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There's something about outspoken conservative women that drives the Left mad. It's a peculiar pathology I've reported on for more than 15 years, both as a witness and a target. Thus, the onset of Palin Derangement Syndrome in the media, Democratic circles and the cesspools of the blogosphere came as no surprise. They just can't help themselves. Liberals hold a special animus for constituencies they deem traitors. Minorities who identify as social and economic conservatives have left the plantation and sold out their people. Women who put an "R" by their name have abandoned their ovaries and betrayed their gender....

"There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women," former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once remarked. Where, then, are the liberal women when it comes to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? Palin became the first woman to grace a Republican ticket on Friday, August 29, when Senator John McCain selected her as his running mate. The following day, a diarist at the mainstream left-wing Daily Kos (Barack Obama himself appeared as a Kos diarist back in 2005) suggested without any evidence whatsoever that Sarah Palin's son, Trig, recently born and with Down syndrome, was...

Film-maker Michael Moore has apparently praised the gulf weather for its chance of disrupting the Republican convention: “This hurricane is proof that there is a god in heaven.” Another low point in politics, though possibly one that could be passed off with a laugh—a partisan irony, rather than a serious derangement. But over on the leftist Daily Kos website, there is a post that sinks much lower—so low that it caused many of the commentators to denounce it. Which led another commentator to make this remark: I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to destroy the Republican Party as...

By see-dubya  •  August 8, 2008 01:54 AM Get a load of these guys: Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the mail next week. … Led by Tom Matzzie, a liberal political operative who has been involved with some prominent left-wing efforts in recent years, the newly formed nonprofit group, Accountable America, is planning to confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr....

We have the left rattled and on the run. For proof, consider three developments from late last week. But first, I want to make a special announcement. Many of you are probably following the story of how House Republicans are staging a protest in the House Chamber, demanding that Nancy Pelosi call the House back into session in order to vote on The American Energy Act, an "all of the above" energy strategy that includes more drilling, funding for scientific breakthroughs, as well as common-sense conservation efforts. (More info on that story below.) Tomorrow at 10am, I will meet with...

For those who came in late, moonbats are trust-funded, medicated, middle-aged, white-guilt-ridden blogging lefty losers who inflicted Deval Patrick upon the working people. The moonbats now yearn to elect Sen. Barack Obama, a Deval on steroids. If you are a guy with a ponytail, chances are you’re a moonbat - if you have a wide-brim leather hat too, the odds rise to 100 percent. If you’re a woman and you bring knitting to public meetings, consider yourself positively ID’ed. Like most people, I know ’em when I see ’em. But if you are wondering whether or not you are a...

Most conservative political commentators tiptoe around the unpatriotic positions maintained by many liberals in America. We hear prominent conservatives say things like this, "I am not challenging Mr. Liberal's patriotism. I am challenging his point of view." The fact is that much of the new left is unpatriotic. And that is okay. The Founding Fathers knew that not all Americans would be patriots; in fact, they counted on it. In this article I will show why the culture of the left is not patriotic. My basic contention is that patriotism is now the responsibility of the right -- abandoned by...

COMMENTARY According to some political operatives and willing members of the dominant media, the nation has a President who is extraordinarily inept. Yet other critics say George W. Bush is evil beyond description. But conventional wisdom among the President's detractors implies Bush is both of these things, inept and evil, to a point never before seen in world history. According to the far left, Bush, a bumbling fool, is one of the great evil masterminds of our times. However, no one has ever accused liberals of basing their views on logic or truth. If this sounds extreme, it is. To...

A Communist Party of New Zealand recruiting poster from the Progressive Era* * * * * The left has been trying to re-brand itself in recent years. It's no secret that leftists don't like the word liberal anymore and have been trying to recast themselves as progressives. "The liberal brand is tarnished," says lefty Rob Glaser, who heads the online multimedia company RealNetworks. Glaser is a member of George Soros's Democracy Alliance, which is a collection of statist billionaires trying to force Americans to worship at the altar of Big Government. Glaser says he wants to "change the political paradigm"...

