Too Clever By Half

There are a couple of viewpoints at play in the Colbert/migrant worker testimony before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law on Friday, September 24, 2010.

Many find Mr. Colbert funny, but the comedian failed to amuse lawmakers Friday during a hearing on farm jobs and illegal immigrants and the so-called AgJOBS bill that would give illegal immigrant farm workers a pathway to legal status.

“I don’t want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian,” quipped Colbert.

“I started my workday with preconceived notions of migrant labor, but after working with these men and women picking beans, packing corn for hours on end side by side in the unforgiving sun, I have to say—and I do mean this sincerely—please don’t make me do this again,” he said. “It is really, really hard work.”

Colbert said his day on a farm left him traumatized noting that, “I don’t even want to watch Green Acres again.”

Fausta’s Blog notes that, “Of course, Congress could have called National Humanities Medal honoree Victor Davis Hanson, who not only was born and raised on California a farm, but has continued to operate the family farm to this day. Hanson has had more than one day in the unforgiving sun out at the farm picking grapes, day in and day out, and can offer first-hand testimony on migrant labor.”

Politico’s take offers another viewpoint:  “Colbert knocks Dems off message.”  Don Surber believes, “For his part, Stephen Colbert got the laughs for the wrong reason. He was supposed to be mocking conservative views on illegal aliens. Instead, he wound up mocking the Democratic Congress.”

The viewpoint which I share with Dan Riehl is that Colbert was a distraction from the more important Department of Justice testimony on the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case given by Christopher Coates, ex-chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.

Coates leveled an explosive allegation saying that top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against the fringe militant group, the New Black Panther Party, because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.

You can read more about the NBPP case here and here.  In summary, in order for a deception to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.  This is a game the limousine liberals have perfected.  Remember November.  Stop the fleecing of America.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

O’Donnell’s Got ‘Em Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered

John Nolte, of Big Hollywood writes, “In desperate Hail Mary moves to protect Obama and Democrats from what’s looking like a November rout, three of the left’s most beloved Palace Guards have just upped their game considerably. Bill Maher’s now openly blackmailing Delaware Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell, threatening a weekly drip-drip-drip of videos he thinks will ruin her candidacy unless she agrees to appear on his show—which is where he’ll really pull out the stops to finally win that Emmy by attempting to destroy her.”

Big Government, offers the thoughts of John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, on what Karl Rove should have said following O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware.

Michelle Malkin sternly writes, “Narcissism. Blackmail. Distortion. All wrapped in his trademark smirk of pallor. Yes, it’s tired old liberal “comedian” Bill Maher trying to get Senate GOP primary candidate Christine O’Donnell to come on his show by baiting her with a brief video clip in which she mentions having “dabbled” in “witchcraft” and hung around people who practiced it.”

“The left-wing blogs (and a few short-sighted rightie ones) are having a field day. What they all seem to have missed is the context for the discussion. The AP says the “context of what led to the comment is not clear.”

I like what Stacy McCain threw out there:  “What is it with some Republicans who would rather walk away from a difficult fight rather than to muster a show of force by winning where Conventional Wisdom says victory is impossible? I’ve always loved underdogs who fight like hell and win despite all odds, but it seems some members of the GOP commentariat are wired differently.”

“Christine O’Donnell is a ‘lousy candidate’? Well, pray tell what would you call John McCain?”

Tell it, brother!

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Tea Party Taking Out The Trash?

From The Boston Herald we learn that Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sent out an email stating that, “The news from Delaware is crystal clear: It’s Sarah Palin’s party now,” Kerry wrote in a fund-raising e-mail titled “Delawow!”  He went on to say, “We have to fight back. Click here to contribute right now to make sure we defeat the Tea Party extremists.”

Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds merrily noted, “I think the Tea Party couldn’t ask for any better publicity than to be denounced by a millionaire who dodges paying taxes on his yacht.”

The Tea Party is taking out the trash and Peggy Noonan opines on why it’s time for the Tea Party:

“…at this moment we are witnessing a shift that will likely have some enduring political impact. Another way of saying that: The past few years, a lot of people in politics have wondered about the possibility of a third party. Would it be possible to organize one? While they were wondering, a virtual third party was being born. And nobody organized it.”

