I say let’s review the 1st Amendment. As a national institution and the most important medium in human life, the media has an obligation to report, not promote. To inform not indoctrinate. Republicans should avoid the media at all cost and stick to engaging the American public directly. The year’s coverage is a complete sham and disgrace to journalism.
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In February, the Iranian government showed a fictionalized video on the dangers of foreign plots against the state. One of its stars: a mysterious American named Gene Sharp.
In June 2007, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly accused Mr. Sharp of stirring unrest in Venezuela. Last year in Vietnam, authorities arrested several opposition activists who were distributing a book written by Mr. Sharp. In 2005, fires destroyed two Moscow bookstores selling Russian translations of the same book.
The target of all this intrigue and animosity is 80 years old and slightly stooped. He walks with a cane.
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"If Mr Obama should be in any doubt how gravely the Alaska governor’s vice-presidential nomination has imperiled his White House ambitions, then a day spent in Macomb County will make this clear: white women who voted for John Kerry in 2004 are suddenly deserting him on masse."
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The invisible Constitution undergirds and pervades what most people understand the Constitution to be. When you look at the visible Constitution at the National Archives and draw the logical and linguistic inferences it supports, it doesn't tell you very much about what matters in constitutional law.~ Laurence Tribe, Harvard's Carl M. Loeb professor of Constitutional Law
Words mean things.
~ Rush Limbaugh, conservative intellectual
Harvard professor of constitutional law Lawrence Tribe has just released his latest book, "The Invisible Constitution" (Oxford Press, 2008). In this interesting but bizarre work, professor Tribe proposes the thesis that lines between the actual black-letter text, what Tribe calls "the invisible constitution," is the actual Constitution.
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NOTHING in recent memory has driven home the divide between our self-appointed aristocracy and "commoners" as sharply as the intelligentsia's rush to mock Gov. Sarah Palin's religious faith. While the attacks and insults are backfiring on the mortified elites, the double standard applied to "Sarah America" is a disgrace that can't be excused...
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Yesterday, as our nation was reminded of the vicious terrorist acts resulting in the tragic destruction of many innocent human lives seven short years ago, I had to reflect on the import of this particular day in the life of our nation. For here we were, seven years later, still remembering those who died at the hands of vile human beings, praying for their surviving family members and carrying on with America's "war on terror."
As I listened to some of the remembrances, it occurred to me that most people in our nation really do not comprehend the full meaning of “terrorism,” nor do they examine it in a broader context. That is why I decided to write this commentary. I hope that it will contribute to a deeper understanding of what it means to honestly wage a war on terror.
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In the latest USA Today/Gallup survey, the Democrats now lead the Republicans by just 3 percent, 48% to 45%, in generic preferences for Congress. This is down from double-digit Democratic leads seen on this measure over the past year. I bet the liberals will point to fake polling again, rather than face the truth that Obama is turning off voters.
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Of what are they so afraid? In 1980, Ed Koch took Manhattan, Manhattanites guns, and added insult to injury saying, "You're not a nice guy if you have a gun. Even if you are a nice guy." How very glib of him. Vapid, too. Ask Ed today. He'll tell you. Governor Palin 'frightens him'. A Tampa, Florida 'psychotherapist' today stated in our local pinksheet that Alaska's Governor 'terrifies her'. Et tu, Ben Stein? Yeah, Ben Stein. Sara Palin 'scares me', whines Ben. From that silly point, the elite media's discussion of Governor Palin devolves rapidly from feigned fear to spitting nervous collapse. Isn't that a beautiful sight to behold?
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The MsM was all "a-twitter" a few days ago about some poll, or other, in Europe, which demonstrated that Europeans wanted Obama to be the next President of the US. The results of the poll were reported all over the planet in a sort of surreal challenge to the "Fates in Charge of Elections" to make Obama the next US President because… the Europeans wish it to be so. Problem is… the folks in the US heard about that poll and they/we bristled.
As the "drive-by-media" continues to look at every aspect of Sarah Palin's personal and religious life, they are digging themselves into a big hole, turning what they believe will cause her harm, to work for her good. If you take nothing else from this, remember this quote: Bitter Pennsylvanians "cling to their guns and religion." — Barack Obama
Reporters for CNN and other networks are not prepared to write honestly or objectively about matters of faith. These are people who view life from a much different perspective. They are not so naive to overlook that Christians from all denominations are offended by such things as CNN's hit piece about Gov. Palin's faith.
