New NYT Film Critic Finds Bill O'Reilly "Despicable"

Wednesday's Arts page features a review by Jeannette Catsoulis of the documentary "Waging a Living," headlined "Tales of the Poor, Working to Survive in America." Under the auspices of a film critic, Catsoulis forwards liberal talking points. [More]

Los Angeles Is Homeless Capital Of The US - 91,000 Homeless Every Night

Los Angeles Is Homeless Capital Of The US - 91,000 Homeless Every Night, analysis by Jose Quinonez

A recent homeless count conducted in Los Angeles County by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) estimated that approximately 91,000 persons are homeless in the county on any given night. This is by far the largest number of homeless people in any metropolitan area of the nation. [More]

Oprah, victim of a hate crime?

Put everything on hold. Stop everything! Read here.

Supreme Court Allows States To Steal Property

Supreme Court Allows States To Steal Property, an editorial by Rossputin

Read it here in Blogger News Network.

Congress targets Sesame Street

Reporter Labaton labels the right but not the left in an article on the controversy over liberal bias at PBS: "The vote came as public stations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are engaged in a debate over the editorial balance in programming and the independence of the stations. The head of the Republican-controlled corporation, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, has pressed public broadcasting to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias. That has prompted public broadcasting leaders -- including the chief executive of PBS -- to object that his actions pose a threat to editorial independence." Read the story at TimesWatch here.

Corzine, Forrester Win N.J. Primaries

Trenton, N.J. -- Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine and Republican businessman Doug Forrester won their respective primaries in the New Jersey governor's race, setting the stage for a deep-pocketed campaign between two millionaires in a state where a gay-sex scandal doomed the last governor.

Within minutes of securing the Republican nomination Tuesday night, Forrester came out swinging against Corzine, who is favored to win in November. [Read More]

Howard Dean on drugs?

I an article appearing in WorldNetDaily, Mychal Massie says that "Recent comments by liberal Democrats give unfettered insight into just how absurd and vacuous their words and values are. Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told National Public Radio's 'Morning Edition' that homosexual marriage and abortion are not Democrat issues, they are Republican issues....

Dean asserted 'The Democrats [were] not the party of homosexual marriage' and [they] certainly 'aren't the party of abortion.' (NPR's Morning Edition, June 3, 2005) To which I can only respond, short of being certifiable, high on LSD or some similar hallucinogen, there is no way anyone can make such a statement with a straight face.

Not long ago, a young lady shared she found debating liberals an effort in futility because they never debated or offered verifiable facts to support their claims. They simply said "whatever" and if you didn't agree with them, then you were stupid or not as informed as they – a very astute observation on her part." [Read the full article here]

If you missed our entry on the jackass and the clowns, click here.

ACLU says "Communism is the goal"

Interesting email this afternoon. Jason Phillips from Ohio tells us about an article he read back in May conerning the Communist goals of the ACLU. Read excerpts for yourself....

>>To the editors of the Right Journal,
>>I thought you would be interested in sharing this piece with your readers....
>>This comes from the Daily Journal Corporation

“America,” said Joseph Stalin, “is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”

Hollywood and the media certainly play major roles in the subtle campaign to subvert Judeo-Christian traditions, but they pose a lesser threat than the judiciary and activist organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund, who represent its driving force.

In Southern California especially, these activists have targeted the Christian cross with glorious success. Examples abound:

Government Seal Cases: The ACLU Foundation of Southern California threatened to sue the County of Los Angeles and the City of Redlands unless depictions of the cross were removed from their official seals.

War Memorial Cases: The ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties succeeded in its legal effort to dismantle the 43-foot tall Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross, a landmark for more than 50 years in La Jolla. The ACLU Foundation of Southern California was equally successful in obtaining an order dismantling a cross that has been a World War I memorial fixture on Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert since 1932.

