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Libraries Are Banning Books Regarding Homosexuality

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

The mandate of most schools is to provide the most information available on a topic to their students, so as to provide a wide range of ideas on any given subject, to ensure the student receives a well rounded and full education (or at least it should be).  In practice however this usually never the case as political correctness, and liberal emotional sensibilities usually get in the way.  This is even more so true when it comes to Leftist pet-projects like Homosexuality.

With the increasing influx of new information, and personal stories, emerging on the reality of homosexuality which goes against the conditioned general understandings, Leftists are finding effective ways of shutting down all debate on the subject, and further ensuring that only their emotional understanding on the concept of homosexuality can be taught or held.  To ensure that no actual debate takes place, and the students aren’t allowed to have a differing opinion on this subject, they are banning books.

Visit most public school libraries and you’ll find an array of books that address the subject of homosexuality. Many include sexually explicit content, and some even include graphic images.

But if you’re looking for a book that refers to the possibility that homosexuality can be “reversed,” a Chicago-based group says your best bet is the banned books list.

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) says there’s an entire community of people across the world who say that their sexual orientation changed from gay to straight. But they’re not getting their message out, the group says, because libraries across the country refuse to carry literature that describes these experiences or any studies that support them.

{The Article}

Despite the Left’s claim of being “liberals”, and the vanguard of a liaise fair attitude toward lifestyle choices, and free speech this is rarely the case in reality – especially when it comes to one of their pet racial, class, or gender groups.

Although only the “right-wing Christian Conservatives” get the negative press, and thus bad reputation for “attempting to control society”, and banish any “sin” from the commonplace of ideas it is often the Left who most resembles what the “right-wing” is accused of.  This is simply just another example!

The same Leftists that are so set against a personal story from an actual “ex-homosexual”, have absolutely no problem with providing explicit sexual books to these same students.  Even further exposing the hypocrisy of the Left, it isn’t hard to imagine what the response of the crusaders of political correctness would be if instead the situation was flipped and it was the Right which was attempting to ban books for this explicit sexual nature.

Click Here To See List of Banned Books

So much for intellectual freedom – political correctness is paramount!

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Let’s all be revolutionaries!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

That crazy winger over at Renew America is at it again,

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell

If there was anyone who should know about deceit, it was George Orwell. Orwell — the pen-name for Eric Arthur Blair — was quite an idealistic man. Unfortunately for idealistic people, they are also often naïve, and susceptible to being deceived. Many are unaware of this, but George Orwell — despite the popularity of his antitotalitarian book 1984 — was a socialist. And as a good socialist in the mid-1930s, he went to Spain, to “fight against fascism,” as he put it. What he found out after he had been there for a while, however, was that his erstwhile Stalinist allies in the Spanish Communist Party were not so much interested in rescuing Spain from the fascist clutches of Francisco Franco (which they signally failed to do anyhow) as they were in coercing all the other leftists — including Orwell’s Marxist-but-not-Stalinist group — into seeing things the Stalinist way, or arresting them if they wouldn’t. Orwell — and a lot of other idealists like him — got snookered, but fortunately for him, he was able to get out of Spain without ending up on the wrong end of a firing squad.

He shouldn’t have been surprised, however, but the deceptions of his “allies” and “compatriots.” After all, the first half of the 20th century was a high-water mark for the radical Left. In Russia you had a genuine successful Communist revolution that put the forces of ultrabig government firmly in control of the largest piece of property in the world. Meanwhile, fascism (also a Left-statist philosophy) was rolling to victory in Italy, Germany, and in a host of smaller eastern European countries. The Left — those people who wanted to use the power of government to stamp out traditional society and replace it with devotion to the all-powerful State — were on the march, and could afford a little backstabbing against their useful idiots.

Given all the propaganda flying around in those days, it’s no surprise that Orwell would have thought himself living in a time of universal deceit. The Communists, the Socialists, the Fascists — everyone on the Left was constantly engaged in trying to dupe people into believing falsehoods that would make their particular version of Statism seem acceptable, or at least palatable. This was so even in the USA — let’s not forget the whitewash of the Soviet-engineered famine which killed several million Ukrainians, conveniently covered up by Walter Duranty of the New York Times.

Unfortunately, we here and now in the United States find ourselves living in a similar time of universal deceit.

Revolutionaries?  Sounds subversive. Better go read the rest of it, just to find out for sure!

