Conservative columnist resigns after Kentucky paper refuses to run op-ed on publication’s liberal bias

Daily Caller  "Dyche says he quit after Pam Platt, the paper’s editorial page editor, left him a voicemail on Feb. 11 making it clear they wouldn’t run his piece about the paper’s politics.

“Hi, John David, it’s Pam Platt at the Courier-Journal and I’m just calling to let you know that I’m not going to run your column tomorrow,” Platt said, according to a transcript provided to TheDC. “To me it goes sort of off of what your column is supposed to be.”

Typical cartoon from the Courier-Journal

"Added Platt: “My understanding is a conservative take on issues of the day and that’s not what this is. So, anyway, thanks a lot and I’ll talk to you soon.”
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"After Platt rejected the column, Dyche sent an email letter to her and publisher Wesley Jackson offering his resignation. He argued his submitted column very much fit under the category of “a conservative take on the issues of the day.”
“ 'One of those issues is liberal media bias,” he wrote in the email, which The DC obtained."

Here is the full opinion story by Dyche that was rejected:  An excerpt is posted below.

"The Courier-Journal opinion pages are stridently liberal. Journalistic jihads against Kentucky’s Republican U. S. Senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, and crusades for gun control and higher taxes, are in full force and frequently fill almost the entire editorial and op-ed pages. Such one-sidedness neither works in the marketplace nor serves the public interest."

Have you heard the one about "Global Warming"

COMMON CENTS   "Global Warming Update! Amazing Documentary.  The Great Global Warming Swindle should be required viewing for anyone interested in Global Warming.      All emphases in the original.

 

IMDb cast and summary of the movie  Lots of "Himselfs".

 

Top Documentary Films  "Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it’s claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a ‘little ice age’."

Wikipedia explores arguments for and against and a Google search brings up many articles that disagree with the documentary. Just as other sources refute Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"  including this one:
Gore's climate film has scientific errors - judge

The dark ages of journalism seem to be on us

http://terrellaftermath.com/ Notice the snarky windmills?

BS alert! Politico claims that: "The MSM Can’t Resist Obama’s Power" 
"None of this would be possible without the news media being a willing partner. The media never had any trouble complaining vociferously about Bush’s attempts to ‘manipulate them.’ Even when he wasn’t trying to manipulate them.

"If the media were unhappy about any of this they would have been screaming bloody murder before Obama was even elected in 2008. But, instead they have been eager carry water for the Obama. Just as they have steadfastly refused to ever vet Obama. Let alone, writing anything negative about him."
Related: Former Obama camp spokesman defends media strategy

NBC’s David Gregory Thinks Republicans Are ‘Just Trying to Jam the President Up'  "NBC continues to lead the way in belittling any and all Republican attempts to stand up to President Obama. On Sunday’s Today, David Gregory rehashed the common left-wing talking point that Republicans are opposing Obama at every turn merely for the sake of being obstructionist. "
I remember well the shabby public disrespect this man treated President Bush with where he looked like the school bully in front of his cheering friends.

Christians Murdered In New Jersey…Not A PEEP From The Mainstream Media


Breaking: David Axelrod Hired By MSNBC… "Didn’t really need another reason not to watch MSNBC, but looks like we got one anyway."
                                            Axelrod toon at right by Steenwyck

Politico, NBC News Ignore Fact that Sequester Is Obama's Idea  "Neither outlet, though, bothered to mention one small, crucial fact: that Obama not only signed on to the sequestration deal, he proposed it."

 

NBC News Deceptively Edits Paul Ryan  "To set up his question, Roberts showed a clip of Rep. Ryan on ABC News' "This Week." The clip was meant to make it look like the Wisconsin congressman was opposed to the bill simply due to the fact that the President is for it, and not on any substantive level. However, take a look at the clip. MSNBC selectively edited Ryan in a very deceitful way."

US Military Officer Files Formal Complaint Against National Defense University for sharia/blasphemy enforcement (censorship) about Islam and jihad

Atlas Shrugs  "A defense university silencing the truth about the enemy is, in fact, aiding and abetting that very enemy. The university should have its credentials pulled.
"Bravo! Thank G-d for patriots like Lt. Col. Dooley taking on the Hamas goons of CAIR. He shouldn't have to, of course, but it is indicative of how compromised and infiltrated our armed forces have become."" Pamela Geller, in her intro to the post below

"A top United States counterterrorism expert, who taught a course that familiarized military officers with the U.S. war against radical Islamists was fired from a military college and had his course removed from the curriculum, is retaliating against university officials, according to a U.S. police counterterrorism expert on Friday."
....
"The police source, Sean Hanrahan, told the Law Enforcement Examiner that the officer/instructor was informed the course materials would be revamped to exclude references to Islam and use terms such as extremists or militants. In addition, the course instructor, Lt. Col. Dooley, was removed from the faculty permanently for telling students that practitioners of Islam are responsible for terrorism."

