The bottom line is that Arizona wants to enforce the law against illegal aliens. It wants them to be cognizant of the fact that the state is serious about the law, and therefore to conclude that it's best to leave or not come in the first place. Arizona did not deem these people illegal aliens. The federal government did, in laws passed by Congress and signed by the president of the United States. Arizona thinks those laws mean something ~ the Editors at NPR.
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Well OF COURSE it’s just politics:
Since the Arizona law merely sought to incorporate federal standards, one might reasonably expect that entities that have announced a boycott of the state—such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego—will also boycott the federal government and refuse to accept any federal funds, but do not hold your breath. Arizona’s critics do not really want enforcement of immigration laws. Since it is difficult to convince a beleaguered public that local officers should not enforce the law, especially when the federal government has failed miserably in its obligation to do so, it is easier to rant about racial profiling. DoJ Lawsuit Against Arizona is Politics.
Making reservations:
Opponents of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law huffed and puffed and threatened to use the power of a boycott to put the state out of business.
I did not know this:
We’ve helpfully compiled a list of the Top 10 foods that any sensible person should avoid when dining with a new companion. And don’t let the title of this post fool you. These rules are in force for every meal until you and your partner first hook up, and they apply just as much to business meetings.
Top 10 foods you should never eat on a first date.
The sign is there for a reason:
I would have paid MONEY for a video of this. Unbelievable.
Are you a LIBERAL? Then you’re SICK and need professional help:
Liberals’ personal problems become a societal problem when liberals try to address them by requiring changes to the lives of others. They seek a government with extensive power and reach that can limit freedoms and penalize success so that we seem to be more equal. It’s as if I were to address a problem of poor posture by requiring everyone else to slouch. The adequacy of self-love or self-esteem one has is not determined by comparison to others. It is not measured by net worth which government can adjust. The Unhealthy Motivations of Liberals.
SOUNDS REASONABLE TO ME: Fox News breaks down the AZ law:
Requiring that an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is unlawfully present in the United States, and requiring verification of the immigration status of any person arrested prior to releasing that person. Quick Analysis of the Arizona Immigration Law Ruling.
IEDs remain the principal killer of US troops in combat:
The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t AK-47s or grenades — they’re roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. Here’s how the U.S. military is fighting back. U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons.
That’s not exactly something I would recommend:
A controversial Florida church known for publicly condemning what it considers sins plans to burn copies of Islam’s holy book on the upcoming ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Fla. Church Plans ‘Burn a Quran’ Day to Mark 9/11.
Welcome to your new healthcare system:
Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect.
I can't wait for someone to make a board game out of this.
And the winner of the “World’s Sickest Man” award goes to … :
On Arabic TV, he encourages Muslims to repeat what the Germans did as he joyfully shows actual graphic footage from the Nazi death camps. Mein Kampf is still one of the best-selling books in the Middle East. Muslim cleric says the Jews were slaughtered for trying to destroy Germany and the world.
Gingrich is considering a Presidential run in 2012 ... but will wait until early 2011 before announcing a final decision.
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Newt doesn’t care at all for the Ground Zero Mosque: “The idea of a 13-story building set up by a group many of whom, frankly, are very hostile to our civilization”:
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich put the proposed giant mosque-community center complex, which is planned to be built right near Ground Zero, in the proper perspective. It is an illustration of sheer hypocrisy on the part of the leaders of this project and other Islamists who profess religious tolerance but expect it to run in only one direction – in their favor.
Here is what Newt Gingrich had to say about the hypocritical mosque planners last night on Greta Van Sustern’s Fox News show, “On The Record”:
They didn’t propose, Let’s build a mosque, church and synagogue. They said, Let’s build a 13-story mosque and a community center… I find it very offensive to get lectured about religious liberty at a time when there are no churches and no synagogues in Saudi Arabia and when no Christian and no Jew can walk into Mecca. I mean, I’d love to have these folks say, Let’s build a church and a synagogue in Mecca, or rather in Saudi Arabia… They’re not saying that. It is entirely one-sided and it is entirely, I think, a kind of triumphalism that we should not tolerate.
Shirley Sherrod and Amazing Grace used in the same sentence?:
Shirley Sherrod’s now-infamous March speech before an NAACP audience is recognizable to practicing Christians as a “testimony.” That’s the spin that Syracuse journalism professor and former Washington Post staff writer R. Gustav Niebuhr brought to Newsweek/Washington Post’s On Faith feature in a July 26 Under God blog post:
… But not to be ignored is one woman’s recounting of how she experienced an amazing grace. That’s not a singular narrative. Americans have been telling those stories about themselves for centuries. The details vary, but the essential storyline remains the same: I was lost, now I’m found. Too bad a lot of the news media are tone deaf when it comes to recognizing the story and the tradition to which it belongs.