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Rage of the Rights Talkers

Monday, October 12th, 2009

While I’m not usually a big fan of George Will’s op-eds, in this case he hits the nail squarely on the head, with his take on the childish entitlement obsession that leftists always seem to have,

You also see the problem with founding a nation, as America is founded, on the principle that human beings are rights-bearing creatures. That they are. But if that is all they are, batten down the hatches.

If our vocabulary is composed exclusively of references to rights, a.k.a. entitlements, we are condemned to endless jostling among elbow-throwing individuals irritably determined to protect, or enlarge, the boundaries of their rights. Among such people, all political discourse tends to be distilled to what Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School calls “rights talk.”

Witness the inability of people nowadays to recommend this or that health-care policy as merely wise or just. Each proposal must be invested with the dignity of a right. And since not all proposals are compatible, you have not merely differences of opinion but apocalyptic clashes of rights.

Rights talk is inherently aggressive, even imperial; it tends toward moral inflation and militates against accommodation. Rights talkers, with their inner monologues of preemptive resentments, work themselves into a simmering state of annoyed vigilance against any limits on their willfulness. To rights talkers, life — always and everywhere — is unbearably congested with insufferable people impertinently rights talking, and behaving, the way you and I, of course, have a real right to.

Exactly.  You can see exactly this sort of thing with the lefties who demand a “right” to abort little babies who happen to be inconvenient to the selfish lifestyles of their parents, and who do so by driving a Mack truck over the very real, actual, true-as-day right to life that is affirmed by no less than our nation’s own Declaration of Independence. 

Will’s example of the selfish lefties inhabiting Blue enclaves like Chevy Chase is spot on.  I live in a similar sort of far-left enclave, and I can testify that most of the people on the Left are some of the most unhappy, arrogant, bigoted, selfish, self-important, entitlement mentalitied nimrods in the country.   They truly are the kind of people who would give an angry one-fingered salute to people trying to protect their kids from being run over by low-flying left-wing speed demons who think that their “right” to get to the arugula booth at the Farmer’s Market trumps other peoples’ concerns for the safety of their children. 

Unsurprisingly, recent research actually seems to prove that living the upscale progressive lifestyle can make you act like a jerk (hat tip to Yid with Lid),

Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.

But buying those same products can have the opposite effect. Researchers found that buying green can lead people into less altruistic behaviour, and even make them more likely to steal and lie than after buying conventional products. Buying products that claim to be made with low environmental impact can set up “moral credentials” in people’s minds that give license to selfish or questionable behavior.

“This was not done to point the finger at consumers who buy green products. The message is bigger,” says Nina Mazar, a marketing professor at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and a self-admitted green consumer. “At the end of the day, if we do one moral thing, IT doesn’t necessarily mean we will be morally better in other things as well.”

Mazar, along with her co-author Chen-Bo Zhong, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour at the Rotman School, conducted three experiments. The first found that people perceived green consumers to be more cooperative, altruistic and ethical than those who purchased conventional products. The second experiment showed that participants merely exposed to products from a green store shared more money in a subsequent experimental game, but those who actually made purchases in that store shared less. The final experiment revealed that participants who bought items in the green store showed evidence of lying and stealing money in a subsequent lab game.

So the next time you get stuck behind some erratically-driving dimwit with an Obama sticker on the bumper of their Volvo who is weaving between lanes and flipping people off while thumbing on their Blackberry, you’ll know what’s going on.

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Crazy Right-wing Extremists in Pittsburgh.

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

And even more Crazy Right-Wingers Extremists from the 9/12 DC March.

I don’t know about you, but I cant tell the difference between these two groups. They all look like evil creationists to me.

Exit question: Which group prefers Apple over PC?

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Michael Moore – A Capitalist Success Story

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

In many societies, being fat is a sure sign of wealth and financial success.  Ours is apparently no different,

The bars were sponsored by liquor companies, the kitchen by Lufthansa. One room had marble walls, another, cashmere. Hundreds of guests plucked hors d’oeuvres from Plexiglas trays, but when I reached for a passing tray of pigs in blankets, the waitress tried to stop me. “These are for Michael,” she said.

That would be Michael Moore, filmmaker, who was enthroned nearby on a crowded sofa nibbling from a skewer, which did seem less in harmony with his everyman sneakers and populist persona than a sausage wrapped in fried bread. The Monday night party in Manhattan, which spread over two luxurious penthouse suites, was sponsored by Esquire and tricked out with the magazine’s advertisers’ products. The guests were there to celebrate Moore’s latest movie, which had just had its New York premier uptown.

