Media Matters: where scare quotes magically transform facts into “smears”
by Kathy Shaidle, NewsReal:
One of the left’s favorite (and lamest) rhetorical tricks is to simply reprint one of their opponent’s statements, verbatim, and without comment. You see, the statement’s idiocy and offensiveness is self-evident, and will surely shock the conscience of any “right thinking” reader. No rebuttal required.
It’s a lazy, sophomoric ploy. I suppose the left has been our self-appointed cultural hall monitor for so long they’ve lost the ability, or the need, to offer up sound counter-arguments.
There’s a classic example of this dopey tactic up at Media Matters today.
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The Media’s Hitler Hypocrisy Exposed
TBy K. Daniel Glover, AIM:
This year’s phony liberal angst about a tiny minority of “tea partiers” comparing President Obama with Adolf Hitler ranks high among the worst cases of media hypocrisy in history.The press never batted an eye for eight years when the lunatic fringe of the left made the same kinds of comparisons between George W. Bush and Hitler. But all of a sudden, with the “first black president” in office, every Obama/Hitler sign must be publicized. Invoking Hitler is considered a “coded message” to right-wing racists and “an implicit call for politically motivated violence.”
People who resort to such analogies on either side of the political spectrum are ignorant of Godwin’s Law and should be condemned. But so long as they are the exception rather than the rule (they were more mainstream during the Bush years), they are not newsworthy. And speculations about attacks on the president certainly aren’t newsworthy — unless the speculator is a presidential candidate stoking fears about the potential assassination of her opponent.
So why are journalists obsessed with the Obama-as-Hitler story? Easy. They want to marginalize “the mob” by portraying everyone who dislikes Obama’s policies as a loon determined to agitate violence.
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All cultural traditions are to be celebrated in our secular humanist, multicultural and diverse Brave New World
There is nothing moral about the 1,000-year-old Afghan tradition of raping boys, especially at the hands of the country’s police and military officers. Yes, it is a daunting task for Canadian Forces to deal with, on top of an already challenging mission in Afghanistan, but deal with it, they must.[...]
How very suspicious that this is the first time I’ve read about this anywhere. Is the MSM ignorant of this practice or intentionally filtering our news and, if so, why?
Harper exposes the Jew haters
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN:
Jews around the world are currently marking a period of reflection in their religious lives. It’s the time between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when the Almighty opens the Book of Life to decide who will live and who will die in the coming year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when that book will be sealed.
One of the things I’m reflecting upon is how lucky I am to live in a country which believes in religious freedom and whose prime minister, Stephen Harper, is arguably the most outspoken national leader on Earth when it comes to denouncing “Judenhass.”
It means “Jew hatred” — that ancient, malignant disease that has lasted for thousands of years, constantly mutating from century to century, from generation to generation. No, not “anti-Semitism” — another word derived from the German, but imprecise and inaccurate, because Arabs can be Semites and not all Jews are Semitic.
Rather it’s “Judenhass” that best describes not the obsessive hatred of “Semites” or for that matter of “Israel,” or “Zionists,” but rather, of Jews.
A hatred that, even in an enlightened country like our own, results in more and more synagogues these days hiring off-duty police officers to watch over their congregations during the Jewish High Holidays — just to be safe.
In that context, Canada’s boycott yesterday of the UN General Assembly as it was being addressed by one of the world’s leading practitioners of Judenhass — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — is something every Canadian Jew, or at least every Jew free from the disease of self-loathing, should applaud.
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‘Signature in the Cell’
By Chuck Colso:
In recent years, there have been several important books about intelligent design that go to the debate about evolution and the origins of life. Bill Dembski’s The Design Inference was first. Then along came Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe, showing the irreducible complexity of the cell, which casts grave doubts on Darwinian evolution as an explanation for life and higher life forms.Now we’ve got Signature in the Cell by the Discovery Institute’s Dr. Stephen Meyer.
I’m going to warn you up front: Signature in the Cell is not light reading. If you are not conversant in molecular biology, you might feel a bit overwhelmed at times.
But this is a profound, hugely important book for anybody interested in the scientific debate of our times—the origins of life.
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Obama’s bankers are ACORN’s bankers, and we fund them
By Kevin Williamso, NRO
Jamie Dimon has been described as “Obama’s favorite banker” by the New York Times. He’s ACORN’s favorite banker, too, and with good reason. Mr. Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which operates a charitable foundation that gave ACORN $1 million in 2007, along with a smaller grant to the ACORN Institute. Beyond the charitable grants, ACORN and its affiliates have long profited from their “partnerships” with the big banks, taking a cut of subprime loans marketed to low-income borrowers in poor neighborhoods.
