More Palin Bashing: How CNN Misleads With Headlines

November 30, 2010 | Filed Under CNN, Foreign Countries, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, North Korea, Sarah Palin, South Korea, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

CNN indulged a classic left media tactic by misleading with a headline in a recent piece on former Governor Sarah Palin. The headline, if read by itself, seems to be saying that Sarah Palin delivered a “gaffe-filled message,” when the truth is that her message talked about gaffes, but wasn’t “filled” with them per se. The effect was that the headline made Palin look worse than the story itself did. If all one read was the headline, one would get a far different opinion of what was going on than if one read the story that went with it.

On Nov. 26, CNN delivered this headline on its Political Ticker blog: Palin delivers a gaffe-filled message.

Think about that headline. Doesn’t it say to you that Palin delivered a bunch of gaffes in her message? If all you did was read that headline, you’d think she made a fool of herself with all sorts of incorrect statements in it. One suspects that CNN fully realized this fact.
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Texas Patriots Facing The Left’s Smear Machine

October 31, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Conservatives, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Ethics, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Republicans, Texas, The Law, Uncategorized, Vote Fraud, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am here all week in Texas in Houston’s 18th Congressional District observing the energetic and determined work of the King Street Patriots as they implement their poll-watching initiative, True The Vote.

True The Vote made news early this month when initiative Chief Catherine Engelbrecht discovered that a former Service Employee International Union (SEIU) member had turned in over 23 thousand fraudulent voter registration cards. Englebrecht and the King Streeters then decided that they would initiate a grassroots poll-watching effort to make sure that the election was fair and that all laws and regulations were properly observed.

By the reaction of the well organized, heavily funded left, you’d have thought that the King Streeters had proposed shooting puppies.
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Net Neutrality Supporters Admit, They Want Property Rights Eliminated

October 27, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Blogging, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Computers, Congress, Copyright, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, FCC, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Government, Corruption, Inernet, Law, Liberals, Net Neutrality, New Media, Property Rights, Regulation, Society/Culture, Technology, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oh, Net Neutrality sure sounds like a great idea. Why, Net Neutrality supporters only want what’s best for “the people,” right? They only want the Internet to be a playground for all, free of the influence of evil corporations, and they want fees to be reasonable for the lowly masses, right? Turns out, not so much. Fair pricing and open access is the least of what Net Neutrality supporters really care about.

The latest wrinkle in the saga of Net Neutrality pretty much proves that Net Neutrality supporters really don’t care much about a free and open Internet as formulated in most people’s minds, nor do they care if corporations offer the Internet in a “fair” manner. No, what Net Neutrality supporters want is the end of ownership of intellectual property. What they really think is that anything that appears on the Internet should be wholly free of any capitalist ends whatever. That includes anything you create, by the way. They aren’t just against those evil corporations. They are against anyone making money on the Internet. That means you too.
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Randy Quaid Wants Canadian Asylum Cuz ‘They’ Are Murdering Actors in Hollywood… or Something

October 23, 2010 | Filed Under Canada, Crime, Entertainment, Government, Hollywood, Liberals, Media, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Jammie Wearing Fool brought to our attention the weird’o story of actor Randy Quaid and his wacky wife who are trying to get asylum in Canada to avoid prosecution for trespass and avoiding detention here in the USA. Why do they want asylum? Why because “they” are killing people in Hollywood for being… I guess just for being actors… or something.

Mrs Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force her to return, saying friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been ‘murdered’ under mysterious circumstances.

‘We feel our lives are in danger,’ she said. ‘Randy has known eight close friends murdered in odd, strange manners… We feel that we’re next.’

Well if “they” are killing Hollywooders they sure haven’t done their job nearly well enough. I can think of a dozen of ‘em right off the top o’ my head that’r still walking around who need that treatment! Someone is falling down on the job, I’d say. I mean it’s like killin’ Kennedys. Why’d they stop at just two? Slipshod work is all I can think of.

