• Pragerisms

    For a more comprehensive list of Pragerisms visit
    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

Marist Picks Obama Victory in Ohio……Four More Years of Deceit, Decay, and Tyranny

RE: Marist Poll In Ohio

 by    at HotAir:

“…. I know you conservatives. I understand your DNA. You are probably looking for any indication the election is going to get away from us, and you’re getting a head start on your 96 hour panic now. Let me see if I can help walk you in from the ledge.

In 2008, one of John McCain’s closing campaign stops was in Cleveland, Ohio. It happened to be at the same venue Barack Obama used last night (h/t John Nolte over at Breitbart). John McCain drew a crowd of 4,200 people. Barack Obama? 2,800. The same night, Romney/Ryan drew 30,000 people in West Chester.

So in order to believe the Marist poll, that Obama is up over the margin of error, you have to believe that the intensity level for Obama by party ID is higher now than it was in 2008. You have to believe that the swing from 2008 to 2010, where party ID went from D+8 to R+1, resulting in the election of a Republican governor, a Republican Senator, and control of the state house, all that has not only vanished, but recoiled even further in Obama’s direction. You have to believe that the crowd of 80,000 Obama drew in 2008 in Cleveland the closing days of the campaign demonstrates less energy and passion for their candidate than the 4,000 did this morning. You have to believe that the 30,000 people last night at the Romney/Ryan rally shows less enthusiasm for their candidate than the 4,200 did in 2008 for John McCain. You have to believe that Michael Barone, a man who you can introduce yourself to and tell him where you’re from, and he’ll tell you who won your Congressional district in 1966 from memory, is wrong when he reads that Cuyahoga County, long a Democratic stronghold in the Buckeye State, is way off in party registration. He’s also wrong when reports for early voting tend to favor Mitt Romney, and favor him big.  You also have to believe that Ohio Catholics and values voters don’t care about the HHS regulations. You also have to believe that Ohio, an energy state, doesn’t care about energy production.

If your belief is that great, you have greater faith in Eeyore than I do.

Marist – Mostly Assuming Republicans Invisible Sounds True.

Obama Instructs Followers to Vote on Tuesday for REVENGE!

Obama’s November Blunder

  by John Hinderaker         at PowerLine:

One of Barack Obama’s problems is that he is not a very accomplished public speaker. When he veers away from his teleprompter, which you pretty much have to do on the stump, his instincts are poor and he tends to get into trouble. That happened yesterday when Obama said to a crowd that had just booed Mitt Romney, “No, no, no — don’t boo, vote. Vote. Voting is the best revenge.” That was a dumb thing to say on several levels, and it exposed an ugly aspect of Obama’s personality. He really does think that opposing him is somehow dirty pool, and that “revenge” is the appropriate treatment for those who fail to bow to the mighty Barack.

The Romney campaign was quick to pounce. They produced this ad:

Click here:  http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/11/obamas-november-blunder.php

Obama’s “Utter Disaster of an Administration

Barack Obama, the Food Stamp President

by John Hinderaker   at   PowerLine:

Newt Gingrich once referred to Barack Obama as “the food stamp president,” which was promptly labeled “racist” by the apologists at MSNBC. In fact, though, it sums up Obama’s disastrous term in office very well. Incomes are down, employment is stagnant at best, but hey–food stamps are booming! And not only because of the hard times exacerbated by Obama’s policies, but also because the administration has made a point of trying to get as many people as possible, including illegal aliens, on to food stamps. The result is depicted in this chart prepared by the Senate Budget Committee: under the Obama administration, growth in the number of food stamp recipients has outstripped growth in jobs by a factor of 75 times:

Lefty Huffington Post Sexist, Eleanor Smeal, Boasts “Gender Gap”

 

The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election

by Eleanor Smeal   at Hiffington Post:

Don’t be fooled that the gender gap — the measurable difference in the way women and men vote for candidates and in the way they view political issues — is disappearing. To the contrary, it is driving the 2012 election.

