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D-Day

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For four years we’ve used this little platform to point out the errors and failures of our government.  That someone like Barack Hussein Obama could be so easily swept into the office of president of these United States based on nothing more than a deadly and deceitful stint as a senator in Illinois, later admitting to being merely a “composite” of memoirs suspected to have been written by someone else both infuriated and frightened us.  As time went by this man who believes in “partial birth abortions” because the intent of the mother was to kill her unborn child anyway proved his allegiance to nothing that remotely resembles America by sending our border patrol to fight with beanbags while secretly arming drug cartels with some half-baked idea it would push the American people into accepting their version of gun control, directly resulting in the deaths of Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata.  The man who sits down with unelected Chicago cronies each morning to decide who will die that day from a drone strike, with collateral civilian damage be damned, couldn’t be bothered to muster the same force when Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Brian Doherty and Tyrone Woods were fighting Al Queda in vain for their lives in a place that had been called out to the administration numerous times to be lacking adequate security on a day common sense alone would have given them more of it.

This administration and this president in particular have far too much innocent  and literal American blood on their hands.  And far, far too much blood has flowed figuratively from the entitlement-encouraging laws and policies that have trickled down over the last four years to crush both the spirits and the wealth of the middle class.  Not to mention making the poor even poorer and creating even more of them.

Mitt Romney asked the age-old question, “Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?”  Gas prices are double what they were in 2008, food and other commodity prices are higher; wages, if you are fortunate enough to be making them, are stagnant, homes that haven’t yet been foreclosed on carry underwater mortgages, banks are playing Wack-A-Mole with more and more insidious little fees on checking account while interest on savings accounts are essentially non-existent.  Almost half of the legal citizens in this country pay nothing in federal income taxes but a subset of them, pathetically and ironically goaded on by wealthy Democrats, demand more and more “entitlements” from those who do pay taxes.  We have watched spectacles like a 30-plus year old college student sit in the chambers of Congress and bemoan the fact that her Catholic college – a college she deliberately chose to attend – won’t cover her birth control.  We won’t even go into “Obamaphones” or people on food stamps buying everything but food with them.  Illegal immigration?  Let us count how many Democrat votes result from the administration’s refusal to follow the rule of law and thereby add more cost to the legal taxpayer’s already straining burden.

Simply put, this administration has exceeded even our cynical expections of disaster.  They are a dangerous, deadly lot that scuttles around in the shadows like so many fat rats; blinking senselessly when the light is cast upon them.  That is, when the complicit lamestream media even bothers to “report” anything resembling an objective fact.

They have to go.

All of them.

They blamed the elections of 2010 for creating more “obstructionism” to their enslaving communist manifesto.  Today we can not only obstruct them completely, we can obliterate them.  Send them back into the trash heap of a history that will only note that the last 4 years proved once and for all that socialism is forever a failed experiment.

Vote wisely, my fellow Americans.  Vote for Mitt Romney, vote for every conservative candidate on your ballot from local to state.  It is our last chance to save – to reclaim – what has proved to be the greatest country in the history of mankind.

God bless America.

A New DREAM Act

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It finally occurred to me how we can handle the problem of illegal immigrants (criminals) in this country.  This should satisfy those who tearfully claim that the allegiance of their “innocent children” is to America by letting them prove it.

When they reach the age of 18, draft every single “innocent child” whose criminal parents brought them here or popped them out here in order to take advantage of the American taxpayer and now wish to jump the line ahead of those following the legal process to become a naturalized citizen.  Their military enlistment would be no less than 4 years of active duty followed immediately by 4 more years of service in the National Guard.  No exceptions.

Take this newly-formed group of soldiers and send them to Mexico to the Mexican government clean out the drug cartels and assist them with restoring order to the country.  (As the most powerful nation on Earth, don’t we owe it to our southern neighbors to help them?)  These soldiers may also be used to secure the border and their experience would give them opportunity to later work for the DEA to help clean out the drug dealers here in the United States.

