New Records Prove High Ranking DOJ Officials Lied About New Black Panther Case

I never believed that it was merely low level career civil servants who were behind the dismissal of the New Black Panther case. But that was the official DOJ line, and the MSM bought it hook, line, and sinker. There was no way for doubters to establish that they were lying because the public wasn’t privy to DOJ records that could prove it.

But thanks to a Judicial Watch FOIA request, we now know the truth.

J Christian Adams reports:

Judicial Watch made an explosive announcement today about the Justice Department’s stonewalling in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal. Forced to bring a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after DOJ rebuffed its public records request (so much for transparency), Judicial Watch obtained a privilege log from the DOJ last week.

It shows — in a rather dramatic way — that the DOJ has been untruthful about who was involved in the dismissal of the case.

In July, I complied with a subpoena and provided testimony to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. I did so in part because inaccurate statements had been made about the case by DOJ officials. Some of these statements falsely claimed that ethical rules mandated the dismissal of the charges against the New Black Panthers. This was nonsense.

But the real whopper? DOJ’s claim — repeated over and over again — that career civil servants were wholly responsible for the spiking of the case.

Today we learn, from the Department’s own records, that this claim is demonstrably false.

The privilege log produced in the FOIA litigation contains stunning entries. They show regular discussions and deliberations between the highest political officials inside the DOJ, including the deputy attorney general and the associate attorney general, about what to do with the case. This contradicts numerous statements made to Congress, the Civil Rights Commission, and to the public.

Some of these statements were under oath.

For example: on May 10, 2009, the third highest-ranking official inside the DOJ — Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli — emailed Sam Hirsch, one of his deputies:

Where are we on the Black Panther case?

The description of the email contains a bombshell:

asking for update on the NBPP litigation between officials in the [Associate’s office] and noting the [deputy attorney general’s] current thoughts on the case.

The deputy attorney general is the second highest-ranking official in the Department. The use of the term “current thoughts” infers that there were prior thoughts and ongoing discussions with the second highest-ranking political official at DOJ about how to handle the case.

Further, the logs show dozens of communications between senior DOJ political officials in the two weeks prior to the dismissal of the case.

Congress and the public have been told — for over a year — that the dismissal of the New Black Panther case resulted from nothing more than a dispute between lowly career civil servants. Lapdog reporters have repeated this lie, if they even covered the case at all. The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch expose the ruse.

Rarely in our nation’s history have officials in the Department of Justice engaged in a dishonest misinformation campaign to Congress, the public, and other fact-finding tribunals. Thankfully, these few episodes have been confined to the darkest and most corrupt eras of the republic.

Keep reading at Pajamas Media as J Christian Adams provides all the details.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, whom Michelle Malkin notes, does “meticulous work”  is already reviewing the Obama administration’s “selective enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section office of DOJ”.  He will no doubt find all of this very interesting.

Adams suggests that the IG’s investigation “should include an inquiry into whether the Department is fully responsive to various requests from Congress, the press, and the Civil Rights Commission”.

I think we already know the answer to that.

Hat tip: Larwyn’s Links, Doug Ross @Journal

Video: Breitbart v.s. The OFA Astroturfers at Right Nation

I’ve already posted Gateway Pundit‘s raw video of the Breitbart confrontation with the OFA protesters outside of  Right Nation, But this Founding Bloggers video has been cleaned up with added narration from Andrew Marcus.

Enjoy – this is good stuff:

See Andrew Marcus’ post at Big Government for a second video that features the lead organizer, C.J. Hawking:

Who is C.J. Hawking? For more details on that we turn to the Democratic Socialists of America, who in 2009 wrote:

Kim Bobo, the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), was to be our featured speaker. Due to a family emergency, she had to cancel all her appearances that week, including the Dinner. But she nominated, and we accepted, the Reverend C.J. Hawking as her replacement. C.J. Hawking is the Director of the local affiliate of IWJ, Arise Chicago.

Figures!

Via AoSHQ

UPDATE;

GATEWAY PUNDIT has more: IT’S TRUE– Proof That the DNC and Team Obama Are Targeting Tea Parties and Top Conservatives

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GATEWAY PUNDIT: Glenn Beck: “Andrew Breitbart Is an Animal, a Warrior” (Video):

DREAM Act Vote Tomorrow, 2:15pm

Michelle Malkin has been ringing alarm bells about the DREAM Act amendment that’s been tacked onto the defense authorization bill just in time for the 2010 elections.

