Islam Is Coming to Get You

Ronald Reagan's reputed "favorite newspaper," Human Events in now promoting ... Mark Steyn's Ameircan Alone, The End of the World as We Know It that asks: 'Will Europe Trade Christianity for Islam?' The book is free, if you subscribe to Human Events, America's conservative newsweekly.

An amusing piece of Americana to keep in mind as the Tea Partyers and rightwing keep up their nonsense.

The louder and more hysterical the right becomes, the more Obama's numbers will skyrocket, much as Clinton's numbers did during the very height of the Monica hysteria.

Beyond more bold and transparent interventions into the economy, my political advice for the Obama administration is to do something that really pisses off the rightwing, while sounding positive and actually being helpful to American families. That could be just about anything.

Jesus Wants the Senate to Filibuster Judge Hamilton

Update: Senator Inhofe Will Filibuster Judicial Nominee, Hamilton for Ruling Against Sectarian Prayers in Indiana Legislature

From some of the folks who brought you the Tea Parties, now comes an appeal in the name of Jesus to filibuster federal Judge David Hamilton nominated by President Obama for the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

The seventh circuit comprises the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin

Hamilton was nominated in March and has been hailed by the president of People for the American Way, and reportedly reads into U.S. law such notions as liberty, equality, and justice.

Human Events, a rightwing journal and activist group that is a major go-to organization for the latest GOP snake oil, is sending out a mass e-mail letter asking for a Senate filibuster because of concerns that Hamilton, chief judge of the Southern District of Indiana, is in favor of "banning public prayers offered 'in Jesus name,' and hastening the abortion of unborn children," in addition to being "Anti-Jesus, but Pro-Allah." [Aside from those indiscretions, the guy has a pretty impressive biography.]

Makes for fun reading so I posted the Human Events-Pray in the Name of Jesus Project letter below.

I wouldn't worry too much about how our Senators Kohl and Feingold, who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are going to vote on this one and whether Hamilton gets confirmed by the full Senate.

Just sit back and enjoy this battle against the Allah-loving, Jesus-hating, baby-killing, ACLU-loving, former ACORN-working Judge Hamilton. By the way Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), that RINO (Republican In Name Only), endorsed Judge Hamilton's nomination to the tears of Jesus and perhaps the wrath of Archangels who can be a vicious lot if crossed on a bad day.

God bless.

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Dear Citizen Activists,

Barack Obama continues to push his nomination of federal Judge David Hamilton, who has issued controversial rulings (banning public prayers offered "in Jesus name," and hastening the abortion of unborn children), to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (the same court that has reversed his aggressive decisions for many years).

To oppose Hamilton, we've already put in 240,000+ fax petitions to the U.S. Senate, but to the delight of many liberal groups (including the National Abortion Rights Action League who is actively campaiging FOR Hamilton), ZERO REPUBLICAN SENATORS have yet promised to filibuster this bad nomination of the most dangerous liberal extremist, anti-Life, anti-Liberty, anti-Jesus Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. We must demand a filibuster to oppose him. Can you please help us reach our goal of 1,000,000 faxes against Hamilton?

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN AND WE'LL AUTOMATICALLY FAX YOUR PERSONALIZED PETITION TO ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS, OPPOSING THE ANTI-LIFE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN JUDGE DAVID HAMILTON.

Judge Hamilton is the worst of Obama's 15 new liberal appeals court appointees. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals covers Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. Since most cases never reach the Supreme Court, the federal appellate circuits often provide the last word on cases affecting life and liberty.

READ THE FACTS:

The Judicial Confirmation Network quickly opposed Hamilton's nomination, stating that "President Obama's first nominee to the federal appeals courts -- specifically the appeals court based in Chicago -- is an ultra-liberal named David Hamilton who is a former fundraiser for ACORN and former leader of the Indiana chapter of the ACLU. He was nominated to the district court bench by President Clinton even though he had no judicial experience and was rated as 'not qualified' by the American Bar Association ."

Hamilton ruled in 2005 to ban the practice of opening the chamber's business with prayers mentioning Jesus Christ or using terms such as "Savior." He said that amounted to state endorsement of a religion. (But he ruled prayers to "Allah" were perfectly lawful.)

