Of AZ Law Football Player Tells Media: ‘I’m a Football Player It Doesn’t Matter What I Think’

May 22, 2010 | Filed Under Entertainment, Immigration/Immigrants, Law, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

As “Dirty Harry” Callahan said, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well it looks like Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez knows his and his limitations are that he’s a football player, not a politician.

Like the lemmings they are, the left-wing Old Media asked this football player what he thought about the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law. His reply was admirable.

“When it comes to politics, my candid answer is, I’m football player and it doesn’t matter what I think,” he said in a transcript provided by the New York Jets. “The most important thing is you see both sides. I haven’t read the legislature, so I won’t pass judgment on it.

Would that more entertainers, singers, actors, sports folk and other such uninformed folks would keep their completely irrelevant opinions out of the public square.

It is usually so painfully obvious that these sort of people who have spent their whole lives single-mindedly striving for excellence in a single field of endeavor have NO clue about history, politics, philosophy, or anything outside their field of work – much less any ability at introspection. Yet they seem to think that because they have achieved some amount of fame for their chief interests or work, why just everyone wants to hang on their every word. The fact is, people should simply shut the heck up if they don’t have an informed opinion.
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Communist Indoctrination in Chicago Schools

May 22, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Chicago, Children, Communism, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, History, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

So, we spend millions upon millions in tax money on state funded schools, students and their families sacrifice tens of thousands of dollars in tuition as they set themselves on a road to loan payments for decades into the future…. and for what? To be taught that the murderous scumbag Che Guevara was some sort of hero, that’s what.

That’s right, our tax-funded schools are happily indoctrinating our students in the wonderful ways of Che.

Tom Mannis of Chicago News Bench has a great post full of all the particulars, but suffice to say it is a red day at Chicago City Colleges and its so-called “Social Justice Student Expo.”

Communist and socialist literature and artwork were displayed and offered in the Dave Rowland Sports Center on the campus of Harry S Truman College, 1145 West Wilson Avenue in Uptown. Posters told students that “Without Mexicans America Ain’t Nothin” and praising Che Guevara were on the walls. Vendors sold stickers that were pro-Hugo Chavez (“Boycott ExxonMobil Buy Citgo”), anti-military (“Recruiters Lie Don’t Enlist”), and (believe it or not) stickers urging that we “Impeach Bush/Cheney.” Yes, it’s 2010, but they still want those impeachment hearings.

It is an outrage, no less than an outrage. And your tax dollars are paying for this crap.

No government paid-for school should ever be caught with this sort of anti-American, anti-Liberty, pro-slavery, pro-tyranny sort of propaganda within its walls. Should communism/socialism be taught at all, you might ask? (There is no material difference between the two, after all. Some technical particulars differ, but both end up with murderous outcomes) Of course they should. They should be taught in the exact same way we teach about the evils of racism and Jim Crow, Nazism, and other such monstrous human failures. Communism/socialism is responsible for more human death and misery than ANY other human idea. Any of them including religion. And so communism/socialism should be taught as a cautionary tale always held up as a negative example and any teacher or administration that uses state funds or other wise allows teaching of communist hatemongering as a positive example should be fired and prevented from ever working in education again, anywhere.
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Hayes Applauds Rejection of Gitmo Transfer to Thompson

May 22, 2010 | Filed Under Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, House of Representatives, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, President, Republicans, State Government, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Hayes for Congress campaign (2nd District)…

CHICAGO: Republican nominee for Illinois 2nd Congressional District Isaac Hayes released the following statement today following the House Armed Services Committee rejects the plan to shift terror detainees to Illinois:

“I applaud the House Armed Services Committee for unanimously approving legislation that bans spending on any facility inside the United States to house Guantánamo detainees. From the very beginning this ridiculous idea was opposed by the American people. At a time when the federal government refuses to do anything to secure our borders, transplanting high-risk terrorists near Chicago would have resulted in a welcome mat for Al-Qaeda. These terrorists should remain exactly where they are – far from the American people and far from the possibility of escape.”

