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Ok so it’s 11:00pm here in Las Vegas and I’ve been at the office working on Liberty.com since 7:00am in order to get everything ready for tomorrow mornings launch and Press Conference. I t goes without saying I’m beat tired and as much as I’d like to explain to you all the goings on here I think, at this point, it’s better if I just let the press release do the talking… good night and I hope to see you all on Liberty.com.

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Vegas-based Liberty.com to launch tomorrow!
Conservative news-activist hybrid site to launch with 70,000 members nationally,
Intends to rival the left-wing Moveon.org!
Press conference at 10 AM at Nevada Department of Employment

LAS VEGAS – At 10 AM tomorrow, a key organizer in the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party and “Don’t Go” movement pioneer Eric Odom will join a national coalition of conservative movement activists in launching Liberty.com, a right-of-center news and national activism website with the intention of eclipsing the left’s Moveon.org. A press conference will be held by the Vegas-based Liberty.com at 10 AM in front of the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

“The employment office is the appropriate location because Nevada is suffering from the worst unemployment in the nation, despite trillions of dollars spent by Harry Reid and his liberal ilk,” says Liberty.com Communications Director Yates Walker, who will be speaking at the Sept. 1st press conference. “At over 14% unemployment, Nevada, more than any other state, knows that Washington’s spending is not working, and that it’s past time that we elect leadership that will create a business friendly environment that will promote job growth.”

A recent Washington Examiner article revealed that the Democrats’ stimulus bill was more expensive than America’s entire expenditures for the American-led war in Iraq. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Little-known-fact-Obamas-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-than-the-Iraq-war-101302919.html Liberty.com will seek to highlight liberal policy failures like the stimulus bill and drive national activism in the same way that Moveon.org has electrified activists on the left.

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Let’s Party Like It’s 1894!

After the financial panic of 1893, in Grover Cleveland’s 1894 midterm, Democrats went from 218 to just 93 of 357 House seats. Between 1892 and 1894, Democrats lost 125 House seats, about 35 percent of the total. Can Obama’s 2010 midterm be comparable? RCP has 111 D seats being contested and 16 R seats being contested in 2010. This means the GOP needs to be looking at 14 to 30 more seats than RCP is looking at. Let me offer up some more D seats that just might not be as safe as the “experts” believe them to be. I have managed to come up with 19 additional seats that are not in my opinion all that safe.

The major problem the candidates are going to have of the 19 that I have listed is having enough money to buy the radio and TV ads they will need to promote their candidacy. This is a special midterm election that is a national referendum instead of all local concerns. We just need to expand our optimism about what is possible. To paraphrase eburke In this election cycle there is no such thing as a quioxtic quest for conservatives. Let’s not wake up on November 3rd and and bemoan a lost opportunity. Let’s man the barricades and help get them over the top. (more…)

GOP should wield King Dream as moral weapon

No longer any need for whites and conservatives to fear the race card

The Glenn-Beckoned, conservative multi-racial throngs honoring God, Country, and the Constitution in Washington, D.C. this past weekend, now own Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream.

Conservatives and Republicans have lived the dream in public and private for decades from the GOP’s birth as the party of slavery abolition; passage of two Civil Rights Acts combating Jim Crow before President Lyndon Johnson; and voting in greater percentages than Democrats for the 1964-5 Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, respectively.

Yet, despite that history, it has been the Democrats and their Media branch that have wielded the racial and bigotry moral cards against Republicans for over 40 years, even as they victimized blacks and the poor with their proven failed economic, welfare, and foreign policies

As David Horowitz points out in the “How to Beat Democrats” (also a separate book by that name) chapter in his 2003 Left Illusions, the World’s Oldest Political Party has long understood that:

“…the key to American politics is the romance of the underdog …[as] the cause of the underdog wins American hearts because it resonates with our deepest religious and moral convictions…”

Horowitz goes on to explain how every Democratic Party policy is presented as a program to help victims. When de jure segregation was being torn down, there were many identifiable authentic victims of actual racism and racist laws. But after legal racism was abolished in the late 1960s, the increasing paucity of actual such victims caused the Left to invent “institutional” racism that made every black person in the Lower Forty-Eight a victim based on the presumed racism of all Caucasians.

