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A few moments ago I wrote the following to some friends:
The Leftist media willfully and maliciously lie. That the "Charlottesville lie" keeps getting repeated (again today by Joe Biden!) is utterly disgusting and unconscionable. Dante has a well-deserved circle in hell for shameless perpetrators of falsehoods such as this.
From the video: "The scandal of Charlottesville is not what President Trump said about neo-Nazis, it is what the media said President Trump said about neo-Nazis."
- See also Dennis Prager, "America is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump."
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, never said there were "fine" Nazis or Ku Klux Klansmen.
This is one of the two great lies of our time — the other being that all Trump supporters are racists — and perhaps in all of American history. I cannot think of a lie of such significance that was held as truth by so many Americans, by every leading politician of one of the two major political parties and disseminated by virtually the entire media.
The major news media need to understand these are important reasons that half of America considers them frauds. And we get no pleasure from this fact. The reason we don't recoil when the president labels the mainstream media "fake news" is that we know the charge is true. Has one major media news outlet yet apologized to the American people for preoccupying them for nearly two years with the lie of "Trump collusion" with Russia? Has one Democrat? Of course not. Because with regard to the Trump-Russia collusion issue, the news media were never driven by a pursuit of truth; they were driven by a pursuit of Trump. [more . . .]
Wednesday, 07 August 2019 in Leftists & Liberals, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excellent video currently available on YouTube but in case it gets censored, you can watch it on PragerU's website
Monday, 08 July 2019 in Leftists & Liberals, PragerU | Permalink | Comments (0)
If your time is short, listen to the 2:52 - 4:32 segment of Joseph DiGenova's take on the Mueller report.
If you have a little more time, you will want to hear DiGenova boldly predict trouble ahead for the government conspirators against Trump. I am sure a particular Trump-despising friend of mine will fume and fuss and maybe explode at the very thought that there could be trouble ahead, but that of course, would be to prejudge the future. We must wait and see.
Former CIA director John Brennan made numerous calamitous predictions that Trump would be found guilty of "Russian collusion" which kept the Left wing media excited, but which fizzled and bombed and thoroughly discredited Brennan as a commentator and prognosticator.
Now former United States Attorney, District of Columbia, Joseph DiGenova has mounted the stage and has offered predictions of his own. (Predictions begin around the 11:02 mark.) Let's see what the future brings. My bet is that his predictions concerning Brennan, Comey, Struck, and McCabe will turn out eerily accurate and come as a bombshell to the Leftist media. And if it can be demonstrated, as DiGenova is convinced, that former President Barack Obama was in on the plot to discredit and remove Trump from the beginning, the Left wing media will need to crank up its spin machine to a level it has never been cranked up to before.
Update 4/23/19: I sent an email version of this blog post to a friend who replied affirmatively:
Trump and his campaign WERE bugged by the FBI during the campaign. Based on standard procedures, this could not have been done without Obama's knowledge. So it is fair to say that Obama was part of the plot, if not central to it. It was a concerted attempt by a sitting president and his justice department and FBI to prevent the election of Donald Trump and, after he was elected, to subvert and overthrow his presidency. That is the very definition of treason.
Monday, 22 April 2019 in Leftists & Liberals, Media, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
TWITTER CEO JACK DORSEY APOLOGIZES TO THE GAY CROWD FOR EATING AT A CHICK-FIL-A
I don't tweet. If I did, I would seriously consider stopping using this service. It's way too P.C. and far "Left" for my tastes.
From the Daily Caller -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday expressed regret over eating at Chick-fil-A, because of the chicken company's CEO's personal views on gay marriage.
Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular fast food restaurant.
At issue was Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's 2012 support for defining marriage as between a man and a woman, which he described as "the biblical definition of a family."
Me: This is so tiresome. The new LGTQ fundamentalist religion calls for sinners to repent and anyone tempted to waver musst toe the line scrupulously to avoid being shamed and treated as an outcast. Corporations show craven compliance in a most disgusting way.
-- I remember reading a few weeks ago this article: "Twitter is banning conservatives for posting facts." "... these bans come after users post 'hate facts' -- statements that are factually true, but politically inconvenient for progressives.
The most high-profile individual to be banned on this basis was Islam critic Tommy Robinson, who received a permanent ban from Twitter after he posted statistics showing that Muslims are vastly overrepresented in child grooming gangs in the U.K. Robinson is now taking Twitter to court to prove that "facts are now treated as hate."
-- From a 5/3/18 post on this blog -- Jamie Glazov suspended from Twitter for quoting Islamic religious texts
Keep your eyes on twitter! I am sadly confident we will read many more stories of Twitter censoring conservative views.
Monday, 11 June 2018 in Homosexuality, Leftists & Liberals, LGBTQ, Political Correctness, Social Media, Twitter | Permalink | Comments (0)
JONAH GOLDBERG'S NEW BOOK: "SUICIDE OF THE WEST: HOW THE REBIRTH OF TRIBALISM, POPULISM, NATIONALISM, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IS DESTROYING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"
Update 6/11/18 - Ben Shapiro posted a major, one-hour video interview with Jonah Goldberg yesterday.
Goldberg launched his new book, Suicide of the West, today. Goldberg is a syndicated columnist and author (I thought his book Liberal Fascism extraordinary), Senior Editor of National Review, and weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Of his new book, Goldberg, not very modestly, writes:
The book has been called "epic and debate shifting" (David Brooks, NYT), "... ambitious, engrossing, and provocative ... splendid ..." (Commentary), ... a "fascinating" book (Russ Roberts) that is "... an important exploration of why we're giving up the philosophy that built the modern West" (Ben Shapiro) that "will be one of the most important books of the year" (Stephen Hayes) ...
Goldberg writes further,
Anyway, if you've already bought it: thank you. If you plan on getting it, today is a good day for that kind of thing. If you want to hear or read more about it, you can hear me discuss it with Russ Roberts on EconTalk here, with Bill Kristol here, with John Miller here, or Matt Lewis here. I also talked to NPR's Steve Inskeep about it yesterday. And here's is the excerpt adapted from the introduction from the current issue of National Review. And here's MBD's thoughtful essay on it.
If you, like me, have creaking book shelves and find yourself short on time and money, it can be pleasurable to watch the interviews and read the excerpt Goldberg supplies.
Tuesday, 24 April 2018 in Conservatism, Cultural struggle, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER - A VICIOUS HATE GROUP
If you are not yet familiar with the "friendly face" but vicious character of the SPLC, be sure to watch this video.
Monday, 16 October 2017 in Leftists & Liberals, SPLC | Permalink | Comments (0)
DENNIS PRAGER EXPLAINS HOW THE PRESS SMEARS CONSERVATIVES
You have probably heard that Dennis Prager, a prominent conservative author, columnist, and talk show host, recently conducted the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra but not without hysteria generated by a few left wing musicians and the smearing of Prager by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR.
I suggest carefully reading carefully Prager's dissection of the tactics employed by these news outlets in smearing him since it is a microcosm of the slanted news that pervades the country every day. Prager titles his analysis "How the Mainstream Media Operate: A Case study in how the media conducts its war against conservatives."
