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March 27, 2008

Saddam's Three Stooges

If you're a murderous tyrant who used chemical weapons against your own people, defied over a dozen United Nations sanctions to disarm and allow inspectors to verify that you no longer have weapons of mass destruction or the ability to produce them, supported terrorists who attacked neighboring countries, shot at airplanes enforcing a "no-fly" zone and were facing an American-led invasion force aimed at deposing you, who are you going to call?

If you're the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, you reached out to Democrats in the United States to plead your case on the world stage. In 2002, Saddam lured Democratic congressmen Jim McDermott, David Bonior and Mike Thompson to Baghdad to parrot his propaganda in an effort to forestall military action to enforce UN sanctions.

The plot involving the 'Three Stooges' was revealed during the indictment of Michigan Muslim activist Muthanna al-Hanooti for “conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil, and lying to authorities.”

Ben Johnson has the details at FrontPageMagazine.com.

Are you surprised not to hear more about this story from the Old Media? Will there be an ethics investigation by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives into what these three very useful idiots knew about the man who paid for their trip to Iraq and when they knew it?

Posted by jeffgannon at 09:40 AM

March 26, 2008

Hillary, You're No Jackie Kennedy!

Hillary Clinton is under fire for claiming that she was under fire during a 1996 visit to Bosnia. The former First Lady who wants to be Commander in Chief now says that she "misspoke" about sniper fire that forced the cancellation of a welcoming event. Recently, Mrs. Clinton has had to back off trying to parley her photo-ops around the globe and tea parties with world leaders into some kind of foreign policy resume. Now the New York Democrat has been forced to recant her claims of being in danger, allowing that she "misremembered" the incident.

Americans in general and Democrats in particular should be outraged by Clinton's big lie about being under sniper fire. The only First Lady that has ever been under sniper fire is Jackie Kennedy in 1963.

Hillary, you're no Jackie Kennedy!

Posted by jeffgannon at 10:12 AM

March 24, 2008

Old Media Helps Kwame With Clinton Template

The Old Media is coming to the defense of another rising star in Democratic politics, this time Kwame Kilpatrick, the "Hip Hop Mayor" of Detroit. Reporting on the scandal mentions that the charges are for perjury and obstruction of justice, but over-emphasize that the lies Kilpatrick allegedly told in front of a grand jury were about SEX. Downplayed in the coverage is that the allegedly false testimony came during an investigation into the improper firing of employees. Following the announcement of his indictment, the mayor proclaimed innocence refused to resign.

The Old Media is placing the Bill Clinton template over the scandal. The mayor lied about sex, so that makes perjury and obstruction of justice excusable.

Perhaps if Scooter Libby had lied about having sex with Judith Miller, he might be a free man today.

Posted by jeffgannon at 01:57 PM

Gun-Grabbing DC Police Chief Races Clock

The current leadership of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department is an exercise in political correctness that will likely become a national laughingstock. The hopes of beleaguered citizens of the District of Columbia were dashed at the appointment of Cathy Lanier to become chief of police following the departure of Charles Ramsey, derisively known at "Chief Wiggums". Ramsey presided over the crime wave on the National Mall and could not find the body of missing intern Chandra Levy for nearly two years until a man walking his dog in Rock Creek Park discovered a leg bone. Ramsey has moved on to work his magic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the new murder capital of the United States.

Lanier will make everyone forget about the cartoonish Ramsey with buffoonery attributable to putting a liberal in charge of enforcing the law and providing security.

During last week's antiwar protests to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Lanier allowed the demonstrators to have free reign to wreak havoc in the downtown area. Police officers were ordered not to wear riot gear so as not to incite protesters to violence. Few demonstrators, if any were arrested by the MPD, despite obstructing traffic and incidents of vandalism. Police stood by as the "peaceniks" threw rocks and paint bombs at the military recruiting center at 14th & L Streets. The protesters were TWICE given clear passage in front of the recruiting center that was ransacked by antiwar activists several weeks ago.

Lanier's latest folly is to take a many guns as possible away from DC residents before the Supreme Court strikes down the city's total ban on handguns. In a Soviet-style sweep of the city, MPD officers are going house to house asking residents to submit to a voluntary search in exchange for "amnesty" from prosecution if a gun is found on the premises. This is how a totalitarian state would strip the people of their ability to defend themselves against tyranny.

