What the Lord Sayeth He then taketh Away… sometimes the very next day!
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Ohio Vote Fraud: The Dead Voting In Cleveland
-By Warner Todd Huston
Every election the TV news folks in Cleveland run stories about dead people voting. Usually, they note that these registrations are mere clerical errors. Often times they are right, too. Let’s face it, government rarely works well. But this year TV5 in Cleveland has found at least one dead voter that is voting as a result of fraud, not just government incompetence… even though the TV report doesn’t focus properly on the fact.
Despite having passed away in 1993, TV5 discovered that Alex Holmes, Sr. voted in the past primary elections. Holmes’ son also voted properly in the primaries, so TV5 notes that this is obviously not a clerical error.
TV5 goes on to discuss the dead voting in its report, but after the fist few sentences, the curious case of Alex Holmes, Sr. voting disappears from the story.
But, here is the thing. Obviously someone took this deceased man’s identity and voted in Cleveland. Cleveland is in Cuyahoga County, hotbed of ACORN vote fraud efforts. TV5 noted that “13,000 dead voters registered in Cuyahoga County” for the 2006 elections and that was before the monstrously illegal efforts of ACORN in the county.
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Arab Paper: ‘Obama’s Historic Intifada’ Allows Islam to ‘Impose its Point of View on World’
-By Warner Todd Huston
From Beirut, Chawki Freiha reports* on a provocative editorial that appeared in the Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper on November 3 written by Abdelbari Atwan, the first journalist to have met with Osama bin Laden. Titled “Obama’s Historic Intifada,” Atwan praises the probable election of Barack Obama to the White House and claims that with Obama installed in Washington, Islam will be able to “impose its point of view” on the world.
As to be expected, Atwan’s editorial decries the Bush administration because it is “controlled by Zionists… whose objective is to destroy the Arab world and Islam.” Displaying true Muslim conspiratorial thinking, Atwan further claims that all Middle Eastern countries have been under the control Israel, even though the Arabs have the “largest wealth” in the world in petrodollars.
The most alarming part of Atwan’s editorial, however, is that he imagines that with a President Obama in office, Islam will be able to use its oil wealth to control the world.
CNN Spins Obama Wanting to Bankrupt Coal Industry as Old News
-By Warner Todd Huston
In reporting the speech by Gov. Sarah Palin in Ohio today, CNN’s Political Ticker tried to spin her question about Obama’s coal comment as old news when it clearly isn’t. Palin asked why we are just now finding out about the interview where Barack Obama said he had hoped to bankrupt the coal industry but CNN termed this interview and Obama’s startling admission as “months-old coal comments” in an attempt to soften the blow to Ohio and Pennsylvania voters. The Political Ticker said that since the San Francisco Chronicle had these comments on its website for nine months, the news of Obama’s quote was no big deal. But this is a misleading claim.
As we know from P.J. Gladnick’s NewsBusters report, Obama admitted that his intention for new coal plants was to slap so many fees, regulations and taxes on any new venture that it would “bankrupt” the company that tries it.
Palin, stumping Sunday in Ohio’s coal country, brought this interview up at a campaign appearance in Marietta, Ohio. “Why is the audio tape just now surfacing?,” she asked the shocked crowd.
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John Fund on ACORN’s Ohio Vote Fraud
-By Warner Todd Huston
Wall Street Journal mainstay, Jon Fund, has been doing yeoman’s work on vote fraud for years. His work is always not to be missed and today at Politico, Fund has a piece headlined Falsified registrations become votes. It’s another great piece.
Fund’s piece takes us on a discovery of vote fraud across the country, so it is a must read. But, since we are chiefly interested in Ohio, here is the relevant bit:
There are already documented examples of fraudulent registrations being converted into fraudulent votes in Ohio, where ACORN and other groups were active. Darrell Nash, an ACORN registration worker, submitted an illegal form for himself and then cast a paper ballot during the state’s “early voting” period.
Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien also cracked down in the case of 13 out-of-state registrants who came to Ohio to register voters in Columbus for the group Vote From Home. The group all lived out of the same rented 1,175-square-foot house in Ohio, registered to vote and then most of them either cast early voting ballots or submitted applications for absentee ballots before leaving the state. They have agreed to have all of their ballots canceled in exchange for the prosecutor’s decision not to file charges.
