tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82658172024-03-13T16:00:31.803-04:00Activism WorksDivide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book of dirty politics, and yet on 'the left' we still fall for it. My blog is about sustaining a progressive power coalition while getting laid safely.10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-8694309593570363592010-07-29T16:33:00.025-04:002010-07-29T18:39:51.359-04:00The Mosque At Ground ZeroMy first instinct re the Ground Zero Mosque was: not all Muslims are terrorists, I don't equate Islam with Jihad. So at first I felt the Mosque should be built. Ironically, it's the Lying Leftists deriding Mosque opponents who convinced me we should not allow the Mosque. I'll explain.I certainly will not slander all Muslims as terrorists. I don't suspect that any Muslim I meet is a terrorist10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-20895536224287241022010-07-26T15:11:00.016-04:002010-07-26T17:57:51.369-04:00Race Ad NauseumThe New Black Panthers. Arizona. Rev. Wright. NAACP. We're caught up in a political race war started by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Far Left (Jornolist). Team Obama is so used to being patronized, they were caught off guard when the Tea Party punched back. Watch this clip from The View where John McCain patronizes a ridiculous question by Whoopi Goldberg on whether McCain wants to10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-44293120296865893832010-01-15T05:03:00.010-05:002010-01-15T05:46:01.129-05:00Attempted Murder Of A TheoryI don't think Obama should be our President. And he's turned out even worse than I expected. It was a big mistake to elect him, I can only hope it doesn't end up a fatal mistake. Obama is getting a much needed whipping from Republicans. The President has to wrap his head around the concept of strict liability on terrorism. If they hit us, he's french toast.But in the rush to punish Obama, 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-87750225931647809392010-01-15T02:56:00.017-05:002010-01-15T05:59:41.802-05:00What Propaganda War?On the question of whether we are "At War", there are the facts, the propaganda and the policies:The Facts: Obviously we are at war and obviously the President knows at least that much. He's escalated in Afghanistan, and I'm pretty sure he knows they're not playing pattycake over there.The Propaganda: What we call it, what we call them, is really just propaganda. Republicans confuse American 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-36994734656487582812009-05-28T17:59:00.010-04:002009-05-28T19:07:35.484-04:00La SupremaI've got three posts on the Supreme Court.It's a curious mini-uproar over a statement by Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor, taken out of context to suggest she's a 'naked racist' who believes she’s smarter than any white man simply by virtue of being Latina. I say ‘curious’ because the mini-uproar runs with an implausible interpretation of Sotomayor’s words. And every time this melodrama of a 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-80530009670849133922009-05-28T17:11:00.003-04:002009-05-28T18:49:18.014-04:00Dizzy Spells: Strict Constriction II mentioned above the problem with ‘strict construction’ as it's currently used. Contemporary right wing radicals give ‘strict construction’ a bad name. Look at the record of the Burger court--packed by President Nixon with strict constructionists, including Chief Justice Burger. If Warren Burger is a strict constructionist, then I’m not sure what the term means. It certainly doesn't mean 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-17004834550402445452009-05-28T15:20:00.016-04:002009-05-28T21:19:43.849-04:00Emanations: Strict Constriction IIThe Roe Court followed a precedent set in a 1965 birth control case, Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold is one of the most important cases on the question of judicial interpretation. The Connecticut legislature banned contraception--say what??!!! I kid you not: "A Connecticut statute makes it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception."The Supreme Court ruled the 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-73432849217185032042008-08-26T15:27:00.012-04:002008-08-26T17:23:34.491-04:00Vote For Me, I’m Tall(why I cannot vote for Obama)The political rise of Obama resembles the rise of George Bush so closely it makes me want to throw up on my shoes. It also makes me fear for my country. Obama and Bush both arise from grave flaws in our political culture, symptoms of a nation on the downslope: a news media so useless, it makes the First Amendment almost irrelevant; the rise of extremists, on both 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-22196875487714522322008-08-26T13:29:00.002-04:002008-08-26T16:51:05.346-04:00Wind AdvisoryI take no solace at all in Joe Biden. What difference does it make whether he’s Vice President? Does anybody in Washington not know Joe Biden’s opinion on any subject? But more importantly, advisors don’t make the President, the President makes the advisors. I wonder if people remember that the odious Dick Cheney served brilliantly as Defense Secretary in Desert Storm under the first 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-59488022646294428582008-04-29T22:53:00.004-04:002008-05-04T13:40:11.045-04:00Hurray! I Only Lost By Ten Points!(If you'd like, feel free to post on non-commercial pro-Hillary blogs, just link back please.)10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-27001442229150489002008-04-26T16:01:00.003-04:002008-04-26T16:21:53.637-04:00What Was Kennedy Drinking?The Dem leadership has screwed things up. If Clinton is the nominee, black voters will be deeply wounded. If Obama is the nominee, Clinton's passionately loyal base will be furious and Reagan Democrats will become McCain Democrats.This no-win scenario was cooked up by the cock-eyed Democratic leadership. What was Kennedy thinking when he 'passed the Kennedy torch' on to Obama without vetting 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-52764775801076099362008-04-25T18:36:00.003-04:002008-04-25T18:52:05.865-04:00White Leftists and Black PowerThere's a scene from The Autobiography of Malcolm X: After police beat and arrested a black man in Harlem, X called all the residents in the neighborhood out into the streets in a tightly controlled protest -- hundreds of blacks solemnly lined the street behind him as he demanded--and got--medical attention for the man the police