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As many of you know, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) turned on yesterday in Geneva. So maybe I should say a little about it, since this is the kind of physics I do for a living. The LHC is a very big deal for physics. It is likely to make the first major breakthrough in particle physics in over thirty years.
Since the LHC hasn’t discovered anything yet, how can we know it will? Well, we can’t know, of course. But there are strong reasons to expect it will see something important.
Some people say that the LHC will discover something called the Higgs particle. It almost surely will, but if that is all it discovers, it will be a huge disappointment and in fact a disaster for physics. It is (almost) certain that the Higgs particle is there. That in itself is no big deal. The big deal has to do with a deep puzzle connected to the Higgs, which I will now attempt to explain in a non-technical way.
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THE SOCIALIST FORUM WAS HELD TONIGHT...
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama came together Thursday night for half-hour appearances at a TIME-sponsored forum on national service at Columbia University in New York- CNN.
McCain praised the Peacecorps and AmeriCorps, saying they and similar organizations don't receive "sufficient recognition" from Washington. But McCain was careful to say government should limit its involvement in largely private volunteer organizations- CNN.
...Good for John McCain
CODE PINK LEADERS ADMITTED THEY STOLE ID TAGS FROM C-SPAN AND CHRISTIAN RADIO TO GET INTO THE DNC AND RNC CONVENTIONS!
On Wednesday, September 3, 2008, as Governor Sarah Palin took the stage in Minneapolis, the two co-founders of Code Pink, a Marxist anti-American antiwar group, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans rushed the stage to interrupt her speech.
Jodie Evans is one of the top Obama Bundlers and has raised nearly $100,000 for her candidate. She last met with Obama in June.
Sarah Palin presented herself for “vetting” to ABC’s overweening, self-important Charles Gibson on September 11 and came off very well. As expected, she had to field unfair, trap questions, and she did it. Now, let us be sure of one thing: no matter how well Sarah Palin does, a majority of the talking heads at the mainstream media will pronounce her “unfit.” They had already decided that. This is simply a gauntlet she must run, and with characteristic courage, she is running it.
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During an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2009, Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections." Senator Obama then made a minor gaffe (at ~ 2 minutes 50 seconds, here), in his half-hearted exculpation of Senator McCain: "John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith." Stephanopoulos, who earlier defended McCain against Obama's general anti-Republican allegations, then corrected Obama's misstatement with instantaneous, politically-correct alacrity, reminding the Democratic Presidential nominee, "...[you meant] your Christian faith." And certainly the full context of the discussion makes clear Obama was not in any way acknowledging some personal embrace of Islam, when he responded, "What I meant to say, he [McCain] hasn't suggested that I am Muslim."
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That was the headline from the pathetic pawns over at ABC. This teaser line takes what Sarah Palin says totally out of context and the left wing blogs are saying this is a hard line stance on foreign policy. But here is the reality of what the interview question and answer was:
"GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia? "
"PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings. And he still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner, the apparently intense interest in other people, that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement.
Mitch Albom is a prolific novelist, playwright, radio host and a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press. He is also an internationally renowned author of several New York Times best-sellers, including: "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "Five People you Meet in Heaven." Despite his coveted accolades as a writer, intellectually speaking Albom is a typical example of the hack journalism that dominates Detroit, particularly in its coverage of the rise and fall of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
In a recent edition of her e-newsletter update, Julie Grimstad, executive director of Life is Worth Living, Inc., a pro-life lay apostolate, discusses a recent medical journal article that was originally brought to our attention by LifeSiteNews.com. My opinion is that Grimstad's analysis is so important for those of us battling against the culture of death that I want to quote it to you here:
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Baylor University Professor Bob Marks, whose research could be the foundation for a major challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution, is at odds with his historically Christian employer, which ordered that his work be taken off the Internet.
