By MELISSA WHITTINGTON

Apparently, I HAVE A LIBERAL FRIEND.  Ya,  I’m as shocked as you are.  His name is Peter. And he’s pretty cool. A lot of fun, and he’s smart. I probably should have known, though, because he’s good at working with government.

Anyhow, he stopped by my office today to ask me how things were going, what was up, etc. We talked about how business is slow and about how much I hate Obama’s policies. He got a strained look on his face. Now, I didn’t mention before, but Peter is black. And I’ve never really thought about it before, because I didn’t think it mattered. I knew he was supporting Obama during the election, but his reasons were pretty reasonable and it never seemed to me like it was an ideological or racial issue. Peter’s just not like that.

Anyway, I couldn’t ignore THE LOOK. So I said, “All right. What could you POSSIBLY still like about this man?” He’s a reasonable person; I really wanted to know. I think he was afraid to answer, so I kept poking him, of course.

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By RICK BURRES

When the storm finally hits (and it will), those of you who supported the Obama administration will be affected as well. It won’t just be us gun owners or Flat Taxers, or Pro-Lifers that get hit. You’ll be right there next to us.

You see, you all thought the Conservatives were nut cases. You know, all of us who believe in God, small government, the Second Amendment, etc. And you thought you could just go back to sleep after the election was over. In your world, America will continue as before. You’ll still have the same rights, the same nice house, the same big screen television – it’s all good. After all, your high school football team won and the other team lost – go team! Even if you have bothered to look up from the daily grind since Nov 4th, you dismissed everything that has occurred as “politics as usual” – “the same old stuff”.

In the end, it’ll all be OK, won’t it?

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A Sample Letter to the Editor by PAUL SCHNEE

To the Los Angeles Times:

Dear Sirs,

I was mortified at the anti-Semitic Doonesbury cartoon in a recent edition of the L.A. Times. If such an insulting cartoon about Muslims had appeared in your newspaper, your building would most likely be ablaze at this very moment since burning down buildings is the default mode of the so-called “religion of peace.” Clearly, Mr. Trudeau has succumbed to the strain of living with Jane Pauley. I do not know if you pay him per cartoon or per insult, but either way you might think about asking for a refund for yourself and an apology for the rest of us.

Blog: paulschnee.com

By ROBERT STARK

The Anti-Defamation League Director for the Plains States, Alan Potash, has just declared war against our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Potash made the following statement, which was published in the May 26 edition of The Omaha World Herald:

“Dangers of hate,” was right to point out that freedom of speech does not extend to racist groups, nor give their supporters the right to threaten and intimidate others or commit acts of violence.

But when bigots step over the line, it is vital that law enforcement and the courts have the proper tools to respond effectively.

This is why Congress should move expeditiously to approve the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevent Act – legislation that would add protection for all citizens from violent acts of intolerance.

The bill, which was approved in the House last month, would equip local law enforcement officials with tools, training and resources to investigate and prosecute bias-motivated crimes.

Like acts of terrorism, hate crimes can hurt more than the individual victim.  They can instill fear and insecurity within an entire community.

The Hate Crimes Prevention Act recently passed the Congress and is now on its way to the Senate, where it is likely to pass and signed by President Obama. The Anti-Defamation League has been at the forefront of  promoting hate crime legislation, and openly advocates its model anti-hate law.  In 1988 the ADL gave out an award to law student Joseph Ribikoff for writing a proposed hate crime bill that would criminalize hate speech against gays and minorities.

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THE EERILY MODERN WORDS OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS

The following is a partial transcript of the words of Stephen A Douglass, a northern moderate, responding to Lincoln’s ambivalence toward slavery.

The Northern industrialist and the Southern slaveowner both love this country with equal passion.  As I considered the controversy of sectionalism, I was reminded of an encounter I had.  I received a letter from a doctor who told me that he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me. He described himself as a Christian who was strongly abolitionist, but that was not what was preventing him potentially from voting for me.

What bothered the doctor was a speech in which said I would fight northern ideologues who want to take away a plantation owner’s to choose. The doctor said he had assumed I was a reasonable person; he supported my policy initiatives on Manifest Destiny, but that if I truly believed that every abolitionist individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on the South, then I was not very reasonable. He wrote, “I do not ask at this point that you support abolition, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.” Fair-minded words.

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By JEFF CROW

California is easy to save, but no one has the guts, including the terminator Governor we have and the Democrooks who run the state legislature. If they had the guts, here’s how it could be done:

1. Illegal Immigration and its Costs – Utilize Article 14, Section 5 of our State Constitution to put all of those under Court Jurisdiction into the fields, which will drive many if not most illegals into other states and/or home, simply because they’ve been replaced. We could offer early release to the non-violent drug offenders, actually prosecute FIRST TIME offenders (especially juveniles) by forcing them into plea deals, putting them in the fields as well. This number could be as high as 200,000 to 400,000 individuals, and we don’t need CHAIN GANGS for it.