Eventually, we will all hate Obama too What makes America such an indispensable power is precisely what makes anti-Americanism inevitable David Aaronovitch It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism - its division of the world into good and evil - themselves allocate all past badness to Bush and all prospective goodness to Obama. As the ever-improving myth has it, on the morning of September 12, 2001, George W. and America enjoyed the sympathy of the world. This comradeship was destroyed, in a uniquely cavalier (or should we say cowboyish) fashion, through...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama has the Democratic Party's pro-abortion political base incensed and up in arms over recent overtures designed to soften the candidate's image as the party's most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever. The presumptive nominee has followed recent calls for continuing faith-based initiatives by voicing a position in favor of abstinence education and prohibiting abortion in certain cases. Sen. Barack Obama has been trying to enhance his appeal to voters by moving closer to the political center at the same time as pro-family and pro-life groups have been drawing attention to his extreme...

How does the pro-terrorist group Code Pink infiltrate closed events where the U.S. Secret Service is in charge of security? One way is with fake press credentials made by a diarist at the Daily Kos.Code Pink has made a habit of infiltrating events and getting close to officials under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service.Yesterday Code Pink member Desiree Farooz rushed the stage and came dangerously close to President Bush at Monticello. The weekend before she rushed John McCain. Last fall she got close enough to Condoleeza Rice to place her hands around the Secrtary of State's head.At the...

Although the Fourth of July is a great day to be alive for most Americans, it causes the bile to boil in moonbats' veins, so that it seeps out through their pores in the most hideous displays. The appalling Chris Satullo is hardly the only example. Below are some lowlights from a seasonal piece at The Progressive: "It's July 4th again, a day of near-compulsory flag-waving and nation-worshipping. Count me out. Spare me the puerile parades. Don't play that martial music, white boy. And don't befoul nature's sky with your F-16s. […]" "For when you stop to think about it,...

Should Christians mourn on July 4, given what a disaster the United States has been for the world? Much of the Religious Left thinks so! Undoubtedly speaking for many left-wing seminary faculty and clergy, Ted Smith of Vanderbilt University penned an editorial for this month’s Christian Century magazine called: “The Fourth of July: How Does a Christian Celebrate?”

After nearly eight years in power, the Bush administration is winding down. You would think that the Bush-loathing fringe would be thrilled at his departure. But you would be wrong. Very wrong. Despite all their profane criticism, conspiratorial accusations, and pronographic Photoshops, the far Left is apparently as outraged that Bush is leaving office as they were for the past several years. So, how are they going to vent their boundless anger? By throwing one final, futile tantrum, of course! The “Bush Legacy Project” will circumnavigate the nation in a massive bus-cum-museum to show their fellow Americans that Bush is...

Recent writings by The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin on the alleged role of high-level officials of the Bush administration in the development and implementation of "harsh interrogation" methods - for use on suspected terrorists - provide an object lesson in the meaning of the term "media bias," as well as a unique window into the world-view of the liberal elite

In my discussion with a "lefty" I came to the conclusion that he prioritizes knowledge ("He went to X University", "He's a Rhodes Scholar", etc) over wisdom. I never hear anyone from the left suggest wisdom as the more valuable asset. IMO, a wise man knows what he does not know. A learned man does not necessarily act wisely. We never hear reference to the "knowledge of Solomon" or the "knowledge that comes with age" What is it about the left that sees knowledge as primary, is it the "Knowledge is Power" cliche?

Much of the Religious Left has abandoned its old infatuation with Marxism, having long since moved on to radical environmentalism or performing apologetics for radical Islam. But quaintly, some relics still hang on to the old causes, chief of which is the 50 year love affair with Fidel Castro and his Cuban despotism.

By Burt Prelutsky Because California, and Hollywood in particular, have been the punch line for so many jokes over the years, I suspect that people who don’t live out here assume we can’t possibly be that wacky. They don’t know the half of it. In order for you to better understand what conservatives in this neck of the woods have to deal with, I’ll relate a few typical incidents. The first took place about 10 years ago. My wife and I were invited to a dinner party by the widow of a screenwriter who’d been my longtime tennis partner. We...

I am often reminded of Martin Luther King’s statement about anti-Zionism: “You declare that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely anti-Zionist. And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops…When people criticize Zionism they mean Jew; we are talking anti-Semitism….Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land… Anti-Zionist is inherently anti-Semitic and ever will it be so. And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of...