Upon completion of their enlistment, they may be given one moving van with which to pack up their criminal parents and relatives here and move them back to their native home.  Upon completion of this removal, they may then go through finalization steps for citizenship; however, they will never be allowed to sponsor anyone for entry into the United States.

Those who do not complete their 8 years of military service or complete the removal of their criminal family members within 30 days of completing their military service would be promptly deported.

This would serve to make Mexico the land the peace-loving and honest Mexican citizens want and would reduce the costs to the United States of going through several million deportation hearings and removals, as well as save billions in the hidden costs of fighting the increased crime and the medical care and welfare payments we are now providing to criminals.  It would also remove the incentives for others with criminal intent to enter the country illegally and well as slow the flow of illegal drugs and more criminals into the United States.

Democrat Supporter Wanted In Ohio For Assault

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At a Strickland campaign rally in Lucasville, Ohio on September 25, 2010 the man in the photos below “intentionally poured hot coffee” down the back of a citizen videotaping the event.  He later returned to taunt him.

If you know his identify, please call the Scioto County Sherriff’s office (740-335-8245).  Violence of any kind has no place in politics.

Serfdom, USA – Strike One

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How does a free people take back their country from a government that has become filled with elitists who think that by virtue of some affirmatively-granted diploma from a progressive, Ivy League institution they can plan an individual’s life better than the individual?  Through a modern revolution, of course. 

Many of us are anxiously awaiting November 2nd and the chance to vote progressive liberals from both major parties out of office.  But in the meantime, even though calls, letters, emails, and thousands of people filling Washington, D.C. continue to go ignored, it is still possible to get the federal government’s attention and let them know we mean it when we say we’ve had enough.

Thursday, April 15th starts what is being called the “Tax Day Strike”.  Simply put, it is a 4-day stretch in which patriotic Americans spend NO money and (when possible) do NO work.  Yes, you read that right.  For 4 days patriotic Americans are going to starve the beast.

The idea behind this is to make it clear to the government and clear to their buddies in the “too big to fail” corporations that we, the people, do not condone their shell games at our expense and that we, the people, refuse to play them.  So plan now.  Request time off , make sure you’ve got enough groceries and don’t need to do any banking.  Then just stay home and spend some quality time with your family and friends.  Attend a Tea Party rally near you on April 15th.  If you find you must buy something, avoid the big chains and “box stores” and go only to a locally-owned business (“Mom & Pop” stores).

No, this won’t stop the world but when enough people stop swiping their credit and debit cards and the big corporations must run for a couple of days on skeleton crews, the lack of transactions – that translates into a lack of charges incurred between business and banks – will cause a nice blip on the radar. 

And THAT the administration will notice.

Starve The Beast

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The annual tax filing season is in full swing again and most of us are going to get a refund from the federal government.  But have you ever thought about just what that money represents?  Tragically, it’s nothing more than your very own personal interest-free loan to the feds.  Every week the federal government takes money out of your paycheck as an incremental payment against what you agree to pay them as a portion of your annual income to cover those things with which the Constitution charges the federal government to do (i.e. maintain the military).    But for most of us, after just a few months of making those little incremental payments, we’ve satisfied our annual tax obligation.  Yet for the rest of the year we continue to hand over our money to the federal government for no other reason than that’s just the way it’s always been done.  Then we get all excited about the “big refund” we’re going to get come April 15th.  Money that is nothing more than repayment of the money we have loaned the federal goverment, but for which they don’t even pay us interest.

Folks, that’s insanity.  The federal government not only spends the money we agree to pay them on our income, they run off and spend all the money we loan to them, too.  And they do this with every penny we will owe and will loan them years and years into the future.  Right now they are spending money based on pure speculation of how much we’ll be obligated to pay them and how much we’ll be loaning them in the future.  But as people continue to lose their jobs, the federal government collects fewer and fewer income taxes yet is still obligated to pay back those unemployed workers part of their money through unemployment benefits, just like they are obligated to return our loaned money to us.  And that’s just one small, very simplistic example. 

