John Fund presenting the Voter Watchdog Award to Ruth Bendl.

In his remarks, John says he is encouraged about the conservative message today. After all, during the Carter and Clinton years we felt we were in the wilderness but we soon found success again at the polls.

Fund recalls that Reagan was sure that Carter would lead from the far left even as he ran as a moderate. Fund says that Reagan was right, Carter made a hash of things and that left the door open for Reagan to sweep into office.

As Clinton was coming to office, Fund says that Reagan repeated his observation, and “sure enough we had the biggest tax increase in history.” And Clinton’s leftism led to the 1994 Republican revolution. “Stick to conservatism and you will win again,” said Reagan then.

Fund told us that we have the power to reverse Obama’s current power.

Ruth Bendl accepted the award for Voter Watchdog. A world traveler, Bendl is a tireless activist against vote fraud. Ruth says they discovered that 80,000 illegal immigrants came to the state of Oregon to get IDs because of the lax ID laws in that state.

Ruth said that her state officers aren’t too fond of her because she has found that quite a few energetic corpses are still voting there. Ruth is an acticist for proper ID requirements to be included on the voter roles. Ruth also is adamant that lax voter roles is a homeland security issue. The easy by which illegals get IDs is criminal.

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Live Blogging the Sammies

April 18, 2009 | Filed Under Sam Adams Alliance | Comments Off

-By Warner Tod Huston

Tonight, April 18, I am sitting on blogger’s row for the 2nd Annual Sammies sponsored by the Sam Adam’s Alliance.

Held north of Chicago in Northbrook, Illinois at the beautiful Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel, the 2nd Annual Sammies looks to be a fun event. Speakers include Michelle Malkin, Joe the Plumber, “the capitalist pig” Jonathan Hoenig, Mary Katherine Ham, The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, Stephen Moore, and others all hosted by Radio host Guy Benson.

The festivities kick off at 7PM Central time.

Our host for the evening is local talk show host Guy Benson. Benson has a weekend show on WIND in Chicago and also appears weekly on the Hugh Hewitt show during the “young guns” segment with Mary Catherine Ham.

… and now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to get a cocktail before it’s too late!

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Leftwing Media ‘Group Think’ Not Just in America

April 18, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, History, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Andrew Bolt has a fine takedown of The Age newspaper in Australia’s Herald Sun today, April 17. It details quite nicely that not just the U.S. media is wallowing in leftwing “group think”. His is headlined “Picture is kiss of death for George Bush prejudice” and lays out the complete lack of historical research of even recent events perpetrated by The Age newspaper in its unthinking assumptions of what President Bush did or didn’t do over the last eight years re foreign policy. Naturally, The Age falls all over itself in support of the leftist messiah, Obama.

Bolt details the erroneous claims by The Age and refutes them with the facts. The Age claimed it was “unimaginable” that Bush could ever have “kissed” any Muslim foreign leaders, as Obama recently did to the Turkish leader, appearing to imagine that such an intimate gesture would have solved all the world’s problems. Bolt points to the photo of Bush kissing the current King of Saudi Arabia to prove The Age wrong.

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Unions Going After Wal-Mart Again

April 18, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Business, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Jobs, Liberals, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Most lefties claim that “no” means “no,” but not where it concerns unions that have lost the organizing argument over and over again. We can see that refusal to listen to the workers in the case of Unions vs. Wal-Mart. Repeatedly Wal-Mart workers have generally refused to unionize, yet instead of taking that as an answer, the unions continue to push. And they are at it again.

The United Food and Commercial Workers is stepping up its efforts to organize Wal-Mart workers yet again.

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7 Senate Republicans Reply to DHS ‘Rightwing Extremists’ Scaremongering

April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Censorship, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Founders, GOP, Government, Corruption, Guns, Jobs, Liberals, Patriotism, President, Race, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Seven Republican Senators have this week signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking for the proof upon which the Department of Homeland Security based its outrageously accusatory report on so-called rightwing extremism in the Untied States.

The seven scold the DHS and the Obama administration for its over-broad generalizations that seem to assume that nearly half the electorate is prone to becoming terrorists merely because they hold right of center political views.

The letter alludes to the central point in this whole episode: that the U.S. government has now determined that the traditional American beliefs of small government and adherence to the Constitution is now suddenly a determinant in forming citizens into homegrown terrorist groups. After 200 years, all of a sudden believing in run-of-the-mill American beliefs makes you a terrorist! These seven Senators want to know why.