Seriously, though, I think Randy and his wacky wife are gooped up on the gop if they think that they are targets of those Hollywood assassins. But I still don’t know why they are worried. Does Quaid and his wife really think they are in the same class of actors as Heath Ledger?
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Uncle Sam Funds ACORN Poll Workers, but Tea Party Group Investigated

October 21, 2010 | Filed Under ACORN, Anita MonCrief, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, DOJ, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Liberals, Lobbyists, President, Uncategorized, Unions | Comments Off

- By Anita MonCrief

What happens when citizens decide to stand up and ensure the integrity of elections? In the age of Obama, they are investigated by the Department of Justice.

From the Washington Examiner Washington Examiner:

“Obama’s Department of Justice has suddenly turned on a dime, becoming the great pro-active protector of voters’ rights:

‘Poll watchers in Harris County, Texas — where a Tea Party group launched an aggressive anti-voter fraud effort — were accused of “hovering over” voters, ‘getting into election workers’ faces’ and blocking or disrupting lines of voters who were waiting to cast their ballots as early voting got underway yesterday.

Now, TPMMuckraker has learned, the Justice Department has interviewed witnesses about the alleged intimidation and is gathering information about the so-called anti-voter fraud effort….

Terry O’Rourke, the first assistant in the Harris County Attorney’s office, told TPMMuckraker that there have been allegations of poll watchers talking to voters, which they are not allowed to do, as well as hovering over voters as they are waiting to vote. He said the complaints came from Kashmere Gardens, Moody Park, Sunnyside and other predominantly minority neighborhoods of the county.’

…Obama’s politicized Justice Department has already lost all credibility when it comes to even-handed administration of justice on this matter. They let the Black Panthers off with one wrist-slap and two complete dismissals after their flagrant voter intimidation was caught on tape. Now they’re worried about poll watchers “talking to voters,” at a time when local Texas officials are preventing people from voting if they are wearing Gadsden Flag pins?”

An interesting fact about this so-called investigation is that the group, True to Vote, had already contacted the DOJ regarding the extreme irregularities related to the voter registration drives in the state. (Click image to enlarge)
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Pro-Life label can be Very Inaccurate

October 5, 2010 | Filed Under Kevin Roeten, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

It’s very confusing when someone says they’re pro-life. What exactly does that mean? Does that indicate the alleged pro-life person would vote to directly affect Roe vs. Wade (SC decision in 1973 that made it legal to abort in all months of pregnancy)? Heath Shuler (D/NC) claims he’s pro-life, but his Asheville office said in 2008 that he would not vote to rescind Roe vs. Wade.

It’s easy to go a step further. Would it be OK to abort if you thought something was seriously wrong with the baby? If you knew it had Down Syndrome? If it was conceived by incest? By rape? What if you thought you needed to get rid of it for another reason?

With Tim Tebow, doctors told Pam (mom) she needed to abort Tim, because all the strong medications she took being pregnant while fighting amoebic dysentery, may have caused irreversible damage. Pam refused; Tim was born, and received the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore (2007) playing for the Florida Gator football team.
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The Chicago Machine Strikes Against Property Owners Again

October 2, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Cook County, Cook County Board, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Republicans, Taxes, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Patlak for Cook County Board of Review Campaign…

Once again the Chicago Machine has pulled a fast one on Cook County property owners. They have conveniently arranged for property tax bills to be issued after the November 2nd election. In fact the bills will arrive just before Thanksgiving with payments due right before Christmas. How’s that for a happy holiday season? We can make a change in the culture of corruption that has enveloped Illinois, Cook County and Chicago by helping to elect reform candidates like Dan Patlak who are interested in empowering taxpayers instead of confusing them. Please visit Dan’s web site to volunteer or request a yard sign.

Dan has released the seventh in a series of Property Tax Facts videos. This one addresses the question of what grounds people use to appeal their assessments. Please take a look and forward it on to your friends who may need to appeal their assessment.
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Socialism much Closer than the Frontier

September 22, 2010 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Global Warming, Kevin Roeten, UN, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

Many refuse to believe Socialism is as close to America, something it was not founded on, as it is. We may start to see socialism initiated by the election this fall. The ominous harbinger—the outgoing of Senator Christopher Dodd (D/Ct).

Called the Livable Communities Act (SB1619) was brought by Dodd, and will fulfill The Green Agenda – Agenda 21, adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), creating a ‘new world order’. SB1619 has just been approved by the Senate Banking Committee, and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate. The thought is this legislation must be passed before a Republican takeover in November.