Let’s put it in real world terms.  What would happen if someone gave you more money than they owed you and you spent it all?  Your income doesn’t leave you with any extra money so when they come asking for it you’d have to borrow from Paul, wouldn’t you?  If you didn’t cut back somewhere and save, but instead continued to spend money like you had all the original money given to you, when your loan from Paul comes due, eventually you’d end up robbing Peter to pay him.  That kind of personal fiscal irresponsibility made headlines last year and created the slogan, “Your mortgage is not my problem”, yet that’s exactly how the federal goverment, Congress-driven, handles our country’s finances.

One more time:  that’s insanity.

His Transparency and the Demons in Congress are now all a-buzz with what they are calling a “jobs bill”, which in truth is nothing more than a second stimulus package; no matter that the first stimulus was, for all intents and purposes, a failure and that much of it is simply being held back until later this year in order to try to force some of their “oops!”-derived numbers to go up right before the mid-term elections, hoping better numbers will help their cronies stay in office.  Frankly, that kind of game at the expense of every hard-working American ought to be reason enough to vote the incumbents out of office, but I digress.

This second stimulus-aka-“jobs bill” contains no real help for ordinary Americans.  It rides on various and sundry tax credits, but we all know (or we should all know by now) that tax credits are not the same as tax cuts; credits are just another form of that interest-free money loan by working Americans to the federal government.  So instead of waiting for the mercy of Congress and the feds to let you keep that which you have honestly earned, it’s time for every Patriot to do their part and begin to starve the beast into proper submission.

This is by no means a new idea and we’re not the first to propose it but it’s very, very simple.  If you normally get a federal tax refund, just adjust your W-4 to increase the number of dependents used to calculate the amount of money taken out of your paycheck to cover your federal tax obligation.  Every increase in the number of federal dependents claimed on your W-4 (not the same as what you are allowed to put on your annual federal filing) will keep a few more of your own dollars in your pocket.*  If every working American sent just a minimum amount less to the federal government by, say, increasing their number of W-4 dependents by a count of one, from my guesstimate calculations using the current number of employed Americans and the average annual income in the private sector, it would add up to a few billion dollars.  A drop in the bucket compared to what they spend every day, sure, but it would give our government another clear sign we are tired of them spending what they don’t have and we will no longer loan them our hard-earned monies to use as some phantom hedge to promise more and more ridiculous entitlement programs.  We’ll keep more of our money in our own pockets to help us pay our own obligations, which as every study of tax cuts shows, does the most to stimulate the economy.

 

 

 

 

 

* Reducing the amount taken out of your paycheck for federal taxes correspondingly decreases your federal tax refund the following year so don’t go crazy here because you will be penalized at tax time if at least a minimum amount isn’t automatically sent to the feds; consult a tax advisor if you have questions.

Time To Drop The Bomb In Massachusetts

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We’ve already written about the reasons why the special election in Massachusetts on January 19th is critical.  (Here, with more information here, and here.)  And despite the Conservative aversion to Republicans because most of them are really little more than “Democrat-Lite”, the truth is that election of a conservative Republican to replace Ded Ted in Massachusetts is the only viable option we have today if we are going to return this beloved country to Her founding principles. 

It is crucial that the election of a conservative Republican, in the form on Massachusetts state senator Scott Brown, be a landslide victory of such great proportions that the progressive liberal Democrat machine, pulled by its snarling sled dogs of ACORN and the SEIU, is ground irrevocably into the dirt.  The numbers for Scott Brown must be so big, so crushing that any attempts to stall his swearing in before a vote on the progressive liberal’s health care “reform” are seen as the nasty, partisan power-play tricks they are and thereby stopped.

Frankly, fellow Patriots, it no longer matters where you live.  It no longer matters what you consider yourself politically.  What is about to happen in Massachusetts is the Democrat’s Waterloo and it is our chance, as a nation of conservative and fair-minded Americans, to cut this dangerous administration off at its knees by removing the 60-seat Democrat majority in the Senate.

