Democrats and others on the Left frequently state that they "support the troops."  For most of them, whether they realize it or not, this is not true.  They feel they must say this because the majority of Americans would find any other position unacceptable.

Distractions and hypocrisy.  Do you remember how many times during the Clinton years Democrats told us everyone lies about sex and that Republicans were shamefully distracting the Clinton administration by harping on White House cover-ups about sex with an intern?  Well, we have far worse distractions now being promoted by Democrats about far less important matters and during far more dangerous times.

Pathology of the Left:  Generally, liberals tend to be mentally rigid and closed-minded because they are insecure, the result of low self-esteem associated, predominantly, with fatherless households or critically dysfunctional families in which they were not adequately affirmed.  They exhibit fear, anger, and aggression — the behavioral consequences of arrested emotional development associated with childhood trauma.  Liberals display pessimism, disgust, and contempt for much the same reason.

Schumer Confesses to Not Understanding the Constitution.  United States Senator "Chuck" Schumer broke his own stupidity record the other day following President Bush's announcement of John Roberts nomination to the Supreme Court.  In a tag-team appearance with Senator Pat Leahy (D. Vt.), ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee, Schumer confessed to the Nation that neither he, Leahy, nor the Democrat party for whom he spoke, understands a fundamental principle of American constitutionalism:  separation of powers.

The Left's Tactics on Judicial Warfare:  The Left has a history of distortion — of both words and a nominee's record — so you can't assume that they mean what you mean or what they say is the truth.

Fighting the Good Fight.  We've always known winning the war on terror would be difficult.  But hearing critics such as Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., claim that "we're making no progress at all" in Iraq, you'd think it was impossible.  Fortunately, the pessimists are wrong.


Liberals are lying about the economy
Not only politicians, but union leaders and the embedded media.

Democrats say we're losing the war and our economy stinks.  Most economists define a recession as three consecutive quarters of falling real gross national product.  Yet for the last 10 quarters, the economy grew at an average of more than 3 percent, with the latest quarter coming in at 4.3 percent.  Inflation and interest rates remain low, with homeownership at an all-time high.

Kerry Makes Bogus Comparison to Great Depression.  He claims US suffers greatest job loss since the 30's, which is not true.  John Kerry didn't make it through the third paragraph of his formal announcement speech before stumbling over a key fact about the U.S. economy. … Comparing the current job slump to the Great Depression is ludicrous.

The Big Lie About The Great Depression.  The Depression lasted nearly a decade longer than it should have, due almost entirely to governmental meddling under both Herbert Hoover and FDR.  High tariffs and government-sponsored deflation followed by enormous taxation and unthinkable government expenditures turned a stock market stumble into a decade-long nightmare.

Kerry:  Worst Economic Record Since Hoover.  For more than a year, as far back as his speech Sept. 2, 2003 formally announcing himself as a candidate for the nomination, Kerry has been making bogus comparisons to the Great Depression, overstating the number of payroll jobs lost during Bush's tenure, and (once jobs started growing again last August) falsely claiming that the new jobs pay $9,000 less than those that were lost, a claim unsupported even by the evidence he cites from a pro-labor think tank.

Herbert Hoover never had it so good.  According to Dick Gephardt, "Bush has lost more jobs than Herbert Hoover — almost."  On that "almost" (Gephardt is only off by about ten million jobs) hangs a prodigious amount of partisan spin and most of the Democratic economic case against George Bush.

Worst Job Records Since The Great Depression?.  "The President has the worst jobs record since the Great Depression, and the economy is slowing due to the housing slump."  The budget and trade deficits as well as public debt levels have all climbed to record levels," Pelosi said.  [Oh, really?]  Unemployment is down to 4.4%.  92,000 new jobs were created in October; 470,000 new jobs over the last three months.  Our economy has now added jobs for 38 straight months.

Black Friday poised to be best in years.  This year's 'Black Friday' could be the strongest opening to the holiday shopping season in years, if the droves of American eager to exploit early-bird specials are any guide.  Terry Lundgren, chief executive of Federated Department Stores, told Reuters he arrived at the company's flagship Macy's Herald Square store at 5:30 a.m. to find lines wrapped completely around the building, which takes up a whole city block.