[snip]

”So far, the tea party is not a wing of the GOP but a critique of it. This was demonstrated in spectacular fashion when GOP operatives dismissed tea party-backed Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. The Republican establishment is ‘the reason we even have the Tea Party movement,’ shot back columnist and tea party enthusiast Andrea Tantaros in the New York Daily News. It was the Bush administration that ‘ran up deficits’ and gave us ‘open borders’ and ‘Medicare Part D and busted budgets.’”

America is still a democratic republic, not an aristocracy.  “We The People” are concerned with restoring the United States Constitution to its rightful place in our government.  The Tea Party is only interested in preserving the country this regime is hell-bent to “fundamentally transform.”

Noonan’s exit question is, “Will the center join arms and work with the tea party?” 

They’d better or the career freeloaders with be tossed out with the trash.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Crimes Against Liberty

“Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,” and that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”—Barack Obama upon winning his party’s nomination for president.

It didn’t take generations but only a couple of years for a majority of Americans to begin to realize that instead of messianic healing, the errand boy sent by grocery clerks is inflicting unprecedented injuries on America and the liberties of its citizens.

Your humble dispatcher is currently reading Crimes Against Liberty, a book written by David Limbaugh which is five hundred pages long and includes one hundred pages of indexed footnotes for each chapter.

Skimming through the book are details on how Fearless Reader admitted that he doesn’t care about the lawmaking process just the result. There is a culture in the Department of Justice where they “don’t believe the voting rights laws should ever be enforced against blacks and other minorities,” as evidenced by the fact that DOJ dismissed a case against the New Black Panther Party that had clear video evidence of voter intimidation.

The book discusses how the regime asked Americans to report their friends for circulating emails critical of ObamaCare and has given nearly a billion dollars to Hamas-ruled Gaza while undermining our ally Israel at almost every turn.  The book also discusses how this president-in-training continues to weaken our national security by signaling appeasement to Iran as well as refusing to acknowledge or confront threats from radical Islam.

There’s lots more, but then I don’t have to state the obvious.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Will The Corporate-Controlled Media Sweep This “Mosque-rade” Under The Rug?

The New York Post, in an exclusive, has learned that a founding member of an organization run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the planned mosque near Ground Zero, claims that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” and that Muslims have been made scapegoats.

Faiz Khan—who has preached at least twice at the former Burlington Coat Factory building, the site of the proposed mosque—was for years Rauf’s partner in the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, which is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of Islam.

Khan also serves on the advisory board of Muslims for 9/11 Truth and is a founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, known as MUJCA.

On MUJCA’s Web site, Khan wrote that “the inescapable fact [is] that 9/11 was an inside job.”

“The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as ‘militant Islam,’ although the phenomenon known as ‘militant Islamic networks’ may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role—perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat,” he wrote in documents uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. [Please click the link to read their explosive exposé on this tool.]

Khan was listed as one of three directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims in its 1997 incorporation papers, when it went by the name of the American Sufi Muslim Association.

ASMA and Rauf’s Cordoba Initiative are spearheading the drive to create a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.

In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Khan said he ended his affiliation with the ASMA in “2002 and 2003,” although that claim is contradicted by a record of him speaking at a 2006 ASMA conference in Copenhagen, where his bio listed him as a board member.

When The Post asked Khan who he thought was responsible for 9/11, he initially declined comment, but later said in an e-mail: “I am certain of a few things…The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the ‘inside.’ ”

Ray Locker, managing director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said: “For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it’s odd that one of Feisal Rauf’s fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an ‘inside job’ by the US government.”

Khan told a group of 9/11 deniers at a 2006 Chicago summit called “Revealing the Truth/Reclaiming Our Future” that “the most logical explanation” for 9/11 is that the hijackers were working for corporate America and that the heroin trade creates “billions of dollars” that are laundered by “Citicorp and Procter & Gamble.”

Rauf’s spokesman didn’t return calls for comment.

Meanwhile, Rauf said yesterday on ABC’s “This Week” that he wasn’t “making a threat” when he said moving the mosque would incite Islamic extremists to attack the United States—although he insisted the warning held true.

“I’ve never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never,” Rauf said. “I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.”

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Uncle Sam Will See You Now Or How ObamaCare Will Ruin Doctor/Patient Relationships FOREVER

In late July, I had an appointment with my regular physician.  I have been seeing him for twenty-plus years.  He is the same doctor who has taken excellent care of me since I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in March of 2006.

