The Intellectual Hegemon

Randall Hoven "As intellectuals become teachers and professors, they will tend to promote (give good grades to) those who flatter their preconceived ideology. Therefore, in time, schools, universities, and the entire education industry will become one big, fact-free, self-admiration society with one ideology. The anti-hegemons become the hegemon. Facts will become like prayers and cigarettes: all but banned in public. More exactly, inconvenient facts will be banned. The few facts that support the preconceived ideology will still be allowed -- not because intellectuals believe in facts and rationality (such Western white male constructs!), but because facts can be useful propaganda tools."

A Pakistani-American on the Times Sq. bomber

American Thinker "...before you judge all of us, please remember that there is a silent majority of Muslims who wholeheartedly, emphatically condemns such terrorist activities. Why don't hear about them? It's because they remain mute, too afraid to speak or not passionate enough to get out there in public and condemn such acts of terror for fear of reprisals. They wait for others to speak for them and because of that reason they are "silent". " author anonymous 

The Congressional Assault on Criminal Justice

Heritage "By consistently creating new criminal laws without consulting the special expertise of the two judiciary committees, Congress is endangering civil liberties and placing all Americans at risk of unjust criminal conviction for violating crimes they did not even know they were committing."

Britons see 'dangers ahead' in U.S. relationship

USA Today via Heritage  "Prime Minister Gordon Brown was denied a formal news conference in his first visit to Obama, who angered some Britons by removing a Churchill bust on loan from Britain from the Oval Office. "Barack Obama has sent Sir Winston Churchill packing," The Daily Telegraph blared. "There's been a series of political sins of omission and commission" by the Obama administration, says Lisa Aronsson of the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank. "It's clear that investing in the relationship with the U.K. was not a priority.""

GOP: Dry up will to cross border

Dick Morris "In their desperation, President Barack Obama and senators with large Latino populations in their states (like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.) are seeking to polarize Hispanic and Anglo sentiment over the issue of illegal immigration. In his frequent messages calling for higher Latino and black turnout and his condemnation of the Arizona immigration law, Obama is trying to recapture over immigration the voter approval he lost over healthcare."

Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson

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Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

National Review  "Many Americans are puzzled and angry about the judicial assault on religion, morality, and common sense that has been going on for the past few decades. People wonder, for example, how the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of religion as well as separation of church and state) could possibly require the expulsion of religion from public life, or outlaw prayers at high-school football games and graduation ceremonies. To answer questions like these, one must understand how federal judges got the power to make such controversial political decisions in the first place, and how the judges used that power to bludgeon the American citizenry into believing that their power was legitimate."   Robert Lowry Clinton is professor and chair of Political Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Resenting Achievement More than Wealth

Thomas Sowell   "Many of our educators, our intelligentsia, and our media — not to mention our politicians — promote an attitude that other people’s achievements are grievances, rather than examples. When black schoolchildren who are working hard in school and succeeding academically are attacked and beaten up by black classmates for “acting white,” why is it surprising that similar hostility is turned against Asian Americans, who are often achieving academically more so than whites?"

It Begins… Race-Hustlers Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton Call for Selig to Pull All-Star Game Out of Arizona

Gateway Pundit "Here we go. The race-hustlers believe they’ve latched onto a winner. Never mind the fact that a vast majority (59%) of Americans support Arizona… Never mind that 70% of Arizona voters who live with the problem support the bill… Never mind that the immigrant ID law has been on the books for 70 years… Never mind that the media has completely misrepresented the legislation… Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson want Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to pull the All-Star Game from Phoenix."

Gibbs Scolds Fox for Airing Brownie's Oil Spill Conspiracy Theory, Will He Bash MSNBC?

Newsbusters- "BROWN:

The media has been ignoring it for two weeks. You don`t think that there were -- look, they could have gotten on helicopters. They probably were on helicopters. We had other reconnaissance images from there. But we only started to see them when it started to approach the Louisiana coast. And, then, oh, my God, look, we got to do something. I just -- I think the media sat back. And I would not be surprised if the White House said, you know, we might be able to, guess what, do what? Use this crisis to our advantage. Let this crisis get really bad, and then we will step in. We will be able to shut down offshore drilling. We will be able to turn to all these alternate fuels. And I think the problem they have right now is, they waited too long."

From New Citizen to Suspect in a Year

WSJ Ms. Thurman paid $5 for four pillows—"a steal," she said. Then her neighbors were gone. She didn't know where they went. The house has sat empty since then, she said. "He was a little weird," she said. "I didn't know he was that damn weird." Other real-estate brokers and a lawyer who worked with Mr. Shahzad described him as soft-spoken, well-dressed and intelligent, but very reserved." If he was poor, how'd he pay for those plane tickets and the bomb implements? Shahzad reserved his seat on the way to the airport and paid in cash.

Not Wanted on Campus: Jews Who Support Israel

Chesler Chronicles  "As I’ve noted, what’s going on is so much bigger than Brandeis University and Ambassador Oren. Do the dissenting students and faculty at Brandeis really understand what is going on?
I fear not. Israel’s critics are as merciless and unbalanced in their criticism of Israel — only. Such critics fervently believe that their criticism is all that keeps both Judaism and Israel vital and honest. While holding an endangered Israel’s feet to the fire, these very critics practice compassion and understanding towards the non-Jewish barbarians of the Middle East and Islamic world."  via Pajamas Media.