By seeing Sherrod’s statement as a testimony of “amazing grace,” Niebuhr seems to confuse leftist liberation theology with the “amazing grace” evangelical Christians recognize as salvation from God’s just wrath against their sins.
Finally, while no Christian’s path of repentance is perfect, it is instructive that in a recent interview, Sherrod fleshed out her outrageous allegations that Fox News:
… would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.
A former Scientologist looks a shred of meaningful content in David Miscavige’s speech at the dedication of a new church building in Seattle:
Just listened to a bit of David Miscavige’s speech at the Seattle Idle Morgue opening (I can only take so much). It relates to the recent post on thought-stopping. It occurs to me that one of the Church’s thought-stopping techniques is these event speeches. They go on and on, full of cliche after cliche, saying absolutely nothing, and all delivered in a rhythmic, almost hypnotic cadence. Here are Miscavige’s opening remarks:
“I am genuinely honored to join you on this day when Scientology comes of age in Seattle; not that you haven’t long maintained a presence in this town, not that you haven’t long ago sunk roots into this city, and not that you haven’t long carried the torch of this great Northwest, but only now is all the majesty and subtlety of booming this Church made manifest, because only now can we appreciate the deeper meaning of those campaign slogans which drove your new civilization builders to this moment: leading the way; delivering the future; taking Seattle to greater heights, only now is it clear those weren’t slogans at all, they were a prophecy, so while we’ve long marveled at your unbridled creativity and elaborate events, the many parts you’ve played, the many stages you’ve trod, and the myriad costumes you’ve donned, only now is it obvious when you were told giving your best, you took it to mean the best of the best.”
Economics 101 … understanding prosperity and the timeless principles of economic growth (if you’re into that sort of thing … interesting article):
We know, based on economic experience, theory, and logic, how to create another economic boom that will last 25 years, or a generation into the future. We achieved that in America from the end of 1982 to the end of 2007, with only two, short, shallow recessions that barely interrupted sustained, robust, economic growth. But that was not the only instance of success. Several times in the last 100 years, whenever the nation’s economic policies adhered to the timeless principles of economic growth and prosperity, our economy has boomed. When it has departed from those policies, it has fallen into stagnation, or worse. From The American Spectator by Peter Ferrara: The Timeless Principles of American Prosperity.
ARIZONA JOE … not gonna take no crap:
The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” when the state’s new immigration law takes effect.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he’ll put them in it.
OBAMA ON REFORM: No more “front groups” to influence legislation (except ones we like):
You know when a politician starts a sentence with “frankly,” he’s about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the “DISCLOSE Act.” The voter’s instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view with left-wing lobbyists and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings, this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSEDDOOR Act. Michelle Malkin @ Front Page Mag: Obama’s Lack of Disclosure.
MEDIA DECEPTION …. here’s how it’s done kiddies:
Just a few decades ago journalism in this country was actually about reporting the facts. Yes, journalists may have leaned to the Left, but at least reporters made an effort to be fair. Today, journalists are more interested in “making a difference” than in any antiquated standards and they play by PRAVDA rules. Every news story is filtered through an ideological prism and instead of asking who, what, when, how, and why, the stories are framed around a simple rule: How can we hurt the Right and help the Left? By John Hawkins @ Townhall.com: Seven Deceptive Mainstream
Media Techniques.
KAGAN SHOCKER … ‘She should not be a justice when she’s defrauded the Supreme Court’:
One of Washington D.C.’s most feared and fearless corruption watchers has told WND he intends to file an ethics complaint to have Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan disbarred from practicing before the court she aspires to join – and possibly subjected to criminal prosecution – for her role in an escalating controversy over partial-birth abortion.
Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch USA, is bringing the complaint, alleging Kagan altered an official scientific report used as evidence by the Supreme Court to persuade the justices to overturn bans on partial-birth abortion. By Drew Zahn @ WND: Papers prepped to disbar Elena Kagan.
The news clown is sad today about all the dummies in Washington.
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Liberal Environmentalist is an unlikely skeptic of Global Warming:
If only THIS woman’s mother & father had applied the board of education to the seat of knowledge (PEOPLE LIKE THIS ARE ACTUALLY PAID FOR THEIR ARROGANT INSENSITIVITY AND IGNORANCE?):
The “Spirited Atheist” of The Washington Post, Susan Jacoby, predictably trashed Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston as not only “poster children for the dumbing down of America” and as “most middle-class American parents’ worst nightmare,” but proof of what happens when religious people show off their contempt for book learning:
Bristol was used by her mother as an asset to placate the religious right-wing base of the Republican Party during the 2008 campaign. She was a living demonstration of Sarah Palin’s opposition to abortion: Look at my teenage daughter, she made a mistake and did the right thing by having the baby. The only more shameless aspect of Sarah’s campaign was her constant exhibition of her Down Syndrome son. Look at me, I didn’t have an abortion like those terrible elitist women who make fun of me for not reading books.
