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CNN Wins the Bagdad Bob Award

2009-09-10T19:07:00.001-05:00

CNN reported a dramatic leap in public support for President Obama’s government takeover plan. For those who haven’t seen it, carefully read the final two paragraphs of this link. The sagging news network, formerly known as the “Clinton News Network”, yes, honest to God, included a sample of 45% Democrats, a higher concentration of Democrats than appear in the voting population as a whole or the public in general.

Be sure to reference this story the next time you confront a liberal defaming Fox News for its purported biases.

Seven healthcare questions Obama won't answer.

2009-09-08T15:28:00.002-05:00

1. Assuming the figure of 47 million is correct, how can insurance coverage be provided to 15% more people with the same number of doctors, other providers and clinic hours and hospital beds without substantially increasing the cost?

2. If the answer to “1” above is “efficiency” then how will the efficiencies be created without overt rationing in either the underwriting or coverage process, or both?

3. If the answer to “1” above is “efficiency” then why will this federal entitlement be more economically efficient then existing Medicaid, Medicare and the Veteran’s Administration health programs, all of which objectively operate at billions of dollars of losses every year?

4. If the answer to “1” above is competition then how will fair competition work if one competitor-the government plan-makes the rules and has an unlimited ability to operated at a loss?

5. If the government underwriters use more generous underwriting criteria then private insurers currently use then how will extending existing coverages to include previously excluded pre-existing conditions be less expensive than existing coverages that exclude pre-existing conditions?

6. Why will the federal employees who manage the government program, who cannot be sued and are nearly impossible to fire, provide better customer service then private insurers who can be sued and who can fire their employees at will?

7. If the cost to employers to maintain existing health insurance is more than the cost of canceling existing coverages then why will employers not simply force their employees into the government program by canceling existing coverage, thereby negating the ability of the insured to “keep the insurance plan they’ve got”?

Red Flu-Do Not Send Your Children To School on 9.11

2009-09-02T20:11:00.007-05:00

The video linked below is the most blatant evidence of the Labor/Socialist/Democrats' rejection of the most basic principles of American liberty.

It might look innocuous but it most certainly isn’t. This video concludes with an actual and personal pledge to support Barack Obama. This video has been provided to elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States for presentation to children on September 11.

Yes, this is exactly what it appears to be: an attempt to create a cult of personality packaged around a message of social involvement that equates an individual politician with the concept of social good. What more chilling example of Hitlerian totalitarianism has ever been attempted in the history of this country? Even worse, the target group is children, as in Josef Goebbels equation “today your children, tomorrow the world”.

Republicans, conservatives, and patriotic Americans who are committed to the concept of liberty should not send their children to school on September 11 to protest this video. Keep them at home. Read some real American history with your children, like how a million Americans died to end slavery in this country (although the Civil War is a historical fact that is lost on the idiot celebrities who are pledging to end slavery in the video); how we liberated a billion people in WW2 and five hundred million more in the Cold War; how we created the first country on Earth dedicated to individual liberty and not collective or elite rights; and how we created the most hospitable and welcoming country that ever existed that has welcomed more immigrants from more places on the planet to a level of prosperity and individual liberty that was inconceivable in their homelands, where ever those homelands might have been.

We need to fight this evil. The concept of pledging personal allegience to an individual political leader is indistinguishable from the North Korean indoctrination of children, to use a more 21st Century example. This country was born on the premise that citizens are loyal to the country, not its leaders.

Remember what 9.11 really means, and it surely isn't loyalty to "the one for whom we've all been waiting", to quote our Dear Leader describing himself.

The Gross Poll: Inisght into the decade of defeat.

2009-08-31T20:41:00.003-05:00

Doug Gross’ recent poll demonstrates the distinction between a boxer and a puncher. The whole premise of the poll assumes that we Republicans are a one punch palooka whose only chance is the haymaker from Hell.

Given the economic collapse our nation faces, and Iowa’s role as arguably the worst business climate in the nation, there really cannot be any argument that the economy is our best punch. To require polling data to confirm the foregoing tautology bespeaks a level of either or both political or ideological insecurity that is almost in itself disqualifying from leadership. This insecurity has caused us defeat, followed by even greater defeat because it has afflicted so much of our Republican leadership.

So, like a smart boxer, let us lead with our best punch. The next question is to decide on precisely what is that punch.

Our best punch certainly is not going to be the mere juxtaposition of Republican use of government to empower and enrich large, powerful economic units, so as to allow them to better victimize the average Iowan, against Democrat use of government to enrich and empower government itself, unions and the even the more bizarre collection of micro-interest protoplasm that make up their party, so as to better victimize the average Iowan. What is good for Principal, Wells Fargo, BoA, ethanol barons, etc… is not necessarily always good for the average American or Iowan. Our leadership has myopically assumed that the average Iowa voter knows nothing. While the average Iowan might not fully understand actuarial tables or the economic theories that justify social and corporate welfare, they surely do know their own life’s circumstances and they know what helps and hurts them-AND WE WERE NOT HELPING THEM! Merely doing less damage than the Democrats is not ever going to provide us with the majority building mandate we need to reverse the last twenty to forty years of government growth.

