Dinesh D'Souza indicted for violating U.S. election law

Reuters  " Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

"According to an indictment made public on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, D'Souza around August 2012 reimbursed people who he had directed to contribute $20,000 to the candidate's campaign. The candidate was not named in the indictment.
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" 'As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process," the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said in a statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bharara is an Obama appointee.
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"He also directed a 2012 film critical of President Barack Obama, "2016: Obama's America," and has written books including "The End of Racism," "Life After Death: The Evidence" and "Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream.' "  His website.

Video: Project Veritas Catches Wendy Davis Supporters [mildly] Mocking Greg Abbot For Being Paraplegic

The Lid  "Earlier this week we reported Texas Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis' gaffe about her opponent saying he "hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.”
"At the time we explained that her opponent Greg Abbott cannot walk in her shoes, he has been in a wheel chair since he was 26-years-old after a tree fell on him while running and paralyzed him from the waist down. Perhaps Davis didn't remember that because Abbott does not use his struggle as a campaign tool like Ms Davis does.

"That statement her not remembering may have been incorrect as Project Veritas has released a video (below) showing her supporters at a Davis rally mocking his disability and mocking the fact that they had forged signatures:" ...

Via Jeffrey Dunetz at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

The Persecution of Conservatives in Hollywood



Gulag Bound   "I have friends in Hollywood and in the entertainment industry on both coasts. These people are good, moral individuals. They have strong conservative principles and I am honored to know each and every one of them. Now, Progressive fascism is stalking them and the TEA Party. How long until they find a way to get to each of us? To shut is up one way or another? They are using what they term “McCarthyism” to hunt us down because we are not Marxists. It is long past time that we turn their collective tables on them.

Gary Sinise

"Hollywood is notoriously Leftist. Those few that are conservative, must meet in secret and keep their opinions to themselves for fear of being blacklisted and not being able to earn a living. Much like being a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, there are some things best not spoken of in public these days. I’m surprised they haven’t given them yellow stars." ...
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Sinise in "Forrest Gump"

... "The Friends of Abe are Hollywood’s Conservative Underground and they are brave patriots who just want to return to our founding principles, see the government shrink and ensure that we adhere to fiscal responsibility.
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"It is said that the Friends of Abe Friends of Abe numbers about 1500
currently. I have no way of knowing, nor should it be an issue. But I do know that they are growing and fast. I also know that the IRS is now gunning for them."

As you may guess, they are attacked by the left.

'Top Line' at the Movies: Gary Sinise and the 'Lt. Dan Band'   "The activist and actor talks about his foundation and new film to support troops."

Five Cool Ways To Remind Senators How Biased Media Are On Climate

Weasel Zippers

 

"Via News Busters"

Two liberal senators that claim news networks don’t cover climate change enough are pressuring them to do more, even as a winter deep freeze kept much of the country shivering. But as the Media Research Center and others have already found, much of the news media have spent years working hard to convince the public that climate change is a global threat.

The Heroism of Wendy Davis

Ann Coulter

"The headlines capture the essence of Wendy-mania:  "CNN: Wendy Davis: From Teen Mom to Harvard Law to Famous Filibuster "Bloomberg: Texas Filibuster Star Rose From Teen Mom to Harvard Law  "The Independent (UK): Wendy Davis: Single Mother From Trailer Park Who Has Become Heroine of Pro-Choice Movement  "Cosmopolitan: Find a Sugar Daddy to Put You Through Law School! "Actually, that last one I made up, but as we now know, it's more accurate than Davis' rags-to-riches life story. "
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"In response to Wayne Slater's faux-"expose," naturally Davis put out a statement denouncing ... her probable Republican opponent, Greg Abbott . Again, Slater wrote the story. But Davis blathered on, blaming Abbott for the Dallas Morning News story and complaining that he hasn't "walked a day in my shoes."

 "About that she's certainly right. Greg Abbott could never walk a day in her shoes or anyone else's. He's a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. "I guess Wendy could teach him a lot about suffering." ...

Movie Stars of World War II; How Hollywood joined the war and fought for freedom

World of Images  "Hollywood stars of the 1940s that put careers on hold to fight for freedom. Movie stars of World War II earned more than 300 medals and awards that honor their valor. U.S. awards and medals include Silver Stars, Distinguish Service Crosses, Air Medals, Bronze Stars, Presidential Unit Citations, Purple Hearts, and a Congressional Medal of Honor. "

One example from many:  Walter Brennan (1894-1974)

[The Long, Long Trail (1929); Sergeant York (1941); Smoke in the Wind (1975)]. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and performed in school plays. Brennan enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 22 to serve in World War I. He served in an artillery unit and although he got through the war without being wounded, his exposure to poison gas ruined his vocal chords, leaving him with the high-pitched voice texture that made him a natural for old man roles while still in his thirties. He was too old to serve in World War II.

How about this one about Mel Brooks:

Mel Brooks (1926- ) [Comedian, actor, producer and director, i.e, Blazing Saddles (1974)] served in the U.S. Army in WW II as a combat engineer and took part in the Battle of the Bulge. His main job was to deactivate land mines.
 

