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MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." (END VIDEO CLIP) Change our traditions and change our history. What did she mean by that? I think we are starting to see it. Changing history means not just telling the same old tall tales of the free market system and the Founders. No, it's the history according to progressives. And it's not merely spinning...

I find it interesting that the English folk hero Robin Hood is best known as a thief. Given his tendency to dispense loot to the poor, Hood’s thievery may seem iconic and exemplary to those who advocate the kind of “redistributive justice” spoken of by President Barrack Obama. However, when one delves deeper into the folklore, Hood seems far more iconic of something entirely different. We must acknowledge folklore is never definitive. There is no canon, so to speak. Folklore evolves, grows, and takes on new dimensions. The earliest known references to Robin Hood suggest him to have been a...

Guilt Quiz & Guilt Level Chart: Tools for the Guilted Age Now that the properly conditioned guilt-ridden voters have elected the first Certified-Oppressed-Minority™ president, America has officially entered a new Guilted Age. The Guilted Age is similar to the Gilded Age, only instead of being motivated by the acquisition of gold, the nation is motivated by the distribution of Guilt™. A guilty electorate is a less demanding electorate: beggars are not choosers. Collective remorse makes the masses more malleable. Workers toil harder for less pay and donate surpluses to progressive causes within the hope that it would offset their culpability...

Mary Noonan of the University of Iowa is still concerned about the acceptance of the importance of a woman's career. "People still buy into the stereotypes of what it means to be a good wife. It means that caring for your children and supporting your husband's career is viewed as a wife's main priority," she said. Ms Noonan should have a discussion with the folks at the Daily Kos, as the progressives in the number one liberal website are suggesting that Hadassah Lieberman should be removed from her job because of the political actions of her husband. Yesterday Joe Lieberman...

en⋅ti⋅tl⋅i⋅tis [en-tahy-tl-ahy-tis] noun. a psychosis characterized by the subject’s inability to discern rights from entitlements, most common among proponents of “social or redistributive justice.” Commonly diagnosed alongside fairmania*, patients afflicted with entitlistis are functionally incapable of distinguishing the concept of unfettered access from the concept of provision. A contemporary example would be the inability to discern the right to access healthcare services from an entitlement to receive those services at a cost reduced or waived.

“If we succeed in winning health insurance reform we will have breached the gates of the status quo. We will demonstrate that fundamental change is possible. Into that breach will flow a wave of progressive change.” Big Government is reporting that the entire strategy for forcing Obamacare down our throats, was written by the husband of Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) convicted felon Robert Creamer, who wrote his heathcare strategy manifesto while he was in precision. Even the strategies for selecting the opponents of the President's plan to target with propaganda were selected under this plan. Creamer was convicted in 2006 and...

The Green Movement which is designed to break American industry and reduce the country to a Third World category is for the purpose of degrading us to a level where we will have to rely on other industrial countries such as China and India for products and energy necessary for the survival of our population. If we have to rely on imported products and services for everything we need we will have to accept the ideal of integrating into a world body because we will not be producing anything.

The Democratic think tank has released a "fact sheet" explaining how the party's health-care legislation is totally consistent with Catholic teaching as long as you ignore that whole abortion thing. The fact sheet purports to show that the bills reflect the criteria that the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference laid out in a May statement. You'd never guess it from the "fact sheet," but the bishops have repeatedly affirmed that Catholic teaching considers abortion and euthanasia particularly grave injustices and warned against treating them as items on a checklist. That's why the bishops' first and most specific comment in their statement...

I always thought that I had a permanent case of Attention Deficit Syndrome...until now. Once this man became president, he got my full attention and I haven’t been able to get rid of him since. We can now note that amongst his many self-acclaimed attributes is that of a therapist. He has solved my self-induced affliction. I now know -- and we all should know by this time -- that our culture, our way of life, our idealistic ideologies are being attacked as never before in our history. Honor, ethics, logic, morality and common sense no longer permeate the sensibilities...