Capitalism, A Love Story, takes aim at nothing less than the whole capitalist system. It uses all the trademark Mooreisms familiar from earlier works like Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11: Stakeouts, clever editing and innuendo, with the extra-wide filmmaker himself shambling up to corporate headquarters as a self-declared representative of the people. In voice over, he calls capitalism “a system of taking and giving, mostly taking,” and he interviews two priests who call it evil. He praises socialism, and near the end of the film concludes of capitalism that “we have to replace it with something, and that something is called democracy.”

If this were a different kind of movie, it might make sense to point out here that neither capitalism nor democracy nor socialism exist in pure form, and that pretty much every nation in the Western world, including the U.S., combines elements of all three. But Moore, to borrow a phrase coined by a physicist, is “not even wrong.” He makes jokes and tugs at heart strings. He shows pilots who can’t make a living wage, corporations that take out life insurance policies on their workers and families who are thrown out of foreclosed homes. It’s a litany of economic disasters, but it’s not an argument. I’ve heard him compared to Leni Riefenstahl, which is apt insofar as he is a brilliant propagandist. (He’s also fond of cueing Wagnerian-sounding music at dramatic moments.)

It’s been observed that Moore, crusading leftist and now explicit anti-capitalist, has made piles of money from his movies. In a question-and-answer session after Monday night’s screening, an audience member asked Moore if he wouldn’t concede that U.S. capitalism was better than Soviet Communism. Moore replied that the question was “bullsh–” and refused to answer directly, saying that his movie was not about that but about “democracy versus greed.” The hazard of being a professional polemicist, I suppose, is the risk of boxing oneself into intellectual corners. He couldn’t tenably claim that the Soviet system was good for its people, but if he conceded that capitalism had a few things going for it he would have undercut the revolutionary rhetoric that is his bread and butter.

This should drive home the point to us all that whenever you have someone loudly proclaiming that he’s “for the people,” he’s really for his own wallet and his own ability to wield power, first and foremost.  Now, apply that to the conglomeration of cretins who inhabit the Obama administration.  Hypocrisy becomes an art form for those on the Left.

As Sgt. Schultz once said on Hogan’s Heroes, “I am too poor to deserve to be this fat.” 

Michael Moore doesn’t have that problem.

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The Amnesty Race Card

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

More from the right-wing nut over at Renew America,

Why is this the case? Because, as we all know, those on the Left are singularly inept when it comes to being able to marshal facts and logic and reason in support of their arguments and policy positions. It’s much easier — and likely much more emotionally satisfying to boot — for those on the Left to simply fall back on rank emotionalism. Few things invoke emotion more than the thought that somebody might hate or want to harm somebody else — or maybe hate and want to harm ME! — all because of an uncontrollable factor such as what the color of their skin is or where their ancestors are from. Race is the perfect vehicle for those who want to obfuscate discussion and get around uncomfortable facts that destroy their arguments. Which is, of course, why those on the Left and in the Democrat Party talk about race so much. In a sense, it’s the last refuge of the intellectually improficient scoundrel.

You can bet your bottom dollar that once amnesty gets firmly ensconced as a provision of the general Obamacare package, you will see this race card played, just as it was with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Opposition to the bill(s) will be cast as “racism.” The “racism” argument will be used to shepherd the bill through Congress against the public’s wishes, while suppressing what little vocal Republican opposition there has been to Obamacare to date. Though pushing for amnesty may seem like madness, it has a method to it. As a result, this may end up being make-or-break time for conservatives. The Left can only scream “racism” so many times before the charge simply has no force any more. I, for one, eagerly await the day when calling someone a “racist” has about as much meaning or effect as calling someone a “free silverite.” Will this health care monstrosity, with the amnesty monstrosity attached, be what finally drives Middle America to simply decided that we don’t care whether we’re called racists anymore, we’re going to do what’s right, regardless?

Read the whole thing.  I hope I’m wrong, and that I don’t have to make another one of those “I told you so” posts.

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Cuban Court Upholds Two Year Sentence For Protesting

Friday, September 11th, 2009

To many on the left, Communist Cuba and its’ leader-for-life, Fidel Castro, are roll models.

