Left-Wing Groups Getting Psyched Up for ‘Netroots Nation’ Event in Minneapolis

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Between 1999 and 2005, George Soros donated $535,000 to Alliance for Justice (AFJ), which has also received major donations from liberals like Ted Turner and Barbra Streisand. One of AFJ’s main activities is to help Democrats block the appointment of conservative judges (they supported filibusters of President Bush’s nominees) and to push for the creation of “new rights” as a strategy to advance the progressive agenda.

Because left-wing groups routinely pool their online resources, AFJ’s fundraising e-mails are distributed to millions of people who have signed up to receive updates from groups like MoveOn.org and Democracy for America. That explains why I received the following e-mail today:

Dear Robert,
We’re heading to Minneapolis for Netroots Nation this week! Here’s what we have in store for you at the Netroots Nation 2011 conference, an annual gathering of some of the most influential voices in the progressive online community.
The Roberts Court’s extreme pro-business agenda has been gaining more and more attention this term with cases like Wal-Mart v. Dukes and AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. This Saturday, Alliance for Justice and a panel of experts will tackle the Court’s hard right turn in “The Corporate Court: Your Rights vs. Corporate Interests.”
Our panelists — Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate), Eva Paterson (Equal Justice Society), and Carl Pope (Sierra Club) — will address the growing influence of corporations within the American judicial system, particularly in the Supreme Court on Saturday, June 18 at 10:30 a.m. in room L100 H.
We’ll also be screening excerpts from our award-winning film, Crude Justice, and a Q&A with AFJ Communications Director Kevin Fry as a part of the conference screening series. Join us in room M100 J during the General Showcase I on Thursday, June 16 at 4:30 p.m.
Alliance for Justice president Nan Aron will lead an informal discussion on judges, corporate influence, and the fight for a fair America on Friday, June 17th, at 4:30pm in the exhibit hall’s caucus area.
Don’t forget to stop by our booth (#922) to meet our staff, learn more about AFJ, and talk with our expert about developing hard-hitting social media campaigns without violating the restrictions imposed on nonprofits.

Talk to you soon,
Alliance for Justice
P.S. Tell us what you’re up to at Netroots by tweeting us @afjustice!

Notice I’ve highlighted the fact that this legal advocacy group — which employs dozens of leftist lawyers — is offering expert advice to progressives on “developing hard-hitting social media campaigns without violating the restrictions imposed on nonprofits.” This is what Soros & Co. are paying them to do: Teaching the Left to stretch the limits of the law to push their agenda.

What can you do to help fight back against AFJ and their progressive allies at Netroots Nation? Continue reading Left-Wing Groups Getting Psyched Up for ‘Netroots Nation’ Event in Minneapolis →

Democrat Janice Hahn Stars in the New Viral Video Smash Hit of the Summer!

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Janice Hahn is the Democrat running for Congress in the July 12 special election in California’s 36th District, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Jane Harman.

As a member of the Los Angeles City Council, Hahn promoted a program to use taxpayer money to hire convicted criminals as “gang intervention specialists.” Predictably, Hahn’s government employment program for gangsters amounted to a taxpayer subsidy for violent crime. New York Times, June 24, 2009:

LOS ANGELES — Federal agents announced criminal indictments for 24 high-ranking gang members, along with a prominent gang intervention specialist who associated with city politicians and routinely raised money from Hollywood’s elite.
The specialist, Alex Sanchez, director of Homies Unidos, a gang outreach organization in Los Angeles for more than a decade, was arrested and charged with a federal racketeering count for his alleged role in the assassination of a man in El Salvador in 2006.

Incredible as it may seem, Hahn actually called for a tax increase to pay for more of this dangerous nonsense:

Councilwoman Janice Hahn said she was happy to see the mayor’s plan to dedicate more money to gang prevention and intervention.
“What’s important is that we’re taking action. We’ve done the studies, we’ve seen the reports, the evidence is in. We need to act,” said Hahn, who has proposed a $30-a-year parcel tax to raise $40 million for anti-gang programs.

In 2008, Michelle Malkin was astonished to learn about this program:

City anti-gang money is going to convicted criminal gang-bangers who are hired as “gang intervention” specialists–while continuing their criminal activity.
The conduit? L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who justifies the public pay-offs to gang members as a way to “keep the peace.”

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media is too busy celebrating Janice Hahn’s endorsement by Bill Clinton (who praises her “common sense solutions”) to bother examining Hahn’s involvement in the “gang intervention specialist” scandal. But somehow, I don’t think the media will be able to ignore that story much longer:

“Give Us Your Cash, Bitch” is directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr.

This ad is sponsored by Turn Right USA, which is not connected to any candidate. And I’m pretty sure the Republican candidate, Craig Huey, is going to be as shocked as anyone by this video.