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ACLU: Know What WE Need? Schools That Are Like Porn Shops

April 17, 2009 | Filed Under ACLU, Anti-Americanism, Children, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Gays, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Morals/Sex, Rights, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Most people imagine that our schools are to be institutes of higher learning. Apparently the ACLU has a little different conception of what “higher learning” means because it is demanding that public schools in Nashville, Tennessee allow gay advocacy sites to go unblocked at library Internet stations throughout the Metro Nashville District.

The porn peddlers of the ACLU have given the Metro schools a “deadline” of April 29 to reverse its Internet policies or they take the issue before the courts.

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Bonfire of the Platitudes

April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, John Armor, Liberals, Media Bias, Military, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture | Comments Off

-By John Armor

President Obama’s trip to Europe last week offered several more opportunities to observe his speeches. I listened to several of them, to see if they had changed at all. They had not.

On my desktop I have stored two Doonesbury cartoons from decades years ago. Back then, when many of Doonesbury’s characters were still the same ones we both knew in college, I admired his work. (That was before his politics turned vicious and non-factual, shall we say._ The best of a cartoonist’s skill is to skewer his subject with a handful of words and a few strokes of the pen.
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Yes We’ve Been Down

April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

We have had a two day outage here at PubliusForum.com. We are back and running now, though.

We hope you haven’t gone away while we’ve worked on the tech glitches. Thanks for your patience.

Warner Todd Huston

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Avoiding Criticism: CNN Shuts Down Anti-Tea Party Reporter’s Email Address

April 16, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

So, we are all well aware of the so-called “reporter” from CNN, Susan Roesgen whose on-air haranguing of those she was ostensibly reporting on made obvious her anti-Republican bias. Well, for the past day Americans have been emailing her to let her know how they feel about her unprofessional attitude. Apparently, CNN does not appreciate hearing from its viewers, though, because all of a sudden anyone that sends an email to Roesgen’s CNN email address will have it returned as address unknown!

Conservative New Media reported on Roesgan’s outrageous “interviews” from the Chicago Tea Party later that evening and since the airing of her debating those she was supposed to be reporting on, folks have been jamming CNN’s email boxes with complaints.

It is pretty telling that on-air “reporter” Roesgen’s email address suddenly returns as address unknown, isn’t it? Why is CNN so afraid of hearing from its viewers?

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My Coverage of the Chicago Tea Party

April 16, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, Elections, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Patriotism, President, Republicans, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Tea Party, Unions, Warner Todd Huston, Welfare | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I attended the Chicago tea party protest yesterday and have produced some video highlights and a bunch of still photos of the event.

This is the one organized by Eric Odom of taxdayteaparty.com.

The weather was pretty good if not a tad windy. There were few protesters that stood against the patriots that attended. It was said that some ACORN members were there, but I did not see them.

The crowd was orderly but still righteously mad at the Obama administration. The state of Illinois came in for some particular vitriol, of course, as is well and proper.

The Chicago Police estimated that 5,000 attended and I think they were pretty close to the truth on that estimate. I have some experience with being in charge of groups that have numbered into the thousands and I estimated that at least 4,000 were there myself. So a count of 5,000 sounds about right.

Let’s hope this isn’t the last time patriots will be interested enough to come together to protest our out-of-control government.

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Those Dangerous Tea Parties: Are YOU the Threat We’ve Been Waiting For?

April 16, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Patriotism, President, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Alright all you right-wing thugs out there, now that tax day is over, Obama and his pals are saying you are dangerous and that your tax protests are an act of revolution. It is amusing that they’ve never said that with the many riots past and present spread by left-wingers in the US — after all little “right-wing” violence has ever been seen here — but there you have it. It’s all YOU. Not the Animal Rights activists that constantly engage in assault, not the rock throwers of anti-WTO protests, not ACORN and union thugs, and not the Envro Nazis that have engaged in actual terrorism all across the country. YOU are the threat we’ve been waiting for.

But there is an indelicate question inherent in the whole subject of protests, left or right. Just when is actual violence justified? How much violence, what sort of violence, violence directed at who or what? The organization of protest is fraught with questions that are not comfortable to contemplate in polite society, questions that lay unasked just under the surface. Indeed, it should be realized that protests are not polite in the first place. They are all spurred by anger, whether righteously invoked or not, and anger is not a polite emotion.

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The Left And ‘Teabagging’

April 16, 2009 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, Patriotism, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On his tax day episode of Breakdown, Keith Olbermann indulged himself some fun making of the many hundreds of thousands of Americans that gathered together to protest the Obama administration’s abuse of our tax dollars. Like his compatriot of the extreme left and fellow MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow, the fun making centered not on the actual reason the protests were called but on the words “tea bag.”

