US ‘preferred’ compassionate release of Lockerbie bomber
TELEGRAPH [UK]:
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said today that while America ”didn’t want” Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to be released, they would rather see him freed on account of his terminal cancer, than under the prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Libya.
Megrahi is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing in which 270 people were killed.
He was released in August last year after doctors said he was dying of prostate cancer and had three months to live – prompting fury in the US.
Last week, President Barack Obama told a White House press conference that the US had been ”surprised, disappointed and angry” about Megrahi being released.
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The Census: A letter to CBC
The following is a letter written by a TBK reader to the CBC:
Dear CBC:
Decades ago, as P.E.T. [Pierre Trudeau - ed.] launched his great society-sic-he once famously said that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, or words to that effect.
And neither has the state any business asking how many bedrooms we have.About three hundred and fifty years ago, many people in England were opposed to the idea of personal income tax in principle, holding that the disclosure of income was a threat to personal liberty and an unwarranted intrusion into private matters. So the greedy monarch sought a window tax instead. A sneaky income tax by any other name, enforced by the window surveyors.
And so it is today. The state, ever growing, ever intrusive, uses its near unassailable power to badger, cajole, threaten and imprison those who oppose the national census, a device which has no purpose but to facilitate the distribution of income to the favoured clients of the state.
When I was born, the government was scarcely aware of my existence. I had a birth certificate issued, and later a passport. Local authorities noticed my passage through school, but nobody dared ask me if I was a shirt lifter, my marital status, or the size of my income, at least not in a census.
I do not need or should have to justify my desire for privacy. The claim that all census data is private is irrelevant. I am not a subject of the state and neither should I face the threat of confiscation of my property or imprisonment for refusing to comply.
Among those famously opposed to the intrusive state was John Stuart Mill, who set forth principles of individual liberty, among others, in his work, Principles of Political Economy. Influential as he still is, it seems that his words are blindly ignored by the usual suspects, the meedja, the CBC, academics, the public service, and even worse, private business and charities who opine that without the collection of reams of data about each and every individual in the land that somehow society will fail. Utter hogwash. What they mean is that their fiefdoms and private businesses will have to shift for themselves.
Without resistance to the collection of data, it will only be a matter of time before any jumped-up jack-ass will be empowered to ask, “your papers.”
Who cares that the head of the government statistic’s department has resigned in protest over the abolition of the compulsory long census form? Well, I suppose the empire builders in government departments do, the corporate welfare bums (CBC), private enterprise, and any number of ivory tower residents who appear to contribute very little in exchange for their large salaries, perks and pensions and of course the snivelling, whining Left who are not only afraid of an independent free thinking society not beholden to the state, but that anybody would think they know better than they, the establishment elites.
Less government is good. The state is not, as the Liberals and hangers-on believe, a force for good. Look at the awful mess the state has made, left our grandchildren and beyond indebted to the tune of hundreds of billions as the government “does good.” Well, that is one interpretation. Another is politicians buying votes with other people’s money-viz Ruby Dhalla.
No, government does not know best. Never did.
On the bright side the U.S. and the U.K. are starting to listen to the people. Both are considering abolishing their census completely.
I vote!!!!! I vote, I vote.
Dave
Five Minutes With Andrew Breitbart
Matt Lewis:
Q: Ann Coulter was on Fox recently, saying you were “set up,” meaning that someone intentionally provided you with a selectively edited copy of Shirley Sherrod’s speech. Were you taken advantage of?
A: I don’t believe that I was set up. [The person who provided the video clip of Sherrod's NAACP speech] contacted me back in early April and sent me a DVD, but it didn’t transfer properly. . . . I never followed up on it, but I had it in the back of my mind that [Sherrod's comments at the NAACP] occurred. So I contacted him [the video source] after two or three days of the mainstream media’s colluding with the NAACP [which passed a resolution condemning racist elements within the Tea Party], giving wall-to-wall coverage, negatively branding the Tea Party as racist. I got the tape in two excerpts that were sent to me, because I couldn’t wait to get this story. I knew from past experience that I had a news cycle to get this out.
Q: You say you couldn’t wait to get this story out. Was it your past experience challenging the allegations that someone at a D.C. Tea Party rally used a racial epithet that informed your decision?
A: I couldn’t get any mainstream media to cover that story [Breitbart's offer of $100,000], even though they played up the ‘N word’ allegation. And so, given that we were in day seven of this successful propaganda campaign asking the question, ‘Is the Tea Party racist?’ — and because the standard they set was that someone in an audience expressing a racist thought — like at the Tea Party it was often based merely on an infiltrator holding a [offensive or racist] sign — the [Sherrod] video was evidence. You had people in the audience abiding by her discriminating against a white farmer — clapping and agreeing. That is a [liberal organizer [Saul] Alinsky standard — hold the opposition to the standard that they set.