ANTI-JESUS, BUT PRO-ALLAH?

Judge Hamilton wrote: "The injunction orders the Speaker...that the prayers should not use Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal...If those offering prayers in the Indiana House of Representatives choose to use the Arabic 'Allah'...the court sees little risk that the choice of language would advance a particular religion or disparage others.

In other words, Judge Hamilton ruled the words "Jesus" or "Christ" are illegal words, prohibited for public speech, banned by the First Amendment, which somehow prohibits freedom of religious expression, and makes Christian prayers ILLEGAL in a public forum. (What crazy version of the First Amendment is he reading?)

Thank God, we took action in 2007 and provided legal arguments to the Indiana Attorney General who appealed to the 7th Circuit Court and WE WON a 2-1 decision overruling Hamilton, restoring the right to pray "in Jesus name" in Indiana.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN AND WE'LL AUTOMATICALLY FAX YOUR PERSONALIZED PETITION TO ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS, OPPOSING THE ANTI-LIFE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN JUDGE DAVID HAMILTON.

ANTI-LIFE BUT PRO-ABORTION?

In 2003, Judge Hamilton struck down part of an Indiana law on abortion. The reasonable law had required abortion clinics to simply give women information about alternatives to abortion in the presence of a physician or nurse, 18 hours before the procedure, until Hamilton ruled to hasten abortions . But thank God, the 7th Circuit Court also reversed Hamilton's bad decision in that case.

If confirmed now Hamilton will sit on that 7th Circuit Court (the same court that frequently overruled him) with terrible power to rule the heartland with his anti-life, anti-liberty, anti-Christian agenda.

WE CAN WIN THIS BATTLE!

We've already sent thousands of faxes to the full Senate, and we're getting results! On April 1st, Senator Orrin Hatch led all Republicans to walk out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in protest against the Democrat "rush job" to confirm Judge Hamilton.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said he was troubled by Hamilton's ruling against a sectarian prayer to open the Indiana House of Representatives.

Even Senator Arlen Specter expressed concern. But will they vote unanimously against Hamilton?

Unfortuantely retiring RINO Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) endorsed Hamilton, endangering his own state of Indiana and ruining his own legacy. Lugar's five phone numbers are: Indianapolis (317) 226-5555, Evansville (812) 465-6313, Fort Wayne (260) 422-1505, Valparaiso (219) 548-8035, DC Office (202) 224-4814.

Everybody please call all five numbers today, and especially ask your Indiana friends to call Sen. Lugar . You might even call both U.S. Senators from your own state, at 202-225-3121. But remember, 100 emails = 10 phonecalls = 1 fax in political capital, since the Senate staffers must handle each paper and usually write a reply.

So please join our automated fax-petition campaign first. Then please forward this email to your Indiana-Illinois-Wisconsin friends, and to all pastors in all 50 states, and click here to download a church flyer that pastors can copy and distribute. But first, take action right now!

I pray you will not hesitate, but sign the petition and WE WILL FAX your petition right away, automatically to all 100 U.S. Senators.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN AND WE'LL AUTOMATICALLY FAX YOUR PERSONALIZED PETITION TO ALL 100 U.S. SENATORS, OPPOSING THE ANTI-LIFE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN JUDGE DAVID HAMILTON.
God Bless you, in Jesus' name,





Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt

P.S. Time is urgent! The Senate could vote on this confirmation as early as mid-April. If you click and sign today, we will forward your name immediately. Please don't wait another minute. Life, Liberty, and Jesus are too important to be banned by one extremist judge.
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WhiteHouse.Gov: A True Resource

Want info on the budget, on the economic recovery plan, and on efforts to protect the middle class. WhiteHouse.Gov has a simple searchable application for this information.

This guy, Obama, actually cares about this stuff helping Americans. What a change.

And it scares the hell of out of Republicans who have praying for a financial Apocalypse and doing their worst to bring it about. Since Obama was elected, Human Events, the RNC, Newt, Rush, the whole bunch of them have been screaming bloody murder. Yesterday's TEA Party was more of the same bringing out the lunatic fringe and other useful fools.

