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My Senate Judiciary Testimony why the Google-DoubleClick merger should be blocked

October 4, 2007 by

-By Scott Cleland

Below is the summary of my testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust yesterday on why the Google-DoubleClick merger should be blocked.

  • I find the Google-DoubleClick merger review process to be one of the most illuminating and fascinating ways to explore the future of the business of the Internet.
  • I also strongly believe the trajectory of Internet content business will be profoundly affected by the outcome of this merger review.
  • I highly recommend you review the six charts I prepared which provide a very useful visual overview of why this merger is so far-reaching, little understood and important.
  • My full testimonywhite paper, “Googleopoly” can be found at www.googleopoly.net.

Summary of Testimony of Scott Cleland, President, Precursor LLCBefore the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee On Antitrust Hearing on: “Google-DoubleClick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry” — September 27, 2007
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00Publius Contributor - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

A Little Joke for Thursday

October 4, 2007 by

A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Conservative!” “I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?” “Well,” answers the balloonist, “everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.”

The man smiles and responds, “You must be a Liberal.” “I am,” replies the balloonist. “How did you know?”

“Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.”

00Publius Contributor - Media Bias - News - Science - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Weather Stations Giving Bad Global Warming Data, A Problem Ignored

October 3, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

A few months ago, the blogosphere and talk radio were abuzz with the story of how the nation’s various weather stations and temperature reading devices have been improperly located or badly constructed and how the data received from these improper devices must be suspected as inaccurate. Since global warming research often uses this suspect data that is gotten from these failed stations, it must therefore call into question the accuracy of the entire theory as its conclusions are derived from likely false data. Still, even as the blogosphere and talk radio blasted the news, the MSM ignores this explosive story.

But, it is evident that the so-called scientific community has also ignored the arguments in this story as there has yet to be a weather station moved or its location and/or construction reevaluated.

Anthony Watts has a great website detailing the problems with some of these weather stations, but there are far more out there than the ones that Mr. Watts details. He cannot be expected to catch them all, naturally. So, this report details another problematic station. This one is situated in the Bandelier National Monument Park in New Mexico.

The Bandelier National Monument is a place of great natural beauty with a rich American history going back into prehistoric times. It is 32,000 some acres of amazing nature with indigenous Indian archeological sites like the Anasazi cliff dwellings, numerous petroglyphs to see and caves to visit. The natural awesomeness of the Pajarito Plateau easily impresses with its red earth and cliffs and sporting miles of backpacking trails and picknicking areas. It’s a wonderful place and a great natural, American resource.

As it so happens, Bandelier National Monument also sports a weather station. Off the trail (and therefore not legally approachable I’m told) sits a weather station right up against the red cliffs of the Monument.

The placement of this station is most likely a major problem with the data that might be had from the weather devices there, however. The cliffs may be fun to explore, they may be beautiful and they are certainly a great and wondrous place for historical sightseeing but any area right up against the cliffs is a horrible place for a station that measures temperatures.

Consider this: during a hot summer day have you ever walked up next to the solid brick wall of a building exposed to direct sunlight? Have you ever had cause to place your hand on those bricks exposed to the blazing summer sun? If you ever have, you’ll have noticed that heat simply radiates in waves from those bricks. In fact, for hours after the sun goes down that brick facade will radiate heat.

This radiation of heat occurs because materials such as brick and rock absorbs heat and holds it for quite a while radiating it back out into the air through the day. In fact, Indian peoples throughout history have used these New Mexico cliffs to keep warm by snuggling up to the great rock edifice to soak up the heat it radiates.

And this heat daily radiating from the cliffs is just the problem here. Looking at the photo of the weather station will show how close this station is to those massive rocks. So, this raises the question: wouldn’t the heat constantly radiating from the cliff face cause the temperature devices to measure unduly high temperatures? Might not this temperature data be consistently higher to some degree than it otherwise might be should the station had been placed, say, in the near by meadow which is away from the cliffs?

These are the sorts of questions that need answering about our entire weather station system. The common sense of the construction and placement of these stations needs to be reviewed so that we might be able to assure proper accumulation of weather data.

Of course, a big question must be asked due to the failure to address the situation. Do the researchers who turn this inaccurate data into justifications for global warming theories really want to have proper data? That is the big question, indeed.

But, whatever the case, this particular weather station in the Bandelier National Monument Park needs to be reevaluated for its effectiveness, as do so many others.

What we end up with from the many revelations of the inadequate weather stations across the country is a failure to trust the entire system of weather collecting devices, yet the MSM and the scientific community has failed to highlight this story. Wouldn’t it seem a natural story for the MSM to tackle? It has drama, it has shocking consequences and it has a theme of failure; all things the MSM normally love to explore.

Yet, even as this story broke wide open in the blogosphere months ago, we see no grand stories on a story that cries out for it, no “investigative journalism” from the MSM.

Shouldn’t we be asking why that is?
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Democracy Doesn’t Always Mean Liberty and Freedom

October 3, 2007 by

By Frank Salvato

Liberty is one of the noblest concepts of all. It is defined as: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control, external or foreign rule, captivity, confinement, or physical restraint. In an ideological sense liberty embodies the idea of free thought and free speech, the expression of one’s opinions without fear of reprisal.

Liberty is the foundation for all Western democracies and served as the main catalyst in the vision of America’s Founding Fathers. Without liberty no democracy can function.

But with liberty comes an elevated civic responsibility.

