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PORTLAND, Maine – A storm packing blustery winds and driving rain knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Northeast on Thursday before giving way to sunny skies and record high temperatures — all in the same morning.

While the left in the media and in Washington are ignoring the plain-as-day fact that Malik Hasan's religion was the major factor pertaining to his shooting up Ft. Hood, they are shuddering over the perceived risk of rising Islamophobia. What did Obama's DHS director Janet Napolitano do following the Ft. Hood shootings? She went to the United Arab Emirates and assured the Muslim world that she and her administration was doing everything in their power to thwart any American backlash against Muslims. She said “We object to, and do not believe, that anti-Muslim sentiment should emanate from this. This was...

The Left loves to talk about Sarah Palin's church, but not so much about its burning. And please don't mention to them that before he became president, Barack Obama sat in a church for 20 years while one of his mentors, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preached Marxist Liberation Theology. As with all things, libs want to have it both ways. Like many other leftist hate sites, Planet of the Chimps 2 mocks Palin and Wasilla Assembly of God, a church she no longer attends: "One of the musical directors at the church, Adele Morgan, who has known Ms. Palin since the...

Summary: (1) Despite claims by liberal talkers and politicians that conservative/Republican opposition to ObamaCare has been characterized by violence, there is hardly any evidence corroborating these claims. On the contrary, most of the physical violence has been carried out by liberals. (2) Despite the myth perpetuated by the Left that conservative talk radio is fomenting death threats against President Obama, there is no evidence of this. By stark contrast, liberal talkers are consistently expressing wishes of death against conservative talkers and politicians opposing ObamaCare. And when George W. Bush was president, the Left on radio and at rallies nationwide openly...

Conservatives in America are playing with fire by inciting violence against the country's first black president "Does the sun ever shine during a Democratic administration?" asked Jon Stewart on a recent edition of The Daily Show, in a nod to the rightwing hysteria over the current White House incumbent. "With Obama in office now, when babies laugh do you hear only the sound of kittens drowning?" Stewart is a comedian, but this is no laughing matter. The lies perpetrated against Obama – that he is a foreigner, a Marxist, a Nazi, a racist, intent on interning the elderly and euthanising...

Depending on your perspective, the rise of private, anti-government militias represents either the very best of American patriotism or is an ominous sign of a violent future. Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report showing that the militia movement is returning to levels not seen since the 1990s, when a series of high-profile stand-offs with federal agents culminated in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. According to the SPLC, the number of people who have joined what it terms "hate groups" has increased by 54 percent...

Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R, Wyoming) has written an important piece illuminating five of the most important points about the House Democrat’s healthcare bill. In her piece headlined Five Things You Need to Know About the House Democrats’ Health Care Bill, Lummis gives us some actual facts about some of the more insidious Democrat tax hikes, rationing plans, and regulations in the bill. This is must reading for anyone interested in knowing what Democrats have in store for all of us. 1. New Government Run Plan to “Compete” with Private Companies * Doctor Payments Based on the Medicare Model. Plan would...

AT the White House's urging, Congress is going to try to overhaul America's health-care system -- a sixth of the entire US economy -- in the next three weeks. The 1,018-page House bill and the 615-page Senate bill are now available for your reading pleasure. Plenty of juicy and unpleasant details will come dribbling out over the next few days, as analysts and reporters plow through the mind-numbing texts and parse the fine print. But the basic picture is clear -- and it's ugly. If President Obama signs either bill into law, he'll be breaking a host of promises. Neither...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was driven in part by her wish to help Republican candidates across the country, associates say. But in New Jersey and Virginia, both of which have competitive governors' races this year, the prospect of a visit from the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee has so far drawn a muted response from the GOP contenders in both states. In Virginia, a historically conservative state where Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 to win, Republican Bob McDonnell said Tuesday his campaign had had conversations with the...

Political analyst Dick Morris says President Barack Obama's complaint about Fox News' coverage of his administration is meant to deflect talk that the media is in the tank for him. Obama on Tuesday told CNBC's John Harwood: "I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration . . . That's a pretty big megaphone. You'd be hard-pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front." Obama did not disagree when Harwood suggested that he was talking about Fox News. During the Wednesday broadcast of "The O'Reilly Factor," host...

After watching Sarah plain get savaged by Letterman and seeing her stalwart defense of her daughter, it had become apparent that the left needed a check. Over at doubleplusundead, there was an excellent post about counter punching: http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/a_tribute_to_not_backing_down I decided that it was time to put some liberal lies to rest. The first will be this despicable fraud they are laying on Rush Limbaugh. Both versions of these quotes are frauds: "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed." "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray...