The Columbus Dispatch reported last month that “none of them seems to have ties to Ohio” — and apparently had no intention of staying there. One has even moved back to England, where he is a student. It is illegal in almost all states to vote somewhere that is not your permanent residence.
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Obama the Justifier
By Selwyn Duke
Election reportage is reaching a fever pitch, and one of the hottest stories concerns a recently revealed interview Barack Obama gave to Chicago Public Radio in 2001. In it, then Illinois state senator Obama talked about whether his desire to spread the wealth around might be better accomplished legislatively or through the courts and lamented that the latter hadn’t done enough to further this socialist goal.
While many have heard the interview, very few have identified its most troubling aspect. It’s not that Obama’s answers were peppered with various forms of the term “redistribute,” as all politically sentient beings already know this is what he aims to do with other people’s money. It wasn’t that he said the Warren court wasn’t really all that “radical.” It’s not even that he strongly implied the Constitution was flawed, as no legal document is perfect, and many thinking people would like to see the Constitution altered in some way. No, there is something far, far more chilling, although, to many, it may seem somewhat innocuous. It was when Obama spoke of how legal “justifications” could be found allowing the courts to order redistributive policies. This single, solitary statement transcends one policy and reveals The One’s philosophy.
If I said “So-and-so has his justifications or “He just wants to justify his actions,” we all know that the italicized words don’t have a positive connotation. Justifications are not usually synonymous with reasons – they tend to be more akin to rationalizations.
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Crowding Obama
-By Thomas E. Brewton
The mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator Obama, bring to mind José Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses.
Street mobs and mass demonstrations are a product of socialism, beginning with the Parisian mobs who assaulted the Bastille on July 14, 1789, then dragged government ministers from their homes and hanged them from the lamp posts.
Everything about these mass demonstrations is anathema to the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which was intended to protect individual political liberties from the power of the mob. Today, liberal-progressive Federal judges justify abrogation of individual liberties, particularly property rights, by reference to mob sentiment.
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Ohio Pizza Joint Supplies Free Pizza to Voters… But Who’s Paying This Bill?
-By Warner Todd Huston
It is being reported on FreeRepublic that Donatos Pizza had been carting in free pizza to hundreds of voters waiting in line to vote in Columbus Ohio. At Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, in Columbus, Ohio early voters had been waiting in lines sometimes for hours to pull that lever.
The Freeper reported that the lines were filled with vocal Obama supporters in that Obama town. But, the question is: did Donatos Pizza offer these slices for free out of the goodness of their hearts, or did someone pay for all these “free” pizzas?
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Ohio, Pennsylvania- Obama Wants Your Coal Jobs Eliminated
All you coal producers in Ohio and Pennsylvania, listen up good. Barack Obama wants to “bankrupt” your companies and put you permanently out of work.
Ohio: Out-of-State Voters not Cross-Checked With Out-of-State Votes
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that up to 65,000 ballots were sent from Ohio to voters in other states that are still registered in Ohio despite living elsewhere. But, there is no system to cross-check these out-of-state voters to see if they are registered and/or have voted in other states.
As the Plain Dealer notes, Ben Piscitelli, a spokesman for the Franklin County Board of Elections said, “We don’t check out-of-state absentee voters to determine if they’ve voted outside Ohio.”
This could have an effect on the out come in Ohio.
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NY Activist Caught in Ohio Vote Fraud Claims Innocence
-By Warner Todd Huston
On Oct. 30, I reported on the vote fraud perpetrated in Ohio by Democrat activist Amy Little from New York. Miss Little, at the time a paid consultant of New York representative John Hall (D-Dover Plains, NY), had registered to vote in Ohio for the 2008 elections. But, the address she was using was not a home or apartment. It was the address of the storefront headquarters of a leftist get-out-the-vote group.
Ohio voting law states that to register to vote in Ohio one must be a resident, not a visitor. Miss Little has a permanent home in New Platz, New York and has no intention of becoming a resident of Ohio, therefore her registration in Ohio clearly broke the law.
When news got out of her attempt to defraud Ohio, she was fired by her political boss in New York and her voter registration in Ohio voided.
But, here is the newest wrinkle in the tale. Little claims she’s innocent of any wrong doing. Imagine that… a Democrat that refuses to admit lawbreaking. Hard to believe, I know.
