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I just realized I am a liberal. This revelation came to me after reviewing the issues a certain liberal candidate for office outlined. On every issue she listed I found I was in concurrence. I think you too will come to the same conclusion. Here is the list of the issues (in bold and italicized): Pro-choice? You bet! I completely concur. I think people should have the choice to send their kids to parochial or private schools just like many ...

Why aren't the Sheila Jackson-Lee's and the Al Sharpton's of this world trying to commemorate these people with postage stamps?

Great Orators of the Democratic Party... 'One man with courage makes a majority.' - Andrew Jackson The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt 'The buck stops here.' - Harry S. Truman 'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.' - John F. Kennedy And for today's democrats... 'It depends what your definition of 'IS' is?'' - Bill Clinton 'That Obama - I would like to cut his NUTS off.' - Jesse Jackson 'Those rumors are false .... I believe in the sanctity of marriage.'...

Jackson 5 song fitting commentary that American Culture Needs to Change

On Tuesday, June 30, a young woman in what looked like an off-the-shoulder slinky black jumpsuit and tall patent leather heels drifted into a party at the New Museum celebrating "The Generation: Younger Than Jesus," the triennial exhibit featuring 50 international artists under the age of 33 that ended on Sunday, July 5. Other guests thought she was "nice" and "pretty" and "friendly." Then someone pointed out that the peroxide blonde in question, who was also wearing a fringed silver belt and gold hoop earrings, was Meghan McCain, the feisty blogger and daughter of former Republic presidential candidate John McCain....

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continues to confound political observers. The woman whose sudden entrance onto the national political stage so badly confused the liberal machine last fall has just as suddenly announced her departure, unexpectedly announcing her resignation as Governor last Friday, less than three years into her term. You can evaluate Mrs. Palin’s political effectiveness by looking at how people reacted to her. The barrage of gutter-level personal attacks after Sen. John McCain chose her as his running mate was swift and vicious. So badly flummoxed was the opposition that they stooped to personal attacks that targeted the Palin...

had a chat with a lib re: Palin's resignation at the office.....paraphrasing... Lib: …she quit before her term was over. How could she possibly expect to be President? How reliable is she, walking out on her responsibilities?!... Me: …Obama left the Senate before his term was over. So you agree he shouldn’t be President? Lib:…that’s different. He wasn’t the boss. She was the governor, in charge of the state… Me: …so you concede Palin has more executive experience actually running something than Obama? Lib:…er,…..no…….but………….(drools)………….(head explodes)

A liberal acquaintance couldn't understand why conservatives are impatient with Obama. Didn't conservatives get enough of a chance with 30 years of Reagan and Bush, he asked? OK, it's true that conservatives did get some tax-rate cuts. And we did win the cold war. And we did roll back one social program, welfare, a little, for a while. But conservatives look on the Obama administration so far and say: Liberals are like the French Bourbons -- the royal house of France, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, deposed in the French Revolution. After the defeat of Napoleon the Bourbon kings were restored...

Democrats have big majorities in both houses of Congress, but cracks are emerging — both legislatively and politically — that threaten to pit liberals and centrists against each other. Where President Bush was able to enforce tight discipline on the Republican Conference while his political advisers exercised an iron grip on the national party, President Obama and his advisers have been less able to do so. That, political watchers say, is not unusual, especially for a Democratic president. “The Democrats have always been herding cats,” said Rhodes Cook, an independent political analyst. “They’ve always been considered to be the more...

Oh, how quickly times have changed. Just a few short years ago, Democrats were up in arms over King George III's (President George W. Bush's) "unconstitutional" executive power grabs. Where are these people now? I'll tell you where they are: right in the thick of it, enabling President Barack Obama to consolidate and exercise unprecedented power. Remember when Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy complained that the constitutional "checks and balances that have served to constrain abuses of power for more than two centuries in this country" were at risk because Republicans controlled the executive and legislative branches? How about Sen. Russ...

Many conservatives have meditated upon the level of and the source of the left’s absolute hatred toward Sarah Palin. I have no quarrel with their perceptions; I have to say that David Letterman’s crass attempt at humor was the epitome of the supposedly presentable liberal exhibiting his skunky nether regions. I would add though that I think George W. Bush attracted just as much insane, slanderous foaming at the mouth. Perhaps with Sarah, due to some lingering notions of chivalry, the repeated eviscerations just seemed worse. But since both of them came in (and still do) for such malignant personal...

I had a rather lively day yesterday commenting on various sites with liberals. My personal favorite was in response to an article entitled “Vegans glad to see Palin go.” I wrote something like – “It’s a non sequitur to assume that vegans are liberals. I’m vegan, yet conservative.” He was kind enough to respond, albeit in a bit testy yet controlled way. He said that he couldn’t understand how I could be vegan and support Palin, and further that he didn’t see how I inferred from his article that all vegans did not like Palin (or were liberal – I...