Here’s another historical, and hence political reality, a reality so obvious that any political leader, not enmeshed in only their life and interests (the latter, of course, being a subset of the former) should require polling data to know -people are pissed at “big business” because big business, much like big government, takes even the coppers from the eyes of the dead as they cross the River Styx. Just blathering about “smaller government” and “tax cuts” isn’t going to work-at least if the Republican politician’s objective is to obtain office for the purpose of governing in a manner that is more, rather than less, like our platform, and the beliefs and interests of the average Republican, who statistically is a small business owner or employee of a small business, family farmer, etc...

Moreover, it probably won’t work electorally more than once because the problems faced by the average Iowan are very much real. People want solutions so badly that they were willing to buy into the historically disastrous anti (or perhaps “contra”) Americanism that the Democrats offered in the last two electoral cycles.

Replicating the Republican legislative agenda, both here and in D.C., of 2000-2006 is certainly not the answer; the public has already weighed, measured and found that agenda to be sadly insufficient to solve the problems of the everyday Iowan. Accepting this fact will go a long way toward rebuilding confidence in our party. “Blame storming” has not really advanced our agenda, although it has helped to keep reform out of our party and given us a somewhat deserved reputation for being unwelcoming. Bankruptcy court is filled with companies that blamed the customer for not buying its product.

So, let us come up with a real agenda of governmental and economic reform that addresses employment and immigration security; long term and sustained economic development that is dependent on government providing nothing than a generically good business climate; health care, health insurance (and insurance in general), social service and banking reform; and then explain it to the voters. Or, we could keep repeating shopworn tag lines that remind the voter of nothing more than what they don’t like about Republicans.

Then, how about having a second punch? A third? A fourth? The public is with us on virtually every social issue, why on earth would we run from popular positions? Of course, that too might require actually saying something other than “family values” or “Christian” because the party of Mark Sanford, Larry Craig and David Vitter has to come up with new and considerably better ways to explain the importance of social virtue. Homosexuality is viewed as morally failed in virtually every culture, including the one in which we live, through all of recorded history so why do we need to speak in code? Abortion, even more contrary to the law of nature itself than homosexuality, is as perennially prominent as class warfare and race baiting in liberal campaign rhetoric. The voters already agree with us so why on Earth should we not we make the voters feel good about that agreement. Most people feel oppressed by a politically correct liberal media and academia that limits the expression of the conservative majority to whispered tones in the privacy of one’s home. We should end that oppression.

While the occupant of Terrace Hill and the leadership offices under the Dome make a lot of difference to the people who trade in power and government largesse, if we don’t come up with real solutions to real problems before the Democrats perfect the one-party total state that is their objective those occupants will not make much difference to the average Iowan on the ground. The Republican that has the insight to grasp this historical moment and the courage to exploit it will crush their rivals in a primary and the Big Lug in November. Otherwise, while we might scare the hell out of the public and gain slimish legislative majorities for a while, and some among us will make a killing, it won’t impress the public with any long term affection for us and it certainly will not stop, much less reverse, the gradual decline into the moral, emotional and political bankruptcy of socialism.

Propaganda doesn’t sell: The New York Times goes on welfare.

2009-07-18T11:28:00.003-05:00

Great news this Saturday morning! It appears that the failing New York Times is seeking funding from and through non-profit charity.

As we all know, the New York Times has become nothing more than a pathetic shell of a once noble and important component of informing the electorate. Now the nobility has been replaced by indecorous mendacity and the information with agitprop.

Poynter Online reported yesterday that the NY Times is “considering” funding from non-profit foundations. Such funding is, of course, necessary because the Times is no longer capable of earning sufficient advertising income.

Maybe the Times could have avoided such fiscal pandering had it not driven Republicans, conservatives and fair minded independents from its circulation universe.

Update: Barbara Boxer and the case for Jim Crow.

2009-07-16T18:47:00.000-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A-a paradigmatic demonstration that the identity politics of Jim Crow is still thriving in the womb that bred it.

Continuing good numbers for the GOP: an opportunity not a guarantee.

2009-07-10T19:12:00.004-05:00

As summer’s heat brings dehydration to so many riparian landscapes the catastrophic reality of the "change" for which they voted in 2006 and 2008. The Obama Labor/Socialist/Democrat agenda is therapeutically baking America’s delusion producing symptoms of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) out of the body politic. With its improved lucidity the body politic is, in turn, returning to the party of reality and reason, the GOP.

Rasmussen reported yesterday that Republicans are leading Democrats in eight of the ten regularly polled issues. A thorough review of Rasmussen’s various internal questions provides even better news for pachyderms everywhere.

