August 16, 2010

It's On: Issa Calls on GAO to Investigate Obama's Propaganda Mill

He actually phrases it a bit more delicately than that in his letter (PDF) to the Acting Comptroller General, but not by much.

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Die Quietly, Ladies

The Washington Post reports this morning that the Food and Drug Administration is considering revoking the approval of the anti-breast cancer drug Avastin. Some are already identifying this as an attempt by the Obama Administration to use the FDA to give political cover for "Death Panel" Donald Berwick, Barack Obama's controversial recess appointment for the director of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Berwick is a staunch advocate of the flawed and failing British Health Care system, including their care rationing schemes. Ace makes a very compelling argument that this is "the Chicago way" at its very worst. Obama continues to cravenly hide from the public the unarguable fact that under Obamacare, services and treatments will be rationed.

Call it a death panel. Call it whatever you will.

The fact remains that under Obamacare, a bureaucrat, not a doctor, will ultimately decide whether or not you life is worth the price of medications and procedures that could prolong your life, and/or the quality of your life.

Our friends on the left seem willing to sacrifice their mothers, wives, daughters and even themselves to this barbaric and deceptive practice.

Die quietly, ladies. It's for the good of the Party.

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The Propaganda Presidency

I was afforded an embargoed copy of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's report, "Analysis of the First Year of the Obama Administration: Public Relations and Propaganda Initiatives" this weekend, and it made for an interesting read.

You can ready all about it at Pajamas Media.

I'd also recommend Ed Morrissey's take on it at Hot Air.

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Prevent It... Because They Want It, Too

[The following essay is a guest post from CY commenter Mike McDaniel, following up The Ground Zero Mosque: Prevent It, Because They Want It]

Among the advantages of adulthood are experience and perspective. If we pay attention, have good teachers—not only in classrooms--and an active conscience, we can put aside childish things like self-delusion, doing the same things over and over while expecting different results and hubris. If not, we become leftists, and if we're really impaired, President of the United States. We also learn--and it's interesting that these lessons appear to be most easily grasped and applied by God and gun clingers--that aphorisms that sounded remarkably profound when we were young are in reality, pretty stupid, and easily recognizably so, when we're adults. Thus is "love means never having to say you're sorry," transformed by experience, the ability to recognize and act upon reality and adult morality into "love means being able and willing to say you're sorry, and meaning it."

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August 15, 2010

Obama Backs Away On Manhattan Mosque Defense

Barack Obama came out as being supportive of the so-called Ground Zero mosque proposal, but quickly revised his phrasing yesterday in the wake of immediate public criticism.

Speaking to reporters today, President Obama drew a sharp line under his comments last night, insisting that his defense of the right to build a mosque does not mean he supports the project.

"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding," he said.

And with that, Sir Robin bravely ran away.

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August 14, 2010

An Affront from Now to 9/11, to the Shores of Tripoli

Remember when Air Force One buzzed Manhattan for a photo op and spread terror among New York City, still (understandably) sensitive of careening airliners because of 9/11?

The Prince of Snides shows that kind of sensitivity again.

But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are. The writ of our Founders must endure.

The Won cites Jefferson's views of religious tolerance... accidentally underscoring the fact that the United States has been fighting against militant Islam since the very founding of our nation.

This is also the same Thomas Jefferson who said:

"[a] strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means."

We are led—and I use that term with all due reservation—by a would-be ruling class that repeatedly bows in supplication instead of celebrating American exceptionalism. Our current President is just the latest feckless example of that spineless mold.

There are rights, and there are rights. Mass murderers never have the right to prance and pose over the remains of their victims. If Barack Obama doesn't understand that, he simply is not fit to be President, and is barely worthy of being called a citizen.

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August 13, 2010

Kossack: 9/11 was "More About Optics than Actual Harm."

A blogger at the popular progressive blog Daily Kos has attempted to smear many Americans with a very wide brush of anti-Islamic bigotry, while at the same time espousing a decidedly bizarre progressive view of the worst terror attack in this nation's history.