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KCStar’s Kraske: McCain Win is ‘Jim Crow… Invited to Dinner’
-By Warner Todd Huston
Yet another writer from a lefty paper is here to tell us all that McCain and all his followers are racists. You see, if McCain wins, Steve Kraske imagines in his latest column that all blacks will feel that Jim Crow is back and the rest of the Democratic Party will be “angry at the world.” So, a McCain win will be the return of Jim Crow? Isn’t that an awfully irresponsible lie to promulgate, Mr. Kraske?
Kraske ruminates about how horrible it will be if McCain beats The One at the polls on Tuesday. But, he gets quite a lot of his analysis wrong, not surprisingly.
Just imagine it: One more loss for the Democratic Party in a race for the White House, its ninth in 14 elections. All those young people and first-time voters excited about Obama, eager to see a dynamic new figure in charge, let down, dispirited, disillusioned by the outcome.
Unfortunately for Kraske’s fevered imagination, Gallup has found that no more young people have registered to vote this time than they did in 2004, so this avalanche of new, young voters has turned out to be a myth. There really won’t be that many new, young voters feeling all “dispirited” and the like.
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California: 3rd Top SEIU Official Steps Down Ahead of Corruption
-By Warner Todd Huston
Yet another Top Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief has stepped down from her office at the troubled and corrupt California branch of the union this month according to the L.A.Times.
Annelle Grajeda is the third major SEIU leader to be forced to step down just ahead of major legal troubles over corruption. Grajeda’s boyfriend, Alejandro Stephens, has also been ordered to repay tens of thousands of dollars he received from the state council that Grajeda heads.
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This Is What a Vote for Obama Gets You
-By Frank Salvato
I live in Illinois, just outside of Chicago. I live in the state that incubated the political career of Barack Obama and for that, as a resident of the State of Illinois and a conservative, I apologize. But this puts me in a unique position to afford you a glimpse of things to come for our nation should Barack Obama attain the Oval Office, and especially if Democrats maintain or increase their control in Congress. I present to the citizens of the United States the State of Illinois; a working model that illustrates the consequences of a government run by the Progressive-Left.
In 2003, five short years ago, the State of Illinois went blue; not light blue or royal blue but Daley Machine, Chicago Democrat, Progressive-Left cobalt blue. For decades our state existed in a symbiotic political state; the Daley Machine Chicago Democrats controlling Cook County and most of the lesser “urban areas” and the Illinois GOP holding sway in the collar counties and rural areas. But the failure (and I believe cowardice) of Republican Governor George Ryan to take one for the party by stepping down before he was convicted of corruption, ushered in a dark era of Progressive-Left, Democrat political control in Illinois. Democrats now hold all statewide offices and control both houses of the legislature. This being said, everything that has happened since 2003 is attributable to Democrat and Progressive-Left action and leadership.
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Google Proves Crime Does Pay – If You Have Enough Market Power
-By Scott Cleland
Google, in settling with authors/publishers for $125m in their copyright infringement lawsuits, has cleverly leveraged its market power to tip, and lock in, another Internet segment to de facto Google monopoly control — access to most of the world’s books online. The untold story here is how this settlement:
- Enthrones Google as the de facto gatekeeper to access most of the world’s books online;
- Establishes a “new model” for online content distribution;
- Attempts to set precedent that leveraging market power to extract monopoly rents in an adjacent market is OK; and
- Positions Google to become the world’s omni-platform for media distribution that will wipe out traditional media competition, unless antitrust enforcement ensures media distribution competition survives.
Why does crime pay for Google?
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Ohio Voter Dead Since 2007 Registered in Nearby County, Voted in March Primary
-By Warner Todd Huston
Last Thursday, Becky Grimes of WHIO TV in Dayton reported about the large number of dead voters still on the rolls in the area. She also reported that a Greene County voter that had passed away in February of 2007 had been discovered registered in nearby Montgomery County and had mysteriously voted in the primaries last March.
George and Jean Watts of Beavercreek were stunned to find out that their deceased daughter Nancy, voted in the March 4th primary. Jean Watts said, “I couldn’t believe it. She’s been dead almost two years.”
But, what the TV report didn’t bother to mention is that the Ohio voter in question was a Republican when alive, but was a newly registered Democrat this time around.
It is also quite interesting to note that the vote cast by the deceased Nancy Watts had migrated from one county to another. When alive, Miss Watts was a Greene County resident that voted Republican. But, this time she was registered in Montgomery County and was voting Democrat. This is not evidence of voter rolls that just have yet to be properly purged, it is evidence of fraud. The TV report simply did not make that clear.
