Barack Obama: Just Another Clown in Washington?

Obama's a little Krusty Around the Edges



Krustybama

by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH

Obama Birth Certificate: Washington Man Files Suit Over Obama Citizenship

Obama Citizenship:
Washington State Man Files Suit

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Another lawsuit has been filed seeking information over the citizenship of Barack Obama. This time in the Seattle area.

A man from the state of Washington has filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court asking Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed to obtain proof from Barack Obama of U.S. citizenship or remove Obama's name from Washington presidential ballots.

Steve Marquis, of Fall City, WA, filed the suit yesterday and issued a press release.

From Heraldnet's Obama's birth stirs legal action in Washington

Here is his [Marquis'] press release.

He argues in a 30-page document:

“To avert likely civil unrest and a constitutional crisis…this complaint seeks to resolve such complaints prior to the election. It was incumbent on the candidates to present such documentation, but to date Mr. Obama has failed to do so.

Obama sought to put down this pesty rumor when he posted a picture of his birth certificate online here.

The report cites the Annenberg FactCheck.org conclusion that Obama was a citizen.

The report continues, "Reed forwarded the matter to the Attorney General’s Office. Ballots are still slated to be mailed this week."

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ALSO at DBKP:

* Michelle Obama Calls African News Organization Over Obama Birth Certificate Reporting
* Obama College, Medical, Birth Records: Who is Barack Obama?
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: Video Released On YouTube
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: Updates, News and Reactions
* Obama Birth Certificate Federal Lawsuit: The Curious Behavior of the Obama Campaign
* Obama, Bill Ayers, and FactCheck.Org: All Have Ties To Annenberg Foundation

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Another rumor which made the rounds was that of Joe Biden leaving the Democrat ticket "sometime after October 5 due to health reasons."

That rumor has been laid to rest by the passage of time: ten days after the date it was supposed to happen, Biden is still doggedly on the campaign trail. DBKP reported both the rumor and the dearth of Obama-Biden campaign material available nearly a month after Biden was selected to the Democrat ticket.

The issue of Obama's citizenship has been alive much longer--since the spring of 2008. That the Obama campaign chose to address it in a less-than-forthcoming way causes people to ask questions.

The fact that Barack Obama has chosen not to release medical, college or university records has also raised questions.

Questions which might easily be answered with the release of records which many Americans have to cough up in order to secure employment.

The longer these records remain hidden from the public's view, the more questions--and now, lawsuits--will be initiated.

Why the Obama campaign has not released the records with less than three weeks until the election remains a mystery.

The decision by Obama to fight the federal lawsuit of Phillip Berg, instead of providing documents also raises eyebrows.

Add all of this to the fact that Barack Obama first dodged, then downplayed and finally mis-characterized his relationship with domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, and you have a recipe for suspicion.

Those suspicions are only increased by the absence of the Obama records.

None of this bothers Obama supporters, but in absence of any legislative record to examine, without the records, there is precious little on which to judge Barack Obama--other than his political speeches and his endorsement by the Mainstream Media.

Perhaps the plan of the Obama campaign is to distract detractors from questions about Obama policies?

If that is true, their plan may be working to some extent.

Time will tell.


by Mondo Frazier
image: dbkp file

Sarah Palin: Pro-Gun Bumper Sticker

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Kinda catchy.

(Leave a comment if you'd be interested in acquiring one of these Mrs. Smith & Wesson Goes to Washington bumper stickers.
Monodreb@gmail.com)


by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH

Hillary Bumper Stickers Mean Trouble for Obama

Automotive Shorthand for "Obama's Troubles"



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A car was spotted in the parking lot at the rally Saturday in Washington, PA for John McCain-Sarah Palin. Actually, it was the bumper which caught our attention.

We realize that one bumper does not speak for any group, but we found this one interesting.

One bumper, four bumper stickers: it seems to show the progression of how, at least one Democrat, arrived at their current political position.





Bumper stickers are snippets of thought, a snapshot of how the person applying the sticker felt about an issue at the time.

With that in mind, the car above may be likened to a political photo album.

The Obama campaign has to hope that such collections, as displayed on the bumper above, are limited.