Maybe it's because for so many years the logical alternative to evolution, which is grounded on principles such as random selection and survival of the fittest, has been disregarded and ridiculed by the scientific community. And intelligent design, as it is called, presumes the existence of an outside intelligence influencing life, according to a critic of the university.
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Farmer’s Almanac predicts decades-long cooling trend
Chilling News: “Sunspots May Vanish by 2015″
OH MY GOD! Holy shit-nuts Batman? It’s GLOBAL COOLING? Are we going to die from the heat or freeze to death?
Seriously?!? Could one of you greeny global warmongering hoaxsters please tell me when the last time was that the Farmer’s Almanac was wrong? Really, they’ve been correct every year since they started publishing back in 1792!!! We have 31,000+ freakin’ scientists AND the farmer’s almanac debunking this bullshit global warmongering stuff…when are we going to quit hearing about your bogus socialist wealth-redistribution scheme?
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Contrary to the perception of liberal pundits in the mainstream media, defending American sovereignty is not a expression of racist hatred. In fact, it (defending America) is essential if this republic is to survive.
Acting in the best interests of America means, among other things, preventing further invasions from third world illegal aliens. It also means deporting those already here.
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In Remembrance of 9/11 let us take a moment of silence for all of those who have sacrificed their lives at home and on the battlefront for America. Seven years ago America was changed forever. On this day America must remember that only when we are United, will we be able to Stand!
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Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering.
Forty years after enlightened baby boomers and academics decried conformity and told the world to ignore “the establishment,” to not kowtow to “the man,” to “rap about problems to find solutions,” and to “not guilt-trip or judge other people’s life choices,” those same sorts — the now firmly ensconced “establishment” pretending otherwise — are wondering why they can’t get people to fall in line and do as they’re told to do and think as they’re told to think with respect to the environment and the “crisis” of “climate change,” the “crisis” which used to be called “global warming” until the news got out that the earth has been cooling for the last ten years and the arctic ice is refusing to melt.
Eight days after terrorism declared war on America, a young state senator blamed it on "a failure of empathy" — yet another reason why Barack Obama should never be commander in chief.
The July 20 issue of the New Yorker magazine got a lot of attention for its cover, which carried a "satirical" cartoon depicting Michelle and Barack Obama that Obama supporters found tasteless and offensive. Buried inside that issue's feature story, however, was a reaction by Obama to 9/11 that all voters should find even more tasteless and offensive.
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This election may well be the most important for the future of our American Republic. We say that in every presidential election year, and it may be seen as boring and nothing more than an attempt to whip up support for the candidate of one's choice. But the fact is that the world has become an increasingly small and hostile place with new potential and actual weapons of mass destruction being manufactured at an alarming pace, deployed and placed in the hands of many nations -- some of which have truly despicable people at their helm who would like nothing better than to bring war upon us.
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We forget algebra, the first line of the Gettysburg Address, and how to properly construct a sentence, but there’s one lesson everyone remembers from high school: the popularity game is an equal-opportunity promise of disaster. It’s worse than a high-stakes gamble, because even the few who win end up paying too high a price. All players emerge permanently crippled, usually separated from their principles and their identity.
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A new report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) looks at Hezbollah’s annual summer camps for Shiite teenagers and children in southern Lebanon.
The kids—tens of thousands strong—come from Hezbollah’s Imam al-Mahdi Scouts movement and other youth groups. An earlier ITIC report noted that the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts received a permit from the Lebanese Education Ministry back in 1992; yet calendars distributed by the organization that were captured by the Israeli army in the summer 2006 war gave short shrift to Lebanese identity.
Sphere: Related ContentThe 2008 presidential politics are entering the final lap of this very long marathon. It seems like some candidates started almost immediately after President Bush was re-elected in 2004. The party conventions are now behind us, and the four debates are on the horizon. Senator John McCain's choice of Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate has brought out the worst in the media, the Democrats, and the liberals.
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Columnist Marc H. Rudov calls them the “fascist feminists.” These are the feminists in the media and elsewhere who detest Sarah Palin because of her role as a successful wife and mother and defender of the unborn. Palin’s decision to have a Down syndrome child, when 90 percent of these children are being aborted in the womb, has proven in dramatic terms not only that there are articulate pro-life women in America but that there are women who will take a leadership role on “culture of life” issues of concern to millions. And this one could be vice president of the United States.