Naturally, it isn’t just Maddow and Olbermann that are tittering over tea bags — after all, these two aren’t innovators, but parrots. Maddow and Olbermann are merely reflecting the foolishness of their string pullers on the left. The entire far left from the DailyKos to the profane folks at Wonkette or DemmocraticUnderground are falling all over themselves over the words “tea bag.”

So what is the deal? Why are these fools twittering and guffawing over the simple words “tea” and “bag”? You see, it’s all a reference to some immoral, immature and perverted sex act. I won’t bother to go into the perversion at which the left is laughing because, well, it is utterly meaningless as legitimate political discussion. But, the whole joke the left is sniggering at is a revealing episode to explain the difference between the anti-American left and the rest of America.

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Obama’s European Tour: Arrogance, Ineptness & an Abdication of Leadership

April 16, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Europe, Foreign Policy, Frank Salvato, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

Many observations have been made regarding President Barack Obama’s recent trip overseas. Most of them have been quite severe and rightly so. His many “appearances” bore a striking resemblance to his nauseatingly long campaign for the presidency; a campaign devoid of specifics and substance and rich with swagger and rhetoric. Note to President Obama: The campaign is over and – as you like to throw in the faces of the Republican opposition in Washington DC – you won. It’s time to lead.

Perhaps the most disappointing element of President Obama’s overseas failure was the fact that his handlers kept redefining what a successful trip would be. Initially, touting his “superior powers of oratory persuasion,” his handlers claimed that Mr. Obama would acquire more military assistance for the efforts in Afghanistan and now Pakistan, persuade a now fiscally conservative EU to inject more funds into stimulating the world economy and engage world leaders in a way that would reclaim the United States’ esteem in the world. Upon his return to the United States, Mr. Obama’s spin doctors claimed a successful trip because, “…well, gee, everyone liked the president and, well, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?…being liked?”

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McClatchy Headline: ‘Those Crazy Palins’

April 15, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Liberals, Media Bias, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

**Update: McClatchy Changes Headline**

OK, before we even get into the latest banal attack on Governor Palin’s extended family perpetrated by the McClatchy newspaper chain, I would like to ask a few questions about “Those crazy Palins: Todd’s half sister indicted in break-ins.”

Has McClatchy ever had any headlines like this: “Those Crazy Kennedys”? After all, there is a wealth of craziness with that demented clan. Or since we recently had Obama’s half brother denied a visa to England over his rape charges — not to mention his illegal immigrant aunt — how about a headline like this: “Those Crazy Obamas”? Did we ever see a headline about “Those Crazy Clintons” when we discovered all the financial misdeeds and drug busts of Hillary and Bill’s extended family? How about Carter? Did good ol’ Billy Carter ever cause McClatchy to say “Those Crazy Carters”?

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NYTimes Anti-Gun Agenda: Using Discredited Anti-Gun Statistic on Mexican Gun Purchases in U.S.

April 15, 2009 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once again The New York Times unleashes a not-so-hidden agenda on its reading public. Here the Times is regurgitating the debunked claim that “90%” of Mexico’s recovered guns used in crime south of the border are from U.S. gun dealers. There is a lot of misdirection in this piece against gun dealers and gun shows, as well. Contradictory claims are made with no proof offered but the say so of The Times.

The Times begins its tall tale by talking about Mexican gun smugglers that find it easy to buy “military style” weapons at U.S. gun shops to be smuggled into Mexico. The story talks of these “lightly regulated” gun dealers and blames them for the smuggling apparently because no records are kept or buyer’s identities ascertained. And near the top half of the story is the debunked “90%” claim.

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Total Collapse of Economy Will Result in Anarchy!

April 15, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Dr. Don Boys, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Don Boys, Ph.D.

People have responded to some of my articles on the economy (www.cstnews.com) and asked for my present opinion in light of the last few weeks. My opinion: It will be worse than I thought! Please note that a top Russian official has predicted that the U.S. will collapse and break into six separate states and there has been talk in recent months of some parts of the U.S. seceding from the Union! Moreover, television hosts and commentators are making prediction worse than mine! I no longer feel alone or like the boy who cried “wolf.” Since my early predictions of gloom and doom, everything is screaming support for those predictions.

The dollar is worth less and will soon be worthless! As in the case of Genesis 47:15 when “the money failed,” I believe that is where we will be in a few months. During those days in Egypt, the main concern was food. That is what I have been saying for years. Your concern will not be vacations, television, sports, hobbies, or even your job but “How do I feed my family today?”

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