Q: How does the Shirley Sherrod story relate to the JournoList story where liberal journalist Spencer Ackerman suggested deflecting attention from the Reverend Wright story, which was hurting Obama, by wrongly accusing a prominent conservative of being a racist?
A: That collusion to slander by Ackerman — and the sin of omission of the other 400 people on the list — to abide by that calculated evil — shows that we have a tremendous problem in journalism today — and then they come and ask me about my tactics. I’m trying to end JournoList collusion that goes well beyond the [listserve's founder] Washington Post’s Ezra Klein’s 400 friends and collaborators, and that includes Politico and Bloomberg. Where are they firing people? Where are the questions about this monumental act of journalistic fraud? Where are the mass firings?
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Don’t be misled by superficial looks at Canada’s crime statistics
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, Toronto Sun:
In reality, Statistics Canada’s 2009 crime stats show the same thing they’ve shown for years — our crime rate remains stubbornly, alarmingly high.
Indeed, Canada’s crime rate in 2009 was 131% higher than in 1962, when comparable stats first started being kept. Yes, you read that right.
In 1962, there were 2,771 reported crimes per 100,000 population. In 2009, 6,406 per 100,000.
As for the sub-category of violent crime, the one that most concerns people, Statistics Canada this year didn’t provide the 2009 rate in a way we can compare to 1962. (It’s now compiling all the statistics differently.)
I’ve asked Statistics Canada for that figure, and, obligingly, they’re working on it.
But I can tell you Canada’s violent crime rate in 2008 was 321% higher than in 1962 — 932 reported crimes per 100,000 population, compared to 221 per 100,000.
While the 2009 violent crime rate will be slightly lower, it will still, essentially, be triple the 1962 rate.
Clearly, we have an ongoing, serious, crime problem.
But there’s more.
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The evil temptation of numbers
By David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen:
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics — all are used to advance the various “progressive” agendas — and when the progressive types squeal like pigs that Harper is taking something away from them, I can’t help smiling to myself.
Decision in favour of washed out RCMP cadet who has made a career out of crying racism must be overturned
Ezra Levant:
In 1999, an immigrant from Iran named Ali Tahmourpour enrolled in the RCMP’s police academy, but washed out after just 12 weeks.
When Tahmourpour got the bad news, he had a breakdown. His classmates escorted him to the infirmary twice because he was “vomiting, shaking, hyperventilating and was incoherent.”
An RCMP psychologist declared him to be a suicide risk. Three of his fellow cadets testified, “they would be afraid to work with him in the field.” A note was put on his file: Unlike other wash-outs, Tahmourpour would not be allowed to reapply as a student.
Others might have moved on, but not Tahmourpour. He cried racism. And he ran to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, claiming the RCMP violated his “human right” to become a cop.
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Desperate days for the warmists
By Christopher Booker:
Ever more risibly desperate become the efforts of the believers in global warming to hold the line for their religion, after the battering it was given last winter by all those scandals surrounding the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
One familiar technique they use is to attribute to global warming almost any unusual weather event anywhere in the world. Last week, for instance, it was reported that Russia has recently been experiencing its hottest temperatures and longest drought for 130 years. The head of the Russian branch of WWF, the environmental pressure group, was inevitably quick to cite this as evidence of climate change, claiming that in future “such climate abnormalities will only become more frequent”. He didn’t explain what might have caused the similar hot weather 130 years ago.
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Christians Speak Up: Holocaust Survivors Find their Voices
By Peggy Shapiro:
They were both teenage Holocaust survivors who experienced the anti-Semitism of the church even before the Nazis entered their hometowns in Poland. The two eighty-three-year-old women, both named Mania, both short with carefully coiffed blond hair, were in the audience with over 4,000 Christian Zionists at the opening plenary of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Summit on July 20. Seven pastors spoke, and the two women listened with incredulity to words which defied everything they had ever experienced.
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Turkey is collaborating with Syria against the Kurds
CAROLINE GLICK:
Change has come to the Middle East. Over the past several weeks, multiple press reports indicate that Turkey is collaborating militarily with Syria in a campaign against the Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
Turkey is a member of NATO. It fields the Western world’s top weapons systems.
Syria is Iran’s junior partner. It is a state sponsor of multiple terrorist organizations and a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction.
Last September, as Turkey’s Islamist government escalated its anti-Israel rhetoric, Ankara and Damascus signed a slew of economic and diplomatic agreements. As Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu made clear at the time, Turkey was using those agreements as a way to forge close alliances not only with Syria, but with Iran.