Meanwhile, as most whites and blacks increasingly got along in the actual America as they enjoyed Oprah, Michael Jordan and Colin Powell; the Democratic Party treated us to an ongoing vision of bridges in Selma with tolerance and amens for the sermons of Jesses, Als, Jeremiah Wrights and even Louis Farrakhan.

Southern whites rightly had to purge or reform their kooks. The Democratic Party and the Media protected radical whites like Bill Ayers and all the black kooks on the left, even as they branded Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice as “Uncle Toms.”

Whites indulged this fiction in fits and starts, especially after the Reagan Revolution fixed the economy for 25 years. Then came the recession, a Bush-McCain-damaged GOP brand, and a hear-no-evil indulgence in Hope, Change and the final purging of White Guilt.

The race cards have were purged from the Left’s political deck of effective cards as Obama has acted out Reverend Wright’s sermons he supposedly never heard.

Who are the underdogs now?

Now we have moral high ground of King’s Dream.

So, what will we do with it?

I hope we do what the Dreaming Preacher did and wield it as a moral club to shame those liberals and Democrats, black and white, and all that have betrayed content of character evaluations according to America’s creed in favor of Jim Crow 3.0 race-based laws and judgments.

Much of the housing bubble can be traced to federal government-forced lending to people that couldn’t dream of paying the mortgages, with much of the prodding done under threat of being charged with racial discrimination; and even the new Fannie-Freddie guidelines have racial quotas.

Republicans and conservatives have long been reluctant to wield the moral card against their opponents, even as it has been wielded against us 24/7/365 for 45 years. The GOP has too often discussed issues such as welfare and economic policy as management issues rather than the moral issues they are.

Our Founders considered themselves as victims of a distant King and Parliament that were denying them their rights to earn a living.

So, who are the victims today?

Well, nearly half a million people don’t seek out sweltering D.C. heat for the joy of the heat. No, majorities of We the People now understand that they are being victimized by failed liberal policies that are hitting their pocketbooks and liberty hard, even while being accused of being racists, bigots and homophobes for daring to preserve marriage, Ground Zero and the border.

One of the more vile characteristics of the Left is that they accuse conservatives of being bad people rather than making reasoned arguments against our policies or for their own. We routinely accept the “goodness” of the intentions of the Left and argue against the wisdom of their policies based on actual results.

I do not want the GOP to mimic the vile demonization characteristic of the Left.

But I do think that we must seize the moral underdog narrative on behalf of the victims of ObamaDems’ policies.

We must point out the immorality of false racism allegations at home; insulting apologies for America on the foreign soil of true tyrants that ignore the sins of aliens that justifiably bring on American wrath; economic policies that demonize job producers at the expense of rewarding political allies in unions, banks and state and local governments; and of policies that rub 911 in our face with “OJ” trials for KSM and a mosque for him to pray in during court breaks.

Captain Ahab Liberals search for the Moby Dick KKK Whale

The Drive-By Media and Democrats have breathlessly reported the overwhelming numbers of Caucasians, especially including notorious white conservatives Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, at this weekend’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Linc0ln Memorial, on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech, as if it were a blight on the Christian preacher’s legacy.

Lewsi Grizzard used to write often of the obsession of Yankees with imagining most Southerners having Grand and minor Wizard eye-hole-punched sheets hanging in their closets. Instead, no such sheets were found among the hundreds of thousands with Beck. Rather, they found whites shedding tears of racial-harmony joy while living Martin’s Dream.

Would the Left prefer that significant portions of the 75% majority white population eschew celebrations of honor, faith, hope and charity? “Rev Al” claimed it was an “insult” to King for Glenn Beck’s rally to be held on the anniversary of the March on Washington. Really?

Let’s see, King honored “America’s Creed” (Constitution); was an ordained minister and gave a speech. We wonder, when was the last time Al Sharpton and CNN “reporters” read these lines:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

The character content message anathema to a Democratic Party obsessed with the identity politics of race and sex.

The Pathology IV

Finally, the kooks and pathologies (I, II and III) regarding same in the black community are coming home to roost so that maybe they can finally be purged, thus paving the way for blacks to escape the Democratic Party plantation.