IF not, Obama-Biden may end up alongside such losing Democrat combinations as Mondale-Ferraro, Dukasis-Bentsen and Kerry-Edwards.

by Mondoreb
images: DBKP

Obama Supporters Protest at PA McCain-Palin Rally

Popular Slogans: "Viagra", "Birth Control", Reproductive Rights"
Steelworkers Protest Palin
Palin's Husband, Todd, is a Steelworker






The road to the John McCain-Sarah Palin rally contained a couple dozen Obama supporters.

McCain-Palin supporters parked in a mall parking lot about a half-mile away and walked up the hill to Consol Energy Field, home of the minor league baseball team, The Wild Things.

On the way, those on their way to the rally trudged past 15-25 protesters: Obama supporters, women's reproductive rights advocates and a few Steelworkers for Obama.




Several of the same organizations protesting supported both Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Both Clinton and Edwards are famous supporters of women's rights.




Running the gamut.





Some of the sign-wavers seemed to be there for the party, including one who apparently confused McCain with 1996 Republican nominee, Bob Dole. Dole was a spokesman for Viagra.















The Steelworkers Union had previously endorsed John Edwards. Like many Edwards' trial lawyer backers and bundlers, they have switched their allegiance to Barack Obama.










Union brotherhood only goes so far: Palin's husband is a member of the United Steelworkers Union. Barack Obama is not a member of any union, although the Rev. Jeramiah Wright, pastor of Obama's Trinity Church, was enrolled at Virginia Union University, in Richmond VA in 1959.










Protect Women's Rights: become an Obama Girl!















A look back at the plucky protesters. One shot that didn't come out: two unnamed young women on their way to the stadium greeting the protesters with the one-fingered salute.





by Mondoreb
images: DBKP

McCain-Palin in PA: Palin a Hit with Everyone but CNN

Palin, McCain a Hit with Crowd
CNN's Story All About "Boos"





John McCain and Sarah Palin appeared in Pennsylvania for the first time as the GOP ticket for November and both were well-received by the overflowing crowd.

Sarah Palin, however, was a hit.

The large and enthusiastic crowd packed Consol Energy Field, located south of Pittsburgh in Washington, PA, and cheer, flags and McCain-Palin "Terrible Towel" knockoffs were the order of the day.

The Alaskan governor spoke after a warm-up by McCain. McCain's enthusiasm for his running mate was evident in his intro: the Arizona senator sounded confident throughout his glowing description of Palin as "the American story".

"She's not part of the American story, she is an American story."





CNN was on the scene, and producer, Peter Hamby, led with "Palin Booed for Mentioning Hillary Clinton".

While that was true, it was the only boos of the afternoon; Palin even got some applause a line earlier when she mentioned Geraldine Ferraro. The 5 seconds of Hillary boos were an anomaly in, what was clearly, a political lovefest.

But what else would CNN have reported? CNN is a flagship of the Mainstream Media and this is one more example of their "unbiased" reporting.

In just her second appearance on the campaign trail with John McCain, newly-minted GOP running mate Sarah Palin was showered with boos on Saturday for attempting to praise Clinton’s trail-blazing bid to become the first female president.

One woman from Penn Hills, holding a "Women for McCain" sign thought Palin was just what McCain needed.

"She's a conservative and she moves the Republicans back to where they need to be."

A brilliantly-sunny afternoon on a Labor Day weekend and an obviously fired-up crowd wouldn't be news for Hamby's regular remaining viewers.






Before the McCain-Palin entourage arrived in the "Straight Talk Express" buses, the crowd was entertained by former Steeler and 2006 PA Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lynn Swann. Swann related about how when he covered the Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska, he was interviewed by Palin, working at the time as a sports reporter for an Alaskan TV station.

Former PA governor and Director of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, introduced McCain to the crowd. Swann made a hasty exit to go see his son play in a pee-wee football game.

A few dozen Obama supporters lined the entrance road to the stadium before the event and urged the crowd to support what they called "real change".

MORE pictures to come later this morning.


by Mondoreb
images: DBKP

John McCain to Appear in Pittsburgh Area Saturday with VP Pick

There seems to be a bit of a question about McCain's upcoming schedule for the next few days, as it pertains to rumors about his possible VP pick.

U.S. News and World report is saying, "Romney's out". The "why" of the move--if true--is the subject of speculation at this point.

Politico weighs in first.

