US Cities that Break the Law for Illegals… on PURPOSE

August 18, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Immigration/Immigrants, Judges, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Want to know if the city in which you live is purposefully going out of their way to break the law and allow illegal immigrants to suck free money, services and education from our taxes? Want to know if your city is trying to destroy the USA by giving every drifter, murderer, and rapist from just anywhere a “sanctuary” within their jurisdiction? Want to know how many states have passed laws that would prevent their own local police from assisting the Federal Government in apprehending and identifying illegal immigrants, even if they are criminals, and shipping them to their point of origin?

Go here…

Sanctuary Cities, USA

And if YOUR city is on this list DO SOMETHING TO STOP IT. Do it before it is too late.

Releasing Wolves Among Sheep, Freeing the Guantanamo Detainees is Just Plain Wrong

August 17, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Military, Security/Safety, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Since the opening of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainee facility in 2002, the Bush Administration has been under constant pressure to close the facility down. The existence of this facility is looked upon as an embarrassment to “freedom,” “liberty” and western ethics by its detractors and has served as a focal point of the anti-war movement the world over. Those against the facility maintain that it does more harm than good in our efforts against Islamofascist terror – if, that is, they even believe there is a problem with such terrorism in the first place. In any case, they want the thing closed down, the prisoners therein either remanded to civil authorities or released, and “civilized” people to denounce the entire concept.

Those who want this to occur are entirely wrong to imagine, however, that anything but harm would come from the act of closing Guantanamo down and we already have ample proof that this is so.

According to a report by Melbourne, Australia’s The Age, “at least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.” And these 30 are just those recaptured or those who intelligence sources have identified as having returned to their terror activities upon release, so the number could be even higher.
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Don’t ask, don’t tell, just pander

August 17, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Health, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Michael M. Bates

Somewhere, Walter Jenkins is smiling.

Mr. Jenkins was at the center of a 1964 White House scandal. A close personal advisor to President Lyndon Johnson for 25 years, he was arrested in the men’s room of a Washington YMCA for what in those innocent days was termed disorderly conduct. This wasn’t Mr. Jenkins’ first encounter with the law. On a previous arrest, he’d been charged as a “pervert.”

LBJ didn’t want Republicans exploiting the incident. An October 28 United Press International article reported Mr. Johnson claimed former President Eisenhower had “the same type of problems” with one of his aids. The story continued:

“In his comment on the problem, the President said: ‘The only difference is we Democrats felt sorry for him and felt it was a case of sickness or disease. . .’”

Sickness or disease? With thinking like that, LBJ wouldn’t have gone over too well at last week’s Democratic forum, the first one ever, dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. LGBT is the politically correct shorthand for this special interest group.
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Pyromania and the Fires of Inflation

August 17, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Budget, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

The Fed attempts to stamp out the forest fires it keeps starting.

Panic in world financial markets has dominated the business news of the past week. The Dow Jones Industrials are down almost 400 points below their July high. Mortgage bankers and hedge funds have lost heavily or been forced out of business. Lenders have sharply increased credit standards, delaying or canceling some corporate takeovers and IPOs.

Since the end of last week, to restore market confidence and to ease the overall credit squeeze, the Federal Reserve has purchased an extra $40 billion or so of Treasury securities in the open market to provide liquidity to financial institutions.

Ironically, the Fed itself created the conditions that produced the financial meltdown. Over the past decade it has all but drowned the world in excess creation of dollars to fund ever-growing Federal deficit spending and to satisfy consumers’ demands for instant gratification without the bother of working and saving money.
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Fred and the Fair Tax Folks — Does He Support the Fair Tax or not?

August 16, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Budget, Congress, Elections, GOP, Media Bias, President, Society/Culture, Taxes, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

OK, I am getting a little annoyed with the claim that Thompson has somehow flip flopped on the Fair Tax issue. I am also tired of seeing the Fair Tax folks claiming that their video shows Fred Thompson stating he supports their new tax plan. In reality neither is the case.

The fact is Thompson has neither come out directly in favor of the Fair Tax plan, nor flip flopped on his stance on taxes. (See important note at the end of this article.)

