Fairness Indoctrination

Michael Wiant in American Thinker:  "When I got home tonight, my 6 year old told me what she learned in kindergarten today.  She was so proud, you could just tell.  Finally, she had something to report to Daddy. 

""Today I learned the definition of the word fair," she said.  "When you have something and you give half to your friend, that is fair." 

"I was somewhat taken aback, and more than a little annoyed at our educational system.  I had to explain to her that that was only a definition of fair if you are a socialist, and it's not in any dictionary."

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"Be careful you pay attention to what the teachers are teaching your children, or the country is going to be run by brainwashed little Democrats." (Emphasis added)

THE WELFARE STATE: RHETORIC VS. REALITY; Thomas Sowell compares liberals' claims about blacks to hard cold facts

Thomas Sowell:   "While many politicians and “leaders” have claimed credit for black progress, no one seems to be willing to take the blame for the retrogressions represented by higher unemployment rates, higher crime rates and higher rates of imprisonment today. Or for the disintegration of the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of government-imposed discrimination in the Jim Crow era, but began coming apart in the wake of the expansion of the liberal welfare state and its accompanying social dogmas.

"The time is long overdue to start looking beyond the prevailing political rhetoric to the hard realities."

Bristol Palin to Obama: When should I expect your call?

Hot Air   "Like her mother, Bristol Palin has been on the receiving end of incredibly cruel criticisms. The negativity has run the gamut from passing remarks about a lack of intelligence to hateful indictments of the mistakes she’s made (and earnestly attempted to rectify). But perhaps no one has been more unkind to the Palins than Barack Obama’s million-dollar man, Bill Maher. Maher’s mean-spirited, unrepeatable remarks about Sarah Palin have been well-documented, but he also once said Bristol Palin was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” Who says that sort of thing about an unwed teenage mother? Who says that sort of thing about anyone? 
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"In a post on her new blog and in clear, sincere language, Bristol appeals to the president’s highest, noblest instincts — most especially his instinct to protect his daughters, the instinct he cited as the reason he felt compelled to call Sandra Fluke to apologize for Rush’s insults. She writes: 

If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you.  After all, I’ve always felt you understood my plight more than most because your mom was a teenager.  That’s why you stood up for me when you were campaigning against Sen. McCain and my mom — you said vicious attacks on me should be off limits.

Yet I wonder if the Presidency has changed you.  Now that you’re in office, it seems you’re only willing to defend certain women.  You’re only willing to take a moral stand when you know your liberal supporters will stand behind you.

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Obama’s evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt

Washington Post  "From the White House point of view, those few days show a politically selfless president willing to rise above the partisan fray and make difficult choices for the good of the country — if only obstinate Republicans would meet him halfway."

...." He was caught between his own aspirations for historical significance and his inherent political caution. And he was unable to bridge a political divide that had only grown wider since he took office with a promise to change the ways of Washington, underscoring the gulf between the way he campaigned and the way he had governed.

"In the end, that brief effort, described by White House officials as the most intense and consequential of Obama’s presidency, not only illuminated pitfalls in the road he had taken during the previous three years but also directed him down a different, harder-edged, more overtly partisan path that is now defining his reelection campaign."

Rush Limbaugh discussed all this in some detail in his Monday program: "What Boehner and the boys decided to do was essentially call his bluff.  He was setting up to run against a do-nothing Congress.  They said, "Okay, here you go."  Obama rejected it and then addressed the nation and lied. He told the American people that the Republicans were intractable, inflexible.

"It was their way or the highway. They wouldn't give an inch. When in fact they had given Obama -- this is the key -- everything he wanted.  And that's what he couldn't afford.  The trick that they played on Obama was giving him what he wanted.  They forced Obama to reject that, then go do a national address -- a prime-time address to the nation -- and lie about it."  

WaPo Fact Checker: Obama Propaganda Film Lied About His Mother Being Denied Health Insurance During Fight With Cancer…

Washington Post: The Fact-Checker   "‘The Road We've Traveled:’ A misleading account of Obama’s mother and her insurance dispute"

 

"We use a “reasonable man” standard here, and we think there are few viewers of this film who would watch this sequence and conclude that Dunham was involved in anything but a fight over health-insurance coverage.

"The disability-insurance dispute certainly may have motivated the president, but he has never explicitly stated that. In any case, the filmmakers must have known they had a problem with this story or else they would have recounted it as Obama had done in the 2008 campaign, using phrases such as “pre-existing conditions,” “health insurance,” and “treatment.”