I am personally asking every one of you, if you haven’t already done so, please go HERE and make a donation to Scott Brown’s campaign.  I am asking you to take an hour, even a half-hour, out of your busy day each day this week to make a few calls to voters in Massachusetts on Scott Brown’s behalf (sign up HERE).  An influx of money right now will provide much needed funding for campaign outreach to the common-sense voters in Massachusetts.  Your calls to voters in Massachusetts will help to make a difference with those who might otherwise stay home on January 19th.

We, the people, have spent almost a whole year now watching the Democratic majority in Congress and the administration gleefully tear into the very heart of this great nation, ripping Her in half using blatant racism and class warfare.  I don’t know about you, but for me the pain is absolutely gut-wrenching.

We, the people, can make it stop on January 19th with a second “shot heard ’round the world”.

Please help.

UPDATE (1/12/10):  This writer thanks every one of you across America who stepped up to help.   Scott Brown’s fundraiser was a resounding success, more than doubling its goal by collecting $1.3 million in 24 hours.  Amazing, isn’t it?  Yet his opponentwent to Washington D.C. tonight to beg for money from the likes of “Big Pharma”, which tells you just what kind of person she isn’t.  Evidenced by a report that the union people carrying signs at last night’s debate were paid to be there, and one confessed that was the only reason he showed up since he intended to cast his vote for Scott Brown.


 

Don’t forget to help make calls as this last week plays out!

The 41st Republican

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We’re almost at the end of the first year in which progressive liberals have gleefully reigned supreme in Washington.  With President Walking Eagle in the Orchid Office and a Democratic majority in both the Nuthouse and the Senate, those of us who are your basic middle-class conservatives have been able to do little except watch in horror as the agenda of “equality” (read:  redistribute your wealth to those the affirmatively-graduated Ivy Leaguers feel are more entitled to it) has been rammed down America’s throat.  From cap & tax to EPA rulings that CO2 must be regulated to health care “reform” to Islamic jihadist attacks on American soil (ok, so one attack was really a pathetic failure of  a jihadist who ended up merely soiling his underwear in an airplane above Detroit, no thanks to this administration’s version of Homeland Security), the only reconcilation to this mess has come in the form of trading terrorists for hostages.

Frankly, dear readers, America is a mess.  But hope comes in the form of Tea Parties and more and more real conversations about both the Constitution and what it means to be an American taking place among even the most average of the citizenry.  We are seeing an awakening that is long overdue. 

As 2010 begins, then, it begins with great hopes for the next round of Congressional midterm elections.  From sea to shining sea, many of our unrepresenting representatives in both the Nuthouse and Senate are girding their cajone-less, sealed-with-a-special-interest-kiss loins for the fight for your support to come in the form of campaign contributions and a checkmark on the ballot.  

And we mustn’t disappoint them. 

Warm up your voices, get out your checkbooks, sharpen your #2 leaded pencils, and let the support games begin.  We must now stand together in collective support of conservative candidates in every corner of the United States.  With our dollars, with even our pennies if that’s all we can spare, as well as with our voices and then with our votes.  For the truth is that by their oath of office everyone in Congress must represent the interests of all the American people; even if they go to Washington to help safeguard the interests of their own state they must never sacrifice the country for those interests.  But, sadly, what Congress has become is nothing more than a bizarre baazar at which too many greedy hands snatch at our hard-earned tax monies to benefit some or another little special interest to buy votes for reelection so they can continue to collect the salary and benefits they see fit to bestow upon themselves.

But the truth is, America, now is our time.  Another perfect storm looms on the American political horizon and the window has opened for every Patriot to take up their arms and begin the fight to bring it crashing down to sweep aside the egos of the progressive liberal majority and get their ugliness out of Washington.  Like the beginning of the first American Revolution, what is coming on January 19th must be viewed as the “shot heard ’round the world”.

