In the secretly taped video, smuggled out of the White House and leaked to The Minority Report, President Barack Obama explains his economic system in full detail.

No one knows, for sure, if the president will ultimately include this portion in his much anticipated Jobs speech Thursday night, but sources close to the White House confirm that this new direction or pivot, by the president, actually telling the American people the truth about his economic system will garner support for his plan.

Transcript:

My Fellow Americans. The real problem with my economic system is that the folks who are getting free stuff don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff, can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff, and the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff, want even MORE free stuff on top of the free stuff they’re already getting!

Now….. The people who are forcing the people who PAY for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So …. the people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to HATE the people who are PAYING for the free stuff by the people who are forcing the people who are PAYING for the free stuff and GIVING them the free stuff in the first place.

[The above photo is of me and Tim Scott.]

[The above picture is of me and two of Tim Scott's aides (Brandon Rowland on the left in the white shirt and Dan Asdot on the right in the blue shirt).]

As many of you are aware, Tim Scott has been campaigning hard for many months to become the US congressman to represent South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Mr. Scott has recently endured a grueling primary battle in order to win the Republican nomination; however, there is a lot more to this man than just politics.

Mr. Scott has a very inspirational life story and has had to overcome a lot of hurdles in his life. He grew up in the projects of North Charleston and was raised by a single mother who worked two jobs to keep him and his brother off of welfare. Scott was failing out of high school until he found a mentor by the name of John Moniz (a local Chick-fil-A owner who told Tim that, “You can think your way out of poverty”). He then went on to become a successful businessman, a thirteen year member of the Charleston County Council, and a member of the SC State Legislature–all before finally running for congress in 2010.

Well, on Tuesday night, Tim Scott’s tenacity paid off because he made history by being elected the first African-American Republican US congressman to represent SC since Reconstruction.

The victory party began by Tim Scott giving a rousing speech (that I have embedded above). However, here are the high points of Mr. Scott’s speech in case you don’t have the time to listen to the whole thing.

Scott was introduced by his campaign manager, Joe McKeown, who explained that, “Tim is still the guy who calls his mama twice a day and takes his grandfather out to lunch every Sunday”.

He began his speech by excitedly telling the audience that, “It’s no longer half time” (and that June 22′nd was half time).

Scott then quoted Ephesians 3: 20-21:

“That God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask and even imagine.”

Scott further stated the following:

“If we remember that all things are possible and that American exceptionalism is alive and well, then we MUST go to work.”

He, then, quoted Jack Kemp (who he calls “a bleeding heart conservative”) who said that:

“It had to be done, but it wasn’t the government’s responsibility to do it–it was our responsibility.”

Next, Scott brought his mother, Frances Scott, on stage and hailed her as “a super hero who is responsible for the American dream that I am living today.” He went on to state that America needs the kind of tough love that his mother gave him.

Specifically, Scott stated the following:

“We must win back this country FOR the American people–not FROM the Democrats or the Republicans.”

[Great message!!]

Then, Mr. Scott laid out his formula for American greatness–

1.) Limit the role of the federal government.

2.) Lower taxes and encourage job creation. (“If the federal government could create jobs, then communism would have worked.”)

3.) Lastly, Scott got the audience to repeat loudly three times, “If you don’t have it, don’t spend it!!”

And finally, Mr. Scott wrapped up his stem-winder with the following remark:

“I’m amazed by the fact that the Good Lord allowed me to be born in America.”

However, Tim Scott’s uplifting speech was just the beginning of the party–there was way more fun to come. Below are some of the snapshots that were taken throughout the evening.

Above is a photo of Andrew Boucher (a Republican consultant working for the Scott campaign) and me.

Above is a picture of me and Lizzy Simmons–who is one of Tim Scott’s aides.

Above is a photo of me and Jeff Shcreiber of America’s Right (who I had the pleasure of meeting recently at Blog Con).

Above is a picture of my husband and me.

Above is another picture of me and Tim Scott. (Funny anecdote here. When I initially went up to Mr. Scott to congratulate him right before this picture was taken, I specifically said, “Congratulations Tim!”–then I caught myself and sheepishly said, “Oh, I meant Congressman Scott”. However, he patted me on the shoulder and replied, “No, it’s Tim.”)

Above is a photo of my husband, Tim Scott and me.

Above is a picture of Tim Scott’s cake.

And, above is a photo of me stuffing my face with cake.

Above is another snapshot of me and Brandon Rowland.

Above is a picture of me and Jay Henderson–who is one of Tim Scott’s aides.

And finally, above is a photo of me waiting for my husband to bring the car around. It was at this point at the end of the evening that I had the chance to ask Tim what he thought the take home message was from the recent midterm elections. He responded that he thought that, “The American people had sent a clear message, and that it was our job (Congress’) to follow their directions”.

So, in conclusion, I think that Tim Scott will be a great representative for the state of South Carolina. Why? Because for Mr. Scott it’s not all about him. He’s “in this” to serve the good people of SC and because he truly believes in American exceptionalism–not for his own personal glory. Tim Scott has truly earned the title of “Congressman”. (Barbara “call me Senator” Boxer could really learn a thing or two about humility from Congressman Scott.) Mr. Scott has overcome unbelievable obstacles to become the congressman to represent South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. I am very proud to call him “Congressman Scott”. Tuesday night, Tim Scott had a lot to celebrate–nay–we all had a lot to celebrate.

Cross-posted from The Minority Report and Right Wing News.

OK–it’s time to just come out and say it. So-called liberals must be desperate, because–with regard to the Ground Zero mosque (as with so many other past cultural issues)–Barack Obama has sided against the American people–again. How do I know this to be true? Well, let’s just look at the steady stream of hysterical op-eds coming out of The New York Times slandering the American people as racist, Islamaphobic, unpatriotic dumb-dumbs. (Yes, I know, so-called liberals must be pretty desperate to play the patriotism card–I thought they thought that patriotism was gauche.)