Buchanan Asks If GOP Is a Regional Party

Patrick J. Buchanan posits the end of the ideologically narrow and national GOP.

As President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome.

Obama Wants 911 Highjackers to Have Valid Drivers' Licenses

I just knew that there is something about Barack Hussein Obama that the white half of me should not and cannot trust. The same goes to those liberal soft-on-voter-fraud types.

To all of you liberals, and I'm one of them: We cannot say we were not warned, and: Those patriots in Waukesha are right!

From a Human Events fundraising e-mail:

Dear Fellow American:

We have just weeks to go before Election Day . . . time is running short for us to avert a major disaster for our country. That disaster's name is President Barack Obama.

But this disaster can be averted. I'm confident about this - even though the slanted media are overstating Obama's inevitability. ...

Barack Obama is not simply a risky choice as our next president - He is a dangerous one. ...

But there is one issue almost all Americans agree on: Illegal aliens should not be given driver's licenses.

Help Expose Obama's License Plan - Click Here Now

... Did you know that Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 ring leader, had a valid Florida driver's license?

Did you know 13 of the 19 hijackers had obtained valid driver's licenses? Armed with these licenses, eight of the hijackers even registered to vote!

Here is the shocking fact: Obama strongly supports giving illegal aliens in America driver's licenses.

He said as much during two Democratic debates earlier this year.

Twenty Years of Rush

Today, HUMAN EVENTS begins its week-long "celebration of Rush Limbaugh's 20th anniversary in national radio."

Well, I guess that we have to applaud Limbaugh's success (impressive) and the guy does have on-air talent.

But we can take solace in the fact that many red states full of Limbaugh listeners may soon end up voting Democratic for the first time in a generation.

Limbaugh made his mark by connecting to misogyny, assorted bigotries, and a frustration that elites (not corporate elites), this mythical New York-East Coast-Hollywood band of elites are keeping the white man down.

Facts never were important to Rush, just the joy and expiation shared by his listeners of mocking FemiNAZIs and anything Democratic and liberal, except Joe Lieberman.

But maybe Limbaugh is right about something: America is in such bad shape that the country looks to finally elect one of them in November.

What the hell is this country coming to?

Patrick J. Buchanan Looks with Alarm at Declining 'White' Population

I like reading Patrick J. Buchanan. He's a great stylist, and unlike so many on the right, he's earnest and anti-interventionist in foreign policy.

On matters of race, though, Buchanan is whack.

In his latest column, The Way Our World Ends, Buchanan bemoans the future in which whites will compose an ever-decreasing proportion of the world's population, an alarming trend in Buchanan's view.

Writes Buchanan:

In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and Africans 9 percent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25 percent of the world's population. People of European descent will have fallen to 9.8 percent.

More arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in
relative but in real terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth -- a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany -- will vanish by 2060.

The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans.

And thinking locally, Buchanan notes:

And America? According to the Pew Research Center, the Hispanic population of the United States will triple to 127 million by 2050, as Mexico's population grows to 130 million. An erasure of the U.S. border, or merger of the two countries, or the linguistic, cultural and social annexation of the American Southwest by Mexico appears fated.

Facts elude the distraught Buchanan, fearfully betraying his status as a good Irishman.

Much of the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico in an American war of aggression in the mid-19th century.

Race is a sick illusion; it has no biological or anthropological meaning, other than that of a social-psychological pathology used prominently and tragically in American history, continuing today.

Buchanan does offer a nod to past Western genocide and aggression, noting:

Hopefully, the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, who are about to inherit the earth as we pass away, will treat us better than our ancestors treated them in the five centuries that Western Man ruled the world.

Buchanan would do better to note that constructs of race and dehumanization of those thought less than human are irrational and ludicrous.

We have nothing to fear from those with darker skin color, Mr. Buchanan, and your fear is unfounded.

"Don't worry, be happy," as Bobby McFerrin put it. And I think McFerrin may even be a black dude.

Buchanan: Petraeus Points to War With Iran

The fear and/or prediction of many that Bush, Cheney, McCain/Lieberman and company just may be stupid enough to launch an air strike against Iran this year has long been shared by isolationist, conservative columnist, Patrick J. Buchanan.