Americans who held their hands over their ears while wanting to like Obama more than McCain, now hear echoes of Wright and Farrakhan in denunciations Cambridge cops protecting the property of a black man and apologies for imams that won;t denounce Hamas.

When welfare changed

Mike DeVine

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Charlotte Observer, The Minority Report and Examiner.com archives

www.devinelawvista.com

With Beck as an Avatar – Because Leadership Challenges Hate a Vacuum.

When James Howard Kuntsler gets hammered on Sunday night, it makes for great Monday morning blogging over at ClusterBleepNation.com. This morning he asks us if we would prefer “One Lump or Two?” From this ejection of vomit and venom, I learn that Mr. Kuntsler has a hilariously low opinion of Glenn Beck and his remarkably successful “Restoring Honor” Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. It was nice of Mr. Kuntsler to put the bottom line up front.

Here come the Corn Pone Nazis! Fox News entertainer, former drug addict, and professional weeper Glenn Beck took center stage at the Lincoln Memorial exactly forty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech for a rally dedicated to “restoring honor,” which is tea party code for the otherwise unutterable idea: get that (Expletive deleted) out of the White House!

(HT for the comedy value: James Howard Kuntsler).

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2010 GOP Candidates Are Proof of another Lefty Lie

The left lies so often that sometimes it is hard to know where to begin. One of their big lies has been that Republicans are racist, sexist, islamophobic homophobes who only want to make the rich folks happy. They say women and minorities are hardest hit, and so they can not be or vote for any Republicans. Why that would make them a traitor to their own. Democrats and their cheerleaders indulged in puffy analysis about how Republicans were demographically doomed because their base was old, white, and male. In this realignment narrative, Democrats were ascendant because they were the choice of women, gays, younger voters, Latinos and independents. Our holiday from history is over. The country faces threats, crippling government expansion at home and transnational Islamic extremism, that arouse conservative instincts and concentrate the conservative mind no matter what your gender or race is. Now the main reason I wrote this diary is for the photo selections that prove how much of a lie it is by the left about women and minorities being elected by Republicans. Actually the Republicans really stepped up in 2010 to compete in more contests than ever before, and the women and minority Republicans really stepped up. A record number of Republican women have sought federal office this year: 129 GOP women in House races and 17 in Senate races. There are still a lot of primaries left on Sept. 14th, and even more women and minority GOP candidates will be added to the November ballot then. So check out the photos, and if you click on a name it will take you to their website. (more…)

Democratic Necrosis

Most believe there has been an appropriate level of discussion about the Park51 mosque representing a divergent collection of opinions. That is unless you are Mayor of New York or one of the diminutive liberal champions blaming “Islamaphobia” and hysteria as the ultimate, hidden motives for our opposition. One has to appreciate the irony that in a debate allegedly centered on fundamental, American Constitutional Rights, liberals are once again trying to delegitimize the wishes of a majority.

This phenomenon has become a disturbing, but all-too-familiar tactic used by many in our current government and indeed across the “liberal-progressive” spectrum; they lose an argument based on intellectual and factual measurements, assign sinister, ethereal factors as the “real” motives for opposition, and then contemptibly act against the majorities will.

At a minimum, you have to marvel at the unbridled audacity, perpetrated by elitists who apparently don’t have a basic understanding or perhaps respect for our republican democracies constitutionally articulated governmental mechanisms. These contemporary Jacobins should have actually read our founding texts, instead of relying solely upon the lectures of academics who endlessly proselytize for the empty church of contemporary liberalism. The outcome, as represented by their absolute contemporary failure, would then be much easier its for adherents to digest.

Perhaps, as liberal-progressives and their supporters seem to imply, we are far too simple to understand such complex matters regarding a government which we the people own? Hence the reason these temporary statist stewards ignore the true intent of our Constitution and invoke the “greater good”, constructed within the confines of their intellectual cabals, as a guiding precedent for their undemocratic actions.  It is the modus operandi with which they have sought to poison the well of our country for generations. And now with the levers of power favoring their majority, they seek to finally impose their foreign dream upon us. Hardly. Stimulus, health-care, egregious taxation- all accomplished irrespective of the majorities opposition. Appropriately the highway is becoming littered with their carcasses and a road crew is coming for the remains in November.