This is not about protecting “children.” It’s about preserving electoral power through cap-and-gown amnesty.

The so-called DREAM Act would create an official path to Democrat voter registration for an estimated 2 million, college-age illegal aliens. Look past the public relations-savvy stories of “undocumented” valedictorians left out in the cold. This is not about protecting “children.” It’s about preserving electoral power through cap-and-gown
amnesty.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this week that he’s attaching the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill. With ethnic activists breathing down his neck and President Obama pushing to fulfill his campaign promise to Hispanics, Reid wants his queasy colleagues to vote on the legislation next week. Open-borders lawmakers have tried and failed to pass the DREAM ACT through regular channels for the last decade. That’s because informed voters know giving green cards to illegal alien students undermines the rule of law, creates more illegal immigration incentives, and grants preferential treatment to illegal alien students over law-abiding native and naturalized American students struggling to get an education in tough economic times. This bad idea is compounded by a companion proposal to recruit more illegal aliens into the military with the lure of citizenship (a fraud-ridden and reckless practice countenanced under the Bush administration).

The usual RINO suspects are crossing the aisle to support it:

Despite the obvious electoral advantage this plan would give Democrats, several pro-illegal alien amnesty Republicans crossed the aisle to support the DREAM Act, including double-talking Sens. John McCain, Richard Lugar, Bob Bennett, Sam Brownback, Norm Coleman, Susan Collins, Larry Craig, Chuck Hagel, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mel Martinez,
Olympia Snowe, and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (who champions even greater illegal alien student benefits than those proposed by Democrats). After paying lip service to securing the borders, McCain promised DREAM Act demonstrators this week that he supported the bill and would work to “resolve their issues.”

DREAM Act lobbyists are spotlighting heart-wrenching stories of high-achieving teens brought to this country when they were toddlers. But instead of arguing for case-by-case dispensations, the protesters want blanket pardons. The broadly-drafted Senate bill would confer benefits on applicants up to age 35 and the House bill contains no age
ceiling at all. The academic achievement requirements are minimal. Moreover, illegal aliens who didn’t arrive in the country until they turned 15 – after they laid down significant roots in their home country – would be eligible for DREAM Act benefits and eventual U.S. citizenship. And like past amnesty packages, the Democrat plan is devoid of any concrete eligibility and enforcement mechanisms to deter already-rampant immigration benefit fraud.

See Michelle  Malkin via Roy Beck at NumbersUSA for “a handy phone list of Senate fence-sitters, flip-floppers, and feckless sellouts”.

She’s recommending that people to melt the phone lines. Some of these people may be reachable.

UPDATE:

MichelleMalkin: DREAM Act showdown: Dems hold defense bill hostage to social justice; Update: NO votes piling up, vote pushed back

Scroll for updates…10:53am Eastern…Confirmed w/Ark.Democrat Sen. Mark Pryor’s office…he’s a NO on DREAM Act amndt…see updated phone list below for more…vote reportedly pushed back to 2:30pm Eastern…trouble in Reid-land?…12:02pm Collins is a no on cloture…so is Voinovich…Biden tried to woo Collins in phone call, failed…

DREAM Act showdown: Dems hold defense bill hostage to social justice; Update: Cloture vote FAILS 56-43, now pass a clean bill; Reid vows: “We’re going to vote on the DREAM Act. It’s only a question of when.”

Linked by Michelle Malkin, Buzzworthy, thanks!

It’s Time To Start Linking Democrats To their Extremists

This is the game they continually play with conservatives. The tea party is made up of  average Americans who represent the majority on most of the issues facing the nation. But that doesn’t stop the libs from trying to paint them as extremists, even if it means infiltrating tea parties and doctoring videos to make them look like racists.

Only yesterday, the New York Times reported that the White House is  considering a national ad campaign to link Republicans with “Tea Party Extremists”. David Axelrod denied that a national ad campaign was being planned:

“There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House” or the Democratic National Committee, said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser.

Which, considering Axelrod’s well known penchant for lying, means it’s absolutely true.

