Rally To Stop Genocide

Just a reminder that April 30 is the Save Darfur: Rally to Stop Genocide in DC and other cities around the United States.

George Clooney Urges "Action" on Darfur

Notice how, typical of the Hollywood Left, he doesn't ever say what should be done:
Give the firearms we get from Iraqi insurgents to the people being targeted in the "genocide."

He only likes action when its impending. As soon as we act he is gonna call foul.
Why dont we give Clooney a rifle and send him to the Sudan. I'll pick up a sign and protest against him being there, accuse him of being an occupier, and then when I get called on it, say "dissent is patriotic!!!"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/darfur.clooney/index.html

National Anthem in Spanish

The Star Spangled Banner should be sung in ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are tons of correidos that can be sung in Spanish. The Star Spangled-Banner is not one of them.

Every nation has a national language.

If you are in India, you speak Hindi or English.

If you are in Spain, you speak Castilian.

If you are in China, you speak Mandarin or Cantonese.

If you are in Mexico, you speak Spanish, and woe to the impious gringo who has the tenacity to speak en Ingles.

We are the only nation in the world that not only countenances this insanity-linguistic and cultural-but actively encourages it.

Faction's Of the GOP

Religious Right

The term "religious right" is often used synonymously with Christian right because most of its members are fundamentalist Protestants. Some observers consider Mormons, traditionalist Catholics and Orthodox Jews to belong to this category. The Religious Right has become a powerful force within the GOP. This faction is socially conservative, believes that values of faith are vital to society, and should not be separated from governance or education. Though what constitutes moral values is a matter of dispute between different (sometimes even similar) religions and religious denominations, the Religious Right has consisted of social and cultural conservatives united in discouraging and legally restricting abortion, legally defining marriage to include only heterosexual couples, discouraging and prohibiting embryonic stem-cell research, and encouraging and promoting school prayer. The Religious Right rejects the liberal notion that there should be a "wall of separation" between religion and government. In recent years portions of the Religious Right have been active in attacking Darwinism in the public school curriculum.

Neoconservatives

Neoconservatives promote an interventionist foreign policy, including pre-emptive military action against designated enemy nations under certain circumstances. They are the strongest suppoirters of the war in Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. They are willing to act unilaterally when they believe it serves American interests to do so.

Fiscal Conservatives

The fiscal conservative faction favors large reductions in overall taxation, reduced domestic spending, privatization of Social Security, and decreased regulation. Originally, the pro-business branch of the GOP was practically defined by its support of protectionism, but in recent years those elements of the GOP have been more supportive of free-market principles and treaties for open trade.

Moderates

Moderates within the GOP tend to be, to varying degrees, fiscally conservative and socially liberal. While they share the economic views of other Republicans - e.g. balanced budgets, lower taxes, free trade, deregulation, welfare reform - moderate Republicans differ in that they may be for affirmative action, some gay rights, abortion rights, environmental regulation, federal funds for education, gun control, fewer restrictions on legal immigration, or any of the above. Deficit spending is a highly contentious issue, as is foreign policy. Moderates may be less interventionist than neoconservatives.

Libertarians

The libertarian faction of the Republican Party is pro-private property and pro-personal liberty. Similar to the fiscal conservative faction, libertarian Republicans seek to privatize most govermental fuctions or devolve them to the states; massive reductions in overall federal taxation, and an overhaul of the current American tax system; deregulation of industries; more open immigration policies; and open international trade. Unlike many conservative Republicans, however, the libertarian Republicans tend to oppose the "War on Drugs", American membership in most international alliances, and the type of foreign policy that neoconservatives are known to espouse. During the 2004 Republican National Convention, this faction "butted heads" with the Religious Right faction over the party platform.

Paleoconservatives

The paleoconservative group has a "blue-collar", populist tinge with a strong distrust of a centralized federal government, and has heavy appeal among rural Republicans. They are conservative on social issues (e.g. support for gun rights) and oppose multiculturalism, but favor a protectionist policy on international trade and isolationist foreign policy. Many are also active against illegal immigration, or even all immigration.

Security Oriented

This faction of the Republican party emerged after the September 11th attacks. This group includes people regardless of social or economic status who are profoundly concerned with the safety and security of our country. Bush did an excellent job of appealing to this faction with its "war on terror" and the war in Iraq, but he has lost support among the security oriented on the issue of controlling the Mexican border against Illegal immigration.

Debunking... The Race Traitor Argument

Race traitors historicaly are those who side with an entity or idea that is detrimental to their existence.

It is like the Jews supporting the Nazis, black supporting the KKK and anything that
would have terrible consequences for that race.

How does advocating school choice, and welfair reform,and healthy families account to being called a race traitor?

Its people who call other blacks "uncle tom's" that are the race traitors.

People who use these terms use it to censor and impede new ideas from
entering the community at large.

The term traitor implies that there is an enemy.
We all know what race is.

We can all assume that in order for there
to be a race traitor there must be a race war.

And historicaly race wars only exist in the minds of racist.

Hint: Think before you speak.. and think well.

hiphoprepublican.com hits the air

Time to quit the day jobs everybody; the blog has taken off (well sort of).

Good work to the blog creator (Rich) and all of the contributors.

Ill be on The Jerry Waters Show WVTS 950-AM in West Virginia promoting

www.hiphoprepublican.com on Monday.

Can you believe it started out as an idea in this group?

Now thats grassroots!!!!!

!M.W. Skelton

Website Problems

Just want to let you all know that the site is having some problems.

You may need to change the Text Size on the computer to see the entire site.

It should be back together in a week.

Thank for you!

Is the CIA a Democrat Think Tank?

With all these leaks coming from the CIA under Bush one could only assume. I think liberals would make a great fit for the CIA.

They like to act, they like to lie,
and they like to learn strange languages no one has ever heard of.

I bet if a poll was taken the CIA is 70 percent
Democrats Can some one set up a poll?

"Martin Luther King Was Republican "

The "Martin Luther King Was Republican Campaign"

The National Black Republican Association is leading a campaign to remind
America that King was a Republican.
This is important because so many people have no idea that he
was a registered Republican.

Join the NBRA Truth Squad! History is on our side. Get your Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican gear here.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.MLKProducts&tp_preview=true&CFID=30153960&CFTOKEN=51809405

Liberia: Ellen Dedicates George Bush Bridge

April 27, 2006


President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Tuesday dedicated a majestically built bridge over the Nun River in Grand Kru County, declaring it as the President George Walker Bush Bridge amidst applause of rejoicing Grand Kru citizens and residents.

Making a speech at the occasion, the President observed that the development of Grand Kru County had for long been neglected.

President Sirleaf urged the citizens to assist the efforts of government in speeding up development of the county.

She made the statement in Barclayville City, where she dedicated a newly constructed multimillion dollar bridge built with the aid of the American government and named in honor of the United States President, George W. Bush.

Constructed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the bridge was deemed necessary when the President, then on the campaign trail in that county, had to travel by canoe on the Nun River.

According to reports, the pictorial of the candidate who was reproduced in the dailies apparently had an impact on the then American envoy, John Blaney, who therefore pledged to persuade his government to do something about the bridge.

In praise of those efforts of the Americans, President Sirleaf described the financial support from the US Government as a great help that generations to come will immensely benefit from.

She said the challenge is now for citizens of the county and elsewhere to help government rebuild and build smaller projects.

Also speaking at the dedicatory ceremony, United States Ambassador Donald Booth thanked the people for honoring his government.

He assured the people of Grand Kru that the bridge named in honor of President George W. Bush will not be the only project his government will undertake in that part of the country.

Meanwhile, citizens of Grand Kru County through Superintendent, Roseline Sneh, have lauded the Governments of Liberia and the United States as well UNOPS, for the construction of the bridge.

The citizens appealed to the Liberian Government and international partners to help rehabilitate the 365 kilometers stretch of road from the bridge to other parts of the county.

They also appealed to President Sirleaf for the construction of 560 hand pumps, 1,000 pit latrines, as well as the construction and renovation of schools for the speedy implementation of the free but compulsory primary education.

The citizens also called for the construction of healthcare facilities to reduce the incidence of illness and disease throughout the country.

In the agricultural sector, Superintendent Sneh, on behalf of the citizens appealed to President Sirleaf for her government to provide 3,600 bags of seed rice to enable them adequately participate in farming activities in the current year.

In response to the appeals, President Sirleaf said consideration would be given to the appeals.

Also present at the dedicatory ceremony were Grand Kru County Senator Blamo Nelson, Public Works Minister, Willis Knuckles, Deputy Public Works Minister Luseni Donzo and Deputy Internal Affairs Minister, Soko V. Sackor.

Tony Snow a Racist?

The DNC is accusing Tony Snow of being a racist.

In October 2003 Snow defended Rush Limbaughs controversial comments that Donovan McNabb was overrated and that reporters are disposed towards black quarterbacks.

The comment was not racist, Snow said but that did not stop political opportunists from accusing Rush of bias. Snow added, Here is the unmentionable secret.

Racism isnt that big a deal anymore. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It’s rapidly and thankfully becoming an ugly memory.

Of course the DNCs spokeperson had fun twisting of his words.

DNC spokesperson Amaya Smith said after Tony was hired

How can Republicans claim to be mending fences with the African-American community after hiring Tony Snow who just doesn’t get it”


Amaya where was the DNC when Robert Byrd used the Nigger word on Snow's TV show?


On March 4, 2001, an interview with FOX News Sunday host Tony Snow was aired. In the interview Byrd was asked about race relations: "They are much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime," Byrd said.

"I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us ... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."

I guess the DNC forgot that little interview!

Talk about having hutspah!

Maybe Amaya would like to tell us where she was when Byrd made
these comments?

Did she come out as fast on Byrd as she did on Tony Snow?

Byrd is a Senator and his actions affects the lives of millions of African Americans,
so why was he not attacked?

George Bush Glolddigger Music Video (Funny Stuff)

Thanks to Craig Deluz for alerting me to this Video, He warns that those Republicans who cannot take a joke. STOP READING NOW!

You will love watching Coni "Shake that thang."

http://craigdeluz.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-bush-glolddigger-music-video.html

SnoopDog D-Oh-Double-G Arrested

Well folks it looks like the rapper who gave us such moonbat quotes as"Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-Oh-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace", has himslef turned gangsta.

Snoop Dog was arrested after a brawl at London's at Heathrow airport .

According to the news he and his crew apparently turned violent after being refused entry to a first-class lounge, smashing up a duty free shop, throwing bottles and attacking officers.
According to an eye witness Snoops boys were yelling "This is how it goes down in LA."
It took riot police over an hour to arrest the "20-stone men", who were then led out in handcuffs.

This is not the first time he has had a run in with the law in August 1993 while recording Doggystyle with rapper Dr Dre in , Snoop Dogg was arrested in the shooting death of Phillip Woldermarian, a member of a rival gang who was later revealed to have had a secret obsession with Snoop.

Snoop was eventually acquitted on both grounds of self-defense and because he allegedly drove the car while his bodyguard McKinley Lee fired the fatal shots (Lee was also acquitted on grounds of self-defense). Snoop remained entangled in the legal battles around the case for three years.

Well it looks like Snoop is going to jail and thats "Fo' Shizzle" = for sure, the real thing

http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/22449735?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

Liberal Vandals attack UNC-Chapel Hill's ROTC

By Michelle Malkin · April 27, 2006 11:08 AM

The anti-military punks are at it again. Reader Nora. A. e-mailed me photos of vandalism yesterday at UNC-Chapel Hill's ROTC armory taken by her son, an ROTC cadet on campus:




Vandals staged attacks early Wednesday on the buildings used by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, echoing similar assaults on three Triangle recruiting stations last month.

As before, vandals sprayed anti-war slogans and profanity, splashed red paint and claimed responsibility with a mass e-mail message to area media outlets.

Lt. Col. Carol Ann Redfield of the Army ROTC program at N.C. State was caught off guard. "This is the first time I know of that anything like this has happened here," she said. "I certainly appreciate that people have different opinions, and they should be able to express them, but I have a problem when they damage property."

The e-mail, from someone calling himself "celest ialbeing" said, "Stop these recruitment centers that target poor people and people of color to fight to maintain the power structure that (literally and figuratively) imprisons us daily."

The vandals sprayed slogans at the base of an entrance to Reynolds Coliseum, which holds the Department of Military Science, and tossed paint onto an ROTC sign above the entrance.
Investigators had good leads, said Sgt. Jon Barnwell of the N.C. State Police Department.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, campus police spokesman Randy Young said investigators were aware of the e-mail and the link with the attack at N.C. State. "We're certainly looking into that," he said. Investigators think the UNC Naval Armory was attacked between 4 and 5:30 a.m.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/433153.html

These Blogs weighs in.
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2006/04/27/rotc-buildings-vandalized-at-two-nc-colleges/

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/04/university_of_n.html

Democrats Sentenced for Slashing Republican Tires

Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde, son of congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee), was one of five paid Kerry campaign workers in Milwaukee who slashed the tires of 20 vans that had been rented by Wisconsin Republicans as part of their Election Day 2004 get-out-the-vote effort. (Credit: Milwaukee County Police.)




Michael Pratt, son of former Milwaukee mayor Marvin Pratt, is the other tire-slasher. (Credit: Milwaukee County Police.)


Milwaukee, WI (AHN) - Wisconsin congresswoman Gwen Moore's son and three campaign workers are sentenced to four to six months in prison for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office.

The Associated Press reports the men pleaded no contest to misdemeanor property damage for the incident on Election Day 2004. A fifth Democratic campaign worker was found not guilty.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan rejected the prosecutor's recommendation of probation for Sowande A. Omokunde, Moore's son, and Michael Pratt, the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt.

He says, "This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights."

Wisconsin's Republican had rented more than 100 cars that were parked outside their campaign office. The accused men punctured tires, leaving voters and poll monitors searching for other rides.

Moore says, "I love my son very much. I'm very proud of him... He's accepted responsibility."

Omokunde received a sentence of four months in jail; Pratt and Lewis Caldwell will serve six months; and Lavelle Mohammad got five months in prison. All were given work-release privileges.

Auugh.......Another example of toleance from the looney left

Neil Young is a Douche Bag

Neil Young that Canadian who came down yonder to make millions, has
decided to cash in on the Hate Bush Gold Rush!

Young was admitted to a hospital in New York some months back for treatment for a brain aneurysm, its possible he came out a little nutty!

His new CD seems bad, but I'm sure we will all have to hear from the liberal MTV and the media establishemnt how this millionaire is so "Great", "Honest" and "Daring" .... *rolls eyes*

Neil Young was great when he was with Crazy Horse.Everything else he's done since then was just ignorant, cept maybe for Rockin in the Free World.Realilistically he's just another old dino rocker who can't shut his pie hole.

It's all bullshit that all these entertainers who suck ass are trying to get a leg up by selling the "I hate george bush" image. it's the new green. Liberals are just better at marketing. I wish that the goal was selling objective reason. No one talks about the good initiatives. No one talks about the now... only constant dwell in the past, and fear mongering for the future and that's the left.

Rolling Stones: Bush Worst President BullShit

Auugh Yes..... The Rolling Stone Magazine that beacon of truth claims Bush
is the worst President in American history.

Considering that it's one of the most liberal mags out there...this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

The author of the retard article is the credible leftist, major moonbat Princeton professor of history and politics, Sean Wilentz.

So credible that welll would'nt you know it. The proud Princeton historian testified in front of congress to argue against impeaching the worst President.
http://his.princeton.edu/people/e55/sean_wilentz_intervi.html

So Rolling stone gets a foaming-at-the-mouth anit-Bush leftist Princeton "historian" to "poll" his leftist buddies and they come up with the "conclusion" that "Bush is the worst President in History?"

Gee, I can think of a few OTHER president's who MIGHT qualify, such as:
Jimmy Carter, who gutted our military, lost Afghanistan and Iran (who now threatens us with nuclear weapons), gave us record STAGFLATION and unemployment which took fully 10 years to recover from.

JFK, who brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster by showing weakness to the Soviet Union and allowing them to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. JFK also got us into Vietnam if you remember.

Lyndon Johnson, who expanded the Vietnam War

Richard Nixon, allowed Watergate (although did do some good things for the economy).

Warren G. Harding (corruption)

Ulysis S. Grant (ineptness, corruption)

Andrew Johnson (impeached over reconstruction)

But, hey, far be it from these "historians" to let HISTORICAL FACT get in the way of their "Bush Hate".

Yeah, this sounds more like a "stunt" to increase circulation among the nutcase left than anything else.

Rolling Stone USED to be a great magazine becuase they concentrated mainly on MUSIC. Once they started assuming that everyone who loves music "must be a liberal," they quickly went downhill.



http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history

Axes Of Evility

Ok, it's a bit dated, but yes, I still laughed when I read it.


Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.

Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are just as evil . . . in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils...best at being evil...we're the best." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"An axis can't have more than three countries", explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret handshake. Ours is wickedly cool."

International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.

Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the "Axis of Somewhat Evil," forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the "Axis of Occasionally Evil," while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the "Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable."

With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the "Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics." Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the "Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America," while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the "Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick." "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.


Now laugh, damn it!

Neo-Black Blind Hatred

by: David Grier

As some people are seeing there are segments in the black community who are so blinded by hate that initially I thought that they are really not worth listening to. I was wrong. We need to see these people as reference point of where most of black America does not want to wind up. That is full of hate and despair. I dont want to be a Doom & Gloom black man.

These hate-filled Neo-Blacks spew their brand of hate to remind us of groups like the KKK and Nazis and even, todays Islamic terrorists.

There is a difference between Black Pride/Black Power and Neo-Blacks.

Black Pride and Black Power has a foundation of self-sufficiency and self-determination. BPBP people lead from positive examples of how to better men and better fathers to our children. They lead from positive examples of how to be better women and better mothers to our children. They teach people in the black community how to succeed and how to be better in this world. They see racism as a reference point and also work to leverage racism to their favor. BPBP will look up to successful blacks and will emulate them and ask for guidance and mentoring.

BPBP has goals of success for black people through education, moral values and good business such as spending black money in the black community and supporting black businesses for survival. BPBP people also are willing to see that all that is black is not necessarily good. BPBP people know that, for example selling drugs is just plain wrong, and is harming our community. BPBP people will steer clear from those in business who are deceptive and unscrupulous.

Then we have Neo-Blacks. Neo-Blacks are actually staunch haters of blacks who are not black enough . You never see Neo-Blacks celebrating successful blacks. Neo-Blacks make excuses and blame racism at every turn. Neo Blacks know that a successful black shoots down their theory that blacks cannot make it in this racist world. The foundation of being a Neo-Black is to have a Blame Whitey for every thing coming down the pike.

Today Neo-Blacks are also stuck on aHate-Bush mentality. If you, as a black person dont hate Bush as much they do they will attack you with without mercy. They do not see that just because you dont hate Bush as much as they do that it doesnt make you a Bush Lover. As far as they are concerned the world went to hell in January 2001 when Bush went into office.

Prior to that there was NO unemployment NEVER any wars and all was right with the world. Neo-Blacks will stretch to bring Bush into any argument even if politics is not the issue. Of course this is to make you look bad to others. Keep in mind you do not have to like Bush its just that you are not a Bush hater like them.

Neo Blacks will tear down any accomplishments by individual blacks to further their agenda of blacks cant make it. We have seen example after example of NeoBlacks ripping apart blacks that are simply showing other blacks how to make good decisions such as business and personal finance. If you are a black who succeeds
you are a sellout and they will revoke your Ghetto pass.

Neo-Blacks will viscously attack black CEOs, because they made it in the White Business World. They forget that blacks that run multi-million dollar stock firms, or giants like Ford Motor or even in politics, beat out thousands of whites in the good-ole boy network and could have easily been shut out. Instead they beat whitey at their game with their stacked deck. Why do they hate these blacks? Because these blacks prove that Neo Black theories are being proven as wrong, and racism is still slowly dying out.

Over the past year I have seen how Neo Blacks will use Nazi ike tactics to keep middle ground blacks silent and out of the discussion. Many middle ground blacks dont mind having open and honest discussions about politics finances religion and more. Middle ground blacks are of all persuasions and beliefs and bring a lot to the table. But, Neo Blacks demand that all blacks think like them OR they will make them a target. Neo Blacks need to have all blacks have a Victim Mentality.

Neo lacks rarely bring facts to the table, just emotions and Blame Whitey or Blame Bush mindset. Even when they are on the right track they are on track for the wrong reasons. But then again you know what they say about a blind squirrel.

Hell even a dead clock has the correct time on it once a day.

Think about how Neo-Blacks engage in debate. If you disagree with them the call you names such as boot-licker Uncle Tom house niggah and then they will get nasty. NeoBlacks cant stay on point because they know that eventually common sense will prevail and become a part of the debate. They know that when you apply common sense middle ground blacks will see that 2 and 2 does not equal 17 as Neo Blacks want you to believe. When common sense is on the table Neo Blacks lose the debate.

I thank Neo Blacks for their hatred and as much as we tell them they dont see that they are scaring more and more blacks out of their camp due to their hatred and need to piss on all that is successful. I thank them for my saying If ignorance is bliss you are in heaven and who am I to take you from your comfort zone?

Who are Hip Hop Republicans?

Our mission is threefold:

1)To inform today's youth that identify themselves with the hiphop scene with the facts, rather than rumor and conspiracy theory.

2)To encourage today's youth to register to vote and become engaged in politics.

3)To encourage youth voters to draw their own conclusions rather than indoctrinate them into a certain way of thinking.

Hip Hop has been, and still is, one of the most heavy-handed genres of music there is.

Unfortunately the topics of such heavy-handed lyrics are almost always seeped in left wing propaganda,bumper sticker rallying calls and oversimplifications of otherwise complex topics.

Unfortunately many hip hop artist to further their own political views don't offer much more by way of information and truth than the music does.

We Hip Hop Republicans mean to be the foil to this trend.

We plan on filling in the gaps.
We will offer our own views while still urging young lovers of hip hop to search for their own conclusions.

Hopefully in doing so we will energize and excite young people enough to become engaged in politics and exercise their power at the ballot box.

Lil'Kim Should Give Up Hip-Hop And Move On

Rappers hold a very high place in the African-American community, so much so they believe any crimes they are accused of are because they are black and famous. In the case of Kimberly "Lil'Kim" Jones, she defended people who did commit a crime by lying on the stand. Even after the verdict was passed, the question on everyone's mind was one word: Why?

I'm sure Ms. Jones knows about surveillance technology, most businesses utilize to catch people in the act. A New York radio station had it when a fight between her entourage and the entourage of another rap broke out. The whole thing was caught on tape. On the stand, she and an assistant both claimed two members of Kim's entourage were not even there when the shooting took place. Ding! Out comes the tape and in goes Lil'Kim and her assistant to prison.

Now no one wants to go to jail, that's a fact. The trouble is if you are caught in the act and the evidence is there, you are going to go regardless. That was the puzzling part of watching a scene from Lil'Kim: Countdown To Lockdown, in which a few bystanders held "Stop Snitching" signs. It wouldn't have mattered if ten people denied or confirmed members of her entourage were present at the shooting; the tape would have said otherwise. But let's turn our attention away from Lil'Kim's lying to another problem, the "Stop Snitching" phenomenon.

If a child is molested in a church by a man of the cloth, does that mean the child keeps quiet to keep the peace? If a mother looses a child to a bullet not intended for him/her, does the friend of the child stay silent? What if Busta Rhymes lost his own children to a bullet? You would certainly see him speak with rage and point the finger directly to the face of his child's killer. But even Busta himself stands by the code of the streets, despite the fact his bodyguard died defending him a while back.