Posted by jeffgannon at 11:27 AM

March 23, 2008

Obama's Next Book

Posted by jeffgannon at 07:38 PM

March 21, 2008

Obama: Words Matter (They Sure Do!)

Matching Barack Obama's words to those of his spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

VIEW THE VIDEO: WORDS MATTER

Posted by jeffgannon at 02:51 PM

Clinton’s ‘Willie Horton’ Campaign Against Obama

Democrats have been playing the race card against Republicans for decades, so it should come as no surprise that race has become an issue in a contest with a black candidate running for president. However, Hillary Clinton’s “Willie Horton” campaign against Barack Obama has shocked most Americans and broken open a wide rift in the Democratic Party.

For those who might not remember, during the 1988 presidential campaign, Republican George H. W. Bush ran ads against Democrat Michael Dukakis that featured the face of Willie Horton, an African-American man. While Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts, Horton, a convicted murderer, was given a weekend furlough from prison and went on a violent crime spree. The ads played on the fear that Obama recently ascribed to his grandmother, “a typical white woman.”

After losing in the South Carolina primary, Clinton launched the race campaign against Obama. Bill Clinton minimized Obama’s victory, suggesting that it was the result of blacks that make up half of Democratic voters casting ballots for the black candidate. He pointed out that Jesse Jackson, a rather divisive political figure, also won the South Carolina primary in 1984 and 1988.

Following Hillary Clinton’s strong showings in Ohio and Texas, the campaign pushed the videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the media. Wright’s incendiary sermons be the subject of lengthy analysis in the six weeks until the Pennsylvania primary and erode Obama’s message of hope, change and unity. Moreover, it would cast doubt on Obama’s electability among the party leadership and superdelegates.

Obama’s speech, while hailed by the Old Media as historic, did not put the issue of race to rest. The Clintons have several more weapons they have yet to deploy against Obama about race. Obama has relationships with radicals like Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Weather Underground member William Ayers that have so far not been examined.

By the time the Clintons get done, Barack Obama will become Willie Horton.

Posted by jeffgannon at 08:42 AM

March 18, 2008

Obama: Everyone Racist But Jeremiah Wright

Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on race in America Tuesday before a friendly crowd in Philadelphia. Obama had hoped to stop his freefall in opinion polls caused by a reaction to the publicity surrounding the inflammatory sermons of his mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Illinois senator scored high on Chris Matthews' "tingle meter" evoking a comparison to Abraham Lincoln. Other gushing Old Media talking heads suggested oratory on par with Dr. Martin Luther King.

I'm going to go all Simon Cowell here and say that Obama's speech was rather average as oratory. It was simply not moving and inspirational. However, without the mesmerizing inflections and meter, I was able to focus more on the content. In doing so, I learned that:

1. Obama's white grandmother was a racist.
2. Ronald Reagan built his coalition on racism.
3. Racist white men would flock to vote for Republican John McCain in November if a black man was the Democratic presidential nominee.
4. Talk radio hosts and conservative pundits fanned the flames of racial division.

Obama insinuated that racism was everywhere in the United States, but none of it found at Trinity United Church of Christ, especially when it came to the preaching of Rev. Jeremiah "God damn America, AmeriKKK" Wright. He pointed to the Republican Party as racist, somehow overlooking the Democratic Party's long history of racism. The Democratic Party is the party of Jim Crow, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Robert Byrd.

Obama came nowhere near Martin Luther King on Tuesday. He barely rose to the level of Rodney King. In fact, if Obama had rebuked, repudiated and rejected Rev. Wright and struck a "Why can't we all get along?" theme, he would have put the issue of race behind him. Instead, Obama expanded the racial divide he had promised to bridge.