...a new CNN poll that shows that 68% of the nation opposes the construction of the community center in Manhattan. The question asked was about a mosque which I find a little misleading, and it used the inflammatory "Ground Zero" name for the site of the Twin Towers, but that is not really the point. This new data shows a couple of things that we know already to be true. First off, the majority when asked their opinion will almost always be against the rights of a minority. This is a particular hot issue because of the 9/11 attacks where carried out by Muslims, but it is to be expected even if that were not the case.

Muslims are only a small minority in the United States, with somewhere between 1.3 million and 7 million of our citizens being practitioners of this faith. This makes Muslims between .3% and 2.1% of the over all population. However world wide the followers of Islam are closer to 25% of the planetary population.

Given that they are such a small minority in this nation, it is odd that so many of our fellow citizens see them as such a threat. Yes, the 9/11 attacks were horrific, but they were more about optics than actual harm. The economy was already taking a hit before the Twin Towers fell. The reaction of the nation to seeing two major buildings in New York fall on T.V. has boosted the attack out of proportion. While the loss of even a single life is to be condemned and the devastation these deaths caused the families of those killed, more than this number of teens are killed every year in car crashes. These are also tragic losses but we do not make the kind of high profile issue of it that the 9/11 attacks are.

It is this sort of disconnected, community-based reality that these elitists have fabricated for themselves that had led the majority of the nation to find these elitists not just out of touch, but dangerously out of step with the rest of the nation.

There is certainly plenty of room to debate whether or not the contested Islamic community center and mosque being proposed in lower Manhattan is appropriate. There is room to debate whether or not whether Islam, as a oppressive and intractably conjoined mixture of religion and a totalitarian political movement, is what the Founders meant to extend unlimited protections to under the First Amendment.

Trivializing the losses of 9/11, both personal and cultural, is not a way to win your argument.

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August 12, 2010

Dear America: Liberals Want You to Know How They Feel About You

The Coffee Party was a flop. The Other 95% bombed. Crash the Tea Party made progressives a laughingstock. So can they make it any worse for themselves?

Yes they can!

Dem group launches 'F*ck Tea' campaign

Last summer, Democrats argued that the Tea Party movement was the astroturf creation of corporate groups. Now that the grass-roots conservative resurgence has emerged as a clear force on the right, the left is making a different case: That tea parties are simply the enemy.

To that end, the Agenda Project, a new, progressive group with roots in New York's fundraising scene and a goal of strengthening the progressive movement, has launched the "F.*.c.k. Tea project," which is aimed, the group's founder Erica Payne wrote in an e-mail this morning, "to dismiss the Tea Party and promote the progressive cause."

The article goes on to say that Payne is a co-founder of a group of liberal mega-donors that ultimately fund the Center for American Progress, Media Matters and Think Progress. They also have a profane video (NSFW) that mocks Tea Party supporters and imagines liberals as clever and urbane.

You really must see it to believe it.

My advice? Distribute this far and wide, without distortion. Let America know what the would-be ruling class thinks about them in their quest for more and more power. Let our citizens know how Democratic elitists (and some Republicans as well) feel about their concerns about our economy, our sovereignty, and our nation's future.

I expected this kind of "let them eat tapas" attitude from Michelle Antoinette in private, but never expected her palace guard to be so open about their disdain for the concerns of the majority of America in public.

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Another Debunking of the Laredo Invasion

Regular reader Bill Smith forwarded me this story from Texas GOP Vote that continues to blow gaping holes in the claims of the sensationalists I've dubbed the "Laredo Truthers."

Just like the people they were named after, the complete lack of evidence supporting their argument only deepens their suspicions that a cover-up must have occurred, and the less evidence there is, the higher the conspiracy must go.

The probability that there never was an incident, or there was a hoax, or minor infraction embellished to the point of being unrecognizable is far less fun to promote, and at this point, several of the key promoters of this story have bet all their credibility on it being true.

I'll let you pick who to trust.

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August 11, 2010

The Laredo Truthers Ride Again

The same folks that bought San Diego-based rumors of a Texas invasion by drug cartels several weeks ago are standing by their stories, and now attempting to claim vindication.

Kimberly Dvorak, the San Diego County Political Buzz Examiner that started the story, now claims to have evidence that her story is true.