Jay Tea asks some pretty hard hitting questions about the Shirley Sherrod incident:
One element of the whole Shirley Sherrod mess has bugged me from the outset. One aspect that has simply not made any sense whatsoever in the whole narrative. And that is how quickly the Obama administration and the NAACP jumped to distance themselves from her, and how hard they jumped.
Remember the timeline. Two elements show just how quickly they reacted:
–Breitbart posts the video at 11:18 a.m. last Monday.
–Sherrod’s own account of her dismissal.
Sherrod says that she was called while driving home from work. Her boss told her that the White House had called three times to get her fired, because she was “going to be on Glenn Beck’s show tonight.”
Beck’s show airs at 5:00 p.m. That means that the White House had called three separate times between 11:18 and then. (It also means that Sherrod had already left work before 5:00, but she could have gotten an early start that day.) And between each call, there was enough time for Sherrod’s bosses to get hold of her and garner her resignation — say, at least half an hour. So knock another 90 minutes off the time frame. That means that the White House decided she had to go no later than 3:30 that afternoon, and in all likelihood even sooner.
Rep. Charles Djou (R-HI): Iran is a REAL THREAT:
I take seriously our nation’s security. In the oath that I took to become the U.S. Representative of Hawai‘i’s First Congressional District, I swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As an Army Reserve officer, I have sworn to give my life in our country’s defense if necessary. Whenever there is a threat to our nation, it is my duty to confront it. I believe that Iran is such a threat.
Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism and has aided in the killing of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran’s government is led by a Holocaust-denying president. And Iran continues to defy the United Nations and most of the international community by developing its nuclear weapons program. A nuclear-armed Iran is a threat to the United States, to our ally Israel and to the Western world. READ THE REST AT BIG PEACE.
Worried about how bad things are for you right now? Think about it!:
The Day Care Center on Capital Hill … Magical Thinkers in Washington:
Predictions of cost savings through ObamaCare, like most liberal politics, were based on magical thinking. If they want something to be true with sufficiently intensity, liberals know it must be true.
Small children are natural magical thinkers. Ask any psychologist, pediatrician, or parent. Magical thinkers believe that because they want it or can conceive of it, “it” is so, or will be so. The magically thinking child ties a cape on his back and knows that with it on, he can fly. When he jumps off the roof, he will, of course, fall, not soar like Superman. The usual cure for magical thinking is ToT (tincture of time) and evidence.
WRITER’S ENVY … this is spectacular!!:
The election of Obama reminds me of years ago, when I bought a fake Tag Heuer watch while visiting Manhattan. Normally I walk right by street vendors, but this watch caught my eye. It was sleek and clean, and some described it as gorgeous. Only true Tag aficionados could tell that the watch was a fake.
The thing that impressed me about my fake Tag was that it had the “weight” of a real Tag. It didn’t feel like the lightweight replicas I had seen in Mexico, China, and Africa. And the best part? My fake Tag cost me $7!
… My fake Tag had all the real Tag markings on the back, though I certainly wasn’t given papers to authenticate my fake Tag. However, if I had asked, the salesperson might have produced them. By Kevin Jackson @ American Thinker: Obama and the Fake Tag.
What hath “Dr. Evil” [Andrew Breitbart] wrought?:
According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s latest problem may be because he isn’t black enough:
It has Barack Obama, raised in the Hawaiian hood and Indonesia, and Valerie Jarrett, who spent her early years in Iran.
But unlike Bill Clinton, who never needed help fathoming Southern black culture, Obama lacks advisers who are descended from the central African-American experience, ones who understand “the slave thing,” as a top black Democrat dryly puts it.
Everything you need to know about Silly Bandz:
If you’re a parent -— actually, even if you’re not -— you have probably seen those colorful little rubber bracelets accessorizing teens nationwide. It’s the latest superfad: rubber band-like figures shaped like anything from monkeys to faces to stars.
Silly Bandz (and their imitators) are a booming business. Silly Bandz alone sells over $100 million worth of product each year. They come in a pack of 24 for about $5, and they are everywhere, from the malls to the classrooms (some schools are even considering banning the bands for creating a nuisance). Analysis by Benjamin Radford @ Discovery News: Anatomy of a Fad: Aboard the Silly Bandz Wagon.