Fuck the "Stop Snitching" bullshit; it is the right of everyone in this country to turn people in (evidence willing) regardless of the streets. The people of New York (where Lil'Kim is from) should wake up to a simple fact: they don't own any block and they are not the law. Stop promoting the ghetto culture and start promoting common sense. If that makes me a white sell-out, so be it. But I shouldn't be angry; the street culture will continue to seduce the black community or any community that doesn't know anything else. As for Lil'Kim, this is my suggestion: dump your music career and do something else. The world of hip-hop has turned too violent and too controlled by corporations shelling out the same crap every year.

Even thou her film career consists of minor roles or b-films, Miss Jones might want to take a shot at some behind the scenes positions. She could produce and develop screenplays or even be a director. She could also be a writer with her many tales of street life and make money without partaking in the crap street life brings. The best part is she doesn't have to resort in battling anyone or dissing someone to gain attention. Even better, she could make an autobiographical movie based on her fights with Foxy Brown; then both could use that as a huge career boost, maybe even make it a comedy.

Speaking of Mrs. Brown, Lil'Kim needs to make peace with her rival. Foxy had almost certainly lost her hearing and also faces a jail sentence if convicted (she apparently had a fight at a hair salon over a bill). The two of them could be best buddies and may even once again be able to grace magazine covers the way they did when they started in the early 90's. I'll be surprised if Lil'Kim even goes that far when she's released later this year.


Matthew Milam lives in Chicago, IL working as a part-time technician to pay the bills. These articles are also on his personal blog. I also have a myspace page.

http://myspace.com/matthew2001

Hip Hop's Betrayal of Black Women

Hip Hop has often been at odds with black women, who
see the music as degrading and hateful.

This article I found articulates this very well

Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women

by Jennifer McLune

Indeed, like rock & roll, hip-hop sometimes makes you think we men don't like women much at all, except to objectify them as trophy pieces or, as contemporary vernacular mandates, as baby mommas, chickenheads, or bitches. But just as it was unfair to demonize men of color in the 60s solely as wild-eyed radicals when what they wanted, amidst their fury, was a little freedom and a little power, today it is wrong to categorically dismiss hip-hop without taking into serious consideration the socioeconomic conditions (and the many record labels that eagerly exploit and benefit from the ignorance of many of these young artists) that have led to the current state of affairs. Or, to paraphrase the late Tupac Shakur, we were given this world, we did not make it.

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White Ghetto..by Star Parker

Much has been said about Bill Cosby's incendiary remarks about urban black culture and its "dirty laundry." But in this provocative book, Star Parker, one of today's most controversial commentators, goes even further, proving that urban plight simply reveals a decay that is gnawing its way throughout American society as a whole.

The sexual chaos, values disorientation, and social turmoil we see in our inner cities, Parker argues, is just a magnified reflection of the moral collapse happening all over America: in our schools, our churches, our homes. And this slide toward moral decrepitude is all due to a flagrant dismissal of and assault on America's tried-and-true values.

With startling statistics and disturbing stories about the increasing secularization and criminalization of the middle class, Parker holds a cracked mirror up to suburbia. Taking on tough subjects such as abortion, drug abuse, sexual politics, and religion, she offers a rousing exploration of the raging cultural war-taking you on a wild, eye-opening tour through the White Ghetto.

Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a nonprofit organization that provides national dialogue on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy. Star is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the BBC, which reaches 300 million homes worldwide. Her articles and quotes have also appeared in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, and is currently a weekly syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. Star is the author of Pimps, Whores, and Welfare Brats and Uncle Sam's Plantation.

There is a Review by La Shawn Barber over at Townhall.com
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Welfare reform at Ten

by Maggie Gallagher

This year is the 10th anniversary of the 1996 welfare reform bill. Kay Hymowitz marks the occasion in the current issue of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal by asking a penetrating question: "How is it that so many intelligent, well-intentioned people, including many experts who made up the late 20th century's Best and Brightest, were so mistaken?"

In 2004, The New York Times called welfare reform "one of the acclaimed successes of the past decade." But at the time, the same Gray Lady denounced it as "draconian." New Jersey's Sen. Frank Lautenberg predicated "children begging for food, 8- and 9-year old prostitutes." Sen. Ted Kennedy called it "legislative child abuse," and Connecticut's Sen. Chris Dodd denounced it as "unconscionable."

But 10 years later, what has actually happened? First, caseloads fell dramatically, dropping 60 percent between 1996 and 2004. The proportion of single mothers who held a job increased steadily to more than three-fifths, or about the same employment levels as married mothers. With little education, most took low-wage jobs. But their wages are supplemented by the Earned Income Tax Credit. And like other workers, their salaries rise with time. Only 8 percent of working single mothers who are high school dropouts earn the minimum wage.

In 2004, distinguished family scholar Andrew Cherlin announced after reviewing the evidence that he had changed his mind about workfare. Mothers, he said, "derive a basic dignity" from work, and "as a result of what I have seen, I now think the term 'dead-end job' is a label that often doesn't fit the perceptions of low-income workers, and I will not use it again."


What about the kids?

Christopher Jencks and Scott Winship found "food insecurity" among single moms actually dropped between 1995 and 2000. Poverty rates among single mothers (and their children) are at all-time lows. Studies of children of former welfare mothers suggest little or no evidence of deleterious effects. The pessimists were wrong, but so were the optimists: The work of the mothers does not appear to translate in any direct way into better outcomes for children, on average. No worse, but no better either.

Welfare reform was associated with a sustained pause in the growth of illegitimacy, which does hurt children. But it has not reversed the long-term trend toward more children born outside of marriage.

The critics, concludes Hymowitz, were badly wrong about welfare reform because they underestimate how much culture matters. Welfare reformists, by contrast, argued the way to improve the lives of poor, unwed mothers was to get them to adopt bourgeois habits, like work and marriage.

We've succeeded with the former, but it may be in the long run the latter that matters more for children. Here Hymowitz relapses into the pessimism of the right: Welfare reform can encourage work, but the government cannot do much to help poor mothers make and sustain good marriages. But the Bush marriage initiative, relentlessly opposed by the same people who fought welfare form, is a tool for encouraging civil society to do what Hymowitz says is necessary: Educate the next generation of young people about the importance of marriage for themselves and their children.

Check back in 10 years. The marriage initiative may fail, in which case a several hundred-million-dollar effort to address our most important social problem in a trillion-dollar federal budget will have been wasted. If it succeeds, in 10 years there will be a network of inner-city churches offering scientifically validated programs that actually succeed in helping young people make and sustain decent, loving marriages.

If this happens, it will not be because conservative public intellectuals exhorted them in urban journals to do so. It will be because George Bush decided in his stubborn way to do something good, even if it had no profound public constituency.

Maggie Gallagher is the author of three books on the marriage movement and a nationally syndicated columnist.

Hating Michael Steele

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is a rising star in the GOP and US Senate candidate happens to be a black man.

Maryland liberals are apoplectic. Minority conservatives are garlic to the Democrat vampire. Steele talked about hate politics on FNCs Hannity & Colmes.

The Video is Below

http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/04/26/steele-attacked-by-democratic-hate-politics-video/

Irans Threats

Now that Iran has said they will resume their nuclear program will and should the US get involved?


I dont think president is going to be able to sell the weapons of mass destruction approach this time.

Aint this some crap everyone agrees that the other country does have WMDs and the US will has to sit this one out.

Marcus Skelton is a contributor to this blog
and running for DC City Counsil.

The Hateful Republian Myth

The other day I got a note asking me why I was a republican.

In a nutshell, my answer was :Ideals:

The person then sent me a real reason as to why I was a Republican.
You should be a Republican because you hate minorties, immigrants, gay people, poor people, and women. You should also be a Republican because you believe in fiscal irresponsibility. You should be a Republican because you are a self-serving dick who doesn't care about poor people. And finally, you should be a Republican because you love to lick the asshole of corporate criminals that are fucking hard-working Americans out of jobs and money.

That's why you are a Republican.
And my response:

First of all I am a minority. duh. I like immigrants, they massage our economy. I don't hate gay people, I just don't think they should get married... considering that marriage was first a religious term -- not legal or financial. What the heck is wrong with calling it a civil union if you get the same tax breaks?!

Why do you have to be :married:?

Why do you want that RELIGIOUS title on your .. union?
Anyways. whole other topic.

So.. I'm also a woman so this doesn't count. are they talking about a woman's right to choose?

I think women do have a right to choose... choose to be responsible or irresponsible.. not be irresponsible and then choose to cover it up with murder.

HOWEVER... I have an issue with health and rape cases... again, another topic. Fiscal irresposibility is just FUNNY. and not caring about poor people has NOTHING to do with my political beliefs. Yes, I believe that people SHOULD give back and help when they can... but they should be able to choose what they do with their OWN, HARD-EARNED money. Not aLL rich people were born into wealth. Also, not all Republicans (myself included) are rich! So anything that has to do with social or financial status is null and void in my eyes.

And the last sentence... corporate America... haha... no comment...

What are your thoughts??

Our Stereotype's

Whats up Hip Hop Republican blog readers here is whats on my mind!

Humans, or more specifically, Americans tend to stereotype. It's part of human nature. So, when people of the modern day era - 80's and forward started to see some of the black artists come out with their slang - they interpreted this to be the definition of being black.

I noticed something one day though. I watched a series of movies (all at different times) about blacks in this countries history. Most of the films were pre-80's and all of the black people on the film spoke the kings english. THey were also extremely intelligent. Artists like Gil Scott Herron, Jimi Hendrix and several political activists were all featured on the films. Random blacks of the times also appeared commenting on the protests, concerts or what have you and all sounded the same.

Then I noticed that on certain films prior to the 60's and 70's most blacks in entertainment all had southern accents, but most still spoke well.

It was only once rap started to come out and become more popular in the white world did the phrase "acting white" or "acting black" came out. It was highly popularized by the television show "The Fresh Prince" with the charactter Carlton and somewhat more mild with Steve Erkel on whatever show he was on.

After this, people associated the accents, slang and phonetic sounds with blacks and used it as a distinguishing factor between cultures. Unfortunately, this sparked the whole "know your roll" movement as I like to call it.

I believe the way blacks speak today comes from the old southern accents, the poverty and the molding or branding of an image that was to be sold by the predominately white controlled music business. They wanted to portray something taht was different. They wanted shock value. They wanted a new nigga. The neo-nigga. SO they pushed and in a way rewarded this model or stereo type which had all sorts of negative mannerisms associated with it. I remember when NWA first came out - it was like dayum! Every white person in my town (all white) was frickin shocked - it blew up! I don't know a white person today who doesn't have the old school NWA album. It was new. It was the new jazz, the new rock and roll... and whites were ready to exploit and market.

Listen to black artists in the 70's and early 80's - they don't sound like Luda and Kanye. They don't sound like Biggie and Puffy. Listen to the original "rappers delight" then "Too Shorts" work, then "Run DMC" and then "Dre, Snoop and NWA" - you can see, or hear rather, the evolution or revolution occur.

As a result of this new era and artform, younger blacks started to mold themselves to be or emulate these "roll models." Then a new counter culture was born. all the sudden, everybody was rappin. It was teh new thing in the black culture. Everybody was rhymin (except me, i suck lol) - you still see that today. Shit, I even used to drop freestyles with my boys (black of course). Now, it's a way of life. NWA came out almost over 20 years ago. That's long enough for a stereo type to be born.

All that was in the media were the tap dancers and artists. The colin powell's and condaleeza rices' and John Basquiat's weren't pushed as hard in the media. They didn't sell. Whites would see these types and perhaps thing - "Good for them" but then would shreek in utter horror when they saw teh evolution of rap and thuggish niggas. I forget who said it - but it was Americas worst nightmare. A black man.

Now unfortunately, whites and blacks make fun of blacks who speak the kings english. Honestly, I outgrew slang. I could switch back and forth. But, that doesn't get you hired as a CEO/CTO/CIO/CFO or any comany. And white's run the companies. I had to grow up. When i'm with teh boys, I drop slang all the time, but I can switch. Also, I didn't grow up in the 'hood' so I don't act a certain way.... well, cause, tha'ts not me. I would be fakin it. I'd be a buster. But the stigma was born. It lives on and will continute to live on. Until more and more educated blacks flourish in the media and in business and in communities where they are the minority. But until then - It's sad, but true.

Reflections on Integration

An excerpt from "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker [non-fiction]

[Alice speaking]

"Tell me something, Mrs. Moseley," I ask. "Why do you suppose Zora was against integration? I read somewhere that she was against school desegregation because she felt it was an insult to black teachers."

"Oh, one of the [white people] came around asking me about integration. One day I was doing my shopping. I heard 'em over there talking about it in the store, about the schools. And I got on out of the way because I knew if they asked me, the wouldn't like what I was going to tell 'em. But they came up and asked me anyhow. 'What do you think about this integration?' one of them said. I acted like I heard wrong. 'You're asking me what I think about integration?' I said.

'Well, as you can see, I'm just an old colored woman' -- I was seventy-five or seventy-six then -- 'and this is the first time anybody ever asked me about integration. And nobody asked my grandm"other what she thought, either, but her daddy was one of you all.'" Mrs. Moseley seems satisfied with this memore of her rejoindder. She looks at Charlotte. "I have the blood of three races in my veins," she says belligerently, "white, black, and Indian, and nobody asked me anything before."

"Do you think living in Eatonville made intergration less appealing to you?"

"Well, I can tell you this: I have lived in Eatonville all my life, and I've been in the governing of this town. I've been everything but mayor and I've been assistant mayor. Eastonville was and is an all-black town. We have our own police department, post office, and town hall. Our own school and good teachers. Do I need integration?

"They took over Goldsboro, because the black people who lived there never incorporated, like we did. And now I don't even know if any black folks live there. They built big houses up there around the lakes. But we didn't let that happen in Eatonville, and we don't sell land to just anybody. And you see, we're still here."


This passage made me think of integration in a way that I never had before. I look at places in my old neighborhoods here in the bay area, and at places in Arkansas, and see towns that were mostly all black are allowed to get SO bad that people move out, then they white people move in and build it up. Or a town like Eatonville, which stayed all black, but remained a small town... where few people left and fewer still changed. I wonder is that GOOD? It's what all the other races are doing (Vietnamese and Mexicans especially around here). Not that I don't like these races, but they are living their in their own neighborhoods with their own stores and banks and everything... and it's all in their language and culture. But when a black town does it, it's like... a race thing.

I mean... how does this all make you feel? Clearly I am not against integration, but I think it is something to think about.

Also, I think of what's about to happen in New Orleans. Do you think they are going to let it be so black now? Sure it will probably be nicer and safer, but how many of those blacks that were poor and impoverished...literally.. will be able to live there??

Foood for thought.


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Is the purpose of politics to receive a "hand out"?

The purpose of politics is to receive a "hand out" in some form or fashion through the individual you vote to represent you. Why would someone vote for someone that inherently does not have their best interest in mind? That is a general question, not specific to one party or another.

For example, why would the Christian Right vote for a extremely liberal democrat that it is going to counter ever belief they hold dear through public policy that attacks the premise of their faith?

So they instead vote for what? Someone who is going to best (or the lesser of two evils) serve what they hold as important, and who will "hand out" through public policy things which they think they as a block need and want.

That is the nature of politics, yet somehow we imply blacks are off for doing the same thing. For example, virtually the same percentage of blacks were Republican pre-New Deal, due to the fact that Lincoln was Republican and it was the party that lead the chrarge to eliminate slavery. Would you argue that they were off for being a 'bloc' for the Republican party back then when it was clear that out of all available options, that party seemed to be the one that most adequately represented black needs?

Whic brings us to the transition. There was obviously something the Republican party was NOT doing to have virtually a whole people group shift to democrat.

Now we have an issue where the Republicans have demonstrated a disdain for the black voter, even though most blacks ARE WAITING for a reason to reject the democrats but the Republicans never give them that reason.

So like every other bloc they vote with the party that they feel at least as a token will consider doing something for them.

It is natural, normal, and rational in a political setting.

People vote for what THEY THINK (not what necessarily is) is in their own best interest.

That implicitely means that everyone votes from a theory perspective of getting a handout.

Figure it this way to Beau, when corporations lobby, and fund candidates they do it with the exceptation that they will have legislation that works in their favor, or get a tax break, etc.

When blacks vote, we vote with the perspective that the Democrats out of the two parties give us the best shot of creating change for our condition as a people.

Now I disagree with that assertation, as I believe both parties abuse us in different ways, and that is why I rejected parties, and labels such as conservative or liberal (even though I did once call myself a conservative) as both of those constructs were designed for the white majority and have demonstrated an ineffeciency in reducing wholesale black disparity, particularly in the inner city.

Democrats had control since the 50's & 60's...relatively little change, Republicans had control recently (last ten years or so) relatively no change.

We must consider what is in the best interest of US and reject parties that are designed for the 'majority' because that is what bi-partisan politics is all about.

The Republican Party was Founded On Race

Often people on the left argue that the Republican party has done nothing for any race.

Some on the right say if it did that, the party would be favoring one race above another.
The facts are the Republican Party was primarly founded on racial and social justice issues.

"The party was first established in 1854 by Northerners who were opposed to the spread of slavery, and held a Whig vision for modernizing the nation." - Wikipedia

What color were the slaves again?

It was created for a specific purpose initially, and that specific purpose was based upon a specific race wouldn't you consider that 'race specific'?

COLLEGE REPUBLICANS ENDORSE BLACKWELL

COLUMBUS - In another display of Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell's overwhelming grassroots support, several Ohio College Republican organizations have endorsed his candidacy for governor. Endorsements have been issued by the College Republican organizations of Ohio University, Akron University, Capital University and the Franciscan University of Steubenville. In addition, Blackwell earned overwhelming support in official straw polls conducted by the College Republican organizations of The Ohio State University, Baldwin-Wallace College and Kenyon College.

College Republican organizations rarely endorse during primaries, but several have decided to make a unique exception because Blackwell stands for core Republican principles. To date, no College Republican organization has endorsed Blackwell's gubernatorial primary opponent.
"The OU College Republicans felt that it was extremely important to endorse a strong, conservative Republican with a history of supporting limited government, low taxes, strong family values and personal freedom," said Jordan Carr, Ohio University College Republican President.

"Ohio is starved for new ideas and strong leadership," added John Dziurlaj, President of Akron University College Republicans. "Mr. Blackwell has a proven track record of reforming government. In uncertain times, he is a leader who is willing to stand up for Ohio."

"I appreciate the support from College Republican organizations. Their endorsements mean a lot to me," said Blackwell. "As governor, my goal will be to keep these talented young people in our state by creating a healthier business climate that will produce high quality jobs."

Angry African Voices

- "Half-starved people are being daily admonished to tighten their belts, members of the Ghanaian aristocracy and their hangers-on who tell them to do this, are fast, developing pot bellies and paunches and their wives and sweet-hearts double their chins in direct proportion to the rate at which people tighten their belts." -- Victor Owusu in 1961.


"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership . . . We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children also lose the twenty-first? God forbid!" -- Chinua Achebe (in The Trouble With Nigeria. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Press, 1985; p.3).


"It is true God's children in Africa suffer because there is less freedom in their countries than during the colonial times. African leaders need to be reminded that there is totalitarianism and despotism nearly everywhere in Africa. When your people are free, you can also walk freely and you will not need huge security to protect you." -- Bishop Desmond Tutu (The Daily Nation, Nairobi, March 26, 1990).
"African dictators are some of the most hypocritical leaders anywhere. They condemn oppression of black people by apartheid, yet they organize widespread massacres of their own black people. More than 2,000 Kenyans were killed in cold blood by Moi's security forces at the Wajir massacre in Kenya." -- Koigi wa Wamwere, former member of parliament in Kenya and now in jail (Index on Censorship, July 1990; p.22).


"It has become trendy for enlightened writers on Africa to put all the blame for Africa's backwardness on the West. I think the West should not be blamed anymore for Africa's predicament...I may ask, what is our goal as Africans? It sounds funny that a country like Nigeria cannot boast of any significant supply of good drinking water even after 30 years of independence. One is tempted to think that the goal for Africans is to drive a flashy car, and own a house in Britain, US or France. This is very common among our leaders, some of who think it is a mistake not to have a Swiss bank account or a castle in France.It is not a shame to admit our failures, set our priorities right and forget about blaming the West always for our woes. In fact it is a lazy society which puts all the blame for its troubles on its neighbors.Let our leaders set clear-cut goals for our countries, and not Swiss bank accounts. I don't think George Bush would set himself a goal of owning a bank account in Ghana or Nigeria." -- Osa Kingsley in New African, August, 1990; p.45)


"Three decades of dictatorships, phoney and misunderstood political ideologies have left a legacy of fear, poverty, refugees, outright political thuggery and theft. The systems which have been in place for the last three decades in Africa have produced the likes of Amin, Bokassa, Nguema and the remaining political sphinx which strangle the African continent and its people.Since assuming political power in their countries, these leaders have held their citizens hostage, have run national economies like private chicken-runs and created a national mentality of siege and a state of hopelessness" -- George Sono (New African, Jan 1991; p. 41


If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly (yiba na mayele), little by little." -- President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire in an address to party regulars in 1991.

"Crisis, chaos, famine, diseases, civil wars, coups, dictatorships, social disorder, corruption and legitimising military regimes seem to be the most outstanding elements of post-independence Africa. The mood of optimism, hope and high expectation has today been overtaken by frustration and pessimism." -- Kofi Adusei-Poku (West Africa, March 1-7, 1993; p. 320).


One of the most urgent matters for Nigerians to address when they settle down to debate the National Question is the issue of collaboration by professionals and technocrats with corrupt and repressive regimes. We must devise effective sanctions against our lawyers and judges and doctors and university professors who debase their professions in their zealotry to serve as tyranny's errand-boys, thus contributing in large measure to the general decay of honesty and integrity in our national life. Chinua Achebe in African News Weekly (1 October 1993, 32).


"I believe the worst form of civilian government is better that the most benevolent military regime." -- Chuba Okadigbo, former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of Nigeria's dissolved Senate (The New York Times, Dec 2, 1993; p.A3

"We have incessantly been hounded and harassed. What have we not seen? Grenades, tear-gas, bullets -- you name it! But if anytime the regime intimidates me and I get scared, then we can as well say goodbye to democracy! Even though death is a daily reality, I can't be subdued by the fear of death. The reason why I am not afraid of death is simple: since 1990, we swore to hand power to the people, and until that goal is achieved, no grenades, bullets, assassination plots can deter us from that noble goal. Take this message from me: We're not afraid of death because with the people's support, prayers and solidarity nothing -- I repeat nothing -- can dampen our unflinching resolve to bring veritable democracy to Cameroon." -- Fru Ndi, Chairman of Social Democratic Front (Cameroon Life, Jan 1994; p.10).


"Africa's biggest problem today lies with the leadership. They are so removed from the people that they are looked upon as foreigners. They are driven by self-interest, so excessive that their peoples' interests are forgotten -- hardly different from the colonial masters" -- John Hayford (New African, April, 1994; p.7).

"The problem in Africa is precisely that there is no state to speak of. What exists are ramshackle gangs, presided over by political thugs and military adventurists, generals who have never been to war, and rickety old men who lack vision, who simply pretend to be governing, talk less of ruling, a society. In no African social formation has this body, by whatever name it goes, been able to operate as a state." From "Pan-Africanism: Agenda for African Unity in the 1990s" by Nigerian scholar, Julius O. Ihonvbere, now at Ford Foundation, in a Keynote address at The All-African Student's Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 27, 1994.


"In my view, Ghana's economic malaise is not the result of lack of opportunities or of resource. Ghana, like the rest of Africa, with the possible exception of South Africa and a few others, suffers from the affliction of dishonest leadership . . . I have put the emphasis on bad and corrupt leadership as the root cause of our economic woes. I make no apologies for this because we all know what is going on. On my part, I am quite disappointed that we in Parliament have not been courageous to say nay when this way is necessary" -- Hon. Hawa Yakubu-Ogede, former MP, Bawku (The Ghanaian Voice, Feb 12, 1995; p.8

"Nigerians must realize that colonialism has nothing to do with the color of the colonizer and the colonized. Any group of people that uses the advantage of power -- military or material -- to oppress, exploit, and inferiorize another group of people can be justifiably described as a colonizing group." -- Ropo Sekoni (The Isokan News, Spring, 1995; p.19).


