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Liberal Conceit By Christopher Chantrill @ American Thinker

We all know liberal condescension. “Why are Americans so anti-intellectual?” your liberal friend might ask. But Gerard Alexander has written about it — in the Washington Post. “Why are liberals so condescending?” he asks. Why indeed?

Your average liberal exhibits four kinds of condescension, according to Alexander. There’s the notion that conservatives win elections and policy debates not because of the power of ideas, but “because they deploy brilliant and sinister campaign tactics.” Obviously this leads into the second notion that “if conservative leaders are crass manipulators, then the rank-and-file Americans who support them must be manipulated at best, or stupid at worst.” This idea has won Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a weekly column at The Wall Street Journal.

Then there’s the conservatives-are-racists meme. “It is now an article of faith among many liberals that Republicans win elections because they tap into white prejudice against blacks and immigrants.” This one started with Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy to win votes in the Old South.

Finally, liberals believe that “conservatives are driven purely by emotion and anxiety — including fear of change — whereas liberals have the harder task of appealing to evidence and logic.”

You know what this is? It is Scion City. It is the whine of the fortunate son who cannot understand why he is running the family firm into the ground. The competition is cheating! The customers are stupid! It is the bleat of a political movement grown accustomed to its ascendancy, blind to its corruption, and softened by its comfortable sinecures.

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Party of ’No’…and Proud by Matt Spivey @ American Thinker

Conservatism is about being not obstructionist, but principled.

Imagine if someone told you that even though you are a Christian, in order to get along better with others, you need to put your religious beliefs on hold until 2012. Don’t worry about that “salvation” thing for a couple of years. Or imagine if you were asked to love your parents a little less because your full-hearted devotion to them is getting in the way of showing your affection for others. Wait until the next election to prove your respect for your family.

Diminishing these deeply held beliefs and feelings would be ludicrous. These attitudes are part of our creation as humans, and we hold other attitudes just as deeply because they are part of our citizenship as Americans.

For many of us, our conservative principles of freedom and personal responsibility are continually under attack.

Liberal commentators continually blame Republicans for obstructing legislation or opposing the president’s ideas. The Democratic National Committee sponsors a website with its homepage displaying prominent Republicans under a label reading “The Party of NO.” The president even reflected this sentiment in his SOTU speech recently: “Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership.”

What the president and the majority of Democrats refuse to believe is that relinquishing core values is not good leadership either.

It’s time for conservatives to embrace their refusal to bend on basic beliefs. And it’s time for liberals to understand that a refusal to accommodate is not simply to impede ideologically, but rather to stand firm fundamentally.

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Clearly, we need to work together to solve problems and try to come up with unique ideas to respond to the liberal agenda. But we cannot yield to Democrat-sponsored legislation simply for the sake of “getting things done” or to falsely demonstrate bipartisanship.

Our nation was founded on the ability to stand up and say “no” against intrusive and reckless authority. Hopefully, the time is near where a majority of Americans who once said “yes, we can” will start saying “no, we won’t.”

PLEASE GO READ THE REST! THE NO’S HAVE IT!

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New Conservatism

Assuming it was even necessary to come up with the descriptive word for black folk in FDR’s day, it was “Negros” Nancy. Would the people who keep electing this woman please step forward so we can slap you.

Government Waste

Here’s the commercial that the Census Bureau wasted $2.5 million tax dollars to run during the Super Bowl.

Government Waste

from The FOX Nation by brobinson

Rep. Patrick Kennedy has come out swinging against the man who now sits in the Senate seat his father held for 47 years. Telling a blog for the Hill newspaper that Senator Scott Brown was “in the tank for the Republicans,” the Rhode Island Democrat called Brown’s candidacy a “joke.”

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Politics

from NewsBusters.org by Lachlan Markay

Does Arianna Huffington consider Glenn Beck more radical and dangerous than an advocate of Islamic Sharia law? She’s let off a lot of hot air lately criticizing Fox News president Roger Ailes for employing Beck, but it turns out that on the Huffington Post’s payroll is an envoy to the United States from the Somali Unity government, led by the Islamic Courts Union.