Can you spell … G[OOPS]GLE:
A few days ago, Google tried to make a vague attempt at beautifying its Image Search and complicated things in the process. Image searches became more taxing on the browser. Google Image search loaded all the pages in a single view and needed us to scroll down to see results. This was good for those with fast internet connections. However, on slow connections, it simply did not load any further pages apart from the first or, in some cases; it did not load the thumbnails after the first few pages. To add to that, the thumbnail preview on hover was a user-interface disaster and made it extremely hard to use Google Image Search anymore. By Chinmoy Kanjila @ Techie Buzz: Is Google Killing the new Image Search, now that people hate it?
Big 120 decibel patriotic shout out to the United States Marines … OOH-RAH! (H/T to Rick @ Wizbang):
If you have any sensitivity to hard rock, you may want to avoid clicking this video … consider yourself warned. Feel free to contact Jesse Jackson and let him know we’ve found his new National Anthem!!
In 1960 middle-income Americans paid less than 30 percent of their earnings in local, state, and federal taxes; today that figure is up to 40 percent ~ Cato Institute.
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READY FOR THE BAD NEWS? Calculate How Your Taxes Will Change in 2011:
On January 1, 2011, the largest tax hike in American history may arrive. Unless Congress takes action, Bush-era tax cuts that were enacted in 2001 and 2003 will expire at the end of 2010.
In fact, these tax cuts have saved a middle-class family of four about $2,200 annually. Since the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts is still uncertain, countless Americans are wondering how the potential tax increases will affect them. Luckily, the Tax Foundation has released a Bush-era tax cuts calculator that allows individuals to find out how their tax liabilities will change in 2011 under three different scenarios. After filling in information such as salary and number of dependents, the user can see their 2011 income tax if all the Bush tax cuts expire, if all of the Bush tax cuts are extended or if Congress passes the tax laws in Obama’s budget which lets specific tax cuts expire. From FreedomWorks by J Borowski.
UK aviation enthusiast builds the largest (and most expensive) flying model airplane in the world:
Four years ago, engineer Tony Nijhuis was visiting an aviation museum in Duxford, England, when he spotted his next project: the iconic World War II–era Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Nijhuis has been building electric models since he was a boy, but he had been thinking about doing something bigger. Much bigger. The result is a replica that— with a 20-foot wingspan, period decals, and loudspeakers that blare sounds of the real engine … he had a sound designer find a recording of a plane with the same engines as the B-50, and add the sound files to a memory chip. He installed four speakers on the underside of the wings, added amps, and hooked them all up to the speed controllers. The speakers blare the sounds loudest when the motors are working their hardest. Instead of an electric whir, it sounds like the real thing. By Gregory Mone @ Popular Science — You Built What?! A Backyard B-50 Bomber.
RUH ROH! Racism For Thee, But Not For Me: The Sherrod Family Bigots–UPDATED:
Now that the mainstream media has firmly established that all white people are racist, and Andrew Breitbart, in particular is racist, I’m wondering why their poster-girl for subjugation has been whisked out of the limelight? …
Maybe the reason she’s not around is because every time she opens her mouth, she reveals herself to be an unevolved bigot herself. And evidently, she’s not alone in her worldview.
Dan Riehl prevents a damning video of Sherrod’s husband Charles:
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.”
Gee, Joan, can you tell me what’s so heroic about telling a room full of young black minds not even out in the world, yet – that if they ever embrace political, or socio-economic ideas that don’t jibe with your hero’s, the one elevated in a room before them, that they will be denounced as race-traitors? That is what Uncle Tom means, after all. What REALLY is heroic in that?
You want some Salsa with that AK-47? :
Mexico likes to blame its gun violence on the US, and gun-control advocates love to repeat the canard that 90% the weapons in Mexico come from the US. (It’s actually less than 20%; more of them come from Mexican Army deserters.) They’ll have a little more trouble with that argument after this weekend. Mexico discovered that the perpetrators of several massacres are now behind bars, and were behind bars before the massacres — before prison guards let them out and armed them for their murderous rampages. By Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air: Mexico prison guards let inmates out for massacres.
I feel better already … Things aren’t as bad in American Christianity as many say it is, according to one sociologist.:
Christianity isn’t on the brink of extinction, divorce rates of Christians aren’t equal to that of non-Christians and churches are not losing young people – at least not to the extent that some fear.
That isn’t to say there aren’t any problems in the church. But Bradley R. E. Wright wants all the facts to be laid out before any judgment calls are made.
O.K., so it's not Shirley Sherrod. I just thought we should know there are other famous Shirleys out there.