UPDATE: The director addresses the obvious accusation:

Before you charge racism at the ad, consider her one line in the video: “It takes a different kind of person to speak the language.” By that she means, it takes black people to talk to black people. It takes gang members to talk to gang members. They have their own language, we should coddle them. They’re not responsible for their actions if they murder someone, rape someone. They’re a minority.

Read the rest.

UPDATE II: The Daily Caller declares this the Most Offensive Attack Ad EVAH!

UPDATE III: Verum Serum and Flap’s Blog are now blogging the new video.


BREAKING: David Brooks Is a Douchebag

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This news is perhaps not shocking to regular readers of the New York Times‘ token “conservative” columnist, but if we ever needed smoking-gun proof, his column today is like RINO fingerprints covered with country-club DNA:

I’m registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective, the two parties contesting this election are unusually pathetic. Their programs are unusually unimaginative. Their policies are unusually incommensurate to the problem at hand. . . .
The Republican growth agenda — tax cuts and nothing else — is stupefyingly boring, fiscally irresponsible and politically impossible. . . .
Republican politicians don’t design policies to meet specific needs, or even to help their own working-class voters. They use policies as signaling devices — as ways to reassure the base that they are 100 percent orthodox and rigidly loyal. Republicans have taken a pragmatic policy proposal from 1980 and sanctified it as their core purity test for 2012. . . .
If there were a Hamiltonian Party, it would be offering a multifaceted reinvigoration agenda. It would grab growth ideas from all spots on the political spectrum and blend them together. Its program would be based on the essential political logic: If you want to get anything passed, you have to offer an intertwined package that smashes the Big Government vs. Small Government orthodoxies and gives everybody something they want. . . .

You can read the whole thing, which I think you will agree constitutes conclusive proof of the utter uselessness of David Brooks. From time to time, as a sort of accidental consequence of the Law of Large Numbers, Brooks will criticize liberals from a conservative perspective — the blind pig finding an acorn, as it were. Yet when push comes to shove, Brooks habitually tries to push Republicans toward a Democrat Lite agenda of Big Government. Continue reading BREAKING: David Brooks Is a Douchebag →

New York Times: ‘Media Colonoscopy’ of Palin E-Mails Was ‘Not a Witch Hunt’

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Clay Waters at NewsBusters calls attention to an article by New York Times writer Jeremy Peters:

The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed with too many applicants. Unable to screen all of them, the paper abandoned the plan late Thursday, opting instead to invite reader comments.
Were news organizations Dumpster diving, as one outraged reader of The Washington Post put it?
News outlets insisted that they were trying to be as thorough and efficient as possible while reporting on information that the public was entitled to know.
“This is not a witch hunt,” said Jim Roberts, an assistant managing editor at The Times. “There are 25,000 documents here, and we can use all the eyeballs we can get.”

It was Greta van Susteren of Fox News who called this ridiculous exercise a “media colonoscopy.”

The CNN Debate: Tokyo Survived

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Having declared that the debate in Manchester, N.H., would result in Herman Cain stomping the other candidates “like Godzilla stomped Tokyo,” I’m now prepared to admit that the result was not quite so one-sided. However, I don’t get CNN at the house — some glitch in the cable service limits my choices to Fox and MSNBC — so I am dependent on the judgments of others.

And by “others,” I mean VodkaPundit, who drunkblogged it, because massive quantities of alcohol help clarify the issues.

Mr. G. liveblogged the debate (sober) and declared Cain the winner. 

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post clearly disagreed, but Cillizza is a liberal, which is why he wrote:

A relatively tepid debate with candidates largely agreeing with one another on the major issues of the day.

But wasn’t that true of every 2007-08 debate among the candidates for the Democratic primary? I remember watching (or trying to watch) those debates and wondering, “Why bother?” You had three major candidates — Clinton, Edwards and Obama — and a bunch of guys who had no plausible chance. (Chris Dodd for president? I mean, really?) They were all predictably liberal, and their policy differences were matters of incidental detail. But I don’t remember CNN hitting them with a bunch of “gotcha” questions or trying to set them at each other’s throats.

Da Tech Guy delivers his verdict: “Bottom line: Bachmann wins, Cain remains solid, Newt and Santourm help themselves, Romney remains steady Pawlenty doesn’t help himself enough, Paul is Paul.”

Here’s an Associated Press video highlight reel of the candidates trashing Obama’s economic policy:


LIVE AT FIVE – 06.14.11

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TOP NEWS
GOP Contenders Pile On President, Spare Romney

Candidates at NH Republican Debate

United in criticism of Obama, differing only in how to clean up his mess

Obama On Weiner: “If It Was Me, I’d Resign”
Hoyer: Weiner’s behavior “bizarre and unacceptable”

Obama Tries To Goose Economy Without Congress
Trying to make nerdy cool from the bully pulpit



POLITICS
Breaking: Still No News Whatsoever From Palin E-mails

Sarah Palin - in or out, still making the press look stupid

C4P encourages supporters to sift through e-mails and spotlight the good job Palin did as governor

Jury Weighs Charges Against Former Mass. House Speaker
Bribery case now in hands of jury


Busted For PDA In Mass. House?