I was contacted by a friend of the Watts’ and they would like the real story to be reported. Someone specifically stole the identity of their departed daughter in order to pump up votes for Democrats.
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Boehner calls for U.S. Prosecutors to Monitor Polls in Ohio
-By Warner Todd Huston
Representative John Boehner (R., 8th Dist., Ohio) is calling for U.S. prosecutors to monitor polls in Ohio on Tuesday. Boehner has been increasingly worried over vote fraud and has tried several ways to assure the election in Ohio is legal and fair.
He has been met with resistance in the Attorney General’s office, however. AG Michael Mukasey has refused to involve his department in any vote fraud issues in Ohio. Boehner blames this reticence on Obama partisans that work in the AG’s office.
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Ohio Vote Fraud: Trouble With 70 Absentee Ballots in Miami County
-By Warner Todd Huston
County election officials are trying to unravel how 70 ballots containing filled out votes were returned unsigned to officials on Friday. It appears that some of these ballots were never in possession of the voters who were supposed to have filled them out and sent them back in, the Dayton Daily News is reporting.
What the question appears to be is where these ballots have been before being turned in to have the votes tallied? Many of the voters these 70 ballots were destined for never got them. Yet, mysteriously, they’ve been turned in filled out with votes? The obvious conclusion is that someone in the Post Office stole these ballots, preventing them from being delivered, and then filled them out hoping that the votes would be assumed to be legal votes.
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Seattle Paper Publishers Pictures and Addresses of Homes With McCain Signs
-By Warner Todd Huston
**Update** 4PM 11/01/08
Like Obama, the folks that run The Stranger “newspaper” in Seattle are all about tolerance… as long as you believe the same things they believe. If you don’t, well, then you deserve intimidation and a good “outing.” just as Obama has tried to intimidate radio talk show hosts, just like he has tried to use the office of the Attorney General to quash political free speech, The Stanger publication has decided that the best way to force citizens of Seattle to toe the far left political line is to have their homes photographed and their addresses made public for the outrageous crime of having a McCain/Palin sign on their property.
Editorial Director Dan Savage, another boring Seattle gay activist, has helmed this intimidation disguised as “humor” in order to attack his political opposition. Good thing ol’ Danny is all “tolerant” and stuff, isn’t it?
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Trash Novelist’s Trash Talk: Obama Loss Will ‘Spark American Civil War,’ Says Erica Jong
-By Warner Todd Huston
Like most of the leftist illiterati in the U.S., trash novelist Erica Jong has revealed symptoms of what appears to be a mental nervous breakdown over this election. In an interview to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Jong fretted that an Obama loss would “spark the second American Civil War” and also that his loss would cause “blood to run in the streets.” She also admitted that she was experiencing a “paralyzing terror” about the upcoming election. It seems that those most mentally disturbed by this election inhabit the American far left, revealing a seeming delicately balanced mental state — or maybe I should say an unbalanced one.
Jason Horowitz of the New York Observer brings us Jong’s overwrought blather and also notes that Jong seems to think the same worries are being echoed by many of her jet-setting comrades. Jong notes that Jane Fonda, Naomi Wolf, Ken Follett and others have agreed with her that the world will end if the messiah isn’t elected.
Horowitz translates what he calls “the more spirited quotes” from Jong’s Italian interview:
What a Democrat Win Will Mean
-By Warner Todd Huston
Michael Sandler over at The Hill has some ominous warnings about what a landslide Democrat victory next week will mean to unions and the economy.
Sandler warns that unions will find a resurgence in influence in government, especially with an Obama presidency.
With those obstacles removed, Democrats could quickly push forward with legislation allowing labor unions to organize without secret-ballot elections and a bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Other possibilities include the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would overturn a Supreme Court decision restricting equal pay lawsuits; a measure that would narrow the role of a “supervisor” for collective bargaining purposes; and a mandate for paid sick leave for companies with 15 or more employees who work at least 30 hours a week — all left over from the last Congress.
“I think they want to strike while the iron’s hot and grab everything they can,” said Marc Freedman, director of labor law policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The “card check” plan of destroying the ages old democratic concept of the secret ballot will irreparably harm the safety and integrity of employee’s vote on union matters. Instead of the secret ballot, employees will have to openly sign “cards” in public so that their vote is open for all to see. This will surely enhance union thugs’ ability to identify employees who vote against the union line in order to spotlight them as an “anti-union” employee and, therefore, to be targeted for attention and union intimidation.