That Disingenuous Video

Look, the Fair Tax people are generally on our side of the argument, it is true. Not every conservative supports their particular plan, of course, but we are all looking for a better plan for our tax system. We all agree that what we have is broken and desperately needs fixing. Thompson stands squarely on this side, as well. But, with this whole Thompson claim, the Fair Tax people are hindering, not helping the issue of a substantive tax debate.

And now, because of this ridiculous claim from the Fair Tax folks that Thompson has somehow come out in support of their plan, ABC news is getting into the act in an effort to find something which they can use to attack candidate Thompson, further muddying the waters. On the 31st, ABC wrote that, “Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., appears to have flip flopped on his pledge to sign federal legislation replacing all federal taxes with a 23 percent sales tax, according to an unedited FairTax.org video reviewed by ABC News.”
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Down by the School Yard

August 16, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Family, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Nancy Salvato

I’ve been following the news story on the execution style killings of three college bound students in Newark, NJ. It is just so horrific that I wanted to find some justification, no matter how slight, for such an atrocity to befall this particular group of victims; young adults whose gruesome fate was decided because they chose to hang out in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was particularly disappointed when Bill O’Reilly’s guest, Jesse Peterson, a professor of hip hop culture, had absolutely no concrete suggestions on how to prevent kids from turning into thugs –except to suggest paying teachers more money so that the schools can better address troubled youth.

If O’Reilly’s producers want to continue with this thread of discussion, a solid case could be made that offering parental school choice would go a long way toward solving many of the problems that plague our young people. By offering parents without economic mobility the means to provide their children a place to explore without fear, or being forced to grow up too fast, where administrators can enforce standards of behavior and create a culture of learning, these kids might stand a chance. As it stands now, in many lower Socio Economic Status (SES) areas, public schools have become dumping grounds and even the kids who are excited about learning, are left behind. In this atmosphere, students will not come close to receiving the level of intellectual stimulation from their teachers or peers to which higher SES students are exposed. Why has this been allowed to happen?
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Major Rehab

August 16, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Family, Religion, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

We who make up the church are God’s temple. We need an extreme makeover.

Rev. Ron Tyler, who heads the Bridgeport Rescue Mission, preached Sunday’s sermon at the Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church in North Stamford, Connecticut. His theme was surrendering ourselves to the Holy Spirit to make the body of Christ, the Christian church, into a congregation of purity, power, and praise.

Our model is Jesus’s actions when he visited the temple, corrupted by worldly commerce.

Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, ” ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.

But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
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Media Claiming General Petraeus has ‘Flagging Spirits’ is ‘Dogged by Detractors’

August 15, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Military, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a report that is supposed to be about General David Petraeus and his efforts to pacify Iraq by commanding the forces in president Bush’s Iraq surge, The New York Times speculates instead about his state of mind and generally tries to tear him down. Times writer John Burns seems to be putting in a bid for his own late night psychic TV show by being able to read the General’s mind and divining that he has “flagging spirits” and that he is “rueful.” Instead of a serious news report, Burns gives us speculation and a mystic’s interpretation.

The most egregious paragraph in the story is the second.

Pressing the talk button on his headset, the slightly built, 54-year-old general, the top American commander in Iraq, said glimpses of the normal life that have survived the war’s horrors have helped to boost his own flagging spirits, especially on days when signs of battlefront progress are offset by new bombings with mass casualties, the starkest measure of continuing insurgent power across Iraq.

Did you notice the lack of quote marks in that paragraph? It is a sure bet that Petraeus never said he had “flagging spirits.” More likely, Petraeus pointed to those signs of “normal life” to reveal to Burns that such signs are good signs of an Iraqi people just yearning to live life without all the strife. It is more likely that Petraeus was merely trying to impress upon writer Burns the resilience and strength of the Iraqi people. Yet, Burns interprets this to be a revelation of Petraeus’ “flagging spirits” instead because it fits in better with the New York Times’ pessimistic opposition to the surge.
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The Land of Must-Have-Been

August 15, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Media Bias, Religion, Science, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Breaking news about the religion of Darwinian evolution.