That wouldn't happen if the economy was in bad shape.  One-day sales on the day after Thanksgiving were about $8 billion in 2005.

Left-wing politicians are abetted by the news media's biased reporting about the economy.


Gore Uses Religion to Attract 'Global Warming' Converts.  "The Book of Revelation [says] God will destroy those who destroy his creation," Gore said, noting that some evangelical Christian leaders have expressed concern about climate change.  "Whatever works," Gore added, prompting applause and laughter.  Gore departed the event, sponsored by Wired Magazine, with his wife Tipper in a chauffeur-driven black Lincoln Town Car provided by a New York City limousine service.

Did someone mention Global Warming?

Note:  Most liberals don't actually believe we're headed toward a Christian theocracy, but it is to their advantage to spread such a story.  Of course there are a few people whose lifestyles really would suffer under a Christian theocracy, and they're probably genuinely afraid.

How's this for hypocrisy?
 Democrats plan to inject spirituality into agenda.  A conference geared to help Democrats infuse God into their politics begins tomorrow [5/17/2006] at All Souls Unitarian Church in the District with the unveiling of a "spiritual covenant with America."

New phenomenon is just the same old double talk.  Democrats have couched their ideas in favorable language for decades.  President Bill Clinton, for example, was a master at getting folks to see the world as he wanted them to see it.  Of course, Clinton's communications skills set a high bar.  But that doesn't mean other Democrats haven't tried to frame the public debate.  Does anyone believe Al Gore's "risky scheme" and John Kerry's "Stronger at home, respected abroad" were anything other than market-tested slogans?

Lured to Disaster.  Behind the housing boom and bust was one of those alluring but undefined phrases that are so popular in politics — "affordable housing."  It is hard for me to know specifically what politicians are talking about when they use this phrase.  But then politics is about evoking emotions, not examining specifics.  In looking back over my own life, I find it hard to think of a time when I didn't live in affordable housing.

What, me apologize?  The United States Senate has passed a resolution … apologizing as an institution for preventing the passage of anti-lynching legislation.  We are still waiting for the Democratic Party to apologize for its role, which is far greater than that of the whole Senate, inasmuch as all the senators who prevented action to abolish lynching for all those decades, were Democrats.

Soros Assails Critics for "Endangering Our Country".  Billionaire political activist George Soros, at the center of a controversy involving the alleged use of American taxpayer dollars to support needle exchange programs, Thursday [5/12/2005] accused his critics of "bigotry" and said they were "endangering the country."

Ending a losing streak:  The left is on another losing streak today, and so their intellectual leaders in the liberal media have gone back to the old playbook for an easy win that will get their team out of its slump.  This time, it is the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, which has been working for them since the days of Karl Marx.

The storm over poverty:  Forty years after a myriad of Great Society programs, the fact is that many people are still poor — about the same percentage as back in 1968.  Unfortunately, those who see government as the solution for every problem, especially those caused by their last attempted solution, have never let results, inconvenient facts, or common sense get in their way.

Liberal attitudes.  Liberals may think of themselves as people who believe in certain principles but, if you observe their actual behavior, you are likely to discover that most liberals have a certain set of attitudes, rather than principles.  Liberals may denounce "greed," for example, but in practice it all depends on whose greed.  Nothing the government does is ever likely to be called "greed" by liberals.

Cynicism exposed:  Mona Charen's incisive new book, "Do-Gooders," is about the enormous damage done by liberal social policies from the 1960s on, but it is also about the shameless demagoguery unleashed against those who have dared to oppose the liberal agenda or reveal its failures.  Examples range from cynical lies about judicial nominees to the biggest big lie of our time, the claim that black voters were "disenfranchised" by Republicans in Florida during the 2000 elections.

Rock the Victim mentality:  On the heels of the AARP, NOW, NAACP and other left-leaning groups' hysteria over Social Security reform and personal retirement accounts, the Rock the Vote campaign is latching on to the issue and misinforming a whole new generation.

