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Interesting bit over at NRO’s The Corner on the leftist demands for Beck to be taken off the air because, horror of horrors!, he quoted a leftist and thus revealed to the general public a truth about the left – it is very, very nasty.

…Dreier’s defense of Piven is completely at odds with the upshot of her writings, which lovingly chronicle efforts by community organizers to intensify riots and violent protests. I explain Piven’s strategy on NRO’s homepage today in “Frances Fox Piven’s Violent Agenda.” Dreier’s efforts to turn Piven into a latter-day incarnation of Martin Luther King are absurd. Piven looks forward to rioting and urges community organizers not to waste time channeling violent protests into conventional politics but to escalate disruptions for maximum leverage. Dreier’s defense of Piven’s latest controversial editorial in the Nation leaves out the crucial passage where she calls for Euro-style protest riots in the United States.

The hope of silencing Beck in the wake of Tucson has lured the left into a strategic blunder. They’ve decided to turn Piven into a martyr. Yet in doing so the left has tied itself to Piven’s wild writings and over-the-top radicalism…

As Glenn Beck rips off the mask we can expect more and more of this – outraged liberals demanding that Beck and others like him be silenced. The left’s hate and the left’s plans are not for general consumption. They are for small magazines and websites where only the liberal leadership is wont to go – let everyone in on it and…and…well; you see, what will happen is that the left will be rejected, even by quite a lot of the rank and file.

The thing is that the left is based upon a lie (perfectibility of Man by the actions of men) and anything based upon a lie cannot be sustained by experience or rational argument. When you box yourself in to an intellectual corner, as the left long ago did, then you’re only way out is to either admit error or to irrationally reject the truth. Those who stay on the left eventually wallow in irrationality – irrational devotion to unworkable ideas coupled with irrational hatred for whatever is opposed to the unworkable ideas. When you go a bit crazy, your judgment gets a bit warped.

Think about it – Franken called Rush a big, fat idiot; Nicholson Baker fantasized about murdering President Bush; liberal street demonstrators called on troops to shoot their officers…are these the actions of balanced people who are advancing truth? Or are they more like the actions of people unbalanced by lies and determined to protect a false world view? We report, you decide. Piven has called for Greek-style riots in the United States. To advance what, precisely? What on earth can anyone hope to accomplish by people breaking and burning things, and killing a few people, in to the bargain? Nothing that any rational person could want.

There is not much we can do for these poor people, but what we can do is precisely what Beck has done: expose them. Let everyone know the bug-eyed craziness which lies at the heart of the American left. Turn the rock over, and let’s see what scurries out. The more people get to know those who advocate violent riots, the more rejected such advocates will become. The truth really does set you free – even if it does very greatly offend our liberals.

From Life News:

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continued the strong relationship he’s developed with pro-life advocates in the northeastern state by attending and speaking at the Rally for Life at the Statehouse steps today.

New Jersey Right to Life is the sponsor of the event that received more publicity thanks in part to the governor’s appearance.

“I stand with you,” on opposing abortion, the governor told the crowd, and “with each and every one of those precious human lives.”…

So, let’s add this up: he fights corrupt unions, balances budget with spending cuts rather than tax increases, doesn’t take any nonsense from dimwitted MSMers…and to cap it all off, he’ll get right out there in his official capacity in a blue State and proclaim his pro-life principles?

We gotta draft this guy for 2012. Of course, it could be that he’s so completely fearless because he has no Presidential ambitions and if he did start really thinking that way, he’d start trimming his views…running Christie for President might ruin him.

Still, I have to say that for me its a matter of Palin or Christie or Jindal…a “not sure”, “not at all” and “not yet” set of candidates. Which all boils down to a bunch of “not fair” as far as I’m concerned….the best part of the GOP bench might sit 2012 out.

But this still heartens me – especially given the back drop of the very large pro-life march in DC on Monday which was so heavily attended by young Americans…we’re winning the war, even if the left some times still wins a battle and may even win a couple more before the end. But the end comes for the left – the time of renewed American greatness swiftly approaches.