Over the past week there’s been a scrap going on between the political parties as to who is the gay-friendlier. Interesting to gays probably, very boring for everyone else. But there is one aspect to all of this which still goes largely ignored - for reasons, no doubt, of “cultural sensitivity” - and that is the effect that the long march of multiculturalism has had on this whole issue. Basically it comes down to this question: how do you celebrate and respect cultures and religions which think you are an abomination? It’s a tricky one for the bien pensants and...

Liberals (ie: Democrats) are either mentally ill, ignorant or liars (or all three). It used to be this was just conjecture, but now there are facts to support that statement. The conservatives who are reading this are all nodding their heads in agreement and the liberals are wishing they were conservatives, so they could get their guns and become self-righteous and indignant. Sorry liberals, reality is what it is. Get a helmet.

In recent times, that is, during June of 2009, President Barack Obama has recoiled at efforts at fighting the oppressors in Iran. He has allowed the political situation in Iran to escalate into the crisis it is today. At the time of this writing, protests in the streets have broken out over the rigged election. The red flags should have been flying in the Commander in Chief’s face already. Iran has been advancing their nuclear weapon program at a dangerously rapid rate, constantly waving the fact at the West. The rest has been very well documented. Political corruption has been...

Envy is a terrible liberal curse and is the driving force behind socialism; failure, ignorance and the equal sharing of misery. Liberals view happy, successful people as the mirror of their own inadequacy; a lack of appreciation of their own self-worth. Envy of someone’s accomplishments builds bitterness and hatred in the mind of an underachiever - a resentfulness about the world, more specifically their culture, just not being “fair.” Success, and acceptance among the “happy conservatives,” represents something liberals will never attain. A good example of this is Western liberals teaming-up with Muslims to destroy their own civilization; one which...

Time This Blog Linked From Here My Earth Day article on Limbaugh show The Web This Blog Linked From Here My Earth Day article on Limbaugh show The Web Sunday, July 5, 2009 Why Leftist Thought is Predominant in America. “YOU LEFT THE FIELD OF IDEAS to people like me to be corrupted, while you went off to make money,” said Ellsworth Toohey to his former boss Gale Wynand in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. The Toohey character represents the liberal intelligentsia. Wynand represents the Rockefeller Republican. This one statement by a fictional character articulates the present social, political, and cultural...

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” – The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 These are powerful and truthful words; words that officially launched a war; words that birthed a nation. These words, written by...

“I believe we are witnessing the beginning of a new race of men” Anonymous British Officer after the Battle of Saratoga, 1777 This comment, made by a soldier now forgotten by history, was more prophetic and more significant than he probably realized at the time. As prescient as he may have been, little could he have predicted the mass immigration to American shores that has taken place over the succeeding centuries. Little could he have realized the beacon of hope and promise that America has represented to people from all four corners of the world. Little could he have realized...

I, like millions of American citizens, am having a hard time understanding the new America. We preferred the old one, where immigrants were expected to learn English and the roots of high expectations were taught in our public schools. Sometime after John Boy Walton said "Goodnight Grandma" and news media's infatuation with celebrity whores, our dynamic purpose as a sovereign nation changed. The United States is truly a 21st century paradigm. Our growth is built on consumption, not production; a society founded not on natural resources but upon the dissipation of capital accumulated elsewhere; a place of infinite possibilities, held...

Christian Doctrine and how the left twists it politically The issues – There are a lot of issues to be covered in this article such as abortion, so called gay issues, taxes, socialized medicine and other social programs, illegal criminal invaders. (all verses use New King James Version for accuracy and understanding. Other versions of the bible are vague and unclear. KJV is the most accurate that one could use, but it is difficult for anyone to understand, so I struck a balance with something that was with original intent of scripture and the teaching of God, but easier for...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Dawn was reading the Palm Beach Post. I don't read it but she does, and she sent me this most amazing story. The headline: "Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim..." and Port St. Lucie is in Martin County, right? I'm sorry, St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County, yes, but it's not in Palm Beach County. "Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim $83 Million in Food Stamp Aid." Now, the first thing wrong with the headline is "hungry." If they were hungry they'd be collecting the food stamps! And this stupid story goes on...

This was inspired by an exchange on Moonbattery, although for quite a long time I’ve been thinking about this. Left-wing progressives seem to care only about the “freedom” to do whatever they want to whoever they want in the bedroom. Once you step outside the bedroom, most every aspect of your life should be subject to the iron hand of the progressive state: 1.The Freedom to keep what you earn and spend it as you please. 2.The Freedom to take risks, and live with the consequences. 3.The Right to participate in the political process by donating money to causes you...