Recent news stories about the inconvenient truth of fossil discoveries in Africa illustrate the hypothetical guesswork in Darwinian evolution that passes for science. Extracts from coverage by the New York Times, hardly an unfriendly voice for atheistic materialism, are representative:

Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution
By John Noble Wilford

August 9, 2007

New York Times

Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens. Scientists who dated and analyzed the specimens — a 1.44-million-year-old Homo habilis and a 1.55-million-year-old Homo erectus found in 2000 — said their findings challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, they apparently lived side by side in eastern Africa for almost half a million years…

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Media Fooled by Another Fake Iraq ‘Massacre’ – Perhaps They Want to be Fooled

August 14, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Military, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

How many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a “massacre of Iraqi civilians” that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists? How ever many that may be, the tally is certainly on its way to overflowing and here we have another galling example of the same thing. This time Reuters is caught taking directions from the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq with the tale of “60 decomposed bodies” supposedly found in Baquba by the never identified, amorphous “Iraqi police.”

BAGHDAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Iraqi police said on Sunday they had found 60 decomposed bodies dumped in thick grass in Baquba, north of Baghdad.

There was no indication of how the 60 people had been killed, police said.

No indication of how they were killed? Try no indication that they were killed!
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Setting Aside Political Differences for Common Goals

August 14, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Economy/Finances, Education, Frank Salvato, Media Bias, Science, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

American politics has become so caustic that many engaged in the process have become blind to the fact that there are many common goals that exist between the two factions that currently hold good government hostage. Clear thinking Americans – those not slavishly beholden to opinion polls and special interest groups – understand that the overwhelming majority of us have more in common than not. To this point it will be the wise politico that will take advantage of harnessing the energy of polar opposite groups to achieve common goals.

Let’s take two issues that have a common goal but that also have supporters firmly planted on the opposite ends of the political spectrum: alternative energy sources and energy independence.
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Teaching Communism to Our Children in Seattle

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Any number of examples can be found these days to illustrate the poor or destructive education received by our children in the United States today. All across the country our children are being slighted by Teacher’s Unions and organizations who don’t wish to teach but wish to indoctrinate our children with their brand of political activism. From the whitewashing and PCing of our history textbooks to the failed “new” concepts in teaching being so regrettably foisted upon our little ones as an “education,” the examples are legion and can be found with ease. That activism is almost universally in the socialist or communist mode of thinking, one antithetical to the whole of the American experience. It is a mode of thinking designed to destroy the things that make America great.

No better example can be found than that out of the Hilltop Children’s Center of Seattle, Washington, where recently an experiment in communism was imposed upon the innocent children who were unfortunate enough to have had their unthinking parents force them to attend.*

In the face of a perfect example of the natural inclinations of man acted out by the children at this Seattle indoctrination center, the “teachers” there decided that their class room offered the perfect opportunity to, in their words, “launch a critical evaluation of … the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded.”

In other words, these teachers decided that the truly human characteristics exhibited by their students, those characteristics upon which our Founding Fathers based the greatest political experiment in liberty and freedom known to man, needed to be crushed, and that their children needed to have their humanity wiped clean in favor of a new, “collectivist” way of thinking. These so-called teachers’ goal was not one of happenstance, but one of purposeful indoctrination in communist thinking. The kind of thinking responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions of people in the 20th century — millions in the 20th and still counting into the 21st.
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Germany Ready to Fight Scientology… But What of Islamofascism?

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, History, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Religion, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Germans have found the intense, religious issue of the day that they feel must be fought to the hilt. It’s a matter of a deep consequence and a threat to the safety of the German people. This religious order is a “Militant-aggressive” one that is “a dangerous, extremist organization which has declared war on Europe.”

So, which religion do ya think it is that the Germans are all worried about?

Islam?

Uh, no.

It’s Scientology,

It shouldn’t take much more proof than this that Germans in particular and Europeans in general have a complete lack of understanding of the times in which we live. If Scientology is their biggest fear as Islamofascists are cavorting about the world cutting off heads and blowing up tourist spots killing thousands on a daily basis, then it would seem that these people deserve all the damage that Islam will cause them.
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Just Say No To Socialized Hillary Care

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Health, Marie Jon, Media Bias, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Marie Jon’

In today’s world perception is everything. Why would that old adage not apply to one seeking the Oval Office?

Whether you like his politics or not, President Bush works out daily to stay in good health. He is fit and trim and robust at the age of sixty-one. A healthy body is an adjunct to a healthy, clear mind. We know where Bush stands on Iraq. He is committed to win the war. Many are beginning to think he just might be able to do it. All good Americans want us to succeed in winning the peace for a fledgling democracy. If you doubt what is being accomplished in Iraq, you’ll need to read “A War We Just Might Win” written by Michael E. O’Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack, published: July 30, 2007 in The New York Times.