Her evidence? An image that she claims is a a screen from a police blotter report.

Digger's Realm is now trumpeting this as absolution, as is Mondo Frazier from Death by an Thousand Papercuts and Big Journalism.

They choose to believe that a supposed computer screen, obtained (or fabricated) by unrevealed sources, that cites neither the name or address of the ranch or the person making the call to law enforcement, proves their case.

The want us to believe that the police officers and sheriffs units that weren't ID'd were deployed, and that the lack of any report of contact or observation by these unknown LEOs is justification for the claims that the various law enforcement agencies and named officials cited in the story who said it didn't happen, are lying.

We still don't have an address. We still don't have a victim. We still don't have anyone with any eyewitness accounts, or physical evidence that such an event took place.

People will believe what they want, regardless of facts. That is the only evidence of anything I've even been able to discern regarding this story.

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1 It's starting to sound like you are wrong on this one, CW

Posted by: Kevin at August 11, 2010 04:17 PM (GKXDW)

2 I have a simpler question: all issues of provenance aside, why does that "computer screen dump" look like something off a Commodore PET circa 1984? Straight B&W display, no sign of windows, all caps, the only sign of modernity is the san-serif, proportional-spaced font. And I know some people think Texas cops are illiterate redneck bozos, but two and three typos per line isn't believable either.

Posted by: wolfwalker at August 11, 2010 07:43 PM (/5zlb)

3 Hey I got some ocean front property in Las Vegas I'm willing to let go of cheap if any of the brethren here at Yankee Confederate are interested.

Posted by: SR at August 11, 2010 08:21 PM (SZoZW)

4 I retired in 2009 after 30 years as a police lieutenant with Asheville, NC and this does not look like an authentic record to me. As already mentioned it is in black and white and looks like an old style CRT display from the 80's or early 90's. I have had contact with numerous agencies over the last 5 years and almost all agencies with Computer-Aided Dispatch or in-car computers (even very small agencies can afford them now) use modern ruggedized laptops running Windows XP/Vista, etc. with sharp color displays with standard Windows fonts. This is also NOT a computer aided dispatch record of a call - notice the date/time stamp at the bottom shows 7/24/2010 at 7:42 am while the opening of the narrative lists a date of 7/23/2010 - almost all police systems time/date stamp each comment so this narrative was written at least 7 hours after the events supposedly happened. A police dispatcher would know that the system automatically time/date stamps the entries and thus there would be no need in the very intense environment they function in to be redundant by typing the date - you just type the info and let the system date it for you. It also does not read to me like a dispatch record and I have seen thousands of them. What it really looks like to me is an old style car to car message of the kind officers often send each other (those also get time/date stamped by the system). This is equivalent to text messaging on a cell phone. I can tell you from experience that officers with time on their hands will send all kinds of weird joke messages when they are bored in the early morning. If I had to bet, this looks to me like a car to car message from one officer to another on an old system sent to start rumors, start a practical joke, shoot the s**t, etc. We are also not seeing the total screen - if this was a dispatch record, the header to the screen would probably contain the address, date/time, type call, etc - if it is a car to car message there would also be a header telling which unit it was from and which unit it was to, etc. If it is any kind of legitimate police computer message there would be a header of some type, not just an isolated message. This can't be a legitimate law enforcement record. By the way, the mis-spellings are what you would expect from a car to car message typed early in the morning when an officer has worked all night and is tired and trying to type in a hurry while seated in a cruiser.

Posted by: David R. at August 11, 2010 08:37 PM (RYBT1)

5 [Posted by David R. at August 11, 2010 08:37 PM]

Interesting. Can you tell me, what exactly do they mean by a police blotter report. Are those official documents? Are the messages sent back and forth car-to-car, as you say -- the jokes and goofs and such -- part of some record also, or do they basically disappear into the ether after being sent.

I'm just wondering if someone attempts to present a message such as this as an official police document, and it is fake, whether that is illegal, something like impersonating a police officer, especially if they are using real officers' names in the message.