And such an ad campaign coming from the DNC would be nothing new. Remember this vicious anti-tea party ad from August, ’09?:

So rest assured. Something equally vile is in the works for this Fall.

I think it’s time for Republicans to fight back by linking Democrats to the extremists within their ranks. Don’t get me wrong -  I realize that the Dem Socialists in leadership positions (including the President) are by definition, extremists, themselves. Their positions are at odds with the majority of the American people in case after case after case after case after case. But they are able to hide their extremism under the veneer of respectability their offices provide them. Many of their supporters, however, don’t have that advantage. I’m talking about the scruffy, and often violent moonbats who show up at lefty rallies: Code Pinkos, animal rights nuts, global warming alarmists, union thugs, anarchists, black nationalists, La Raza, etc, etc, etc.

These are people that most Americans do not identify with. And the Dems own them.

In many cases these folks are actually bused into events by Democrat organs such as the SEIU, OFA, and HCAN.

Big Government recently covered a Sarah Palin-as-Hitler rally that was linked to a Democrat Congresswoman who’s running for reelection in the 11th district in IL.  Your Democratic party in action.

The “anti-hate rally” that Obama supporters from Organizing For America held outside of Right Nation, last weekend should be exposed as the hypocritical hate-fest that it was. Members spat on conservatives, and called Andrew Breitbart, a “homo”. It was captured on tape. Dems.

The SEIU thug who beat up Kenneth Gladney, last summer outside a town hall in St, Louis? Dem.

The MOVE ON  thug who bit off an elderly man’s finger at an anti-Obamacare rally? Dem.

Um, The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus. Those Dems might be considered extreme by mainstream Americans.

The pro illegal immigration rallies in AZ that featured swastikas and Nazi references, and  had participants throwing bottles at the police? Dems.

The New Black Panthers that Obama’s DOJ is protecting? Those would be Dems, too.

Speaking of Black Nationalists, see Duane Lester at All American Blogger for a video he’s uncovered of Al Sharpton excusing the extreme hate speech of one of his supporters, and then blaming the victim for it. If you don’t like being called “a white devil”, maybe you ARE a white devil, don’t you know. All Dems.

Those are just a few examples of extremists within the Democrat ranks. I could go on and on, but I have things to do, today.

How about it Republicans? Take the gloves off. Fight fire with fire.

Linked by Michelle Malkin, Buzzworthy, and Doug Ross: Larwyn’s Links, thanks!

“Father of the Tea Party”, Rick Santelli Sometimes Goes to Rallies Incognito

I got a kick out of this  little nugget from a recent interview with Rick Santelli, in reference to  his “rant-heard-’round-the-world”:

“The five-minute rant was the best five minutes of my life,” Santelli tells reporter Abdon Pallasch. “But beyond that, really four minutes in time, it’s the Tea Party. My wife pointed out to me, ‘You were there for the insemination, but you were not there to raise the child.’”

Pallasch writes that Santelli and his wife have attended local Tea Party rallies, donning “sunglasses and baseball caps…not talking to anyone, not claiming any credit, just admiring democracy at work.”

Hat tip: Big Government

When lefties Go To Church…

Well, it must be the silly season, because  the President  just engaged in an ostentatious church-going display, a fine Democrat tradition. The Obama family attended St. John’s Church Lafayette Square, an Episcopal congregation about a block from the White House, Sunday morning.  It was the first time he’d been to church since Easter,   and about a month after a Pew poll showed that a growing number of people think he’s a Muslim, and only 34% believe that he’s a Christian.

CNN reports:

The family sat a few rows from the altar, among roughly 40 worshippers. Each family member received communion, led by the president.

St. John’s rector, the Rev. Luis Leon, preached on the weekly gospel reading, Luke 16:1-13, which ends, “You cannot serve God and wealth,” in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

(Hear that bitter clingers? Now give it up.)

The visit, Obama’s first public trip to church since Easter, comes several weeks after a major survey showed that a substantial and growing number of Americans believe that Obama, a self-described Christian, is Muslim.

Nearly one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from around one in 10 Americans who said he was Muslim last year, according to the survey, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

In the wake of that poll, some pundits (including me) predicted that a visit to church would be in Obama’s near future.