Here are a few of his points:
Lesson No. 1: When the mainstream media write or say that a conservative "suggested" something that sounds outrageous, it usually means the conservative never actually said it.
Lesson No. 2: When used by the mainstream media, the words "divisive" or "contentious" simply mean "leftists disagree with."
Lesson No. 3: Contrary evidence is omitted.
Lesson No. 4: Subjects are covered in line with left-wing ideology.
Be sure to read the whole article. One needs to be informed and fortified to detect the bias that is everywhere.
Thursday, 24 August 2017 in bias, Conservatism, Leftists & Liberals, Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
KEEPING TABS ON CAMPUS RAGE
Bari Weiss offers an insightful interview with Jonathan Haidt of New York University. I read the interview in the Wall Street Journal and wish I could post the whole thing but since it is probably behind a paywall, I would suggest reading excerpts provided by Rod Dreher in a recent blog post.
In addition to Dreher's excellent excerpts I'll add a couple of my own.
"Now there are no more conservative voices on the faculty or administration," he [Haidt] says, exaggerating only a little. Heterodox Academy cites research showing that the ratio of left to right professors in 1995 was 2 to 1. Now it is 5 to 1.
The left, meanwhile, has undergone an ideological transformation. A generation ago, social justice was understood as equality of treatment and opportunity. . . Today justice means equal outcomes. "There are two ideas now in the academic left that weren't there 10 years ago," he says. "One is that everyone is racist because of unconscious bias, and the other is that everything is racist because of systemic racism." That makes justice impossible to achieve: "When you cross that line into insisting if there's not equal outcomes then some people and some institutions and some systems are racist, sexist, then you're setting yourself up for eternal conflict and injustice."
Tuesday, 04 April 2017 in College, Cultural struggle, Leftists & Liberals, University | Permalink | Comments (0)
SHELBY STEELE - LIBERALS' ARROGATION OF MORAL AUTHORITY AS PERSONAL IDENTITY
Tucker Carlson's interview with Shelby Steele deepened my understanding of liberals. I gained insight into the modern American liberal's profound sense of moral superiority and identity which renders ideological conversation and debate impossible. An opponent is evil and his or her speech must be shut down.
Shelby Steele's Wall Street Journal article which occasioned the interview is titled, The Exhaustion of American Liberalism.
Partial transcript beginning at the 3:15 minute mark:
Liberalism is not an ideology. It is an identity. People who think of themselves as liberals really are adhering to an identity, to the idea of "my personal self." I am the kind of person who is above racism, who is above sexism. And if you take that position that I don't like, then you are challenging not just my ideas, but you are challenging me as a human being with a particular identity and that is why the passions, the ferocity of the Left that we see today in the streets and elsewhere.
There's a complete shutdown of any honest intellectual exchange because you are not threatening my ideas, you are threatening me, and I don't have the patience to be reasonable and argue with you on the basis of reason. I need to literally extinguish or annihilate you in your position. You see the anti-Trump sentiment in many ways. Annihilate him! There is nothing redeeming in this man! And so forth, because... liberalism is an identity
Friday, 10 March 2017 in Democratic Party, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
DINESH D'SOUZA ON "TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME"
D'Souza delivered a really terrific speech at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas on March 7, 2017. He knows history as few others do, and tells facts about fascism, slavery, and the Democratic party that will astonish you. Stay tuned for the Q&A. Terrific. Note: the video has a long lead-in. The introduction doesn't begin until about the 19:30 minute mark.
Wednesday, 08 March 2017 in Democratic Party, Dinesh D'Souza, Leftists & Liberals, Republican party, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
DAVID HOROWITZ - "THE WAR AGAINST TRUMP"
David Horowitz writes:
As I explained in my book Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America, the source of this civil war mentality is a profound rejection of the American idea. This is the idea that we are equal citizens regardless of our origins, and that we are accountable as individuals for what we do. The left's creed – identity politics – is an anti-American, racially charged determination to reject individual accountability and individual freedom, and to establish in their place group privileges, and racial/gender hierarchies. These hierarchies are based on the malicious premise that whites, heterosexuals and males are oppressors and - in the words of the Democratic platform - America is a society governed by "systemic racism," which needs to be fundamentally transformed.
This collectivist, racial creed is the heart and soul of today's Democratic Party and its allies in the mainstream media. It is the inspiration for the war Democrats have declared on the newly elected government of Donald Trump. In his inaugural address, Trump addressed the war in uncompromising but thoroughly American terms. "Through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other…. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice…. Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag." This is the American creed, and it is the voice of the American people who elected Trump in November 2016.
[Read the whole thing. It's not long.]
Wednesday, 08 March 2017 in Democratic Party, Leftists & Liberals, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
NINETH CIRCUIT JUDGES - A DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THE U.S.
The following analysis written by Matthew Vadum is one of the most comprehensive analyses available. At the end I have offered additional links related to the Ninth Circuit's ruling. Vadum writes:
Three unelected federal judges in San Francisco yesterday ordered the Trump administration to continue accepting visitors and would-be immigrants from seven dangerous countries that are incubators of Muslim terrorism.
When President Trump learned his temporary ban on the admission of aliens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen that was put on hold Feb. 3 by Seattle-based Judge James L. Robart would continue in abeyance, he got on Twitter immediately.
At 6:35 p.m. Eastern time he tweeted in all caps: "SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!"
The open-borders crowd doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. That may be why at a press conference celebrating the outrageous ruling, a member of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson's (D) team deployed the phrase "social justice" to justify the decision. "Social justice" is a magical amulet that nullifies anything the Left doesn't like, including the president's executive order. Its very invocation is an admission that a cause is illegitimate and un-American.
The Ninth Circuit's fairy dust-based decision is "an intellectually dishonest piece of work," said retired Judge Andrew Napolitano.
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Saturday, 11 February 2017 in Islamist threat, Judges and courts, Leftists & Liberals, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
OBAMA SCHEMES TO SABOTAGE TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY
I f Paul Sperry (writing in today's New York Post) is right, the United States remains subject to the tentacles of a failed and discredited Obama who has put in motion an apparatus to torpedo Trump's vision of an "America First" presidency. (HT: Drudge) Quite maddening! Other presidents don't fight their successors! Sperry writes:
When former President Barack Obama said he was "heartened" by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.
In what's shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn't just staying behind in Washington. He's working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only protect his threatened legacy, but to sabotage the incoming administration and its popular "America First" agenda.