For more information, please go to: www.isaac4honesty.com

Cinco to Midnight: The Great Mexican End Game

May 22, 2010 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Media Bias, Mexico, Selwyn Duke | Comments Off

-By Selwyn Duke

Recently, columnist Charles Krauthammer expressed support for amnesty for illegals, while Newt Gingrich advocated a path to what he called “legality.” The two men stipulated that border control must come first, but, still, what makes these two conservatives such weak sisters on this issue? Perhaps part of the answer was provided by Dick Morris, who said that immigration is a losing issue for Republicans.

Morris is no pillar of principle, but he knows political trends. What’s his reasoning? Over the short term, a hard-line immigration stance benefits many politicians; as for the long term, however, there’s something called demographic change.
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Congress Says There’ll Be No Illinois Gitmo

May 21, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Cuba, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, President, Republicans, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In an interesting development the House Armed Services Committee unanimously approved of legislation that would block Gitmo, Illinois from coming to fruition. In fact, they’ve blocked any Gitmo terrorist from being transferred anywhere into the interior of the USA. This is a blow to Obama’s desires to shut Gitmo down and to bring terrorists to a prison near you.

Wednesday the committee approved a defense bill for 2011 that includes language to prevent moving detainees into any US facility inside our borders and also blocked any funding to even study the possibility.
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Our Anti-Religious, Anti-American, Arrogant Schools

May 21, 2010 | Filed Under Children, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Rights, Teachers Unions, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Two stories from this week shows how out of control our fetid schools have become. In New York a young boy is suspended because he dared to carry his Catholic rosary beads in school and in Virginia a principal refused to allow a mother to take her own child out of school to go to a doctor’s appointment scheduled months ago. Both reveal an arrogance of school administrators that is sure to outrage any liberty loving American.

In the first case in New York’s Rockland County, young Jason Laguna, a former Altar Boy and proud Catholic, faces suspension merely because he dared to carry his rosary beads in class. School thugocrats claimed that the rosary beads marked young Mr. Laguna as a “gang member” and pronounced that he should be punished for such a violation.

In the second case in Chesapeake, Virginia, a school principal told a mother that she would not be “allowed” to take her own daughter out of class to take the girl to a doctor appointment that had been scheduled for months. How did this arrogant cuss of a principal imagine he had the right to deny a parent the ability to control her own child’s appointments? Why he sent a letter home saying so, that’s why.

It is amazing that we are living in an America where religious children in New York can be persecuted for their religious practices or a country where a Virginia mother is barred from taking her own child out of class for a doctor appointment. But this is the arrogance of our school administrators in stark relief. This is the Orwellian world in which we live, a world where mere school employees imagine that they have the despotic powers to summarily control the lives of the children under their care and the power to deny parental rights at any given time.

These stories prove that our mis-educational system is completely out of control and has crossed the line from a system serving the citizens to one imagining itself to be wholly unaccountable to them.
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SEIU Thugs Terrorize Teenage Boy

May 21, 2010 | Filed Under Banks, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Huffington Post, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Public Employees Unions, SEIU, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nice work, SEIU. Service Employee International Union members descended upon the home of a banker to protest the banker’s work. The banker wasn’t home but his teenage son was and he was home alone and the 14 bus loads of union thugs scared the heck out of the poor kid.

This was no political protest, it was an inciting, angry mob of union thugs. The Fortune Magazine piece that reported the incident made a salient point about the whole thing.

Targeting homes and families seems to put SEIU in the ranks of (now jailed) radical animal-rights activists and the Kansas anti-gay fundamentalists harassing the grieving parents of a dead 20-year-old soldier at his funeral (the Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the latter). But that’s not a conversation that SEIU officials want to have.

Amusingly, Nina Easton makes another great point in the friendly coverage of this outrageous union thuggery. The Old Media didn’t even attend and the whole thing was covered by an activist Huffington Post blogger.
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This Chick Does Flicks: Robin Hood

May 21, 2010 | Filed Under Ann "Babe" Huggett, Entertainment, Hollywood, Movies | Comments Off

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett

Historical action flicks starring Russell Crowe are always a fun way to spend some spare time and, when your nearest neighbors out here in the high desert of Arizona have their second homes burglarized, going to see Robin Hood seems especially apt. However, if you are expecting a recounting of all the fun Robin Hood escapades of literary yore then turn on the TV and hope that the AMC Channel is doing a retrospective of Errol Flynn movies instead.