Meanwhile, lefties from Organizing for America were bussed in to protest Right Nation, a gathering of conservatives at Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, IL, this weekend, and they apparently held their own service outside of the center.

Of course lefty services are a little different from what you and I might expect from a  church service.  We’ve all seen TUCC with Rev. Wright bellowing “G*d damn America!”, US of KKK-A, etc.

The  Organizing for America “anti-hate rally” featured a preacher sermonizing about “love and sharing”, while the mob hollered “Homosexual!” at Andrew Breitbart as he walked by,  and spit on conservatives. Dana Loesch captured some of the magic on film.

This spitting, unlike the accidental spray that hit Emanuel Cleaver at the “Kill the Bill Rally in Washington DC, last March, was purposeful hawkering. And no doubt, in retaliation for the  March 20 non-incident.

Here, while one of the members was leading the group in prayer, the mob harassed Andrew Breitbart.

Video Via Gateway Pundit

Nice bunch of supporters Obama has, huh?

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

UPDATE:

If Andrew Breitbart was short on material before his speech, he wasn’t after his confrontations outside of  the Sears Centre. He focused on the astroturf  protesters  for much of  his talk:

Video via Big Government.

RELATED:

Organizing For America Now A Shell Of Its Former Self

…So earlier this year, when the White House gave OFA a whopping $30 million — more than half of the party’s entire budget for 2010 — senior Democrats suspected a hidden agenda. Several tell Time that OFA boss David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s 2008 campaign, is using the cash to rebuild an army for 2012 under the cover of boosting turnout in 2010. OFA is putting staff into such states as Virginia, North Carolina and Arizona, which have few close statewide races this fall but which are all prime targets in an Obama re-election campaign. “This is totally about 2012,” Cook says.

Seriously, Obama’s spending half of the Democratic party’s budget on stupid crap like this?

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Reason #27,784,663 people have trouble believing that Obama is really a Christian:

Towards the end of a speech on September 15 to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Obama began quoting the famous “rights” line from the founding document. But partway through, he omitted where those rights come from: a Creator.

The line is supposed to read: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

But Obama’s recitation left out an important part: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are crated equal. [Long Pause] Endowed with certain inalienable [sic] rights: life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

As the American Thinker points out, it could well be that Obama intentionally ignored his teleprompter:

After President Obama says “created equal..”, there is a long pause during which he scowls and blinks several times. For once, he may actually have opted to not read something that was on the teleprompter. It looks like he is disgusted and decided it would be better not to read what the [Declaration] actually says.

It could really be that he believes that there  can be no rights outside of what is permitted by government.

Watch video at iOWNTHEWORLD.

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So many layers of hypocrisy here, I can barely stand it:

Report: Obama Advisers Consider National Ad Campaign to Link Republicans With “Tea Party Extremists”…

“We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party because the people who have taken over the party are radical,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.

“Extremists” to these jaggoffs are what the rest of us call “normies”. Go ahead and try it, Dems. I’d love to see how “extreme” they make us look without resorting to Think Progress and Media Matters type fakery.

Oh, and be ready to watch the MFM give the Dems an assist at whatever “messaging” they decide on. They’re not even hiding it, anymore.

And no, there’s no place in the narrative for a story about the President’s trained monkeys from OFA  astroturfing their way to Chicago, using party funds, to combat the tea party.

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There will certainly be no room in the media narrative for a story about a Dem Congresswoman’s supporters participating in a Sarah Palin as Hitler rally, either.

Linked by Michelle Malkin and Doug Ross, thanks!

Ten Buck Fridays: September 19 – 24

Via Right Klik:

The TBF poll in a nutshell: This is a poll designed to promote rising conservative stars. At the end of the week, the winner will be promoted by a nationwide network of over 80 conservative blogs and will receive a flurry of contributions from patriots across the country.

*Note: Vote only once. Duplicate votes will be deleted.

As always, the  poll is located at the top of my right sidebar. See Right Klik to learn more about each of the candidates featured this week.

Musical Parody: Obama Has No Clue

This musical parody set to the tune, I’m Yours, comes from Starboard View Studio, part of the Michigan Tea party family. Last year, their Hey There Obama (Drink The Koolaid), made quite a splash in the right-wing blogosphere.

It’s great to see young people getting involved with conservative activism.

