Stupid is, as stupid does. Does anyone really wonder why the Tea Party movement exists?

Anyone, anyone?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State Assembly Speaker John Perez wasn't the only one who received a pay raise when he assumed the leadership post at the start of the month.

The Sacramento Bee reported Monday that the Los Angeles Democrat boosted pay for eight of his staff members on March 1, the day he was sworn in. The newspaper obtained the information under the state public records law.

Perez spokeswoman Shannon Murphy says the speaker's staff is taking on a "tremendous amount of additional new work" now that he is leader of the 80-member body.

Perez's salary grew from $95,291 to $109,584 when he assumed the speakership.

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Homegrown Jihad: Buy the DVD that shows you where the terrorists are amongst us.

A chilling threat from Media Matters, a George Soros funded organization dedicated to destroying conservatives.

Media Matters has now made issued notice it intends to dig up dirt INDIVIDUALS who work at Fox News with damaging personal information it is gathering in opposition research.

Is this America? Will the FBI or anybody investigate the so-called investigators? Uh, no. That was a rhetorical question.

These scumbags are beyond contempt, and I know from personal experience.

Media Matters developing 'opposition research' on Fox, has list of 'every single person' at network

By Steven Nelson - The Daily Caller  5:45 PM 03/26/2011 (5:45 PM)

Politico published an eye-opening report on Saturday by Ben Smith about “Media Matter’s war against Fox.” Smith wrote that the organization continues to transform itself into an exclusively Fox News-battling group.

Media Matters founder David Brock told Politico that his organization’s activism has developed into a “strategy of containment.” This strategy includes extensive work to compile intelligence on the employees of the cable news channel.

“We made a list of every single person who works for Fox and tried to figure out who might be disgruntled and why, and we went out to try to meet them,” Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt told Politico. “Somebody in that organization is giving us primary source documents.”

Rabin-Havt also told Politico that Media Matters was compiling “opposition research” files on “mid- and senior-level execs and producers.”

“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” read a 2010 memo by Brock that was acquired by Politico. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”

Please don't hate me! But I have saved up all my pennies and I'm going on vacation to an undisclosed sunny, warm and beachy place.

I'll be back in a week. Please keep an eye on the world for me.

Adios!

Mel

Help us Defeat Barack Obama in 2012. Don't waste a moment in organizing against this President and his liberal regime!

Join me for an evening with "The Joe's" in the charming seaside town of Montara, California tonight at 6:oo p.m.

Joe Miller from Alaska, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, and Joe the Plumber are joining me in Montara for a premier evening of political motivation.

We are at 1430 Audubon Avnue in Montara. Make a donation if you can't be there in person to:

https://secure.donationsafe.com/ewj

Just don't miss your chance to change history!

See you tonight, Melanie Morgan

Why is the US helping Al Qaeda in Libya?   

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/why-is-the-united-states-helping-al-qaeda-in-libya/

Jerry Brown’s Budget “Process:” Threats, thugs and taxes (or else)

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/jerry-browns-budget-process-threats-thugs-and-taxes-or-else/

The “Green Police:” Agenda 21 community meetings coming up

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/the-green-police-agenda-21-community-meetings-coming-up/

What to do if nuclear disaster is imminent.  Not trying to be weird, but ….Obama is president, after all.

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/what-to-do-if-nuclear-disaster-is-imminent/

Gaddafi’s “long war” will be funded by his “secret stash” of gold

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/gaddafis-long-war-will-be-funded-by-a-big-pot-of-gold/

An interview with the hacktivist group, “Anonymous”

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/an-interview-with-anonymous/

F-15 crashes in Libya: Crew rescued, but wreckage is valuable to the enemy. Kosovo “déjà vu”

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/f-15-crashes-in-libya-crew-rescued-but-is-wreckage-valuable-to-the-enemy/

Department of Defense pays for first American transplant. Dallas Wiens’ amazing grace

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/department-of-defense-pays-for-first-american-face-transplant/

Is Odyssey Dawn “over” already? Sources say only six planes in the air over Libya

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/is-%e2%80%9codyssey-dawn%e2%80%9d-already-over-sources-say-only-six-planes-in-the-air-over-libya/

How Attacking Libya sets U.N. legal precedent to attack Israel

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/how-attacking-libya-sets-legal-precedent-for-u-n-action-against-israel/

Jane Jamison

UNCOVERAGE.net--The Right Idea

 Contributing writers: Dell Hill and Abraxas  

Links to Live TV and continuous Text update coverage of Libyan war

Links to Live TV and continuous Text update coverage of Japan earthquake/nuclear

Reveille Headlines: 663 arrests at Mexican border in 2010 were from Islamic terror nations, LaborUnionReport on the conflict of interest of the Wisconsin Judge who has halted the Wisconsin union-busting law…she needs to recuse from this case NOW.

Posted  March 21, 2011

Barry Bonds’ Bat and Balls: The Steroid Inquisition Begins

Happy Purim from the Maccabeats!  [another great video from these adorables]

In case you missed them, here are all the posts from the following days:

March 17, 2011

March 18, 2011

March 19, 2011

March 20, 2011

Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton was the keynote speaker at the California Republican Party convention in Sacramento this weekend and drew a huge crowd of enthusiasts.

Bolton met privately with myself and other representatives of Move America Forward, the largest pro-troop grassroots organization in the country to discuss international hotspots where our troops are in harms way.

Bolton will appear June 23^rd on Troopathon 2011, a live broadcast on the Internet, to help raise money for care packages to our military men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as contributions to Fisher House, which aids family members helping soldiers recover from life threatening injuries.

During our discussion, I asked Bolton if the rumors about a presidential bid are accurate. Ambassador Bolton replied “I am thinking about it.” Bolton says that there doesn’t seem to be one conservative out there to whom support has rallied, so he is keeping his eye on the field.

. . . . .

Darryl Issa is now on the case.

Erick Erickson at Red State is asking if America (translation:  Obama and Eric Holder) have committed an Act of War against Mexico. Could this bring Eric “The Racist” Holder down?  Who’s going to fall on their sword to protect the manchild usurper president?

Sipsey Street Irregulars are on it.  So’s Codrea over at the Examiner.

This is going to be verrrrry interesting…

Photo by Oleg Volk

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Since Obama's Organizing for America and the Wisconsin Democrats are vowing to double down, we've produced a new TV ad so we can go back up on the air in WI supporting Scott Walker and the GOP Senators, especially given the very serious recall campaigns now being launched.  Please share this ad wherever you can to show that we're sticking with this fight and we're not going to let Obama's left get ahead of us.

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[Liberal] Bill Maher bashes Koran on TV show: Where’s the media outrage?

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/liberal-bill-maher-bases-koran-on-tv-show-wheres-the-media-outrage/

Rasmussen poll: Public opposition to ObamaCare is highest ever

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/rasmussen-poll-public-opposition-to-obamacare-is-highest-ever/

Tea Party GOP picks up support but loses House fight on continuing resolution

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/tea-party-gop-picks-up-support-but-loses-house-fight-on-%e2%80%9ccontinuing%e2%80%9d-resolution/

Japan Update: Nuke plants/ Navy crews exposed to radiation/ stock market / pills for potential radioactive illness

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/japan-update-nuke-plantsnavy-crews-exposed-stock-market-radioactive-illness/

Once bitter enemies, America and Japan pull together in crisis

http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/03/americans-come-full-circle-on-japan/

Last year, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., didn’t hide his disdain for the tea party movement. He said it lacked coherence and would soon “die out.” But Graham’s singing a different tune this year, Politico reports.

He’s trying to work with two founders of the Senate’s tea party caucus, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, to reform Social Security. And he recently spoke out against the new healthcare law in tandem with noted tea partyer Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina.

“My opinion of the tea party has been ... if the tea party can help deliver Social Security reform, they deserve praise. If they can help us reduce spending, they deserve praise,” Graham told Politico. He’s part of a broader movement by establishment Republicans to ally with the tea party movement.

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NPR Executive Vivian Schiller is gone.But the problem of raging anti-conservative bias in government funded radio and TV still remains. Don't believe me? I'm the one who was permanently banned from NPR because of my loud, proud pro-troop support on Judy Woodruff's show.

"...On the May 21 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, conservative radio host and Move America Forward chairman Melanie Morgan addressed a May 17 statement by Linda Winslow, executive producer of Public Broadcasting Service's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, in response to viewer complaints regarding the discussion between Morgan and VoteVets.org chairman Jon Soltz on the May 8 edition of the NewsHour. Winslow wrote: "Since the program is produced live, we can't do much to eliminate rude guests from your television screen once the segment has begun; what we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again." On Hannity, Morgan accused Media Matters for America -- which published a May 9 item on Morgan's NewsHour appearance -- of encouraging "their people" to call PBS and get her banned from the network. Morgan further stated: "I am demanding an apology from Linda Winslow, because this is a woman who clearly is lying about the situation." Morgan also asserted: "PBS has a blatant anti-conservative bias. They don't want to hear a proud pro-American, pro-troop point of view," adding, "I think that ... PBS should be ashamed of itself."

In introducing the segment, co-host Sean Hannity stated: "In an action that reeks of censorship, PBS' signature broadcast, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, effectively banned conservative radio host Melanie Morgan from any future appearances." Hannity was referring to Winslow's statement, which appeared in PBS ombudsman Michael Getler's column on May 17."

Don't forget Juan Williams, a liberal who made the "mistake" of saying exactly what he thought and was fired as a result.

"Former NPR commentator Juan Williams spoke exclusively to FoxNation.com about the NPR sting video, which captured NPR senior executive Ron Schiller in a bigoted and revealing rant about conservatives, Jews and the American taxpayer. “This was an act of incredible condescension,” said Williams. “The rank hypocrisy of his remarks was telling for me. They will say things to your face about how there’s no liberal orthodoxy at NPR, how they play it straight, but now you see it for what it is. They prostitute themselves for money.”

Williams said Schiller’s remarks about the Jews dominating the newspaper industry was “outright anti-Semitism,” and labeling Tea Party members “gun-toting” “racists” reveals “their real feelings.” This is how they talk in boardrooms and editorial meetings, explained Williams. “This is how they really feel.”

Just yesterday, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller told the National Press Club that NPR needed taxpayer money to survive as an institution … but Ron Schiller revealed in the sting video that NPR doesn’t need federal funds. “They’re up on Capitol Hill saying we need money, asking for an increase in fact, telling everyone else to sacrifice so they can have icing on their cake … just to preserve their biased agenda when we’re $14 trillion in debt,” Williams said.

Ron Schiller said he was “proud” of the way Williams was fired, which contradicted the official NPR line where they “regret” they way it was handled. This really struck Williams. “This shows a real lack of remorse … these people say one thing in public, then candidly say I need to see a shrink and they’re proud of what went down ... it shows exactly who the villains are.”

The vote to continue funding this white hot hatred of conservtives with taxpayer dollars is coming up in the Sente. Wanna bet that they keep the dough?

Ron Schiller is proving EXACTLY what conservatives have charged about NPR - wild bias, craven interests in protecting their own power, proven liars and now apparently supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.

READ THIS EXPOSE from the Daily Caller:

UPDATE: I have instructed my webmaster to delete the hateful comments of "Walter" from my website and his brooming can't come soon enough. What kind of sick individual talks like that? Michelle Malkin and her family are in pain and do not deserve this kind of commentary.

Walter, God will sort you out. In the meantime, you may not speak like that in MY house.

My friend Michelle Malkin is putting out a plea today for your help, especially if you live in the Seattle area.

Help if you can, pray if you can't.

"...This is my beautiful cousin, Marizela Perez:

SEATTLE — The photo above from Marizela’s friends/family shows the tattoo on her left inner arm that reads “lahat ay magiging maayos” — a Tagalog saying for “all will be well.”