“We may establish similar mechanisms with Iran and other mechanisms. We want our relationship with our neighbors to turn into maximum cooperation via the principle of zero problems,” Davutoglu proclaimed.
And now those agreements have reportedly paved the way to military cooperation. Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited Istanbul twice in the past month and then two weeks ago, on the Kurdish New Year, Syrian forces launched an operation against Kurdish population centers throughout the country.
On Wednesday, Al-Arabiya reported that hundreds of Kurds have been killed in recent weeks.
The Syrian government media claim that 11 Kurds have been killed.
There are conflicting reports as well about the number of Kurds who have been arrested since the onslaught began. Kurdish sources say 630 have been arrested. The Turkish media claims 400 Kurds have been arrested by Syrian security forces.
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Big Peace Exclusive Interview: Col. Allen West
Posted by Dave Reaboi:
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In this video, Allen discusses: (a) The Ground Zero Mosque; (b) Russia & Peace Through Strength, (c) Border Security; (d) Ron Paul, Barney Frank & the Slashing of Our Defenses; and (e) ‘COIN,’ Hearts & Minds.
A Curious Case of Sexual Harassment
By Roland Toy:
The following actually happened. Only the names have been changed.
As usual, the first chore after entering my cubicle was to read e-mail. One from Human Resources was flagged URGENT, but, skeptical of HR’s definition of that term, I read it last. This time, however, HR was right: I had been accused of sexual harassment.
I was head of an engineering group that designed the control systems for robots used in manufacturing computer chips. Two months earlier, our group had taken on an intern, a graduate student in technical communication. It was the maiden voyage of the Graduate Academic Partnering Program (GAPP), the brainchild and raison d’être of the HR and Marketing departments. The selection committee (myself and three other engineers) had recommended a promising male applicant, but the HR director had wanted Shelia in the interest of promoting “gender equity.” Tending to think about individuals rather than groups, I wondered how gender equity could be served by choosing anybody other than a hermaphrodite.
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The Palestinian victims no one talks about
By Khaled Abu Toameh
When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to condemn an Arab government for its mistreatment of Palestinians?
How come groups and individuals on university campuses in the United States and Canada that call themselves “pro-Palestinian” remain silent when Jordan revokes the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians?
The plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries in general, and Lebanon in particular, is one that is often ignored by the mainstream media in West.
How come they turn a blind eye to the fact that Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and many more Arab countries continue to impose severe travel restrictions on Palestinians?
And where do these groups and individuals stand regarding the current debate in Lebanon about whether to grant Palestinians long-denied basic rights, including employment, social security and medical care?
Or have they not heard about this debate at all?
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Breitbart: Why No Politico, Or Bloomberg Firings?
riehlworldview.com:
Andrew Breitbart makes a valid point in his brief interview with Matt Lewis of Politics Daily. More at link. Journalists are supposed to abide by a set of ethics that should have prevented some of the collusion that went on on JournoList. Did any of them speak up about it on the list? Many of the most active members were WaPo employees. Did it not shock some journalists that such an established paper had employees engaging in that type of media malpractice?
If not, why? And, if so, what, if anything, did they do about it? Cue crickets chirping.
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Can He Be Stopped?
by David Solway, FrontPage:
It is all well and good to complain and lament about what is going on in this administration, the misuse of power, the immorality and intellectual vandalism of its wielders, the momentum of waste and ruin—but at some point concrete measures need to be taken to forestall breakdown and collapse. Nor does one want to contemplate the disaster of an Obama re-election in 2012, which might well realize the mythic predictions of the Mayan Calendar and a sensationalist film, in any event for the U.S. But the calamity need not wait for that red-letter date; it is evolving in increments as we speak. This is why the coming November is so important: it may not only reclaim lost ground but notably weaken Obama’s chances of success in seeking a second term.
Barring Obama and his party’s electoral chastening in 2010, by the time 2012 arrives, what we will very likely see is the following: more socialized, i.e., nationalized industries and bloated entitlement programs; a grinding recession, if not a depression, and traumatic levels of unemployment for which Obama can no longer blame the previous administration and expect to get away with it; twelve to fifteen million enfranchised illegals swelling the welfare and voting rolls; a growing and increasingly bitter racial divide; more terrorist attacks; deep Islamic inroads into the body politic; public resentment reaching critical proportions and more states acting on their own initiative; and former allies moving into the orbit of America’s enemies. We may also see a devastating war in the Middle East which might have been prevented had Obama not skewed the Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process and extended overtures to Syria and Hamas, had he shown himself genuinely sympathetic to Israel and its legitimate concerns, and had he decisively confronted the Iranian regime.