Before my diagnosis, I may have visited him two times a year for a case of the sniffles, but diabetes made it necessary to see him every three months to insure I was managing my diabetes to prevent or reduce the complications associated with that chronic disease.

I could never have imagined ending my relationship with him.

At the conclusion of my visit, he literally broke my heart.  He advised me that my last appointment ever with him would be in October of this year.  He confided that ObamaCare was forcing him to end his practice because of the ways in which the new law would impact his ability to render the best possible care for his patients.

Most people assumed that the American Medical Association represented most of the doctors in this country.  In fact, the AMA represents less than 20 percent of all physicians in the United States.  And yet as the organization’s leadership moved more to the left, it held a near monopoly on media attention on issues pertaining to public health.  No longer.

Docs4PatientCare is challenging the AMA’s stranglehold on health care matters, just as other groups once challenged the right of the left-leaning American Bar Association to determine what judges are and are not qualified for the United States Supreme Court.  How Docs4PatientCare managed to barge its way into the closed-door meetings of Washington offers a lesson to other groups seeking to have a voice in their federal government.

Writing an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Hal Scherz is countering this election year ruse.

Scherz writes, “My colleagues and I at Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Our patients have always expected a certain standard of care from their doctors, which includes providing them with pertinent information that may affect their quality of life. Because the issue this election is so stark—literally life and death for millions of Americans in the years ahead—we are this week posting a ‘Dear Patient’ letter in our waiting rooms.”

Facing a nationwide backlash, Democratic congressional candidates have a new message for voters: We know you don’t like ObamaCare, so we’ll fix it.

“Despite countless protests by doctors and overwhelming public opposition—up to 60% of Americans opposed this bill—the current party in control of Congress pushed this bill through with legal bribes and Chicago style threats and is determined now to resist any ‘repeal and replace’ efforts. This doctor’s office is non-partisan—always has been, always will be. But the fact is that every Republican voted against this bad bill while the Democratic Party leadership and the White House completely dismissed the will of the people in ruthlessly pushing through this legislation.”

The letter’s final lines are the most important:

“Please remember when you vote this November that unless the Democratic Party receives a strong negative message about this power grab our health care system will never be fixed and the doctor patient relationship will be ruined forever.”

Scherz concludes, “America’s doctors have millions of personal interactions each week with patients. We have political power. And we intend to use it by working to defeat those who have disrupted and gravely endangered the best health-care system in the world.”

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Stupidity And Oppression

In 2004, Imam Feisal Abdel Rauf published a book entitled “What Is Right With Islam Is What Is Right With America.” In that book he argued “The American political structure is Sharia compliant. For America to score even higher on the ‘Islamic’ or ‘Sharia compliance’ scale America would need to do two things. Invite the voices of all religions in shaping the nations’ practical life and allow religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws.”

The truth is that the American Constitution and Sharia Law are opposite of each other. It is interesting however, how Rauf composed his statement. He did not say that Sharia is in compliance with the U.S. Constitution, but the other way around. By doing so, he wanted to establish the superiority of Sharia over the U.S. constitution. Superiority?  Are you kidding me?

Nonie Darwish is an American woman born Muslim in Egypt who warns the West of the dangers of radical Islam and Sharia law.  She is the author of “Now They Call Me Infidel:  Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror” and “Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law”.

In her post at BigPeace.com, Darwish examines a few Sharia laws in an effort to see whether Rauf is a fraud or is being truthful.  [You get three guesses and the first two don’t count.]

The thirty-three examples she cites were decided, she says, by imams after years of interpretation of the Quran, Hadith and Mohammed’s life and asks the vital question:  what part is compliant with the U.S. Constitution?

One law in particular, non-Muslims are not equal to Muslims and must comply to Sharia if they are to remain safe, is especially troubling.  Is this what Mayor Bloomberg and all the proponents of the Ground Zero mosque wish to convey to Americans?

Consider this:  In Obama’s June 4, 2009 apology speech at Cairo University, he said, “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”  Islam became part of America’s story on September 11, 2001.  Not before.

At the conclusion of Fearless Reader’s Great Iftar Mosque speech he said, “And we can only achieve ‘liberty and justice for all’ if we live by that one rule at the heart of every religion, including Islam—that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.”

