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.
The Jimmy Carter subsection has moved to a page of its own,
located here.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
The Jimmy Carter Subsection
This rather large subsection is now on a page of its own,
located here.
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.
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