Thanks so much to all of you for your prayers and for helping to spread the word across the Internet.

Thanks to many friends/contacts in the Seattle-area media who covered her disappearance over the past few days, including:

Seattle Times
KOMO radio’s John Carlson and KOMO TV’s Shomari Stone
KING TV
KIRO

Marizela still hasn’t been heard from or seen by family since Saturday.

The Seattle PD says it has probable visual identification of Marizela boarding the Othello train near her home in the Rainier Beach area and commuting into the University District during the noon hour on Saturday. A Seattle PD detective from the missing persons bureau says there’s evidence that she was last seen Saturday afternoon at the Safeway in the city’s University District on 4732 Brooklyn Ave NE between 1-2pm. At some point during that time, purchases were made on her debit card.

The police say they “have no reason to suspect foul play” at this point. There are several reasons and grim evidence that cause the family to remain gravely concerned about Marizela’s safety, health, and well-being. As mentioned yesterday in the flyers the family is handing out, Marizela was taking anti-depressants and has been for some time. As my family gets on the ground to continue the search for Marizela, please continue to get the word out to anyone in the Seattle-area you know. Here’s the updated info on her last known location/time. If anyone saw or talked to her in the University District Saturday afternoon or has seen her since, please contact law enforcement ASAP:

She is a University of Washington undergrad and she has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when she left the Rainier Beach neighborhood headed to the UW Seattle campus. Her parents have been trying to reach her all weekend; she apparently never made it to campus and has not been heard from by phone/Internet. They’ve filed a missing persons report with the Seattle Police Department. Hospitals have been alerted, according to family members, and bus and train routes have been checked. No sign.

Here’s more info we’re trying to spread via Facebook and Q13Fox/KCPQ in Seattle:

MISSING PERSON

Name: Marizela Perez

Date Missing: March 5, 2011, 12:00-12:30 P.M.

Last Seen: Rainier Beach area, heading to UW Seattle campus to meet friends for lunch or study in the UW libraries

Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district

Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.

Seattle-area readers, can you please help get the word out — and if you or anyone you know might know anything about Marizela’s (nickname: “Em-Em”) whereabouts, please get in touch with the Seattle Police Department/UWPD or contacts listed at Facebook link above ASAP.

Marizela, if you are able to let your dad and mom know that you are okay, please contact them. You are so loved.

***

“Lahat ay magiging maayos” is Tagalog for “All will be well.”

May God make it so. Please keep my cousin and her family in your prayers. Thank you."

UPDATE: Charlie Sheen is NOT winning. Charlie Sheen has just completed the total annihilation of his career.

Way to go, Warlock.

I'll admit it - I am totally riveted by the death spiral of Charlie Sheen. I can't look away as he loses his mind, his soul, his body and his children on national television.

Does this make me a bad person?

I can offer a half dozen explanations for reading his Tweets, watching last night's rant on UStream.tv (bad stagecraft, dude!) Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight and all the newspapers covering this train wreck.

But the simple fact of the matter is that I am SO grateful it isn't me.

As a recovering addict (compulsive gambling) I consider myself blessed by God above for living through a nightmare not unlike Sheen's (except for the part about going crazy on national television, losing a 50 million dollar paycheck and watching CPS take my children away.)

 I watch and pray for Charlie and his family, and shake my head at the intensity of his bi-polar rants, hoping that he will get a Godshot before it is too late.

I pray for Martin and Janet Sheen and Charlie's siblings. I hope that their pain will ease but I know that it won't. Meanwhile, all five of Charlie's children need our support and prayers too.

What. a. frickin. mess.

Branded a winner: Sheen also displayed his new 'winning' tattoo

Somali pirates off the coast of Africa are increasing emboldened in snatching innocent men, women and children from the high seas. The are held for ransom, and then murdered if the money doesn't come through fast enough.

Enough.

If you want to stop this barbarity, the solution is simple enough. Do as the Russians do and simply kill one Pirate family member for every hostage death. But hey, that's just the compassionate conservative coming out of me.

Cliff May at at National Review Online has another take.

"..Maj. Gen. Tom Wilkerson, USMC (ret.), is CEO of the U.S. Naval Institute. He told me he believes it is high time for a new approach. The U.S., along with a coalition of the willing, he says, could and should increase the risks of piracy and lower the rewards. That means taking the offensive: killing pirates at sea, in the harbors where they dock their vessels (and those they seize), and in what are now their safe havens and homes in the coastal areas of the northern Somali province of Puntland.

“Anytime you give your enemies places where they can rest and regroup, where they can’t be attacked, you cede the initiative to them,” Wilkerson said. “This doesn’t require putting boots on the ground. We have demonstrated that we have the technology” for both surveillance and remote attacks.

Would taking the war to the pirates be a violation of international law, as some proponents of inaction and appeasement claim? Wilkerson said it would not: “Two UN resolutions, 1851 and 1897, allow hot pursuit” at sea, into port, and onto land.

Other measures could be implemented as well. There could be expanded and coordinated naval patrols in the area, drawing from all nations whose ships, cargoes, and crews are threatened. Under current law, insurance companies are actually incentivized to pay ransom. New legislation could be introduced to encourage shipping companies to defend their vessels and crews with less fear of being sued for “violating the rights” of brigands. An international tribunal could be set up to prosecute captured pirates. Somali nationals could be trained as a constabulary force to prevent piracy, once suppressed, from being reestablished.

“The point is you have to decide on a goal and a strategy to achieve it,” Wilkerson argues. “But if we don’t do something there will be more opportunities for innocent deaths like we saw last week.”

Lots of chatter on the political grapevine today about a possible, maybe even likely defeat of President Obama in 2012.

Just the thought of it soothes my savage soul.

The astonishing wealth of Libyan tyrant Muammar Gaddafi and his family has been laid bare as countries around the world begin freezing billions of dollars worth of their assets.

The U.S. alone has seized $30billion (£18.5bn) of their investments, while Canada has frozen $2.4bn (£1.5bn), Austria, $1.7bn (£1bn) and the UK, $1bn ($600m).

These assets appear to be just the tip of the iceberg, as no one is yet certain exactly what the family owns around the world.

But they include an enormous portfolio of properties in the West End theatre and shopping district of London - worth $455m (£280m) as well as $325m (£200m) in shares in Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times and Penguin books.

Assets: Gaddafi's son Saif bought this $15million (£10m) home in one of London's most affluent suburbs in 2009. It boasts a swimming pool, eight bedrooms, a sauna and a Jacuzzi

The assets also include a $15million luxury mansion in an affluent suburb of North London.

Nestled among the homes of TV presenters and actors is the eight-bed home with a swimming pool, sauna, jacuzzi and suede-lined cinema room.

The house even has an electrically operated rubbish store, which raises and lowers eight bins into the ground before a steel plate folds over to hide them discreetly.

It was bought mortgage-free by Capitana Seas Ltd, a holding company registered in the British Virgin Islands and owned by Gaddafi's most high-profile son, Saif.

Residents in the neighbourhood have been campaigning to oust Saif, a former student of the London School of Economics, who acquired the property in 2009.

Luxurious: The suede-lined cinema room in the property, which was bought mortgage-free in 2009 by a holding company owned by Saif

Stylish: The large swimming pool in the London home

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361919/Muammar-Gaddafi-familys-astonishing-wealth-revealed.html#ixzz1FSsLuQ3P

Greetings All,

On March 26th we will all gather at Godspeed, 5532 San Pablo, Oakland, where we will celebrate "Vets return to Berkeley".  This all day annual event is all encompassing - whether your ride a motorcycle or drive a cage, doesn't matter - the only requirement is that you love the United States of America.  There are multiple purposes to the Rally.  We will be raising money to help send a teacher to Vietnam.  We are honoring the US Military for protecting the world's children.  We are putting the message out that "all these various groups, clubs and patriots can put aside their competitiveness and club policies, and unite at any time, to confront anti American's whether they be individuals, groups, or, city council members that are more interested in advancing their individual efforts for higher office, than they are in taking care of the electorate that voted for them -  they don't take care of their own cities."

We are expecting a few hundred participants to be attending, starting at 10:00 - get there early.  We will be hearing from Gold Star Families - those that have lost a son or a daughter on the field of battle.  We will have Blue Star Families - they have sons and daughters serving in harms way and they can tell you about them and what its like to live worrying about their loved ones.  Both of these groups have to listen to some of the hate speech and diatribe presented by their fellow citizens - who don't have a clue or even care about our true American Heros.

We will also be trying to raise money to send a teacher to Vietnam - something the kids there need badly - and WE are doing it, not the anti-American groups that could care less about anything but their own agenda - to undermine the efforts of our American Heros.  We are putting our money where are mouths are. 

Most importantly - we need you and everyone that's available to show up and show American pride.  If at all possible, bring your flags - USA, POW/MIA, and, service flags.  If you belong to a club or a group, bring your flag or a sign so you can show who you represent and who actually cares.

This event is sponsored by Eagles Up ( www.eaglesup.us <http://www.eaglesup.us/>  ), a 501 (c) 3 non profit corporation.  Cash donations should be mailed to "Eagles Up, PO Box 360046, Milpitas, Ca 95036 - with a note specifying "Vets Return to Berkeley".

There are reasons to believe we will have good media coverage as we are inviting Gold and Blue Star Families, along with a couple of media personalities.  Names will be released WHEN we get a commitment.  We will ask the Gold Star  Families and the Blue Star Families to be on board from at least 11:00 until 2:00 - longer if they'd like, roaming amongst us and sharing their stories.

If you know anyone with a patriotic paint job, have them contact me as we would like to have those vehicles on display.  

Please share this email and announcement with everyone you know, independent riders, clubs, motorcycle clubs, riding clubs, car clubs, organizations, everyone you can think of - make this a huge event.  And send a loud message.

BRING YOUR FLAGS.

Schedule:

10:00 - Welcome, check in, and socialize.

11:00 - band starts

12:00 - Guest Speakers

1:00 to 4:00 - BBQ

5:00 - formal end - band stops

Some Gave All, Some Still are, NEVER forget!

Doug Lyvere

SgtMaj, Marine, ret

415-309-2510

Chairman, Eagles Up

www.eaglesup.us

<http://www.eaglesup.us/> Road Guard, Run For The Wall, SR www.rftw.org <http://www.rftw.org/> Patriot Guard Rider Rolling Thunder

I heard the word this morning that the pyscho crazy Fred Phelps and Family from Westboro Baptist church (which includes ONLY Phelps family members and a couple of stragglers) is getting 16K in legal expenses after being sued by the family of slain soldier Matthew Snyder, who was murdered by terrorists in Iraq.

Phelps organized a protest at Matthew's funeral. Something about queers and God's revenge. I never did understand what this insane man is preaching.

All I know is that Phelps is going to hell, and so is the Fourth District Court of Appeals who found in favor of Phelps.

Via MichelleMalkin.com

My stalwart friends at the American Legion have stepped up to raise funds to cover the legal expenses of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s family. As you all know, Snyder’s funeral was targeted by the evil miscreants of the bogus Westboro Baptist Church. The Snyders took the protesters to court. In October 2007, a jury awarded the Snyders $2.9 million in compensatory damages, $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress. It was thrown out on appeal by the Fourth Circuit. Federal judges have now ordered the family to pay $16,510 to ringleader Fred Phelps as they pursue a Supreme Court case. SCOTUS agreed earlier this month to hear the Snyders’ appeal.

Regardless of how you feel about the merits of the Snyders’ suit, the Snyders deserve to know that Americans are forever grateful for their son’s heroism and for the family’s sacrifice. We shouldn’t stand by and watch them bankrupted.

MOTHAX at The American Legion Burnpit tells me the group’s National Adjutant is seeding a fund-raising effort for the Sndyers with his own funds. The group will also be submitting an amicus brief in the Snyders’ case and intends to raise enough money to cover the court-ordered legal expenses and any other expenses incurred by the Supreme Court appeal.