Gay Judge’s Relationship Key To Prop 8 Ruling?

Even The UN Hates Ethanol
Coburn may have votes to kill subsidy and import tariff both



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
IMF Rules Out Stanley Fischer On Age Grounds
Facebook IPO Likely In 1Q 2012
Wendy’s Agrees To Sell Arby’s To Equity Firm
Greek Debt Hits New Low As S&P Hands Down Triple-C Rating
Nikkei Index Ends Down As Weal Toyota View Hits Auto-Linked Shares
PRC Food Costs Push Inflation To Three-Year High
HP Pares Down Executive Team In New Shakeup
Duke Nukem Back With A Bang
Google Pulls More Malware From Android Market



SPORTS
Three Bruins Routs May Not Be Enough For Cup

Bruins' Ference celebrates after Boston's offense chases Canucks goalie Luongo in the first period

Bruins win game six 5-2, final game to be fought in Vancouver

Mavericks Celebrate Victory Of Castoffs Over Star Power

Jeter Limps Off In Fifth, Tribe Tips Yanks

Two Homers Boost Reds Over Dodgers




Braves’ Six-Game Streak Ends With Loss To Lowly Astros

Mets Reach For .500 Thwarted By Pirates

Dodgers’ June 30 Payroll Looms Large In McCourt Case

Vendors Giddy Over LeBron’s Failure

Montero Doubles Down In Snakes Victory Over Marlins

Ohio Governor Kasich Proclaims Dallas Mavericks “Honorary Ohioans”



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Tori Spelling Crashes Into Kids’ School

Tori Spelling

Pursued by paparazzi, driven to distraction

Emma Watson’s New Day

Charlie Sheen Negotiating For New Sitcom

Pippa Middleton & Boyfriend Split?

Former CSI Star Busted For Ecstasy Possession

Selena Gomez: I Was Malnourished And Exhausted

Angelina Jolie Poses For Louis Vuitton’s “Core Values” Campaign


Jessica Simpson’s Billion-Dollar Fashion Sense Coming To Reality TV

New Pain For Rehabbed Demi

Lindsay Lohan’s House Arrest Roof Party

Movie Studios Reassess Comic Con



FOREIGNERS
Libyan Rebels Crack Siege, Move On Tripoli
Yemen Opposition Meets With Government Officials
Berlusconi’s Referendum Defeat: Beginning Of The End?
Is PM Erdogan Turkey’s New Strongman?
Lebanon Gets Hezbollah-Led Cabinet
PRC Calls For Increased Efforts Toward Peace & Stability In South China Sea
Goodyear Blimp Pilot Saves Passengers Before Dying In Fiery Crash



BLOGS & STUFF
Washington Examiner: Romney, Bachmann And Perry Winners Of NH Debate
Gateway Pundit: Obama Says “If You’re Looking For Partisan Rhetoric, I’m Not Your Guy”
Lonely Conservative: Wisconsin Democrat Wants To “Smack Around” Constituent
Weasel Zippers: US In Worse Shape Than Greece, On Hook For $100 Trillion
Don Surber: Questions Nobody Is Asking
Professor Bainbridge: Bruce Bartlett On How To Grow The Economy
Atlas Shrugs: “Praise Allah, I’m Going To Kill The World”
Power Line: Kings Of Comedy

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OUT: Real Gays. IN: Fake Lesbians.

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They’re everywhere these days:

Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tag­line “A Gay Girl’s View on the World,” acknowledged that he is also a man.
“Paula Brooks,” editor of Lez Get Real since its founding in 2008, is actually Bill Graber, 58, a retired Ohio military man and construction worker who said he had adopted his wife’s identity online. Graber said she was unaware he had been using her name on his site.

These incidents have aroused strong suspicion that “Amanda Marcotte” is actually a fictional character created by Ace of Spades.

UPDATE: An icky plot twist noted by Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler: “Two straight men find out they have been flirting with each other as fake lesbians. . . .  There’s a kind of justice in that, wouldn’t you say?” Kind of.

UPDATE II: Responding to inquiries, Andrew Sullivan has just issued a statement confirming that he is, in fact, “a complete homo.”

That’s Good to Know

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President Obama says he would resign if he ever got caught sending photos of his penis to women he’d never met:

“I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,’’ Obama told [NBC’s Ann] Curry. . . .
“When you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t serve as effectively as you need to, at the time when people are worrying about jobs, and their mortgages, and paying the bills — then you should probably step back,’’ Obama said.
Obama added that what Weiner did was “highly inappropriate’’ and that he has “embarrassed himself” and his wife and family, but said it will ultimately come down to a decision by Weiner and his constituents as to whether he will continue in office.

So far, all Obama has done is wreck the American economy, but that’s not nearly as embarrassing as posting your penis on Twitter.