Few realize this, but the unscrupulous Nazi regime based on anti-Semitic laws, actually followed the highway of modern environmentalism through Nazi Germany, as described in the Mark Musser book Nazi Oaks Book Review.
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Sarah Palin Wins Right Nation 2010 Presidential Straw Poll

September 21, 2010 | Filed Under Sarah Palin, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From Right Nation 2010…

CHICAGO – Conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party independents from throughout the Midwest have chosen former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as their top choice for President in 2012. Palin received 323 of the 1,693 votes cast at Right Nation 2010, the unprecedented event sponsored by the United Republican Fund and held just outside Chicago this past Saturday, September 18th.

Palin beat out New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who came in second with 274 votes, and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who came in third with 227 votes. Herman Cain and Mitt Romney rounded out the top five with 201 and 190 votes, respectively.

Full Results:

1. Sarah Palin – 323 votes (19.1%)
2. Chris Christie – 274 votes (16.2%)
3. Newt Gingrich – 227 votes (13.4%)
4. Herman Cain – 201 votes (11.9%)
5. Mitt Romney – 190 votes (11.2%)
6. Mike Huckabee – 156 votes (9.2%)
7. Ron Paul – 78 votes (4.6%)
8. Mitch Daniels – 76 votes (4.5%)
9. Tim Pawlenty – 68 votes (4.0%)
10. Mike Pence – 45 votes (2.7%)
11. Rudy Giuliani – 33 votes (1.9%)
12. Haley Barbour – 22 votes (1.3%)

The straw poll was conducted via paper ballot and overseen by Right Nation 2010 officials. It was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity.

For more details on Right Nation go to www.RightNation2010.com.

Blogger’s Row at Right Nation 2010

September 18, 2010 | Filed Under Illinois, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

We are all set up and waiting for Right Nation 2010 festivities to begin. Tonight we will hear from Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck and others and I am hopeful that the evening will be an energetic experience.

In the meantime, I am set up at blogger’s row along with some fine local Illinois conservative bloggers. If you want a great single web page to go to for links to all sorts of wonderful Illinois bloggers and conservative resources, visit www.publiusforum.com/illini/illinialliance_main.html.

Bloggers in attendance today include (in no particular order) Bill Barr of Bill Barr’s West Side, Paul Mitchell of Thoughts of a Regular Guy, Tom Mannis of ChicagoNewsBench, Nancy J. Thorner, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, Kathy Michael of McClean County Pundit, and David Dierson of GOPUSA. I’ll try and get a full list later.
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When You Don’t Vote Well, Liberals Assume You’ve Lost Your Minds

September 15, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Ben Smith of Politico noticed that two “influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama” recently floated the notion that as the nation turns rightward and isn’t voting with the extreme left, why we’ve all become “irrational.”

In the New Yorker, George Packer wrote that we’ve become a mob of unreason. “Nine years later,” he writes, “the main fact of our lives is the overwhelming force of unreason. Evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind don’t stand a chance these days against the actual image of a mob…”

Packer imagines that our “mob” mentality and “unreason” is why that wonderful, most smartest of all presidents in th’ whole wide universe is “less and less able to speak to and for our times.” We are deaf to Sir Smartness because we are all too stupid to understand, don’t you see?
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Hope Fading that Radical/Islamic Factions Keep Separate

September 14, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Kevin Roeten, Liberals, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

The mosque controversy in New York City: “To build, or not to build. That is the question.” The 1st Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. But certainly the mosque would not be built depending upon neighborhood conditions, zoning restrictions, or bad taste. But its building has superseded all of those now.

“He just tried to extort America, right there…he came back to threaten us.” extorted by Tim Brown, a 9/11 Fireman in an interview with Bill Hemmer on 9/9/10 Ground Zero Imam Threatens America with Attack If Mosque Not Built …]. In fact, in an earlier interview with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Breitbart.tv » Ground Zero Mosque Imam: If You Don’t Build It …they will attack.], the seemingly innocent statement sounds ominous indeed. Even from another source on just moving the mosque we get “Ground Zero” Imam: Radicals Win If Mosque Moves – Gothamist.
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Report: Pollak for Congress Luncheon raises $150,000 for Campaign (Ill, 9th District)

September 2, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Israel, Jobs, Liberals, Lobbyists, Military, Paul Ryan, President, Republicans, Stimulus, Taxes, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

400 supporters packed the Four Seasons Hotel in beautiful downtown Chicago, Illinois to attend a luncheon for Joel Pollak who is running for Congress from the 9th Congressional District. Pollak’s special guest was Representative Paul Ryan (R, Wis), he of the famous “Roadmap for America’s Future.”

