Black Liberation Theology

The story of "Black Liberation Theology" from Little Green Footballs.



Senator Barack Obama spent over twenty years at the church of reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama credits reverend Wright with introducing him to his Christian faith; but, what does that really mean?

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Dear Mr. Obama

I received this from iVoteRight just as I was leaving South Korea and this is the first chance I've had to post it. It speaks for itself... now please excuse me. I have something in both of my eyes.

Watching The Debates Online

I'm in Korea without a TV so I watched the first presidential debates online via the FOX News Live Stream. Bret Baier hosted The Strategy Room with a panel of three commentators Mystery Science Theater 3000 style (I wonder how many people actually know what MST3K is considering it went off the air about 10 years ago). It was great. I applaud what FOXNews is doing online and I wish they would do more of it.

Oh... the debate, it was good and McCain won.

Media Campaigns for Obama

From RealClearPolitics - Tony Blankley (and found at Powerline)

While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda.

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But worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting are the shocking gaps in Obama's life that are not reported at all. The major media simply have not reported on Obama's two years at New York's Columbia University, where, among other things, he lived a mere quarter-mile from former terrorist Bill Ayers. Later, they both ended up as neighbors and associates in Chicago. Obama denies more than a passing relationship with Ayers. Should the media be curious? In only two weeks, the media have focused on all the colleges Gov. Palin has attended, her husband's driving habits 20 years ago, and the close criticism of the political opponents Gov. Palin had when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Read the full article here...

Charles on Charlie

Charles Krauthammer on Charlie Gibson's interpretation of the Bush Doctrine during the Sarah Palin interview.

Actually, because I found this over at Little Green Footballs, the title should be, "Charles on Charlie from Charles."

Charlie Gibson's Gaffe
By Charles Krauthammer

"At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "

-- New York Times, Sept. 12

Informed her? Rubbish.

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.

You can read the rest here.

Charles Krauthammer should know something about the Bush Doctrine, he is credited with having coined the term.

On a somewhat related note Ace of Spades has exclusive video of the DNC War Room after the interview. Warning, extreme foul language (it is Ace of Spades after all). This is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile.

Sliming Sarah

From The Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org

We’ve been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

You can read the entire article here.

Online Republican National Convention Coverage

Fox News has the same setup for the Republican National Convention as they did for the DNC. Here are the links to Election HQ and the direct live steam.

Online Democratic National Convention Coverage

Although I was lucky enough to escape from Denver before the DNC I do want to keep up with the goings on -- not an easy trick when your living in Seoul, South Korea without a TV.

Fortunately I've found two good online news sources. Little Green Footballs, PJ Media and Zombie are working together to cover the convention and FOX News has a pretty good live cam setup. Scroll down the page for the link.

And here's a live cam outside the Denver Civic Center so you can watch the riots in real time.

Paris Hilton for President

Nice energy policy.

My Concerns for America

By Jon Voight

The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.

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If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies. With what he has openly stated about his plans for our military, and his lack of understanding about the true nature of our enemies, there's not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb. And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend.

You can read the full article at the Washington Times.

Political Survey

I received this in my email the other day and it looks legit, so here goes.

The purpose of this survey is to examine how people think and feel about the political issues, parties, and candidates in the upcoming election. In the survey, you will be asked a series of questions about two political candidates, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. We are very interested in how individuals that find information on the web think about politics, and your participation would be greatly appreciated. In total, the survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. The survey is completely anonymous and you can skip any questions you do not wish to answer.

Click here to take the survey.

Please feel free to contact Chris Weber (crweber[AT]notes.cc.sunysb.edu) at Stony Brook University with any questions or concerns. Thanks for your help.

Chris stated in his message that this survey is part of his dissertation project so if you've got a few minutes do help him out.

In War: Resolution

By Victor Davis Hanson

Somehow we forget that going into the heart of the ancient caliphate, taking out a dictator in three weeks, and then staying on to foster a constitutional republic amid a sea of enemies like Iran and Syria and duplicitous friends like Jordan and Saudi Arabia - and losing less than 4,000 Americans in the five-year enterprise - was beyond the ability of any of our friends or enemies, and perhaps past generations of Americans as well.