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While running in the Democratic primaries Obama pointed to one of his very, very few legislative endeavors and — in his post partisan, post-racial mode — posed as someone who championed it:
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If you graduated from college in the late 1960s to 1970s, you will remember that many of your fellow grads quickly learned that their four years of college had little value in the job market unless they’d gotten their degrees in science or engineering. Thanks to the record numbers of new college grads looking for their first jobs as a result of the post World War II Baby Boom, Bachelors degrees in history, English, foreign languages or other arts subjects were as common as dirt and just about that helpful.
Many a baby boomer with a Bachelor of Arts found himself working as a waiter or shoe salesman with no prospect of utilizing his college education anytime soon.
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Remarks by Sen. Barack Obama yesterday leading up to his controversial "lipstick on a pig" jab at the McCain campaign mirror almost word-for-word a political cartoon published last week in the Washington Post.
Much has been made of Obama criticizing McCain's idea of "change" by stating, "You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." Taking it as an attack McCain's vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, the campaign responded with a video on the Internet today.
But less attention has been paid to Obama's statements just preceding the lipstick reference, which appear to be an un-attributed copy of the caption in a Washington Post political cartoon by Tom Toles Sept. 5.
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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ during a speech Wednesday on the House floor, and implicitly compared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate.
"The parties have differences, but if you want change, you want the Democratic Party," Cohen said. "Obama was a community organizer, like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor."
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After reading Vice President Dick Cheney's spirited defense on September 4 of the brave Georgian nation and the need to free Ukraine against nefarious Russian intentions, I listened to old comedy clips on YouTube until I felt well enough to write. We don't appreciate people until they are gone, and iconic American stand-up comedian, actor and author George Carlin's death in June was an irreparable loss for American foreign policy. If only Carlin were still alive - or even maybe Sam Kinison (another US stand-up comedian and actor) - none of these terrible things would be happening.
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Britain isn't America, and journalists can't ask jurors what went through their minds in the jury room. This restriction is a pity, because the cries of despair coming from the Met and MI5 suggest that they would really like to know.
The authorities are astonished that although three men were convicted of conspiracy to murder in the plane bomb plot trial, no defendant was convicted of targeting the aircraft.
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There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam.
The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil.
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Russell Brand was last seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, possibly the worst movie ever made. Not content to merely grace us with cinematic vomit, Mr. Brand returned recently to host the MTV Video Music Awards.
You know about some of this, in all likelihood. You probably saw the video clips, on TV or on YouTube, of the esteemed Mr. Brand making fun of a certain 17-year-old girl from Alaska while begging the United States, “as a representative of the global community,” to elect a certain Illinois senator to something or other.
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The suit alleges Dunham traveled to Kenya during her pregnancy at age 18 and was prevented from boarding an airline flight back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy.She reportedly gave birth to Obama in Kenya.
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Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about.
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Seven out of 10 voters (69%) are convinced that reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and this year by a nearly five-to-one margin voters believe they are trying to help Barack Obama. 50.7% of voters think most reporters are trying to help Obama win (19% of Dems agree) versus 11% who believe they are trying to help John McCain.
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The latest post, below and made only early this morning, is significant news. It is news from a small valley in Afghanistan which is both a microcosm of the Global War on Terror and a crucial battle in establishing a secure, democratic, and independent Afghanistan.
The Tag Ab Valley is relatively close to Kabul. It follows a generally north-south axis starting near the town of Surobi (sometimes spelled "Sarobi,") and runs north to Nijrab. The districts of Kapisa Province north of the Nijrab District are peaceful and contrast strongly with the southern districts of Nijrab, Tag Ab, and Ala Say (sometimes spelled "Ala Sai" or Alah Say.")
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When this idea was first reported, months ago, it was quietly shifted off the pages of the newspapers and out of sight and hearing. Now it is back… and it is a burning issue… an issue that every American ought to be incensed about! When I first heard about it, I turned to my wife and said: "Obama's Private Army!" She agreed. We had no idea, at the time, how right we were in our assessment of Obama's so-called "Universal Voluntary Public Service" program.
The New York Post published an expose´ today: O PASTOR IN SEX SCANDAL.