This responsibility includes being well educated on the facts surrounding any one issue, especially before opining or taking action. One must seek out fact-based information not only in an effort to validate our beliefs and ideology, but to challenge them as well. We must be responsible enough to brave scrutiny of our political and ideological positions. To abdicate this responsibility is to cheat ourselves out of a full and well-rounded understanding of the issue at hand. It also serves to foment a populace vulnerable to over-reaching governmental control, antithetical to the concept of liberty.
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00Publius Contributor - Elections - GOP - News - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Forbes Ranks Thompson Most Conservative Candidate

October 3, 2007 by

According to the new ratings that Forbes Magazine created, Fred Thompson is rated as the most conservative candidate running for president.

With a rating of 40.6 out of a possible 50, Thompson leads the pack of GOP hopefuls as the most conservative, right ahead of John McCain.

Here are the results of the Forbes rating system:
Thompson 40.6
McCain 40.5
Brownback 37.9
Romney 36.7
Giuliani 36.2
Hunter 34.3
Paul 31.2
Tancredo 31.1
Huckabee 26

00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - Melanie Morgan - Patriotism - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized

Dishonorable, and Yes Phony, Soldiers

October 2, 2007 by

-By Melanie Morgan

Rush Limbaugh has come under attack by liberal bloggers and some in the news media for a statement he made on his show about “phony soldiers.”

Now I am under attack for defending Rush.

Despite the cries of protest from the anti-war and anti-military crowd, Limbaugh was spot-on right in his characterization.

Limbaugh mentioned in his show the case of Jessie Adam Macbeth, who falsely claimed to have committed war crimes during service in Iraq. The allegations struck a chord with those who wish to regularly impugn the character and honor of the men and women of the United States military. They jumped on the story like jackals on fallen prey, ripping away at the integrity of our heroic troops who serve in a hot war some 7,000 miles away.
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Getting Rid of American Holidays in Public Schools

October 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

At the end of September the school district in Oak Lawn, Illinois announced it was considering eliminating holiday celebrations like Christmas in its schools. Oak Lawn has seen increasing numbers of residents that identify with the Muslim faith who are naturally sending their children to the public schools there and school board members are afraid that Christian holidays are “offensive” to Muslim students.

This move follows a recent decision to eliminate pork products from the school menu.

Unsurprisingly, these cultural clashing decisions by the school board have caused acrimony among parents of the district. Stating the painfully obvious, Columbus Manor Principal Sandy Robertson said of the controversy, “It’s difficult when you change the school’s culture.”

Elizabeth Zahdan, a parent of Muslim faith who took her case to the school board wanting the school to be “more inclusive” during holiday activities, however, adamantly denied she wanted to eliminate any American styled holiday observances. “I only wanted them modified to represent everyone,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times. Zahdan disclaimed to reporters, “Now the kids are not being educated about other people.”

Unfortunately for Mrs. Zahdan, a “modified” holiday is no longer the same holiday. It becomes something else once altered. So, whatever her motives, she was effectively advocating for their elimination.

Superintendent Tom Smyth said that the reason they were eliminating or trying to “tone down” holiday celebrations was one of wasting allotted teaching time. There isn’t time enough in the day to “celebrate every holiday,” Smyth claimed. “We have to think about our purpose. Are we about teaching reading, writing and math or for parties or fund-raising during the day?”

Conservatives will, of course, be offended by the elimination of standard, Christian American holidays and having them “modified” to be “more inclusive.” Many are upset that these purported outsiders are forcing the local schools to make such changes for Muslims and rightfully so, to be sure.

But, this anger from conservatives is hard to square with their ideas of local control of the school systems. The usual conservative policy prescription for what ails public education in America is local — as opposed to Federal — control. In general, this is absolutely correct as who better to control what sort of school a community wants than the community itself, one not encumbered by meddling control from the Federal government or state officers?
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The Face Of Men Abused By Women

October 2, 2007 by 2 Comments

-By Teri Stoddard

Thirty-nine misinformed Representatives have submitted House Resolution 590 to obtain more funding for domestic violence services. This has men’s and fathers’ rights advocates asking, “Why pour more money into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) when it’s unconstitutional, as well as responsible for the destruction of many healthy, loving father-child relationships? ”

The organization RADAR (Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting) did an analysis of HRES 590 and found eighteen errors. There is no mention of male victims in HRES 590 whatsoever.

Steven, 61, of northern California told me about the day he left his female abuser fifteen years ago. He said, “I told myself that if it happened again I would let her hit me, to show her that it wasn’t me, holding her arms, leaving a bruise, so she could say we fought.” They were riding in the car and she was agitated. In an attempt to avoid a confrontation he was being careful how he spoke.

This made her even angrier. He described what happened next, “We stopped in her church parking lot, and she slammed her fist, like a hammer, into my face. I thought one hit would do it, maybe two. It was four or five.”

He continued, “She went into the church and I knew, after all the years, it was over. I sat in the car, in the dark, with tears. I starting getting cold and could taste blood. A half hour passed. I thought she would come out crying and apologize. She didn’t.”
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Darwinian Evolution: the Foundation of Liberal-Socialism

October 2, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

A reader believes that characterization is completely absurd.

Commenting on Scientific Snake-Oil, ryan wrote:

“Darwinian evolution [was] concocted originally to discredit the Bible and to support the philosophical materialism of the socialist religion.”

This statement is completely absurd. Can you supply any facts whatsoever to support this claim?