Robin Givhan, a fashion editor for The Washington Post, wrote an op-ed on Senator Hillary Clinton’s revealing neckline displayed during a July 18 speech on the Senate floor. Givhans is a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She has critiqued the fashion statements of the likes of Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney.

“Commanding Clothes” was an extremely well written opinion piece referencing Dr. Rice’s wardrobe. “Dressing Down,” on Dick Cheney, was right on target. Givhan takes no political sides. Cheney was dressed inappropriately while attending the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In her op-ed, Givhan gives Vice president Cheney very bad marks for looking tacky. He wore a knit ski cap. She rightfully criticized him for not wearing a Fedora or a fur hat.

Does it matter if a presidential candidate wears a shell top with a pantsuit, designed not to show cleavage, but does nonetheless? Probably not. Perhaps the reason for the numerous articles on her appearance is that the liberal media wants to cast Hillary as a more sensual woman. As her husband would say, “You don’t want to go there.” Hillary Clinton is a very attractive woman.
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BET TV Airing a PSA Telling Kids to ‘Read a Mo F’n Book’?

August 12, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Entertainment, Media Bias, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 6 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Black Entertainment Television has been playing what is being called a Public Service Announcement created by a rapper named Bomani “D’mite” Armah. It is in cartoon form and made in the Rapper music video style. However, it contains some very offensive language even as the underlying message is one encouraging children to read by telling them to read a “mother****ing book, N***er.” It’s a mixed message, indeed. Do we need to encourage kids to read by cursing at them every other word in a song aired to them on a black centric television station? Is this the proper type of work that should be seen on BET?

The thing begins in a school auditorium with bored kids looking on. The cartoon rapper starts by playing Beethoven’s Fifth on a piano (the whole song is set to the Fifth Symphony). “D’Mite” starts off by telling the kids, “See, I used to do songs with hooks and concepts and sh*t, right? Well, f*ck that, I’m trying to go platinum!” It then goes into the first verse which is made up entirely of “Read a book, read a book, read a mah fuc*in book,” repeated over and over again.

It’s over-the-top and offensive to be sure. But is it the “right message” despite that and to be congratulated? BET sure thinks it should.
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Implausible Plot

August 12, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Entertainment, Media Bias, Society/Culture, The Law, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Today’s audiences accept the assertion that capitalist businessmen are evil in whatever they do, even when alleged actions make no sense.

The motivation for the lawsuit in the new TV series Damages is nonsensical.

The opening episodes have revolved around a clash of two titans: Glen Close as Patty Hewes, a ruthless and hard-boiled plaintiff lawyer, and Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher, an apparently equally ruthless and highly successful entrepreneur. The implausible plot brings them into a head-to-head clash.

The audience see brief scenes suggesting that Frobisher talked his employees into investing much of their life savings in his company’s stock, shortly before he sold his own stock in the company to an outside buyer. Somehow or other, this bankrupted his employees.

Think about it for a moment, however. Clearly Frobisher had a very successful company, successful enough for an outside investor to buy Frobisher’s presumably controlling interest in the company. How did change of stock ownership bankrupt the employees? In most takeover situations, the stock price is pushed up, at least initially.
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Media Cover for Obama on Pakistan

August 11, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Military, Security/Safety, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The L.A. Times has morphed Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s over-the-top campaign rhetoric that he would attack Pakistan into “suggestions by U.S. politicians that American forces unilaterally strike” that country. But, no where did the story mention Obama, nor that no Administration officials are advocating such a move. How is it that Obama’s absurd gaffe has suddenly become a U.S. political policy that the Pakistanis fear is impossible to know, but the way the L.A.Times wrote the story, one would cast blame on the Bush Administration instead of Obama for this slight to Musharraf and the Pakistani government.

The story written by Laura King revolves around Musharraf’s increasing security concerns and calls for him to step back from power. It also reveals the fact that Musharraf is sending prime minister Shaukat Aziz to the jirga (a traditional council) in Afghanistan instead of attending himself, a move that supposedly surprised the Bush Administration. According to the L.A.Times, one of the reasons Musarraf made this decision is because U.S. “officials” are saying we should invade his country. But the only person who said such a thing in such a public forum was Barack Obama, who’s hardly in a position to be setting U.S. policy toward Pakistan. Yet, the Times acts as if the U.S. government is advocating for just such an attack which, in the way the Times writes, makes it seems as if this is a Bush gaffe.