Apparently Wright got involved with the church secretary at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas while on his whirlwind tour in Texas last spring to receive an award from the liberal Brite Divinity School.
The woman in question, Elizabeth Payne, 37, and her now former husband were interviewed by the NYP. Ms. Payne also lost her job at the church and has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.
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Barack Obama has joined forces with a white socialist he calls a "good friend" — the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of "Sojourners." He too believes in "liberation theology," sans the black nationalism. In fact, Wallis is the white version of Jeremiah Wright, sans the black rage.
In addition to publishing "Sojourners" magazine, Wallis runs Call to Renewal — a network of liberal churches and activist groups "committed to ending poverty and racism."
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America gained an import new ally in the War on Terror yesterday, with the swearing in of Asif Ali Zardari as Pakistan’s new president. Appropriately, the ceremony took place before a portrait of another steadfast Pakistani supporter of the United States: Zardari’s late wife Benazir Bhutto, who led the Pakistan People’s Party until her assassination last year by Islamic terrorists.
Let's talk Mommy Wars, double standards and the media elite. Last Friday, Howard Gutman, a member of the Obama campaign's National Finance Committee, attacked Sarah Palin's ability to be a good parent and have a high-powered public life at the same time. In a finger-wagging appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show, Obama's operative scolded the Republican mother of five children for not putting her professional career on hold.
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Columnist Marc H. Rudov calls them the “fascist feminists.” These are the feminists in the media and elsewhere who detest Sarah Palin because of her role as a successful wife and mother and defender of the unborn. Palin’s decision to have a Down syndrome child, when 90 percent of these children are being aborted in the womb, has proven in dramatic terms not only that there are articulate pro-life women in America but that there are women who will take a leadership role on “culture of life” issues of concern to millions. And this one could be vice president of the United States.
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At a young age, many women start imagining who their Prince Charming will be: what he’ll look like, what interests he’ll have, if he’ll have a sense of humor and so forth. However, it’s very unlikely that Prince Charming will literally come galloping in on a horse and sweep us off our feet. In fact, ladies, listen up, or chances are fairly good that you could end up with someone who is a complete loser and not your type at all … that is, if you're on the birth control pill.
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For any of my liberal friends out there who are still in denial about whether or not there is a liberal bias in the media, I have just three words for them: Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Can you imagine all of the drama, the salacious text messages between KK and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, the ruined lives and careers costing the city tens of millions in lawsuits (as well as hundreds of millions more at stake), the angst, the treachery, the waste, fraud and abuse KK has visited upon the city of Detroit being perpetrated by, say, a black conservative Republican like a Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams?
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The reports have been that Barack Obama wanted to enlist Hillary Clinton to combat the Sarah Palin “bounce” in the polls. But, this has been unrealized. Now, Hillary backers are speaking out for Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Look for a Bill or Hillary gaffe who will further hurt Team Obama.
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John McCain’s selection for Vice-President, Sarah Palin, has electrified the conservative base, and has succeeded in attracting some voters back to the Republican ticket, who were resigned to sit out the election, or vote for a minor party candidate.
One would expect the typical knee-jerk criticism about a surprise choice such as Palin, both from the Democrats and the main-stream media. Obviously, Palin’s lack of experience at the federal level is a legitimate concern, but it’s really the additional, gratuitous piling-on, that is the scornfully predictable behavior I’m referring to.
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Our next vice President boasts a lifetime NRA membership and poses for pictures blasting shots from an assault rifle.
Yet her speech writer regards the NRA as: "the powerful, selfish National Rifle Association with its brutal lobbying tactics. You would have to search the Washington offices of the American Civil Liberties Union," he writes, "to find a more truculent and sanctimonious group of people - or for that matter to find grievances less deserving of serious attention."
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We know now that the Palin phenomenon is for real. We can tell because our lefty friends have come up with a new pejorative: "Caribou Barbie." It joins "neoconservative," invented in the 1960s to describe New York Jewish intellectuals who had been mugged by reality, and "neo-con," invented in the 2000s to account for the sons of the neoconservatives of the 1960s, men who believed in reality even before they were mugged. And who can forget Dorothy Parker on Calvin Coolidge: "weaned on a pickle," or Clark Clifford's "amiable dunce" who won the Cold War.