Nate Silver of the New York TimesFiveThirtyEight blog, after a thorough analysis of many presidential polls, concluded on October 21st : “Gender Gap Near Historic Highs.” Silver’s calculus revealed an 18 percent gender gap, with President Obama up among women by 9 percent and trailing among men by 9 percent. But women and men do not cancel each other out.

Women will be casting 10 million more votes than men in the 2012 election. Women both register and vote in higher percentages than men. In 2008, women cast 9.7 million more votes than men, according to the Center for American Woman and Politics (CAWP) . Overall, Gallup found that 53 percent of the vote was cast by women and 47 percent cast by men.

More important than national polls, Obama is leading in swing states precisely because of the gender gap. In Ohio, for example, a newly released (October 31) Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS poll of likely voters has Obama leading 50 percent to 45 percent with 56 percent of women for Obama and only 44 percent of men, creating a 12 percent gender gap. According to the same poll, in Florida and Virginia, Obama is leading by a slight margin and is boosted by a 10 percent gender gap.

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris. In those days, most analysts considered the gender gap unimportant because Ronald Reagan won the presidential election despite a gender gap in voting. Since I first identified it, the gender gap has only grown and no serious analyst or, for that matter, political professional can ignore it any longer.

The gender gap first appeared during the Equal Rights Amendment campaign in 1980. It persisted and has grown because of the increasingly different stances of the two major political parties and most of their candidates on women’s rights. Issues ranging from equality in pay and employment, abortion and contraception, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security have all fueled the gender gap.

In 2012, it is no wonder the gender gap is so pronounced. A blizzard of hostile legislation (over 1,000 bills) has been introduced in the past two years against women’s reproductive rights in Congress and in many states controlled by Republican legislators and Governors. In the legislative War on Women, the Paycheck Fairness Act has been endlessly filibustered by Republicans in the Senate, the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is being blocked by House Republicans and several hundred extreme anti-abortion and birth control measures have been passed in state legislatures and the US House.

In an obvious attempt to placate women, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney refuses to even say where he stands on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act even though his party has led the fight against it in Congress. For the same reason, he is trying to muddle his hostile stance on Roe v. Wade to make it appear that abortion rights will not be threatened by a Romney presidency.

In an attempt to attract older women who are more dependent on Medicare than men, the Romney campaign is engaged in deception about President Obama’s actions on Medicare. Despite repeated allegations from Romney and Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan that Obama is cutting $716 billion from Medicare for Obamacare, it is actually the proposed Ryan budget that would cut $716 billion in benefits and would end Medicare or privatize it for all people under 55 years of age. President Obama has not cut any benefits to the seniors on Medicare and, in fact, has increased Medicare benefits for seniors.

The gender gap is also making a pronounced impact on many key U.S. Senate races. For example, according to the October 31st Quinnipiac poll, in Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) leads challenger Josh Mandel because of a 12 percent gender gap. In Connecticut, Chris Murphy (D) leads against Linda McMahon with a 10 point gender gap, despite the tens of millions of dollars McMahon is spending on her race. For a more comprehensive list of key US Senate races with gender gap data, see an analysis of polls by Jennifer Jackman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Salem State University, MA.

Women’s votes will make the difference in 2012. The fight for women’s votes — once gained — will never be ignored again in American politics.

Note:  Lefty sexist  Eleanor Smeal calls herself   “president of the feminist majority”.     There is no doubt that the Obama Marxist-Democrat Party is the feminist part of the human extreme.

Eleanor Smeal fems worshipped Adoph Hitler in the 1930  German election elevating the Nazi to  national leadership.    In Lefty lingo any gender gap is female of the feminist hysterical kind for whom  reality and truth have no meaning.   Nothing has meaning without their  hysterical surge.

In the vast arenas of human employment, the human female does not possess the physcial and mental equality of the human male.    She is needed in any societal construct of economies, but she is not the equal to the human male…….even as a number among the millions occupying ‘teaching’ positions at feminizing universities.

Over the past decade the human female has invaded the spiritual, the religious sanctuaries of Church life, especially among Protestant congregations impaired by Marxist ‘equality’  doctrine of the most feminist kind.   

It is only a matter of time when such ‘congregations’ of  feminizing’s limitations become monosexual….gabby sewing circles of like minded females…….