Posted by jeffgannon at 08:09 PM

March 17, 2008

Peaceniks Riot At National Press Club

Members of anti-American, pro-terrorist groups Code Pink, Global Exchange and others staged a riot during a press conference at the National Press Club on Friday. I attended Friday's news event as a working journalist and a member of the National Press Club

The rabble disrupted a presentation by pro-victory organization Move America Forward (MAF) of its “Sedition Report” that detailed hundreds of attacks on military recruiting centers across the country. Prior to the melee, former radio talk show host Melanie Morgan and MAF Chairperson listed numerous instances of violence, vandalism and intimidation including:

- Bombing of Armed Services recruiting center in New York City’s Times Square
- Barricading and vandalizing U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in Berkeley, CA
- Occupying and vandalizing Army recruiting center in Washington, DC
- Smashing doors and windows of Army recruiting center in Minneapolis, MN
- Smashing windows, throwing smoke bombs and spreading human excrement at Army recruiting center in Milwaukee, WI
- Homemade bomb planted at Army-Air Force recruiting office in Webster Groves, MO
- Attempted firebombing of military recruiting center in Vestal, NY
- Smashing windows and spreading fecal matter in military recruiting center in Toledo, OH
- Ten cars belonging to Marine recruiters torched in Washington, DC area

Debbie Lee, mother of the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq spoke at the press conference about honoring the sacrifice of military men and women and their families. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) discussed his sponsorship of the “Semper Fi Act” that would strip federal funds from Berkeley, CA because of the City Council’s vote to oust Marine Corps recruiters from their downtown office, saying the Marines were "uninvited and unwelcome intruders" and giving the radical protest group Code Pink space outside the recruitment office and urging them to "impede, passively or actively" the work of Marine Corps recruiters.

Kristinn Taylor, a spokesman for FreeRepublic.com pointed out the relationship antiwar groups have to subversive organizations including InternationalANSWER and that attacks on recruiting stations are part of a larger war that anti-American groups were waging against the United States.

The conduct of the "peaceniks" at the press conference provided the best evidence of all of the violent nature of those in the antiwar movement. Violence and the supression of free speech are the tools of their trade.

Posted by jeffgannon at 10:43 AM

A Most Inconvenient Truth

A Tale of Two Houses

House #1: A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 12 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in the Northern or Midwestern 'Snow Belt' area. It is in the South.

House # 2: Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
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The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

WHO OWNS THE ABOVE HOUSES?

HOUSE # 1 is outside Nashville, Tennessee; it is the home of 'environmentalist' Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence of President George W. Bush.

HERE'S THE PROOF: SNOPES

Posted by jeffgannon at 08:55 AM

March 13, 2008

Capitol Police Disrupt Antiwar Press Plot

Capitol Police removed ten antiwar protesters from the Senate gallery Wednesday after they disrupted a floor debate by shouting slogans against America's participation in efforts to secure Iraq. Such outburts are not uncommon, as the anti-American group Code Pink routinely stages protests during hearings throughout the Capitol complex.

What made Wednesday's protest different was the exposure of the collaboration of Capitol Hill reporters in an event staged to suggest that protesters were being mistreated by Capitol Police. One news report described the protesters as "middle-aged" and noted that one used a cane. The article mentioned that reporters complained about not being able to witness the conduct of the police as they removed the miscreants from the building.

In the past, protesters alleged mistreatment by Capitol Police. It appears this time, protesters and members of the press colluded to manufacture a bit of propaganda that would further restrict the police in their efforts to provide security and maintain order.

Posted by jeffgannon at 09:05 AM

March 11, 2008

CA Makes Gay Marriage National Campaign Issue

State Supreme Court Poised To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

In 2003, a ruling by judicial activists that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts touched off a national debate that had a profound effect on the 2004 elections. President Bush proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, a stance helped him win re-election and propelled Republicans to larger majorities in the House and Senate. Voters in eleven of eleven states passed similar amendments preserving traditional marriage. In 2006, the issue of gay marriage still resonated, as seven of eight states approved measures that limited marriage to opposite-sex unions.

Most political analysts perceive the influence of social conservatives to be in decline considering the three contenders still in hunt for the White House. Polling suggests that “values voters” key issues, same-sex marriage and abortion have fallen well behind concerns about the economy and the war in Iraq in the mind of voters. However, the California Supreme Court is poised to change the dynamic of the 2008 presidential race.

Oral arguments are currently being heard in Sacramento that challenge the constitutionality of Proposition 22, approved by voters in 2000 that restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples. Gay rights activists asserted that only full marriage equality, in fact and name is the only acceptable outcome. The liberal-dominated court is likely to agree. Anticipating such a result, traditional marriage advocates have already begun collecting signatures for a November ballot initiative.