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If Barack Obama's past had been subjected to one tenth the media scrutiny during the full year of his candidacy, to which Sarah Palin has been subjected during the last 11 days, Obama very probably still would be junior senator from Illinois, and Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee.
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It is, you know, rich.
In the middle of the firestorm created by the liberal media over the nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the first woman vice-presidential nominee in the Republican Party, a familiar voice is heard. Comes word in the last few days that Sally Quinn, doyenne of the Washington Post and the Georgetown social set as well as the wife of legendary former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, has taken out after Governor Palin. The moose-hunting, snowmobiling Palin is not a regular on the same social circuit as Ms. Quinn.
Last week in one fell swoop, John McCain completely changed the dynamic of this presidential election — this campaign is no longer a referendum on Barack Obama. If events of the past few days are any indication, this paradigm shift has caused a staggering existential crisis for Obama and his supporters.
To many members of the mainstream media, the choice in the upcoming election is black or white — literally. The merits of Senator John McCain or Senator Barack Obama are immaterial in juxtaposition with the color of their respective skins. The mental meanderings of Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate.com, led him to interpret a future decision on the part of voters as being contingent on whether or not they harbor racist inclinations. Indeed, the specific message of Weisberg’s article, “If Obama Loses: Racism Is the Only Reason McCain Might Beat Him,” is anything but subtle:
Taxpayers are now on the hook for as much as $200 billion to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and if you want to know why, look no further than the rapid response to this bailout from House baron Barney Frank. Asked about Treasury's modest bailout condition that the companies reduce the size of their high-risk mortgage-backed securities (MBS) portfolios starting in 2010, Mr. Frank was quoted on Monday as saying, "Good luck on that," and that it would never happen.
Sphere: Related ContentLiberals fear what they can't control, and subsequently seek the elimination of what they fear. This explains their past efforts to blacklist patriotism, stifle free markets, disarm the American citizenry, and shackle free speech. It also explains why they're currently pulling out all stops in their effort to destroy Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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In Europe, free speech may end with neither a bang nor a whimper – but with a lawyerly assist.
It was three years ago this month that the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published twelve editorial cartoons satirizing Islamist terrorism. Some Muslim organizations objected. Protests were organized. Danish embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran were set ablaze. Dozens of people were killed. The cartoonists and their editors received death threats from such characters as Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza.
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Today, a noticeable feature of the Western press (aside from the "anti-Israel" coverage of so many of the reporters in Western Europe who have found a socially acceptable outlet for antisemitism) is the indifference to, or even hostility to, Christianity. This includes the failure to recognize its significance in the history of Europe and of the West, and a hostile treatment of the activity of contemporary Christian figures. Look at how the Western press covered Pope Benedict's 2006 Regensburg speech, and misreported consistently on it.
The Democracy Alliance, as we observed in the January 2008 issue of Foundation Watch (”Billionaires for Big Government: What’s Next for George Soros’s Democracy Alliance?”), is slowly maturing and becoming more focused in its objectives.
Could it be that the Democracy Alliance has finally adopted a firm business plan?
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Criminal defense attorney Lynne Stewart has been convicted of very serious crimes following her involvement with imprisoned terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman. However, you would never know it, as she not only continues to walk free but makes speeches and numerous public appearances in which she often thumbs her nose at the country she betrayed, while describing terrorists as “liberationists.“
No one is perfect. As such, at times correction and admonition may need to be promulgated to set the ethically concerned back on the right path.
When issued by those adhering to the high standards to which they profess, such criticism can be looked upon as a helpful corrective to assist equals in living up to their potential. However, when such accusations are leveled or sustained by those with no intentions of living up to the standard themselves, the maligned should turn the tables against such dubious defamers and expose just who it is that undermines dignity, order, and liberty.
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Every four years the political parties of this great land have their official convention to nominate and promote their candidate of choice for that political season. Of course, protests on both sides happen. That's normal. Protests have been around as long as humanity has been around. However, there are protests, and there are anarchists who pretend to be protesters.
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In one of the most astonishing gaffes and self-inflicted wounds in American political history, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama referred to "my Muslim faith" in a nationally televised interview with ABC's "This Week" commentator George Stephanopoulus.