From the PJ Tattler – 9 more Texas Democrats switch to GOP:

In what is believed to be one of the largest number of officeholders to change party affiliation in Texas, Lamar County GOP Chairman John Kruntorad and State Representative Erwin Cain announced today that 9 local elected Democrats have joined the Republican Party. This announcement follows unprecedented election gains by the GOP in 2008 and 2010 as Northeast Texans increasingly identify with the conservative platform of the Republican Party.

Those joining the Republican Party include District Attorney Gary Young; Pct. 1 County Commissioner Lawrence Mallone; Pct. 1 Justice of the Peace (JP) Don Denison; Pct. 3 JP Tim Risinger; Pct. 4 JP Ken Ruthart; Pct. 5, Place 1 JP Cindy Ruthart; Pct. 1 Constable Madaline Chance; Pct. 3 Constable Larry Cope; and Pct. 5 Constable Gene Hobbs…

Whatever they’re doing in Texas, we have to duplicate it around the country. Remember all the Democrat stories about how as America loses its white majority the GOP is doomed? Well, Texas has already lost its white majority – its 47% white, 37% hispanic and 12% black. To put it mildly, the Texas GOP is a bit more conservative than, say, the California GOP, which can’t get a hispanic to vote for it for love or money. And yet the Texas GOP is just crushing the life out of the Texas Democrat party. Clearly, Texas Republicans are showing how to do it – and it seems to be that a rigid adherence to pro-family, low tax and pro-business policies are the magical talisman.

Love it!

Attorneys for Rahm Emanuel late today asked the Illinois Supreme Court to prevent Chicago elections officials from printing ballots for the Feb. 22 mayor’s election without his name.

Emanuel’s legal team also said they will ask the state’s highest court on Tuesday to hear their appeal of a decision by an appellate court today to knock him off the ballot on the grounds he doesn’t meet residency requirements…

It is astounding that in Illinois the law would be enforced against a Democrat as regards an election – such a thing is just unheard of. The way it works it that Democrats can do whatever they please and on those rare occasions when law breaking becomes overwhelming, a few small fry are thrown to the wolves while the big boys never pay. That Rahm Emanuel – hopelessly corrupt and hip deep in Chicago politics – might actually have the law applied to him is something of a revolution in Illinois politics.

Next thing you know, Obama and his Democrats might be forced to stop raising illegal campaign funds! Foreigners might be prevented from influencing our electoral process – really, anything can happen, now.

As we head in to the crucial – as in, “this is crucial to the fate of our nation” – debate over raising the debt ceiling, this new Rasmussen Survey should be taken to heart by all Republicans:

…The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of Likely Voters prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes rather than a more active one with more services and higher taxes. This is virtually identical to last month and consistent with findings since September…

We hold the advantage in this debate. Obama will give his SOTU tomorrow and he’ll try to dangle government goodies in front of people as a means of deflect everyone away from the necessary budget cuts. Democrats and their MSM lap dogs will be on and on over the next few weeks that any cut, any where, will result in granny having to eat dog food. The whole force of the Ruling Class – including many alleged Republicans and conservatives – will be brought to bear on one issue: getting the debt limit raised without any fundamental cuts or budget reform. The hope of these people is that if they can deflect it in 2011, then by 2012 the GOP can be re-captured by the Establishment and all can go on as before. We daren’t let them do this.

Now is the time for the GOP to recapture the spirit which created the Republican party in the 1850’s. We are the party of the people – what Democrat Stephen Douglas once called the “small fisted farmers, mudsills and greasy mechanics” who simply didn’t understand the nuances of politics (back then the “nuance” had to do with protecting slavery; these days, its about protecting things like abortion, bankers and government unions…the more things change…). Here is a our great chance to recover our name and make the Republican party the party of free men, the party of the Great Republic.

So, don’t blow it – stand firm; resist all attempts to steam roller us in to going along. The people are on our side – as long as we stay on theirs.

Nothing like putting Obama and his Democrats on the spot with this:

Legislation which would permanently prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion across all federal programs is “one of our highest legislative priorities,” the new Speaker of the House has said in his introduction to the legislation.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) and Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) held a press conference on Jan. 20 to discuss the introduction of H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.”