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Saturday, 11 February 2017 in Leftists & Liberals, Obama, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
THE LEFT'S WAR AGAINST TRUMP
This morning a friend sent me a link to a David Brooks' New York Times article expressing hysteria against Donald Trump. Here is what I wrote my friend in reply:
Brooks has written insightful books, but as a political analyst his judgments are often faulty. He predicted Obama would be an effective president because he was impressed with the crease in his pants! He slurs and slanders the Trump administration by throwing around loaded terms such as "ethnic nationalist administration" and to accuse the administration of the "aroma of bigotry" is itself cross-eyed propaganda alien to facts. Trump hasn't done anything he didn't say he would do and the countries identified for specific scrutiny are the ones singled out by the Obama administration. One must understand that the left is determined to discredit this administration no matter what it does. It is at war. (Cf. the delay in confirming cabinet choices). Yes, Trump is a loose cannon in many ways, and the administration could have gone about things more wisely, but the issue goes beyond Trump's character and personality; the left simply cannot allow a "wrecking ball to political correctness" to succeed. Political and philosophical commitments are at stake! If Trump does endure, it certainly won't be with the help of the media.
Cf. Hannity's response
Yuval Levin sees the problems and offers counsel to Trump's team
Andrew C. McCarthy on the constitutionality of excluding aliens from specific countries
To join hysteria without delving into facts and agendas makes for huge confusion.
Tuesday, 31 January 2017 in Leftists & Liberals, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
DENNIS PRAGER: A GUIDE TO BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT
Dennis Prager consistently offers thoughtful, astute, and succinct observations on life and culture. I almost always find his observations compelling. He is the author of a number of books including The Ten Commandmens: Still the Best Moral Code. He is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and creator of Prager University.com which offers important short video [YouTube] commentary on issues of the day. What follows is his guide to basic differences between Left and Right. In almost every case I think he is right on target.
Source of Human Rights
Left: government
Right: the Creator
Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)
Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)
Economic Goal
Left: equality
Right: prosperity
Primary Role of the State
Left: increase and protect equality
Right: increase and protect liberty
Left: as large as possible
Right: as small as possible
Family Ideal
Left: any loving unit of people
Right: a married father and mother, and children
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017 in Conservatism, Leftists & Liberals, Prager | Permalink | Comments (0)
THE LEFTIST ATTACK ON CONSERVATIVE VALUES DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
Rod Dreher reports:
Sean Trende, on what the left has done over the last four years to attack and provoke religious conservatives:
Democrats and liberals have: booed the inclusion of God in their platform at the 2012 convention (this is disputed, but it is the perception); endorsed a regulation that would allow transgendered students to use the bathroom and locker room corresponding to their identity; attempted to force small businesses to cover drugs they believe induce abortions; attempted to force nuns to provide contraceptive coverage; forced Brendan Eich to step down as chief executive officer of Mozilla due to his opposition to marriage equality; fined a small Christian bakery over $140,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding; vigorously opposed a law in Indiana that would provide protections against similar regulations – despite having overwhelmingly supported similar laws when they protected Native American religious rights – and then scoured the Indiana countryside trying to find a business that would be affected by the law before settling upon a small pizza place in the middle of nowhere and harassing the owners. In 2015, the United States solicitor general suggested that churches might lose their tax exempt status if they refused to perform same-sex marriages. In 2016, the Democratic nominee endorsed repealing the Hyde Amendment, thereby endorsing federal funding for elective abortions.
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Friday, 16 December 2016 in Leftists & Liberals, Republican Party | Permalink | Comments (0)
- The Impending Collapse of the Global Warming Scare
- Netanyahu Pays Visit to Strategically Positioned Azerbaijan: Iranians now fretting the Israeli military option is back on the table.
- Child chain gangs of North Korea exposed, as kids as young as five forced to repair railways (Video and photos)
- Identity Politics are Anti-American (David Horowitz)
Friday, 16 December 2016 in Climate Change, Global Warming, Identity Politics, Israel, Leftists & Liberals, North Korea, Quick Takes | Permalink | Comments (0)
-- Good idea of the day - relocate a number of federal bureaucracies out of D.C. and to the Midwest
-- Free speech is not a Dutch value: Geert Wilders convicted of hate speech. Charlie Cooke: "Cherish the First Amendment, Americans. It's exceptional."
-- French government votes to criminalize prolife websites
-- A major reason for Trump's victory - the progressives went too far in denying religious liberty and created a backlash.
Friday, 09 December 2016 in Abortion, Europe, Free Speech, Freedom of Religion, Government, Leftists & Liberals, Persecution of Christians, Pro-Life | Permalink | Comments (0)
ISIS WON IN ORLANDO
Quote of the day from David French. Longer article here:
Incredibly, ISIS won not just in Orlando. It's winning the aftermath. The American response to the attack has been beyond ineffective, veering decisively toward the counterproductive. We're doing nothing more to deter or prevent terror attacks and everything to deceive our own people about the true nature of the threat. Rather than unite to fight a common enemy, we're dissolving into partisan, polarizing stupidity. . .
This is perhaps the most astounding aspect of the aftermath — leftist thought leaders are responding to the massacre by condemning Christians. In other words, rather than educating Americans about the truly vicious nature of jihadist theology and encouraging Americans to remain vigilant, the New York Times, CNN, and similar news outlets are training their fire on Republican governors and attorneys general. To the extent that ISIS follows domestic American debates, there have to be high-fives all around in Raqqa. A Muslim kills gay people and ISIS's Christian enemies face blowback? They couldn't conceive of a more complete propaganda coup.
And so proceeds the unraveling of a nation.
See also Dennis Prager, "What If the Orlando Murderer Had Been a Christian?"
Thursday, 16 June 2016 in ISIS, Islamist threat, Leftists & Liberals, Quotes of the day | Permalink | Comments (0)
- Wintery Knight - What marriage-minded women need to learn about men from the movie "High Noon" - Great post! WK offers video segments from the movie, a partial transcript, and excellent commentary.
- Wintery Knight - "Is Trump a Christian? Is Donald Trump a moral person?
- David Harsanyi - Why aren't we having a conversation about Leftist violence? Good question!!
- Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore and Art Laffer (all experts on tax policy) support Ted Cruz's flat tax proposal. It will simplify the tax code and create jobs!
- On Foreign Policy, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Obama. Jim Talent offers valuable analysis.
Monday, 02 May 2016 in Economics, Leftists & Liberals, Marriage, Movies, Quick Takes, Taxation and Gov't Spending, Ted Cruz, Trump | Permalink | Comments (0)
CUBAN-AMERICAN SEES AMERICA MOVING TOWARDS COMMUNISM
Gini Thomas of the Daily Caller reports:
Filmmaker and American citizen Agustin Blazquez never thought his native Cuba would become a communist country, but now he sees the same radical shift happening in America.
In a video, Agustin Blazquez says The left has been clever by using "very non-threatening words," like liberal, progressive and concerned citizens, for advancing government control of American lives. The truth about Cuban politics is hard to find because of media spin and propaganda dominating American discourse.
For Blazquez, watching American youth embrace avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, strikes him as "absurd." It is the end result, he says, of the cultural marxist education and media propaganda that has anesthetized too many Americans who do not defend the values that made America exceptional.
Watching President Barack Obama travel to Cuba, he says, made him "want to throw up." This was a "betrayal to victims of communism," the filmmaker of "Covering Cuba" says. Blazquez adds there are "so many [Nelson] Mandelas" in Cuban prisons, who are tortured, denied medical attention and abused. Yet, prominent black elites from America, including most incredibly to him, the Congressional Black Caucus, are wined and dined by the political elites but are blind to their "betrayal of blacks in Cuba."
