Leadership…

From: GatewayPundit

Shocker!… America-hating libs in New York State refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. The Democrats even stopped their colleagues from standing for the Pledge:

Via Islam in Action

But, please don’t question their patriotism.

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Via the Weasel Zippers and Say Anything, behold the latest in blogospheric outrage: Democrats refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance! In this case, though, the context actually improves the story. This takes place in Albany, where the New York state Senate remains locked in a power struggle in an evenly divided chamber. Rather than an insult to American patriotism, the Democrats here engaged in an insult to the intelligence of New Yorkers  [...]

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From: Conservatives for Change


In a suprising move the U.S. Supreme Court will reconsider the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. This is a rather promising sign for freedom and could suggest an overturn by the court.

From the Politico:

In a sign that the Supreme Court is seriously considering overturning one of the underpinnings of modern campaign finance rules, Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday announced that justices would rehear a case challenging restrictions on corporate-funded campaign ads.

The result of the argument, which is scheduled for September 9, could reshape the way American political campaigns are waged on the precipice of the 2010 midterm and the 2012 presidential elections.

This is a good sign for lovers of freedom and liberty. This bill tampers with the rights of people to participate in the political process. It caps the amount of money one can give a political candidate and corporate expenditures.

Political speech is protected by the First Amendment and the McCain-Feingold law suffocates that speech. We will be flowing this very closely.

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From: ZIP

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Sink it…..

Gaza/Tel Aviv - Foreign activists on board an aid ship Tuesday ignored orders by the Israeli Navy to turn around, sparking a stand-off some 40 kilometres off the Gaza coast.

The ship of the international, pro-Palestinian Free Gaza movement and carrying a symbolic amount of medical supplies, toys, and reconstruction kits, departed from Larnaca Port in Cyprus early Monday. But when it arrived off the shores of Gaza before dawn Tuesday, it was surrounded by Israeli gunboats, which ordered it to turn around.Free Gaza charged in a press release that the Israel Navy threatened to open fire and began blocking its GPS, radar and navigation systems when the ship, dubbed The Spirit of Humanity, refused the orders.

The crew on board numbers 21 activists from 11 different countries, including Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, 65, a fierce pro-Palestinian campaigner, and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, 54, the unsuccessful 2008 Green Party presidential candidate.

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Detroit’s very own Cynthia McKinney, is the gift that keeps on giving…. Update: Ding Dong, the witch is dead…

From: Libertarian Republican

LR FOLLOW-UP

Monica Conyers was found to be guilty late Thursday, on federal bribery charges in relation to the Synagro sludge contract scandal. Though, the conviction has received little national media attention.

The Democrat-leaning news source, Detroit Free Press reports:

In a few short weeks, Conyers, who was the council’s president pro tem, went from one of Detroit’s most politically powerful and mercurial women to an admitted felon in a pay-to-play scheme for a $1.2-billion-plus sludge treatment contract… She admitted taking at least $6,000 from Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson to change her vote in favor of a $1.2-billion sludge disposal contract in 2007.

Implicated in other Scandals with former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

And FBI officials are promising that the investigation will go further. Continuing:

“This is not the beginning, and this is certainly not the end,” said Andrew Arena, of the Detroit FBI. “This is a battle against public corruption.”

People familiar with the investigation into city contracts said agents have asked questions about other officials, including felon and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick…

Rep. Conyers could face Prison Time?

A key Obama ally, Congressman Conyers is Chairman of the powerful House Health and Human Services Committee. He is best known for having threatened to hold impeachment hearings for George Bush in 2007, over the War in Iraq.

From the Detroit Free Press:

According to her plea, Monica Conyers said she took two bribes in late 2007 that the Free Press has previously reported were at least $3,000 each. In his 2008 congressional financial disclosure forms which covered that period, John Conyers reported that no one in his immediate family had received gifts worth a total of at least $305.

Failing to list a bribe as a gift in the disclosure statement was part of the government’s case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Lawmakers who knowingly file false financial disclosure forms can face fines or even prison, but federal prosecutors typically pursue such violations only as part of broader investigations.

Though, a spokesman for a liberal Democrat group defended Rep. Conyers. Continuing:

“As long as the conduct is really separate and doesn’t have anything to do with the member, as is the case here, I don’t see a problem for Chairman Conyers,” said Melanie Sloan.

An additional indictment of Rep. Conyers himself, could have a major impact on health care legislation, which is set to be debated in the House in the coming weeks.
UPDATE: MONICA CONYERS RESIGNS

DETROIT - Detroit city councilwoman Monica Conyers has resigned from office after admitting she took cash bribes from a Houston-based company in exchange for her vote on a lucrative city contract.

Conyers, the wife of powerful Democratic congressman John Conyers, submitted her letter of resignation to the city clerk’s office Monday. Her resignation takes effect July 6.

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May this magnificent, 24 karat, American bad-ass rest in peace.  Thank you, for reminding us what AMERICAN means…

From: ZIP

Saying Col. Kenneth L. Reusser is an American hero could be the understatement of the year. Note: Even at 89 I bet this guy could have kicked my ass…..

CLACKAMAS (AP) — Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, called the most decorated Marine aviator in history and was shot down in three wars, has died at age 89.

Reusser flew 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was shot down in all three, five times in all.

His 59 medals included two Navy Crosses, four Purple Hearts and two Legions of Merit.

In 1945, while based in Okinawa, he stripped down his F4U-4 Corsair fighter and intercepted a Japanese observation plane at a high altidude. When his guns froze, he flew his fighter into the observation plane, hacking off its tail with his propeller.