"Three decades after independence, uncertainty and fear still rule the African continent. The freedom and justice that many people sacrificed their lives for have been replaced by tyranny and oppression. And the promises of a decent living has been betrayed by misgovernance and corruption. Most Africans fought so hard to liberate themselves from colonial rule only to be used and abused and their nations ruined by their own leaders. Today Africa has very little to show for its independence because of inhumane and incompetent leadership" -- Steve Mallory, publisher (The African Observer, May 2-15, 1995; p.3).


"Nigeria, the comatose giant of Africa, may go down in history as the biggest country ever to go directly from colonial subjugation to complete collapse, without an intervening period of successful self-rule. So much promise, so much waste; such a disappointment. Such a shame. Makes you sick" -- Linus U.J. Thomas-Ogboji (The African News Weekly (May 26, 1995; p.6).

"Apart from the corruption, the army under Captain Valentine Strasser government (of Sierra Leone) has become totally incompetent, and is conducting a war against the people. The countryside is nothing but destruction, upon destruction. Whole towns and villages have been destroyed" -- Ibrahim Ibn Ibrahim, a Sierra Leonian journalist in Akasanoma, July 31-Aug 6, 1995; p.38).


A critical look at contemporary African military would bring one's eye closer to tears, and one's mind nearer to insanity. The caliber of people found in the military is an obloquy to the belated institution. Today, soldiers of most African countries are known as brutes, bullies and buffoons. Soldiers are always supposed to be in the barracks, either training or doing something profitable. But in Africa, the case is totally different and appalling. Come to Accra and you will see soldiers moving about, wielding guns, pistols, harassing citizens and causing needless trouble. Go to Lome and you will see them. Go to Burkina Faso. To Lagos. To Kinshasa. O! what a degradation of the military! Ghana has seen varied types of uncouth and indisplined soliders" -- Prince Oduro (Free Press, Aug 4-10, 1995; p.4).


"No military coup in Africa has produced a vibrant economy to replace the bankrupt one it set out to redeem. In almost every case, the army boys have imbibed the ways of the corrupt politicians they pushed out of office and even taken their crookedness to a higher level" (African News Weekly, Sept 1, 1995; p.7).


"I have written this article to register my protest and revulsion at the way leaders of African nations have been disgracing the black race.

Just look at the way Ken Saro-Wiwa and co. were hanged like pigs without even the benefit of an appeal . . . In all hue and cry, what is both infuriating and irritating is the speed with which African countries together with their leaders are quick to blame all that go wrong on the continent on our supposed "Enemy" - the West. This sad culture is what has propelled me to protest with all the venom that I can muster . . . Why can't we accept our responsibilities as a race (black race), face the music for our deeds and always tend to pass the buck?

It is not only on the political field that our good-for-nothing so-called teachers blame the Western World for our own mistakes. Take the case of Ghana, for example. We always hear of the often quoted phrase "the unjust world economic order" being the cause of all our problems. Don't we use the same economic textbooks as the Western world? . . .All that I am saying is, we don't deserve to be treated like beggars, because we we are not using our brains at all (that is, if we have brains anyway). The sage says charity begins at home." Kwesi Obeng, UST university student (The Ghanaian Chronicle, Jan 21, 1996; p.4).



All symbols of military authority must be removed from our midst. Those arrogant photographs that desecrate public spaces, schools, hospitals, offices, even courts of justice. Street names, also, change them all. Remove them. Remove them by stealth, remove them openly, by cunning, remove them by bribery, remove them forcibly, remove them tactfully, use whatever method is appropriate, but remove them. I call on all who are resolved to play a role in our mutual liberation to participate in this exercise of psychological release, or mental cleansing and preparedness... Wole Soyinka (1996, 59).


"It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the Nigerian armed forces and the Nigerian armed robber. They both use the same operational tactics, resorting to fear, intimidation, and violence to achieve their objectives." -- Stephen Okoye (African News Weekly, July 15-21, 1996; p.22).


"The [Nigerian] military has perfected the use of intimidation and disinformation to keep a passive population calm. In the process, a timid population became quiet and in some cases conspiratorial and accomodating of dictators for too long. The result is what you see today: a bunch of idiots terrorizing the nation, intimidating opponents and harassing dissidents. It is an equivalent of gangs taking over a whole town. Imagine John Gotti or Al Capone as President of the United States. Well, welcome to the reign of thieves and vagabonds, welcome to our Nigeria today, a gangster's paradise." -- Ikenna Anokwute in African News Weekly (Sept 16-22, 1996; p.6).


How safe is the state of Ghana in the hands of Rawlings and his gangsters at this critical moment when they are seeking the mandate of the people to continue their corruption, misrule, contempt for public opinion, and disregard to public property. Indeed, the record books are overflowing with evidence of Rawlings' wanton misuse of state property and abuse of power.-- Editorial, Free Press (4-10 October 1996, 6).

Hip-Hop Video Gives Voice to Pro-Life Movement

Hip-hop music usually gets a bad rap for its misogynistic overtones and violence, but amid the criticism comes a refreshingly courageous song with a message to which parents can proudly expose their children, particularly teens.

"Can I Live?" which debuted recently on Black Entertainment Television's "106th & Park" video music show, stars former Nickelodeon television star, turned rapper and movie star Nick Cannon, as the yet-to-be son of a teenage mother.

The video, set in the 1970s, takes place at an abortion clinic where a teenage mother, played by actress Tatiana Ali, formerly of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," arrives to get an abortion. Cannon, who plays a ghost-version of himself, tries to persuade his mother to choose life and reconsider her decision to terminate her pregnancy.

The mother sits in the waiting room where others are facing the same dilemma. As she fills out medical forms, Cannon's character talks about the struggles she would face as a teenage mother.

Ali's character is then seen in a hospital gown, lying on a table, ready for the abortion procedure. With doctors standing by, Cannon again appears and sees himself in the form of a baby in the ultrasound on a screen behind him.

He implores her to think about the consequences of her actions and what he could become one day if she would only let him live. As if she could hear him, Ali gets up from the examination table and leaves the room. Cannon thanks her.

Ali runs outside to the street and sees a crowd of children of all sizes and ages wearing white t-shirts, emblazoned with three words: "Can I live?" Those words are also heard in the song's chorus, which is sung by various children.

Months later, we see the young mother in a different hospital room surrounded by family and friends while holding her baby.

In the entertainment industry, sex is often viewed as the most effective tool to sell a product. As a mom, however, I would like to think that an uplifting message like that found in the "Can I Live?" video is much more powerful.

While watching this video, I was moved to tears thinking about the mothers who thought they had no other choice but to abort their child, but I was even more affected by the voices of the children, begging to be born.

Hopefully, more mothers who are conflicted over matters of life and death will be able to hear their child's voice as clearly.


You can watch it at:

http://www.jalive.com.jm/showvid.asp?strmArtist=Nick%20Cannon&ftr=&strmTitle=Can%20I%20live.

True Crisis for Poor Black Men Lies in the Destructive Choices

By: Joseph C. Phillips

Last week the New York Times reported on the deepening plight of African-American men, detailing a list of afflictions including lack of employment substandard education and high incarceration rates. Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics the article read going on to say that, for these men finishing high school is the exception legal work is scarcer than ever and prison is almost routine.

Coincidently, last March, Reuters news service reported on a similar crisis among Black men in the United States and detailed a similar list of ailments.

I tell you we have to stop meeting like this.

Contrary to the provocative headlines the crisis to which both articles allude is not among all black men. A closer reading reveals the deepening plight is specific to a particular group of black men, namely poorly-educated black men living on the margins of criminality, many running from child care responsibilities and -- this is key -- not looking for work. Most black men have not been involved in the criminal justice system and do not drop out of school. The majority of black men are not dodging state authorities because of back child support payments.


Are we really surprised when men who do not take care of TCB as Aretha sang suffer disproportionately more than those who make better choices in their lives?

Of course, some will find the notion that the overriding determinant in the plight of black men today is behavior unrestrained by moral codes of conduct distasteful -- even lacking in compassion.

However, let us consider the irony that as we engage in this discussion, the nation is also in the midst of heated debate about the influx of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border and their impact on our economy. With brown skins, few skills, little education (at least no formal English education since they don't even speak the language), immigrants are flocking to cities all over the country and finding work, even if it is only manual labor.

It is one thing to say rather than dig ditches I prefer to look for work in my chosen profession.It is something else altogether to say I am a high school dropout with a prison record, no skills and kids in need of support, but I will not dig ditches.

And so perhaps we have articulated the true crisis, which is not one of black manhood but is instead a crisis of an American culture that now accepts as normal -- even excuses -- men who choose not to go to school, choose to live on the margins of the law, choose to act irresponsibly in their sexual relationships and choose not to work.

There are admittedly many factors that contribute to the reasons (not excuses) we make the choices we do, and I do not wish to oversimplify. I also do not imagine we will all sit down over beer and chips and solve the problem. However, I would submit that any solution must include a return to traditional moral doctrines formerly taught in the public school system in addition to the home and the church.

Surejobs programs can offer a helping hand, but ultimately it is up to individuals to choose to change their individual lives and a racial framework cannot guide that change -- it must be driven by a spiritual one. The changes necessary to improve lives are supported by values that are neither Afrocentric nor Eurocentric but are universal principles of moral conduct.

No righteous living does not make one immune from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. However, lest we plan to meet here each March and sing the same ol’ sad songs we might consider it as a first step on the road to recovery.

Black Republican run for Florida's11th District

Eddie Adams, Jr. thinks he can win a seat in congress.
Well we will see.

This is his webiste below.

Good Lick Eddie

http://www.adamsforcongress.org

Quote of the Week

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

-Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Politics, Post-Civil Rights

Politics, Post-Civil Rights

By David Gergen and Jeremy Licht

Earlier this month, nonprofit executive John Bryant addressed a convention of black public officials, telling them African-Americans had to become political free agents and make politicians work for their vote. Bryant, himself black, said that message 10 years ago would never fly. Today, he says, it gets roaring applause.

Ten years ago, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began noticing that young African-Americans were taking a different political path from parents who had come of age during the protests of the 1960s. Five years ago, the center reported that most older blacks still identified strongly with the Democratic Party but fully a third of younger black adults called themselves independents. Still, the face of black leadership was that of fiery liberal Democrats like Jesse Jackson and Carol Moseley Braun.

The baton, finally, is passing to a new generation. It may well be a new day--a time when emerging black leaders declare their intellectual independence. As much as they revere the civil rights activists of the past, these leaders believe that changing times demand different answers. Welcome to the politics of the post-civil rights era.

The most obvious signals are coming from the Republican side. In a year when one poll showed President Bush's approval rating among blacks at a microscopic 2 percent, one of the few bright spots is the effort of GOP Chairman Ken Mehlman to attract more blacks to the party. "Give us a chance," Mehlman argues, "we'll give you a choice."

Swing voters. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is the front-runner in the Republican gubernatorial primary there. In Maryland, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is locked in a close race for the U.S. Senate. A recent Democratic National Committee poll said that a majority of blacks in Maryland were willing to consider Steele. In what the pollster called "the emerging black swing" vote, a plurality of those polled, 44 percent, were persuadable when given Steele's message.

Black Republicans may be collecting most of the headlines, but perhaps even more significant changes are occurring among independent black Democrats. For a generation after the 1960s, black Democrats spoke the language and pursued the politics of the civil rights movement. Barack Obama broke the mold with his appeal for a politics that transcends race. As he worked with Republicans to fashion a bipartisan immigration bill recently--a compromise opposed by his party elders--one could sense his independent streak. It makes Democratic strategists long for him to run for the White House.

If Obama is the trendsetter at age 44, there are other black Democrats just a step behind--and who bear watching, too. One is Cory Booker, 36, profiled in this issue; another is Harold Ford Jr., 35, a Tennessee representative who could win the Senate race there this fall; a third is Artur Davis, 38, running for re-election to the House and eyeing a later race for the Senate or the statehouse in Alabama.

All three went to elite universities, are building alliances with both Hispanic and Anglo voters, and--important--are breaking ranks with Democratic orthodoxy. Ford supports prayer in public schools and has voted to cut capital-gains taxes. Booker is a strong advocate of charter schools. Davis, whose district includes battlegrounds of the civil rights era, warns against seeing politics from a race-based view.

It is not that these leaders reject the civil rights movement. Far from it. Recalling recent conversations with Ford and Davis, Booker said, "All of us feel a profound sense of reverence and gratitude for our parents and grandparents. . . . We know of their battles and sacrifices and that we have never been asked to sit in the back of the bus or face a lynching for just looking at a white woman in the South."

But, he continued, the nation is no longer crystallized in a black-white lens. As blacks move in greater numbers to suburbs and Hispanics continue to increase their numbers, broad-based coalitions become a political necessity. In Booker's own Newark, N.J., Hispanics have become 40 percent of the population, and he undertook intensive Spanish training last year.

With global forces also pressing down, Booker believes new tactics are needed--solutions as inclusive as those of civil rights days, but better fashioned for new realities. "We are the hip-hop generation," he says, "and that means we are all about taking the music of our fathers and figuring out new mixes.

TAVIS SMILEY..'The Pragmatic Progressive'

Tavis Smiley is host of "The Tavis Smiley Show," an hour-long weekday program on National Public Radio (NPR), broadcast on approximately 62 stations. He is also host of "Tavis Smiley," a 30-minute weeknight program broadcast on approximately 104 TV stations (most of which air it late at night) of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Smiley also heads The Smiley Group, Inc., a lucrative media conglomerate that co-produces his television show with KCET, the PBS station in Hollywood where the show originates, co-produces his radio show, and oversees Smiley's ventures in publishing, workshops, conferences and other activities.

The third of 10 children, Tavis Smiley was born in 1964 in Gulfport, Mississippi. At age two he moved with his family to Kokomo, Indiana when his father, an Air Force noncommissioned officer, was transferred to nearby Grissom Air Force Base. His mother was an associate minister in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World church.


At age 13, wrote Smiley, he was "bitten by the political bug" when he met Democratic U.S. Senator Birch Bayh at a Kokomo campaign stop. Although Smiley later wrote that he never forgot Indiana once had been the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected class president of his predominantly-white high school and was voted "most likely to succeed."


While attending Indiana University Smiley was on the debate team, active in student government and became an intern for the Mayor of Bloomington. After graduating in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to work as an aide to the head of the City Council and then with the local office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). From 1988-90, Smiley worked as an administrative aide to Los Angeles' first African-American Mayor Tom Bradley.


In 1990, eager at age 26 to launch his political career, Smiley ran for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council and lost. The neophyte finished fourth among 14 candidates. To build his name recognition and earn money for his next run, Smiley started doing a daily one-minute commentary on local black-owned radio station KGFJ, recruiting sponsors himself for "The Smiley Report." The commentaries were soon syndicated to other stations, and Smiley was then hired to do commentaries for ABC Radio.


In 1996, Smiley was introduced to popular leftwing African-American talk radio host Tom Joyner by President Bill Clinton. He became a regular commentator on Joyner's syndicated show. Two years later a first volume of his commentaries was published in Smiley's collection On Air. Smiley joined Joyner in the kind of shakedown tactics perfected by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, alleging racism to intimidate the computer company CompUSA into reallocating a portion of its advertising dollars to African-American publications.

In the fall of 1996 Smiley became host of "BET Tonight," a magazine show on the cable television channel Black Entertainment Television (BET).

The views he brought to this show, as to his radio commentaries, were summed up by Smiley during a 1996 Metro interview about his book Hard Left: "I don't waste time in my book, or anywhere else, defining terms…. The country needs to take a 'hard left' away from the policies espoused by conservative extremists."

Smiley was fired by BET in March 2001 after he did a provocative interview with former Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) member Sara Jane Olson, then sold the interview to ABC. "Recent actions by Mr. Smiley left us little recourse but to make this move," said BET founder and chairman Robert L. Johnson in a press release, adding that Smiley had been fired for "a number of public and private concerns."

Smiley's explanation of his firing to a group of African-American journalists: "They feed pigeons and shoot eagles."

Smiley promptly inked deals to be a contributor to the ABC shows "Prime Time" and "Good Morning America." He continued to do daily commentaries for the "urban" stations of ABC radio, and to appear on the Tom Joyner Show.

In April 2001, only weeks after he was fired, Smiley was hired to begin his own show on NPR with a $1.5 million annual budget of taxpayer dollars. This is the first predominantly black show in NPR's history of more than three decades. NPR's overall listenership is approximately five percent African-American. Smiley's audience is 30 percent black and significantly younger than that of most other NPR shows. On the other hand, Smiley's leftwing views fit comfortably within the NPR profile.


In a speech to black journalists, Smiley raised the topic of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and asked why "African-American teenagers in New York City should make heroes of the policemen who have harassed them and the fire department that wouldn't let their parents or grandparents join." He also suggested that government anti-terrorist tactics might be used to violate the civil rights of minority groups.


In his 2002 book Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America, editor Smiley included heartwarming stories of how Fidel Castro acolyte actor Danny Glover conquered dyslexia and of how radical Princeton professor Cornel West overcame three life crises.


To promote their works, Smiley and West teamed up with another frequent guest on his NPR show, University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Eric Dyson, charging attendees $50-60 apiece for their traveling "Pass the Mic!" tour. Both West and Dyson are self-proclaimed "democratic socialists." Dyson is a supporter of Palestinian Authority dictator and terrorist Yasser Arafat.


The Smiley Group, Inc. entered into a venture with Hay House publishers to produce under a "Smiley Books" imprint not only books but also other products such as mini-books, audio cassettes, CDs, success seminars and "Empowerment Cards." Smiley developed promotional ties with companies ranging from Microsoft to Wal-Mart. He signed with Buena Vista Television, which like ABC is owned by the Disney Corporation, to develop and star in a late-night television talk show.


In January 2004 PBS began airing "Tavis Smiley" weeknights. Each show typically features one or two interviews and, like most PBS shows, tilts left in its choice of topics and guests. He interviews occasional conservatives and Republicans as tokens, and talks with many guests from the leftwing entertainment community. He may yet revert to seeking political office, his original ambition. One interview Smiley references most proudly on his PBS show's web page was with Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro.

"Those of us who are left of center have allowed the Right to take control of the dialogue," wrote Smiley, who as a star of America's taxpayer-subsidized socialist radio and television networks NPR and PBS has built his own media empire and become a multi-millionaire. The Los Angeles Times was correct when it described Smiley as on the "fast track, left lane."

"I think the term 'pragmatic progressive' is an accurate description of what I'm about," says Smiley.

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1686

Off The Record: McKinney Calls Aide A Fool

Off The Record: McKinney Calls Aide A Fool (VIDEO)

Rep. Cynthia McKinney called one of her aides a fool, after saying he lied to her about the questions that would be asked a press conference. Late last week McKinney had a press conference after the first time she met with her constituents since hitting a Capitol police officer.

McKinney who seemed surprised after receiving several questions about the incident, walked out of the press conference with her microphone still attached to her shirt. At this point she called her aide, Coz, a fool. She soon realized it and walked out to the press to inform them any audio heard during the time she was not answering questions is off the record.

This is SO precious! Cynthia McKinney gets all testy when asked at a press conference if anyone has asked her about her confrontation with a Capitol police officer (CNN video, link will probably become inactive after time):

NEW ORLEANS: NAGIN, LANDRIEU HEAD TO RUN-OFF.

In a surprise that defied recent independent polls, embattled Mayor Ray Nagin (D) scored a strong first-place finish with 38% in Saturday's non-partisan mayoral primary. Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu (D) was second with 29%, Audubon Nature Institute President Ron Forman (D) was next with 17%, followed by businessman Rob Couhig (R) at 10%, and eighteen others trailed far behind. While many displaced voters cast absentee ballots or drove back to the city to cast ballots in person, city residents from the wards less damaged by the post-Katrina flooding turned out in much higher numbers. Overall, approximately 40% of Big Easy voters cast ballots.

In addition to Nagin's first place win, the other surprises were Forman's poor performance and Couhig's surprisingly strong numbers. Forman -- a Republican who changed parties to make the race -- was initially seen as very viable, although he blew his opportunity by running a hyper-safe effort that merely made vague promises to do things like "dream big" if elected. Couhig, who was the most vocal conservative in the race, apparently scored his numbers at Forman's expense.

Nagin is also a former Republican businessman who switched parties when he ran for Mayor in 2002. Landrieu is a lifelong Dem, brother of US Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and son of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu. In a total reversal from his first election four years ago, Nagin ran strong with black voters but did poorly with whites. However, conservatives have traditionally disliked the Landrieu family -- but they also abandoned Nagin on Saturday. At this point, Nagin appears fairly well positioned to win a second term by a relatively competitive margin.

Hot Air : Worlds First Conservative Broadcast Network

Hot Air: Worlds First Full-Service Conservative Internet Broadcast Network
How on earth does she do it?

Michelle Malkin has started her own Online TV Network!

Below are links to the site
http://hotair.com/

http://hotair.com/about/

Black Proffesor Attacks Black Republican Speaker

http://www.bondinfo.org/photo-gallery/UTSA/template.htm


Professor Disrupts Rev. Petersons Speech at University of Texas at San Antonio

BOND Founder and President Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson entered a hornets nest when he came to the University of San Texas at San Antonio to address the students.

A black professor of African-American studies named Frederick Williams had been attempting to fire up his students for two weeks in the classroom prior to Rev. Petersons address, and reportedly had even offered extra credit to students who would come and protest the speech!

As Rev. Peterson entered the universitys main auditorium, he saw an armed security guard in each corner.

After being introduced by an event organizer, Rev. Peterson began to speak. Much of the audience was enraptured with Rev. Petersons touching story of personal transformation.

The title of Rev. Petersons address was How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America, and he explained how that exploitation comes about. He urged black Americans to turn away from corrupt leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, and the Black Caucus.

Hearing Rev. Peterson speak honestly about their leaders angered many in the crowd, and hands began to shoot up, before the question and answer session even began.

Professor Williams was there with his troops, and brought some printed buttons with the words, We support legitimate black leadership. Someone pinned one of these buttons to Rev. Petersons lapel, and on observing the button on Rev. Peterson, Professor Williams angrily demanded that he remove it. Rev. Peterson replied that he too supports legitimate black leadership!

Rev. Peterson explained that the fall of the black community started years ago, when government regulations mandated that women could not receive federal assistance (welfare) as long as there was a man in the home. So black men left the homes, and the government became the daddy of the family. Rev. Peterson said, The government (bureaucracy) is anti-God and anti-family.

Professor Williams asked that since Rev. Peterson had stated that the government was anti-God, then what about President Bush? After all, isnt he the government?

Rev. Peterson told Williams that as a professor, he should know that the government is a bureaucracy, not a person, and suggested that students get out of Professor Williams class (due to his ignorance).

At this point many in the audience began to erupt. One black man called Rev. Peterson a Samboa tool for the white man. There were several times during the presentation when angry black students jumped up and acted as if they were going to come up to the stage and attack Rev. Peterson.

One young woman stood up and started raving, in total disagreement with Rev. Peterson. After failing to engage her in dialogue, Rev. Peterson good-naturedly asked, Howd you like to married to her?

Two young women got up and said that Rev. Peterson shouldnt say the things he was saying. Jesse asked them, Name one thing Ive said thats wrong. Of course they couldnt.

In an attempt to find a rational person to converse with, Rev. Peterson finally said, Are there any normal people here, cuz these folks are crazy. Professor Williams jumped to his feet and said, Dont talk to these kids like that!