For instance, last weekend, TV entertainer, Dick Cavett, wrote a column titled, Real Americans, Please Stand Up. (Did you get that? If you disagree with him about the Ground Zero mosque, you aren’t a “real American”.) In this op-ed, Cavett goes on to lament how “ashamed of us” he is, and he even goes so far as to write the following insanity–

As a war kid, I also heard an uncle of mine endorse a sentiment attributed to our Admiral “Bull” Halsey: “If I met a pregnant Japanese woman, I’d kick her in the belly.”

So now, not only am I not a “real American”, but I want to kick pregnant Japanese women in the belly.

Oh, but Mr. Cavett is not alone in his inane ramblings. On Sunday, theater critic, Frank Rich, wrote a column titled, How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, and on Monday cultural writer, Nicholas Kristof, wrote a column titled, Taking bin Laden’s Side.

Now, just from the titles of these op-eds alone, it should be painfully obvious what The New York Times is trying to do–i.e., “otherize” all opponents of the Ground Zero mosque as bigoted, anti-American rednecks with the worst possible motives. However, all of these columns were rich in over the top rhetoric, but deeply lacking in any information about the previous troubling, statements from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (the man behind the mosque), or the fact that that Iman Rauf has not been at all transparent about where the money’s coming from to build this mosque at Ground Zero. So, for flat out slandering the American people as anti-American bigots–and being disingenuous as to why they are really upset about the Ground Zero mosque–The New York Times deserves to wear “The Cone of Shame”.

Speaking of Imam Rauf, I would very much like to take a closer look at him before going much farther. To be specific, soon after 9/11, Imam Rauf called America “an accessory to the crime” (in reference to 9/11–see embed below), has refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization, has stated that, “The US has more Muslim blood on it’s hands than Al Queada”, and has refused to swear off money from Iran or Saudi Arabia for the one hundred million dollar Ground Zero mosque (that could very well be terrorist/blood money).

Second of all, it seems to me that Imam Rauf is being deliberately provocative by calling the Ground Zero mosque “The Cordoba Mosque”, which would be named after The Cordoba Mosque in Spain built by the Moors when they conquered the Christians in 600 AD. (It is a well-known fact that Muslims build a mosque on ground after they conquer it. Why don’t they just call the Ground Zero mosque the “We Conquered Your Ass/Who’s Your Daddy?” mosque and get it over with?)

Furthermore, I find the sheer size of the mosque–or the fact that it looks like a skyscraper or a giant monument to Islam, rather than a house of prayer–to be deliberately provocative as well. Now, in his recent column, Nicholas Kristof shamefully compared the Ground Zero mosque to a YMCA. However, how many YMCAs look like the image below? I rest my case.

[FYI, my husband and I went to Egypt on our honeymoon and we toured a slew of Medieval era mosques--NONE OF THEM looked like that, but I digress.]

By the way, it’s not just me who feels like this. Real moderate Muslims–you know, the ones who don’t blame America for 9/11 and who have no problem calling Hamas a terrorist organization–have stated that the Ground Zero mosque is in poor taste and is deliberately provocative. To be specific, on The O’Reilly Factor, moderate Muslim, Raheel Raza, called the Ground Zero mosque “confrontational, in bad faith, and a slap in the face to all Americans” (see embed below). (Ms. Raza has since received a threatening phone call from the property owner of the Ground Zero mosque for speaking out against it.)

Moreover, a secular/moderate Muslim, named Neda Bolourchi whose mother was killed on 9/11, wrote a column for The Washington Post titled, Build Your Mosque Somewhere Else. Specifically, she wrote the following with regard to the Ground Zero mosque–

From the first memorial ceremonies I attended at Ground Zero, I have always been moved by the site; it means something to be close to where my mother may be buried, it brings some peace. That is why the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero — or a church or a synagogue or any religious or nationalistic monument or symbol — troubles me.

I do not like harboring resentment or anger, but I do not want the death of my mother — my best friend, my hero, my strength, my love — to become even more politicized than it already is. To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must ask: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother’s grave, and let her rest. “

Oh, but silly me. I forgot. According to Dick Cavett and The New York Times, Ms. Bolourchi is just an Islamaphobic bigot who wants to kick pregnant Japanese women in their bellies.

However, what I find to be the most troublesome feature of the whole Ground Zero mosque brouhaha, is the fact the Imam Rauf has referred to America as “A Sharia compliant state”.

Now, why is calling America a “Sharia complaint state” so troubling? Well, to understand why that statement is so troubling, one has to first understand what exactly Sharia Law is and what it entails/allows for.

Sharia Law is a particular type of fundamentalist Islamic law that dates back to the time of Muhammed, and deals specifically with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexuality, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting. Classic Sharia Law is most famously practiced in Iran and Saudi Arabia (two places that Imam Rauf won’t swear off taking money from). For instance, under Sharia Law, hanging homosexuals is perfectly OK (warning–Allahphundit has the photos of this happening in Iran in this link and they are disturbing)–which is why Greg Gutfeld has called for a Muslim gay bar to be built right next to the Ground Zero mosque. Furthermore, strong adherents to Sharia Law have absolutely no problem with beating women, or even disfiguring them, if they disobey their husband. (For example, we’ve all seen the, now, infamous image below of the woman whose nose and ears were cut off by the Taliban. However, The New York Times was mad at Time magazine for running the image–they called it “war porn”–instead of the Taliban and Sharia adherents for cutting her face up in the first place.)

However, I would say that the worst part about Sharia Law is that it condones honor killings of women (which have recently been on the rise in America)–and, in particular, stoning them to death. Below is an embed of an exert of a film called The Stoning of Soraya M that NewsReal’s own Chris Yogerst has written about in great detail. It is extremely painful to watch (it, literally, gave me nightmares), but it is important that we don’t turn away and avert out eyes from this horror simply because it makes us uncomfortable.

