• Pragerisms

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    Dennis Prager Wisdom.

    • "The left is far more interested in gaining power than in creating wealth."
    • "Without wisdom, goodness is worthless."
    • "I prefer clarity to agreement."
    • "First tell the truth, then state your opinion."
    • "Being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."
    • "If you don't fight evil, you fight gobal warming."
    • "There are things that are so dumb, you have to learn them."
  • Liberalism’s Seven Deadly Sins

    • Sexism
    • Intolerance
    • Xenophobia
    • Racism
    • Islamophobia
    • Bigotry
    • Homophobia

    A liberal need only accuse you of one of the above in order to end all discussion and excuse himself from further elucidation of his position.

  • Glenn’s Reading List for Die-Hard Pragerites

    • Bolton, John - Surrender is not an Option
    • Bruce, Tammy - The Thought Police; The New American Revolution; The Death of Right and Wrong
    • Charen, Mona - DoGooders:How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help
    • Coulter, Ann - If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans; Slander
    • Dalrymple, Theodore - In Praise of Prejudice; Our Culture, What's Left of It
    • Doyle, William - Inside the Oval Office
    • Elder, Larry - Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card--and Lose
    • Frankl, Victor - Man's Search for Meaning
    • Flynn, Daniel - Intellectual Morons
    • Fund, John - Stealing Elections
    • Friedman, George - America's Secret War
    • Goldberg, Bernard - Bias; Arrogance
    • Goldberg, Jonah - Liberal Fascism
    • Herson, James - Tales from the Left Coast
    • Horowitz, David - Left Illusions; The Professors
    • Klein, Edward - The Truth about Hillary
    • Mnookin, Seth - Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
    • Morris, Dick - Because He Could; Rewriting History
    • O'Beirne, Kate - Women Who Make the World Worse
    • Olson, Barbara - The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    • O'Neill, John - Unfit For Command
    • Piereson, James - Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
    • Prager, Dennis - Think A Second Time
    • Sharansky, Natan - The Case for Democracy
    • Stein, Ben - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It
    • Steyn, Mark - America Alone
    • Stephanopolous, George - All Too Human
    • Thomas, Clarence - My Grandfather's Son
    • Timmerman, Kenneth - Shadow Warriors
    • Williams, Juan - Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
    • Wright, Lawrence - The Looming Tower

Barack Obama Conducts Racist and Smear Campaign

We have seen the nation-wide video hoax of Karl Rove making deals with foreign money to defeat Barack Obama’s Marxist left distributed by the Democrat Party throughout the land….the one showing  a shadowy figure stealing a gals purse in a parking ramp.  Our president Obama often repeated the lie attempting to stir up his fan base this past week.   The Big Lie had a shelf life of less  than a week.

No selling of obamacare takeover of the nations’ health care was heard.  No defense of his love for his Cap and Trade tax scheme wasn’t sold either.  It was never mentioned.

This week the flailing Marxist fan moved forward in his campaign, discovering  an  OLD favorite campaign trick especially successful among American blacks…. Left wing racism by separating various special interest groups based on race and class, and pounding the theme they are hated by his opponents and only he can save them from unhappiness.   This time he’s selling his booze to Latinos.  Please click below to review the tactic:

  
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/fool-us-once-mr-president%e2%80%a6/

What Happens to Gays When Shariah Enters the American Neighborhood?

 

THE TORONTO MAYORAL ELECTION
North of the border, a fat white right-winger beat a gay liberal to get elected Mayor of Toronto and the media have fallen back on how his landslide is the last gasp of old, vengeful, angry white males. In a far less deluded analysis, Kathy Shaidle has one of the best posts I’ve read on the internal contradictions of the multicultural society. In the very year that Toronto became a “majority minority” society, a liberal homosexual (and married gay parent) goes down to a far greater defeat than any of the Trudeaupian establishment predicted. Well, who do you think voted against him, geniuses? A few months after 9/11, I was strolling along the Boulevard de Maisonneuve in Montréal. Across the street there was an “adult” shop with its window full of very explicit gay sex paraphernalia. Struggling past it, laden with shopping bags, was a Muslim woman covered from head to toe. It’s not hard to figure where we’re going: In ten years’ time, the Muslim woman will still be here, along with many others. The gay sex shop will be gone.”