Posted by: Dusty at August 11, 2010 09:06 PM (3WVdK)

6 So, if this is a hoax I hope the hoaxer will be exposed by CY. We wouldn't want them to be able to yank your chain again. Someone might get hurt.

Posted by: Steve at August 11, 2010 09:39 PM (pQYM9)

7 Dusty,

Police blotter is sort of an obsolete term that refers to the big bound record book that desk sergeants kept in the old days in which they listed all the calls for service, crimes, incidents, etc. that happened during their shift. The modern equivalent is the listing you can get from a computer aided dispatch system of the calls, crimes, etc. that happened during a particular time period. The listing is just a report printed by the system - the official records would be the underlying records for each call for service, the incident reports taken on crimes, records of traffic stops, etc that the list summarizes. The official documents are kept for a significant period of time (in NC it is 5 years for misdemeanors and 20 years for felonies) per state statute. The car to car messages are kept for a period of time as determined by the individual agency (the case law is somewhat uncertain as to whether the car to car bulls**t messages constitute official department records which would have to be maintained for a specific period of time). They don't just disappear into the ether. My agency keeps the car to car records as long as there is computer storage space which in practical terms because they are text messages means they are available for years. I frequently warned the officers who worked for me to be careful about the car to car messages because they could come back to haunt them. As far as the legality of the fake message, it would depend on the laws of the particular state. In NC, if it was a joke message with NO intent to make it an official document or to deceive for monetary gain, it would probably not be illegal - however, if an officer made up the message, even as a joke, it could subject him to departmental discipline for conduct unbecoming. If someone falsely used the officers name in an attempt to deceive or have it taken as an official record, there very possibly could be some criminal charges. Hope this answers your questions.

Posted by: David R. at August 11, 2010 09:54 PM (RYBT1)

8 This alleged blotter describes how law enforcement received an emergency call from a worried rancher; how law enforcement responded with appropriate force; how law enforcement found the mountain was a molehill and how law enforcement left some plainclothes in the area to keep an eye on things, just in case.

It does NOT describe how an army of drug thugs and cartel commandos took over a ranch and thwarted law enforcement's attempts to restore order.

If the wild-assed stories were accurate, we'd have heard about hostages, shooting, injuries, sieges and ultimately, arrests.

Like Bob, I'm still calling BS.

Posted by: David L., Lower Alabama at August 11, 2010 10:29 PM (bv1hq)

9 Hope this answers your questions.

[Posted by David R. at August 11, 2010 09:54 PM]

Yes, it did, David, and a very nice job of doing so. Thanks much.

Posted by: Dusty at August 11, 2010 10:37 PM (3WVdK)

10 Absent further data, that screenshot is simply not believable (need we go back to Rathergate all over again?). While my expertise in information security (with 25+ years experience) isn't in the forensics field, I find it troubling that someone would expect me to believe a text interface that was so rudimentary that it lacked screen placement (e.g. curses/ncurses), yet featured proportional type (check out the "squeezing of space" around the letter I, for instance). Give me a green or amber screen (not white on black btw) with fixed type spacing and some oppressive full-screen terminal formatting, be it ANSI, VT100, etc.

Oh, and the wrap that suggests a picture from an old monitor is amusing but distorted. Give me $500 and I'll waste an hour or two to provide a Rathergate-inspired clone.

Posted by: Hatless Hessian at August 12, 2010 12:33 AM (7r7wy)

11 Sorry folks, if this did hsppen, there woulda been a big battle, and the Sheriff dept. would be bragging about asses kicked and bad guys killed. not some silly cover up. This is Texas were talkin about, after all.

Posted by: JP at August 12, 2010 03:05 AM (Tae/a)

12 There's no such thing as "LSO" (Presumably "Laredo Sheriff's Office"). It's the Webb County Sheriff; Laredo is a city in Webb County.

Rathergate Redux . . . all Dvorak needs to do now is proclaim this to be "fake but accurate."

Posted by: Cobalt Shiva at August 12, 2010 07:44 AM (KCVUU)

13 So Kevin, you believe that CY is *wrong* for doubting flimsy claim. The burden is on the person making the claim, not on others to "debunk" it.

Scientific method is cool.