On January 19th there will be a special election held in the state of Massachusetts to elect a Senator to replace Ted Kennedy.  And even though the good people of Massachusetts seem to be unable to rid themselves of their fascination with the likes of Barney Frank, Massachusetts was the birthplace of the American Revolution in 1776 and it is only fitting it be the birthplace of the second American Revolution now.

The two candidates running for this empty Senate seat are the current state attorney general, Martha Coakley (Democrat) and 3rd-term state senator Scott Brown (Republican).  As a stereotypical progressive liberal bottomfeeder who would make Ded Ted proud, Ms. Coakley distinguishes herself by having the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) use state computers and state e-mail addresses to direct state employees to volunteer for her campaign.  She also found her way around the state’s campaign finance laws to get a head start on padding her coffers, as well as made a point to hand out community grants to the tune of some $1.5 million at the end of December. 

Senator Scott Brown is a fiscal conservative with many years of service in the Massachusetts National Guard, and he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service in homeland security following 9/11.  Here is his take on the issues at hand:

  • Government is too big and that the federal stimulus bill made government bigger instead of creating jobs
  • Taxes are too high and are going higher if Congress continues with its out-of-control spending
  • The historic amount of debt we are passing on to our children and grandchildren is immoral
  • Power concentrated in the hands of one political party, as it is here in Massachusetts, leads to bad government and poor decisions
  • A strong military and vigorous homeland defense will protect our interests and security around the world and at home
  • All Americans deserve health care, but we shouldn’t have to create a new government insurance program to provide it

Yes, I know he is a Republican, but right now the Constitution needs all the help it can get.  The greatest good to come from Brown’s successful taking of a U.S. Senate seat will be its breaking the Democrat’s stranglehold on the Senate.  No more 60-40 roughshod runs over the majority of American’s sensibilities and pocketbooks.  No more will Harry (the Grinch) Reid be able to steal our Christmas and the Christmases of our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren by buying votes with our hard-earned tax dollars for his nefarious closed-door scribblings.

No, no, dear readers, what Scott Brown represents is the beginning of the end of the progressive liberal Democrats and the chance to at least stop any further terrorism against the American people by our own government.  But because Massachusetts is such a liberal bastion, Brown’s election is far from guaranteed. 

This is where you come in.

Every one of us must do whatever we can to support Scott Brown’s campaign.  Even if the RNC isn’t going to bellyflop for him like they did for Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 district election, one thing the New York district and gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey showed is that people like you and me understand the need to support conservative candidates.  This active support has now become imperative when the future actions of those candidates will affect more than just their direct electorate. 

I urge everyone to go to this website and pledge a patriotic $9.12 to Senator Brown’s campaign.  If you don’t think it will make a difference, need I remind you that His Transparency nickled and dimed his way into the White House; what better way to help put America back on the road to real recovery than by using the symbol of the day America stood truly united?

Think Waterloo.

(And don’t forget to share this with everyone you know.)

If You Love America

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I’d like to share some thoughts that are taking shape as I take a year-end look at this horrible administration, the media coverups for it, and the reactions to all of it from my fellow citizens.  The Left has so quickly caricatured itself post-inauguration that to criticize them is like holding out a bucket to catch common sense pennies raining down from Heaven.  For those who have eyes to see, what the Democrats have accomplished lo these last 12 months is a suicide mission to which even the most exalted (sic) jihadist would bow in respect.  And from a seat in the right-hand wings, good.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of affirmatively graduated “equality for all” types.

But though I am personally a Constitutional Conservative and firmly believe that our inalienable Rights include reaping the consequences of exercising them, what I am fast finding tiring are those on the Right who make their arguments waving a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other.  Far too many of them are demonstrating the same, blind perspective as those on the Left they are so willing to gleefully bash.  There are many conservatives, myself included, who do not lay claim to any particular Judeo-Christian dogma, and while we may acknowledge a higher power, many of us have spent a good portion of our lifetimes fighting against the narrow zealousness of both the Christian Right and the athiests; seeing any zealousy towards religion as an enemy to America’s foundation of Liberty on equal footing with Islamic jihadists.