Quite frankly, director Ridley Scott’s 2010 version of Robin Hood is all over the board myth-wise and did I say, “historical”? How about ahistorical instead? While Hollywood is notorious for playing fast-and-loose with facts, at least modern day films try to make up for it with cultural anthropological accuracy. However, when a movie like Robin Hood expects us to believe that the French had 12th Century versions of WWII Normandy D-Day landing crafts or that it was perfectly normal for well-to-do ladies like Marion to don peasant garb or mix it up on the battle field in chain mail drag then it’s time to hang public school history teachers out to dry.

Or, as my British husband would say, “Ridley Scott was taking the mick out on his audience’s intelligence.”
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The Electronic Conscience

May 21, 2010 | Filed Under Business, Computers, Google, Inernet, John Armor, Net Neutrality, Technology, YouTube | Comments Off

-By John Armor

What is the impact of the current forms of gathering and transmitting information from person to person? Can people be affected by communications they don’t use, or even know how to use?

There were five of us around a table in church this morning. All of us used the internet at least somewhat. Most of us did not use Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. Our uses of the photo and video capacities of this generation of cell phones, fell someplace in the middle. But with some thought, the answer was clear. Whether or not we use these means of communication, they do affect us,

I grew up in a small town, Salisbury, Maryland. The town was small enough, and everybody knew everybody else’s children enough, that when you did something wrong, folks would tell on you. Odds are your mother would know about it before you even got home to tell your side of the story.

Don’t Come Home ‘Til Your Job is Done

May 20, 2010 | Filed Under DuPage County, GOP, Government, Illinois, Kane County, Republicans, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Office of State Senator Chris Lauzen (R, Aurora)…

In ancient Sparta, Spartan mothers commanded their soldier sons, “Come home victorious, or come home on your shield.”

This was the old version of the British Empire’s declaration, “Victory or Death”. The modern Illinois version of this refrain, contained in hundreds of recent emails, letters and calls to my office from recently concerned Illinois constituents. Citizens and editorial boards warned, “Don’t leave Springfield until you produce a responsible balanced budget!”
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Ill. Policy Institute: LeBron’s Choice‏

May 20, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois State Government, Liberals, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Happy Graduation…You’re Doomed!
As if graduating in the midst of global economic turmoil wasn’t bad enough, the University of Tennessee decided to invite Al Gore to inflict even more pain on its new graduates. You can watch what has been aptly christened “The World’s Most Depressing Graduation Speech” here.
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10th District: GOP’s Bob Dold on Jobs

May 20, 2010 | Filed Under Business, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Jobs, Lake County, Liberals, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Dold for Congress campaign (10th District)…

Our National unemployment rate rose to 9.9% last month and the unemployment rate in Illinois is even higher, now at 11.5%. There is some good news in these numbers as our country created 290,000 net new jobs in April, and there is evidence that workers who had given up seeking work reentered the search for employment.

There remain, however, an unacceptable number of people unemployed. We must not accept this as a “new normal” and herald an economy that leaves millions of people without work. Our Federal government deserves much of the blame for the slow recovery of our jobs market.
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NPR Tries to Cast Rand Paul as KKK Sympathizer

May 20, 2010 | Filed Under Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Congress, GOP, Government, Kentucky, Media Bias, NPR, Republicans, Senate, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

On the day after his historic primary win, National Public Radio rabidly went after Rand Paul, newly minted GOP nominee for Kentucky Senator, trying to make him out to be a KKK sympathizer or perhaps a racist that would have agreed to keep Jim Crow alive and well in 1964. This rabid, left-wing attack is uncalled for and, further, is meant only to stir anti-Republican hatred and not to help voters discover anything relevant about nominee Rand Paul.

