Conquest

From American Digest:

...They are the American Left and, risen from their impoverished conditions in 1968, they now have tenure, high position, or acolytes from which they draw comfortable stipends. Of late, they've taken more and more to coffee klatches with Islamic fundamentalists who, if they don't have the armies to bring about the destruction of the United States, have at least shown they've got enough hate to kill Americans here and abroad retail and wholesale. Besides, they're out shopping for a nuclear weapon and some smallpox, so what's not to like about these guys from an American Leftist's point of view?

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... Recently a very large and significant American institution has stripped to the buff, oiled up, and made its body politic freely available to the tender mercies and tough love of the American Left. Indeed, the capture of this group is the single significant achievement of the American Left in decades. With the elevation of Howard Dean, the canonization of Hillary Clinton, the sanctification of Ted Kennedy, the renovation of Nancy Pelosi, the self-defenestration of Barbara Boxer, and the deification of Barack H. Obama, it is clear that the political base of the American Left has now migrated from the fringes of our political arena to the dead center of the Democratic Party. And it is there to stay. ...

The entire essay is worth the time: Radical Roots and the Conquest of the Democratic Party @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Fear

"The skillful, clever use of fear (not to mention hate) is the defining trait of leftists throughout history. Fear is the primitive emotion the left feeds on like a junkie needs drugs. It is a trait repeatedly manifested in history by the use of intimidation or bully-boy tactics to assert raw power. It is the vividly identifiable scarlet thread of intolerance that has shown itself in one leftist movement after another on down through the centuries, regardless of nationality."

Jeffrey Lord in American Spectator.

Very interesting read.

Climate Change

...the EPA’s effort to end coal-fired energy plants in America.

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This is not an attempt to curb “climate change.” America will still be mining coal and then exporting it. The coal will be burned, just not inside our borders. How does that combat “climate change?” Well, it doesn’t. The EPA’s sole goal is to cripple America. That is the left’s agenda, and they have their marching orders from the most dangerous man ever to occupy the oval office – Barack Hussein Obama.

via IOTW

Never to early...

from the hilarious site: The Looking Spoon.

Assault

From Matt's Meditations:

This is a massive assault on free speech the likes of which we have rarely seen. It is plastered all over the front pages, and even in mainstream outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the vitriolic and disgusting response to Limbaugh’s choice of words far exceeds the shock value of those words. Suddenly, the leftist media is holier than Mother Teresa as it wallows in the gutter. The dissonance is amazing.

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The hypocrisy of the Left is unmatched. It is the exact same people condemning Limbaugh who said the most vile things about Breitbart upon his death and about Sarah Palin and anyone who has threatened their hegemony over the narrative. “Bitter clingers” and “right-wing religious zealots” are their stock in trade.Blacks who vote or campaign as Republicans are called the most vile names. God forbid one disagrees with the party line. They can’t shoot dissidents, but they can do their best to destroy them.

Higher and higher

Forbes:

...under President Obama nearly 5 million Americans have fled the workforce in hopeless despair. The trick is that when those 5 million are not counted as in the work force, they are not counted as unemployed either.

h/t Mr. Vanderleun

Media Matters

...Media Matters intends to spend nearly $20 million in 2012 to influence news coverage. 

Donors have every reason to expect success, as the group’s effect on many news organizations has already been profound. “We were pretty much writing their prime time,” a former Media Matters employee said of the cable channel MSNBC. “But then virtually all the mainstream media was using our stuff.”

Read the rest here

More here.

Nullify?

Via Bookworm:

There are no more aggressive religious proselytizers than atheists.  They sell their religion with ferocity and would willingly burn at the stake anyone who stands in their way.

Last I looked, the First Amendment prevented the government from creating a religion from above or interfering with someone’s religion.  It didn’t nullify God.

Click the link to read the rest.

Seriously?

This is so ridiculous, but conceivably something "our" Feds would do:

Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of the journal Nature by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

 

The researchers propose regulations such as taxing all foods and drinks that include added sugar, banning sales in or near schools and placing age limits on purchases.

Read more from FoxNews.

Platform

From the Laughing Conservative.

Just go and watch and laugh.

Stunning

"This is a stunningly stupid thing to do."

Out of Bounds

Land of the Free?

Since 2007, Mike and Chantell Sackett have been fighting to build their dream home on the Idaho lot they bought years ago. The Sacketts say they had gotten local permits and spent thousands prepping the land for construction - then the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed up.