My answer:

There is abundant evidence that Charles Darwin was, as early as his voyage on the Beagle, interested in some hypothesis, any hypothesis other than that offered in the Bible, to explain the fantastic varieties of animal and plant life. Darwin’s works, the outgrowth of similar studies in geology by Charles Lyell, were rebuttals aimed directly at Judeo-Christian doctrine found in the Bible.

Darwin, by the time of his voyage on the Beagle, had become a convinced agnostic. In one of his manuscripts regarding his abandonment of Christianity, Darwin wrote: Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. As Gertrude Himmelfarb notes (Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution):

The progress of his disbelief must have been sufficiently advanced by 1838, when he became engaged to be married, to provoke his father’s warning about the advisability of concealing one’s doubts from one’s wife.
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00Publius Contributor - Business - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - News - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Unions - Warner Todd Huston

Unions Picketing in Virtual Reality on the Web?

October 2, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, here is an interesting tale. Apparently IBM workers in Italy have started walking a picket line for workers upset over job benefits. Not unusual, you say? Well this picket line is being walked by animated, virtual characters in an on-line game called “Second Life.”

It’s a pretty silly exercise that won’t get much notice by anyone in the real world, of course. After all, the whole point of a picket line is an in-your-face, annoyance to regular folk who just happen to be inconvenienced by union thugs walking the streets. On the internet, all one need do to avoid them is just not click there!

That being said, it is an interesting thing to see. A virtual protest! Certainly a new experience.

Now here is the hilarious part. UnionFacts.com added their own character to the picket line intruding on the socialists and whiners picketing their company!

For those of you unaware, UnionFacts.com is an anti-union organization that informs the public on a daily basis of the evils unions do.

So, the folks at UnionFacts.com on their LaborPains.org blog crashed the picket line and went in with their giant sign advertising UnionFacts.com and exhorting all the slackers to get back to work and quit whining!

Absolutely hilarious!
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - News - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Is Hollywood Filled With Artistic Cowards?

October 1, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Hollywood loves to abuse young girls and routinely depicts underage and taboo breaking sexual encounters, not to mention its perennial depiction of extreme violence, so it is amazing that every year we are treated to Hollywood types decrying that the film industry is “afraid to take chances” in film. The so-called artists of Hollywood imagine that the corporate side of the industry refuses to let them push the envelope, and yearly we are treated to their declamations of being stifled and their artistic integrity assailed. Far from unusual, though, nearly every year there is at least one movie that goes over the top, becomes the “daring” one, the one that is “brave” enough to so casually mistreat women and put them in abusive situations and nearly every year these soft core porn debacles are presented as if they are somehow different, somehow bucking a trend. Each year some new producer, writer or star is quoted to the effect that other movies are somehow “afraid” to tackle such subject matter. But any look at the history of these film festivals reveals there is no such “fear” from Hollywood. These films are common as dirt and just as lowdown and gritty.

This year’s outrage making the movie festival circuit is called “Nothing is Private.” It depicts a 13 year-old girl who is ignored by her mother, beaten by her father and sexually molested by a decades older next-door neighbor. Roger Friedman called it kiddie porn and “the feel-awful movie of 2007” and tongues are clicking about it in Toronto where it played on the 12th. But, the fact that a mistreated, underage girl is presented in such horrible living conditions and that the film is treated as “art” is no big deal where Hollywood is concerned.

The poster boy for faux bravery in film this year is the director of the trashy and abusive “Nothing is Private,” Alan Ball. He is dutifully quoted in the entertainment media as decrying how “afraid” to “take chances” the rest of Hollywood is. ”A lot of those reactions are going to be very emotion-based,” Ball gravely intones, “I know [the film] is very divisive. Certainly, my experience here this week has reaffirmed my opinion that a lot of this business is basically fear-driven. People are so afraid of taking risks and taking chances.”

And yet, as supposedly “afraid” as Hollywood is to consider this “brave” director’s trash, Warner Independent Films and Netflix just paid him $1.25 million to distribute his soft core, kiddie porn flick. Not so “afraid” as this self-important auteur claims, it seems.
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Pin the Noose on the Honky

October 1, 2007 by

-By Lee Culpepper

Ramming multiculturalism, diversity, and intolerant-tolerance down the throats of captive students keeps many public schools quite busy. But unwelcome menaces like critical thinking and factual history jeopardize this multicultural indoctrination of students; consequently, many politically correct educators have fought shamelessly and successfully to abolish these perceived “threats” from their classrooms. While PC terms often sound nontoxic and even advantageous, they have actually served to strangle the ability to think.

The disturbing news from Jena, Louisiana, elucidates my point. Racial mayhem has struck this small town. There we have two racial sub-cultures that clearly expose the foolishness of the PC agenda engulfing America. Multicultural zealots insist that all cultures are equal. In fact, they encourage individuals to mindlessly celebrate the culture in which they were born – especially if an individual’s culture runs diametrically opposite to America’s productive melting-pot society. Even more troublesome, to support assimilating into America’s mainstream traditions equates to an abominable sin in multiculturalism’s pagan religion.

On the other hand, the two cultures clashing in Jena help to expose political correctness for the sham that it is. If these two sub-cultures (one white, one black) of American society are equal to every other culture, then what’s the problem? Obviously, these two cultures are counterproductive for the people who live them – that’s the problem! Many other worldly cultures are counterproductive, too. Muslims who see all non-Muslims as infidels — worthy of slaughter — is a relevant example.
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Islam - Islamofascism - Media Bias - Military - News - Security/Safety - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

NYTimes: Thomas Friedman Wants America to Get Over 9/11

September 30, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Thomas Friedman thinks you are “stupid” if you still care about the atrocity committed against this country by Islamofascists in New York on 9/11/2001. He thinks “9/11 is over” and we all should just move on. Even worse, he has decided that we are no longer a great country, but are filled with seemingly meaningless “fear,” that we have a dilapidated infrastructure, and that while America used to be “the gold standard,” he believes “We aren’t anymore.” Friedman is falling for the typical, leftist doom-and-gloom scenario and imagines that China is better than we are, Europe is more inviting, and we have become the new Rome after the fall. His closing line is “We can’t afford to keep being this stupid!” By contrast to Friedman, my opening line to him is “We can’t afford to be this self-loathing!”