There is no religion that can be reduced to the Golden Rule, least of all Islam. Islam does not command its believers to do unto infidels as you would have infidels do unto you. Islam commands its followers to subdue infidels; to kill them; to reduce them to dhimmitude.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

Sharia law must not supplant the Constitution of the United States.  This president is not a theologian and must, therefore, cease to preach to the citizens of America as though he were.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Project 2996

Project 2996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.  Dale Roe is the man behind Project 2996, a labor of love he began in 2006.  Dale set out to create a “blog burst” by encouraging bloggers to post a tribute to one or more of the 2,996 victims of 9/11.  He felt it was critical to remember their names rather than their murderers. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

On that horrible day in the face of such great sorrow, we united as a people.

On September 11, 2006, more than 3,000 bloggers joined together to remember the victims of 9/11.  Last year, I created tributes for eighteen of those 2,996.

Project 2996: Remembering Arthur Joseph Jones, III

Project 2996: Remembering Abraham J. “Abe” Zelmanowitz

Project 2996: Remembering Elkin Yuen

Project 2996: Remembering Mary Alice Wahlstrom

Project 2996: Remembering Celeste Torres Victoria

Project 2996: Remembering Tyler Ugolyn

Project 2996: Remembering Keiichiro Takahashi

Project 2996: Remembering Jacquelyn P. Sanchez

Project 2996: Remembering Timothy E. Reilly

Project 2996: Remembering Faina Rapoport

Project 2996: Remembering Ricardo Quinn

Project 2996: Remembering Michael A. Parkes

Project 2996: Remembering Amy O’Doherty

Project 2996: Remembering Debbie Mannetta

Project 2996: Remembering Howard Lee Kane

Project 2996: Remembering Harry Glenn

Project 2996: Remembering Emerita “Emy” De La Pena

Project 2996: Remembering Margaret L. Benson

This year, I will again remember a life taken on that day.  The victims were someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife…

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funeral of the children.”—President George W. Bush, November 11, 2001

If you would like to pay tribute to a 9/11 victim, please visit Project 2996. 

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

9-11 Hard Hat Pledge

A mosque to be built near Ground Zero has become a lightning rod issue.  It’s not just a local issue anymore.  When the errand boy sent by grocery clerks inappropriately supported its construction at an Iftar dinner held at the White House on August 13, 2010 it exploded into a national debate.

A growing number of New York construction workers are vowing not to work on the mosque planned near Ground Zero.

“It’s a very touchy thing because they want to do this on sacred ground,” said Dave Kaiser, 38, a blaster who is working to rebuild the World Trade Center site.

“I wouldn’t work there, especially after I found out about what the imam said about U.S. policy being responsible for 9/11,” Kaiser said.

The grass-roots movement is gaining momentum on the Internet. One construction worker created the “Hard Hat Pledge” on his blog and asked others to vow not to work on the project if it stays on Park Place.

“Thousands of people are signing up from all over the country,” said creator Andy Sullivan, a construction worker from Brooklyn. “People who sell glass, steel, lumber, insurance. They are all refusing to do work if they build there.”

“Hopefully, this will be a tool to get them to move it,” he said. “I got a problem with this ostentatious building looming over Ground Zero.”

The media have put little effort into exposing the truth about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the mosque project who once said the U.S. was “an accessory to the crime” on 9/11. The media could focus on the fact that no one will say where the funding for this $100 million project is coming from. Instead the media focus on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s and Fearless Reader’s newfound love for religious freedom.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

VJ Day 1945: The Day America Had Waited For

Sixty-five years ago today, Japanese Emperor Hirohito surrendered to the Allied forces, bringing an end to the War in the Pacific and ultimately World War II.

The Japanese government sent U.S. President Harry S. Truman a cable, delivered through the Swiss diplomatic mission in Washington, to advise the Allies of Japan’s unconditional surrender. At noon Japan standard time, Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration was broadcast to the Japanese people.

The day came to be known as “Victory in Japan” or “V-J” Day—a day that ended the most destructive war in history. Three months earlier, Germany surrendered to the Allies during “Victory in Europe” or “V-E” Day.

“This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor,” Truman told a crowd that gathered outside the White House after hearing news of Japan’s surrender. “This is the day when fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would.”