"Instead, they arranged the quotes and images to leave a misleading impression of what really happened."

Obama’s History Lesson; Future generations will laugh at us for taking him seriously.

Mark Steyn "I was interested in the rest of Obama’s yukfest of history’s biggest idiots. Considering that he is (in the words of historian Michael Beschloss) “the smartest guy ever to become president,” the entire passage sounded as if it was plucked straight from one of those “Top Twenty Useful Quotes for Forward-Looking Inspirational Speakers” websites. And whaddayaknow? Rutherford B. Hayes, the TV flash in the pan, the horse is here to stay — they’re all at the Wikiquote page on “Incorrect Predictions.” Fancy that! You can also find his selected examples at the web page “Some Really Really Bad Predictions About the Future” and a bazillion others. 
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"A great nation needs successful self-made businessmen like George Peck, and purveyors of scholarly excellence like Mary Somerville. It’s not clear why it needs a smug over-credentialed President Solyndra to recycle Crowd-Pleasing for Dummies as a keynote address."   Via Neal Boortz


As long as we're on the subject:
Victor Davis Hanson: Presidential Embarrassment about Gas   "It is sad to see the president of the United States not telling the truth about the current gas crisis, as he barnstorms the country ridiculing those who wish to develop more domestic gas and oil.
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"Item by item, we are seeing the fantasies of academics and community organizers overtaken by the reality of a quite unforgiving material world — and the reality of wanting to hang onto power by being reelected. "

Gas prices are looking up!

    Rich Terrell is a complete embarrassment to me; I can't take him anywhere without him causing a big scene!

WTF Political Cartoons 

Obama to defend energy, Keystone policies next week  "Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okl., said he wants to hear Obama "explain to Oklahomans why he rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and turned his back on using the oil and gas resources in our own backyard instead of spending $1 billion per day for OPEC oil." "  Releasing Oil from SPR Still Not a Good Idea 


Charles Krauthammer discusses Mr. Obama's latest energy speech that mentions Rutherford B. Hayes. Obama may be a liar and a demagogue, but the people standing behind him here buy his whole routine, especially the young red-headed kid to his left.

"It doesn't matter if he reads his speeches or not, because he is really that dumb."  
 Conservative Blogs Central

Obama against the lifestyle of the 1%

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/ 

THE VETTING - HOLDER 1995: WE MUST 'BRAINWASH' PEOPLE ON GUNS (Updated)

Update from American Thinker: Operation Vast and Obvious  "Was that an attempt to brainwash the American public into acceptance of more restrictive gun laws? Was the whole Fast & Furious program the basis upon which to build such a anti-gun, brainwashing campaign? Watch the video; it's obvious that the man who wields such vast power now certainly has no hesitation about using the tactic of brainwashing to accomplish his goals.

"The more we learn, the more we understand that the scope and real purpose of  Operation Fast & Furious is vast and obvious."

Breitbart TV    "Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

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"Holder added that he had asked advertising agencies in the nation's capital to assist by making anti-gun ads rather than commercials "that make me buy things that I don't really need." He had also approached local newspapers and television stations, he said, asking them to devote prime space and time, respectively, to his anti-gun campaign." 

JOE BIDEN BOOED AT PITTSBURGH ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE

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Liberty Institute Works to Save Jesus Statue

Liberty Institute Liberty Institute Works to Save Jesus Statue "For nearly sixty years, the Knights of Columbus of Kalispell County, Montana have owned and maintained the Tenth Mountain Veterans’ Memorial located on Big Mountain in Flathead National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service recently denied renewal of the Knights’ permit for the memorial statue because it depicts Jesus and stands on federal land." 

...."In denying renewal of the Knights’ permit, the Forest Service is responding to a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Liberty Institute submitted comments with the Forest Service on behalf of the Knights, stating that “allowing the monument to remain does not create a constitutional violation simply because it is a statue of Jesus.” But removing the monument would amount to unconstitutional “viewpoint discrimination and a content-based restriction on the Knights of Columbus’ private speech."
UPDATE: Liberty Institute Victorious: Jesus Statue to Remain on Big Mountain 

Irish-Born Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients: The Complete List?

Irish in the American Civil War "One of the main resources added to this site at an early stage was the list of Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients. Drawn from a number of different sources, I have found occasion to add the names of additional men over time, as it became apparent that they were in all probability of Irish birth. The list currently stands at 143 individuals, and to my knowledge is the most comprehensive listing of Irish-born Civil War Medal of Honor recipients currently available." "  Damian Shiels

A Civil War Flag for the Irish People