Friedman starts his piece off comparing the current state of the U.S. to a satirical piece in the Onion, which is fitting because Frideman’s own piece might be mistaken for a satire on the frivolousness and unserious nature of the left today. Unfortunately, he is serious about his self-inflicted amnesia and seems utterly unconcerned about the threats we face as a nation and a people. Like most truthers he seems to imagine that it has all been hype, a conspiracy theory made up by eeeevil Republicans who merely want to fool enough people to stay in power.

His lack of ability to understand the nature of the enemy we face is a perfect reflection of the Chamberlainesque, “peace in our times” left that would soon have us in thrall to Islamofascism by their ignorant policy prescriptions.

It seems he had an ulterior motive in writing this doggerel, though, as Friedman used his self-immolating New York Times piece as a veiled jab at Rudolph Giuliani who is, in his perception, a “candidate running on 9/11.”

Says Friedman:

We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.

He seems to be repudiating his previous writing on terrorism and, all of a sudden, imagining a world where all is honey and roses, but that the eeeevil terror-mongers are keeping us hiding under the bed in meaningless fear.
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In New Haven, Get Indicted for Corruption — Retire With BIG Union Pension

September 30, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the most absurd things about unions is their penchant for rewarding criminal behavior. In the real world, most people would not agree to allow a convicted criminal or someone under a cloud of corruption to benefit from a big pension paid for by everyone else. But, not in union land. In union land even those convicted of crimes should be carried from the cradle to the grave by the work force.

Well, in New Haven, Connecticut lawmakers are trying to change this ridiculous union requirement by crafting a new law to deny the pensions of public employees and union members who have been convicted of a crime or those who are in the midst of being indicted for corruption.

This new initiative is fast on the tail of the story of Billy White and Justen Kasperzyk, two New Haven narcotics cops who were indicted as a result of an FBI corruption investigation, both of whom retired with large pensions — one of them at $91,000.

Sadly, if New Haven passes this new law, they will join only a tiny handful of states and cities that sensibly deny luxurious pensions for people who have violated the public trust.

Blumenthal and Bysiewicz have already been researching the legal possibilities of such legislation, in the wake of a string of corruption convictions of state officials in the past few years. At Thursday’s hearing they offered their personal expertise and access to state files on pension reduction resolutions. They also advised aldermen to sit down with union officials and other objectors in order to address their concerns. They said if New Haven were to gain the power to reduce or revoke convicted city employees’ pensions, it would become the first city in the nation to do so. Thirteen states have similar judicial or administrative processes in place. Blumenthal and Bysiewicz been involved in four so-far unsuccessful efforts to convince the legislature to make Connecticut the 14th.

No cities and only 13 states have such laws!?

Disgusting.

It all goes to show that crime often pays if you’re a union member!
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The Second Coming Belongs To God Alone, Not To a Twelfth Imam

September 30, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Marie Jon’

In the Bible, we read about the twelve disciples working tirelessly to spread the Gospel to the ancient cities and countries of their time. All twelve were sinners and were saved by God’s grace.

Jesus Christ, who is the son of God, died for us all so that we could be forgiven of our sins. “We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)

A number of sects of Islam believe in a mythical twelfth Imam. It is interesting to contrast the gospel with an obvious mere imitation. The Islamic twelfth Imam almost sounds like the Second Coming of Christ.

It is rather strange to note that our visiting jihadist Ahmadinejad, promotes the belief in an Imam who will “come again” to this earth. Yes, this is same man who blasted Israel, and denied the existence of Iranian homosexuals as he spoke to applauding, cheering students at the liberal Columbia University campus.

Columbia President Lee Bollinger’s scathing speech rang extremely hollow. He was insensitive to the feelings of Americans who are serving their country and those who support them. I imagine they were most offended knowing that President Ahmadinejad is the same man responsible for many troop deaths in Iraq. A terrorist should have never been invited to speak at the university.

“I suggest that we have to take Ahmadinejad seriously. I believe that he means what he says, and if given the opportunity will try to carry out his murderous plans. I furthermore suggest that we need to look around for the moral courage (the ability to make a stand on principle) to censure and punish those who call for the killing of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Have we no memory? Have we no courage?” (source) John W. Swails III, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Humanities, and Government, Oral Roberts University

Sadly, President Ahmadinejad spreads another type of deceit concerning a particular “hidden Imam.” Let us look closely at the comparison of a twelfth Imam to the Second Coming of Christ, which has been part of the absolute truth since the Holy Scripture were written.
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Still Selma after all these years

September 30, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Michael M. Bates

Jesse Jackson is getting some richly deserved criticism for charging Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is “acting like he’s white” when it comes to the racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana. Since shooting his mouth off, Jackson’s backed away, claiming he either doesn’t remember saying any such thing or that his words were taken out of context, whichever excuse you’ll buy.

If you’re as old as dirt like me, the occurrence is reminiscent of Jesse calling Jews “Hymie” back in the mid-1980s. A faulty memory can be so terribly cathartic sometimes.