Liberals: Are They Born That Way?July 1, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I gotta deal with something here. August 1st will be 21 years. And for about 20 of these -- maybe 21 of the 21 and-a-half years, there hasn't been a day go by that I haven't been asked, "Rush, why are liberals the way they are?" Now, you take a look at the Supreme Court decision on the Ricci case, the firefighters in New Haven, four human beings, four Americans saw no discrimination against the white firefighters in the case when it was obvious. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for...

Meghan McCain—whom some have called the new face of the GOP—likes to call herself a “progressive Republican.” Her Twitter page is full of updates about her devotion to gay marriage: “Marriage equality will not fall to the wayside! I have faith one day there will be equality for everyone living in this country!” That’s fine, I don’t care whether or not she supports “marriage equality.” But as someone her age, I know that gay marriage is one of the causes that young people must embrace in order to gain admission to the liberal in-crowd—and I suspect that’s why she’s doing...

A new Gallup poll has some interesting results; this year the number of Americans who described the Democratic Party’s views as “too liberal” increased to a historic high mark (46%), putting it slightly ahead of the number who say the Republican Party is “too conservative” (43%). However, it’s not great news for the Republicans, because the number who say the GOP is “too conservative” has remained unchanged from its own historic high mark last year. It looks like a lot of Americans are disenchanted with both parties for being too extreme. Here’s a Gallup video on the poll with more...

Eleven score and twelve years ago, 56 founders of this great nation signed a document freeing the United States from British tyranny and establishing national pride of independence and freedom that George Washington would reaffirm during his farewell address when he said: “The name of American which belongs to you, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism” and, “Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole.” A nation was born from the wilderness that would in the coming years feed the world, give charitably and abundantly...

Some interesting numbers out of Gallup this afternoon: There has been a statistically significant uptick in the percentage of Americans who view the Democratic Party as "too liberal." The survey found that the percentage of Americans who hold that view jumped from 39 percent to 46 percent. That is the highest percentage since November of 1994.

Che Guevara was a cowardly murderer, and those walking around the US with his stinking, bearded countenance adorning their apparel are ignorant fools.I can understand why he is a hero in Latin America, where the rich dump all over the poor and call it capitalism and democracy. But here in America--the most egalitarian and upwardly mobile society in the world--the most famous t-shirt salesman in the world is a mark of ignorance.A Che logo screams "I am blissfully ignorant of history and I despise the capitalist freedom that brought me this gucci bag and these $200 Raybans." Capitalism Is Dead!...

With the growing consensus in the Senate that Health Care Co-ops, which would not be government-run or government funded, are better than the "Public Option," which is the Socialist part, the Liberals are starting to see the writing on the wall. And they are panicking.

With a change in directions so sharp that it could give observers whiplash, Arianna Huffington is defending the carefully orchestrated question posed by a Huffington Post writer at the presidential news conference last week. After braying criticism during the Bush administration over perceived coziness between the press and the White House, she is now defending the HuffPo's hand in glove--or should I say, hand on keyboard--cooperation with....

Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. No, Posner does not work for the Associated Press (which also has some strange ideas on linking). He is (normally) considered to be one of the great legal minds of our time. Posner is a United States Court of Appeals judge in Chicago and legal scholar who was once considered a potential Supreme Court nominee. He is someone who should know better....

    Timing is everything, and a new book from Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson ties in well with recent “reports� from the Department of Homeland Security on “rightwing extremists� and the one from the Missouri Information Analysis Center on the “modern militia movement.�    Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Anderson, a Washington, D.C. attorney, call their book Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea. So, in addition to being demonized as “rightwing extremists� and militia whackos, now gun rights activists – people who stand in defense of their fundamental civil right to keep and...

HR 2998 American Clean Energy and Security Act. The Congressional record minutes of yesterday can be accessed at Thomas.gov. The Corporations and Associations that are backing this legislation can be found on pages H7685 & H7686. Listing below:

A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the...

. In 1798, during the Quasi-war with France, Congress, with President John Adams’s support, passed the Sedition Act. Outraged by attacks on her husband, Abigail Adams supported the act, which was opposed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, among others. “Let us not establish a tyranny,” wrote an alarmed Alexander Hamilton to an ally in Congress. Indeed, the Sedition Act, an obvious violation of the First Amendment, made a permanent blot on Adams’s presidency. Here is part of its text: “If any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or...

To Whom it May Concern – I recently received a copy of a letter from a friend that was addressed to me in as much as I consider myself to be a Liberal, a Leftist, a Social Progressive, and a supporter of Barack Obama. The letter is supposedly from a fellow named John J. Wall and since I fit 4 out of 6 of the group types John wanted to address I felt I should read his letter. Having read his letter, which I have included below for you, I felt I should respond. If you have a reaction to...