Janet Napolitano Tells Reporters Security Along Border Is Actually Improving.

Weasel Zippers wonders if Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano  was sober when she told reporters she was against militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border:

(Politico)- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Friday warned against militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border and insisted that, despite a public outcry over illegal immigration and violence in the area, security along the nearly 2000-mile-long dividing line with Mexico is actually improving.

“This is a civilian border,” Napolitano said during a lunch Friday with reporters in Washington, responding to a question about sending more U.S. National Guard troops to beef up border security.

That, no doubt, comes as a surprise to Pinal County sheriff, Paul Babeu who deals with the situation down there every day, and has been begging for federal help. Now they’re discovering caves used by drug cartels – one of which is less than a mile away from homes. Babeu says people in Pinal county no longer feel safe in their homes:

Perhaps Napolitano believes that her signs have solved the security problem:

After all, if people stay away from dangerous, unprotected areas, (including their own property)  problem solved, right?

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See Invasion Border Pics for a more accurate appraisal of how secure the border is.

Friday News Round-up

There’s a lot of disturbing news to report on the topic of Islamic  supremacism at the moment, and a good place to start with that is at Weasel Zippers:

WH Spokesmen Still Mum on Study Linking Shariah Proponents to Al Qaeda

(Washington Times)

Frank Gaffney, director of the Center for Security Policy, said the Obama administration’s policy is based on an incorrect assumption. The Team B report seeks to expose flaws in anti-terror programs, including the policy of not referring to al Qaeda and similar groups as “Islamist” to avoid offending Muslims, he said.

“What if it turns out that some of the people the Obama administration has been embracing are actually promoting the same totalitarian ideology and seditious agenda as al Qaeda, only they’re doing it from White House Iftar dinners?” said Mr. Gaffney, referring to the daily meal eaten by Muslims to break their fast during Ramadan.

The group of experts was modeled after the official CIA Team B, whose 1976 contrary analysis said U.S. intelligence assessments had underestimated Soviet nuclear forces. That Team B report led to the military buildup under the Reagan administration.

John Brennan, deputy White House national security adviser for counterterrorism, told The Washington Times in June that he disagrees that “there is an Islamic dimension to terrorism.”

The administration’s policy of not using the word Islam and its derivatives to describe today’s fundamentalist terrorists is aimed at “not according these individuals any religious legitimacy,” he said.

A White House spokesman could not be reached for comment on the report or the administration’s policy on political Islam.

Geert Wilders Launching International Group to Counter Spread of Islamism…

A group that is sorely needed, given this:

Germany to Counter Spread of “Islamophobia” by Teaching Islam in Public Schools as Part of Core Curriculum…

and this from Ace:

Wellesley, MA, Students Go On Field Trip To Mosque, Where They Learn How To Pray To Allah:

It’s a ten minute video, but the money shot happens from like 5:00 to 6:40.

More here: School Trip to “Moderate” Mosque: Inside Video Captures Kids Bowing to Allah

The mosque leadership continues to be embraced by top Massachusetts political and religious leaders. These include Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, as well as a group of local progressive rabbis and Christian clergy, who all insist despite evidence to the contrary that the mosque is moderate and its critics are just bigots.

Indeed, this is a familiar refrain by leaders nationwide in response to the increasing public realization that Islamic leaders are not as moderate as they present themselves. Radicalism is growing and many moderate Muslims have been silenced. In various parts of the country, public schools are allowing Muslim extremists to promote Islam to our children. Something’s broken here. Our leadership is failing. It’s now up to ordinary citizens to fix it.

So far not a peep from the ACLU about this.

El Marco: Historic 9/11 Stop the Mosque at Ground Zero Rally

This year’s 9/11 anniversary in New York brought opponents and supporters of the controversial “ground zero mosque” to lower Manhattan by the thousands. That fact has spawned a new controversy, as the American people yet again were served a false narrative by the dominant liberal establishment mass media.

Exhibit A, in the “media reality distortion case #2478697,” is the photo scene below. This photo shows the 9/11 Remembrance/Stop the Ground Zero Mosque Rally hosted by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. According to the New York Times, what is seen here is a crowd of 2,000 persons. According to the New York Daily News, the crowd below contained “hundreds,” despite the fact that it stretched jam packed as seen below for three city blocks. Local NYC News Channel 10 reported live that there were 30,000 people at this rally. Channel 10 should be applauded for doing their job, and the rest of the media stands exposed.