The "Freudian slip" confirmed what many researchers and political opponents have been claiming, and what the mainstream media has allowed him to deny, until now.
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Let me first say, that this site has never mentioned the ”Obama is a closet Muslim” accusation before today, because I had yet to see any credible evidence indicating that he was/is a Muslim.
But in all honesty, Obama’s slip of the tongue in an ABC News interview this morning has me second guessing discounting these rumors… and if we had a press corp that could be trusted to thoroughly vet this question, I’d be more comfortable with Obama’s denial of being a Muslim.
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The global warming theory is going into the freezer, some climate experts say.
The first half of this year was the coolest in at least five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). And the global warming that has taken place during the past 30 years is over, says geologist Don J. Easterbrook, a professor emeritus at Western Washington University.
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Barack Obama often cites his time as a community organizer here in Chicago as one of the experiences that qualify him to hold the nation’s highest office. “I can bring this country together,” he said in a debate last February. “I have a track record, starting from the days I moved to Chicago as a community organizer.”
When Obama says such things, the reaction among many observers is: Huh?
Audiences understand when he mentions his years as an Illinois state legislator, or his brief tenure in the U.S. Senate. But a community organizer? What’s that?
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When President George W. Bush nominated Henry Paulson to serve as Treasury Secretary, Republicans raised a red flag that Paulson, who, along with his wife, has strong ties to the Democrat party, would not be an honest broker with Republicans.
That seems to have been borne out, with sources inside of Treasury reporting that Paulson briefed Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign advisers on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout plan before offering such a briefing to the McCain campaign.
Esam Omeish:
Head of the Muslim American Society. Which has historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. A recognized terrorist organization which spawned Hamas.
Omeish is a Supporter and financial donor to the Obama campaign.
Last September Omeish tendered his resignation from the Va. Commision on Immigration, a position that Governor Tim Kaine had appointed him to, amidst a media firestorm over videos in which he was seen making radical statements about "jihad".
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Gripped by fear and horror now that Obamania has utterly collapsed, the hard-left partisans of the Democratic Party have launched a desperate but all-out search for scapegoats to explain the surging presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin.
The left's massive scapegoating is the result of the latest polling numbers showing McCain/Palin generating a decent bounce from the Republican National Convention last week. Gallup's latest numbers show McCain leading Barack Obama in the presidential horse race by 5 points, 49 to 44 percent - a lead that represents a 13 percentage-point shift in Gallup's tracking data since last Tuesday (McCain is up 7, Obama is down 6).
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David Axelrod has long been known for his political magic. Through his AKP&D Message & Media consultancy, the campaign veteran has advised a succession of Democratic candidates since 1985, and he's now chief strategist for Senator Barack Obama's bid for President. But on the down low, Axelrod moonlights in the private sector.
Michelle Malkin has a great piece on Barack Obama’s experience as a “community organizer.” The main takeaway from the article is that he organized get-out-the-vote efforts for the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). This shady organization has received taxpayer dollars as kickbacks from the politicians it supports and is constantly under investigation for criminal activities.
The title above was taken from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, the 8th Chapter the 21st verse.
So here we are, man, taking credit for destroying the earth, which God, Himself, has told us he will not allow.
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The Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations have "legitimate claims" that are being "weakened" by the violence the terror groups carry out, Sen. Barack Obama stated in an interview today with the New York Times.
Speaking with columnist David Brooks, Obama said the U.S. needs a foreign policy that "looks at the root causes of problems and dangers."
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At the Republican convention, VP nominee Sarah Palin famously observed:
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."
This wisecrack evidently got under the skin of Senator Barack Obama. In Obama Suddenly Riled, [San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 2008] columnist Carolyn Lochhead reported:
"Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, Pa, hotly defending his work as a community organizer… Obama's hackles were clearly raised by Palin's dismissal of his community organizing …"
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Last Thursday, at 1:58 p.m. EST, I received an email message from a bi-sexual reverend from West Virginia. In the text following the subject, “You're a con man,” the queer preacher had this to say:
Your recent "Fat Lesbians on Crack" piece is an example of grossly irresponsible rhetoric that serves ideology, not mental health. It is appalling to me that someone with your lack of intelligence and indifference to professional consensus is actively employed in a teaching role.