Reading list: Life with Obama

The Obama Bankruptcy Curse Strikes Again!  ".... when Obama visits or supports a business, the plaque should read "Because of Barack Obama the business you didn't build will soon be out of business." "

President Obama has set in motion forces that he can't handle  "Barack Obama is a terrible president. That's obvious to everyone who isn't chronically ignorant or incurably liberal.  By "liberal" ... I mean the modern version of liberal: self-centered, emotional, illogical, and void of reason."

 Will young adults face ‘rate shock’ because of ObamaCare?  "The nation’s insurers are engaged in an all-out, last-ditch effort to shield themselves from blame for what they predict will be rate increases on policies they must unveil this spring to comply with President Obama’s health-care law."

Confirmed: Obama Made No Calls, Took No Action During Benghazi Attack  " “During the entire attack, the president of the United States never picked up the phone to put the weight of his office in the mix,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham... who had held up Mr. Obama’s defense secretary nominee to force the information to be released. Mr. Graham said that if Mr. Obama had picked up the phone, at least two of the Americans killed in the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi might still be alive because he might have been able to push U.S. aid to get to the scene faster."

Our Petulant President   "All of a sudden there was a child stomping his feet and stating he was not going to do what he was told. He made a big scene even after he was told that these are the rules and you have to follow them. It was quite surprising that people were watching this and not pointing out the wrongness of the behavior. Then everyone realized that it wasn’t a five-year-old but rather our president...."

Obama: My climate change policies make energy ‘a little more expensive’
" ...but he suggested that the initial cost is worth the long-term reward of lowering carbon emissions."

Obama's Governing Philosophy: Plausible Deniability  Rush Limbaugh:

"Well, have you heard anybody blame Obama? Let's go back when the gasoline price was rising during the Bush years.  You heard people in the media and Democrat Party every day demanding that Bush do something about it.  Do you hear anybody demanding Obama do anything about this? No, because it's assumed by the low-information voters that he's already t[r]ying."

Jennifer Rubin; Was Chuck Hagel nominated out of spite?  "... the deference assumes the president in good faith believes his nominee is the best person for the job. However, when the latter is admittedly not the case then no deference is owed. Indeed, there is an obligation to block an unqualified nominee."

 Victor Davis Hanson; Obama’s Hypocritic Oath "There is no reason to believe that Obama has become more circumspect and now understands that he cannot meet the very expectations he demanded of others, or that the media will try to salvage their tattered reputation by applying the same scrutiny to Obama that they did to others."

 

More Good News on Obamacare: Some May See Rates Double  "Perhaps I am naive in thinking that people will take out their frustrations over Obamacare on the Democrats. But even low-information voters have a sense of how the world works. Seeing their premiums go up, having to wait months for a doctor’s appointment because of the physician shortages, and wrestling with the complex state exchanges or Medicaid applications — all are hard to blame on anyone but the authors of Obamacare."

A little debt and disaster humor

More Infidel Bloopers: Hamas-CAIR Gave the Islamic Prayer Cursing Christians and Jews Before the Arizona State Senate

Atlas Shrugs   "The  stupidity (or complicity) behind such a move is profound. The immediate question is who was behind the invitation to a Hamas group named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorist-funding trial in our nation's history to proselytize to the Arizona State Senate? There. are. no. words."
I think we can safely assume it was a Democrat, but hey, that's just me.

It sounds straightforward enough: guide us to the truth, guide us onto the path to God, don’t let us get on the wrong paths, that lead us away from You. A simple expression of piety, that any religious person could endorse, no? No. The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path. It is also traditionally understood in Islamic explanations of this passage that the path of those who have earned Allah’s anger are the Jews, and those who have gone astray are the Christians.

 "And in the Arizona State Senate, with the willing participation of the foolish kuffar who had no idea that they were asking God to be led away from the Judeo-Christian foundations upon which American society was based. "However, given the fact that they invited an official of Hamas-linked CAIR to address them in the first place, they are not likely to be too concerned about that."

 Amin Al Husseini meets Heinrich
Himmler, Head of Nazi SS.

Muslims were allies of Nazi Germany in WW2 and this should let you know why they were all loving soulmates:  U.S.-based Muslim cleric to Jews: "Allah chose you to be the most wretched of all peoples. Allah transformed you into apes and pigs. You were chosen as the best to become apes and pigs."
Of course, the Obama administration wants to help the Muslim world improve its self-image. 

UK MUSLIM PREACHER CONDONES SOCIALISM FOR JIHAD

ASTUTE BLOGGERS: via Business Insider

"The imam Anjem Choundhary was taped giving explanations how to use welfare for funding jihad:

A Muslim preacher has been secretly recorded explaining to followers how to receive government assistance they can use to fund a Muslim holy war.

Calling it a "Jihadi Allowance," cleric Anjem Choundary, 45, has four kids, brings in £25,000, or just under $39,000 U.S. in benefits himself, and says that this is the way it is supposed to work according to Islamic law.

"Tragically, such tactics are a key part of Islamofascism, and even now, it's clear the UK government's been willing to provide welfare benefits to quite a few of Choundary's ilk. Which does not bode well for England any more than it does for the rest of the population's own economy.