Of course you realize that Books, being Jewish, would have likely been murdered outright if he was captured by the Nazis.

Many more are listed here.  Hat tip to Paul Van Alstine.

Amazing video of Vietnam POW's 40th anniversary dinner

Honoring the special night they were welcomed back by President Richard Nixon. No, this dinner was not hosted by the administration but by the Richard Nixon Library.

 

Not attending either dinner was Obama friend and colleague, Bill Ayres, former Vietnam protestor

" Ayers went on to accuse Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who spent five years in a POW camp, of murdering civilians in the war, lament the deaths of two fellow Weather Underground members – skipping over the fact that they blew themselves up while trying to make bombs – and painted his actions as a heroic bid to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam."

 

Ayres called a "Vietnam-era radical".   ... "Ayers was not simply protesting "against" the Vietnam War. Firstly, he wasn't against war in principle, he was agitating for the victory of the communist forces in Vietnam." ...
(Emphasis in the original.)

Hat tip to Val Brose; Santa Maria, CA 

Forced unionization wrong for caregivers

OC Register  "Pamela Harris is a self-employed in-home caregiver. The Illinois resident’s one and only patient is her severely disabled son, Josh, who has Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, a rare genetic condition, and spends most of his waking hours in a wheelchair.

"Ms. Harris is the lead plaintiff in a case heard Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court; she’s challenging a 2009 executive order by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn mandating that the state’s in-home caregivers be union members. A decision from the high court is expected by June.

"Because the Land of Lincoln uses the federal Medicaid program to help pay for in-home care for patients, it provided Gov. Quinn a dubious pretext to categorize caregivers as state employees. That didn’t really register with Ms. Harris until a representative of the Service Employees International Union showed up at her front door." ...

How far have race relations been set back in the past five years?

The following is a transcript of remarks made by President Obama to the White House press corps on Friday 19 July 2013:

America is not a post-racial society. The president expresses some wise thoughts, but the words of his supporters in the press and in Congress are the antithesis of these stated opinions.

Chris Matthews demagogues the issue

This is the consistent meme of Matthews and MSNBC   "The first string of videos in this series is from a single segment toward the back end of August 16th’s Hard Ball, and they are not easy to watch.  In these videos, Chris Matthews spends every breath he has trying to portray the Tea Party as racist.  "You might wanna put a pillow on your desk for these."

Wake up Black America  "Tyrone" asks, "Will a GOP win in November mean the return of "Jim Crow"?"
 "Now you may be asking who would say something so incredible insane and stupid. I'll let you all figure it out."

EPA Decree Shrinks Size of Wyoming by a Million Acres

Can anyone stop the Obama Administration and it's agencies?

CNS News   "Why is the EPA altering state boundaries in Wyoming - and reversing over 100 years of established law?  Well, apparently the city of Riverton now falls under the jurisdiction of the Wind River Indian Reservation.  "This, obviously, isn't sitting well with the governor's office - which is urging the EPA to reconsider its ruling and respect the rule of law.
Reacting to the decision to reduce the size of Wyoming by about a million acres, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead warned of the dangers to all Americans of this type of unilateral land redistribution by the EPA:" ...
Via Lucianne.

 

The debate on income inequality

 

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, in the Huffington Post! Beware the increased minimum wage  "Raise the minimum wage and combat poverty! That sounds like a great idea, but... not so fast. As it turns out, increasing the minimum wage actually hurts the working poor, is a windfall for affluent families, and raises the barriers facing the unemployed. There is growing evidence that increasing the minimum wage hampers employment for low-skilled workers who need the most help and experience."

 

WaPo; Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty
"One funny part of watching journalists cover the minimum wage debate is that they often have to try and referee cutting-edge econometric debates. Some studies, notably those lead by UMass Amherst economist Arin Dube, argue that there are no adverse employment effects from small increases in the minimum wage. Other studies, notably those lead by University of California Irvine economist David Neumark, argue there is an adverse effect. Whatever can we conclude?"

Not this economist: Thomas Sowell weighs in on the subject: Facing Minimum-Wage Truth   "It is surely no coincidence that, when the federal minimum-wage law remained unchanged for twelve years while inflation rendered the law meaningless, the black teenage unemployment rate — even during the recession year of 1949 — was literally a fraction of what it has been throughout later years when the minimum-wage rate was raised repeatedly to keep up with inflation.

"When words trump facts, you can believe anything. And the liberal groupthink taught in our schools and colleges is the path of least resistance."

McDonnell, Christie Wonder Why Obama Gets Away with It

Big Government  "Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, now facing 14 felony counts on corruption charges, offered up what may be called the "Obama defense" in his response: "If it were applied as the law of the land, then nearly every elected official, from President Obama on down, would have to be charged for providing tangible benefit to donors," he said. It won't fly with a judge, and makes no moral difference. But as an observation, he has a point."
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....We are reminded today by testimony in the government's lawsuit against Standard and Poor's that the White House does the same thing all the time--in this case, apparently retaliating for a ratings downgrade.

Do not forget Obama's vindictive shutdown of national parks.