The Catholic Left is hanging itself right before our eyes. Having never come to grips with the Church's teachings on sexuality, they are now tightening the noose on themselves in public. It is not a pretty sight. This month alone they have embroiled themselves in a debate with three separate archbishops, with no end in sight.... At bottom, it is not the Catholic Left's quarrel with three archbishops that is doing them in; it is their total failure to convince Catholics (as well as non-Catholics) that it is okay to vote for NARAL-approved candidates for public office and then claim...

Ivica Dacic, the leader of Serbia's Socialist party, has said that he has agreed the basic principles of a new government with the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Radical Party (SRS). Dacic said the DSS and SRS had agreed to include the principle of social justice within five basic principles of a future cabinet's platform. Serbia's nationalists have been holding talks with other parties to form a government after their pro-Western rivals' claim of victory in last Sunday's general election. The vote has left Serbians sharply split over whether to join the EU or shift towards Russia, their...

VARIOUS fringe leftist groups from around the country gathered in Melbourne a few years ago to sort out their differences and amalgamate into one big fringe leftist group. You can calculate the success of this exercise by noticing that no such large group was ever formed. I went along to one of the fringe-ins to hear the Socialists Against Brunch argue with the Maoist Golfers League and Communists Sans Underpants over the mega-party's police policy. Matters soon reached an impasse, as matters tend to do in a room full of dizzy leftist cranks. Representatives couldn't agree on whether the police...

When Air America, the left-wing talk radio network, began, I predicted that it would not succeed. One of the main reasons I gave was that liberals already had their views expressed in the mainstream news media -- the major networks, PBS and NPR (National Public Radio), and just about every major city newspaper. Therefore, the need liberals have for liberal talk radio is nowhere near the need conservatives have for conservative talk radio. To its credit, The New York Times -- through its public editor -- has acknowledged that the Times is liberal; and anyone intellectually honest understands this is...

The Left has one thing right. The oilcos are screwing America. What they have wrong is the method they allege. The Left trots out its marxist litany of greed, monopoly, speculation, oppression of the poor, etc. and inf nauseamque. That's where they're dead wrong. Here's exactly how we are being screwed, Left, Right, and Oilco: The United States is the world's third largest oil producer, pumping from established wells that were bought and paid for many times over, and operating steadily with what amounts to federal subsidy in the form of tax incentives and depletion allowances, etc. etc. That oil,...

<p>A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes...Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.</p>

We were not as completely aware as to how deeply the Socialist movement had permeated our core and our culture until the Vietnamese War. It was then that this disorganized and traitorous mob tested its strength by pulling the plug on our soldiers with a propaganda campaign never equaled in our history. With the aid of our weak legislative leadership and a willing and uninformed press we allowed victory to the North Vietnamese and the eventual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents. It was a black blot in the history of a once great nation. The North Vietnamese admitted...

WASHINGTON DC -- Events of the past few days indicate that the Zbigniew Brzezinski faction of lunatic Russia haters have now won the upper hand inside the secret councils of the Anglo-American finance oligarchy, displacing the hitherto dominant George Shultz-neocon faction. Although George Bush and his cronies still occupy the White House, the policies that are being carried out are coming from the Brzezinski left CIA machine. Brzezinski has returned to public prominence in recent months due to his role as top establishment controller for the Obama campaign. But Brzezinski is not waiting for the outcome of the November elections...

Losing wars is always bad. One of the major reasons for America’s current global predominance economically and politically is that America doesn’t lose wars very often. It seems likely, however, that the American people are about to be told that they have to decide to lose the Iraq war, that accepting defeat is better than trying to win, and that the consequences of defeat will be less than the costs of continuing to fight. For some, the demand to “end this war” is a reprise of the great triumph of their generation: forcing the U.S. to lose the Vietnam War...

The West stands by idly as its foundations are rent asunder.Last Friday the UN's Human Rights Council took a direct swipe at freedom of expression. In a 32-0 vote, the council instructed its "expert on freedom of expression" to report to the council on all instances in which individuals "abuse" their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias. The measure was proposed by paragons of freedom Egypt and Pakistan. It was supported by all Arab, Muslim and African countries - founts of liberty one and all. European states abstained. The US, which is not a member...