However, JPMorgan Chase isn’t the only big offender here.
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Beware the Stalin in progressive hearts
By: Mark Tapscott:
If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement – the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.
Not everybody on the left, of course. Some of the folks I most admire in this town are liberals whose work on behalf of values like transparency in government and protecting civil liberties is remarkable and essential.
Still, that this danger is real and growing becomes more obvious as public opposition grows to the president’s across-the-board campaign to turn Washington into the all-powerful, centralized behemoth that Woodrow Wilson and FDR could only dream about.
Author: Ayers Helped Obama Write Book
By: Jim Meyers, NEWSMAX:
Terrorist bomber William Ayers helped Barack Obama write his 1995 book “Dreams From My Father,” the best-selling author of a new book about Obama and his wife disclosed.
Christopher Andersen, author of “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,” appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Tuesday. Hannity referred to a passage in Andersen’s book and said:
“Bill Ayers helped him with his book, and you actually pick up — you found the literary devices and themes bear a jarring similarity to Ayers’ own writings.”
Andersen said: “That’s true. And they were good friends. And during the campaign, of course…”
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Lots of People Love Obama, But Does Anyone in the World Really Fear Him?
By Greg Sheridan, Australian:
It may seem rather unkind to express some serious doubts about US President Barack Obama just now. He is wowing the UN with talk of nuclear disarmament. He is mesmerising the Group of 20 with talk of global recovery. He is leading a policy review that talks of winning in Afghanistan and he will not send more troops in response to the request of the US military commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, without deeper talks.
He has stirred hearts in the Middle East with talk of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. And from October 1 he will be talking directly with the Iranians in pursuit of his talk of stopping Tehran from getting nuclear weapons.
It’s a lot of very impressive talk. And yet, and yet…
Nonie Darwish Under Fire
By: Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas:
Not again. Ah, yes again and again until we have won this war of ideas.
Nonie Darwish, the warmest, sanest, least prejudiced Egyptian whom I know, has both been attacked and has not been defended by the administrative elite at the Whittier College Law School where she is scheduled to speak later today. According to Steven Emerson, the Muslim Student Association on campus defamed Darwish and tried to stop or at least delay her presentation.
Not surprising. They specialize in such demonization and censorship campaigns. Darwish pleads the case of Muslim women whose human rights are seriously violated by shariah law. But the academic administrators at Whittier Law School have not strongly defended her right to speak, nor have they praised her work. This is unforgivable; according to Emerson, many happen to be women who are also feminists.
Alas, this is also not surprising. I wrote an entire book about this phenomenon: The Death of Feminism. What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom
I have written about Darwish before. I admit it: I adore her for her courage. Darwish is also the founder of ArabsforIsrael—c’mon, this woman warrior has guts.
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Barack Obama’s churlishness is unforgivable
By David Hughe, Telegraph [UK]:
The juxtaposition on our front page this morning is striking. We carry a photograph of Acting Sgt Michael Lockett – who was killed in Helmand on Monday – receiving the Military Cross from the Queen in June, 2008. He was the 217th British soldier to die in the Afghan conflict. Alongside the picture, we read that the Prime Minister was forced to dash through the kitchens of the UN in New York to secure a few minutes “face time” with President Obama after five requests for a sit-down meeting were rejected by the White House.
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DOESN’T ANYONE GET IT YET? OBAMA IS A THIN-SKINNED COMMUNIST.
Zelaya forgets to put on his tin foil hat
Obama’s man in Honduras claims Israelis torturing him with radiation
Scratch a leftist and you always find an anti-semite.
The Art of Corruption
Andrew Klavan, City Journal:
There are all kinds of corruption. Some are pretty easy to identify. You can’t miss it when a congressman sells the public’s vote for money, say, or a husband sets his personal promises at nothing in order to score some extracurricular sex. But the slow rot that enters the soul of individuals when the tendrils of the state overcreep the life of a society—that’s a little tougher to define. It may just be the toadying deference that steals into your behavior with the guard who searches you at the airport. Or it could be the baksheesh you pay the safety inspector to keep your business from being shut down. But as subtle as the effects may be, the rule is ironclad: the more areas of life are funded and regulated by government, the less free you are, and the more corrupt and servile you ultimately become.
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When Did Anti-Zionism Become An International Issue?