Are Liberals Destroying the Democratic Party?  I don't remember anyone arguing that Bill Clinton should cancel his 1996 inauguration because of the violent conflict in the Balkans or the terrible genocide in Rwanda, in which 800,000 were murdered while the UN and the US did nothing. … President Bush is not under attack because he's having an inauguration during a war.  He's being attacked solely because Liberals hate the man personally, along with everything he stands for.

The left is worth nothing.  Since I was an adolescent, I have been preoccupied with evil:  specifically, why people engage in it and why other people refuse to acknowledge its existence.  As I have gotten older, I often find the latter group more infuriating.

Naysayers are tight-lipped since success of Iraq vote.  Skeptics of President Bush's attempt to bring democracy to Iraq have been largely silent since Iraqis enthusiastically turned out for Sunday's elections.  Billionaire Bush-basher George Soros and left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore were among critics of the administration's Iraq policy who had no comment after millions of Iraqis went to the polls in their nation's first free elections in decades.

The Truth About Wages:  Under Republican administrations, liberal critics would have laid the blame for any decline in wages directly on the doorstep of the president.  However, [Bill Clinton's] Labor Secretary Robert Reich attempted to deflect blame by pointing the finger at Big Business.  "The owners of capital are registering huge gains while ordinary working Americans are seeing their incomes fall," he said.

Bush vs. Clark's kooks.  Turning reality upside down is easy when you live in the world of people like actress Janeane Garofalo, who proclaimed on MSNBC just hours after the inauguration festivities:  "George W. Bush is unelectable, in my opinion."  This isn't dissent.  It's beyond denial.  Welcome to liberal dementia.

Translation of the Democratic Response to President's State of the Union Speech.  One integral theme emerged from the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address:  the party's underestimation of the American people to solve their own problems and to see through liberal rhetoric.  Let's just look at what they were really saying on the various issues once you strip away the generalities and euphemisms.

Moyers and the party of gloom.  Speaking at Harvard recently, Bill Moyers, a preacher in the Church of Unreconstructed Liberalism, painstakingly constructed a straw man and then bashed it to pieces.

COPS Makes for Crooked Cops.  COPS, borne of President Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to put 100,000 new police officers on the street, has been troubled from the outset.  It hasn't come close to fielding that many new officers.  And its objectives — to curb neighborhood crime by encouraging innovative and effective policing styles — haven't been met.

The Destruction of Jeff Gannon:  The campaign against Jeff Gannon demonstrates the paranoid mentality and mean-spirited nature of the political left.

Market Myth:  Worst Economy Since The Great Depression?  To hear John Kerry tell it, America is mired today in the worst economy since the Great Depression.  How dumb does he think voters are?  We just set a record for yearly production:  a GDP of nearly $12 trillion, or $120,000 per family.  As for what really counts, personal well-being:  A record 69 percent of Americans own their own homes, and the account balance in the average 401(k) plan is $77,000, up 22 percent in three years.

 Editor's Note:   No doubt you have seen news footage of large crowds of people surging through the doors of department stores when they opened on the morning after Thanksgiving.  Some stores opened on Thanksgiving Day and were crowded all day.  My family and I visited the Galleria in north Dallas on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and the place was packed!  Four parking garages were full, and there must have been at least 50,000 people inside.  But during the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry and the Democratic Party told us that we were in the worst economy since the great depression.  Obviously, the Democratic Party was lying to the American people in an attempt to win the election by any means necessary.

(Flashback to 1992.  Then-candidate Bill Clinton repeatedly referred to the economy as the worst since the Great Depression.  It worked.)

Making a Dent in Liberal Disinformation:  Worst Economy and Jobs.  While some Democrats still rail about the economy and the more loose-lipped critics still refer to it as a disaster, the steady economic growth has muted most of the harsh criticisms of the president's impact on the economy.  First it was "Bush's recession," then when that bottomed quickly and the recovery began, spurred by tax cuts, the critique morphed into, "Yeah, but it's a jobless recovery."  When the jobs started coming back, the complaint evolved again into, "Well, manufacturing still is losing jobs."  Then, when manufacturing gained jobs, it was "Sure, but these new jobs are all flipping burgers."