Though battles have been lost, the war rages on:

In Los Angeles, two lawsuits were filed against the County. The Thomas More Law Center, of which I am affiliated counsel but not in their action, sued the County under an Establishment Clause theory. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sustained the ACLU’s demurrer. The case is now on appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

The Claremont Institute, the Individual Rights Foundation, the Orange County firm of Wagner Lautsch and I sued in Superior Court under state and federal constitutional theories as well as under a taxpayer waste theory pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure 526a. This action has been stayed pending the outcome of the federal appeal. I am also vice-chair of the Committee to Save the Seal Ordinance petition drive, the purpose of which is to place a measure on a June 6, 2006, ballot putting the question whether the cross should remain on the seal to voters.

In Redlands, a similar measure will appear on a November ballot.

In San Diego, the City Council will hear argument on May 17 over whether to consider a transfer of the Mount Soledad property to private owners.

And on April 8, 2005, after an unsuccessful appeal to the Ninth Circuit, and without media fanfare, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Timlin signed an order requiring the immediate dismantling of the Sunrise Rock cross. That case, Buono v. Norton, has drawn the wrath of the American Legion, which is approaching the defeat with a novel solution.

The Legion passed a resolution calling on Congress to amend 42 U.S.C. Section 1988, to bar recovery of attorney fees to the prevailing party in cases filed for the purpose of removing and destroying religious symbols located on public property.

Rees Lloyd, a past commander of a Legion post in Banning, California, and himself a former ACLU attorney, drafted the resolution. This week, U.S. Representative John Hostettler (R-Indiana) is expected to introduce the Public Expression of Religion Act. Its goal is to drive out one incentive to file lawsuits where no one is complaining and no one is actually injured. The ACLU pockets the change even when delegating work to pro bono attorneys.

In a recent Daily Journal news item (5-6-05), attention was drawn to the measure, but in publicizing it, those attorneys who are expected to oppose the measure were classified as “civil rights” lawyers while those of us who would support it were not.

The report led by stating that supporters hope it will have a “chilling effect on civil rights attorneys.” Later in the piece, the reporter noted that “civil liberties lawyers warn the measure, if successful, would bode ill for anyone tackling an issue unpopular with a member of Congress.”

Identified as “an advocate for keeping the cross on the [County] seal,” I somehow failed to rate the civil rights lawyer tag.

But if I am not a civil rights lawyer, defending the rights of people whose traditions and heritage are under attack, then what? Who really believes that a cross in the desert, on a hilltop or on a seal establishes a government-endorsed religion? Who honestly believes their tax money is working to do any more than to honor war veterans or the community’s heritage?

Communicating the message of religious liberty certainly presents challenges, not the least of which is convincing the media, or Hollywood for that matter, that defending the cross is beneficial to our society and in fact crucial to preserving our civil rights and liberties.

When the ACLU cleverly named itself a “civil liberties” union in 1920, its idea of civil liberty was hardly consistent with what the U.S. Constitution’s framers had in mind.

“I am for socialism,” wrote ACLU founder Roger Baldwin in 1936. “I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”

Communism, a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society, remains the goal. Imagine a world without religion, the utopian song asks without imagining the tyranny of a classless society.

When U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite composed his analysis of the Establishment Clause in Reynolds v. United States, a Free Exercise case, he relied on Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury (Connecticut) Baptist Association and Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and State.”

Strange that he would examine the Establishment Clause at all since it was not in issue. Stranger still was his reliance on Jefferson’s letter and his attraction to the “wall of separation” phrase, parroted by judges and liberal activists ever since.

As Justice Waite even observed, Jefferson was in France when the language of the First Amendment was finalized and adopted. It was James Madison’s version that we venerate today. “It met the views of the advocates of religious freedom, and was adopted,” Waite wrote. Jefferson’s letter was a peevish response.

When Justice Hugo Black lifted the Reynolds analysis in Everson v. Board of Education (1945), he resisted the urge to compare what other founding fathers thought about the matter. “The wall of separation” was thus enshrined in our national consciousness and divides us still.