Nearly at the top of the interview the host of NPR’s All Things Considered tried to paint Mr. Paul as some sort of hater that would have opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Catch this loaded and irrelevant question by NPR:

You’ve said that business should have the right to refuse service to anyone and that the Americans for Disabilities Act, the ADA, was an over reach by the federal government, would you say the same by extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Paul gave a very good reply but the best thing he said was that he hadn’t read through the entire 1964 legislation because it had been passed 40 years ago and didn’t have any role in today’s campaign. And that is just it, isn’t it? The 1964 Civil Rights Act is ancient history as far as current politics goes. It is fully accepted and is not a law in dispute, nor does it have any part in current political discussion. The law is fact the legitimacy of which no one questions. Talking about the 1964 Civil Rights Act is not relevant alt all to today’s issues.
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Down to Days, The Luxury of Time is Over

May 20, 2010 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Mexico, Resa LaRu, "Warchick" Kirkland | Comments Off

-By Resa LaRu Kirkland

May is an interesting month.

On May 1st we have the official day that Commie Bastards everywhere embrace, celebrating the rise of the most evil of all TOTALitarian DICtatorS: the Communist Slaughterers of the Soviet Union and various other nations it engulfed and devoured.

On May 5th, we have Cinco de Mayo, a Spanish holiday that celebrates the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.

The last Monday in May, this year the date will be May 31st, is Memorial Day, the day we celebrate the warriors who defeated many enemies in the past, including from the above countries.
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Getting the GOP Message Right: The Future of the State of Illinois Is at Stake

May 19, 2010 | Filed Under Bill Brady, Elections, GOP, Government, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Mickey Straub’s Tuesday Talking Points makes some good points, issues that we should highlight in this current election cycle.

Mickey says that for Brady-Plummer it’s J.E.T.S., or Jobs, Ethics, Taxes and Spending.

www.ProudToBeRepublican.com

Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 13 of 13

May 19, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Cook County Board, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Melissa Bean, Republicans, State Government, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Palatine Tea Party…

(Palatine, Illinois) – The Palatine Tea Party will debate Melissa Bean on any of the Healthcare topics covered in her letter to constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. Anytime and any place. If she has read the Healthcare bill and understands its parts then she should not have an issue with this open debate. It’s time for her to actually prove if she understands what she voted for and not hide behind talking points. It’s time to directly talk to the constituents in district 8.

Failing to accept this debate will clearly indication she voted YES on the Healthcare bill affecting all the people in district 8 without reading and understanding the Healthcare bill and can not even debate her own letter to the constituents in district 8 that she is to represent.

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Pundits Missed that Illinois Started Tea Party/Anti-Establishment Primary Revolt

May 19, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Joe Walsh, Melissa Bean, Randy Hultgren, Republicans, State Government, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Political pundits and poll watchers all across the nation are abuzz with the “tea party win” of Rand Paul, winner of the Kentucky primary for U.S. Senator. Mr. Paul was not the party favored candidate but was supported by Kentucky’s Tea Party movement and this is being hailed as something of a first, an example that the incumbents are in trouble and the establishment is on the outs with voters. But the pundits seem to have entirely missed that this trend started in the nation’s first primary in Illinois back in February.

Three primary races in Illinois gave the first hint that the establishment candidates were going to find it hard sledding in 2010 because in the Illinois 14th, 10th and 8th Districts every party establishment candidate lost his or her primary and a tea party candidate or outsider won.

To be sure, the Illinois GOP is not much in favor with any of its voters, but the Illinois GOP has been nothing if not a power party that was always in the past able to force its own special picks down everyone’s throat in the Land of Lincoln. The 2010 primary, however, showed a chink in that armor.
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American Medical Group Facilitates Barbaric Practice of ‘Female Circumcision’

May 19, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Government, Health, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Religion, Science, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

NOTE: To avoid confusion, this article is NOT about the American Medical Association. It is about a different American medical group called the American Academy of Pediatrics. My headline is not meant to implicate the AMA in anything but means to discuss the actions of “an” American medical group, in this case the AAP. I add this note because some people have made the mistake to think I am discussing the AMA here. I am not.