The ICU is a strong proponent of Sharia law, and an organization dubbed by some the Taliban of Africa for its radical interpretation of Islam and its support for some violent elements of the Islamic community (like Osama Bin Laden).

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Media industry

from Big Journalism by Pamela Geller … The Mufti of Jerusalem: Architect of the Holocaust

The original blueprints for the Auschwitz death camp went on display in late January after being discovered in November 2008. They were found by chance behind a wall in a Berlin apartment during renovation work, yet the exact location of their discovery is being kept secret. No one will say whose apartment it was.

There are numerous bits of evidence, however, that point to a possible location where Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, lived during World War II. And in the course of investigating this, I have found that the Mufti was involved in and may even have created the Final Solution for European Jews – and yet his central participation in the Holocaust has been covered up and forgotten.

The Mufti, whom his nephew Yasser Arafat called “our hero,” is famous for his fanatical Jew-hatred. During World War II, the Mufti lived in Berlin, where he met Hitler and traveled in top Nazi circles (he even stayed in Hitler’s bunker toward the end of the war). Among his close friends was Adolf Eichmann, who is commonly thought to be the architect of the Holocaust. Journalist Maurice Pearlman, author of the 1947 book The Mufti of Jerusalem, said that the Mufti advised Eichmann on the best ways to persecute Jews.

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@ Gawker.com … Scientologists in Haiti: A Firsthand Account

This is a report from a person traveling on a plane with scientologist’s to Haiti:

I arrived at JFK last week, ready to go.

I knew we were traveling with doctors and EMTs, but I didn’t expect to see 50 scientologists, in their yellow shirts with Volunteer Minister on them. They were completely unprepared for going to a third world country, let alone a disaster zone. One girl was in designer cowboy boots. I asked her if she’d brought any sturdier footwear.

“Oh no, these’ll be fine.”

I asked another guy what he’d packed and he said he hadn’t bothered to bring soap or toilet paper or food, but that he’d just “buy whatever I need at Port-au-Prince airport.” I couldn’t break it to him.

They had no place to stay, and no supplies — their idea was to use the ton of money they had to buy food to distribute when they got there. But there was no food and no water. That was the point.

By the time we arrived in Haiti, after a stopover in Miami, we had missed three landing slots at the airport. Aid agencies — genuine aid agencies — from other countries were being turned away, refused permission to land. But we still got a slot straight away. The guy who ran our charter seemed to think that the Scientologists had some real influence with the US Government, who were assigning the slots.

The doctors and EMTs in our party headed straight downtown to start working. The Scientologists had nowhere to go, and nowhere to put up the big yellow tent they’d brought for touch healing people in. They went to the UN, and managed to get on to their list of approved NGOs somehow. That meant they could set up in the UN grounds.

But they had no-one who spoke Creole, and they brought the weirdness of touch healing into a very superstitious society. They’d leave the tent and come into the general hospital downtown, and try healing people. One of the doctors and one of the nurses told me that the wounded started coming to them to tell them they didn’t want to be treated by the people in the yellow shirts.

One nurse told me that the Scientologists actually caused harm — they gave food to people who were scheduled to go into surgery. That then led to complications in the operating theater.

On the way back, the plane stopped in Miami and did not go on to New York, stranding all the doctors and EMTs and journalists who expected to get back. After much fighting, the Scientologist representative agreed to fly any of the EMTs that “absolutely couldn’t afford the ticket” on Jet Blue from Fort Lauderdale. I heard there were complications but had bought my own ticket because I was fed up with their weirdness. Gawker.com

If you do any additional searching of stories about these yellow-shirted “helpers,” you’ll find that 99.9% of the “complimentary” stories are written by Scientology associated web sites. Now isn’t that interesting? (Hmmmm?)

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