Pakistan has been angry over official and unofficial suggestions by U.S. politicians that American forces unilaterally strike Al Qaeda figures believed to be taking shelter in Pakistan’s tribal lands if Musharraf’s government fails to do so.

Pakistan, which is in the midst of a major military offensive against militants in the semiautonomous border region, said any such U.S. action would violate its sovereignty.

Why no mention of Barack Obama and the scolding he has taken for his over-the-top rhetoric?
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Obama is out to clean up

August 11, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Michael M. Bates

Barack Obama says he wants to clean government up. At first blush, you might not think a Chicago machine politician and chum of indicted Democratic fundraiser/slumlord/fixer Tony Rezko would be the ideal guy for that assignment. Still, Barry’s not blushing; he claims he’s serious.

He gets that earnest and really, really serious look (easily mistaken for constipation) on his face and you know that Mr. Ethics is about to speak with authority, even gravitas, as they say in the mainstream media. The Chicago Tribune reported that last month in Iowa he lectured:

“The reason that we’re not getting things done is not because we don’t have good plans or good policy prescriptions. The reason is because it’s not our agenda that’s being moved forward in Washington – it’s the agenda of the oil companies, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the special interests who dominate on a day-to-day basis in terms of legislative activity.”

I’d like to know precisely who the “our” is in “our agenda.” It’s safe to conclude we’re not talking here about people who believe in limited government, lower taxes, a strong national defense and traditional moral values.
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Obama Calls Canadian Prime Minister a ‘President’ – Where is Media Ridicule?

August 10, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Military, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

At the Democrat Party presidential debates last Tuesday, Barack Obama revealed that he didn’t know that our Canadian neighbors to the north had a prime minister instead of a president leading them. Yet the MSM has practically ignored this obvious gaffe, with few of them making much of the incident. This is a far cry from how Bush was so virulently attacked for having no foreign policy “gravitas” during the 2000 campaign. But for a Democrat in 2007 it’s pass time. Nothing to see here, folks, keep moving.

In response to a trade question during the debate, Obama said he’d “immediately call the president of Mexico (and) the president of Canada” to discuss the issue. Of course, Canada has no “president,” and this gaffe further shows Barack’s unfamiliarity with foreign nations proving his unsuitability to lead our country during an era where foreign policy will be of prime importance.

But even as Bush repeatedly got nailed, Barack is given a pass.
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Jesse Jackson’s Anti-Gun Claims Unchallenged by the Media

August 10, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once again the Associated Press give us more of its prosaic brand of “unfair and unbalanced” news with a Jesse Jackson anti-gun story that doesn’t offer a single word to counter his propaganda, their report doesn’t present even a hint that there is any “side” but the anti-gun position. We aren’t shocked at this, of course, but it needs to be pointed out for the record nonetheless.

Jackson faces a trial and possible jail time for his absurd June 23rd picketing of a gun shop in Riverdale, a suburb of Chicago. During the effort to disrupt the shop’s business Jackson and his cohorts illegally blocked the entrance to the establishment an action that resulted in his arrest for trespassing.

As the AP reports on Jackson’s first appearance in court to face these charges, they made all efforts to make Jackson seem the righteous actor, unruffled and heroic. AP even decided he was “relaxed-looking” is his appearance.
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The Handwriting is on the Wall!

August 10, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Religion, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

But too many of us can’t understand it.

The sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) was delivered by Pastor Larry Fullerton. His text was Daniel, chapter 5, the famous account of the fateful writing that mysteriously appeared on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast.

Neither Belshazzar, nor his sorcerers and magicians could understand the message. But Daniel, a righteous man of God, understood and delivered God’s message of doom, a message that unhappily applies to our modern-day, largely Godless society.
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Paper Uses Global Warming Activist’s Press Release as News Story

August 9, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Global Warming, Media Bias, Science, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. At issue was another globaloney alarmist story the paper printed on July 25th, titled “This century hotter than last, group finds,” supposedly by Post writer Dara Kam. Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this “article” was merely a rewording of the press release of an environmentalist group calling themselves, Environment Florida. An alert reader who wrote in calling them on it also exposed several other papers across the country that did the very same thing.