Monday, 02 May 2016 in Communism, Cuba, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
RABIDLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN LEFT ATTACKS HEIDI CRUZ
Heidi Cruz, wife of GOP Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz, made statements today regarding the Judeo-Christian foundation of this country that rankled the militant secularists.
David French writes:
The scandal du jour, from the ignorant, anti-Christian sectors of the Left, comes courtesy of a brief excerpt of a radio interview with Heidi Cruz, Ted Cruz's wife:
For those who don't have 92 seconds to listen, here are the quotes that caused Ken Meyer at Mediaite to call Cruz's statements a bizarre rant:
We are at a cultural crossroads in our country, and if we can be in this race to show this country the face of the God that we serve — this Christian God that we serve is the foundation of our country, our country was built on Judeo-Christian values, we are a nation of freedom of religion, but the God of Christianity is the God of freedom, of individual liberty, of choice and of consequence.
Jon Green, a regional field director for Barack Obama's 2012 campaign, also found this excerpt offensive:
I think that's something that this country really needs to be reminded of, is that Christians are loving people, are nonjudgmental people, but there is right and wrong, we have a country of law and order, there are consequences to actions and we must all live peaceably in our own faiths under the Constitution. And Ted is uniquely able to deliver on that combination of the law and religion.
Green comments:
Thomas Jefferson envisioned a wall of separation between Church and State. Ted Cruz envisions that wall being torn down entirely. He's not judging, he just thinks people who disagree are wrong and bad.
In reality, Heidi Cruz's comment represents a standard (and accurate) expression not just of Evangelical beliefs, but also of American history. Christians aspire to "show the face of God" in all that we do — by imitating as much as we can our Savior, Jesus Christ. We fail often, but we're better for the effort. As for Cruz's statement that our nation was built on "Judeo-Christian values,"
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Thursday, 11 February 2016 in American Exceptionalism, American History, Anti-Christian, Freedom of Religion, Leftists & Liberals, Presidential Race, Republican Party | Permalink | Comments (0)
Daniel Greenfield - The Internalized Racism of White Leftists
Walter Williams - Culture and Social Pathology
Cal Thomas - China's Big Hack Attack
Raymond Ibrahim - Islam's Jihad on Churches
David French - S.C. Suspect Caught and the Politicization begins (* Especially important)
Question - Was Dylann Storm Roof taking anti-depressant drugs? Update: Apparently YES!
Thursday, 18 June 2015 in China, Cultural struggle, Gun control, Islam, Islamist threat, Leftists & Liberals, Persecution of Christians, Racism, Security | Permalink | Comments (0)
Martial Law? Training Op Lists 'Hostile' US States
From CBN News:
CBN News:
WASHINGTON -- This summer, the U.S. military is planning an unprecedented training exercise, happening across seven states on private lands and towns in the Southwest.
The Jade Helm 15 operation is making many residents feel uneasy. Speculation about why the military wants to train in American communities instead of on military bases is fueling a growing number of theories across the Internet and social media.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has even asked his National Guard to monitor it. So what is Jade Helm 15?
According to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, it's "realistic military training" taking place simultaneously in seven states from Southern California to Texas.
Over eight weeks, America's elite Special Forces will practice "unconventional warfare" by practicing operating outside their normal support systems, adapting to new terrain, and working with civilians to gain their trust.
When news of the operation broke, the phones inside Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert's office lit up.
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Thursday, 21 May 2015 in Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
OBAMA ADMIN: STOPPING ABORTION OF BABIES WHO CAN FEEL PAIN IS 'DISGRACEFUL'
What is disgraceful is that we have a "leader" with ginormous moral turpitude living in the White house. (See the The Family Research Council report below which also rips Planned Parenthood.) Meanwhile, CBN News offers the following coverage: "Pain Capable Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle"
WASHINGTON -- A bill to protect unborn babies older than 20 weeks has passed its first hurdle.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Wednesday evening, 242 to 184. Almost every Republican voted for it and almost every Democrat against it.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, trumpeted the act as being quite consequential.
"H.R. 36 is the most pro-life legislation ever to come before this body," the top Republican said of the bill.
During heated debate before the vote, Democrats and Republicans took up familiar positions.
Many Democrats said they had to protect America's women and those women's right to make their own medical decisions. Republicans said they had to protect the most unprotected of classes: America's unborn children.
"We have no higher obligation than to speak out for those who can't speak for themselves, to defend the defenseless," Boehner stated on the House floor. "And that's what this bill does."
Bill sponsor Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said, "We have given these little babies less legal protection from unnecessary cruelty than the protection we have given farm animals under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act."
Democrats avoided talking about the babies, but concentrated on women who get abortions.
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Thursday, 14 May 2015 in Abortion, Bioethics, Democratic Party, Ethics, Leftists & Liberals, Planned Parenthood | Permalink | Comments (0)
KIRSTEN POWERS: HOW LIBERALS RUINED COLLEGE
Powers writes in The Daily Beast: (HT: mh)
The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone—almost always a liberal—has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making. Then, the silencing campaign begins. The offender must be punished, not just for justice's sake, but also to send the message to anyone else on campus that should he or she stray off the leftist script, they too might find themselves investigated, harassed, ostracized, or even expelled. If the illiberal left can preemptively silence opposing speakers or opposing groups— such as getting a speech or event canceled, or denying campus recognition for a group—even better.
Read the whole article. I assume it serves as a good introduction to her new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 in Free Speech, Leftists & Liberals, Tolerance, University | Permalink | Comments (0)
"RIGHT WING WATCH" A SOROS-FUNDED WEBSITE THAT LIES TO FURTHER THE LEFTIST AGENDA
Tony Perkins writes in "A Site for Soros Lies" -
If you think the media uses credible and honest sources to report the news, think again. You'd be surprised at how many "mainstream" outlets rely on a left-wing advocacy organization funded in part by liberal billionaire George Soros. The organization is called RightWingWatch and tracks the statements of conservative politicians and leaders for the sole purpose of feeding distorted -- and sometimes even fabricated -- versions to their allies in the media.
Now, it's no surprise that press who are outright hostile to conservative views like Huffington Post rely on RightWingWatch's propaganda, but it is shocking that that this kind of truth-optional reporting is utilized (and therefore legitimized) by mainstream networks like CBS, Politico, and others.
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 in Leftists & Liberals, Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
GEORGE WILL'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE INDIANA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BROUHAHA
Will offers sensible observations:
"There is nothing more tiresome in modern American life," says columnist George Will, "than the indignation sweepstakes we get in all the time to see who can be most angry about this and that." And the sweepstakes are on in Indiana. Responding to the outrage surrounding the Hoosier State's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Will noted on Tuesday's Special Report, "Tim Cook, CEO of Apple thinks Indiana is a horrible place. He opened marketing and retailing operations in Saudi Arabia two months before a man was sentenced to 450 lashes for being gay. The selective indignation is itself wonderful. "There are obviously two important principles at stake here," Will continued. "One is, the government should rarely, and only with extreme difficulty, compel people to take actions contrary to their consciences. The other is that when you open your doors to commerce you open them to everybody. That's a simple thing. It goes back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the public accommodations section, which is surely a great moment in American history. You can work this out, but the indignation isn't helping."