McCain is planning to roll out his vice presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers.

The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and his running mate will then travel by bus to Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Mo.

Allahpundit at Hot Air, in a comment to the above: "Note well: There seems to be no Saturday event on the schedule. Joementum?"

We'll only report that today we obtained our ticket for Saturday's event at Consol Field, where McCain and his new running mate are set to make a 5 pm appearance on their Road to the Convention.

We're not sure if this clears anything up, but we'll echo this sentiment from Allah:
"Is Maverick actually going to drop Joementum on us on Friday?"

by Mondoreb
image: dbkp

John Edwards Affair: Mainstream Press Still Acting as Gatekeepers

Lee Stranahan Gets it Right
"Something to hide"
Most Americans Kept in the Dark by MSM Gatekeepers



Lee Stranahan, at DailyKOS [Irrefutable Proof Of The John Edwards Scandal] does a good job of breaking the news to the left that the John Edwards scandal is real.

On Wednesday, after his speech to the AARP, John Edwards ducked out a side entrance in order to avoid reporter's questions.

That's a fact. It's well sourced -- a dozen reporters were there. Nobody is disputing it. And to anyone covering the story, it's hugely significant for two reasons; it's damning on it's own and it shows a pattern of behavior that gives credence to the National Enquirers reporting.

First point - Edwards is acting how people act when they are hiding something.

Think like a journalist, not a John Edwards supporter. Why do politicians avoid reporters, not issue statements, and duck an issue that multiple news outlets are running down? The answer is - always, in every case - because they have something to hide.

Sadly--for those who wish that politicians, both left and right, would act in the better interests of the country, instead of themselves--the scandal is not about a "right wing conspiracy" or even an evil plot of the Clintons. It's not even about a politician who cheated on his cancer-stricken wife while he dragged her onto the campaign trail in search of the brass ring of the presidency.

To DBKP, it's about the utter and abject failure of the traditional press.

It's not a failure to investigate, although that occurred (and is occurring as I write this).

It's a failure by MSM editors and gatekeepers to report knowledge to their "subjects". Readers of Stranahans' KOS diary know about the affair. They may discuss it, vehemently object to the recording of it by Stranahan at KOS or heartily agree that Edwards is a slimy specimen of humanity.




BUT, at least the readers of KOS can debate these points.

For those that are condemned to get their information through the NY Times, CNN or the 3 network newscasts, they don't even get the opportunity to decide for themselves: that decision was taken away by a mainstream press that made their decision for them.

Even though there was plenty of "curious coincidences" back in December, when the National Enquirer released their second story on the Edwards affair [JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!], not one reporter had the balls to ask Edwards about it.

Now, seven months later, there are some who supported John Edwards who feel blind-sided by the news that a now-grudging MSM is forced to report. That wouldn't have happened if just one MSM reporter had asked Edwards back in December--as DBKP kept imploring at the time--"Do you deny that you've been in telephone contact with Rielle Hunter since she found out that she was pregnant?"

We'll assume for a moment that the MSM has no liberal bias. The fact that most people who consume MSM news are just now finding this out should be alarming. Readers of the NY Times and viewers of CNN--as well as millions others--are still clueless about John Edwards, Rielle Hunter and their love child.

They remain in the dark to the elaborate cover-up by the Edwards campaign as well.

The cover-up by the traditional press will be the real story here. MSM apologists are already scrambling for excuses. We looked at how the KC Star let their readers in on the new yesterday [John Edwards Scandal: KC Writer Cites “Veiled Threats”, Denials as Likely
].

KC Star writer, Aaron Barnhart, explained it all away as deference to "EE"; as in, "Elizabeth Edwards is the real reason this story hasn't gained traction until now." Barnhart also attributes non-coverage to "vigorous denials" and "veiled threats" to toss the curious off the Edwards press bus.

The Enquirer reported in their latest print edition that:

Elizabeth Edwards was in Chicago raising cancer awareness with Lance Armstrong on the night the ENQUIRER caught her husband visiting Rielle Hunter visiting their love child [at the Beverly Hilton].

Remember the phrase "gained traction": you'll likely hear it a lot. It's MSMspeak for "failure to inform our readers/viewers".