Jackson also asserted last week that if he were a presidential candidate, “I’d be all over Jena. Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment.”

The 1965 marches from Selma, Alabama were a major turning point in the civil rights movement. On what’s known as “Bloody Sunday,” several hundred marchers were attacked by police with clubs and tear gas.

Jackson’s comparing Jena to Selma would have greater impact if he didn’t have a history of equating so many other things to Selma. To be sure, Mr. Jackson was indeed present. In a 1988 piece on Jackson, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Maraniss wrote: “Andrew Young remembers Jackson in Selma as a guy that nobody knew, giving orders to other marchers. (Ralph) Abernathy remembers Jackson doing errands and asking him for a job on the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) staff.”

Nonetheless, Jackson’s experiences there must have been life-changing. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. told a 1997 graduating class: “My father was so emotionally caught up in the struggle and so moved by that occasion that he almost named me Selma. But thank God for Momma’s better judgment.”
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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Education - Islam - Islamofascism - News - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Uncategorized - Warner Todd Huston

Iran’s Propaganda Wins the Day at Columbia!

September 29, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

And HERE is the reason why having Iran’s president Ahmadinejad speaking at an American University was a win-win for the bad guys.

The “Kayhan,” the official Iranian news agency, had joyous headlines of Ahmadinejad’s wonderful and successful trip to America.

“Shock in New York, Iran’s Logic Glares”

Strong, scientific and accurate answers of the President of Iran to the questions raised by the academicians in Columbia University made them applause and showed that they are not affected by the propaganda of the American Media. They officially asserted in a poll that they agreed with Ahmadinejad’s statements. The American televisions, which thought tricky questions will surprise the president, showed the program live. These sources, some of which are controlled by the Zionists, were shocked after the results of the poll came out.

According to the poll, the majority of the participants agreed that Columbia’s invitation of Ahmadinejad was a good decision…. Many Americans called the network to emphasize on the importance of freedom of speech in America…

A few people, some of whom were connected to the Zionists, protested against Ahmadinejad’s speech, but the poll showed that these were only a minority in the American society.

The people of Iran are not going to see that Ahmadinejad was laughed at as if he were a fool. The people of Iran are also not going to hear the president of Columbia, Mr. Bollinger, berate him, either. They will see is these nit-wit students applauding him as if he were a great man. The people of Iran will see their nut of a president treated as if he was loved and respected here.

And not only the people in Iran. The whole of the mid east will see Ahmadinejad’s triumph.

Score one for tyrants everywhere.

Minus one for freedom… again.

Good job Columbia.
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The Only Way to Win the Immigration Battle

September 29, 2007 by

-By Selwyn Duke

It’s hard to think of a battle that has been won by being defensive. You may be most skilled at blocking and slipping punches, but if that is all you do, sooner or later your opponent will land a few and enjoy victory. This occurs to me as I watch the latest amnesty battle.

As you may know, the DREAM Act — the latest Scamnesty scheme — is being debated in Congress at this moment. And it may be the Mexican dream, but it’s our nightmare. But that isn’t what I want to address today.

We may defeat this proposal as we did the last, but so what?

Are you surprised? Do I sound overly cavalier or a tad defeatist? Here is my point: Until we transform this debate and talk about the true remedy for our problem — namely, halting legal immigration — we will labor in vain.

As I have said before, illegal immigration isn’t the problem, but merely an exacerbation of the problem. As long as we perpetuate our current immigration scheme – a formula dictating that 85 percent of immigrants will hail from the Third World and Asia – the demographic revolution we have witnessed will continue, attended by descent into Third World status.
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Why Won’t the AP Describe the Taliban as Terrorists?

September 28, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

This AP report is a perfect example of how the western media hasn’t the temerity to call things like they are, a perfect example of how it soft-sells the truth for fear of violating those vaunted codes of politically correct conduct — and why we could lose this war with a radical Islam that isn’t afraid of how they are perceived by their enemies. The weakness this time is displayed in an AP report titled “Ministry: Taliban spokesman arrested”, in which the AP can’t even call the Taliban a terrorist organization and treats these murderers as if they were just another normal government entity by according them the respect of the kind of language you’d reserve for the spokesmen of any legitimate government.

First off, at the top of the story, the Taliban is described merely as an “insurgent movement” instead of a terrorist agency.

KABUL, Afghanistan – A Taliban member who acted as a leading spokesman for the insurgent movement has been arrested in southern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Wow is that benign sounding, isn’t it? An “insurgent movement” could describe many sorts of groups, the term not necessarily denoting a terror group. It could describe pro democracy movements in China, for instance. Or nationalist separatists in Chiapas, maybe. Heck, the term “insurgent movement” could have described the Founding Fathers of our own country for that matter!

But the Taliban is no mere “insurgent movement.” They are oppressors, murderers, and terrorists, yet the AP would rather soft peddle their evil with benign sounding labels.

That isn’t the only legitimacy the AP affords the Taliban in this story. Throughout the piece the AP talks of the Taliban’s “spokesmen” with their “comment” patiently asked after by AP reporters as if the reports that these so-called spokesmen dole out are legitimate news sources and not propaganda fed to a gullible western media.

But, if read closely, this AP report makes a mistake by admitting its own failures. This AP report admits, most likely by accident, that the AP knows that these supposed Taliban spokesmen can’t be relied on to tell the truth. Worse, the AP admits that it cannot even ascertain if these “spokesmen” are legitimate representatives of whatever terror group they claim to belong to.
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TV’s The View Ready to Dump New Host Over ‘Conservative Religious’ Views? Already??