Wednesday, 01 April 2015 in Freedom of Religion, Homosexuality, Leftists & Liberals, Media, Same-sex marriage | Permalink | Comments (0)
PROGRESSIVES - GOVERNMENT FOR THE STRONGEST AND RICHEST
George Will's Sunday column is one of the most perceptive pieces I have read in recent days. It constitutes MUST READING if one wants to understand "what's goin' on." Will writes:
Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed something obvious: Big government, which has become gargantuan in response to progressives' promptings, serves the strong. It is responsive to factions sufficiently sophisticated and moneyed to understand and manipulate its complexity.
Hence Democrats, the principal creators of this complexity, receive more than 70 percent of lawyers' political contributions. Yet progressives, refusing to see this defect — big government captured by big interests — as systemic, want to make government an ever-more-muscular engine of regulation and redistribution. Were progressives serious about what used to preoccupy America's Left — entrenched elites, crony capitalism, and other impediments to upward mobility — they would study The New Class Conflict, by Joel Kotkin, a lifelong Democrat.
The American majority that believes life will be worse for the next few decades — more than double the number who believe things will be better — senses that 95 percent of income gains from 2009 to 2012 went to the wealthiest 1 percent. This, Kotkin believes, reflects the "growing alliance between the ultra-wealthy and the instruments of state power." In 2012, Barack Obama carried eight of America's ten wealthiest counties.
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Sunday, 07 December 2014 in Economics, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
JOSEPH BOTTUM - "THE SPIRITUAL SHAPE OF POLITICAL IDEAS"
Profound and suggestive reading. (HT: Jay Nordlinger) The title and subtitle should whet one's appetite.
"The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas: How it is that we once again find ourselves rooting out sin, shunning heretics, and heralding the end times."
Monday, 01 December 2014 in Leftists & Liberals, Politics | Permalink | Comments (1)
SHARYL ATKISSON BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON CBS
The corrupt CBS News gets exposed by ex-investigator reporter Sharyl Atkisson in her new book, Stonewalled, an overview of which can be read here. If you read the article, your anger will rise and your respect for major news organizations like CBS will fall. Unless, of course, you approve the suppression of news, think cover-ups are fine, and regard news-managed propaganda to shore up your ideological bias perfectly acceptable.
Sunday, 26 October 2014 in Leftists & Liberals, Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
DINESH D'SOUZA'S DOCUMENTARY - "AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER"
Update: Great interview with Dinesh D'Souza
(Original post) - I regard D'Souza's "America: Imagine the World Without Her" a MUST SEE movie. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Find a theatre and go see it. See it soon.
Why is it important? It's important because it dissects the Left's select reading of American history and its hatred and "blame America first" mentality. I learned a lot from watching this movie, so much so, that I ordered the book by the same title in order to read more details and get the bibliography. Dinesh D'Souza's America is now the #1 selling book on Amazon. I consider the book and documentary to be major "events" in the current struggle for America's future. A useful review of the book can be found here. Here is a discussion of the the A+ rating CinemaScope gave it:
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Friday, 18 July 2014 in America's future, Blame America, Conservatism, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
LEFTIST ATTEMPT TO CONTROL HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING OF U.S. HISTORY
Paul Kurtz, in a blog post titled "New War Over High School U.S. History," writes:
Americans are only just now waking up to a quiet but devastatingly effective effort to replace the teaching of traditional American history in our high schools with a new, centrally-controlled, and sharply left-leaning curriculum.
The College Board, the company that issues the SAT and the various Advanced Placement (AP) exams, has created an elaborate new framework for the AP U.S. History Exam that will effectively force nearly all American high schools, public and private, to transform the way they teach U.S. History.
The traditional emphasis on America's founders and the principles of constitutional government will soon be jettisoned in favor of a left-leaning emphasis on race, gender, class, ethnicity, etc.
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Thursday, 10 July 2014 in Education, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
A NEW LEFTIST ASSAULT ON AMERICAN EDUCATION
Stanley Kurtz, writing in National Review Online Corner, points out a new development that should be a concern to everyone, and especially to those who have seen Dinesh D'Souza's new film, America: Imagine the World Without Her. Kurtz writes:
. . . It turns out that D'Souza's film could not be better timed. Although it has barely registered yet in our public debates, the teaching of American history in our high schools has just been seized in what a few sharp-eyed critics rightly call a "curricular coup." The College Board, the private company that creates the SAT test and the various Advance Placement tests, has issued a new set of guidelines that is about to turn the teaching of American history into exactly the sort of grievance-based pedagogy that D'Souza decries in his film.
Leftist academics have finally figured out a way to circumvent state and local control over America's schools and effectively impose progressive political indoctrination on the entire country. Once the AP U.S. History test demands blame-America-first answers, public and private schools alike will be forced to construct an American history curriculum that "teaches to the test."
Up until the last few months, the College Board has provided high school teachers with only a brief topical outline for the AP U.S. History test. The brevity of this outline has permitted states, school districts, and teachers across the country to approach American history in their own way. Now, however, the College Board has created a lengthy and detailed "framework" for their AP U.S. History test. That framework effectively forces teachers to adopt an ideologically left-leaning approach to American history, heavily emphasizing our country's failings while giving short shrift to our founding principles. [more . . .]
Monday, 07 July 2014 in American History, College, Education, Leftists & Liberals, University | Permalink | Comments (0)
BRUCE THORNTON ON "ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM" HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED
Bruce Thornton of the Hoover Institute reviews Fred Siegel's Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class which uncovers the deep historical roots of the left's disdain for ordinary Americans. Siegel writes of H.G. Wells, Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth, Arthur Schlesinger and others. Thornton has this to say of the famous Scopes trial:
The 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, a "contrivance from the start," as Siegel writes, and immortalized in the historically challenged 1955 Broadway hit Inherit the Wind, established the meme of the brave and noble man of "science" battling slack-jawed, oppressive Christian fundamentalists. This cliché predictably surfaces in liberal commentary on issues ranging from teaching Darwinian evolution, to the validity of global warming. In the 1930s idolizing the Soviet Union and communism, a reflex of liberal disdain for capitalism and its déclassé obsession with getting and spending, began its long march through American culture and education.
There's much more. . . all of it enlightening.
Wednesday, 09 April 2014 in American History, History, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
JONAH GOLDBERG - "WHAT IS SOCIAL JUSTICE?"
Jonah has produced a fabulous short video below. It's part of PragerU, an initiative of Dennis Prager. Goldberg says: "For a much lengthier discussion of the subject, including its history, you could always buy my last book."
Other recommended talks at PragerU:
- "Are People Born Good?" by Dennis Prager
- Dennis Prager Interviews historian Paul Johnson
- More videos . . .