Amongst the liberal overreaction, a Hispanic man stood up and told Jesse, I agree with everything you said, its all true. The man suggested that Rev. Peterson run for President. Then apparently feeling the hostility of an angry liberal pack around him, the man promptly got up and headed for the exit!

At last the meeting was over. Wary of potential trouble, guards hovered around Jesse. A black student approached him asking, Why do you say you hate black people? (Of course he never said that). Another asked, Why do you say youre not black? (Rev. Peterson never said hes not black, he said hes not an African American).

Other crowd members approached Rev. Peterson to thank him for the speech, and to let him know how much it helped them.

During the event, a number of event organizers had been threatened by black audience members. One black male threatened to bitch slap a young female organizer, after she had asked him to quiet down.

Because of the danger, Rev. Peterson had to be escorted all the way to his car.

Rev. Peterson later commented that he was encouraged by the open and honest dialogue. And that all that happened was good, even the outbursts, because it can get those who overreacted to take an honest look at themselves. He was also encouraged by the energy and courage of the organizers.

If you are interested in booking Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson to speak at your university, church, or conference, call Patrick Rooney at (323) 782-1980.

Just another exhibition of liberal intolerance.

Liberal tolerance is an oxymoron. The moment you get up and say something they don't want to hear the hoods come out. Does anyone remember the "tolerant" people bringing (and purportedly tossing) oreo cookies at Lt. Gov Michael Steele (R-MD)?

A Little Perspective

Pythagorean theorem: 24 words

The Lord's Prayer: 66 words

Archimedes' Principle: 67 words

The 10 Commandments: 179 words

The Gettysburg Address: 286 words

The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words

U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26911 words

CIA officer Busted for leaking classified info to media

Via Fox News...

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A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media. CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA. One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."

The CIA officer was not in the public affairs office, nor was he someone authorized to talk to the media. The investigation was launched in January by the CIA's security center. It was directed to look at employees who had been exposed to certain intelligence programs. In the course of the investigation, the fired officer admitted discussing classified information including information about classified operations. The investigation is ongoing.


This will get buried in the media, and they'll pick up the fraudulent "but...but...Valerie Plame!!!!"

The NAACP on Illegal Aliens

Bruce Gordon President of the NAACP


A blog freind recently wrote the NAACP on its stand on
Illegal Immigration and why it was so quiet.

This was the responce.

Dear Hip Hop Republicas,

I wrote the he NAACP - and asked them why they have been so disengaged from the illegal alien debate. Specifically, if they believe that 12 million illegal aliens provide no impediment to blacks in the US in regards to jobs, wages and social achievment.

Their response - was their recent press release - which - is still weak. They seem to have no opinion on the impact of illegal aliens on blacks that already are citizens. Apparently - they do not care, and want more illegal citizens working. And, this is it:


Quote:

Thank you for contacting the NAACP Washington Bureau. We are the federal legislative liaison office for the NAACP. I apologize for the delay in responding.

The issue if immigration reform is contentious and oftentimes emotional. The NAACP, true to our mission, has been involved in the debate on Capitol Hill trying to ensure that our nation’s immigration policies must be consistent with humanitarian values and with the need to treat all individuals with respect and dignity. As such, we have developed a set of principles that we believe should be included in any legislation which addresses immigration reform. These principles, including the need for more meaningful job training assistance programs and more well paying jobs in the United States, are included in the press release that is attached below.

Thank you again for contacting the NAACP Washington Bureau.



NAACP NEWS

www.naacp.org


Bruce S. Gordon Julian Bond

President and Chief Executive Officer Chairman, Board of Directors


MMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2006

Contact: John C. White

(410) 580-5125


OMPREHENSIVE Immigration Reform SHOULD NOT INCLUDE CRIMINALIZING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS

Immigration policies must be consistent with humanitarian values

The NAACP has called for Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform without a primary focus on the enforcement approach that includes building a 700-mile wall, conducting a campaign of mass deportation and the criminalizing of undocumented workers.

NAACP President & CEO Bruce S. Gordon said: Our nations immigration policy must be consistent with humanitarian values and with the need to treat all individuals with respect and dignity. We must move away from the politics of ostracizing immigrants and instead look at the demographic shifts and needs of our nation in a larger context.

Gordon said that legislation to address genuine immigration reform should include proposals that would allow people to earn the right of citizenship through hard work, the commitment of several years and meeting several monetary, security and related requirements. He said the NAACP “strongly opposes any efforts to criminalize undocumented immigrants.

Gordon said, Problems with the immigration system cannot be resolved without looking at the larger economic needs of the nation such as the creation of job training programs and small business programs, as well as federal education assistance so that all Americans can have enhanced opportunities.”

The NAACP released a set of principles that legislation should include in an attempt to tackle the problem of immigration reform. These include:

Support of family unification by not subtracting the visas given to immediate relatives of U.S. citizens from visas available to all family immigrants thereby reducing the backlogs in which people wait for many years to reunite with their closest family members;

Support of protections for agricultural workers and a path to legal permanent residency and citizenship for college age students;

Support of due process rights for immigrants facing deportation, including access to fair, humane and common-sense procedures such as a speedy trial and adequate counsel;

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Opposition to efforts to penalize anyone for providing humanitarian assistance to their fellow human beings, regardless of the citizenship status of the person in need of help;


Opposition to any efforts to require, encourage or deputize state or local police to enforce federal immigration laws;


Opposition to Department of Homeland Security detention of individuals indefinitely;


Opposition to low-level Citizenship and Immigration Service personnel exercising unreviewable authority to judge good moral character of an applicant for citizenship;


Opposition to mandatory detention of undocumented immigrants without individualized consideration of whether detention is necessary.


Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Bum Exposed

Unflattering pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a British newspaper have sparked a backlash from the German government and media.

The Sun printed photos of Mrs Merkel on holiday taken from behind while changing into her bathing suit.

A government spokesman accused the tabloid of voyeurism and said the chancellor had a right to privacy.

One paper said Germany would take its revenge at the World Cup, promising the English team a "good thrashing".

The Sun printed the photos under one of its trademark puns: "I'm Big in the Bumdestag".

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash7.htm


Can some one call 1-900 Sir Mix-A-Lot I hear he likes big butts...wow das Uberheinie.

Black-owned businesses booming

I found an interesting article from the Sun-Time about black business. Here are some interesting facts about black owned businesses...

There were 54,758 black-owned businesses located in Cook County in 2002 that generated $3.9 billion in sales and receipts. The number of businesses was 69 percent higher than the 32,377 cited in the 1997 report, and revenues were 31 percent higher, although the Census Bureau cautioned that not all data is directly comparable because of changes in its surveying method.

Nationally there were 1.2 million black-owned businesses, up 45 percent between 1997 and 2002, and they generated $88.8 billion in revenue, a 25 percent increase, the Census Bureau said.
I like this news, and I want to see more of this. There is this idea that blacks do not like to start a business. I would really like the idea of helping a black owned enterprise suceed and hopefully more blacks will take the leap. What the business plan might be of course is up to only the budding entrepreneur.

Here's what the Sun-Times article says about the environment of Cook County and Chicago...


Chicago is a very good business town with a diverse set of industries, said Robert Blackwell Sr., chairman and chief executive officer of Blackwell Consulting Services, sharing his view of why Cook County has attracted so many black-owned firms.

"We used to be heavy in manufacturing, steel," he said. "Now there's finance, the stock market, services industries. The city has kept up.

"The economy seems to be pretty good most of the time, and for a very long time we have had some important black businesses, such as Ebony magazine, Johnson Products and Luster Products, the Chicago Defender. Chicago has been a very important town for African Americans historically."

....

The size of the black population in Chicago, elected officials' sensitivity to the need for black business development and strong black business groups have also been important factors, said Larry Huggins, president and chief executive officer of black-owned Riteway/Huggins Construction Services Inc.

Yeah I like this. Hopefully the Business department at Morehouse will realize the value of not only being a feeder for Fortune 500 companies but also producing the new Fortune 500 companies by teaching entrepreneurs. This is what I'd like to see more of.

Levois is a Black Republican and writer.

She can be reached at her E-mail address is itsmymind (AT) gmail (DOT) com.
Any questions, comments or inquiries PLEASE e-mail her.

She is also the owner of Itsmymind.. http://itismymind.blogspot.com/

Rift Between Black Conservatives?

by Freda Robinson

I am beginning to sense a dangerous rift between the two camps in the burgeoning black conservative movement. One side is the 100% converted.

They are supremely loyal (almost to a fault) supporting actions and policies of the administration and party that are sometimes hard to defend. I mean this, not as an indictment of the vigor of their beliefs, but only to demonstrate their passion. The other side is newly minted into the black conservative movement.

Their shift of political ideology is based on the realization that the Democratic Party, no longer represent their economic interests or beliefs. They were not convinced by black, parrot political organizations and publications citing 100 year old Republican history as if it were new. With 80% of Black America solidly in the middle class, issues of taxes, families, retirement and security, looms larger in their lives than seeking racism at every turn in society. On the issues named above, the two camps are mostly in agreement.

The rift is occurring over contentious social issues like affirmative action and abortion. The 100% converted camp questions the other camps' "conservativeness" because they are in favor of affirmative action and "allowing a woman the "right to choose." This behavior by the 100% camp is shortsighted, foolish, and in fact, quite hypocritical.

As I wrote earlier, the two camps agree more than they disagree. Isn't it better to grow the movement than discourage new members? Power is in numbers. Numbers naturally creates strength in appearance but it significantly increases fundraising success by requiring smaller amounts from a larger donor pool. In order to grow the movement beyond the 100% converted and the new, more moderate converted, the unconverted masses will have to see candidates and elected officials who look like them. It is unthinkable to me that a black person wouldn't support another black person, simply because he only agreed with him 80% of the time instead of 100% of the time. This is the mentality I am witnessing while reading other blogs and logging into black conservative chat rooms. We must look at the big picture.

I say hypocritical because the 100% camp is quick to point out the appointments of Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice to the Secretary of State Office. They tout their "pull themselves up from their bootstrap" stories as evidence of the power of conservative values. Yet, if either one was running for Congress without their fame, the 100% crowd would haggle over their views on affirmative action and abortion. I don't believe it is asking you to subvert your values to support candidates who don't agree 100% with you. Again, we must look at the big picture.

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-Freda Robinson is a self described independent/moderate voter, who is finding my political philosophy suprisingly evolving into conservative, Republican views. Her parents are blue collar workers who are staunch Democrats. She was born and raised in North St. Louis, Missouri, the oldest of three siblings. She was the first in her family to attend college, graduating suma cum laude from a prestigious, northeatern liberal arts college, with a degree in politcal science. She is currently working as a Financial Planner in Atlanta, Georgia.

1 Young Black Republican

I have found that I have become enemy number one of racist's, and modern day Liberls of every color and culture. For years I couldn't figure out why hardcore racists and liberals hated me for the same reason. The answer eluded me until I came across a racist shock jock in Wisconsin named "Sly".

He called Dr. Condoleezza Rice, "Aunt Jemima", and Colon Powell an, "Uncle Tom". He said he was validated after calling them these names by the NAACP and Harry Belaphonte. He also said he supported the Black community in Southern Wisconsin for years which proved he wasn't racist. I believe anyone that calls any Black American names simply because they are Black is a racist. If Dr. Rice and Mr. Powell weren't Black he wouldn't have called them names, and that makes him a racist. He just doesn't know it because his words are supported by other racists in the NAACP, that are Black, as well as Black Americans in Wisconsin.

For years the Black community has known that many of its youth were participating in self hate by calling each other names like the "N" word. No one could figure out why the "N" word was widely accepted as being gratuitous between individuals in the Black community. There are theories as to why such a destructive, self hating word is used, but none can truly explain it. I can.

My journey into becoming a Republican started when I put my nation before my race. In fact, my nation comes before everything in my life except God, and my loved ones. I guess you can call me a patriot. I wasn't raised to be a patriot, but as I grew to be a man I realized that everything that was good for my nation was good for me. I am an American before I am Black.

I am now hated and called names like, "Uncle Tom" by many liberals like "Sly" and members of the NAACP. I am also hated by racists for being a patriot of this great nation. I am told, by racists, that this nation isn't mine. In their minds Black men have no claim to "their" nation. Liberals tell me that I am forgetting my heritage by claiming this nation above my race. I say to the Liberals that my race is in my genetic makeup, and no matter how hard anyone tries, it can never be taken away from me. I say to the racists that I was born in this nation an American, and no matter how hard they try they can never take that away from me.

As one can see I have become the worst enemy of racists and Liberals by being a patriot. The divisive nature that racists and Liberals have in common, shows the true racist nature of Liberals of every color and culture. Liberals will only support Black Americans as long as they put their race before their nation. Racists are happy with Black Americans as long as they claim their race, not their nation. Both groups are racist. Both groups are only happy with us as long as we do not choose to be proud Americans. In this lies the reason why so much self hatred exists in the Black community. As long as the Black community denies their American heritage there will always be self hate within them. They are hating the fact that they are American. So as long as this self hate exists, Liberals will always be there to support us. As long as we deny our American heritage, racists will also feel some type of victory.

Dr. Rice, Mr. Powell, and other Black Americans, like myself, are the success stories that Dr. Martin Luther King spoke about in his, "I Have a Dream" speech. His dream was seeing his children and white children playing together as one. The unity he dreamt about was the unity of all races under one flag, and one God. If I am a great American I am also a great Black American and our community needs to accept this truth. The Liberals that promote the denial of the American heritage in the Black community are the silent and hidden racists of today. This needs to be recognized throughout our community.

As a Black Republican and American patriot I firmly stand against the divisive nature of the racism in the Liberal agenda. I have thrown off my self hate and put on patriotism. For the future of our nation I hope all races and cultures turn away from the Liberal agenda and turn toward the common ground we all stand on: being an American. Liberals are always complaining about the divisions in our nation. It's ironic that their racist agenda creates their everyday complaint. It is also sad that the NAACP and other Liberal supported groups use the power of that party to destroy all of the gains America has made.

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CNN News Report

Mr. T hates playing 'Rock Paper Scissors' because he doesn't believe anything could beat rock. He always chooses rock, and when someone throws paper, he says,"I win." If someone is foolish enough to dispute this, he takes his clenched fist and punches them in the face, then says, "I thought your paper would protect you."

The Thin Grey Line

by AKA..bbqchickenrobot

Hip Hop Republican from
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA


If you watch 24, then you are aware of the moral ambiguity involved in politics. Being that I force fed myself the first 3 seasons in the past 3 weeks, I am acutely aware of the difficult decisions folks, particularly President Palmer, had and have to make during the process of politics and governing.

I feel blacks in the political process are forced into this same land of moral ambiguity due to a two party system that isn’t, nor never was designed to adequately address our needs as a forced immigrant population in which whole systems of historic legislation have been targeted specifically against US or about us.

When President Palmer had to order Jack Bauer to kill a fellow agent to save millions of lives in season three, was it right? Most individuals would distinctly say, “Yes”, like Spock said when just before he died in Star Trek II, “The good of the many outweigh the good of the few”. The problem is the few catch it for the good of the many in the scenarios, similar to blacks (the few) amongst whites (the many) in this nation. But maybe I am tossing out to many quotes eh?

My point is this, in our two party system, we as blacks are forced to choose between two evils, the democrats and the republicans. Yes, I said two evils. Neither exist to serve our interest, both exist to perpetuate their own existence and secure their power base. Democrats utilize us to secure their power base, while simultaneously disregarding our real needs while the Republicans simple give us the finger.

Where the moral ambiguity occurs is our selection of the Democrats over the Republicans, particularly in the area of homosexuality, and abortion. We have always been a people with a distinct furvor for Christian faith, and as such, we as a general rule, reject the concept of homosexual marriage. In fact, this issue actually won Bush some black votes in the past election. Concurrently, we are anti-abortion as a general rule, although we don’t and haven’t made this a platform issue. Yet both of these issues are issues we are forced to passively accept by our block vote for our perceived lessor of two evils, the Democratic party. Moral ambiguity, that thin grey line where we make a collective decision that the group benefits the Democratic party will provide us to advance us in America outweigh what many consider individual moral failings.

The collective and historical dis-interest in blacks by the Republican party has essentially created for blacks a one party system (Democrats) that throws enough bones to keep us involved, but not enough meat to actually materially change our condition. For black folk, this thin grey line of moral ambiguity has us choosing to starve slow with the hope of feasting, verus starving fast with no opportunity to feed at all.

We are in a catch 22, and my argument is this, the system must be rejected altogether. We must define for ourselves the things that we want, which is an amalgamation of what is the best in both parties. We don’t want homosexual marriage, and we don’t (as a general rule) want abortion, but we do want affirmative action, and we do want direct attention to our unique position in America. We must stop sacrificing the concept of individual morality for the percieved greater good, as in the end, they both go hand in hand.

So with all respect to the greatest black president in the history of television, David Palmer of 24, we must reject this thin grey line of moral ambiguity which forces our hand in voting for the lessor of two evils, and take clear and decisive stands on what we as black people want.


I agree a bit with the lesser of two evils, but not based on a racially motivated agenda. I think it's the personal interests of the parties that has us picking. I also don't agree with the part of affirmative action - we need something that is like it, but we need for all of america not just blacks- and as you've probably read so many times in posts - it's education. If the blacks in compton go tthe same quality education I got in my town during highschool they'd be ballin as a whole right now!! I don't mean blinged out, but I mean crack and extreme poverty levels would be eliminated for the most part.

But the rest I agree with. Choose your party wisely, and don't just select one because they claim to represent blacks. Or because they claim that it's the party that was organized for the blacks - but whehter the intrinsic principles of the parties are aligned with your personal views and ideologies.

W.B.Dubois Quote

I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the veil."

W.B.Dubois

Godwin Nnanna: "Why Charles Taylor Must Pay For His Deeds"

The assistant editor at Business Day Nigeria explains how former African leaders - like Charles Taylor of Liberia (pictured center, in suit) - have plundered the continent's resources and butchered its people - and why justice must be served: "Given that he was a central figure in the destabilization of the West African region for more than a decade, observers believe that justice in the case of Taylor will serve as a lesson in time for African leaders who think that they can subvert the law and do as it suits them while in power. Nothing irks me than to see the rule of law undermined. Unfortunately, that has been the stock in trade of most African leaders over the years. Given the natural and human resources in Africa, the continent has no reason to be poor.

Yet, the continent is the poorest in the world. Rather than being exploited for the benefit of the people, Africa’s mineral resources are daily plundered and siphoned to Europe and America by leaders who see governance as nothing but opportunities for self-enrichment. More than half of the 800m people living in sub-Saharan Africa survive on less than 70 US cents a day. Africa is the only continent that has consistently grown poorer in the past 25 years, despite global advancement in trade and technology.

Because of the activities of leaders like Taylor, not even Africans on the continent, much less Africans in the Diaspora want to invest in Africa. The post-colonial leadership, with few exceptions, established defective political and economic systems in which enormous power was concentrated in the hands of the state and, ultimately, one individual. Power in most of Africa today resides with the national governments and not many of the continent’s leaders are doing anything to reverse it.

Rather than do that, the Taylors of the continent through progressive impoverishment of the people, have churned out more sycophants in their camps than reformers - sycophants who will rather campaign that such leaders stay in power longer than necessary than insist that national constitutions be upheld.

This explains why incumbent leaders in Africa never lose elections even when it is obvious that they run oppressive governments. When they are shown that the tune has changed as the Special Court in Sierra Leone is currently doing in the case of Charles Taylor - perhaps, a lot more of the enemies of Africa who by either hook or crook have found themselves in power, will learn to act with the future in view."

What will it take to grow the number of Black Republicans?

What will it take to grow the number of Black Republicans?
Here is a good article for everybody.

Black Republicans: A Growing Trend
Written by Keith Barton

Black voters, in small but growing numbers, are beginning to consider the Republican Party, and this trickle one day could turn into a dam-break. That's the gist of an article by Rod Thomson titled ''A Growing Political Force to Be Reckoned With: Black Republicans,'' and abridged from the Sarasota Herald Tribute.


The ballroom of the Hyatt in downtown Sarasota was filled to capacity with 200 people at a $75-per-plate dinner. Typical Republican shindig, except for one thing: Most of the attendees were black. The occasion was the first inaugural banquet of the SaraMana Black Republican Club.

There is the sound of distant thunder in the two-party political alignment that is as real in Sarasota as anywhere in the country. Black voters, in small but growing numbers, are beginning to consider the Republican Party.

It sounds laughable at first blush. The Democratic Party has relied on about 90 percent, unquestioning black support for decades. But it is quite real, and could have stunning consequences for the balance of political power in the country.

I wrote about this last year, when a trolley filled with black Republicans rolled through all of the streets of Newtown before the November election to get out the vote for Republicans. It just seemed such a strange picture.

In that election, the black-owned Tempo News in Sarasota endorsed Republican Jeb Bush for governor, as did the black-owned The Weekly Challenger of St. Petersburg and the Broward Times of Fort Lauderdale, the first time the latter ever endorsed a Republican.

A few months later, the SaraMana Black Republican Club was formed and held its first meeting in April 2003 with 16 charter members. Seven months later, it held its first dinner meeting with 200 people enthusiastic about the conservative cause.

The banquet featured speakers, award-winners and a video presentation letting dozens of local blacks explain why they are Republicans.

One black woman who went at the invitation of a friend arrived as a Democrat but left as a Republican, giving a thumbs up to her party change.

''This will mark the beginning of changing the landscape of Sarasota and Manatee,'' said Johnny Hunter, president of the club and publisher of Tempo News.

Jacksonville state Rep. Jennifer Carroll, the first black Republican elected to the Legislature, gave the keynote speech. She told the group that the NAACP ran ads against her last fall without ever contacting her, simply because she is a Republican and despite the fact that she is a lifetime member of the organization.

But Carroll did not talk about fighting against the NAACP. She talked about taking over the NAACP with conservative blacks, and she was met with cheers. In fact, during a Saturday afternoon featuring one of the biggest football games of the season, the people were cheering her every remark.

And they were tough remarks, such as, ''You do not have to be a Democrat. Last time I checked, slavery was over,'' and, ''Liberalism is a cancer on inner city America.''

Perhaps this is just an anomaly in Sarasota? Apparently not. It is national in scope.

A study from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies last year found that in the previous two years, black support for Democrats dropped 11 percentage points, resulting in less than two-thirds calling themselves Democrats. Meanwhile, support for Republicans more than doubled among black voters, from 4 percent to 10 percent.

That is still a small percentage, but it does represent a 150 percent increase. Further, the largest Republican support comes from the youngest segment of black voters – the future.

If Sarasota is any indication, this trickle one day could turn into a dam-break.


Source: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5178&catcode=11

Russel Simmons...The Walmart of Hip Hop

Russel Simmons is a corprate capitalist, people often forget this.
He and others hip hop entrepreneurs are by all means in it for the bling, bling.

They are the same as any white guy in a suit accept they leave the suits
behind to where there latest wardrobe in order to start a trend i.e..bling.

He and Rick Rubin founded Def Jam Recordings in 1984 in a New York University dorm room with a $5,000 investment.

During a time when supply and demand meant selling you're cds out of a car trunk,
there was stiff competetion and cash to be made.

Russel Simmons decided to nip that in the bud and take over
the industry...the mom and pop stores of hip hop.

Russel Simmons and other entrepreneurs eventualy ended up dominating the industry.
It's awfuly hard to thinking of progressive Hip Hop as having monopolies.

Hip Hop likes to brand it self as an anti establishment underground, rebelllous
but the truth is Hip Hop is capitalism.

So get used to it!

Hip Hops customer base is 45 million consumers between the ages of 13 and 34, 80 percent of whom are white probaly Republicans.

This group has about $1 trillion in spending power.