Perhaps most telling are Rasmussen’s latest ideologically self-identification numbers. Late last month, Gallup disclosed more than forty percent of all American voters consider themselves to be ideologically “conservative”. Yesterday’s Rasmussen report corroborates Gallup’s findings. Rasmussen shows 54% of the voters think the average L/S/D congressman is more liberal than are they, the average voter, while only 36% think the average Republican is more conservative that are they, the average voter. Numbers like that are powerful indicia of a growing public realization that conservative and Republican solutions, based on the traditional engines of individual and social success, create the greatest opportunity for the greatest good for the greatest number of people, as imperfect as we may be.

Rasmussen and Gallup’s data echoes Democrat uber-pollster Doug Schoen’s statements that non-party voters are trending “functional” Republican. As the public experiences the cost and risk associated with its generational flirtation with liberal fantasy it realizes how utterly misled it has been by a liberal press devoted to destroying a Republican president and a Republican president unwilling to fight back. So now the public realizes that turning the country over to L/S/D madness doesn’t solve its problems, it only worsens them.

Americans are willing to give us another look. Americans want conservative solutions. Product interest, however, is insufficient to assure product purchase. If we are going to win we have to provide those solutions in a credible way to a frustrated and suspicious electorate.

Republicans are, indeed, engaged in a major identity crisis. We had better find the right product before we worry about the salesman.

Notoriety for Andrea

2009-07-08T09:15:00.003-05:00

We occasionally report on matters other than politics. Occasionally we even report on things personal to the Real Sporer himself. Yesterday, Ted’s partner Andrea (i.e. the “Flanagan” in “Sporer & Flanagan P.C.”) received a little publicity herself.

The Des Moines Register’s “Juice” publication gave the above pictured Andrea a nice write up.

Congratulations, Junior.

Castro + Ortega + Chavez + Zelaya = Obama (via HJRes 5)

2009-06-29T16:06:00.004-05:00

After initially giving tacit endorsement of the Iranian Islamofacist crackdown that crushed the hopes for democracy in Iran the Obama Administration quickly offered an even more insightful and illuminative display of Labor/Socialist/Democrats' embrace of dictatorships everywhere.

While music fans and child molesters the world over were mourning the death of Micheal Jackson, an ally of Hugo Chavez, Honduran President Mel Zelaya produced a hemispheric thriller of his own. Zelaya was looking to follow in the Chavez footsteps as “President for Life” in Honduras. Zelaya had planned a rigged referendum (we’re sure Jimmy Carter was invited as the perpetual useful idiot that dictators employ to validate their gaffed electoral facades-see Venezuela and Iran) by which to set aside the inconvenient constitutions that term limited their respective unpopular regimes.

Unlike the politicized Venezualan military, the Honduran military demonstrated it's committment to protect their nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic, grabbed Zelaya and promptly exiled him to Costa Rica.

Just like Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Zelaya planned to end Honduran democracy with a whimper. After Zelaya called a referendum that would have amended the Honduran Constitution to allow him to serve unlimited terms, the Honduran Supreme Court held such a referendum cannot be called by the President, only the National Assembly and only after a two thirds vote (oddly, exactly what the Honduran Constitution says). Zelaya simply ignored both the Court and the Constitution and obtained ballots from……..you guessed it, Hugo Chavez. The Honduran Attorney General then said that he would prosecute anyone participating in holding the plainly unlawful election.

The commanding general of the Honduran Army told Zelaya that El Presidente would have to comply with the Supreme Court's order. Zelaya then fired the general. While the Supreme Court was reinstalling the commanding general thugs working for Zelaya apparently stormed the warehouse in which the ballots were stored and began distributing them. The Honduran Army then acted to enforce the orders of the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran Attorney General and removed Zelaya from power.

Where President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the whole cadre of Democrat leftists could find only moral equivalency between the Iranian mullahs and the hundreds of thousands of freedom seeking protestors it had no such handicap in supporting a local thug like Zelaya.

Obama quickly declared the coup illegal (although the Honduran army was acting to enforce orders of its Supreme Court and AG to prevent Zelaya from conducting an election to make himself President for life) and is even now aggressively promoting Zelaya’s cause to the United Nations. A mere casual or narrow observation of the Obama Administration's outrage over Honduras could create a humanitarian basis for all the hubbub about Zelaya. After all, the L/S/Ds have exiled global terror threats to tropical resorts like the Bahamas or Palua and the Hondurans sent Zelaya to Costa Rica. But a more careful examination reveals something much more sinister and dangerous is afoot.

Americans need to take a good hard look at the nations Obama perceives as allies and enemies of the United States. President Obama has been unable to find word one to criticize the demon regimes in North Korea and Iran, other than the academic discussions that such regimes’ conduct may be destabilizing. However, from the day on which President Obama took office he has repeatedly insulted the British, the Canadians and the Israelis while supporting Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, China, Russia, and now Honduras.

