Quote of the Day
“Because despite the efforts of the administration and its willing accomplices in the media, the belief that the auto bailouts were a success is simply a myth. Leave aside the obvious point that the government still stands to lose billions of dollars on its investment as well as many billions more from the preferential tax treatment of the reorganizations. Not only was the bailout unnecessary to save the American automotive industry but the politicized bankruptcy process left both General Motors and Chrysler in a weaker competitive position than if they had simply reorganized in a standard chapter 11 process.”
Quote of the Day
“I can’t believe we’re being lectured on fiscal responsibility by the party that let two years go by without even trying to pass a federal budget.”
— Jay Tea
Violent Luddites
Great post by Oleg Volk on violent Luddites.
Anti-gun activists have much in common with the original Luddites. They blame new technologies and users of those technologies for their own plight, and aren’t above using violence to achieve their goals. Luddites did their own killing, whereas “anti-gunners” — more “anti personal guns for ordinary people” in truth — try to use the ATF and other government agencies as their cat’s paw.
The rallying cry of the anti-gun bigots is usually “for reasonable gun control!” They claim that old, simple guns are just fine, it’s the new and extra deadly weapons and ammunition that are the evil incarnate.
Mr. Volk then goes on to illustrate what those who pay attention know, leftists are really bad at history.
Another Epic Rick Santelli Rant
Obama is channeling Nixon again
Filed under: Culture of Corruption, Our Dear Leader, Politics, RKBA
“This Obama Justice Department reminds me of nothing so much as the Nixon Justice Department. You have the scent of high-level knowledge of serious wrongdoing and you have the smell of cover-up and I think the stench of cover-up on this gun-running operation is very strong indeed.”
What did President Obama know and when did he know it?
Morning Round Up Post
ATF Head Melson Secretly Testifies, Without Notice to ATF or Department of Justice
Accused Fort Hood Shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, to Have Military Trial, Face Death Penalty
Three things you can do for liberty
1.Attack the funding.
2. Stop supporting the enemies of freedom and start supporting your friends.
3. Join Together
Ann Coulter Explains How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America
Center for American Progress Leftists Have Accidental Encounter with the Laffer Curve, Learn Nothing
Liberal Minds: A Walking Contradiction
A liberal….
worships President Franklin D Roosevelt, who carpet bombed German cities and executed an American-born spy captured on US soil after a secret military trial—but screams that Bush was guilty of war crimes;
is crazy about Michael Moore—but against childhood obesity;
tapes over a sign that said “Too Many Jews At Harvard” with a sign that said “Ethnic Quotas This Way”;
is enraged with Karl Rove for releasing the name of a CIA paper-pusher (which he didn’t do)—-but are excited with WikiLeaks putting thousands of classified national security documents on the Internet;
categorically opposes the death penalty for convicted murderers—but screams it’s a ‘constitutional right’ to kill innocent, unborn babies;
hysterically opposed taking out Saddam Hussein, a mass murderer who gassed his own people and presided over ‘rape rooms’—but weepily demands we intervene in Rwanda and Lybia for humantarian reasons;
claims to be pro-children—but supports public schools and refuses to support charter schools;
champions women and gay rights—but ignores the brutal treatment of women and gays by Muslims;
claims it was a vicious slander to be called a communist in the fifties—-but didn’t see anything wrong with actually being a communist in the fifties;
advocates unfettered scientific research and debate—but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about global warming closed;
yelps for clean alternative energy—bit violently opposes nuclear power;
supports sustainable energy sources like offshore wind farms—-unless the offshore wind farm obscures their view from Cape Cod;
decries stereotyping—but when a black conservative comes along, denounces that person as ‘unqualified’, ‘stupid’, a ‘house nigga’, an ‘Uncle Tom’ or ‘window dressing’;
believes Tea Partiers are terrorists—but Islamic Jihadists are victims.
Independence Day Quote of the Day
“Races didn’t bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.”
Dr. Rice gives an important history lesson
Originally posted on my old blog back in May 2005, but certainly worth the repost. This quote is from the Washington Times Inside Politics column from May 12, 2005.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recalled last night for CNN how her father took up arms to defend fellow blacks from racist whites in the segregated South and said the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is as important as free speech and religion.
In an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Miss Rice said that her minister father and his friends armed themselves to defend the black community in Birmingham, Ala., against nightriders in 1962 and 1963.
She said that if local authorities in segregated Birmingham, where Miss Rice was born in 1954, had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves.
Miss Rice said, “We have to be very careful when we start abridging rights that the Founding Fathers thought very important.”
She said they understood “there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Alabama, when, in fact, the police weren’t going to protect you.”
“I also don’t think we get to pick and choose from the Constitution,” she said in the interview, which was taped for airing last night. “The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment.”
This is history that most so called “liberals” don’t want taught in government run public schools. It gives the wrong message, i.e. that the government can’t solve every one of your problems and should.
Time Epic Fail
In a recent article in the so-called “news weekly” Time about the Constitution of the United States of America, the author, who is also the Managing Editor, managed to make no less than thirteen (13) factual errors.
The Constitution is written in a fairly clear and straightforward manner, and has been the subject of much scholarly research. So for a ‘veteran’ reporter like Richard Stengel to make over one dozen errors in an article on the Constitution implies that he is either massively incompetent, or intentionally promoting an agenda that is not supported by the Constitution, which would require him to misrepresent the clear intent of the document. The latter choice also implies that Mr. Stengel assumes that the majority of his readers have not read the Constitution, nor are they going to. A position also held by Rachel Maddow of the far left extremest “news” organization, MSNBC.
Aaron Worthing has an excellent article listing all thirteen (13) factual errors made by the Newsweek Managing Editor, Richard Stengel. You should read the whole thing, which details exactly what is wrong in the article, and provides the correct facts. I’m just going to list the thirteen (13) errors here.
- The Constitution does not limit the Federal Government.
- The Constitution is not law.
- The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment emancipated the slaves.
- The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment granted the right to vote to African Americans.
- The original Constitution declared that black people were to be counted as three-fifths of a person.
- That the original, unamended Constitution prohibited women from voting.
- Inter arma enim silent leges translates as “in time of war, the Constitution is silent.”
- The War Powers Act allows the president to unilaterally wage war for sixty days.
- We have only declared war five times.
- Alexander Hamilton wanted a king for America.
- Social Security is a debt within the meaning of Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Naturalization depends on your birth.
- The Obamacare mandate is a tax.
You should do what Mr. Stengel clearly doesn’t want you to do, read the US Constitution. It’s not that long, and is written in clear English, unlike most legislation written today.
Update: The error count is still rising.