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.

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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.

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 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.

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]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

With success in Iraq, Democrats must find new outlet for anger.  The once-noisy opposition has been reduced to whimpering today.  Why?  That's easy.  They all misjudged where so many Americans are on the Iraq war.  Most Americans are not opposed to Iraq as a matter of values, but as a matter of execution.  The surge of troops that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. John McCain and others called for three years ago finally happened about seven months ago, and real progress is now being made.

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?

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.



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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?]

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.


The Keith Ellison Section

Now that there is a Muslim on his way to Congress, the great feminist leaders should be up in arms, considering the way Muslims worldwide tend to treat women.  But the feminists are all silent, because the Muslim is a Democrat.  If you have any doubts about the way women are treated in predominately Islamic countries, spend some time exploring this page.



Democrat Poised to Become First Muslim in Congress.  Keith Ellison, the Democratic candidate for Congress here, strode among the stalls of exotically printed fabric, telephone cards and sweet tea at a Somali mall, shaking hands with his fellow Muslims.

Keith Ellison's Friends, Our Enemies.  Today [1/4/2007], Keith Ellison will be sworn in as United States Congressman from Minnesota's 5th District, a prestigious title indeed.  But prior to him getting to this position, he has carried much radical Islamist baggage — the kind of baggage that could make him (or anyone else) unworthy of such a title.  Considering his actions with America's live-in enemies, whilst running for office and even after being elected, we can most probably expect these dangerous associations of Ellison to continue well into his term.

Keith Ellison's Dangerous Liaisons:  Anti-Semitism and Keith Ellison seem to gravitate toward one another.  It was the case throughout the 90's, when he was heavily active in the Nation of Islam (NOI), and it was the case just last weekend, when he gave the keynote address at the 4th Annual Convention of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.  It's a disturbing pattern from someone that purports to be a man of peace and, more importantly, someone sitting in the position of United States Congressman.

Keith Ellison:  Lying to the Infidels?  Minnesota Democratic Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (aka Keith Hakim or Keith Ellison Muhammad) is the first Muslim elected to Congress.  His promise to take the oath of office on January 4 with his hand on the Koran rather than the Bible has sparked much controversy. … The Koran … teaches that it's OK to lie to infidels if it furthers the cause of Islam, that nation states have no legitimacy, that the only legitimate nation is the nation of Islam, which has no territorial boundaries; and those who do not submit to the will of Allah should be condemned to a life of dhimmitude (second class citizenry).

Learning About Islam With Imam Ellison.  The concept of tolerance that permits the election of a Muslim in an overwhelmingly Christian country is not based on the Koran, but the book Muslims believe it supersedes.  While Ellison is teaching us benighted Islamaphobes about justice and tolerance, perhaps he could save a few lessons for his co-religionists in the Muslim world (like the headhunters of Indonesia) — where such concepts are non-existent.

Keith Ellison's crowd:  Allahu Akhbar.  Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) gave a speech yesterday [12/24/2006] to a crowd in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Muslim community. … I anxiously await the response of the New York Times, the ACLU, and other decriers of any hint of God talk on the part of politicians — at least when the God in question is mentioned in a Judeo-Christian context.  Will we hear talk of a nascent "theocracy" from them?  Somehow, I doubt it.

The people who seem to be so afraid of a Christian theocracy are the same people who don't want to hurt the feelings of the Muslims who really do want to establish a theocracy in this country.  More about the theocracy paranoia can be found here.

Muslim Ellison should not sit in Congress.  Last month Keith (Hakim Mohammad) Ellison of Minnesota became the first Muslim elected to serve in the United States Congress and shocked many Americans by declaring that he would take his oath of office by placing his hand on the Quran rather than the Bible.  Can a true believer in the Islamic doctrine found in the Quran swear allegiance to our Constitution?  Those who profess a sincere belief in Allah say "no!"

Keith Ellison's Mysterious CAIR Meeting.  At the beginning of this month, I received an e-mail about a lecture that was taking place on October 14th at the Southwest Focal Point Senior Center, located in Pembroke Pines, Florida.  The event was being sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Keynote Speaker was listed as Keith Ellison, a candidate for United States Congress from Minnesota and a man that has raised thousands of dollars through CAIR.

Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman.  At this particular time in history, it is a matter of note that Congress is about to receive its first Muslim member. ... [Keith] Ellison's Muslim faith has generated no controversy in the campaign.  On the contrary, it has served to insulate aspects of his public record from close scrutiny in a city whose dominant news organ, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is a paragon of political correctness.  With the exception of columnist Katherine Kersten, the Star Tribune has scrupulously avoided examining Ellison's long train of troubling associations, foremost among them his ties to the Nation of Islam.

CAIR, Hamas and the House Candidate.  Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison is shaping up to be the first-ever Muslim member of Congress, and the mainstream media is treating his candidacy as an unalloyed triumph of multiculturalism.

Bush like Hitler, says the first Muslim in Congress.  America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.  Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933.

[Why did the atheists want to hear a speech given by a Muslim?]

Keith Ellison and the "Reichstag".  As someone who has sworn to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," Ellison has more to answer for than just hysterical anti-Bush rhetoric.  Ellison has taken money from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group that has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case involving funding of the terrorist group Hamas.  The mainstream media has been silent on this; would treat the specter of a congressman taking money from the Ku Klux Klan with similar indifference?

The most influential US liberals:  #54 — Keith Ellison.  Became the first Muslim elected to Congress last year and the first black congressman from the northern state of Minnesota.  Reliably on the Left of his party.  A convert to Islam, he was formerly closely linked to radical Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan but has played down the importance of his faith.

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