Don’t call me Shirley … : Don’t call me Shirley
She was likened to a modern day Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela, but former the Ag official, according to the Washington Post, was not interviewed on a single major Sunday morning talk-show following a week that can only be described as a Shirley Sherrod media frenzy. Though the conversation on Sunday morning focused on race in America, noticeably absent from the discussion was the woman behind the controversy. Earlier this week a handful of people in the blogosphere began to speculate Sherrod would pull off a “full Ginsburg,” or become only the thirteenth person to appear on all major Sunday talk-shows on the same day since the feat was first accomplished by William H. Ginsburg in 1998. However, this was before a clip of Sherrod suggesting Andrew Breitbart wants blacks “stuck back in the times of slavery” went viral. Sherrod also drew extensive criticism late in the week for blasting Fox News as racist.
Considering the Shirley Sherrod interview barrage that took place last Thursday, to not see Sherrod on television Sunday morning sends a clear signal the mainstream media no longer feels allowing the public to get to know the real Shirley Sherrod advances their agenda.
Last week, Charles Krauthammer pointed out that while Sgt. Crowley got a beer summit after Obama merely (and mistakenly) said he “acted stupidly,” Shirley Sherrod got just a seven-minute phone call after she was forced to resign. The White House and the Obama Administration who hastily relieved her of her position were already keeping her at arms length, and now the mainstream media is too. by Alexander Marlow @ Big Government.
Herman Cain … man of the hour:
ON THE SCENE with the John Lewis N-WORD:
… here is an altogether more straightforward message from the gentleman who calls himself Marooned in Marin. His message seems to have been prompted by my “Waiting for Lefty” post. In any event, MiM writes:
I’ve been really interested in this story since it happened, because I was there as well and filmed a video which you posted at your blog on March 21 (the 48-second one at the bottom). I also have a nine second video showing when the CBC walked through the crowd to go to the Capitol an hour before. I never posted it on YouTube, but gave it to Andrew Breitbart after contacting him when an AP reporter sent me an e-mail one day after writing this story. My nine-second video is the third video in this YouTube clip.
I even called Andre Carson’s office and talked to his press aide the other day and the guy just kept insisting the alleged slurs happened, never mind I told him I was there and saw both instances the congressmen walked by.
My story is this. I heard nothing out of the ordinary, and didn’t see anyone around me react in a negative way towards anyone there. I’d have known too, because I’ve been to rallies long ago when someone would bring a sign or shout something and they were told to knock it off or leave, so, contrary to the claims of the media, NAACP, etc., I know that people on our side don’t have any tolerance for that kind of garbage.
Pettiness Personified — how to act like a President (NOT):
Earlier this month President Obama attended the groundbreaking of an advanced car battery factory in Holland, Michigan, subsidized by the stimulus bill … For reasons that remain mysterious to me, Obama seized the opportunity to attack Hoekstra:
There are some folks who want to go back – who think we should return to the policies that helped to lead to this recession,” Obama said later in his comments honoring a new advanced battery factory being built by the company LG Chem. “Some made the political calculation that it’s better to obstruct than lend a hand. They said no to the tax cuts, they said no to small business loans, they said no to clean energy projects. It doesn’t stop them from coming to ribbon cuttings — but that’s OK.
How to be anti-Constitutional, anti-Christian and anti-American in ONE EASY LESSON … Welcome to Augusta State University:
Augusta State University in Georgia is busily trying to re-educate someone who holds the same views as millions of people in the US, and a target graduate student has filed suit. From the Daily Caller comes all the dirty laundry.
The suit alleges the university retaliated against Keeton for stating her belief that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice and not a “state of being,” and that gender is not a social construct subject to individual change. According to the suit, the school wants her to undergo a “thought reform” program intended to change her religious beliefs. She faces expulsion unless she complies, and the suit seeks to block the university from throwing her out for noncompliance.
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According to court documents, one of Keeton’s professors, Dr. Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley, told her this past May she would have to undergo a remediation program intended to change her views on homosexuality.
Jay Tea @ Wizbang weighs in on … Breitbart And The NAACP:
I’m a big fan of the show “Mythbusters.” Their schtick is to take a myth, urban legend, rumor, video, or whatever, test the hell out of it, and render their verdict: Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted. And, occasionally, “Plausible” has some serious disclaimers that it is exceptionally unlikely.
THREAT LEVEL … RED — military documents leaked causes firestorm:
The secret-spilling site Wikileaks on Sunday released a breathtaking classified compendium of 77,000 events covering six years of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. But they could have much more.
The New York Times, the U.K.-based Guardian, and the German magazine Der Spiegel were given embargoed copies of the Secret-level database about a month ago, and all three have detailed reports and analysis. The logs “are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year,” reports the Times, which says the leak shows a grimmer situation than officially presented by the Pentagon. Wikileaks Releases Stunning Afghan War Logs — Is Iraq Next?