Speaker Boehner said the new Republican majority is keeping its commitment to taxpayers by “ensuring their tax dollars are never used to fund abortions.”…

Obama has claimed – via that Executive Order with which he purchased Bart Stupak – that he doesn’t want federal funding for abortion. Now he’ll have his chance to stand up and be counted. No more messing around – let’s get everyone on record, prior to 2012, on how they believe on federal funding for abortion. It is a clarifying issue – it allows the public to make an informed decision. Kinda gets around any “personally opposed” nonsense. Do you, or don’t you?

The sort of thing which, if you or I tried it, would land us in jail – from MSNBC:

Concerns that the Federal Reserve could suffer losses on its massive bond holdings may have driven the central bank to adopt a little-noticed accounting change with huge implications: it makes insolvency much less likely.

The significant shift was tucked quietly into the Fed’s weekly report on its balance sheet and phrased in such technical terms that it was not even reported by financial media when originally announced on Jan. 6…

What seems to have happened is that the Federal Reserve, holding perhaps trillions in worthless assets, has decided that if anything looks bad on the Fed’s balance sheet, it actually applies to the Treasury’s balance sheet. In other words, if you go to Vegas and start losing money, just pass the losses over to the guy sitting next to you, and you come out looking good.

Of course, that other guy might not be able to pay, but that doesn’t matter…what matters is that for a little while longer, everyone around the table can pretend there is no problem, and thus continue on as if nothing is wrong.

Our peril, though, remains the same – too much debt chasing too little wealth. We’re in a pickle and there is no way out unless we very swiftly balance our budget. Of course, that would tend to make banks and other financial institutions go bankrupt as they are only kept afloat by bags of free money provided by the Federal Reserve. And so, that option isn’t really considered – there’s no upside to banksters and bureaucrats in a balanced budget. Heck, might as well make an economy which is geared towards the small and mid-sized producer of tangible goods! Where does something like Goldman Sachs fit in to such an economy? Not even worth considering…

They are juggling desperately, our Ruling Class. How long can they keep it up? I don’t know – but they can’t keep it up forever.

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A legacy of over 50 million lives, snuffed before a breath could be taken.. and sometimes after a breath was taken:

Johnson learned last week that Philadelphia prosecutors believe Gosnell frequently delivered late-term babies alive at his clinic, then severed their spines with scissors, and often stored the fetal bodies — along with staff lunches — in refrigerators at the squalid facility. Tiny baby feet, prosecutors said, were discovered in specimen jars, lined up in a macabre collection.

“Did he do that to mine? Did he stab him in the neck?” Johnson asked at her North Philadelphia home. “Because I was out of it. I don’t know what he did to my baby.”

Gosnell was charged last week with killing seven babies born alive and with the 2009 death of a 41-year-old refugee after a botched abortion at the clinic, which prosecutors have called a drug mill by day and abortion mill by night. The medical practice alone netted him at least $1.8 million a year, much of it in cash, they say.

But the women going there were merely exercising their freedom of choice, right?

When Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women sitting in dirty, bloodstained recliners. As the abortion got under way, she had a change of heart — but claims she was forced by the doctor to continue.

“I said, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ and he smacked me. They tied my hands and arms down and gave me more medication,” Johnson told The Associated Press.

The AP tries to mitigate the horror of abortion by blaming it on the abortion protesters:

Johnson, then 21, had a 3-year-old daughter when she became pregnant again. She said she first went to Planned Parenthood in downtown Philadelphia but was frightened away by protesters.

“The picketers out there, they just scared me half to death,” Johnson, now 30, recalled this week.

Someone sent her to Gosnell’s West Philadelphia clinic, at the Women’s Medical Society, saying anti-abortion protesters wouldn’t be a problem there. She said she paid him $400 cash.

But really, what is the difference between what Gosnell does and what other abortion providers do on a regular basis? It comes down to a difference of only around 6 inches. You see, while most late-term abortion providers wait until the baby is partially delivered up to the neck before inserting a pair of scissors into the baby’s skull, Gosnell did the exact procedure, only a minute or two later after the baby was fully delivered.