While the Obama foreign policy objectives seem oddly inconsistent with the last thirty years of American policy (don’t forget it was President Clinton who made regime change in Iraq official American policy) the pattern is even more frightening.

Even as these words are written, the Obama Administration allies have introduced Joint House Resolution No. 5 before Congress. HJ Res. 5 will repeal the 22nd Amendment to our own Constitution-term limits for the President. Apparently, President Obama now views himself as an acolyte of dictators Chavez, Ortega and Zelaya and not merely domestic racists, radicals and terrorists like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayres.

Yeah, where are those jobs?

2009-06-27T21:10:00.003-05:00

Republican House Leader John Boehner is surely beginning to grow on us here at TRS. Boehner started slow in his first two years. Not surprisingly, Boehner was unable to create a Republican identity separate from that of the Bush Administration. Now, in confronting the most reckless and irresponsible social and economic agenda in American history Boehner is beginning to find his footing.

Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly recall the Labor/Socialist/Democrat mindless eight year attack on George W. Bush’s economy. Notwithstanding the inherited Clinton recession, the inherited corporate scandals, the inherited growing energy crises (just ask “Grayout” Davis about that one in 2002) and, of course, the most devastating exogenous shock to ever strike the American economy, 9.11, the L/S/D claimed that 5.4% unemployment was a “jobless recovery” back in 2004.

Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly also recall that the L/S/D claimed that the Bush economy, roaring along at full employment throughout all of 2006 was in dire need of change or the American dream would be gone with the wind.

Finally, Boehner, like millions of other Americans undoubtedly recall President Obama’s demand for a dead of night passage of the fiscal fantasy described as his trillion dollar “stimulus” package, without congressional, much less national, debate or unemployment would reach eight percent.

When unemployment blew past that eight percent worst case scenario, the President floated his usual astucious red herring with the datum defying claim that the stimulus was "saving jobs", nothwithstanding the complete absence of any economic evidence to support such macro gibberish. Now, with unemployment over nine percent and headed toward double digits, Boehner asks a simple question, where are the jobs?

Well L/S/Ds, where are they?

Battle of the Burqas

2009-06-22T18:06:00.003-05:00

The French, whose cultural and political significance is so often cited by American liberals as worthy of emulation here in the USA, are now actually outlawing the wearing of the burqa and the najib. The cosmopolitan French President described the burqa and the najib as follows: “The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement.”

On the other hand, President Obama addressed the issue through his usual combination of dissimilation and multicultural pander. First, the President indicated that the burqa and the najib were merely a scarf covering a woman’s head. A burqa does indeed cover a woman’s hair so one cannot say the President is lying. However, a burqa also covers the entire body from head to foot with only a mesh screen over the eyes. A najib is a scarf, typically Johnny Cash style (all black for the music neophyte) with slits for the eyes. So, the President was also concealing the whole truth.

The President then panders and implies that burqas and nijabs are welcome in America. President Obama apparently sees nothing wrong with a Seventh Century cult practice, already rejected throughout most of the Islamic world itself, designed to deny women all identity.

One is well led to wonder at the extent of the self-deceptive sophistry that is undertaken by the NOW gang, those aging pants suit wearing and bra burning free lovers of 1968, to reconcile President Obama’s embrace of the ultimate physical symbol of gender repression with their giddy support for President Obama?

The increasingly irrelevant feminist leadership could regain some desperately needed credibility, and possibly self-esteem, by joining the Republicans, the party that gave women the right to vote, in our historical and international battle to vindicate the rights and improves the life of women throughout the world. While the answer is probably “no”, as it was when President Clinton was serving Arkansas red-hot to the interns and volunteers in the White House, the invitation is certainly worth the extending.

Vive la France!

A new week begins with even better numbers.

2009-06-21T20:00:00.000-05:00

Oh yeah, Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index goes negative for the first time in the Obama Presidency.

Thirty two percent strongly approve of the Obama job performance and thirty four percent strongly disapprove.

We have nothing to fear from criticizing the Marxist regime of poverty at home and appeasement abroad except a media that already hates all things Republican and conservative.

Let’s go get ‘em this week.

Green Monday-Freedom for Iran!

2009-06-20T22:06:00.000-05:00

Should we not all wear green on Monday in solidarity with those Iranians that truly do want a democratic government and a place in the mainstream world?

They may not be a majority and they may not be entirely to our liking but they are certainly better than the genocidal terror regime that governs the present Iran.

We may very well be watching history and, if so, Americans should do what we have always done and stand in support of freedom and democracy.

So stand and be counted among the international supporters of freedom on Monday, June 22, 2009.

Good News-Good Republican Numbers

2009-06-20T12:41:00.000-05:00

At a time that the mainstream media is doing its disingenuous best to perform last rites for conservatism and the GOP the actual numbers stubbornly resist surrendering the ghost.