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Looking at life through the porthole of Liberalism makes your worldview pretty narrow.
I ASK YOU, BY WHAT AUTHORITY? Liberal blogger has a narrow vision of religious American history:
The Conservatives have nothing of meaning, or substance, to offer. This is why they need religion. They’re lost, they don’t know where to turn, they have no ideas, but they really, really, really want to be in charge. Don’t be fooled. Even if you’re a Christian, you no more want these jackals involved in your religion than the tens of millions of non-Christian Americans want Christianity forced on them through their government. Look past their religious rhetoric and try to find a platform. You will likely find that these very pious, would-be Emperors, have no clothes, except the ones the corporations have given them. Why The Right Needs Religion.
SORRY PAL, but sitting around the campfire and singing Kum ba yah with Peter, Paul and Muhammed isn’t changing Islam’s world view:
It seems that the Robert Spencers and Pamela Gellers of the world want us to believe that the Muslims have a secret plot to take over America by masquerading as peaceable and democratic, so they can ultimately “impose” sharia law ( ie Taliban variety) on unsuspecting, gullible Americans. Sharia is evil, Islam is a false and violent religion and no Muslim can be trusted. America already is an Islamic society.
HOW IS IT THAT A “LOVE PARADE” GETS PEOPLE KILLED? That’s what Chancellor Angela Merkel & her fellow German citizens want to know!:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded an “intensive” investigation into the deadly stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg.
Mrs Merkel said she hadbeen “appalled” by the tragedy, adding that everything must be done to ensure such deaths did not happen again. The crush outside a tunnel at the entrance of the festival killed 19 people and injured 340 on Saturday. Survivors have blamed organisers for the deaths. They said the site was too small and warnings of overcrowding had been ignored. Merkel vows ‘intensive’ probe of Love Parade deaths.
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (NOT) … Islam is a religion of peace:
The Koran is the supreme political document of Islam-its political manifesto and political constitution. It is the only constitution of the nation-state Saudi Arabia, which is the home of Mecca and the Kabah, where all mosques point, and is the birthplace of Islam.
The Koran is a totalitarian constitution. It demands submission by anyone within its jurisdiction. The Koran governs all mosques everywhere in the world.
As a political document, the Koran asserts that everyone in the world is within its jurisdiction. So far, Islam has not been able to enforce that totalitarian claim on the entire world, but has managed to do so through threat, infiltration, violence, terrorism, and coercion on roughly 20% of the world. It is engaged in a 1400-year-long Universal Jihad to dominate the rest of the world. All mosques are its outpost headquarters.
Central to the Koran’s political mandates is prohibition of religious freedom and religious tolerance, along with denouncements of religions such as Christianity and Judaism.
“O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them.” -Koran 5:51
WSJ … One of America’s leading libertarian legal scholars handicaps whether the Supreme Court will find ObamaCare’s insurance mandate constitutional.:
Is ObamaCare constitutional? “If you ask any constitutional law professor whether Congress can do something, the answer is always yes,” says Randy Barnett. But Mr. Barnett, who teaches legal theory at Georgetown, isn’t just any law professor. A self-described “radical libertarian,” he is the author of a 2004 book, “Restoring the Lost Constitution,” that argues for a fundamentally new approach to jurisprudence.
Mr. Barnett would have the court adopt a “presumption of liberty,” placing the burden on the government to show that a law has a clear basis in Congress’s constitutional powers. “The easiest way to explain it is, it would basically apply to all liberty the same basic protection we now apply to speech,” he says.
It’s an attractive theory to those of us with libertarian sympathies—a group that seems to be growing in reaction to the Obama administration’s unprecedented expansion of federal power. But Mr. Barnett, 58, readily admits there is virtually no chance the high court will embrace it during his lifetime. A Commandeering of the People.
Chris Wallace – (1); Howard Dean (0). More proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder: WALLACE: I know facts are inconvenient things, but let’s try to deal with the facts. The fact is that the Obama administration fired or forced Shirley Sherrod to quit before her name had ever been mentioned on Fox News Channel. Did you know that, sir?
DEAN: What I do know is that video came out –
WALLACE: Did you know that, that her name. Did you know that she was fired before her name was ever mentioned on the Fox News Channel?
DEAN: What about the video? Where did that play. What about the incomplete video?
WALLACE: The video had never played on the Fox News Channel before the White House fired her. It was on Andrew Breitbart BigGovernment.com. We’re not responsible for them. I agree with you it was out of context, but it wasn’t on Fox News so maybe you shouldn’t be using the racist phrase either. Howard Dean Calls Fox News Racist, Chris Wallace Strikes Back.
