Vocal Minority

Liberal Lie #6: Liberals Promote Free Speech, Conservatives Suppress It - Fred Grandy Speech Cancelled

Former Congressman Fred Grandy, best known for his role of "Gopher" on the Love Boat, writes about one of his speeched being cancelled in St. Paul, Minnesota. Why? He had dared say something politically incorrect (read: he spoke the truth) about radical Islam.

Read this blood-boiling account of speech suppression by the Muslim-coddling left.

Obama gets award for transparency - in secret

Yeah, knock me over with a feather. From Rick Moran at American Thinker.

Liberal Racism: DOJ Forces Lowering Standards in Dayton

From Walter Williams. The hateful Eric Holder and his get-back-at-whitey agenda is alive and well at the Department of In-Justice. He is so out of control that even the NAA(L)CP disagrees with him:

The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, rejected the results of Dayton's Civil Service examination because not enough blacks passed. The DOJ has ordered the city to lower the passing score. The lowered passing grade requires candidates to answer 50 of 86 (58 percent) questions correctly on the first part and 64 of 102 (63 percent) of questions on the second. The DOJ-approved scoring policy requires potential police officers to earn the equivalent of an "F" on the first part and a "D" on the second. Based on the DOJ-imposed passing scores, a total of 748 people, 258 more than before, were reported passing the exam. Unreported was just how many of the 258 are black.

Keith Lander, chairman of the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dayton NAACP president Derrick Foward condemned the DOJ actions.

Mr. Lander said, "Lowering the test score is insulting to black people," adding, "The DOJ is creating the perception that black people are dumb by lowering the score. It's not accomplishing anything." ...

 

 

Listen & Learn: Mark Levin on Libya and War Powers Act (3/24/11) [UPDATED]

Last Thursday, Mark Levin donned his professorial hat and dedicated the first hour to delivering an informative lecture on Libya (which he opposes) and the presidential War Powers Act. It's a topic I knew very little about, and I recall it coming up back during the first Bush term when liberals would argue that the war in Iraq was unconstitutional because Bush didn't get "an official declaration from Congress." Mark clears that up too.

Sharpen your pencils; class is in session.

[Edited for commercials, long pauses, and other extraneous content]

Download clip here

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UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that Mark Levin's discussion of the war powers has been challenged by professor Thomas Woods. (Woods is apparently not a huge fan of Mark, either as a scholar or a human being; his disdain is quite evident in the linked pieces.)

It seems that by being so behind on my podcasts, I have missed the exchange that has ensued between Levin and Woods since last Thursday. To be continued then ...

Think Progress Exposes Herman Cain as an Islamophobe ... Or Do They?

Interestingly, this video was provided by the Orwellian-named "Think Progress." The regressive and oppressive leftist org apparently thinks that this video somehow exposes Herman Cain as some sort of intolerant Islamophobe (a misnomer, since a phobia implies irrational fear).

However, when Cain is asked about his stance on Muslim appointments were he to become president, he delivered a coherent, cogent, constitutionally-based answer with real-life examples: 

Ahh, this is the type of eloquence and horse sense that is sorely lacking in conservative political circles. G0d I hope he gets the nomination in '12.

Whether they want to admit it or not (for fear of sounding intolerant, "Islamophobic," and/or politically incorrect), I'll bet more Americans agree with Cain than disagree.

So, in my view, this video makes Cain look better, not worse, to the American people. 

Who Said It?

... [T]he oligarchy of this country is clever, they knew that it would take a person of color with an Islamic name who sold his soul many years ago–to fulfill the neocon agenda of planetary dominance.

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Cindy Sheehan
On her website, March 27, 2011 [h/t I Hate the Media]

Well, O'Bummer, game over. Once you've lost Cindy Sheehan, you've lost America ...

 

Geraldine Ferraro R.I.P.

This just in:

Geraldine A. Ferraro, who earned a place in history in 1984 as the first woman to run on a major party national ticket for vice president, has died. She was 75-years-old.

Ferraro, who was born in Newburgh, New York, passed away today at Massachusetts General Hospital while surrounded by her loved ones, a statement from her family read. The cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for twelve years, her family said.