This is good news if it pans out:

Russian Offers to Buy Ground Zero Mosque Building for $10 Million to International Build Chess Center

(ABC News)- The Russian president of the World Chess Federation is offering $10 million to buy the site of the controversial Muslim community center near Ground Zero in order to build an international chess center instead of the controversial mosque.

Jennifer Rubin: Maybe the Peace Processors Just Don’t Have a Clue

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On the Political front:

Byron York: Coons spokesman: ‘Chris is not anyone’s pet’

(Yes he is).

Sadly, this needed to be said:

Byron York:  In Delaware, GOP should target Dems, not O’Donnell

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII rolls up his cashmere sleeves, waves his swagger stick and  brays: If It Is a Fight These Jacobins Want, Then It Is a Fight They Shall Have!

Weasel Zippers: Jon Stewart to Hold DC ‘Million Moderate March’…

Weasel Zippers: Texas Files Lawsuit Against Feds Over Regulations Based on Global Warming Lies…

(WAOI)- The state of Texas today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal appeals court in Washington DC, claiming four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on the thoroughly discredited findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are ‘factually flawed,’ 1200 WOAI news reports.

Don’t mess with Texas!

Fox News: New Border Threat: Illegals Living in Caves

Michelle Malkin: Harry Reid’s illegal alien student bailout

Lori Ziganto, Red State: Blood Money: Exposing The Evil That Is The Abortion Industry

Announcing This Week’s 10-Buck Friday Winner: Congratulations B.J. Lawson

Congratulations B.J. Lawson.

Via Right Klik:

B.J. Lawson is a young physician from North Carolina (NC-04) who was running against an entrenched liberal incumbent back in 2008, back before it was so cool to do so. Dr. Lawson has returned in 2010, riding the red wave that promises to sweep away liberals all over the country.

Lawson has been endorsed by the U.S. Senate’s most courageously stubborn defender of the Constitution, Tom Coburn (R-OK).

Senator Tom Coburn, the leading Medical Doctor in the U.S. Senate endorsed B.J. Lawson today.

“Our health care system is broken, and has only been made worse by this administration’s actions. Americans face skyrocketing medical costs with declining quality and availability due to oppressive big government policies.

Reversing these trends demands leadership that will return health care to patients and physicians, and get government and insurance bureaucracies out of our exam rooms.

I’m proud to endorse Dr. William (B.J.) Lawson in his campaign for Congress in North Carolina’s 4th District. As physicians, we have sworn to uphold the Hippocratic Oath — putting patients first, and above all else, doing no harm. As public servants, we swear to uphold the United States Constitution and protect the freedoms of the American people. Dr. Lawson will stand with me in the United States Congress in support of these sacred principles.

I hope that conservative bloggers across the country will join me in promoting and supporting B.J. Lawson for Congress. If you can, please send a few dollars his way…

Donate to B.J. Lawson here.

If everyone who voted in the poll donates their $10, that’s $26,030 to his campaign coffer, not a bad haul.

All American Blogger Interviews Mo-5 Candidate, Jacob Turk

All American Blogger, Duane Lester recently had the opportunity to interview candidate, Jacob Turk, who’s running against Emanuel “Spittlegate” Cleaver in the largely urban 5th district in Missouri.

Turk says despite the monetary disadvantage, he feels good about his chances of getting his message heard.

“It’s not about money. It’s about people, and the way we have been forced to run has been an advantage for us. I am forced, and it fits my personality, but I have to go out and I have to meet people constantly. I constantly have to expand my outreach to reach people that I haven’t talked to yet. Not just have a circle of people around me that agree with me, I have to go out and meet people who disagree with me, because I can’t reach them any other way.

And now we have a lot of people, hundreds of volunteers out there that are carrying the message forward for us and yeah, people are open to it because this economy is driving a lot of fear into people’s hearts. And when you have a government that is not responsive, one example would be on health care, my opponent admitted that over 80% of the calls coming into his office, people from his district, said, ‘No, please don’t vote for this.’ And he went ahead and voted for it. When it comes down to it, that’s not representation. That’s tyranny.”