On the day of its capture, Mohammed delivered an address at the Kabah in military dress and helmet, according to Ayatullah Ja’far Subhani in his book, “The Message”: Mohammed’s address at the Kabah overthrew the Meccan government and declared all of Islam, anywhere in the world, to be a political and military state against all non-Muslims, regardless of the non-Muslims’ political, geographical, or national origins. “If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him.” —Koran 3:85
THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO … WHAT’S YOUR TAKE?:
By now, a growing number of Americans have heard about the 13-story, $100 million megamosque planned for the immediate proximity of Ground Zero, thanks in part to recent appeals by Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Southern Baptists’ Richard Land and a powerful ad by the Center for Security Policy.
Not surprisingly, most of them don’t like the idea one bit. And the more they learn about the imam behind the “Cordoba House” and his agenda, the more they are going to oppose his initiative.
According to a new national poll by Rasmussen, those who are aware of the proposed mosque at Ground Zero oppose it by a 54 to 20 percent margin. This is an even more dramatic degree of opposition than that established earlier this month by a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in New York City which found 52% to 31% opposed.
It seems a safe bet that these numbers will become more pronounced over time as Americans learn that the driving force behind the Ground Zero Mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, adheres to the same intolerant, supremacist agenda as did the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack. The authorities of Islam call it “Shariah.”
It turns out that there is no difference between Rauf’s agenda and al Qaeda’s; they both want to bring Shariah to America. They apparently disagree only on the techniques by which that is to be accomplished. The Ground Zero Mosque’s Dubious Champions.
WHO KNEW? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, A BIKER?:
No, Texas Hasn’t Been Invaded:
Twitter exploded a while ago about a story which claims that heavily-armed Los Zetas gunmen of the Gulf Cartel have taken over ranches on the U.S. side of the border.
Didn’t happen … but I suppose now we should offer the local drug cartel chieftain a plush government appointment for his trouble. From Bob Owens at Big Government.
The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for a few decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market in the United States.
Weekend summary of MUST READ stories across the web:
If this were in MY backyard, there’d be shots fired:
In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least two American ranches inside the U.S. territory near Laredo, Texas.
Two sources inside the Laredo Police Department confirmed the incident is unfolding and they would continue to coordinate with U.S. Border Patrol today. “We consider this an act of war,” said one police officer on the ground near the scene. There is a news blackout of this incident at this time and the sources inside Laredo PD spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Wow … that Obama character is a real piece of work … he’s working hard to keep “special interests” out of Washington (if “you and I” are the special interests):
On January 23, 2010, President Obama made a solemn pinky promise with America to protect us from “special interests” that would turn this wonderful country into, well, something really awful. Indeed, he gave his speech a special title, just to make sure we were clear on his stance against “special interests”.
WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Vows to Continue Standing Up to the Special Interests on Behalf of the American People
And here’s his vow:
A hundred years ago, one of the great Republican Presidents, Teddy Roosevelt, fought to limit special interest spending and influence over American political campaigns and warned of the impact of unbridled, corporate spending. His message rings as true as ever today, in this age of mass communications, when the decks are too often stacked against ordinary Americans. And as long as I’m your President, I’ll never stop fighting to make sure that the most powerful voice in Washington belongs to you.
From Rield World View … Breitbart: Why No Politico, Or Bloomberg Firings?:
Andrew Breitbart makes a valid point in his brief interview with Matt Lewis of Politics Daily. More at link. Journalists are supposed to abide by a set of ethics that should have prevented some of the collusion that went on on JournoList. Did any of them speak up about it on the list? Many of the most active members were WaPo employees. Did it not shock some journalists that such an established paper had employees engaging in that type of media malpractice?
If not, why? And, if so, what, if anything, did they do about it? Cue crickets chirping.
Q: How does the Shirley Sherrod story relate to the JournoList story where liberal journalist Spencer Ackerman suggested deflecting attention from the Reverend Wright story, which was hurting Obama, by wrongly accusing a prominent conservative of being a racist?
A: That collusion to slander by Ackerman — and the sin of omission of the other 400 people on the list — to abide by that calculated evil — shows that we have a tremendous problem in journalism today — and then they come and ask me about my tactics. I’m trying to end JournoList collusion that goes well beyond the (listserve’s founder) Washington Post’s Ezra Klein’s 400 friends and collaborators, and that includes Politico and Bloomberg. Where are they firing people? Where are the questions about this monumental act of journalistic fraud? Where are the mass firings?
Q: Do you feel like you made a mistake by rushing to get the Shirley Sherrod video out too soon, though?