September 28, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Are the producers and Barbra Walters over at TV’s The View already about to dump a new View Hostess over her controversial views? Rumors to that effect are beginning to leak out, anyway. While Rosie got well over a year to spout her anti-American, anti-Bush garbage before the folks at The View finally got motivated to dump her for a new hostess, it looks like the new gal isn’t as lucky. What seems to have disgusted The View’s backstage handlers this time is a perceived “conservative” doubting of evolution in favor of a religious viewpoint that Sherri Shepherd recently revealed in one of her early appearances.

So, at issue is the comment new Viewette Shepherd said about evolution. As Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times TV writer says:

A source on the show’s staff insists things ”are running quite smoothly” in this post-Rosie O’Donnell era, but there is talk Walters (plus Whoopi Goldberg and others) have been quite taken aback by some of Shepherd’s recent remarks — especially one when she questioned the validity of biological evolution.

”While Barbara was very big on [panel candidate] Kathy Griffin, she was concerned about hiring another ‘loose cannon’ after all the problems with Rosie,” the source says. “But now she reportedly has made a couple of comments that seem to indicate she’s thinking she may have made a mistake [in going with Shepherd instead].”

Naturally, the official word from The View is that everything is “running quite smoothly” but then again, they never acted as if Rosie’s mental breakdowns were upsetting anyone until the day they dumped her, now did they? Come to think of it, they never did admit she was trouble!

Still, Rosie got the benefit of many, many months to spew her verbal diarrhea, and indulge in her circus antics before they finally dumped her. But, then we all know why that is, right? Of course, it’s because she had views that emerged from the leftist extreme. And spewing out views from the left is “free speech,” right?

And now we have rumors that The View folk are ready to dump their newest member after only weeks on the show. Why?

Because her one “controversial” view might be perceived as coming from the right end of the ideological spectrum, and a religious one at that. And of course we know that any possible view that could be imagined as religious or coming from the eeeevil right are to be unmercifully quashed by those more caring and more tolerant lefties!
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Hillary Still Channeling Eleanor Roosevelt

September 28, 2007 by

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Senator Clinton is in thrall to the malign influence of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1996, when Bob Woodward’s The Choice was published, the media had a brief feeding frenzy over his report that Hillary Clinton had held “conversations” with the deceased Eleanor Roosevelt – “channeling,” as the media called it – to seek inspiration for her book, It Takes a Village.

The message of It Takes a Village is that individuals and families no longer can cope with the complexities of modern life, that socialized government is the necessary agent for that purpose.

Senator Clinton’s modified revival of her earlier National Socialist Health System suggests that she remains in close communication with the Roosevelts.

In the tradition of the New Deal’s federalization of states’ Constitutional functions and its socialization of agriculture, industry, and labor relations, Senator Clinton proposes to make health insurance mandatory (you can’t hold a job if you don’t have a National Health card).

Capturing the essence of her plan for socialized medicine, Mark Steyn wrote:

Our theme for today comes from George W Bush: “Freedom is the desire of every human heart.”

_When the president uses the phrase, he’s invariably applying it to various benighted parts of the Muslim world. There would seem to be quite a bit of evidence to suggest that freedom is not the principal desire of every human heart in, say, Gaza or Waziristan. But why start there? If you look in, say, Brussels or London or New Orleans, do you come away with the overwhelming impression that “freedom is the desire of every human heart”?

A year ago, I wrote that “the story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government ‘security,’ large numbers of people vote to dump freedom – the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, seat belts and a ton of other stuff.”
_Last week freedom took another hit. Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her new health care plan.
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Anti-War Forces Haven’t Won Battle for American’s Heart and Minds

September 27, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the run up to the 2006 midterms, all the media talking heads and political pundits were talking about how the GOP was losing because the country was “sick of the war” and there was a wide spread assumption that large scale protests were proof that the anti-war lot had won the debate for American’s hearts and minds. After all, millions seemed to be marching in protest against the war the country over and the TV news frequently showed these giant bands of misfits parading the streets. The media have constantly presented these protests as mainstream Americans who had the passion to leave their homes and congregate by the millions in fellowship, linking arms against the Republicans and Bush to stop this war. The MSM also imagined that the loss by Republicans of majority control of Congress after the 2006 midterms was the end result of this great “feeling” that Americans were against the War on Terror. They proclaimed that the Democrat Party had won the debate and were sent to Congress with some sort of mandate from American voters.

In reality, neither assumption is true. The anti-war crowd has no more won the debate against the war than the Democrat Party has become the voice of the American people. In truth, using the midterm election results and the supposed mass protests in the streets appears to be a bad indication of the power the supporters of American defeat really have. For their part, the news media and leftist pundits’ wild imagination that the left won the national debate is overstated and foolhardy. The left just does not have an overwhelming majority of public opinion on their side.

In fact, the American left has seen a steady erosion of support since their highs before and during World War Two. Reviewing the split between the Democrat Party and the GOP in Congress, both long before and after the 2006 midterms, quickly reveals the proof against claims of the supremacy of the left.

Before the midterms, the GOP was in control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the House the GOP had a majority of 28 seats and in the Senate a closer 11 seats. After the elections the Dems took both Houses with a tiny Senate majority of 2 seats and a House majority of 32.

