Liberals are out of step with America

Left-wing liberals are the people who are trying to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.  They're the ones who want to remove the Ten Commandments, and all other references to God, from public buildings.  They are trying to force the Boy Scouts to allow homosexual Scoutmasters.  Liberals are pushing for same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption rights in every state.

Most normal, average everyday people don't want America to become a godless, amoral Socialist state.  Except in a few states on the east and west coasts, and some parts of Minnesota, the average American does not think the way liberals think.  Liberals are completely out of step with mainstream America, and they must rely on subterfuge to win arguments.

There is a new subsection at the bottom of the page about the liberals' strange admiration of Cuba.

There is also a new page here about hate speech and violence on the political left.


Newt Struck Gold, Promptly Abandoned Mine.  America as founded is being ripped out from under us in broad daylight, and this rip-off is being propelled and celebrated by our education, entertainment, and media elites.  Far deeper than the "economic versus social" meme debated by shallow and isolated strategists and pundits, something much more foundational is going wrong, and so few are willing to confront this fact.

Wasserman Schultz: Romney is "Extreme Right" and Obama is "Moderate".  Local Congresswoman and chair of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz is President Obama's biggest cheerleader, and that was apparent in her interview with Jack, Tedd and Corey on AM Tampa Bay.

God bless Jan Brewer.  Obama is the ultra-left-wing president who sometimes tries to hoodwink those of us who know better — that would be those of us who didn't vote for him and never will — into believing that he's some sort of moderate.  Obama is the guy who tries to pretend he's tough on illegal immigration, while chiding us for having a "broken" immigration system and making it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens.  And he's also the man who believes the horrendous 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision is nothing less than God's 11th commandment.

These Dems spin better than Rumpelstiltskin.  How profoundly America has changed since January 2009.  I was pondering this the other night during the State of the Union address.  Did you know that our elite military units like the Navy SEALs are now examples of America at its absolute finest?  Why, wasn't it just a few years ago that Sen. Dick Durbin was comparing these very same troops to the Khmer Rouge and Joe Stalin's Red Army?

Here's why union membership keeps falling.  Folks in Springfield, Ill., witnessed a bizarre scene two years ago.  Thousands protested outside the Capitol, chanting:  "Raise my taxes!  Raise my taxes!  Raise my taxes!"  Who protests for higher taxes?  Government unions do.  The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees helped organize the rally.  This is the new face of the union movement.

WH: Obama is clearly a 'centrist'.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney believes that President Obama has "a centrist agenda," and he seems to doubt the existence of a plausible counterargument from the Republican Party.

The Editor says...
 In order to believe that Barack Obama is a centrist, one would have to believe that there roughly equal numbers of Americans who are to the left and the right of Obama, politically speaking.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  While there may be a few thousand people who believe that Obama isn't radical enough, there are millions who believe that he is the most radically leftist President in American history.  The White House press secretary will say whatever he is told to say.  That's his job.

President Obama reveals who he really is — and this picture isn't pretty.  By rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Obama did more than just pander to environmentalists.  He shredded attempts by his handlers to cast him as a pragmatic and reasonable man who can appeal to independent voters.  Instead, he stands naked as an ideologue willing to sacrifice workers on the altar of special-interest politics.

I Finally Understand Democrats.  In order to believe that Democrats have the answer today, you would have to believe:
  •   That you can grow the entitlement class beyond the taxpayer class and never hit critical mass where there is no money left.
  •   That using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2003 was criminal, and using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2011 was noble.
  •   That the best way to grow the wealth of the private sector is to take all the money out of it.
  •   That the best way to make us energy independent is to block any effort to produce more petrocarbons in this country.
  •   That more unemployment checks create more jobs.

Dem Rep. Ellison: Let 16-year-olds vote.  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said late last week that the United States should lower the voting age by two years, to 16.  "Why shouldn't 16-year-old vote?"  Ellison tweeted last week, according to Minnesota's Fridley Patch.  "They can drive.  Some have jobs.  Let's empower our youth."

The Editor says...
 On the contrary, the Editor believes that 16-year-olds should not be licensed to drive on public roads and highways.  The Editor also supports the repeal of the 26th Amendment.

Top 5 'let them eat cake' moments of the Obama White House.  Incident:  The first lady and daughter Sasha took a five-day trip to southern Spain, shopping, visiting coastal towns and lunching with the nation's king and queen.  Criticism:  Mrs. Obama and her daughter stayed at a five-star coastal resort where rooms run from $400 to almost $7,000 per night and the first lady was photographed wearing an off-the-shoulder top from pricey designer Jean Paul Gaultier, causing critics to blast the seeming show of extravagance during a period of 9.5 percent unemployment.

Leftism Makes You Meaner.  Two examples in just the past week offer compelling evidence.  Prominent left-wing commentators used the way in which Rick Santorum and his wife handled the death of one of their children to attack — make that mock — the former Pennsylvania senator.  In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.  But one just assumes that some things — not many, just some — are off limits to political pundits and activists.  Among these few things, one has to believe, is the death of a child.  But I was wrong.

Big Government's Debauchery Of Human Capital.  The short life of Gabriel Santorum would seem a curious priority for political discourse at a time when the Brokest Nation in History is hurtling toward its rendezvous with destiny.  But needs must, and victory by any means necessary.  In 2008, the left gleefully mocked Sarah Palin's live baby.  It was only a matter of time before they moved on to a dead one.

Making Eco-village in Green Mansions.  Loudon County, Virginia, is one of the richest counties in the nation.  They are now at the forefront of implementing the environmentalist green agenda of living in an eco-village.  The residents are "a typical middle class mix of mostly white-collar workers."  If we consider this group typical middle-class, we should consider the price of homes in this utopian "paradise."  The last home bought in this Shangri-La in September 2011, a foreclosed home, cost $359,000.  Some sell between $895,000 and $1.7 million.

The Real Sleeping Giant.  Americans who consider themselves Tea Partiers are a minority of the country, even if a significant and motivated one.  The real majority, one which Democrats are foolishly antagonizing, are those of us who refuse to accept the left's claims that Americans of one economic class are the enemy of those in another economic class.  A recent poll by Gallup shows that the efforts of Obama and the Occupiers may be backfiring against the beggar-thy-neighbor Alinskyite left.

Voting Rights? It All Depends.  Yesterday [12/10/2011] a motley coalition of left-wing groups operating under the name Stand For Freedom marched in New York City, ostensibly to support voting rights.  A large number of groups were represented, almost more organizations than people: the NAACP, the ACLU, SEIU, CAIR, the Communist Party, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the Hispanic Federation, the United Federation of Teachers, the Action Network, NOW, several Democratic politicians, and many more.  Despite the event's wide-ranging sponsorship, only 1,000 to 2,000 people showed up to march.

Hillary's Surreal State Department.  Hillary Clinton was once seen as a radical busybody, clamoring for this or that absurd invented right, such as the right of children to sue their parents.  Now she is seen as a safe establishment figure.  But the truth is that she hasn't changed.  She is still a radical scold.  Back in the days of the Clinton presidency she pushed the world to embrace an international right to abortion.  These days her ambition is to impose upon all the nations of the earth "LGBT" rights.  Bill Clinton's State Department was famous for its Christmas trees adorned with condoms as ornaments.  Hillary's State Department is even more radical; it seeks to turn the world into San Francisco.

Are Democrats the New Minority?  New polling from the Gallup Organization includes striking details that ought to alarm the administration and its allies.  For the first time, substantial majorities of those who describe themselves as Democrats in the age of Obama say they are unmarried and irreligious — in a nation that overwhelmingly values both marriage and religion.

Connecting the Obama-Communist Dots.  [Scroll down]  The book sheds light on certain activities and affiliations of certain members of the government such as U.S. representatives Maxine Water [sic] (D-CA) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI).  These two, along with former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums, are sponsors of MECA (The Middle East Children's Alliance), an organization founded originally by activists Barbara Lubin and Howard Levine.  Lubin, as it turns out, is allied with the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist sect aligned with North Korea.

Disorganizer-in-Chief.  Occupy Oakland called for a general strike — the city grinding to a halt, banks unattended, and schools closed.  What they got was a few thousand protesters vandalizing banks and briefly closing a unionized port, but more important, a mayor happy to facilitate it all.  Wednesday night would have been no more disturbing than a vigorous though destructive demonstration by the lefties of the Occupy movement — except that it occurred with the endorsement of Oakland's mayor, Jean Quan.

Barack Obama is facing an anti-Big Government revolution.  Three major polls this week will give a jittery White House cause for concern. ... Taken as a whole, this week's polls paint a picture of a country that is emphatically rejecting the Big Government experiment of the past few years, and turning more and more towards conservatism.  The surveys are representative of a sea of polls revealing a deep-seated and mounting opposition to the highly interventionist economic policies of the current US administration, with the latest RealClear Politics average of polls showing 73 percent of Americans believing the country is moving down the "wrong track".

A Majority of Democrats Seldom or Never Go to Church, Says Gallup.  A majority of Democrats — 52 percent — say they seldom or never go to church, according to Gallup data published Monday [11/7/2011].  That result is based on Gallup's daily tracking polls conducted between June 1 and Aug. 31 of this year.

Occupiers part of grand alliance against the productive.  Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to "preserve disorder."  I believe that was one of Hizzoner's famous malapropisms.  Forty-three years later, Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland City Council have made "preserving disorder" the official municipal policy.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Saying Life Begins at Conception Is 'Extreme and Radical'.  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday [11/3/2011] that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is "an extreme and radical step."

Gillibrand bill encourages LGBT adoption.  For the first time in Senate history, a bill has been introduced to encourage agencies not to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples seeking to adopt.

They should Occupy Prison.  This is the face of liberalism, America.  It is lawless, selfish, disrespectful and above all mean.  The Democratic Party's embrace, promotion and even logistical support of the Occupy Wall Street movement likely will backfire.

Democratic Party Full Of Nuts As Well As Flakes.  For example, regulatory adviser Cass Sustein believes those promoting what the government categorizes broadly as "conspiracy theories" should have their freedom of speech curtailed. ... Science adviser John Holdren believes sterilants should be put into the public drinking water in order to decrease fertility rates.  However, Holdren is not the only Obama minion wanting to do away with what Ebenezer Scrooge dismissed as the "excess population" before this famed miser's Yuletide change of heart.  Obama Healthcare Adviser Ezekiel Emanuel thinks that those below or above a certain age range should be denied medical treatment.  Basically put a bullet in granny's head.  Obama's Secretary of Energy believes you should be permitted to color your roof any color you want so long as it is white.  And speaking of colors, Obama's FCC appointment Mark Lloyd believes White folks should be denied FCC licenses.  Obama's State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh believes that Sharia law should be consulted as a source for American jurisprudence.

The Full Alinsky.  If you want to see the future of America under the shade of Saul Alinsky, Rochester is a good place to start.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each.  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation's 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.  In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.

Jackson, Jr: Obama should 'declare a national emergency,' add jobs with 'extra-constitutional' action.  Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate "states in rebellion."  Jackson called for full government employment of the 15 million unemployed and said that Obama should "declare a national emergency" and take "extra-constitutional" action "administratively" — without the approval of Congress — to tackle unemployment.  "I hope the president continues to exercise extraordinary constitutional means, based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past," Jackson said.

Rivals from both sides slam Jackson's call to bypass the Constitution.  Political firebrands hit Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. from both his left and his right Thursday afternoon [10/13/2011], reacting to the Illinois congressman's call for the president to bypass the Constitution to deal with the jobs crisis.  During a Wednesday interview with The Daily Caller, Jackson said President Obama should "declare a national emergency" and use "extra-constitutional" measures to create jobs.

Profiles in Cluelessness.  [The Wall Street protesters] apparently want to see the end of our current financial system in order for it to be replaced with some Utopian Shangri-La where everyone chips in and we all live in harmony.  But who really knows?  Few of them can even coherently answer a question, let alone articulate what they're actually doing.

Police Scuffle With Protesters As Thousands March.  The "Occupy Wall Street" rally gained thousands of new supporters as New York City became protest city on Wednesday [10/5/2011] when the group marched to City Hall.  The protests, however, were not without incident.  The NYPD said that there were about a dozen arrests Wednesday night.

The extremist nut jobs of Occupy Wall Street.  The selfish, greedy and jealous, mostly white, mostly comfortably middle class, mostly hollowly educated adult children involved with Illegally and Possibly Criminally Trespassing Wall Street, otherwise known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) have begun to realize how selfish, greedy and jealous — not to mention what "extremist nut jobs" — they are.

The Editor says...
 Their list of demands includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for everyone, whether employed or not.  I guess that means everyone should be paid $20 per hour, around the clock, for doing nothing.  (The audacity of such a demand is almost incomprehensible.)  They also demand free college education.  But with a guaranteed income, why bother with college?

Pelosi Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement.  House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she supports the growing nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, which began on the streets of downtown New York City in mid-September. ... Pelosi added that the failure of TARP, commonly known as the bank bailout, to add liquidity to the Main Street marketplace is fueling Americans' animosity towards Wall Street.

The Editor says...
 TARP was Obama's idea.  If it's a failure (and it is), your beef is with him, not the banks!

Roseanne, the Red Queen.  Although the revolutionary bloodlust of the Left is never far beneath the surface, sometimes it takes a crisis to bring it out into the open.  Take the case of Roseanne Barr, a self-described socialist and proud ACORN member. ... "I do say that I am for the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty," Barr deadpanned.  "I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, the ability to pay back, anything over $100 million [of] personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of $100 million.  And if they are unable to live on that amount of that amount then they should go to the reeducation camps and if that doesn't help, then be beheaded," said Barr who happens to have a reported net worth of $80 million, a comfortable $20 million below her decapitation cutoff.

The Editor says...
 Liberals ordinarily oppose capital punishment.  Apparently the only thing worse is capitalism.

This quote is being posted from multiple sources just so nobody can deny its authenticity.
 Perdue suggests suspending Congressional elections for two years — was she serious?  Speaking to a Cary Rotary Club today [9/27/2011], N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.  "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.  I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," Perdue said.  "You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Democrat Governor Bev Perdue of NC Wasn't Joking.  We have the audio of Bev Perdue suggesting the elections be canceled and she's not joking, as you will hear, and it's quite interesting.  The Democrats, the more they get in trouble, and the more that things unravel, the more they show us who they really are.  She's not the first one suggesting we cancel the elections.  Peter Orszag, the former budget director of the White House, suggested pretty much the same thing in the New Republic last week.

Democrats Emerge From Closet, Oppose Democracy.  How many Democrats are National Socialists at heart?  Quite a few, I suspect, and every now and then the Democrats' totalitarian urges break through to the surface.  Thus, we have the Governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, suggesting that we "ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years."  The press assures us that she was just kidding.  I would modestly submit that suspending elections is not something an elected executive should kid about.

Dem Governor suggests suspending elections.  During the Civil War elections were not suspended.  During the worst of the "Long Depression" (the Panic of 1873 until 1879) no elections were suspended.  And during the Great Depression, (1929 to 1939) no elections were suspended.  Why now?  What event has occurred that even warrants such obscene speculation?  ObamaCare.  The far left cannot have a new, and hopefully more conservative, Congress (House and Senate) repeal ObamaCare, as it is their not-so stealthy vehicle on which the far-left bases its hopes of destroying our Constitutional Republic.

(Un)Democratic.  Peter Orszag, formerly Obama's budget director and now a vice chairman at Citigroup, recently penned a column in the New Republic titled:  "Too Much of a Good Thing: Why We Need Less Democracy."  No joke, folks.  "To counter gridlock," he wrote, we may need to make our political institutions "a little less democratic."  "A little less democratic"?  As in you no longer have the right to object to what the government does?  Seems Hitler, Stalin and Mao tried that, but it didn't work out.  That's bad enough.  But North Carolina's Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue stuck her foot in it too, suggesting "we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years" so it can run up trillions more debt.

Tim, Liz and Bev Equals Moe Larry and Curly.  [Quoting Gov. Bev Perdue:] I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. ... You want people who don't worry about the next election."  Maybe you don't, Bev, but I'd bet my life most Americans want members of the ruling class, not only to be worried, but terrified of losing their jobs if they don't do right by the people.  This stooge from North Carolina may not remember, but that's exactly why Democrats got shellacked in 2010, after they rammed ObamaCare down the public's throat.

What was Bev Perdue thinking?  On Tuesday [9/27/2011], during a Q & A at a rotary club meeting, North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) made a very odd suggestion.  Asked what she could do to turn around the economy, Perdue gave a rambling, two-minute answer that included this tidbit:  "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.  I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.  You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Warning: The threat of suspended elections is real.  It is crucial to not let this day go down without remembering what Perdue said.  Don't let the state-controlled mainstream media lure you back to sleep by saying if there is no election, then why is Obama so diligently campaigning.  Obama is not campaigning.  He is preparing for Stage Two of the Total Transformation of America, using taxpayer money to prepare his Internet-identified "troops" for the coming Marxist Revolution.  He must not be allowed to get away with it.

Warning: The threat of suspended elections is real.  With absolutely no proof of any kind of who he really is, Barack Obama made it to the Oval Office in 2008. ... Only suspended elections would guarantee his re-election.  North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue was not joking when she spoke about suspending elections.  Nor did she pick the idea out of thin air.  Perdue was giving the suspend-congressional-elections idea its first oxygen for her hell-bent-for-leather boss.  It is crucial to not let this day go down without remembering what Perdue said.

Democrat Strategies Right Out Of V.I. Lenin Playbook.  Vladimir Lenin, leader of the socialist revolution in Russia, published multiple tutorials for like-minded revolutionaries around the world.  Someone in the Obama administration must be familiar with his writings. ... The theme of "broken government" is popular among liberals — so much so that the governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, recently said:  "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover."  Peter Orszag, former director of President Obama's Office of Management & Budget, wrote an article titled "Too Much of a Good Thing — Why We Need Less Democracy."  Top mainstream Democrats such as Purdue and Orszag are in alignment with Lenin's teachings.

Obama to speak at gay rights dinner.  Obama is scheduled to speak at the Human Rights Campaign's 15th annual dinner on Saturday night at the Washington Convention Center, the group announced.  Close to 3,000 people are expected at the event for the nation's largest organization fighting for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.

Barack Obama's desperate Hail Mary.  The second Summer of Recovery failed to materialize, and now the Autumn of Despair is settling in.  The president's approval ratings are at record lows.  Americans identify themselves as conservative by a 2-1 margin over liberal, and it's widening.  The Democrats just lost two House special elections, including one for a "safe" New York seat they've firmly held for 88 years.  And this after taking a "shellacking" — the president's own word — in last year's midterm elections.

Obama leans further left.  The reason Obama keeps tilting left is that so many independents have dumped him and he has almost no chance of getting them back.  So energizing libs for a massive turnout is his next-best hope.

Schakowsky: Americans don't deserve to keep all of their money.  A lot of reaction Wednesday morning [9/14/2011] to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's interview with Don Wade and Roma.  Schakowsky said that Americans don't deserve to keep all of their money because we need taxes to support our society.

White House Official Compares Illegal Immigration to Jaywalking.  Cecilia Munoz, the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, compared the federal crime of being in the country illegally to jaywalking.

The Let-Illegals-Drive-without-a-License Bill.  Gil Cedillo is of one of California's most radical pro-illegal-immigrant state lawmakers, which is why he'll never encourage illegals, with or without licenses, to drive themselves back across the border.  Leave it to a liberal to come up with a law to assist lawbreakers in their efforts to break the law.

Loud And Clear, And Repeated.  The American people vehemently oppose the program of massive government expansion and intrusion the Obama administration has undertaken.

The Public Has Rejected the Democratic Agenda.  Obama's popularity has plummeted to little more than 40 percent approval.  Suddenly, Democrats worry that the public anger could be contagious.  It might infect them as well -- in the way a sinking George W. Bush hurt congressional Republicans up for reelection in 2006.

Does a President's Faith Matter?  [During the 2008 presidential campaign,] Liberal commentators and leftist media types around the country fell all over themselves in an attempt to downplay any significance or relevance Obama's spiritual views might have on his character or leadership. ... But fast-forward to today, introduce a handful of conservative Christians into the Republican primary, and be amazed at how quickly the spiritual beliefs become relevant.

Warning: This Could Make You Sick.  The award for vilest politicization of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 goes to the AFL-CIO.  The organization has chosen to hijack the moment and turn it into a plea for anti-austerity union activism.  Consider this message from AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka, posted on its website.

Americans Vote Conservative — With Their Moving Vans.  Conservatives yearn for a big, clarifying electoral victory in November of 2012, but they're already winning decisively whenever Americans vote with their feet — or their moving vans.  New Census numbers show citizens fleeing by the millions from liberal states and flocking in comparable numbers to bastions of rightwing sentiment.

A President Who Promotes Sodomy.  President Barrack Hussein Obama has of late been heaping great praise on homosexuality.  He has indicated that he is now rethinking his position on homosexual marriage, and Vice President Joe Biden has led the way in expressly supporting "gay" marriage.  He said there is an "inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage."

Obama Administration Blames the Messenger.  The Obama administration wants to "pivot" to jobs.  A bit late, I would say.  They wasted a year pushing health care reform.  That passed with zero Republican votes in the House and Senate, and about the same number of Republican ideas.  When the Democrats controlled both branches of Congress and the White House, they shoved their approach down the throats of Republican in Congress, and an American public that opposed it then, and still opposes the legislation by a 3-to-2 margin.

Jackson Lee at Radical Islam Hearing: Let's 'Have a Hearing on Right-Wing Extremists'.  At a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security today about the radicalization of young Somali American Muslims by the al-Shabaab terrorist group, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said the committee should hold a hearing on "right-wing extremists" in the United States.

Lies of 'People for the American Way' Exposed.  The PFAW, a leftist activist group and "watchdog" of what it deems to be the fearsome and shadowy Religious Right in America, was created in 1981 by former TV producer Norman Lear to combat Christian conservatives, promote progressive policies, and elect progressive candidates.  It features such fair-minded intellectual powerhouses on its board of directors as actor-and-politician-wannabe Alec Baldwin and Seth MacFarlane, whose animated TV series Family Guy routinely and viciously ridicules Christians and conservatives.  Currently in the crosshairs are those who speak out about the dangers of Islamic radicalization and the stealth jihad in this country.

Unbalancing Act: America needs more media bias, claim some on the left.  What the self-styled opponents of balance really want is something resembling a state media monopoly — but one that is nominally independent and that is pliant when liberals run the government and adversarial when conservatives do.  That is more or less what existed between the 1970s and the late '90s, when competition greatly weakened the authority of the formerly mainstream media.  Strident leftism is not going to restore that authority.

Dem. Lawmaker: 'We Don't Have a Deficit Problem Right Now'.  Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued at a news conference with the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus that the United States does not currently have a budget crisis.  "That's the real crisis — the unemployment, not the deficit.  We don't have a deficit problem right now.  In the long term, we have a deficit problem — we've got to get it under control but not right now," said Nadler at the Capitol on Wednesday [7/27/2011].

Senate confirms first openly gay man to federal bench.  J. Paul Oetken on Monday [7/18/2011] became the first openly gay man confirmed to the federal bench.  The Senate approved his nomination 80 to 13.  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who recommended Oetken to President Obama for the nomination to the District Court for the Southern District of New York, offered a ringing endorsement from the Senate floor prior to the roll-call vote.

Liberals, Democrats More Likely to Disbelieve Bible, Says Gallup Poll.  Liberals and Democrats are more likely than conservatives, moderates, Republicans and independents to believe the Bible is nothing more than a book of fables and legends made up by man, according to a new Gallup poll.

Because he's not radical enough...
 The Left Starts to Dump Obama.  It appears that the left is washing its hands of Obama.  In recent days we've seen a number of left-wing spokesmen ranging from Bill Maher to Frank Rich dismissing Obama as a disappointment — too centrist, too moderate, not at all the American Lenin they'd ordered.

Senators Appear in 'It Gets Better' Video.  Thirteen Democratic senators have added themselves to the chorus of people telling young gays and lesbians that "It Gets Better."  At a Wednesday [6/30/2011] news conference, several of the Democratic lawmakers unveiled their nearly five-minute entry to the nationwide video series that reaches out to bullied gay and lesbian youth — with a message that not only is the best yet to come, but that momentum was on their side.

If You're Not Involved in Politics, Don't Complain.  The Governor of New York State made it the sixth state to allow same sex marriages in spite of the opposition of church leaders and religious groups who see this legislation as an attack of their core moral principles.  Frankly I am surprised that this legislation didn't pass earlier because New York is one of the more liberal states due to the apathy of the silent majority of its residents.  The mainstream media (MSM)is trying to demonize the current social conservatives vying for the GOP presidential race but the truth is that those on the left have found a way to engineer social change through the courts and legislation bypassing the will of the people.  In almost every case these changes are enacted by the Democrats in power and that is because special interest money is always funding their campaigns.

San Francisco goldfish ban exposes America's liberal nutjobs.  [Scroll down]  The proposal will probably be kicked into the long-grass, as was the commission's proposed ban on the sale of kittens and puppies last year.  Other things the city has considered outlawing are MacDonald's Happy Meals, supersizing in fast food chains and circumcision.  Obviously, smoking in public places was stopped years ago.  The goldfish ban might seem like a silly story, but it does expose several liberal pathologies.