Hip Hop fans who think that hip hop artist and leaders are cool and stickin it to the man might consider if Hip Hop has become The Man?
Just trying to keep it Real!

A History of Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of dance music which became popular with Latin American youth during the late 1990s and spread to North American, European, Japanese, and Filipino audiences during the first few years of the 21st century. Reggaeton (also spelled with the Spanish accent as Reggaetón, and sometimes as Reguetón in Spanish) - blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, such as bomba and plena, as well as that of hip hop. The music is also combined with rapping (generally) in Spanish.

Reggaeton has empowered the Hispanic Caribbean youth, specifically those of Puerto Rico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Mexico as well as the Latin American audience and the Latino communities in the United States, with a musical genre as a voice.

While it takes influences from hip hop and dancehall, it would be wrong to define reggaeton as the 'Hispanic'- or 'Latino'- version of either of these genres; reggaeton has its own specific beat and rhythm, whereas Latino hip hop is simply hip hop recorded by artists of Latino descent. Reggaeton's distinguishing feature is the Dem Bow beat (alternately spelled Dembow), which originated in a song by Shabba Ranks in the mid-1990s

Reggaeton lyrics tend to be more derived from hip hop than dancehall. Like hip hop, reggaeton has caused controversy due to its often explicit lyrics and alleged exploitation of women . Further controversy surrounds perreo, a dance with explicit sexual overtones which typically accompanies reggaeton music.



History

The birthplace of the music genre is a subject of debate between those who believe it was started in Panama and those who believe it originated in Puerto Rico however, it is known that the first Latin American reggae recordings were made in Panama during the 1970s. Reportedly, the Jamaican Reggae influence on Panamanian music has been strong since the early 20th Century, when Jamaican laborers were used to help build the Panama Canal.

Artists such as El General, Chicho Man, Nando Boom, Renato,Black Apache are considered the first raggamuffin deejays from Panama. El General has been identified as one of the fathers of reggaeton, blending Jamaican reggae into a Latin-ised version.

Meanwhile, during the 1980s the Puerto Rican rapper Vico C released Spanish-language hip hop records in his native country. His production of cassettes throughout the 1980s, mixing reggae and hip hop, helped spread the early reggaeton sound, and he is widely credited with this achievement [citation needed]. At this point the two main influences of the genre were in place, as well as the two main producing countries.

During the 1990s reggae production took off seriously in Panama; this also occurred separately in Puerto Rico due to the increased popularity of Jamaican ragga imports. It was common practice to translate the lyrics of Jamaican reggae song into Spanish and sing them over the original melodies. Towards the middle of the decade, Puerto Ricans were producing their own "riddims" with clear influences from hip hop and other styles. These are considered the first proper reggaeton tracks, initially called "under", a short form of "Underground". The 'under' scene widened when Puerto Rican and Cuban styles mixed with Panamanian-style reggae. DJ Playero was one of the most famous producers at the time, releasing several "underground" cassettes that featured early performances of some soon-to-be-famous artists like Daddy Yankee.

The genre morphed through the years, at various points being termed Melaza, musica underground and reggae de Puerto Rico. A breakthrough was made by the Jamaican artist Shabba Ranks who released a track Dem Bow in the early 1990s [citation needed]. The beat and rhythm from this song became the eventual background for the developing genre; at one point the genre became known as Dem Bow.

The name reggaeton only gained prominence in the mid-1990s (from the 1994 to 1995 period), with the Dem Bow beat characterizing the genre; this is in contrast to the more reggae, dancehall and hip hop -derived tracks previously created. The name was reportedly created in Puerto Rico to signify the hybrid sound created from the years of mixing the different genres. Today, the music flourishes throughout Latin America.

Reggaeton soon increased in popularity with Latino youth in the United States when DJ Blass worked with artists such as Plan B and Speedy in albums such as Reggaeton Sex. The first song which introduced Reggaeton to a big amount of fans is the song Tra Tra by Don Chezina. From there on reggaeton gained fans with songs such as Amor Con La Ropa by Speedy, No Puedo Estar Sin Sexo by Plan B, and Dembow by Yandel.


Reggaeton expanded and became known when other producers followed the steps of DJ Playero, like DJ Nelson and DJ Eric. In the mid 90s albums like Playero 37 (In which Daddy Yankee became known) and The Noise 5 and 6 were very popular in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Singers like Don Chezina, Master Joe, Mey Vidal, Baby Rasta Y Gringo, Polaco among others were very popular.

Many now popular producers, such as Luny Tunes, Noriega and Eliel, first appeared in the reggaeton scene in 2003. Albums such as Mas Flow, The Last Don, and Las Gargolas 4 expanded reggaeton's popularity among Latinos in the United States.

2004 was the year that reggaeton gained widespread popularity in the United States, eventually gaining attention in many 'Western' countries. This was due to N.O.R.E. introducing the genre to mainstream America with the song Oye Mi Canto, followed by Daddy Yankee who came out with his album Barrio Fino and his hit single Gasolina. Another important artist that contribuited to gain popularity to reggaeton, especially in Europe, is Don Omar, with singles like 'Pobre Diabla' and 'Dale Don Dale'.


Reggaeton in Puerto Rico

Reggaeton as it is known today is most commonly associated with Puerto Rico where it has really flourished and from where it has been spread around Latin America and the world. The Puerto Rican influence in reggaeton has involved the addition of hip hop to the Panamanian reggae style. Puerto Ricans have claimed reggaeton as their own [2] partly due to the fact that the movement was originally anti-establishment, with the government attempting to ban the perreo ("doggystyle") dance. Reggaeton is now more accepted within the country.


Reggaeton in Latin American Countries

Reggaeton has been a huge hit all across the globe, especially in Latin American countries, such as the Caribbean nations like Colombia, Venezuela, and in some Central America where it has become staple music in most parties and events across, complementing the common mix of merengue, salsa and electronic music and has paved a huge fan base. In some countries (such as Venezuela, with Calle Ciega, Doble Impakto and Mr. Brian and Pescozada and Heavy Clan from El Salvador), domestic "reggaetoneros" have arisen, expanding the Pan-latin feel of the genre.



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Hip hop outside the US...World hip hop

Although hip hop music originated in the United States, it has spread throughout the world.

Hip hop was almost entirely unknown outside of the United States prior to the 1980s. During that decade, it began its spread to every inhabited continent and became a part of the music scene in dozens of countries. In the early part of the decade, breakdancing became the first aspect of hip hop culture to reach Germany, Japan and South Africa, where the crew Black Noise established the practice before beginning to rap later in the decade. Meanwhile, recorded hip hop was released in France (Dee Nasty's 1984 Paname City Rappin') and the Philippines (Dyords Javier's "Na Onseng Delight" and Vincent Dafalong's "Nunal"). In Puerto Rico, Vico C became the first Spanish language rapper, and his recorded work was the beginning of what became known as reggaeton.

The greatest amount of diversification of hip hop came in the 1990s. In the Dominican Republic, a recording by Santi Y Sus Duendes and Lisa M became the first single of merenrap, a fusion of hip hop and merengue. In South Africa, pioneering crew Black Noise began rapping in 1989, provoking a ban by the apartheid-era government, which lasted until 1993. Later, the country produced its own distinctive style in the house fusion kwela. Elsewhere in Africa, Senegalese mbalax fusions continued to grow in popularity, while Tanzanian Bongo Flava crews like X-Plastaz combined hip hop with taarab, filmi and other styles.

In Europe, hip hop was the domain of both ethnic nationals and immigrants. Germany, for example, produced the well-known Die Fantastischen Vier as well as several Turkish performers like the controversial Cartel. Similarly, France has produced a number of native-born stars, such as IAM and the Breton crew Manau, though the most famous French rapper is probably the Senegalese-born MC Solaar. Swedish hip hop emerged in the mid 1980s and by the early 1990s a lot of 'ethnic Swedish acts' like Looptroop, 'immigrant acts' like The Latin Kings and mixed acts like Infinite Mass switched from English to rapping in "Rinkeby Swedish", a pidgin language of sorts, when they were making records for the domestic market. The Netherlands' most famous rappers are The Osdorp Posse, an all-white crew from Amsterdam, and The Postmen, from Cape Verde and Suriname. Italy found its own rappers, including Jovanotti and Articolo 31, grow nationally renowned, while the Polish scene began in earnest early in the decade with the rise of PM Cool Lee. In Romania, B.U.G. Mafia came out of Bucharest's Pantelimon neighborhood, and their brand of gangsta rap underlines the parallels between life in Romania's Communist-era apartment blocks and in the housing projects of America's ghettos. In Croatia, rap became very popular in the late 1990s with the rise of Tram 11, Bolesna Braca and other rappers who focused on social issues. Israel's hip hop grew greatly in popularity at the end of the decade, with several stars semerging from both sides of the Palestinian (Tamer Nafer) and Jewish (Subliminal) divide; though some, like Mook E., preached peace and tolerance, others expressed nationalist and violent sentiments.

North of the U.S. border, in Canada, hip hop became popular thanks to home-grown rap artist Maestro Fresh Wes in the late 1980s. His single, "Let Your Backbone slide", dominated the charts for over a year. In the early 90's, more artists such as Michee Mee and The Rascalz established themselves in the growing Canadian urban music scene, primarily located in the diverse backdrop of Toronto and Vancouver. More recently, rappers such as Choclair, Saukrates, Kardinal Offishall, Hugh "MC Son" Ryan, Black Jays, Jelleestone and K-OS have become household names in the Canadian urban music scene, although they have failed to earn mainstream recognition south of the border in the U.S. market.

In Asia, mainstream stars rose to prominence in the Philippines, led by Michael V., Rap Asia, MC Lara and Lady Diane, and in Japan, where underground rappers had previously found a limited audience, and popular teen idols brought a style called J-rap to the top of the charts in the middle of the 1990s.

Latinos had played an integral role in the early development of hip hop, and the style had spread to parts of Latin America, such as Cuba, early in its history. In Mexico, popular hip hop began with the success of Calo in the early 1990s. Later in the decade, with Latin rap groups like Cypress Hill on the American charts, Mexican rap rock groups, such as Control Machete, rose to prominence in their native land. An annual Cuban hip hop concert held at Alamar in Havana helped to popularize Cuban hip hop, beginning in 1995. hip hop grew steadily more popular in Cuba, due to official governmental support for musicians.

The Duke Lacrosse Story?

I guess its fair to think that they did something although one has a clear cut aliby and was still charged. He has an atm transaction and dorm room access via his card and a taxi cab driver as a witness also. He even has a fast food reciept via his credit card.

Its just as fair to assume that she is a shady, criminal who saw an oppurtunity and took it. She isn't exactly a poster child for I've dont no wrong. She has multiple felony convictions and a history of drug abuse. They can't bring up her past sexual history but her character will surely be put on trial. Her story doesn't hold water in my book to be honest. There was no DNA evidence via sperm, skin or hair. Thats pretty hard to believe. All they found was she had the elements of being raped down there with tares and what ever else. I don't knwo about you but I have had spirited consentual sex before where there was vaginal tearing and bleeding so I am not convinced on that at all.

She isn't just a dancer, she was an escort. We all know what the difference is between the two. I know dancers and dancers bring bodyguards and have drivers. She is an escort and escorts have prices for everything. Its like those Japanese massage places, the happy ending isn't included or even on menu but its available for a price(so I hear).

I think this DA is pushing the case due to the upscoming election. He doesn't care about the girl or the case just his job which prior to this he handled parking tickets. I think bad judgement was made all the way around that night. It just goes to show you are the company you keep and not doing the right thing brings trouble.

Take my opinion for what its worth but I think its a little too soon to convict these guys off what has been in the press. If anything I am suprised they were even arrested and unless they have this huge bombshell they will never be convicted. I fit did happen and they are guilty I hope they get the book thrown at them. I just think its too soon to say that they are.

-Tommy

The Past Creates the Present

Do you realize that blacks today as a group have the exact same percentage of national wealth as they did when they were released from slavery. 1%.

Secondly, it is impossible to divorce the past from the present because the past creates the present.

The first thing when I was in banking I was trained to do was analyze historical financial statements of a business because that is how we projected potential loan repayability. Based upon the nature of your argument, I should have just said, "hell, that net loss over the past three years doesn't matter because of the opportunity they have to make a profit next year".

A second example to consider is case law. Our judicial system is based upon historic precident set in other cases on similar issues. We don't just make up law, we use history.

Right now who is more likely to take advantage of an opportunity to go to college Alby,

The son of a corporate attorney who has been sent to private schools all of his life or the son of a single parent mother on welfare who went to a run down inner city public school?

-Dell Gines

Coptics being Persecuted by Muslims Bullies

Killing Christians in Muslim Lands on Easter
the global war on the infidels continues apace. The poor Coptic Christians can get a break here;

Was not the Coptic Christians in Egypt before the sons of Allah?

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AFP) - One Egyptian Christian was killed and at least 12 others wounded in knife attacks at three Coptic churches in the city of Alexandria, police and medical sources said.

The attacks on Egypt's minority Coptic Christian community marred the run-up to the Orthodox Easter celebrations starting in a week's time and were the worst outbreak of sectarian violence in Egypt in six months.



An Egyptian Coptic protester, center, is beaten by plain-clothed policemen outside the St. Maximus Church in Alexandria

Interview with Shelby Steele

Live with Shelby Steele

Sixty years ago, Shelby Steele was born to a black truck driver and a white social worker in Chicago. His parents were active in the struggle for civil rights, and encouraged him to make the most of his personal opportunities.


After completing a doctorate in English, Steele taught literature at San Jose State University. In 1990, he received the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for his book, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America.


Today, Steele is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where he focuses on race relations, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. His next book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, will be released in May.

Steele was interviewed for TAE by California-based journalist Michael Robinson.

Below is the must read interview
http://www.blackrepublicancounciloftexas.com/Shelby_Steele.html

Funny Memories With Scott McClellan (Video)

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has resigned. It's been almost 3 years since McClellan took a job that requires dealing with some of the most belligerent members of the media and there have certainly been some memorable moments. Let's take a stroll down memory lane...

Thanks to the Poltical Pit Bull Video?

VIDEO... http://www.thepoliticalpitbull.com/2006/04/memories_with_scott_mcclellan.php

Reflections on the Cynthia McKinney Scandal

The Cynthia McKinney debacle last week was what I would call
a piercing look into the mindset of the modern day black left.

Racism is a real phenomena that fair Americans and people
all over the planet should try to counter.

History shows us that hate when not challenged
and is left to fester, has the potential of infecting the brightest minds
and the most advanced groverments.

Hate leaves behind a bloody trail of irrational destruction and death.
African Americans, Poles, Armenians and many others know very well what
hate in a society can eventually produce.

In the Republic of Georgia crimes against religious minorities
continue daily. Groups like the Baptist, Jehovahs Witnesses,
and Pentecostals are routinely persecuted for there faith, many times
under the watchful eye of local Orthodox churches.

In the Muslim dominated country of Eritrea many Evangelicals are put
into dark prisons for there faith in Christ.

In the Middle East and Iran gay people and other sexual minorities
are stoned to death or crushed under there homes by government
trucks.

In Zimbawe an educated psychopath has decided to take away
his peoples right to property and rights for that of the greater good.

He has ordered that black homes be demolished for the sake of government
expansion.

We in America have a similar legal situation but by no means as extreme.

And in Sudan Muslims and Christians are enslaved for either being Christian
or non Arab. The government of Sudan continues to order the total destruction
of whole villages as a means to take over the oil rich south.

And with all these horror stories in the background, real life
Stories of persecution, we in the USA for a whole week
were bombarded with the silly behavior of a congress woman who wants
us to believe that she is being persecuted.

Cynthia Mckinney claims of police brutality is a smack in the face to all
those who experience real hate and terror every day.

Such accusations only poison the real moral distinctions between hate and
some one simply crying wolf.


by Libertas
UPDATE Just an hour ago the CNN is reporting the video
shows McKinney hit officer with fist first.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/19/mckinney.report/

Democrats Proudly Ignoring There Racist Past.

President Abraham Lincoln founder of the Republican Party

By Libertas



The Democrat Party has very little incentive to make
black Americans aware of there parties past.

It would be a hard story to tell and given
how close election's are they would not want scare any voters off.

In many ways it would seem as if the democratic party burrowed a phrase from, Winston Churchill and never returned it "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it".

The truth is Democrats have made it there mission to rewrite history
for the sole purpose of undeserved power.

The modern Democrat party has in many ways orchestrated the biggest historical vanishing act the world has ever seen.

A party who at the turn of the centurys leaders were so racist, that
it opposed nearly every Republican effort to help African Americans after
reconstruction could appear in the later part of that century as the party
of black rights is a great feat indeed.

How did an inside debate on race amongs Democrats hide eventualy there past and
put the blame of black frustration on the Republican Party?

Why do African Americans think of
the Republican Party as the party of racism?

Is it possible that through political rhetoric,
people forgot the facts of history?

The Great Houdini would be so proud of the vanishing historical race record of the Democrat Party.

But Houdini would be giving the party to much
credit and hard work for such magic.

The real magic was revenue, money.

Using the government check book to right wrongs,
and gain power has been the democrats meteoric rise to power.

The party stategist figured that by signingng the Civil Rights Act,
and pacifying poor, uneducated blacks with welfare checks,
black leaders would ignore the past crimes of there own party.

In many ways this hush money has been a huge success.
Black democrats make up the largest number of elected office holders in any party in American history.

Black ministers and civil rights groups praise the ideals of Kennedy, and FDR.
For many blacks FDR's money was enough to ignore the past lynchings and racism of
the Democrat party.

It was easier to simply say "the crimes of America" or Republicans
but never Democrat!

Today black democrats make up the largest number of elected office holders in any party in American history.

Black ministers and civil rights groups praise the ideals of Kennedy, and FDR.

For many black leaders FDR's money was enough to ignore the past lynchings and racism of the Democrat party.

But who could blaim them?
Imagine the struggles of providing for ones kids in a fear society.

Who would in there right mind listen to a north east white Republican
capatalist, who encouraged self sufficiency and hard work?

Who would listen to the warnings of rich white conomist who warned of black dependencece on state grants?

What did they know about poverty and racism?
We deserved our share!

The Democrat's great society iniatives gave blacks a way to say we deserve this and it is ours and now we want more.

The party ignored all studies that predicted
a sociological fall out.

The great American Ralph Waldo Emerson once said
"Money often costs too much".


Sadly the Republicans during the early part of the century mostly resided in the north, they were mostly elite Episcopalians who spent summers in France and Hamptonons.

I guess today you would call them Bloomberg Republicans, rich white guys who black people voted for.

They were self made men and believed that all men could pull himself up with a supportive family and good networks.

To them the legacy of Lincoln hadfirmly put the black community
in its voting bloc.

But they were wrong dead wrong.
And in a matter of years the black voting bloc changed from Republican to Democrat.

But for years many Republicans died along with African Americans mostly
at the hand of a white Democrat.

Many white North Eastern Republicans spent there summers working with southern Republicans trying to get blacks to vote.

The sad stories of white Republicans being beat in the street and even lynched has been swept away.

Very few historians make a note of this.

After the Civil War, lynching became particularly associated with the South, and with the first Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866.

The first heavy period of lynching in the South was between 1868 and 1871. It began with a purge of black and white Republicans by white Democrats. Whites had decided to prevent the ratification of new constitutions by preventing people from voting. Failed attempts at terrorization led to a massacre during the 1868 elections, with the systematic murder of about 1300 voters across various southern states ranging from South Carolina to Arkansas.

After this orgy of partisan political violence had ended, lynchings in the South focused more on race than on partisan politics, and can be seen as a latter-day expression of the slave patrols, the bands of poor whites who policed the slaves and pursued escapees. The lynchers sometimes murdered their victims, but sometimes whipped them, to remind them of their former status as slaves.

White vigilantes often made nighttime raids of black homes in order to confiscate their firearms. Lynchings aimed at preventing freed men from voting and bearing arms can be seen as extralegal ways of enforcing the Black Codes, which were largely invalidated by the 14th and 15th amendments in 1868 and 1870, and were followed by the Jim Crow laws.

After years of terror, Republican President Ulysses S. Grant and Congress passed the Anti KKK Act of 1871. This permitted authorities to use martial law in some counties in South Carolina, where the Klan was the strongest. At about this time the Klan dissipated, but the US would see a reemergence in the early 20th century. Vigorous federal action, and the disappearance of the Klan, had a strong effect in reducing lynching. From 1868 to 1876, most years had seen 50-100 lynchings, but from 1877 to 1888, the toll ranged from 1 to 17 victims per year (see Statistics, below).

Lynching with a racial tone was not limited to the South; the New York Draft Riots were sparked in part by job competition between Irish-American immigrants and free blacks, and during the riots 11 blacks were murdered, with many more beaten, and their property destroyed. The riots led to a brief exodus of blacks from New York, and helped establish Harlem as the center of black society in the city.

After 1876, the frequency of lynching decreased, and it became a threat used to terrorize blacks and maintain the new, racist social order that was being constructed. In fact Congress housed many southern Republicans who sought to protect black voting rights by using federal troops.

Historicaly in the toughest times for African Americans,
it was the Republican paty not the Democrat party
who provided for those seeking hope.

After the 1860 elections, moderate Republicans dominated the United States Congress. Radical Republicans were often critical of Lincoln, whom they felt was too slow in freeing slaves and supporting their equality. Lincoln put all factions in his cabinet, including Radicals like Salmon P. Chase (Secretary of the Treasury), whom he later appointed to the Supreme Court; and James Speed (Attorney General). Edwin M. Stanton, the (Secretary of War), started as a leading Democrat but by 1864 was in the Radical camp, though he remained a staunch supporter of Lincoln.

An important opponent of the Radicals was Henry Jarvis Raymond, editor of the New York Times and chairman of the Republican National Committee. In Congress the most influential Radicals during the war and Reconstruction were Republicans Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.

They led the call for a total war, one that would destroy the economic base of the rebellion by freeing the slaves.

All of the Reconstruction era black Senators and Representatives were members of the Republican Party. The Republicans were the party of Abraham Lincoln and of the Emancipation Proclamation, while the Democrats were the party of slavery and secession. Until 1876, the Republicans made genuine efforts to ensure that southern blacks were able to vote.

After the disputed Presidential election of 1876 between Democratic governor of New York, Samuel J. Tilden and Republican governor of Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes, an agreement between Democratic and Republican factions were negotiated upon resulting in the Compromise of 1877. Democrats conceded the election to Hayes and promised to observe the political rights of blacks. The Republicans conceded to no longer intervene in southern affairs and appropriate some federal money toward southern projects. With the southern states "redeemed", Democrats gradually regained control of the Southern legislatures and restricted the rights of blacks to vote.

By 1890, southern states i.e. Democrats began to disfranchise black voters. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and white primaries prevented many blacks from voting. Southern states and local governments gradually adopted laws that segregated blacks. Finally, racial violence in the form of lynchings and race riots increased in frequency.

The last black Congressman elected from the South was George Henry White of North Carolina, elected in 1897. His term expired in 1901, the same year the last President to have fought in the civil war – William McKinley – died. There were no blacks in the Congress for next 28 years.

The Great Migration of blacks from the South to northern cities such as New York and Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s began to produce black-majority Congressional districts. In 1928 Oscar DePriest won the 1st Congressional District of Illinois (the South Side of Chicago) as a Republican, becoming the first black Congressman of the modern era.
DePriest was defeated by a Democrat in 1934: he was the last black Republican in the House for 56 years. The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 led a shift of black voting loyalties from Republican to Democrat as the Democrats became the party of economic advancement and (some time later) civil rights for black Americans. By the 1960s virtually all black voters were Democrats.

Two black Republicans have been elected since 1991, but both from white-majority districts.

This election cycle Americans across America have a chance to elect some outstanding black Americans who just happen to be Republicans.