It is encouraging to see so many come out for a Republican candidate in so blue an area as Obama’s home town, Chicago. A wide range of supporters showed from all walks of life.
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1970, Rod Serling: Television Has Little Relevance

September 1, 2010 | Filed Under Entertainment, Hollywood, Race, TV, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In 1970 University of Kansas Professor James Gunn interviewed famed “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling and what he said about how badly the subject of race was handled on TV in his day is particularly trenchant.

Gunn, a science fiction writer in his own right having won many awards for his work, asked Mr. Serling if he felt that any current television fiction was relevant to the human condition. Rod was discouraged that it was, especially where it concerns the issue of race.

“Most television fiction that I watch has very little relevance. I think it’s one thing to say that we will now have a program called ModSquad, say, and we will have one black man and one oriental and one Hawaiian to show this marvelous melting-pot concept. But I think, Jim, that’s altogether phony. I don’t think that’s… I think at best condescension and at worst exploitation. The fact is that we have so distorted the pure ethnic minority over the years by making every black man a banjo player, and a village idiot, and a coward, that suddenly we are going to reverse switch, he is now a brain scientist or an atomic scientist or any one of an equal distortion at the other end. Needless to say I’d much prefer the distortion on the good side of the scale… but all television fiction I find quite irrelevant and quite unrelated.”

That was a pretty dismissive view for Rod Serling to think of the medium that made him famous, but on the other hand it’s hard to argue with his logic. For all the ballyhooing about TV it has rarely been relevant to much of anything.

The interview is about 20 minutes long and is quite interesting.

Things haven’t gotten much better, have they?

The sad thing about this great bit of film history is to realize that this genius, Rod Serling, had only five more years to live after the shooting of this interview.
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Enriquez Radio Ad in Spanish

August 29, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

www.PubliusForum.com

(Eds note: for some reason I can’t seem to get a second audio player to show in the previous post so I had to put the Spanish version on this, a separate post.)

Back to Article.

Race does NOT need to be Discussed

August 28, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Kevin Roeten, Liberals, Martin Luther King, Jr., President, Race, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

Race is old hat, right out of the 1950’s. Time to get over it. There’ll always be a deranged small minority who believes a different race is to be impugned. But one party thinks race is what you talk about to get elected. Buckle up if you are a member of either group.

As in Joseph Phillips’ column: America: Still Talking About Race, one of the things Obama said he was trying to do was change the conversation on race. Unfortunately, he has done the exact opposite. As an alleged black president, the country has race on its mind more than ever (even though Obama is only 45% black).

Racism has been charged so many times by one party that it’s becoming worn out, like the old fairy tale about the boy crying ‘wolf’. Representatives Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel have claimed racism is one of the reasons behind investigations into their dishonest dealings.

How about the time Obama used an alleged break-in incident to flash the race card by saying the police ‘reacted stupidly’ after Gates (house owner) was arrested for disorderly conduct. As the police report states, Sergeant James Crowley was a “police academy expert on racial profiling.”
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UAW Joins Push For ‘Green Jobs’

August 26, 2010 | Filed Under Business, Capitalism, Economy/Finances, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, Liberals, Spain, Taxes, UAW, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The United Auto Workers has announced that it will join a coalition of unions called the BlueGreen Alliance in an effort to push “green jobs.”

I was amused by what BlueGreen Alliance founder Leo Gerard said of this addition to the group.

“The American auto industry is poised to lead the world in the production of cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and advanced vehicle technologies,” said Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, a founder of the BlueGreen Alliance. “The members of UAW, working people who make America’s vehicles, are a welcome addition to our effort to create millions of good jobs while protecting the environment for future generations.”