Back in April of this year three U.S. Congresspeople met with Fidel and came back singing his praises.  During the campaign, Obama stated that he would be willing to meet with Castro, and during his Presidency has eased travel restrictions against Cuba. We also cannot forget the official Obama campaign office that proudly displayed the Cuban flag with “Che” Guevara on it.

The adulation however isn’t only among Democrat politicians.  It is very well reported that very famous liberals (including Michael Moore, and  Oliver Stone) have gone on record praising and defending Fidel Cuba.

In their drive to bash the United States, and prop up a dictator the don’t seem to mind that despite a public personal vow of poverty, Fidel Castro is apparently worth $900 million while his citizens starve, or that he jails political dissenters as a policy.

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HAVANA (AP) – A Cuban appeals court upheld a two-year prison sentence for “public dangerousness” against a man who became an Internet celebrity after his drunken rant about hunger on the island was captured by a film crew.

The court rejected Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos’ plea for leniency in central Havana on Thursday, according to Richard Rosollo, who observed the hearing on behalf of the Havana-based Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a leading rights group.

Gonzalez Marcos, known by the nickname Panfilo, appeared obviously inebriated when he burst into an interview for a documentary on Cuban music, waving his arms and screaming, “What we need here is a little bit of chow!”

He continued for more than 90 seconds, imploring the camera about how Cubans are going hungry in a country where the communist system is supposed to provide for all citizens’ basic needs.

Video of the tirade ended up on YouTube and was viewed more than 450,000 times after being posted in April. It became a rallying cry for exile groups in South Florida, where some hailed Gonzalez Marcos as one of the few Cubans who dare speak frankly about the difficulties of daily life on the island.

In a second video posted on YouTube, Gonzalez Marcos expressed regret that his outburst was used for political ends—but that wasn’t enough to sway the appeals court. Rosollo said Gonzalez Marcos was returned to a prison outside Havana after the hearing.

{The Article}

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Leftists Love Their Autocrats

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

When it comes to Friedmans, I’ll take Milton every time.  Especially when the other one - the one who writes for the New York Slimes –  extols the virtues of autocracy,

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power. China’s leaders understand that in a world of exploding populations and rising emerging-market middle classes, demand for clean power and energy efficiency is going to soar. Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that, including boosting gasoline prices, from the top down.

I want to park here for a moment and ask a fair enough question: When did Friedman resume his crack-smoking habit?  Seriously.  He makes it sound as if China is this up-and-coming world leader in environmentally-friendly “green” technologies.  Has he seen China?  The China where the rivers are so polluted you grow a third eye just by eating a fish pulled from one of them?  The China where you get your daily nutritional allowance of cadmium merely by breathing?  The China that makes the old Soviet Union look like an environmentalist paradise?  THAT China? 

And I find it appalling – A.P.P.A.L.L.I.N.G. – that he thinks that a political oligarchy that uses slave labour, executes petty criminals so that their organs can be harvested, bullies its neighbours (Taiwan, India) with overt threats of military aggression, and denies its citizens even basic civil liberties is “a reasonably enlightened group of people.”   What a sick puppy.

But I digress.

Our one-party democracy is worse. The fact is, on both the energy/climate legislation and health care legislation, only the Democrats are really playing. With a few notable exceptions, the Republican Party is standing, arms folded and saying “no.” Many of them just want President Obama to fail. Such a waste. Mr. Obama is not a socialist; he’s a centrist. But if he’s forced to depend entirely on his own party to pass legislation, he will be whipsawed by its different factions.

Look at the climate/energy bill that came out of the House. Its sponsors had to work twice as hard to produce this breakthrough cap-and-trade legislation. Why? Because with basically no G.O.P. representatives willing to vote for any price on carbon that would stimulate investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, the sponsors had to rely entirely on Democrats — and that meant paying off coal-state and agriculture Democrats with pork. Thank goodness, it is still a bill worth passing. But it could have been much better — and can be in the Senate. Just give me 8 to 10 Republicans ready to impose some price on carbon, and they can be leveraged against Democrats who want to water down the bill.

Ayep, here we go.  Here’s why Tommy (un)Friedman has suddenly become so enamoured with autocracy – it would let people like him more easily impose their idiotic economic, social, and environmental agendas onto us, without those annoying relics of democracy like “political opposition” and “debate.”  Since the Republicans just aren’t playing ball, maybe its time to scrap that whole democracy thing, and find ourselves a charismatic, lovable autocrat around whom we can all rally.  