One is from the State of Ohio by the name of Kenneth Blackwell,
the other is Lynn Swann from Pennsylvania they both will be
running for the Governorships in there states.

The other is a most exceptional person who bring life and energy to the senate,
he is young and full ideas.

His name is Micheal Steele he is presently Maryland’s Lt.Governor.

He is the Republican Senate candidate .
The opportunity to elect qualified black candidates who are Republican does not come often.

The reason for this are many but the standards Republicans use are a little higher than the Democrats.

This year we have been given a great chance to demand our mantle of civil rights backs from the democrats who stole it .

What great thing we could do for the many Republicans who died trying to get
African Americans to vote.

As this election cycles heats up and the same old rhetoric from
the democrats heat up lets us take a look at the past for guidance.

The abolitionist and Republican, Frederick Douglas ounce said " I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

On election night let us all recall the words of Douglas and get out and vote!


Libertas is owner and contributor to HipHopRepublicans.com

EMANCIPATION DAY - APRIL 17, 1862

Who killed slavery?

By Michael Zak

April 17, 2006

Now more than ever, Republicans should take great pride in our Party's heritage of civil rights achievement. They should remember the words of Joseph Rainey, the South Carolina Republican and former slave who was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives: "We love freedom more, vastly more, than slavery; consequently, we hope to keep clear of the Democrats!" And, it was Mary Terrell, an African-American Republican who co-founded the NAACP, who declared: "Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party."


Today, the District of Columbia celebrates "Emancipation Day" -- commemorating when on April 16, 1862, the Republican Party abolished slavery in the District. That's right, the Republican Party freed the slaves here in the District, despite fierce opposition from the Democrats. Of course, no one in the D.C. Government dares mention that fact, since the true heritage of the Grand Old Party is what Republicans should know and Democrats should fear.
During the Civil War, one of the nation's leading abolitionists was Republican Sen. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, who would later serve as vice president during President Grant's second term. In December 1861, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to abolish slavery in the District. The measure met with parliamentary obstacles from the adamantly pro-slavery Democratic Party, whom Republicans in those days referred to as the "Slave-ocrats."

Most Democrats in Congress having resigned in order to join the Confederate rebellion, Wilson's measure sailed through the Senate. The abolitionist senator responsible for outmaneuvering Democrat opposition was Ben Wade, the Ohio Republican who six years later would have assumed the presidency had the bitterly racist Democratic President, Andrew Johnson, been convicted during his impeachment trial.
In the House of Representatives, Democrats delayed passage with a series of stalling tactics. Finally, the majority leader, Thaddeus Stevens, bulldozed over Democrat opposition by calling the House into a committee of the whole. He stopped all other business in the House until Democrats relented and allowed a vote on the bill. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, is best known for his "forty acres and a mule"

proposal. Overall, 99 percent of Republicans in Congress voted to free the slaves in the District of Columbia, and 83 percent of Democrats voted to keep them in chains.
While serving his one term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Abraham Lincoln had in 1848 sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.

As president, he proudly signed the District of Columbia Emancipation Act on April 16, 1862, announcing: "I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District; and I have ever desired to see the national capital freed from the institution." Thanks to Republican majorities in Congress, President Lincoln could at last see the nation's capital freed from the institution of slavery.

Among the 3,100 slaves freed by the Republican Party's District of Columbia Emancipation Act was Philip Reid. A year later, Reid, a skilled metal worker, supervised the casting of the bronze statue which stands atop the dome of the U.S. Capitol.

The name of that statue? Freedom.

Michael Zak is the author of "Back to Basics for the Republican Party." (www.republicanbasics.com)

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060416-103031-8484r.htm

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to GOP organizations around the country, most recently keynoting the Alaska Republican state convention. More information is available at: www.republicanbasics.com

Web Poll: 60% favor Swann over Rendell

Sixty percent of readers responding to last week's York Dispatch Web Poll indicated they favor Republican candidate Lynn Swann over Democratic incumbent Gov. Ed Rendell.

Forty percent of readers responding to the Dispatch survey said they favor Rendell for a second term.

The local figures are at odds with the result of a recent Quinnipiac University Poll giving Rendell a 10 percent edge over the former Pittsburgh Steelers star.
Election experts are at odds over whether Swann can garner sufficient support statewide to win the statehouse.

But the Quinnipiac poll also showed that the proportion of voters who see Rendell as deserving re-election slipped by three points, to 46 percent from 49 percent, in a survey two months ago.
The York Dispatch Web Poll on the governor's race will be conducted monthly through October.

College Professor admits to helpin Islamic Jihad....

How typical of the America hater patriot to defend a terrorist.
No wonder the liberals keep losing elections.

Also this is not about free speech the lest time I checked admitting to engaging in criminal activity is not covered under freedom of speech.

He SUPPORTED the Islam-O-Fascists that want to kill YOU!!!!

When will these moobat liberals get it?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/ts_nm/security_professor_dc

Rush Interview with Rumsfeld

Rush Interviews Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Notice at the end of the interview, that the media now considers being part of the imbed process as "becoming part of the problem .... and.... going over to the other side". Here I always thought the terrorists were the problem, and they were the other side.

Article link: Rush Interviews Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Audio: Rush Interviews Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (requires Windows Media Player)

US SENATE: TIME MAGAZINE NAMES THE TEN BEST, FIVE WORST SENATORS.

US SENATE: TIME MAGAZINE NAMES THE TEN BEST, FIVE WORST SENATORS.The new issues of Time magazine names the ten best and five worst US Senators.

The magazine contacted "dozens of academics, political scientists and current and former US Senators" to compile the rankings. The ten best: Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dick Lugar (R-IN), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Carl Levin (D-MI), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Kent Conrad (D-ND), and Arlen Specter (R-PA). The five worst: Wayne Allard (R-CO), Dan Akaka (D-HI), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Mark Dayton (D-MN) and Conrad Burns (R-MT). Finally, the five "up-and-coming" freshmen: Mark Pryor (D-AR), Barack Obama (D-IL), John Sununu (R-NH), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). As for those on the "five worst" list, you better believe that Akaka and Burns -- the two facing voters in November -- are going to have it thrown back at them in TV attack ads later this year. Click here to read Time's article.

Sad, sad..... picture of the Tel Aviv bomber

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4915868.stm



A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed nine people along with himself and injured about 50 more in Tel Aviv.

(16-year old suicide bomber)


The bombing, which came during the festival of Passover, was the first suicide attack in Israel since January.

The militant group Islamic Jihad said it was behind the restaurant blast, but Israel said it held the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority responsible.

However, Hamas, which has been keeping a truce with Israel, described the attack was an act of self-defence.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the bombing, saying it ran counter to Palestinian interests.

The US said the blast was "a despicable act of terror for which there is no excuse or justification".

In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it condemned the attack firmly and without reserve.

The bombing came shortly before Israel's new parliament was sworn in.

Crowded street

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would "act with all means at [its] disposal" to prevent further attacks.

It was lunchtime when the bomb went off on a crowded street near a bus station in Tel Aviv's Neve Shaanan's area.

Of the injured, some of whom had to be treated on the pavement, 15 are in a serious condition, Israel TV's Channel 2 said.


What a sad wasted manipulated life. In this country we mandate that kids wear bike helmets and don't allow them to vote until 18...is there an age mandate with bomb vests and youth for islamic jihad?

There's some celebrating going on in palestine right now over his success, yet hamas can't even pay it's civil workers because of this garbage.

Happy Tax Day!

This year businesses and individuals across the United States spent upwards of $300 billion just complying with the current tax code. That is money that isn't going towards expanding businesses, creating jobs, or investigating new technologies.

The average American spent 57 hours preparing his/her tax return. That's about 7 working days. What else could you have done with those days? Added an additional week of vacation for your family? Spent that time with your children, visiting a sick relative, or just sitting on a fishing boat somewhere?

H.R. 25, The FairTax Act would eliminate those compliance costs and preparation costs in time and money. If the FairTax were law right now the past weekend would have been nothing more than a beautiful Easter weekend for all Americans. No distractions, just enjoy your family on another beautiful spring weekend. Businesses wouldn't be spending tens of thousands of hours a year, and billions of dollars contemplating and working out the tax consequences of business decisions... instead they would be spending that time and money on decisions and projects to grow their businesses. That means hiring more people, opening new locations, and generating more revenue.

The FairTax is the only tax reform proposal that would completely life the federal tax burden, including SS and Medicare, from the poor.

It is the only tax reform proposal that will protect every single American household from the responsibility of paying Federal taxes on their income up to the federal poverty level.

It is the only tax reform proposal that would bring much of the $11 Trillion in dollar denominated deposits outside of the jurisdiction of this country and our tax code back to the USA to go to work in our economy.

It is the only tax reform proposal that would make America the number one tax haven in the world for businesses. The USA would be the only country in the world in which businesses both domestic and foreign could operate without any tax component on tax or labor.

It is the only tax reform proposal that would sharply curtain, if not eliminate, the influence of the K Street lobbyists on our politicians. The Fairtax leaves no room for manipulation for the benefit of favored constituents.

Implementation of the Fairtax would constitute the biggest transfer of power from Washington DC to the people of the US since our country was founded.

H.R. 25 and S. 25 are the corresponding resolution and bill in the House and Senate.

To learn more about it, the softcover edition of the Fairtax book comes out on May 2nd. Buy 3 copies and send them to your Congressman and Senators.

A Brief History of Break Dancing

When someone mentions break dancing nowadays, people think of baggie trouser wearing, medallion brandishing kids sporting baseball caps at set square angles spinning on their heads.

This wouldn’t be far from the truth, however what they probably don’t appreciate is the immense skill and physical ability one must have to achieve such aeronautical splendour; plus its deep seated routes in African American culture not to mention its connection with hip hop and subsequently its distant link with the civil rights movement.

Continue Reading about a history of break dancing... http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/39/Breakdance%20H.htm

Remanicing about the 80's

I remember lee jeans, stan smiths, getting some cardboard with a windbreaker on and doing the backspin. Back when it was cool for a black dude to rock a spiked leather braclet. When I saw a DJ for the first time rockin the block party that was crazy. Run DMC, LL, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, all caught my ear back when radio barely played hip hop in DC. good times.

"I Am Not an Islam Basher"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali ..responds to a Dutch think tank report advising the government to take a softer line on Islam and accuses whoever raises critical points of bashing Muslims

http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/log/5579463

Why The Poor Pay More?

Being poor frequently results in having to spend more, not less, than other people on goods and services, whether it be health care or groceries, according to a recent study of low-income families in Philadelphia.

Currently, thousands of dollars are being drained from the budgets of Philadelphia's working-class families through higher prices for everyday goods and services; this is undermining the city's efforts to combat decades of decline, says the Brookings Institution:

Low-income families pay at least $500 more than other families in the city for the same type of car, both because they are less likely to comparison shop and because poor consumers, being likelier to default, are charged higher rates on auto and other loans.
The annual cost of insuring a car and its driver is, on average, $400 higher for families living in the city's poor neighborhoods, where accident and theft rates are higher.
The poor often do not have back accounts; instead they must rely on check-cashing establishments which can legally charge up to three percent to cash payroll checks - a fee that amounts to $450 a year for a household earning $15,000.
They are less likely to be able to buy furniture and appliances outright, and the markup on installment plans can be staggering: in Philadelphia it averages 90 percent over the purchase price.
Furthermore, the poor are more likely to take out short-term loans, which in Pennsylvania may have an annual interest rate of more than 450 percent, says Brookings.

Source: Matthew Fellowes and Bruce Katz, "The Price Is Wrong: Getting the Market Right for Working Families in Philadelphia," The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, April 2005.

For text:

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20050404_PriceIsWrong.pdf

For more on Economy:

http://www.ncpa.org/iss/eco/

Is The Death Penalty is Racist?

"The death penalty is racist.... [T]he federal death penalty is used disproportionately against minorities, especially African Americans.... According to [Justice Department] figures, nearly 80 percent of inmates on federal death row are Black, Hispanic, or from another minority group." (Campaign to End the Death Penalty)

"The imposition of the death penalty is racially biased: Nearly 90% of persons executed were convicted of killing whites, although people of color make up over half of all homicide victims in the United States." (National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty)

"Death row in the U.S. has always held a disproportionately large population of people of color relative to the general population." (ACLU Briefing Paper on the Death Penalty)

Correction: The claim that the death penalty unfairly impacts blacks and minorities is a deliberate fraud. The majority of those executed since 1976 have been white, even though black criminals commit a slim majority of murders. If the death penalty is racist, it is biased against white murderers and not blacks.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks committed 51.5% of murders between 1976 and 1999, while whites committed 46.5%. Yet even though blacks committed a majority of murders, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports: "Since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976, white inmates have made up the majority of those under sentence of death." (Emphasis added.) Whites continued to comprise the majority on death row in the year 2000 (1,990 whites to 1,535 blacks and 68 others). In the year 2000, 49 of the 85 people actually put to death were whites.

So how can abolitionists claim that the death penalty unfairly punishes black people and other minorities? The statistics they cite are often technically accurate (though not always), but they don?t mean what most people assume they mean. Abolitionists often start by analyzing the race of the victims rather than the murderers. Because most murders are intra-racial (white murderers mostly kill other whites and most black murderers kill other blacks), imposing the death penalty more frequently on white murderers means that killers of white people will more likely be executed. In essence, abolitionists playing the race card argue that black murder victims are not receiving justice because only the murderers of white people are punished with the death penalty. Death penalty proponents may consider this denying justice to black people.

New "hate crimes" laws are likely to worsen the hypocrisy. A "hate crimes" mentality translates into tougher sentences for interracial "hate crimes." Because white people are killed by black people 2.6 times more frequently than black people are killed by white people, more killers of white people will be susceptible to receiving the death penalty than killers of black people.

The Military.. Not Disproportionately Black Or Poor

The Heritage Foundation has done a study which expose the myth
of the disproportionately black or poor recruit.

Some one please send this to Charlie Rangel!

Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Recruits Before and After 9/11

byTim Kane, Ph.D.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda05-08.cfm


Racial Representation Among Recruits

We found that whites are one of the most pro­portionally represented groups—making up 77.4 percent of the population and 75.8 percent of all recruits—whereas other racial categories are often represented in noticeably higher and lower propor­tions than the general population.

This kind of racial analysis is complicated by the fact that race is a self-identified attribute that is not well defined genetically, and many citizens object to racial classification, which complicates government efforts to categorize racial and ethnic identity consistently. Specifically, race data for the population in 2000 are not compatible with the 1999 recruit cohort but are compatible with the 2003 cohort. The 1999 recruit data allow for only one race category per person, whereas 2003 recruit and Census data follow a system that both allows each individual to self-identify any combi­nation of six racial categories and includes an independent Hispanic indicator.

The following analysis of race is based on a com­parison of the 2003 recruit data and Census popu­lation data for ages 18 and above (not just 18–24). Table 3 provides a summary of racial data, reveal­ing that enlisted recruits are similar to the popula­tion with a few sharp differences. Table 3 also includes a breakout comparison of the 2003 Army recruits, since that branch bears a larger share of danger on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. For example, the data show that, proportionally, blacks make up 43 percent more of the Army recruits than does the general population, but this is not in place of whites, who make up 1 percent more (not less). Other racial categories—notably American Indi­ans/Alaskan Natives (53 percent) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders (249 percent)—are even more overrepresented.

A military draft along the lines proposed by Rep­resentative Rangel would press thousands more Asian–Americans into service, as well as thousands of Americans who decline to be racially categorized. In contrast, a draft could deny blacks, whites, and others the freedom to enlist in the Army once their racial quotas were filled.

We next considered the “underprivileged source” hypothesis. We know from earlier analysis that recruiting is not concentrated in poor neigh­borhoods (ZCTAs), but perhaps it is disproportion­ately concentrated in black neighborhoods.

The 100 three-digit ZCTAs with the highest con­centration of blacks (in any combination of other races) range from 24.05 percent up to 68.63 per­cent self-identified as black. These areas have 14.63 percent of the adult population but are the origin of only 16.58 percent of 1999 recruits and 14.09 per­cent of 2003 recruits. Moreover, 2003 recruits from these “black” areas included an almost equal num­ber of white and black recruits (45.7 percent and 46 percent of the total, respectively). The group of ZCTAs with the highest concentration of whites had almost 46 times as many white recruits as black recruits. Among the ZCTAs that had the highest number of recruits, the ratio was almost 4:1. If the military were to draw disproportionately from minority groups by design, one would expect fewer white recruits from minority-concentrated areas and more minority recruits from the white-concentrated areas.

The demographic data on race reveal that mili­tary enlistees are not, in fact, more heavily recruited from black neighborhoods. The data also reveal that minorities serve in different proportions, but not because fewer whites are serving. In other words, there is no “dispro­portionate share of minor­ities” serving in the military, as claimed by edi­torials around the nation in 2003.[6] Some minorities participate more heavily than other minorities.

Race is often used as a proxy for class, but it is rarely, if ever, an appropri­ate substitute. Even if the military had a higher share of African–Americans, it does not follow that those recruits are poorer, from poorer areas, from more urbanized areas, less edu­cated, or from less edu­cated areas. Indeed, none of these other claims can be substantiated.

Maryland Dems Smear Steele At Their Peril

by Gregory Kane

If Maryland Democrats were smart, they'd listen to Wayne K. Curry.

That is, if they were smart. But they aren't, so they probably won't.

Curry is the former county executive of Prince George's County, Md., one of the richest counties in the state, if not the country. Curry is also black and a Democrat.

Two weeks ago, Curry warned his fellow party members not to demonize Maryland's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.

"Democrats ought to be promoting what they're going to do that's positive," Curry said in a Washington Times story, "instead of trying to knock Steele down."

But Maryland Democrats have a history of trying to "knock down" Republican candidates with the race card. Steele is just their latest target. Surely Curry must remember that nasty business of 1998, when Republican Ellen Sauerbrey ran for governor against then-incumbent Gov. Parris Glendening.

In a classic case of race-based smear tactics gone amok, Democrats ran television ads saying that Sauerbrey opposed three civil rights bills. Each time the ads mentioned civil rights, a black face would appear on the screen.

The record shows that Sauerbrey voted against rewording an open housing law, a second statute requiring Maryland State Police to document crimes against gays and a third that favored more protection from sexual harassment. Most Democrats had no use for such facts. But four of them with a sense of shame did, and told everyone who would listen that Sauerbrey wasn't a racist and that her record was being distorted.

Three of the Democrats were former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, former state Sen. Clarence Mitchell III and Del. Frank Boston. The fourth was Curry.

The candor of these four black Democrats didn't help Sauerbrey. She lost the election. But at least Maryland voters were put on notice about what to expect from Democrats whenever any Republican raised a serious challenge to their hegemony in Maryland.

The straight-out-of-the-toilet politics practiced by Maryland Dems in 1998 prompted me to give them my Golden Commode Award. They won it again in 2002, with that nasty "Oreo cookie" episode during a debate of gubernatorial candidates at historically-black Morgan State University. (That was the incident in which Oreo cookies were either brandished or thrown at Steele. Democratic supporters say it never happened. Republican supporters who say they attended the debate swear it most certainly did.)

This was the same campaign in which Mike Miller, the president of the Maryland state senate, called Steele an Uncle Tom. (Miller apologized for the remark but I gave him a separate, honorary Golden Commode award all his own.) If their tactics against Steele in 2006 are any indication, it looks like the Dems might cop a third straight Golden Commode Award. They can't use the racist argument this time: Steele is black. So the Dems have switched tactics. They concede Steele is black, just not black enough.

In November of last year the Washington Times ran a story in which several black Maryland Democrats claimed Steele "does not share the same political policies and values as most African-Americans," according to a Nov. 4, 2005 article in the Baltimore Sun.

It was the "Oreo cookie" incident all over again, only more refined. The implication was that Steele, while black on the outside, was still as white as Oreo cookie icing on the inside.

What those black Maryland Democrats meant was that Steele doesn't share the same political policies and values of most black Maryland Democrats, who are out of step with large numbers of black Americans on a variety of issues.

Take vouchers and school choice. Some polls show many blacks are for both, but you'd be hard pressed to find a black Maryland Democrat in public office who feels the same way. There are also many blacks who oppose abortion, as Steele does. Add to those blacks who oppose abortion in all instances, those who don't support publicly-funded abortions or abortions for minors without parental consent and you probably have a majority of blacks.

The fact that the overwhelming majority of Maryland's black Democratic leaders oppose the death penalty doesn't support their contention that Steele is not in accord with their policies and values. As a devout Catholic, Steele is opposed to the death penalty too.

Steele and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich supported a state school board measure to have the state take over 11 failing Baltimore schools earlier this month. Most black Democrats opposed the measure, but two on Baltimore's City Council didn't. Perhaps the most notable is Keiffer Mitchell, the nephew of the same Clarence Mitchell III who challenged the Democrats' 1998 smearing of Ellen Sauerbrey as a racist.

No wonder the Washington Times story about Curry referred to an "emerging black swing voting bloc in Maryland." Democrats need to be aware of that bloc in 2006.

Conservative Books Equate to 'Sexual Harassment'

A sexual harassment investigation is ongoing at an Ohio college after the school’s librarian suggested that students read a few books from a conservative perspective.

According to the Alliance Defense Fund -- a legal alliance that aggressively defends religious liberty -- a librarian at Ohio State University at Mansfield has been slapped with a sexual harassment charge after he suggested that freshmen read four best-selling conservative books.

Scott Savage is a reference librarian at OSU Mansfield and a member of the schools First Year Reading Experience Committee.

After suggesting that students read The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Yeor, and It Takes a Family by Sen. Rick Santorum, Savage was put under investigation.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=14083

And these are the same librarians who want to keep porn in the Library!

These are the same liberal, godesses of tolerance who scream they are being
attacked by Homeland Security.

What hypocrites!

Duke Rape Case: Indictments Issued

April 17, 2006 — The grand jury considering the Duke lacrosse team rape allegations has adjourned for the day and has handed down indictments, which are all sealed.

ABC News learned that the judge told lawyers for the potential defendants in a private meeting that if indictments were brought against their clients, he would call the attorneys to inform them. They would not know the charges, however, until arrest warrants were issued.

Eighty-one indictments were returned by the panel, according to the Associated Press, and the grand jury did not reject any indictments on Monday. Twenty-four indictments were "carried forward" to be heard at a later date.

Separately, ABC News has obtained a tape in which a security guard — who may have been the first person to see the alleged victim of a Duke lacrosse gang rape after the alleged attack — says there were no signs or mention of rape or sexual assault.

ABC News has obtained an audio recording of what is purported to be a private investigator interviewing a security guard at a Kroger grocery store. It was this security guard whose call to 911 brought police to the Kroger parking lot, where they found the woman who claims she was raped by lacrosse team members.


The guard was on duty at the store on the night of March 13, when the two women pulled into the store's parking lot in a dark sedan. The alleged victim, who says three men held her down in a bathroom and kicked, strangled and raped her, was in the passenger seat.


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LegalCenter/story?id=1849938&page=1


If the evidence shows that these guys did rape her they should be chared.
If she is lying she should also go to jail.

But we need to see the facts before blaming anyone.
What is a fact is that these guys use the "n" word liberaly.
So lets wait and see!

Hip Hop is mainstream!

Hip Hip is mainstream and corporatly made.No one is selling cds out of a car these days. Hip Hop artist make more money than Bush and Cheney put togther. The hip hop industry is a billion dollar empire.

When did the black eyed peas become hip hop?
Since the industry LABELED THEM THAT!!

Is this the OVERCOMERCIALISATION OF HIP HOP?

OMG, this is all I can say, Gangsta Rap/Hip-hop has been around for more than 20 yrs ( i think) , snoop dogg is more than 30 yrs rapping and he became famous when he starting rapping about guns/b!tches and stuff like that.

Hip Hops Hall of Shame!