They need your help.

Go here to donate now — and spread the word.

via Instapundit.com

DAVID KIRKHAM SENDS THIS TEA PARTY REPORT FROM UTAH:

Last night an reporter from CNN travelling with the Tea Party Express showed up at our shop to talk about the Tea Party Express that was coming through Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah today. (I was the local organizer for the Provo event). I gave him a tour through our shop and then took him for a drive up the canyon in one of our cars. We talked the entire time. We ended up speaking for about 4 hours. At the end of our conversation, he dropped a bomb, “You know, I decided to come and find the facts about you guys for myself. The facts are the facts. Keith Olberman is way out in left, crazy field! You guys aren’t anything like the media has portrayed you.” I replied, “I know.” He told me he was then going to write a story on the “real” Tea Party people he met on his travels through Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

This morning the Tea Party Express stopped in Provo. We had about 500 people show up. I introduced Mayor John Curtis who was just elected to office (off-year elections for the cities here). He inherited a 5 million budget shortfall. The first thing he did was cut funding for the Miss Provo Pageant. He said they were welcome to have the pageant–just not on the city’s dime. He then asked the city employees to pick 5 guys from each department to figure out where they could save money in the budget–and they DID! He balanced the budget without raising taxes a penny, just like he promised before he was elected. He left his business to run for mayor. He obviously brought his business skills with him. There are some great ones out there.

The comment of the day (Provo) came from a reporter who asked me, “I am trying to take a picture of a counter protester’s sign and I can’t find one. Do you know where any are?”

In Salt Lake over 1000 people attended. A total of 2 counter protesters showed up. They left after 10 minutes.

I spoke with several media people today. This morning I was on KSL radio, in the afternoon I was on PJTV (coming soon, I gave you a shout out!) and tonight I was on ABC Channel 4 News. The Channel 4 News anchors were most respectful and exceptionally nice both on the air and off the air. Throughout the day I spoke with more print journalists than I can remember. I have hopes all these flared emotions of late will temper. It was a great day.

Here’s a pic from Salt Lake City.

Melanie Morgan and Chuck DeVore in Searchlight, Nevada on March 27, 2010
The Tea Party Express has endorsed Chuck in his race for the U.S. Senate

Chuck DeVore during 2004 Army training

Make a donation today of $25, $50, $75, or $100

That's the $64,000 question that many Republicans are asking today after Ms. Fiornia ducked the debate at Brandman University in Irvine, CA, this evening.

http://www.oclnn.com/orange-county/2010-03-30/california/debate-spurs-controversy-among-candidates

According to the story, "Initially, Fiorina said she could not participate because of a scheduling conflict, according to [Fiorina spokeswoman Amy] Thoma." But then, says Thoma, “We felt the proposed moderator [Dr Mike Moodian, an assistant professor of social science at Brandman,] would not be fair and impartial so we declined.” And what did Dr Moodian do to create this impression? According to the story, "Thoma accused Moodian of 'bullying' Fiorina by including reporters on reply e-mails regarding the debate negotiations."

Yep, the spokeswoman for Carly Fiorina, would-be United States Senator and challenger to Barbara Boxer, says Carly feels bullied via e-mail by an assistant professor of social science. That surely portends effectiveness in Washington, D.C.

Now, let's be absolutely clear: the Fiorina campaign's victimhood smokescreen is exactly that. Carly Fiorina is dodging this debate because she wants to debate as little as possible. She does poorly in these uncontrolled settings where she may be freely challenged, as exemplified rather painfully in the March 5th radio debate on KTKZ. For a prime example, go to this URL, and scroll down to the clip entitled, "Chuck confronts Carly Fiorina on her foreign policy experience," to hear Chuck DeVore provoke Fiorina into spluttering anger on an otherwise minor point:

http://chuckdevore.com/n/news.asp?artid=256

Carly Fiorina is simply unequipped, in temperament or training, for an aggressive exchange of views and open skepticism of her claims. That's why she won't debate this evening. It's an act of self-preservation for her campaign -- but for an aspirant to the world's greatest deliberative body, it's a shameful evasion.

The wind whipped off the desert floor, but the chill seemed to light a fire beneath the Tea Party activists, 35,000 strong, who showed up in Searchlight, Nevada this weekend to send a message to Harry Reid: YOUR FIRED.

I was honored to be able to introduce Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, and the petite dynamo who dominates conservative politics.

I was also thrilled to be able to introduce to the crowd my friend Chuck Devore, who is running for U.S. Senate in California, who is the only true conservative candidate in a three way Republican primary run-off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cG9Usz8h90

While traveling on the Tea Party Express bus, some of Senator Harry Reid's supporters showed their true colors by assaulting us with eggs. They were union thugs from the SEIU, of course. They went after my friend Andrew Breitbart, who was stuck on the street corner accidentally. Fortunately, he escaped their clutches. Boy, is he pissed.

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Joe Garofoli wrote about the tea party, and the coverage was actually fair. Imagine that.

Palin kicks off Tea Party Express tour

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, March 28, 2010

(03-28) 04:00 PDT Searchlight, Nev. --

Organizers described this gathering Saturday of thousands of Tea Partiers minutes from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's home in desolate Nevada scrub as a "conservative Woodstock."

But instead of gorging on LSD, free love and Jimi Hendrix, thousands of attendees binged on seething anger at Washington and swooned to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Tea Party Express kicked off a 43-city cross-country bus tour that's intended to rouse voters to their cause.

"We're sending a message to Washington," Palin told the crowd that exploded in chants of "Sarah! Sarah!" when she took the stage.

"The big government, big tax Obama-Pelosi-Reid spending spree is over," she said, referring also to the president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco. "You're fired."

Midterm preview

Days after the passage of the health care reform law, the gathering outside the 749-resident town about 60 miles south of Las Vegas previewed the bare-knuckles way the 2010 midterm elections will be fought in California and elsewhere.

The test now is whether the street energy of the anti-tax, small-government message of the Tea Party movement can translate from mad-as-hell gatherings like this into a broader force that can generate electoral change.

But before they can take on vulnerable Democrats like Reid, who is facing a tough re-election battle, the Tea Partiers are going after Republicans deemed insufficiently conservative for their liking. Four Republicans vying to challenge Reid in November appeared before the audience Saturday in a voters forum.

The political pinata of the day was Reid. A giant billboard in Searchlight, close to where Reid and his wife frequently share a booth for dinner at the Searchlight Nugget Casino, said "Will Rogers Never Met Harry Reid."

Hey Everybody!

I am super excited to be heading out for Searchlight, Nevada tomorrow.

Join me and dozens of others, including Sarah Palin, Victoria Jackson (Saturday Night Live fame) and many other talk show hosts including Andrea Shay King in Searchlight, Nevada (Reid's hometown) this weekend for the kick-off of the Tea Party Express III.

I am honored to be introducing Governor Palin and standing with thousands of you as we channel our outrage over loss of our liberties in America.

Tonight, Andrea will have a special show talking to organizers and participants. Click onto the show you don't want to miss!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2010/03/26/the-andrea-shea-king-show

(via Instapundit.com)

JOHN STOSSEL: They Fly First Class: “Will you and your family put off a vacation this year because you can’t afford it? Too bad, because you have paid for some terrific trips — for government bureaucrats. The Washington Times reports that last year $13 billion in tax dollars was spent to pamper ‘public servants’ on trips that double as vacation junkets.” Like I say, I don’t want to hear any lecturing about my carbon footprint from these people.

ARRRRGGGGHHH (this comment reflects the editorial opinion of - JUST ABOUT EVERYONE.)

Pete Wehner at Commentary Magazine sums up my thoughts on this travesty that has taken place in the halls of Congress.

Basically, he and others are saying ...we're screwed.

Until November, that is.

The Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out! Tour

Join us for the biggest Tea Party Express national tour to date. Starting March 27, 2010 with a Mega Rally in Searchlight, NV (hometown to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) we will take this message across the nation all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 15th:

“You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken. We’re taking our country back!”

Join us from March 27th to April 15th, 2010
as we tell Congress and the White House: “Enough!”

(Re-printed from BigGovernment.com)

As America’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization, Move America Forward has been privileged to support our troops and their mission against Islamic terrorism. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin , Dr. Laura and so many other talk show hosts have given unselfishly to this noble cause.

From time to time they are attacked, usually by leftist anti-war extremists, but sometimes even conservatives make the mistake of joining the circular firing squad against one of their own. There have recently been unfair attacks against Sean Hannity, but we know he has been a total champion in supporting our troops and we are honored to stand with him.

Since the beginning of our organization in 2004, Move America Forward has been a pro-troop grassroots organization that has worked tirelessly to give our troops a voice and serve them as best we can. It is a difficult and often frustrating endeavor, and there is never enough money to help the many brave men and women in America’s armed forces who need and deserve our assistance. Sean Hannity has been a friend to our organization and has helped us greatly in serving our troops and their families.

His generosity in supporting our troops is legendary. He personally gave $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation and over $200,000 to the Freedom Alliance. When we had a group of Gold Star Parents who had lost a son in Iraq, Sean provided the funding so we could take them to Iraq and see where their children died in the cause of protecting American freedom. They could see with their own eyes the progress that had been made in turning Iraq into a democratic country that would no longer harbor terrorists or threaten peace.

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If you love dogs, this will bring a tear to your eyes. Here's a 30-second clip of a soldier's return home from a tour in Afghanistan.

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Socialized medicine, just as predicted by my late father-in-law 40 years ago.

(photo courtesy of MichelleMalkin.com)

Sean Hannity – A Stalwart Champion for our Troops

Don’t Listen to His Detractors

As America’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization, Move America Forward has been privileged to support our troops and their mission against Islamic terrorism. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin , Dr. Laura and so many other talk show hosts have given unselfishly to this noble cause.

From time to time they are attacked, usually by leftist anti-war extremists, but sometimes even conservatives make the mistake of joining the circular firing squad against one of their own. There have recently been unfair attacks against Sean Hannity, but we know he has been a total champion in supporting our troops and we are honored to stand with him.

Since the beginning of our organization in 2004, Move America Forward has been a pro-troop grassroots organization that has worked tirelessly to give our troops a voice and serve them as best we can. It is a difficult and often frustrating endeavor, and there is never enough money to help the many brave men and women in America’s armed forces who need and deserve our assistance. Sean Hannity has been a friend to our organization and has helped us greatly in serving our troops and their families.

His generosity in supporting our troops is legendary. He personally gave $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation and over $200,000 to the Freedom Alliance. When we had a group of Gold Star Parents who had lost a son in Iraq, Sean provided the funding so we could take them to Iraq and see where their children died in the cause of protecting American freedom. They could see with their own eyes the progress that had been made in turning Iraq into a democratic country that would no longer harbor terrorists or threaten peace. Again in 2007, Sean and Jill Hannity wrote a check for $15,000 to send care packages to our troops through Move America Forward, quietly, without expectation of anything in return.

The attacks against Sean have been leveled by Ms. Debbie Schlussel, who has been a tireless fighter against Islamic terrorism. But, Debbie has missed the mark in her attacks. She assaults Sean Hannity as well as the organization Freedom Alliance for paying transportation costs and hotel stays related to Hannity’s blockbuster “Freedom Concerts”. But that simply isn’t true. Sean pays for his own transportation and hotel rooms.

She doesn’t understand that in addition to his generous financial support for pro-troop causes, Sean gives the most valuable thing he has to the pro-troop movement: his time and reputation. Hardly an hour of his syndicated radio and TV show goes by without Sean saying something supportive of our troops. You cannot find anywhere a better friend or ally to the men and women of the United States military.