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From JournoList to Shirley Sherrod: The Left’s Default Response Is Fascism
by John Nolte:
CNN Anchor to Shirley Sherrod: Would you like to see [Andrew Breitbart's] site to be shut down?
Shirley Sherrod: “That would be a great thing. Because I don’t see how that advances us in this country.”
Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA on JournoList: “I hate to open this can of worms,” he wrote, “but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull [Fox's'] broadcasting permit once it expires?”
Why so fascist?
As a proud dues-paying member of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, here’s a little peek behind the curtain to take home with you over the weekend…
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Breaking: Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration
by Jim Hoft:
ACORN whistle-blower Anita Moncrief held a press conference Friday at the Right Online Convention in Las Vegas. She announced today that she will press FEC charges against the Obama Administration for the campaign’s illegal coordination with ACORN during the 2008 election.
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Is this the Fourth Estate?
By William R. Mann:
Mug shots of the members on the now infamous “Journolist.” Some are well known, most are not. All are self-loathing “Americans.” These politicians parading as journalists have violated journalistic ethics and actively worked as campaigners to:
1. Destroy Sarah Palin
2. Ridicule John McCain [admittedly not a difficult task]
3. Elect Barack Obama
4. Prepare America to become a new Socialist Country through concerted media brainwashing.They are cranking up for October as if they have not been caught. It will be interesting to see if they are de-fanged. They have no shame, no honesty, and no integrity.
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These wolves hunt in packs. They pick their target, separate him out from the herd and run him down. Alinsky’s rules. The only protect is for the prey to collectively form a circle and stand them off.
Put an end to affirmative action
National Post:
The Conservatives may have misstepped on the census, but they have it right on affirmative action. This week, Cabinet Ministers Stockwell Day and Jason Kenney announced that the government will review discriminatory affirmative action policies that, for the last quarter-century, have given preferential hiring treatment to women, minorities, aboriginals and the disabled in the civil service.
According to Mr. Kenney, “I strongly agree with the objective of creating a public service that reflects the diversity of Canada, and with fair measures designed to reach that goal. But we must ensure that all Canadians have an equal opportunity to work for their government based on merit, regardless of race or ethnicity.”
This welcome move was prompted by the case of an Ottawa-area mother who was shocked to discover that she could not apply for a job with Citizenship and Immigration because she was white.
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Get your Coulter fix
Battle Royale! Ann Coulter vs Rick Sanchez – Subject: Andrew Breitbart & Kiddie Porn
Beware the lame duck
By Charles Krauthammer:
Barack Obama’s considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform and a near-trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country. But spent nonetheless. There’s nothing left with which to complete his social-democratic ambitions. This would have to await the renewed mandate that would come with a second inaugural.
That’s why, as I suggested last week, nothing of major legislative consequence is likely to occur for the next 2 1/2 years. Except, as columnist Irwin Stelzer points out, for one constitutional loophole: a lame-duck Congress called back into session between the elections this November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress next January.
Leading Democrats are already considering this as a way to achieve even more liberal measures that many of their members dare not even talk about, let alone enact, on the eve of an election in which they face a widespread popular backlash to the already enacted elements of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.
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One-worlders are going after your guns
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES:
The United Nations is holding secret closed meetings to work out a global arms trade treaty. The agreement, which could be finished by 2012, is a threat to Americans’ Second and First Amendment rights.
“Some type of micro-stamping regulations seems all but inevitable. It is very, very likely,” the Heritage Foundation’s Theodore R. Bromund, who tracks the U.N., told The Washington Times. “Restrictions on trade between private individuals are somewhat less than 50-50, but you surely can’t rule that out. Some kind of gun registration and licensing system is an extremely likely probability.” Registration proposals cover guns as well as individual rounds of ammunition.
The Obama administration strongly supports the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty and no doubt will use the process to push for gun-control regulations that it can’t get through Congress otherwise.
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Allahu Fubar: Daisy Khan on the ‘divine hand’ at the mosque near Ground Zero
Pam Gellar:
The callousness toward the pain and grief this has caused millions is radically intolerant. The unmitigated gall is ………….. breathtaking.
If you are having trouble viewing, go here, to the Washington Post, to view Daisy Polygamy Khan. hat tip Tim
Daisy Khan: there is a “divine hand” in the Ground Zero mosque project: “the building came to us”…it “will be symbolic”
Note also that she dismisses 9/11 family members opposition to emotional grieving issues …”We expected some families might need some hand-holding.”