Monday, 31 March 2014 in Freedom, Leftists & Liberals, Socialism | Permalink | Comments (0)
IN CALIFORNIA, ENVIRONMENTALISTS VALUE A TINY FISH OVER HUMAN BEINGS
The Family Research Council offers an account of an amazing story of liberals acting breathtakingly stupid.
California's Central Valley is known as "the salad bowl of the world" -- but that salad's about to get tossed, if the Left doesn't stop angling for special fish protections. Under some of the worst drought conditions the region's ever seen, communities may be 60 days away from running out of water altogether. While people panic, especially farmers of the rich asparagus, broccoli, onion, tomato, lettuce, and garlic crops, liberals are fighting the push to divert millions of gallons of water away from an endangered fish habitat to parched locals.
"Without water, we can't work," said the head of Harris Farms. "It's not healthy. Without knowing how much water we're going to get, it's so difficult to plan!" If a pistachio tree takes five to seven years to grow, "how can we plant one now if we can't guarantee we can water it in a couple of years?" Yesterday, recognizing the desperate situation of farmers and families, the House debated a bill that would roll back the area's environmental protections long enough to save the harvest. But fishing for liberals' support was tough, especially in a party willing to leave families thirsty for the sake of a three-inch fish called the delta smelt.
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Wednesday, 05 February 2014 in Environmentalism, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
TONIGHT! - DINESH D'SOUZA & BILL AYERS DEBATE "WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT AMERICA?"
UPDATE: - Full debate available here. The debate is well worth watching for the clear perspective it affords on how leftists view America. D'Souza's performance was stunning for its excellence.
The debate will be live-streamed at 7:30 PM (EST) You can watch free by clicking here.
D'Souza writes: "Tune in tonight and join the conversation during the debate by using #AyersDSouza on Twitter. Our streaming page will pull your Twitter comments and post them for all viewers to see."
Thursday, 30 January 2014 in Conservatism, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
THE AMERICAN LEFT DISLIKES "LONE SURVIVOR" MOVIE
I haven't seen the movie yet but I've read reviews of both the movie and the book. I think David French's response to leftist criticism particularly trenchant.
. . . Lone Survivor tells the story of a SEAL mission gone wrong and the resulting firefight where a small band of SEALs displayed remarkable courage under fire. But they showed more than courage. An act of humanity sealed their fate — the decision to free Afghan civilians that stumbled into their path. With their own lives on the line, they obeyed American rules of engagement, obeyed the laws of war, and conducted themselves with honor (with one SEAL posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor).
So how do some in the left-wing press write about this movie? Here's L.A. Weekly:
These four men were heroes. But these heroes were also men. As the film portrays them, their attitudes to the incredibly complex War on Terror, fought hillside by bloody hillside in the Afghan frontier with both U.S. and Taliban forces contributing to an unconscionably high civilian body count, were simple: Brown people bad, American people good.
Really? You say that after the film shows how Americans actually gave their lives rather than kill an innocent "brown" person? Make no mistake, this is an accusation of the most vile racism, and it slanders these SEALs. Indeed, it slanders more than the SEALs involved in that firefight. Friends of mine died in Iraq — including, and this will be a news flash to L.A. Weekly (which apparently views our forces as all-white), "brown" friends — because of their concern for and respect for the lives of local citizens. We erred on the side of saving local lives, to the point where people very dear to me paid the ultimate price.
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014 in Leftists & Liberals, Military, Movies | Permalink | Comments (0)
** Andrew C. McCarthy - The Scheme behind the Obamacare Fraud (Extremely important - McCarthy maps out Obama's "grand plan")
** Former Secret Service Agent Bonino: Holder Justice Dept is a "Travesty" It's totally politicized. Very scary. (HT: Drudge)
** William Kristol - Israel Will Fight Crunch time approaches. Kristol thinks Israel will fight. (HT: Drudge)
** - Lowry: Revisionist History of JFK Assassination 'More Useful Politically' to Democrats (Video) How is it that the "right wing" is blamed for a murder committed by a Communist?
** - Fund: Nuclear Option 'Expands the Pool of What Kind of Radical Liberals' Obama Can Nominate (Video)
And yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.
Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf
nd yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.
Saturday, 23 November 2013 in Health Care, Israel, Judges and courts, Leftists & Liberals, Media, Obamacare | Permalink | Comments (0)
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION: IS THE LEFT LAUNCHING AN ATTACK AGAINST EVANGELICALS?
"To many on the left, if you are conservative, there is nothing you can do that is virtuous. Even the good that you do will be dismissed as cynical or destructive." So says David French who goes on to write:
Thanks to the publication of Kathryn Joyce's new book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (excerpted here in Mother Jones, and Ms. Joyce is interviewed here at NPR), there's been an online wave of criticism/examination of Evangelicals' so-called orphan fever. To some, conservative Christians are incentivizing child-trafficking, engaging in a form of cultural imperialism by yanking children from their native cultures and evangelizing them into Christianity, soothing pro-life conscienses wounded by lack of concern for babies after they're born, and trying to engage in charity without adjusting underlying world views about social justice and the need for systemic change.
Before I go any further, let me be clear about my biases: I'm the adoptive father of a beautiful girl from one of the countries highlighted in the NPR interview, Ethiopia. My sister has adopted a special-needs child from China, and our church is full of adoptive families, mostly with international adoptions. Many of these kids also have special needs. In short, adoption has been a great blessing in my family's life, and in the life of our church.
I have two reactions to the criticisms outlined above. The first, more emotional response, is to reaffirm something I've said before: To many on the left, if you are conservative then there is nothing you can do that is virtuous. Even the good that you do will be dismissed as cynical or destructive. The idea that my friends and family, who love their adopted children more than they love their own lives, have "orphan fever" is disgusting. Given that much of this criticism comes from unapologetic advocates for abortion-on-demand, I'm reminded of the words of Isaiah: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."
But my second response must be less emotional — because the critics do have a limited point. It is simply a fact that there have been abuses within international adoptions. There has been child trafficking. There have been lies told to adoptive parents. And there are actual horror stories — not widespread, but horrifying nonetheless (perhaps the most famous recent incident was of the Tennessee mom who inexcusably and reprehensibly sent her seven-year-old child back to Russia, alone).
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 in Adoption, Evangelicals, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
BEN SHAPIRO TALKS OF BULLYING FROM LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS
Ben Shapiro, editor of Breitbart, recently appeared on CBN. I'm not sure when I've ever heard more succinct, to-the-point responses in my life.
Julia Gabriel Williams writes:
Bullying: In Washington, it's politics as usual, with some of the biggest offenders being those who protest against the practice the most.
Bullying has morphed into what some call the Left's "go-to tactic" to squash opponents through fear, threat of force, and rhetorical intimidation.
At least that's how Breitbart.com's Editor-At-Large and national best-selling author Ben Shapiro sees it. . .
Shapiro addressed the issue of political bullying in his newest book, Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America.
The Harvard Law graduate writes of how liberals and the media are the true culprits, playing the race, class, and sexism card all the while claiming to be victims.