And I’m sure he already has one in mind.

Shoot, it’s not like the Democrats haven’t already been headed that way.   When you have Democrat Congressmen who basically tell their constituents point blank that it doesn’t matter what the people want, they’re gonna get the Democrat agenda shovelled down their throats regardless – that’s a sign that you have a problem.  I’d like to say that it’s nothing a good election couldn’t solve, but hey, since we’re already on the whole autocracy kick anywise, who needs elections?  I wish I could say that I’m just kidding, but with the direction the Democrats have been taking anywise, I can’t.

Once again, it’s stuff like this that shows why you simply cannot trust people on the Left – period.  They do not support American values.  They do not support consensual debate.  They do not support representative democracy.  They do not support the people voicing their will.  They do not support leaving the people alone to live their own lives.   They do not believe in freedom.  They are un-American, in the deepest and most fundamental ways possible. 

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Civil Rights Commission Demands Voter Intimidation Answers

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

More problems on the horizon for the Obama misAdministration, as the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights begins poking its nose into the near-complete non-action by Eric Holder’s DoJ regarding several blatant, obvious cases of civil and voting rights violations perpetrated by the New Black Panthers against white voters trying to vote in Philadelphia last November,

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights sent a letter in August to Attorney General Eric Holder, issuing a stinging rebuke to the Obama administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).

A footnote in the letter criticized the DOJ’s dismissal of a Philadelphia voter intimidation case against a group called the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBP). The footnote called the DOJ’s voluntary dismissal of the case “even more corrosive to the rule of law than the dismissal without comment.”

The DOJ filed a lawsuit in January under the Voting Rights Act against the NBP and three of its members alleging the defendants intimidated voters last election day. The complaint, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, alleged that NBP members Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were standing at a polling location wearing a military-style NBP uniform while Mr. Shabazz repeatedly brandished a “police-style baton weapon.”

The complaint said NBP Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz confirmed that the placement of Mr. Shabazz and Mr. Jackson was part of a nationwide effort to deploy members at polling locations. The Justice Department initially sought an injunction to prevent any similar future actions.

None of the defendants responded to the lawsuit. However, instead of immediately filing for a routine default judgment, the DOJ voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit for two of the defendants – including Mr. Jackson, who was a Democratic Party poll watcher.

The DOJ only obtained an injunction against Samir Shabazz, which was granted on May 18. However, this has been criticized because it contained none of the usual conditions for such a case.

As noted in the letter from the Commission on Civil Rights, the injunction prevents Mr. Shabazz from brandishing a weapon at a polling place in Philadelphia. The Commission thought it unusual that such an injunction in a voting rights case only would prohibit something so specific, and limit it to a specific area.

The Commission’s six-page letter was sent following two inquiries sent in June to Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division (CRD). These letters wanted more information about what they said was the “unusual dismissal of the government’s case against most of the defendants in United States v. New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.” Commission chair Gerald A. Reynolds and Vice-Chair Abigail Thernstrom signed the letter.

The Commission also noted that an earlier reply from Portia Robertson, director of the Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison was “non-responsive to our questions,” adding that “to the extent it is responsive, it paints the [DOJ] in a poor light.”

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Other government officials are also demanding answers about this case and speculating that the DOJ has been politicized.

Rep. Frank Wolf, R–Virginia, said in a July 31 letter to Holder that he could only conclude that the decision to overrule the career attorneys in the CRD and DOJ who argued in favor of continuing the case was “politically motivated.”

Kudos to the USCCR for making noise about what appears to be a definite case of malfeasance on the part of the DoJ, headed up by the left-wing fanatic Eric Holder.  Kudos also to Rep. Wolf for getting involved.  This needs to get a lot more air time than it has to date, if for no other reason than for how destructive this matter is to the freedom and fairness of the American electoral system.  Groups like the New Black Panthers need to be made to understood that stationing armed, paramilitary-looking personnel outside of polling places and using them to discourage white voters is no more acceptable than racist white sheriffs using police dogs and fire hoses to keep blacks from the voting booth.  There are some NBP members who need to see the inside of a jail cell for a long, long time. 

Notice also, the apparent collusion between Democrat Party personnel and the NBPs in this. 