Only dictatorships can force thinking human males to attend such meaningless circles of chatter “for peace and harmony”.    His DNA doesn’t allow him to become mindless Obama and Obama-like worshippers, preachers of the make believe.

Unless drugged it is the nature of the human male to be curious…..to ask questions for the art of problem solving.    Evidence outside of Obama leftyland of university and the  present American Marxist-Democrat Party feminists, both male and female, is overwhelming.

Fewer generalizations throughout history are more totally true than the generalization that everything invented throughout the history of human endeavor, has been invented by a HUMAN MALE.

At your next feminist lefty sewing circle, guys and dolls, why don’t you ask why such a TRUTH is so TRUE…….for these things in life haven’t changed very much during the lifetime of fanatics like Eleanor Smeal, both the female and the male kind.

SENILE BIDEN DENOUNCES PRESIDENT!!

Biden on Obama:

There’s never been a day in the last

four years I’ve been proud to be his VP

 by Allahpundit     at Hot Air:

Somewhere in the gray area between a gaffe and a Freudian slip lies this bon mot. I know where he’s coming from, though: There hasn’t been a day in the last four years when I wasn’t not proud to have this guy as VP.

I’m also not unashamed of The One. His latest revisionism, in fact, leaves me nonplussed:

Despite saying in 2009 that failing to right the economy in three years would mean a “one-term proposition,” President Obama on Thursday may have moved the goalposts.

“Now, we knew from the beginning that our work would take more than one year, or even one term — because let’s face it, the middle class was getting hammered long before the financial crisis hit,” Obama said in Green Bay, Wis., as he ventured back onto the campaign trail after a three-day hiatus due to super storm Sandy.

The only comfort to a bitter loss on Tuesday will be the prospect of Biden running in 2016 on the idea that, in fact, now that they’ve taken a gooooood long look at the numbers, it’ll actually take at least three or possibly even four consecutive terms of Democratic governance to get the economy moving again. The man who would be king is the first clip below; the second is the former king uttering today’s other big gaffe, which strikes me as distinctly of the Kinsleyan variety. The Biden vs. Clinton primary war four years from now will be traffic gold.

 

St. Paul Lefty Democrat Hierarchy Sweet Talks Marxist Equality for Gay Votes on State Marriage Vote

St. Paul Dems from Mayor Down Sweet Talk  the Snake Oil Selling of Gay Marriage.  

             MINNESOTANS MUST DEFY MARXIST OBAMA DEMOCRATS AND PASS THE MINNESOTA FOR MARRIAGE AMENDMENT this TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012!!!

Marxist Democrats from president Barack Hussein Obama down to those at the precinct levels are pushing to defeat the Minnesota for Marriage amendment up for vote this Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Democrats, especially the Obama Marxists, never mention  a word of the consequences of their rash attack on traditional marriage conspiring to glue yet another clan dependent upon  lefty largesse, both political and financial.

Please read the Mayor of St. Paul’s plea at  the St. Paul Pioneer Press recently to defeat the  Minnesota for  Marriage amendment  this coming Tuesday, November 6……..another MARXIST   attempt to force equality upon each individual ……..

THE SWEET TALK MARXISM BEGINS:

“When Minnesotans enter the ballot booth this month, they will be looking at one of the most contentious ballots in the history of this state. Now is the time for Minnesotans, and St. Paulites, to reflect and consider how their votes will affect their friends, families and neighbors.

We are fortunate in St. Paul to live in a city that values all those who make up our community. St. Paul’s diversity is a crucial piece of our historical fabric and an essential part of our strength. We respect and cherish every single person. It’s a value we learned from our parents, it’s a value we taught our children, and it’s a value we hope our children will pass along to their kids. Treating others the way we want to be treated ourselves is just how we do things here.

The constitutional amendment that would limit the freedom to marry for committed same-sex couples goes against our values as a city and as a state. It limits a basic freedom by singling out and excluding a certain group of people just because of who they are. Gay and lesbian couples in our community want to get married for the same reasons as the rest of us — to make a public commitment of love, respect and responsibility, and to strengthen their families. Passing this amendment would permanently exclude them from joining the institution of marriage, and it would permanently end any conversation that future generations may want to have regarding marriage.

