3rd Annual AFP Defending the Amer. Dream Summit, Wisconsin – Opening Festivities

March 12, 2010 | Filed Under Americans For Prosperity, Budget, Constitution, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Taxes, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, Wisconsin | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Beautiful Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin for the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit… or I assume it’ll be beautiful once the drab days of Winter are over, anyway. I haven’t been to the Dells since about 1973, so things have changed a tad since I was last here.

Tonight, after registration closed for the evening, we had a nice little cocktail party, I mingled a little and heard from a few of the respected speakers from whom we’ll hear more tomorrow.

Grover Norquist from Americans for Tax Reform spoke on the evils of taxes and government spending, then Lord Christopher Monkton came to the podium and gave us a wonderfully droll address of which I’ll say more in a moment. We had the pleasure of hearing a word or two from the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund. Then we heard from the ubiquitous Joe Wurzelbacher, otherwise known as “Joe the Plumber.” Finally we heard a few words from AFP big cheese Tim Phillips.
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Environmentalism Not About the Earth But About Control, Part 2

February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Business, Capitalism, Economy/Finances, Environment, Frederick Meekins, Global Warming, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments

-By Frederick Meekins

Those still not convinced should ask themselves before they run off and join such groups how much control they want to cede over their lives to the beneficence of the collective. For once one signs over the very right to ownership to one’s dwelling and possessions, where does it end?

Willing to relinquish rights to the conjugal affections of your spouse to the group? Don’t snicker.

In many cults, those not willing to surrender their spouses to the group are labeled as being insufficiently devoted to the group or “too individualistic” in orientation. Interestingly this allegation is invoked increasingly in the churches of today as they totter ever closer to the edges of apostasy and unbelief.

Those enamored with their own smug progressivism will claim such excesses are more characteristic of the religious mindset. Secularists would never stand for such outrages and the infringement on the most basic of relationships?
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A Warning on Electronic Voting

January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Computers, Crime, Democracy, Elections, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Inernet, Journalism, Media Bias, Radio, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Technology, The Law, Uncategorized, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

(Publius Editor’s note: This is a fairly old report on the troubles with electronic voting so some of the links are no longer valid, but the work was pretty comprehensive so I thought some of it might be of interest to those worried about electronic voting. I had this sent to me by a reader and I told him I’d post it but I have been waiting to post this until we were close to the primary. Since it is only a few days away now, so here it is…)

Pandora’s Black Box, Did it Really Count Your Vote?
Relevance - November 1996 - Vol. III- No. V

Editor: Philip M. O’Halloran

[Editor's Note: When we began researching the integrity of the election process, we wanted to believe that the talk of "votescam" was just overblown hype. However, we have since discovered that the computer voting system in this country is a veritable can of worms, so open to tampering that if there is no organized election fraud going on, the criminals are falling down on the job.]

ELECTRONIC VOTING ON TRIAL

On November 5, 1996, millions of Americans voted by secret ballot for thousands of elected officials from the Presidency to the local dog catcher. What few realized is that a key aspect of the vote-counting was also done in secret. What’s more, they have been legally denied the right to find out precisely how their vote is counted.

How can this be? After all, everybody knows that each aspect of the vote-count is officially conducted by “the government under the microscopic scrutiny of thousands of party officials, anxious candidates, poll workers, curious voters and the media, right?
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Scott Brown won the Charles Sumner seat in the U.S. Senate

January 21, 2010 | Filed Under History, Michael Zak, Slavery, Uncategorized | No Comments

-By Michael Zak

As the new senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, said: “It’s not the Ted Kennedy seat.  It’s not the Democrat seat.  It’s the people’s seat.”

Instead of Ted, let’s remember an honorable and courageous Republican senator who once held the seat to which Scott Brown was elected.

Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) was one of the founders of the Republican Party.   Angered by Sumner’s denunciations of slavery, a Democrat congressman beat him nearly to death on the floor of the U.S. Senate.   Sumner responded with a classic denunciation of the Democratic Party for promoting The Barbarism of Slavery. 

“If ever there was a moment when every faculty should be bent to the service, and all invigorated by an inspiring zeal, it is now, while the battle between Civilization and Barbarism is still undecided.
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Left-Wing Prof Uses State Funded University To Launch Attack on U.S.