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Some Thoughts on the Van Jones Resignation

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

It’s big, big news.  This is important stuff, and I mean beyond just the obvious fact that it keeps a raving, racist, anti-American, truther looney-tune from having control of billions of dollars of taxpayer monies, that is….

This is politically damaging to the Democrats and to Obama in a massive way.  Because he put him into office, Van Jones = Barack Obama.  Jones wouldn’t have been there had Obama not sidestepped the constitutional vetting process and installed him into a non-constitutional office where he would be in a position to affect how our money is spent and how our lives are regulated.  The potential damage that an openly racist whackjob could have done is damage that Obama opened us all up to by his poor choice. 

This calls Obama’s judgment into question.  As Hot Air via Ace of Spades reminded us, the one thing that was supposed to convince us all to vote for Obama despite his questionable past and his onion paper thin resumé was his vaunted “judgment.”  Guess where his judgment got us? 

Hopefully, this debacle will call the whole process of installing unelected, non-confirmable “Czars” into executive positions into question.  We heard rumblings of it from Robert Byrd, who as a left-winger in a conservative state, was probably getting an earful from his constituents as to why this cuckoo’s nest ever happened in the first place.  If nothing else, Van Jones may end up having been a sacrificial wolf that helped start the movement to force our legislators and executive branch to actually obey the Constitution once again.

This debacle also shows the power that conservative media can have, when we all get on the same page and start hammering home the truth.  ABCNNBCBS, MSNBC, and the rest of the left-wing near-oligopoly on broadcast media were basically AWOL on reporting the news of Van Jones’ past.  They didn’t want to touch it, since it looked bad for a guy they supported.  You can bet that if this had been a Republican President nominating a conservative with even 1/100 the baggage, the MSM would have been all over it like flies on a cowpaddy.  Instead, the job was left to Fox News, Glenn Beck, and conservative blogs like Gateway Pundit, Ace of Spades, LGF 2.0, and others (please forgive me if I’m missing any), as well as news dissemination sites like Free Republic.  Each deserves a hearty round of applause for scoring a victory for the Republic against the forces of evil!

And this brings us to the obvious left-wing talking point meme that is going to be spreading around the internet today: the evil right-wing has (re)discovered that horrible, terrible personal charactre attacks work.  Those evil right-wingers!

Sorry, but no.  We were simply doing the job that Congress could have done if Obama hadn’t been trying to sneak this guy under the radar in a patently unconstitutional fashion.  Just as importantly, we need to understand that charactre counts for something.  If you have a guy who has repeatedly made anti-American statements, said he is fighting American efforts overseas, thinks his own government perpetrated the worst terrorist attack ever on US soil, constantly says that white people dump toxic waste in black neighbourhoods alng with other wacky racist conspiracy theories, and associates with open and avowed Communists, then common sense says this guy doesn’t belong in any position of authority within the American government.  That’s not a smear campaign, that’s called “common sense.”    A guy who has spent his whole adult life undermining America and helping to set Americans against each other doesn’t deserve to be in the American government.

In short, the defeat of Van Jones is not just a victory for the GOP (who didn’t do a whole lot, btw) or for the conservative blogs and Fox News.  It is a victory for America, for common sense and simple decency.  It is proof positive that there are still at least some people in this nation capable of thinking rationally, instead of just twisting around and going whichever way the winds blow.  The defeat of Van Jones shows that the old America, the America of the Founders, the America of the greatest generation, isn’t dead yet. 

As John Dryden versed, “Beware the fury of a patient man.”

That’s what Van Jones’ defeat was – he was correct when he identified his opponents as “opponents of health care reform.”  They were, and are also opponents of:  massive federal debts, ridiculous spending waste of the taxpayers’ money, the assaults on our civil liberties, and the attempts by radical left-wingers to overturn all mores and traditions in this country.  In short, Obama and Co. have woken the sleeping giant – the conservative majority who slept through the “opportunity” to vote for McCain. 

And the GOP will reap benefits from all this, even though they basically didn’t do anything w.r.t Van Jones.  If the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress keep going in the direction they are, 2010 will be a magnificent election for the GOP.  Let’s just hope they can come up with another Contract with America-type manifesto to rally the troops around.  Even as it is, simply riding along on autopilot has the Republicans consistently ahead in generic Congressional balloting.  Just think where they could be if they actually did something!

To summarise, once again, kudos and a shoutout to everyone involved in bringing Van Jones down!  Score one for the Republic!

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