In 1950 in Korea led an attack on a North Korean tank-repair facility at Inchon, then destroyed an oil tanker almost blowing himself out of the sky.
In Vietnam he flew helicopters and was leading a rescue mission when his Huey was shot down. He needed skin grafts over 35 percent of his badly burned body.

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Did America think that NBC was stroking Obama for free?…

From: GreenHell

General Electric is getting yet more taxpayer money, possibly laundered federal money, to subsidize its business.

A GE press release announced that the state of Michigan will provide GE with $60 million to build a $100 million “technology & software center” — what used to be known as an “office building.”

While the source of the Michigan subsidy could be Michigan taxpayers, given how strapped the state is from auto industry losses, it’s quite possible that the Obama administration is funneling U.S. taxpayer stimulus money through Michigan to GE.

Michigan’s budget problems are so severe, after all,  that the state has offered to house prisoners from California’s burgeoning prisons.

We reported in May that GE received $55 million in taxpayer subsidies to build a hybrid locomotive battery plant in New York.

You can almost hear GE CEO Jeff Immelt, who sits on President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chanting to the President, “Give me the money.” In return, Immelt, the new corporate welfare queen, is helping Presdient Obama advance his global warming and health care agendas.

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ACORN Thugs On The Move Again

by ToddK on June 30, 2009

LOSERS protesting to allow LOSERS to keep homes they can’t pay for… And if the LOSERS don’t get their way, someone is a RACIST… (and they may send you to the hospital)

Remember, our President is one of these LOSERS.  Benito Husein Obama…

From: Malkin


Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti

Obama’s ground troops are back. The ACORN criminal racket has moved away from illegally breaking into homes back to mobbing financial institutions. Today:

Protesters in more than a dozen cities across the country are demanding that a group of mortgage companies who benefited from federal bailout money participate in a government program designed to prevent foreclosures.

They say the companies should sign on to the Obama administration initiative called “Making Home Affordable.” The administration estimates it could help up to 9 million financially troubled homeowners stay in their homes…

The protests are scheduled Tuesday in 14 cities, including Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, Los Angeles and Miami. They’re organized by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also known as ACORN.

Last time the ACORN housing entitlement mob was out and about, they helped send a foreclosure auctioneer to the hospital with chest pains.

Your tax dollars at work.

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Matthew Vadum has more.

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From: MoonBattery

Although the House just passed a bill that would plunge the country into a depression in the name of global warming, in other countries, even bureaucrats are starting to admit that it is a hoax.

Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.

If you haven’t heard of this politician, it’s because he’s a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S. …

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)

The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

The global warming hoax is on life support, being kept alive only by a rigorous if ridiculous campaign to suppress reality. For example, a top expert on polar bears was banned from speaking for not being willing to pretend that the man-eating beasts are endangered by our lawnmowers:

Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen. Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.

This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN’s major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December. But one of the world’s leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week’s meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.

Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. …

Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week’s meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor’s, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: “it was the position you’ve taken on global warming that brought opposition”.

Dr Taylor was told that his views running “counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful”. His signing of the Manhattan Declaration — a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents — was “inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG”.

Once again we see that global warming has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with authoritarian liberal politics. Anyone who still doubts it needs to watch The Great Global Warming Swindle.

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Not oppressed after all. But we will be, if Cap and Tax gets through the Senate.

On tips from Bergbikr, The MaryHunter, and Wiggins. Hat tip: The Blogprof.

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Ahhh, Sorry Paris, but Winky thinks you may have to shoot yourself in the head, to solve your Muslim problem.  Otherwise, you’ll have to stop taping yourself having sex, close your legs,  dress in a burka, or at least some kind of clothes, and STOP TALKING… (OK, everyone wants you to shut up, it’s not just muslims…)

Crazy though:  there are no amount of “Muslim” consultants that can stop you from offending Islam.  You ARE western decadence personified.  Hell, you offend us.  Forget the political correctness and put your grandfather’s money to better use, hire more  body guards.  And when Islam comes for you, SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD…

From: ZIP

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That’s hot…

London, June 26: Paris Hilton has apparently consulted Middle Eastern cultural experts before flying off to Dubai, in a bid to ensure that her eye-popping dress sense and trademark capricious behaviour does not land her in trouble.

The hotel heiress has hired a cultural guide to tag along while she roams around in the city, and to ensure that she does not make any gaffes that could offend the entire Muslim community.

The 28-year-old multimillionaire socialite is filming the third series of her reality show My New BFF in the United Arab Emirates where swearing, being drunk in public, kissing and other displays of public affection are forbidden.

Thus, she decided to consult those in the know about how to dress and behave during her stay there.

She may be an airhead, but she’s not about to run the risk of spending time in a Dubai prison, however unlikely that might seem, the Daily Express quoted a source as saying.

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Read as:  If we don’t get to keep killing people, we’re not interested.  Jews must die….

From: ZIP

Hamasmarch

And un-Islamic as well….

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas head Khaled Mashaal gave a speech Thursday evening in response to a policy speech given by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu several days earlier. Mashaal proclaimed that Hamas is ready to cooperate with the international community in order to reach a deal with Israel, but only under conditions it deems favorable.

Specifically, Mashaal rejected every proposal supported by Israel, including Netanyahu’s insistence that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Hamas will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, because it hopes to see millions of descendents of Arab residents of pre-state Israel “return” to the area, potentially turning Israel into a majority-Arab state, Mashaal explained.He rejected Netanyahu’s proposal that the PA form a demilitarized state within Judea, Samaria and Gaza. “A demilitarized state is a miserable state, not a serious entity,” he stated.

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