Posted by: brando at August 12, 2010 09:46 AM (IPGju)

14 Note also that there is no "Laredo Sheriff's Office." Laredo is a city and has a Police Department. Laredo is located in Webb County which has a Sheriff's Office.

Posted by: Federale at August 12, 2010 11:19 AM (PWWdd)

15 Holy crap, Batman! A screenshot of a CRT display? It doesn't get any more authoritative than that, does it? And yet CY is still fighting a valiant rearguard action against the tidal wave of TWOOF!!!!11!!eleventy!!!!

We need to ask ourselves, who is bankrolling CY? It's obvious he's in the pocket of some powerful shadowy group. So come clean, man - just how did Big Laredo get to you?

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at August 14, 2010 03:02 PM (M5l4f)

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Another Corruptocrat Dies

Another corrupt member of the would-be ruling class goes to meet his eternal judge.

Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82.

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The Ground Zero Mosque: Prevent It, Because the Want It

[The following essay is a guest post from CY commenter Mike McDaniel]

"The capitalists will sell us the rope which we will use to hang them!" Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was fond of saying.  While there was a kernel of truth in his observation, not only did Lenin and his successors fail to understand their enemy, ultimately the Soviets couldn't afford to build the gallows.  Cultural misunderstanding and self delusion have been the downfall of more than one nation.

And so we find ourselves contemplating the construction of a mosque overshadowing Ground Zero.  Many Muslims and a great many leftists are speaking with one voice and using the same propaganda techniques.  Foremost among them is a sort of constitutional Ju-Jitsu whereby the freedoms and tolerance inherent in the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian ethic are used against America.

"Tolerance demands that we allow Muslims to build a Mosque wherever they want but particularly here!  Freedom of religion!  Freedom of speech!  Freedom of assembly and association!  Tolerance!  Muslims around the world will see that we like them and they in turn will like us!  Muslims have legitimate grievances and building the mosque will address them!  They want to build it there to establish a dialogue!  It's a community center where we can all come together and build, you know, like, a bridge or a community or something!"  They cry, boldly thrusting their receding chins fractions of an inch forward.

There is one reason to prevent the construction of this mosque that is compelling and self evident.  It is the only reason we need:  We should prevent it because they want it.

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August 10, 2010

Otter Crash Kills Five, Including Former Senator

Via Fox News:

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history and a tireless advocate for his state, was killed in a plane crash southwest of Anchorage Monday.

A spokesman for the family, former chief of staff Mitch Rose, confirmed to Fox News that Stevens was among the five dead. He was 86. Colleagues of the veteran lawmaker, who had waited all day to learn of Stevens' condition, mourned his loss and described him as an Alaskan "hero."

Hero to some, example of entrenched corruption to others, Stevens was the third prominent and controversial old guard Senator to die in recent memory, with Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) also passing away within the past year.

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August 09, 2010

Defending Liberty

Now posted as well at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government.

Update: Greg at Rhymes with Right riffs of this in We Are The Revolution People.

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August 08, 2010

Defending Liberty

Over the course of the past week I've written several entries that have infuriated the would-be tyrants among us.

• A Nation on the Edge of Revolt warned that "either the American people—not extremists, but good and decent patriots like your neighbors and yourselves—will revolt and destroy the ruling class and reform our government based upon first principles, or the United States we know as our forefather conceived it is dead."
• Closer to Midnight attempted to answer a veteran's question about why patriotic Americans that value our First Principles should prepare for a possible conflict if the corruption of our government cannot be tamed at the ballot box.
• We Get Letters! and We Get (More) Letters! chronicle the typical threats issued by followers when they cannot intellectually defend their unconstitutional actions with a reasoned justification for their behavior.
• The Edict-Makers notes the continued destructive path of the would-be ruling class, and the abuses they would heap upon the Constitution and citizens in their desperate quest to grab more power for themselves.
• Pre-Revolutionary, last but not least in this series of posts, highlights the revelations of experienced Democratic operative Pat Caddell as he notes the fracturing of his party and the attempt of the elites in the party to rule instead of serve the American people.

It will come as no surprise at all that those institutions and individuals that serve as adjuncts to the would-be ruling class have attacked this series of posts.