Also, allow those who can’t pay fines to work them off. I came from a minority Democratic area and TRUST me, when charges are dropped against juvenile offenders, they ONLY GET EMBOLDENED into further crime because they figure the system doesn’t give a care about what they do. We could reform these kids on offense number one in large percentages and thus save us from future 3-strike cases (and the $40,000 per year it takes to lock up an inmate).

If we have them work 8 hours per day, 6 days per week, and charge the going rate of around $10 per hour that even ILLEGALS make, we will generate nearly $3.5 Billion per year in NEW revenues and SAVE lots of money on illegal alien benefits and prison costs (into the billions as well). Plus we could literally have the new space in prison for those who don’t cooperate with their plea deals without the cost of expensive new jails, so the criminal element will REALIZE that we can hold them. (It would also get us out of overcrowding).

We are allowed to Lease these guys to private industry, which the state gets OR counties, under this CA Constitution Section. We can also have the cleanest freeways around. This one proposal rids us of three major things, the clout of the prison guards UNION and the cost of prison building and staffing, the costs of illegals (because other states will be paying it), and it will lower our recidivism rate and ensure NO ONE gets a dropped case because of age or overcrowding.
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By NANCY MORGAN

I want to be a liberal, because then everyone will like me. My family will start talking to me again, and chances are, my ex-husband will want to renew the marriage vows he broke when I started spouting conservative opinions.

I’d like to be a liberal because its ever so much easier to allow others to form my opinions for me instead of researching an issue myself. That always gets me in trouble, especially when the facts I discover diverge from the latest politically correct consensus.

I’d like to be a liberal because then I’d be rewarded for all my shortcomings and nothing would ever be my fault. I’d be an important cog in the wheel of social justice, and a cherished warrior in the current fight for equality.

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By ROBERT STARK

In the 2008 republican presidential primary, Congressman Ron Paul was the only candidate to advocate for a non-interventionist foreign policy and warned about the future financial crisis caused by reckless spending, and unsound currency policy by the Federal Reserve. Along with Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter who were also marginalized, he warned about the danger to our sovereignty by the North American Union. The GOP establishment and other candidates marginalized him because they perceived him as a threat to their political power. The Republicans ended up electing John McCain who was  perceived as a continuation of the Bush agenda by supporting the Iraq War, co-sponsoring an amnesty bill in the Senate with Ted Kennedy, and making jokes about bombing Iran. He lost to Obama, who was led to victory by many Americans who were desperate for change with a false message of hope without a clear political plan. The Republicans also lost many seats in the House and Senate that election, giving the democrats control of both branches of government.

Now President Obama has continued much of Bush’s legacy of massive deficit spending, an American military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is now spreading into Pakistan, which you can hear about on the latest episode of the “15Minutes of Freedom Show”. Many republican politicians and party members who once dismissed Ron Paul are realizing he was right about the financial crisis, even though they are still weary of his foreign policy. Many conservatives are now realizing the War in Iraq was a huge mistake. Much of Obama’s anti-war base that helped him get elected is loosing faith in his administration because of its failure to end the war.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

For the first two of these questions change the words Conservative and Liberal into Republican and Democrat, and the average voter would immediately chase the cheese through the mental template the media wants us to use as a substitution for thought.  However, there are Blue-Dog Democrats (Conservatives) and Republicans in Name Only (Liberals). In reality both parties are led by interchangeable Big-Government Tax-and-Spend, what-ever-you-want-to-call-them, political hacks.

According to the template the two Big-Box parties are separated by their relative location on a straight line having a Right, a Left, and presumably a Center. This is taught using charts and graphs in every American Government class and by endless repetition in what passes for journalism in America today.  However, the fact is we have an over homogenized political establishment with boring elections between Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumber.  What relevance does this artificial construct have in the post-Christian, post-Constitution America we find ourselves in today?

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

That America has changed is without question. No one gets to live in the world they were raised to live in. My father grew up in a house with a dirt floor and no running water. He plowed a field with mules just as his father did and his father and so on. My grandmother never heard of telephones, or airplanes or electricity until after she was 21 and had several children yet I sat next to her in 1969 watching men walk on the moon. My grandfather’s generation was the first in my family that learned to read, my father’s generation was the first to grow up with shoes on, mine was the first that grew up in a city, my son’s was the first to have a computer before they had a car and my grandchildren are the first to grow up in an America that’s the largest debtor on Earth, like Blanche DuBois depending on the kindness of strangers.

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