Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Reuters’ Class Warfare: Lower Tax Takes ‘Costs’ Gov’t

  Progressivism item by Warner Todd Huston (8/27/08)

Reuters thinks that tax breaks and loopholes “costs” government its tax receipts. This is a perfect example of class hatred ginned up by the media to further class warfare between Americans. The absolute truth is that if people use the tax code to limit their tax burden they are not ‘costing’ the government anything, but are using ‘legal’ means to avoid a higher tax burden. Further, our money is NOT the government’s property in the first place so a lower tax take is in no way “costing” the government anything. Yet, Reuters still uses this class warfare rhetoric to report its story revealing its attack-the-rich agenda. 

Mr. Ruff And The Frankfort Jihad

  Islam item by David Tatosian (8/27/08)

At his press conference held on Wednesday August 20th, Frankfort Township assessor Paul J Ruff rightly referred to anonymous phone calls and strangers parked by his house in the days leading up to the conference as intimidation.

Al-Qaeda Monitoring Unit Chief Outlines Vulnerabilities of Al-Qaeda and Taliban

  Terrorism item by Jim Kouri (8/27/08)

Richard Barrett, the highest ranking UN official responsible for monitoring the activities of Al- Qaeda, said the group continues to degrade seven years after September 11, 2001, hampered by fragmented leadership, widely tarnished credibility, a struggle for relevance, and a chronic inability to live up to its propaganda.

No Nation Left Behind: An Interview with Charles Murray

  EdukShun item by Bernard Chapin (8/27/08)

My father always said that anyone who lived through John F. Kennedy’s assassination remembers what they were doing at the precise moment the president was shot. This may well be true, but we also lucidly recall the circumstances of far lesser events such as the controversy surrounding the publication of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The furor its conclusions caused is forever ingrained in my memory. 

‘Is the Presidency above Obama’s Pay Grade?’

  Election 2008 item by Selwyn Duke (8/27/08)

It’s interesting to hear the euphemisms bandied about in campaigns.  After Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s appearance a week ago at Saddleback Church, for instance, the former’s ardent supporters were as effusive in their praise as ever.  His stammering and copious “uhs” weren’t signs of a befuddled and muddled mind, but of “thoughtfulness” and “nuanced” thinking.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Russia Is Betting On A Commissar President Obama In 2009!

  Europe item by Malcolm Hedges (8/26/08)

Meanwhile the current President is somewhat hampered, but not crippled regards an appropriate response to the moves by Russia to revive something similar to the previous USSR.

‘What planet are they on?’

  GreeenIsm item by Carolyn Hileman (8/26/08)

Well now the people who could not find the time to vote on an energy bill, could not be bothered during their precious vacations to come to work and vote to drill here are going to be debating you guessed it a guest worker bill. That is right they cannot be bothered to get off their lazy good for nothing butts to help the suffering American citizens, but they plan to try and pass a bill to help the non citizens. This one would allow them to come and go as they please but not become citizens, a quaint little card system, not unlike a get out of jail free card. Call it what you want if it smells like it, if it looks like it, then it is Amnesty all over again.

Union Disses the Kids

  Progressivism item by Warner Todd Huston (8/26/08)

The kids at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill feel like they’ve been used and discarded by Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and they aren’t happy about it. They are so upset they’ve issued an open letter(1) to the SEIU to air their grievances… not that it’ll matter much.

Progressive Information Control Efforts

  Progressivism item by OffSite (8/26/08)

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid aren’t simply trying to shut down Rush, and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham in their mad dash to institute the so-called Fairness Doctrine.

What God Thinks About Anthropogenic Global Warming

  GreeenIsm item by Kevin Roeten (8/26/08)

Do all the Christians know what God thinks about man causing the earth to warm? Believing one has the power to affect an entire planet’s ecosystem is presumptuous at best and rashly arrogant at worst. God is either laughing at the sheer audacity of such an endeavor, or crying at the outcome of such egotistical actions. Are some of us telling God that man is in charge now?

Leader of Terrorist-Linked Group Speaks at Democrat Convention

  Demercrats item by Sher Zieve (8/26/08)

Once again showing that the Democrats’ ‘large umbrella’ appears to include terrorists and terrorist-linked groups, the president of The Islamic Society of North America - Ingrid Mattson - spoke Sunday at the Democrat National Convention in Denver.  This is the same Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) that has admitted to ties with terrorist Hamas, has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation’s terrorist-funding case and also has admitted ties to the militant terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood.  I have written in the past that leftist Democrats consider terrorism to be ‘just another ideology’.  This latest Democrat Party action pretty much proves my point.  Question:  Is this what the Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama means when he says he will “change America?”

National Poll: The Media Love Affair With Barack Obama

  Politics item by Jim Kouri (8/26/08)

A new Sacred Heart University national poll found 64.9% of Americans say the purported national media “love affair” with US Senator Barack Obama is very (30.5%) or somewhat real (34.4%). Another 26.5% suggested the love affair was somewhat unreal (8.5%) or not at all real (18.0%). Others, 8.6%, were unsure.