I believe that America is cut out of cloth that is, when push comes to shove, conservative, but that conservatism is moderate.  “Your rights end where mine begin” is a tolerance demonstrated time and time again when one looks outside of the ego-fogged spaces of those bastions of bureaucracies we call government offices.  We pay no mind to teenagers with the crotches of their baggy pants hanging down around their  knees, we look with bemused eyes upon our neighbors who sell their souls for a mortgage on a house so big they must work incessantly to pay for it and therefore never spend time rattling around its vast, undecorated space.  We begrudge no one the free expression of their individualness, though we retain the right to laugh at them and understand that when we pratfall we’re going to be laughed at, too.  That’s simple fairness, by the way.  Not democracy.

And so it is that in the heartland of America, which is pretty much anywhere outside the big, Democrat-ruled camps like D.C., New York, Detroit, and the entire state of California, that life is good.  But that goodness doesn’t mean we simply ignore those Democratic strangleholds.  On the contrary, we look upon them with great concern.  But we cringe in equal measure when any of our friends and neighbors demonstrate their own blind jihadism of guns and Bibles.

Maybe it’s just another example of the power of the anonymity of the internet but so far in my face-to-face discussions with even the most red-blooded of Constitutional Conservatives I’ve not yet heard the ugliness of the threats bantered about in online comments, nor the unpalatable amount of Bible-thumping preaching to make some or another point.  Yes, the Left has been utterly despicable in its verbal treatment of the Right for a very long time, and their vitriol does not go excused.  But I do not find any comfort from self-professed conservatives who would beat a liberal with either their Bible or a gun in retaliation.  Indeed, such fundamentalist cowboy tactics are exactly the fodder the Left looks for, the fodder they deliberately attempt to pry out of conservatives in order to have even the flimsiest of excuses to slap chains on our freedoms before their time in office runs out.  And while it’s obvious that logic doesn’t enter into any argument with a liberal, deliberately handing them your gun and pulling the trigger for them while holding up your Bible as a shield is an equally losing proposition.

It’s time that conservatives gather their collective, smoldering anger and do what we keep advising the pablum-drunk progressive liberals.  Grow up. While it’s true you don’t need to bring a gun to a knife fight, it’s just as true you can’t have a battle of wits with those who are unarmed.  The battle to restore the Republic of these United States will not be won with words directed to a deliberately deaf enemy who doesn’t have enough gasoline in their brain cell’s engine to process them even if they could hear.  You don’t stop an evil from sucking you dry by throwing a Bible or a cross at them.  You stop them with a silver bullet or a stake through the heart.

And those tools of the most enduring fiction are available to everyone who wants this country back, in the form of the ballot box and in the form of their dollars.  It’s time to get out from behind the safety of computer screens and televisions and cast votes for candidates who are willing to buck the current system of pork and earmarks and self-proclaimed special interest “victims”.  Such conservative candidates are rising up from the ranks even as you read this.  FIND THEM.  Deliberately seek them out.  If you have it in you, put your money where your font is and become one.  Ask them the hard questions and listen carefully to their answers.  Then support them with everything you’ve got.  Conservatives who love this country must begin to fight FOR what’s right, not just fight against what’s gone so terribly wrong.