Many of you have probably been to his Freedom Concerts, which provide a huge morale boost to our troops and patriotic Americans back home. They do cost a lot of money to produce, but they also produce so much good. The time he spends personally with the troops and their families is of immeasurable in value. Just ask any of them who have attended.

Much like Ronald and Nancy Reagan when our POW’s were released from Viet Nam, Sean has quietly reached out to our troops in ways that the public will never know. In addition to these acts of kindness, they don’t even know about his various acts of generosity. Among his many gifts, he personally contributed thousands of dollars to the Move America Forward Troopathon – the 8 hour telethon broadcast on the internet so that we could send care packages to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Move America Forward has shipped over 168 tons of care packages to troops overseas, and yet we continually feel as though we haven’t done enough. There are so many more troops who deserve our thanks and gratitude. With the help of celebrities like Sean Hannity, we are closer to reaching out and touching all of our deserving troops overseas.

For the record, Sean Hannity, we know to be a tireless worker, and a selfless supporter of our troops. Sean has visited wounded troops at military hospitals, he has organized several trips to Iraq, and most importantly he has consistently honored our troops and their missions in the War on Terror and defended their honor whenever those on the fringe left trash our brave men and women.

It is easy for people to criticize. Ironically, the harshest critics are the ones that have little to show in support for our troops. The pro-troop community knows who our friends are. Sean Hannity is our friend, and Americans are grateful for his continual dedication and generosity towards our troops.

Melanie Morgan, co-founder and Past President, Move America Forward

Sal Russo, Chief Strategist Move America Forward

Debbie Lee, Gold Star Mom and Military Outreach Director, MAF

Danny Gonzalez, Communications Director, MAF

Catherine Moy, former Executive Director, MAF

Live Feed from Fox News for Tea Party Rally to Stop the Obamacare efforts from Washington, D.C.! Man the phones!

http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=3

Photo courtesy of Ann Althouse

photo courtesy of Andrea Shay-King

Okay, so I'm not really shocked. But it is disgusting that my former employer for 24 years whips out a checkbook and pays 200 grand to an accused child killer - for ratings.

And I can't begin to tell you how many times an indignant lawyer or spokes parrot for ABC denies that such a pure, journalistic endeavor would ever pay for news - only the tabloids do that, you know.

What a bunch of liars.

"...New evidence was released Thursday in the Casey Anthony murder case, including the amount of money she received from a television network, as well as conversations she had with other inmates.

Anthony's defense team told Judge Stan Strickland that she no longer has funds to pay for the trial. Her attorney testified ABC News paid Casey Anthony $200,000, but that those funds are now gone.

Strickland is deciding whether to approve the declaration of Anthony being indigent, which would make the state pay for her defense.

A transcript of conversations Anthony had with a fellow inmate was also released, stating that "an Orange County Corrections officer may have facilitated the communication once the friendship had begun."

Casey Anthony remains jailed on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee, who was last seen in June of 2008. Caylee was not reported missing until a month later. The little girl's remains were found in a wooded area near the family's home on December 11, 2008. Investigators say the toddler's body was found with duct tape over her mouth."

A Commentary By Michael Barone

Monday, March 15, 2010

The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands of Americans who have spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town hall meetings to oppose the big government programs of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders.

Some on the left attack them as fascists or racists, though evidence of that is sorely lacking. David Brooks in The New York Times compared them to the New Left campus radicals of the 1970s, which comes closer to reality but doesn't quite ring true.

Some tea partiers, citing the Declaration and the Constitution, compare themselves to the patriots of 1776 and the founders of 1787, which has some validity but seems overly self-congratulatory.

In terms of their immediate effect on conventional politics and their potential for continued influence, I think the tea partiers bear an uncanny resemblance to the antiwar activists in the Vietnam War period.

Like the tea partiers, the antiwar folk did not start off affiliated with one political party. They campaigned against an incumbent Democratic president and his political heir in 1968. Four years later, some supported Rep. Pete McCloskey's antiwar primary challenge to Richard Nixon. The tea partiers have plenty of corrosive things to say about the Republican politicians of the last decade, and at least some of them may support likeminded Democrats.

But if they stay involved, the tea partiers are likely to gravitate to the Republican Party, just as the antiwar folk gravitated to the Democratic Party, on which they had a long-lasting and pervasive effect.

Not all of that effect was positive. Antiwar Democrats beat hawks in primaries and then lost general elections to Republicans. The disarray of the 1968 Democratic national convention helped beat Hubert Humphrey, and the antiwar 1972 nominee George McGovern lost 49 states. Some antiwar folks voiced an anti-Americanism that turned off ordinary voters.

But antiwar Democrats supplied energy and impressive recruits to their party. Many Democrats who were motivated by dovish views and supported by dovish volunteers and contributors won breakthrough victories in 1974, enabling the party to hold congressional and legislative majorities for much of the next 20 years. And even as Democrats lost support from white Southerners and blue-collar men, their antiwar tendency helped them win support from affluent and culturally liberal suburbanites who now, despite Democrats' workingman rhetoric, form the dominant part of the party base.

You can see the intellectual influence of the antiwar people in the speeches of Democrats opposing the conflicts in the Gulf in 1991 and Iraq in 2002. Their arguments are a better fit for the facts of the Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964 than for the facts on the ground in 1991 and 2002.

Like the antiwar activists of 40 years ago, the tea partiers include many good citizens moved to political involvement because of intellectually serious concerns about public policy. Similarly, they include a much smaller number of cranks, conspiracy theorists and congenital malcontents.

Tea partiers have caused some internal party splits (see the New York 23 special election), and some may launch primary challenges or third-party efforts that will elect Democrats. Any time a large number of motivated people inject themselves into electoral politics, they cause a certain amount of chaos.

They also add a lot of energy, political creativity and enthusiasm into a moribund and dejected political party, like the Democrats of 1968 and the Republicans of 2008. New people change the positions and focus of their parties. The Democrats before 1968 were a pro-Cold War party. Since 1968 they have been, with occasional exceptions, a dovish party. Hawks need not apply (ask Joe Lieberman).

The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful pivot, given the emergence of a Millennial generation uncomfortable with crusading cultural conservatism.

It's not clear whether the tea partiers' influence on Republicans will last as long as the antiwar cohort's imprint on Democrats. But their concern -- the fact that government spending is on a trajectory to increase far beyond revenues -- seems likely to persist. In which case a spontaneous movement that no one predicted and that no one person led could end up, again, reshaping one of our great political parties.

Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner.

As many of you know, I’m hosting the third annual Troopathon, a live web broadcast featuring many of my friends in the talk radio world and from Hollywood to raise money for thousands of care packages to our men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is a year round project, and I thought I would share with you a letter Move America Forward received from the desert of Iraq and here is another.

And remember to join us live on the web at www.moveamericaforward.com on July 1^st.

Here's some great news: the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is entering the political fray and supporting the cause of Tea Party conservatives.

How do I know this?

Alan Colmes, well-known liberal talk-show host is indignantly decrying her right to free speech at his website, where I found this post.

***Note to Alan Colmes - Justice Clarence Thomas is entirely capable of making up his own mind without the influence of his wife. You demean both by suggesting otherwise. I have been trying for YEARS to inflluence my liberal husband - without any luck.

Dammit.

March 14, 2010, 11:59 AMET • 17 Comments »

If Wonkette says I'm a loser, then I'm a loser. Right? I believe EVERTHING that the whack-jobs on the Left print, so I better re-set my self-esteem button.

Hey Everyone! I'm borderline excited about my get fired up speech I'm giving tomorrow for the Tea Party Express III at the California Republican Party convention in Santa Clara, California.

I hope you'll be there and join me, Andrew Breitbart, and many others at the Santa Clara Hyatt, 5101 Great American Parkway.

I'll start lipping off at 2:00 or thereabouts.

Meanwhile, cast your eyeballs on this article from SFgate.com and political writer Joe Garafoli and what he has to say about our wing ding.

Tom Campbell is a very nice fellow, a highly experienced politican, and a man with a polished resume on the Republican side. I know Tom Campbell. I have interviewed Tom Campbell, and debated Tom Campbell several times.

He is too liberal for my taste, but he seems quite reasonable when you talk to him and very likeable.

But Tom Campbell has a deeply disturbing problem which threatens to de-rail his nascent Senatorial campaign.

The former Congressman from the South Bay is seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate against Chuck DeVore, the conservative standard bearer and Carly Fiorina, the establishment GOP'er (and McCain supporter) but he can't run away from a record of supporting a known supporter of terrorism.

The Chuck DeVore campaign writes: "In brief, both Seema Mehta of the Los Angeles Times and Michael Zapler of the San Jose Mercury News have written excellent stories on Campbell's provably false assertions -- made in Friday's debate with Chuck DeVore and Carly Fiorina -- about his past affiliation with convicted terrorist supporter Sami Al-Arian."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-senate9-2010mar09,0,7419294.story
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14643078

This is a huge problem for Campbell.

Due to some severe computer problems, I didn't get a chance to post the Groupapalooza media pick-ups from Mill Valley, California on Sunday.

For those of you who are reading from around the country and may not know it, Marin County is the liberal belly of the beast. Some beastly individuals tried to silence, shut-down, shout over and strip conservatives of their right to free speech and assembly for a Tea Party event, while calling us names and generally acting like dopes.

Didn't happen.

Take a look at this article from MarinMore.com and marvel! Congrats to organizer Sally Selikovsky and Brian Sussman from KSFO Radio, and others who pulled it together for a HUGELY successful 600 person event!

Hundreds of conservatives (Republicans and others), show up at Marin event

Gap between Federal Workers and Private Sector Workers is a whopping $38,548

By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, some $7,645 below the average pay for federal workers.

However, these salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal worker vs. $9,882 per private worker, a difference of $30,903 per worker in 2008, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

"The data flip the conventional wisdom on its head," says Cato Institute budget analyst Chris Edwards, a critic of federal pay policy. "Federal workers make substantially more than private workers, not less, in addition to having a large advantage in benefits."

Federal pay has become a hot political issue in recent months because of concerns over the federal budget deficit and recession-battered wages in the private sector.

US Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., made federal pay an issue in his successful campaign to fill Edward Kennedy's seat, and is fighting for a federal pay freeze.

USA TODAY used Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data to compare salaries in every federal job that had a private-sector equivalent. For example, the federal government's 57,000 registered nurses working for Veterans Affairs and elsewhere, were paid an average of $74,460 a year, $10,680 more than the average for private-sector nurses.

The BLS reports that 216 occupations covering 1.1 million federal workers exist in both the federal government and the private sector. An additional 124 federal occupations covering 750,000 employees (air-traffic controllers, tax collectors and others) did not have direct equivalents, according to the BLS.

This is perhaps the sickest antiwar advertisement I've seen in some time. Can you imagine troops getting blown up on video used to sell the radical left's global warming agenda? The clip's below, from the Soros-backed VoteVets. Note how the spot's running as a click-thru web-ad at Daily Kos, where it reads, "TELL CONGRESS TO DEFEND AMERICA BY PASSING CLEAN ENERGY CLIMATE LEGISLATION" and "OIL MONEY IS FUELING TERRORISTS AND FUNDING OUR ENEMIES" (screencaps here and here)

We send $1 billion a day in oil money overseas -- often to nations that don't like America very much. Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorists and funds deadly attacks on American forces, like EFPs specially designed to piece our armor.

This is what our troops are up against, everyday ...

At the VoteVets entry we find a link to George Soros' Center for American Progress, "Quadrennial Defense Review Should Spark Interagency Climate Conversation."

Actually, VoteVets doesn't care a bit about Middle East oil dependency. Founder John Soltz has been in the news before. Melanie Morgan attacked him and VoteVets in 2007 for supporting al Qaeda in Iraq. See, "VoteVets.org Scam Exposed," which links to this Wesley Clark ad:

The Stop Iran War website is still up.