Now, after gazing into the horrible face of Sharia Law, I can’t help but be reminded of David Horowitz’s chilling exchange with a member of the Muslim Student’s Association when he asked her if she would condemn Hamas (who also condones Sharia Law).

Here is a piece of the exchange (see embed below for the entire exchange)–

Horowitz:

If you don’t condemn Hamas, obviously you support it. Case closed. I have had this experience at UC Santa Barbara, where there were 50 members of the Muslim Students Association sitting right in the rows there. And throughout my hour talk I kept asking them, will you condemn Hizbollah and Hamas. And none of them would. And then when the question period came, the president of the Muslim Students Association was the first person to ask a question. And I said, ‘Before you start, will you condemn Hizbollah?’ And he said, ‘Well, that question is too complicated for a yes or no answer.’ So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll put it to you this way. I am a Jew. The head of Hizbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For or Against it?

MSA member:

For it.

Horowitz:

Thank you for coming and showing everybody what’s here.

So, in conclusion, I would like to ask all of the so-called liberals at The New York Times who are in support of the infamous Ground Zero mosque–”Are you for it or against it?”, with regard to the US becoming “a Sharia compliant state”, as well as Imam Rauf’s refusal to condemn Hamas. These are not issues that you can sit back and shamelessly sip your latte while you try to morally equivocate by uttering idiocies such as, “Radical Christianity is as big a threat as radical Islam!” or, “But, George Bush!!”. You are either for honor killings, or you are against them. You are either for hanging homosexuals, or you are against it. You are either for stoning women, or you are against it. You are either for mutilating women, or against it. You are either for rounding up all of the Jews and killing them, or you are against it. There is no middle ground on these issues or wiggle room for a nuanced position. And, if you take money from countries who support these kinds of activities in order to build a mosque at Ground Zero, refuse to call out Hamas as a terrorist organization, or support the building of a mosque by someone who thinks that “America is a Sharia compliant country”, then that is the same thing as being “for it” in most sane people’s book, who don’t want any part of America to be “Sharia compliant”, much less Ground Zero.

Moreover, it’s quite obvious to me what happened here–or rather, how The New York Times (and so-called liberals in general, not to mention President Obama) found themselves on the wrong side of this issue and siding with an Imam who actually praised the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The New York Times, as well as many of it’s readers, reflexively and shamefully side against the majority of Americans and always assume that they are racist or have bad intentions. (One only need to look to the fact that Frank Rich wrote an entire column bashing America on The Fourth of July as evidence of this unfortunate fact.) In other words, if the bitter, gun-clingers in Middle America are against the Ground Zero mosque, then The New York Times is reflexively for it, without even looking into it, or asking any hard questions about the project. They, blindly, took this Imam at his word that he was a “moderate”. (By the way, I went to medical school with several moderate/secular Muslims, and they would be insulted if you lumped them in the same category with this Imam.) And now that they got caught with their pants down not having done their homework, they are screaming “Raacist!!” in order to shut people up and distract from their own incompetence. I think that Mark Hemingway put it best when he wrote the following–

It reminded me a of a joke from last season’s “30 Rock,” where Alec Baldwin’s character was being told that in order to protect the feelings of a co-worker, he needed to “lie to her, coddle her, protect her from the real world.”

Baldwin’s retort? “I get it. Treat her like the New York Times treats its readers.”

The media seem to think they must reflexively defend any minority thrust into the public square from intolerant hordes throwing nooses around lampposts. But since 9/11 there’s been almost no violence or concerted oppression of America’s peaceful Muslim community.

At the same time, Americans remain clear-eyed about the fact certain Muslim attitudes are on a collision course with Western society. The mosque’s backers may be tolerant relative to the Taliban and other Muslim extremists. However, their refusal to condemn Hamas and the fact that they won’t rule out taking money from Iran cannot be considered tolerant by any enlightened standard.

Furthermore, Dick Cavett’s shameful ignorance was on full display for all to see when he wrote the following–

“What other churches might be objectionable because of the horrific acts of some of its members? Maybe we shouldn’t have Christian churches in the South wherever the Ku Klux Klan operated because years ago proclaimed white Christians lynched blacks. How close to Hickam Field, at Pearl Harbor, should a Shinto shrine be allowed? I wonder how many of our young people — notorious, we are told, for their ignorance of American history — would be surprised that Japanese-Americans had lives and livelihoods destroyed when they were rounded up during World War II? Should all World War II service memorials, therefore, be moved away from the sites of these internment camps? Where does one draw the line?”

My response would be if that Christian church was funded in part by white supremacists, and refused to call out the KKK, then no, they should not be allowed to build next to a monument where blacks were lynched by whites. Not to mention, if Fred Phelps–you know, the “God hates F*gs” guy–wanted to build a church next to a military base (or even next to a gay bar in San Fransisco), I would say no to that idea as well. And finally, I think that Charles Krauthammer explained it beautifully when he wrote the following–

“That’s why Disney’s 1993 proposal to build an American history theme park near Manassas Battlefield was defeated by a broad coalition that feared vulgarization of the Civil War (and that was wiser than me; at the time I obtusely saw little harm in the venture). It’s why the commercial viewing tower built right on the border of Gettysburg was taken down by the Park Service. It’s why, while no one objects to Japanese cultural centers, the idea of putting one up at Pearl Harbor would be offensive.

And why Pope John Paul II ordered the Carmelite nuns to leave the convent they had established at Auschwitz. He was in no way devaluing their heartfelt mission to pray for the souls of the dead. He was teaching them a lesson in respect: This is not your place; it belongs to others. However pure your voice, better to let silence reign. “

Now, I realize that it’s a lot more fun for so-called liberals at The New York Times to use this issue to look down their noses at Sarah Palin and Middle America, than it is for them to actually, you know, look into this issue and do some real reporting on it. However, their inability to recognize real evil here when it is, literally, throwing rocks at their face, is shameful–and it’s actually quite racist. Why? Because they are sacrificing these Muslim women (and gay Muslim men) on the alter of multiculturalism just so that they can pat themselves on the backs about how “tolerant” they are.