Ferraro was one of the more decent, level-headed Democrats. In fact, in early 2008 Ferraro was lambasted by the politically correct liberati for daring to state the politically incorrect truth: Hillary Clinton's presidential nomination was snatched by an unaccomplished, inexperienced, America-hating Marxist/socialist simply because he was black (don't look at me like that; you know it's the truth).

This statement of truth and the backlash from the perpetually-offended left earned her spots on Hannity and other conservative shows throughout the spring of '08.

R.I.P.

The President Who Hates His Country

Wow. Joan Swirsky at Canada Free Press pulls no punches.

Yes We CAIN!

Tea Party-favorite Herman Cain

The latest on Obama's worst nightmare, black conservative and possible presidential opponent Herman Cain.

... Cain told TheDC he’s “probably” going to officially announce his candidacy “within the next six weeks or less,” and maintains confidence in his ability to win. After all, he says, he’s a “very determined person.”

“Whenever I read an article that says I don’t have a chance at getting the nomination, that just inspires me,” Cain said. “My whole life, in terms of my professional pursuits, has been against the odds because I’m not very easily discouraged when going after a challenge. Sometimes, the bigger the challenge, the more inspired I get.”

Cain’s motivation isn’t something that should be underestimated. He grew up poor in the suburbs of Atlanta, and his story fits almost perfectly into the “American dream” narrative. He said poor people in America now are more easily “hooked on staying poor.” Cain believes that America needs to shift from an “entitlement mindset” to an “empowerment mindset.”

“When I was growing up, there wasn’t as much temptation to stay on government assistance programs because you knew that if you wanted to improve your economic situation, that you were going to have to do it the old-fashioned way,” Cain said. “You were going to have to work for it. So, today, too many people have been tempted and lulled into this victim mindset and then they become their own worst enemy in terms of getting out of this cycle of being poor.” ...

 

ACLU v. Religious Liberty

This is one of the better expositions on Freedom of Religion and the ACLU's assault on it. From J. Matt Barber at American Thinker.

... To be sure, the "main function of the ACLU" is entirely counter-constitutional.

A shared objective between both Communism generally, and the ACLU specifically is the suppression of religious liberty; principally, the free exercise of Christianity.

Karl Marx, high priest of the ACLU's beloved cult of Communism, once said: "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

Even the ACLU's own promotional materials overtly advocate religious discrimination: "The message of the Establishment Clause is that religious activities must be treated differently from other activities to ensure against governmental support for religion."

Utter hokum.

The First Amendment's Establishment Clause -- a mere 10 words -- says nothing of the sort. Its message is abundantly clear, requiring severe distortion to stuff within the ACLU's Marxist parameters. It merely states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." That's it.   

Now let's break it down. What do you suppose the Framers of the US Constitution -- a document expressly designed to limit the powers of federal government -- intended with the word "Congress"? Did they mean State government? Municipal government? Your local school district? Your third grade teacher?  

Of course not. They meant exactly what they said: Congress. As in: The United States Congress! It takes someone with a distinctly disingenuous ulterior motive to derive anything else.  

Now what did they mean by "...shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion?"   

Well, in a letter to Benjamin Rush, a fellow-signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson -- often touted by the left as the great church-state separationst -- answered that question. The First Amendment's Establishment Clause was singularly intended to restrict Congress from affirmatively "establishing," through federal legislation, a national Christian denomination (similar to the Anglican Church of England).

Or, as Jefferson put it: "[T]he clause of the Constitution" covering "freedom of religion" was intended to necessarily preclude "an establishment of a particular form of Christianity through the United States."

How far removed we are today from the original intent of our Founding Fathers. The ACLU is largely responsible for creating the gulf between the Constitution's original construction and its modern misapplication. ...

 

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Bill Maher Calls Republicans Racist (What Else Is New)

Last week the detestable Bill Maher accused Republicans of racism (again) by saying:

Every black person scares you unless they look like Urkel, talk like Colin Powell and wear Bill Cosby sweaters.

