Taft Signs Voter ID Into Law (Ohio Gets an ATTABOY!)
January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
This is certainly good news. Ohio’s Gov. Taft has signed a law that will require voters to present a driver’s license or other specific identification before they will be allowed to vote in Ohio elections. Until today, an Ohioan could just walk up to a polling place and claim verbally who they were and where they lived, without registration or any real proof.
I am a bit surprised that the leftward leaning Taft made this conciliatory gesture to conservative Ohioans, to tell the truth. Taft must be sensing how tenuous his position is at long last.
Here are a few segments from a recent report on the signing of this bill.
Democrats argued that the ID requirements will make it harder for seniors, the poor and disabled to vote.
Obviously poor people and old folk are just too stupid to understand that they must prove that they actually qualify to vote, I suppose. Is there no end to Democrat condescension?
DeWine and Speaker Jon Husted, also from suburban Dayton, said they expect voters won’t experience problems at the polls but will instead have more confidence in election security.
Dewine trying to regain so much lost credibility. It’s doubtful it will work for him this late in the game.
A union steward who votes Democratic, she said she was glad the ID requirement would increase security.
“It’s not a burden,” she said. “You could be anybody that’s walking in to vote for somebody else.”
Now there is a smart woman!
But Julie Batey, 39, a Democratic Party volunteer from Wadsworth in northeast Ohio, said she used to work in personnel and found that many low-income people don’t have a valid ID.
“I think it’s kind of a Republican ploy to kind of affect the voters out there who would possibly vote Democratic,” she said.
Oh, please. They have to find someone touting the blind, leftist talking points. It’s just more Democratic fear mongering. Just like the lies that blacks were kept from voting in florida, believed as gospel even though there is not a shred of proof to the allegations.
Anyway, good going Ohio. Let’s hope this will spread to other states.
Uh, oh.! They mentioned me on the DailyKos
January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Looks like I am OFFICIALLY a part of the eeeeevil right wing conspiracy. I have been referenced on the DailyKos
I will post it here so you won’t be caught having to go to the DailyKos yourself. (Do you see how I take care of you people? Willing to sear my eyeballs at the DailyKos for your edification, so you don’t have to!)
This one goes along the line of “You can tell a man by his enemies”. If the Kozers are mad at me, I must be doin’ sumpthin right!
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It’s about listening to the roots, not the
unhealthy growth, the parasite, on the trunk of the tree. That is, after all, what democracy is all about. And any tree without healthy roots risks toppling in wind. When one big DeLay sized tree falls, it can start a fir-wave, toppling all the trees below it.
The importance of listening to the roots is demonstrated by Warner Todd Huston, “Leftist Blogs indicate Intraparty Rift? Well, Duh.” In this piece, a response to a WaPo editorial, “Blogs attack from left,” Huston takes the WaPo to task for saying the liberal blogosphere is a new phenomena. He says the liberal blogosphere — he calls it the extreme liberal left — has been active since 2001. Least he got something right.
But more telling is this:
We are not seeing a Democratic Party only lately coming to extreme leftism because of the efforts of “liberal Web logs”. It is the Bloggers who are only lately come to the game of extremism. Hard left Democrats are happy to use these Bloggers and their rhetoric to shore up their already blatant leftist tilt.
It is the right’s view of power structure, a view of it coming from the top down. And we see it over and over and over; in trickle-down economics, in the assumptions of tax-cuts for the rich stimulating the economy, in no-bid defense contracts.
This assumption that power rests in the mighty few at the top ignores the roots. They’re ignoring the Repubicans who believe in fiscal control, limited government, privacy, responsibility. The roots, built on the religious right and corporate elite, are rotting.
It’s a lesson Democrats need to take to heart, rinse, and repeat. When you forget you’re roots, you grow top heavy and risk toppling in the next wind to whip through Washington.
by zic on Sat Jan 28, 2006 at 09:31:20 AM PDT
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Wow, what a misconstruction of what I was trying to say!
I had no intention of saying that power must rest at the “top” and the the “down” should dutifully shut up and follow along like puppies. After all, I am myself a conservative activist on the grass-roots level and, if I really believed as this fellow on DailyKos claims I do, I would be making useless my own attempts to guide my own side. I mean, I ain’t no highly placed insider. Bush may have sent me a Christmas card, but he sure as heck isn’t calling me on the phone to ask my advice! — And no one has caught ME in conference calls with the vast right wig conspiracy planning sessions.
My point was that the DailyKos is not guiding debate but merely reacting to the predetermined leftward tilt the Democrats had undertaken decades ago. They aren’t the “new grass-roots” powerhouses they think they are, but simply the absurdist end of a movement created when most of them weren’t even alive.
And that is the problem. Most of the youngsters at the DailyKos (and that goes for the chief wing-nut, Kos himself) are too young to realize that they aren’t being “new” in their reactions and policy ideas. They really are out of touch with the long, leftist, road trod by the failed dreamers who brought them here on their backs so that Kozers today would have the ideological base from which to scream like petulant children when Democrats don’t go far enough loony left for them.
Not only is reasoned debate out of their ken, but they aren’t even aware how they got to this point in the first place. This means that they have no sense of history or philosophy. They only react within their enclosed world with no touch-stone to reality.