Every time the Obama is challenged on something he said, he says "As I said before…" or "What I said was…," or "As I’ve said repeatedly…," or "As I’ve consistently said…," and then he says something completely different and contradictory to his previous statements. If he is so adept at remembering what he said before, then why can’t he remember a speech without use of a teleprompter? Most of those speeches are just the same old rhetoric that he has said many times before with the same old lies in every other sentence. "What I said was..." is simply another...

We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn’t be able to garner his political party’s nomination for the presidency in today’s Democrat Party. An examination of his political platform and the principles he embraced would today place him on the right side of the aisle. So, why is it that in just under fifty years the political ideology of the most revered Democrat to hold office in modern times is shunned by the party he served? It’s because his party – the Democrat Party – isn’t the party of Democrats...

The Anti-Defamation League started with good intentions, The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all. But in more recent years it has become a tool of it's leaderships desire to push its Liberal/Progressive agenda. For example in recent years it has released the following position papers supporting the liberal agenda: * Amnasty for illegal immigrants: o ADL Welcomes Bipartisan...

How would Jonathan Swift react to the inanities that for decades have issued from the minds and mouths of far too many recipients of a certain international prize for achievement in literature, economics, or peace? If the past truly is prologue, he would single out one of the true-believing leftists, create another of his inimitable lists to enumerate the worst of the person’s words and deeds, and then conclude with this simple observation, done in his signature sarcastic style: “And this they call a Nobel Prize winner.” The reason for this Swiftian exercise? Well, it comes to mind in reaction...

"Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. The article (which is incomprehensibly only the second most-read article on the Las Vegas Sun's website) focuses on the "safety" and "decency" concerns raised by locals re: the mobile sin platform, which was devised as an advertisement for Deja Vu Showgirls and is described thusly: It's akin to a small U-Haul truck but...

Having introduced this locution in an earlier article, I hasten to stake my claim as the one to have originated the phraseology. Thus, if and when it wiggles itself into an unheralded immortality in the hallowed pantheons of political discourse, there should be no mistaking on who first minted it. Mistaken attribution may not lead to a distortion of history with momentous repercussions on the subsequent unfolding of events. But accuracy in reporting is important; otherwise injustice becomes an acceptable integral part to the praxis and history of scholarship. Becoming so would, ipso facto, defeat the very sine qua non...

Viewing Progressivism With Perspective Allie Winegar Duzett, November 10, 2009 “To see what is truly afoot,” the Heritage Foundation’s Matthew Spalding argued, current events need to be looked at with “perspective.” “Nothing that is being proposed right now, including health care, is a new idea,” Spalding said at last week’s Bloggers’ Briefing. “These are old, tired ideas that all go back about a hundred years or so. The first time national federal health care was proposed was in 1904; it was in the 1912 Progressive platform. These are ideas that have a pedigree in this country.” Spalding explained that while...

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender, the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world? What a world?” There’s a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded by revolutionaries crying “No taxation without representation!” the Republic these revolutionaries devised devolved into a society where...

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected. To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for...

Roughly a quarter of a century ago, when the manager hired me to a much coveted job in the lowest echelons of management in a reputable corporation, I believed it was on the merits of my resume and real time presentation. It was the easiest conclusion to make, having been endowed with a healthy dose of self-esteem by my farm boy upbringing, reinforced by a series of academic scholarships through college and graduate school. Then picking an “Americanized” name was one of the top three issues he addressed in the job orientation. He opined that most people would find pronouncing...

Thursday, October 29, 2009 dawned like any other day, not too hot, even a little cool. What follows is a tale, befitting the Halloween period. The lid was lifted off of the cauldron, known as The House, in Washington DC. Trusty aides lifted out a whopping 1990 pages of a HealthCare Bill! Jaws dropped. Hands went up in the air. The Good witch from the West (San Francisco), crooned about bringing in a horror care, er healthcare plan that would heal the sick, make the blind see, and put the country further in debt, up to seven generations hence. Oops,...