Note to John McCain and Barack Obama: If a reporter asks about--or is thinking about asking--unpleasantness, tell them they may have their access cut off. Or, have your staff issue a "vigorous denial". That ought to fix the problem--with the major networks and the NY Times, Newsweek and Time magazine, anyway.

Back in December, DBKP looked at Bob Schieffer, of CBS's Face the Nation, and his "two-denial rule". [The Edwards Scandal, The Press, The Enquirer and the Blogosphere]

Well, you know I saw that this morning. I believe that — I believe that’s a story that we will be avoiding, because it appears to me that there’s absolutely nothing to it. I’m told that another — a man says that the child is his. I’m told that the woman who seems to be pregnant says it’s not his. So I guess — I guess we’re going to pass on that. Unless you come up with some new information on this, Don.
–- Schieffer, when asked about the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter story On the Don Imus show

What DBKP said then still applies:

A presidential candidate and his campaign’s mysterious video: one that was produced with the high hopes of making the candidate better-known, only to have that hope fulfilled when it disappeared from public view.

That doesn’t excite Bob Schieffer.

A presidential candidate who isn’t asked by the press if he denies being in phone contact with his alleged mistress since she discovered she’s pregnant. Indeed, the Mainstream press didn’t go postal: they went Emily Post-al, as in, “let’s not make any waves, that’s not polite; might get us thrown out of the candidate’s press tent.”

That doesn’t excite Bob Schieffer.

A presidential candidate’s alleged mistress moving close to campaign headquarters, driving around in a BMW owned by the campaign’s former Director of Operations, living in a house owned by the campaign’s backer, having her bills and living expenses paid for–well, who is paying them?

Doesn’t matter.

That wouldn’t likely excite Bob Schieffer, either.

“I said I need back-up!! NOW!!
I got Bob Schieffer’s sense of curiosity here!”

We concluded in December, "Good thing Deep Throat had the good sense not to leak to the Enquirer. Bob Schieffer would have passed on that one."

MSM apologists are pointing out that "Edwards has denied the story".

NO, he hasn't--at least, since the December allegations from the Enquirer were published.

When the allegations in the October National Enquirer story were published [PRESIDENTIAL CHEATING SCANDAL! ALLEGED AFFAIR COULD WRECK JOHN EDWARDS' CAMPAIGN BID], Edwards denied them.

But, then, he could--at that point.

The Enquirer's allegations were of the general nature at that point: no mistress was named, just some unnamed sources. Which were what the New York Times depended on in its John McCain-Vicki Iseman pseudo-scandal just a few months later.

Even in October, Edwards' denial was one part denial, three parts deflection. Trial lawyer that he is, he deflected, dissembled and attacked. As the LA Times blogs reported (after a row over reporting it at all) [BREAKING NEWS: John Edwards denies affair with campaign worker] :

"The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He [Edwards] said the story was "made-up."

"I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years," Edwards added, about his wife Elizabeth, who is suffering from incurable cancer, "and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."

That was the last denial that John Edwards was forced to make: not one MSM reporter questioned him about the affair and cover-up until July--even after the Enquirer dug up quite a treasure trove of information about the curious arrangements of a very-pregnant Rielle Hunter in December.

So, to all those wielding the excuse, "We didn't cover it because he had already denied it": he never had to deny it after October, after a mound of compelling facts uncovered by the Enquirer changed from a shadowy gossip item about a "former campaign worker" into news about Rielle Hunter and a man who was running for president of the United States.

DailyKOS readers are free to now debate the facts of the case since Stranahan started posting on the scandal. They've been given that right by a writer who reported on a story that the Mainstream Media not only refused to investigate, but refused to report on others who had.

DBKP, Lee Stranahan and all who've commented on this story from the beginning, presented the facts and let their readers connect their own dots; or, if any there were any dots that needed connecting.

Prediction: when the story is fully reported in the traditional media, there will be some who do their own searching for more information. These people will be astonished that this story underwent a healthy debate on the Internet months before they were let in on it.

Many of these people will choose to no longer trust their big-city daily newspapers, CNN, CBS News, ABC, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek or NBC News as a news source.

They will join a growing exodus: they will become "former customers", so to speak, of the major news organizations.