-By Warner Todd Huston

The barbaric Muslim practice of mutilating the genitals of little girls apparently is A’OK with the American Academy of Pediatrics, at least just a little bit, anyway. In an act of political correctness gone mad the AAP has announced that it thinks it’s a good idea to mollify Muslims and gloss over their barbaric practice by instituting what they are calling a “ritual nick” on little girl’s genitals.

It’s the veritable camel’s nose under the tent flaps. After all, by what logic does one refuse to accept this disgusting attack on womanhood when you agree that any part of the practice is justifiable? Today it will be a “ritual nick,” then it becomes a “ceremonial slash,” graduating to excuse the removal of some ever growing amount of flesh, and before you know it we have full-blown mutilation of little girls just like many Muslims want.
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America and Greece: Beware the Path of the Black Cat

May 19, 2010 | Filed Under Banks, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Greece, Liberals, Paul A. Ibbetson, Taxes | Comments Off

Paul A. Ibbetson

In you live in America, Europe, or many other places on the planet, then you probably have heard the tales of bad fortune that befalls unprepared souls who allow a black cat to cross their paths. In this realm of superstition the most capable and blessed black cat path-crossers find themselves with bad fortune, and heaps of it. In an ironic twist of fate, it is said that even the unluckiest people who test this taboo find out that their low lot in life can and will get lower. That’s sad.

Some would question the strolling power of the black cat even in the face of undoubtedly real catastrophes that take place among people who believe they have triggered this unstoppable bad luck. Could it be that when Mr. Whiskers crosses a person’s path people act in ways that increase their risk of misfortune? Possibly they may believe, at least subconsciously, that with bad fortune on the horizon, who needs to worry about well-thought out decisions? The skeptic in me sees the black cat as the perfect scapegoat. A matter of fact a person doesn’t have to face the real cause of their misfortune when it can be laid at the furry dark paws of the bad luck giver.
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Say Bye, Bye to Benedict Arlen!

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, Pennsylvania, Republicans, State Government, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Just sharing the good news that Pennsylvania Representative Arlen Spector, the party jumping traitor, has been defeated by PA Democrats in his new party primary. Arlen Spector will not be returning to Congress.

Let this be a lesson to party jumpers (of any stripe, not just the traitors to the GOP). If you jump parties, no one will ever really trust you again… and rightfully so.

This along with Tea Party candidate Rand Paul winning the GOP nomination in Kentucky made for a good primary election day.

Beware incumbents. The voters are looking hard at your record for a change.
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Peraica Introduces New Ethics Ordinance Amendments

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Cook County Board, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, State Government, Taxes, Tony Peraica, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica (R-16) will introduce new ethics ordinance amendments to help curb the unethical and corrupt practices of county elected officials and employees. The measures will be introduced at today’s Cook County Board meeting.

“Cook County has long had problems with illegal hiring and patronage and we must set a new standard of behavior for all, starting with elected officials and all the way down to the front line workers,” said Peraica.
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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 12 of 13

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Melissa Bean, State Government, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Palatine Tea Party…

In response to the letter Melissa Bean wrote to the constituents in district 8 dated April 16, 2010. We will respond to each of her statements Melissa Bean made based on emotion with factual responses where she stated the following:

“Taxpayers expect accountability”

To that we must state 2 things:
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Media Lets Conn. Dem Slide on Vietnam Lies for Three Decades

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Connecticut, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ahead of multiple ethics violations Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd is retiring from his long-time Democrat held seat. The Conn. Democrat Party is keen to keep that seat and has proffered Conn. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as the man to do it for them. But, Blumenthal has a tiny little problem: for three decades he’s told fibs and outright untruths about his service in Vietnam.

Blumenthal has for decades said he was a veteran of the war and led constituents to believe he served overseas but the truth is he served only during the last few years of the war, having gotten multiple deferments before 1970, and then served only here in the United States, never overseas.

Kudos to the New York Times for reporting this fact, of course, but the Old Media is not absolved because of this one story. Condemnation for the media is evident in these words in the NYT story: “The Vietnam chapter in Mr. Blumenthal’s biography has received little attention despite his nearly three decades in Connecticut politics.”