What doesn’t seem to cross Maher’s race-obsessed liberalism-rotted brain as that usually people who look like Urkel, talk like Powell, and dress like Cosby are not likely to kill, mug, or rape you! It has nothing to do with their color, dimwit! When was the last time Bill Maher hung out alone in a neighborhood dominated by thugs, regardless of color. Would he not be scared? Damn straight he would be.

But don’t take my word for it. I'm just a white cracker Republican raaaaacist. Listen to black conservative Kevin Jackson of the Black Sphere:

Black people should go jihad on Bill Maher about his latest rant, but blacks on the Left have no idea when they are being insulted. I hope one day soon that Leftist blacks recognize Maher for what he is: Food for dung beetles. …

When Maher felt that Obama had not acted tough enough in dealing with the BP executives, he suggested that Obama call a meeting with said executives, make his demands, then stand up allowing the BP execs to see the gun that Obama had tucked just above his crotch.

Just in case you missed it: Maher sees black people as thugs.

The “Urkel-looking” sweater-wearing articulate blacks are there for Maher so-called comedic amusement. How can intelligent blacks possibly exist, as we are all supposed to be thugs? Such is the appeal of Obama, the acceptable black for Maher. Maher and his ilk like that Obama “looks smooth,” but might “act black.” …

I am curious as to the last time Maher was shooting pool in Compton? Does he live anywhere near a “non-Urkel” black neighborhood? Would his travels take him anywhere near a “non-Urkel” black neighborhood? Let me put it this way: What blacks is Maher afraid of?

Besides hanging with the occasional street-thug turned rapper superstar in the comfort of his Hollywood set, Maher is more scared of blacks than any Republican. I’d love to see him have his limo driver drop him off in Compton or South Chicago for a pickup basketball game.

Note to Bill Maher: ALL Americans fear black thugs.

If my car breaks down in South Central, and I’m not packing my gun that all blacks carry, guess what? Yep, I would be fearful of black people; not all black people…just the thugs. Black on black crime is very high, and statistically speaking I’m not supposed to collect social security, and the situation I described would not improve my chances.

Note to Bill Maher: ALL Americans fear ALL thugs!

Americans make no distinction on who to fear. The Irish Mafia can make you just as dead as the Italian Mafia. But for people like Maher who sees America in colors, that’s not the case.

Maher seems angry that Republicans tend to hold people to standards. You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but that doesn’t mean you don’t recognize the uniform of the thug. Thugs don’t act like Urkel, talk like Powell, and wear sweaters like Cosby for the most part. So if Republicans are not scared of this demography of blacks, that lack of fear comes from observation, not racism. …

Here here! It makes so much sense that only a liberal wouldn't understand it.

Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi and Her (SEIU, AFL-CIO) Political Operative Son

The folks at Big Government make the case that the Wisconsin judge who blocked the state's new public-sector union law should have recused herself: her son is a public-sector union activist.

Paul Krugman and The Know-Nothings

From James Lewis at American Thinker, a real scathing and no-holds-barred of the intellectual moronic-ness that liberals like Krugman project:

Paul Krugman recently was quoted as telling the world he doesn't follow contemporary conservative news commentary. Krugman's open contempt for the dominant political philosophy of the Western Enlightenment, including most of American history, is incredibly revealing. It's not just one New York Times guru of Political Correctness. No, I've run into Krugman's mental lockbox among "educated" people all my life, people with advanced degrees who just mouth the platitudes of the left. In all their education they never learned to open their minds. 

It is pathetic. Intellectually, Paul Krugman has just run up the white flag. That's how we have to see the self-censorship of the left. In a free marketplace of ideas they can't survive. It's our job to restore the free media and give Americans a choice again.

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Ever wonder why the left doesn't teach history? It's one disaster after another for them.

Until the organized left decided to purge our schools and universities of our own Western traditions, "conservatism" was called "liberalism," because it celebrated liberty of thought, liberty of speech and religion, freedom of association, and free ownership of productive assets, including the fruits of one's own labors. Today China, India and Russia have thrown off their Marxist shackles and their economies are suddenly thriving, and we can still see the wonders of South Korea right next to the Stalinist nightmare of the North. 

But Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire, just doesn't get it. What is it you don't get, Professor Krugman? ...

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The left doesn't  need official censors because they carry their own censors in their heads. But just to make sure, they also work to block the free flow of information to everybody else. That must be why the media have to witchhunt Sarah Palin and Clarence Thomas on a regular basis, a smart conservative woman and a smart conservative black man. It's why they have to keep smearing good and decent people. If their own followers ever figured out the scam the media couldn't compete. 

Liberals are constantly telling their obedient flocks what not to listen to, like Fox News. I've never heard a conservative radio host tell the audience not to read the New York Times. Who would listen to that?  We stay astonished by the Mind-locked Media, to see what kind of disinformation they pump out every day. The liberal media provide daily mind-food for conservatives, just like the old Kremlinologists who would look at air-brushed photos of Soviet apparatchiks standing on top of Lenin's tomb, to see who was in power and who got purged.

We criticize their ideas, while they go on poisoning the wellsprings. That's why they fell for global warming fraud and for con artists like Bernie Madoff. If you have no conscience and want to make a million bucks, try selling GM Volts to liberals. But sell them an expensive accident policy at the same time, for the inevitable moment when their motor buggy gets crushed on the freeway. You can get them coming and going, if you have no conscience. If you do have a conscience you can only tell the truth and hope.

Leftist censorship often seems like a source of power for the left, but it's also a great weakness, because reality keeps finding them out.  Ever since he took office Obama has looked stunned that nothing works the way he expects. Maybe that's why he's playing so much golf, to get away from all the bad news. Baffled. Why don't the Muslims and Israelis do what I tell them? Why doesn't the economy rebound from my "stimulus"? He doesn't get it. The more things get out of control, the more confused he feels. It wasn't supposed to be this way. ...

Lots more where that came from.

 

The Wisconsin Way

From IBD Editorials. These public union swine are beneath contempt.

... On the AFL-CIO blog, there's this notice:

"Join us to make April 4, 2011, a day to stand in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states where well-funded, right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away the rights Dr. King gave his life for."

No, they're not. What these "right-wing corporate politicians" are trying to do is the will of the people who elected them to balance the state budget.

They're trying to end the incestuous cycle of government workers — paid by taxpayers — extorting more money from those taxpayers who can't flee the state like Democratic lawmakers and must show up at their jobs every day. ...

We don't think King was fighting for the right of government union workers to have taxpayer-funded health plans that cover Viagra.

 

The Totalitarian Minority

From Lance Fairchok at American Thinker.

... Wisconsin was Democrat political theater at its finest.  Milking the civil rights movement for every drop of sympathy, the Rev. Jesse Jackson recited his tired rhyming shtick on the steps of the state house, conflating the conflict there with a time of actual injustice.  Ironically and sadly, Students for a Democratic Society demonstrated in solidarity with a privileged minority of "haves" to undermine the democratic process.  The courses taught by their well-compensated professors left out critical analysis.  A bonus for the unions, they got naïve teenage foot soldiers and bearded graduate students to shout and rampage and shove democracy aside for nothing.  Real thugs are so expensive.

"You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

The mass-produced signs used by demonstrators and the statements used by leftist pundits and political apparatchiks, held the predictable moral rhetoric intended to convince the public that theirs was a fight against tyranny.  Yet, the people placed Republicans in power in Wisconsin in a free and fair election.  Democrats fled to Illinois when they could not defeat the governor's necessary and long overdue austerity measures, within the rules of a democratic legislature.  So beholden to union special interests they abandoned their responsibility to the states citizens, an act of political cowardice that has become the Democrat standard.  Their actions show they do not respect or accept the duties and constraints placed upon citizen legislators within the constitutions of the nation and their state. 