As we go over the cliff, just who is in the driver's seat?  The problem is that when man obtains full control over himself and thus declares God irrelevant, if not dead, we can no longer assume any truths to be self-evident.  That all men are created equal is just a hypothesis.  That all men have certain unalienable rights is an assertion without any predicate.  That "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" have any inherent value is an unproven proposition.  Indeed, instead of taking for granted certain fundamental propositions about the worth of the individual, the importance of right action, and the value of honor, mankind finds itself in the position of being manipulated to serve that which is convenient rather than that which is constant.

The general public likes cheap and simple incandescent bulbs.  So, naturally...
 Obama touts energy-efficient light bulbs.  President Obama said Monday [6/13/2011] that advanced lighting technology is an essential component of his administration's push to make commercial buildings more energy efficient.

More about mandatory fluorescent light bulbs.

The Energy Disaster Continues.  The cornerstone belief of American liberals is that the United States is too rich and too powerful.  And, if you want to make America poorer and weaker, the easiest way to do so is by preventing the development of our energy resources.  Such a policy hobbles our economy and causes massive transfers of wealth from the U.S. to other countries, many of which are hostile.  Liberals think this is all to the good, but pretty much every other American disagrees.

HHS Official Tells Youth Summit: We're Recruiting LGBTs to Adopt Kids.  David Hansell, who runs the federal government's Administration for Children and Families, told a group of high school students at the U.S. Department of Education's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)" youth summit on Tuesday [6/7/2011] that the Obama administration is recruiting "LGBT parents" to adopt children.

Gov't 'Has Finally Come Out of the Closet'.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at the first "Federal LGBT Youth Summit" on Monday [6/6/2011] after being introduced by a homosexual on her staff, who said the secretary "gets us" and is "tireless" in her support of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender youth.  "Your federal government has finally come out of the closet in support of LGBT youth," said Pam Hyde, HHS administrator for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services.

Graying Deity Of Pre-Internet Journalism.  It was a statement so telling, and so over the top, that within hours the Times removed it from its Thursday [6/2/2011] web story announcing Bill Keller's replacement as executive editor.  "In my house growing up, the Times substituted for religion," said Abramson, the former Washington bureau chief.  "If the Times said it, it was the absolute truth."  That is how the left-leaning media establishment in America wants it.

Bidens holiday in Hamptons.  Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, spent Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons at the home of Internet pioneer and gay, bisexual and transgender-rights activist David Bohnett.

The shaky case against Chick-fil-A's founder.  [92-year-old Samuel Truett] Cathy is also an enthusiastic Baptist, and one domain of his charitable giving reflects that fact.  Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, includes religious language in its mission statement, and donates some money to causes like the Campus Crusade for Christ.  Consequently, a meme has developed on left-leaning and pro-gay-rights websites in the past year that Chick-fil-A is virulently anti-gay.  Since then, the nonagenarian Samuel Truett Cathy has gone from a noted philanthropist to a hate-figure — in two senses of the phrase — for many liberals, and has gotten a string of very negative press.

Sisterhood and the SEALs.  It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male.  Sure enough, Washington Post pundit (and founder of the feminist website Jezebel.com) Anna Holmes came through last week with a column denouncing the "paternalistic, discriminatory" exclusion of women from special-operations units and comparing that exclusion to racial segregation.

Circumcision ban to appear on San Francisco ballot.  A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure on the November ballot, meaning voters will be asked to weigh in on what until now has been a private family matter.

Obama's "Common" Associations.  While Michelle Obama may have only recently found a reason to be proud of her country, she has long been proud of rapper Common.  Mrs. Obama and her husband do not want to celebrate the National Day of Prayer in the White House, and the latter "forgot" to do a Presidential Proclamation on Easter — but having Common in the White House is a priority.  This president — and apparently his wife, as well — does not understand or relate to the views of average Americans.  Most of us read Common's lyrics and cannot fathom why the president would allow this person to be feted in the People's House.

Despite outrage, Common performs at the White House.  Rapper and poet Common may have incited controversy this week when the White House invited him to perform at a poetry event.  After all, he has rapped about shooting police and has written lyrics calling for the "burn[ing] of former President George W. Bush."  But Common kept things pretty tame when he took the stage in the East Room at Wednesday night's "Evening of Poetry" along with other musicians, poets and artists.

Why I Take Obama's 'Common' Offenses Against Officers Personally.  President Obama continues to use the White House as a platform to dishonor police officers.  On May 11, Obama and First Lady Michele welcomed a rap poet who celebrates cop killers to the White House.  Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., known professionally as "Common," performed a few days before thousands of police officers arrived in Washington for "National Police Week," the annual memorial to honor fallen officers.

Angry Mob Chases Would-Be Flag Burner Off LSU Campus.  A mob of angry protesters chased a would-be flag burner at Louisiana State University (LSU) off campus Wednesday [5/11/2011] to chants of "USA, USA."  Graduate communications student Benjamin Haas had earlier been given permission by the school to burn the flag.  But because he lacked a local burn permit, he agreed instead to read a statement in an area of the university known as free speech alley.  As Haas read the statement, a crowd around him erupted into cheers and jeers, many shouting [profanities].

Another Democrat That Hates the US Constitution.  Making it easier every day to assert that Democrats hate the U.S. Constitution, once again we find a Democrat in Congress expressing disgust with the law of the land.  This time extremist, left-wing Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D, CA) was heard complaining to a lefty radio host that many of her new colleagues are just too ... concerned with whether or not the actions of Congress are Constitutional.

Napolitano backs 6-year old's pat-down.  The shock of a video of a Transportation Security Administration screener patting down a 6-year-old child has drawn anger and even a subsequent potential legislative response.  But the TSA's actions were not improper, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

More about the abusive and invasive searches at the airport.

The Democrats' Fiscal Disconnect From Americans.  The deteriorating fiscal condition of the federal government under President Obama and the Democratic majority during Obama's first two years in the White House stands in sharp contrast with what Americans were doing to shore up their financial condition over the same time period.  While Obama and the Democratic majority pulled us further into debt, more Americans reduced their debt and reined in excess spending.

Top 10 Outrageous Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes.  With a rating of 100% by Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and a 0% rating from the American Conservative Union (ACU), Wasserman Schultz is a hard-core leftie.  These Top 10 Outrageous Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes prove the point.

Congresswoman Feigns Southern Accent to Deride Tea Party Lawmakers.  A Democratic congresswoman, frustrated with her interactions with a new class of Tea Party-backed conservative lawmakers, mocked them this week by talking in a Southern accent and referring to them as "Moe," during an interview on nationally syndicated radio show.  Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., told liberal host Stephanie Miller that every time she tries approaching one of the 87 freshman lawmakers in an effort to build relationships, they're always complaining about something being unconstitutional.

WA Democrat: 'I'm Tired of Reading the Constitution and All the Silly Things'.  Be proud, Washington's 7th congressional district, as your congressman, Jim McDermott, expresses his exasperation of "silly stuff" like "reading the Constitution."

Liberals think you're stupid.
 Six of Ten Political Insiders Believe Public Is Ill-Informed.  When it comes to policy, the political class doesn't have a lot of faith in the public's IQ.  In the latest National Journal Political Insiders Poll, a solid majority of political operatives — 59 percent — said the public didn't "know enough about the issues facing Washington to form wise opinions about what should be done."  There was a sharp partisan difference between the two parties:  By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Democratic Insiders believed the public didn't "know enough," while a slight majority of Republicans thought they did.

George Soros: Demagoat.  While the liberal and mainstream media get in a tizzy about who they deem as conspiratorial figures on the right such as Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and, most recently, the Koch Brothers, they often ignore a more shadowy figure who seems to have his tentacles in nearly every progressive organization and cause that seeks to undermine the American way of life.

Senator Dick Durbin's Deceptions.  This morning [3/29/2011] Senator Dick Durbin, senior Democrat of Illinois, is holding a Senate Judiciary hearing on "Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims."  Sounds all well and good.  Who could be against the civil rights of Muslims or for that matter any group?  Except when you start to scrutinize the Senator's close and long time relationship with radical Islamic groups and even Hamas terrorists, one has to wonder whose civil rights the Senator is trying to protect?

Whose side is he on?
 Conyers calls for inquiry of treatment of Muslim Americans.  The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has called for an investigation into claims by American Muslims that they are being harassed by U.S. customs and border officials while trying to cross back into the country from Canada.  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) asked the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate allegations made by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) that American-Muslims are being handcuffed, interrogated and sexually harassed for hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents along the northern border.

Why The Left Cried When Osama Died.  The death of Osama bin Laden has driven a stake into the heart of the Left, causing progressives to bleed and moan as their unholy alliance with radical Islam absorbs the devastating May 2 blow.  The radical Islamic half of the romance is in agony as it sheds bitter tears for the mass murderer.

The Conservative States of America.  America is an increasingly conservative nation, by ideology and by political affiliation, according to polling results from the Gallup Organization.  While conservatives have long outnumbered liberals and moderates across the U.S., the study sheds new light on state-by-state patterns.

Minn. legislator wants Jesus out of Senate prayers.  A Jewish Minnesota lawmaker is asking Senate leaders to allow only nondenominational prayers to open sessions, after feeling "highly uncomfortable" when a Baptist pastor repeatedly mentioned Jesus Christ and Christianity in one of the invocations.

Is Rep. Weiner Aiding Efforts To Have Justice Thomas Disbarred?  Megyn Kelly discussed reports that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner is leading a charge to have Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disbarred for perjury and investigated for allegations of bribery.  Weiner has passionately argued before for Thomas to recuse himself for cases on healthcare reform because of an alleged bias, and now if these reports are true, Weiner is intensifying the fight.

Most Americans are tired of deficit spending, inflation, and high taxes, but...
 Liberal group pushes for $382 billion stimulus.  A liberal think tank is calling on Congress to embrace a $382 billion stimulus plan to lower unemployment.  The call from the liberal Demos group comes as the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans argue over how greatly to cut this year's spending.  House Republicans have proposed a total of $61 billion in cuts this year, while the White House has agreed to a total of $10.5 billion in cuts.

E Pluribus Tucson: Uprising in Arizona.  Baja Arizona (the working title) will almost certainly remain a dream, but it suggests the growing chasm between the state's Republican leaders and its frustrated liberal minority.  For decades, there has been friction between Pima County and its more conservative northern neighbor, Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. Residents of Pima County (pop. 1 million) have often joked about forming their own state.

More about the liberals' push for a 51st state.

We Don't Fetishize the Constitution; We Dread Tyranny.  What we recognize is that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.  That is, what it says must be followed, until the text is amended or a new basic law enacted.  Because a Constitution that is not knowable, a Constitution that is twisty-stretchy and dictated by the needs of the moment, is no Constitution at all.  When the law becomes whatever the current ruling clique decrees, then we have taken the first step (and middle, and last) on the road to serfdom.

Wisconsin Dems lead the way in the abrogation of duty.  The Spider Hole Party will regret escalating this into a national crisis, because it highlights their greed, and their total abrogation of duty.  Wisconsin Democrats hiding in Illinois is really no different than Barack Obama dropping an absurd and delusional budget on Congress.  Both are the actions of a Party that has run completely out of ideas, and has no clue how to deal with the collapse of the unsustainable system they have built over the past few decades.  They've retreated to animal instincts, screaming for even more spending, and snarling in rage when any of their hoarded loot is threatened.

Hypocrisy, the Liberal God.  Within the whirlwind of controversy following the shootings in Tucson last Saturday, we have seen a very determined attempt by the Left and their in-house propaganda machine, otherwise known as the mainstream media, to attach blame to the conservative right in general, and talk radio, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, among others, in particular.

More about the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The Progressive Disdain for the Rule of Law.  When progressive Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer declared last Sunday on CNN that the three branches of government consist of the "House," the "Senate," and the "president," was he really that confused?  Or does he have a deep-rooted desire to eliminate the Judiciary from our government's constitutional structure, and this came out of his mouth as a Freudian slip?

Harry Reid:  'The American people love government'.  Congress has generated its lowest approval rating in decades.  President Barack Obama is treading the 50 percent line with his approval ratings.  Yet whether the American people know it or not, they love their government — or so says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Read it again, John.  I thought it was a good idea for the Constitution to be read aloud on the floor of the House of Representatives as that body kicked off its new session. ... But what seemed like a good idea turned out to be a great one.  For instead of good naturedly going along with the exercise, or suffering in silence, a number of leftists publicly displayed their lack of comfort with, if not contempt for, the Constitution.  Thus, the public received its clearest indication to date that the left regards the words of the Constitution as an impediment to its agenda.

Liberal distaste for the Constitution.  The Constitution was read at the opening of the new session of the House of Representatives yesterday [1/5/2011].  What was most remarkable about this was the almost hysterical opposition from congressional Democrats and left-wing commentators.  In what should have been a united celebration of the nation's foundation document in a period of partisan rancor, liberals instead reinforced the view that they are profoundly uncomfortable with the essential truths underlying American freedom.

Progressives and the 'Bad Stuff' in the Constitution.  It is hard to actually believe that something as prototypically American as a public reading of the U.S. Constitution by people recently sworn to uphold it could be at all controversial.  For that matter, it is even harder to believe that such an exercise should become the subject for ridicule by the very people — the press — whose free speech the founders went out of their way to protect.

The Constitution Fetish.  Is there anything richer than a gaggle of smarmy progressives snickering at the conservative "Constitution fetish"?  "Fetish" is the fashionable Left's latest suggestive imagery turned talking point, a dig at the new Republican majority in the House, which began its session this week by reading the Constitution aloud.  It's as if Dracula were complaining about a crucifix fetish.  "Fetish," like "tea-bagger," slides easily off the tongues of the Big Thinkers who get their dithering law from Dalia Lithwick and their sophomoric style from Bill Maher.

New GOP Constitution rule irks House Democrats.  In the next Congress, Republicans will require every bill to cite its specific constitutional authority, a reminder to color inside the lines drawn long ago by the Founding Fathers.  The rule is a mostly symbolic overture to the Tea Party, for which an animating cause was that much of the congressional agenda over the last two years, including the president's health care law and the bailouts for Wall Street, has been unconstitutional.  But some House Democrats are steamed at the charge their agenda has gone beyond Congress's constitutional authorities.

Why the Constitution — and What It Means — Matters.  Having taken control of the House of Representatives, Republicans plan to begin their political journey by today [1/6/2011] reading the American Constitution word-for-word.  This is simply too much for those on the left.  According to the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, it's a "gimmick."  The Constitution, you see, was written "more than 100 years ago" and is very, very hard to understand.

U.S. Congressman Slanders the Constitution.  For more than 200 years, Americans have revered the Constitution as the law of the land, but the GOP and tea party heralding of the document in recent months — and the planned recitation on the House floor Thursday — have caused some Democrats to worry that the charter is being misconstrued as the immutable word of God.  "They are reading it like a sacred text," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, who has studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.

Environmentalists: Give Trees the Right to Sue.  What if a trimmed tree could sue as an amputee or a shucked clam could claim wrongful eviction?  In an effort to ban everything from drilling oil to incinerating garbage, about a dozen communities across the country have adopted ordinances that give nature legal standing and water down the rights of businesses.

The liberal love affair with Islam.  Liberals deride Christianity and Catholicism in particular for its strict approach towards sexuality, claiming that prohibitions against abortion, contraception, homosexual sex, and premarital sex are simply oppressive forms of prudish patriarchy.  But Islam is every bit as traditional on these matters; indeed, Muslim nations are the best allies the Vatican has at the U.N. in fighting against funding for third world family planning initiatives.  You can't reasonably deride one while accepting the other.  Furthermore, Islam goes way beyond Christianity by embracing doctrines that actually are oppressive, demeaning to women, and tyrannical.

Whoopi Goldberg Doesn't Believe Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor.  Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday [11/23/2010] demonstrated an absolutely staggering ignorance concerning a variety of subjects.  Appearing on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor," Goldberg admitted not knowing what a madrasa is, said it wasn't the Japanese that attacked America at Pearl Harbor, and claimed Muslims in America are more persecuted than Jews.

Elected Office Doesn't Come With A Crown.  How out of touch with America is the political left?  It's convinced it has the authority to reign.  But this country was founded on the idea that the governing was to be done by representatives, not rulers.

Liberal Democrats Are Traitors to Our Military Brothers and Sisters.  So many states controlled by liberal Democrats used their authority to insure that ballots being sent to the military forces from their states were delayed long enough to prevent their submission in time for the November 2, 2010 national elections.  This is not only treasonous and traitorous; it is absolutely a case of stabbing their own state citizens in the back to prevent them from voting.

It's Not Political Correctness but Brutal Liberal McCarthyism.  We need to exhibit unceasing defiance against the petty bureaucratic overlords who tell us what we can and cannot say or do.  Perhaps the shot at Fort Sumter began this week when the crowd at the League of Women Voters defied the overlord who said the Pledge of Allegiance was out of order.  They stood up anyway and recited the Pledge.  The message there was clear:  Liberal elitists are out of order.  This is our country.  We're not going down.  The battle has been joined.

Thirty-six Reasons to Vote Democrat.  [#5] If you want to pay through the nose in taxes until you are 70 so union thugs in purple shirts can retire in security at age 50 — vote Democrat.  [#6] If you like the fact that people who actually know the Constitution get laughed at by people who are ignorant of it — vote Democrat.  [#7] If you want the entire country to be like Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, Chicago — vote Democrat.

The Inversion Narrative.  Since January 1, 2007, the Democrats have ... grabbed the reins of an enormous portion of our economy in arenas as diverse as banking, the auto industry, health care, energy, home ownership, and student loans, as well as homeland security, the courts, and the military.  In the eyes of a large portion of the electorate, they have spent taxpayer money wildly and recklessly.  Perhaps more importantly, the Pelosi/Reid/Obama/Frank Democrats have thumbed their noses at the will of the populace and passed an unpopular monstrosity of a health care bill, and did so by reconciliation, in defiance and with an aura of a legislative rebellion against the people.

This Is America, Stupid!  Democrats have made an unprecedented mockery of representative government, ignoring the will of the people with arrogant disdain.  Elitist hypocrites who campaigned on "love" for the poor party hearty on the hard-earned money of America's producers, jet to debauchery-ridden Europe to scorn our good name, and come back home only to spend our children into serfdom.  The words "public servant" have almost become synonymous with "tax cheat."  American companies are threatened with open thuggery by a power-mad administration of academics who wouldn't know how to actually produce a single cent if their very lives depended upon it.

Liberal Democrats Get Desperate and Dangerous in Days Before November Elections.  In these waning days prior to the November 2, 2010 elections, liberal Democrats are openly showing how dishonest, desperate and despicable they really are.  They have gone well past the point of being good Americans with their hate-filled attempts to win at any cost.  They are exhibiting Hate Crimes mentality resulting from the despondency of falling out of favor with the good, honest American voters.

By Their Own Words Shall Ye Know Them.  Regarding the "respect" they demonstrate for the American public with regard to passing legislation:
 •  "I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill.'  What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"
      — Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)
 •  "We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what's in it."
      — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
 •  "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works."
      — Sen. Chris Dodd, (D-CN) on the financial regulation bill.

The Soros empire.  George Soros is back.  The leftist billionaire wrote a column this week calling for the legalization of marijuana.  In the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages, Mr. Soros supports California's Proposition 19, the ballot initiative that would legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and its domestic cultivation.  Proposition 19 is a major step toward Mr. Soros' ultimate goal:  the legalization of almost all hard drugs — including cocaine and heroin.  This is a cause Mr. Soros has pushed — and bankrolled — for decades.

The Lawyers' Party.  The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party:  Barack Obama is a lawyer.  Michelle Obama is a lawyer.  Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.  Bill Clinton is a lawyer. ... Harry Reid is a lawyer.  Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

Impeaching Chief Justice Roberts for "Judicial Activism".  The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel reports that Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) is so upset about the Supreme Court's recent free speech ruling in Citizens United v. F.E.C. that he is "investigating" whether or not to impeach Chief Justice John Roberts.

Former ACORN Official Condemns Voters' Spontaneous Pledge of Allegiance.  At a debate sponsored by the Illinois League of Women Voters between Democratic incumbent Rep. Melissa Bean, GOP challenger Joe Walsh and Green Party candidate Bill Scheurer Wednesday, the audience loudly objected when the moderator, Kathy Tate-Bradish, insisted on proceeding without reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  In the end, she didn't stand a chance against the 300-member audience.

Another Debate Audience Recites Pledge When Another Moderator Says 'No'.  What is it with the League of Woman's Voters and the Pledge of Allegiance?  For the second time in less than a week a congressional debate began with a request for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, and for the second time in a week the League of Woman's Voters moderator said no, and for the second time in a week the audience got up and said it anyway.

Conyers Hits Obama Administration, Tea Party at Socialist Event.  At a gathering for the Democratic Socialists of America, Congressman John Conyers criticized both the administration of President Barack Obama as well as the tea party.  The 23-term congressman from Michigan's 14th district said the tea party is "small and dismissible" and noted that if he was president, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would have "his bags packed" for "trashing the progressives of the left."

Don't Vote if You Didn't Do Your Homework.  I understand why Democrats are enamored of get-out-the-dopes drives such as Rock the Vote.  Having every drug addict, goth, Wiccan, vampirist, criminal, cross-dresser, sideshow geek, and The Hills Have Eyes mutant do the walkie-pully-poll thing between drunken slumber and a night's partying may not make America stronger, but it sure makes the Democrat Party stronger.  Hey, they know their constituencies, which together, to borrow a Pat Buchanan line, look like the bar scene in Star Wars.  And just think:  this used to be the party of the common man.  Now it's the party of the uncommon man.

Barbara Boxer, Code Pink's favorite Senator.  As a US Senator, [California Senator Barbara] Boxer voted against health care reconciliation bill amendments to exempt veterans from a new tax on medical devices, including prosthetics such as artificial limbs.  Perhaps the most revealing window into Boxer's true feelings towards our military is her close alliance with Code Pink, a radical leftist group that reviles American troops as terrorists and assassins while praising their enemies as freedom fighters.

An Enemy Within — Code Pink and Its Democrat Enablers.  Last week, American Thinker published evidence that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made it possible in 2004 for Code Pink and other radical groups to deliver $600,000 in cash and supplies to enemy insurgents and their families in Fallujah.  Two days later, Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson posted the diplomatic letter Waxman wrote to assist Code Pink's mission.  Waxman's Republican opponent, Korean War veteran and former Marine Chuck Wilkerson, calls the letter a "smoking gun."

Barbara Boxer Approved Code Pink Trip to Fallujah.  So would aiding and abetting terrorists to kill US soldiers qualify as behavior unbefitting of a sitting US senator?  On October 12, Scott Swett at the American Thinker reported that Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) secured diplomatic courtesy letters that allowed anti-American Code Pink activists to travel to Fallujah, Iraq.  The radicals traveled to Fallujah in late 2004 to donate $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the people who had just killed 51 Americans and wounded 560 more earlier that month.

Move Over 'Hanoi Jane' — Meet 'Baghdad Barbara'.  Shockingly and tragically, at the same time our servicemen were staring into the eyes of evil, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Henry Waxman were conspiring with radical leftist groups Code Pink and Global Exchange.  Groups who were committed to America's defeat in Iraq and were providing aid and support to our nation's enemies.

Did someone mention Code Pink?

Obama's Post-Election Attack Plan.  Just in case you have not heard the news, Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are gearing up for the mother of all battles just after the election.  They know that the American people are about to go to the polls and hand them a massive repudiation of their left-wing agenda, and they're not happy.  Refusing to accept defeat, these three are planning a counter attack.  Instead of taking to heart the unmistakable message of the American people, they're moving, full steam ahead, in the opposite direction.

Democrat Dirty Tricks:  The Next Round.  [Scroll down]  In August 2008, a former director of the George Soros-sponsored MoveOn.org proudly declared in the New York Times a witch hunt against anyone donating to Republicans — the bigger the target, the better the aiming.  Tom Mattzie declared he would send "warning" letters to the top 10,000 GOP givers "hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions" that are, of course, the lifeblood of the GOP since most of the media is in liberal hands.

Communist, Socialist 'Partners' of One Nation Protest Left out of News Accounts.  An official NAACP video for Saturday's One Nation rally (featuring their leader Ben Jealous, among others) claims that their movement includes "Conservatives and moderates, progressives and liberals."  But a look at the actual "endorsing organizations" on the One Nation website doesn't list conservative groups, but it does include the Communist Party USA, the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (founded as a "moderate" wing of the CPUSA), the International Socialist Organization (publishers of SocialistWorker.org), and the Democratic Socialists of America (as well as?its Chicago, Detroit, and New York chapters).  And the liberals get mad when you associate them with socialism.  Well, what are these groups doing on this list, then?  Where are the media worrying about "fringes" and "extremists"?

More about the OneNation rally.