Naturally, the article by Kam was all worried about how the summers are getting hotter and informing the reader of new globaloney legislation pending in the Florida state house in Tallahassee. It all seemed rather like our intrepid writer had done a whole bunch of research for this attempt at writing a “science” article.

But Post reader Gary Bokelmann wondered how this “article” could be nearly a word for word rehash of a press release put out by the environmental group and still be claimed an honest news article? And not only did the Palm Beach Post merely rephrase a press release, so did several other papers, Bokelmann found.
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Wisc. Paper: Neocons Want Petraeus for President? Huh?

August 9, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s no wonder that sensible people just shake their heads and wonder what’s wrong with the extremists of the far left when they come up with such off the wall nonsense and then try to pass it off as real political analysis. It just makes people who have even the slightest clue about what is really going on in the world double over with laughter. Such is the case with today’s comedic attempt at political forecasting by nut in residence Ed Garvey of the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times.

Columnist Garvey, in true nutroots fashion, thinks he has hit on the perfect Neocon conspiracy. The Neocons don’t want any of the current candidates for president. No, sir, they are trying to angle for General Petraeus to take up their Neocon banner!

I know that you’re scratching your head wondering how in Heaven’s name he came up with this one. I did too.
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Ignorance Is Bliss, Or Is It?

August 9, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Nancy Salvato

If there is one thing for certain in this world, it is when Jack Nicholson plays the male protagonist in a film, his performance will be outstanding. As McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, his impression on me is as compelling today –as it was over 30 years ago when I first watched him bring to consciousness the minds of assorted inmates staying on Nurse Ratched’s ward of the mental institution. The message I took away while watching McMurphy undermine Nurse Ratched’s authority over her unit -until she has him lobotomized, stands the test of time. Power hungry people will resort to any means necessary to maintain control. Although Nurse Ratched’s actions were extreme, her display taught me just how vulnerable people are if they are labeled mentally unstable or forfeit the responsibility of making decisions on their own behalf. Those placed in their charge are not necessarily looking out for them.

Inherent in writing and exposing one’s own ideas about terrorism (or the war against radical Islamism), the border threat, or political correctness, is the likelihood of being branded a right wing nut. Being labeled as such isn’t personally offensive (I’ve begun to grow my Alligator Skin) but there is the danger that being branded as such could chip away at my credibility, which is the whole idea behind such mudslinging. This is why it’s so important to be able to back up an argument with facts. This is extremely difficult in the face of a movement doing everything it can to shut down ideas which run counter to their own.
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Anti-Gun Argument, Always Pure Hysterics

August 8, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The anti-gun argument is always built solely upon emotional excess. It’s all about “feelings” and “fears” and almost never built on any facts or reality. In another example of the kind of hand-wringing, excessive, faux compassion that ignores the real statistics we are so used to, the Charlotte Observer has given space to one of their propagandists… I mean writers… to vent against the evil gun, once again.

The Observer’s Dannye Romine-Powell (God save us from another hyphenated named, female liberal) gets all amush over the “unruffled thinking” of her gun hating husband and tries her hand at citing statistics to such poor effect that it is embarrassing. But her empty argument very much embodies that which lies at the heart of the anti-Constitutional crowd.
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Those Deliberately Playing In Traffic Should Get Run Over

August 8, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Frederick Meekins, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Frederick Meekins

Commonsense teaches that, if one deliberately with aforethought puts oneself into oncoming traffic, one is going to get run over. As such, that is what you deserve.

To some, such a sentiment brings to mind elderly grandmothers crossing the street and young children absentmindedly chasing after an errant ball. However, that is not what I am referring to.

Those I am referring to are protestors and self-appointed revolutionaries thinking that they are so important and much more better than you that they somehow have the right to literally bring your life to a screeching halt to compel you to listen to their juvenile tantrums by impeding the flow of oncoming traffic

Two incidents in recent months hint that this tactic may become more prevalent in the future as leftists ratchet up their propensity towards mayhem and violence in an attempt to intimidate the American people into acquiescing to their socialistic demands.
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What IS Wrong With Ron Paul?