Friday, 15 March 2013 in Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0)
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW ASSOCIATION INSPIRED ATTEMPTED MURDER
But don't expect the mainstream media to report it. They blacken and falsely accuse conservatives at every turn, but avert their eyes when a liberal activist attempts to kill conservatives. Remember the story of the man who arrived at the Washington offices of the Famly Research Council intent on mass murder? Read on. . .
It seems hard to believe, Jim Treacher wrote yesterday, "but once upon a time, there was a shooting the national news didn't want to talk about." That's because the shooting was at FRC. And although the gunman was a politically-motivated activist who stormed a building less than a mile from the White House, there's a reason most Americans have never heard of him. After years of insisting that conservatives were the hateful ones, the attack at FRC was an inconvenient storyline for a media bent on hiding where the real intolerance lies.
The day after Floyd Corkins walked into our headquarters and opened fire, I said that while Corkins was responsible for the shooting, he had been given a license to perpetrate this act of violence by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) which has recklessly labeled every organization with which they disagree a "hate group." The media insisted we were overreacting. But yesterday in federal court, prosecutors explained that FRC had it right all along. In the official filing, FBI evidence verifies the fact that Corkins was inspired by SPLC to target our office. "He was a political activist," the statement read, "and considered the FRC a lobbying group. He committed the shooting for political reasons. He had identified the FRC as an anti-gay organization on the Southern Poverty Law Center Website."
Federal prosecutors read the statement of offense and then described FRC and our mission. No other organization was mentioned by name, but it was noted that Corkins had other social conservative groups on his hit-list. Of the many charges leveled against him, Corkins pleaded guilty to three, including domestic terrorism. "On August 15, 2012, the defendant assaulted [Leo] Johnson and the FRC with the intent to... coerce a significant portion of the civilian population of the District of Columbia and/or the United States; namely, any and all individuals associated with or supporting FRC, like-minded organizations, or otherwise holding beliefs contrary to or advocating against gay marriage."
Corkins confessed to Judge Richard Roberts that he hoped to intimidate gay rights opponents--which is exactly what SPLC has tried to do with its reckless labeling. And unfortunately for our own Leo Johnson, who was wounded in the attack, SPLC doesn't draw the line at name-calling. It insists on pinpointing FRC's location on the SPLC "hate map" as an open invitation to extremists like Corkins, who admitted yesterday that he intended to "kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in victims' faces." It would be a statement, he told the court, "against the people who work in that building." Although Corkins pleaded guilty, SPLC has yet to admit its role in creating this hostile environment. Even after an attempted mass murder of the FRC staff, the "hate map" is still prominently featured on the SPLC website today--which shocks most conservative pundits.
"When Congresswoman Giffords and several others were shot in Arizonaby Jared Loughner, the Left went into overdrive blaming Sarah Palin for a map that had a list of political targets on it. After the fact, we learned that Loughner was apolitical and he clearly had not used Sarah Palin's map of political targets. That did not stop the Left from blaming the right," said RedState's Erick Erickson. "By the way, Palin took down her target map after the controversy. The Southern Poverty Law Center? Crickets..." The Daily Caller's Treacher shakes his head at the double standard. "Now we have another [shooter] and another map. Except this time, the [shooter] is pointing directly at that map and saying, 'That's why I picked those people.' But since the targets of his thwarted rampage don't hold the correct opinions, they don't count."
The bottom line is that the Southern Poverty Law Center (the same one embraced by President Obama's Justice Department), is dangerous and driven by an anti-Christian animus. Their leaders are inciting hatred, and in this case, a clear connection to violence. They need to be held accountable, and they need to stop before people are killed for supporting traditional values. Only by ending its hate labeling of Christians will SPLC send a message that it no longer wishes to be a source for those who would commit acts of violence against Americans whose only crime is thinking differently than the radical Left. But whether the SPLC continues to demonize Christians or not, I can guarantee one thing: the Family Research Council team will not be distracted from our mission--not by bullets and certainly not by bullies.
Thursday, 07 February 2013 in Conservatism, Homosexuality, Leftists & Liberals, Media | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MARGARET SANGER AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD - from JONAH GOLDBERG'S "LIBERAL FASCISM"
This material is subtitled: "Contraception, abortion, and the eugenics movement." It was Kathryn Lopez who linked to the following excerpt from Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism.
Margaret Sanger, whose American Birth Control League became Planned Parenthood, was the founding mother of the birth-control movement. She is today considered a liberal saint, a founder of modern feminism, and one of the leading lights of the Progressive pantheon. Gloria Feldt of Planned Parenthood proclaims, "I stand by Margaret Sanger's side," leading "the organization that carries on Sanger's legacy." Planned Parenthood's first black president, Faye Wattleton — Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1989 — said that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger." Planned Parenthood gives out annual Maggie Awards to individuals and organizations who advance Sanger's cause. Recipients are a Who's Who of liberal icons, from the novelist John Irving to the producers of NBC's West Wing. What Sanger's liberal admirers are eager to downplay is that she was a thoroughgoing racist who subscribed completely to the views of E. A. Ross and other "raceologists." Indeed, she made many of them seem tame.
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 in Abortion, Feminism & feminists, Leftists & Liberals, Planned Parenthood | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
DENNIS PRAGER - YOUNG CUBAN-AMERICANS PROGRAMMED BY U.S. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND MEDIA
Prager's article carries the title, "Cuban-American Vote Explains Everything." (HT: Bob) Excerpt: [my bolding]
[...] Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/left perspective. Multiculturalism has replaced E Pluribus Unum; the American past is villainous; the country is racist; morality is relative; and the left-wing cause of the day -- now global warming -- is taught as incontrovertible truth (ask your children if they have been shown Al Gore's global warming video, "An Inconvenient Truth," or if they have been taught both sides of the man-made-global-warming-leading-to-catastrophe hypothesis).
American schools, especially universities, are left-wing seminaries. The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter are more honest. The Christian seminary announces its goal -- to graduate committed Christians. The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. They may believe this deception but it is one nevertheless. Almost no university ever has a conservative speaker at its commencement exercises; nearly every professor in liberal arts departments is a Democrat (and a left-wing Democrat at that), and on the few occasions that conservatives do receive an invitation to speak at a college, they are likely to be continuously heckled, may well need body guards, or their invitation is rescinded, as Fordham University did to Ann Coulter last week.
Members of the second Cuban-American generation have been far more influenced by their schools and by television shows than by their parents. And the same holds true for second and third and fourth and fifth generation Americans of every background.
A long time ago schools taught American history, not Politically Correct American history, as mandated, for example, by California law -- which forbids the use of any textbooks that do not emphasize the roles of women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered. . . .
.. . The left has been utterly clear about what leftism stands for and has used schools, the news media and the entertainment media to transmit its values. As a result, the American trinity of Liberty, In God We Trust, and E Pluribus Unum have been supplanted with egalitarianism, secularism, and multiculturalism -- Europe's trinity.
And that is why the children of Cuban-Americans, like the children of virtually every other group in America, including white Anglo-Saxon Protestant children, increasingly vote left.
