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Gateway Pundit today posted screen grabs from a 2008 interview of Obama Green Czar Van Jones seated in front of a large mural at the organization Jones founded, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.The mural features on one side a white man shooting a Latino woman holding a child. On the other side it features a white man putting chains on a young Black man.

In the words of my brother, I don't know if ever before this, I've felt physically ill from reading something.

A California solar company will get a huge boost from the government today. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce more than half a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees.

Kathy Keith has cared for a son with Down syndrome for 23 years and never dreamed that one day organized labor would consider her a prime candidate for a union card. So she was skeptical when representatives from two of the nation's largest unions began competing for her attention over the last few weeks with unannounced visits to her home, mailings and phone messages promising to fatten her state stipend.

In this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I interview Ryan Dixon of youngrepublicans.tv, I also talk about the upcoming visit of Thomas Paine (Bob Basso) to Kansas State University. We have a super funny 3 part edition of "Conscience of Kansas theatre" with the help of the folks from Insanity Island. We invite you to check it out and comment!

 

Avowed Communist and Barack Obama Administration "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones late yesterday released via the White House press office a statement apologizing for offending anyone with any of a series of inflammatory and indeed ridiculous things he has said in the (very recent) past. The latest bit of Jones inanity news was in fact not something he said, but rather something on to which he signed. That would be an October 26, 2004 "Truth Statement" that asserts amongst other things that President George W. Bush had a hand in the September 11th terrorist attacks. Making Jones a 9-11 "Truther"...

Yesterday afternoon I sat through the town hall meeting of Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ/8) on the campus of Monclair State University. As town hall’s go, this one was pretty good based upon my attendance at a number around the state of New Jersey. Plenty of noise from both sides and a handful of people ejected. Questions were required to be submitted in writing and separated into pro/con groups on the healthcare issue. To his credit, he alternated back and forth between the two positions so the Q&A was not skewed in either direction. More importantly, once a questioner was...

Illegal immigrant held in death of Tulsa cyclist By NICOLE MARSHALL World Staff Writer Published: 9/2/2009  2:24 AM Last Modified: 9/2/2009  5:05 AM State troopers arrested an illegal immigrant Tuesday in the hit-and-run death of a longtime bicyclist and clinical psychologist, authorities said. Roberto Salvador Alvelais-Torres, 28, is accused of striking Beverly Jean Duffield, 74, of Tulsa with a sport utility vehicle and then driving away, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said. Duffield was killed Tuesday morning while riding her bicycle near U.S. 75 and the 1700 block of Southwest Boulevard — an area where she was known to ride frequently....

Spanish woman kills pedestrian in suicide leap Wed Sep 2, 6:42 AM BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - A woman who committed suicide by jumping out of an eighth floor window killed a pedestrian who was walking along the street below, Spanish police said on Wednesday. The 45-year-old woman died instantly in the fall while the pedestrian succumbed to his injuries in hospital following the incident on Monday in the town of Viladecans, a suburb of Barcelona, a police spokesman said.

This is an excerpt of Bob Basso as Thomas Paine with "Common Sense" for America and his visit to Kansas State University. We invite you to listen and comment.

You know what Allah hates? Hellfire missiles. Note: Fun starts around the 2:40 mark. Seems like a few of them got away, still great clip.

A spiritual journey that began seven years ago ended in the sanctuary of a Catonsville convent Sept. 3 when 10 Episcopal nuns and their priest chaplain were received into full communion with the Catholic Church. In administering the sacrament of confirmation, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien traced a cross on the foreheads of each candidate as he anointed them with sacred chrism oil and called on them to be sealed with the Holy Spirit. The sisters then renewed their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as some 120 worshipers looked on.

Van Jones: "We forget sometimes that the people who poured out their blood on the ground in this country, to turn an apartheid regime into a struggling, fledgling democracy, the so-called civil rights workers, when they went to face the dogs, when they went to face the fire hoses, when they sat shivering in cold jail cells soaked in blood, when they faced lynch mobs, when they found their children shot down in the street, they didn't march at laundromats , they didn't march at high school gymnasiums."

Now, I've said that there are only two things (other than the public option) that liberals will accept in a healthcare bill. First, a "back door" leading to the public option. Like this "trigger." And second, the libs will embrace any legislation with the potential to make the existing healthcare system worse, thus leading to more urgent calls for the public option. The left will not allow healthcare to be fixed; they want it nationalized. Liberals are holding the system hostage, and the only acceptable ransom is universal healthcare. You can't fix what we have -- they don't want it...

China 'covers suicide bridge in butter' Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cover a 1,000 ft long steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide. All the climbable surfaces on the structure in Guangzhou have been covered in greasy fat to put an end to the spate of people threatening to jump from it, The Sun reports. Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: "We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn't work - and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. "None of it...

I've heard 3 or 4 versions being floated around, but was wondering if anyone has received advance copy of exactly what will be said, not that he won't make changes and decide to slide something in (that would have been run past focus groups, etc.) The county I live in is leaving the decision on whether or not to show it up to the teacher. IF the teacher decides to show it, they will send a letter home indicating such and the students will be allowed to opt out with no penalty. Has anyone any specific info on this?

When 33-stone Viking enthusiast Tim Barnacle got too heavy for his longboat he knew it was time to take action. Now Tim, 47, has shed almost 10 stone since February 2008 so he can take to the water on his replica Nordic boat without fear of it capsizing. He bought the 20ft boat – named Ratatosk after a Norse red squirrel – in 2000 but as his weight crept up, Tim's passion became more difficult to enjoy. "I was falling asleep at my desk and was diagnosed with sleep apnoea which is quite common in big fat blokes."

<p>For many people (and yes I’m jumping to conclusions and making sweeping generalizations here) “No one should die because they can’t afford health care” is the weasel way of saying “I want someone else to pay for it” without sounding like a panhandler. So, take what follows with a grain of salt, OK?</p>

Molecular Machines on Parade Sept 3, 2009 — Scientific papers continue to exhibit the exquisite mechanisms in the cell for handling all kinds of situations, through the operation of molecular machines. Here are a few recent examples from this week’s issue of Nature (Sept 3, 2009)...