The above article was written by Mark Steyn at his website, steynonline.  The gay-in-your-face culture is a new phenomenon in America.  Left wing compassion  protects gays, Democrats would like us to believe.  But loyalties to Marxism waver.  They come and go when no longer needed.

 

In the present collection of victimhoods gathered by America’s left wing, its Democratic Party,  to   win Congress in 2006 and adding the White House in 2008, we find the country’s “Gay Movement”….angry, disgruntled,  vengeful, hating, narcissistic,  jealous, insecure, and  feeling hated and isolated.   They organized and demand ‘equality”.

Mark Steyn muses  what will happen to gays  when the burqa community gets larger and Shariah enters the neighborhood.

I wonder if any of the nation’s  gays will continue to curse America, its Christians in particular and conservatives in general , the more like Saudi Arabia or Iran,  American communities become.

Perhaps then they will regret learning what they never were taught…….the three pillars of American values, In God We Trust, Liberty, and especially the third one in this case….E Pluribus Unum……all three under attack by Obama’s Left.

Now is a good time, the sooner,  the better, Americans of all stripes  learn about those three core beliefs for what America stands for:   Please check out Prager University and its 5 minute lesson programs…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ed Koch, A Democrat, but An American to the Core, Predicts Tuesday’s Elections

I repeat myself from earlier blogs.

I have always liked former mayor of New York, Ed Koch.   I have always seen him as a thinking American, and American  above all matters….chipper, good worker, likes people, and sharp minded, and above all, a person with a profoundly strong honorable moral code.  

If he predicted a Republican defeat for Tuesday, I would have printed it here.   Mayor Koch writes:

“I predict a Republican victory of tsunami proportions on November 2nd.

For the last six months in various public forums, I have said that Republicans will take both the House and Senate. Most political observers, citing statistics from various states, continue to say that, while it appears certain that the House will go Republican, there are too few Senate seats in play for a Republican takeover. Further, many pundits state that Democrats will preserve their control of the Senate because the Republican Party has undermined itself by fielding whacko and semi-whacko candidates from the “tea party” wing or otherwise offering inferior candidates, e.g., Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Linda McMahon in Connecticut and Carly Fiorina in California.

Without being able to cite statistics that support my view, I nevertheless predict the Republicans will also take the Senate. Imagine what the Republicans could have done if they had really good and visionary leadership. But they don’t. Indeed, in New York State, the Republican Party is seen as a bad joke, totally leaderless and without candidates who can win, despite new corruption allegations involving the Democratic Party in Albany. Take, for example, gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino. He has disgraced the Republicans with his antics and ridiculous statements and is trailing by double digits in the polls. The Republican candidates running for the two Senate seats now held by Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have had little impact and are given no chance of winning. Jay Townsend, who is running against Chuck Schumer, is totally unknown and unfunded, and running against a Senator who is known everywhere and is held in high regard. Joe DioGuardi, who is running against the recently-appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, is unable to engender major support at a time when incumbents appear to be bearing bulls-eye targets on their backs.

New York State notwithstanding, I predict that mounting anger around the country will carry Republicans to victory in both Houses of Congress.

Why would intelligent voters leave the Democratic Party that they endorsed so heavily two years ago in the 2008 presidential election? The reason is obvious – deep, deep disappointment in the record of President Obama. The President has wasted many opportunities in his term to date, and has lost by his own admission almost every battle for the hearts and minds of the electorate in pushing through Congress monumental legislation that he signed into law.

Why did the President and Congress insist on reinventing the wheel when it came to health care coverage? Weren’t there prototypes in Europe and elsewhere developed and used for more than 50 years with proven track records that could have been used as models? Did the President and Congress have to terrify people who had insurance coverage in order to provide coverage for the additional 32 million Americans covered under the new law? Couldn’t those without insurance have been attached in some way to the Medicaid rolls? Why did the President and Congress sell out to the prescription drug companies and strip Medicare of the right to negotiate volume discount purchases that could have saved U.S. taxpayers more than a trillion dollars over ten years? What rankles most for many, including me, is why have there been so few criminal prosecutions of those who are responsible for having brought the U.S. economy to its knees, destroyed the nation’s prosperity and caused millions of Americans to lose their homes, their jobs and a substantial portion of their retirement savings? Why when looking at Obama’s cabinet and advisers, do we see the faces of those who many hold responsible for the economic debacle?