Because candidate McCain is so unschooled in foreign policy, McCain has repeatedly "confused the basic Sunni-Shiite sectarian divide that's absolutely fundamental to grasping the Middle East ... ," he fits in well with the neocon, imperialist foreign policy school.

Buchanan, citing Petraeus' testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee this week and other development, writes in his Petraeus Points to War With Iran:

The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. ... This is Bush's last chance to strike and, when Iran responds, to effect its nuclear castration. Are Bush and Cheney likely to pass up this last chance to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and effect the election of John McCain? For any attack on Iran's 'terrorist bases' would rally the GOP and drive a wedge between Obama and Hillary. ...

Buchanan notes that the congressional Democrats have acted with the moral courage that is on a par of that displayed by the many authoritarian Arab countries that Vice President Cheney has been touring lately in the region.

In early 2007, Nancy Pelosi pulled down a resolution that would have denied Bush the authority to attack Iran without congressional approval. In September, both Houses passed the Kyl-Lieberman resolution designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.

Courtesy of Congress, Bush thus has a blank check for war on Iran. And the signs are growing that he intends to fill it in and cash it.

This is going to be one fascinating fall election; less fascinating, though, if you happen to be a human being living in Iran.

The MAeLstrom

[A scan of news articles and commentary on the internet.]

Bush's America: Roach Motel: Emblematic of the right-wing’s disgust with Bush over his putative immigration proposal, Ann Coulter in Human Events compares the immigrating Hispanics to roaches and America to a “roach motel" in her column title. Coulter writes: Republicans' defense of President Bush's immigration bill is more enraging than their defense of Harriet Miers. Back then, Bush's conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman's nomination to the highest court in the land. Now we're racists for not wanting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

The New American Cold War: Stephen F. Cohen writes in The Nation: The increasingly belligerent charges and counter-charges by officials and in the media on both sides, "Cold-War-style rhetoric and threats," as the Associated Press recently reported, read like a replay of the American-Soviet discourse of the 1970s and early 1980s. And the unfolding conflict over US plans to build missile defense components near post-Soviet Russia, in Poland and the Czech Republic, threatens to reintroduce a dangerous military feature of that cold-war era in Europe.

Was General Pace Fired Because He Balked at Iran: Levey MG at opednews.com writes: This isn't good news. THIS IS EXTREMELY OMINOUS. I’ve been writing for over a year now that the Joint Chiefs have been blocking the White House’s efforts to expand the war to Iran. No matter what you might think of Gen. Pete Pace, this really is TERRIFYING news, unless you crave a wider war in the Persian Gulf and South Asia.Pace has been the most visible symbol of the push-back within the military against the Long War.

McCain (still) reaching out to Christian conservative base: Matt Stearns of McClatchy Newspapers writes: In his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Arizona Sen. John McCain is reaching out to conservative Christians, and many of them want to know how much McCain reaches out to God. McCain has written movingly of how his faith helped him survive 5 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, but he says little about the current role of religion in his life. "I think it's something between me and my creator," McCain said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers. "It's primarily a private issue rather than a public one. ... When I'm asked about it, I'll be glad to discuss it. I just don't bring it up."

UN Warns Of 5 Million Iraqi Refugees: Patrick Cockburn in The Independent: Across Iraq, millions of people are looking for safer places to live, and not finding them. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported last week that 4.2 million Iraqis have been forced out of their homes.There are also ominous signs that the four-month-old US security plan for Baghdad is failing to reduce the level of violence despite an extra 17,000 US troops in the capital."The situation in Iraq continues to worsen," the UNHCR announced, "with more than two million Iraqis now believed to be displaced inside the country and another 2.2 million sheltering in neighbouring states." The Iraqi refugee crisis is now surpassing in numbers anything ever seen in the Middle East, including the expulsion or flight of the Palestinians in 1948.

Frank Rich is off today at the New York Times. :( Frank Rich should not be allowed a vacation, a day off, professional time, personal time, or a bathroom break until Bush and Cheney are gone and forgotten. His column and talent are a public necessity.

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