... let me also say that I certainly would hope that the Democrats, if they’re planning their strategy meetings with people like Mr. Soltz and MoveOn.org, others who are meeting daily in telephone conference calls, which we are not, by the way, on our side, that al-Qaida is listening to their results, as well ....

And by the way, please keep Melanie Morgan in your prayers. She's fighting the good fight against thyroid cancer. See, "I Ain't Dead Yet, Says the Cowgirl."

Thank God for Liz Cheney and Andrew McCarthy. They are talking, talking and talking every single day about a subject that Left wing activists and Obama administration officials wish would just disappear: The Al Qaeda Seven. In fact, they won't shut up about the volunteer lawyers who represented terrorists - and now are employees at Eric Holder's Department of Justice. Talk about a conflict of interest!

Normally, I would never even consider linking to the New York Times, but this blog is too important to miss.

While it’s unclear whether it’s been Dick Cheney’s health problems or relatively low profile in recent weeks, but the left side of the blogosphere hasn’t had much to say about its Republican bête noire lately. So imagine the relief when another member of Cheney family decided to step into the breach:

“Nine top political appointees at the Justice Department previously worked as lawyers or advocates for ‘enemy combatants’ confined at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prompting new questions from Congress and conservative critics about the integrity of the administration’s handling of detainees,” reports Richard A. Serrano of The Los Angeles Times. “One of the sharpest critics is a group called Keep America Safe, run in part by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. It has derided the unidentified appointees as the ‘Al Qaeda 7,’ and in a video on its Web site Tuesday asked, ‘Whose values do they share?’ ”

Well, not Liz Cheney’s apparently, and we can assume her father and probably her mother are of the same opinion. But what about the nation’s 78 million other families?

Chez Glenn Greenwald, we find displeasure. “It’s the type of McCarthyite act which would, if we had any minimal standards in our political culture, result in the shunning of Cheney and Kristol by all decent people … This slander encompasses scores of American military lawyers, who have vigorously, passionately and often successfully defended numerous Guantanamo detainees, including those accused of being Al Qaeda operatives.”

Read more here.

Lloyd Marcus, an unhyphenated black American responds to attack on Mark Williams, spokesman for the Tea Party Express, by Dylan Ratigan at MSNBC:

"..As a black proud Tea Party patriot, I am extremely offended by MSNBC TV show host Dylan Ratigan's baseless accusation that the Tea Party Movement (my white brother and sister fellow patriots) embraces Nazis and racists. Ratigan's attack epitomizes the liberal media's commitment to protect Obama and his radical agenda at all costs. They have a genuine disdain for freedom, capitalism and We The People."

Read more here.

And more attacks are coming towards Tea Party Patriots like Sally Zelikovsky, a stay-at-home Mom of three who is organizing a conservative political candidates forum and Tea Party event in Mill Valley, California this weekend.

Deborah Phelan, a former Mill Valley resident and Associated Press reporter, is demanding that the city shut down the event, silence the participants, and run them out of the county...being the nice progressive that she is.

Fat chance, baby.

"...Christine Sansom, director of the Mill Valley Department of Parks and Recreation, said that so far, Phelan has been the only person to object to the Bay Area Patriots' use of the community center.

"Our building is a rentable building, and we don't discriminate against renters as to what their political beliefs, or religious beliefs are," she said. "I can't. There is freedom of speech."

Way to go, Christine! Even the dopiest liberal (usually) understands the concept of Constitutional freedom.

If you live anywhere in the greater Bay Area, it's a great idea to scamper over to the Mill Valley Community Center on Sunday and meet some great pariots, talk to your fellow conservatives, and hook-up with the conservative community.

Tell them Mel sent you.

A Study of the Tea Party movement just released today at www.BigGovernment.com and it's fascinating reading!

“The Early Adopters” Report uncovers that most oppose a third party, many are new to politics

CHICAGO, — A new study released today reveals that Tea Party activists are motivated by feelings of responsibility to future generations and belief in America’s founding principles, but still struggle with questions of leadership and identity. The study conducted by Sam Adams Alliance, The Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves, also reveals that Tea Party activists are a diverse group trying – often for the first time – to change the political landscape by holding elected officials more accountable. The results of the full report can be found at www.activistinsightsreport.com.

The Sam Adams report offers the first-ever insights into the Tea Party movement that include a survey sample made up entirely of recognized Tea Party activists.

“A lot of surveys have focused on the Tea Party movement, but they’ve been about what others think of them, and don’t reveal the motives of actual Tea Partiers,” said Sam Adams Alliance chairman Eric O’Keefe. “We decided to learn what the Tea Party leaders are up to the old fashioned way: We asked them.”

The findings confirm that a large number of Tea Party activists are politically involved for the first time. 47 percent of activists surveyed said that they were “uninvolved” or “rarely involved” in politics before their participation in Tea Party groups.

Three political issues stood out as being the most important to Tea Party activists. When asked which issues were “very important” to them, 92 percent said “budget,” 85 percent said

“economy,” and 80 percent said “defense.” No respondents listed social issues as an “important direction” for the movement.

Other findings of the study include:

86 percent oppose the formation of a third-party.
36 percent support a 2012 Sarah Palin Presidential candidacy.
81 percent have a website for their organization.
90 percent cited “to stand up for my beliefs” when characterizing their initial reason for involvement.
62 percent identified as Republicans, 28 percent as Independents, 10 percent as “Tea Party”

Full story here.

Shocking Must See TV today at PMSNBC where a new host is apparently challenging Keith Olbermann for Ugliest TV Anchor SubHuman.

"I don't want to continue with this. You're wasting valuable oxygen. Can we cut off this man's microphone? It was offensive. You're offensive. Your treatment of my show as a vehicle to spread your propaganda, ignore my questions - offensive. And an indication of what is wrong with the dialog in this country - period. Not to mention a group that would accept Nazis and racists," says Dylan Ratigan to Mark Williams, spokesman for the Tea Party Express.

The Lefty's there just can't help themselves when they angrily demonize the Tea Party activists like my friend and fellw talk show host Mark Williams, who handled himself responsibly and with great aplomb in the face of sheer insanity. Really. Watch Dylan Ratigan's face (the TV Host who compares Tea Party people to Nazi's and Racists.)

MUST SEE TV at MarkTalk.com for the video and MichelleMalkin.com for the comments.

Un. Freaking. Believable.

(Mark Williams, Melanie and Wife Holly)

More from Breitbart.TV

It's a Breast Cancer Awareness event for men and women and I want to see you!

I am extending a personal invitation for all of you to join me at the Palace of Fine Arts at the end of the month.

Why?

Because my good friend Rosie Allen, formerly of KGO Radio and current member of the Board of Directors for “Friends of Faith” charity in the San Francisco Bay Area is working very diligently on a spectacular event planned for March 29^th at 6:00 p.m.

It is a Breast Cancer Awareness event that features former Secretary of State Condi Rice (both being interviewed and performing the piano for us!).

I’ll be attending and I hope some or all of you can too! Buy tickets now! It’s a great cause that raises money for cancer victims and their financially stricken families who need our help and support.

With Love,

Mel

http://www.xumri.com/friends_of_faith.php (which also contains ticket info)

and Ticket info @:

http://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1478

WashTimes Continues To Shrink - 3/1 - DCRTV hears about another cut at the Washington Times. A source tells us that the paper's marketing manager was let go on Friday. "She was at the paper less than a year and had relocated from Minnesota," we hear. "When you think about it, one could argue that there is not really a lot to 'market' at the Times these days. Talk amongst employees, both current and former, is about the severance package she was given." Also: As DCRTV has told you, there are more rumblings that the Times could sever its relationship with its morning radio show, "America's Morning News," which is heard on WTNT (570 AM). Syndicator Talk Radio Network could seek a new media partner for the show, we hear.....

COME ONE, COME ALL!

I am getting swamped with email from folks asking what I am doing, and when they can see me again.

Here’s the answer: Searchlight, Nevada on March 27^th!

This is gonna be fun ...you'll get to hear from Sarah Palin, Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live, talk show hosts Roger Hedgecock, Mark Williams, Jerry Doyle, myself and lots of stars, as well as patriotic Americans who are focusing on re-claiming our country during the kick-off for the Tea Party Express III.

It’s gonna be HUGE!

Lee emailed me this Sunday expressing astonishment at how many people have contacted him or read my postings here at this little ole website expressing their emotions about the changes at KSFO in San Fancisco.

And did you notice Walter E. Williams even posted in the comments section? The most handsome black man in the country (according to himself) and the thougtful economist who has been a frequent contributor to the Lee Rodgers show? That was nice.

Google Alerted me that another piece is out today in cyberspace from Uncovered.net.

Settle in for an interesting read.

On Thursday, February 18, one minute before the conclusion of his four-hour morning radio show on KSFO in San Francisco, conservative talk show host Lee Rodgers was fired. Rodgers was under contract until July, but it didn’t matter. Rodgers wasn’t allowed to gracefully say good-bye to his listeners. The next day, KSFO evening host Brian Sussman had taken over the morning job. Rodgers’ 40-plus years of radio broadcasting career, is over, at least for now.

While it may sound like just another cupboard-clearing in the cut-throat broadcasting business, the undignified jettisoning of Lee Rodgers is troubling on many levels.

KSFO is a prickle in the liberal paw of the San Francisco bay area. It is a highly-rated conservative news/talk format which has been proudly dealing the left fits, with Rodgers at the morning-drive helm, for decades. Rodgers’ curmudgeonly mix of small-government, strong Israel, pro-military, anti-jihad, tax-cutting missives, and his interviews with conservative authors, columnists and newsmakers are not meaningfully available on any other station in this liberal California market.

Rodgers’ demise was heralded about a year ago, when his co-anchor Melanie Morgan, was abruptly fired in much the same fashion as Rodgers. The morning radio partners are credited with initiating the statewide investigations into the use of cancer-causing MTBE gasoline additive, which leached into the state’s groundwater after it was trumpeted by liberal environmentalists as a way to reduce air pollution. Rodgers and Morgan also launched the statewide petition drive to recall Governor Gray Davis from office. Ms. Morgan was a pro-military, anti-radical Islam activist who flew more than once to the troops in Iraq and personally confronted anti-military activists at protests in the Bay area. Both hosts were under constant barrage by liberal bloggers. KSFO’s advertisers were pressured to withdraw.

Liberty lost important voices when Morgan and Rodgers were fired.

Read the whole article here.

Did she or didn't she snort that blow?

The daughter of Vice-President Joe Biden is the subject of intense scrutiny today as The New York Post is breaking a story about her alleged cocaine use caught on camera.

Ashley Biden, who youngest of Joe and Jill Biden's children is a social worker in Delaware, and spent a year on the campaign trail with her father.

"...A "friend" of Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware.

The anonymous male acquaintance of Ashley took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller.

Dunlap and a man claiming to be a lawyer showed The Post about 90 seconds of 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Ashley was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video.

The video, which the shooter initially hoped to sell for $2 million before scaling back his price to $400,000, shows a 20-something woman with light skin and long brown hair taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder.

She then stands up and begins talking with other people in the room. A young man looks on from behind her, facing the camera. The lawyers said he was Ashley's boyfriend of a few years.

The camera follows the woman from a few feet away, focusing on her as she moves around the room. It appears not to be concealed. At one point she shouts, "Shut the f--- up!"

Allrighty then. We all know about the troubled off-spring of Presidents, Vice-Presidents and other politicans (Patty Davis and Eleonor Mondale spring to mind) but it is interesting to me that the media is starting to cover this kind of scandal - so early in The Chosen One's administration. Usually they cover it up for awhile. Now, not so much.

If this story is true, and if Miss Ashley has a problem, I wish restored health and sobriety for her.

Addiction is ugly. Trust me, I know.