August 7, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Constitution, Elections, GOP, History, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 9 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

I have been watching with interest the candidacy of Libertarian Ron Paul. Like many, I’ve been wondering what the heck he is doing in this race in the first place. Let’s face it, even in the GOP field of candidates he doesn’t fit in well. Naturally, he is a whipping boy for the GOP establishment… well, maybe just a laughing stock, would be more accurate. But, there is real substance to Mr. Paul, a substance that is all too easy to gloss over by focusing on his quirks. And he does serve a very important purpose; he helps bring the debate to the right, a necessary pull with Mitt the Malleable and Rudy the lefty in the race.

Being of a libertarian bent myself, I see a lot of merit in Mr. Paul’s focus on taking government out of things as opposed to trying to find new and expansive (not to mention expensive) ways for government to meddle in our lives. His voice is a welcome change in this direction.

However, his chief flaw is his overly simplistic approach to the war — and this is the single most important issue of our day. This is the main reason he is uncredible as a possible president one who, should he be elected, would have to deal far more with foreign threats and diplomacy than that of other, past presidents.

Last Sunday’s debate was a prime example of the unsuitability of his candidacy for our times. From his constant and easily ridiculed use of the word “Neocons” in practically every answer he gave, to his policy suggestion that we “just leave” Iraq as if it were merely a bad movie we could walk out on with no consequences, made him look… well… off his nut.
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Hacker Proves How MSM is Fooled by al Qaeda Photochopped Images

August 7, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Democrats/Leftists, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

At the Black Hat computer Hacker’s conference held in Las Vegas last week, Neal Krawetz of “Hacker Factor” showed how easily the MSM has been tricked into believing the fake images that al Qaeda has offered to further their propaganda. Krawetz specifically referred to two images, one the July 27, 2006 image of al Qaeda second in command al-Zawahiri supposedly sitting in a modern television studio. It was an image that had the tongues of the MSM and pundits alike wagging. How is it, they clucked, that al-Zawahiri could be sitting in a modern television studio yet still could not be found?

Krawetz demonstrated how the elements of the two images, however, are special effects and not real.

Krawetz showed another image of al-Zawahiri from July 27, 2006, showing him seated in what appears to be a television studio. Krawetz said many people who saw this video were outraged that he could sitting in a television studio somewhere, yet the U.S. government couldn’t find him.

Image analysis suggests that the studio and the various pictures positioned in the studio around him were added later. Again, a halo around al-Zawahiri suggests that he was shot in front of a monochromatic screen and pasted into a new background.

The fake TV studio image sure fooled Tucker Carlson of MSNBC’s The Situation Room. On January 30th Tucker said:
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Of justice and the fullness of hearts

August 7, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Michael M. Bates

When Charles Schumer speaks, people laugh. Sadly, some folks also listen, possibly because he’s the third ranking member of the Democratic Senate leadership. In that lofty capacity it’s the New York solon’s right, nay, responsibility, to chatter inanely.

Schumer recently warned that, unless there are what he deems extraordinary circumstances, he’ll try to block any future Supreme Court appointments made by this president. So we have yet another reason to be thankful that Chief Justice John Roberts appears to be OK.

The Chief Justice and Justice Sam Alito, both of whom were nominated by the current President Bush, are the cause of Mr. Schumer’s threat. He now says the Senate was “hoodwinked” by them. He’s particularly miffed about Justice Alito. In addressing the American Constitution Society last week, Schumer said:

“Without question, my greatest regret in the 109th Congress was not doing more to block Alito. Alito shouldn’t have been confirmed. I should have done a better job; my colleagues said we didn’t have the votes, but I think we should have twisted more arms and done more.”

Twisted more arms. Yep, definitely he’s affiliated with the right party.
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AP Legitimizes Generbender With Idaho Inmate Who Castrated ‘Herself’

August 6, 2007 | Filed Under 00Publius Contributor, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Judges, Media Bias, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, The Law, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Is it so hard to tell a male human being from a female one? I guess to the AP it is because in a story from the 31st, the tale they told of a male inmate castrating himself with a broken disposable razor blade became the story of a male inmate castrating “herself” with a razor blade. One wonders what the AP Stylebook says about that little gem?

BOISE, Idaho – An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after prison officials refused to treat her for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge said.

Someone should inform the AP that a female cannot castrate herself. It is a physical impossibility. If’n ya gots something to castrate, you ain’t no woman in the first place!
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