Oh, the humanity of Islamic supremacists …………how’s that for outreach? And what about the majority of Americans who find this whole idea abhorrent and insulting?
Symbolic, on this I can agree completely with Khan. The more we know about this stealth jihadist, the worse it gets. This mosque is an act of jihad.
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President’s socialist takeover must be stopped
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner:
President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.
He is slowly – piece by painful piece – erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there – yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela’s leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above – one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the country. It’s time for him to go.
He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. His health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was – and remains – opposed by a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson – taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund to buy swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional: The federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power.
Yet Obamacare’s most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion.
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The case for impeachment
By Tom Tancredo:
For the first time in American history, we have a man in the White House who consciously and brazenly disregards his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. That’s why I say the greatest threat to our Constitution, our safety and our liberties, is internal. Our president is an enemy of our Constitution, and, as such, he is a danger to our safety, our security and our personal freedoms.
Barack Obama is one of the most powerful presidents this nation has seen in generations. He is powerful because he is supported by large majorities in Congress, but, more importantly, because he does not feel constrained by the rule of law. Whether he is putting up the weakest possible defense of the Defense of Marriage Act despite the Justice Department’s legal obligation to support existing law; disenfranchising Chrysler and GM bondholders in order to transfer billions of investor dollars to his supporters in the United Auto Workers; or implementing yet a third offshore oil-drilling moratorium even after two federal courts have thrown out two previous moratoriums, President Obama is determined to see things done his way regardless of obstacles. To Mr. Obama, the rule of law is a mere inconvenience to be ignored, overcome or “transcended” through international agreements or “norms.”
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Now The Media Demands Context When It Comes to Race — Are You Kidding Me?
Posted by Ron Futrell:
Lemme get this straight: the media is talking about context. They want context!
They’ve never cared about context in the past. When a person talked like a racist there were no excuses, no context, no explanation, no recovery allowed or given. Ask any conservative who’s been wrongly accused of being a racist knows exactly what I’m talking about. The list is long. Limbaugh, Beck, Allen, O’Reilley—on and on.
How about some context with the New Black Panthers, you media kings?
Finally, after years of knowing the video is out there of the New Black Panthers intimidating voters at polling places in Philadelphia and after weeks of seeing video of that same New Black Panther guy urging the murder of “crackers” and “cracker babies,” it’s now okay for the media to start showing the video.
They can now change the context of that video and instead of seeing it for what it is—they now put it in the context of right wing media trying to make race an issue. What the…?
They just needed something to justify changing the context. Because they think they have caught Andrew Breitbart in a racial ruse in regards to Shirley Sherrod they can now unload all their anger on Andrew.
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I could go on and on—but I will agree with Holder on this point, but I will change it just a bit. The media are cowards when it comes to race. For them to ignore these stories, and others for years, months and weeks before trying to use a fabricated scandal with Breitbart as supposed “cover” is despicable.
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
by Stephen Green:
If you haven’t read today’s Wall Street Journal column by Senator James Webb (D-VA), you owe it to yourself. The key line is this one, where Webb argues that our “present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.”
What makes it key is: Why now? Why write this column today? What brought this particular issue out at this particular moment?
These questions are important, because Webb’s column is a virtual declaration of war on President Obama — at a time when Obama’s head must be already spinning after two weeks of racial strife from the NAACP and Andrew Breitbart. And a “recovery summer” that’s anything but. So it’s not often I find myself agreeing with Pat Buchanan, and when I do — even only partly so, like today — I always wash afterwards. But when Buchanan says that the White House is in a “panic” because it “fears it is losing white America,” he’s absolutely right.
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Beware if you make an FOIA request of Homeland Security
Andrew Thomas;
For the Department of Homeland Security, “the system worked.” Over the past year, the Department has tried to protect itself from annoying and unwanted requests for information that they were legally required to provide through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), according to a report by AP:
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Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege
By JAMES WEBB:
The NAACP believes the tea party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist. And Pat Buchanan got into trouble recently by pointing out that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, there will not be a single Protestant Justice, although Protestants make up half the U.S. population and dominated the court for generations.
Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future.
I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship. Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.
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New Tax Burdens for Selling Gold
by Bruce Walker:
People are increasingly turning to gold as a hedge against financial collapse. As long as people can have the real security which comes from owning something portable, convertible, and which is not subject to the whims of federal financial bureaucrats, free citizens can maintain a degree of independence from the heavy hand of government. The right to own gold is analogous to the right to own firearms. Both empower the individual citizen in a very direct and practical way.
The new tax measure could have a devastating impact upon the businesses that buy and sell gold.
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