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Obama, Wright, Farrakhan, Together on 2006 Church Newsletter Cover
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, News, President, Publius Contributor, Religion, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
My friend Tom Blumer over at the bizzyblog found an interesting image showing an advertisement that appeared in the February 12, 2006 edition of the Trinity United Church of Christ’s newsmagazine, The Trumpet. It depicts Barack Obama along with other — um, shall we say “notable”? — folks like Louis Farrakhan, the racist Reverend Wright, and Elijah Muhammad (founder of the nation of Islam, the extremist branch that Farrakhan now heads up). These faces appear on a purportedly Christian Church’s newsmagazine.
It makes one wonder, if all the way back in 2006 Barack was on the cover of a magazine with Farrakhan, Wright and Muhammad, how can he claim he never knew of the extremist views of his “spiritual mentor” the racist Rev. Wright? It stretches credulity that Obama could have been so long oblivious of what was going on in his own church. doesn’t it? To be coupled with Farrakhan and Muhammad like that? It would be absurd to imagine that they put Obama’s face on the magazine without his knowledge and approval, wouldn’t it?
As Tom says about the extremist bent of Trinity United and Wright: what did Obama know and WHEN did he know it?
(For a bigger version of the image, clickHERE)
**Little Green Footballs ids some of the other faces on the cover for us…
- Adam Clayton Powell — 1st row, 1st from left
- Dick Gregory — 1st row, 2nd from left
- Shirley Chisholm — 1st row, 4th from left
- O. J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran — 1st row, 5th from left
- Rosa Parks — 1st row, 6th from left
- Rapper “Common” — 2nd row, 1st from left
- Is that Robert Mugabe? — 2nd row, 2nd from left
- Luther Vandross — 4th row, 1st from left
- Ozzie Davis — 4th row, 2nd from left
- Lou Rawls — 4th row, 3rd from left
- Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad — 4th row, 5th from left
Notice who’s missing? Martin Luther King, Jr.!!
Toledo Free Press Article Gets University Employee Fired
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Education, Gays, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Religion, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
We are certainly used to seeing the MSM causing trouble for conservatives and this one is no different at least on that level. But the interesting thing here is that the trouble a social conservative discovered was as a result of what she wrote in the MSM as opposed to what was written about her by the MSM. It seems that the opinion editorial written by Crystal Dixon for the Toledo Free Press got her fired by the University of Toledo because… well, you know how universities are all about free expression and speech, right? Unfortunately for Dixon, though, hers wasn’t the proper, politically correct sort of speech that is officially approved of by the thugs at the University of Toledo.
You see, Crystal Dixon made the mistake of believing that this whole silly idea of “freedom of religion” also applied to our institutions of higher learning. She foolishly asserted in her Toledo Free Press op ed that as far as her religious beliefs are concerned, homosexuality is a choice made by the individual instead of some genetic predisposition, that someone chooses to engage in homosexual activities instead of assuming that being gay is forced upon one by “nature.”
Of course, Dixon based her entire op ed on her Christian religious beliefs. It was no hate filled rant and was quite civil, even tempered, and to the point. But the gay mafia inside the University of Toledo must be awfully powerful. Or, at the very least, fear of them was enough to stifle — no, execute — Mrs. Dixon over what the president of UoT must imagine is her wretched religious extremism.
President Dr. Lloyd Jacobs dashed off a letter summarily firing Mrs. Dixon from her $134,383 a year job as associate vice president for employee resources.
Border Fence Ruins Mother’s Day for Mexican Families
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Family, Immigration/Immigrants, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother’s Day story, you don’t have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the WaPo gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border fence between Mexico and the United States keeps Mothers from being with their children. Yes those mean Americans and their insistence on border security hurts Mommies. To that all I can say is, Oh brother!
In fact, the WaPo is even claiming that those poor Mexican Mothers can’t put their fingers through that nasty, rotten fence to touch the tears on their baby girl’s face because if they did they would be punished by the eeeevil U.S. government. And these poor, innocent Mommies are worried that things are getting worse because the U.S. is building “more fences.”
Again, I have to say “Oh, brother.” Are these people serious with this nonsense?
Look at this schmaltz…
Dept. of Labor Tightening Unions Financial Disclosure Rules
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Education, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Dept. of Labor (DOL) has announced that it is changing the requirements for internal financial disclosures of unions requiring more details on finances and spending, the AP report on the 8th.
Unions are required annually to submit forms to the DOL detailing their financial information, but Federal officials have decided that the current forms lack enough detail to assure that unions aren’t engaging in fraud. The DOL is also proposing that smaller unions can use the less detailed forms unless they fall under indictment or other legal troubles which then will find them required to fill out the more detailed forms.
Questioning Pagan Gospel
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Education, Europe, Media Bias, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Thomas Brewton, UN | No Comments
-By Thomas E. Brewton
A few things for the high priests of environmental paganism to ponder when they next forgather to worship their own egos.
Barton Bennett sent me a link for Dr. Walter Williams’s column reminding us how far from the truth is the junk science that flourishes like maggots in today’s cesspool of educational ignorance.
So far as I know, the self-anointed main stream news media in the United States have ignored one of the principal reasons for the British Labour Party’s crushing defeat in recent local elections: the public’s recognition, at last, of the devastating economic costs of meeting the carbon emissions standards to be imposed by the socialist commissars in the EU’s Brussels headquarters.
To sense the reaction when citizens finally are brought face-to-face with reality, read the following:
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Vote ‘yes’ in November to constitutional convention
May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Illinois ConCon, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
From the Southtown Star:
A poll taken earlier this year for the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs and released last week shows overwhelming public support for legislative term limits and recall of elected state officials.
The poll of about 1,000 Illinois residents taken in January found that 70 percent support both limits and recall. The numbers are close to a Glengariff Group poll taken late last year that showed 65 percent favored recall. Glengariff did not ask about term limits.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s astounding unpopularity was measured by a different poll released this month. According to the highly respected Ipsos firm, the governor has a 13 percent job approval rating, with 54 percent disapproving and 33 percent reporting mixed feelings.
That unpopularity, combined with the inability of the General Assembly to find timely solutions without an overwhelming amount of intraparty bickering, undoubtedly has fueled the demand for recall and term limits.
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