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Victory At Any Price
-By David Huntwork
Have you ever wondered about “community organizing” and the swarming “get out the vote” goon squads that the Left increasingly mobilizes for presidential elections? ACORN is one of the largest of these entities and has an extensive and long history with Barack Obama. It is one of the central players in the massive Democratic voter registration drives you’ve been hearing about over the last few months. What we are beginning to learn is that it is little more than a massive exercise in voter fraud and mischief of all kinds. Dead Indians and illegal aliens have long been a significant Democratic voting base in certain parts of the country but now that concept of electoral fraud has spread throughout the nation.
ACORN has long suckled at the public teat. It has rewarded such trust and expenditures of the public treasury by managing to get itself placed under scrutiny or investigation in no less than eleven different states for submitting thousands of fraudulent new voter registrations. The usual dead suspects are now being supplemented by small children and even the names of sport celebrities. `
A good example from the New York Post.
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The young will pay for a President Obama
-By Michael M. Bates
It’s lamentable that Obama and Biden only tell the truth when people give them money. It was at a San Francisco fundraiser that Obama voiced his belief that residents of small towns in Pennsylvania and elsewhere “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
More recently Biden told contributors at a Seattle fundraiser:
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
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Another Idiot Teacher Alert: Vampire Drawing Gets Kid Called ‘Gang Member’
-By Warner Todd Huston
But Why Does The AP Report Ignore Key Part of Story?
Remember when you were a young school kid and you drew a vampire during the week of Halloween? Remember how the blood was always dripping down from his menacing, pearly white teeth? Remember how it was all in good Halloween fun? Well, you can just forget THAT mister, at least if you are a 5th-Grader in the Savannah-Chatham school system in Georgia. In Georgia, if you draw a vampire you get called a gang member — even when you were assigned to make the drawing — and then you get sent to “psychological evaluation” as if you are some mentally disturbed monster. Then they kick you out of school… for a Halloween drawing. Really.
The Savannah Morning News gives us the gruesome story of another touchy-feelie teacher gone stupid and another poor little kid lost in “zero-tolerance” hell this Halloween week.
When Jordan Hood was assigned the task of drawing a “scary Halloween mask,” he innocently drew a scary vampire. His art teacher even helped him out with a few of the details. But then came home-room teacher Melissa Pevey (amusingly, even her name sounds pent up) who decided that, far from Halloween fun, little 5th-grader Jordan was obviously a violence prone, mentally disturbed, gang member. So in a harrowing Halloween experience that had no fun in it at all, Pevey had him paraded down to the principal’s office where he was confronted by the police and assigned “psychological evaluation” as a punishment for his artistry.
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Ohio Elections: ACORN Worker by Day, Prostitute by Night
-By Warner Todd Huston
Of course, we all know that ACORN workers are prostitutes for Barack Obama, The One, the all seeing, all knowing messiah at large.
But, whoda thunk they were also prostitutes for… well… just prostitutes? I mean Real ones?
WCPO channel 9 in Cincinnati is reporting that an ACORN worker was arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer this week. Shari Bell also had a crack pipe in her coat when police arrested her.
So, we know her night job. But what was her day job? Well, apparently she worked for ACORN (the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now), Barack Obama’s old employer and current supporter.
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Illegal Democrat Electioneering at Ohio Polls, Butler County
-By Warner Todd Huston
From one of our associates in the field named Dolores (forwarded to me by Thea Shoemake) we get this report of Obama workers canvassing and electioneering among those standing in line to vote today. To be sure this sort of stuff is illegal within the polling area. All such activities have to be far outside the actual polling place, not just in Ohio, but in all states.
Folks,
Ok, now I’m officially scared. This afternoon I went to vote early at the Butler County Board of Elections and found a line with an estimated wait of over an hour.
The voting officials suggested coming back at a later time.
I decided to go back tonight and waited a total of 1 1/2 hours before I could actually vote. There were a lot of interesting things going on while everyone was waiting in line…Obama campaigners were going up and down the long lines handing out candy and water bottles (I don’t think this is allowed so very close to the voting area! We were inside the building in line the whole time this was going on!).
There were huge groups of Obama supporters in line in front of me and behind me literally recruiting people while standing in line, to volunteer over the weekend to do door to door canvasing and election day work.
This is the sort of illegal activity that poll watchers are supposed to report. But, the poll workers in Butler County neglected their duty, for sure.