The ruling would provide a much-needed boost for Sen. John McCain in his pursuit of support from social conservatives who thus far have resisted the Republican nominee. McCain opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. Senate, but spoke in support of Arizona’s 2006 ballot initiative. It would also bring attention to the critical role the next president will play in shaping the Supreme Court for the next 20 years, since most observers predict at least two vacancies on the high court in the near future.

Democrats, on the other hand, face a quagmire on the issue of same-sex marriage in 2008. Gay activists, who claim at least partial credit for the Democratic takeover of Congress in the midterm elections, will not stand for a reiteration of the tepid language of the 2004 Democratic National Committee platform on their major agenda items. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hoped to skate by with vague statements of support for “equality” and “non-discrimination”, both stopping short of endorsing same-sex marriage. A ruling by the California Supreme Court to change the definition of marriage will force the Democratic hopefuls to take an unequivocal position.

Despite a misperception created by major media’s pro-gay slant, there is overwhelming support among Americans to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples. Even in liberal California, voters approved Proposition 22 by more than 60 percent. Not a single state has voted to institute same-sex marriage. In fact, in 2007, fearing a rejection of the judicial fiat that legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts, activists prevailed upon sympathetic Democrats to derail an initiative that would have put the issue before voters in 2008.

National Democratic Party leaders also worried about the impact of the issue across the country. At the time, The Boston Globe reported:

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighed in with calls in the last few days to DiMasi and Murray. She emphasized to state Democratic leaders that national Democratic officials feel strongly that a high-profile over the issue in 2008 would galvanize conservative voters nationally and undercut their efforts to capture the White House and keep control of Congress. Most observers agree that the Supreme Judicial Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage was a major hindrance to US Senator John F. Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004.

It appears that the judicial activists in Pelosi’s home state did not get the memo.

Posted by jeffgannon at 12:55 PM

March 10, 2008

Dems' Antiwar Vet Spouts Defeatism, Surrender

It is well established that the Democratic Party is totally invested in defeat in Iraq. The lastest installment can be seen in the Democratic response to President Bush's weekly radio address. Party leaders prevailed upon Roger Martinez, who served as an Army ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq to blast Sen. John McCain's pledge to continue the successful strategy put in place last year to achieve victory in Iraq.

Martinez employs the "moral authority" once reserved for Cindy Sheehan to try to give credibility to the Democratic National Committee talking points on the war and the economy. However, a hundred antiwar veterans would not make Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama fit to be Commander in Chief or the Democrats trustworthy on national security.

Posted by jeffgannon at 01:17 PM

Eco-nuts: Save The Planet - Stop Breathing!

It should come as no surprise that the global warming, climate change scaremongers would eventually decide that human life was destroying the environment. The Old Media is awash with stories about "scientists" who are suggesting that the "world cease carbon emissions altogether."

I propose that all liberals concerned about global warming should immediately cease their personal emission of carbon dioxide. Stop exhaling!

Posted by jeffgannon at 01:05 PM

Clintons Shoving Obama to Back of Bus

Bill and Hillary Clinton are writing another sad chapter in the racial politics of the party of Jim Crow and Bull Connor. Although Sen. Barack Obama leads in committed delegates, the Clintons are suggesting a unity ticket that puts Hillary at the top and pushes Barack behind her in the VP slot.

Even though President George W. Bush has appointed more African-Americans to positions of real importance and authority, Democrats and the Old Media continue to claim that Republicans are racist. As Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice is fourth in line of succession to the presidency, as was Colin Powell before her. Yet, such historic "firsts" gained little notice.

The Clinton manuever confirms what I have been suggesting for some time to African-Americans who see opportunity in the Democratic Party: Just because Democrats don't make you sit in the back of the bus anymore doesn't mean they will let you get behind the steering wheel.

The New Yorker examines a John McCain-Condoleezza Rice ticket.

Posted by jeffgannon at 10:04 AM

March 06, 2008

BREAKING: ACLU Protests Surveillance Video

Rights Group Says Recording of Recruiting Station Bombing Illegal

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a press release today asserting that video cameras used to record the actions of a "person of interest" in the bombing of a military recruiting station in Times Square are unconstitutional. The civil rights group claimed that the suspected perpetrator of the attack on the New York City office had the "expectation of privacy" and that the cameras constituted illegal government surveillance of a private citizen. The statement also declared that the ACLU would challenge the admissibility of any recordings should charges be filed against the individual seen riding a bicylce in the area at the time of the incident.