[By the way, The New York Times couldn't even bother to report on a recent would be stoning in Iran that we here at NewsReal covered for days. David Swindle, our managing editor, even put up a petition in order to stop the woman from being stoned to death. Full disclosure--I signed the petition.]

I mean, suppose some small town in Middle America decided to try to pass laws allowing for the stoning of adulterous women or the hanging of gay men? I guarantee you that The New York Times would be up in arms over it–and rightfully so (especially Nicholas Kristof who fancies himself as a spokesmen for women’s rights). However, now an Imam–who would take money from countries who participate in this kind of evil, who praised Sharia Law and the Iranian Revolution, who says that the US has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda, and who won’t condemn Hamas–wants to build a mosque at Ground Zero, and they are attacking his critics as “anti-American”?! Please! The New York Times would never turn a blind eye like this to the plight of Western women, but they are totally ignoring the plight Middle Eastern women, just so they–initially–could shout, “I’m more multicultural than thou are!”. And now, so they don’t have to admit a mistake.

So for refusing to do any honest reporting with regard to Imam Rauf, and then for calling the critics of the Ground Zero mosque “anti-American raaaaacits!!”, The New York Times ought to be ashamed of itself.

Put them in the Cone of Shame!

This diary was originally published on NewsReal and The Minority Report.

Speaker David Ralston the star of Georgia’s annual Forty Days and Forty Nights

Sine Die is the Latin term for the end of a legislative session that the Peach State employs to signal its constitutionally-mandated end of not one minute moThere than 40 days of lawmaking.

The conservative, yet easily subverted, time limit didn’t die with sine, but the new Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives did kill the corrupt poison that previously occupied his chair and emerges as a coalition builder, problem solver, competent leader of character this state sorely needed.

Speaker Ralston (R-Blue Ridge), we applaud you for balancing the budget without major tax increases, despite a huge ObamaDem great recession-caused revenue shortfall of over 20%; the passage as an amendment of one of only two Democrat-sponsored bills, the Karla Drenner (Avondale Estates) unnatural tanning regulation bill (HB 853); killing a silly race-based abortion criminalization bill; and, especially for restoring honor and integrity to the Speakership.

DeVine Law acknowledges that the “sick tax” aka hospital bed fees may have been necessary to fill an unfunded, federally-mandated Medicaid gap, but we were not happy with the lack of public college and university cuts. But we mainly blame Governor Sonny Perdue for caving to the “bleeding-hearts (but not our wallets) for low income would be students” education lobby, especially given the tuition hikes announced today.

Everyone has to suffer except government employees. The only jobs “saved” by ObamaDems stimulus were unnecessary state government jobs that We-the-ravaged by the recession-People still have to pay for.

We are happy that Grady Memorial Hospital made its first profit in many years.

Kasim Reed emerging as strong conservative Mayor of Atlanta

This conservative Republican endorsed former Democratic Party state legislator Kasim Reed for Mayor last year.

Not only are we are not disappointed, in fact, we are pleasantly surprised to see the union-backed former candidate stand up to city employee unions in demanding reductions in tax-payer funded benefits; demanding pension reform; laying off unnecessary airport workers; putting his own pre-budget deficit crisis plans for more cops; and demanding that the city reduce the size of government by saying:

“We’re doing too many things in Atlanta,” Reed said in an interview. “We’re going to run our government in a radically different fashion.”

GA-9 and Jimmy’s Grandson

If we have to have a liberal Democrat representing people in Decatur in the state senate (and we do, given the handful of Republicans residing there), they could do much worse than Jason Carter, the former President’s son. Congrats on his special election day win.

But this rooster really crows for Tea-Partier-backed Republican Tom Graves in making the run-off to fill the Northwestern Georgia congressional district formerly held by Nathan Deal who resigned to seek the GOP nomination for Governor. Graves, the sponsor of the only JOBS Bill to pass before sine die, faces state senator and fellow Republican Lee Hawkins in the June 8 runoff.

Perfect Gamecock, Glaus-House gang’s Braves vision and Lebron

It is exceedingly rare for a starting pitcher to retire 27 batters in a row. It has happened only 22 times since 1880, and in only 19 of those did the starting pitcher pitch the complete game and win.

A former South Carolina Gamecock caught the latest last Sunday when Dallas Braden and the Oakland A’s beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0.

John Montgomery Ward pitched the first perfect game on June 17, 1880 before establishing department stores across the Fruited Plain.

Unofficial perfect games:

Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings for the Pittsburg Pirates, only to lose 0-1 to the Milwaukee Braves in 1959.

Ernie Shore pitched a perfect relief game in 1917 after Boston Red Sox starter Babe Ruth was ejected from the game after arguing with the home plate umpire over a walk to the lead-off hitter for Washington. Shore retired 26 batters in a row after his first pitch resulted throwing out the runner trying to steal second base.

The Troy Glaus-House Gang

Yes, Jason Heyward is still the phenom. Every at bat of the J-Hey Kid is a happening, but does everyone remember the boo birds a few weeks ago directed at Atlanta’s first baseman? Now Glaus is 12th in the NL in RBIs.

An all-star every full year he has been in the big leagues, Brian McCann has struggled with vision problems before and after two Lasix surgeries. His struggles have brought home to me just how important is eyesight acuity to success in the National Past-time.

Lebron

Finally, a question: Was Lebron James’ woeful performance in the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Game 5 loss to the Boston Celtics in last night’s conference semi-final NBA play-off game due to:

1. Dialing it in to make statement to management about threats to move to the New York Knicks unless they bring in Orlando Magic-like co-stars;
2. Continuing elbow pain;
3. Celtic defense so tight he was prevented from driving the basket; or
4. Did he just CHOKE?