After giving a talk to a group of family values minded Freeport, Illinois area residents addressing three major threats facing the United States – which I term “The Perfect Storm,” and a solution to a problem that safeguards the US Constitution, I found myself personally and ideologically assailed by a letter-writer to a local newspaper, a Ms. Patricia Wemstrom. I take issue with her critique not only because she mischaracterized each and every point that I made at the event, but also because she wasn’t even in attendance. The critique was caustic and hateful in nature: “I am surprised by...

This is the original manuscript that I submitted to the Crimson White, my campus newspaper. While I understand their need to edit the size of the article, they truncated much of the content that I believe was necessary to explain my position. I know that they could have included it because I was under the 800 word limit. The published article can be found at the source URL. Anyhow, here goes... (Begin) Candidate’s Progressive Views Troubling Gregory Poole I am appalled at the brazenness of State House candidate Susan Pace Hamill’s approach on taxation as quoted in the October 15...

I was doing research tonight for a paper I am working on and this article popped up deep down in the info chain I was looking in. It is the Progessive Blueprint to take over the government in 1996 and gives talking points on the people helping the cause...this is 13 years ago...some of these names look familiar to you? Thought so. The next campaign - http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html Being of the Irish persuasion, I naturally am attracted to lost causes, like the idea of democracy. Still my response to the recent election was: What were we thinking? The only reasonable answer...

Freepers mentioned in video.... CAUTION HUGE SATIRE AREAD: Hitler RANTS about OBAMA Healthcare and Right Wingers LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvtWEG_vhQ

Self-Evident Truths Held by: Allie Winegar Duzett, October 13, 2009 Matthew Spalding of the Heritage Foundation was the speaker at a recent Hillsdale College event. Spalding is the author of the upcoming book, We Still Hold These Truths, which will be released later this month. Spalding’s presentation focused heavily on America and the conservative movement in a historical context. He began by pointing out that the issues we face now have their roots in the far past—most certainly not recent history. The first compulsory national health care, he noted, was promoted by the Germans in the early 1900’s. “[The Kaiser]...

Making Progress? Writing on the occasion of Ronald Reagan’s death, the NY Times columnist David Brooks articulated the roots of Reagan’s success in as accurate and succinct a way as I’ve seen. Reagan “revolutionized” American conservatism insofar as he transformed it from what had been a disposition to defend tradition and custom – and thus one with an orientation toward the past – to a movement motivated by a deeply optimistic belief in progress – and thus, marked by an upbeat view about the future and America’s providential role in advancing progress. As Brooks wrote, To understand the intellectual content...

She’s Madge the manicurist for the new millennium. Stephanie Courtney, also known as “Flo,” the perky Progressive Insurance salesgirl with the red lipstick, is the commercial break’s new sweetheart. And in an age when the DVR is said to have killed the television pitchman, Courtney is attaining TV ad icon status.

After some real soul searching as well as a good deal of time management planning, I decided it was time for me to get back online and resume doing what I could to show Americans conclusively that rights are lost, curbed, changed, or ignored by the powers that be on a daily basis. Since most of the bad news tends to be the direct result of political machinations of one kind or another, I came back with not only with a plan to point to the relevant stories but to promote and facilitate political activism by individuals every chance I...

The week ending September 2009 and ushering in October 2009, was very eventful, in terms of exposing the diminishing role of the US as a world power. The “sleeping giant,” under its new leadership, has been snoring while dictatorial powers have been partying! Party like it is 2009! China did have a birthday party and it celebrated with the help of its biggest debtor, the USA. “And it is three cheers for the red, white and blue!” Factually, it was light up the Empire State building with the two colors that have come to symbolize repression. Yep, there in a...

"Hear our cry, Obama." "Deliver us, Obama." Video at link.

Big business. Big labor. Big government. These are not entities in opposition but in balance, much like the three branches of the federal government. Each jealously guards its power from the other. They do not argue about acquiring power, but about how that power is divided or shared. Regardless of what any idealist on the Left may think, this is the inevitable ruling troika that socialism requires to govern and function in the future. Whether you choose to label this relationship as fascist, communist or socialist is irrelevant because above all it is totalitarian. Whether you choose to label its...