I realize I’m a little late to the party with this one; that’s what happens when you get several days behind in website reading and podcast listening ... I nearly lost it when I heard El Rushbo play a montage of cable news commentators label Holocaust Museum shooter James von Brunn some symptom of right-wing hate and violence. From MSNBC’s gruesome twosome Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann to Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh to several Huffington Post columnists and even the sometimes-sensible Alan Colmes, the template was that von Brunn was a conservative whose hate for Jews was influenced by the...

If you listen to liberals, they are the "reality-based" people. They contrast themselves to conservatives, who they claim are ideology-based or faith-based. "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact." Barack Obama "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Stephen Colbert "The facts of life are conservative." Margaret Thatcher I offer here several pieces of evidence, large and small. You can be the judge of who is right, Stephen Colbert or Maggie Thatcher. Eco-Warriors "A lot of environmental messages are simply not accurate. But that's the way we sell messages in this society. We use hype. And...

We’ve been hearing it for over a week now. Ever since Arlen Specter, the liberal in Republican’s clothing, jumped parties, all we’ve heard from giddy news anchors (aren’t they supposed to be objective?), news analysts, and the late night talk circuit is how narrow-minded those Republicans are. On the other side of the coin, of course, and just as important, is the myth that the Democrat Party is home of open-minded, tolerant, “big tent” folks. The charges on the Left about the “narrow-mindedness” of the Right get more laughable, considering the FCC has been meeting with left-wing Fairness-Doctrine-supporting groups about...

Other than his smug guest Barney Frank, there was something on “Real Time with Bill Maher” this weekend that was truly irksome. Maher states that according to the latest poll, Republican affiliation is at a historic low of 20%: “The party of Lincoln is becoming the party of shrinkin’.” (Hahahahaha! Gee, Bill, which of your dozen writers had to wrote that one for you?) Now, notice Maher does not specify which poll he was citing. After doing a web search, I determined he was probably citing a Washington Post poll, which on April 24 reported Republican affiliation at 21%, down...

Between the things that come out of his mouth and his choice of guests, I lose more and more respect for Bill Maher. A couple days ago he had on Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) on. Yes, Barney Frank, the man whose P.C.-addled brain and political aspirations single-handedly collapsed the mortgage industry, which ultimately sent this entire economy into a tailspin. And there’s Maher on “Real Time” and his clueless audience giving him rock star treatment. During the interview, Frank said something quite revealing about himself and his party: MAHER: “Let’s be honest, the Democratic party, starting in the 90’s, also...

The Republican Party has moved too far to the right. That’s what Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter said. That’s what Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said. That’s what the evening news said. The problem is, they are all wrong. Not as a matter of opinion, but as a matter of demonstrable fact. The Republican Party is more liberal today than it has been at any time since Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller were president and vice president. The notion that the Republican Party has been taken over by conservative zealots and has estranged itself from the mainstream of America is a...

    Homeland Security Warns of Rise in Right-Wing ExtremismThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”, dated April 7, 2009, is apparently an unclassified summary of a larger classified report.1.  The summary contains few proper names, has no footnotes of any significance, lists very few sources, and is drafted with a prejudice against anyone who criticizes the role of the federal government in our lives today. It lumps together in its definition of “rightwing extremism” hate groups, anti-government groups, and single issue groups “such as opposition...

Starting this August, elementary and middle-school students in one school district in Westminster, Colo., won't be assigned to grade levels based on age. Instead, they'll fall into multi-age levels based on what they already know and will move up only as they master new material. The concept makes sense to many education experts because it matches how kids actually learn: One student needs three hours to figure out fractions while another takes a full day.

This is a short interview of our own Larry Schweikert, who has written a book about Liberal Lies.

We all know them. People that abuse the system. People that work a few months of the year, just long enough to qualify for unemployment, and then jump on the unemployment bandwagon. Those that get food stamps to support their families despite being able bodied, often educated and capable of work. And, of course, the people that work “under the table” while receiving government aid intended for the truly needy. One such image sticks in our minds from a visit last year to a local softball game. Across the street was a truck distributing food for the needy. A brand...

What will the Dems be saying next week about the stimulus package? That the GOP cut 500,000 jobs from it in the Senate. This really should be a lesson to Specter, Collins, and Snowe (those morons). Now when the stimulus package doesn't work the press and the libtards will blame the GOP. When will they figure out that bipartisanship is a game, and the name of the game is YOU LOSE? I spend a lot of time cruising left wing sites like the Talking Points Cafe, mainly so that my readers don't have to. As a general rule of thumb,...

To reduce bills rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them, Obama "will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days." One of President Obama's major campaign planks was making government more open and accountable. It's a reaction to a habit in Congress of rushing bills through the House and Senate without giving people much opportunity to know what the bills would do. Indeed, sometimes members of Congress don't even know what's in the bills. So...