British Prime Minister Clement Atlee confirmed news of Japan’s surrender in a radio broadcast. “The last of our enemies is laid low,” he said.

Atlee thanked all nations who supported the effort, but expressed particular appreciation to the United States, “without whose prodigious efforts the war in the East would still have many years to run.”

The Allies had delivered Japan the Potsdam Declaration, demanding an unconditional surrender, two weeks earlier. When Japan ignored the ultimatum the U. S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.

Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander, joined nine other Allied officers to accept the surrender from Japan’s foreign minister and the commander of Japanese forces. The eighteen-minute ceremony ended a war that began for the United States three years, eight months and 22 days earlier at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The jubilation that followed the announcement of V-J Day 60 years ago is best remembered through Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph of a sailor giving a nurse a celebratory kiss in New York’s Times Square. Offices and schools temporarily closed and newspapers heralded the news that the war was over.

But the celebration followed years of struggle, and the initial outlook for the Allies was bleak.

The United States entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. After the attack, the Japanese quickly gained control over a vast area of the Pacific, with Guam, Wake Island and Hong Kong all falling within the next three weeks. The following April, the Allies faced another major defeat with the fall of Bataan in the Philippines.

The turning point of the war came in June 1942, when U.S. naval forces halted the Japanese advance during the Battle of Midway.

After that battle, the Allies launched a counteroffensive, beginning with Marine landings on Guadalcanal, a critical move to protect Australia. After six months of bloody fighting, the Allies finally took control of Guadalcanal.

Meanwhile, Army troops and their Australian allies succeeded in taking New Guinea’s Papua peninsula.

From that point, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and MacArthur engaged in island-hopping campaigns that struck at Japan’s weak points and stopped Japanese advances. By 1944, they had reached the Marshall Islands and secured the Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls. The Marianas Islands followed in mid-June 1944, and the Allies liberated the Philippines in mid-1945.

Despite continued defeats and the Allies’ intensive bombing campaign, Japan continued to refuse to surrender until atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bombs had been developed by the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada under the code name “Manhattan Project” and tested in the New Mexico desert in July 1945. Less than a month later, Truman ordered the bombings to bring a quick resolution to a war that already claimed so many U.S. lives.

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson supported the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan as the “least abhorrent choice,” and the best way to avoid sacrificing thousands more U.S. service members.

Without each and every one of the brave men and women involved in the effort, who are now in their 80s and 90s, the America we know today would be vastly different.  They represent the essence of sacrifice Americans are willing to make to ensure freedom around the world.

I wish I could hug each and every one of them.

The video embedded at my site best exemplifies the elation of those on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on that day.  It was a much different experience from the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor in which more than 2,300 Americans were killed.

Visit No Sheeples Here to view a poignant video shot on that day.

The Messiah Finally Found A “Church Home” He Likes

Shortly after President Golfbags was inaugurated, NBC’s Matt Lauer asked, “why his family hasn’t found a church to attend yet in their new adopted home of Washington, D.C.”

In his lengthy interview that aired on the Today show, as Lauer and Obama strolled down the main White House corridor, Obama blamed how he and Michelle would be “very disruptive to services,” but he’s taken advantage of how “there was a prayer circle of pastors from across the country who during the campaign would, would say a prayer for me or send a devotional.” So:

“We’ve kept that habit up and, and it’s a wonderful group because it’s a mix of some very conservative pastors, some very liberal pastors, but all who, you know, pray for me and Michelle and, and the girls and, and I get a daily devotional on my BlackBerry which is a, is a wonderful thing.”

To which, an impressed Lauer approved: “Its spirituality meets high-tech! That’s pretty good.”

President Barack Hussein Obama on Friday, August 13, 2010 forcefully endorsed building a mosque near Ground Zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less.

Rep. Peter King is the first elected official to respond, with this statement:

“President Obama is wrong. It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero. While the Muslim community has the right to build the mosque they are abusing that right by needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much. The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from Ground Zero. Unfortunately the President caved into political correctness.”