Speaking Of Which.  Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., Congress' only admitted socialist, explains how spending is a drug that never satiates.  Sanders is always described as Congress' lone socialist, but what a misleading factoid that is.  World Net Daily recently reported that the Democratic Socialists of America, successor to the defunct Socialist Party of America, boasted on the AmericanSocialistVoter.com Web site that "70 of its members currently serve in Congress."  They include House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and 10 other Judiciary panel members, such as Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen.

Obama's Core Supporters and the Corruption of Idealism.  The core supporters who not only facilitated the rise of Obama, but hijacked the traditional Democratic Party and have led it to the brink of electoral ruin need to be understood.  To understand the psychology of Obama's core, it is necessary to define the development of the baby-boomer generation and the leftist segment in particular.

Communists to Be Welcomed at Progressive March.  [Scroll down]  The mainstream media, however, can be expected not to highlight the fact that the Democratic Party and its constituency groups, which are running the rally, have made common cause with communist groups dedicated to the destruction of the American system and withdrawing U.S. military power from the Middle East in the face of global Islamic terror.

Take the Fight to the Democratic Party.  The Democratic Party is in thrall to totalitarian forces which seek the end of liberty and the purging of Judeo-Christian exceptionalism from public consciousness.  One of the most troubling trends over the last fifty years has been the expulsion of American values from one of the two major political parties.  Far too many Democrats for comfort would prefer to have America like Sweden.  Lost also has been much of what — for want of a better term — could be called decency.

Take Back America:  What does it mean?  Far-left wackos believe George Bush blew up the Twin Towers.  This same crowd reacts as vampires at the very mention of anything Christian while preaching to us about being more tolerant of Muslims.  They support the building of a mosque near Ground Zero.  Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose movies reflect a belief that America is the greatest source of evil in the world, said, "I am opposed to the building of the 'mosque' two blocks from Ground Zero.  I want it built on Ground Zero."

'Crazy' Or Finally Wise To Elite Agenda?  'Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," said Charles Krauthammer in a recent column, pointing out that overwhelming majorities of Americans have repudiated liberal agenda items such as:  ObamaCare, Obama's stimulus, building an Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, redefinition of marriage to include same-sex marriage, lax immigration law enforcement and vast expansion of federal power that includes unprecedented debt and deficits.  The nation's elite and the news media see being against the Obama-led agenda as being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, mean-spirited and insensitive.

41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes.  Over the years a lot of suspicion has built up across the country about Washington and its population of opportunistic transients coming to see themselves as a special kind of person, somehow above average working Americans who don't labor down in that monument-strewn former swamp.  Well, finally, an end to all those undocumented doubts.  Thanks to some diligent digging by the Washington Post, those suspicions can at last be put to rest.  They're correct.

Democrat Alderwoman hits poll worker with car.  As the nation turns against them, more and more Democrats are going nuts, behaving in bizarre, and sometimes violent ways.

Do Most Christians Decorate Christmas Trees Like the Obamas?  Our beloved president has expressed bewilderment at recent polls showing large numbers of Americans doubt his commitment to Christianity.  Because we hate to see our president even a wee bit flummoxed, let's help him out.  Do most Christians you know choose to decorate their Christmas tree with smiling images of Chairman Mao, who murdered at least 50 million of his countrymen, as well as signed photos of transvestite Hedda Lettuce?

The Left's Unlikely Alliance with Islam.  As we look around the world at the countries that practice Islam as a state religion, it is almost incomprehensible that the left should defend Islam so fervently.  We don't have to look to the radicals in the Taliban or Hamas to see issues that most Americans would question.

Environmental Protection Agency considering a ban on lead ammunition.  After health care and immigration, apparently the White House doesn't feel it has sufficiently irked voters enough.  Bringing the NRA and upset gun owners into the mix should really do wonders for Democrats at the ballot box.

Standing for Freedom Against Pelosi.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent threat to "investigate those opposing the mosque" at Ground Zero is indicative of how sick our once-free society has become.  Clearly her remarks were directed at those of us who are leading the opposition to the gross offense and humiliation of the Ground Zero Islamic supremacist mosque.  But more than that, it is a direct threat to the 70% of Americans vehemently opposed to the mosque.

Speaker of the Institutionalized.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a national embarrassment with a long train of gaffes and abuses. ... Pelosi told a San Francisco radio station on Tuesday [8/24/2010] that she wants to know who's funding those opposed (make that nearly 70 percent of Americans) to building a mega mosque at Ground Zero.

Cowardice Behind Support Of Ground Zero Mosque.  The very idea of having a mosque built close to Ground Zero — where thousands of innocent people were murdered by Islamic radicals — would have been inconceivable in an age of sanity.  Instead, liberal politicians such as Mayor Bloomberg and State Attorney General Cuomo are bending over backward to turn this into a religious rights issue.  Why?  Because they're cowards.

When It Comes to the Ground Zero Mosque: 'Truth Is the New Hate Speech'.  The left is dismissive of the grief and offense caused by the prospect of a victory mosque at Ground Zero.  The left is contemptuous of how 9/11 families and the majority of Americans feel; they're sick in their fierce rush to erect the mosque.  They're even trying to blame me for America's natural and logical response to an Islamic supremacist mosque being built on a site that was part of the 9/11 attack.  The Geller hit pieces have been coming fast and furious and obvious, as if discrediting me will make the pain and anger over the mosque go away.

More about the proposed Ground Zero mosque.

Barack Obama Vs. Majority Public Opinion.  Obama chose the most left-wing Supreme Court justice in history, Elena Kagan.  He ignored the Gallup poll showing that 42% of Americans wanted a new Supreme Court justice who would move the court in the conservative direction, while only 27% wanted it to move more liberal.  Obama is even pressing for "card check," one of his many payoffs to the unions, even though 61% of Americans oppose this, according to Voter Consumer Research. Card check would make it easier for unions to organize workplaces by getting rid of the secret ballot.  Obama is still pushing cap-and-trade, which the voters have dubbed "cap and tax" because it will make electricity and all kinds of energy cost every American thousands of dollars a year.

Socialist Party of America reveals 70 Democrats as belonging to their caucus.  Two things of note in this revelation.  The first is the astonishing number of Democratic House members who not only belong to the Socialist Party of America, but even more incredible, don't mind if people find out about it.

Obama doesn't trust you.  The assumption that conservatives or opponents are bigots is part of the problem that Obama faces with the American public.  President Obama just can't shake his ingrained ideological prejudices against the everyday American.  That ideology is on display in Obama comments concerning officer James Crowley, to his comments on people that cling to their religion and guns.  This makes Obama's response even more vexing for the self professed community organizer proudly looking to defend a perceived victim.

Dismantling America.  It is no coincidence that those who imagine themselves so much wiser and nobler than the rest of us should be in the forefront of those who seek to erode Constitutional restrictions on the arbitrary powers of government.  How can our betters impose their superior wisdom and virtue on us, when the Constitution gets in the way at every turn, with all its provisions to safeguard a system based on a self-governing people?  To get their way, the elites must erode or dismantle the Constitution, bit by bit, in one way or another.

The Lawyers' Party.  The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.  Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers.  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers.  John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth.  Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)  Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.  Look at the Democrat Party in Congress:  the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.

Rep. Pete Stark doesn't believe there are constitutional limits on federal government.  What is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., thinking?  Following the publication of a video in which the congressman derides his own constituents for their concerns over border security (suggesting that they probably "kill people"), Stark spoke at a town hall in which he noted that there are few limitations on the federal government.

Stark Raving.  The federal government, according to Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, can do anything it wants.  If there are indeed no checks on the state's power, as the congressman claims, then the state is a tyrant.

The Autumn of the Left.  I have noted before that according to Battleground Poll results over the last ten years, conservatives are about sixty percent of the population, liberals are roughly thirty-five percent of the population, and all the others — moderate, don't know, and refused to answer — are consistently about five percent of the population.

Popular California Flag Mural Deemed Graffiti, Painted Over.  California residents are up in arms that a flag mural — paying homage to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — was painted over after the state ruled it was graffiti.

The White House Against The World.  Once the darling of everyone, this administration now seems to be at odds with everyone, fussing, feuding and defending itself.  Not since Carter have we had a White House so divorced from public opinion.

School District Sued for Banning Bibles on Religious Freedom Day.  For years, the Collier County School district allowed a local Christian organization, World Changers of Florida, to distribute free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours on January 16 for Religious Freedom Day.  Now the group is filing suit after being told by the school board that it can no longer distribute the Bibles on campus because they do not provide any educational benefit to the students.

Dishonoring Stalin's Victims.  He was a hardworking dictator, often in the office 16 hours a day.  It takes considerable effort to cause the deaths of perhaps 20 million human beings.  And death was Stalin's primary political instrument.  Statues and busts of Stalin were once mass-produced in Russia as icons of a political cult.  Few can now be found on public display outside his hometown of Gori, Georgia, where some people remain perversely proud of a local boy made bad.  But a newly cast memorial bust of Stalin now stands at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., accompanying sculptures of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill.

Delegitimizing Liberalism.  [Liberalism is] sustained principally by two things, both powerful:  myth and interest.  If liberalism as a political and societal force is ever to be marginalized, it first must be separated from the myth that it grows in the same garden of liberty and republican virtues as conservatism and libertarianism.  Voters and the public need to learn and appreciate that liberalism is largely a statist creed alien to the nation's heritage.

Is it art or propaganda?
 Artwork at Sacramento County law library called anti-Christian.  Visitors entering the Sacramento County Public Law Library downtown will see a work of art that has outraged critics who say it is anti-Christian and should be removed.  The controversial mixed-media art is titled "Moral Values" and is part of a 63-piece exhibit that opened in the building last month.  It features a Bible with a label stripped across the cover that reads:  "Warning!  May Impair Judgment."

The Immorality of the Moral High Ground.  Throughout the War on Terror, liberals have been lecturing us on the virtue of holding on to the "Moral High Ground", which is their way of saying that we should forgo trying to defeat terrorists military, and instead show them up with our superior civil liberties.  Yes, Abdul, you may have a suitcase nuke, but if we catch you, we'll still pay for your legal defense.

The Jobs Americans Should Not Have to Do?  [Scroll down]  What seems to be going on here is a war against the notion that any American citizen should do any kind of non-academic work before the age of 25 — before, that is, a college degree and a couple of years of law school have been completed.  If that is indeed the mentality we are drifting into, it is based not on the real America, but on a fantasy America that exists only in the imaginations of our cognitive elites.

The Left's Use and Abuse of Children.  [Scroll down]  Obama has already appointed transexuals to high positions.  And then there's Elena Kagan, about to become a SCOTUS.  While she presents as unassuming, at Harvard, she was a firebrand.  There, Kagan reportedly strong-armed Harvard's health insurer to pay for sex change operations for staff and students.  So an 18-year-old who wasn't sure about his career choice could, without parental knowledge or approval, reconfigure his private parts.  Kagan also spearheaded a campaign to make bathrooms unisex.  Apparently, she considers gender-neutral johns to be a constitutional right, more compelling than the First and Second Amendments.  Kagan and Obama and all the president's czars are secular fundamentalists.  They are trying to force-feed a radical agenda to this country.  And they're doing it, in part, by recruiting impressionable children.

Did someone mention Elena Kagan?

Another Patriotic Holiday, Another Day of Liberal Flag-Avoidance Syndrome.  Once again on a patriotic holiday, only two flags flew on my block, and it breaks my heart.  What is it about liberals that makes so many so disinclined to embrace patriotic symbols, to show the world that they care?  My block is in upper Northwest Washington, D.C., a beating heart of liberal America.  On the Fourth of July, as usual, one flag was flown by a couple who had long government careers in defense and science.  The other was at my house.

Obama's war on the traditional family.  President Obama has wasted little time in using his executive branch power to give the country a leftward shove.  In just the past few weeks, the administration has ramped up programs intended to reshape conceptions of the family.  When it comes to moral values, it is clear that radical leftists are driving the agenda.

When Lame Ducks Bite.  [Scroll down]  Perhaps what's most disturbing about Democrats' naked political ambition is the contempt it bespeaks for the opinions of the ordinary Americans who voted them into office.  If voters clearly oppose a party's agenda and send a clear message to that effect — whether it's by electing a formerly unknown member of the opposition party to a U.S. Senate seat in a special election or voting that party out in massive numbers during midterms — a decent respect for the will of the people would seem to compel obedience to voters' expressed wishes.

Franken confirms he'll back Kagan.  Sen. Al Franken will vote to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, he confirmed today [7/6/2010].  Speaking with reporters via phone from Hanoi, Vietnam, Franken confirmed what had been widely expected.

The Editor says...
 What's he doing in Hanoi?  A town hall meeting with his constituents?  If you live in Minnesota, ask yourself this question:  Do you expect your U.S. Senator to make cordial visits to North Vietnam?

Americans relate to Founders, not Progressives.  The polls and the post-2008 election results show that the purported beneficiaries of the Obama Democrats' programs are unenthusiastic about voting and people with modest incomes are trending heavily Republican.  The only enthusiasm for the Obama Democrats' policies comes from David Brooks's "educated class":  people who are or identify with the centralized experts tasked by the Obama Democrats with making decisions for the rest of us.

Texas Democrats keep fighting voter IDs despite idea's popularity.  Texas Democrats have staked out political ground that trumpets their beliefs and will ignite supporters at the party's state convention this week — protecting the rights of eligible citizens to vote.  The only problem — especially for a political party that hasn't won a statewide office in 15 years — is that when it comes to whether voters should have to show a photo ID, 70 percent of Texans disagree with the Democrats.

Obama's Father's Day message about what you'd expect.  A holiday like Father's Day would not be complete without Barack Obama taking full advantage of the opportunity to poke his finger in the eye of convention.  On the White House website, in homage to heads of traditional families, Barry in his Presidential Proclamation 2010 exploited Father's Day to make political points with the gay community.

Obama inches toward gay agenda.  President Barack Obama is chipping away at his long list of promises to gay voters but has yet to earn the enthusiastic backing of the reliably Democratic voting bloc.

Obama's Ideal American.  [Scroll down]  The implication of Gallup's polling numbers was that as people entered traditional family life, established a pattern of regular church attendance, earned more money and grew in experience, they were less likely to approve of the job Obama was doing.  Politically, Obama's ideal American, I pointed out at the time, was an unmarried, unchurched, poor and inexperienced individual.

Democrats Are From Pluto.  [Scroll down]  "How can a man win an election without spending money?"  You can hear the hurt in their voices, the feeling of betrayal, like someone who stepped out onto his patio only to find himself at the bottom of a sinkhole.  Politics is supposed to be about cash, wads of it, splashing in all directions, enriching the media and the consultants and the candidates themselves.  How can folks be rallied to a cause without spending on streamers and balloons and flyers and ominous radio ads delivered in hushed voices?  Free votes are an outrage, it seems.

Atlanta Journal Columnist Tucker Says USA is 'The Enemy'.  Columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner, has found the enemy and he is us.  During a recent episode of the Chris Matthews show, Tucker decided that because we are "addicted to petroleum" we are our own enemy just as much as communism was our enemy during the Cold War.

Obama Administration to Expand Family Medical Leave Act to Gay and Lesbian Employees.  The Labor Department is poised to announce new regulations this week that order U.S. employers to give gay employees equal treatment under the law, allowing those workers unpaid time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act.  Critics say the Obama administration is going too far.  "They're trying to redefine marriage and family by these arbitrary policies with no debate by congress, no public discussion about it," says Carrie Gordon Earll of Focus on the Family.

Hillary Clinton Urges State Department Employees to Let Teens Know It's Okay to Be Homosexual.  At an event celebrating Gay Pride Month on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraged State Department employees to let teenagers know homosexuality is okay. ... Clinton's remarks are part of a high-profile campaign by the Obama administration to mark Gay Pride Month with gatherings at various federal agencies, including the State Department on Tuesday.  The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have held similar events.

Boxer Declares Climate Change as the Greatest Threat.  Terrorism.  Nuclear weapons.  Corrupt and oppressive regimes.  Sen. Barbara Boxer said last week that climate change — not any of that other stuff — will stand as the "leading cause of conflict" over the next two decades.  The comment was apparently based on reports and studies over the past few years that have linked climate change to other security issues, but her colleagues — as well as her Senate campaign opponent — described the prediction as a big stretch.

The hate-crime wave that's not.  What's the biggest crime problem facing Massachusetts today?  After the gut-wrenching story of a 14-year-old gunned down in Dorchester, you might say it's street violence.  Given that we've had three speakers of the House indicted in a row, a state senator due to be sentenced in September and a city councilor awaiting trial on bribery charges, perhaps you think it's public corruption.  But if you're Barack Obama's top prosecutor in Massachusetts, you know the answer:  hate crimes.

Obama's Treachery:  [Scroll down]  Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed — and, by the way, was enabled by a far greater proportion of Republican than Democrat U.S. senators — Democrats and liberals have been grandstanding self-promoters decrying voter disenfranchisement.  But where is this purity of process when it comes to arriving at the actual names on the ballot?  And who are now the champions of suppressing free speech through revival of the Fairness Doctrine and eliminating the U.S. Senate rules on the filibuster and cloture?  The Democrats.  Who are now advocating the regulation of journalism through the Federal Trade Commission?  The Democrats.

The Secret of America:  The entire goal of the Left is to murder the idea of the goodness and righteousness of freedom, of self-reliance, of independence, of merit, of virtue, of hard work, of honor, of courage, of sacrifice, of loyalty, of morality, of faith, of the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.  The Left, in politics, media, education and entertainment, despise the idea that is America.

Obama isn't radical enough for some Democrats.  Borosage knows that Obama is the most liberal president since Johnson.  He knows that Obama is moving the left's agenda more successfully than any president in the past 40 years, and yet he is "dismayed and disaffected."  How on earth can that be?  How can one see one's own ideology sustain its greatest movement forward in close to half a century and be... disappointed?  It takes a particularly extreme and rigid ideologue to consider President Obama insufficiently liberal.

The Cuckoo's Nest.  [Scroll down]  If you add $5 billion of debt every day of your presidency — as Barack Obama has done with the help of Congress since he entered office — you are a contemplative moderate.  If you believe in drilling for more oil, you are at best a wretched boob, at worst a tool of corporate interests.  But if you support the corporate interest of creating a fabricated market for the non-commodity of carbon dioxide so it can be "traded" and taxed to deliberately make energy expensive for citizens ... well, you've got some serious smarts.

Jobs report a nightmare for Obama progressivism.  [Scroll down slowly]  Progressives generally, and Obama especially, encourage expectations as large as the 1,428-page (cap-and-trade), 1,566-page (financial reform) and 2,409-page (health care) bills they churn out as "comprehensive" solutions to this and that.  For a proper progressive, anything short of a "comprehensive" solution to, say, the problem of illegal immigration is unworthy of consideration.  For today's progressive president, the prospect of a jobless recovery is a comprehensive nightmare.

The Left and Islam:  A Love Story.   [Scroll down]  For all their disagreements on matters like women's rights, gay rights and abortion, Islam and the Left are in harmony on big-picture matters:  They are authoritarian, totalitarian in the sense of wanting to control all aspects of human existence, virulently anti-capitalist, and regard the individual as existing merely to serve the collective.  Consequently, they have the same obstacle in common:  our freedom culture — i.e., Western liberalism, U.S. constitutional republicanism, and their foundation, individual liberty.  Historically, Islam and the Left ally when there is a common enemy.  But I'd stress that what I am talking about here is an alliance, not a merger.

Obama Missed A Great Chance.  President Obama had a golden Memorial Day opportunity to show the country that (contrary to his left flank) he is not anti-military and not anti-Christian, by telling Attorney General Eric Holder to order the Park Service to permit volunteer veterans to replace the Mojave Cross that was stolen on May 9.  But he let the atheists and those who sneer at our veterans win the day.

Obama, Proclaiming LGBT Pride Month, Pushes Repeal of DOMA.  Citing his commitment to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), President Obama on Friday [5/28/2010] issued a proclamation declaring June 2010 "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."  The president also emphasized his intention to secure "adoption rights" for same-sex couples and end both employment discrimination against LGBT individuals as well as the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) compromise that bars homosexuals from serving openly in the military.

Obama the Abject.  President Obama promised us we would make history.  We certainly have.  Last week, he invited Mexican President Felipe Calderón to the White House.  There, in the presence of his foreign guest, President Obama humiliated himself and us by his attacks on the new Arizona law passed to cope with illegal immigrants.  But it got worse.  Soon, Calderón was invited to address a joint session of Congress.  There, in the well of the House of Representatives, the Mexican leader himself sharply criticized Arizona's law.  He was applauded by Democrats from both houses, even given a standing ovation.

Revenge of the Coffee House Marxists.  When I was a political science graduate student in the 1980s, the Cold War was still raging, and my university was filled with leftists who were pulling for the Sandinistas, the Nicaraguan Marxists, and other various and sundry Communists around the globe to defeat Ronald Reagan and the United States.  These folk used to meet in the local coffee house and practice talking Marxist gibberish to one another.  After the Cold War ended, I often wondered what happened to my "Coffee House Marxists."  Where did they go? What are they doing now?  It turns out that a substantial chunk of them have gone to work for the Obama Administration.

Go back to Mexico.  Mexico's President Felipe Calderon ought to know a lot about illegal immigrant abuse.  His country has one of the worst migrant human-rights records in the world.  During his state visit last week, Mr. Calderon repeatedly — and with support and encouragement from the White House and congressional Democrats — made his opinions known on a variety of American domestic issues, including immigration and gun control.

Libs Stand Tall — For Mexico.  Whether liberals like it or not, there is an "us," and there is a "them."  While we may share common bonds as members of the same species, virtually everything else is defined by the nature of a particular national ethos.  It is worth remembering that the North American continent and the South American continent were discovered and built by the same groups of people at the same time.  It is also worth remembering that Old World civilizations in Europe and Asia had a "head start" of several hundreds of years over the Americas.  If borders are inconsequential, then how ... did the United States leap to the head of the pack in less than two hundred and fifty years?

Obama:  June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.  As he did last year, Obama today [5/28/2010] declared June "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month."  But this year the announcement comes as Congress began moving to repeal the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy used by the US military when dealing LGBT service members.

Another Sham Stimulus Bill.  Given the choice between retaining power in the short term or doing what's right for America, which would you choose?  Most Americans, I believe, would be willing to sacrifice a great deal for their country, and this willingness to sacrifice has always been the great pillar of American democracy.  Unfortunately, there is no fondness for sacrifice in Washington these days, especially among the Democratic leadership and its supporters.

Obama and the New Normal.  [Scroll down]  It used to be off-limits for the president and Congress to target private citizens.  Not any longer.  It's now open season on anyone who dares to disagree.  The New Black Panthers wielding billy clubs?  Maniacs biting off fingers?  The deafening silence from the Powers that Be rings in the New Normal.  And what about the omnipresent gender-bending and "alternative lifestyles"?  Every possible sexual proclivity is now front and center.  A couple of transgendered men/women have been appointed by Obama to top government spots.  The transgendered and the polyamorous?  Just another lifestyle choice — the New Normal.

Supreme Court To Face Mecca.  The reason Democrats are obsessed with controlling the courts is that unelected judges issuing final edicts is the only way liberals can attain their insane policy agenda.  No group of Americans outside of Nancy Pelosi's district would vote for politicians who enacted laws similar to the phony "constitutional rights" liberal justices proclaim from the Supreme Court.

Transgender anti-discrimination bill is a tough sell for centrist Dems.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership are pushing legislation, written by Rep. Barney Frank, that would made it illegal for employers to discriminate against transgendered people.  The bill scares centrist Democrats, who don't want to be forced to vote on a hot-button issue popular on the left as they approach November congressional elections in which heavy Democratic losses are expected.

May Day Immigration Protests:  The Other Side of 'Mostly Peaceful'.  A large group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker's and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday [5/1/2010], police said.

Boycotting Arizona.  Most members of Congress like to bring home the bacon to their districts.  But Arizona's Raul Grijalva wants everyone to boycott his state to protest its immigration law.  Who, exactly, is he serving?

Support for Obamacare still tanking.  Americans don't like redistributionist schemes because they know that when politicians talk about "spreading the wealth" while promising they'll only take from the rich, the Middle Class always ends up being the ones with their wealth redistributed.  The rich take care of themselves as they always do.  This is why Democrats soft pedaled the redistributionist aspects of Obamacare.

Narcissism, Power, Fear of Death, and Liberalism.  Could it be that for liberals and certain therapists endowed with self-importance but without religion, influencing others is all they have?  Forcing others to do as they wish fends off their fear of insignificance, which is why it is so urgent that others go along.  It keeps their legacy alive.  Notice how many times people bring up "Ted Kennedy's legacy" of health care.  Is this more about keeping Kennedy's name immortal and his image alive than about real solutions to real-world problems?

Thanks For What?  Rather than protesting the greatest expansion of government in U.S. history, Tea Party attendees should be thanking Big Government for all it's done.  At least, that's what President Obama thinks.

Hillary Clinton:  'We Have a Lot to Learn' About Energy Policy From Other Nations .  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told officials from more than 32 Western Hemisphere nations on Thursday [4/15/2010] that the United States is looking to those nations to develop better energy policies and practices.  "For our part, we believe the United States has a lot to learn," Clinton said at the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas in Washington.