Media Matters attacked them twice. Conservative media figures openly discussing revolution...again places me among the company of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh as some of the conservatives in the media that note well and understand this point in history... though they obviously offer their own spin to evoke a response from their readers.

Wash. Examiner's Owens suggests right-wing violence will be necessary, hopes we "feel threatened" is their same-day response to Closer to Midnight (link above), partnered with a none-too-subtle attempt to pressure the Washington Examiner into silencing me and others who would raise the alarm about the constitutional abuses and usurpations being orchestrated by their masters.

Other leftists have followed the lead of Media Matters, and continue down the path of disinformation they hope will help them divide and conquer this nation's citizens.

At left-wing Daily Kos, "bernardpliers" attempts to claim that I advocate " an explicitly racial war." The author selectively drops quotes from this blog in this entry, and of course, not one of them supports anything at all like a conflict driven by concerns over race. Only the left is concerned with race. Unsurprisingly, the rest of the post concerns itself with noting possible points of division within the various groups opposing their encroaching tyranny, instead of attempting to defend their actions and goals.

The "divide and conquer through race" strategy is nakedly on display at Balloon Juice as well, where "Dennis G." makes his attempt to claim that opposition to would-be ruling class machinations are nothing more or less than an attempt to revive his vision of the Confederacy of the Civil War.

This axis of weevils may be blatantly dishonest, but they have a clear agenda. They would like to portray opposition to their plans as racists. They would like to portray political and media figures (even admittedly minor ones such as myself) that stand in opposition to their usurpation of liberty as neo-confederates, attaching the stigma of slavery and defeat to their opposition. It is a clever rhetorical device and an emotional one. It will succeed in inflaming the easily led, but the primary goal of this attempt at labeling their opposition is to try to silence the good and decent people who recognize our present Constitutional crisis, and would stand against it.

So let us take on this attempt at division and deception as directly as possible.

Liberty is colorblind. It does not see in shades of yellow or beige or brown or black. Liberty speaks without accent, and with all of them. It cares not whether your ancestors hail from misty islands, verdant savannahs, frigid steppes, or tropical jungles. Liberty is liberty, freedom of men and women, freedom of thought, freedom of the spirit, and freedom from constriction and stasis, that all real men and women crave like water or air.

We care about liberty. We are devoted to our nation, because we acknowledge and weigh its faults and superlatives, and know that we represent the best hope for true freedom and equality mankind has to offer. We are not blind to the mistakes and evils of our collective past; we seek them out, and overcome them. We will not be guilted into becoming a second-class nation because some choose to cling to division as a method of control.

We are revolutionary. We are evolutionary. We look to restore the government to its proper role, as servant of the people. It must once again be made into a precision instrument that empowers, replacing this corrupting enterprise that seeks to punish and enslave the people for the enrichment of the self-styled elite.

Good men and women know that the story of these United States is far from over, and we will not accept the leftist trope that our nation's best days are behind us. We are a nation of incredible ingenuity, kindness, and hope. We are a nation of dreamers, but we are also a nation of action.

We will not be guilted into silence, nor bullied into becoming a lesser state.

We will not stand by and trade the bright future of our nation for the weight of oppression, and we will not be silenced or defined by those comfortable in their chains.

Feel pity for the poor souls who wallow in the misery of mediocrity and unrequited dreams, but refuse to be defined by them. We are Americans, citizens of the United States, defenders of liberty and represent the best this world has to offer.

And we will never accept being anything less.

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August 07, 2010

Cop-Killing Leftist Terrorist Buck Dies

Marilyn Buck, another friend of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn involved in left-wing terrorism with The Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army, has died:

On Oct. 20, 1981, she was part of a group of Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army members who ambushed a Brink's armored car carrying $1.6 million at a mall in Nanuet, N.Y.

One guard was killed at the scene. A second was badly wounded. Two police officers were subsequently killed after they pulled over one of the getaway cars.
Buck accidentally shot herself in the leg during the gun battle with police, but she escaped and remained free for four years.

During that time, she was involved in a series of bombings that included a 1983 nighttime blast at the Capitol that didn't hurt anyone but damaged Senate offices. The bomb was purportedly placed to protest the U.S. invasion of Grenada.