This morning we awaken to Gallup reporting the continued erosion of public approval of President Obama’s agenda of Marxist poverty at home (except, of course, for the “proletarian” elite) and appeasement and surrender abroad. Gallup now shows Obama’s job approval slipping again, this time to a historic low of 58%. A seven percent drop among non-party voters leads the decline.

While some would say 58% is evidence of widespread public support real history, which did not begin with election of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, speaks to the contrary. George W. Bush, who won by a much smaller margin, was at 57% job approval at the same time in his presidency. Bill Clinton sat twenty percent behind at 37% with Ronald Reagan little better at 43%. George H.W. Bush was sitting pretty in the low 60s in June of 1989. We couldn’t locate a June 1977 poll for Jimmy “Ayatollah” Carter but his first year average was 63% so it’s safe to assume June was close to the average.

So maybe the world in learning that our All Powerful Leader is not, after all, the one for whom we’ve all been waiting.

Even better, Gallup polling data release earlier this found self-identified conservatives were the largest segment of the American electorate at 40% with liberals at a mere 21%. The conservative numbers are superior to the same time in 1993 and we all know what happened in ’94.

America does need substantial change but it appears that the public is learning that the Labor/Socialist/Democrat vision of a federal government that decides what we eat, what we drive, where we live, how much we earn and how much medical care we receive is not the change they had in mind.

Bahamas Tommy Harkin...Race Baiting...Energy Tax

2009-06-18T18:02:00.001-05:00

So, Bahamas Tommy Harkin resorts to race baiting to deflect attention from his support for the Waxman/Markey energy tax by sponsoring a resolution to apologize for, wait for it .......

Slavery. Yes, slavery.

Weren't the 360,222 Union Army deaths in the Civil War a fairly vivid expression of regret for slavery? Like most liberals, Harkin ignores the nobility bespoken by that statistic.

A Tale of Two Times

2009-05-27T20:49:00.003-05:00

History always repeats itself.

1935-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles (that ended WW 1) and remilitarizes Germany with a new navy, air force, and armored and air borne divisions. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1935-Italy invades Ethiopia. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1936-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and remilitarizes the border with France. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1937-Japan invades China at the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1937-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and occupies Austria. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1938-Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles and occupies half of Czechoslovakia. The US, UK and France protest and complain to the League of Nations.

1939-Nazi Germany violates both the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich accords of the same year and occupies the remainder of free Czechoslovakia. The West didn’t even bother to protest.

1939-Nazi Germany invades Poland. France and the UK declare war on Germany, and then do nothing. The US does nothing.

1940-Japan occupies the entire Chinese coast. The US does nothing.

1940-Western Europe is occupied, the UK stands alone. The US begins nothing more than Lend Lease.

1941-Japan occupies French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). The US finally implements trade sanctions.

1941-Japan attacks the US at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam and elsewhere.

Now, a mere seventy years later, western and especially the American pacifists are re-learning the lessons of appeasement. Like their fascist god fathers of the 1930 and 1940s, the monsters in Teheran and Pyongyang are again testing the West. The mullahs and their handpicked lunatic, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the most bizarre and brutal dictatorship of the Kim dynasty in North Korea have taken stock of recent history and now are following an all too familiar historical road to Armageddon.

The North Koreans have been slowly been evading compliance with the 1953 Cease Fire agreements, while building a relatively advanced nuclear armament and an ICBM system with which to deliver it. Bill Clinton might have been the last American President to have the ability to stop the North Koreans short of war back in 1994; but then again Kim might have already been able to deliver dirty weapons to Tokyo when then President Clinton so famously recalled the planes, which would certainly explain the recall. President Bush scared the Koreans for several years but then the American left convinced them that the politically weakened President would not attack them and they resumed nuclear testing.

The Iranians have been taking and promoting acts of war against the United States for more than thirty years while also pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The Iranians have seen the United States doing essentially nothing to contain them. Even worse, the Iranians learned how they could benefit from the Western liberal rage at the Bush Doctrine of preemption. There is a reason the Iranians and North Koreans and their terror allies cheered the election of the weakest American President since at least Herbert Hoover.

The world has become very much more dangerous in the last twenty-four hours as North Korea has formally abrogated the 1953 Cease Fire; begun the rapid testing of numerous new missiles and delivery systems having already threatened to attack American and South Korean ships.

Change indeed America. Change indeed.

The Supreme Court pick: Justice denied, racism and sexism exalted.

2009-05-26T19:16:00.005-05:00

The loud wrenching sound and terrifying tremor that was observed in Washington DC and north-east Virginia was not an earth quake, tectonic or political. Geologists and historians have confirmed that shaking that was seen and heard earlier this morning was not, as initially thought, a natural disaster. No, the terrestrial tumult was caused by the simultaneous attempts of Justices Earl Warren, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom Clark, Harry Blackmun and William Brennan to rise from the their graves in Arlington National Cemetary in protest of today’s nominee to fill one of the chairs that they once occupied on our nation’s court of last resort.