This amendment is a government intrusion on the freedom of clergy throughout our city and state to decide within their own congregations who they will and won’t marry. Government should never be a part of those decisions.

We come from a variety of different faiths in St. Paul. We are Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, Methodist and everything else under the sun. In St. Paul, we believe in protecting religious freedom, not limiting it.

The same is true for our Constitution, a sacred document meant to protect freedoms, not limit them. Passing this amendment would be an unprecedented limitation on freedom in our state. None of us want to be told it is illegal to marry the person we love, and our government should not be in the business of judging love and picking winners and losers.

Minnesotans have never devalued others by limiting their constitutional freedoms. This amendment is a government intrusion and it is against our values as a city and as a state. Please join us in voting no on Nov. 6.

Christopher B. Coleman, St. Paul mayor

Kathy Lantry, City Council president

Melvin Carter III, Ward 1 Council member

Dave Thune, Ward 2 Council member

Chris Tolbert, Ward 3 Council member

Russ Stark, Ward 4 Council member

Amy Brendmoen, Ward 5 Council member………………..”

Why else the sweet talk but to ‘buy’ votes  for lefties today and tomorrow?   

Why this feminist-Marxist usurpation of marriage to make  male equal to female and father equal to mother?   Why are they unable to remind voters of the consequences of such an ignorant, vile, and destruction of the age-old civilized  peoples’ celebration of the union of  man and wife to continue the miracle of human life?

Arnold Toynbee, a revered historian of the past century,  claimed “Great Civilizations are Not Murdered.   They Commit Suicide”.

It is cultural suicide for any peoples to be so miseducated as to believe there is NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMAN FEMALE AND MALE EXCEPT FOR SOCIALIZATION…….as they are now being forced  to accept educationally and politically at our Marxist social science universities from coast to coast.

Soon, unless there are legal protections in place to protect marriage, these Democrat-Marxists and their attorneys will have legal dictate to destroy the marriage rite altogether with human nestings with whomever and whatever a human or two or ten have feely feely feelings for.

Two years ago a wealthy Brit gal in London married her pet dolphin in a municipal ceremony.  

Some of the Marxist Democrat ads claim the Minnesota for Marriage Amendment ‘violates’ our freedoms………And yes, there are restrictions in civilized societies  regarding whom one can marry.

Mayor Coleman mentions Muslims as a traditional part of the Twin City community.   In most Muslim religion  abiding nations,  and adult male can marry a six year old girl…….in African Muslim communities he can marry four or five such female children.    These traditions are a violation of our ‘freedom’ here in Minnesota, too…….Why doesn’t the Mayor of St. Paul go around his city’s neighborhoods advertising these marriage unions as well as gay unions?   

Defeat the feely-feely Marxist-Democrat folksies selling marriage to everyone, come one come all.

VOTE YES on THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT.   DEFEAT STUPIDITY, MARXISM AND CULTURAL SUICIDE.

When Minnesotans enter the ballot booth this month, they will be looking at one of the most contentious ballots in the history of this state. Now is the time for Minnesotans, and St. Paulites, to reflect and consider how their votes will affect their friends, families and neighbors.

We are fortunate in St. Paul to live in a city that values all those who make up our community. St. Paul’s diversity is a crucial piece of our historical fabric and an essential part of our strength. We respect and cherish every single person. It’s a value we learned from our parents, it’s a value we taught our children, and it’s a value we hope our children will pass along to their kids. Treating others the way we want to be treated ourselves is just how we do things here.

The constitutional amendment that would limit the freedom to marry for committed same-sex couples goes against our values as a city and as a state. It limits a basic freedom by singling out and excluding a certain group of people just because of who they are. Gay and lesbian couples in our community want to get married for the same reasons as the rest of us — to make a public commitment of love, respect and responsibility, and to strengthen their families. Passing this amendment would permanently exclude them from joining the institution of marriage, and it would permanently end any conversation that future generations may want to have regarding marriage.