Don't miss tonight's show at 11PMEDT on BlogTalkRadio. You can listen to the show here. Co-host Chris from Islam in Action and I are going to go after the liberals and make the point that liberals don't care about the truth. Sometimes it's a minor inconvenience to them. Sometimes it's a major inconvenience. But the truth is never any more than an obstacle for leftists to overcome. Make a list and call in at (347) 215-6246 or just push the click to talk button on the site!

As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners. Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer? But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the...

Our first guest is Larry Schweikart, a professor of history at the University of Dayton, specializing in business and economic history, technology and war issues, and American history. He is co-author with University of Washington - Tacoma professor Michael Patrick Allen of A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror. His new book is "48 Liberal Lies About American History." Our second guest is Professor Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an expert in the Middle Period of American history, 1760-1877, with additional areas of expertise in American constitutional and Southern history. Dr. Gutzman...

A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive - some say invasive - application ever.

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you what to look for. I'll tell you what I'm looking for today. In the first place I'm getting all kinds of reports from all over the country about turnout, and in some places it's low. For example, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, no lines whatsoever, which is unusual. My spy for the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I mean that's Moscow, folks, Moscow on the Hudson, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and you would figure there would be lines out the wazoo up there to vote for Obama,...

There is an email about Gov. Palin flying across America.   Most disconcerting is the portrait they have painted of our VP candidate:   > To date, she is> against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform,> environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of> speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the> librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of> church and state, and polar bears.   (Note: compare this to Palin's actual record and platform http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm)   Please make sure co-authors Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston hear from you soon ;-) womensaynopalin@gmail.com   See bottom of blogspot...

Sticks and stone may break your bones - but words can destroy. Think about the Swift Boat campaign and what it did to John Kerry in 2004 and what rumors of a secret love child did to John McCain's bid for the White House in 2000. ~~snip~~ The Internet is making it easy to set these little fires and fan them into a blaze of untruths, and this election has become so intense that groups wanting to undermine the other guy have sunk to a new level. Unregulated attack groups like the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, called 527s...

HE man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was a publicity stunt aimed at raising awareness of logging. Indigenous tribes expert, José Carlos Meirelles, said the tribe had been known of since 1910, and had been photographed to prove that they still existed in an area endangered by logging, The Guardian reported. Mr Meirelles, who was working for Funai, the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency dedicated to finding remote tribes and protecting them, said he spent three years gatheiring "evidence" about the tribe, and then planned the publicity to...

I had planned on leaving this alone, but the Marine sitting in the chair next to me is highly offended and I don't blame him. http://www.kirklockhart.com/?p=60#comments

The writer of this piece surely knows that Thompson’s book, ‘At That Point in Time’ has been out of print for at least 20 years, making it very difficult for regular readers to verify his claims. However, I have a copy of the book... First of all, Thompson has NEVER claimed to have broken the case wide open with his questioning. Yes, the question was known to the White House… because the committee let the defendant’s know the line of inquiry before the questioning on National Television. Second, Armstrong is hardly a reliable witness. Thompson had this to say about...

The party of systemic political corruption was elected on the promise to end political corruption? The Democrat Party is the official juggernaut of political soft money, those funds coming from often unknown institutional investors in American politics, with all sorts of allegedly illegal special interest strings attached. So what are the chances that the party funded primarily by soft money will be the party to eliminate soft money in American politics? Soft money now comes in several forms. Here?s the official Top Ten list of U.S. institutional political investors between 1990 and 2006, how much they invested, and with whom...

ATLANTA (UPI) -- Fourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center in Atlanta have resigned over former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's controversial Mideast book. The group, including some who worked with Carter when he was in the White House 30 years ago, said it could "no longer in good conscience continue to serve" because of Carter's "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," the Wall Street Journal said Thursday. "It seems that you have turned to a world of advocacy, including even malicious advocacy," the departing members said in a letter to the former president. The book, published Nov. 14 by...

Listen Getting out the message on global warming is the task of Kathleen Dunn ’s guest after ten. She talks with one of the producers of Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Guest: Laurie David, activist and author and a producer of the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth,” written by and featuring former Vice President Al Gore. She founded the “Stop Global Warming Virtual March” with Senator John McCain and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. She is executive producer of an HBO documentary, “Too Hot to Handle,” which aired this April. And her first book, “The Solution is You: Stop Global...

Neither O'Donnell nor ABC has apologized ABC's Rosie O'Donnell told a nationwide audience this week that "radical Christians" are the same as radical Muslims who piloted hijacked jetliners into New York's Twin Towers, who chop off the heads of individuals and who bomb innocent children in suicide attacks. O'Donnell made her comments as host of ABC's "The View." "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state," O'Donnell said. She had been saying that America was attacked "not by a nation." She continued: "And as a result...

by Mark Finkelstein August 30, 2006 - 13:49 In the wake of the fauxtography scandals of the recent Middle East conflict, you might think that the MSM would be particularly careful to avoid tinkering with photos. And if there is one TV news operation you would imagine would be particularly gun-shy about altered documents, it would be the Memogate network - CBS. Apparently not. The photo on the left is Katie's official CBS photo. The one to the right is to be found in the CBS "Watch" Magazine. Whoops. You know, they say it's all about the accessories. That little...