Jennifer Rubin captures the sentiment of most of America with this comment:

“Obama has shown his true sentiments now, after weeks of concealing them, on an issue of deep significance to not only the families and loved ones of 3,000 slaughtered Americans but of the vast majority of his fellow citizens. He has once again revealed himself to be divorced from the values and concerns of his countrymen. He is entirely—and to too many Americans, horridly—a creature of the left with little ability to make moral distinctions. He sympathies for the Muslim World take precedence over those, such as they are, for his fellow citizens. This is nothing short of an abomination.”

On March 9, 2008, in an interview with New York Times’ Nicholas D. Kristof, Obama said, “…the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset”.

If the Ground Zero mosque is ever built—it’s scheduled to open on the tenth anniversary of the day a hole was punched in the heart of New York City—then Fearless Reader can jaunt to the mosque on Air Force One and the Muslim World will have won its reign of terror on America.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

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Nancy Pelosi: Holier Than Thou

Nancy Pelosi’s abuse of religious ideals is so brazen as to be embarrassing.  When she voted against partial-birth abortion she received a tongue lashing from Pope Benedict XVI.

The Holy See’s press office released this statement saying, “His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in co-operation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.”

On May 6, 2010 at a Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said she believes she must pursue public policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, “The Word made Flesh” and proceeded to argue its merits.

At the conference, “Knuckles” Pelosi said she is often asked what her favorite word is.  She replied, “The Word”.

“It says it all for us…And that Word is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word. The Word. Isn’t it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word.”

Pelosi is selectively religious. She pontificates when it suits her agenda while receiving little criticism from the secular media.  Let a Republican try that.  They’d go down in flames.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

Yours, Mine, Ours

We all know what a free republic looks like being born.  Will we soon know what one looks like as it dies?

More than a decade ago, former Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Charles Krulak wrote an article called the “The Three Block War” in which he introduced the term “the strategic corporal”.

Krulak, a thought-provoking and engaging leader, argued that the role of the Marine Corps was changing and becoming more complicated on the battlefield.  He noted the devolution of decision making, or the pushing down if you will, of important decisions to the field level.

So many Americans fear they are losing their country—that the old America is slipping away and being replaced by something formless and hollowed out. They can see we are giving up our sovereignty because our leaders will not control our borders. Our schools, and the teachers within them, don’t teach our young the old-fashioned love of America.

This government, embodied in the Congress which will live in infamy, is causing us to lose the place we love.

The parallel is clear.  Conservative voices are the strategic corporals in the fight to stand guard over liberty and win back Washington.  It is hard work, but we owe nothing less to our country and our countrymen.

Read more at No Sheeples Here.

A Sad Day For The Congress That Will Live In Infamy

A video showing Rep. Anthony Weiner’s hot-headed rant toward Rep. Peter King in particular and Republicans in general seems to have gone viral.  That’s only part of the story behind the defeat of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010.

It must be understood that Democrats pursued a procedural tack that required two thirds of the House to prevail enabling Republicans to defeat the bill that would pay up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by toxic dust from the World Trade Center. Weiner’s rant doesn’t do anyone any good—least of all to the party that controls the legislative and executive branches of government.

The legislation is named for James Zadroga, a police detective who died in 2006 at age 34. His supporters say he died from respiratory disease contracted at Ground Zero. The Zadroga Act would reopen the original federal Victims Compensation fund. The fund had an original deadline for filing claims of December 2003 and by June 2004 had awarded over $7 billion to families of victims and those injured in the attack.

This week Democratic and Republican supporters traded criticism over the way the bill was being considered under House “suspension calendar” rules requiring a two-thirds majority to pass, instead of the usual simple majority.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a supporter of the measure, criticized House Democrats for the voting procedure, predicting the bill would fail to get the required two-thirds majority.

In a letter to Democrats Thursday, King argued that the Democrats’ real fear was that if the measure was handled under regular rules requiring a simple majority, some Republicans would put in a provision barring illegal immigrants from getting the benefits. King said the measure would pass if voted on under regular calendar procedures, adding, “We should resolve to get this done before this Congress ends.”

More than 10,000 of the first responders and others who toiled at Ground Zero in the aftermath of Sept. 11 have filed suit against the city for injuries they received from the noxious chemical atmosphere that permeated the area in the weeks after the attack.

According to Open Congress.org, Plaza Construction Corporation, Bovis Lend Lease, Tully Construction, AMEC Construction Management, New York State Laborers’ Health and Safety Trust Fund, Turner Construction Company and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have all lined the pockets of the co-sponsors of the bill.  Read the article for yourself here.

