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Shocked In Shockoe Bottom
by Pat_S on September 30, 2009A post by Pat Angry activists gathered outside a Richmond, Virginia strip club decrying abomination! and sounding alarm over the deteriorating standards in America. Prudish church ladies? No. It was the NAACP. The self-described libertarian owner of Club Velvet, Mr. Samuel J.T. Moore III, had unfurled an Obama as The Joker banner outside his building. “This country is going to hell in a handbag,“ Moore said, “and the current administration is making things irreversibly worse.“ Mr. Moore is not the ideal champion of liberty. Moore’s club is awaiting a state Alcoholic Beverage Control hearing on alleged violations. Earlier this year Moore was convicted of three misdemeanor charges related to having sex with a minor and another woman at his apartment...
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Mr. Wilson and The Menace
by Pat_S on September 13, 2009A post by Pat In this version Mr. Wilson isn’t the irascible man next door and The Menace isn’t a five-year old boy. The media’s version of Mr. Wilson and The Menace is an exuberant member of Congress named Wilson, the Menace is right-wing extremism. The two are not antagonists, they are villains coiled together in a swamp of hatred. The rancorous townhalls, talk radio and tea parties are part of this multi-headed monster. As Juan Williams puts it: It strikes me as something threatening..something angry is in the water here and it could go beyond the moment to, you know, people taking up arms, or attack. It’s extremism at work.” Mitch Albom, Detroit News Something bigger was at work....
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Money Talks, Liberty Shouts
by Pat_S on August 8, 2009A post by Pat Dick Durbin and others claimed insurance companies and “people like them” were behind the townhall protests. This was to discredit the angry turnout as manufactured and counterfeit. Today the drug industry announced they are spending $150 million for TV ads to back the White House healthcare plan. Taking the ‘manufactured’ charge at face value, insurance companies are contemptible for acting in their corporate interest, but not drug companies. (Not today anyway.) Shouts of individual Americans who go to townhall meetings are to be silenced while slick big government propaganda may intrude into our homes. Drugmakers ready $150 million for Obama plan U.S. drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health...
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Close Encounters of the Democrat Kind
by Pat_S on August 5, 2009A post by Pat Ordinary people who may or may not have joined recently formed grassroots groups to get together in opposition to the healthcare takeover are being belittled and dismissed. Aside from the “unruly mobs” smear, it is the simple fact of any kind of organization that supposedly undermines the credibility of these people. As though all those protests we’ve been seeing over the last 50 years from the Left were spontaneous with individuals suddenly impelled by unseen forces to go to the same street corner with the same signs. The people are criticized for organizing while the Democrats plot this kind of meticulously organized onslaught. Strategic Communications Plan for August: Health Insurance Reform To: Democratic Members of Congress...
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White House vs. White House Press Corps
by Maynard on July 3, 2009A post by Maynard This was a telling exchange between Helen Thomas and CBS’s Chip Reid (not exactly crusaders in our Vast Right Wing Conspiracy™) on one hand, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the other. Some of the media people are beginning to realize the pitfalls of a government that is a bit too anxious to assert control, now that the control is turned on them. The complaint involves a media event that presents itself as spontaneous and genuine but is in fact scripted and pre-packaged. Genuine newshounds appreciate that, in a healthy democracy, the executive must on occasion be challenged. They also have a self-serving desire to be an active part of the process, rather than...
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The Shouts Heard ‘Round the Country
by Pat_S on April 1, 2009A post by Pat First tea parties and now the Iowans For Tax Relief with the shout heard around the country. News of the protesting citizens getting thrown out of the State Legislature for opposing a tax increase is spreading...
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My Article for “The Advocate” And the Predictable Gay Outrage
by Tammy on November 26, 2008I was pleasantly surprised, just prior to the election, to be asked by the editor of "The Advocate," a gay magazine, to provide a letter to the new president. I was asked for letters to each, and they would publish...
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Iowahawk: We’re All Joe
by Tammy on October 18, 2008Time to stand in solidarity. When Barky attacks Joe Wurzelbacher he attack us all. (HT LGF) I AM JOE I hope you will join me in expressing a simple bit of solidarity with this guy, Spartacus style. I AM...
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Danish Paper Wins Muhammad Cartoon Ruling
by Maynard on June 23, 2008Finally, common sense is still alive. Danish cartoon ruling may prompt "Islamophobia": OIC The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 57 Muslim nations, said on Monday a Danish court's rejection of a suit against a paper...
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Signs of the Times
by Tammy on May 10, 2008A (sign)post by Maynard Which one of the four Adopt-A-Highway signs pictured above was removed because some people found it offensive? Although the KKK sign troubled many people, the ACLU fought for the Klan's rights and won. Tha Nazi...
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A Tale of Two Editors
by Tammy on October 5, 2007A post by Maynard Here's another peek at the blatant self-hating double-standard that permeates the academic landscape. FoxNews reports: The student editor of the Colorado State University newspaper was admonished Thursday for the paper's use of an obscenity in an...
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Hot Air Posts My O’Reilly Segment
by Tammy on April 17, 2007UPDATE: Apparently the Hot Air post is only aportion of the interview. Hutsutraw from the MySpace page has been kind enough to post the entire 5+ minute segment at YouTube, which I have embeddedhere. Thank you Darlene. *** Thanks...
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This weekend: Iran’s Holocaust Denial Conference
by Maynard on December 6, 2006A post by Maynard On December 10 and 11, 67 "scholars" and "researchers" from 30 countries will gather in Iran for the purpose of questioning whether the Holocaust occurred. The conference, sponsored by the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political...
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News Corp Cancels OJ Book and TV Interview
by Tammy on November 20, 2006But the question remains, does he still get the 3.5 million dollars? And my favorite declaration by a friend left on my voicemail about the cancellation: "Tammy! Fox Killed OJ!" News Corp. Cancels O.J. Simpson Book and TV Special News...
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British Schoolgirl Arrested for Speaking English
by Maynard on October 16, 2006A post by Maynard Yet another incident of political correctness gone mad. A 14-year-old schoolgirl was arrested after asking her teacher to assign her to a different discussion group, since the five kids in her group didn't speak English. So...