Barack Obama’s “CHANGE”

  Election 2008 item by Rob Hood (8/26/08)

Barack Obama is the most talked about, most media worshipped political celebrity of all time. He has received praise from Keith Olberman, German crowds , and a host of media outlets like ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. He has been called many names both good and bad. Names like “the messiah” has often been associated with Obama by conservatives because he is worshipped by some on the left as if he were God and apparently performed miracles during speeches - remember those who fainted and were raised by a bottle of Obama’s water. Names like the anti-Christ has also been given to him by some conservatives because of his obvious ability to speak well and be able to draw crowds with an almost uncanny charisma.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Every Person That Gets A Paycheck Should Pay $120 Per Year In Federal Taxes

  General item by Malcolm Hedges (8/25/08)

The money would be withheld at a rate of $10.00 per month.  That amount would be withheld from the 1st paycheck of any given month.

It is Obama and (O)Biden!

  Election 2008 item by J. D. Longstreet (8/25/08)

Is Biden Obama’s Dan Quayle? - Of all the bad choices Obama could have made, for a Vice-Presidential running mate, as we expected, he made the worst choice. Joe Biden is a Northeastern Liberal. So now the Democrat ticket has a Chicago liberal and a Northeastern liberal. I suppose that is what passes for “balance” on a democrat ticket… do you suppose? The support Obama had in the Southland, and much of the West, is certainly now in question. As a Southerner, I can tell you it did not help Obama’s chances down here and may very well hurt him, badly.

Rosa Brooks Longing for the Cold War

  Progressivism item by Warner Todd Huston (8/25/08)

The L.A. Times’ Rosa Brooks has done it again, taken a serious subject and made an uninformed romp of it. One wonders how the old Georgian lady seen in news photos standing wounded among the ruins of her apartment building, or the Georgian Mother running down the street, infant in her arms, trying to escape Russian tanks might feel about the humor with which Brooks brings to bear upon their plight? But, there it is for all to see in Brooks’ “The Cold War, reheated"(1) wherein Brooks puts the funny back in war. It’s been too serious for too long for Brooks, apparently. We need the sunny side of ethnic cleansing, brutal invasion, and crushing occupation, don’t we?

‘Will Obama Ever Face the Press?’ (Updated)

  Election 2008 item by JB Williams (8/25/08)

Serious Questions that the Press Refuse to Ask! - It is very troubling that a man is seeking the office of Commander-in-Chief of the United States at a time when he will confront lethal threats against the nation from the most brutal tyrants around the globe, yet he is openly afraid to face the unfriendly news reporters at FOX News Network…

Dead Wrong

  Election 2008 item by Thomas Brewton (8/25/08)

Relying on Senator Biden’s foreign policy judgment is risky.  Both he and Senator Obama backed the wrong horses in Iraq.

Cold War Redux

  Europe item by Geoff Metcalf (8/25/08)

“Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.” --Stanislaw Lem So, Russian forces began to pullout from “parts of Georgia”.  However, a top general said hundreds of soldiers would remain deep inside the country along the main strategic highway. Hmmmmmmm?

Obama/Biden: Escalating the War on Fathers and Families

  Election 2008 item by Gordon E. Finley (8/25/08)

Tragically—but true to the radical feminist agenda—the Obama/Biden Democratic ticket portends an escalating war on boys, men, fathers, and families.  On Father’s Day 2008, Sen. Obama could have spoken on any number of topics.  His choice was to castigate African-American fathers and blame fathers, and fathers alone, for the ills of the African-American family.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Arizona Is Being Infested By Californian Socialist Termites

  General item by Malcolm Hedges (8/24/08)

Huge numbers of people are escaping from The Peoples Republik Of Kalifornia and landing in Arizona.  They are welcome unless they bring with them the Socialist mentality they thought they were escaping from…

Leader of Texas Crime Gang Sentenced to Life in Prison

  Crime item by Jim Kouri (8/24/08)

The first defendant to be sentenced in the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) case charging 14 members of the violent Texas Syndicate prison gang with conspiring to participate in a violent enterprise responsible for murders, attempted murders, conspiracies to commit murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and other crimes in North Texas and other areas, was sentenced in federal court in Dallas.

The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

  Progressivism item by Alan Caruba (8/24/08)

As a dues-paying member of Hillary Clinton’s Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, it came as a revelation of sorts to learn about the parallel universe in which a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy exists. Within it, liberals do endless battle with one another for control of the Democrat Party.

Phelps’ Cult Veers Into Further Irrationality

  Religion item by Frederick Meekins (8/24/08)

To those of us whose vocations consist largely of commenting on the momentous trends and events going on all around us, it can be easy to fall for the delusion that ultimately the world itself orbits those of us observing it.

All He Wanted Was A Quarter

  Society item by J. J. Jackson (8/24/08)

Standing at the parking meter, a young man scrounged around in his pockets for a quarter so that he could have a few minutes to run in to the market and buy a loaf of bread.  However, as his hand fumbled around inside the pocket of his clean and pressed slacks he realized that he had no change other than a couple pennies and his larger denomination notes.