While the lunatic fringe group that celebrates a man who murders four police officers, 21,000 real Oaklanders who mourn their loss came out on a soft, warm Spring day to honor these heroes.

Among the saddened crowd was U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, no strangers to violence herself.

"Every day that they suited up for work, they knew it might be their last," Feinstein said. "They knew they were outnumbered, outgunned and, all too often, underappreciated.

"But they still dedicated their lives to the cause of public safety and justice, and, in the end, they died for it."

Every since Paul "The Forehead" Begala and James "Snakehead" Carville got loaded, smoking up a scheme to demonize Rush Limbaugh, inquiring minds want to know how that is working out for the Democrats.

Now we have some answers.

RadioEqualizer has taken a look at the ratings for the Right Wing Noise Machine, and oddly, Rush is still at the top of his game.

Will the White House ever learn its lesson?

A combination of several powerful forces has resulted in explosive talk radio ratings growth, with indications of much more to come in the months ahead.

Primary factor driving the upward move? You guessed it: Rush Limbaugh. That's in contrast to declining support for Rush's arch-rival Obama.

With Limbaugh at the top of his game, including a more deeply loyal audience than ever, the numbers were expected to be strong. The beginning of the Obamist era, combined with a direct White House campaign targeting the talk titan, however, provided rocket fuel for El Rushbo's ratings. Even to seasoned industry veterans, this data should prove stunning.

Finally, implementation of the new, far more accurate electronic Portable People Meter (PPM) ratings system has benefited talk radio, as the manual diary-based "phantom cume" problems of the past disappear. For years, programmers complained that the old system cost them listenership and are now armed with the proof they'd long sought.

That may be why Obama and his supporters have fought implementation of PPM, as we originally reported in October of last year.

Some of us are fretting that a new study group at UC Berkeley isn't going to end well.

40 years after some wild-eyed leftists stood up on a car and started screeching about free speech rights as they burned down the campus, UC Berkeley is funding a Center for the Comparative Study of the Right-Wing movement.

Nearly a million dollars was donated, anonymously of course, to help fund this so-called study group.

I'm thinking that the "anonymous" donor probably has initials that start with a G and end with an S.

The New York Times reports that "..one of the first efforts, said Ms. Paolo Bacchetta, who attended a planning meeting last week, may be a conference devoted to links between right-wing groups across borders. “Most of these right-wing movements have some kind of connections transnationally,” she said. “Alliances across different countries take different forms.” For example, she said, Hindu nationalism has branches in countries besides India, or right-wing religious groups in different countries might join together to oppose abortion. "

Who knew? I had no clue I was involved in any transnational alliance, opposing abortion. Sheesh. The political agenda of these people is shockingly apparent to everyone except, oh, themselves.

According to the NY Times, "Ms. Bacchetta insisted that researchers’ own political orientation was irrelevant. “It’s a question we always get asked,” she said. “But we really like to think of ourselves as scholars in the academy,” working on evaluating these groups without any agenda. “We’re not a political organization.”

Yeah. Right. Whatever.

POWER TO THE PEEPLE!

Another bunch of Democrat kooks, crazies, loons and Leftists took to the streets of Oakland last night, defining the word "insane" for anyone too lazy to look it up.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports "about 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland on Wednesday to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday."

"OPD you can't hide - we charge you with genocide," chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Boulevard, near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who had pulled him over in a traffic stop. He killed two more officers who tried to capture him where he was hiding in his sister's apartment nearby.

I wrote about Democratic wing of the Uhuru chapter of Oakland ("A Rush to Racism") and their support for the man who murdered four police officers, and wounded a fifth. I hoped that reporting this affront to civilized society would spark even a comment of outrage.

Sadly, I was wrong.

Again, from the Chronicle, "the protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, "Stop Police Terror." Many marchers wore T-shirts featuring Mixon's photo, including a woman identified by march organizers as Mixon's mother. The woman declined to comment and gave her name only as Athena.

....Lolo Darnell, one of Mixon's cousins at the demonstration, said, "He needs sympathy too. If he's a criminal, everybody's a criminal."

Asked about police allegations that Mixon was suspected in several rapes, including that of a 12-year-old girl, marcher Mandingo Hayes said, "He wasn't a rapist. I don't believe that."

Earlier today, I recieved an email from a woman identified as Wendy Lea Snyder, presumably an organizer, or at least a support of the Uhuru movement.

The subject line was "Lay of Uhuru, Bitch."

My curiosity piqued by a seeming non-sequiter, I opened the email.

I report, you decide about the intellectual level of the Leftists in Oakland.

Wendy Lea Snyder <[email protected]>

You post about our righchous and just march tonigh proves you are an oppresionist pig who will be taken down when the Revelootion comes!

POWER TO THE PEEPLE!"

George Soros, renowned left-wing, America hater and billionaire financier, isn't helping squelch the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy theory that he is responsible for manipulating the markets that have led to financial chaos on Wall Street.

...he's happily embracing our misery.

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Did you get a tweet from the Big Guy today?

I did.

Well, not exactly me, but my hopelessly liberal husband was alerted by the Obamabots that he can ask the Prez any 'ole question he wants to.

Okay, trouble-makers amongst us ...you know what to do.

Heh.

Digital Journal and its amazing writer Susan Duclos is reporting on financial woes for the city of Berkeley due to protests, backlash and overtime costs.

(Susan Duclos, Digital Journal, via google) 

Read the latest here.

Oops!

I don't know how I missed this one, but the launch of the new website to Boycott Berkeley www.BrigadeAmerica.com  is featured in the Washington Times.

One of our (former) top spooks at the CIA is pitching in to help punish the Berkeley City Council for calling our Marines 'unwelcome and unvited intruders.'

And now back to Susan Duclos, also known as 'Spree' at her own website called "WakeUpAmerica." Susan has more here on MAF's Monday march to US Attorney's office with demands to investigate and prosecute civil rights violations in Berkeley, Ca. on February 12th.

For devoted listeners of Rush Limbaugh, or Jeff Christie (as I used to know him back in our Kansas City rock and roll radio days) Operation Chaos spawned some worry and concern.

(Limbaugh growing more handsome and distinguished as the years go by.)

Operation Chaos is designed to encourage Republicans to cross party lines and vote for Hillary in the remaining Democrat primaries. Rush reasons correctly that the GOP isn't going to attack the Democrats, or at least not very effectively. So Republicans best hope is to create momentum for Hillary to keep attacking Obama, and Obama to attack back.

There is evidence that this strategery is working.

The (H)illarity of this move keeps me in stitches every day. I love the reaction from the Liberal political insiders (denouncing Rush) to the worried GOP grass-roots (chastising Rush.)

Besides being a radio genius, Rush always knows how to yank the chain of the Left, who spend every waking moment trying to put him in jeopardy with the establishment, and trying to turn his audience against him.

NOT.GOING.TO.HAPPEN.

So, for the wishful Obama supporters, here's my advice. Give up on legal prosecution of free speech rights. And go back to your fainting, idolizing, and personality cult worship.

Rush ain't going nowhere -- except UP in the ratings.

Astoundingly good news to report today via Michelle Malkin's website. Marine Cpl. Lance Tatum, who has seen his good name smeared, spending time behind bars (in solitary) for his alleged role in the Haditha so-called massacre, has been exonerated.

My organization, Move America Forward played a small role in helping the families by swapping e-mail lists with NewsMax.com to fund-raise for legal defense expenses.

NewsMax.com's publisher Chris Ruddy took the leadership role in helping these young men.

This great news is linked here.

And now we hear that armchair General Jack Murtha, former Marine, who pronounced these proud young men guilty before they were even tried, is oddly silent. No comment anywhere on the web.

(courtesy Flopping Aces via ABC News)

MURTHA IS NOT WORTHY TO HAVE WORN THE UNIFORM.

Bastard.

Mathanna Al-Hanooti, the man indicted as an Iraqi spy in Detroit, mingled with some pretty high powered peole ...as we learn from Steve Emerson at the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Muthanna Al-Hanooti with First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1996. Taken from the International Relief Monitor Newsletter.

Al-Hanooti with Vice President Al Gore in an undated photo taken from a LIFE newsletter.

 Link now available at www.moveamericaforward.com 

Pro-Troop Group Demands of US Attorney:

“Investigate Anti-American Activities in Berkeley”

City Accused of Encouraging Interference with Federal Officers

SAN FRANCISCO---A law firm representing a pro-troop organization has sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco asking the federal government to investigate whether the Berkeley City Council’s official anti-Marine position and encouragement of anti-war groups to “impede” the work of Marine recruiters constitutes a breach of law.  If the City Council violated the law, the letter asks the U.S. Attorney to prosecute the perpetrators.

The letter was drafted by the attorney for pro-troop organization Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org), which is the nation’s largest pro-troop grassroots nonprofit. 

The correspondence also voices concerns that the Berkeley Police were unresponsive and negligent to public safety during a protest the group organized in Berkeley on Feb. 12, 2007.

The original copy has already been mailed and an additional copy will be hand-delivered Monday morning with a press conference immediately following.

“We will explore every avenue to ensure that Marine Corps personnel are not harassed for simply doing their jobs, especially not by a city government,” said Catherine Moy, Executive Director of Move America Forward. 

Move America Forward has been active in organizing demonstrations as well as several ad campaigns rebuking the Berkeley City Council since they called Marine Recruiters “uninvited and unwelcome intruders” at a Jan. 29 council meeting. The council also reserved a publicly funded parking space and gave free sound permits to a radical anti-war group protesting the office.

“That is a blatant misuse of tax dollars and a violation of civil rights” said Moy, referring to the privileges granted to Code Pink, the antiwar group that received special treatment from the council.

“We have been fighting them all the way and this is simply the next step,” said Melanie Morgan, Move America Forward’s co-founder. 

Morgan is also demanding that Berkeley’s  mayor give a full and official apology to all military personnel, veterans, and their families, and rescind the resolutions giving special treatment to Code Pink.

 Oakland Tribune here. 

Spree at Wake-Up Americans here.

Ron Winter here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_6gNY6S5HE

And now for our trip in today's Way Back Time Machine.

Let's visit Iraq, shall we?

That's where three United States Congressmen traveled in 2002, in the days before the Bush administration launched a war to depose Saddam Hussein, sparking a huge controversy. 

Following Ben Bradlee's excellent advice to Woodward and Bernstein during the Watergate era to 'follow the money', the Associated Press has learned that Saddam Hussein's secret agents financed the trip towards treason.

          "An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the behest of Saddam's regime. Prosecutors say Iraqi intelligence officials paid for the trip through an intermediary. At the time, the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military action against Iraq." 

One of those Congressmen is  Mike Thompson who represents the First District of California, which spans the famous wine country of Napa and Sonoma counties. 

My question for Thompson, David Bonior and Jim McDermott is this:

Who the hell did you think was financing your trip?

Or didn't you think it was important enough to find out who wrote the check for your 'fact-finding' mission?

It ended, predictably, in a denunciation of President Bush and his efforts to depose a murderous despot who raped, torturted and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's.

Thompson is a disgusting person, who has lied about me in the past decade in a political debate over stupid liberal policies (but...but...but.. they care so much about the little people.) 

As a state Assemblyman, Thompson was highly involved in efforts by the California Air Resources Board and the legislature to force a poison chemical (MTBE) in our gasoline, which ultimately led to the destruction of hundreds, if not thousands of water supplies in our Golden State. (Thanks to KSFO listeners, MTBE was banned in California in 2002.)

When we called out Thompson's role in this environmental diaster, the hot-headed Congressman publicly accused my former co-host Lee Rodgers and me of 'instigating violence' against him.

He was referring to a drunk guy who showed up as his mother's house and passed out. 

Police reports dismissed the incident. 

So count me among those who aren't crying for Thompson's troubles.

Or Bonior, or Baghdad Jim McDermott.