Sick Thinking From 'Mainstream' Leftists.  The Obama left, realizing it has really stepped in it with the American people by cramming Obamacare down our throats, has decided to blunt the backlash against it by tarring, yet again, mainstream conservatives as racists, bigots, homophobes and violent.  Its tactics are objectively despicable.

Jane Fonda Decries Hanoi Jane 'Myth' 'Created by Right-Wingers'.  On Monday's [4/5/2010] Larry King Live on CNN, guest Jane Fonda portrayed herself as a victim of a "myth" that was "created" by "right-wingers" about her infamous "Hanoi Jane" visit to Vietnam to protest the Vietnam War.

Forever 'Hanoi Jane'.  Hanoi Jane — I will not refer to her otherwise — is apparently attempting another one of her periodic reinventions as part of her continuing quest to remain in the cultural spotlight she craves.  She recently appeared on Larry King to whine about how "right wingers" labeled her "Hanoi Jane" and created a "myth" about her visit to Vietnam in 1972.  She was kind of unclear about exactly what "myth" she is referring to.

From Hanoi Jane to Imam Obama.  Befitting an actress, she had her picture taken. Sitting at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery.  Smiling, wearing a military helmet, Fonda happily posed as her Communist hosts grinned and laughed along with her at the image of the famous American leftist film star clapping with joy as if she were poised to shoot down their enemy — American pilots.  Later, Fonda took to Radio Hanoi to broadcast her views to the world.  She accused the President of the United States of being a "war criminal" and insisted that returning American POW's who said the North Vietnamese had tortured them were "hypocrites and liars."  In a flash, Fonda won the nickname "Hanoi Jane."  It was not meant with affection.

Hanoi Jane, QVC and the triumph of capitalism.  The explanation for why Fonda's segment was cancelled depends on who's answering the question.  A spokesperson at QVC stated that a scheduling conflict had caused Fonda's snake-oil sale to be axed.  Fonda is skeptical of QVC's response.  She claims that top network executives caved to unnamed "extremists" who were pressuring the network to cut Fonda's segment because of her liberal political activism.

The Rape of America.  It's no coincidence that the race for the presidency began with vile behavior against Hillary Clinton — a high-tech wilding of sorts, with her body and sexuality defiled.  But the abuse of Clinton was a walk in the park compared to what has been done to Sarah Palin.  Because she's a conservative, and an attractive, younger woman, the debasement has progressed at a fever pitch.  And just like in a gang rape, people who could have done something about it didn't.  In fact, the liberal media and many Democrats have stood around watching, egging on the players.

72% Support Offshore Drilling, 59% Favor It Off California and New England.  Voters support offshore oil drilling more than ever, and most don't agree with President Obama's decision to limit where that drilling can be done.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of U.S. voters believe offshore oil drilling should be allowed.  Just 12% disagree and oppose such drilling, with another 16% who aren't sure.  This is the highest level of support for drilling found in nearly three years of surveying.

More about offshore drilling.

Meet Your Lords and Masters.  It's bad enough that Robert Byrd is a former Exalted Cyclops of the KKK, but the earmark king of the Senate is also a 93 year old sick-bed senator who rarely makes it into work.  Unquestionably, he's too ill to pay attention to his job day-to-day, but you can count on his aides to wheel him in, beat the buzzards away from him with a stick and show him which lever to pull any time the Democrats need a key vote in the Senate.  Whatever may be said of Robert Byrd, one thing is for sure:  he doesn't belong in the Senate anymore, if he ever did in the first place.

Obama's halo blinds Democrats to trouble ahead.  Magical thinking has returned to Obamaland and Democrats are lining up for their unicorn rides.  Listening to the analysis of Democrats and the swooning press corps suggests that between Sunday night and Tuesday afternoon all of the realities of American politics had been wiped away.  Passing an unaffordable health bill over strong public objections on a straight party-line vote:  a political masterstroke.

Where Do Jews and Christians on the Left Get Their Values?  Many Americans find it difficult to understand why Jews on the Left — including many who would call themselves "liberal" rather than "Left" — continued to enthusiastically support President Obama after the revelations about the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the religious mentor and close friend of Obama.  This confusion is all the greater now that Obama has humiliated the prime minister of Israel and created the most tense moment in American-Israeli relations in memory.

What It's Really About:  Insurance Reform Was Never About Health Care.  Past liberal administrations began the march toward socialization, expanding government control and provision, demonizing capitalism, and shifting responsibility away from individuals and onto government.  ObamaCare will take its place in the liberal cavalcade of massive government growth initiatives alongside Welfare, Social Security, and a multitude of entitlement programs.  Democrat Senator Dick Durbin said the massive taxes and vast expansion of government required to run the program would simply be, "The cost... of having the kind of America we want to have."  What kind of America was he referring to?

Bart Stupak, Gullibility, Mendacity, and the Party of Death.  [Scroll down]  At the time I covered the dinner for the New York Sun, I didn't think it was wise to use such hyperbolic language about the nation's majority political group, but those strong words are overdue in describing the culture that's being promoted today.  Abortion on demand, embryonic destruction, euthanasia, and animal rights now displace human rights.

'This Is the End of Favoring Motorized Transportation at the Expense of Non-Motorized'.  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that federal transportation policies will no longer favor "motorized" transportation, such as cars and trucks, over "non-motorized" transportation, such as walking and bicycling.  LaHood signed the new policy directive on March 11, the same day he attended a congressional reception for the National Bike Summit, a convention sponsored by a bicycling advocacy group, the League of American Bicyclists.

Lib Talker Malloy Calls for Deaths of Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly.  As the mainstream media hyperventilate over what is now regularly being referred to as rightwing hate speak, liberal talk radio host Mike Malloy Friday actually called for conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly to commit suicide.

5 Ways Liberals Misjudge the American People:  One of the reasons liberals tend to do such an incredibly poor job of governing is that they fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the American people.  Given that liberals also fundamentally misunderstand Christianity, the Constitution, economics, and human nature, I guess it's no big surprise that they don't get the American people either.

What Democrats Think of the American People:  Democratic leaders in the House are apparently moving towards the "Slaughter Solution" of avoiding a direct vote on the health care legislation and instead passing the Senate health care bill by voting to "deem" it passed.  As they do so, they keep reassuring the media — and each other — that the American people don't care.

Obama in dire need of an intervention.  Denial is a river that runs through the White House, where the denizens are in the grip of two major delusions:  One, that the country really wants really expensive big government, and two, that Obama is "sort of like God."

Deadly Triumvirate Destroying America.  [Scroll down]  The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us.  Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.  The republic can survive a Barack Obama.  It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

Blue dogs or dead dogs?  "Blue dog" Democrats are apparently an endangered species — a SELF-endangered species.  They are rushing like lemmings off the towering cliff of government-run health care and into the gaping maw of unelectability.  Why?  The blue dogs are being enticed to commit political suicide for the good of their party.

Obama:  Polls Do Not Reflect the People.  President Obama was out stumping for his health care bill in Ohio today.  In the conclusion of his speech, he told the crowd that he would ignore the polls and do what the people want.

The Editor says...
 I wonder what Mr. Obama thinks a poll is.

The Road Ahead for ObamaCare:  The "health-care summit" has come and gone, and it was a good day for the Republicans.  They were sharp and focused, the Democrats meandering and ineffectual.  The latter came off more like wishful ideologues or naive amateurs than like practical realists with sensible solutions.  They seemed disconnected from economic and budgetary realities, and from the electorate.

Conservatives Rule?  Demographically, conservatives do rule; politically, they are chronically shut out.  Why this happens is a big subject on which we have written many times.  For now, let's just note the most recent Gallup poll finds that conservatives are now America's most numerous ideological group.

A Conservative Manifesto:  From MSNBC on, every liberal elite outlet sniffs with distain at the very mention of the word "conservative."  They sip their overpriced chardonnay as they nibble truffle-enhanced Pâté de foie gras while declaring in their upper class accents that conservatism is out of step with everyday America.  It is not surprising that even now these pseudo intellectuals consider the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts to be aberrations.

Obama's Progressive Goose and Our Conservative Gander:  Asked by Oprah to grade his own performance during the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama did not hesitate to pat himself on the back:  "a good, solid B-plus."  The conservatives are genuinely puzzled by the president's blithe confidence.  How can this man view his patently disastrous rule as near-perfect?  Is he delusional?  Not at all.  It's just that Obama sees things differently. ... Barack Obama is a lifelong radical, and his ideology compels him to see the world through a revolutionary prism.

Clyburn:  'We've got to spend our way out of this recession'.  The U.S. government must spend its way out of the recession, the Democrats' third-ranking House leader stressed Monday [2/1/2010].  Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House majority whip, said that trying to find greater savings in the budget, which was released by President Barack Obama this morning, wouldn't help alleviate the recession.

Pete Stark's bizarre ethics interview.  Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) sounds like an ethics investigator's worst nightmare. ... Stark has a history of eccentric statements, including an infamous line in 2007 about the Iraq war in which he accused Republicans of sending soldiers "to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."  He also called Republicans "chickenhawks" who denied children health care.

The liberals pounce on Brit Hume:
 If You Can Find a Better Deal, Take It!  Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension. ... [Brit] Hume's words, being 100 percent factually correct, sent liberals into a tizzy of sputtering rage, once again illustrating liberals' copious ignorance of Christianity.

Throwing Brit Hume to the lions.  If there were doubt that much of the media is hostile to traditional faith, especially traditional Christianity, that doubt has been drowned in the wake of a vicious verbal assault on Fox News analyst Brit Hume.  Histrionic fulminations against Mr. Hume's inoffensive expression of faith expose an ugly strain of anti-religious bigotry that is spreading inside this country's liberal establishment.

The Soul of Tiger Woods.  The first rule of dinner-table conversation is no hot talk about politics or religion.  Apparently, there's a rule regarding the discussion of religion during political talk shows, too.

It's Not Socialism, It's Communism.  If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a dictatorship.  The voice of the people was ignored in a demonstration of raw political power. ... Healthcare "reform" is not about uninsured Americans.  It is not "socialism."  It is Communism, effectively putting the entire nation's healthcare system under state control.

Commie Watch, Updated.  [Scroll down]  Just to recap, the Communist Party USA is in favor of
  •  President Obama, his win in 2008 (which the CPUSA takes some credit for) and his reelection in 2012.
  •  A Democrat majority in both houses of Congress.
  •  Charlie Crist, the AFL-CIO, Rick Nagin, Rudy Lozano, Organizing for America and MoveOn.
  •  ObamaCare, unemployment compensation, the Harkin education jobs bill, the Miller Local Jobs for America bill, the Murray bill.
  •  FDR and LBJ.
On the other hand, the CPUSA is against
  •  The Republican Party.
  •  The Tea Party movement.
  •  Arizona's immigration law.
  •  And, of course, free markets and limited government.

Liberals think other Americans are extremists.  Being for gay marriage and unrestricted abortion are outside the mainstream — as are the $787 billion stimulus, the takeover of the auto industry, and a government takeover of health care.  That last one is incredible.  Health insurance companies have to be one of the least loved institutions in America. ... But Americans love Congress even less.

The Government Still Hasn't a Clue.  Last month we saw the scientific climate experts exposed as conniving manipulators in Climategate.  On Christmas Eve, the United States Senate passed a health reform bill with 2,000 pages of undigested expert ideas on gaming the health system with untested administrative rules and commissions. ... These liberals, Progressives, or whatever they want to call themselves next are clueless.

Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree.  Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements?  The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House.  Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney's New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. ... For this year's White House, he didn't disappoint.

Feinstein Says It's 'Morally Correct' to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) told CNSNews.com that using tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion is morally correct.

Baca-backed bill would legalize millions of immigrants.  Congressional Democrats on Tuesday [12/15/2009] launched a renewed effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation.  Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, is a co-sponsor of the bill that provides a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.

The Editor says...
 There has always been a path to citizenship available to immigrants.  It sounds as if Mr. Baca is offering a substantial shortcut.

What's The Rush?!  What should we label this administration?  Democrat?  No.  They seem different than the olden-day Democrats.  Progressive?  Isn't that just a fancy name for Neo-Communist?!  Well, whatever the label that history will lay on them, they are America Haters.  They are Freedom Haters.  They are People Haters.  And, many of them are God Haters.  And, they are in a big, big hurry! ... because they are hoping to CHANGE our country from a Capitalist nation to a Socialist nation before anyone notices!  And, before the 2010 election!

Democrats:  Answer These Questions or it's Buh-bye in 2010.  By now, the American people realize that the leaders of the Democrat party don't have much respect for the principles that made this country great.  Their only interest is in remaining in power while pretending that they're concerned for the working class.  What a joke.  It's the working class that always gets hammered by the socialist policies of the liberal left.  It's clearer every day that Democrats stay in power by subverting the laws of the land whenever it suits them.  Every single time legislation is introduced to combat voter fraud, the Democrats prevent it from getting out of committee.

Laughing at the Left.  If the consequences for this great nation of ours weren't so serious and the policies preferred by the left weren't so dangerous, one would really laugh, almost uncontrollably, at the beliefs and (il)logic of American liberals.  Based on things they have actually said or done, here are some of the things they really, truly seem to believe.  They believe we can spend our way out of debt.  They believe taking money from one part of the economy to give to another part somehow makes the economy bigger.  They believe people who have never run a business can run a business better than people who have spent their whole lives running businesses.

Abortion foes 'stunned'.  By declaring he will vote for the Senate health care bill, Ben Nelson touched off a firestorm of criticism Saturday [12/19/2009] on abortion.  Nebraska Right to Life said it had been "betrayed" by the Nebraska Democrat, long an abortion opponent, who agreed to support compromise language on abortion.

Buying green could make you more likely to lie, cheat and steal: study.  Buying green may help save the planet, but a new study suggests it might also make you more prone to cheat, steal, and be selfish.  In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, University of Toronto researchers Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong studied how students behaved after being given the option of purchasing environmentally friendly products, like organic yogourt or biodegradable laundry detergent, or conventional items.

Obama's World and Welcome to It.  [President Obama] tours the world on our dime apologizing for our alleged failings and transgressions.  He goes to Denmark in order to lobby for the Olympics, in order that his corrupt Chicago cronies could cash in on crooked land deals, but he doesn't go to Germany to help commemorate the falling of the Berlin Wall.  Next, instead of expressing the grief that every decent American felt over the slaughter of American soldiers and an unborn baby by an Islamic terrorist, this bozo gave a partisan shout-out at a Native American shindig.  Then, for good measure, he warned us not to jump to the conclusion that the Islamic terrorist was an Islamic terrorist.

Huffington Argues Glenn Beck Should Be Excluded from Constitutionally Protected Freedom of Speech.  Want to know how the left really feels about free speech?  Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington.

Obama's Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders.  President Obama's "Safe Schools Czar," already a target of social conservatives for his past drug abuse and what they say is his promotion of homosexuality in schools, is under fresh attack after it was revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends books his critics say are pornographic.  The group under fire is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which Kevin Jennings, now the assistant deputy secretary for safe and drug-free schools in the Department of Education, founded and ran from 1990 to 2008.

So much for e pluribus unum.
 Sen. Conrad Suggests That People Who Don't Believe in Civilian Trials for Terrorists Should Leave America.  Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al Qaeda terrorists and that "if people don't believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else."

Senator Conrad's insulting defense of trying KSM in New York.  Democrat Senator from North Dakota, Kent Conrad, while defending the Obama Administration's decision to try al Qaeda terrorists in civilian courts, said:  "If people don't believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else."

Did someone mention civilian trials for terrorists?

The Media See Moral Grays Even In 9/11.  The Washington Post "news analysis" on the front page carried the headline "9/11 trial could become a parable of right and wrong:  Before worldwide audience, both prosecution, defense seek control of narrative."  Does the Washington Post really think that the death and destruction of 9/11 "could" be right, or "could" be wrong?

New study:  More Democrats than Republicans believe in ghosts, talking with the dead, fortunetellers.  For example, 21 percent of Republicans report that they have been in touch with someone who is dead, while 36 percent of Democrats say they have done so.  Eleven percent of Republicans say they have seen a ghost, while 21 percent of Democrats say so.  And nine percent of Republicans say they have consulted a fortuneteller, while 22 percent of Democrats have.

Now Obama wants to put an ACORN fund-raiser on the federal bench.  Hamilton ignored a felony conviction on a man's record when being prosecuted for his third felony drug crime to avoid imposing a life sentence, for which Hamilton was unanimously reversed on appeal.  Hamilton also struck down a law requiring convicted sex criminals from reporting information to police to track their whereabouts.  He also petitioned the White House for clemency for a police officer who produced child pornography.  He has also shown surprising hostility to people of Christian faith.  He ruled that any prayers uttered in the Indiana statehouse that invoke the name of Jesus Christ are unconstitutional and cannot be permitted.

The Totalitarians Among Us.  This is a month in which the president of the United States has co-sponsored a UN resolution with the police state of Egypt to ban speech that defames religion; a month in which the Democratic Party has placed an amendment on a defense appropriations bill to make anti-gay speech a thought crime, and in which the White House has launched an all-out attack on the Fox News Channel because it didn't like what Fox commentators were saying.

Frank Rich and the State of Liberal Commentary:  If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times.  No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today's left.  Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time devoid of intellectual arguments.

Terrified Voter says NJ Dems Using Gangbangers for GOTV.  How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop?  And then find out that the men were sent into the neighborhood by the Democratic Party for GOTV operations — complete with lists of voters names, addresses and phones numbers!

Conyers to Introduce Constitutional Amendment Making Health Care a 'Right'.  During his speech at a recent National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said he is introducing a constitutional amendment that would establish health care as "a right" for all Americans.  "We need a real serious bill and, by the way, the fundamental question, 'Is health care a constitutional right?'" he said.  "I mean, do you have a right to health care in the American system of government or not?"

The Nation's Climate Change Solution:  'Make the Recession Worse'.  A lefty magazine editor has come up with a list of brilliant solutions to the planet's purported climate change problem:  make the recession worse, make goods more expensive, and restrict all intercontinental travel to blimps.  So said Emily Douglas, web editor for The Nation, who, when asked Wednesday [10/14/2009] how we could "reverse our culture of consumerism," replied immediately "make the recession worse."

Besieged czar, EEOC chief safe, Obama tells homosexual crowd.  President Obama last night received a warm welcome at the annual dinner of the homosexual support group Human Rights Campaign, promising to sign hate crimes legislation, to repeal both Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act and to continue supporting his besieged appointments as "safe schools czar" and head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Democrats Vote To Give ACORN Regulatory Authority Over Financial Institutions.  During consideration of H.R. 3126, legislation to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted to pass an amendment offered by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) that will make ACORN eligible to play a role in setting regulations for financial institutions.

DNC Uses Flag Desecration Video to Raise Funds.  As a heart monitor beeps ominously in the background, a graffiti artist paints over the Stars and Stripes with phrases criticizing opposition to the Democratic legislation, including 'profit over life' and the crossed-out words 'death panel.'  The whole flag is eventually smeared with paint and blacked out.

My Congressman Is Nuts: Alan Grayson Edition.  Alan Grayson.  How did this clown get elected?  Even Democrats are asking themselves that.  The man who delighted in claiming Republicans want the sick to die to save the taxpayers money, was so proud of his obnoxiousness that he started a website to celebrate himself...

"My Congressman Is Nuts" Dot Com.  Alan Grayson's recent self indulgent behavior has paralyzed his ability to serve as an advocate for the citizens of Central Florida.  On December 16th 2009, the day on which the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, Central Floridians will again say no to the overreaching government intrusion propagated by Grayson.

Grayson threatens to imprison critic.  File this story under the pot calling the kettle black.  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), prone for throwing his own political bombs at Republicans, has threatened a local critic with five years in jail for creating the website "mycongressmanisnuts.com."  The Orlando Sentinel reports that Grayson wrote a letter this week to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that the federal government imprison Republican activist Angie Langley for five years because of her website criticizing him.

Grayson wants to send critic to jail for five years.  Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery.  In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website "mycongressmanisnuts.com."

End the escapades.  In just his first term in Congress, Orlando's Alan Grayson has become the toast of the blogosphere and a sought-after interview on cable news channels.  He has done it with a series of inflammatory statements and stunts.  But he may have jumped the shark last week.

Will We Lose It All?  Sadly, you meet people like this every day:  the know-it-all at the office, the busybody at church, or the irritating uncle that insists on dominating every discussion at the holiday table.  Your neighborhood association board is a protected habitat for this species.  Alone, and in these settings, such people are just a grating annoyance.  However, group them together and allow them to hold taut the reins of power, and true danger quickly arises where mere pomposity once sat.  The mechanisms of government carry with them the unspoken yet omnipresent threat of force.

Dangerous Zanies.  Allow me a prediction.  This administration is going to turn out more zanies than the past two Democratic administrations combined.  Yet — and here is the ominous part — they are going to present a real threat to liberties that Americans take for granted, particularly freedom of speech.

An Olympics We Can Believe In.  The picture now comes into sharp focus.  Americans voted for president a man who thinks that government creates wealth; that "greed" caused the current economic crisis; that taxpayers should provide health insurance for those who don't have it; that a government-induced housing and financial crisis can only be addressed by more government; that government can more efficiently and profitably run businesses than can the private sector; that "global warming" requires the imposition of job-killing and price-hiking action against emitters; and that government should "spread the wealth" by taking from those who have "too much" and giving to those who have "too little."

A Warning to Washington.  Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of angry Americans stormed Washington last weekend to oppose ObamaCare and government spending.  How'd Democrats react?  By redoubling efforts to pass "health-care reform"...

Jones was recruited not in spite of his wacky beliefs but because of them.  Just how comfortable was the Obama team with the far left, radical statements and beliefs of Van Jones?  Obviously, they believed he fit right in.

Liberals and Van Jones:  Why Are They Defending Him?  By now we all know most of what there is to be said about Van Jones.  What is most interesting, however, is how so many representatives of mainstream liberalism have no compunction at all about honoring Jones as one of their own, and of condemning Barack Obama for casting him to the wind, as if the administration had no good reason to do so.

Steal this!  A Canadian study shows that people who buy green products tend to lie and steal more than those who don't.

Democrats and the one-party mentality.  Those in the White House and on Capitol Hill have little practical experience with political opposition.  They mostly come from urban areas.  The middle class that might be expected to oppose them in local elections departed for the suburbs and exurbs decades ago.  Congress and the White House need to remember that while our major cities are mostly left wing fiefdoms rife with corruption and nanny state rules and regulations, as a nation this is still a government of laws, not authoritarian busybodies.

Liberalism is a Cult.  It would be easy enough to dismiss [Jim] Jones as just another cuckoo, except that he was a man well-connected in left-wing circles.  Mayor George Moscone had appointed him Chairman of the San Francisco Housing Authority.  He was on a first-name basis with Walter Mondale and Rosalynn Carter.  Governor Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally and Assemblyman Willie Brown, all attended a testimonial dinner honoring Jim Jones in 1976.  What makes that date all the more remarkable isn't just that it was a scant two years before Jones choreographed the mass suicide, but three years after a series of critical newspaper articles had appeared and after eight members of the cult had defected and warned the world that he was a deranged menace.

Constitutional Chess.  Since the passage of "The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937" (and the attempted "packing" of the Supreme Court by FDR) the rules of interpreting the Constitution have been rigged to support a progressive ideology.  The Constitution has become "a living document."  The Constitution means either whatever the Congress wants it to mean or whatever five out of the nine justices sitting on the Court at the present time say that it means.

Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia.  Today one-third of Democrats believe that President Bush was involved in the planning of September 11.  Best-selling books have alleged that 9/11 was a planned government operation.  Novels were published and movies screened envisioning the assassination of George W. Bush.  Politicians as diverse as Robert Byrd, Al Gore, and John Glenn all compared the president or his policies to Nazis or Brownshirts.

Soros:  Republic Enemy #1.  What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience.  He considers himself to be a world class philosopher, despises capitalism, and just loves social engineering. ... Soros is a real life version of Dr. Evil — with Obama in the role of Mini-Me.

Charlie Rangel says Obamacare Doesn't Spend Enough Money.  [President] Obama has announced his determination not to sign a bill that adds "one dime" to the deficit and he's also said that "his" bill will feature a low, low $900 billion price tag.  Both of these Obama points seem to be vexing Rep. Rangel because, well, it's just not enough.

Jaw Dropping Arrogance From Obscure Congressman.  It is not just the career safe seat members of Congress and the Senate who are vulnerable to getting caught up in the arrogance and elitism of power.  Relative back bencher Baron Hill from Indiana's 9th District might well have surged into the lead in the contest to see which member of congress had the most out of touch and arrogant attitude during the town hall meetings.

The Improbable Political Existence of Teddy Kennedy.  What [Ted Kennedy] did should not have only disqualified him from public office, but just voting for him should be considered a lapse in moral character that gets you shunned from society.  It's up there with being an open racist.  How in the world has anyone taken Massachusetts seriously while that guy was their senator?

Congress Is Shooting the Messenger.  So convinced is the left that their health care reform is right, that not only are all others wrong, but their very opposition means they have committed a wrong.  They have dare challenged the pharaoh's view and now they must pay — in the past, with their lives; today, with their reputations.  If they hold a tea party to protest, they're quacks.  Vent their rage at a town hall, they're stooges.  Question the president's agenda, they're racists.