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BOMBSHELL: EmergingCorruption.com Has Released The Kraken On The White House

ACORN whistle-blower Anita Moncrief held a press conference on Friday at the Right Online Convention in Las Vegas. She announced that she will press FEC charges against the Obama Administration for the campaign’s illegal coordination with ACORN during the 2008 election.

From EmergingCorruption.com we learn that Moncrief wonders if the biggest story covered up in 2008 was the illegal coordination between ACORN and the Obama campaign.

Moncrief treats us to a screen shot from the newly released Obama second quarter 2007 donor list and then provides the reader with the archived document for viewing. The information is more complete than what the Obama campaign turned over to the Federal Election Commission.  Read the whole article here.

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Fear The Blogosphere

According to Newsbusters, on July 23, 2010 two CNN anchors were frothing at the mouth about the Andrew Breitbart/Shirley Sherrod circus.

“Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the ‘mixed blessing of the Internet,’ and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the Internet.

 “There are so many great things that the internet does and has to offer, but at the same time, Kyra, as you know, there is this dark side,” Roberts said. “Imagine what would have happened if we hadn’t taken a look at what happened with Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found out that what had been posted on the Internet was not in fact reflective of what she said.”

“There’s going to have be a point in time where these people have to be held accountable,” Phillips said. “How about all these bloggers that blog anonymously? They say rotten things about people and they’re actually given credibility, which is crazy. They’re a bunch of cowards; they’re just people seeking attention.”

Uh, no John, we’re not a bunch of cowards. The corporate-controlled media is the coward.  You didn’t see any blogs selling out our intelligence community like The Washington Post did in its three-part story Top Secret America.

Bloggers do the work that journalists used to do.  Oh, and the pariah of the dead tree media—The National Enquirer—has scooped the lamestream media so many times we’ve lost count.

When you visit a blog you know exactly what you’re getting.  Unlike so-called journalists who “claim” not to be biased, bloggers are up front about their biases.  Bloggers on the right, for the most part, are rarely paid.  I know this blogger isn’t.  I don’t advertise here.  The one advertisement you see at the top of the sidebar is placed there gratis because I love everything Old Glory stands for.

Speaking of the flag, I remember right after the 9/11 attacks, every television station—broadcast and cable—placed an animated American flag in some corner of the screen.  Shortly thereafter, they all came down—all but one—that one was Fox News.  Even they eventually abandoned the practice.

If you want to talk about “accountability” and “checks and balances” then I suggest you look in the mirror.  Clean up your own act.  You, the “legacy media” sold this nation a grocery boy sent by grocery clerks to be the leader of the free world.  We are all paying for your naiveté and prostitution of the electoral process.

We bloggers are annoying to politicians and national “journalists” with the attention span of a gnat.   Crooked politicians are having an awful time keeping their actions hidden and every exposure reveals the mainstream media’s abject failings.

We know that when you bloviate, as you so often do, that you are mining for ratings.  According by TV By The Numbers, your employer, CNN, sucks a big one.

Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM)
FOX & Friends—997,000 viewers
American Morning—348,000 viewers
Morning Joe—368,000 viewers

5PM
Glenn Beck— 2,442,000 viewers
Situation Room—680,000 viewers
Hardball—580,000 viewers

6PM
Special Report—1,997,000 viewers
Situation Room—560,000 viewers
Ed Show —692,000 viewers

7PM
The Fox Report—1,515,000 viewers
John King USA—533,000 viewers
Hardball—619,000 viewers

8PM
The O’Reilly Factor—3,082,000 viewers
Campbell Brown—562,000 viewers
Countdown With Keith Olbermann—951,000 viewers

9 PM
Hannity—2,099,000 viewers
Larry King Live —714,000 viewers
Rachel Maddow Show —976,000 viewers

10 PM
On the Record—1,884,000 viewers
Anderson Cooper 360 — 783,000 viewers
Countdown With Keith Olbermann—595,000 viewers

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Sen. John Kerry: Man Of The People

John Kerry’s hobbies, windsurfing and yachting, depend on which way the wind blows. 