President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor confirms that the Labor/Socialist/Democrat social agenda prioritizes social organization in the face of not just constitutional barriers like; say, the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection, but the basic principle of the American judiciary-justice. As reported in the May 14 edition of the New York Times, the proposed, and probably inevitable Justice, actually uttered the following words:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Nothing has to be read into Judge Sotomayor’s words-she has actually stated her belief that race and gender alone produce superior judicial results. Can anyone who followed the borking of Justices Thomas and Alito, and Chief Justices Rehnquist and Roberts, much less Judge Robert Bork himself, imagine the L/S/D response had any of those Republican nominees stated a belief that white men inherently produce better conclusions and purer justice?

Such a statement of racial and gender bias is antithetical to everything for which historic warriors for equality, like Justices Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, and so many others, worked into American common and Constitutional law. The majesty of the United States derives in no small part from our search to create a blind law that identically treats similarly situated people. Now, those Justices are told that their legacy to us has been wrong-the law needs “empathy” through racial and gender based life experience.

Then again, these are the same people who invented Jim Crow so maybe the 21st Century L/S/D embrace of racism and sexism should not be all that surprising after all.

Iran and North Korea: Didn't get the messiah memo.

2009-05-25T14:06:00.004-05:00

From 2004 on the liberal critique of the Bush era foreign policy centered on two irreconcilable premises: President Bush was a cowboy who engaged in a unilateral approach to the world while refusing to engage in unilateral diplomacy with the two rouge states, Iran and North Korea. As is historically indisputable, the Bush Administration was committed to the “six party” talks with North Korea and the European led multiparty negotiations with Iran. Strangely both the Bush Administration and our 2008 nominee, John McCain, refused to engage in a fundamental foreign policy debate with the liberal press and the L/S/D candidates, notwithstanding the lack of fact or reason to support the adversaries’ argument.

As a result the incredible became conventional wisdom. Candidate Obama, metronomically turning from teleprompter to teleprompter, promised a new, humble foreign policy where his messianic personality would create international consensus before acting in America’s interest. Candidate Obama promised to engage in direct negotiations with Iran and North Korea, in the apparent belief that his own power of persuasion would cause the leadership of Kim Jong-Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to abandon their lifetime of anti-Americanism, and their nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.

President Obama’s appeasement of Iran has become so desperate that he has promised American support for Iran’s continued development of its nuclear program if Iran allows international inspections of that nuclear program. Within hours the genocidal minded President of Iran rejected any restraint on its nuclear program. The Iranian response is not particularly unexpected. Unlike the joyful crowds of American and European socialists and pacifists, the reader should not forget that Iran greeted President Obama’s promise of a new consensus building United States by launching a new longer range and more accurate ICBM, and one that was capable of carrying a nuclear payload.

Employing the same logic that supported their critique of the Bush foreign policies, the President, the Labor/Socialist/Democrat congressional caucuses and their allies in the dominant media and academia now claim that the Iranian development of nuclear weapons and the ICBMs with which to launch those nuclear warheads makes the average American safer.

North Korea has engaged in a very similar course of conduct since George W. Bush left office. Having recently test launched a new ICBM, capable of carrying a larger nuclear payload a thousand miles farther than the previously known range of Korean ICBM, last night, on the eve of Memorial Day, the North Koreans tested their yet most powerful nuclear weapon. North Korean possession of nuclear weapons and continued improvement of its ICBM capacity is consistent with North Korea’s stated intention of acquiring a capacity to hit the continental United States. Yet, somehow, we are to believe that the Korean developments increase American security and promote American policy.

While it is, of course, clear, that the United States and our allies in Europe and Israel have become far less safe since the Obama Administration took control of American foreign policy, President Obama is popular with the American and European left and, in the end, that’s all that really matters isn’t it.

Iowa Public Education: Jabberwocky is the new official language.

2009-05-23T11:13:00.003-05:00

The Des Moines Register reports that Iowa’s graduation rate fell from 90.5% in 2007 to 88.7% in 2008. In Des Moines the rate has fallen from 84% in 2006 to 65.1% in just two years. The official Labor/Socialist/Democrat response came from the Governor’s politically appointed Director of Education, Judy Jeffrey who said: "We don't know that it really has dropped," said Iowa's top education official, Judy Jeffrey. "It's just a different method of counting. We just have a more accurate portrayal."

As the Register further reported [Jeffrey] “declined to portray [sic]previous years' numbers as inaccurate.” Jeffrey’s response invokes a common joke in the old Soviet Union that went like this: A bright young man completed University education in accounting. When applying for his first state funded and controlled job he was asked the total of 2 plus 2. Thinking carefully, the young accountant concluded that the inevitable and only accurate answer had to be “whatever you say it is Comrade”.

The new numbers are also much more accurate than older numbers thanks to George W. Bush. The No Child Left Behind Act required schools to assign individual numbers to students, who are now tracked.