Read the entire interview, here, or here.

Turk has caught the eye of Sarah Palin, who was in Kansas City on Monday for a speech before the Vitae Foundation.

Although Palin remains an influential force in 2010 races across the country, she steered clear of partisan politics Monday night, saying nothing about any political plans.

But there was one exception: She acknowledged Jacob Turk, the GOP nominee for the 5th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver.

Palin said Turk had given her a business card that said elected officials must “listen to all, lead with integrity … and champion opportunity. That’s leadership, not politics.”

“I love that motto,” Palin said. She talked briefly about the growing influence of the tea party movement across the country and complained that the mainstream media were seeking to undermine the movement’s momentum.

“Kingmaker”, Palin recently endorsed Vicky Hartzler, who’s running against incumbent Ike Skelton in Mo’s dist-4…could a formal endorsement for Turk be far behind?

Since Jacob Turk is running in my district, I have a web- button on my right sidebar that leads straight to his campaign website’s donation page. If the idea of a shocked Emanuel Cleaver waking up on November 3rd without a job, appeals to you, how about hitting Turk’s tip jar?

John Holdren Urging People To Use Term: “Global Climate Disruption” Instead of “Global Warming”

Granted, people were already using “climate change” to describe changes in the earth’s climate, (otherwise known as weather). But that wasn’t scary-sounding enough, I guess. “Change” is generally thought of in neutral to positive terms. Sometimes the climate changes, and we say, “Good, it’s been too cold lately, I’m glad it’s warming up.” “Disruption”, however, sounds rude and undesirable. Who wants a weather disruption – like a hurricane, or hail storm? Nobody.

Fox News reports:

The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a “dangerous misnomer” for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.

The call comes as Congress prepares to adjourn for the season without completing work on a stalled climate bill. The term global warming has long been criticized as inaccurate, and the new push could be an attempt to re-shape climate messaging for next year’s legislative session.

“They’re trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff,” said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush tax cuts as “middle-class tax cuts.”

It’s all about the “messaging” with Dems. Rush likes to say this, and he’s right: Libs wake up every morning and ask themselves, “How can we fool them, today?”

CNS recently caught up with John Holdren at the EPA, where he was part of a panel discussion celebrating forty years of the Clean Air Act.

In a video interview this week, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNSNews.com that he would use the “free market economy” to implement the “massive campaign” he advocated along with Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich to “de-develop the United States.”

In his role as President Barack Obama’s top science and technology adviser, Holdren deals with issues ranging from global warming to health care.

“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States,” Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich in the “recommendations” concluding their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.

“De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation,” Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.

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CNSNews.com asked: “You wrote ‘a massive campaign must be launched to restore a high quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States’ in your book Human Ecology. Could you explain what you meant by de-develop the United States?”

Holdren responded: “What we meant by that was stopping the kinds of activities that are destroying the environment and replacing them with activities that would produce both prosperity and environmental quality. Thanks a lot.”

CNSNews.com then asked: “And how do you plan on implementing that?”

“Through the free market economy,” Holdren said.

CNSNews.com also asked Holdren to comment on the declaration he made in 1995 along with co-authors Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily of Stanford University that mankind needed to “face up” to “a world of zero net physical growth” that would require reductions in consumption.

“We know for certain, for example, that: No form of material growth (including population growth) other than asymptotic growth is sustainable,” Holdren, Ehrlich and Daily wrote in an essay for the World Bank titled, “The Meaning of Sustainability.”

Read the rest and watch video of CNS interview with Holdren, here.

If you haven’t read Zombietime’s disturbing report about   John Holdren’s past enthusiasms for forced abortion and mass sterilizations, you really need to. These days, he’s primarily a global warming alarmist, but in the ’70′s he was a big proponent of Paul Ehrlich’s population bomb hysteria, and co-authered the book, Ecoscience, with him.

CNS reports that when it asked him about some of his past work, he said it was a “stale topic”.

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Obama’s Radical Science Czar

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Another stale topic, speaking of Czars is Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “Safe School Czar”.  What’s he been up to lately??? I’m wondering because the new school year has started, and his stated objective is to “queerize” elementary education. The last I had heard, he was busy, busy, busy working on plans, to launch a “School Climate Measurement” program to integrate LGBT themes into K-12 curricula. Be vigilant, parents.

