Michelle Obama on the Man that Would Be President
September 3, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, News, President, Publius Contributor, Socialism, Society/Culture | No Comments
-By Nancy Salvato
Michelle Obama: “His family was so much like mine.”
Fact: Barack Obama’s father, a Harvard trained economist, fathered eight children by four different women.
Michelle Obama: “He was raised by grandparents who were working-class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did.”
Fact: One of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii, Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother, raised Barry Obama. She paid the tuition to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Obama Sutoro, described as a fellow traveler, spent Barack’s formative years studying anthropology in Indonesia and helping thousands of poor women. She is credited with creating a microfinance program there.
Michelle Obama: “And like my family, they scrimped and saved so that he could have opportunities that they never had for themselves.”
Fact: Michelle’s family was middle class and Obama’s father advocated an “active” program to achieve a classless society by removing the economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans.
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Voting Conscience, Not Color
August 28, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, News, President, Publius Contributor, Race, Religion, Security/Safety, Society/Culture | No Comments
-By Nancy Salvato
When Chuck Wilder on CRN’s George Putnam show asked me what I was going to write about next, I said to give me a minute and I would think of something. What I didn’t say was that I wanted to write about the election, write something meaningful and from the heart. Because I didn’t want to parrot what everyone else had already written about, I didn’t have a story…until now. Thanks to James Taranto and the “Puffington Host.”
In his “Best of the Web Today” (August 20, 2008), Taranto brings to our attention one Seth Grahame Smith who presents his inane hypothesis that white people don’t want a black president because it will bring them down a notch…that they will no longer have their superior status in our society. Seth admits in the beginning of his post that he is an idiot, but doesn’t ever “cop” to being a racist. Let me be one of the first to concur, Seth, you are an idiot and I’ll go one step further to say that you are a racist, too. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell you why.
Censorship May Open Our Eyes to China
August 17, 2008 | Filed Under Communism, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Socialism, Society/Culture | No Comments
-By Nancy Salvato
Reporters charged with covering the Olympics are now whining about “not knowing what they will be able to cover and not knowing how much the Chinese government will censor their online coverage.” (1)
The fact that the mainstream media is even remotely surprised at a Communist Government not allowing complete freedom of the press is laughable, irrespective of the fact that China promised them complete freedom to report on the events after this one party state was awarded the honor of hosting the Olympics. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is absolutely right when it reminds folks that the Chinese government is “only doing what authoritarian and dictatorial regimes always do.” (2)
Those reporters who dominate the mainstream media are finally getting a small taste of what it feels like to navigate the barriers set up by a country that limits their liberty to speak their mind. The New Media writers have been all too aware that the continuing erosion of our own country’s freedoms in the name of political correctness has been steadily subsuming our constitutional rights for years now. Many writers plying their craft in the New Media are used to their message not being published by agenda driven mainstream papers. A substantial number of people who rely on the New Media for the news have long recognized that the sovereignty of our people is being subsumed by the one world agenda being preached by the socialist left and echoed by the alphabet network lemmings. The hours spent identifying and exposing the prejudices embedded in the mainstream coverage of the issues has well honed the analytical skills of New Media writers.
The 180lbs. “Guerrilla”: China’s Military Aspirations
July 28, 2008 | Filed Under China, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, Military, Nancy Salvato, News, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror | No Comments
-By Nancy Salvato
As the mainstream media is dominated by its attention to the preparations for Beijing Olympics being held August 8-24 this year, an obvious truth is being ignored or going unaddressed. The more important story is that China is on a mission to dominate the United States and the rest of the world militarily by building nuclear weaponry meant to defeat the United States on the world stage. The actual Olympics pale in comparison to this upcoming event. And while our people continue to be distracted by a variety of “shiny things” meant to divert their attention, the Chinese continue their march to dominance in the military sphere. What serves to distract our nation from such an important subject?
Let’s first look at the notion of Global Warming. Despite the fact that, “There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution,” (Daily Tech) the mainstream media continues to report on a phenomenon that has not been proven as though it is fact. Furthermore, policy around carbon emissions is being developed based on this misinformation. “In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years…Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth.” (IBID)
The upcoming election serves as a distraction — in that the really important issues are not discussed and instead media attention is focused on Barak Obama’s associations, i.e., Jesse Jackson using the “N” word (in two different ways, mind you); Jeremiah Wright and the novel idea (sarcasm) that there is a contingent of black people who do not like white people; fellow democrat Kucinich, who during his first presidential campaign quoted the Koran and roused his Muslim audience to chant Alahu akbar (Daniel Pipes) wants us to spend oodles of tax payer dollars to impeach George Bush (and at the end of his term of office, completely irresponsible), and Tony Rezko, a slumlord connected to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (who may also, rightly so due to his mismanagement of Illinois government, face impeachment). None of this enlightens the electorate on Obama’s strategic plan for the defense of our country, if he was to be elected to the highest office of the land. If Obama had plans to aggressively fight terror, secure our borders, and defend our sovereignty, I think it would be safe to say that most of the people who want to see this on his platform would ignore all the rest.
Academic Freedom
July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Corruption, History, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture | No Comments
-By Nancy Salvato
An article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education reflects the notion that academic freedom means being allowed to advocate a personal point of view in the classroom.
Outspoken scholars fared much better than one would have expected in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Richard Berthold, at the University of New Mexico, incurred only a reprimand for telling his freshman history class that “anyone who bombs the Pentagon gets an A in my book.” At Columbia University, Nicholas DeGenova got essentially a pass when he called for “a million Mogadishus.” Arthur Butz remained a professor in good standing at Northwestern University after he lauded Iran’s president for Holocaust denial. The moderate and deliberative response to such incidents and others suggests that academic freedom is in excellent health.
Others would define the above examples of academic freedom as proselytizing in the classroom or using the classroom as a “Bully Pulpit.”
Direct Election v. Electoral College
June 19, 2008 | Filed Under Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, Nancy Salvato, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture | 1 Comment
-By Nancy Salvato
The constitutional amendment process is a complicated and lengthy affair. This is because we cannot be certain what consequences might arise from a seemingly minor alteration of the Constitution. To be sure, exchanging the electoral-vote system for direct election would adversely impact the entire constitutional and political structure of the United States.
To begin, our Constitution is dedicated to securing everybody’s rights. This requires that we be concerned not only with size, but with the character of the majorities voting our president to office. There are many ways in which our Constitution is configured to prevent simple majorities.
- The federal system prevents less populous States from being engulfed by more populous States.
- A bicameral legislature divides responsibilities between House and Senate on grounds other than those of population.
- Power is invested in a non-elective judiciary.
- Each State has a minimum of three electoral votes in the Electoral College.
One way the Electoral College creates moderately characterized numerical majorities includes assuring that each state’s vote actually represents the state’s interests in the selection and election of Presidents. By requiring a majority of electoral votes to win the presidency, a political party must campaign in all or most of the States -expanding its base of support beyond a narrow geographical region.
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