January 21, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Communism, Constitution, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Europe, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Patriotism, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Terrorism, The Law, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Every once in a while I like to blow off some steam and deliver a good rant. So get ready for my rant du jour…

It’s like a bad parody of the worst propensity of the American professoriate to be, well, as un-American as one can get. But here we have another prosaic example of yet another half-wit, left-wing professor — this one a prof of “international law” — using his perch in a state sponsored school, with his taxpayer’s supported (and obviously undeserved) salary to help foreigners launch an attack on his own county… if this particular pinko even bothers to claim he IS a U.S. citizen, that is. With these university pinheads it isn’t a safe bet to assume that they even consider themselves Americans.

Anyway, this particular pointy-headed geek is named Francis A. Boyle (no not boil, that is only what he is, not what he’s named) and he is a professor of International Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Mr. Boil… uh, I mean Boyle… has filed with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, a “complaint” against George W. Bush and his whole administration. What is this little complaint whining about? Two guesses and the first one doesn’t count.

Yeah, you guessed correctly. This commie prof is trying to get Bush, et al, brought up on faux war crimes charges. Get a load of this child’s ranting.
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Happy New Year 2010

January 1, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Here’s to a great 2010!

An IPI Christmas: Feeding The Hungry, Bringing Opportunity to Developing Nations

December 10, 2009 | Filed Under Business, Children, Conservatives, Economy/Finances, Family, Foreign Policy, Free Trade, Freedom, Illinois, Illinois Policy Institute, Jobs, Rights, Society/Culture, Truth in Accounting, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, Welfare, Western Civilization | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last night I was invited to attend a Christmas get together sponsored by the Illinois Policy Institute. This year’s theme was feeding the hungry in Africa and bringing economic freedom to developing nations. We heard some interesting presentations from Paul Wormley of the One Acre Fund as well as Tim Probasco of Opportunity International, both involved with helping subsistence farmers in Africa and India to become self-sufficient and to work toward creating financial success by selling their products at market. Both organizations take different approaches toward the same market oriented goals and both are efforts worthy of support. Best of all both organizations base their assistance on free market principles as opposed to mere charity work.

But, before the serious discussions of hunger in Africa and India and economic assistance to the impoverished began, we were serenaded by a charming group of kids from a local Chicago school operated by the KIPP: Ascend charter school program.


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Complete Vernon Township Endorsement Session Results

December 9, 2009 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Republicans, Senate, State Government, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

Further Information: Don Castella, Vernon Township Republican Chairman, 847-275-5542 or email: dcastella@vernongop.org

Lincolnshire, IL Dec 8, 2009: Vernon Township’s Monday evening GOP endorsement session surprised local incumbents Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL 10) and IL State Senator Matt Murphy (R-27), who both failed to garner the nod in their respective state-wide races for US Senate and Lt. Governor. Kirk lost the US Senate endorsement outright to Hinsdale Businessman Patrick Hughes who grabbed the Vernon endorsement with 64.3% of the committeeman vote. Senator Matt Murphy finished ahead of Pastor Randy White in the Vernon Lt. Governor endorsement voting with 57.1%, but failed to garner the requisite 60% for the endorsement.
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Iran Demands Nurses In Bolivia Wear Hijabs

December 4, 2009 | Filed Under Ann "Babe" Huggett, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Religion, Socialism, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Western Civilization | No Comments

-By Ann “Babe” Huggett

On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital in Bolivia sparked a national outcry among women’s rights advocates within Bolivia. In an international teleconference in La Paz held between Bolivian President, Evo Morales, and Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate the hospital’s opening, nurses were shown wearing hijabs as part of their new uniform regulations.

This imposition of political Islamic pseudo-religious attire from another country is causing a rift within Bolivian political ranks. Even though the Morales administration is the profoundly socialist MAS party, the Iranian demand is still seen as an affront on Bolivian cultural integrity especially in a country with a Roman Catholic majority.

Lourdes Millares, the Deputy for the Democratic and Social Power Party called the Iranian hijab demand, “…an assault on the dignity of women…” and excoriated Morales for, “…submission to the rules of another government.”
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Happy Thanksgiving 2009

November 26, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

We take today off to be with family and friends. But, please do take some time to look over our past work. In the meantime, God bless you and have a Happy Thanksgiving and see you tomorrow. And we are thankful for your readership.