I believe the majority of Americans are good and kind lot.  I believe that they have a lot more common sense than the progressive liberals dare to believe.  Even in the most blue of districts there remain honest, hard-working people who hunger for the truth.  The facts of what this administration in particular have done to set the stage for enormous and dangerous disaster right here within our own borders are clear enough.  It’s time to put down the gun, put down the Bible, and give the facts the lip service they deserve.  Don’t waste your time on those still drunk on the Kool-aid; we don’t call it entitlement derangement syndrome for nothing.  Those people are hopeless but like an idiot savant they are clever enough to keep pulling on your heartstrings to get your hard-earned money out of you in the form of donations to their cause de jour and collect a paycheck, especially where it concerns the environment or social “justice”.  The answer to this ludicrous behavior is simple.  And like charity, it must begin at home.  If  conservatives are to become at all effective, it’s time to starve the beast.  Stop donating to organizations like, for example, the Sierra Club, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the Catholic Charities.  Any charity that has their hands out for government funding should be on your own personal conservative political watch list.  (Go to Guidestar and look up every non-local organization that asks you for money; all charities must file IRS documents and state how much of your hard-earned tax money they receive from the government.  Then do a search for how they spend your money to advertise for or to support progressive liberal causes.  I dare say you’ll be more than a little surprised.)  Ok, yes, it’s work but nothing, especially our liberty, comes without a price.  You can, of course, choose to keep it simple and invest your charitable dollars locally.  And, indeed, I dare say that is where they will do the most good.

The progressive liberals in this country have thrown themselves with a breathtaking belly-flop of truly unfathomable joy onto the Green Mile.  The blatancy of their avarice and greed is the rope with which they now hang themselves.  Where cool heads prevail, to take back this country and return it to the firm foundation set forth in the Constitution will be child’s play for conservatives in 2010 but such “play” doesn’t mean stooping to their level of vacuous visciousness; hiding behind Bibles and guns is no different than hiding behind progressive liberal “equality” and “social justice”.

Time To Boycott Communist & Radical Supporters

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Oh, woe are the progressive and Communist cohorts within the Obama administration.  It seems they’ve taken offense with Glenn Beck pointing out their divisive, anti-American connections and are calling on advertisors to boycott his television show on FOX.

Let’s see who has decided that paying for exposure during one of the late afternoon’s highest-viewed shows isn’t worth being harrassed by self-avowed Communists:

  • Geico Insurance
  • Lawyers.com
  • Progressive Insurance
  • Procter & Gamble
  • SC Johnson

Just as a bit of background, Progressive was founded by one left-wing philanthropist Peter B. Lewis.  Who is he?

  • Major donor to Democrat political candidates and leftist causes
  • In 2004 the list included $16 million to the Joint Victory Campaign, $2.9 million to America Coming Together, and $2.5 million to Move On.Org.  In February 2008, Lewis contributed money to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He is also a close friend of Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • Supports the legalization of marijuana
  • Close friend of George Soros 

    • No great loss there.

    But just who are the divisive, anti-Americans behind the boycott?  Of particular interest is the Obama administration’s “green jobs czar”, Van Jones.  You know, one of those people annointed … errr … appointed by the President and given great powers over the people without having to be vetted or confirmed by Congress. 

    Van Jones is a founding board member of Color of Change, often referred to as “an extremist racial grievance group” whose methods include stirring up racial antagonism in order to promote a socialist agenda.  (Sounds like a kissing cousin of ACORN, doesn’t it?)  Van Jones was also a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, aka STORM.  Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.

    “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”

    “I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary,” he said.

    Just a shining example of morality this country needs, eh?

    But now that their home boy done good, both Mr. Jones and Color of Change are trying to hide their connections from what they know full well are the majority of Americans who are, rightfully, less-than-sympathetic to either radicals or Communists.   From Newsbusters:

    Now that Van Jones is in the news all the time, Color of Change doesn’t want you to know he helped start the group. Maybe having an avowed America-hating totalitarian radical on the group’s board is bad public relations.

    The group deleted references to Jones on its “about” page. That page used to say, “James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of [Hurricane] Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.”

    But now it doesn’t.

    The old page still exists in the Google cache.  (The cache will eventually be cleared, so for safekeeping, I made a PDF of the page here.) The 501(c)(4) group’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns (IRS Form 990) show Jones as a director.

    Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. Beck pounded away at the Apollo Alliance and Jones on a recent show.

    I think that the sensible reaction to this kind of bullying, playground nonsense is to boycott the cowardly and in-the-commie-hip-pocket advertisers.  I also think it’s always a good idea to let businesses know why they are losing you as a customer so use the links below to tell them that caving in to the whining of entitlement radicals and the administration is bad business:

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