The Next Episode

Mike DeVine Law Gamecock is overwhelmed with issues  that can be seen from DeKalb County’s Mound-o-Lith but with only so much time to crow, and so asks his readers to comment on which of the below subjects they would like to hear crowings upon:

Elena Kagan SCOTUS nomination emphasizing White Harvard, un-Free Speech and ROTC

A Christian perspective on why we suffer and have physical bodies

• Dodd Financial Regulation Bill and why an independent FED must still be audited by representatives of We the People
• The problems with VAT and FAIR taxes, even if the 16th Amendment’s income tax was repealed
• Two Americas under ObamaDems (or is it four): Union America vs. Non-Union America and Government Employee America vs. The Rest of Us
• The Greece-ian formula for a permanent recession in America
• ObamaDem policies brewing Tea Partiers that unite libertarians, social conservatives as part of a coming 60%-participation handshake of Jeffersonians, Hamiltonians, and most other -onians that ousts ObamaDems from power come Election Day 2010
• King Barack  Obama as a stranger in our midst and his Camel-Not reign over Haiti (Nashville, not so much)

P.S. No matter what, Braves-Gamecock will be pulling against Los Suns.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Oil made it.

Before the Iron Horse, there was the horse, the wheel and pedestrians. For over 5000 years, the fastest man on earth got from point A to point B equinally. Then came the Choo Choo, which first spit steam before the greener fuel arose from the Quaker State one year before Fort Sumter.

Edison’s bulb beat the Model T to New York City, but it was the environment-saving automobile that made it the Big Apple soon after such big cities held a global horse dung pollution summit. Ever wonder why those NYC “brownstones” are known for that hue and have such a long staircase from the street to the first floor? Yes, horse dung was piled six feet high on the sides of the road and flowed in rivers during heavy rains.

New York City’s dried up Brown River

Thank God, Ford had a better idea and the Brown river no longer flows between the East and the Hudson.

Seriously, thank God for Ford Motor Company, now! Jesus never traveled more than 35 miles from his home. Remember the $4/gallon Summer of 2008?

Fact: The modern world we all take as a given, was made possible by oil and electricity. Oil, coal and nuclear power fuel the happiness.

Jed Clampett was a tea partier

Ok, so let’s compare the benefits of the Modern World, with the downside of only the third newsworthy oil spill in over 40 years.

Who is willing to give up their car so that Florida tourist industry workers never lose income because of oil rig leaks? Oh, but wait a minute, wasn’t Florida just a swamp before the automobile made a tourist industry possible. I think so.

Only three in 40+ years

Am I the only one that is truly astounded that the 1960s Santa Barabara, 80s Valdez and this 21st century Obamatrina are the only big news spills in such a long period of time? Think of all the oil rigs and tankers operating every day for all those years.

Yet, all the pundits say that this Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum oil rig incident will “set back” the cause of expanded oil drilling?

Can’t imagine that it could be set back the cause much more than the 1978 Democratic Party imposed ban that was recently extended by Democrat President Barack Obama. That is, unless, the American People (aka Tea Partiers) are as stupid as the Beltway media and talking heads imagine.

The global warming indulgence was fatally wounded in 2008 when gasoline prices rose so high that middle class families ate store brand peas rather than Le Suer, and couldn’t afford to make the weekly 45 mile drive to Grandma’s on Sunday. The scientists’ cover-up the hoax emails were the nails in the coffin.

I pray tea drinkers that Christylized the Garden State, remembered the “Old” Dominion, and Browned out the “Kennedy” seat in Massachusetts won’t choke on the Texas tea the modern world can’t do without.

Not that it really matters though, given Obama’s presumed divine rights.

There will always be enough oil for Obama, Al Gore and Rosanne Barr.

We can do with less

When it comes to his job, especially the one requiring him to protect the nation, the boy is obviously slow. But when it comes to “do as I say, not as I do” lectures, Obama’s lightning fast.

Yes, every nation on Earth has “done” with less. But oh how much better they “did” because the USA did with what it did.

Obama bemoans Americans not named Obama daring to drive their SUVS and eating, all they want. He wants to bankrupt the coal industry while we all “learn a lesson” from high prices.

And now he has a “crisis” he must not waste? A “crisis” that didn’t avert the Obama eyes for a week, thus delaying military actions that could prevent coastal damage?

Go for it.

ObamaDems will try to use this spill to advance their “less” agenda. Less oil use means less freedom for us. I loved those luxuriously long 45 mile trips, but I digress. We the People are more easily controlled in a more stationary position.

Less is Obama’s goal, on all fronts, except for government’s and his.

FTR: I can’t imagine how many spills would justify chunking the modern world, but I doubt I could count that high before requiring water and sleep.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Maintaining self government, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is about to get much harder

One week, Presidents Obama and Clinton tell us that law-abiding Tea Partiers protesting against ObamaCare could incite violence against government akin to the Oklahoma City bombing.

The next week, the Administration of the Chief Executive of the Federal Government and Der Schleikmeister accuse Arizonans and their State Chief Executive of Nazi-like “show me your papers” oppression and racism for enforcing illegal immigration laws nearly identical to the federal laws Obama swore to uphold, by means akin to how vagrancy and loitering laws have been carried out with the overwhelming support of Americans in thousands of towns and cities for all of our history.

In between those weeks the President of all Americans urged only those Americans with brown skin and/or an excess of estrogen to vote on Election Day 2010.

ObamaDems have obvious contempt  with those that would stand in the way of ObamaDemUnion voter lines from Guadalajara to Flagstaff, only this time with the veiled threat of a race war.

The same it seems ObamaDems not only have contempt for the consent of the governed, but even after imposing their ObamaCare will despite losing Town Halls, Tea Parties and the “Kennedy seat”, they will not be satisfied until they personally destroy their opposition with slanderous lies.

The chasm between Obama and the American people is not limited to those in the Grand Canyon State.