You can't turn a page or flip a channel without hearing how the Bush Administration's policies toward the Iraqi conflict are wrong. Or, as the loser of the 2004 presidential election, John Kerry, espoused, "profoundly wrong." What no one wants to consider is whether or not these critics have the qualifications to so recklessly opine. During a recent press conference, President Bush passionately reiterated his stance on the Iraqi conflict. He alluded to the notion that the continuous bombardment of the American people with negative news by the mainstream media -- and the irresponsible rhetoric of the anti-war left --...

The nitwits who are incapable of understanding the grivity of lying to get us into Iraq, and then outing a CIA agent as retaliation for exposing this lie....well, they don't deserve to be American citizens because they lack the intelligence to vote!

A myth is being propagated by liberals and leftists, a myth that is telic, mainly due to the behaviors, policies and actions of liberals and leftists in America. This being of course racism. Something that is not a problem except for the liberals and leftists who use it as a political tool. There was actually a time when racism was real in America, slavery for example, like compulsory taxation slavery was rooted in the use of force to sanction labor. Had it not been for the little capitalism there was in America, and the need to compete wage v. wage...

The PM is copying George Bush's tactics with his allegation of `liberal media bias,' says Linda McQuaig May 28, 2006. 01:00 AM LINDA MCQUAIG Despite being the longest-serving member of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas almost never gets to ask George Bush a question. That's because Bush controls who asks the questions and he doesn't like the kind of tough, doubting questions that she asks. Given a rare chance recently, she pointedly asked him: If the Iraq war wasn't about oil, what was it about? If Bush hadn't had such tight control over the media, his plan to...

"Bush polls have fallen to a new low," shout the newspaper headlines or the news anchors on television. "President Bush and Congress have reached their lowest numbers yet," they continue, trying to speculate whether this is caused by the high gasoline prices, the current economy, or the war in Iraq. This is strange since there is good news, mostly hidden by the media, about all three. 1. Recently, the U.S. Energy Department announced the results of a land survey: "We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates: snip...

Death Before DishonorGreyhawkThe latest Iraq war urban legend: Several female service members have died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day due to fear of being raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark. This is absurd for countless reasons - the most obvious being that death by dehydration takes a little longer than a couple hours without fluids, even in the hottest conditions. But this fabrication has an interesting source: Col. Janis Karpinski, former commander of the unit responsible for torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. And she's found...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's foreign secretary suggested Thursday that uniformed men using a military-style Humvee to help drug traffickers on the border could have been U.S. soldiers or criminals disguised as Mexican troops.

Bush’s giant Right Wing Noise Machine (RWNM) loves to preach about the Bush economic miracle. In fact, the RWNM’s current thinking is Bush doesn’t spend enough time talking about his economic triumphs. If only he did, then everyone would fall in line and believe in the great Bush economic miracle. There is one problem with this argument: it’s a lie. Any way you look at the Bush economy, it comes up short. Today, I want to compare Bush’s job creation record with other economic recoveries. As usual, Bush comes up way short. The national Bureau of Economic Research has identified...

SACRAMENTO - Despite the celebrity push to spare the life of Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, his fate may be sealed by political reality. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has called a private hearing next week to consider granting Williams clemency. But most political observers say that despite the governor's show of concern, he has little to gain and much to lose by preventing the Dec. 13 execution. For all the support Williams has garnered as an anti-gang activist, he is still a convicted murderer in a state where two out of three voters support the death penalty. Williams, 51, was convicted...

..................The strangest episode came from an appearance by Senator Jay Rockefeller on Fox News Sunday: WALLACE: "Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn't it Jay Rockefeller? " ....ROCKEFELLER: "No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I'll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had...

A Friday, November 4, 2005, op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by HBO host Bill Maher begins as follows (emphasis mine): "President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, must bomb an abortion clinic." It gets ... worse. Four paragraphs later (emphasis mine): "Is Alito a decent man with Christian values? Until he kills a nurse with a pipe bomb, there's no way to be sure. Sometimes the only way to convince some people that you're truly pro-life is to kill a few of them. Like when a gang member has to knife some random guy to prove himself."...

Running time: 108 minutes. Not rated (nothing offensive). At the Village East, Second Avenue and West 12th Street. HAVING failed to take down President Bush ("Uncovered") and the Fox News Channel ("Outfoxed") with his cinematic screeds last year, schlockumentarian Robert Greenwald trains his sights on the nation's largest private employer in "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price." Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir. The massive retailer has far more to worry about from press reports last week quoting internal company documents showing 46 percent of the children...