California pols could target tax status of Boy Scouts, youth groups over 'discrimination'

Joshua Rhett Miller

"California lawmakers are cruising toward a final vote on a bill that could threaten the tax-exempt status of American-as-apple-pie groups — ranging from the Boy Scouts to Little League — if their membership policies are found to be discriminatory. 

"If passed, the bill, SB 323, would remove an exemption from state taxes for any nonprofit youth group that discriminates on the basis of “gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or religious affiliation.” Well-known organizations like Girl Scouts of the USA, Boy Scouts of America, and Little League International Baseball and Softball were cited in the bill, which was introduced in February by Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara." 

MSNBC ratings down double digits

American Thinker  "It appears that even liberals can't stomach the relentlessly partisan slant of MSNBC news coverage, where the president is hyped, his initiatives dutifully praised, and Republicans predictably bashed. Their on air personalities are shrill, their political analysis so banal, it elicits somnolence in most viewers. About the only thing the network has going for it is the untentional hilarity that ensues when the hosts try to turn some Obama failure into a roaring success.
"Can't wait for their coverage of Obamacare rollout next month."

 Maddow's Dishonest Scare Parade on NC Voting  "Last night the great David Webb filled in for Sean Hannity on Fox News. Webb put on Allen West and Juan Williams to talk about urban malaise. The visuals at Fox must have been too much for Rachel Maddow, because she put up an hour-long show designed to scare people about voting rights. Her already small audience might have been even smaller otherwise."

Martin Luther King Jr. celebration fifty years later

La Raza Uses MLK’s “I Have A Dream” Speech Anniversary To Push For Amnesty…

CAIR To Link “Islamophobia” To Civil Rights Movement…
“ 'Islamophobia … is just the latest manifestation of the same intolerance faced by Dr. King and other civil rights leaders of his time,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “Like other forms of intolerance, Islamophobia is a threat to our nation’s values and to the social tapestry that continues to draw people to our shores from every nation on earth.' ”

Yet another racism hoax revealed  "But instead, because it is invariably progressives who launch these hoaxes because they just "know" that the racism is out there and want to "illustrate" it, too often the penalties for these crimes are light or nonexistent."

Obama: My speech won't be as 'good' as MLK's But it will be all about Barack Obama.
""We honor them not by giving another speech ourselves — because it won't be as good — but instead by just doing the day-to-day work to make sure this is a more equal and more just society."
"The president also said in the interview that King would have approved of his signature health care law."

The most magnificent thing about Martin Luther King’s 1963 speech was its faith in the American Dream – a dream that today’s radicals laugh and sneer at      "Not for King any mocking of the founding fathers of America, who have in recent years been judged by radical Leftists to have been racist and evil (in the words of The Nation magazine just last month, Thomas Jefferson was a “slave-owning rapist”). Instead, King extolled the “magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence” and talked about all men’s “inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”."

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Miley Cyrus and American culture

Lib: “When I See Miley Cyrus Slap That Black Woman’s Butt I Think About The Way Enslaved Black Were Whipped For White Entertainment”… "This insane rant is courtesy of Aura Bogado, who is an editor at lib rag Colorlines and a contributor to the far-left The Nation:'"

 Victor Davis Hanson; An American Satyricon   "Transvestitism and sexual ambiguity are likewise Petronian themes; in our day, the controversy rages over whether convicted felon Bradley Manning is now a woman because he says he is. The politically correct term “transgendered” trumps biology; and if you doubt that, you are a homophobe or worse. As in the Roman Satyricon, our popular culture also displays a sick fascination with images of teen sex. So how does one trump the now-boring sexual shamelessness of Lady Gaga — still squirming about in a skimpy thong — at an MTV awards ceremony? Bring out former Disney teenage star Miley Cyrus in a vinyl bikini, wearing some sort of huge foam finger on her hand to simulate lewd sex acts."

 

10.1 Million Saw Miley Cyrus' Mock Sex Romp on MTV

 

Parents Television Council Condemns VMA Awards, Calls for End of Bundled Cable   "The Parents Television Council, outraged at the sexually acts displayed at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) has called for Congress to pass the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013."

 

Miley Cyrus Simply Followed Crude Culture's Marching Orders  "No one is calling for a creative boycott. It's just an example on how little negative effect such a performance can have on a career.

"Cyrus may never earn the "respect" of her more talented peers, but it's clear that's not her goal. Besides, our culture prefers young performers to let it all out hang out rather than let their art speak for them."

 

Race relations in the era of Obama

Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama  "When President Obama follows in Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps on Wednesday with an address at the Lincoln Memorial, he will face a nation where race remains the great divide.

"Black lawmakers say the election of the nation’s first African-America president has not been a salve for racial tensions, a view that the public has also voiced in recent polling."