OK, maybe not, but it does sound like something the ACLU would do...

DISCLAIMER: This posting is SATIRE!

Posted by jeffgannon at 03:40 PM

Wither Art Thou, Jane Fonda?

Every four years a relic of a dark period of American history emerges from cryogenic stasis to infuse a bit of radical leftist idiocy into presidential politics. Recently, feminist icon Gloria Steinem charged that misogyny is keeping Sen. Hillary Clinton from becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Steinem spouted boilerplate gynosupremacist rhetoric at a Texas rally for the New York senator before launching into a rant against Republican Sen. John McCain. The 73-year-old remnant of the bra-burning crowd criticized America’s penchant for choosing veterans to serve as Commander in Chief and ridiculed McCain’s five-and-a-half years of captivity as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Steinem mockingly asked, "I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so."

Media reaction was subdued, not because Steinem was an individual instead of a 527 group disparaging the military service of a Vietnam veteran, but as the result of an Old Media double standard that permits scathing attacks of any kind if the target is Republican, conservative or Christian. Steinem’s vitriolic outburst led me to begin thinking about another liberal gasbag that has yet to comment on this year’s presidential stakes: Jane Fonda.

In 2004 Fonda led a get-out-the-vote effort on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate and fellow anti-Vietnam War activist John Kerry along with Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler called “Vaginas Vote.” During an interview that same year on ABC’s “Good Morning America" the actress expressed a desire to travel across America to speak out against U.S. involvement in Iraq, but conceded her Vietnam War protests left her with "too much baggage" to "do a tour like I did during the Vietnam War, a tour of the country."

I doubt Fonda’s “baggage” will constrain her from weighing in on the 2008 election considering that four years after “Vaginas Vote” American troops are still in Iraq. There is little question about Fonda’s choice since the Republican candidate has pledged to keep U.S. forces in Iraq as long as necessary if he is elected. Democrats are in the midst of deciding between two contenders competing to determine which one can wave the white flag of surrender faster. Note that Democrats only talk about ending the war in Iraq, never winning the war in Iraq.

Jane Fonda’s active participation in the debate will expose the energized and coveted youth vote claimed by Democrats to the ugly face of her antiwar ilk and the tragic legacy they inflicted on their own country over 30 years ago. Fonda can stand shoulder to shoulder with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama while America recalls the classic photograph of “Hanoi Jane” mounted on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun – the same type that shot down the plane of a Lt. Commander John McCain. A generation misled and undereducated by the leftists of the Old Media and academia will be able to learn about the collaboration of Fonda, Kerry and others with the North Vietnamese to undermine the war effort while McCain suffered torture at the hands of his communist captors.

Because the new media universe is significantly different from that of 1972, the sickening truths of a nation’s betrayal can finally come into view. All it will take is a word from Jane Fonda. Considering her recent appearance on the "Today Show" during which she blurted out a vulgarity that refers to a part of the female anatomy, I would expect that Fonda cannot hold her tongue much longer.

Additional sources: Discover the Networks MooreJ

Posted by jeffgannon at 12:39 AM

March 05, 2008

Dems Hate Big Oil, Love Terror Supporting Dictator

As the price of oil topped $100 a barrel on the world market and domestic gasoline prices continued to edge toward $4 per gallon, House Democrats sprang into action, taking away $18 billion in tax incentives from U. S. oil companies. H.B. 5351 would repeal tax incentives for the exploration for new sources of oil and shift them to alternative and renewable energy projects and conservation and energy efficiency programs.

However, the legislation specifically excluded Citgo Petroleum Corp., the US subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the petroblackmail weapon of anti-American, pro-Castro dictator Hugo Chavez. This is certainly in line with the thinking of Democrats who perceive Exxon to be a greater threat than an avowed enemy of the United States.

In a somewhat related development, a recent raid by Colombian forces on a FARC hideout across the border in Ecuador in which rebel leader Raúl Reyes was killed also yeilded a laptop that reportedly showed Venzuela provided $300 million in support to the terrorist organization. Information on the captured computer also indicated FARC’s desire to aquire uranium.

The implications of the Pelosi Energy Policy: Tax breaks for supporters of terrorism, financial retribution against companies striving to meet America’s energy needs.

Posted by jeffgannon at 10:20 AM