Long time advocate of educational reform, Des Moines School Board member Jon Naricisse has been arguing for years that Des Moines public schools have exaggerated graduation rates. The latest statistics certainly seem to vindicate Jon’s critique. A 19% decline in two years can be explained in only one or both of two ways: either the previous statistics were grossly exaggerated or the current Des Moines schools mismanaged in a shocking degree of incompetence.

The President of the Des Moines School Board proposes simplifying the graduation requirements is the solution rather than pursuing excellence as the solution. How quintessentially liberal.

……… and these are the people we want running our schools?

TEA PARTY: Liberal Media Bias, Des Moines Register Headline Fraudulently Understates Des Moines turnout.

2009-04-15T18:21:00.004-05:00

In a simply unbelievable display of liberal media bias the Des Moines Register’s webpage carries the following headline description of today’s Tea Party rallies in both Des Moines and Iowa City (link):

The very first sentence in the story employs the multiple “thousands” to describe the turnout in Des Moines, and the body of the story contains the State Patrol’s estimate of 3000. KCCI television has good coverage (who has to be wondering how the editors changed his own eye witness estimate of “thousands” in Des Moines to the singular thousand in both Iowa City and Des Moines) confirm the estimate of at least 3000 in Des Moines.

But don't believe us, the WHO TV chopper video allows the reader to have an idea of the crowd size. When viewing please remember the enormous area of the Capitol's West Lawn and the early stage of the event in which even this video was shot.

This YouTube video shows a later stage of the event and demonstrates the density, sincerity and courtesy of a conservative and truly populist crowd, and ironic juxtaposition when viewed against the proverbial liberal Code Pink, anti-war and racist crowds that physically attacked Republicans at our national convention and routinely engage in riotous behaivor when ever President Bush touched down for more than few hours in any one location.

Put proper context the tea party turnout is more than three times as large as the recent Labor/Socialist/Democrat turnout in support of homosexual marriage and ten to twenty times as large as the local anti-war protests over the last few several years, all of which received massive headline coverage from the Register. The large crowd was certainly more diverse than the gaggle of Doonesbury characters that populated the anti-war events.

They know what they are doing and why they are doing it, but apparently do not know that Al Gore invented the internet and the old media tricks are now easily exposed, and yet wonder why their circulation is collapsing. If I was a Gannett shareholder I'd be pissed.

JACK BOOT, PLEASE, WOMEN’S SIZE 7: Napolitano targets conservatives in further suppression of dissent.

2009-04-14T19:35:00.008-05:00

Roger Hedgecock broke a story of enormous significance earlier today. The Obama Administration issued a Homeland Security report that warned of the threat from those conservatives groups opposed to homosexual marriage, abortion, firearm restrictions or illegal immigration, and, of course, the obvious danger to America posed by our returning war veterans, who the previous administration viewed as war heros.

Coupled with last month’s DHS warning that supporters of Ron Paul, or other conservative or libertarian third parties are suspicious and pose a risk to the government of the United States, the chilling comparison of the Labor/Socialist/Democrat agenda with totalitarian regimes of the past are becoming more clearly evident, and much sooner, than we feared.

Strangely enough, the Obama security team appears unconcerned with the rioters/protesters who threatened the Republican National Convention last summer in Minneapolis (which only those watching Fox News or attending actually saw because of the media blackout of anything that could possibly harm the Obama campaign) or those persons with histories of actually bombing institutions of American government (the President’s close friend William Ayres) or those who have travelled to enemy nations (countries whose governments gin up rallies where thousands shriek “death to America” etc… and support or have supported anti-American terror like Saddam’s Iraq, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela) or just plain advocate the justice of anti-American terror efforts.

Does anyone remember something from a history class about governments that gain control of the means of production and conditions employment on support of government policy; use law enforcement to intimidate dissent; gain control of the media to prevent dissenting speech; and, identify and demonize large segments of the traditional population as enemies of the state? We have a mental image and we'll bet you do to.

2009-04-11T13:55:00.002-05:00

The video has an interesting Republican energy alternative. As one can see, we are far from a party of no ideas.

THEY THINK IT’S A SIMON & GARFUNKEL FOLK SONG: the last week in the Obama presidency.

2009-04-11T11:19:00.003-05:00

Oh what a time it was, it was a time of...

Iran announces that it controls the entire nuclear production cycle.
North Korea launches a new longer range ICBM.
Pirates seize two American ships off Somalia.

... innocence, a time of confidences.

SPEAKER PAT MURPHY SHOWS THE WORLD WHAT HATE SPEECH REALLY IS!

2009-04-09T22:03:00.005-05:00

Nothing exposes the truly hate filled nature of the repressive politically correct liberal like a challenge.

We all know that Speaker Pat Murphy has consistently demonstrated himself to be a bully, rhetorically and otherwise. Today his rhetoric reached into what is truly hate speech.

Murphy actually said that those who oppose homosexual marriage are the same as the Ku Klux Klan.