Try to imagine the 4th congressional district of Georgia. It is a mostly black district represented by second term Congressman Hank Johnson. The district was represented for many years by one of the most celebrated nutcases in congressional history, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. It is a district which proves, if nothing else, that fools and idiots have a right to be represented in Congress just like everyone else. After being defeated in 2002, McKinney served as a member of the 9/11 Commission... apparently under the theory that only another insane person could possibly understand the insanity of flying planeloads of innocent...

The Diversity Czar of the Federal Communications Commission, Mark Lloyd, believes in racial exceptionalism. It is not enough to provide equal opportunity and a level playing field, Mr. Lloyd desires minority supremacy and the control of the media by “social justice” elites. Like the former White House green jobs Czar Van Jones, whose radical statements made him a shoo-in and a shoo- out for the new administration, Lloyd was picked because he lives in the echo chamber of radical leftist academia and adheres to beliefs that are so far out of the mainstream and so divorced from reality that most...

When Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted, "You lie!" in the middle of President Barack Obama's address to both houses of Congress, his outburst opened up a far bigger can of worms than mere accusations of partisanship or even rudeness. A certain faction on the left took less than 24 hours to insist that Wilson couldn't possibly have been calling the president a liar because he was lying, but rather was calling him a liar because he was black. And in America, despite being some 40 years past the civil rights upheaval that did so much for so many, the "R"...

When are American whites and blacks going to realize that they need each other and stop the damn nonsense of seeing race and racism under every rose bush? Those of us who try to live by the Martin Luther King dictum of character over color, are tired of the games being played to try to eternally divide and probably eventually destroy this country! Today a half black, half white man is leading the US. Not even Hollywood could have written such a perfect script. A president split right down the color wheel, takes over, elected by whites, blacks and every...

Let’s begin by defining epistemology simply as the branch of philosophy that asks this essential question about knowledge: “How do you know that?” That job taken care of, we can turn to the topic of materialists and morality. It’s apparently no big deal to materialists (many of whom proclaim themselves intellectuals of one sort or another), but most of them aren’t interested in asking and then answering the epistemological question regarding their moral assertions. To complicate matters, this problem doesn’t represent just an academic exercise; for materialists disproportionately favor the liberal side of the American political spectrum and therefore exhibit...

Everyone routinely called them the Mainstream Media. Rush now calls them the State Controlled Media. I’ve called them the Mainstream Media, the Poodle Press, and the Lap-Dog Media. Whatever you’ve called them the time’s come to call them irrelevant? Out with the old and in with the new. When news organizations consistently slant their coverage and ignore major stories because they don’t fit their template or further their agenda it’s time to re-evaluate what they are. They portray themselves as objective yet everyone can see they’re partisan publicists for a particular party and a particular radical left-wing of that party....

Some of you know that I used to work in the news media. Maybe it's that insider viewpoint that makes it especially disgusting to me when I see the state of journalism—and I use the term loosely—today. It wasn't so very long ago that news was news, editorials were editorials, and the line between the two was both clear and sacrosanct. Today, there are times I'm hard pressed to tell the difference. Worse than that are the times where the difference is obvious but the labels are backwards. I like to catch up on the news every morning while I'm...

Beginning in the 1930s, during the depth of the Great Depression, Democrats began repeating over and over again that it was the fiscal policies of a Republican president that brought on the Great Depression, that the Republican Party was owned by the “robber barons” of Wall Street, and that Republicans were the enemies of working men and women...the “common” man. It was all a big lie, but for the poor and the working classes, anxious to receive more and more government handouts or envious of those with wealth and economic security, it was a believable lie. It was a poison...

Candidate Barack Hussein Obama promised "Change", and spouted a campaign's slogan pledging, "Change we can believe in." Tired of Washington politics, a majority of American voters went to the polls and voted for that Change. Sadly for the nation, that Change was undefined. Now the nation is learning the folly of electing a president and congressmen on the basis of an undefined catch slogan. The Democratic Party now assumes they have a blank check to impose their will on the American voter. Too late we are finding out what that promised "Change" really is. Obama has certainly lived up to...