Liberals think you're stupid.
 America's Death by Professor.  This is an administration stuffed with academics.  And not just any academic:  These are educators from elite universities, the kind of experts prized by a political and media elite seeking confirmation of a worldview that expects, notes the Washington Examiner, "the rest of us ... to shut up and do as we are told."

We do get it, Mr. President; we just don't like it.  It's a modern marvel how the increasing opposition of the American public to President Barack Obama's plans for us is explained away by administration officials and certain Democratic legislators — such as California Sen. Dianne Feinstein — as a sign that the people just don't get it.  A panel of pundits chatting with Charlie Rose on his talking-head fest the other evening came to the conclusion that Tea Partiers and their ilk are too stupid to know what's good for them.

What's really wrong with the Cybersecurity bill?  The problem with S.773 is not what it purports to do but the fact that Barack Hussein Obama happens to be the president of the United States.  Despite the fact that the United States is at least nominally a democracy and citizens have the right to go to the polls and freely vote every two or four years, Obama and the Democrats in Congress are governing exactly like a fascist state.  They impose their will regardless of how many Americans oppose it.  Whether their policies and actions actually make the country better off are of no consequence.

Have a good vacation, Mr. President.  The president obviously needs to relax, and he picked a good place. Obama carried [Martha's] Vineyard with 75 percent of the vote last November, and the Clintons vacation there all the time.  The chances of running into Rush Limbaugh on the island are slim. ... A bunch of swell folks own island property, people like Mike Wallace, Diane Sawyer, Michael J. Fox, Spike Lee, Bill Murray and Ted Danson.

Something Fishy.  For liberals, the morally correct stance on every issue is by definition the liberal one.  It is a moral imperative that everyone have health insurance, consequences be damned.  To cite possible negative repercussions of liberal policies is to reveal yourself to be ethically and intellectually degenerate.  Just look at what liberal pundits and politicians are saying about anti-Obamacare protesters:  Paul Krugman vilifies them as racists; to Nancy Pelosi, they are literally Nazis.  Got that, America?  If you're against government-run health care, you're not just a Nazi, you're a racist Nazi.

A Plurality of Americans Describe Themselves as Conservative.  When it comes to party identification, Democrats have been making all the gains recently.  But when it comes to ideology, 40 percent of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35 percent as moderate and 21 percent as liberal, according to a Gallup analysis of its 2009 polling.

Protest for Me, But Not for Thee.  Middle-class Americans, myself among them, have watched for 40 years, as one angry group after another has managed to get its way, and more and more entitlements from our purses to theirs, using the tactics designed by the liberal fascist revolutionary, Saul Alinsky.  One would need to be buried under a rock not to understand by now that small groups of angry people can get what they want.

No, Mr. Conyers, we expect you to read the bills.  If it weren't for the Great Health Care Debate of 2009, would we all know what a sorry excuse for a congressman Rep. John Conyers of Michigan really is? ... The man's been in Congress more than 40 years and, apparently, doesn't bother to read bills.  Well, at least not the long ones.  And he revealed this:  He not only doesn't bother to read the long bills, but he would also need lawyers to interpret them once he did read them.  How does a man with a mind like this get elected to the House of Representatives, and get elected repeatedly?

Rules for Radicals:  A Blurred Vision.  Saul Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals," first published in 1971, has been read and assimilated by a number of those who espouse a Far Left agenda.  Our current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky while at Wellesley College.  The following excerpt is from that paper.  "Much of what Alinsky professes does not sound 'radical.'  His are the words used in our schools and churches, by our parents and their friends, by our peers."  Perhaps in your world, Madam Secretary — certainly not in mine.

The Collapsing Global Left.  Conservatives can take heart from the crushing blow that taxes and spenders received in the California election.  Six propositions were on the ballot in May.  All six passed the California Legislature easily.  Republicans in the legislature generally opposed them.  The five supported by the Left were defeated by huge landslides.  Four of those five were defeated in every single county in California (the fifth barely carried the San Francisco area.)

How Liberal Is San Francisco?  The District Attorney of San Francisco worked on behalf of illegal aliens in order to expunge drug convictions from their records.  And she now says that the illegal aliens were "following the rules."  One must read this sort of gibberish three or four three times to make sure that the words are not truncated or a reporter's very bad joke.

Obama's Science Czar:  Traditional family is obsolete, punish large families.  President Obama's Science Czar, John Holdren, took a controversial and amoral approach to the science of population by recommending mass compulsory sterilization and even forced abortion (and/or forced marriages) under certain circumstances.  His 1977 tome, Ecoscience, which he co-authored with Paul and Anne Ehrlich, also displays a revealing disregard for the institution of the traditional human family.

It gets worse:
 Obama's science czar suggested compulsory abortion, sterilization.  Internet reports are now circulating that Obama's Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren, penned a 1977 book that approved of and recommended compulsory sterilization and even abortion in some cases, as part of a government population control regime.  Given the general unreliability of Internet quotations, I wanted to go straight to this now-rare text and make sure the reports were both accurate and kept Holdren's writings in context.  Generally speaking, they are, and they do.

Why the Public Isn't Buying It:  [Scroll down slowly]  All these Democratic leaders understand that their home turf tilts far left of the rest of the nation.  But a politician's political base is ultimately his or her reality principle.  Moreover, most of these leaders — though Obama obfuscated this in his campaign — have strong, long-held convictions that are well on the left of the American political spectrum.  These are the people — the House leaders more than Obama, surprisingly — who have shaped the Democrats' stimulus package, cap-and-trade legislation and health-care bills.

Be it Resolved, Jacko a "global humanitarian".  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has embraced the inevitable:  introducing a resolution honoring global "humanitarian" Michael Jackson — certain to delight Republicans who see Jacko as a great wedge issue.  So far, she's got only a single co-sponsor:  Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.).

Jackson's Death Sparks Fierce Debate in Congress.  Michael Jackson's death — and controversial life — has sparked a fierce debate in Congress, with one Democrat introducing a resolution to honor the King of Pop as a "humanitarian" and a Republican representative blasting America's obsession with a "lowlife."  Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, is calling on Congress to recognize Jackson as a "global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises"...

A Congress Full of Michael Jackson Wannabes.  On June 26, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, and Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., introduced a resolution on the floor of the House celebrating the King of Pop.  Their resolution runs a full 1,539 words, almost six times as long as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. ... According to Congress, Jackson is the Madame Curie of 1980s rock.

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee's Personal Brand of Revisionist History.  Here's an interesting history lesson from a U.S. member of Congress — Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas.  Not only does she think we won the war in Vietnam, but she's apparently under the impression that the country is still divided along the 17th parallel. ... That kind of history can't even be classified as "revisionist," it's just plain idiotic.

The Editor says...
 Maybe her side DID win the war.  Think about it.

Sheila Jackson Lee on Chinese Health Care.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) made headlines this week for claiming that health-care repeal means "killing Americans."  In an exchange with National Review Online at the Capitol tonight [1/19/2011], she used China as an example of universal coverage.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Obamacare is a Consitutional Right.  The second a massive, unpopular government entitlement program enters its implementation phase, it instantaneously transforms into a sacrosanct Constitutional right.  That's the word from noted Constitutional scholar Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).

Sheila Jackson Lee Says Repealing ObamaCare Violates Constitution.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon [1/18/2011] that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.  Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans' H.R. 2 violates both the Fifth Amendment's right to due process and the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to 'Christian Militants' in U.S..  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Texas) likened "Christian militants" to Islamic radicals in a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday [6/15/2011], suggesting they posed a comparable threat to the rule of law in the United States.  At the same hearing, a witness told the committee that the conversion of U.S. prison inmates to radical Islam is an "evolving threat" to national security.

'Christian Militants' Might 'Bring Down the Country'.  At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to "bring down the country."

Sheila Jackson Lee's Compassionate Liberalism.  There are few members of Congress more churlish and arrogant that Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee.  Several years ago Hill staffers voted her the biggest windbag and one of the meanest people in Washington.  So it comes as little surprise she's being sued by a former staffer who's claiming Jackson Lee verbally abused her and mocked her disability.

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday [7/15/2011] strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.  "I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president," said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.  "Why is he different?  And in my community, that is the question that we raise.

Trumping the Race Card.  What does racial prejudice have to do with the debt ceiling debate?  For the average person the answer to this question isn't obvious.  But according to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, it is the most salient factor that's shaping the debate.  Last Friday the congresswoman delivered a stunning speech on the House floor where she spuriously implied that Republican opposition to raising the debt limit stemmed from their virulent racism.

Jackson Lee accused of bias? Astonishing.  Over the years, many of us have followed with mild amusement the tales of purported misbehavior of the not-so-gentlewoman from Texas, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.  She's been ranked the "meanest" member of the U.S. House by Washingtonian Magazine.  A Daily Caller exposé earlier this year suggested she's the worst boss in Washington.  A recent Houston Chronicle analysis showed her office has the highest turnover, by far, in the Houston congressional delegation.  She goes through chiefs of staff the way some people go through sneakers:  11 since 2000.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee — And the Race Card.  Black U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, says "the minority community" blames racism for the Republican refusal to increase the debt limit without conditions.

62 Million Voiceless Americans.  Is it still called debate when only one side controls the conversation?  That's the question the 62 million Americans who didn't vote for Obama are asking themselves. ... Why hold a conversation?  The left is in control and there is no need to consult with the people they were elected to govern.  The politicians and the experts know best.

An Anti-Business President.  Democratic presidents are not famous for appointing businessmen, merchants, or entrepreneurs to their cabinet or senior White House staff.  These are people who have started or run private businesses, created jobs, met payrolls, and made profits.  Thus they might be sensitive to how government can help or hurt business enterprises, especially during an economic downturn.  The number of such people appointed by Obama:  zero.  Members of his cabinet and White House staff come predominantly from government, academia, think tanks, and the law.

Powerful Democrat Calls Illegal Aliens 'Free Loaders and Scam Artists'.  Most liberals regard illegal aliens as "Undocumented Democrats" and a veritable gold mine of opportunity for holding on to political power by coddling to those here unlawfully.  For that reason, most Democrat politicians have abandoned patriotic concern about homeland security, the rule of law, stability of the American economy and social order, and preservation of American language and culture.  In fact, one can search high and low for a liberal with a patriotic, pro-America stance on illegal immigration, and that search will usually be futile.

Heterosexual Pride Month.  Obama came through on his campaign theme of 'equality' Monday [6/1/2009] by proclaiming June as "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month".

POTUS to LGBT: "Welcome to Your White House".  ABBA's "Dancing Queen" filled the East Room, as more than 200 prominent gays and lesbians gathered for the first ever celebration of Pride month at the White House.  The President and First Lady entered to thunderous applause.  President Obama told the group he is committed to equality for their community.

Sleepwalking into disaster.  The public opinion currents in America today are becoming eerily similar to those circulating in 1993.  Today, just as then, Washington liberals are getting complacent.  They're ignoring mounting evidence that the American people don't share their desire for bigger government, higher taxes and a liberal social agenda.

Mandatory paid-vacation bill introduced.  Mandatory paid sick leave has been grabbing headlines, but now Florida Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson has introduced a bill that would require employers nationwide to provide paid vacation.

Do Liberals Crave A Master?  Contemporary liberals, having abandoned the belief in God-given inalienable rights, masochistically crave a worldly master.  This master is a sadistic god-substitute who will provide the stern discipline needed to force economic equality and "fairness" by requiring painful sacrifices and bestowing government-created rights onto obedient and acquiescent groups of left-leaning masochists.

Leaking Intel for Fun and Political Advantage.  Once again history is repeating itself.  Two incidents — one involving Joe Biden and one involving the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — prove Democrats are still in the habit of releasing classified intelligence to discredit the CIA or the Republicans and, at the same time, stonewalling on releasing non-threatening information that would cast either in a positive light.  It's politicking of the worst kind; manipulating the nation's most important secrets for a cheap boost in the polls.

Unpatriotic, inconsistent left.  There was a time when protecting the American people and defending our common national interests was a nonpartisan issue.  Since the radical left took over the Democrat Party in the 1960s, that ceased to be true. ... The leftist idealism is this:  Our rights are determined by the state, and thus the state must be all-powerful, not by some abstract idea about God.  Therefore, power of the people must be limited, not the power of centralized government or the state.

Secretary Loophole.  When Timothy Geithner worked at the International Monetary Fund, he managed a feat that probably very few Americans have even contemplated:  he got himself reimbursed by his employer for taxes he never paid. ... From his time at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to his turbulent four months so far at Treasury, Geithner has made a career out of seekingÑand usually findingÑways to do what most people thought the rules wouldn't allow.

Obama lurches left.  When stumbling off a roller coaster, have you ever had that nauseating sensation you were still moving, even while standing firmly with both feet on the ground?  Such is the case with the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media, with their cries that the GOP has moved far to the right and marginalized itself.  In fact, it is the Democratic Party that has sped far left, creating the huge policy gap between the two parties.  The political center is no longer the halfway mark between the two parties.

Liberal Fantasyland.  After Prohibition ended, the murder rate subsided.  By 1953 it fell below 5 per 100,000 and would stay below that level through 1963, reaching the lowest murder rates since 1906.  Then the criminal reform movement took over.  The Map v Ohio decision (exclusionary rule) came in 1961.  Miranda warnings were mandated in 1966.  The Gun Control Act was enacted in 1968.  The murder rate doubled between 1961 and 1972, and would hit its highest point ever, 10.7 per 100,000, in 1980, Jimmy Carter's last year as President.

Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act.  Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.  So on Thursday [5/21/2009], the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.

The Obama-Wanda Sykes Chilling Laugh Fest.  Last Saturday [5/9/2009], at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, she wished an American citizen to die because this citizen disagrees with the politics of the American president.  Wanda Sykes isn't of any interest to me.  The fact that the American president was five feet away from her and had to laugh about her joke was of interest.  A comedian wishes a citizen dead and the president laughs?

Obama sows seeds of demise.  When the Obama administration crashes and burns, with approval ratings that fall through the floor, political scientists can trace its demise to its first hundred days.  While Americans are careful not to consign a presidency they desperately need to succeed to the dustbin of history, the fact is that this president has moved — on issue after issue — in precisely the opposite direction of what the people want him to do.

There Will Never Be a Middle Ground.  President Obama campaigned on uniting the country and creating a post-partisan environment.  Watching the differences displayed this past week regarding the release of the CIA memos about interrogation techniques; it is quite evident we will never bridge the gulf that divides us.

In time of victory, why is the left so angry?  These should be happy times for liberals and the Democratic party as a whole.  They control the White House and both houses of Congress, while opposition Republicans are leaderless and lost.  So why do some Democrats, particularly those farther to the left, appear so angry?  If you doubt it, just watch a few minutes of MSNBC, where the recent nationwide series of "tea parties" to protest federal spending and taxes set off an angry, almost manic response.

Does the President Understand Real America?  When Barack confided to friends in San Francisco that he was having trouble in Pennsylvania because these folks "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them ... as a way to explain their frustrations," he revealed that he does not really understand a part of the nation he now leads.  It is this part of America that does not comprehend how the president could sit in Trinidad and listen to the scrub stock of the hemisphere trash our country — and say nothing.

Deliver Us from Fear.  We've basically lived in fear of society's deterioration since the end of World War II, when the United States emerged as a nuclear superpower, and became the target of various governments, dictatorships, religions and political ideologies pinpointing America as an evil influence on the world.  Then the forces of the cultural left sprouted in our own country, telling us our post-war society was sexist, racist and imperialistic. ... These same people tell us that God's a threat, too.  He doesn't belong in the classroom, at graduation ceremonies, football games or public functions.

Idiot Compassion:  The term "bleeding-heart liberal" has been bandied about for years, in an effort to illustrate the faux or at least hyperbolic sense of compassion attributed to those on the left.  The lefties in America and Europe would like to be known as those who care, unless you happen to be a Bible-following Christian, a conservative or a fetus.

Replacing God.  The overwhelming majority of Americans who profess faith in God are being told that the times have changed.  Christianity, our ruling elite inform us, is only one of many religions, all of which are equal.  In case we don't get it, President Obama, while abroad, expressed a deep appreciation for the Islamic faith while, here at home, he appointed a gay-rights activist to the federal government's faith-based initiative.  Said activist described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as "discredited leaders."

Making fun of faith.  Even though they may remind you immediately of the worst racists you have known, bigoted bashers of religion often get away with it no matter how shallow, uncomprehending, unfair, overly generalizing, nasty-minded or obviously hostile their attitudes are.

Alice in Wonderland.  In an interview shortly after the groundbreaking, Alice Waters — the organic-food world's most active and least humorous spokesperson — commented on the new White House vegetable garden:  "The most important thing that Michelle Obama did was to say that food comes from the land. ... People have not known that.  They think it comes from the grocery store."  Oh, really — is that what people think?  To whom, exactly, is Ms. Waters referring?

Obama reaches out to communist states.  US President Barack Obama has pledged to seek a "new beginning" in ties with communist-ruled Cuba as part of a new era of US partnership and engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean.  Before addressing his counterparts in the hemisphere at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Mr Obama also initiated a handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of Washington's most virulent critics in the region.

Accounting for California's Suicide.  [Scroll down]  Californians count on the wealth of farming but would prefer their rivers to remain wild rather than tapped.  They like tasteful redwood decks but demand someone else fell their trees for the wood.  Californians drive imported SUVs but would rather that you drill for oil off your shores rather than they off theirs.  They pride themselves on their liberal welfare programs, but drive out with confiscatory taxes the few left to pay for them.  Californians expect cheap imported labor to tend their lawns and clean their houses, but are incensed at sky-high welfare and entitlement costs that accompany illegal immigration.  Lock 'em up, they say — but the state is bankrupted by new prisons, constant inmate lawsuits, and unionized employees.  In short, after Californians sue, restrict, mandate, obstruct, and lecture, they also get angry that there is suddenly not enough food, fuel, water, and money to act like the gods that they think they have become.

Dems Use Homestead Exemption to Avoid Taxes.  Democrats love taxes. So much so that Joe Biden claimed paying higher taxes is a patriotic act, which must make April 15 some kind of utopian version of Flag Day.  The problem is that Democrats don't like paying taxes.  Over the past several weeks we've learned enough to make the words "Obama Cabinet" and "taxes" a running punchline.

Those arrogant Americans.  We have a rock star president who for the first time in American history fired the President of a private corporation, General Motors, then immediately flew to Europe with an entourage of 500 courtiers and a worshipful media, bowed waist-deep to the King of Saudi Arabia, and proceeded to accuse his own country of arrogance.  In France, of all places.

Secular Liberalism as Consensus:  As James Kalb explains in his important new book, The Tyranny of Liberalism  — which, despite the red-meat title, is an intellectually invigorating read — liberalism "has become an immensely powerful social reality," one so dominant "that it has become invisible."  "To oppose it in any basic way is to act incomprehensibly, in a way explicable, it is thought, only by reference to irrationality, ignorance or evil," Kalb writes.  "The whole of the nonliberal past is comprehensively blackened.  Traditional ways are presented as the simple negation of unquestionable goods liberalism favors."

Obama's Unholy War Against Christianity, Not Islam.  The more illiberal a religion, the more liberals tend to like it.  Western liberals who propose no place for God in the public square can usually be counted on to excuse non-western religions that impose a false and dangerous one upon it.  The explanation for this apparent contradiction goes beyond the childish and self-hating affinity of western liberals for all things non-western.  The deeper reason is western liberalism's attachment to irrationality.

Indicting the Left's True Believers.  [Scroll down]  But leftists' replacement of communism as their ideological icon with the strange bedfellow of Islamism is more puzzling.  True, both hate the West and promote wholesale violence in their triumphalist crusades.  But the Left is atheistic, sexually egalitarian and obsessed with "social justice."  Islamists are theistic, patriarchal and shariah-bound.  [Jamie] Glazov takes us on "the believer's totalitarian journey" to explain the paradox.

All the News That's Fit to Ridicule.  It is my belief that by a huge margin independents and moderates go along with Obama's plan to eliminate charitable deductions from the tax code.  It isn't that these people are necessarily opposed to charities, they are merely opposed to individuals, particularly those of a religious bent, deciding for themselves which ones to support.  They prefer that the decisions be made by left-wing politicians.  So, while they would be happy to see hundreds of millions of dollars going to ACORN, abortion clinics, the National Endowment of the Arts, National Public Radio and AmeriCorps, they hate to see a dime go to churches, the Boy Scouts or the Salvation Army.

Media Matters Launches Anti-Fox Campaign.  As unbelievable as this may seem, the folks at Media Matters are not content with having their far-left talking points lead the news on all the major networks except ONE.  The lone rangers at Fox News, who try to provide the tiniest balance to an otherwise total leftist propaganda paradise are so under the skin of the Media Matters whiners that they even have an ongoing campaign to flood Fox with calls for apologizing for "promoting" the Tax Day Tea Parties.

Hillary, Pelosi in la-la-land on immigration.  Last week Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) described the law-enforcement activities of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "un-American."  Which triggers the question — since when is enforcing federal law by a federal agency "un-American"? ... Pelosi's comments reveal just how out of touch she is — like most of her party's leadership — with most Americans.

Did President Obama Enjoy England's Version of "Community Organizers"?  Make no mistake about it. There are organizations throughout this nation and particularly in Europe in which admittedly more socialistic forms of governance have led to ever-greater successes for their members.  They take disaffected young people and turn them into brigades of lawlessness.  Consider just a few of their acts of protest in London.  Not only did they destroy one major bank, they also invaded a second one and tried to wreck it.

How to Use Your Children to Annoy a Liberal.  You can use your kids to annoy liberals, but I don't mean in the way liberals annoy other people with theirs.  Liberals, by not civilizing their children, breed brats who bounce balls in supermarkets, play hide-and-go-seek in restaurants, keep the makers of psychotropic medication in business and sometimes chant "Yes, we can!"

Barney Frank:  Antonin Scalia is a 'Homophobe'.  Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in an interview Friday [3/20/2009] ... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a "homophobe."  "At some point, [the Defense of Marriage Act] is going to have to go to the United States Supreme Court," Frank said.  "I wouldn't want it to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."

Rep. Waxman Wants to Apply Censorship Doctrine to Internet.  If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is not trying to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices.  Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late.  Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue... the internet.

The Bill Gates Mosquito Circus:  His latest stroll through the news ... seems more suited to the Howard Hughes school of eccentric billionaires.  To make his point about the deadly and fearsome plague of malaria, Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes on the unsuspecting crowd at the Technology, Entertainment Design Conference in Long Beach, California.  Did Gates plan on infecting some rich folks to prove his point?  The answer is yes, although Gates quickly pointed out that the pests released were not malarial.  Mr. Moneybags only intended to infect his audience with guilt.  And guilt-inducement is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel.  It has become the go-to move for so-called progressives when intellectual argument fails and one can't muster the facts to support one's case.

Elections Have Consequences.  In the middle of not one but two shooting wars, President Obama has signaled that he intends to slow defense spending.  The anti-military chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin, gleefully announced that he intends to strip funds for weapon systems from the budget.  Likely consequence:  The armed services will be unable either properly to "reset" the equipment and capabilities that have been used so intensively over the last seven years or be prepared for the next conflict.  History teaches such a posture invites foreign aggression and costs far more than is saved through short-term and shortsighted cuts.

A Manual for Left-Wing Living.  For 143 years, The Nation magazine has maintained, in its adorable way, the blue-faced scowl of an angry toddler shaking its fist at the grown-ups.  But while you could go to The Nation in recent years for instruction on how to think about the latest perfidy of the Bush administration, the magazine was no help when it came to advice on, say, how to find a really good lesbian knitting cooperative within easy bicycling distance or where to buy anti-globalization comic books printed on recycled hemp.  The long wait is over.

Classless to the last.  Obama's intent to remake American politics got a jolt of reality yesterday [1/20/2009] when thousands of his supporters booed and mocked George Bush as he stepped on to the platform ... The louts were disrespecting Obama as much as Bush, of course.  On such a solemn, civic occasion where a new president was promising a new era of bi-partisanship, the lefty loons couldn't grasp the fact that their despicable actions were giving a lie to what their hero was saying a short time later on that same platform.

Bush Mocked As He Arrives on Inauguration Dais.  The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded President Bush in mocking fashion when he took to the inaugural stage alongside Vice President Dick Cheney.  "Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, good-bye," a section of the crowd chanted.  The crowd packed immediately below the podium received Bush in stony silence when he took his seat on the stage surrounding the podium where Barack Obama was scheduled to take the oath office to become the 44th president of the United States.

Obama's Graciousness Deficit.  Forget for a moment whether there is anything to the high-minded talk.  That's his theme and ticket to wielding political power.  The unfortunate result of this is that he is now given to jab continually at his predecessor.  Some might attribute this to the failure to realize "the campaign is over" but it is perhaps better understood as milking his change meme for all its worth.  He is changing from the Bush era, he repeats ad nauseam.  The result, nevertheless, is a decided lack of graciousness toward his predecessor.