By Alex Grobman, AT:
For more than 20 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, anti-Zionism was a regional phenomenon – a conflict between Arab and Jewish national movements in the Middle East. In the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, the Soviets exploited antisemitism for political purposes, but it was seldom part of international debate until after the Six-Day War in 1967.By the end of the 1960s, and since 1975, anti-Zionism became international in scope. It first appeared in the universities in the West where the New Left, in cooperation with Arab student associations, attacked Israeli policy. 1
When the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 on November 10, 1975, and declared “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination,” it significantly expanded anti-Zionism into the sphere of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and therefore into Third World countries. This was accomplished in collaboration between the Arabs and the Soviet Union that endowed anti-Zionism with legitimacy and official recognition.2
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How to install a Marxist dictator
Thomas Lifson, AT:
A strategy is well underway to unseat the legitimate government of Honduras and install a Marxist dictator-wannabe allied to Chavez and his band of Latin lefties.Sneaking ousted president Manuel Zeleya into Tegucigalpa, Honduras has generated a crisis, which is being used as a pretext for “international pressure” (the claque of Marxist and leftist regimes, NGOs, and intergovernmental bodies like the OAS) to sanction Honduras, for instance moving a scheduled World Cup qualifying event out of the country.
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The Soros-Axelrod Axis?
By Ed Lasky, AT:
George Soros is one of the big sugar daddies of the Democratic Party. He also is the ruler of an archipelago of so-called 527 groups that pose as non-partisan activists groups, but in fact are often hyper-partisan (such as MoveOn.Org), and are often employed by Democrats to influence elections. Soros, for years, has been the top funder of such groups. His influence among Democrats is widespread and enduring (and was well-documented by David Horowitz and Richard Poe in their book, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party). His pet think-tank, the Center for American Progress, has been the idea factory and employment agency (think Van Jones, among others) for President Obama.There is no proof, but there certainly is reason to suspect that Soros also has been working in cahoots with David Axelrod, Obama’s former campaign strategist and now his numero uno domestic policy adviser.
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New Age fantasy meets reality
What does The Lost Symbol get wrong about the nation’s capital? Everything.
h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
Poor scientists …
The DNA Mystery: Scientists Stumped By “Telepathic” Abilities
h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
School kids taught to praise Obama
The cult pf personality, brainwashing or just kids overflowing with love for The One? You decide.
h/t: DRUDGE
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg1- Frank and Conyers Want Report to See if ACORN Rights Violated
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg2- Tides Foundation Gave ACORN Missing Embezzled Money
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg3- Story of Stuff. Some School Children Who Saw the Film
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg4- Glenn Explains Katie Couric Interview About John McCain
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg5- John Bolton: Obama Speech to UN Most Radical Ever by Pres.
Interpreting climate data can be hard enough. What if some key data have been fiddled?
By Patrick J. Michaels, NRO:
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December.
Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.
Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense.
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All of this is much more than an academic spat. It now appears likely that the U.S. Senate will drop cap-and-trade climate legislation from its docket this fall — whereupon the Obama Environmental Protection Agency is going to step in and issue regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions. Unlike a law, which can’t be challenged on a scientific basis, a regulation can. If there are no data, there’s no science. U.S. taxpayers deserve to know the answer to the question posed above.
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
http://www.persecution.net
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A weekly news digest on the Persecuted Church and how you can
respond.
Follow The Voice of the Martyrs on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/vomc.
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In this week’s edition: reports from Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea and
China
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1. Christian murdered, others wounded in Egypt
A Coptic Christian man was murdered and three others suffered severe
stab wounds when a Muslim man, Osama Araban (35), attacked three
villages in northern Egypt on September 16, according to a September
21 report from Assyrian International News Agency. Abdo George Younan
(63) was stabbed nine times and his head severed from his body in the
village of Bagour. Araban then travelled to the nearby village of
Behnay and attacked Adib Boulous, a Christian shoemaker. Boulous
suffered a broken skull and lung hemorrhage. An eyewitness was able
to stop Araban, who then went on motorcycle to the village of Mit
Afif where he stabbed a third man, Sobhy Barsum. Barsum’s brother,
Hani Barsum, was also stabbed and sustained severe wounds to his
neck. Araban was arrested the following day. Thousands of Copts
joined in Younan’s funeral procession, carrying banners calling for
justice in this case and protection for Egypt’s Christians.
Pray for the families and friends mourning the loss of Abdo George
Younan. Pray for healing for those injured. Pray that God will bring
to repentance those who afflict His people (Psalm 83).
For more information on God’s suffering children in Egypt, go to
http://www.persecution.net/egypt.htm.
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2. Christian transporting Bibles killed in Somalia
A 69-year-old Somali Christian man was shot dead by members of
al-Shabaab, a Muslim militant group, on September 15 when Bibles were
found in his possession, according to a September 18 report from
Compass Direct. At approximately 10:30 a.m., a bus that Omar Khalafe
was riding was stopped by militants at a checkpoint near the city of
Merca. When the militants discovered 25 Somali Bibles in one of the
bags — Bibles that Khalafe was hoping to deliver to an underground
fellowship — they demanded to know who owned them. The passengers
remained silent. The assailants then used photos they found in the
bag to determine if they could match the faces to any passengers.