What a reversal. Freedom is breaking out across Iran. We are witnessing one of the most historical events of our lifetimes, comparable no doubt to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet, Libertarians, outside of this political news blog, Atlas Shrugs, the Libertarian Defense Caucus, and a few other libertarian Republicans, are for the most part silent. Virtually no reportage at Reason. In the last week, just two articles on the whole Iranian Revolution at Reason, and one was more of a criticism of how CNN was covering the event, than coverage of the event itself. Cato is similarly unengaged....

'Progressivism' as a political philosophy is simply the old liberalism with a new name and has nothing to do with 'progress.' The history and goals of the movement take us all the way back to the late 1800s and point to a failed program that modern day liberals embrace. A careful consideration of this history is vital to the current fight against big government intrusion into every aspect of our lives.

This letter appeared in today's Wilmington News Journal, followed by my response. Based on past experience, it may get published in August - or lost. Angry conservatives should accept new liberal reality June 23, 2009 According to a recent article “irate” conservatives of Sussex County are up in arms against the liberal tendencies of both the federal and Delaware’s state governments (“In face of liberal government, irate conservatives speak up,” June 11). They apparently have forgotten that they are now a small minority, a status that was amply confirmed by the elections in 2008. Indeed, the nation is now liberal...

Liberals care about the poor: Almost every program the Left supports to "help" the poor in this country is surreptitiously designed to de-motivate them and keep them dependent on the government. The Left saps their will to work with welfare and food stamps, the Left reduces their income and puts them out of jobs by encouraging illegal aliens to enter the country, and the Left fights voucher programs that would allow poverty-stricken students to go to the same schools as the rich Americans. Liberals incessantly ramble on about how much they care about the poor -- and they do, the...

The billboard features a young, half-naked girl, involved in a threesome with a potential fourth 'player' lying on the floor. When asked about the message behind the ad, Calvin Klein spokesman said its "intention was to create a very sexy campaign that speaks to our targeted demographic."

It takes a village.

Notice how politicians love to punish recalcitrant voters who refuse to pass tax increases?From the Columbus Dispatch: Columbus police will be pulled from highways, high schools and other duties if voters reject a proposed city income-tax increase on Aug. 4, Chief Walter Distelzweig said yesterday. Nearly 300 officers would lose their jobs in layoffs. Can't get the taxpayer to hand over more money? Then scare it out of them!We'll cut the police force, crime will be rampant! Those brave, loyal firefighters will be out of a job, and your house will burn down. Like driving? City streets will be a...

Once upon a time, just over six years to be exact, Liberals called the Iraq War a lost cause; an illegitimate war based on America’s colonial greed to seize Iraq’s vast oil resources and oppress peace-loving Muslims. Of course, as we all know, a brutal dictator was brought to justice, much of a country’s infrastructure rebuilt, and free elections held for the first time in over 25 years. The actual war itself lasted approximately one month, with victorious American forces left to serve as peacekeepers; a job the United Nations abandoned solely to spite the United States, and in proxy,...

The Daily Beast's Meghan McCain on being the newest poster girl for a celebrity photo campaign to overturn California's ban on gay marriage—and why more Republicans should follow her lead. I was so honored to be asked to pose for the NOH8 campaign. I am a proud member of the Republican Party and a proud supporter of marriage equality. I especially love the incorporation of the little elephant with his tusks duct-taped in the photograph. Marriage equality is not just a Democrat or Republican issue, it is a human one.

“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.” – John Stuart Mill “Pick the Target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it”. – Saul Alinsky. Supported by innumerable others like them, those quotes remind us of what our experience confirms: The sliming of opponents has always come naturally to liberals. But there should be no surprise because humans arrogant enough to make a religion of politics and gods of politicians are arrogant enough to find it impossible to resist the temptation of denigrating “heretics” as stupid Know-Nothing yahoos....

Inspector Generals in this government are for one job, to work independently to ensure that the taxpayer is protected from government corruption and abuse. Not in Obama's government it seems. Three IG's have been fired in the last week and some pushback has started. First in this list is Gerald Walpin. He reported to Congress about the settlement of 400 grand paid by Obama cohort Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, St. HOPE academy (a pet of Johnson) and former executive director Dana Gonzalez. He reported that Johnson was not being required to repay all the money he misused AND he would...

Frank Rich, The New York Times’ commissar of political correctness, is blasting conservatives for creating what he alleges to be a climate of anti-Obama hatred which encourages violence. In one of his typical rambling jeremiads yesterday, Rich tried to connect the murder of partial-birth abortionist George Tiller, the homicide at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, FOX talk show host Bill O’Reilly calling Tiller a “baby killer,” “homicide-saturated vituperation … epidemic among mini-Limbaughs,” criticism of Obama’s obeisance to Islam, the description of the president’s economic policies as fascism, and the paranoia and hatred that supposedly permeates the conservative blogosphere. The Times’ call...