Elections are either won or lost within our political system, there is no other alternative.  Those who win have the approval of the majority of citizens for the policies and legislation they have promised to enact.  That reality usually prevents what happened in Wisconsin.  It assumes both sides accept that the rule of law is in the best interest of all.  A setback means a legislator struggles harder or reassesses, working to bring about the legislation they feel is best for the constituency whose interests they represent.  If they lose, they do not refuse to play or unleash foul-mouthed thugs on the institutions they so recently spent into insolvency.  No Democratic Republic can operate for long when one side sabotages the process when they do not get their way.

The public sector unions are saying clearly and loudly that they deserve privileges and status denied the vast majority of the citizens whose taxes pay their inflated salaries, and implicit in their violent rhetoric is the threat that if they do not get their way they will burn the statehouse down, even kill their political opponents.  They further let us know that their privileges should come off the backs of those whose labors are much greater and whose rewards are far less, peasants to their royal status, "have-not" to their "have."  This is the truth of the national debate under the Democrats.  President Obama, the great divider, is a stooge of union bosses.  The latter care nothing about citizens not members of their union. ...

 

The Media and the Republicans

From Steve McCann at American Thinker.

... Over the intervening years and into the present, the far-Left effectively promoted: 1) the false and unfounded libel of a desire by conservatives to turn the United States into a theocracy; 2) guilt for the nation's past and one's success; and 3) fears of the imminent demise of the earth due to man's environmental sins.  This tactic became the basis for many of the gullible in the media to sign on and promote the policies of the progressives without understanding what they in fact stood for and what the long-term consequences would be.

It became more important and fashionable for a majority in the media to protect their lifestyles against the "right-wing horde" descending upon them, maintain their membership in the ruling Class, seek notoriety, and to assuage their guilt rather than comprehend what was happening around them, or the controlling agenda they unwittingly supported. 

Thus the coverage of news stories concerning conservative issues or politicians became notable for vitriol and deliberate slanting or omission of facts.  Polls, commissioned by the media and easily manipulated, were substituted for news and real reporting.  Every personal failure of a Republican politician was amplified into a national outcry.  All civility and traditional objectivity was rejected when discussing the (predeterminedly) evil conservatives. ...

2 Dem officials indicted in tea party election fraud case

File under: The most important story not to be reported on by the mainstream lib media today. Rick Moran at American Thinker discusses.

Hey, all you "Bush was selected, not elected" people. This is what election stealing looks like. Why so silent?

Leftist protesters rage on as world burns | Wisconsin protests continue

From Eric Golub at The Daily Caller.

... The Tea Party rallies were a salute to democracy at its finest, with peaceful protests around the nation leading to a resounding election victory. Unlike the leftist rallies in Wisconsin, the Tea Party protests are what democracy looks like.

Democracy is not illegally going on strike. Democracy is not violating medical ethics laws by handing out phony sick notes. Democracy is not legislators fleeing their states. That is not a filibuster, which requires being in the chamber. That is anarchy. That is subversion. That is leftism, where the rule of law does not matter.

Democracy is not sending death threats to GOP lawmakers over a policy dispute. That is terrorism.

Democracy is not bringing in Jesse Jackson to create the illusion that a financial dispute is a civil rights issue.

Madison, Wisconsin is not Selma, Alabama. The fight over collective bargaining is not the fight to end slavery. To link these disparate events is an insult to anybody who has ever been through slavery, the Holocaust, genocide, or any other real tragedy.

At the risk of disappointing an entire over-privileged race that I belong to, there is not a single middle-class, Caucasian, white-collar government worker in America having their civil rights violated by another Caucasian politician.

Governor Walker was compared to Hitler, but Walker didn’t throw the protesters into ovens.

He was compared to Gaddafi, but Walker didn’t shoot the protesters. He did not even lightly turn on any fire hoses to clean them up after a week of them laying in their own filth.

None of the protesters were enslaved. A few were carried out of the capitol in handcuffs. Unlike the fear and seriousness in Dr. Martin Luther King’s eyes in the 1960s, several of these protesters responded by smiling at the cameras and yelling, “Hi mom!” ...

Top 10 Ugly Moments in the Wisconsin Union Battle

Only 10? Michael Moore should fill up 1-5 all by himself. 

From Human Events.