Either way presents a heinous end; grand larceny committed against human beings of their chance, nay their right to live their lives; the only offense committed by the infant being its mere existence.

Contrary to popular belief, examples of man’s inhumanity to man do not exist exclusively on battlefields, gulags, nor death camps. Man’s inhumanity to man is illustrated every day of the year, right within our own neighborhoods, right under our noses, to the most innocent and the most vulnerable among us.

As Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said, “It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die that you might live as you wish.”

My article for The European on the Tuscon tragedy and TEA Party issues.

The absurdity of Roe.

Geraldo Rivera is a Republican. A lot of people have had lots of trouble with Geraldo over the years – I never have; seems like an all right guy and a good patriot, even if he’s not right about everything.

The Tuscon aftermath as Obama’s “Mandella Moment” – but can the leopard change his spots all the way through 2012?

Egypt’s Ruling Class prepares for a revolution.

The consensus of economic experts is that we have a splendid fourth quarter of 2010…everything is great (pay no attention to rising gas and food prices) and we’re in a recovery (ignore all those banks which just announced hefty lay offs) so no sweat, at all. You can believe them, if you like…and, hey, the initial GDP numbers which come out may even be as high as the 3.5% projected for the fourth quarter. After you read those reports, ask yourself: does this economy look like its recovering?

Dear Nazi.

Kinda hard to tell which is which – from Powerline on Obama’s appointment of GE boss Jeffrey Immelt as economic adviser/czar/mafia don/what-have-you:

…GE got a taste of the good life when it got in on the bank bailout. As the Washington Post reported in a major article in mid-2009, GE had quietly become the biggest beneficiary of one of the government’s key bank bailout programs. At the same time GE also avoided many of the restrictions faced by the big banks

The Post noted that GE did not initially qualify for the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, under which the government guaranteed debt sold by banks: “But regulators soon loosened the eligibility requirements, in part because of behind-the-scenes appeals from GE.”

GE thus joined the big banks collectively saving billions of dollars by raising money for their operations at lower interest rates. The Post reported that GE Capital had issued nearly a quarter of the $340 billion in debt backed by the TLGP…

So, is Obama hiring his corporate pet in order to curry favor with corporate America prior to 2012 – or has corporate America put its man in charge of economic policy in order to pull Obama’s strings? In either case, what we don’t have here is an economic team headed up by anyone who cares about the poor and middle class. It also isn’t a team with the faintest concern for American manufacturing, farming and mining…it is concerned with subsidies, faddish business notions and raw, government power over the economy.

Immelt is the poster-boy for Big Corporation working hand in hand with Big Government to protect and enrich the Ruling Class at the expense of everyone else. Immelt isn’t interested in the American economy – he’s interested in people like him remaining rich and in charge of whatever economy is most profitable at the moment. We can expect from this appointment all sorts of demands to increase taxpayer funding of various corporate enterprises, new regulations to keep small and mid-sized players out of the market, more shipping of our farms, factories and mines to foreign lands, more fiat currency, more debt, more government spending…in short, more of what made everything a mess.

One must keep in mind just what sort of people rise high in large corporations – people who have a strong desire to make lots of money combined with a willingness to apple polish superiors. Immelt didn’t get where he is by being the man most suited to ensure long term profitability off of making the best products here in America…he got where he is because in years past some one already high up in the corporate food chain took a shine to him and gave him a leg up on the corporate ladder. From there it was simply a matter of being good at office politics, working out ways to squeeze another half percent profit on the quarterly balance sheet (done by letting people go, shipping facilities overseas, getting new government subsidies, that sort of thing…) while at the same time avoiding having a particular screw up assigned to his name.

What I’d really like to know is how our liberals feel about this – here’s your man, Obama, liberals and he’s put in charge of his economic policy a man deeply involved in what you call “corporate welfare”. Are you now going to wake up and realize that your liberal leaders are just snowing you?

I won’t hold my breath.