Amazing. This man has been prevaricating about his non-existent service in the war for three decades and only NOW he’s getting called on the carpet for it? Where has the Connecticut media been all this time? Where has the national media been for the months that Blumenthal has been running for Senate?

One of the lead paragraphs in the Times story is pretty damning.
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Texas Prohibits Unions Taking PAC Money from Teachers’ Paychecks

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Children, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Labor Law, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Teachers Unions, Texas, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, here is a victory against union thuggery. The Texas Attorney General’s office has released an opinion (GA-0774) that prevents school districts from implementing automatic payroll deductions as directed by teachers unions from the paychecks of teachers for union spending on political action committees.

Here’s the most relevant paragraph as it appears in the summary at the end of the decision. (download .pdf file)

Because the Legislature has not expressly or impliedly authorized school districts to process payroll deductions for contributions to political committees such as TSTA-PAC and NEA-Fund, Texas laws prohibits school districts from processing such contributions.

So teachers unions in the Lone Star State will no longer be allowed to forcefully remove money out of teachers’ paychecks to that they can spend it on left-wing political causes. This decision will not prevent teachers from individually sending their dues to political causes nor will it prevent unions from spending on PACs and political causes but it will prevent the schools from using school resources to make the deductions and for using school accounting departments to keep track of those deductions.
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Book On Hitler Youth Warns Of Communitarian Dangers

May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Adolph Hitler, Communism, Germany, Government, Government, Corruption, Socialism, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Frederick Meekins

When pondering the evils of Nazism and Adolf Hitler, one’s mind reflexively turns to the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust because of the overwhelming loss of life surrounding these historical events. However, coming in high on the list of the Third Reich’s atrocities was its use of state power to undermine the most basic of human rights and the subordination of all other social institutions to the prerogatives of the Party. In “Life In The Hitler Youth” by Jennifer Keeley, the reader learns of the Nazi subversion of the family and realizes the disturbing parallels that can be drawn with developments unfolding in our own nation.

According to Keeley, all of German life (including the minutest detail of one’s personal life) was brought under Nazi control through the policy of Gleichschaltung or coordination so that all of society and culture reflected National Socialism (9). As such, the 1936 Law Concerning The Hitler Youth decreed that all of German youth were to be incorporated under the banner of this organization.
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Treasurer Giannoulias Presides over Bankrupt Illinois, Now Wants to be Senator?

May 17, 2010 | Filed Under Alexi Giannoulias, Budget, Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Senate, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Alexi is part of the problem, not part of any solution…

Peter Roskam Asks YOU to Tell Him What to Cut From Budget

May 17, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, GOP, Government, Liberals, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Text YOUCUT2 to 68398and tell Eric Cantor, Peter Roskam and the GOP leadership that YOU want cuts in federal spending.

Come on, people. This is a representative democracy and our representatives need to know WE are serious about cutting the budget. Encourage them to cut, cut, cut!

Dan Proft: Highland Park H.S. Provides a Real Education with Girls Basketball Flap

May 17, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Dan Proft, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Illinois, Immigration/Immigrants, Liberals, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From Dan Proft, Urquhart Media…

(A Podcast of this commentary can be heard HERE)

I remember my grade school basketball coach telling me that “the graveyards are full of indispensable people.” It was his way of explaining that no individual is more important than the team.

A favorite refrain of my high school basketball coach was that “talent guarantees nothing” to remind us that we had to work for what we sought to achieve.
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Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 11 of 13

May 17, 2010 | Filed Under Capitalism, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Melissa Bean, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Palatine Tea Party…

Melissa Bean’s Healthcare101 – Part 11 of 13

From the Palatine Tea Party…

“When small business succeeds, America prospers”

How exactly does America prosper when John Deere, Boeing, Caterpillar, Prudential Life, 3M, Honeywell, AK Steel Holding Corp, ITW, Valero Energy and Allegheny Technologies have ALL announced that this new legislation will cost them hundreds of millions every year?

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“When small business succeeds, America prospers”

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