Kerry is renowned for his flip-flopping. In October 2003, a year after voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Kerry voted against an $87 billion supplemental funding bill for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He did support an alternative bill that funded the $87 billion by cutting some of President Bush’s tax cuts. But when it was apparent the alternative bill would not pass, he decided to go on record as not supporting the legislation to fund soldiers.

Kerry complicated matters with his now infamous words, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.”

We learned today, from The Boston Herald, that the Democrat senator from Taxachusetts dodged a $437,500 state tax bill on his $7 million yacht by mooring it in Newport, RI.

The tab for the state taxes on the yacht seems steep to you and me but I seriously doubt the Heinz-Kerrys would have a problem coming up with enough dead presidents to pay it, after all, Kerry once raised $500 million using two words—“I do.”

Teresa Heinz is butt ugly but Kerry thinks “she looks like a million bucks.”  He’s not a ketchup whore for nothing.

Democrats love to tax you and spend your money, but it’s an entirely different story when the money is theirs.  Taxes are for the little people, right?

I love the assessment Instapundit made:  You have to be grateful for John Kerry who illustrates the problems with his class so well—he isn’t bright enough to hide it.

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Is It Any Wonder…

That public approval of Congress is at a historic low of 11 percent?

There is “substantial reason to believe” that Rep. Charlie “Mr. Tax-Law-Writing-Tax-Evader” Rangel (D-NY) has violated a range of ethics rules.

Findings by a U.S. House of Representatives investigative panel mean that Rangel must face a public trial before the House Ethics Committee.

What did the fool do? For starters he wrongly accepted four rent-stabilized apartments in Manhattan and misused his office to preserve a tax loophole worth half a billion dollars for an oil executive who pledged a donation for an educational center being built in Mr. Rangel’s honor.  There is also evidence that he failed to report or pay taxes on rental income from his beachfront Dominican villa.

He also used official Congressional stationery to raise money for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York and intentionally failed to report, as mandated, hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in assets from a credit union IRA, mutual funds and stocks.

Since surrendering his seat as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Rangel has spent nearly $2 million fighting to clear himself in the various investigations as he seeks a twenty-first term this November.  He was first elected to the House in 1970.

John Hinderaker of Powerline has the money quote for this story:

“In 2006, the Democrats made the Republican ‘culture of corruption’ a central campaign theme, with some success. This was jarring inasmuch as the GOP has historically been the party of clean government. While the Democrats haven’t cornered the market on corruption, I don’t think any serious observer would question that they are its foremost practitioners. So, with the news that Charlie Rangel, former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the fourth most senior House member, has been charged with ethics violations, the Sun is back to rising in the East.”

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The Living Hologram’s Popularity Sucks And, Of Course, It’s All W’s Fault

Eleanor Clift got it right when she wrote:  Campaigning on a slogan of things could have been worse is not a winning platform.  What the Newsweek shill dutifully opined as a reason for Obama’s bleak poll numbers was that he hasn’t blamed George W. Bush enough for all that ails the nation.

“Obama hasn’t done as good a job as Reagan of blaming his predecessor,” wrote Clift after sharing some of Obama’s dismal poll numbers.

Public Policy Polling (PPP) offers this explanation:

As Obama’s popularity falls, potential Republican presidential candidates’ popularity rises. Every Republican candidate we polled this month saw a peak in favorability. In individual horse races, the gap closed between Obama and his potential Republican competitors this month. This is the first month since we began polling on the 2012 election that Obama is behind or tied with a majority of the Republican candidates. Mitt Romney has the strongest lead 46:43, followed by Mick Huckabee 47:45.

The Republicans each found more support when matched against Obama than in individual favorability ratings. While only 32% of voters have a favorable opinion of Romney, 46% of voters choose him over Obama. Obama however, maintained steady support throughout the poll, reflective of voters’ initial approval ratings. The consistency suggests voters are reacting to their opinion of Obama, not that of the challenger.  Obama’s dropping approval ratings seems to be largely due to waning support amongst Independents. In 2008, Obama won the support of Independents by an 8 point margin. Amongst Independents this month, Obama lost to every potential challenger. For example, Independents preferred Romney to Obama 48:35.

“This poll tells us less about 2012 and more about current public opinion of Obama,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “Voters are unsatisfied with Obama and are calling for change.”

PPP surveyed 667 American voters from July 9-12. The survey’s margin of error is +/- 3.8%. Other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify.

 

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