But my personal experience is that Mike Thompson is a despicable politican, with no more character than Tricky Dick.

In fact, he's making Nixonian tactics look positively mischievous in comparison.

Blog pick-up here. 

FreeRepublic is here. (Thanks Syncro!)

I'm watching Senator McCain on Fox News delivering a strong, powerful speech in defense of staying the course in Iraq until stabilization is complete.

"I hate war. But I hate what happens when war is not finished."

The rest of the speech ..not so crazy about. Especially all the Global Warming baloney. It sounds to my ears like he's running a general election campaign now.

Also, I wish Senator McCain would speak about the war on pro-troop forces across the country, the brave people who are supporting his policies and our military.

But from the Fox News website today, fresh reporting on our efforts to shine daylight on the anarchy crowd when we published Move America Forward's 'Sedition Report.'

More from Fox on newly released Rasmussen Polling..

Results from today's tracking poll show that Senator McCain would beat Barrack Obama 51% to 41% if the election were held today.

And he would win 50% to 30% over Hillary.

Of course, the election isn't being held today, but it's encouraging news.

Peace Thugs.

The violence hit closer to home in Berkeley, Ca. where our pro-troopers were shoved, pushed and battered with peace signs by anarchist groups like Funk The War, The World Can’t Wait, Global Exchange, and International A.N.S.W.E.R. two months ago. (More on that story later.)

Skye was terribly traumatized by the incident, and did not release the video right away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufRkeue9PeI

(updated link to YouTube)

This is a photo of The Slapper being Slapped with police handcuffs.

 

This has been an emotionally difficult time for her.

UPDATE:

Vets penalize Berkeley for anti-military stance

BERKELEY — More than 400 motorcyclists didn't want to spend a dime in Berkeley on Saturday, and they would have succeeded, if not for the pizza.

I missed this video from the Oakland Tribune this weekend of our amazing Red, White and Blue Rolls Over Berkeley rally.

Cat Moy, Move America Forward's Executive Director, GIVES BERKELEY HELL!

 Watch it here.

(photo credit: Michael Macor, SF Chronicle)

Somebody forgot to send the memo to CBS News --don't let the word out on Clinton's trip to Bosnia in which she blatantly lies about being under sniper fire.

(When I'm under sniper fire, the FIRST thing I do is stop to kiss a little girl, with my own daughter standing next to me.)

A YouTube moment worth watching.

Hillary's #1 Fan remains unfazed by the flap.

And more 'Hillarity' from Michelle Malkin's photo-shopping friends.

The six Iraq war protesters charged with defacing church property as they disrupted Cardinal Francis George's Easter homily were held Monday in lieu of up to $35,000.

The complete article can be viewed here .

The thugs who stormed Easter Sunday Services would not have been so brave if they were in Berkeley this weekend. Heh.

Many times I have been threatened with violence, as well as our staff at Move America Forward.

We simply shrug off the danger, and continue with our work to support our troops.

'Skye' at MidnightBlue.com wasn't so lucky yesterday in Philadelphia, Pa.

She was slapped TWICE by a so-called 'peace activist.'

Spree at Digital Journal has the complete story, and yes, the brazenness of the 'peace' thugs grows even more shocking in Chicago.

“Peace” Protesters’ Bloody “Massacre” on Easter Service 

...The Peace Slapper was slapped with handcuffs.

NewsBlaze.com reports.

'Skye' with Michelle Malkin at last year's Gathering of Eagles. Michelle has more on the attack of Skye, and other unhinged behaviour of the crazies in the streets.

Melanie,

I am saddened to report this:

Saturday around 12:10 PM, a member of the Chester County Peace Movement (CCPM) slapped a woman twice ( that would be me) who was videotaping an exchange between the two opposing groups. Police were called and an officer arrived at 12:15 PM and announced to the crowd that he was conducting an investigation.
 
The CCPM member was pointed out to police and the officer told the man to come forward and the man refused. The guy was totally uncooperative, belligerent and would not go with the officer. When he shoved the officer, the officer's partner took him to the ground to be handcuffed. The guy continued to resist while on the ground and the peace movement folks surrounded the officers, some as close as a foot or so away.
 
Photos at the bottom of http://picasaweb.google.com/rgc1946/WestChesterMarch222008 show this quite clearly.


I've prided myself in my professional conduct at this rally and to be struck twice by a 'peace' protester who has been present since the time I began covering this rally is truly disturbing.


Sincerely,
Skye

I admit it.

I lied.

A big, fat whopper.

And I am NOT the least bit sorry about it.

I said in the media and in e-mail last Wednesday that our pro-troop side decided to stand down against the moonbats on the street during the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq, and at Shattuck Square in Berkeley, Calif. where our Marine Recruiters are doing excellent work in spite of the near constant harassment.

I told a fib, based upon my knowledge of the Great Chinese Warrior Sun Tzu.

I didn't want to tip our hand until it was too late for the crazies to get up out of bed, put away their crack pipes and stumble over for a counter-protest against EaglesUp, Patriot Guard Riders, the Lafayette Flag Brigade, Blue Star Mothers and motorcyle clubs from all across the western United States.

Move America Forward and the pro-troops groups wanted to deliver a positive message of strength and love for our military without significant interference from the anti-American, anti-troop crowd. 

(My favorite photo of the day, brave warriors from previous wars.)

(Babs and Jim Alexander of Lafayette, Calif., ride into Berkeley) Chronicle photo by Michael Macor

 Our strategy worked.

 Only a few rabid pink weasel stoners showed up, and we owned the street with our pride and patriotism, waving flags, singing patriotic songs, cheering for the Marines as well as all military men and women, their families and our country.

Doug Lyvere of EaglesUp mustered over 600 bikers (updated) on Harley's, Ducatis, and every bike in between. Guys and gals drove in from Modesto, Turlock, Arizona, Wyoming, San Mateo, San Jose, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and supporters flew in from San Diego and L.A.

In all, there were close to 800 people there, and it surprised the hell out of the media.

Move America Forward sent out press releases just two days before the event to the ink-stained wretches, TV types, as well as radio reporters .

KTVU Channel 2 reports (fair report, except numbers drastically undercounted.) 

More TV coverage here.

Syncro from FreeRepublic.com delivered his usual wry commentary and excellent photos.

ProtestShooter.com has some stunning pictures here.

The GREAT Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com even linked to Gateway Pundit for our efforts.

PipelineNews.com has more here.

BashMan at PatDollard.com blogged here.

We made news in London at the Daily Telegraph!

We started the morning in Emeryville, California (five miles from Berkeley) where Doug and Tom of EaglesUp organized a staging area (very efficiently) and hundreds of these cool machines and sexy guys in leather gathered.

Retired San Francisco police detective Fred Ponomarenko offered me a helmet and a ride on the back of his machine. The rumbling of the pipes was deafening, but it was music to my ears.

As we rocked out to Lynnard Skynnard, Fred hollered at me that "half the guys are cops,  and the other half crooks.. But all of us all come together under the Red, White and Blue."

Fred was exaggerating, a bit.

 Retired and active duty cops, firefighters, security workers, paramedics, Vietnam Vets and others rolled in.

The most fun I had on the ride over to Shattuck Square was going through the residential neighborhoods of Berkeley. The bike pipes set off car alarms, burglar alarms, and alerted the crackheads, ho's, smelly hippies, and peaceniks that our seriously determined pro-troops Americans were in town to tell them to leave our Marines the hell alone.

Fred delivered me safe and sound at the Marine Recruiting Center. At the staging area, I jumped up on Sweaty Beatty, a beautifully restored 1940's pick-up truck, alongwith Catherine Moy from Move America Forward, Diana Nagy, our fabulously talented singer, Scott Conover and Mike Anderson (Gold Star Fathers) and Diane Layfield (Gold Star Mom) shouted out our support.

(Mike Anderson, left, of Modesto, and Scott Conover, of Tracy, join hands during a prayer as hundreds gathered in front of the US Marine recruiting center in Berkeley) Chronicle photo by Michael Macor

(Singer Dana Nagy, right, joins hundreds of supporters of the Marines gathered in front of the Marine Recruiting office in downtown Berkeley.) Chronicle photo by Michael Macor

 

The most deeply moving moment of the day came when a young man, fresh from Iraq and a close haircut, literally wandered into our gathering. He was stunned.

He had NO IDEA so many people supported him, especially in BERKELEY.

(An all-American dog came, too.)

I wish I got our soldier's name, but he was a bit embarassed because he was crying. I gave him a hard, long hug and whispered, "Welcome Home, Soldier."

That's when he really broke down.

God Bless our soldiers, and all of you. Never before in American history has there EVER been a counter protest movement to the so-called 'Peace Crowd', a fringe group of people who are screaming like hyenas, calling our troops thugs, baby-rapers and murderers.

They are NOT.

They are HEROES and I was proud to stand in support of their service and sacrifice. 

Damn, now I am crying.

But I don't want to click off without paying tribute to some special people.

Doug Lyvere of EaglesUp has done an amazing job organizing this event, working days and nights on end to make it happen. Special acknowledgment to Bryan Weldon of the Lafayette Flag Brigade and all his folks, as well as the courageous Patriot Guard Riders who helped. (Please forgive me if I didn't mention your group. So many came and helped. Thank-you!)

Updated Blogging

Melanie

Thanks to Gary at FreeRepublic.com

Troop Support Rally

Folks--Come on Downnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

We're going to be in Berkeley Saturday morning, gathering around 10:00 in the morning with our pride in our United States Military in front of the Marine Recruiting Center at 64 Shattuck Square.

I'll be there to do some speechifying, which begins at Noon.

I'm going to ride into town with the Patriot Guard Riders, Rolling Thunder and other bikers (HOW COOL IS THAT!) ..

Join us in fighting the anti-American message from the rabid pinko weasels and have a great time with pro-troopers who LOVE our military men and women.

I will be on KRON4 at 8:15 tomorrow morning to talk about our great event.

Be there at Shattuck Square!

Bezerkley, California --here we come!

The Daily Californian Online

A young McCain staffer was suspended yesterday from his job for passing along an link to a YouTube video.

 A link.

To a video he didn't produce. 

This kind of behavior from a national campaign annoys me beyond belief.

Note to Senator McCain. Stop apologizing, stop criticizing the people who are trying to help you. It pisses off people like me who WANT to support you. Senator McCain, why aren't you attacking Senators Obama and Clinton for refusing to denounce the people who are attacking our Marine and military recruiting centers? Why aren't you out demanding that our government investigate the seditious behavior of the anti-war left? 

Don't you people understand politics? Nah, I guess not.

Here's the YouTube video that speaks 'truth to power' as the left likes to say.

My website, my column.

Learn it, love it, (and if you hate it, I know you will complain to me.)

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Friday, March 21, 2008

I headed to Berkeley first thing Wednesday morning. Thousands of anti-war agitators promised to shut down cities on this anniversary of America's campaign to liberate Iraq and fight radical Muslims who want to cut our throats here at home.

I was pleased to see a strong presence of Berkeley police standing in front of the Marine recruiting center that "peace" activists have attacked at the urging of the Berkeley City Council. I would have been happier if U.S. Marshals were also there – and around the country at all recruiting centers that faced violence on Wednesday.

Groups such as Code Pink, the Worlds Can't Wait, Funk the War and other anarchist groups have unleashed violence and vandalism on recruiting centers across the country since just before American troops volunteered to free Iraq five years ago. My group, Move America Forward, last week released the "Sedition Report" outlining these attacks, which include gunfire pumped into recruiters' offices, human blood and feces tossed at them and bombs, fire and Molotov cocktails trained on the federal offices.