Cook County Board President Charges Racism

November 20, 2009 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Cook County Board, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, President, State Government, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, little Todd Stroger is at it again. With the Cook County Board now having been given more power by the State Legislature to overturn Stroger’s veto, the junior Stroger is now claiming it’s all about racism.

On an upcoming episode of “Connected to Chicago,” WLS radio’s Bill Cameron found Board President Stroger whining that it’s all about racism instead of his wild tax hikes. WLS is advertising its upcoming episode with this following Stroger quote:

If this was a Southern town it would be like an old fashioned lynching.

Stroger goes on to claim that he was told by the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune that they are “out to get me.” Cameron, though, reports that the Chicago Tribune denies that such a conversation ever took place and that they are not out to get him as the paranoid Stroger claims.
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Another of Obama’s Radical Appointees

October 12, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, Free Trade, Freedom, Gay Marriage, Gays, Government, Corruption, Health, Journalism, Liberals, Morals/Sex, President, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, Welfare, Western Civilization | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media wholly ignored the story, but one of the extremists that Barack Obama appointed as a so-called czar in his government had to step down when the full extent of his un-American radicalism was exposed on the Internet. Obama’s “green czar,” Van Jones, resigned when it was revealed how anti-American his rhetoric was not to mention his membership in a Marxist organization. But Van Jones isn’t the only far leftist that Obama has tried to foist on this country in places of influence.

We’ve been hearing lately about the radical homosexual agenda of Obama’s “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings. When he was a school teacher, Jennings once admittedly abetted a sexual relationship between a teenage male student of his and an adult man. He did not report this molestation, but smiled and advised the poor kid to “use a condom.”
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Democrat Sheriff Gets 5 Yrs, Media Ignores Party

August 30, 2009 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Name That Party, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yes, it’s another episode of “Name That Party,” where our contestant is a criminal Democrat in the news that somehow, mysteriously finds the Old Media conveniently forgetting to mention that he is, indeed, a Democrat. This time it’s former Starr County, Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra who was handed a five-year sentence for drug trafficking this week. Guerra is the second Starr County Sheriff in a row to go to jail for corruption.

The Old Media dutifully reported this conviction, to be sure. It was reported that Guerra was up on harsher charges, how he had those reduced, it was also reported what criminal drug cartel figures from Mexico he was involved with and that Guerra was sorry for what he’d done.

Only one tiny, little part of the story was left out. Guerra was a Democrat official in a Texas county that has been controlled by Democrats for about 100 years. I guess the fact that a Democrat Law Official turned into a drug dealer isn’t news? Of course, if it should have been a Republican Sheriff turned drug dealer, why the Old Media would have led with that news.

As is always the case in these name-that-party stories, the AP had a short story on Guerra without mentioning he’s a Democrat. It made no stronger effort to set the record straight in its longer story, either.
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$15 Million Stimulus Spent for 1,095 Canadian Tourists in Montana

August 28, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

What is the cost of three Canadian visitors a day? Fifteen million dollars in Obamabucks, apparently. Worse, this waste of money wasn’t something the president of “transparency” seemed disposed to let us easily discover. Still, the Boston Globe reports that $15 mil is the amount of so-called stimulus money that Obama allowed to be spent by the state of Montana on a tiny border check-point facility that sees about three visitors a day — that’s $14,000,000 per tourist for the year.

Despite Obama’s promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to the Associated Press.

Obama claimed he’d be “different,” though. Remember that he was supposed to be the serious president that only did the right thing? Yet, he’s turned his back on any sort of effort to hold stimulus spending to account. Projects all across the country are being given to less needy government facilities instead of going where need is greatest because of the influence brought to bear on distribution of funds by powerful politicians.
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You Say You Want a Real Solution

August 25, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Frank Salvato, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized, Welfare | No Comments

-By Frank Salvato

As the debate over health care reform rages on – and despite the fact that the debate should be over how to provide true health care affordability to all, if in fact the goal of the “overhaul” is genuinely about the good of the downtrodden – we hear one retort from Progressives, Liberals and neo-Marxists, both in government and out: Where is your plan if you don’t like ours? Truth be told, there are several conservative and Republican crafted plans but Madam Pelosi and Mr. Reid won’t entertain them and the agenda-driven mainstream media won’t cover them. But one thing is evident, even to the intellectually challenged. If the goal is truly to provide health care affordability to every American citizen, there are ways to do it without the heavy hand of government.