Either conservatives -- from presidential candidates to the rest of us -- learn what we stand for and communicate it, or the greatest experiment in making a good society will come to its end.
Sunday, 02 December 2012 in Education, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
JOURNALISTIC LIES ABOUT THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
The accusation: that FRC supports the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda. Totally false. It doesn't. But liberals spread their lies fervently. And that produces hate. And hate produces killers. One man recently tried to kill all the members of the FRC office staff.
PLease read the following statement by the Family Research Council: (The bolding is my own)
It used to be that the media reported the story. Now they are the story. With fewer journalists able to separate the news from their personal politics, groups like FRC are no longer fighting bias--but outright deception. If you read Monday's Update or follow me on Twitter, then you know that FRC was highly complimentary of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who took the bold step of leading his country in a public prayer of confession for a multitude of sins Uganda committed over the last 50 years, including the genocide of Idi Amin. "We want Uganda to be known as a nation that fears God and as a nation whose foundations are firmly rooted in righteousness and justice..."
Not surprisingly, the U.S. media wasn't nearly as impressed by this gesture as FRC--a fact I alluded to in a tweet that same day. "American liberals are upset that Ugandan Pres is leading his nation in repentance--afraid of a modern example of a nation prospered by God?"
Well, as we learned two years ago, if you want to get the press's attention, just say the word "Uganda" and wait for the firestorm. For years, the African nation has been condemned for its severe laws criminalizing homosexuality. Despite allegations to the contrary, FRC has never supported that policy--or any policy that imposes the death penalty on homosexuals. What we do oppose is the suggestion that gay and lesbian acts are universal human rights. So when Congress introduced a resolution in 2010 denouncing Uganda's punishment for homosexuality, FRC fought--at the request of some Members--to strike the pro-homosexual "human rights" language from the final measure.
Several liberals, including David Weigel at the Washington Post, chose to misrepresent our involvement as an indication that we opposed the entire bill! "Family Research Council Lobbied against Resolution Condemning Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Law," Weigel's headline read. It was a convenient storyline for extremists like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) who resort to demonizing FRC when they can't compete with us ideologically. Although Weigel later posted a retraction, the damage had already been done.
Now, more than two years later, the lies about FRC's position have resurfaced. After Monday's story, HRC had the audacity to post that by applauding President Museveni, FRC was "praising the 'kill the gays' bill." I challenge anyone with a half a brain to read my tweet or Update story and conclude that FRC is any way supporting the death penalty of homosexuals. But gay activists have their hooks so deeply in the mainstream media that reporters no longer bother to check their facts. Once the blogs start spreading the lies of organizations like HRC and SPLC, they percolate up to reporters like Carolyn Lochhead at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who regurgitate HRC's garbage without so much as a courtesy call to our office. And these aren't harmless little lies either. They're the same intentional misrepresentations that led to the controversy over FRC's alleged ties to Chick-fil-A--culminating, as you may remember, in the violent shooting of one of our own employees!
Americans need to understand that this cozy relationship between the liberal media and unreliable sources like HRC is fostering a culture of hatred and violence--that same culture that led to the attempted mass murder of the entire FRC office. While it's troubling that any organization would deliberately spread untruths, it's more disturbing that someone who claims the title of journalist would report these lies as fact. Is it any wonder that distrust of the media is at an all-time high?
Update 11/30/12 - Current news is that Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill will not contain the death penalty.
Friday, 30 November 2012 in Family Research Council, Homosexuality, Leftists & Liberals, Media | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
DENNIS PRAGER - THE LEFT SUCCEEDS USING RIDICULE, DEMONIZATION, AND CHARACTER ASSASINATION
Forget honest arguments. Destroy your opponent, that's the modus operandi of the Left.
The left's demonization, personal vilification, and mockery of its opponents have been the most powerful tools in the left-wing arsenal for a century.
Prager explains and elaborates.
Thursday, 05 July 2012 in Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
George Will - Democrats have no respect for the Bill of Rights.
South Korean customs officials discover thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh
Southern Poverty Law Center refuses to investigate the Left
Eric Metaxas - Christian outreach to Elites can change history
Monday, 07 May 2012 in Ethics, Evangelism, Free Speech, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
DENNIS PRAGER - "NOVEMBER IS A PLEBISCITE ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
I urge you to click through to read Prager's entire article. He lays out the crucial issue that Americans need to understand: this election is a vote for or against the American revolution. Prager writes:
Election Day 2012 will not be a presidential election. It will be a plebiscite.
Americans will not only be voting for a president (and a House and a third of the Senate). They will be participating in a plebiscite on the definition of America.
If Americans reelect the Democrat, Barack Obama, they will have announced that America should be like Western European countries — governed by left-wing values. Americans will have decided that America's value system — "Liberty," "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum" — should be replaced.
The election in November is therefore a plebiscite on the American Revolution. The usual description of presidential elections — "the most important in our lifetime" — is true this time. In fact, it may be the most important election since the Civil War, and possibly since America's founding.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 in America's future, American History, Conservatism, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH
Leftists can be relied on to try to silence opponents. They're not interested in dialog or debate. Kevin Holtsberry says:
I have worked in or around the Ohio Statehouse for a decade or more. I have seen a great many protests, counter-protests and events involving all kinds of issues and groups. But when I stopped by the Statehouse today to check out the Values Bus Tour event put on by Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council I experienced something I don't believe I had ever witnessed. A counter-protest effectively shutting down an event.
Holtsberry continues:
As you can see in the video above, a small group of what appeared to be pro-abortion and gay/lesbian protestors had gathered with signs to protest the values groups. And this is to be expected, and would have been largely uneventful, except for one thing: a couple of the protesters had bullhorns equipped with sirens. They used these to emit an earsplitting noise that made hearing the speakers nearly impossible and mere rational thought challenging. In person it was much louder and headache inducing than in the video if you can believe it
The video does capture the anger and vitriol of the left quite well in my opinion. But it also points out the hypocrisy of the left. They so often pretend to defend free speech, dialog, tolerance, elevated discourse and a host of other virtues and freedoms. But here is a group hosting an event focused on getting people registered to vote, educating them on the issues and getting them engaged in the political process. Whether you agree with their policies or politics this is democracy, right? This is about free speech and public engagement on the issues that matter to our country.
So what does this group of angry leftists do? Instead of providing an alternative point of view for those attending the event, or even protesting the event from the sidewalk, they basically use sirens and shouts to prevent the speakers from being heard. They were clearly attempting to silence an opposing viewpoint. They were not interested in debate or discussion but loudly and angrily demanding that these peaceful folks leave the state; screeching that these views were not to be tolerated but shouted down and silenced.
We have entered an Orwellian world where views on issues from spending and deficits to abortion and marriage – views held by large swaths of the American electorate – are not opposing viewpoints or different perspectives to be debated and/or refuted but "hate speech" that must be silenced and kept from even having an audience.
Keep this in mind next time the left tries to claim the moral high ground on free speech and tolerance.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 in Free Speech, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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