Obama’s War against America: The Western Front

Upon seeing the vicious overreaction of ObamaDems, the media and the racial-grievance industry, to the signing of the Arizona law by its Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, my first thought was of the many small towns in North Carolina that were overrun with too many illegals, too fast. It made me realize for the first time, the magnitude of what they have had to deal with in the Copper State.

My second thought was, what took you so long! My, we are a compassionate people. Or is it weakness that we slouch towards Gomorrah so long before looking up?

At that moment I finally understood what Arizona had been suffering under for more than a decade and my heart went out to them. The President’s daily attacks against the good people of Arizona is vulgar, ugly and truly dangerous.

If we are going to save America, it will take bold moves like AZ’s. It won’t happen merely thru debate and votes. Oh that it were so. No, it will take risks.

Do not accept the false premise that most whites are racists that want massive round ups and deportations of illegals

Obama plays upon the liberal Democrat and media inspired false premises of majorities of racist whites that desire massive round-ups of illegals and mass deportations. The same “racists” that gave Barack Hussein Obama the nukes and The Oprah the ratings? The same bigots that loved Lucy’s Arnez?

Daniel Day Lewis in his Oscar-winning role as Oil Man Plainview in 2006′s motion picture, There Will be Blood, famously said:

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people…I don’t like to explain myself.

Well, Obama’s got some ‘splainin to do and probably ought get his eyes checks and he’ll see that the majority of police interrogations in the border states are conducted by brown cops talking to other brown people!

Obama vs. The good people and good name of the people of Arizona

We won the amnesty debate a few years ago thanks to Talk Radio grass roots refutations of Dubya, McCain and Lindsey Graham, the latter of which told La Raza that Americans opposed to the bill were racists. The left always spoke of Republican candidates for President wanting to round up millions on buses bound for Mexico City, but couldn’t even point to statement by Tom Tancredo endorsing such a policy.

We have to combat this meme, because I fear that Obama’s attack on the good name of the people of Arizona may have already inspired a trumped up crisis in Arizona that could get ugly, at the left’s instigation, and we will need to stay unified to stay strong against a reckless media in a highly charged atmosphere.

Which is why I hope Marco Rubio uses the obvious “out” he has to retract his premature, cowardly, knee-jerk, politically correct ”police state fears” statements since he admitted in the written statement that it was based only on “news reports” and not the actual provisions of the Arizona  law.

“Show me your papers” under just laws

There has been much and mostly false reporting on the actual provisions of the law, very often from the lips of the Attorney General of the United States and the Constitutional Scholar-in-Chief. These are the same whiz kids that had Obama embarrass himself at the State of the Union with suggesting that a cornered Supreme Court had overturned 100-year old race-based ban on corporate contributions to campaigns.

The law (text) expressly prohibits legal status inquiries based solely on race or national origin, and specifically does not authorize random stops for questioning by allowing legal status inquiries only if the officer is already in lawful contact with the suspect.

One is not required to have documents to prove citizenship but having a drivers license is prima facie proof of citizenship. The law signed by Governor Brewer mirrors federal legislation and incorporates most of the major liberal Supreme Court precedents on “stop and frisk” jurisprudence since the very liberal Terry v. Ohio (1968) case allowed police to question a passerby if he had “articulable suspicion” that the suspect had committed a crime

People can be stopped now and have been so stopped for 40+ years, under Terry, whose standard is more lenient than the Arizona law.

It turns out that the iconic Nazi/Communist road block demands for papers analogy is misleading. Byron York points out how often we all are required to show our “papers”:

Many of the situations in which we are asked to produce ID are the result of laws passed by our representatives, Democrats and Republicans, that are, overall, good things. But they require Americans to produce their papers, in the form of a driver’s license, quite frequently. If Americans responded with “Go to hell” and “See you in court” each time they were asked to produce their license, both hell and court would be very crowded.

P.S. — All the discussion above relates to people who are American citizens. In addition to the situations requiring a driver’s license, some people might not know that since the 1940s, federal law has required non-citizens who are in the United States permanently to carry on their person, at all times, the official documents proving that they are here legally — green card, work visa, etc. That has been the law for 70 years, and the new Arizona law does not change it.

Reagan and Newt Revolutions weren’t

Yes, by all means we must work towards electoral super majorities that can repeal ObamaCare and much of the entitlement edifice, but given those weakened by addiction to government as mommy and daddy, why should we imagine that reasoned free speech and elections alone will deliver us?

No, it will require great sacrifice up to and quite possibly including the shedding of blood because the Left indicates it will not go quietly when we see it create a crisis by re-visiting the amnesty that We the People soundly rejected less than three years ago by insisting that the border be secured before any change in the law.

We saw the reason behind the ObamaDem Left’s obsession with allowing illegals to free run of the country when Candidate Hillary opposed changing New York’s Motor Voter law allowed illegals to get drivers licenses and automatically registered new drivers to vote without requiring proof of citizenship.

Meanwhile legal immigrants must carry green cards at all times and citizens are required to produce theirs scores of times a day to pursue happiness. It seems checking papers is only a Nazi-like crime if visited upon a paperless interloper.

The Vampire exposed to the Noon Day Sun

The Dem-o-Bats’ ObamaCare law will suck the blood from life, liberty and pursuits of health happiness, literally, thru funding abortions; financial mandates; and limiting health care choices by driving doctors and insurance companies out of business.

We the People know it and we know Obama knows we know it and that his oppressive majorities will end in November. All the more reason for Obama to seize every opportunity to gin up a crisis that can’t be wasted.

The modern, post-1963 and especially post-1972 Democratic Party is akin to the un-dead in there subversive victim-dependant, bigoted, race-based identity politics; and appeasement abroad policies.

I pray we will drive the stake through its heart that we only pinched in the 80s and 90s. The Gipper killed the Evil Empire and inflation for 25 years of heaven on Earth. Newt slowed the slouching  with Bill’s midnight basketball games but outrage died and government kept on growing.

