Monday, December 14, 2009

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama

Chicago Sun-Times "Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor."

Poisoned wells

American Thinker "Entertainment in America today is as political as the entertainment of Russia in the worst days of Stalin. Law and Order must instruct us not only which individuals are killers, but which political class of people in America are killers. We cannot stop, relax, chat, and take a cool drink together as friends from a village well. We cannot sit and laugh together at innocent fun. Entertainment has become to television what objective science has become to global warming: convicted, condemned, and banished."

Does Sexual Equality Require Preferential Treatment?

Pajamas Media "Will the movement for gay rights follow the same trajectory as racial equality — from non-discrimination to preferential treatment based on sexual persuasion?"

What Senators Think They Know about Health Care (isn't so)

NRO "The Senate floor debate on health-care legislation has included a lot of confident assertions — many of them false." Pretty much the way most of 'em got elected, I suppose.

Michael Moriarty: The Increasingly Left ‘Law and Order’

Big Hollywood "...recent events have Law and Order just begging for my reassessment. I hardly expected my old television series to be the clown act that leads the American viewing audience into an increasingly predictable pile of hard left propaganda." "Michael Moriarty ... starred in the landmark television series "Law and Order" from 1990 to 1994."

MAD MEN TO THE PODIUM .. IN THE NAME OF GLOBAL WARMING

Nealz Nuze "This is all about getting the evil America to pay up ... and Obama is just fine with that. Oh and by the way, Obama is expected to be at these meetings on Friday." Look at what happened to one journalist who dared question a panelist about the Climategate emails. h/t to Neal Boortz

Fistgate VII: Explosive… After Years of Silence Massachusetts Teacher Speaks Out About What She Saw at Fistgate (Audio)

Gateway Pundit "The teacher claims that there is “no way” that Obama’s Safe School Czar did not know about the pornographic and sexually explicit material that was presented and discussed at the conference. Kevin Jennings is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)."

Did White House try to cover up [first lady's] connection to Walpin firing?

Hot Air Hillary got away with the travel office firings, so we can have an idea how this one will go.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Left, From Progressive to Oppressive

Michael Ledeen "As Tocqueville forecast, liberty gets tied down by an endless network of regulation, and we become enslaved without ever seeing it happen. That is because we get to vote, and console ourselves with the thought that our rulers serve US. Meanwhile, the Left has legislated (or, when that is impossible, simply ordered) the big State, and staffed it with their own. History is replete with paradoxes, none more anguishing than the perfection of the oppressive State by people claiming to act in the name of liberty." See Abraham Lincoln's prophecy above.

Jimmy Carter: Abuse of Women? Blame the Catholics and Southern Baptists

Lifesite News "Responding to Carter's nearly identical points in July, John Paul Meenan, Professor of Theology at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy in Barry's Bay, Ontario characterized Carter's points as "ridiculous," noting that there was no evidence of the ordination of women in the early Church. Moreover, Meenan stressed that historically Christianity ought to be credited for promoting the dignity of women. "It is the Church that invariably improved the lot of women in the lands that were converted and Christianized," he said."

How to Watch “The People Speak” on The History Channel on Sunday Night

Ron Radosh "“The Sopranos” had a Columbus Day episode. Tony’s kid informs him that they don’t celebrate it at school, because Columbus was a practitioner of genocide against the Indian natives in the new land. When Tony asks him where he got that from, he tells him it was from their school textbook , Zinn’s People’s History." Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project
Picture from Amazon.com

Garrison Keillor: Our Bias Keeps Right-Wingers Alive on the Road

Newsbusters "Keillor draws on a lifetime of experience amongst the hardworking, God-fearing people of the Midwest and pays homage to the common code of civic necessities that arose from the left: Protect the social compact. Defend the powerless. Maintain government as a necessary force for good." His last show for me was when he shamelessly defended Bill Clinton as a Christian.