Looking at this in an historical context shows that the Democrats do not now have much of a governing mandate. During Reagan’s and H.W. Bush’s years, for instance, the Democrat Party enjoyed a far larger majority in the House for the entire 12 years of the two GOP president’s terms. The Democrats never had less than a 50-seat advantage in the House, and at times had an overwhelming 119-seat majority! In the Senate, though, they were down by as many as 7 seats for a few years — though they did have a slim majority for 6 of those 12 years.
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When Hypocrisy is a Good Thing

September 27, 2007 by

-By Selwyn Duke

Many leftist partisans are licking their chops over the revelation that Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig solicited sex from a male undercover detective in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. This scandal is reminiscent of that involving Ted Haggard, the disgraced preacher who had relations with a male prostitute. You may remember Haggard, he was the Distraction du Jour the Shill Media conjured up right before the 2006 election. (I keep my finger on the pulse of our culture and I had never heard of this Haggard fellow. But fixating on this minor story served well the purposes of demonizing the “right” and distracting people from the real issues – always useful during an election cycle.)

What is interesting about our time, though, is that these men are castigated not because they have been living an immoral lifestyle but because they have been living an immoral lifestyle without also sanctioning that immoral lifestyle.

Certainly, as far as politicians who toe the left’s line go, they can’t seem to flaunt their Liberace leanings enough to register on the radar screen. Homosexual congressman Barney Frank (D) owned a residence out of which a call-boy operation was being run, and the late Congressman Gerry Studds (D) once spirited a 17-year-old boy off to Spain for a sexual liaison. Studds won re-election until his retirement in 1997, and Frank is still in office, lisping his way to legislative success. Of course, both represent Massachusetts, and there has just got to be something in the water up there.
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Mexican Kids Daily Cross Texas Border for Free U.S. Paid Education

September 26, 2007 by 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

At the beginning of September, Channel 5 News revealed a shocking story in Roma, Texas. As their cameras chronicled, each morning dozens of Mexican kids are crossing the border from Mexico into the Texas border town of Roma to attend an American school, free of charge. You read that correctly. American tax money is funding the education of kids who actually live IN Mexico and who are illegally crossing the border every single day to attend U.S. schools. I have waited a suitable period of time to bring this story up, hoping that the national news sources will pick up on this absurd violation of our National sovereignty and misuse of our tax money… yet not a peep has been heard to my knowledge.

It is estimated that $4 million has been spent on Mexican kids just in Roma, Texas, alone. And no one really even knows how much has been thrown down the rat hole in other Texas border towns, not to mentions similar towns in other border states.

News Channel 5 reported on the 6th of September that these Mexican kids are getting a free education from US taxpayers because the county schools do not have very stringent residency requirements. (See video here)

Even more ridiculously, school administrators report that they aren’t even allowed to ask if a student is a U.S. citizen before admitting them to class.

The report also reveals that no one in the school system is even bothering to keep track of how many schools are giving a free education to children whose parents are not U.S. taxpayers.
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America can’t Afford George Soros or His MoveOn.org Democrats

September 26, 2007 by

-By Marie Jon’

Mr. George Soros is one contemptible man, in my personal opinion. He is not America’s friend. However, the far left Democrats running for the presidency as well as their party are beholden to him. That fact should be looked upon as upsetting and very worrisome.

Indeed, you are judged by the people you associate with. Soros is manipulative. He is one of many reasons that the Democrat Party is smug and arrogantly unruly. The media merely reflects his image.

“In a December 9th 2004 e-mail signed by ‘Eli Pariser, Justin Ruben, and the whole MoveOn PAC team,’ the Soros front group stated: ‘In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn’t need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it’s our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we’re going to take it back ” ( source )
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Galling – Public Service Unions Denounce ‘Privatizing Public Services’

September 26, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Someone at the Waterbury Republican American newspaper is a bit perturbed with a new union ad campaign against the idea of privatizing public services. The new campaign seems to imagine that privatizing public services will result in “corruption” yet the unions seem blissfully ignorant of the corruption endemic in their own operations!
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Crooks infest Big Labor

At the height of the Rowland scandal, Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and a host of union locals chipped in for the “Privatization Equals Corruption” ad campaign highlighting “the pitfalls and perils of privatizing public services.”

Union officials, of course, are pure as the driven snow. Take Jorge Aponte-Figueroa, who until he was sentenced last month to five years in prison was president of the International Longshoreman’s Association Local 1740 in San Juan, P.R. His crime? He embezzled $1.9 million from the rank and file, falsified records and laundered money. And Council 4 was distressed about gutters, drywall and a hot tub?

Mr. Aponte-Figueroa is hardly alone. In August, 11 union officials were indicted and eight convicted on corruption charges, mostly for stealing retirement money from their members. As of Sept. 1, the Department of Labor has bagged 84 indictments and 108 convictions this year. One of the worst cases was a nearly $5 million embezzlement involving the Washington, D.C., teachers union. The DoL said it is “as committed as ever to protecting union members from criminal activity by those entrusted to represent them, and we will maintain efforts to uncover wrongdoing against the rank-and-file.”

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Chicago Columnist: Tobacco Bad, Abortion Good

September 25, 2007 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

A columnist from a Chicago suburban paper has equated smoking to abortion in order to explain away her support of an abortion mill struggling to open in Aurora, Illinois. Saying that since smoking is legal, and it “kills” people, why shouldn’t abortion be legal, we find her reasoning is strained and absurd. If there’s a more ridiculous comparison out there, I’d like to see it. Following her tortured logic, we should outlaw everything that might kill someone if we also outlaw abortion — which WILL kill someone.