Thankfully, there is one mechanism left that Democrats and supporters of this wayward approach cannot avoid; facing the owners of this government. Yes, they can attempt to assign every despicable motive on earth for the probable outcome. But it will likely be the end of their time in the sun and the salad days of profligate liberalism. More importantly it heralds a return of this government to the people and the rudimentary, simply articulated principals which we all understand; smaller, less intrusive government, lower taxes, free-markets as expressed through by capitalist ideas and American Exceptionalism. It is a restoration of government which represents the will of the people, not some self anointed supercilious oligarchy.

Good riddance, as we carve this cancer from our republic and put an end to “politics as usual”.

Victory In Iraq – Join Me in Celbrating Our Troops Since The President Won’t

After seven years of deadly combat and sacrifice our tremendous troops are coming home from Iraq, victorious over an enemy whose ruthless tactics against our soldiers and civilians cost thousands of lives. But our best and bravest not only prevailed but are returning home in triumph.

While we mourn the 4415 who gave the last full measure of devotion in defending this Nation against the forces of evil who sought to destroy us, we also celebrate what they accomplished along with the thousands who are returning to us and being reunited with loved ones whose husbands, wives, mommies and daddies are finally coming home.

Where are the parades? Where are the signs of victory? Where are the flags waving and the crowds gathering to greet our returning warriors? Are these not happening because Americans have forgotten what our soldiers have achieved and why they sacrificed so much for the cause of freedom? Will another generation of soldiers return home without the honor of celebrating what they have done for our country?

I don’t believe the American people have forgotten nor do I believe that the people are neglecting the celebrations which should rightfully accompany the return of our soldiers as we celebrate with them the victory they have accomplished. I believe the reason for the lack of celebration for their victorious return is because their Commander in Chief has not only refused to declare victory, bur their withdrawal was treated as almost a secret as our troops left with little mention by the press and NO mention at all by the CIC since he was too busy vacationing, which seems to be his only goal in life and office.

In fact nearly two weeks after our troops left the field of battle Obama is finally going to make an Oval Office speech on Tuesday about Iraq and I can almost guarantee there will be no mention of victory since this is the President who plainly stated when asked about a winning strategy in Afghanistan that it was not his, “goal to win.” So we will hear a speech filled with platitudes and moments when he will take undue credit for what our soldiers and his predecessor George Bush accomplished.

Since the Commander in Chief does not consider victory a goal nor winning a strategy which goes against the instinct and training of every soldier since our country began, then fellow patriots and American it is up to each of us to declare victory and to celebrate our troops and what they have done for our country and for each of us to keep us free.

When our best and bravest left us and entered combat in the Iraqi theatre of war, a ruthless dictator, Saddam Hussein ruled the country. Al Qaeda had a free hand to do whatever they pleased especially in northern Iraq. The people of that Nation were enslaved with thousands killed randomly because they either disagreed with the dictator or were from a different tribe or political persuasion than that of Hussein and his ruling Baath Party.

Today Saddam Hussein is dead and the cruel influence that those like him had over the country will never return because thanks to the tremendous job our solders did in liberating Iraq, the people of the Nation have tasted freedom and will never give it up again. They have had the opportunity to vote as free citizens and despite early threats proudly wore the sign of the purple finger to display their love of freedom and their desire to remain free.

Al Qaeda whose presence was once an overwhelming force against the people of Iraq is almost non-existent in the country and no longer has any influence over the people and the direction in which the country will take in the future. They still claim the few attacks which take place from time to time but a security force which owes its existence and ability to defend Iraq and Iraqis to the abilities and expertise of the leadership and training provided by Americas finest can now handle any unrest or problem which the country faces.

The dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein and the murderous reign of Al Qaeda are gone because of the victory of our great soldiers who have left Iraq a free nation and the people of Iraq working together to build a society which benefits all Iraqis and not just a privileged few as before. All of this was made possible , not by Barack Obama nor Joe Biden who are now trying to take credit for this tremendous accomplishment but by the blood sweat and sacrifice of our wonderful men and women in uniform and the leadership of George Bush.

Now our troops are returning home in victory. It is up to us to celebrate them and what they have done. It is up to us to take every opportunity whether a personal hand shake or pat on the back when we see one of our victorious soldiers, to say thank you for defending our Nation and standing for freedom when their country called.