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America's Ruined Alliances

By Charles Krauthammer - Jewish World Review

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that George Bush has left our alliances in ruins. As Clinton puts it, we have "alienated our friends," must "rebuild our alliances" and "restore our standing in the world." That's mild. The others describe Bush as having a scorched-earth foreign policy that has left us reviled and isolated in the world.

Like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who insist that nothing of significance has changed in Iraq, the Democrats are living in what Bob Woodward would call a state of denial. Do they not notice anything?

France has a new president who is breaking not just with the anti-Americanism of the Chirac era but also with 50 years of Fifth Republic orthodoxy that defined French greatness as operating in counterpoise to America. Nicolas Sarkozy's trip last week to the United States was marked by a highly successful White House visit and a rousing speech to Congress in which he not only called America "the greatest nation in the world" (how many leaders of any country say that about another?) but also pledged solidarity with the United States on Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, the Middle East and nuclear nonproliferation. This just a few months after he sent his foreign minister to Iraq to signal an openness to cooperation and an end to Chirac's reflexive obstructionism.

That's France. In Germany, Gerhard Schroeder is long gone, voted out of office and into a cozy retirement as Putin's concubine at Gazprom. His successor is the decidedly pro-American Angela Merkel, who concluded an unusually warm visit with Bush this week.

All this, beyond the ken of Democrats, is duly noted by new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who in an interview with Sky News on Sunday remarked on "the great change that is taking place," namely "that France and Germany and the European Union are also moving more closely with America."

As for our other traditional alliances, relations with Australia are very close, and Canada has shown remarkable steadfastness in taking disproportionate casualties in supporting the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Eastern European nations, traditionally friendly, are taking considerable risks on behalf of their U.S. alliance - for example, cooperating with us on missile defense in the face of enormous Russian pressure. And ties with Japan have never been stronger, with Tokyo increasingly undertaking military and quasi-military obligations that it had forsworn for the past half-century.

So much for the disarray of our alliances. Read More...

Cambridge MA Votes Down Scouts' Aid For GIs

From The Boston Herald

Big-hearted Boy Scouts collecting donations for care packages for U.S. troops are still scratching their heads after being sent packing from polling stations when Cambridge officials ruled their generous effort “political.”

"We just wanted to make a lot of troops happy," said Scout Patrick O'Connor, 16. "I was devastated that someone would think to take (the donation boxes) out," he said.

O"Connor of West Cambridge was one of the Scouts who wanted to collect toiletries, magazines, candy and other items for care packages after one of his relatives was injured in an IED explosion while serving in Iraq.

"He mentioned to me that some people got care packages from home and how happy it made them," the Scout said.

Troop 45 Cambridge Boy Scouts placed boxes in the city's 33 polling stations on Election Day.

But someone complained to the city, claiming the boxes were a "political statement," and the boxes were removed.

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Jihad and the American Left

By J.R. Dunn - American Thinker

At first glance, it might appear unlikely, the Jihadis being noted for such non-progressive activities as oppression of women, persecution of minorities, and the execution of homosexuals. But that kind of thing has never stopped the left before - their sole criterion has always been whether or not the other party is useful. It can safely be assumed that the mullahs feel the same way.

Up until now, the left has satisfied itself in responding to the War on Terror by attacking government actions, employing the Vietnam myth, and inciting as much domestic paranoia as humanly possible. But they're getting more frantic. Time has passed, and they have failed to generate anything like a mass movement, while recent successes in guarantee they never will. There's plenty of precedent for left-wing support of Islamic radicals, scattered and sporadic, but undeniable all the same. Recall Michael Moore's characterization of Al-Queda in Iraq as "Minutemen." Consider the left's defense of John Walker Lindh. Consider the self-styled "human shields" who raced to protect Saddam Hussein. Or the effort that has been put into undermining U.S. programs to combat the terrorist threat, such as rendition, wiretapping, and profiling.

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Democrats Twisting Facts in Spanglish

The Sunday night debate, complete with interpreters, produced a few fibs from the Democratic field.

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Jimmy Carter's Disaster in Iran

In the mid twentieth century, US-Iran relations prospered. Many Americans celebrated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a model king. President Lyndon B. Johnson pronounced in 1964: "What is going on in Iran is about the best thing going on anywhere in the world".