When they noticed a resemblance to Khalafe, they asked if the Bibles
were his. He did not respond and was shot and killed. Khalafe’s body
was brought to Merca and the Bibles were placed on him as a warning
to others. Later that day, a militant reported Khalafe’s death on a
radio program. Khalafe, who had been a Christian for 45 years, was
active in sharing the Good News and baptizing converts from Islam. He
is mourned by his wife and seven children.
Thank God for the life and testimony of Omar Khalafe. Pray that his
family will know that God is the defender of widows and a Father to
the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). Pray for peace in war-torn Somalia. We
invite you to post a prayer on behalf of the Khalafe family on our
Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
Find out more about the persecution Christians are facing in Somalia
at http://www.persecution.net/somalia.htm.
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3. Imprisoned Eritrean Christian dies of meningitis
A Christian man detained in Eritrea’s Wi’a Military Camp for the
past year died of meningitis on September 3 following an outbreak of
the illness at the prison, according to reports from Open Doors.
Mesfin Gebrekristos, an evangelical Christian, is the fourth known
believer to have died in detention this year. He is survived by a
wife and two children.
Meanwhile, authorities in the country continue to pressure
Christians who do not belong to the state-approved Lutheran, Catholic
or Orthodox churches. At a September 6 meeting entitled “Working along
with the police to prevent crime in the country,” the government
called on citizens to report any “illegal” gatherings of Christians
in their neighbourhoods.
Pray for the wife and children of Mesfin Gebrekristos as they mourn.
Pray that Eritrea’s government will cease their campaign against
evangelicals and respect freedom of religion for all. Stand in
solidarity with the Gebrekristos family by posting a prayer for them
on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
To advocate for religious freedom in Eritrea, download VOMC’s
“Eritrea: Time to Act” petition at
http://www.persecution.net/download/eritrea-petition.pdf. Encourage
your friends and family to join you in supporting Eritrean
Christians.
Go to http://www.persecution.net/eritrea.htm to learn more about the
persecution of Eritrean Christians.
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4. Prominent Chinese pastor detained by officials
Pastor Hua Huiqi was seized by Chinese officials in Fengtai District
in Beijing on September 17, according to a September 17 report from
ChinaAid. At approximately 5:30 p.m., Pastor Hua called his wife, Ju
Mei, on his cell phone and told her that he had been forced into a
Public Security Bureau vehicle while on his way to a dinner meeting.
Less than half-an-hour later, Hua phoned his wife again and told her
that officials had taken him to an unknown location. The phone line
then went dead. When VOMC partners inquired about Hua, officials told
them he was in their custody but refused to disclose his condition or
location. A week before Pastor Hua’s arrest, a vocational training
ministry that he is involved in was raided by officials. To read more
about this attack, go to http://www.tinyurl.com/chinaaid-hua.
Pray that Pastor Hua will be released. Ask God to give comfort and
strength to his family in this time. Read a letter from Pastor Hua’s
family calling for his release and requesting prayer at
http://www.tinyurl.com/hua-blog.
To find out more about China’s suffering Christians, go to
http://www.persecution.net/china.htm.
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5. Not Abandoned: Pray for the persecuted
Christians around the world face abandonment for their faith in
Jesus. Some are expelled from their homes. Others are rejected by
family and friends. Converts are sometimes even viewed with suspicion
and fear by fellow Christians.
Stand with your brothers and sisters. Show them they are not alone.
On November 8, demonstrate the unity of the Body of Christ by
joining believers from around the world in the International Day of
Prayer for the Persecuted Church. To find out more and to download a
special kit including resources such as prayer points and a
devotional, go to the IDOP International website at
http://www.idop.org. In Canada, go to http://www.idop.ca.
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6. In this week’s VOMC weblog
(http://www.persecution.net/weblog.htm)
VOMC’s Persecuted Church Weblog continues to be the place to go for
commentary on Christian persecution around the world.
a) Read three powerful testimonies by Vietnamese Christians who are
standing firm in the storm of persecution: “Prison Bible revival,”
“Waiting with hope,” and “My husband didn’t come home” (posted
September 15, 16, 21).
b) Read an excerpt from the upcoming book by Eritrean gospel singer
Helen Berhane as she asks “Is it worth it?” in the face of hardship
and torture in prison because of her faith (posted September 20).
c) Take a walk through history in our weekly “This week in
persecuted church history (September 20-26)” (posted September 20).