It is a shame but many Hip Hop artist even they they leave poverty,
through the cpatalist system, they still find themselves in trouble.

There are many talented hiphop artist but so many never take advantage of
the gifts god gave them.

Below is a just a few of hip hops most beloved busted!



Tupac Shakur was photographed by the New York State Department of Correctional Services in March 1995. The rap star, convicted in December 1994 of the felony sexual abuse of a female fan, spent a few months upstate before being bailed out by producer Suge Knight. Shakur, who was sentenced to 1-1/2-to-4-1/2 years in the can, was murdered in September 1996.


Lil' Kim (aka Kimberly Jones) was arrested by New Jersey cops in July 1996 and charged with possession of marijuana. The rapper was rounded up after a police raid on the Teaneck home of Biggie Smalls (aka Christopher Wallace), her rap rabbi.




Rapper Nathaniel Hale (aka Nate Dogg) was arrested by Arizona police in April 2002 and hit with gun possession and marijuana charges. He pleaded guilty in May 2002 and was sentenced to probation, community service, and ordered to attend drug counseling sessions.



Marion "Suge" Knight is pictured in a California Department of Corrections mug shot taken in March 1997. The notorious rap producer was serving a stretch for violating probation on a prior assault conviction.



Wu-Tang Clan member Russell Jones, also known as Ol' Dirty Bastard, Big Baby Jesus, and presently Dirt McGirt, was paroled from the Clinton Correctional Facility in February 2003. The rapper was photographed by the New York State Department of Correctional Services in December 2001 while serving 2 to 4 years on a drug charge. He previously posed in California after his arrest for making terrorist threats to customers at a West Hollywood nightclub.



R&B singer Michael Archer (aka D'Angelo) was arrested in November 2002 by Virginia cops and charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and other misdemeanors. The charges stemmed from an incident which began when the Grammy winner allegedly cut off a female motorist. According to cops, D'Angelo cursed out and spit on the woman. When police arrived at the 28-year-old crooner's suburban Richmond to serve an arrest warrant, they had to subdue the agitated performer with a blast of pepper spray.



Rakim (aka William Griffin), formerly of the rap duo Eric B. and Rakim, posed for this Suffolk County, New York sheriff's mug shot in August 1996.

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Jamal Barrow, a protégé of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, posed for this New York State Department of Correctional Services mug shot in April 2002. The rapper, also know as Shyne, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of assault, gun possession, and reckless endangerment in connection with a December 1999 shooting in a New York City nightclub. Combs, a Barrows codefendant, was acquitted of weapons charges during that Manhattan trial. Currently locked up in the Clinton Correctional Facility, Barrow is not eligible for parole until 2009.




Singer Robert Kelly (aka R. Kelly) was arrested in June 2002 following his indictment in Chicago on 21 counts of child pornography.



Rapper DMX (aka Earl Simmons) spent time in the Erie County jail in March 2001 for driving around the Buffalo area without a license.

End Black Privilege

I am extremely tired of hearing minorities and white liberals complain about racism and “white privilege” in the United States. These complaints are so devoid from reality; it can only be considered an irrational belief. Democrat Charles Barron exemplified this view on the April 11 show of the O'reilly Factor.

Mr. Barron explained that the reason he supports open borders is because he wants to change the racial make up of the United States. His goal, he implied, is to create a white minority in order to end "white privilege" and destroy America's racist foundation.

The truth remains, however, that government at all levels is obsessed with “helping” minorities, whether it is through minority business loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, Affirmative Action programs, or the fact that government employees blacks at a higher rate relative to the black population.

An article in the New York Times today exemplifies that “white privilege” is a myth. The article explains, “Alan Moldawer's adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Mr. Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with a new DNA kit that he had heard could determine an individual's genetic ancestry.

The results, designating the boys 9 percent Native American and 11 percent northern African, arrived too late for the admissions process. But Mr. Moldawer, a business executive in Silver Spring, Md., says they could be useful in obtaining financial aid.

'Naturally when you're applying to college you're looking at how your genetic status might help you,’ said Mr. Moldawer, who knows that the twins' birth parents are white, but has little information about their extended family. ‘I have three kids going now, and you can bet that any advantage we can take we will.' http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/us/12genes.html”

We have come to the point where being “white” is so much of a disadvantage, that students are now taking DNA tests to prove they are not white. Charles Barron would be pleased.

-KV
25 From California

Why We Fight....Flight 93 Hijack Transcript

Why We Fight....Flight 93 Hijack Transcript

With the drive by media attacking our president over the war
I think its about time we keep things in focused.

This war is about IslamoFacsism and terroism.
The left wants you to think Bush is the issue, when'
in fact he is simply trying to protect there ass!

The president is trying to the best he can with what he's got, years
of ignoring terroism has pushed us this far.

Bush is doing a wonderful job under pressure and I respect him for
that, he is a true leader.

I do not agreew ith him on agreat many things,
but when it comes to the war he has handled himself
very well under pressure.

The wolfs are out for blood and want to destroy his legacy
but it will not happen.


APRIL 12--This the transcript of the final moments of United Airlines Flight 93, as captured by the plane's cockpit voice recorder on September 11, 2001. While the actual 31-minute audiotape was played this morning for jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, Judge Leonie Brinkema refused to publicly release the tape, opting instead to provide only a transcript, a copy of which you'll find below. The tape begins with a hijacker's announcement that, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain...we have a bomb on board, so sit.

" As the recording continues, the hijackers can be heard praying to Allah and warning passengers to "Shut up" and "Don't move." Transcript excerpts in bold were translated from Arabic by government officials. At one point during the mayhem, someone in the cockpit says, "Please don't hurt me. Oh God!" Then, moments later, "I don't want to die" is repeated three times by an unknown passenger. Flight 93, which the hijackers apparently planned to ram into the U.S. Capitol, crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers sought to storm the cockpit and recapture the plane from the four hijackers. The cockpit flight recorder, seen above in a government photo introduced yesterday at Moussaoui's trial, was recovered near the crash site. In addition to the cockpit recording, prosecutors today presented jurors with an oversize exhibit containing photos of all but 92 of the nearly 3000 victims killed during the 2001 terrorist attacks.'

"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
- RA Heinlein

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0412061hijack1.html

Jesse Jackson will pay alleged rape victim's tuition

Is he paying the way for his illegitamite children?

I predict he'll get alot of requests from strippers wanting tuition money.
Maybe it's his way of attracting strippers.

This was an obviously timed publicity grab.

Im sure it probably would have taken him a whole 10 minutes to find a hardworking black woman that would have loved the chance to continue her education. Nope instead he rushes to where he can go Look at me !!!

He wins either way..If the Rape WAS LEgitimate, then he's helping the victim, if the charges are dropped (or the Grand Jury No-Bills it) then it's the "Racist cops trying to cover for the racist rapists of a proud black woman".

Either way its a win for them.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191902,00.html

The 9th Circuit still Bonkers

I have supported homeless rights here in my area for some years.
At one time I had to stop workingw ith one far leftist group
because they were actually hruting the clients they claime to help.

Many homeless in the usa have substance abuse issues, and mental
illnesses, and as a compassionate country we should help them.
Many homless people have done a great job at coming out of
poverty and embracing the work force.

The statictics for homlessness in major US cities is going down since the
80's.

Anway the 9th Circuit is getting readings with regards our constitution from
chinese tec leaves.

The Ninth Circuit, last week, ruled a Los Angeles vagrancy law unconstitutional, through the 8th Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.

Crazy. Needless to say, I'm behind Judge Rymer's dissent. This is directly in opposition to the original meaning of the 8th Amendment, the fact that vagrancy laws apply to conduct, not homelessness, and that the law itself, and enforcement of it, is not "punishment" at all.

Nor are vagrancy laws unusual, now, or at the time of ratification.

Neil young - Impeach the president...

Neil Young is up to something these days and it is not music.

According to the BBC , Neil Young has recorded an anti-war protest album on which he reportedly lashes out at George W Bush in a song called Impeach the President.

Anyone know what old Neil is trying to do?

I havent heard the song yet, so i'm not sure if he's just trying to do the popular thing, or if he as a real message behind the song.

Is'nt he Candadian?

Neil just shut up and sing!

Sen. McCain confirms opposition to Marriage Protection Amendment

This is from the Washington Blade.

Presumed president hopeful will vote against proposed anti-gay measure

By JOSHUA LYNSEN |

Apr 14,

Sen. John McCain confirmed April 13 hell vote against the proposed federal Marriage Protection Amendment, which would constitutionally define marriage as between a man and a woman.

McCain made the statement the same day a Washington Blade article questioning his stance was published online. The senators office did not respond to the Blades repeated attempts for comment before publication.

The legalization of gay marriage would hardly end the debate and many Americans would still be personally be opposed to it, regardless of hypothetical legislation passed. Roe v. Wade did not end the moral debate over abortion.Where gay marriage will be dealt with as a state issue. Why? Because I honestly do not see some states fully embracing the legalization of gay marriage. Many states already have a constitutional ban on gay marriage.Marriage is a contract. That's all. You can do this contract in front of God or in front of a person of the law. Having this contract, as we all know, allows certain rights to couples (i.e., rights to survivorship, decision making in life or death situation, what to do when the partner dies, hospital visitation, etc.) These rights are essential in all relationships and b/c gay people do not have equal standing compared to staight couples, they are suseptable to being taken advantage of in these situations.

I actually came across a blog someone wrote on this particular topic. This person suggested that the church, not the government, should marry people. Meanwhile, the government would allow civil unions to all couples, gay or straight...and if any church decided to marry gay couples, it would be at their own discretion. This would remove gay marriage from the political debate and give gay people all the rights and benefits straight couples have.

I don't know how I feel about this idea but I think it's interesting.

Black Folks: It is Time to Lay Down the Mantle

From the blog www.dellgines.com

Black Folks: It is Time to Lay Down the Mantle
Dell Gines

We have been through a lot as a people group, the middle passage, slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, segregation and the composite effects of those things on our current generation. To overcome we rebelled, we ran, we politicked, we hustled, and we marched. Our history is one of overcoming in the face of tyranny and abuse, of facing down psychological warfare, and social and economic disenfranchisement.

Because of this history many of us, and logically so, feel it is our responsibility to preserve for others the things we ourselves have won. Considered as the moral conscience of America, when outrages that smack of social injustice occur we are usually the first group in line to denounce them, even if the one offended against isn't a member of 'our' group. We view that as our mantle by virtue of our legacy in America. I believe it is time that we lay that mantle down.

During the recent immigration rallies one of the things that you saw was Black folk at the forefront, on the podiums, in support. On the street level you heard rumblings from Black folk that illegal immigrants were being used, exploited, 'disenfranchised' and should be allowed to have the rights as citizens. Valid or invalid perspectives aside, our historical memory resonated with the rhetoric of the supporters of the movement. We asked ourselves how can we who fought for our enfranchisement in America not support the enfranchisement of others? We wore our mantle.

It is time to lay that mantle down. Why? It is because we must deal with the realities of our situation as Black Americans today. In our effort to be the arbiter of social justice for all, we have effectively eliminated our own progress as a group. In our desire to ensure equality for everyone our effectiveness at creating equality for ourselves has diminished. As we spread our intellectual capital, our human capital, and our emotional energy into issues such as this immigration issue that clearly benefits another ethnic group while doing nothing to materially advance our own we keep ourselves in post-civil rights limbo. Our best and brightest seem to co-mingle social justice for all with Black elevation for us. This is a mixture that doesn't mix well when economic growth and power is the next hurdle that must be jumped in our continue struggle as Blacks.

So it is time to lay the mantle down. It is time to circle the wagons, and re-position ourselves to escape the post civil rights funk we are in. We need to turn our intellectual capital, human capital and emotional energy on issues exclusively related to Black empowerment, particularly on an economic level in America. We are carrying that unnecessary burden to fix all of the nations acts that we perceive to be acts social injustice and it is a burden that we are simply not strong enough to carry and be effective at dealing with our own issues.

We are sensitive and compassionate and those are noble traits to have, but our sensitivity and compassion for others should never supercede our desire for the elevation of ourselves. Our struggles have made us sensitive, but our struggles are not over. When we are at the place we need to be as Black folks, then we can pick up that mantle of social justice and we will have the strength to carry the burden of being Americas moral conscience. Until then we need to lay that mantle down and free our strengths in focus of our own people.

Slip of the Tongue: Colmes Calls Duke Stripper a Whore (VIDEO)

(a big hat tip to Darnell, The Independent Conservative)

On the Friday edition of Hannity & Colmes, liberal co-host Alan Colmes inadvertedly called the stripper accusing several members of the Duke lacrosse team of raping as a whore. The following is what he asked Shawn Cunningham, a student at North Carolina Central:


ALAN COLMES: Shawn let me begin with you. Did you know whore or know of her through friends, what can you tell us about this person?

Colmes continued his question without stopping as if he didn’t know he made the slip. Ironically, his next question addressed people who have also gave her a condescending name and has not mentioned her in another fashion. The mention that she is a “student” and a mother of two went without educating the audience she once stole a cab from a taxi driver:


ALAN COLMES: You know they keep referring to her in all the stories as a stripper, as opposed to a student, she is also a mother of two, it seems like they can not get away from that word stripper, they do not really represent the entirety of who she is.


http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/04/16/colmesslip/ ....Video

Florida State Majority Whip Jennifer Carroll wins Award

REP.JENNIFER CARROLL
FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 13

In 2003, Jennifer won election to the State House of Representatives, District 13 and was
subsequently reelected without opposition in 2004. She is the first African-American female
Republican ever to be elected to the Florida Legislature. Currently, Representative Carroll is the
Vice-Chair of the Ethics and Elections Committee and serves on the Finance & Tax, Growth
Management and Business Regulation Committees, in addition to her duties as Majority Whip.

During the 2004 Legislative Session, Jennifer was able to pass meaningful legislation that
protects members of Neighborhood Crime Watch Programs from harassment and intimidation.
She also sponsored the "Live the Dream" specialty license plate which pays tribute to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., by using his likeness. The proceeds from the sale of the plate will go to several
worthwhile organizations, including the March of Dimes and the Association of Healthy Start
Coalitions, to help reduce health disparities in low income communities. Jennifer was also
successful in securing much needed funding for library construction in Northeast Florida, as well
as securing statewide dollars for the Boy Scout's Learning for Life program and the Girl Scout's
character education functions.

Jennifer is the former Executive Director of Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs. She was
responsible for the claims and benefits of over 1.8 million veterans. Under her leadership, more
than $63 million in retroactive compensation was awarded to Florida veterans. She lobbied for
the retention of state construction funds for the Bay and Charlotte County State Veterans' Nursing
Homes, and led the generation of two federal matching grant applications that resulted in $15
million in federal funds for these projects. She was also the Chairperson for Florida's Council on
Homelessness. Jennifer sought ways to provide enhanced services toward solving Florida's
homeless problem, particularly within the veteran's community. She also worked closely with the
Federal Department of Veterans Affairs to secure Jacksonville as a site to receive a national
veteran's cemetery.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from the University of New Mexico and an
Honorary Doctorate Degree from Florida Metropolitan University.

Jennifer enlisted in the Navy in 1979, and rose through the ranks from an enlisted Jet Mechanic
to retire as a highly decorated Lieutenant Commander Aviation Maintenance Officer after
20-years service.

Jennifer has received numerous awards for her community service. She was the recipient of the
2001 Center for New Black Leadership Excellence in Leadership Award, 1998 First Coast African
American Women Award, 1996 Clay County Chamber of Commerce Military Person of the Year,
1996 YMCA Black Achievers Award recipient. In 1999 and 2002 she was awarded the "Top 10"
Republican Award from the Clay County Republican Party, and in 2004, "Legislator of the Year"
from the Northeast Florida Realtors Association.

Jennifer is a graduate of Project Blue Print Class of '97 and Leadership Jacksonville Class of
'97. She is a Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Orange Park Rotary, Paul Harris Fellow,
First Coast African American Chamber of Commerce, member of Florida Metropolitan University
Board of Governor, Clay County Republican Executive Committee, Federated Republican
Women of Clay, dual member of Federated Republican Women of Duval, and dual member of
Duval Federated Republican Women's Club. She is the former Commissioner on the
Jacksonville Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, a former Board Member of Gateway
Girl Scouts Council, Inc., and also a former Jacksonville Community Council Inc. member. She
was also an affiliate, and former Governor Appointee to the Northeast Regional Planning
Council. Jennifer is also an active member of American Legion Post 0197 and The Fleet
Reserve Association Post 128.

Jennifer is currently a board member of the Jacksonville Waterway Commission and the
Barco-Newton YMCA of Clay County.

In 2001 President George W. Bush appointed Jennifer to "The White House Presidential
Scholar's Commission," where she served until the spring of 2004. In May of 2004, Jennifer was
appointed to the Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission by President Bush.

Jennifer resides in Clay County and is married to Mr. Nolan Carroll. They have three children.

Holocaust Denier Democrat Sen. Mike Gravel 4 Prez

According to the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, Mike Gravel appeared as a speaker on his National Initiative for Democracy at the June 2003 conference of a Holocaust-deniers' publication, The Barnes Review [1].

http://wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-denialreport.php

United States Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska, 1969-1980) will announce his Candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States.
WHEN: Monday, April 17, 10 a.m.

Officer Considers Legal Action Against McKinney

Officer Considers Legal Action Against McKinney April 12, 2006 WASHINGTON --

The top police union official in the U.S. was in Washington today, urging the police officer who was involved in a run-in with Rep. Cynthia McKinney D-Ga. to take legal action against the congresswoman. McKinney is accused of striking a Capitol Police officer, after the officer failed to recognize her and stopped her at a security checkpoint.

Channel 2 Action News learned exclusively that the president of the largest police union in the U.S. met with the unidentified officer this morning to talk over possible legal action... Full story: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/8646957/detail.html

Counter protesters attacked in Portland, ME

So much For peaceful Immigration rally in Portland, Maine. Counter illegal imgration protester attacked in Portland Maine.

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"When you promote violence, you get violence," said the Rev. Virginia Maria Rincon, one of the organizers. "Our rally is about promoting a peaceful dialogue."

mz Maria Rincon, Ever hear of free speech?

One of the key organizers of the immigration protests and rallies nationwide, including yesterday's in Washington, is a group whose leaders are tied to the Workers World Party, a Marxist organization that has expressed support for dictators Kim Jong-il of North Korea and Saddam Hussein of Iraq." http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060410-094710-4817r.htm

With the level of corruption in politics, the decay of the educational system and the level of hyper liberalism bubbling from the caldron of socialism & fueled by the flames of Marxism, the battle against our national errosion will be a difficult one.

The enemies are many and they are within, recall what Cicero stated many centuries ago, in 42 B.C.: "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.... For the traitor appears not a traitor..... He rots the soul of a nation.... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
The protests being unleashed these past two weeks for all of us to see are a wicked demonstration of the alien invasion identical to the one's that led to the decline and eventual fall of the Roman Empire.

Is the United States next to fall due to this invasion of modern day Huns and Visigoths?

How much more law-breaking and appeasement of these aliens will you tolerate?!

I for one have had it! LIMITED LEGAL IMMIGRATION, YES! ILLEGAL ALIENS, HELL NO! AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS, NEVER!!

-Samantha

Iran's "Peaceful" Nuclear Research...

Iran's "Peaceful" Nuclear Research...


...will be destroyed. No sense in whining about it, it's going to happen. No one cares what a bribe-taking pedophile has to say and the administration has long since shown itself as being tone deaf to its critics.

The UNSC seems to think the issue is serious and Russian and CHina may veto a use of force resolution but no one is going to bitch too loudly when they wake up one day soon to hear the inevitable news on CNN. Iran's "peaceful" nuclear facilities will be destroyed, including the ones buried 100 feet underground and surrounded by SAM sites.

There are already over 1000 sorties planned with SpecOps support (that may already be on the ground even as you read this).

Of course it's assumed the Iranians will then try to retaliate by closng the Straits of Hormuz thus preventing oil dhipments from the entire region from traversing the Gulf so we'll also strike their naval assets, shore-based missile launchers and sink their subs.

A bit broader than just asset denial. Decapitation strikes against the political leadership is questionable, but the strikes WILL happen. So what's left to debate about?

Sheehan Returns to Protest Near Bush Ranch

Please go away Cindy?

Read on . . . .


Texas (AP) -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David. The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately. http://hosted.ap.org/photos/T/TXLM10204122030-small.jpg

She could hardly look any worse. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/timedjumpoff/sheehan_lowellHS.jpg

Liberals Ambush Millitary Recuiters at UC Santa Cruz

Exclusive...Pictures of Democrats bashing our troops !

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1814788.php

Pictures of Liberal, Democrat moonbats ambusing a military recruiters at UC Santa Cruz.

And this is the PEACE Marchers.....Peaceful my ass!

Shame on Democrats and the Leftwing.

Four military recruiters hastily fled a job fair Tuesday morning at UC Santa Cruz after a raucous crowd of student protesters blocked an entrance to the building where the Army and National Guard had set up information tables.
Members of Students Against War, who organized the counter-recruiting protest, loudly chanted ....Do not come back. Do not come back.... as the recruiters left the hilltop campus, escorted by several university police officers...



This is a 11 second video filming the military recruiters as they departed from the career center. That day, recruiters were isolated from the rest of the UCSC Career Fair invitees, as a couple hundred students protested and pressured them off campus.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1814777.php

Barron Calls Illegal Immigration ..Browning of America..

Online Debate ....VIDEO EXCLUSIVE....

http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/04/11/barron-oreilly-immigrants/

Barron Calls Illegal Immigration Browning of America, Blames America (VIDEO)

Charles Barron, the man who wants to go up and slap a white man just to feel better appeared on The OReilly Factor tonight to express what he calls the Democratic Party view on illegal immigrants and immigration.

During the discussion Barron constantly blamed America for making illegals want to come here. However the ironic thing is why would the illegals want to come here if it is so terrible?

Barron, a known racist, kept comparing illegal immigration to the lawful, and sometimes unlawful immigration of immigrants in the 1850’s, even though the population then was around 40 million and now it is over 300 million. Barron said that white privileges are going to change and Latino illegal immigration will be the browning of America. So what are these white privileges I hear about? I sure hope one of them is the ability to ignore this guy.

Anyways, I am guessing that if a white guy like me referred to illegal immigration as the browning of America, I’d be painted as a racist, by this big fella.

Republicans Counter Protest Illegals

Members of the Conservative Activist League(CAL) and the Berkeley College Republicans
Its great to know that there was a counter protest to all this Illegal stupidity!

Scholar Shelby Steele to Receive 2006 Bradley Prize

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced today that one of the four 2006 Bradley Prizes to honor outstanding achievement will be awarded to Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution.

As a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Dr. Steele specializes in race relations, American social culture, and identity politics. He has written extensively for major publications and has had a profound influence on mainstream attitudes about the roles of education, families, and character in overcoming the legacy of slavery and segregation. Dr. Steele received the National Book Critic's Circle Award for his book The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America. His most recent books are A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America and White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. In 1991, Dr. Steele earned an Emmy Award, a Writer's Guild Award, and the San Francisco Film Festival Award for his work on the PBS documentary Seven Days in Bensonhurst. In 1994, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

"The Bradley Foundation is honoring Dr. Steele for his contributions to the study of race in America and his undying devotion to equality for all," said Michael W. Grebe, president and chief executive officer of the Bradley Foundation. "He has a distinguished body of work that has led to understanding of racial equality in America."

Along with three other recipients, Dr. Steele will be presented the awards during a ceremony to be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 25. Each award carries a stipend of $250,000.

The selection was based on nominations solicited from more than 100 prominent individuals. The winners were ultimately chosen by a selection committee that included Thomas L. "Dusty" Rhodes, Michael W. Grebe, William F. Buckley, George F. Will, Charles Krauthammer, Terry Considine, Reed Coleman and Dianne Sehler.