It is for these reasons, I believe, the coming November tsunami will roll across America and give the Republicans, who are undeserving of the honor, control of both Houses. The American public is enraged and wants to punish those who have been in charge of the country. They know those who will replace incumbents may be as bad or worse, but they also believe they can’t do any greater damage. They are willing to put up with them until the next election to teach our elected representatives a monumental lesson — that public service is an honorable profession and must be performed competently and honestly.

We are an optimistic, generous people, who believe in fairness and justice. And we will be heard.”

Comment:  Again, I have always liked Mayor Koch, very much.  He is a Democrat every American would be enriched in his company. 

There are so few of them these days!

 He is easy to like, isn’t he, with his profoundly  American personality.  He knows his country’s past very well.  Let us all pray that that past of his thoughts still exists.  It it does, his prediction will come true.

Ed Koch is the former Mayor of New York City.

Anger from the Left: “Tea Party Is Just Another Right Wing Conspiracy!”

The British  “Guardian”, is a Labor production….meaning it represents the U.K. ’s   State Socialist agenda.  Opinion man, George Monbiot, is mad-as-hell at the Tea Party.    He is convinced the entire movement is erzartz; that it has nothing to do with grass roots.

His argument:

“An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests. Some Astroturf campaigns have no grassroots component at all. Others catalyse and direct real mobilisations. The Tea Party belongs in the second category. It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organised by the very interests they believe they are confronting. We now have powerful evidence that the movement was established and has been guided with the help of money from billionaires and big business. Much of this money, as well as much of the strategy and staffing, were provided by two brothers who run what they call “the biggest company you’ve never heard of”.

Charles and David Koch own 84% of Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States. It runs oil refineries, coal suppliers, chemical plants and logging firms, and turns over roughly $100bn a year; the brothers are each worth $21bn. The company has had to pay tens of millions of dollars in fines and settlements for oil and chemical spills and other industrial accidents. The Kochs want to pay less tax, keep more profits and be restrained by less regulation. Their challenge has been to persuade the people harmed by this agenda that it’s good for them.

In July 2010, David Koch told New York magazine: “I’ve never been to a Tea Party event. No one representing the Tea Party has ever even approached me.” But a fascinating new film – (Astro)Turf Wars, by Taki Oldham – tells a fuller story. Oldham infiltrated some of the movement’s key organising events, including the 2009 Defending the American Dream summit, convened by a group called Americans for Prosperity (AFP). The film shows David Koch addressing the summit. “Five years ago,” he explains, “my brother Charles and I provided the funds to start Americans for Prosperity. It’s beyond my wildest dreams how AFP has grown into this enormous organisation.”

A convener tells the crowd how AFP mobilised opposition to Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms. “We hit the button and we started doing the Twittering and Facebook and the phonecalls and the emails, and you turned up!” Then a series of AFP organisers tell Mr Koch how they have set up dozens of Tea Party events in their home states. He nods and beams from the podium like a chief executive receiving rosy reports from his regional sales directors. Afterwards, the delegates crowd into AFP workshops, where they are told how to run further Tea Party events.

Americans for Prosperity is one of several groups set up by the Kochs to promote their politics. We know their foundations have given it at least $5m, but few such records are in the public domain and the total could be much higher. It has toured the country organising rallies against healthcare reform and the Democrats’ attempts to tackle climate change. It provided the key organising tools that set the Tea Party running.

The movement began when CNBC’s Rick Santelli called from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a bankers’ revolt against the undeserving poor. (He proposed that the traders should hold a tea party to dump derivative securities in Lake Michigan to prevent Obama’s plan to “subsidise the losers”: by which he meant people whose mortgages had fallen into arrears.) On the same day, Americans for Prosperity set up a Tea Party Facebook page and started organising Tea Party events.