Think that headline is overwrought? An exaggeration? See if you can tell me where I am wrong after reading John Lott's article The 'Recession' Is a Media Myth, of which this is a sample:During the 2000 election, with Bill Clinton as president, the economy was viewed through rose-colored glasses. According to polls, voters didn’t realize that the country was in a recession. Although the economy started shrinking in July 2000, most Americans through the entire year thought that the economy was fine. But over the last half-year, the media and politicians have said we were in a recession even while...

THE REAL REASON WHY RADICAL LIBERALS DO NOT RESPOND TO DEBATE The reason why so many (though again, not all) liberals act this way is remarkably simple. In fact, for all those who’ve become so baffled by their seemingly inexplicable conduct, you may wonder how it has escaped you all these years (probably because it’s so easy to get so frustrated by their conduct that noticing the reason behind it becomes a matter not worth considering). The answer is bigotry. They’re prejudiced. Am I being ridiculous? Is liberalism the new bigotry? No, and yes! THE BIASED MINDSET THE THREE REASONS...

.....This threat is to all of Western civilization, and its one about which we should be concerned, and against which we should act now. However, it's hard to imagine Europe actually doing anything proactive about their problem, given the strength of the left throughout the nations of Western Europe. Here's why: Part of the nature of the left is that it is always reflexively seeking change as a part of its mandate, which means it is always fundamentally in opposition to whatever country its in. Even if its members are themselves patriotic, the movement itself—being in a constant "progressive" lurch...

Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I’ve chronicled the left’s escalating war on military recruiters—and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. The anti-recruiter thugs on college campuses and in liberal enclaves have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness and left-wing ideological apologism. It has now been a week since the Times Square military recruitment center bombing. The investigation continues—and so does the left’s denial of the ongoing campaign against military recruiters. At a national conference of anarchists in Washington, D.C., last weekend, a “solidarity sticker” glorifying the biker bomber made...

According to Kathryn Joyce, sneer-and-smear artist for The Nation, those who are concerned about the worldwide decline in birthrates are -- to put it mildly -- racist, neo-Nazis, who have a hidden agenda and (under the guise of demographic winter) are engaged in our age-old quest to control women's bodies. The Nation is this nation's oldest and largest-circulation left-wing journal (outside of The New York Times, of course). Joyce's screed, "Missing: The 'Right' Babies," will appear in the March 3 print edition, but is currently available online. Joyce believes -- with the faith of one immune to facts and logic...

Perhaps the most amazing fact about Barack Obama's 58-41 rout of Hillary Clinton in the hotly contested Wisconsin primary is the realization that his 17-percentage-point victory margin in the Badger State was actually the lowest spread he has achieved in the 10 consecutive caucus and primary victories he has claimed since Tsunami Tuesday. The drubbings Mr. Obama has been administering to the former first lady, (who as recently as Dec. 9 led Mr. Obama 53-23 among likely Democratic primary and caucus voters, according to the ABC News/Washington Post poll) have been breathtaking. Since Tsunami Tuesday (Feb. 5), his caucus triumphs...

AUSTIN -- American icon Willie Nelson says he supports efforts to impeach President Bush and "throw the bastards out," adding that the administration will do anything to stay in power, including staging an event to cancel the election. Nelson made the comments on a radio show Thursday, saying that he supported Dennis Kucinich's attempt to impeach Bush. "If you break the law you have to pay for it one way or another, and if these guys haven't broke the law nobody has," said Nelson. "The deck's been stacked and we need to figure out a way to get a new...

...This conflict is not about ideology but about style. The truth is, over the past several years Democrats have bridged or buried most of the major issue splits that hobbled the party in the past, as evidenced by the absence of big policy debates in this campaign. That's left us to stew, particularly in the wake of John Kerry's embittering loss in 2004, over how we fight the other side. There is a clear generational split. The Kossacks and their activist allies -- who skew toward the Boomers -- believe that Republicans are venal bordering on evil, and that the...

Ezra Klein has a smart article on the troubling news that advocates of national health care have a much better sense of how to enact their desire if they win the White House. Next time, they won't try to cut congressional committees out of the action. They understand now that most people are happy with their own health-care arrangements and don't want to see Washington disrupt them. It is harder to argue that Hillary Clinton's current plan, for example, threatens what people value about their own health care than it was to make that argument about her 1993-94 plan. (It's...