I know that most if not everyone who reads this post already feel as I do and thank our troops at every opportunity. I know that each of you understand the sacrifice they have made for us and appreciate what they have done and the service they have so unselfishly given to our Nation. But the time has come for us to fill the gap which is so wrongly and blatantly left open by the failure of the current administration and Commander in Chief in not only declaring victory but celebrating the return of our triumphant troops.

Take a moment to first thank God for their safe return and to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. If you have the ability to organize a celebration whether for your town or city or even the block you live on who has a returning warrior then do so even if it is you and a few neighbors who live next to a returning hero. Fly the flag and post sings to welcome them home. Even if a solder does not live on your block, one may drive by and see your appreciation.

If you live near an airport where our soldiers are flying home even if it is only one, take a few moments to meet the plane and shake their hand to welcome them home in victory. Those who sit in the Oval Office have chosen to ignore our returning warriors but we the people cannot and must not allow these fine and brave Americans to return home without celebration or thanksgiving for their sacrifice and their victory.

Each of them deserve our thanks and whether they are related to us or not because of what they have done to defend us they are our family. They are the best of our American family and they are coming home after achieving victory, defending freedom and protecting our Nation from harm. They are the greatness of America and we the people of The United States thank our soldiers for standing for freedom and protecting us from harm defending our Nation.

Welcome home victorious soldiers and we the people celebrate what you have done and who you are. Thank God for you and for returning you home safely to us. God bless each of you, God bless the memory of those who sacrificed all and God bless the America that each of you fought to defend.

Ken Taylor

Victory is the Only Option

While President Obama and Vice President Biden continue to seek credit for “ending the combat mission” in Iraq, this video praises the contributions of our troops for helping bring greater stability and security there — significant progress that was only made possible through a surge strategy most Democrats like the President and Vice President opposed. As the drawdown of troops in Iraq continues, House Republicans are grateful to all the men and women in uniform, as well as their families, for the courage and sacrifices they have made, and continue to make, to advance freedom abroad and strengthen our security here at home.

The Curse of Arrowhead and the Death of Good American Education

NFL junkies like myself are aware of an old curse that has afflicted the fortunes of Kansas City Chiefs football teams ever since they tore down their old complex and built Arrowhead Stadium. This curse, The Curse of Arrowhead, is perhaps not as virulently toxic as having Dan Snyder LBO your favorite team. However, it supposedly explains why the team stopped being competitive in Super Bowls after building the new stadium in which to play their games.

The year was 1985, Kansas City Schools had been taken to court and a Federal Judge, with the customary modesty that befits the modern judiciary, decided that he would do a much better job of running the organization than a bunch of people who, you know, had formerly taught or something. Like the alien invaders at the end of Rush’s 2112 Suite, Judge Russell Clark assumed control. Since, the Curse of Judge Clark has laid low the fortunes of Kansas City Schools.

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John Stewart uses the N-Word. Where is the liberal outrage?

Dr. Laura Schlessinger used the “N-word” on her radio show a few days ago.  After the hue-and-cry and liberal outrage and condemnation from every major newspaper and media outlet in the nation, she quit.

I’m no fan of Dr. Laura.  I like that she’s an in-your-face type in the style of Neal Boortz, but I’m not a staunch social conservative.  So I never became a fan of her show, though I’ve heard a few episodes now and then.  Still, I was surprised by the apparent outburst when I first heard about it.

Then I heard the clips.  As in, the multiple clips.  In each instance, Dr. Laura was using the inflamatory racial epithet as an illustration.  In her mind (as it is in mine), if use of a word is offensive by one person, then it is offensive when used by anyone.  This is why I oppose use of the T-word being used by liberals to describe tea party protesters, even when used by those same protesters.

Then somebody linked me to John Stewart’s “The Daily Show” monologue from yesterday (Tuesday, August 24, 2010). Warning, at 3:15, it becomes Not Safe For Work (NSFW). In fact, it’s pretty much not safe for mixed company.

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So despite John Stewart’s own use of the word for precisely the same reason as Dr. Laura, the only thing the Liberal Left can talk about is Sarah Palin jumping to Dr. Laura’s defense.

That figures.

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