Which will contribute further to falling stock prices, declining viewership/circulation and ad revenues of the dinosaur press: those who still believe they can act as information gatekeepers for the rest of us.

by Mondoreb
image: awcommunity

John Edwards Scandal: Bob McGovern,Mystery Man

Rielle Hunter's Mystery Man
--Besides John Edwards



Rielle Hunter, the mother of the John Edwards Love Child, that is finally starting to register on the national consciousness, has a mysterious friend.

No, besides John Edwards.

Bob McGovern was named in the latest round of Enquirer updates to the John Edwards Love Child Scandal as the person who drove both Rielle Hunter and John Edwards to their meeting in the Beverly Hilton. It was at this meeting that Edwards was cornered by the Enquirer's reporters and photographers and took sanctuary in a public men's room.

Click for over 45 DBKP stories on the John Edwards Scandal:

Simon Scowl, Deceiver [What About Bob?] has a complete piece on Mr. McGovern and asks some interesting questions.

McGovern, if you’re just joining us, is the gentleman who allegedly rented the rooms at the Beverly Hilton last week as a favor to John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, the baby girl who Edwards says isn’t his, and the veritable legion of National Enquirer reporters waiting outside. McGovern is also listed on the “board of directors” of Being Is Free (Hunter’s once-deleted, now-resurrected website), and may be the “Bob” who Hunter once described as her “savior, healer of all healers.”

Now, if you go to the Google cache of MargaretSweet.com, the site of some kind of astrologer or palm-reader or something, there’s a page called “Helpful Dudes.” But despite the plural, apparently there’s only one dude who Margaret Sweet considers helpful:

Scowl posits that Hunter may have been carrying Edwards' child, but it was McGovern she was really thinking about all the time. Simon has his reasons.

He also has a journalism project for the willing.

We found it an interesting read while waiting for the latest Edwards news--other than him running from reporters again.

With the Mainstream Media news blackout slowly ending, Bob may not be a mystery much longer.


by Mondoreb
image: Deceiver

John Edward ScandalEdwards Bolts from Reporters, Questions

Edwards Flees From Reporters 2nd Time in 10 Days
See, Johnny Run



It may be too late for John Edwards to try out for the 1000 meters at the Beijing Olympics, but he's certainly getting in some practice running from reporters.

Using a side area, usually reserved for the kitchen staff, John Edwards, fled from reporters, "at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer."

The Raleigh News & Observer account below (via PJ Gladnick at Newbusters):

About a dozen reporters and photojournalists attended a speech Edwards gave to an AARP Foundation symposium on poverty and aging in Washington. Afterward, he avoided most of the waiting reporters, at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer.

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On Wednesday, Edwards apparently ducked out a side area used by the kitchen staff in the fourth-floor ballroom of Washington's historic Hotel Monaco. Edwards emerged from a lower-level handicap ramp near the rear of the hotel with two men. When approached by a Charlotte Observer reporter, Edwards said, "Can't do it now, I'm sorry" and quickly walked past.

Raleigh News & Observer: Facing questions, Edwards evades reporters
NewBusters: Cracks Emerging in MSM Wall of Silence on John Edwards Scandal

Gladnick updated his article above with the mention that Edwards' whole "Two Americas" Traveling-Poverty-Salvation Show was--just an gimmick?

UPDATE: In what could be seen as an indirect acknowledgement by Edwards that this alleged scandal might have destroyed his political future, comes this report titled, "Edwards ending college program," in today's Raleigh News & Observer:

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency.

Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School.

To the suspicious mind of your humble correspondent, it looks like John Edwards' whole poverty tour shtick was just that...shtick. Once it looked like his scholarship program would serve him no purpose, Edwards ditched it immediately.

Say it ain't so.

Patterico has caught the LA Times in some blog post sleight-of-hand shenangigans, regarding the John Edwards/Reille Hunter rumors, as posted by Andrew Malcolm:

by Mondoreb

image: frugal yankee

Beltway Elites and the Ordinary Americans They Rule

Life Outside the Beltway



Washington elites, pontificating pundits and media types would be very surprised to know: There is life outside the beltway. Millions of largely invisible, average Americans live there. And these Americans are living lives totally alien to the thousands of so-called experts and talking heads who claim to represent them.

For instance: These Americans, (I'll call them 'we' Americans, as I belong to their ranks), aren't waiting breathlessly for the latest word on high from Hillary. We really don't care what she says, having learned long ago that much of what comes out of her mouth is designed for political expediency, not conveying truths.