Via FoxNews

Stealth Jihad

Camp of the Saints has a great post about Dhimmis.

Jonah Goldberg is not the only conservative who fails to see what is happening under the radar. Sadly, there are so many who refuse to understand the nature of Mohammedism, that it is an ideology that demands that all of it’s adherents, in order to be considered true Muslims and not apostates who are unworthy to live, must wage war at all levels against the non-Muslims with the ultimate goal being either the enslavement of all non-believers or, more preferably in the eyes of Allah, their conversions or deaths.

As Azathoth writes in a comment to Mr. Goldberg’s post:

It doesn’t matter how friendly the smiling Muslim is. He is an enemy. Even if he, himself, would never harm a hair on your infidel heads, he will most assuredly accept the Islamicisation of this country–up to and including dhimmi status for you, his ‘friends’.

The miniscule few who would be considered ‘moderates’ by the West would be apostates to that friendly smiling Muslim. He will accept them now. For now.

See, he works towards sharia–not with great demonstrations, but with innocuous ideas–let’s keep bars and liquor stores away from schools and places of worship–it’s for the Children….and, if you look at our country, you’ll find places where laws like this have been passed–all without mentioning how important the area area a mosque be alchohol free–without mentioning that it is a matter of sharia law.

But he smiles, and he’s nice, and his kids watch tv and play video games just like yours….
They’re in Europe in numbers that would make Charles Martel scream. Let’s not follow suit.

Read the whole thing here.

Thanks to Conservative Pup for the chuckle.

THE YEAR 2013….One sunny day in January, 2013, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.” The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The old man said, “Okay” …and walked away.

The following day the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.” The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here.” The man thanked him and again just walked away.

The third day the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying, “I would like to go in and meet with President Obama.” The Marine, understandably aggitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to President Obama. I’ve told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?”

The old man looked at the Marine and said, “Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.” The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow, Sir.”

Boggled

That someone at the county level thought this was acceptable boggles my mind.

Holiday music, holiday lights and holiday sales are unavoidable the first week of December, but tisn’t really the season without a holiday display controversy in Leesburg, Va.

A skeleton dressed in a Santa suit and nailed to a cross was set up on the Loudoun County courthouse lawn in Leesburg on Monday.

Baggage

From American Thinker:

...here's what's been driving Chelsea.

"She wanted to stop pretending she was not Chelsea Clinton."  In other words, she wants to cash in and join the Family Business.

Gettysburg

In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the the following speach as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.  Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.  But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

It's time

By David Freddoso, the online Washington Examiner.

An excerpt:

Your movement has also raised interesting political questions about corporate greed that we will all have to grapple with. For example, the financial sector made $427 billion in profits last year -- that's billion with a "B." That's a lot of money.

A friend pointed out to me on Twitter that in 2010, that would have been enough money to keep our federal government running for 45 days and two hours. Which means. ... Wait, what?

Sinkhole

As always, Mr Porretto is right on the mark.

There's apparently no depth the tawdriest elements in our politics -- i.e., left-liberals and the Democrat Party -- will refuse to plumb. If the completely unsubstantiated sexual-harassment allegations against Herman Cain have proved anything, that would be it.

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Well, in at least one sense, it's a blessing of sorts. As I wrote recently, the gauntlet is out there, and better that a candidate face it during the primary phase of the campaign than after he's been tapped for the nomination. 

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However, before we pass on, it would be well to acquaint ourselves afresh with the outline of this nastiest current in political advocacy. Fortunately for us in the Right, Ann Coulter has done the hard part for us:

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest accuser, Sharon Bialek. Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."

Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she's Obama's next Cabinet pick.
The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them.

John Brooks, Chicago's former fire commissioner, filed a lawsuit against Daley six months ago claiming Daley threatened to smear him with sexual harassment accusations if Brooks didn't resign. He resigned -- and the sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false.

 Yes, please go read the whole thing. And read every day, it's that good.

Time for Truth?

It is always time for the Truth, in the person of Jesus Christ.

Aaaand...here's a bit of truth in the political arena, via Bookworm:

Why, oh, why, oh, why do we believe anything the media says about conservatives?  I wrote yesterday that Gingrich is a principled conservative with an unprincipled private life (thinking mostly about his abandoning his cancer-stricken wife), while Romney is an unprincipled conservative with a principled private life.