There are so many specious arguments that this supporter of infanticide tries to use in this article to support abortion that it must spin the head of most readers. The whole thing has a feel like the author of the column, Joni Hirsch-Blackman, is throwing just about everything she can think of against a wall to see what sticks quite regardless of any logic or sense to it all.

After simple-mindedly explaining that “Tobacco kills,” which in reality is not a literal truth because often times it does not, Hirsch-Blackman explains that, while she “sneers” at smokers, she would never protest against it because it is legal.

It’s tempting, but I’d never harass the people who go in there or try to have the store shut down — even though the whole purpose for the place being there is to sell something that eventually will kill whoever is using it.

Tobacco is legal and the store has a right to be there. So instead, I, and others who feel the way I do, try to educate people about the dangers of tobacco.

Really? She and her fellows would never harass smokers and try to get their right to smoke taken away from them? Odd, since she and like-minded friends in the state have succeeded in getting the State of Illinois to pass a smoking ban in public places that starts just this year.

Why is it OK to protest and use the courts and the coercion endemic with the law to ban smoking which only might cause varied health problems yet we should leave the faux right of abortion alone merely because it is “legal?”

Talk about tortured logic. And her lack of sense gets worse as the article progresses.
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Sacramento Bee Asks: Is Not Mentioning Race of Crime Suspects too PC?

September 25, 2007 by 4 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Now, here we have a very interesting debate about journalism, racism, crime and the new media on the internet. The Sacramento Bee has been forced to revisit a long standing, 15-year-old policy this week. It seems that for years the Bee has, for the most part, avoided mentioning the race of a suspected criminal in their crime coverage. They claimed that they only mentioned race when the story was “accompanied by a detailed physical description or when reporting a serial crime or when using police sketches of suspects.” Critics of the paper, however, claim this policy is merely a paean to PCism and this refusal of the paper to mention the race of a suspect makes the Bee’s coverage less than informative and has made it practically useless as a tool of assistance to the police.

As the Bee states in their editorial, “the issue’s volatility has ebbed and flowed, sometimes lying dormant for months only to arise anew in the wake of a particularly heinous crime.”

I am sure that “ebbed and flowed” is an understatement.

Recently, a particularly heinous crime has occurred that brought the Bee’s policy into question once again.

It’s burning white-hot now in the aftermath of the slaying in Sacramento of a young father and his 7-month-old son and the paper’s reluctance until several days had passed to provide racial descriptions of the suspects.

Obviously the Bee was bowing to PCism, of that there can be little doubt. Still, the PC debate is an old, boring one at this point and it seems practically a prerequisite that the lefty MSM is going to hamstring themselves by this PC nonsense.

That being as it may, though, the Bee is finding itself out reported by all the other news media in Sacramento. It seems they are the only ones with this ridiculous, PC policy and their reporting is suffering for it. And people are wondering why they should bother with the SacBee if they can get better, fuller coverage of the story elsewhere. This PCism is hurting them where it counts; in profits.
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1929 Parallels

September 25, 2007 by 2 Comments

By Thomas E. Brewton

Central banks are not so wise or powerful as most people assume them to be.

The over expansion of credit fueled by the Federal Reserve between 1922 and 1927 has many parallels to the “irrational exuberance” of financial markets since the beginning of the Clinton administrations.

In the Wall Street Journal‘s September 21 edition, reporter Brian Blackstone writes:

Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh on Friday cautioned against assuming that the Fed will prop up asset prices or protect individual financial institutions…

In Economics and the Public Welfare, a book that cannot be too highly recommended, Benjamin M. Anderson described a similar situation confronting the Federal Reserve in 1926.

Mr. Anderson’s assessment is authoritative, because he was chief economist for the Chase National Bank, then one of the world’s largest, from 1920 to 1937. During that period he was in close contact with major bankers in the United States and central bankers around the world, as well as being closely involved with Chase’s large corporate clients.
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Land Explains Why Dobson is Wrong on Thompson

September 25, 2007 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is a smart and dead-right explanation of why Dr. James Dobson is way off with his assessment on Fred Thompson.

It all comes down to the issue that I wondered a while back if Fred could make people understand? We are in a day when our national government has been hijacked by socialists with an FDR fetish who imagine that the government is the solution to all ills.

Fred wants to go back to a day when our nation had a smaller, contained Federal government as proscribed by the Founding Fathers and guided by the Constitution instead of the far, far leftist government that FDR and his ilk have forced upon us.

THIS is the reason that some of us are supporting Thompson. It is also why Dobson should. Dobson’s single issue vote is short sighted and I hope that he comes to understand why a vote for Fred Thompson is a vote for America.
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Southern Baptist Leader Defends Fred Thompson

CBNNews.com – David Brody

Richard Land, the President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (which is part of the influential Southern Baptist Convention), tells The Brody File that the criticism leveled at Fred Thompson by James Dobson and others is a tad bit over the top. Recently, Dr. Dobson, Founder of Focus on the Family, said he wouldn’t support Thompson for a number of reasons including Thompson’s stance against a one size fits all marriage amendment. Read more on that here. As for Dr. Land’s comments, here’s what he told me:

“I’ve received phone calls and emails from Southern Baptists about Senator Thompson. They are all furious at Doctor Dobson. They just feel that first of all there was a mischaracterizing of his positions. Do I wish that he supported the marriage protection amendment? Of course I do. To say that he is for 50 different views of marriage in 50 different states is a gross mischaracterization of his position. Secondly, do I wish that he attended church every Sunday? As a Baptist pastor, of course I do. But does that make him a person of unbelief? That’s harsh and unwarranted.”
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