Notice how he lumps his union pals in with those creating those new “advanced vehicle technologies.” The unions don’t have as much to do with creating that new technology as it does in merely building them after they’ve been designed. He takes a bit more credit than he deserves.

Still, the main problem with this alliance isn’t that they are taking too much credit for other people’s work, it’s that the idea of “green jobs” is a farce in the first place.
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Survey of Dem’s Most Loved Republicans: A Guide on Whom to Fire?

August 16, 2010 | Filed Under Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Hill conducted its annual survey of how congressmen feel about each other and the answers are instructive. The survey found that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D. Calif.) is the most partisan, unwelcoming, hard to work with politician in all of the House of Representatives. But the list of Republicans that congressional leftists love should serve as the list of those voters should fire in November and after.

The Hill, however, did have an interesting point on why the extremist, left-wing, loud, hectoring, shrill Pelosi has been able to so easily get her anti-American policy agenda through Congress. She has a willing and able assistant in Steny Hoyer (D, Md.), a man that many congressmen like and find not to be the wholly leftist ideologue that Pelosi is.

As The Hill puts it, it’s sort of a good-cop-bad-cop relationship. The shrill Pelosi makes her extremist demands but it is the smooth, seemingly moderate Hoyer that gets people to sign on to those demands.
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Abortion Options: Limit Lifetime, Restrict Childbearing, and/or Suffer

August 7, 2010 | Filed Under Abortion, Health, Kevin Roeten, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

If you opt for an abortion, you opt for restrictions on your life including death. That doesn’t sound like ‘empowering’ the woman, but weakening her, limiting her choices, and forcing her to be subservient to the whims of society. Of course, it doesn’t include putting a human to death. One that already has every chromosome in place that includes hair color, intelligence, gender, and all attributes.

Abortion and birth control have health risks (1) that should be told to women. But Planned Parenthood never does. The British College of Psychiatrists admits abortion causes mental health problems (2). It is known abortion is more risky for women than normal childbirth (3). A Canadian study reveals a 93% increased risk of a premature birth after a second abortion (6).

After an abortion, PTSD rates increased for women by 61% in a South African study, where sleep disorders were more prevalent (7), babies were more likely to be premature or underweight (8), children were linked to higher rates of child abuse (9), and many other studies have found women with a history of abortion are at increased risk for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, suicidal tendencies, substance abuse, psychiatric hospitalization, and other problems (10). As suspected, new study has revealed a 66% increased breast cancer increase after abortion (5).
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Windmills Literally Blowing in the Wind

August 4, 2010 | Filed Under Kevin Roeten, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Kevin Roeten

Many say “What can possibly be wrong with wind turbines to generate electrical power?” But it doesn’t seem to be a thinking solution to perceived energy problems for the US. A few suggestions for the non-thinker: 1) What is the actual cost? 2) How much land or water will actually be needed?, 3) What has been the result of previous wind turbines built? And the coup-de-gras, 4) How much of US energy concerns can it displace?

In Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of …the Future, Robert Bryce shows how wind turbines can only produce a small amount of the world’s energy needs. He points out wind won’t run America anytime soon. If one checks the math, answers leap into your face.

Stephen Lovejoy [Economist: Wind farm profits wouldn't be a breeze for Hoosiers] says, “Are you willing to put up with noise? You’ve got to remember that if you’ve got several dozen turbine rotors going around in the wind, they make noise.”
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Heartland Institute Luncheon: This Recession Caused By Over-Regulation Not Market Failure

July 30, 2010 | Filed Under Banks, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Conservatives, Economy/Finances, Franklin Deleno Roosevelt, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, History, Liberals, President, Regulation, Taxes, The Heartland Institute, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston, WWI, WWII | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

I just returned from a nice little luncheon given by the Heartland Institute (www.heartland.org) in beautiful downtown Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the gathering of free-market supporters and like-minded individuals was to celebrate the life’s work of famed economist and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman.

The principal speaker was Richard H. Timberlake*, student and friend of the celebrated economist and an accomplished free-market economist in his own right.