Making a Dent in Liberal Disinformation: RatherGate.  By now you should know the story — the blockbuster memos CBS "unearthed" for 60 Minutes II last Wednesday were immediately spotted as being suspiciously like something created on Word.  CBS denied, saying they had been authenticated by one of the purported author's fellow officers, who subsequently said he never saw them, and after seeing them felt they were fraudulent.

Don't Confuse Me With the Facts.  Liberals constantly call for more money for education when every statistic shows that money is not the answer (just look to Washington, D.C.'s schools and the $13,000 per child spent to achieve some of the nation's lowest test scores).  Libs talk down the economy when indices like home ownership, real income, and unemployment are better than the average in any of the past three decades.  They claim that we are no safer today, ignoring the fact that we have not had the expected major terrorist attacks since 9/11/01 and the government has thwarted dozens of plots.

Making a Dent in Liberal Disinformation:  Voter Disenfranchisement.  Democrats have never been known to cast fraudulent ballots, eh, Mayor Daley?  We won't go into the NAACP allegedly paying Chad Staton in crack cocaine to register such stalwart Dems as Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, and Janet Jackson in Ohio.  Or the 8,000 fraudulent Democratic voter registrations discovered in Lansing, Michigan.  That's "Get out the Vote."

Lying About the Draft.  The first question about the draft is ... why?  We have an active military of about 1.4 million men and women today.  This is down from the peak of 2.1 million in the mid-1980s.  Did we have a draft then?  No.  Did Reagan need a draft to ramp up from the lower levels from the Carter years?  No.  Would we need a draft to get back up to that force level, assuming that we had to?  No.

The Left's Fairy Tale:  Former Senator Max Cleland scared up Colorado college students in 2004 with tales that "America will reinstate the military draft" during a second Bush term.  However, the only proponent of the draft in Washington was Charlie Rangel, an antiwar Harlem Congressman who ultimately voted against his own bill when Congressional Republicans called his bluff.

Rangel turns 80 ... he just doesn't know when.  According to his birth certificate, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) turned 80 this past Friday.  But according to Rangel, his birthday is sometime in August.  He's just not sure when.  "As far as I'm concerned, my birthday is the day of my big summer fundraiser," he told ITK.  "I just can't remember the exact date of it this year."

The Editor says...
 If he says he doesn't know his own birthday, he is obviously either lying or he's senile, and in either case, he is unfit for office.

Conservatives don't always wear black hats.  Most commentators don't understand what it means to be a conservative.  When you listen to newscasters or read newspaper accounts of such matters, it seems that "conservatives" are simply the people who want bad things and the liberals are the ones who want good things.

On the use and abuse of labels.  Liberals don't usually call conservatives merely "conservatives."  That's because the term, standing alone, is not a pejorative.  Instead, we are "extremists," "bigots," "homophobes," "racists" and "intolerant."  And these labels, unlike the conservatives' general invocation of "liberal," are usually gross distortions.

Cultural issues confuse the liberals.  Democrats seem to be leaning toward the idea that Bush's victory is based primarily on turning out religious nuts to vote for him.  These people are viewed in certain Democratic quarters as the American Taliban.  It is thought that if they gain political power, not only will abortion and gay marriage be banned, but so will dancing, rock and roll, and any movie with an "R" rating.  This is nothing but nonsense, but is commonly believed in places like Hollywood and New York's upper west side.

Amoral media, lowlife fans, spoiled athletes and beer.  Let's finally stop repeating the false notion that big business has conservative values.  Big business has no values. ... Liberals perpetuate the falsehood of big business as conservative for three reasons:  They have a materialist view of the world (just about everything is explainable by economic status and motives; it aids in getting people to vote Democrat); many people resent the amorality of big companies; and it seems to counter the argument that the major news media are liberal — "How could the news media possibly be liberal when they are all owned by large corporations!"

Former Brooklyn Democratic boss sentenced to prison.  A former assemblyman and head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party was sentenced on Wednesday [1/10/2006] to two to six years in prison for separate convictions on campaign corruption charges.  At two trials in state Supreme Court last year, juries found Clarence Norman Jr., 54, guilty of stealing $5,000 that was donated to his re-election committee in 2001, and of trying to conceal $10,000 in contributions.