Now, a man with contempt for America has less Nukes to protect us from enemies abroad, but yields leftist populist pitchforks at anyone not an author named Barack Obama that makes a profit; cops in Cambridge; and all folks in Arizona except for the brown ones?

Post-script Update:

This law is written with more protections against random stops than the law fashioned by federal statutes and Supreme Court precedent. In fact, if Obama-Holder-Sharpton wanted to go to states other than AZ and trump up an alleged random stop, they could do so today and could have done so any day since 1968.

I am all in on the mid- to long- term strategy of winning elections for the GOP to try and get the White House and super-majorities in Congress to repeal ObamaCare and drastically restructure the whole entitlement edifice. I also support efforts to win at the grassroots and in the election of conservatives as executive committeemen, etc.

I just don’t believe, given the power of liberals in the culture and politics and the widespread addiction of Americans to big government, that we can save this country without sacrifices up to and including the kinds of sacrifices made by those that wrested a We the People from a King and saved it from Nazis and Commies.

There will be blood, because the Left won’t go quietly into the night, if they ever do “go.”

We will not save the nation from quite possibly a worse tyranny today than existed in 1776, solely thru polite debate and votes.

No, the people will push back and the left will start a violent fight. This is how things happen. The people of Arizona  have had enough. That they passed this law concentrated my mind on what they have put up with for decades. I look at the little towns in NC that have been ruined and only hope that rising Phoenix can show us the way of courage.

Disabuse yourself of the notion that great things are accomplished without suffering. Ask Nathan Hale, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King.

Mike DeVine’s Atlanta Examiner, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Yes, which means the circumstance for such Los Angeles denizens visavis Islamists will not have changed since last week and at least since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. All Americans have been under a sentence of death for being infidels all the years they refrained from blaspheming the religion of peace.

 In fact, many more would have been killed by Islamist terrorists soon after September 11, 2001 had not the water-boarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed uncovered the plot to bomb LAX.

South Park Conservatives

I am proud of South Park for their mocking of the Muslim weaklings who wouldn’t know they were gazing upon the founder of their religion, who had to resort to forced conversions to garner enough adherents to pay for a mosque, if they saw him.

Christ a cast member

One of the main stream (cowardly) media accounts I read concerning the threats to kill the show’s producers stated that the depiction was self-censured because Muslims consider depicting Mohammed as blasphemous. But that characterization of the reason for editing the original program is obviously a lie since South Park blasphemously mocked Jesus Christ so much over the years that they finally made him a regular member of the cast.

Christians don’t kill people for blasphemy.

Come to think of it Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Evangelicals and all of the sects of Christianity, that I am aware of over the last 400 years, that are not lead n by Jim Jones don’t kill anyone for any reason, much less innocent men, women and children. But if one considers capital punishment laws in America to be religious laws, then fine, we plead guilty to executing a few of those who kill innocent others, after a fair trial and ten years of appeals.

Obama bows to Minister Farrakhan

Has anyone heard our President condemn the threats? Or has Barack Hussein Obama praised South Park for their self-censorship respecting Osama bin Laden’s acolytes? 

Would a man who bows so low before Saudi royalty, that you wonder if he lost a contact lens, condemn those trained to kill the infidel in Saudi Wahhabist schools? Would a man that always refers to America’s greatest anti-Semite by the honorific of “Minister”, when Calypso Louis Farrakhan would do, have caved and accepted a post-911 gift to New York City from a Saudi prince that Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected due to the condition of a reduction in U.S. support for Israel a change in U.S. policy towards Israel.

Even more interesting is whether Cynthia McKinney would have thrown her cell phone at Obama if he got the money before she denounced America and begged the Arabian Muslim to help poor blacks in her district, but I digress.

Would Barack and Cynthia be safe from Islamists after such appeasement?

Ask the families of the fallen on 911 and at Fort Hood.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Originally published at The Minority Report

Do my eyes and ears deceive me, but does Bill Clinton seem to be actually celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing as some sort of second President’s Day in honor of the earnestly bitten lip that calmed a nation in anarchy, thus preventing any more domestic terror during the 21-hour breaks between Rush Limbaugh programs?

In his NYT column and television appearances, the Empire State’s First (adopted) citizen never tells us exactly who said what and when to inspire and incite the OKC bombers. He conveniently omits McVeigh’s own justification of revenge for the 86 killed by the US military at Waco. More Americans were killed under Commander-in-Chief Clinton in Texas in one day than were terrorists killed at his direction in all of the other 49 states and all other nations on Earth combined during his eight years in office.

After 911, why do they hate us?

After 911, the Arkansas ex-patriot flew to Europe with bodyguards and asked why Osama bin Laden hated us, implying that America’s government had somehow brought the attack on ourselves and that if we would only change our policies, we could cause Islamists to love us.

That self-loathing was soon to be followed by a 2003 Davos, Switzerland praise for the Mullah-Terrorist-State government of Iran. You reckon when the world’s largest sponsor of terror on Earth is praised by a former President of the United States despite the terror, that said nation might be encouraged to commit more terror?

Or is it Rush Limbaugh’s demands for an aggressive US war on terror that inspires would be mass murderers?

Would Bill and Obama’s perfect world be one in which Osama sends us a list of demands we must meet for his promise not to bomb the Pentagon?

After OKC and before the next one, how dare they hate us!

After the OKC bombing, then President and former Arkansas Attorney General, Bill Clinton blamed talk radio for daring to “hate” his government and connected the dots between opposition to HillaryCare and 168 dead in Oklahoma. I guess he skipped torts, proximate cause and logic at Georgetown and Yale. Or did he just bone up more on prevarication, hubris and lip-biting?

The anti-obesity advocate feigns to be worried about the words of folks angry with Democratic Party-led government inciting others to violence against their government, yet, when he used the word “pardon” in 2008, he put convicted terrorists back on the streets. 