We're also not marveling over the new media messiah, Obama. We've been around awhile and we know what all the experts don't, namely, that a 15 minute flash in the pan does not a president make. As far as we're concerned, the job of running this, the greatest country in the world, requires more than being able to give a good speech. And even though some of us wear checkered shirts and have been known to drink beer on occasion doesn't mean we don't know the difference between socialism and capitalism.

Instead of spending all our time dissecting the nuance and context of the latest sound bite du jour, we have better things to do. Like earning a living, spending time with family or just plain having fun.

We have lives that are not dependant on political fortunes or government largesse. We live in the real world. A world, unlike the inside of the D.C. beltway, where hard work and merit are appreciated and rewarded. A world where a man's word is still his bond and Christian values still mean something. A world where acquiring power and money mean less than earning an honest living and the respect of our neighbors.

The latest polls mean less than zero to us. We know that in politics, 24 hours can be a lifetime and there are many lifetimes to go before we cast our votes in November.

We 'invisible' Americans know when we're being patronized and we have enough common sense to take with a grain of salt any pronouncements claiming to be 'for our own good.' We know best how to run our lives, not some yahoo who's only accomplishment was fooling enough of the populace to get elected to a position of political power.

To most of us in flyover country, political correctness is the hallmark of a herd animal - one who follows the group and lets others do his thinking for him. One who is more concerned with group status than doing what he thinks is right. You know who I mean: the guys and gals that appear on TV, gravely giving us peons the benefit of their vast knowledge. The ones who claim the 'truth' is relative yet insist that their version is the only acceptable truth.

The difference between those that inhabit the rarified real-estate inside-the-beltway and us average Americans is, we are held accountable for the decisions we make. And when we endorse or promote a cause or an idea, we do it with our own money, not the taxpayers'. And we do it quietly, for the right reasons, knowing that the virtue is in the doing, not the talking about it.

Here in the heartland, we all practice capitalism without shame and we don't apologize for making a profit. A lot of us still lower our voices to a whisper when discussing race, but we're working on that.

Words still have meanings and we know that relabelling a donkey as a princess doesn't make that ass a princess. We know a rose is still a rose, even if a self-annointed expert says it isn't. We really don't need or want all the inside-the-beltway experts telling us how to raise our own kids, what kind of car to buy, or how to celebrate diversity.

Mostly, we'd just like to be left alone by all the do-gooders who's main talents are manufacturing crisis' in order to save us from them. We'd sure appreciate it if you'd limit your mischief making to inside the beltway and leave us all alone. We can live our lives just fine without your help.


by Nancy Morgan

Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina, where she writes "Culture Watch" weekly.

Article may be reprinted with attribution. Bio available on request.

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Guns: An Individual Right Given by the Founding Fathers

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

--2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Such importance was placed on the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, that the Founding Fathers placed it second, only behind freedom of speech, assembly and the press.

The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear a case that will decide if that right, given to every free citizen of the United States, set forth in the Bill of Rights and reaffirmed throughout American history, can be taken away.

For more, Red Planet Cartoons has some background and information to get a discussion going - "An Individual Right"

If the Founders were alive today, there's little doubt they'd be troubled by the infringements on basic individual rights and the erosion of the freedoms they left us.

About one thing, they would breathe a sigh of relief: citizens still have the right to bear arms. That right is a last guard against tyranny which many countries lack.

No matter what anyone tells you: a Republic never outgrows the need for its armed citizenry.

by Mondoreb
[image:redplanetcartoons]



Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Veterans Days Parade: Veterans and Filthy Fred Phelps Gang Square Off in Washington DC

Check out the signs--education in America pays off

Done for the day, we were over at Wake Up America and saw "Facing Off The Westboro Cult". The picture above came from the events Spree describes that happens at the Veterans Day Parade in Washington, DC today.

The infamous Westboro cult, the despicable group that travels the country disturbing the funerals of dead servicemen, was in town. Read the story, then head over (as WUA advises) to The Mountain to get a further reporting and more pictures of the confrontations between the protesters and veterans present. Scroll the whole way down the page for photos.
Vets respond to protesters

It will be well worth the five-ten minutes you spend.

by Mondoreb
& Ginn



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