Democrats kill bill that honored troops.  House Democrats blocked a measure that would have required new roads, bridges and schools funded by the $825 billion economic stimulus to be named after U.S. armed forces members killed in action.  Democrats on the House Rules Committee nixed the amendment Tuesday [1/27/2009] in a party-line 9-3 vote.

The 'Glass Ceiling' Argument and the NY Senate Seat.  [The Democrats' political] appointments invariably end up producing a candidate who is so far outside the American mainstream as to be laughable.  If that trend is not followed in every particular instance, the resulting arguments are both amusing and educational. ... The appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand has been successful in at least one respect:  it has broken up a lot of Democratic Party myths by exposing them as fallacies with no small amount of help from the purveyors of those myths.

Signs and Wonders in Week One of the Obama Era.  People basking in a long-sought victory — a victory that they can bank on — behave in a certain way.  There's a sense of exhilaration, of smugness, of tolerant condescension for the losers.  But there's none of that in any of the hardcore left-wing comments.  No arrogance, no lofty amusement, but something else entirely, something that can only be characterized as a sense of near-hysteria crossed with frustration.  It's an impression of deep insecurity, of people afraid that their triumph is ephemeral and is going to be snatched away from them.  In their moment of victory, the American left is no less than desperate.

The John Murtha Jihadist Correctional Facility.  Get this:  King of Pork John Murtha, the 19-term Democratic congressman from western Pennsylvania, now wants to welcome a flood of Guantanamo Bay jihadists into his district.  I don't want to hear a single word of protestation from the constituents who put this money-grubbing, security-undermining fool back into office.  As you vote, so shall you reap.

Schumer, Durbin and Barney Frank See No Problem with Treasury Nominee's Tax Problems.  House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told CNSNews.com that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner is qualified to serve despite his failure to properly pay at least $34,000 in taxes.  Other members of Congress, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) agreed, but some Republicans questioned the nomination.

Liberals — wrong, wrong and wrong again.  Thirty-five percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey, call themselves conservative, while only 22 percent call themselves liberal (43 percent call themselves moderate) — a 3 percent increase in conservatives since 1992.  There is a reason for this — liberals keep getting it wrong.

Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers!  In the Democratic primary, winner Obama, runner-up Hillary Clinton and third-place finisher John Edwards were all lawyers.  In 2004, both Democratic nominees, John Kerry and Edwards, were lawyers.  Al Gore, who ran in 2000, left law school without a degree and went into politics.  His running mate, Joe Lieberman, was a Yale-trained lawyer. Mike Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, was a Harvard-trained lawyer and ran with lawyer Lloyd Bentsen.  In fact, every Democratic presidential nominee for president and vice president in the last seven elections — except Gore who dropped out of law school to run for Congress — has been a lawyer.

Railing Against the Rich:  A Great American Tradition.  The Great Depression of the 1930s created hardship and suffering among millions of Americans.  It also created populist resentment of elites.  Among the many signs of this anger was the astonishing popularity of Huey P. Long, governor of Louisiana and then U.S. senator, a figure so dominant in his own state that his enemies called him a dictator.  But to the ordinary people of Louisiana — and later to millions of ordinary people across the U.S. — Mr. Long was a heroic figure, fighting for the "common man" and challenging the right of elites to monopolize power and wealth.  Starting in 1933, Mr. Long created a national organization called the "Share Our Wealth Society."

Homeless 'Driven' to Vote for Obama.  Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday [10/6/2008] on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.  The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Vulgar mockery of Christians:  Is this what we want in a U.S. senator?  [Al Franken has] aimed some of his most offensive material at religious believers, particularly Christians.  Why hasn't this been aired in public?  We in the press are too busy searching through Sarah Palin's junior high yearbooks and tracking down the filing dates of Joe the Plumber's tax returns.  Meanwhile, Franken gets a pass for making a joke of the life and death of Jesus Christ.

The Real Obama Part II.  Sex education for kindergartners is just one of many issues on which Barack Obama has lined up consistently on the side of arrogant elitists of the far left.  Senator Obama's words often sound very reasonable and moderate, as well as lofty and inspiring.  But everything that he has actually done over the years places him unmistakably with the extreme left elitists.

Tasting GOP Blood.  Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that, if elected, an Obama administration might pursue criminal charges against the Bush White House.  This is how he plans to unite the country?

Obama:  Too Cool by Half?  The paradoxical Democratic Party, which holds itself as the party of the people, often manages to find a presidential candidate that is anything but a man of the people.  From Adlai Stevenson to John F. Kennedy to Michael Dukakis to Al Gore to John Kerry, and now, Barack Obama.  Elite, intellectual, erudite, sophisticated?  Arguably so in most cases.  But common?  Someone who can relate?  Only in their Utopian dreams.

Bidens Gave Average of $369 Annually to Charities.  Delaware Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president, and his wife reported giving a fraction of 1 percent of their income to charity during the past decade, below the national average, tax records show. … Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $319,853 in adjusted gross income and paid $72,787 in federal taxes last year, including $2,721 in alternative minimum taxes. … Over the past decade they reported giving an average of $369 to charity.

Ebenezer Biden and Trickle Down Charity.  Just when I thought there was no politician stingier than Barack Obama — who has given as little as .6% of his income to the poor — lo and behold Obama picks as his running mate, a man who gives far less to the poor than he.  While Obama's tax returns reveal a portrait of a man who privately gives very little to the poor — less than any Republican I know — Joe Biden gives even less.

The VP's Tithe:  Earlier this week, UPI reported Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife released their 2008 tax returns and while the Second Couple had an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $269,256, they gave a mere $1,885 to charity.

Update:
 Bidens below average in charitable giving.  Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill, earned $333,000 in 2009, and gave $4,820 — 1.44 percent — of that to charity in cash or in-kind donations, according to their newly released tax forms.  Estimates by charitable organizations show that most givers donate between 3 and 5 percent of their income.

The Tools of Free Men.  Oil is the fuel of free nations, guns and speech the tools of free men.  Thus the three have freedom in common.  Ironically, oil, guns, and free speech have something else in common as well:  all three are scorned by the Left.  Democrats are opposed to further oil exploration, individual gun rights, and speech that is free from the constraints of political correctness.

McKinney Accuses Government of Slaughtering Prisoners, Dumping Bodies During Katrina.  Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, known for her provocative statements when she was a congresswoman from Georgia, accused the Department of Defense this week of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners.  At a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday [9/28/2008], McKinney claimed the Pentagon authorized the execution of the prisoners with one bullet to the head three years ago and then dumped their bodies in a Louisiana swamp.

Ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney In Iran.  In an interview with PressTV of Iran, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney said the Tea Party movement "was definitely hijacked."  McKinney, making her first visit to Iran to attend an anti-terrorism seminar, told her interviewer that there was "tremendous pressure inside the political process to make sure that the voters stay aligned inside either the Democratic or the Republican parties, because both of those parties have been captured by special interests."

Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney appears on Libya TV to support Gaddafi.  Cynthia McKinney appears to be a supporter of Muammar Gaddafi.

Obama the Harvard Lawyer.  Americans generally frown upon lawyers (studies have shown only the media ranks below lawyers in consumer confidence).  The Obama ticket consists of not one, but two lawyers.  Senator Joe Biden graduated from Syracuse Law School, which almost expelled him for plagiarism.  In Congress, Senator Biden is also a known ally of trial lawyers, an important Democratic constituency.

Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side.  [Of 675 prostitutes interviewed by the Pittsburgh Tribune,] 78 percent of them registered as Democrats.  Countywide, Dems make up only about 62 percent of voters, according to the Division of Elections.  The Illinois senator also has the advantage with local "johns" — 72 percent go Democratic.  And convicted pimps:  Four out of every five register Democratic.  And for the most special of special interest groups — male transvestite hookers — they're batting a thousand for Dems, albeit in drag.

No-Drill Stand Is A Dry Hole For Democrats.  The question of offshore drilling, along with expanded domestic energy production, has suddenly become the biggest political and economic wedge issue of this election.  Is there a Republican tsunami in the making?  According to the major polls, Sen. McCain has overcome a big deficit to pull even with Obama.  Meanwhile, according to a Rasmussen survey, Democratic Party identification has slumped.

Liberals Love Loons and Liars.  Obama's Rev. Wright controversy surfaced in the media on March 14.  A Pew Research poll conducted between Feb 20-24 placed Obama ahead of Clinton 49% to 40%.  The next Pew Research poll was conducted March 19-22, after the Wright controversy hit the airwaves.  Obama's numbers didn't budge:  he remained at 49% while Clinton actually dropped a percentage point to 39%.

The Europeanization of the Democratic Party:  Out of [the 1960s] turmoil there emerged a powerful body of left-wing opinion and activism that turned the old national consensus upside down.  Rejecting Henry Clay's "my country — right or wrong," the left substituted "my country — always wrong."  More extreme elements declared their country to be the most oppressive society in history — racist at home and imperialist abroad — while discovering sublime virtues in genocidal tyrants from Mao Tse-Tung to Pol Pot.  While this raging ideological virus infected in varying degree a wide range of American institutions — e.g. media, academia — its principal victim was the national Democratic Party.

The Democrats' Ex-Presidents:  Why is it that so many Democratic leaders find it necessary to continue making spectacles of themselves after they leave office?  It's an exclusively Democratic trait — you don't find Republicans acting this way.

Colorado Governor Signs She-Male Restroom Bill.  This bill makes all public accommodations — including public restrooms and locker rooms in the state — "gender free."  This law now means that anyone who identifies as the opposite sex, can freely access public facilities formerly reserved for a single sex.  Sexual predators can now enter women's restrooms and claim they have a sexual identity different from their birth sex.  It makes it legal for drag queens, cross-dressers and anyone else with a serious Gender Identity Disorder to use opposite sex restrooms and locker rooms.  But it goes further.  It defines "public accommodations" as including malls, restaurants, schools, and small businesses.

Stealing the Election From Obama?  Barack Obama supporter John Nichols brought "media reform" activists to their feet on Thursday night [6/5/2008] with wild and strident attacks on the Bush Administration.  "George Bush was not elected," said Nichols, working himself into a frenzy.

Why the Left is Unpatriotic and Why the Right Should Say So:  The fact is that much of the new left is unpatriotic.  And that is okay.  The Founding Fathers knew that not all Americans would be patriots; in fact, they counted on it.  In this article I will show why the culture of the left is not patriotic.  My basic contention is that patriotism is now the responsibility of the right — abandoned by the left.  I will use stories and photographs from this year's Oregon Country Fair to help make the point.

Obama's Women Problem:  Obama has a problem among women over 40 and a big problem among women over 50.  These groups, normally the staunchest of Democratic supporters, are showing a propensity to back McCain and a disinclination to support Obama.

Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism.  Barack Obama said yesterday [7/8/2008] that "instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English," Americans "need to make sure your child can speak Spanish."  A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U.S. voters overwhelmingly disagree with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.  Eighty-three percent (83%) place a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language.  Just 13% take the opposite view and say it is more important for Americans to learn other languages.

Loony Harry Reid.  This nation is in serious trouble because it has people in very powerful elected positions that say crazy things.  Take, for example, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) who is the Senate Majority Leader:  "The one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don't see on the bottom line.  That is coal makes us sick.  Oil makes us sick; it's global warming.  It's ruining our country, it's ruining our world.  We've got to stop using fossil fuel."  [Italics in original]

Poll:  Global Warming Ranks Last in Public Concern.  Global warming ranks dead last among U.S. voters' priorities, according to a Pew Research Center Poll showing Americans are relatively unconcerned about global warming and are becoming less concerned each year. ... Since 2007, when addressing global warming was added as one of the options in the organization's annual poll, the perceived importance has declined each year.  Addressing global warming was seen as a top priority by 38 percent of adults in 2007, 35 percent in 2008, and now 30 percent.

What's not to like?  Time magazine's recent piece "10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas" exposes the twisted thinking of watermelons (green on the outside, Red on the inside).  While acknowledging Americans' only recourse today is to "adapt just by suffering," the article celebrates the benefits of record gasoline prices.

Democrats Float Bill to Curb Gasoline Demand.  Anxious to look like they're doing something about rising oil and gas prices — but unwilling to expand domestic oil drilling — Democrats have introduced a bill that's supposed to ease pain at the pump by offering alternatives to driving.  The bill does nothing to increase domestic energy supply.

Democrats Should Let Us Drill.  Now that an executive branch ban on offshore oil exploration has been lifted, the time has come for Democrats in Washington to lift their own ban on increased domestic supply.  Americans are demanding that Congress do something about record-high gas prices.  They recognize that prices will not go down unless supplies go up.  And they also know that the only thing now standing in the way of more domestic supply is the Democratic refusal to allow it.

Did someone mention the high price of oil and gas?

The Moment of Truth for the Left has Arrived.  Jeremiah Wright — the respectful word "Reverend" seems grotesquely out of place now — is shouting out the slander catechism of the Left.  His sermons say exactly what other Leftists say in calm voices, over and over again.  Mr. Wright just does it with real, raw hatred, and every new slam is cheered on by his jubilant congregation.  His is not a lone voice.  He just sings the music to fit the words.  We have been nursing a viper in our national bosom.  Seven years after September 11, 2001, this is the moment of truth, when the Left must finally decide what side it's on.

The Far Left's War on Direct Democracy:  So long as elected officials gerrymander their districts and otherwise make it nearly impossible for voters to oust them, direct lawmaking will be popular.  That's why attempts to arbitrarily curb the initiative, or to intimidate people from exercising their right to participate, must be resisted.  It's a civil liberties issue that should unite people of good will on both the right and left.

Denver rules on tools could handcuff DNC protesters.  The prospect of protesters linking themselves with devices that bolt cutters can't sever or throwing buckets of feces on police has Denver considering putting a new law on the books before the Democratic National Convention.  Demonstrators would be banned from having items such as chains, quick-setting cement, homemade locking devices that are resistant to bolt cutters and "any noxious substance," City Council members said Monday.

The Editor asks...
 Who are these protestors?  What kind of people behave like that?

Denver police propose law to take pipes, chains out of protesters' hands.  A draft law proposed by the Denver Police Department would ban the possession by protesters of materials such as weighted pipes and chains and items that can make urine and feces bombs.  Police say that such materials are potentially dangerous. … "We certainly don't want to interfere with anyone's First Amendment rights and the right to be heard," [Safety Manager Al] LaCabe said.

The Editor continues...
 Correct me if I'm wrong, but the First Amendment doesn't guarantee the right to throw urine and feces on cops.  Nor is anyone guaranteed "the right to be heard."

Rules on what protestors can and can't carry during the DNC:  You don't bring a squirt gun filled with human urine to a First Amendment party.  That's the message the Arapahoe County Sheriff brought to the Centennial City Council on Monday night.

Anarchists' gathering surprisingly organized.  Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada descended on a strip of private land last week in this Sheboygan County, Wis., village for four days of workshops, including some focused on strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions.

With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces.  Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday [8/4/2008] on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes.  The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by the City Council.  But not before a hearing laced with comedy and profanity.

The Editor says...
 The weakness of such a law is that the state must prove the defendant's intent.

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler reacts to accusation that he doesn't live in Florida.  U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler is defending himself against new accusations that he is playing a residency shell game by using his in-laws' address in Delray Beach while living in a Maryland suburb.  A national TV news program reported, and records show, that the popular six-term Democrat owns a home in upscale Rockville, Md., where he and his wife spend most of the year, pay property taxes, and where his children attend private school.

Residency issues/tax issues dog Wexler.  One of Barack Obama's strongest Congressional supporters may not even be a resident of the district he has represented in Congress.  Robert Wexler, a Democrat, is being accused by his Republican opponent in an upcoming election of "playng a residency shell game", saying Wexler pretends to keep an address in Florida while "flagrantly" making his home in Maryland.

U.S. Rep. Wexler to lease apartment in his Florida district.  Stung by claims that he doesn't really live in Florida, Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler said today that he will lease an apartment in his congressional district rather than declaring residency at the home of his in-laws.  Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly last week accused Wexler of being a bogus Floridian.

The Greatest Scandal:  A visitor to Mr. Obama's Web site finds plenty of information about his plans to fix public education in this country.  Everyone knows this is a long, hard slog, but Mr. Obama and his wife aren't waiting.  Their daughters attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where annual tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school.

Congressman's Residency Questioned.  The Palm Beach Post is reporting that U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney moved his voter registration from a Highlands County ranch on Fisheating Creek to a horse barn near Palm Beach Gardens.  Mahoney "is now registered to vote in a horse barn," said an e-mail from Jeff Ostermayer, communications director for Mahoney's Republican opponent, Tom Rooney.

Opponent Accuses Rep. Alcee Hastings of Threatening His Life.  Congressman Hastings is not known for being a particularly well-balanced individual.  As a federal judge he was impeached and removed from office for bribery and perjury by Congress, and was most recently in the news for saying of Sarah Palin, "Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks."



A mini-scandal in Denver

If the Republicans had been caught in a scheme to evade gas taxes, the national press would have been all over this story.  Somehow it has stayed below the media radar.

Official:  Democratic Convention Hosts Skirt Gas Tax.  The host committee for the Democratic National Convention set for Denver next month is avoiding paying state and federal taxes on gasoline by gassing up vehicles at a city fuel depot, according to a city councilwoman quoted yesterday [7/22/2008] on the Web site of the Rocky Mountain News.

DNC organizers didn't pay fuel tax?  What a gas!  While the rest of us poor schlubs have been grimacing as we put $4 a gallon gas into our cars, local organizers of the Democratic National Convention have been pumping tax-free gas into theirs?  That's just wrong.  The local committee hosting the DNC ought to pay the same state and federal taxes — which amount to 40 cents a gallon — that the rest of us pay.

61 DNC vehicles are regulars at city pumps, records say.  At least 61 vehicles being used by planners of the Democratic National Convention have been gassed up at city government pumps in the past three months, a practice that raised questions about possible avoidance of federal and state gasoline taxes.

City pulls the plug on cheap gasoline for DNC.  Denver officials abruptly have stopped allowing Democratic National Convention planners to gas up at city pumps, acknowledging that the city can't legally sell fuel.  Public Works Department representatives also acknowledged that they never should have started selling gasoline to convention planners back in March before signing a contract with either the Denver 2008 Host Committee or the Democratic National Convention Committee.


It's a Black Thing.  The crowd of 10,000 at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday night [4/27/2008] came ready to Wright a wrong.  The spirit of the 1960s' civil-rights movement hung above Detroit's Cobo Center as local black leaders took to the dais to celebrate "the hottest brother in America" — Rev. Jeremiah Wright — who had been lynched by the "monolithic electronic media," (Detroit pastor Martin Bolton) for "speaking truth to power" (Rev. Wendell Anthony, NAACP chair).  As Wright stepped to the podium, the throng stood (albeit slowly after their $150-a-plate dinners) with him — a standing ovation in anticipation of the misunderstood pastor….

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

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.

Rep. Lee lashes out against ICE.  Pledging to "take them on big-time," Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, sharply criticized the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Friday [6/13/2008] and declared she would push for measures to reduce the fear she said agents have caused East Bay immigrant families.

Congresswoman defaults on home.  Rep. Laura Richardson lost her Sacramento home in a foreclosure auction two weeks ago and left behind nearly $9,000 in unpaid property taxes.  Richardson, D-Long Beach, appears to have made only a few payments on the house, which she bought in January 2007 for $535,000.

Taxpayers pay for Rep. Laura Richardson's car lease.  When she arrived in Congress last fall, Rep. Laura Richardson sought out a vehicle that would match her newfound status.  She settled on a 2007 Lincoln Town Car — the choice of many representatives who lease their vehicles at taxpayers' expense.  But hers was distinct: at $1,300 a month, it was the most expensive car in the House of Representatives.

Kennedy's Illness, and the Left's.  The media keep reminding us of the issues that divide us as a nation:  Iraq, different approaches about reviving the economy, socialized medicine, the role of mankind in global warming, gay marriage, social issues, and many others.  As Ted Kennedy's recently diagnosed brain tumor demonstrated, Right and Left are also divided based on whether they display basic human decency when misfortunes befall a member of the other side.

Top Ten Skeletons in the Left's Closet:  When the Left writes its own history, the past gets rewritten to suit the needs of the present.  This is why I wrote A Conservative History of the American Left, to conserve not only fascinating figures now forgotten but to retrieve from the memory hole all that the Left has tossed down it.  What is the history of the American Left that leftists want you to forget?

Better SAVE Than Sorry.  Why would nearly 50 Democrats not allow legislation they co-sponsored to get to the House floor for a vote?  Because their boss, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, doesn't want meaningful immigration reform that protects our borders.

Obama's real patriotism problem:  Marxists and other revolutionaries obviously don't believe entrepreneurial and religious America is good as it is.  But even more mainstream figures have a problem distinguishing patriotic reform from reformation.  Many progressives in the 1920s considered the American hinterlands a vast sea of yokels and boobs, incapable of grasping how much they needed what the activists were selling.  The Nation ran a famous series then called "These United States," in which smug emissaries from East Coast cities chronicled the "backward" attitudes of what today would be called fly-over country.

Rosie O'Donnell:  Rev. Jeremiah Wright 'Made Sense to Me'.  Rosie O'Donnell defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright on the "Today" show on Monday [5/5/2008], saying Barack Obama's former pastor "made sense to me."  The comedian also compared herself to Wright, saying "some people confuse passion for rage."  She also came to Wright's defense on his views on the origins of AIDS.

Bill Maher, Bigot.  Last week, a few days before Pope Benedict XVI's visit to America, TV talk show host Bill Maher went on a profanity-laden tirade against the Pope and the Catholic Church.  On his HBO Real Time program, Maher claimed that the Pope "used to be a Nazi," and called the Catholic Church a "child-abusing religious cult" and "the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia."

Democrats unleashed.  When Democrats in the 43rd state legislative district in suburban Seattle met April 5 to select delegates to the state convention, they refused to begin their deliberations by saying the Pledge of Allegiance:  "At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos," wrote Web logger Eli Sanders, who attended the caucus.  "Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the pledge up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down.  One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag … was shouted down."

Ramadan Yea, Christmas Nay.  Democrats who supported a House resolution to honor Ramadan voted against a similar resolution to honor Christmas and Christianity last night [12/11/2007].  18 Democrats voted "nay" or "present" on a resolution to "recognize the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith."  An eagle-eyed Republican House staffer points out that those same members, with one exception, voted to "recognize the commencement of Ramadan," a Muslim religious observance in October.

Our Leaders Are Not War Criminals.  Almost 60 House liberals, along with prominent lawyers, journalists, and retired officials and military officers, are lobbing an inflammatory charge — "war crimes" — toward a large number of the Bush administration's most senior current and former officials and lawyers. … And human-rights activists are already suggesting that their friends abroad should snatch and prosecute any former members of what they call the Bush "torture team" who dare visit Europe.

Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins.  Lots of political candidates make campaign promises.  But not like Charlotte Dennett's.  Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party's candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she's elected Nov. 4.  Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says Bush must be held accountable for the deaths of thousands of people in Iraq — U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians.  She believes the Vermont attorney general would have jurisdiction to do so.

Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush.  Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday [9/2/2008] that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.  Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Democrats sat whenever the 'V' word was uttered.  The most dramatic statement in the president's State of the Union address Tuesday night [1/23/2007] did not come from the president, and it was made without speaking a single word.  During his speech, President Bush spoke with conviction about the importance of achieving victory in Iraq:  "This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in.  Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won."

Liberals should admit that the surge is working.  Democrats in particular and liberals in general … will make a mistake if they don't acknowledge that the increase in U.S. troop strength in Iraq has made a difference for the better.  There is a streak of opinion within the larger ranks of opponents of the Iraq war that, going far beyond the critique asserted by most, seems actually to covet U.S. failure in Iraq as somehow serving America right for the blunder of having gone there in the first place.  That is a malevolent righteousness that properly repels most Americans.

Nelson bill would abolish Electoral College.  Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College on Friday [6/6/2008], less than a week after the Democrats settled on how to handle delegates from Florida at their national convention.  "It's time for Congress to really give Americans the power of one-person, one-vote, instead of the political machinery selecting candidates and electing our president," Nelson said in a release announcing the amendment.

Willie Nelson wants President Bush impeached.  American icon Willie Nelson says he supports efforts to impeach President Bush and "throw the bastards out," adding that the administration will do anything to stay in power, including staging an event to cancel the election.  Nelson made the comments on a radio show Thursday [2/21/2008], saying that he supported Dennis Kucinich's attempt to impeach Bush.

House waves off impeachment measure against Bush.  The House has voted to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to a committee that is not likely to hold hearings before the end of his term.  By 251-166, House members dispatched the measure to a committee on Wednesday [6/11/2008] — a procedure often used to kill legislation.

Obama's Wiretap Votes:  Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington.  So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas terrorists while killing most of the Lilliputian attempts to tie down our war fighters.  "We lost every single battle we had on this bill," conceded Chris Dodd, which ought to tell the Connecticut Senator something about the logic of what he was proposing.

Petraeus and Crocker Meet the Real Enemy.  There must have been times when Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker thought they were back in embattled Sadr City when they faced Democrats on Capitol Hill this week — no Iraqi insurgents or al Sadr militiamen could have been more hostile.