had beaten. Legend has it that the police captain, after caving 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-33147322618051419042008-04-03T14:19:00.009-04:002008-04-03T15:47:17.635-04:00Dear Senator LeahyDear Senator Leahy:Let's play Jepoardy:Clue: Pat Buchanan understands Democratic voters better than Pat Leahy.Question: Why do Democrats always lose Presidential elections unless a Clinton is running?With all respect to a former friend, your claim that Hillary is hurting Democratic chances in the fall is wrong. Chaos and confusion in the primary is worse than a healthy, hotly contested primary10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-21240287518787538802008-04-03T13:33:00.006-04:002008-04-03T15:59:50.059-04:00Jeremiah XThis isn't pleasant. I did some editing of Rev. Wright with 9/11 footage and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy killing: The Obama talking points are: (1) Wright was actually quoting some guy named Edward Beck who no one has ever heard of. Bullshit. Wright was quoting Malcolm X and he says so:"What Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true. America's chickens10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-78253991463160552952008-04-03T13:29:00.000-04:002008-04-03T15:33:57.574-04:00NOBAMA!My 'NOBAMA' graffiti art. I'm not that good at graffiti style. These guys are amazing:I just love her!O-bots are in a hurry to get Hillary out of the race so they can start negative campaigning on McCain--that's all they've got. Hillary's record and positive message on the economy apply to both the primary and the general -- she's already campaigining against McCain with her 'Solutions for 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-67867236750389944622008-03-21T18:01:00.005-04:002008-03-21T18:57:29.718-04:00Language AdvisoryI feel like I should give a language advisory at the top of this post. This is from James Cone, the spiritual mentor of Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-89307181730270952432008-03-19T21:29:00.003-04:002008-03-19T21:43:58.801-04:00Are We Unified Yet?When in trouble, make a speech.To me, it seems like self-parody for Obama to make a speech to solve his Jeremiah Wright problem, when his claim to the Presidency is based primarily on speeches: His 2002 anti-Iraq War speech which didn't stop the war. And his 'One America' speech that had no impact whatsoever on the people closest to him. Yet, how predictable it was for our mass media to wax 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-47400206937650356122008-03-13T18:20:00.015-04:002008-03-13T22:10:38.964-04:00Race ProfiteersPlaying the race card is a common power play on the left -- it's only effective against liberal whites who bend over backwards not to appear racist. But it's just a power play -- dirty politics. It has no effect on real racists, and blacks who play the race card know that. It's a tool for self-promotion by people who profiteer in tweaking black rage.I recall a writer's conference where my 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-46223511105723596382008-03-07T16:19:00.011-05:002008-03-07T16:52:29.199-05:00Susan Rice and the Rules of EvidenceHearsay evidence is not allowed at trial because it lacks credibility. I can't testify in court 'Susan Rice said Clinton is not ready' because its hearsay and, for all I know, Susan Rice was lying through her teeth.There is a major exception to the Hearsay rule called 'Statement Against Interest.' Basically, if someone says something that goes against their interest, they have no motive to lie10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-1856459103423077562008-03-06T03:02:00.003-05:002008-03-06T04:00:30.402-05:00TypicalObama is so typical. Clinton's paid media assassin Howard Wolfson was interrupted by Bob Bauer, a contract killer paid by Obama's shadow handlers, during a media call in which Wolfson accused Obama of dirty tricks in the Texas caucus. Bauer claimed Wolfson was only making these charges against the caucus system because Clinton wasn't winning caucuses.This is a silly argument for a lawyer to 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-29019559556329038412008-03-06T01:50:00.002-05:002008-03-06T03:17:34.150-05:00She's My Gal!I just love these pix of my Senator!She's so cool. I want to share my Senator with the rest of the world!10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-48077532626454826582008-02-28T03:11:00.004-05:002008-03-06T22:52:17.447-05:00Obama Gives Putin a BonerWhen Putin's puppet Medvedev starts in with the 'hope and change' bullshit, you know something stinks. From the Moscow Times: "'Although of course it's easier to work with people who have modern positions, and not with those who have glints of the past in their eyes and, frequently, simply profess semi-senile views,' he added. He did not elaborate."As if he had to. The Times then makes a funny10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-62868757837660867142008-02-26T18:38:00.024-05:002008-02-27T20:33:07.368-05:00Secret IdentityI found more evidence that Michelle Obama is ambivalent about her American identity in her 1985 thesis on racial identity among Princeton alumni. Her thesis is consistent with her very recent statement that she has never been proud of America before now. As I said in my last blog post -- the key issue here is identification. Obama does not identify as an American. That is why she is not proud10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-30528993673511748912008-02-20T21:05:00.005-05:002008-02-20T22:41:33.143-05:00PrideI'm going out on a limb and say I know what Michelle Obama really meant when she said she has never been really proud of her country until now.It has to do with identification--something movie directors, I'm sure advertisers, all creative people are always trying to tweak. Do you identify with John Wayne or the Indians? The police or the suspect? The criminal or the victim? It's one reason 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-47394122575604384582008-02-16T18:33:00.009-05:002008-02-16T19:38:01.635-05:00Body SnatchersMore selectivity: 'A month ago, he [John Lewis] even had this to say about Barack Obama: "He is no Martin Luther King Jr. I knew Martin Luther King. I knew Bobby Kennedy. I knew President Kennedy. You need more than speech-making. You need someone who is prepared to provide bold leadership."This is what he's saying now: "In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit. 10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.com1