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Nevermind the Classroom Teleprompters…Where’s “Safe School Czar”, Kevin Jennings?

Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings Hasn’t Been Fired Yet?

Kevin Jennings Still “Safe School Czar” – WHY?

Video: Michelle Malkin Discusses “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings On Hannity

More On Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe School Czar – It Gets Worse

The Official Media Matters Response To Obama’s Safe School Czar’s Porno Reading List For Kids Scandal

An Open Letter To Obama From A Mother, Re Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings

Deesgusting!:Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings Promoting Child Porn In Classroom Through GLSEN Reading List

Zombie Takes Media Matters To Task On “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings

Why Does Obama Have A Known *Pervert Gay Activist (I changed my mind again)PERVERT For His “Safe Schools” Czar?

Mark Levin: “Is This Country Worth Fighting For, Or Not?”

See The Right Scoop for yet another Mark Levin “must listen”; this one’s one of his best monologues, ever, imo.

“We have been fighting a counter revolution to the American revolution”.

Hat tip: Cubachi at RiehlWorldView.

UPDATE:

A counterpoint:

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII rolls up his cashmere sleeves, waves his swagger stick and  brays: If It Is a Fight These Jacobins Want, Then It Is a Fight They Shall Have!

New Film ‘Fire From The Heartland’ Tells The Story Of Conservative Women

Citizens United, an organization dedicated to restoring our government to citizens’ control, will be releasing a new film, Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman” on Wednesday, September 22nd, in Washington, DC.

The film, with an all-female cast, is the first to tell the story of the awakening of a new generation of women that are at the forefront of today’s re-born conservative movement.

“We are very excited about “Fire from the Heartland” and the chance to have this extraordinary cast tell the story of women’s role in the leadership of the conservative movement,” said David N. Bossie, President of Citizens United, and the film’s Producer.

I had the opportunity to attend a private screening of the movie at the Citizens United headquarters in Washington DC when I was there for BlogCon, last weekend.

Here is the trailer:

Citizens United filmmaker, Steve Bannon introduced the film to a handful of female bloggers, and we were asked our opinions about the film when it was through.

I gave it two thumbs up.

Women all across America have been spurred into action by the gross overreach, overspending and power grabs of big government Statists in Washington. Even those who are barely paying attention, can sense that something is very, very wrong, and women all across America  are standing athwart history, and yelling, STOP!

This film tells that story.

The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her own words, “Fire from the Heartland” is a powerful statement about America at a crossroads and the women who have awakened to the crisis. With role models such as Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret Thatcher, and Phyllis Schlafly as inspiration, these women are the unintended consequence of the liberal feminist movement.

Tracing the long history of the many conservative women who have been the backbone of this great nation, from the founding mothers of our Republic to today’s “Mama Grizzlies,” this powerful and compelling documentary honors the self-made American woman.

The cast of women interviewed range from professional pundits to women who had no idea two years ago that they would soon become nationally renowned tea party leaders.

Activists, politicians and commentators such as Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, S.E. Cupp, Dana Loesch, Michelle Easton, Sonnie Johnson, Jenny Beth Martin, Michelle Moore, Jamie Radtke, Deneen Borelli, Janine Turner, and Congresswomen Cynthia Lummis, Jean Schmidt, and Michele Bachmann share their emotional stories of hardship and triumph in their fight for freedom. These women leaders are fanning the flames of liberty across the nation.

Written and directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by David N. Bossie, the team that made the critically acclaimed film “Generation Zero” that focused on the financial meltdown and the rise of the Tea Party, “Fire from the Heartland” is a must-see for every citizen concerned with the direction of our country and will stir a fire in the hearts of all Americans.

One question I had for Steve Bannon, was: How much of the women’s words were scripted?….Because their words were presented in a seamless stream – one after another – forming one joint statement. And because they shared the same values and same vision, the end result looked almost contrived. It wasn’t. The only thing that was pre-planned were the white tops they wore for their interviews.

I strongly recommend that you seek out a screening in your area of this excellent film because its gorgeous visuals are best suited to the big screen.

If  that’s not possible, it’s also  available on DVD.