The Left's Lies That Never Die:  I'm sick of hearing the myths spun endlessly by the left repeated over and over again, often by people who ought to know better.  So here, once again, is another attempt to set the record straight.

Coulter Stirs Up a Storm:  For about two decades, name-calling has been the principal policy position of liberals.  If [Republicans] oppose the National Endowment for the Arts, we're said to hate art.  If we oppose the Department of Education, we hate teachers.  If we oppose the Environmental Protection Agency, we hate the environment.

Socialist Myths, Capitalist Truths:  Capitalism is profoundly egalitarian.  Its existence relies on institutions that protect the equal rights of consumers and producers, eschews privilege and authority, and distributes wealth based on each participants' contribution to satisfying the needs of others.  So we should immediately be suspicious of claims that capitalism causes inequality.

The Double 'Thank-You' Moment.  I suspect ignorance about economics leads many to believe that when two people exchange goods and money, one wins and the other loses.  If rich capitalists profit, the poor and the weak suffer.  That's a myth.

New Lies of the Old Left:  In the 1960s, the "New Left" came to prominence on America's university campuses.  Today, those New Left radicals are America's tenured university professors.  They populate the newsrooms of the television networks and our once-great newspapers.  More disturbing still, the New Left now comprises the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

Political demagoguery:  Our unemployment rate, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics put at 5.4 percent in September, is one of the lowest in the world and in our history.  France's unemployment rate is 9.4 percent, Germany's 9.9 percent and Italy's 8.6 percent.  Our Canadian neighbor's is 6.6 percent.  The only reason for today's hysteria over jobs is because it is an election year, and one of the ways politicians gain power is to create fear among the electorate.  The next time you hear a politician whining about our "awful" job climate, ask him which European country we should look to for guidance in job creation.

The myth of the stolen election:  The Democrats seem determined to keep the 2000 election issue alive, even though it failed miserably as a rallying cry against Jeb Bush, who won a resounding 56% to 43% re-election victory in the 2002 Florida Governor's race.  It is worth examining the mythology and the real, not-so-ancient history of the "stolen election".

Jobs and snow jobs:  Senator John Kerry says that he would create 10 million jobs if he were President.  But Presidents don't create jobs.

Political Litmus Test:  Bluest States Spilling The Most Red Ink.  Want to know which states are in the worst financial condition?  One telling indicator that might not immediately come to mind is whether most of its citizens identify themselves as Democrats.  The five states in the worst financial condition — Illinois, New York, Connecticut, California and New Jersey — are all among the bluest of blue states.


Emotion vs Reason

This section has been moved to a page of its own, where I'm sure it will be much happier.


The "Theocracy" Subsection:

Why are some liberal Democrats so worried about religious influence on American politics?  The easy answer is this:  Without the constraints of religion or any moral foundation, it is much easier to live the life of a 1968 California hippie; that is, a drunken, philandering, dope-smoking, baby-killing liberal.  Where there is no God, things like conscience and sin and guilt and self-restraint are no problem.  Apparently many people on the east and west coasts are afraid that if people behave like Christians, the party's over.

Oddly enough, the people who seem to be so afraid of a Christian theocracy are the same people who don't want to hurt the feelings of the Muslims who really do want to establish a theocracy in this country.

Now, the Theophobes.  Most of [the nation's intellectual elites] equate religious expression to fascist incitement.  That's a curious twist, since the only thing protecting the American political system from fascism is religion itself.  Here's why:  faith supplies the essential ingredient for individual liberty — and that ingredient is virtue.

Theocracy and Liberal Paranoia:  Liberals are offended and feel threatened by all expressions of spiritual religious faith, which they perceive as evidence of a theocratic conspiracy and therefore sufficient grounds for banning Judeo-Christianity from all public discussion.  Opposition by Christians and religious Jews to abortion, fetal stem-cell research, same-sex marriage, and the hedonistic license of sexual promiscuity is equated by liberals with medieval ignorance and abolition of modern science.