These are some of the many posts that you can find online at
http://www.persecutedchurchblog.com. This site is a vital way that
you can stay connected to persecuted Christians worldwide and your
input is always encouraged.
Religious Left Targets Conservatives
By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:
For decades, the Religious Left has vilified conservative politicians it loathed, especially when they cited their religious faith. It also demonized religious conservatives, who were especially infuriating because their churches were larger and causes more popular than the Religious Left could ever imagine for itself.
Now, enraged over the faltering of Obamacare, Jim Wallis’ Sojourners is lashing out at conservative and populist commentators who dared question the high sacrament of socialized medicine. Wallis has organized pro-Obamacare conference calls for his Religious Left supporters, including one joined by President Obama himself, seemingly to little avail. So Sojourners now is urging its Religious Left supporters to target Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh with mass emails demanding: “Tell the truth.” Meanwhile, emails directed at Glenn Beck more graciously offer to “pray” for him, until he recants.
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Religious Left is an oxymoron.
Get the state out of our bed and breakfasts
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
One morning last March, a guest at Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang’s small Bounty House hotel near Liverpool, England, came down to breakfast wearing a hijab. This surprised the Vogelenzangs, since the woman, who was receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, had been with them several days and had not before worn the traditional headscarf of Muslim women.
A debate ensued among the trio during which the guest allegedly insisted Jesus was just a minor prophet, to which Mr. Vogelenzang is alleged to have responded that Mohammad was a warlord. The guest’s complaint to police also claims Mrs. Vogelenzang described the hijab as a form of bondage.
Police questioned the Vogelenzangs in April and again in July. Following this second visit, they charged the couple with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words” which were “religiously aggravated.”
They are to stand trial in December and if convicted will have criminal records and could face fines of up to $2,500 each.
The Vogelenzangs claim already to have lost their business as a result of the clash. The hospital at which the woman was being treated had referred her and many other guests to the Bounty House. But after the hospital learned of the woman’s complaint, they stopped recommending the guest house. Bookings dropped by 80% and the couple say they have had to sell.
They have apparently lost their livelihood and face criminal charges for sticking up for their beliefs. In a free country, such consequences are unbelievable.
But political correctness, backed by human rights commissions and hate-crime laws, have given crusading bureaucrats, activist special interest groups and aggressive minorities powerful weapons to use against those they accuse of offending them — in this case, a middle-aged couple with a large bed and breakfast.
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Ten suggestions
David Warren:
Because I am a bit of an anomaly in the Canadian “mainstream media” — because I am, to put no finer point upon it, not only rather conservative in my political outlook, but what is called a “social conservative”; and as one of my critics once patiently explained, “not just conservative, but Christian; and not just Christian, but Catholic” — because of this I get many e-mails.Many of them are just rude; some offer criticism that borders on the constructive; but a surprising number show agreement, amity, encouragement, even praise. And not a few ask me very difficult questions, which I regret I can seldom answer adequately, or at all. Among the most frequent are those who ask Lenin’s old question, namely, “What is to be done?” Or as one inquirer this week put it, “What can ‘normal’ people do to fight stuff like political correctness, and help win back a little order, decency, freedom and sanity in our society?”
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ACORN and the AGs
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons, AT:
ACORN being called a criminal enterprise. Despite years of warning signs that ACORN was violating the law, many state attorneys general have not investigated the organization or brought enforcement actions. State attorneys general, besides being the chief enforcement officers for violations of state laws, claim unique law enforcement authority over nonprofits.The reasons for inaction by state attorneys general may explain why ACORN is such a problem. ACORN has developed close ties, to put it mildly, with many state attorneys general as well as others deep in the Democrat establishment. The relationship between ACORN and Democrats may be described as symbiotic.
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Barack Obama, College Administrator
By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO:
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in mind, and almost everything else makes sense.
Obama went to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard without much of a break, taught at the University of Chicago, and then surrounded himself with academics, first in his stint at community organizing and then when he went into politics. It shows. In his limited experience, those who went to Yale or Harvard are special people, and the Ivy League environment has been replicated in the culture of the White House.
Note how baffled the administration is by sinking polls, tea parties, town halls, and, in general, “them” — the vast middle class, which, as we learned during the campaign, clings to guns and Bibles, and which has now been written off as blinkered, racist, and xenophobic. The earlier characterization of rural Pennsylvania has been expanded to include all of Middle America.
For many in the academic community who have not worked with their hands, run businesses, or ventured far off campus, Middle America is an exotic place inhabited by aborigines who bowl, don’t eat arugula, and need to be reminded to inflate their tires.
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