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Why The Left Opposes Victory

Newt Gingrich explains why the left is so opposed to victory. He makes you understand the history of defeatist thinking by the Democrats.

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Islam and Pacifism

Recently we have observed an unexpected convergence of the Left-pacifists with Islamists on many issues. However, if one looks critically at the Pacifist movement, one will find many resemblances between that and Islam. Those resemblances may point at intrinsic ideological similarities between both movements.

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Ski Resort's Impeachment Vote Backfires

Some of the ski fans who have patronized Telluride, Colo., now are calling the ritzy resort "the land of radical liberals" and canceling planned vacations there because the town board voted to approve an ordinance calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Read More...

Double-Think

1. The left says that the president has shredded the Constitution and that it is is a living document. 2. It equates Bush with Hitler and attacks his support of Israel. 3. It bridles at the charge that it is antisemitic and singles out the world's only Jewish state for universal condemnation. Read More...

The New Face of the Democrat Party

Markos Moulitsas of the DailyKOS.com Read More...

Restoring A Nation

By definition, a democracy can only function if its basis is a demos, a group of ordinary people who share the same language and general values. Read More...

Casualties of Anti-War

The left's anti-war forces sustained heavy casualties earlier this week. And, judging from both strategy shifts and painful screams heard throughout the liberal blogosphere, many of the fallen were high value propaganda targets. Read More...

Muslim Brotherhoods Agenda for America

Islamists plan to turn America into an Islamic theocracy one step at a time. Didn't you get the memo? Douglas Farah did. Read More...

Bill Kristol: KOS Has Moved Dems Too Far Left

Bill Kristol took on the DailyKOS convention (known as YearlyKOS). Referring to it as “not respectable” a few years ago, now Democratic candidates are moving far left to appease their liberal base. Listen to what Kristol has to say. Read More...

Happy Anniversary Rush Limbaugh

The man who helped create the market for conservative talk radio celebrates 19 years in the business today. Rush Limbaugh has changed broadcast radio history and continues to produce the most popular political talk show in America. Read More...

American Liberals Leaving for Canada

Who says the MSM only report bad news? An online ABC News story reports that emigration from the U.S. to Canada has increased dramatically . . . and that the departees are largely liberals. Hollywood stars never get around to making good on their promises to leave. But many everyday liberal folks are apparently carrying through on their plans. Read More...

What's a Moonbat?

George Monbiot is considered the primary genesis of the word. An activist, environmentalist, and journalist, he had highly liberal views in Britain. In 2002, Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net, a libertarian weblog, coined the term “moonbat” in describing Monbiot–a play on words. Read More...

Why Do Liberals Like to Talk About Impeachment?

They are like Pavlov’s dogs…say the word “impeachment” to a liberal and they salivate. They love that word–impeach Cheney, impeach Bush, impeach everybody. Here’s the problem–it isn’t grounded in reality. Read More...

Democrats and Genocide

"Since the first of the year, I've been working on a project dealing with the connections between liberal policies and mass mortality - the easily demonstrated (though somehow never mentioned) fact that, since at least the 1950s, liberal policies taken to their logical conclusion tend to create large piles of bodies." Read More...

Media's Skewed Perspective

Frankly, it is shocking to witness how today's main stream media continues to compromise its integrity by persistently engaging in one-sided reporting. Why they continue to do so, in an age when the internet provides such an abundance of media watchdogs, is somewhat of a mystery. Read More...

Cindy Sheehan Speaks Truth

"The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th century, The Federal Reserve, permanent federal income taxes, two World Wars, Japanese concentration camps and not one but two atom bombs."

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Markos "screw them” Moulitsas

Markos Moulitsas appeals for civility on the Daily Kos . This is the same guy who watched four American contractors burned to death and torn apart in Fallujah, then, while the bodies were still hanging from a bridge, wrote: “I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They are there to wage war for profits, screw them.”

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George Galloway suspended from Parliament

George Galloway, the controversial British politican who famously saluted Sadam Hussein's "indefatigability" has been suspended from the UK Parliament following an investigation into a charity he set up and which allegedly received funding from the Iraqi dictator's regime.

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