"Through the Bradley Prizes, we recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions and we hope to encourage others to strive for excellence in their respective fields," said Grebe.

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Founded in 1985, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions. Recognizing that responsible self-government depends on enlightened citizens and informed public opinion, the Foundation supports scholarly studies and academic achievement.

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FRESH FROM THE CUBE: Neocon Mid-Term Report Card

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=673 Neocon Oil-Rich Theocratic World Domination Mid-Term Report Card

Watch David Horowitz vs.Ward Churchill Debate

David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill - Round 1


http://media.yaf.org/latest/03_21_06.cfm

Insulting the intelligence of every thinking American...way to go Churchill!

Duke Rape was it Racsim?

LaShawn Barber has a great take on the Duke Univeristy scandal
her link is below!

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/04/11/fake-rape-duke/

Agent Shoots Self in Foot..Sues Govt

-LaShawn Barber

Last year I stumbled across a video recording of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who accidentally shoots himself in the foot while demonstrating gun safety before a group of students and parents.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html Exclusive Video

Rabbi writes about switching parties

Great Link about a Rabbi who gave up on the Democrat Party!

http://www.thejewishweek.com/top/editletcontent.php3?artid=4944&print=yes

Confessions of a Neocon Rabbi

Get Whitey...is not a Hate Crime!

It seems like hate crimes are only favored for gay man and minorities.

If you are white its okay to beat the shit our of you.

It should not come as a suprise that the NYPD choose to do the
politicaly correct thing and not call the killing of the NYU student a hate crime.

If it were a gay person or an African American the city would be
in an uproar...how disgusting!

Pictures from Illegal Immigration Rally

Thanks to Jeff a New Yorker for these pics!

This is a link to my album of images of yesterday's rally in NYC.

http://s74.photobucket.com/albums/i262/bill_iker/Illegal%20Rally/

Note the images labeled "Becker", they feature Brian Becker of ANSWER (Byron York posted one on the Corner). Of possible interest to some here is the image of the group carrying the banner, "Jews for Racial & Economic Justice".

Not pictured: the young woman carrying a shofar. Also note the image featuring a young woman holding a hand-written sign endorsing Ted Kennedy for president!There are also two short videos of the tail end of the rally.

Feel free to copy, publish, or link to any and all; also to resize or crop any and all images.

-Jeff

Yahoo News is Biased as Shit

Yahoo News seems to be having a ball at bashing the administration.
It looks like Howard Dean controls the Yahoo News database.


Everyday its one thing after another.

Next time Yahoo comes asking for Republican help please remind youre
Senator of Yahoo News Biased reporting.

I am sick and tired of Yahoo News manipulating headlines to make the
Democrats look good!

It looks like one of the Deaniancs got a job and wont relinquish power.

Shame on Yahoo News....Shame!

Let it be know YAHOO NEWS is biased as Shit!

Manhattan banks funding terrorists

http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2006/04/terrorist_money.html

"Evidence developed in the course of a three-year probe, which has already resulted in charges against other New York-based financial institutions, revealed that about $3 billion that flowed through the account over a two-year period was going to terror groups Hamas, al Qaeda and Hezbollah"

Immigration The Right Solution

THE RIGHT SOLUTION! - Close our borders using technology. Believe me, we do have the technology. Create avenues for them to become US citizens over a three year period. This immigrant must be employeed with a w-2 employer 3/4 of the time. During this three year period of time, ensure that they have police protections and health insurance.

During this three year period, they must pay an additional benevolent tax on each pay check that should be based on their income. Is order for the undocumented or illegal immigrtants to participate in this program, he or she must register his or her residence and report everyone living in the household. And a monthly immigrants account of everyone living there.

These additional taxes will do the following: Cover their health insurance costs; Provide more effective police protection; Provide tax relief, lower insurance cost, and lower student loan interest rates; Provide more teachers to handle the current surge within the classroom; Lower interest rates; Well, you get the point. If they refuse or just doesn't have the ability to succeed in the three year program, then provide them a "free" ticket to their country of natural origin. Since there are children involved, we have to work with the native countries to a build school for every 6000 child under 16 that must return to that country.

I estimate that only 40 -50 thousand children would have to return. Therefore only 8 - 20 schools would be built at a cost of only 2 million per school. The belevolent tax would easily cover this cost.
Take Care,

Eli

HIPHOPREPBLICAN.COM got this question from a product of the American
Public School Education.

If this statement does not tell you why we need No Child Left Behind enforced nothing
else will.


A 22 Female's letter to Hip Hop Repblican.com

Dear Hip Hop Repblican.com

HipHop is THE MOST EFFECTIVE POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL TOOL in young black america today. I've received more education on important black historical figures of all types and black historical references of events from all time eras through the words of Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common Sense, The Last Poets, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Nas, DEAD PREZ, Blackalicious, etc. etc. than I have in either my expensive college preparatory school from which I received an Honors Degree and my experience at a Division 1 college.


A Hip Hop Repblican replis back!

I used to do hip hop, I know what hip hop is and what HIP HOP IS...if you know what I mean.

I am not concerned with what Afrikan B. wanted it to be, or what KRS-1 professes it is, I am looking at the real...and that is that it is an industry taken over and puts the worst of us on display to us, and reinforce for us a negative perception of ourselves. White people tried to do it in the old days, black people today do it better than white people ever could.

I like positive hip hop, or even neutral hip hop. I an even stand some of the materialistic crap, but just like a little medication can heal you and an overdose will kill you, hip hop is at its overdose stage and it is killing us.

-Dell Gines

Everyone's playing Race Card

Cynthia McKinney has decided to use her taxpayer provided congressional website to show the world the abuse she has to put up with by the Capitol Hill police. I urge you to click on the link and view the short clip titled American Blackout Film Captures History of McKinney and Capitol Hill Police by Guerrilla News Network. She put this clip on her website as proof of Capitol Hill police abuse.

What that poor woman has to put up with...

http://www.house.gov/mckinney/


The JEEEEEEWs made her do it!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/738062/posts

http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg041202.asp

http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/000026.html

Answering the Left Wing Moonbst about Iraq War

Many on the extreme left have argued that we were lied to and misled into
the invasion of Iraq.

Many democrats pliicians use this argument as a way
to play dumb about there own vote in supporting the invasion.

Below are some things to ask the next annoying, leftist who
demands an answer from you?

1)First If Bush did lie about WMD's why would he then not lie about
"finding such weapons".If Bush is the lying manipulating son of a bitch,
the left accuses him of bing, then why did he no continue the lie?
He and his cronies cold have put weapons there!
Why would such a sinister, wicked president risk his pride by stating
"We found no weapons over there!

2)Why would Tony Blair and Bush be so foolish as to inolve there nations in a conflict if they knew its rationale wold be exposed as a fraud?

3) Why is it that after two bipatisan panels and the Robb-Sibberman commission investigated the possible manipulation of pre-war intelligence, the democrats stiil
make such baseless accusations?
Let us not forget that the facts exist independently of our understanding of them.
The Democrats have the righ to there opinions but not to there own facts.


4)Another question is if Saddam had no WMD's why did the Clinton administration
make the most severe attacks on Iraq's WMDS?

Where the Democrats and the Clinton administration lie when they made these statement
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003


"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002

GOVERNOR BUSH ENDORSES BLACKWELL

COLUMBUS - Citing the Ohioan's bold agenda for job creation, Florida Governor Jeb Bush today announced his support for Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell.

"Ken Blackwell understands two of the most important things a governor can do is create jobs and keep jobs," said Bush. "He has a clear and achievable agenda for both."

"Governor Bush has provided governors and future governors with a road map to economic prosperity through government and education reforms," said Blackwell. "We share similar visions for reforming Medicaid and expanding school choice. His endorsement of my candidacy is a great honor."

"Florida has a strong and growing economy because we challenged the status quo and moved forward with bold, brave ideas," added Bush. "Ken Blackwell's strong leadership and courageous initiatives will move Ohio forward."

Governor Bush is the third Republican governor to endorse Blackwell's candidacy. Texas Governor Rick Perry and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford have previously extended endorsements.

Also, Blackwell has received endorsements from U.S. Senator John McCain (R- Arizona), U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Senator and Georgia Governor Zell Miller, and former HUD Secretary and vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp among others.

He also enjoys the support from Ohio Right to Life, Cincinnati Right to Life, the Republican National Coalition for Life (RNC for Life), Concerned Women for America, The Eagle Forum, Family First and Moms for Ohio.

In addition, Blackwell has been endorsed by the Fulton, Hamilton, Miami and Summit county Republican parties. In January, he reported the highest GOP fundraising totals in the last campaign finance period, out-raising his opponent by more than $700,000 in the last year. He leads all candidates for governor with over 12,000 individual campaign contributors, with an average gift of $167.87.

He enjoys double-digit leads over his opponent among Republican primary voters in five polls released within the last 30 days.

Brother From Another Party: Can a black Republican win in a blue state?

JAMES TARANTO, Wall Street Journal

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--When Michael Steele was running for lieutenant governor in 2002, the Baltimore Sun endorsed the opposing ticket and opined dismissively that Mr. Steele "brings little to the team but the color of his skin." Normally this would be an invidious thing to say about a black politician, but the usual rules of racial etiquette don't seem to apply when it comes to Mr. Steele. For he is a Republican.

He felt his first vaguely political stirrings at age 14, when a summer job turned him into something of a tax rebel. "I was working at Sterling Laundry in Washington. . . . I worked that summer making $2 an hour cleaning toilets, and I was so proud when I got that first paycheck, because I knew how hard I had to work my tail off for those 40 hours. . . . That meant a lot to me when I looked at that bad boy and I saw how much $2 times 40 hours would gross me. But then what I was bringing home--I was a little bit upset about that. So I started talking to people and started trying to figure out, well, who's going to protect my money? Who's going to allow me to keep more of my money? And, you know, this whole FICA thing. What is that all about? Who is this person? Why am I paying these people this kind of dollars?"

Three years later he realized he was a Republican. "Ronald Reagan ran for president in the Republican primary. . . . I was fascinated by Reagan, because Reagan sounded a lot like my mother in terms of speaking to values, speaking to the kind of America that recognized my individuality and my genuineness, to be able to go up there and lasso the American Dream for myself. That spoke to me, because that's what my mother always told me."


Reagan, of course, lost the nomination to Gerald Ford. Mr. Steele turned 18 in October 1976, and "ended up voting for Jimmy Carter in that election." He also worked for Democrat Marion Barry's mayoral campaign in 1978. But in 1980, "when Reagan came back on the scene, . . . it was just like, OK, Katie bar the door. . . . Man, this is what I'm talking about!" He earned a degree from Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, spent a few years studying at a Catholic seminary, and eventually settled in Prince George's County, Md., where he became the local GOP chairman and later state chairman.

If Mr. Steele is a Reaganite, he is not a doctrinaire right-winger. On several issues he takes what seem to be liberal positions, though he explains them in terms that a conservative can appreciate. He opposes capital punishment, he says, "because I'm pro-life." He tells me he favors a "strong minimum wage," but only "as long as you incentivize employers. . . . They have bottom lines to keep. They have costs that they have to bear." Then he notes that most businesses pay more than the minimum anyway, so that "the idea of the minimum wage is almost a fallacy."

…

As he has made his political case, Mr. Steele has again encountered racial prejudice, often from fellow blacks. When I ask him about this, he teases me: "You're hurtin' the brother here. Give the brother a break!" He then tells me about the "Oreo incident," which happened at a 2002 campaign appearance. "After the event was over, I get up out of my seat. . . . Apparently some folks in the audience thought it was humorous to toss some Oreo cookies in my direction. They landed at my feet." Oreos, of course, are a symbol for blacks who are "white inside." Mr. Steele took it in stride. "I turned to the person next to me and asked, 'Got milk?' We kind of joked about it. It's silly."

Less silly, last October, after Mr. Steele announced his Senate bid, an Angry Left blogger who is black posted a racist caricature of Mr. Steele with the caption "I's Simple Sambo and I's running for the Big House."

What accounts for such hideous invective? "I think for a lot of people, someone like me is considered a threat," says Mr. Steele. A Thursday Washington Post story proves him right. Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher, according to the Post, has produced a 37-page report warning that Mr. Steele has "a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland." Mr. Belcher speculated that Mr. Steele could win as much as 44% of the black vote; by contrast, the 2002 Ehrlich-Steele ticket managed just 23% in majority-black Prince George's County. Mr. Belcher's advice to his party was to hurry up and "knock Steele down."


How can the GOP make the most of the moment? "Be honest. For goodness' sakes, don't go in there pretending to be something you're not. Don't go in there thinking you've got to win the black vote, because you're not going to win it in that moment. This is going to be a long process."

Gold Star Families who support the War

My son LCPL Justin M. Ellsworth was killed on November 13, 2004 outside of Fallujah.

He died believing in the mission on the War on Terror and the positive things that were happening in Iraq.

In September of 2004, Justin had just arrived in Iraq when I asked him his opinion of the war. He said, Dad, we have to be here, they want us here and we are making a difference in the lives of these people.

So I must ask if LCPL Justin Ellsworth U.S.M.C. can see the difference that the Coalition troops are making in the lives of Iraqis, why cant we?

I have made it my goal to get the positive news in Iraq out to the media for Justin and the countless number of people who stand along side of him, and have joined with an organization to do just that. Learn more here.

So I am asking you to send a message to the media.

Please go to this website: www.FamiliesUnitedMission.com/lettter

Sign the letter, and forward it to your friends.

I hope you will join me in encouraging the national media to recognize that Iraqi Liberation Day is on April 9th. Don’t Ignore this Milestone!

Sincerely,

John Ellsworth
Gold Star Father
Wixom, Michigan

Was the War Worth It?

Time Magazine offers this question in the March 20th edition.
These are the comments of those who said yes.


HISHAM KASSEM Sadly, I have to say yes.

It is difficult to commend such a bloody scene. But it achieved something useful. Parallel to the chaos and bloodshed, there is a political process evolving in Iraq. Bloodshed is the price of the transition from Saddam's psychopathic dictatorship. The losses would have been higher had Saddam stayed on. You could easily see that regime lasting another 30 years, under his sons and top generals. Negotiating with Iraq was not an option. There had to be a military intervention. You have a bloc of 22 countries in the Arab world dominated by authoritarianism and dictatorship. It is not a bloc you could engage politically and pressure for reform. By military intervention, the U.S. is able to pressure the region into adopting the reforms we are beginning to see across the region that might avert many countries from becoming failed states. The world cannot put up with state failure in the backyard of the world's oil fields, Israel and Europe.

Democracy activist Kassem is vice chairman of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm




MICHAEL YOUNG Yes, Iraq was worth it, because it exposed more clearly than ever the brutal underpinnings of Arab nationalist rule. From an Iraqi perspective, there is much uncertainty today but also no nostalgia for the savagery of Saddam's rule. From the U.S.'s perspective, the struggle to stabilize Iraq will discourage similar endeavors in the future, but the war also highlighted how subcontracting American interests in the Middle East to supposedly stable Arab dictatorships is no longer viable. The shoddy edifice that U.S. soldiers so quickly dismantled in Iraq is no less present in countries Washington considers allies. Iraq may or may not be the pivot of a regional democratic resurgence, but it is a reminder to Americans that much can be gained by challenging the debilitating status quo if the aftermath is gotten right. Unless democracy becomes a cornerstone of Washington's efforts, its alliances will seem more than ever built on a mountain of illegitimacy.

Young is opinion editor at Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper



CHIBLI MALLAT Yes, the U.S.-led war to get rid of the dictatorship was worth it for most Iraqis and for those who, like me, supported them against one of the most ruthless governments in modern history. But for the young Marine from Oklahoma or the child in Iraq blown up this past week or the one before, it wasn't. Better things must obtain from the demise of Iraq's dictatorship, even if it is largely accepted now that the end of Saddam's rule represents a positive precedent for Iraq and the modern Middle East. Democratic Iraq, like democratic Germany or Japan, might make all the sacrifices less painful.

Mallat is an Arab democracy campaigner and a candidate for Lebanese President


http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1174699,00.html

Exposing the Three-Fifths Of a Person Myth

Most young black teens from an early age are often given inaccurate historical
accounts about slavery in America.
Most of these assertions have more to do with emmotions than with the facts.
One popular slavery myth that gets pounded over an over is the the "Three fifths rule"..which according to black leftist ingrained into law that blacks were subhuman.
Leading many to think that we should have been counted fully.
The history behind this is much more complex as the piece below will try
to explain.

This is from a PBS's documentory on George Washington!

It is sometimes wrongly said that the famous Three-Fifths compromise meant that the founders considered slaves as only partial human beings. In fact, the compromise had nothing to do with the human worth of the individual slave. States with slaves wanted to count all of their slaves in the state’s population because that would yield more representatives in Congress.

The opponents of slavery, noting that slaves had no rights of citizenship including the vote, argued that slaves should not be counted at all for purposes of representation. In the end, the compromise was to count three-fifths of the state’s slaves in the total population. In another words, for every five slaves, three of would be added to the population count used to determine representation in the House of Representatives.



The Slavery Compromises

Since representation in the House of Representatives was to be based on population, a debate arose over whether slaves should be counted in a states population. According to James Madisons diary, the issue of slavery was the most divisive subject at the convention. While many of the Founding Fathers including George Washington viewed slavery as inconsistent with the principles of the Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, they knew that there was little chance of abolishing slavery at the time.

After all, if those opposed to slavery insisted on its abolition, slave states could have walked out of the convention and formed their own nation with a pro-slavery constitution. So the issue of slavery would require compromise if the United States were to survive. Washington and the other Founders hoped that slavery could be eliminated from the United States once a strong union was formed.

http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/classroom/index3.html

"Get Whitey"..NYU student possibly killed by Gang

Posted by Michael M. Bates

On April 3,

the New York Times reported (Man Hit by Car; Witnesses Say He Was Chased) on a young man who was seriously hurt (and later died) after darting into a busy Harlem intersection. Witnesses to the incident, according to the Times' account, said it appeared the victim was being chased by several young men.

No reference to the race of the victim or the young men pursuing him was mentioned.

Today's New York Post Online Edition reports on the same incident: "The NYPD hate-crimes unit is probing a report that a white NYU student killed by a car in Harlem was fleeing a gang of black teenagers screaming 'Get whitey!' sources said yesterday."

http://newsbusters.org/node/4792

5 Lessons Republicans Can Learn from Obama

One of the most obvious talents of freshman Democrat Senator Barack Obama is his speaking ability. Besides delivering a riveting keynote address at the National Convention, his charisma overpowered audiences all across Illinois on his way to a blow-out victory. What does he have that many Republicans lack?

Here are a few keys to Obama's speaking style:

1) Connects with the audience. Whether commencement speeches, political rallies, or the convention speech, Obama tells a personal story or joke to create report and gain credibility in the eyes of the audience. In a recent speech to the American Library Association, he acknowledged a staffer's mother who was present and made this joke, "Believe me, I have no idea how the biggest mouth in our office came from a family of two librarians, but we're proud to have him on board and I'm sure you are too."

2) Uses good historical illusions. Not only does he draw on the stories about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Abraham Lincoln, he connects those stories to the situation the audience is facing.

3) Utilizes repetition. In this speech before the NAACP, he uses the old preaching tool, "And sometimes, when I reflect on those giants of the Civil Rights movement, I wonder - where did you find that courage? John Lewis, where did you find that courage? Dorothy Height, where did you find that courage? Rosa Parks, where did you find that courage?"

4) Speaks with passion. In a basic speech class, I was taught the first rule of public speaking is to pick a subject you are passionate about. Even if the subject is birds or amoeba, the key is to show the audience you are passionate about the subject. If you don't care, they certainly won't. Obama definitely shows his passion in whatever subject he is speaking.

5) Ends with hope. While he often sets up stark divisions, he always concludes on an upbeat note. ". . . I also ask you to remember that in this country, our history of overcoming the seemingly impossible always comes about because individuals who care really can make a difference. America is great because Americans are good." Whether it's participating in a volunteer organization or turning out to vote, Obama motivates the audience to take action.

-Matt Lewis is a conservative commentator, consultant, and political trainer, based in Alexandria, VA.



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Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters

Candidate's Ties to President Bush Judged a Potential Vulnerability

There’s an encouraging new poll out today – and it was taken by the Democrats.

The poll finds that as many as 44% of African-American voters would consider abandoning their traditional Democrat allegiances by voting for Michael Steele in Maryland’s Senate race. Now that they know how formidable a candidate Steele, the internal memo shows Democrats poised to engage in a smear campaign to “knock Steele down” sooner rather than later. The Washington Post writes up the poll here:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502392_pf.html?s=steele



By learn more about Michael Steele’s campaign at http://www.steeleformaryland.com.



By Matthew Mosk

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006

An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to "knock Steele down."

The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters -- as much as 44 percent -- would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances "after hearing Steele's messaging."

"Governor Ehrlich and [Lt. Gov.] Michael Steele have a clear ability to break through the Democratic stronghold among African American voters in Maryland," says the March 27 report by Cornell Belcher, polling consultant for the Democratic National Committee, which bases its findings on a survey of 489 black voters in Maryland conducted last month.

The report, given to The Washington Post this week, drills into a topic that has emerged as a key focus of this year's U.S. Senate contest in Maryland: race.

In 2002, Steele became the first African American elected to statewide office in Maryland, and he has designed his Senate campaign to cut into the black support that has traditionally flocked to Democrats.

More than a half-dozen Democrats are vying for the open seat being vacated by Paul S. Sarbanes (D), including the former head of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume.

Maryland Democratic Party Executive Director Derek B. Walker said the study verified what, internally, party strategists had already concluded: that African American voters who have served as a reliable base for generations cannot be taken for granted.

"It confirms that in this day and age, everyone expects us to do more than just rest on history," Walker said. "We knew we were going to have to engage. But we also know it will be easier for us to forge that relationship because we're right on the issues."

If the findings of the poll are correct, they paint a somewhat different vision of the black electorate from what has been commonly understood to this point, said David Bositis, a senior research associate at the D.C.-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Bositis said nothing in his research suggests that an African American Republican will be able to grab a significant segment of the black vote.

The DNC survey finds that 22 percent of black voters support Steele when matched against a "generic" Democrat.

"There's just no way it's that high," Bositis said, noting that Steele's performance among black voters in the 2002 election did not approach that number. "If he was that much of a draw then it's doubtful he would only have received 13 percent of the black vote."

There are other aspects of the survey, though, that Bositis says are consistent with national findings. Among them: that young black men represent a voting bloc far less loyal to Democrats. It also finds more support for Steele in Baltimore than in Prince George's County, more backing among churchgoers, and stronger support among those without a college degree.

In an interview in his State House office yesterday, Steele clutched the DNC report like a football coach who just got his hands on the opposing team's playbook. He said a copy "landed on our doorstep" in the past week.

"This explains everything," he said. "They're afraid of what I represent. They're afraid of the fact that African American voters have options, and I'm one of them."

Steele focused on two aspects of the document: the finding that a high percentage of black voters have connected with his message and the recommendation that the Democrats attack him early.

"Voters need to know they're trying to make me into something I'm not," Steele said.

He deflected questions about a potential vulnerability exposed in the report. A message that resonated with black voters identified Steele as "George W. Bush's hand-picked candidate," the survey found. It's a message Democrats have tried to exploit. Even as Walker discussed the findings, he pointed to a photograph hanging in his office -- it shows Steele and Bush arm in arm.

The poll finds that only 8 percent of black voters in Maryland approve of the president's performance. And it signals that early support Steele has received from Bush and his advisers will rub black voters the wrong way.

"Connecting Steele to national Republicans . . . can turn Steele into a typical Republican in the eyes of voters, as opposed to an African American