Most honest Americans agree, our health care system – the system that provides medical service, i.e. doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc. – is the best in the world. It certainly does not need reform or government intervention. If you need proof it comes in the form of the richest and most powerful people in the world coming to the United States for treatment, especially when every other avenue of treatment has been exhausted. To fall prey to the notion that the “health care system is broken,” is to be gullible to a fault.

The cog that isn’t meshing correctly in the machine that includes patients, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies is the insurance company cog. Many in our country would like to see more affordable prices, inclusionary coverage for those of us with pre-existing conditions and security in knowing that if a catastrophic medical event happens to us we won’t be driven to the poor house by increased premiums of unfunded procedures. As our health care insurance system exists today, these desirable elements are not within reach of everyone. But by including a few simple provisions and/or pursuing a few sensible avenues, Americans can have affordable, functioning health care insurance for all without creating a government-run health care entity.
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A Small Outage…

August 10, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Dear Publius Readers,

Between 5PM and 11PM our servers were down for some maintenance and other stuff. So, if you tuned in between those hours, that would be why we weren’t here.

Thanks for your patience.

Warner Todd Huston
Proprietor, PubliusForum.com

My money is on the Mama Grizzy

July 28, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

Doctor Zero’s prognosis, ” Nobody knows the Left’s game plan better than Sarah Palin, and it seems like she plans to use what she has learned”:

Palin can do a lot of good by highlighting the thuggish tactics of the Left, which were all on nauseating display in the campaign to destroy her. Deranged conspiracy theories, in her case about the maternity of her son? Check. Blinding hypocrisy and manufactured “crises” pushed by political operatives masquerading as “journalists?” Absolutely. Vicious misogyny, passed along with nary a raised eyebrow from “feminists?” You betcha. Invasions of privacy and abuses of government to destroy a political target? Ten-four.

The good doctor is right. Using Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as its strategic guide, the Left has smeared Sarah Palin with abandon, and it has not been held accountable so far:
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Parsing Monday’s Poll Results

July 21, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Josh Painter, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Uncategorized | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

A new Rasmussen poll released Monday showing President Obama tied with Mitt Romney and six points up on Sarah Palin in a hypothetical 2012 match up is already the buzz of the blogosphere.

Groups of political animals with different interests will be posturing all week long based on this poll. Romney backers, for example, will be crowing loudly over it, and no one should be raining on their parade. After all, their guy made a good showing, and they should have some fun with it. It may not warrant a ticker tape parade, but if they are looking for an excuse to party, this should qualify.

Sarah Palin’s backers can also find some encouragement in the latest Rasmussen numbers. Being just six points back of the president is nothing to sneeze at, especially after another poll — one conducted by Democrat polling firm Public Policy Polling in mid-March — showed Obama with a 20-point lead over Palin in the same hypothetical circumstances. If one were to say the PPP poll is as accurate as the Rasmussen survey (which Democrats always do; Republicans will argue the point in Scott Rasmussen’s favor), then Governor Palin has made a 14-point improvement against Obama in just four months. An April PPP poll had Obama ahead of Palin 53 percent to 41 percent — a twelve-point spread. Today’s Rasmussen results indicate that Gov. Palin has cut that lead in half in less than three months. But the 2012 elections are still years away, and Sarah Palin has not even started to campaign actively for 2012, if indeed she intends to do so.
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Happy Father’s Day

June 21, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

ACORN Foreclosure Counseling Funding Source

June 10, 2009 | Filed Under ACORN, Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Media Bias, Nancy Armstrong, Society/Culture, Taxes, Uncategorized | No Comments

-By Nancy Armstrong

ACORN has become directly involved in stopping foreclosures by doing foreclosure counseling with “housing experts.” Recently I spoke with the ACORN Delaware office purposely representing myself as a person who is in foreclosure in the State of Delaware to elicit details of the counseling. The polite and knowledgeable representative in the ACORN Delaware office answered my questions in full.

I told her that I needed to forestall a foreclosure. She informed me there were documents that I need to provide to the ACORN office to go “through the foreclosure counseling process.”

Here is a list of those items I needed to provide at “my appointment”:
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