The proof of this is how far from the idea of American exceptionalism that they have drifted. To them, we are no longer the country representing “that shining city on a hill” that is the light unto the world for freedom and liberty. To them we are “just another country”, no better or worse than the rest.
Still, the poster on the Kos went far afield from where I was going with my Op Ed and imparted ideas to the piece that I neither broached nor intended while ignoring the points actually presented.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Warner Todd Huston
BrokeWhatsis Mountain?
January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Overheard on the Range…
Johnny–”Hey, Bo. Seen that Brokebusiness Mountin’ yesterdee.”
Bo–”Howdija like it, Johnny?”
Johnny–”So, turns out it ain’t much of a cowboy movie.”
Bo–”How’s that, pard?”
Johnny–”Well, there’s these here fellers that take a fancy ta each other and they get all squishy and meely mouthed. They go a rompin’ all over the range together like calicos.”
Bo–”Ya sayin they’s like them Gay fellers? Yer, right, that ain’t much of a cowboy movie.”
Johnny–”Well, it ain’t the fag part that is so ridiculous. See, I was told these here fellers was cowboys.”
Bo–”Yeah?”
Johnny–”Turns out they’re SHEEP HERDERS!”
Congratulations, Samual Alito!
January 31, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Today, the Senate confiirmed Judge Samuel Alito as the 110th Supreme Court Justice in a 58 to 42 vote.
This is a great day for the Court, I certainly hope. Let us hope that we now have another justice who will adjudicate by reading law and not writing it from the bench.
Let us all pray that Bush does, indeed, get one more chance to place a Justice on the Court before his last term is over.
One thing about this, though. This vote preves that the Dems have little power over this country. They tried their best to stop this nomination and failed miserably.
New Media Alliance Op Eds…
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Our Newest Op Ed
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Illinois Wants To Ban Squirt Guns?
- By Warner Todd Huston
Representatives Daniel J. Burke and Edward J. Acevedo (both Democrats from Chicago, of course) have decided that squirt guns are dangerous, apparently. Last year, Burke sponsored HB4132 in the Capital, Springfield, IL, which will make “replica” guns illegal in the state.(Introduced 10/20/05)
Here is the synopsis of the bill:
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to purchase, possess, use, sell, give away, or otherwise transfer, or to engage in the business of selling, or to exhibit for sale, any replica rocket propelled grenade launcher, bazooka, artillery piece, grenade, mine, bomb, or items similar to weapons designed and manufactured for military purposes or replicas of those items. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor.
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Mr. President, Let Military Chaplains Pray in Jesus’ Name
January 30, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments
Dear Mr. President:
We are disappointed and gravely concerned to learn that the right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith is in jeopardy. As you may know, the Air Force leadership recently released proposed guidelines that will restrict how Air Force chaplains can pray, and if approved, those guidelines may well be implemented throughout the entire DoD. We believe that the Air Force’s suppression of religious freedom is a pervasive problem throughout our nation’s Armed Forces, and it has come to our attention that in all branches of the military it is becoming increasingly difficult for Christian chaplains to use the name of Jesus when praying. There are currently no laws or regulations that prohibit chaplains from praying according to their respective denominations or different faiths, and we are deeply concerned that chaplains are now being instructed on what to say when they pray.
Throughout our nation’s history, chaplains not only have remained an integral part of our military, but they also have always prayed according to their faith tradition. We believe that if chaplains are chosen to pray before a professional setting, they have a constitutional right to adhere to the religious expressions of their faith. For Christian chaplains, praying in the name of Jesus is a fundamental part of their belief and to suppress this form of expression would be a violation of religious freedom.
The current demand in the guidelines for so-called “no-sectarian” prayers is merely a euphemism declaring that prayers will be acceptable only so long as they censor Christian beliefs. Current surveys in the military indicate that upwards of 80 percent of soldiers identify themselves as Christians, and such censorship of Christian beliefs is a disservice not only to Christian chaplains, but also to the hundreds of thousands of Christian soldiers in the military who look to their chaplains for comfort, inspiration, and support, just as our military soldiers of other faiths look to their chaplains.
While some military members may find certain prayers to be offensive and wrongly claim that they are not non-pluralistic, we believe these restrictions raise constitutional issues involving the Establishment, Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment (There are numerous other offensive provisions throughout the proposed guidelines, including the onerous provision that chaplains can only speak of their faith with officers–the “peer to peer” provision). Officially inhibiting or defining what chaplains can and cannot say in effect establishes an official religion and burdens our military’s chaplains’ right of free speech.
We are requesting that you, as Commander and Chief, protect by Executive Order the constitutional right of military chaplains to pray according to their faith.
With deep concern,
Walter B. Jones (R., No Carolina)
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The well-known disease, PCism, appears everywhere you turn. Sadly, the U.S. military is no exception.
Representative Jones is trying to alert us all to this oppression of our armed forces personnel to exercise their freedom of religion. To stop this absurd quashing of their religious faith to please the jealous gods of PCism.
Let’s help him do so.
Contact your Congressman!
Mr. President, heed the words of the original President George…
“[E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” —George Washington
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