This amendment is a government intrusion on the freedom of clergy throughout our city and state to decide within their own congregations who they will and won’t marry. Government should never be a part of those decisions.

We come from a variety of different faiths in St. Paul. We are Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, Methodist and everything else under the sun. In St. Paul, we believe in protecting religious freedom, not limiting it.

The same is true for our Constitution, a sacred document meant to protect freedoms, not limit them. Passing this amendment would be an unprecedented limitation on freedom in our state. None of us want to be told it is illegal to marry the person we love, and our government should not be in the business of judging love and picking winners and losers.

Minnesotans have never devalued others by limiting their constitutional freedoms. This amendment is a government intrusion and it is against our values as a city and as a state. Please join us in voting no on Nov. 6.

Christopher B. Coleman, St. Paul mayor

Kathy Lantry, City Council president

Melvin Carter III, Ward 1 Council member

Dave Thune, Ward 2 Council member

Chris Tolbert, Ward 3 Council member

Russ Stark, Ward 4 Council member

Amy Brendmoen, Ward 5 Council member

Obama Unworthy to be Re-elected……Las Vegas Review-Journal

Benghazi blunder:

Obama unworthy commander-in-chief

Editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after Tuesday’s election.

Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL and Henderson resident Tyrone Woods, 41, says his son died slumped over his machine gun after he and fellow ex-SEAL Glen Doherty – not the two locals who were the only bodyguards Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration would authorize – held off the enemy for seven hours.

The Obama administration was warned. They received an embassy cable June 25 expressing concern over rising Islamic extremism in Benghazi, noting the black flag of al-Qaida “has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities.” The Obama administration removed a well-armed, 16-member security detail from Libya in August, The Wall Street Journal reported last month, replacing it with a couple of locals. Mr. Stevens sent a cable Aug. 2 requesting 11 additional body guards, noting “Host nation security support is lacking and cannot be depended on,” reports Peter Ferrara at Forbes.com. But these requests were denied, officials testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month.

Based on documents released by the committee, on the day of the attack the Pentagon dispatched a drone with a video camera so everyone in Washington could see what was happening in real time. The drone documented no crowds protesting any video. But around 4 p.m. Washington received an email from the Benghazi mission saying it was under a military-style attack. The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA were able to watch the live video feed. An email sent later that day reported “Ansar al-Sharia claims responsibility for Benghazi attack.”

Not only did the White House do nothing, there are now reports that a counterterrorism team ready to launch a rescue mission was ordered to stand down.

The official explanation for the inadequate security? This administration didn’t want to “offend the sensibilities” of the new radical Islamic regime which American and British arms had so recently helped install in Libya.

The official explanation for why Obama administration officials watched the attack unfold for seven hours, refusing repeated requests to send the air support and relief forces that sat less than two hours away in Italy? Silence.

An open discussion of these issues, of course, would lead to difficult questions about the wisdom of underwriting and celebrating the so-called Arab Spring revolts in the first place. While the removal of tyrants can be laudable, the results show a disturbing pattern of merely installing new tyrannies – theocracies of medieval mullahs who immediately start savaging the rights of women (including the basic right to education) and who are openly hostile to American interests.

When Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney promptly criticized the security failures in Benghazi, the White House and its lapdog media jumped all over him for another “gaffe,” for speaking out too promptly and too strongly. Prompt and strong action from the White House on Sept. 11 might have saved American lives, as well as America’s reputation as a nation not to be messed with. Weakness and dithering and flying to Las Vegas the next day for celebrity fund-raising parties are somehow better?

This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy – though a more careful analysis shows what can only be a perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity. Back in January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.” He added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama’s future Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, famously said it would be necessary to “figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe” – $9 a gallon.

Yet the president now claims he’s in favor of oil development and pipelines, taking credit for increased oil production on private lands where he’s powerless to block it, after he halted the Keystone XL Pipeline and oversaw a 50 percent reduction in oil leases on public lands.

These behaviors go far beyond “spin.” They amount to a pack of lies. To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation’s economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie “Dr. Strangelove,” would be disastrous.

Candidate Obama said if he couldn’t fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.

Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it’s time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.