I’ve done several such events for some of the conservative think tanks and state policy groups in the Windy City and I enjoy these events in Chicago because I always get the uneasy feeling that our little conclave of right-thinking fellows well met is the last vestige of civilization and that we are putting on the timbers to secure the gates as the barbarians mount their attack. The barbarians of which I speak are, of course, the city full of Democrats and socialists that looms on all sides surrounding our little events.
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I am Guest Blogging for Gatewaypundit.com for a While

July 28, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

The famed Jim Hoft of Gatewaypundit.com recently learned that he had some disc troubles in his neck and is undergoing surgery to fix the problem. Because of that he’ll be out commission for a while. He’s asked me and a few others to fill in for him as he recovers.

So, as of today and for the immediate future I will also be posting at Gatewaypundit.com along with my other duties.

I must say that the running joke at RightOnLine 2010 was that it is easier to count the sites I don’t post on than it is to count the ones I do post on. Well, now we can tick GatewayPundit off the list of sites I hadn’t yet posted on! Ha, ha.

Anyway, do come on over to GatewayPundit and tool around the joint, won’t you?

Top Ten most Left-Biased American Journalists – #1: Helen Thomas, UPI/Independent

July 23, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 6 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

We have finally reached the number one, most left-biased journalist in America today on our top ten count down and our most biased journo pick probably won’t surprise any of you. Even though she just “retired” due to her outrageous bias and hatred for Israel, we just have to give the number one most biased slot to the ever-vitriolic Ms. Helen Thomas, long time employee of United Press International (UPI) and later an independent Washington journalist.

Thomas was an over 50-year employee of UPI but in the year 2000 she quit the wire service because it was bought by News World Communications which is affiliated with the Unification Church. She was proud of herself, though, because according to her she was “never, never accused of bias” in her reporting.

“I worked for United Press International for more than fifty years, and I wrote straight copy. I was never, never accused of bias. I did not bow out of the human race. I permitted myself to care, to believe, to think. But I assure you, I assure you that it did not get in my copy.”

But that isn’t what her record says. Bias was epidemic throughout. In May of 2000 the MRC went back and found at least half a dozen instances where Thomas readily revealed her bias. Instances range from Ronald Reagan’s days in office up to the year 2000 when she quit UPI.
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Conceived Overpopulation One Reason DDT Perished

July 20, 2010 | Filed Under Biology, Business, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, Kevin Roeten, Liberals, Medicine, Science, Society/Culture, Uncategorized, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

-By Kevin Roeten

Humans killing humans. It’s happened in the past, and will likely happen in the future. One of the most prolific baby-killing machines has been the banning of the man-made chemical [dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane]. Billions know it by its acronym—“DDT”.

Why would so many feel justified with the deaths of 50-80 million mostly children (2-3 million per year), and mostly in Africa from malaria? (1) This genocide is painfully described by Steve Jalsavec in how National Geographic acknowledges huge loss of life to malaria and …the need for DDT. (2)

Some Americans believe the death of African children is wholly justified for population reduction. Evidently, they are expendable. But Malaria is the biggest killer of African children.
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Obama’s War of Choice

July 7, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off

If you are looking for Dan Scott’s article “Obama’s War of Choice”, please CLICK HERE. For some reason the original article is not linking correctly from an external site and many people are getting a “Page Not Known” message.

Chicago Police Chief Struggles to Justify Daley Gun Ban

June 19, 2010 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Chicago, Children, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Mick Dumke of the Chicago Reader had an interesting report on a recent press conference held by Chicago’s Police Chief, Jody Weis. Dumke said that during the presser Weis struggled to “explain how the gun ban is working” for Chicago. In other words, Weis was at a loss to prove that Daley’s unconstitutional actions are working to make the city safer.

According to Dumke the conference went from discussions of how Weis has taken “3,513 weapons” off the streets, that they are using “analytics” to determine where the crime hotspots are in the city, moving on to the claim that the city has a lower over all crime rating, yet to the ultimate fact that even with all this the death toll is still higher than other cities. “Homicides continue to challenge us,” Weis said.