A: It had to be done at the exact moment in time that the press would notice it … I grant her that she had her redemptive transformation. I said that her humanity caused her to help the farmer, and that it’s not just about race. Notice how the press conspicuously ignores that. It’s in the video and it’s in the text [of Breitbart's original post on the topic]. Who is doing the selective editing here? This is about destroying me. This is about the NAACP, but they’ve made it about me versus her. This is about exposing the Democratic Party and the progressive strategy of framing opposition to the Democratic Party agenda as racist. Breitbart: Why No Politico, Or Bloomberg Firings?
More on this story:
CNN is strongly pushing the notion that Shirley Sherrod is a uniter, dedicated to bringing people together. However, her rhetoric beneath the headlines hardly supports that conclusion. Shirley Sherrod: Beneath The Headlines
THE RELIGION OF PEACE, friend or foe?:
Last night my friend Calvin Freiburger took issue with the rhetoric in my friend Jeanette Pryor’s provocatively titled post “It’s Time to Put the Coffee Down and Eradicate Islam in the West.”
Calvin cites the constitutional provisions of freedom of religion, cautions that we need to support Muslim reformers, and strategizes that it’s important that we temper our rhetoric to engage the moderate center. These are all thoughtful, well-intended sentiments that I supported not long ago. But I don’t anymore. And here’s why.
1. It’s time to stop regarding Islam as though it’s a religion. It’s not. The “faith” practiced as written and following the example of its founder is a totalitarian political program seeking world domination. That’s always been the core of what Islam is all about. The “religious practices” inherent in the ideology are mere window dressing.
Rep. Michele Bachman brought the conservatives attending RightOnline to their feet multiple times tonight in a keynote speech where she said she’d like to repeal “almost everything” and predicted President Obama is a one-term president.:
Bachmann promised that if she were in charge, “You’d have 100 percent repeal of ObamaCare,” indicating that she’s not in favor of the Republican leadership’s less brash “repeal and replace” plan.
“Let’s repeal almost everything Nancy Pelosi did,” Bachmann said as the crowd applauded wildly. She said she wants “The big mother of all repeal bills.” BY Christina Bellantoni @ TPM, Talking Points Memo.
Last time I checked, we still had the 1st Amendment in the Constitution:
Never once, not even in private — not even as the entire corrupted media was savaging Sarah Palin’s family and reporting on the status of a private citizen’s plumber’s license — not even as the whole of the MSM was spreading lies told by the Congressional Black Caucus about the Tea Party hurling racial slurs — not even after reading what we already knew to be true on JournoList — and not even now as we watch all the hypocritical sanctimony surrounding Sharon Sherrod drip from the same MSM lips that refused to broadcast videos proving the Tea Party had been defamed by members of Congress — never once have I heard a fellow Vast Right-Wing Conspirator even hint at the idea of silencing, quieting, or shutting down the other side. From Big Journalism by John Nolte: From JournoList to Shirley Sherrod: The Left’s Default Response is Fascism.
Donor lists, accusations and phone calls, OH MY!:
For a number of years traditional print media has been on life support, but after the revelations from Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller, it looks like someone finally pulled the plug. The expose on Journolist, a now defunct, listserv that included hundreds of liberal journalists, detailed:
* the Journolisters’ attempt, during the 2008 presidential campaign to kill and bury stories about Obama’s relationship with “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright;
* their push to deliberately smear innocent conservative journalists and politicos as “racists” and “bigots”
* their twisted passion to see Rush Limbaugh killed off and dead;
* their intolerant desire to have the government censor and shut down Fox News; and
* their baldly partisan effort to coordinate liberal talking points that would discredit Sarah Palin and John McCain, while helping to elect Barack Obama president.
And now … The release of the Obama donor list to the public will be followed by a formal complaint to the FEC, which both Obama and ACORN will have to respond to – on-the-record. Anita Moncrief @ Hot Air: Revealed: The Obama Donor List.
Charles Krauthammer teaches PBS host how to set his watch:
Charles Krauthammer on Friday scolded Gordon Peterson, the host of PBS’s “Inside Washington,” for blaming Shirley Sherrod’s termination on Fox News.
As he introduced the first topic of the evening, Peterson said, “Which brings me to the story of ousted Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod who was let go on the basis of a single piece of internet video that was edited out of context, posted on a conservative website, picked up on Fox News, and bought lock, stock and barrel by the Obama administration.”
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The benefits of capitalism far outweigh its imperfections. In recent days we have been hearing that capitalism only benefits those on Wall Street and not those on Main Street. Yet the benefits of capitalism have proven over history to benefit all society.
So what do YOU think of a free market economy? 3/4’s of America’s voters think it’s the best way to go:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 75% of Likely Voters prefer free markets over a government managed economy. Just 14% think a government managed economy is better while 11% are not sure. These figures have changed little since December.
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