What I Heard at the Petraeus-Crocker Hearings:  America's top military commander and chief diplomat in Iraq reported Tuesday [4/8/2008] that we are making significant progress there.  They added that we cannot afford to squander our gains by losing our resolve.  But was anybody really listening?

The Editor says...
 Petraeus and Crocker testified for about six hours on Tuesday, April 8, about the situation in Iraq and what's being accomplished there.  During the hearing, there was one protest disturbance lasting less than a minute.  The next morning, I was surprised so see a TV "news" show that aired all the protestor's outbursts, but not a word of the General's testimony.  When people speak of media bias, that's what they're talking about.

If you call for impeachment, and nobody answers.  Robert Wexler is unapologetic and unabashed in his pursuit.  He wants impeachment hearings.  It matters not to him that he is in a minority in Washington.  Forget Republican opposition.  Even his own Democratic Party leader, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has declared that impeachment is "off the table."

Democrats in Denial:  Presidential candidates won't admit any Iraq surge success.  Over the past 12 months, U.S. troops in Iraq have risen every day and gone to work, dangerous work, implementing General David Petraeus's counterinsurgency strategy.  The surge.  Across the political spectrum, observers have announced the surge a success.  This achievement must be a source of enormous pride to the U.S. soldiers and Marines who have pulled it off.  So what we take away from the four Democratic Presidential candidates' stunning display of misinformation and false statements about the surge Saturday evening is that they have simply stopped thinking about Iraq.

No Lefty Left Behind.  ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) was founded by George Wiley whose claim to fame during the 1960s was to instigate poor single women to engage in sit-ins at welfare offices to end "oppressive" welfare eligibility restrictions. … Several years ago, ACORN members protested Baltimore's lack of service to poor neighborhoods by dumping garbage in front of city hall and conducting a profanity laced demonstration in front of the mayor's house.

McGovern's Murder Charge:  At 85, George McGovern, whose far-left candidacy for president in 1972 brought in less than 38% of the popular vote, has accused President Bush of murder.  Then as today, desperation brings out the ugly in liberal Democrats.

A Bush Rally.  The Associated Press reported last week that a left-wing group, Americans United for Change, plans to spend $8.5 million to ensure that President Bush's public approval rating doesn't improve in his final year in office.

Getting Arrested 101:  The Left's Strong Preference for Making Trouble.  Any normal person would wonder, how does getting arrested help a cause?  Evidently, it's the left's best hope for outreach and recruitment. … What's another advantage in recruiting criminals?  They aren't afraid to break the law, which is exactly what these leftist activists are designing their movement to do.  Multiple participants gleefully identified themselves as "troublemakers" and proclaimed their goal of "taking the revolution to the streets."  Sound socialist?  That's because they are; and proudly, too.

The world doesn't hate America; the Left does.  One of the Democrats' major accusations against the Bush administration is that it has increased hatred of America to unprecedented levels.  And in many polls, the United States is held to be among the greatest obstacles to world peace and harmony.  But it is not true that the world hates America.  It is the world's left that hates America.  However, because the left dominates the world's news media and because most people, understandably, believe what the news media report, many people, including Americans, believe that the world hates America.  That it is the left — and those influenced by the left-leaning news and entertainment media — that hates America can be easily shown.

Democrats in denial.  Denial is the first stage of grieving.  Democrats seem stuck there when it comes to the war in Iraq.  It's odd that his fellow Democrats are mourning success in Iraq, Sen. Joseph Lieberman said in a speech Nov. 8.  "Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq, reluctant to acknowledge the progress we are now achieving, or even that the progress has enabled us to begin drawing down our troops there," he said.

Conservatives more honest than liberals?  A study by professors published in the American Taxation Association's Journal of Legal Tax Research found conservative students took the issue of accounting scandals and tax evasion more seriously than their fellow liberal students.  Those with a "liberal outlook" who "reject the idea of absolute truth" were more accepting of cheating at school, according to another study, involving 291 students and published in the Journal of Education for Business.

No Need to Tinker with the Constitution.  Let's face it.  Some people, especially liberals, just don't like the U.S. Constitution.  Every few years, they come up with wild or devious plans to make major changes.  The would-be rewriters of the Constitution do not merely propose amendments to remedy a problem, as allowed for in Article V.  They seek structural change after hurling put-downs such as archaic and out-of-date.

ENDA, Obama and the cultural war:  The House Democratic leadership delayed a planned vote this past week on ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007.  The bill, introduced by gay Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, makes employment discrimination against homosexuals and bisexuals illegal.  One reason that momentum on moving the legislation has stalled is because lesbian Rep. Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin wants a provision covering transsexuals and transgenders, originally in, then removed, put back in.  President Bush has indicated that, if passed, he will veto this legislation.  And he should.

The "Problem Profiteers":  When Washington Post pollsters asked whether minorities should receive preferential treatment to make up for past discrimination, 77% of blacks leaders said yes, while 77% of the black public said no.  In addition, a majority of the black populace disapproved of forced school busing, while 68% of black leaders supported busing.

Voters may dump Spitzer over license plan.  Gov. Eliot Spitzer's favorability rating has dropped to an all-time low of 41 percent, and has left only 25 percent of voters planning to re-elect him, according to a poll the Siena Research Institute released Tuesday [11/13/2007].

The Editor says...
 Governor Spitzer is most famous for his attempt to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

A Window into the Left's Rage:  The current issue of Rolling Stone magazine, its special 40th anniversary issue, reveals almost all one needs to know about the current state of the cultural left.  The issue features interviews with people Rolling Stone considers to be America's leading cultural and political figures — such as Al Gore, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Cornel West, Paul Krugman, Kanye West, Bill Maher, and George Clooney, among many others.  It brings me no pleasure to say that, with few exceptions, the interviews reveal a superficiality and contempt for cultural norms (as evidenced by the ubiquity of curse words) that should scare anyone who believes that these people have influence on American life.

Democrats Taking Cues From Left-Wing Group, McConnell Says.  The people connected with MoveOn seem to be "recycled from the 1960s," said [Senator Mitch] McConnell.  "They are not interested in what's good for the country in my view, and they don't care if our soldiers leave without honor and it's clear they don't respect General Petraeus at all, who almost everyone thinks is a straight shooter and an outstanding general."

Suspending Disbelief:  Encouragingly, the condemnation from many Democrats was almost as strong as from Republicans.  On the left, General Wesley Clark said that General Petraeus would never give a report he did not truly believe.  Senator John Kerry, and even San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi, criticized the ad.  But Senator Clinton refused to condemn the ad.  Instead, she said on camera to General Petraeus that his sworn testimony called for "the willing suspension of disbelief."

General Recklessness:  Wesley Clark on the trail.  If this is a serious strategy on the Left for defeating McCain, Republicans may yet surprise in November.  But although others have tried hitting McCain's military-service record, this Face the Nation story may be more about Democrats finally facing the reality that is the fringe recklessness of Wesley Clark.  Clark's attacks on McCain yesterday do not mark the first or last silly thing General Clark has or will say.

Obama At Twelve O'Clock Low.  When Barack Obama was romping on the sandy beaches of Hawaii at age 6, John McCain was fighting for his country and carrying on that fight for 5½ years in a North Vietnamese prison that makes Abu Ghraib look like Club Med.  Clark's personal attack echoes the more vicious attacks being unleashed in the liberal blogosphere. They accuse McCain of war crimes for bombing Hanoi, even of making propaganda for the North Vietnamese.

Liberals:  A Puzzlement.  I'll come right out and admit that I understand Islamic terrorists far better than I do American liberals. … Why is it that liberals seem to believe that recycling cans is an important issue, but defeating terrorism isn't? … Why do they regard secondhand smoke as a bigger menace than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?  What is wrong with these people?

Devil May CAIR.  In a new court filing, federal prosecutors describe the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a supporter of terrorists.  So why are Democrats still supporting the organization?

Rush Vs. The Party Of Soros.  Democrats say Rush Limbaugh is running the Republican Party.  Better Rush than George Soros, who is running the Democrats.  At least Rush believes in freedom, capitalism and letting you keep what you earn.

The loony left has found their candidate.  The core, the heart, the base of the Democratic Party has become a loony gaggle of special interest groups on the fringes of American civilization.  They are driven by far-left ideology, and they are represented by the likes of paranoid billionaire George Soros and the organizations he supports.

A 'shadowy' Society.  The Federalist Society is the nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian thinking about the law and its impact on public policy.  Its members include Supreme Court justices, law school professors, and more than 40,000 practicing attorneys and law students nationwide.  Yet in many precincts on the left, the organization has been regarded as a mysterious and somewhat sinister right-wing cabal.

The Party of George Soros.  I don't think nearly enough has been made of the despicable MoveOn.org character assassination attack ad against General David Petraeus and the Democratic leadership's striking refusal to repudiate it.  If you want to see the face of the modern Democratic Party, re-read that ad.

Known By the Company They Keep?  Memo to the national Democratic Party:  Having a reputedly Hezbollah-supporting imam lead you in a Muslim-based spiritual and political prayer does not support your contentions that your values better reflect true Christianity than those of Republicans and that you support the troops.

Rep. Pelosi criticizes border fence.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a plan to build fencing along parts of the Mexico border a "terrible idea" that overlooks local communities.  Pelosi made the comments during her trip to the Rio Grande Valley for the annual Hispanic Engineering, Science & Technology Week conference at the University of Texas-Pan American.

Why Liberals Loathe 'The People':  Regardless of partisan affiliation liberals seem to be on the war-path against the voice, votes, and welfare of those they work for: we the people.  They are actively seeking to make them voiceless in the process of governing through supposed self-determination.  They are also intent upon enslaving them to increasing government dependency for their basic needs, or to even entice them to live lawfully.

Obama's Schumer Problem:  [Senator Schumer] claims that Prime Minister Putin "is an old-fashioned nationalist who seeks to regain the power and greatness Russia had before the fall of the Soviet Union."  What greatness was that exactly, senator?  The part where the political prisoners were sent to the Gulag?  Or where the East Germans trying to escape over the Berlin Wall to freedom were shot and killed?  Or where the Jews weren't allowed either to worship or leave?

Schumer a Party Pooper.  In a revealing new book on politics, Sen. Charles Schumer comes out with guns blazing — not at President Bush, but at his own Democratic Party.  Schumer, one of the most powerful figures in Washington, rips his party for being in the clutches of special-interest groups for too long and for losing touch with the middle class.

Whose side is she on?
 Jackson Lee wants ban on fighter jet parts reconsidered.  [U.S. Representative Sheila] Jackson Lee described Venezuela as a friendly nation that the U.S. should cooperate with and said that the F-16 jets, which are built in Texas, was an issue of concern to her constituents in Houston. ... The U.S. State Department has banned arms sales to Venezuela, including parts necessary to maintain its fleet of F-16s, citing a lack of support by Chavez's government for counterterrorism efforts and its close relations with Iran and Cuba.

Congresswoman calls for inquiry into Texas county.  U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a congressional inquiry into the state's most populous county, saying recent events show that its legal system "has been tarnished." … "With the many misgivings surrounding the Harris County legal system, it is fair to say that this local judicial system has been tarnished," Jackson Lee said.  "It is time for all officials to be held accountable and true justice and democracy to be restored."

The Editor says...
 Wow, that is news.  I was not aware that democracy had been abolished in Harris County.

Democrat wants to end military ban on gays.  A ranking California Democrat is leading the movement to repeal the policy banning homosexuals in the military, but a military advocacy organization is fighting vigorously to see that the ban stays in place.

Hillary's Gay TV Appearance:  Some liberal Democratic presidential candidates have been bad-mouthing the Fox News Channel, saying that it's too conservative, and have even refused to appear on it.  But they showed no hesitation in going on an openly homosexual cable channel called Logo to pander for gay votes.

Democratic Candidates Say They're OK With Second-Grade Teacher Reading Gay Prince Fairy Tale.  A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash — and a lawsuit — against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.  But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at their debate in New Hampshire that they'd support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum.

Why Liberals Make Atrocious Parents.  Tim Russert asked the three front-runners for the Democratic nomination as to their comfort level of teaching a homosexual story of two boys consummating their lust for each other to children in the second grade.  They all agreed they would support the teaching of such behavior, though they attempted to hem, haw, and confuse the issue mumbling about parents' involvement.

Man Arrested In Bank Robbery Set To Get Habitat For Humanity Home.  Saturday [9/29/2007], we were going to cover a story about a Tyler family getting a new home from Habitat For Humanity, but instead we discovered the father of that family is Derrick Hodges, 33.  Hodges was arrested Friday [9/28/2007] by Henderson Police for allegedly robbing a bank there back in November, and police say they believe he's involved in a string of bank robberies all over East Texas.  Habitat For Humanity says despite recent revelations, he's still set to get the house.

Somewhat related...
 'Habitat' Home Becomes Drug Haven.  Only Eyewitness News was on the scene when as Kissimmee police moved in to make a drug bust at a home built by Habitat for Humanity.  One of the women arrested at the home is an employee of the Osceola County school district.

Back to the 70's.  Democrats often get their hackles up whenever anyone questions their judgment on anything military.  Sensitive to the perception that they are reflexively dovish, even anti-military, Democrats have been cultivating a more moderate image. … Unfortunately, it appears that all these attempts to reshape the image of the Democrats are nothing more than window dressing.  The top brass of the Democratic Party are as anti-military as their reputation suggests, and are doing little to hide that fact.

Why liberals love adultery.  Liberals are always cheering for the wrong people.  Have you ever noticed?  In our war on islamo-facism they ask America to withdraw.  When Hugo Chavez smells sulfur at the United Nations, liberal democratic Senators "understand" him (i.e. Tom Harkin).  But no one is a liberal's hero the way an adulterer is.  You would think in a world shaped by modern liberal feminists that liberal media types and liberal politicians would be rushing to the aid of the poor wife and kids offering them welfare and state-funded counseling and beating the offending man to within an inch of his life.  But not so.

Who The Liberals Really Are:  John Kerry, 1971.  Bill and Hillary Clinton, 1992-2000.  Harry "the war is lost" Reid, 2007.  The New Republic, a few months ago.  Barack Obama, last week.  They are all cut from the same cloth, singing the same refrain.  And despite their self-serving and empty rhetoric to the contrary, it isn't about "supporting the troops."

The Pelosi/Conyers Team:  Help Terrorists And Illegal Aliens.  It didn't take long before the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. John Conyers started making noises on how they can further undermine efforts to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

Charlie Rangel Doesn't Understand Real Men.  When Charlie Rangel closed out the year by seconding John Kerry's sentiment that men end up in the military by default rather than choice, he exposed something that many have long suspected not only about Rangel and Kerry, but about the Democratic Party itself:  they don't understand the nature of men.

ACLU plans to investigate Rainbow Family treatment.  The U.S. Forest Service says a mob of about 400 members of the Rainbow Family, a group of hippie types and eccentrics who camp on public land every year, threw rocks and sticks at Forest Service officers who tried to arrest a member of the group.  Up to 60 federal and local law enforcers responded, Forest Service officials say, and fired "pepper balls" — similar to paint balls but containing a pepper solution — at the crowd to control it.

Official:  Feds should consider Rainbow Family ban.  The U.S. Forest Service should consider banning the Rainbow Family from Forest Service land after a confrontation last week led to the arrest of at least eight people, a top agency official said Monday [7/7/2008].  John Twiss, director of Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations in Washington, D.C., said he was among the officers who responded when Rainbow Family members threw sticks and rocks at federal officers.

George Soros Tries to Buy Congress.  Speaking at a Washington symposium on the continuing threat posed by illegal drugs to American society, Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation declared billionaire George Soros to be an "extremely evil person" who wants to legalize dangerous mind-altering drugs.  Fay said that Soros, an atheist who is a major funder of the Democratic Party and liberal-left causes, is "our common enemy" and that he is determined to subvert traditional values and undermine America's families.

The Return of the Radical Atheists:  After decades of ignoring the huge influence of religion in society, journalists and analysts are now discovering the "danger" of religious radicalism.  It has become trendy to decry the rise of fundamentalists of any sort and to Talibanize religious groups that affirm anything too categorically.

Boxer's Low Blow:  Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday [1/11/2007] in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go — attacking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman.  Boxer was wholly in character for her party….

Barbara Boxer calls Sarah Palin an extremist.  "She's anti-science," Boxer said.  "She says that global warming isn't in any way caused by human activities when the world's leading scientists say that it is.  She's opposed to stem cell research which will save millions of lives, she's against abortion even in the case of rape and incest and is against birth control."

The Editor says...
 Even with Ms. Boxer's deceitful description, Mrs. Palin sounds normal to me.

Boxer Says CO2 Leading Cause of Conflict Next 20 Years.  On Thursday[6/10/2010], Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) took to the floor of the Senate and claimed that carbon dioxide — that naturally occurring gas integral to life on this planet! — "will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm's way".

The Editor says...
 Get those bumper stickers ready:  "No blood for CO2!"


The Jimmy Carter Subsection

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DNC Delegates Out of Step with the Average Person.  Who are the people calling themselves delegates to the Democratic National Convention?  What are their beliefs?  A recent New York Times-CNN poll showed that most are far more liberal than most other Democrats — and way to the left of most Americans.

Conservative values versus liberal values:  Traditional values we learn from the Bible.  We can simply point to the Ten Commandments.  And liberal values?  The absolute here is that there are no absolutes.  Everything is relative, and the only absolute is to welcome and tolerate everything.

September 11:  Still Just A Game to Democrats.  For starters, a brief junior high civics lesson is in order.  Those who crafted the First Amendment never intended it as license for obscenity or to enable nude dancers to smear various substances on themselves at taxpayers' expense.  Nor was their purpose to secure the "rights" of child pornographers to ply their trade, as former Attorney General Janet Reno asserted.

One Party Where Rich People Aren't Welcome.  This is not a new strategy.  Democrats have always courted the votes of the poor and working classes.  As recently as the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry's running mate John Edwards spoke of "the two Americas," one rich, one poor.  Mr. Edwards may have wondered why this emotional appeal was not more successful.  The answer is simple.  Americans are ambitious.  We all harbor dreams of advancement.

Few see Democrats as friendly to religion.  Liberal or progressive Christians, who make up 34 percent of the population, are disunified on key issues, and only one out of four Americans considers the Democratic Party friendly to religion, a Pew poll shows.

Why it's not easy being a liberal.  It was inevitable that while most of the civilized people of the world, including millions of Iraqis, celebrated the death of Zarqawi, there was one significant group that pooh-poohed the happy occasion.  I refer to those notorious party-poopers, American liberals.

Life within the beltway; meet the clueless leaders.  The elite inside the beltway include the diplomatic corps, senators, congressman and congresswomen, political advisors, the lobbyists, and the media. … What happens inside the beltway is how the world operates, as far as they are concerned.  The rest of the country is merely "fly over" country that must be tolerated.

A Letter to My Closed-Minded Liberal Friends.  Forty long years ago, it was conceivable that yours was the party of progress, of innovation, ideas and open-mindedness. … Now, yours is the party of old ideas, outdated stories by incompetent news sources, revisionist views, regress and, as I learned as a teacher a few years back, intolerance and blackballing.

Free lunch, free hot fudge sundaes.  The Democrats, who hold the overwhelming majority of legislative seats, are a gaggle of far-left loonies who concoct politically correct legislation — for example, requiring that textbooks laud gay contributions to California history — while failing to enact reforms needed to balance the budget.  Rather than do their job to run state government, they want to butt into the business of how other people raise their kids.

Not your father's Democratic Party.  Ned Lamont's candidacy was fueled by the most extreme elements of the Democratic party.  Moveon.org, Daily Kos and other elements of the Web savvy liberal "netroots" made defeating Joe Lieberman their number one priority.  To them, Lieberman was an unacceptable cancer within a Democratic party they fancy themselves as owning.  Tolerance of a Democrat who was committed to finishing the job in Iraq was a non-starter.  Nor was it acceptable for Lieberman to be so unabashedly pro-American in his rhetoric about national security.

The mainstreaming of Taliban Democrats?  The narrow primary defeat of veteran senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary is more than a loss for one man.  It is a loss for his party and for the country.  It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing.

What are the Democrats doing?  It's easy to forget that both major American political parties are coalitions.  Democrats tend to attract left-leaning members of the chattering class, labor unionists, racial minorities and single women.  Republicans have in recent decades attracted conservative intellectuals, business interests, evangelicals, libertarians and married people.

Stroger Jr. aided black separatists.  Ald. Todd Stroger, the Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, and the 8th Ward organization he represents have given almost $8,000 to a group that believes blacks should not be taxed and should not be involved in interracial relationships, and which supports the creation of a separate state for blacks.

Thank God for Ann Coulter.  Liberalism is indeed a Godless religion — and, as Coulter demonstrates, the secular religion of the left is a religion bereft of moral fiber.  It's not that the atheism of the secular left makes Coulter unhappy.  It's that they lie about their religion.

In Vermont, efforts to impeach Bush fan emotions.  In one week, resolutions approved by five towns to impeach President George W. Bush are giving several sleepy Vermont communities a new, renegade image.  Not everyone is happy about it.

Trying to get back in the game.  Democrats have not always been the party of peace-at-any-price and never seeing a war or an idea for which they would fight.  Vietnam and President Lyndon Johnson changed the party's direction on foreign policy, radically jerking it leftward.

Goodbye, All That:  How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee.  A leftie has had enough with all the anti-war, anti-Bush rhetoric coming from the wacko left and is distancing himself from them.  It is interesting to hear a critique from a liberal on the wacko pacifists.

Hillary's Book Backfires:  The publicity so far for "Living History" indicates that she and her handlers may have badly misjudged public opinion.

Why Hillary Clinton Is a Weaker Candidate Than People Think:  Reason #8 — Baggage.  Hillary is carrying around as much baggage as any of the other five candidates combined, starting with her philandering husband.  In fact, there are so many controversies that have swirled around Bill and Hill than you can hardly list them all:  Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, Whitewater, selling the Lincoln bedroom, using the IRS against political enemies, selling pardons, taking the White House furniture, shady cattle futures deals, impeachment, firing the travel office staff to make room for cronies, it goes on and on and on.

Failing their own:  Only four of 43 members of the [Congressional Black Caucus] voted to ban partial-birth abortion in 2003, even though a majority of blacks favored such a ban.  Most African Americans favor school choice, but because the caucus is firmly ensconced in the teacher-union racket, it bars the schoolhouse door to black kids who want a better education via vouchers.  A majority of blacks oppose outright racial quotas, but don't tell that to the caucus.  Or that blacks are heavily opposed to gay marriage.

Who hates the other more – liberals or conservatives?.  During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched — a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?

Blood and Gore:  Today's Wall Street Journal features an antibusiness, anti-capitalism rant by former Vice President Al Gore and David Blood.  Both are cofounders of Generation Investment Management, an "eco-predatory accounting" firm.  Gore and his partner in crime call for companies to manage their "economic, social, environmental and ethical performance" because threats of "climate change, HIV/AIDS, water scarcity and poverty have reached a point where civil society is demanding a response from business and government."

The Secret to the Suicidal Liberal Mind.  The self-loathing of the white American liberal is as well-established and documented as Einstein's Special Relativity theorems.  A typical example is writer Susan Sontag's denouncement of the white race as "the cancer of human history."  A racist hatred of one's own race — auto-racism — has become a defining characteristic of the liberal mind.  Yet the source of such suicidal guilt remains a mystery.

The Democrats sign up with the anti-Semites.  It is important that support for Israel in the US Congress is bipartisan. … Regrettably, this bipartisan support appears to be slipping away.  A year ago, I wrote an article titled Why the left hates Israel, pointing out how the biggest threat to the Jewish state today comes from the political left.  But I noted then, that at least in Congress, where support for Israel might be a bit stronger among the GOP than among Democratic members, the fever swamps of anti-Israel hate had not yet reached into the Democratic side of the aisle, with the exception of a very few members such as Cynthia McKinney, Jim Moran, and Fritz Hollings.

The undemocratic party.  Many of the American left's chief policy aims over the past 40 years — including legalized abortion on demand, race-based admissions for state-run colleges, and driving God and prayer out of American public life — were advanced not at the ballot box or in legislatures, but by unelected federal judges who enacted the liberal agenda by fiat from the bench.  There was a simple reason for this:  The American people had too much good sense to give the liberal agenda majority nationwide support.

Pathology of the Left:  Liberals speak of unity, but they appeal to the worst in human nature by dividing Americans into dependent constituencies.  Just who are these liberal constituencies?  They support freedom of thought, unless your thoughts don't comport with theirs.  They feign tolerance while practicing intolerance.  They resist open discussion and debate of their views, yet seek to silence dissenters.  They insist that they care more about protecting habitat than those who hunt and fish.  They protest for nature conservation while advocating homosexuality.  They denounce capital punishment for the most heinous of criminals, while ardently supporting the killing of the most innocent among us — children prior to birth.  They hate private-gun ownership, but they wink and nod when it comes to WMD in the hands of tyrants.  They advocate for big government but want to restrain free enterprise.