Oldham’s film shows how AFP crafted the movement’s messages and drafted its talking points. The New Yorker magazine, in the course of a remarkable exposure of the Koch brothers’ funding networks, interviewed some of their former consultants. “The Koch brothers gave the money that founded [the Tea Party],” one of them explained. “It’s like they put the seeds in the ground. Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud – and they’re our candidates!” Another observed that the Kochs are smart. “This rightwing, redneck stuff works for them. They see this as a way to get things done without getting dirty themselves.”

AFP is one of several groups established by the Koch brothers. They set up the Cato Institute, the first free-market thinktank in the United States. They also founded the Mercatus Centre at George Mason University, which now fills the role once played by the economics department at Chicago University as the originator of extreme neoliberal ideas. Fourteen of the 23 regulations that George W Bush put on his hitlist were, according to the Wall Street Journal, first suggested by academics working at the Mercatus Centre.

The Kochs have lavished money on more than 30 other advocacy groups, including the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the George C Marshall Institute, the Reason Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. These bodies have been instrumental in turning politicians away from environmental laws, social spending, taxing the rich and distributing wealth. They have shaped the widespread demand for small government. The Kochs ensure that their money works for them. “If we’re going to give a lot of money,” David Koch explained to a libertarian journalist, “we’ll make darn sure they spend it in a way that goes along with our intent. And if they make a wrong turn and start doing things we don’t agree with, we withdraw funding.”

Most of these bodies call themselves “free-market thinktanks”, but their trick – as (Astro)Turf Wars points out – is to conflate crony capitalism with free enterprise, and free enterprise with personal liberty. Between them they have constructed the philosophy that informs the Tea Party movement: its members mobilise for freedom, unaware that the freedom they demand is freedom for corporations to trample them into the dirt. The thinktanks that the Kochs have funded devise the game and the rules by which it is played; Americans for Prosperity coaches and motivates the team.

Astroturfing is now taking off in the United Kingdom. Earlier this month Spinwatch showed how a fake grassroots group set up by health insurers helped shape the Tories’ NHS reforms. Billionaires and corporations are capturing the political process everywhere; anyone with an interest in democracy should be thinking about how to resist them. Nothing is real any more. Nothing is as it seems.

• A fully referenced version of this story can be found at www.monbiot.com.”

The headline to this article is:  “The Tea Party movement:  deluded and inspired by billionaires.”

Comment:  What do you think?  The Left is mad as hell…..even in Europe.  How dare they think Americans have a right to gather to protest Marxism.  

When the Left protests, whether in France or Los Angeles or Seattle, or anywhere,  it obstructs, it burns buildings, robs stores, destroys vehicles, shouts obscenities, threatens human life and in some places actually commits  murder.  

But when American conservatives protest, the movement is ‘Astroturf”.  They seem to watch their language and clean up after themselves.

Let us assume every bias Mr. Monbiot purports as fact is indeed true.   Compare the Koch brothers to Marxist philanthropist to National Public Radio, Move On.org, Media Matters, George Soros.  Which one supports America and which one supports “Progress?”

The biggest donors in nearly any American election of national consequence are Astroturf democrats from Big Labor, robbing from their members and tax payers to fund the Marxist State whether anyone likes it or not….whether it is good for America or not.  

There is no such thing as a minority voice in the  Marxist dictatorships of America’s Organized Labor Unions.  Like the NAACP and so many other authoritarian left wing groups, Mr. Monbiot assumes everyone thinks and behaves like the racist, bigotted, plotting Lefties.  They assume all of America suffers from their own mental turmoil which drives them to project onto others exactly who they are.

Most contemporary American conservatives don’t behave like lefties…..Few conservatives exist anywhere in Europe.  Perhaps that is what riles Guardian writers so.  Those who still believe in personal freedoms are considered threats to Marxist security.

Let us all be grateful to the Koch brothers for their generosity to help save America from leftwing dictatorship.   May they and others keep “inspiring” Americans.  

 I love what the Tea Party has accomplished thus far for America.  It looks grass roots to me.  At the very least it causes the entrenched bureaucrats, the Obama Marxist propagandists, the America haters all over the jealous world, to sweat some…..even to grit their teeth and spew words  in newsprint, whether truthful or not.

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