How one goes from claiming that the Mayor’s gun ban is effective yet the murder rate is still so high is anybody’s guess. And that is just the thing, isn’t it? Assaults are up 2.4 percent over last year. Obviously the supposed gun ban is not effective at all if it were this murder rate would be nonexistent.
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Rep. Peter Roskam’s Townhall (IL 6th District)

June 7, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Chicago, Congress, Conservatives, Cook County, DuPage County, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Peter Roskam, President, Republicans, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Representative Peter Roskam held a townhall back home in his 6th Congressional District in Illinois this weekend in Roselle, Illinois. This was a sort of dual purpose event, part one meant to advertise the GOP leadership’s new website project AmericaSpeakingOut, and part two being an open forum for anyone to ask the congressman a question.

I must say, it was refreshing to see a townhall where both left and right leaning questioners were able to interact with a congressman without yelling and screaming. The left was well represented in this right-leaning district by an email blast from MoveOn.org that alerted the lefties in the area to attend. It seemed that about 1/3 of the questions were from the left perspective.

First up Roskam discussed AmericaSpeakingOut.com.
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Radical Judicial Nominee Jack McConnell’s Disturbing ACORN Connections

June 2, 2010 | Filed Under ACORN, Anita MonCrief, Barack Obama, GOP, Government, Corruption, Judges, Liberals, Politicians, President, Republicans, Rhode Island, Uncategorized | Comments Off

- By Anita MonCrief

“If you make a mess, you have to help clean it up”, John “Jack” McConnell said in his opening statement in a case that would have lasting and costly effects. From the looks of things McConnell and his friends may need a mop because there is a trail of corruption originating from Rhode Island that has spread to DC and polluted the country. McConnell’s nomination for the Rhode Island’s federal court reeks of backroom deals and paybacks.

“President Barack Obama nominated Jack McConnell in March for a spot on the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island. He was recommended by the state’s two senators, Democrats Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse.”

The Heritage Foundation explains McConnell’s background:

“Another of McConnell ‘s claims to fame is the lead paint litigation in Rhode Island and Wisconsin. In Rhode Island, McConnell’s law firm shopped a lawsuit against the former makers of lead paint to Whitehouse, when the latter was that state’s Attorney General. Whitehouse’s successor ratified a decision that Whitehouse made and contracted out the state’s power to sue in the public interest to McConnell’s law firm. In the lawsuit, which McConnell considers one of his most significant, the state sought an order directing the companies to abate lead pigment in all buildings in Rhode Island that were accessible to children on the ground that the buildings were a ‘public nuisance.’

The Rhode Island Supreme Court recognized that lead poisoning was a serious public health problem, but declined to play the role of the legislature and create a new cause of action to address it, as McConnell ‘s lawsuit wanted it to do.”

Have angry mob, will travel

Naturally, when there is an opportunity to exploit the situation, attack business, and make some money, ACORN is not far behind. As so called leaders in the ‘social justice’ movement, ACORN was active in lead paint initiative early on. Whether it was state and local grants or lucrative partnerships, ACORN was ready to sign on. In the case of Rhode Island, ACORN formed an alliance with an organization called the Childhood Lead Action Project (CLAP). CLAP was instrumental in pushing the litigation in Ohio and joined with ACORN to file an amicus brief on behalf of McConnell’s case.
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Coast Guard budget cuts: we were warned

May 30, 2010 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Coast Guard, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Joel Pollak, Liberals, Military, Republicans, Taxes, Uncategorized | Comments Off

-By Joel Pollak

On February 23, the Heritage Foundation’s Mackenzie Eaglen warned that President Barack Obama’s budget cuts for the Coast Guard would have negative consequences. “[T]he Coast Guard’s future ability to respond to maritime crises is at risk,” she said, adding that Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen was “preparing to accept reduced readiness levels in order to modernize the service’s assets.”

We know today how prescient that warning was. The budget cuts illustrate a lack of seriousness in the Obama administration about coastal defense–a neglect that has been evident in the inadequate Coast Guard response to the Gulf oil spill. The Coast Guard had grown in size and importance over the past several years to meet the threats of the post-9/11 world, but this White House and Congress are reversing that trend.

The Coast Guard has also been very important in humanitarian missions–precisely the kinds of missions that the Obama administration says it wants the military to emphasize. It was critical in the relief efforts in Hurricane Katrina, and played a large role in helping victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Yet it has been hampered in Louisiana by a lack of presidential leadership, a lack of coordination, and by a lack of resources.
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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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