It's the worldview, stupid.  The American left exhibits ambivalence toward Christians and Christianity.  On the one hand it routinely demonizes them and their values, and on the other, identifies with them.  This sometimes looks like an insulting charade.  Liberals often mock the perceived backwardness of Christianity, yet their prominent politicians jump at the chance to appear at megachurches to rub elbows with their robust congregations.  They conspicuously wear their Bibles for photo-ops and cite Scripture in campaign speeches, yet deride Christian conservatives and condemn Republican politicians for allowing their Christian beliefs to inform their policies.

Obama's Imperilled Candidacy:  I found it very interesting to hear [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright explicitly endorse Obama over Hillary in church.  Normally when evangelical preachers cross the political line they get hammered for violating the separation of church and state.  One pastor I know invited a local Republican official to give his personal testimony in church and had to answer to the IRS for it.  How come black churches engage in blatant electioneering, even to the point of busing members to the voting booth, and nobody from the ACLU or the media raises an eyebrow?

Would Jesus Take The Bus?  The largely secular press corps does not usually regard Jesus Christ as a suitable authority to cite in political or policy discussions.  When George W. Bush invoked Christ's name in a December 1999 debate, for instance, journalists gasped at the insertion of religion into the public square, something to make non-Christians squirm.  To liberal media purists, the slightest acknowledgement of Christianity by a public official is evidence of a sinful desire to impose a Taliban-style theocracy in America.

The Fascists are Coming, The Fascists are Coming.  Last Sunday, The New York Times featured a review of American Fascists:  The Christian Right and the War on America, in which author Chris Hedges makes the argument that millions of Americans are about to fall on their fellow citizens and punish them in the name of a righteous Lord. … While reviewer Rick Perlstein doesn't particularly approve of the book in question, he does buy into the thesis.  "Of course there are Christian fascists in America", he insists, followed by several anecdotes that demonstrate no such thing.

The Theocons are Coming!  Take Rosie O'Donnell.  The other day, one of her co-hosts on "The View" was musing on current events and opined, "If you take radical Islam and you want to talk about what is going on there you have to…" And at this point Rosie interrupted.  "One second.  Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have a separation of church and state."  Does she really believe that?  That "radical Christianity" is "just as threatening" as "radical Islam"?  These terms are imprecisely defined.  You get the feeling that to Rosie O'Donnell "radical Christianity" is pretty much Christianity — or at any rate any Christian denomination without an openly gay bishop.

[Have radical Christians ever flown an airliner into an office building?]

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "God Delusion"?  The theocracy is coming!  The theocracy is coming!  So warn authors, documentary makers, and celebrities, who would like to rip away what they see as veils of religious superstition.  They warn us of the dangers of Christian belief and extend their arguments to religion in general.

"Theocrats" for freedom.  The word "theocrat" is a rapidly emerging swearword in American politics.  If someone opposes gay marriage, or supports giving sustenance to Terri Schiavo, or has any strong moral convictions that inform his policy positions, he is a "theocrat" who secretly wishes to begin burning people at the stake.

Are the theocons taking over?  Those who imagine that it is religion's defenders who are the aggressors here are simply not paying attention to the increasingly sharp attacks on religious faith that can be found today in such influential places as The New York Times.

Were Nazis Christians?  Are Christians fascists?  Christophobia is marching through movie theaters and onto the pages of books.  One much-discussed documentary, "Jesus Camp," concerns a fringe-Christian program in Devil's Lake, N.D., that the filmmakers suggest is representative of the evangelical world.  The film has small children praying before a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush and swinging swords while dressed in combat fatigues.

The Nazis Were Marxists.  The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe.  Nazis, Bolsheviks, the Ku Klux Klan, Maoists, radical Islam and Facists — all are on the Left, something that should be increasingly apparent to decent, honorable people in our times.  The Big Lie which places Nazis on some mythical Far Right was created specifically so that there would be a bogeyman manacled on the wrists of those who wish us to move "too far" in the direction of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater.