 

He considers it to be what we infidels owe Muslims;

 

"We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, we take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway.

"The normal situation is to take money from the [non-Muslims] isn't it? So this is the normal situation."

“They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money.  Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening.”

“Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim) So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”

....He the tells a crowd of about 30 followers: “We are going to take England — the Muslims are coming.”
And there is no Winston Churchill now to stand and declare:

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

Even if there were a Churchill and these were the British of that time, under Obama and our present culture there will be no New World to come to the aid of the old.

Obamacartoon.com

Branco Cartoon- Debtly Diagnosis

Legal Insurrection

Supporter of Iranian dictatorship brought Chuck Hagel to Rutgers University for 2007 speech; how this fits in with Democrats' plans for Israel

jewishjournal.com

Daily Caller  "A pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas candidate for the Iranian presidency, a man linked to Iranian-controlled front groups, brought former Republican Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to speak at Rutgers University in 2007, according to another professor on campus.
"Hooshang Amirahmadi, who led Rutgers’ Center for Middle Eastern Studies when Hagel came to campus, is the founder and president of the American-Iranian Council. He arranged for Hagel’s speech on March 2, 2007, the faculty source told The Daily Caller. (RELATED OPINION — Chuck Hagel: the darling of Tehran)
"Iran’s Guardian Council cleared Amirahmadi to run for the presidency in 2013. Approval of the regime is required before candidates’ names can appear on the ballot. To be approved, candidates must be Shia, male, and committed to the Islamic revolution.
"He attempted to mount a campaign in 2005, but the Guardian Council disqualified him.

"According to a contemporaneous online report written by a Hagel supporter, the former senator said during his 2007 presentation at Rutgers that the U.S. State Department “has become adjunct to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s office.” "   Via Weasel Zippers

Daniel Pipes; Obama's Anti-Zionism  
"Were Barack Obama re-elected, I predicted two months before the Nov. 2012 presidential vote, "the coldest treatment of Israel ever by a U.S. president will follow." Well, election's over and that cold treatment is firmly in place. Obama has signaled in the past two months what lies ahead by:

 

• Choosing three senior figures – John Kerry for State, John Brennan for the CIA, and Chuck Hagel for Defense – who range from clueless to hostile about Israel.
• Approving a huge gift of advanced weapons - 20 F-16 fighter jets and 200 M1A1 Abrams tanks - to the Islamist government in Egypt despite the fact that its president, Mohamed Morsi, has becoming increasingly despotic and calls Jews "blood-suckers, … warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs."
• Reiterating the patronizing 35-year old tactic relied upon by anti-Israel types to condemn Israeli policies while pretending to be concerned for the country's welfare: "Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are."
• Ignoring evidence of Cairo importing Scud missile parts from North Korea.
• Rebuffing the 239 House members who called for closing the PLO office in Washington in response to the PLO's drive for state-observer status at the United Nations.

Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals

Legal Insurrection  With a hat tip to Christy Waters at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook.
"I previously wrote about how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery.  “Look at the goofy cat, look at the goofy celeb, look at the goofy Republican” is more dangerous to us than a 5000-word article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
"To follow up on that theme, I happened upon a website called Upworthy, which had one its posts run at HuffPo, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever, Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators.
"The post was so wrong on substance, I just had to click over to the source."
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Here is where the site has appeal to Obama voters:
"Upworthy is the fastest growing website and already receives millions of visits a month despite being less than one year old, and has over 55 thousand Twitter followers.  It recently received $4 million in venture capital funding.
"Upworthy is not interested in deep thinking, or you:"

Next comes the mention of a "push-poll", which I find irritating even when they come from conservatives:

...."The first thing to note is that when you click on the homepage link to the post, an anti-NRA poll pops up.  It’s the equivalent of a push poll, delivering a political message in the form of a poll.  The “I Agree” button already is highlighted, so that the reader does not even need to think through the already biased question.  How long before Upworthy runs a post about the overwhelming demand that Congress “stand up to the NRA”?"
(Emphasis added)

"There is nothing like Upworthy or BuzzFeed on the right.  The closest we have come is Twitchy, Michelle Malkin’s brilliant website.

"Are you surprised that Obama won the youth vote even though his policies are a complete disaster for the young?

"We are losing the fight to the lowest of low information voters, who are pushed toward a liberal agenda by very smart and talented people who understand the power of social media in a way we don’t."

Good News: Delay Of ObamaCare’s Launch More Likely

Solid Principles Blog "Health Care: Now that ObamaCare appears unstoppable, the question is can it be delayed?
"Thanks to bureaucratic bumbling combined with the law’s massive complexity, delay appears to be increasingly inevitable.
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"But the result will be utter chaos if the administration tries to get it started with a bunch of half-baked exchanges run by incompetent bureaucrats.
"No wonder Democrats — who stand to lose the most if this thing blows up — are growing increasingly agitated as the ObamaCare clock rapidly ticks down.
"Republicans need to seize on this and start pushing to scrub the launch. ObamaCare is unworkable."