Terrorist-Pardoner-in-Cheif

Think maybe Bill’s use of the word “pardon” risked causing more terror attacks than Limbaugh’s use of the moniker “Der Schliekmeister” to refer to the definer of the word “is” (We have to guess at what words Bill refers to as incitement since he cites none to justify his vile charges) or the use of the word “no” by 70+% of Americans, including Tea Partiers, in response to pollsters’ question of support for ObamaCare, bailouts, and $1.3Trillion budget deficits.

President Barack Hussein Obama joined in Bill’s derision of Tea Partiers this week, but do you think granting KSM a New York show trial might encourage a would be terrorist to seek martyrdom or fame?

OBL said Clinton’s use of the word “withdraw” in Somalia after Black Hawk Down convinced him that al Qaida could defeat the “weak horse”.

Did I mention that Bill Clinton pardoned Puerto Rican terrorists to help Hillary win New York? Who knew there were so many such voters in the Empire State? But then again, Hillary did go on a “listening tour”. Guess Rick Lazio should have joined her and listened to that FALN terror constituency.

Did you know that Obama mentor, ghost writer and terrorist Bill Ayers was a guest at Bill Clinton’s White House?

But Hillary would be better than Obama, right?

Hillary joined Obama last week in the bash our greatest ally for revenge for Britain’s crimes against Kenya by publicly re-visiting the issue of the sovereignty over the UK’s Falkland Islands. No word on when Obama will re-open negotiations with the Cherokee over sovereignty in North Georgia, but Hawaii and other golf meccas seem safely ensconced in the Union.

It has become fashionable lately, given the extreme leftist regime under Obama, to imagine how wonderful would have been a President Hillary and to wax nostalgic about the Clinton years.

Hillary only looks good by comparison with what is and what people imagine she would be. She would be the same liberal she has always been that tried to socialize medicine 15 years ago, although, technically, Bill’s defenders always conveniently forget that Hillary was not President of health care, and that it was President Bill Clinton that proposed ObamaCare in 1993 and made a last ditch plea to democrats on Capitol Hill in 2010 just before the vote that made it law.

America is more than who was and is President, i.e. Congress matters

I too admit to waxing nostalgic about life before this second great depression, but I don’t wax with Alice in Wonderland where the brilliant feeler of pain single-handedly extended the Reagan Recovery for eight more years.

The 90s world I lived in was conserved by Republican opposition to Bill Clinton’s policies. If we had the greater numbers of GOP congressmen in 2010 as we had in 1993-4, ObamaCare would not be the law of the land.

Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray starts with a “D”

The unrepentant, living picture of Dorian Gray walks the Earth soulless, having sold out to the monstrosity the Democratic Party since the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Or did Bill become a buyer of souls long ago when he took a train to Moscow, having found Oxford too right wing? One wonders if Clinton-logic would convict the loather of the military for inciting violence against the government.

Prosecutors may be able to get grand juries to indict a ham sandwich, but not “climates of hate”

Soon after JFK was killed by a communist, the media told us that We the People were responsible for the “climate of hate” within which the tax-cutting anti-communist hawk was killed.

Then, we told the same thing after his brother was killed by a Palestinian terrorist.

More evidence that Bill and Hillary suck too! Not just Obama. (Hint: Its the “D” after their names)

Hillary’s suspension of disbelief and refusal to condemn Moveon.org’s General “Betrayus” ad.

Senator Hillary’s 2007-8 votes joining Senator Obama’s against funding troops during war.

Bill’s recent revelation that, despite his signing of the Defense of Marriage Act, he was always was for gay marriage.

Bill’s recent derision of Al Gore’s discredited man-made global warming religion, despite Bill’s own missionary work for the MMGW church and advocacy of draconian energy taxes based upon the pagan earth worship theology.

It’s always all about Bill and the desperate attempt to salvage a legacy

Bill won no wars and was impeached while Muhammed Atta and Co. plotted for two years to continue the terror against the Paper Tiger that began with the 1993 WTC bombing and continued at the Khobar Towers, African embassies and the USS Cole.

It seems that punching Chris Wallace in the knee as punishment for asking him a tough question about his anti-terror policies as President doesn’t earn him a spot on Mount Rushmore. There will be no V-W Day (Victory in Waco Day) in his honor.

At least he got Osama’s night watchman and an aspirin factory, but I hear that the widow and headache sufferers may be incited to violence by the words Clinton spoke afterward and that there are too many tea partiers in Little Rock for comfort.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Originally published at The Minority Report

President Barack Obama has told congressional Republicans that it’s time to work more closely together to solve the country’s problems. He made the comments during a speech at a retreat of House Republicans Friday in Baltimore

Obama Lays Out Parameters for Bipartisan Health Reform

“If I get confirmation from health care experts, people who know the experts and how it works – including doctors and nurses – ways of reducing people’s premiums, covering those who not have insurance, making it more affordable for small businesses, having insurance reforms that ensure people have insurance even when they’ve got pre-exisiting conditions that their coverage is not dropped just because they’re sick. That young people right out of college or as they’re entering into the work force can still get health insurance. If those component parts are things that you care about and want to do, I’m game. And I’ve got a lot of these ideas.”

Obama on C-SPAN Coverage

Horrible answer, having committee meetings about a phantom bill while the real legislation is being written and negotiated behind closed doors both at the White House and in Congress is not transparency!

Obama on Earmarks

This is just ridiculous, Obama’s biggest cheerleaders – MSNBC, even pointed out the political slight of hand the Dems used to claim that the stimulus had no earmarks.

Obama on Lobbyists in Administration

Btw – PoliFact has already rated this fallacy as Obama promise broken and here’s a list of lobbyists Hot Air put out about a year ago… the list has grown since then:

Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs:

• Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].
• Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
• William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
• William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
• David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
• Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
• Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
• Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
• Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
• Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
• Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
• Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.