Liberals love to pretend that their terrorist acts were a relic of the 1960s, but Buck and her allies were committing murders, bombings, and armed robbery well into the 1980s. Buck was captured in 1984 and confessed to some of her crimes in 1988 to protect her co-conspirators.

Bernadine Dohrn was thought to be an accomplice during the Brinks robbery/murders in 1981, and did seven months for criminal obstruction of justice related to that case. Bill Ayers was at Banks College. Barack Obama was blocks away at nearby Columbia.

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We Get (More) Letters!

Omar Little (omar.little2009@gmail.com) seems to have the same wonderful outlook on life that Omar Thorton does... and I think he's a fan!

Bring the revolution on you racist c**kscker.

If you like, I'll even let you take the first shot. At me. I'll send you my address. You can come to my house. Bring a nuclear bomb if you want. I'll take you weapon from your weak racist *ss, shove it up your *ss and pull the trigger until it goes click. Because it is obvious that you racist c**ksucker confederates need yet another *ss kicking.

You are a typical racist f**k - all loud talk, but a weak *ss p*ssy when someone tells you to jump.

You'll note that Omar uses the same reason and eloquence we've come to expect from the SEIU crowd. He speaks the language of violence well, and he certainly thinks it is intimidating.

But he isn't done yet.

Or maybe I'll come down to your house

And burn the flag of treason on your front lawn. I'll stand there, a symbol of all that liberalism you hate, your sworn enemy. I'll give you as long as it takes for your flag to burn to take your shot. But you're a p*ssy and probably don't even own a gun.

I'm amused. I told him as much.

We should expect more "love letters" from people like Omar, individuals that either imagine themselves to be part of the would-be ruling class, or who are content to subsist on the scraps of liberty that would remain if such tyranny is fully realized. You'll note that like our last letter writer he's full of vitriol... just not much else.

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August 06, 2010

The Tone-Deaf Tour Continues

Michelle Obama's conspicuous consumption is even infuriating our allies, including the U.K.'s Daily Mail, which rips the free-spending First Lady and her entourage:

Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.

The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her a modern-day Marie Antoinette.

And her critics will be further annoyed when they learn that the president's wife had a Spanish beach closed off today so that she, her daughter and their entourage could go for a swim.

I'm sure if they made an effort they could find a way to plot a more tone-deaf public spectacle to reinforce the notion that the first family is grossly out of touch with the economic pains being experienced by so many Americans... but it might be tough.

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Brady Center VP Assaulted

Verbally. By what should have been a receptive audience.

Poor Dennis Henigan... Even the Huffington Post audience knows better than to listen to him anymore, and they shred him in the comments for his ignoble effort.

When you lie for a living, don't be surprised when even the dimmer members of your audience eventually turn on you.

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Howard Zinn, The Left's Darling Dead Propagandist

Howard Zinn has long been a darling of pseudo-intelligent leftists (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck come to mind) and his "People's History of the United States" has long been lauded by the progressive university. Because of his near rock star popularity and influence among the self-styled intelligensia it is a bit surprising that information recently declassified by the FBI showing that Zinn was an active communist has seen so little exposure.

Little, as in next to no media exposure at all.

While Google's search-bot is not the be-all, end-all of devices to ascertain whether or not a story has been buried, I think it is fair to say that the ruling class that suckled at Zinn's anti-American teat are more than a little embarrassed at his outing, and hope to keep his tale under wraps. Online news outlets such as Pajamas Media are publicizing the scandalous story, but you are seeing no reaction whatsoever to this discovery on cable or network news, in newspapers, or in political magazines like you would if it was discovered that a prominent conservative academic was a member of a radical right wing group that we were at ideological war with for half a century.

Why the silence?

It is simple, really.

Dead communist Zinn is still very much the hero for the left; they dare not tarnish his hallowed image. Further, his contemporaries still exist, and his students still carry great influence in the Democrat/Media complex... you may argue that thy are the Democrat/media complex. Rest assured, they are not silent to protect Zinn's legacy.

They are silent to protect themselves.

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