Sphere: Related ContentAs most observers predicted at the time, records from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge where Barack Obama served as President of the Board and terrorist William Ayers as head of the action arm of the organization were almost certainly scrubbed; the result of a tip from the University of Illinois to the Obama campaign:
Sphere: Related ContentIn every war there is one decisive battle. This battle doesn't end the war; a great deal of hard fighting lies ahead. But in retrospect it's the moment when one side's ultimate victory -- and the other side's ultimate defeat -- were sealed. In our Civil War this decisive battle was Gettysburg. In World War II, it was Midway.
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When President George W. Bush nominated Henry Paulson to serve as Treasury Secretary, Republicans raised a red flag that Paulson, who, along with his wife, has strong ties to the Democrat party, would not be an honest broker with Republicans.
That seems to have been borne out, with sources inside of Treasury reporting that Paulson briefed Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign advisers on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout plan before offering such a briefing to the McCain campaign.
Last week in one fell swoop, John McCain completely changed the dynamic of this presidential election — this campaign is no longer a referendum on Barack Obama. If events of the past few days are any indication, this paradigm shift has caused a staggering existential crisis for Obama and his supporters.
Each of the Presidential candidates and those who support them are fighting for the soul of America. Each has a radically different world view; each inhabits a radically different culture. They listen to different music, watch different movies, read different media. Each mainly socializes only with others who are like themselves. They do not talk to those with whom they disagree and when they do, it is often with anger and contempt.
Sphere: Related ContentBefore Wednesday night, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin already had a reputation as a steely-eyed killer of large, wild beasts. But today is there any doubt that Palin is also a daunting hunter of menacing critics and political corruption? Using disarming good looks and apex-predator skills, Palin cunningly lured the rabid-cutthroat-liberal media straight into a mortifying ambush.
Sphere: Related ContentIf you listened very carefully to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s dynamic speech to the Republican Convention last Wednesday night, you could plainly hear the death cry of single-issue feminism. The nomination of Governor Palin, a pro-life feminist, for Vice President of the United States has put the final nail in the coffin of an increasingly discredited and narrow-minded worldview that believes that women cannot thrive in a world without unrestricted abortion-on-demand. Equally importantly, her historic candidacy promises to transform the tone and complexion of American feminism.
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Back in the good old days -- when MSNBC’s liberal bias was merely overt -- the network was capable of embarrassment. Now, the network has chosen sides in the presidential election, and it is engaging in political activism.
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Muslim students at the University of Southern California are enraged by the school's recent decision to remove from a student group's website an Islamic text that encourages the murder of Jews.
Until recently, the website of the now-defunct Muslim Student Association, which is hosted on the university's servers, had featured the full text of the hadiths, the words of Mohammed that are not found in the Koran.
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Senior journalist Ben Caspit writes that “the debate between those who think everything must be done, including a military operation, to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb and those who think one can live with it, has been decided. If the Iranian regime doesn’t fall during the coming year, if the Americans don’t deliver a military blow and if the sanctions don’t break the Iranian nuclear program, Israel will have to take action. In other words: the preparations for an Israeli military option…are already underway.”
In a dirty and dusty clay home in ancient Judea the wizened old man worked over the swollen body of the girl. She had committed that so very scandalous of deeds in the Jewish culture of her time: She was unmarried and pregnant, and had left her hometown months ago to avoid bringing shame on her family.
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With the selection of Sarah Palin as the vice president candidate on the Republican ticket, the presidential race is less about Democrat vs. Republican, than it is about Liberal vs. Conservative. Democrats and Republicans both agree that Washington is "broken" and both sides want "change."
Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that government is the answer while John McCain and Sarah Palin believe that government is the problem. Clearly, change can be for good or for bad.
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This is not meant to demean those who work as community organizers. I am sure that most people so employed work hard, pay their taxes and child support on time (when possible), and are solid contributors to the greater good.
However, when it comes to protecting and defending the U.S. Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and shielding 300 million Americans from harm, there is much more involved than doling out taxpayer money to homeless tramps, ex-felons, and felons-to-be in training.
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