So, in the Butcher’s world, one who thinks and argues that an institution that has developed over millennia as the primary social unit of most cultures on Earth should not be altered to suit the financial and sexual needs of a micro-minority is the moral equivalent of the Klansman. The reader may recall, in our real history, the Klan was the Democrat response to the Republican civil rights agenda for the ante-bellum south. The Klan is, of course, a repulsive terror group that has murdered thousands of American citizens simply for the color of their skin or sound of their last name. Needless to say, can we not all agree that the Klan is now reviled by all decent people even if was once popular among Democrats in the Jim Crow south? (Upon further reflection, perhaps this is a strained premise. After all, the Iowa Senate Democrats gave Senator Jack Hatch a standing ovation in their caucus following his use of the now discarded “N” bomb on the floor of the Iowa Senate.) But we digress.

Such demonization is, of course, the standard liberal response for infidels, like conservatives and Republicans, or heretics, like liberals who swerve from the ultra-reactionary liberal prayer book. Don’t believe me, read some liberal response to Juan Williams or Camille Paglia. But we digress, again.

Apparently Butcher Murphy saw our post yesterday and said “not just yes, but hell yes, we intend to muzzle opposition by the use of verbal intimidation”. Murphy certainly made it clear that the thought police are next because, of course, KKK like terrorism cannot be tolerated, now can it?

One would think that hate speech is language that describes a person or group as abominable and worthy only of public repudiation and rebuke, like say, yes…wait for it…the Klan? The opponents of homosexual marriage have not expressed a desire to see homosexuals harmed, or even disrupted in their alternate lifestyle, much less subjected to lynching, immolation, tarring (with or without feathering) or other, even more creative, Klan murder specialties. No one has compared homosexuals to child molesters, pornographers or other forms of “alternate” sexual lifestyles because such comparisons are inappropriate and would be be intended to arouse public abhorrence and rebuke of homosexuals personally. Nothing we’ve said here has expressed anything other than disapproval of a homosexual lifestyle, which is only “hatred” in the liberal world where any disagreement with the liberal liturgy is hate speech because it is an article of faith among liberals that only hatred could inform opposition to a liberal concept.

This time, however, the average, everyday person is not going to be intimidated in surrendering their opinions and values to a political correctness that they privately know to be absurd and harmful. To paraphrase Ed Failor’s speech to the college Republicans-we do not want to whisper our history in the dark! Butcher Murphy can chase 800 average, everyday Iowans out of the Capitol but he cannot yet silence their collective voice.

Oh, and Pat our real history also teaches that it was, in fact, the Klan who sought to silence opposition through intimidation, threats and abusive language.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION for MARRIAGE: Fantastic television ad portends the next step on the radical “progressive” agenda.

2009-04-08T20:34:00.004-05:00

Remember back in the early 90s when debate was raging across America about sodomy laws? The social conservatives of that era often warned that repeal of sodomy laws was a precursor to homosexual marriage. The liberals of that era ridiculed the SoCos as hate mongers and scare mongers for even suggesting such a result.

Half a generation later, we are confronted with the state’s adoption of homosexual marriage notwithstanding the public’s overwhelming disapproval. So what now?

The non-partisan political action group, National Organization of Marriage, is airing a brilliant, touching and very effective ad that provides clear insight into the next step of this radical homosexual agenda.

The ad provides a most foreboding yet accurate adumbration of the larger future. Already, entire days of school are devoted to homosexual appreciation through “Day of Silence” activities. Anti-bullying laws are used by heterosexual liberal teachers and administrators to prevent any expression of the overwhelming disapproval of homosexual students by their peers, and the few of the academic’s own fellows who must maintain their views in the greatest of confidence. Religious speech is aggressively prosecuted in Canada and Europe and is already suppressed in some states south of the Canadian border. Religious health care providers are required to treat homosexuals against the religious teaching of the providers themselves.

The next step in silencing dissent and teaching the next generation to refrain from any expression of any disapproval of the liberal orthodox liturgy is the adoption of state and national “civil rights” laws. The essence of disapproval would be criminalized by extending specific protected classification to homosexuals. The specter of criminal prosecution and civil litigation that would arise from such classification would terrify a public already cowed into nearly complete silence by the strictures of political correctness.

Most states, including Iowa, have hate crime laws. Speech can and is prosecuted under hate crime laws if it’s “ntimidating”. Let us never forget that the local Labor/Socialist/Democrats were “intimidated” by booing at a political event so I think the reader can easily imagine the new concept of “intimidation” that would arise in this brave new world.

Several Iowa cities already have such ordinances and liberals have long sought to amend Iowa’s state civil rights statutes to encompass homosexuality as a protected class. Of course opponents will be labeled “haters” and “homophobes” (which isn’t even a real word) and shouted down by the PC crowd, which is how normal civil and moral tolerance has been turned into forced approval and encouragement by the bizarre counter-intuition of liberal thought.

And thus civilization does die with a whimper.