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Boehner Urges DOJ to Reverse Controversial Decision
Assign Criminal Prosecutors to Election Observer Teams
House GOP Leader to Attorney General: “[T]he real motive behind the Department’s decision is undeniably suspect given that Obama partisans in key positions at the Department of Justice may well have played a pivotal role in making it.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, citing concerns about the Justice Department’s recent decision to reverse its policy of assigning criminal prosecutors to serve on all federal election observer teams. The decision comes amid reports of voter fraud across the country.
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NYTimes Review of Books Hates Book on War Because no Gays are in it
-By Warner Todd Huston
It’s like dissing a toddler’s beginner science book because the theory of relativity isn’t discussed in exhaustive detail. It’s as foolish as trashing a comic book because the art isn’t of da Vinci quality. It’s as absurd as being mad because a Michael Moore movie isn’t any good or that a candy bar has too much chocolate in it. The review in the New York Times of Martin van Creveld’s new book about war is like expecting a product to be something it isn’t supposed to be. It seems that the Times Reviewer thinks that a book on war isn’t any good unless it deals with gays and feminists. I suppose, though, the New York Times Reviewers don’t like any book unless it deals with gays and feminists at this point, so far has the Times’ reviews degraded to prosaic PCism.
Martin van Creveld’s book The Culture of War is an epic investigation of the why of war, not just the history of same. Van Creveld concludes that war is a part of man’s psyche, a part of man’s very makeup, not just a political expression or some accidental incidental. Man has a never satisfied hunger for war which explains the almost religious veneration for war casualties and veterans and the fascination with uniforms and weapons he exhibits. Man IS war.
This is a heady thesis. It goes against, to a degree, the thoughts of famous Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz who said that war was really just politics by another method — giving war a more disinterested, clinical imputes. Van Creveld is saying man indulges in war because he must, not because he merely chooses to in order to advance a political cause, a la Clausewitz.
OK, OK, that’s all pretty technical and deep. But that’s what this book is all about. Mr. van Creveld presents a firm thesis that war is ingrained in man and then goes about to review history to show it. He discusses in detail the love of showy uniforms, war themes, music, famous personalities at war, various conflicts and outcomes and the like. It’s intended to be a comprehensive history and clocking in at 512 pages it’s nigh on just that.
So, what was the New York Times’ chief complaints? It was too detailed, the writer likes war too much, and, most curious, the book didn’t talk about gays and feminists.
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Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote
Connie Hair reports Partisan Ohio Sec. of State is linked to ACORN! This is outrageous that this Sec. of State, one standing in the way of a fair and honest vote in Ohio is linked with one of the most notoriously lawbreaking get-out-the-vote groups in the country.
Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote
by Connie Hair, Human Events
The national development director for Project Vote, an affiliated organization of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been linked to embattled Ohio Secretary of State, Democrat Jennifer Brunner. Karyn Gillette of Project Vote was a campaign consultant for the Brunner campaign, according to information found in a post made by Rick Brunner on April 11, 2006 on the secretary of state’s own blog.
“Our candidate had gone earlier in the day to have some meetings and work out of Karyn Gillette’s office, but when your correspondent arrived in his S-10 pickup truck, our staff person, Lauren, drove that back to Columbus, while we continued on to dinner with Craig Bashiene and John Lancione. We were accompanied by our consultant, Karyn Gillette. Karyn and her business partner, Mary Grace, have been very helpful to the campaign.”
The links between Gillette and Brunner do not end there.
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Union Campaign Cash Hidden Behind Shell Groups
-By Warner Todd Huston
Unions are gunning for Republicans this election cycle at an accelerated rate due to the blood in the water of a supposed Democratic landslide ostensibly to be led by Barack Obama.
Not only are unions openly supplying millions to campaigns that oppose the GOP, but they are also doing so by hiding behind organizations that do not “bear their name,” as USA Today put it.
Some big labor unions are spending millions to attack vulnerable Republican senators who have long opposed their agenda in Congress, sometimes channeling their money into non-profits that don’t bear their names, federal records show.
Citizens for Strength and Security, for example, has spent more than $1 million in recent weeks to attack North Carolina’s Elizabeth Dole, who is locked in a contentious battle with Democrat Kay Hagan. Unions are among the group’s major financial backers, including the 2-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which contributed $220,000 in September.
Mostly this is over the woefully inaptly named Employee Free Choice Act that most Republicans oppose.
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