Obama News- Progressive Oppression of Blacks and other Minorities- the proof and the solution- #obama #news 16. September 2009 by admin. Obama News- the Progressive Slave Machine- the death of minorities under progressive oppression http://bit.ly/12diiy #obama #newsplease RT this if you are on Twitterfrom the article..Empowered Blacks will do what empowered blacks have always done, lead, right beside the rest of the great peoples of America. Rise up against the progressive slave machine. Beat back the Uncle Toms and slave merchants that rule your cities with ruthlessness.Form your own parties. Do not rely on outsiders, though let us help any...

The American people, left and right, by and large opposed TARP, seeing it as corporate welfare with numerous government strings attached. President Bush persisted and both candidates McCain and Obama rushed to Washington to vote the monstrosity into existence. What was transparently obvious was that no politician gives anyone money without expecting something in return, whether it is direct remuneration, influence or political support. Healthy banks were forced to take TARP funds and not allowed to repay them since that would sever the government string attached to that money. The American people, mostly from the right but with some from...

Off Their Meds, Installment 6,432. Tommy Friedman was allowed out without supervision again and managed to produce and another stunningly oblivious assessment of the world as he perceives it to be outside of the Manhattan Media Bubble. Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. The only logical place to go from there is to indict the one party in a Democracy that's got too much power,...

Just had this e-mailed to me from Progressive after I along with my entire family got rid of every policy for Progressive Insurance when they pulled out of the Glenn Beck show on Fox. Dear __________,Recent media reports have created the incorrect impression that Progressive pulled advertising in response to specific comments made on The Glenn Beck Show, but that is not the case. The fact is that we did not intentionally place any of our advertising on the show, so when we learned that our ad had aired, we corrected the error. Our goal is to reach a broad...

Ten days ago, the Los Angeles Times published an Op-Ed by an Israeli Professor from Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The article called for a boycott of Israel. It was neither on the front page nor written by a known anti-Semite, but the community is up in arms. Suddenly, the local Jewish community in Greater Los Angeles finds the message delivered daily by the Los Angeles Times unpleasant. I say suddenly, but over the past three decades, there have been repeated calls to cancel subscriptions and withdraw advertisement dollars, to very little or no avail. The Los Angeles...

In deference to those on the radical left who may never open the pages of a Bible, the term “Land of Nod” is taken from the Book of Genesis and refers to that locale as a place of sleep. Truly, Americans were in the Land of Nod during the many months of the previous presidential campaign. They had to be sleeping to have allowed such a radical and destructive administration to gain power. When the army of the far left marched into Washington last January, they were already in friendly territory. A Democrat-Socialist majority in Congress, willingly assisted by the...

The Lefties are at it again. Having completely destroyed that fine word, “liberal,” along with the enlightened 18th century sensibilities that went with it, they have now moved on like locusts through the lexicon, and want to be called “progressives.” An astonishing number of conservative commentators are going along with it. Not me. It is always easy to point out the flaws in liberal ideology so big you could drive a truck through them. But recent events keenly expose the utter absurdity of referring to liberals as “progressives.” The policies they advance, the behavior they display in support of them,...

Stating the obvious passes for folk wisdom in remote tribal areas such as the Southside of Chicago and since we now live in the Chicago-on- the-Potomac perhaps we should start to take some of this obvious wisdom into account. Take statistics, here is a science that’s used to make judgments and to justify actions. And what’s statistics just numbers and what’s in a number? And as the Chicagoism goes, “Figures don’t lie but liars figure.” How does this help us understand our new Omerica? Contrary to popular belief as nurtured by the Mainstream Media, President Obama is not the most...

Watching the seemingly endless line of people parading past the flag-draped coffin of the late Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, one wonders what it’s all about. Yes, liberals and Democrats are fond of conjecturing about “what might have been” had JFK and Bobby Kennedy not been assassinated, or “what might have been” if Kennedy had not driven his mother’s Oldsmobile off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island that fateful night in July 1969, killing Mary Jo Kopechne in the process. For most objective observers the attraction of Ted Kennedy will always remain a great mystery. Throughout history, those men and women whose...