The Republican Party Began as a Tea Party Movement.  Republicans should welcome a comparison of their party's history with that of the Democrats — the party of slavery and socialism, Big Government and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Nazis and Christianity:  Many atheists presume that the Nazis were a weird variation of Christianity. … [On the contrary] Weimar Germany largely had abandoned Christianity and increasingly was embracing hedonism, Marxism and paganism.  There, decline of Christianity in Germany led directly to the rise of Nazism.  Professor Henri Lichtenberger in his 1937 book, The Third Reich, describes the religious life of the Weimar Republic as a place in which the large cities were "spiritual cemeteries" with almost no believers at all, except for those who were members of the clergy.

Faith Is A Right, Not A Theocracy, Senator Schumer.  To call a group of people of strong faith theocrats because they want to exercise their rights as citizens and participate in government is astounding but not surprising.  Senator Schumer would like to silence his critics.

Faith in our future?  If you read the headlines, you run the risk of thinking we are headed toward a theocracy.

Fundraising Foolishness.  If you think I'm exaggerating, consider what the head of the Anti-Defamation League recently told his membership.  Speaking at the same time, ironically, that Muslim youths were setting French communities on fire, he warned his members about the threat posed by, of all things, "the Christian worldview."

Probing the judges:  One of the appellate judges who learned that his financial records were sought by a Democratic political consulting firm told a friend that he felt violated by this political intrusion.  He did not know that the firm's client was NARAL.  The abortion advocacy group surely was not asking the judges' views on abortion.  Nancy Keenan, who has been NARAL's president some five months, told this column her organization is concerned about "out of touch theological activists" becoming judges.

Pagans vs. "religionists":  "We need people in Hazmat suits to go in and smoke 'em out," writes Nicholas von Hoffman in a New York Observer column. … "Religionists are crawling in everywhere, swarming the schools, movies, medicine and research labs," warns Hoffman, sounding like someone from Terminix.  "Their intent is to install a faith commissar to oversee every major social institution.

Why theocracy can't happen here.  Recently, Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches and former Pennsylvania Democratic congressman, warned a conference of People for the American Way and 500 other secular liberals the religious right was hell-bent on imposing a "theocracy" on America.

Atheists Feel Threatened by Bush.  The Freedom from Religion Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and People for the American Way, are leading the legal battles to push God from the public square and create a nation in man's image.

Killed for breaking fast.  A 14 year old Iranian boy was sentenced to 85 lashes for breaking his Ramadan fast.  The boy died from his wounds.  Keep this story in mind next time you hear a liberal referring to the "Taliban wing" of the Republican party, or arguing that Christian "fundamentalists" in America are comparable to Islamic "fundamentalists" in the Middle East, or suggesting that the Bush administration is trying to establish a "theocracy."

The Left's "Dominionist" Demons:  In recent decades, the Left has come to see evangelical Christians as the principal obstacle to the realization of its social agenda, hence the embodiment of evil.  Correspondingly, attacks on "fundamentalists" have grown increasingly shrill.

Secular Humanists to the Rescue!  The Buffalo-based Center for Inquiry (CFI) announced the opening of its new public-policy office in the nation's capital last month.  Their mission?  Nothing less than to save America from "the undue influence of religious orthodoxy." … Such triteness, whether in CFI's messaging or architectural styles, is not as disturbing as it is embarrassing.  What is genuinely disturbing in their literature is the mantra-like repetition of that ever-fashionable line of ideology:  Science has the corner on the market of reason.

The Christians are at the gates, but they don't want in.  All right, enough already.  The Christians aren't coming to get you.  I can take the somber, frightened "special reports" on National Public Radio, where you can literally hear the correspondents wringing their hands over the possibility that the "Darwin fish" affixed to their Volvos will be banned.  I can even handle the dog-whistle shrieks of Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd types about the looming Inquisition led by an alliance of the new German (wink, wink) pope and the Kansas Board of Education.

Theo-Panic!  What does [Oliver] Cromwell's rule have to do with contemporary American political life?  If your answer is anything other than "nothing," you are probably in the grip of the "theo-panic" that is sweeping precincts of the American commentariat.  They warn that America is beset by raging theocrats seeking to overturn our liberal democracy.  Otherwise respectable historians, Kevin Phillips and Garry Wills, have made this charge.  It is a staple of the New York Times op-ed page.