Felon plan seen as political.  Gov. Tom Vilsack insists politics played no part in his plan to restore voting rights to all Iowa felons, a move nonetheless loaded with political ramifications.  By automatically restoring the vote to people who have served their time in prison and on parole or probation, Vilsack could subtly shift the political balance in a narrowly divided battleground state in favor of Democrats, the governor's party.

The felon vote:  In the wake of their election defeat, Democrats have promised to mend their ways by emphasizing moral values.  So, in their first major legislative initiative of the year, what are the party's two top senators offering?  A bill to guarantee that millions of convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers can vote.

[Ask yourself this question:  Why do people assume that felons would vote for Democrats?]

Lawmaker:  Give Felons Voting Rights.  An unlikely lawmaker is taking the lead to change Florida law to restore voting rights to convicted felons.  Orlando state Sen. Gary Siplin [Democrat], a convicted felon himself, has sponsored Senate Bill 466, which automatically restores voting rights a year after the felon's sentence is completed. … State Sen. Mandy Dawson, D-Fort Lauderdale, has sponsored identical legislation.

Sotomayor's Racialist Judicial Activism:  Felon "disenfranchisement" is the radical idea that those imprisoned for serious infractions of the law should not be voting for those who will make it.  This prudent practice has a history in the United States that predates the Constitution. ... Seeking to overturn several thousands of years of juridical precedent on the flimsiest of bases qualifies Sotomayor as a judicial activist par excellence, and conservatives ought not let the point go unmade because any action against this Latina will bring cries of racism.

Crazy thinking:  In my ceaseless efforts to discover how liberals think, I have a great advantage:  I live in Manhattan, where everybody is liberal, so opportunities for fieldwork are boundless.

"Save Our Boy Scouts" Bill Fails In Senate.  Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) issued a press release on November 20, [2004], discussing the failure of passage of the "Save Our Scouts" bill.  All Republicans supported passing it; while the Democrats opposed it.  The "Save Our Scouts" bill would have permitted federal support for the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts of America.  The legislation was designed to send a message to the ACLU that it should stop persecuting the Boy Scouts for its policies on atheists and homosexuals.

Candidate worked as prostitute.  A Dallas Democrat who is seeking election to the Texas House … acknowledged Thursday [2/16/2006] that he once worked as a prostitute.

Tennessee Democrat Distributes Flyer Belittling Special Olympics Kids.  "Tennessee State Representative Craig Fitzhugh should be ashamed of himself for allowing his campaign office to distribute a flyer belittling Special Olympics children," said Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Louis P. Sheldon. "This disgusting flyer is an insensitive attack against children with disabilities."

Democrats are out of step with American voters.  Plainly, gay marriage is not an issue that Americans support.  Despite the rhetoric that you hear from the homosexual Cosa Nostra, the lack of support for the gay marriage amendment has nothing to do with prejudice. ... It is about recognizing that marriage between man and woman is the bedrock of our society.  It is about the citizens of this country saying, en masse, that they are unwilling to deconstruct certain basic and essential norms in our culture and society.

State charitable program turned into ideological slush fund:  The [Texas] legislature, in 1993, envisioned checkoffs flowing to charities that help the poor and afflicted.  It turns out that these monies flow also to groups fighting for abortion rights and against nuclear power.  Such donations don't even necessarily meet another of the legislature's stipulations that the organization not "conduct litigation."  Many, if not most, of the activist groups tout litigation as one of their main purposes.

It's the culture, stupid.  While there were many important issues in Tuesday's historic election, the single most important one for the largest bloc of voters was not the economy, the Iraq War or the Terror War.  It was the cultural war. ... [The] message was loud and clear:  We don't want a Massachusetts liberal running our country.

A narrow escape.  Can you imagine what it would be like to have a Massachusetts liberal filling the federal courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, with liberal judges who would be turning more criminals loose for decades to come, as well as repeatedly over-ruling the voting public's right to govern themselves on such things as gay marriage?

United Socialist States of America:  What has happened in America that has turned off the majority of the electorate to Democrats?  Is it President Bush's leadership?  Is it the leadership of Republicans?  Partly.  But there is another aspect trimming support for Democrats.  It is because the mainstream of the party is too liberal and too socialist for a free people to tolerate.

Virtuous victory.  Democrats should realize the McGovern-Mondale-Dukakis-Kerry wing of the Democrat Party cannot win.  Will they finally wake up, or will they give into temptation and nominate Hillary Clinton in 2008?

Nancy Pelosi:  A San Francisco Liberal.  So long as Nancy Pelosi remains in the congressional minority, the rest of the country may escape the effects of San Francisco liberalism.  But if such people are ever in the majority, look out!

The Pelosi honeymoon begins.  Say what you will about [Nancy] Pelosi, but it is a matter of record that she's far left of the center of American politics; her rating from the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action is routinely a 100 percent.

Public Libraries, The Left, and the Corruption of Children.  At the Upper Arlington Public library, near Columbus, the public library is embroiled in controversy for having allowed two explicit homosexual publications to sit in the foyer.  The foyer serves as a gathering place for elementary school children before school.

 Excellent:   19 Reasons NOT to vote for a Democrat:  The Democratic Party has officially weighed in with a new party platform that delivers a healthy dose of pro-abortion, pro-homosexual propaganda.  The party that so often preaches tolerance apparently has no tolerance for the more than seventy percent of Americans who believe marriage ought to remain the union of one man and one woman, and neither do they have any tolerance for people who believe that abortion kills an innocent human life.  Key elements of the Democratic platform include endorsing radical anti-AIDS initiatives and other programs that encourage promiscuity, calling for the passage of "thought crimes" legislation, dropping the "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" policy in favor of full inclusion for open homosexuals in the military, and defeating the marriage protection amendment.  It appears that more and more the Democratic Party is running to the Left while Americans are leaning to the Right.

Is America lost or just liberals?  Many liberals are beside themselves.  Things were bearable when they could delude themselves into blaming their loss of power on a "stolen" election.  But with this decisive defeat, they're thinking, "It's not our America anymore."

Democrats Behave Like Sunni Insurgents.  I've been wondering why there is something familiar about the behavior of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and suddenly it dawned on me that we have our own similar insurgency right here at home — it is called the Democrat Party.  Think about it.  Both are operating under the same motivation — an unrequited lust for lost power.  And both will do just about anything to retrieve it.

Is California crazy?  The time is long overdue to get rid of the outdated notion that liberal Democrats represent ordinary people.  They represent such special interests as trial lawyers who keep our courts clogged with frivolous lawsuits, busybody environmentalists who think the government should force other people to live the way the greens want them to live, and of course the teachers' unions who think schools exist to provide their members with jobs.

Unmasking Global Warming:  The Case of Mikhail Gorbachev.  Environmentalism's socialist tendencies are already inherent in its starting premise, which is that this world is headed for destruction because of the way modern societies conduct their life and affairs. … The only way to avert the looming catastrophe, then, is to rein in the greedy businessmen and direct people's behavior in environmentally conducive ways.  This naturally can only be done by a government properly equipped for the great task at hand.

The NEA's Lobbying Agenda:  The NEA's lobbying goals for public schools include federal funding for public school child care, early childhood programs that are school-based, before- and after-school programs, big spending for school counselors, school-based health care for children, and of course increased federal spending for education.  The NEA's non-education-related lobbying goals include funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, a national universal health care system, reparations to African Americans, statehood for the District of Columbia, taxpayer funding of federal elections, and a national holiday for Cesar Chavez.

Aha!  Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?  Public school teachers in urban areas are far more likely than city residents in general to send their children to private schools, according to a new analysis of 2000 Census data by researchers led by Denis P. Doyle, who previously analyzed 1980 and 1990 Census data.  While just 12.2 percent of U.S. families send their children to private schools, that figure rises to 17.5 percent among urban families in general and to 21.5 percent among urban public school teachers, almost twice the national average.

Much more about the teachers' unions can be found here.

Masquerading Liberal John Edwards.  It's easy enough to find votes showing how the media's Edwards the "Southern moderate" sales pitch is total hooey.  Sen. Edwards voted against his Senate partner Jesse Helms when he suggested schools should be denied federal funds if they kicked the Boy Scouts of America out of meeting at a school since they wouldn't allow gay scoutmasters.  The gay lobby has a powerful hold on this Southerner.  Sen. Edwards voted in favor of federal funds for needle-exchange programs.  On abortion, try to find where Sen. Edwards feels there should be any limit to the abortion lobby's demands.  He's rated 100 percent by the NARAL crowd.

Why I cannot vote for John Kerry.  [Reason #5:] A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Michael Moore, the ACLU, Ted Kennedy, trial lawyers, George Soros, the leftist academics who morally confuse generations of young Americans, and for Dan Rather, CBS News, and nearly the entire news complex that daily presents a proctologist's view of America.  A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson, whom Kerry has named a top adviser; and for Al Sharpton, with whom Kerry campaigns; for Sean Penn and his Hollywood world; and for the passionately pro-Kerry MTV, the greatest destroyer of young people's minds and souls in American history.

Cash-and-Kerry:  Senator John F. Kerry has a long political career, distinguished by his willingness to go farther Left in politics and lower for money than most other American politicians would dream of going.

Kerry Wrong for Catholics.  He's wrong on the marriage penalty, the sanctity of marriage, the child tax credit, adoption tax credit, abortion, partial-birth abortion, taxpayer-funded abortions, parental consent, homeland security, international "family planning", litmus test for judicial nominees, human cloning, euthanasia, and school choice.

What a typical Kerry supporter might believe:  A non-exhaustive list.

"Kerry/Kennedy Care" — Prescription for Disaster.  Campaign rhetoric to the contrary, Kerry began the campaign with a voting record well to the left of mainstream.  According to the voting record summarized by Congressional Quarterly, Sen. Kerry voted in lockstep with Sen. Kennedy, the Senate's most liberal member, in each of 10 years between 1985 and 2001.  Over the course of his political career, Kerry has sided with Kennedy 94 percent of the time when key votes were taken on Kennedy's favorite cause:  a government-run national health care plan.

Mexico to honor Sen. Kennedy.  The Mexican government is honoring U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy for his defense of immigrant rights.

John Kerry's Treaty:  Outsourcing sovereignty.  John Kerry wants a world in which the United Nations calls the shots and U.S. freedom of action, in the absence of the U.N.'s permission, is sharply circumscribed.  Most Americans recognize that this would be a formula for disaster — a world in which the lowest-common-multilateral-denominator would routinely trump, and often jeopardize, our security interests.

Liberal veneration of Fidel Castro, Mao, Che Guevara and others

Why do America's left-wing politicians have such affinity for Fidel Castro?  Is he really such a great role model?  Is Cuba the great socialist utopia that liberal Democrats want the U.S. to be?

Welcome to "Fantasy Island" — ACLU Style.  Cuba remains the ACLU's "Fantasy Island," where — to hear them tell it — happy Marxist children play together in perfect harmony, and the state makes sure its citizens are cared for from cradle to grave.  At least that's the glorious depiction in a book titled Vamos a Cuba ("Let's Visit Cuba") that the ACLU wanted to keep on the bookshelves of a Florida school.  The book makes the communist state sound like a trip to DisneyWorld.  But as it did on the TV show Fantasy Island, illusion in Cuba quickly gives way to harsh reality.

Bill would drop travel restrictions to Cuba.  While most of the nation focused on the stimulus bill winding through Congress, nine representatives introduced a bill calling for an end to the 46-year-old ban on travel to Cuba.  The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 4 would allow American citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba for the first time since 1963.

Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold.  President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to Cuba in an effort to repair the US's tattered reputation in Latin America.  The White House has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards better ties with Havana, raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo.

Heads Roll in Havana, Baffling 'Cuba Experts'.  The very week Obama proposed cozying up to Castro by dropping some economic and travel sanctions, the biggest political shake-up in twenty years rattled Cuba's regime.  Last week Raul Castro purged almost twenty regime officials.  The most prominent among the purged were the youngest and most reform-minded (as these things are measured within a Stalinist regime), and they've all been replaced by diehard Stalinist septuagenarians with military and secret police backgrounds.

Congressional Black Caucus Smitten With Castro.  Not since Ann Margaret's reaction to Conrad Birdie's kiss has anything been recorded to match these U.S. legislators' reaction to these meetings.  "He looked directly into my eyes!" gasped Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) "and then he asked:  how can we help President Obama?  Fidel Castro really wants President Obama to succeed."  (no doubt!)  "It was quite a moment to behold!" hyperventilated Rep. Barbara Lee. (D-CA)  "Fidel Castro was very engaging and very energetic."  "He's one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met!" gushed Emanuel Cleaver(D-Mo)

Urge the White House To Not Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba.  The Castro regime is one of the most brutal, ruthless and amoral regimes of our time.  While little mention of it is offered by the world media, due to their soft spot for murderers and thugs everywhere, the cruelty it embodies is no less true.  After all, the only time the media sees fit to heap scorn on anyone is when conservatives enact policies that defend innocents against terror or brutality.

Castro happy with US lawmakers.  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro described a meeting with US lawmakers in an opinion article on Wednesday as "magnificent", and urged Washington to take the initiative to improve ties with Havana.  The communist island's long-time leader said the ball was now in President Barack Obama's court after a meeting with three US lawmakers with the Congressional Black Caucus late on Tuesday [4/7/2009].

Useful Idiots Caucus.  "This is the dawning of a new day," exclaimed Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.  "In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor."  Funny how easy it is to survive when you don't hold elections.  And when all of your opponents wind up in prison or dead.  And when even those who dare to whisper a word of dissent to your absolute rule find themselves harassed, beaten, humiliated, and imprisoned.  According to the Black Book of Communism, more than 100,000 Cubans have served time for political offenses in Cuba's equivalent of the Gulag Archipelago since Castro came to power in 1959.

Lee's Cuban dream.  Fresh from a secretive trip to Havana to meet Raul and Fidel Castro, Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, has criticized U.S. Cuba policy as "based on antiquated Cold War-era thinking."  If anyone's thinking toward the communist state is stuck in the Cold War past, it is Ms. Lee's — and she is still on the wrong side.

Truth About Castro:  The Lost City not only is a loving tribute to Havana and Cuban art and music, it is also a loving tribute to liberty, democracy and capitalism.  Castro's regime is clearly portrayed as an evil dictatorship.

Fidel Castro's Dupes:  In Castro's Cuba, it is a crime to meet to discuss the economy, to write letters to the government, to report on political developments, to speak to international reporters, to advocate human rights, to visit friends or relatives outside your local area of residence without government permission.

Carter Silent On Castro's Crackdown:  Jimmy Carter is the self-appointed globetrotter on behalf of human rights.  But when Carter friend Fidel Castro unleashed a brutal wave of repression recently, that included extradjudicial executions, Carter's reaction was silence, followed by muted criticism, and finalized with a stinging criticism of — the United States!

Veneration of evil.  [Che Guevara] continues to be a symbol of freedom and revolutionary fervour and purity for people who can't read or think.  Che was Fidel Castro's right-hand man.  Despite the fact leftie morons from Pierre Trudeau to Michael Moore venerate the Cuban totalitarian state, it is just a prison masquerading as a nation. … Che was put in charge of turning Cuba into a modern industrial nation.  He failed miserably, thus consigning Cuba to a future as a colony of the Soviet Union, exchanging sugar for fighter planes.

The Fantasies of Castro/Che Groupies vs. the Facts.  Facts matters little to diehard, teen-beat type Castro/Che fans.  Many "document" their rebuttals to my blasphemies with scenes from Godfather II, that famous documentary on pre-Castro Cuba. ... To depict Havana streets on New Year's Eve 1958, Coppola cast more people than stampeded through a battle scene in Braveheart.  For what it's worth, Havana streets were deathly quiet that night.

Who was Chairman Mao, Lionized by Obama's White house?  It's easy to briefly describe Mao Zedong.  He was a radical progressive who fought for a Marxist revolution in his native China, prevailing to lead the country for 27 tumultuous years.  Despite boasting he fought "for the People," Mao's Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and other progressive policies resulted in the killing of 77 million people, according to genocide expert Professor J.R. Rummel.

Socialism is Great!  (And Other Chinese Fables):  Anita Dunn, then President Obama's director of communications, last fall held up Mao as an example of individualism.  In reality, under Mao's regime, the communist government was so intent on wiping out individuality that it even demanded ideological allegiance from those it had branded enemies of the state — as it was killing them.

The spirit of Mao Zedong.  Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century?  No, it wasn't Hitler or Stalin.  It was Mao Zedong.  According to the authoritative "Black Book of Communism,"an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao's repeated, merciless attempts to create a new "socialist" China.  Anyone who got in his way was done away with — by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.

Environmentalism Refuted:  [Scroll down]  Because of ignorance of the contributions of [Ludwig] von Mises, one cannot expect very many people to know that Nazism was actually a major form of socialism and thus that the fifteen million or more murders for which it was responsible should be laid at the door of socialism.  Nazism and all of its murders aside, Marxian "scientific" socialism was responsible for more than eighty million murders in the twentieth century:  thirty million in the former Soviet Union, fifty million in Communist China, and untold millions more in the satellite countries.

Warning:  This article includes graphic descriptions of torture.
 Thank You, Glenn Beck, for Exposing Communism's Evils.  Both of my grandfathers were exterminated by Stalinist terror.  Both of my parents, Yuri and Marina Glazov, were dissidents in the former Soviet Union.  They risked their lives for freedom; they stood up against Soviet totalitarianism.  They barely escaped the gulag, a fortune many of our friends and relatives did not share.  I come from a system where a myriad of the closest people to my family simply disappeared, where relatives and family friends died under interrogation and torture for their beliefs — or for simply nothing at all.

Joseph Stalin:  Memoirs of a Leftist Madman.  Marxist dictators are suddenly back in vogue as role models, according to the White House, and Joseph Stalin of Russia is an exemplar of the species.  Uncle Joe helped preside over the first large-scale communist state after his role model, master revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, predeceased him.  Stalin goes down as not merely one of history's great murders, but also an exceedingly strange and diabolically paranoid tyrant.

Communist Cuba:  50 Years Of Failure.  New Year's Day marks 50 years of communist rule in Cuba.  The Castro oligarchy will trumpet its survival and celebrate.  But the reality, up close, is that it's the longest-running failure in the New World.

Filmmaker Brings Back Shocking Tale of Cuban Prisons.  Some are held captive in tiny, windowless cells; others are confined in over-crowded and squalid dormitories.  Most go without basic health care and food staples; a few undergo regular beatings.  All are denied basic religious freedoms, and none has been visited by members of the International Red Cross.  Such is life for "enemies of the state" imprisoned in Cuba.

Fidel Castro's Cuba:  celebrating 50 years of progress, equality, poverty and murder.  Fidel Castro likes to boast of his country's 70,000 doctors, but admits "tens of thousands" of them have been sent abroad.  The last pre-Castro census (1953) recorded one doctor for every 1,000 Cubans; today, outside the regime's showcase clinics for the nomenklatura and foreigners, patients have to bring their own bedding, thread for sutures and even light-bulbs into the country's vermin-infested hospitals.

Time for Congressional Black Caucus to Disband?.  Last week, seven members of the Congressional Black Caucus ... returned from a visit to Cuba where they met with the dictators of Cuba, Fidel and Raul Castro.  They were quite impressed with Fidel Castro, the longest reigning dictator in the world, the man who deprived an entire generation of Cubans of the most fundamental human rights.

Now Open Cuba's Prisons.  President Obama's decision this week to ease some parts of the embargo against Cuba is being hailed as a first step toward altering a U.S. policy that has prevailed for a half-century without unseating Fidel Castro.  We don't object, though it'd be nice if Mr. Obama also began speaking up against the Castro dictatorship.

Obama and Cuba:  President Barack Obama wants Havana to make the next move to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, saying Thursday that he needs to see signs of changes on the island before he makes any more overtures.  President Raul Castro responded hours later that his government is willing to discuss any issue with Washington, as along as it's a conversation between equals and Washington respects "the Cuban people's right to self-determination."

A question for Democrats.  [Scroll down]  At a press conference on April 7, Illinois Representative Bobby Rush extolled Raul Castro —a man with the blood of hundreds on his hands —for his "sense of humor" and the way he "laughed at himself" and how "down-to-earth" and "kind" he was.  Why, said Rush, being with Castro "was almost like visiting an old friend."  When a reporter asked about Cuba's human rights record, Rush snapped that he was engaging in a "double standard" and called it "good business sense" not to let human rights get in the way of increased trade.

Comrade Barbara.  The Congressional Black Caucus's recent trip to Cuba was utterly expected.  That didn't make it any easier to stomach, especially when Rep. Barbara Lee (D., People's Republic of Berkeley) described her meeting with mass-murderer Fidel Castro as "quite a moment to behold."  What exactly is wrong with her?

Will someone save the Congressional Black Caucus?  Now there's nothing wrong with visiting Cuba and nothing sacrosanct about America's economic embargo.  But you can rationally question U.S. Cuba policy without cozying up to Castro.  The CBC did the latter — failing to meet with a single dissident on an island with a record of making dissidents disappear and handing El Jefe his best press in years.

Arlen Specter, Castro's Dupe.  Sen. Arlen Specter has visited Cuba and met with Fidel Castro three times in the past 9 years, and seems quite proud of the record.  His second visit was shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attack, where Specter made a big show of presenting Fidel Castro with a FDNY cap.  The Stalinist dictator and pioneering terrorist responsible for the Hemisphere's first plane hijackings in 1958, who two months later kidnapped 40 U.S. citizens from Guantanamo to use as human shields, and who twice came a hair from incinerating New York City itself, smilingly donned the New York Fire Dept. cap.

Castro's Cult of Sycophants:  Celebrities, journalists, and other illuminati have long gushed with admiration for Cuba's communist despot.

Green madness, &c.  [Scroll down]  Cellphones and laptops were illegal [in Cuba] until 2008.  And even today, two years later, very few people have them:  The cost of those items is out of reach.  An American tried to alleviate this situation.  He is Alan P. Gross, and he is now in a Cuban prison.  Gross works for a subcontractor of the U.S. Agency for International Development.  He went to Cuba to distribute cellphones and laptops to civil-society groups and to individuals.  On December 4, he was at the airport, about to leave the country.  And the regime arrested him as a spy.

Obama eases travel, money transfers for Cuban-Americans.  Obama's wide-ranging order wipes out the restriction that limited Cuban Americans to one trip every three years to the island.  They can fly down as often as they want.  Also under the new policy, Cuban Americans can send unlimited amounts of money to relatives in Cuba.  The Bush policy limited these remittances to $1,200 a year.

Going to Cuba is okay but...
 Obama Calls for Limits on Tourism to Antarctica.  The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.


The news media love Fidel Castro

...and by "the news media" I mean CNN, primarily.

CNN:  'Be nice to Fidel'.  So how does an American news giant tell its on air talent to handle Fidel Castro's resignation?  By glossing over the truth of the tyrant's reign and pimping "social progress" under his brutal regime:  In a memo to CNN anchors, CNN brass laid down the line that should be taken when talking about the resignation.

The U.S. Media's Decades of Cheering Castro's Communism:  Castro's communist regime has executed hundreds of political opponents and driven tens of thousands more into exile; hundreds of dissidents today languish in Cuban prisons. ... Yet liberals in the U.S. media — who have rightly condemned such abuses when perpetrated by dictators such as Chile's Augusto Pinochet — inexplicably remain enchanted with Castro and his socialist revolution.  For more than half a century, positive profiles of Castro have appeared in U.S. papers.

CBS Comes to Castro's Aid.  CBS's 60 Minutes has run a segment on Elian Gonzalez, five years after the Clinton administration sent him back to the communist prison island.  He had come to America as a refugee, without his father, who was back in Cuba and under pressure from the communist regime to demand him back.  The Clinton administration complied, seizing the little boy at the point of a gun.  It made a mockery of America's reputation as a free society open to refugees fleeing persecution.

The Castro News Network:  To many Cuban Americans, CNN is the "Castro News Network" - an organization that lends legitimacy to a corrupt regime and sneers at the exile community in Miami.

Fidel, The Dictator-Celebrity:  Journalism is never more amoral than when dictators are the mandatory "get" for a news puff piece.  For the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the network anchors were all scrambling to get an interview with Fidel Castro, the dictator-celebrity.  Which network superstar would get the first opportunity to reward the communists for their exclusive by lauding the achievements of the glorious revolution?

CNN Runs "Propaganda" for Castro:  Cable News Network, the only American television news organization with a full-time bureau in Cuba, has "allowed itself to become just another component of Fidel Castro's propaganda machine," instead of "exposing the totalitarian regime that runs Cuba," Media Research Center charged in a report released Thursday [5/9/2002].

Journalism's Worst Enemy in the World.  Castro's fiefdom wins the price "for most journalists jailed (by far!) per-capita on earth.  In fact, in total numbers jailed, Cuba (a nation of 11 million subjects) is only slightly behind China (a nation of 1.4 BILLION!)  According to the Paris-based (not Miami — please note!) Reporters Without Borders, Cuba today holds 20 percent of the world's jailed journalists.  Imagine Castroite repression with China's population!  Cuban "Law 88," passed in February 1999, cranked up the repression several notches, mandating up to 20 years in prison for "providing information that could be useful to U.S. policy."

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