Colin Powell sprinkles gasoline on racial fires of resentment  "By delegitimizing the judicial system, Powell harms the American social order.  When respect for law declines, brute force tends to become the principal alternative mode of dispute resolution.  "How far he has fallen since his years of honorable service in the United States Army. I used to respect him."

A Discussion On Race, Crime And The Inconvenient Facts  "The racial violence issue in the U.S. just won't go away. Still in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, now it erupts in Oklahoma. A troubling corollary also adheres, though not universally recognized: 
"The racial victimhood industry demonstrably cares little about the facts, for example, in cases such as Martin—Zimmerman. The ultimate legal and factual aspects, therefore, become peripheral to the larger societal issue because the race hustlers have been aggressing regardless of the still-opaque full truth.

Toure: Conservatives Linking Lane And Belton Murders To Trayvon Martin A “Vile New Tactic” 

The short version: Shorter Toure: Conservatives talking about black on white crime is racist.

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If Miley Cyrus really, really, really wanted to shock people...

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Former Disney star goes over-the-top in sleazy act.  

 Dear Miley Cyrus:
"We get it already. You’re not a kid anymore. That Teddy Bear-to-porn maven motif at the 2013 MTV VMAs was so unsubtle even the kind of people who like the VMAs couldn’t miss it. Ditto the latex bikini and relentless “twerking.” Besides, you’re belaboring the point. It’s been abundantly clear for some time you killed Hannah Montana and you’re pole-dancing on her grave."....

Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke performance draws negative reactions from fellow celebrities
 

After MSNBC Broadcasts 20-Minute Sharpton Speech, MSNBC Anchors Fawn Over Him as 'Peerless' Civil Rights Leader of Our Time

Newsbusters  "Does Al Sharpton run MSNBC now? On Saturday, the cable network broadcast hours of live coverage of the Sharpton-organized 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. When Sharpton prepared for his keynote speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, his friend Rev. Franklyn Richardson singled him out as “the one who has become the voice of this era.” They broadcast Sharpton’s entire 20-minute speech live.

"When he was finished on stage, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Michael Eric Dyson formed a hallelujah chorus, all praising Sharpton in the same glowing light as the "peerless" and "pre-eminent" civil rights leader of our time, like he was paying everyone’s salary:

HARRIS-PERRY: Joining me now for ongoing coverage of today's events is MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, host of The Ed Show. So nice to have you.

SCHULTZ: A fabulous last hour. A number of different speeches. There's no doubt that Reverend Sharpton is the contemporary civil rights leader of our time.

When the going gets tough, Obama goes golfing

American Thinker  "While his underlings selflessly toil to determine whether or not all the Assad government of Syria used chemical weapons against its own people (as seen on TV), President Obama played a 5 hour round of golf Sunday, closing in on a presidential total of 150 rounds of golf in four and half years. Meanwhile, The Royal Navy is ready for strikes on Syria, should Obama decide that his red line is more than the empty threat it seems to be.

 

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Obama worship

Pledge of aggrievance: ‘United States of Obama’ flag waves at March on Washington

 

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Kyle Harding @schmylesmarding

A marcher carries US flag with image of Obama on it. State worship, meet hero worship. Hero worship, state worship. http://tinyurl.com/lp69cq5

       

 

 

Obama and the Middle East; Rhetoric Running on Empty

Victor Davis Hanson   "The latest disclosure — and the most grave — of the Assad regime’s supposed deployments of chemical weapons puts the West in general and the U.S. in particular in an untenable position."
....
"The president’s rhetorical quiver is empty. After tough talk about boots on the ground and the good war in Afghanistan, deadlines to Iran, and redlines to Syria, all of which proved sorta/kinda pipe dreams, there are no more “make no mistake about/let me be perfectly clear/game-changer/I’m not kidding” arrows. Assad knows that, and the world knows it as well. In other words, another Obama speech will earn guffaws."
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"All of the above hypotheticals and diplomatic nuances would not matter to a Churchill, Truman, or Reagan. They would size up the humanitarian crisis, grasp the strategic consequences of legitimizing the use of WMD, weigh the prior rhetorical investment of the U.S. in warning against what apparently is now happening, and craft an air strategy that might stop the violence without pulling U.S. ground troops into the mess — and act with dispatch and moral confidence.
"And now? Enough said."

Obama should express condolences for Lane's death, says governor

The Hill  "The silence over Lane's shooting has infuriated conservatives, in light of the extremely vocal stance Obama personally took during the Trayvon Martin shooting.  

"Two of the teenagers involved in Lane’s slaying were black. Conservatives have noted that one of the teens, James Edwards, sent out tweets that he hated white people on his Twitter account.
But Jason Hicks, the district attorney for Stephens County, where Lane was killed, said there was no evidence to treat the case as a hate crime."