Conservatives Accuse Watchdog Group of 'Christianophobia'.  A liberal government watchdog group has asked the Secret Service to release its records of prominent conservative Christian leaders' visits to the White House, but one of those leaders called the request "an act of Christianophobia."  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Wednesday [10/18/2006].

Taliban west?  Secularists are in a state of panic about the role of evangelical Christians in the reelection of George Bush.  They actually believe that American democracy is in danger, that we are on the verge of becoming a theocracy.  "Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy," frets DeWayne Wickham in USA Today.  Leonard Pitts of The Miami Herald warns darkly of "the soldiers of the new American theocracy who want to force 'creation science' on the schools."

Give me that old-time (liberal) theocracy.  "The right-wing hijacking of religion's public role in our political discourse is as undeniable as it is inappropriate, and represents one of liberalism's most serious problems."  Writing in The Nation, Eric Alterman illustrates this problem perfectly.  Speaking for liberals, he later states that "we happen to have Christianity's deity on our side."  Apparently it's only a "hijacking" and "inappropriate" if religion bolsters conservative causes.

The left would relish a theocracy of this sort...
 Al Gore, the United Nations, and the Cult of Gaia (1999):  [Scroll down] The religious overtones of this movement are too obvious to ignore.  Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) has described this phenomenon as "environmental religion" and says that it has "profound constitutional implications" because of the First Amendment prohibition on government establishment of religion.  Columnist Alston Chase, a reformed environmentalist, agrees, warning that "It may be only a matter of time before America becomes a complete theocracy — a place where, in the name of environmentalism, science and religion fuse with civil authority to rule the populace."  Dr. Michael S. Coffman, president of Environmental Perspectives, says, "They are instituting a new state religion."  But it is a religion at sharp variance with the Judeo-Christian foundations of the American constitutional republic.

Evangelicals:  America's Taliban.  If you think that comparing Evangelical Christians to the Taliban sounds extreme, you might just be a normal American.  But if you think that the comparison is valid, you might just be a supporter of North Carolina Senator Julia Boseman.  In fact, Boseman's supporters have just launched a new website making that very comparison.

See also Anti-Christian/Pro-Islam Bias in Today's American Society


How much do you know about Senator Joseph McCarthy?

The Venona Secrets:  The fact is Joe McCarthy was right, but by now his name has been turned into a dirty word by the same liberal, leftist propaganda machine that today is trying to convince Americans the President "lied" to them about Iraq.

Joe McCarthy was Right.  The release of transcripts of closed-door hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy gave the media another opportunity to charge that the Wisconsin Senator made reckless charges about communists that destroyed the lives of innocent people.  But many of the stories about the hearings and McCarthy were far more reckless, inaccurate and misleading than anything he ever said or did.

Of "Treason" & Tailgunner Joe:  What the Left calls McCarthyism — smearing an enemy on false or non-existent information — has been its stock-in-trade since the Left invented the term to destroy its great antagonist, the ex-Marine and Wisconsin senator known as Tailgunner Joe.

Joe McCarthy, Freedom Fighter.  A couple of years ago, I debated a professor from American University named John Doolittle who, prompted by me, admitted that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wisconsin (1909-1957), may have exposed some real communists working in the federal government.  "But I saw the Edward R. Murrow broadcasts," Dr. Doolittle added.  "He was a bad man."  Veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans, who has studied more of the government files from that era than Dr. Doolittle or his peers, or for that matter, Edward R. Murrow himself, have ever seen, reaches a different verdict.

History Shows Joe McCarthy's Reputation is Undeserved.  McCarthy understood, long before Reagan, that the Soviet Union was an evil empire, one of whose strategies was to infiltrate agents into our government in order to guide our policy to favor Communist goals.  In fact, our government was much more infested with Soviet agents than McCarthy imagined.

The Real McCarthy Revealed.  Near the start of "Blacklisted by History:  The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies," Evans asks, "Can we in fact name one certifiable communist McCarthy ever came up with in all his speeches and contentious hearings?"  According to Evans, "it's indeed hard to cite one such person — just as it's hard to eat one potato chip or salted peanut."  He then provides a list of 10 McCarthy targets that turned out, indeed, to have been spying on this country.


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