By Christopher CookA presidential election year is a hyper-partisan time in America, and the headline of this piece may seem like little more than partisanship from a partisan commentator. But the headline is true, and demonstrably so.This Pew study contains within it a wide variety of fascinating details, and it is all worth a look. What caught my eye, however, was the last chart. Simply put, the chart is a graphical representation of where voters place themselves, and each of the front-runners for president, on the political spectrum from left to right. There are three spectra, one for all voters,...

Keith Olbermann Runs MSNBC, and Chris Matthews Is Infuriated As Reported by Fox News via You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZNjsJxrqI&eurl=http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2008/01/keith_olbermann_75.php

Stalin (and his ilk) were constantly scrubbing history to fit their agenda. It is said, in fact, that in the USSR, the future was known...it was the past that was always changing. Today's American left are driven by the same impulse, and will use whatever means at their disposal to do the same thing. Fortunately, American liberty prevents them from getting away with as much as Stalin could...though if they had the power afforded them by the totalitarian system to which their core ideology is always slouching, they surely would. Using the three pillars of information dissemination—academia, entertainment, and the...

Naturall, the lead article on the Huffington Post was written by Huffington. In this article she takes the following position in respect to Hillary: "Hillary Clinton has apparently decided on which lines of attack to use against Barack Obama in New Hampshire: all of them. But it turns out that, so far, what voters like is Obama. So now her sputtering campaign strategy has shifted to telling voters, "Whatever you don't like, that's what Obama is." Clinton and her surrogates are attacking from every direction, hoping something will stick. The attacks are as varied as they are contemptible. Let's take...

-- snip --So, Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that's the choice, this is going to be a long election year.

I am leaving. Unless I don't. Then I will stay. But if I stay, I will not leave. Unless I left before I did that.

Why do PhDs in academia tend to be politically liberal? A paragraph in Science magazine’s feature “Random Samples” on December 21 suggested a reason: conservatives value other goals, like going into business to make money, or choosing to stay home and raise a family... ... It appears that conservatives are the fittest, working hard to pass on their genes, while liberals are like parasites, advancing primarily by taking over the host (the classroom) and churning out clones to infect other cells. A university setting is a contrived, unnatural environment where the parasites thrive. In the open air of true academic...

When Benazir Bhutto announced her return to Pakistan, Al Qaeda and their Islamic allies repeatedly promised to kill her. Shortly after her arrival, the terrorists wrapped a baby in explosives and tried to hand it to her. They killed many, but failed in their objective.More recently, they strapped bombs to a 15-year-old boy, but that too failed. But today they gunned her down and for no apparent reason other than nihilism, they set off a bomb to kill many more in the crowd.But despite the terrorists many warnings and attempts, many on the Left have decided (shock of shocks) to...

Back in January of 2006, I wrote an article titled Democrats are more violent. In fact, there's no comparison. Well, the point just keeps getting reinforced, over and over.The latest is left-wing talk radio host Mike Malloy. It was only a threat, of course, but it was a disgusting, gory threat against Matt Drudge. It was the kind of threat you just don't seem to hear from conservatives. It is the kind of threat that, were a conservative to have delivered it...a) other conservatives would have denounced it—something the left has not done with Malloyb) that conservative would probably subsequently...

Here's why I support Giuliani, and it has nothing to do with his response to September 11: Rudy Giuliani eliminated street crime in New York City. The conventional wisdom said it couldn't be done, and the reasons are suspiciously similar to what the same bloviators say about the war against Islamofascism today: 1. There actually isn't a problem; if you think it's a problem, you're a racist. 2. Okay, there is a problem, but it's because of white racism; to try to eradicate the problem using barbaric force without solving the root causes is useless. 3. Okay, force can in...

The Global Warming movement has been compared to a religion -- albeit one without God, but with a vision of sin and repentance, damnation and salvation. Not quite. Real religion is about improving the human condition by encouraging moral conduct in obedience to the will of God. The proponents of Global Warming are creating a suicide cult, which -- if followed to its logical conclusion -- will lead to human extinction. Forget the Kyoto Treaty. Forget the Luddite Lieberman-Warner bill to cut so-called greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2050, which would cost the U.S. an estimated $1 trillion and...