If the ACLU were to support the Hostettler bill, it would go a long way toward proving that they aren’t profiteers at the expense of people of faith and believers in the sanctity of tradition. But I suspect they will commit all their resources toward winning another tiny battle in their classless and unholy crusade. As Memorial Day approaches, keep it in mind. (Copyright 2005, Daily Journal Corporation).

Katie Couric's saint - Kofi Annan

It was sickening watching liberal NBC's Today Show which aired Tuesday. Couric's toes were tickeled with delight by having the chance to interview General Kofi Annan . Couric told Annan, "You literally have the weight of the world on your shoulders." And of course Annan agreed.

Couric treated Annan as if he were ready for canonization as a saint, or perhaps a god. The public learned more about the real Annan and his activities back in April.

It was reported that Annan privately retained the services of celebrated Washington criminal defense attorney Greg Craig. The Annan move was first disclosed in a filing with the Paul Volcker panel released last month. The fomer Fed chairman currently heads an "independent" investigation into the activities of the scandal plagued U.N.-Iraq Oil-for-Food Program.

Craig is perhaps best known for his defense of Bill Clinton during his Senate impeachment trial in 1999. He is also remembered as an attorney and "political" adviser to Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the father of "celebrated" Cuban shipwreck survivor, Elian. It is not known how long Annan has retained Craig's services, but it is believed he came on board shortly after Volcker launched his inquiry into the controversial Iraqi aid program in early 2004.

Couric's sweet words of praise reminds us of how the New York Times editorial board has supported Annan in the past.

Liberal bias in class room - let's take some action

Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level...

G. Jeffrey MacDonald, a correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, reports: "Concerned that public schools are becoming sites of liberal indoctrination, activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom."

The Monitor has a poll that asks: "Do you think K-12 public schools are becoming sites of liberal indoctrination?" Please show your support and vote yes by clicking here.

Today's Quote

If you are on the right side of an issue, you are not afraid to admit it... But, liberals do not like the word liberal and do not like to be identified by party... Why? Because they know they only benefit when something bad happens. If it's good for America, it's bad for them, if it's good for them, it's bad for America. - Steve Whitmore

Grand Jury indicts county clerk Rosanne Ward and husband Jerry Ward

Camden, TN - Benton County Clerk, Rosanne Ward and her husband Jerry Ward both of Camden, Tennessee, were indicted today by the Grand Jury of Benton County on two charges, one being a felony and the other a misdemeanor in relation to the audit findings from the Tennessee State Comptrollers office. In the audit it stated:

FINDING 04.08 - - THE CLERK PROCESSED A FRAUDULENT DOCUMENT

(Noncompliance Under Government Auditing Standards)

On April 8, 2004, Jerry Ward (husband of the county clerk) signed and submitted a document stating that he purchased a boat for $6,000. The clerk's signature was affixed to the document, and the sale was reported to the Tennessee Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue noted that the reported sales price appeared to be significantly below market price for the boat, conducted an investigation, and discovered Mr. Ward had actually paid $21,500 for the boat.

The department then assessed Mr. Ward additional sales tax, penalty, and interest of $1,133.22 for the amount owed on the difference between the sales price reported to the department and the actual sales price. On September 8, 2004, Mr. Ward submitted payment of $1,133.22 to the Department of Revenue. We have reviewed this improper transaction with the district attorney general.

Mrs. Ward was taken from her office and arraigned in front of Judge Julian Guinn today and released. Mr. Ward was booked into the Benton County Sheriffs department later today and was released. No court date is known at this time. - Article by Joe Kyle. [Discuss this topic] Source: Kentucky Lake Times

Today's Quote

Guns don't kill people, abortion clinics do that already. - Mark Hargrove

Today's Quote

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." ... "I was pleased last year to proclaim 1983 the year of the Bible. But you know, a group called the ACLU severely criticized me for doing that. Well, I wear their indictment like a badge of honor." - Ronald Reagan

Today's Quote

Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do.- Ann Coulter