The violence doesn't surprise me. I've seen it firsthand, as I've stood against these rabid weasels in pink dresses and orange jumpsuits. The very first protesters to show up in Berkeley Wednesday morning went right to work defying the police. They then dumped a truckload of garbage on the streets in front of the Marine recruiting center. These clever clowns careened around the corner with a truck and a life-size "jail" chained to the back, stopping at the center. President Bush's face and the presidential seal were painted on the back, wearing jailhouse stripes.

Later in the day, a friend called me from Washington, D.C., where he and other patriots faced crazed "peace" protesters who threw bottles loaded with paint and glass chips. Some of the leftist loons chained themselves together, carried hateful signs such as this ditty: "Bush is the only dope worth shooting."

If this is what peace looks like, then we are all better without it. My nirvana does not include cross-dressing punks in pink carrying threats against the president of the United States. I've been in Iraq's battle zone, and I felt safer there than on the streets of Berkeley when the "peace" crowd is doing its thing.

Exposing the lies and radical behavior of the anti-war groups became my mission when they began terrorizing the true peace-loving people in America. I have seen it all. They hate this country, not just President Bush. They love Communist leaders, dictators or anarchy, not democracy. They coddle killers like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while jeering American presidents.

Their useful idiots in the House and Senate do their bidding. Rep. Jack Murtha, their hero, called Marines murderers before these Americans even face a jury. Sen. Harry Reid infamously said America had lost the war in Iraq.

Americans are catching on to these politicians' seditious behavior. Sens. Clinton and Obama are dropping in the polls against Sen. John McCain, a true American hero. A poll from the left-leaning Pew organization shows that most Americans now believe we are winning in Iraq.

That's probably why the protests flopped and turned into violent clashes rather than swarms of misguided, smelly hippies.

"Yet, despite the often creative costumes and messages, the protests were a far cry from the large and dramatic protests that marked the buildup to the war as well as the conflict's early months. Tens of thousands came to San Francisco in those days, making it an epicenter of the anti-war movement," according to the left-leaning San Francisco Chronicle in a rare moment of honest reporting.

Instead of condemning the violence against recruiters and peaceful patriots, the Democrats' top contenders, Clinton and Obama, joined in the radicals' cries to get out of Iraq.

"I will end this war," Obama said of one of his first acts if elected president. "It is the right thing to do." Clinton said the country "needs a commander in chief who will end the war in Iraq and bring (the troops) home."

And they call themselves leaders? Their policies would reopen the rape rooms of Iraq and lead to slaughter of thousands upon thousands of Iraqi people who now see hope for the first time since Saddam Hussein ruled with an iron fist. A premature withdrawal would significantly jeopardize American security as well.

After their tragic displays of hate and juvenile antics on Wednesday, many peaceniks bemoaned the fact that they didn't get the crowds of the past.

"I was hoping people would fill the streets, that it would be more mainstream. It's more of a fringe crowd," said Jan McCulloch, a Daly City nutrition teacher, according to the Contra Costa Times.

"It's resignation, apathy," said her friend, Deanna Bliss of San Francisco.

The lesson of March 19 is that the "peace" movement is desperate and so are its sad-sack leaders, Clinton and Obama. The lefties are resorting to violence where they once had thousands of dopes to follow their white-flag brigade.

From Politico.com

March 20, 2008
Categories: Bill Clinton

Jeremiah Wright was White House guest

The recent coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright has often cast him as a marginal, almost fringe figure, but Trinity Church is a major Chicago institution, and Wright has long been a prominent pastor on the American scene.

And an anonymous blog set up to defend his church offers some compelling photographic evidence of this: A photograph of Wright and President Clinton, which it says was taken on September 11, 1998 -- the date of a White House gathering for religious leaders.

[UPDATE: The blog seems to have taken that item down; here's the full image that was posted.]

Hillary Clinton, according to her recently-released schedule for the day, was present at the gathering. Al Gore also appears in the picture.

"In the course of his two terms in office, Bill Clinton met with, corresponded with and took pictures with literally tens of thousands of people," Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told Politico.

That's where Clinton reportedly told the assembled clerics, at the depth of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, that he had "repented."

As CNN reported at the time:

"I have been on quite a journey these last few weeks to get to the end of this, to the rock-bottom truth of where I am," Clinton said in his most emotional and dramatic statement since the affair with Lewinsky became public. "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned."

Agreeing with his critics that he was not "contrite" enough during his initial Aug. 17 statement, Clinton said, "It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness."

His comments were the first time the president has publicly apologized to Lewinsky. Clinton went on to describe the journey he has been on during the weeks since his first public admission, saying that he has finally repented.

"I have repented," Clinton said. "I must have God's help to be the person that I want to be. A willingness to give the very forgiveness I seek. A renunciation of the pride and the anger, which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain."

UPDATE: The New York Times later this evening posted the same photograph, and said it had been provided by the Obama campaign. And here's a screenshot of the photo on the anonymous blog, before it was removed. Curious things, these anonymous blogs.

The noise has died down, the marijuana smoke has cleared,and the smelly hippies have crawled back into their lairs after a mostly unproductive day of national protest against the Iraq war.

But here is an eloquent reminder of why we continue to support the men and women of the military, and their mission in Iraq.

Filling a Heroes Uniform
By Debbie Lee
Gold Star Mom
 
I began my morning with my normal routine of making a pot of coffee and turning on FOX news to see the days issues. This morning President Bush was addressing this nation and remembering the sacrifices and the successes that this nation has experienced for the past five years since the War on Terror began in Iraq.
 
I remember that day well and knew this would be a very personal war to me. My oldest son Kristofer was one of “The few, the proud, the Marines.” My son-in-law Christopher was an Officer serving in the Army and was already on his way to Iraq, my youngest son Marc was in BUDS training to become a Navy SEAL, my brother Jim was in the Air Force Reserves and I had cousin who was an Officer in the Marines. I had no idea at that point how personal and emotional this war would be.

Clifford D. May: Beating Saddam, battling defeatists

By Clifford D. May

March 19, 2008

Text messaging instructions to willing media enablers was part of the strategy for yesterday's anti-war protests marking the fifth anniversary since Liberation for the Iraqi's.

Handing out blue media advisories, and a deliberate strategy to refrain from pissing off motorists around San Francisco was also part of the scheme.

But despite the Left-wing determination to undermine support for our troops, the war, and peace in the middle east ---yesterday was a BUST for the Bay Area radicals.

This morning's San Francisco Chronicle sums it up.

"Yet, despite the often creative costumes and messages, the protests were a far cry from the large and dramatic protests that marked the buildup to the war as well as the conflict's early months. Tens of thousands came to San Francisco in those days, making it an epicenter of the anti-war movement. Roughly 2,150 protesters were arrested during the first three days of the war, Mar. 19-21, 2003. The city's hotels were crammed, and mobs tried to shut down the Bay Bridge.

Wednesday's biggest demonstration in the city occurred in the evening. Answer coalition organizer Richard Becker estimated the crowd of participants at 7,000.

Some yearned to renew the hope of those early days, emboldened in part by an upcoming presidential election that does not include the candidacy of George W. Bush."

The spring of hot protest against the 'unjust, immoral, illegal war' turned out to be a bust. Too bad for the smelly hippy crowd.

Bummer Dude.

I guess that these dopes are beginnng to figure out 2008 isn't 1968.

Iraq is NOT Vietnam.

The militant anti-war seditionists swarmed the streets of San Francisco and Berkeley, Ca. today with the intention of disrupting traffic, commerce and left behind a trail of environmental filth in their wake.

Bay Area Newsgroup has video from Berkeley's Marine Recruiting Center, where (sigh) Cindy Sheehan showed up. 

In Washington, D.C. District police cleared the way TWICE to allow anti-war demonstrators back in front of the military recruiting center on L Street, and that emboldened the terrorist tactics of the left to escalate. 

Kristinn Taylor from FreeRepublic.com just notified me that the anarchists in D.C. were throwing glass-filled paint bombs at pro-troops supporters.

UPDATE: Kristinn reports that no one on the pro-troop side was injured. Thank God. But he's LIVID over the D.C. police response. 

Check out D.C. milblogger John Lilyea, who recorded his day chasing the moonbats. 

Back in the Bay Area, over 140 arrests as the international A.N.S.W.E.R., The World Can't Wait, Funk The World and Global Exchange practiced the dark arts of anarchy in the financial district of San Francisco. And the main event is yet to come later tonight. 

ABCNews7 interviewed me about why Pro-Troopers aren't in the streets doing battle with the crazies.

(Simple answer --we don't want to be associated with the loons. We have a positive message coming up with www.EaglesUP.us on Saturday.) 

(photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle)

sfgate.com has complete coverage here.

KCBS.com has a slanted report here. 

KGO Radio says that Berkeley High School students were cutting class to protest--again. More here.

NBC News 11 started early today in Berkeley, where I was interviewed in front of the Marine Recruiting Center.

Here's our press release.

PRO TROOPS GROUP CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS OF SECURITY

March 19, 2008 marks the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, in which thousands of Americans who volunteered to serve put their lives on the line to liberate millions of Iraqis and protect the national security interests of the United States, which was attacked by radical Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. 

The nation’s largest pro-troop organization, Move America Forward (website: www.MoveAmericaForward.org) commends these brave warriors for their service to our country. 

“We’re proud of every man and woman who has served honorably in this struggle against America’s maniacal enemies and we’ll never forget how much we owe them,” said Melanie Morgan, MAF’s chairman. 

Debbie Lee, a MAF spokesman whose son was the first Navy SEAL to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom, said, “My son so believed in what he and his buddies were doing over there.  I know he’s proud of everyone carrying on that fight today.  I, too, am so proud of our men and women who continue to stand for our country.”

Meanwhile, antiwar radicals are using the occasion to promote their agenda of retreat and defeat in America’s battles against terrorism.  Many such groups are overtly  attempting to disrupt people’s business and cause havoc ,  at a time when antiwar protests have been growing palpably more bitter and violent.

Violence against recruiting centers has become a widespread and dangerous phenomenon, now quickly gaining momentum, as revealed in “The Sedition Report,” a document presented by Move America Forward at the National Press Club last week. 

“We most sincerely hope that no one is hurt and no property is damaged in today’s protests, but we’d be pretty surprised,” Morgan said. “I personally saw an anarchist from the ‘World Can’t Wait’ defy a Berkeley police officer while others from the group dumped a load of garbage in the streets.”

More than a dozen arrests had been made in the San Francisco Bay Area already as of this writing. 

Anti-war organizations are claiming today that support for the war in Iraq is plummeting.

The opposite is true, according to the left-leaning Pew Poll , which reports that 53 percent of Americans believe we are winning  in Iraq, due to the  change in tactics from the surge, commanded by General David Petraeus.

Move America Forward is hosting no events today, in hopes of minimizing the disruptiveness of the day’s demonstrations, but will participate in an event this Saturday in front of Berkeley, CA’s Marine office, which has been at the center of a political storm.  That event is being organized by Eagles Up, another pro-troop organization. (www.eaglesup.us )

“It hurts my heart so deeply when I see groups like SDS and World Can’t Wait fighting against this war when our troops are the ones fighting for our freedom,” said Lee.

Wednesday March 19th marks the 5th anniversary of liberation for the Iraqi people. Precious blood has been spilled to build a (mostly) democratic nation once ruled by a despotic madman who murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, running rape rooms and torturing those who committed no offense against his regime.

Now, Saddam Hussein is residing in the hottest corner of Hell, and the United States Military has hunted down and killed thousands of Islamic terrorists who threaten our security, and that of the region.

We have established a beach-head against the fanatics, and made the area safer for that country, and re-ordered the balance of power in the Middle East. 

And for all that, Iraqi's are grateful. So am I.

53 percent of the American people believe now that we are winning the Iraq war, according to the left-leaning Pew polling.

“A development that promises to reshape the political landscape.” 

But not the activist/anarchist crowd in this country who can spew only mindless platitudes like "Bush Lied."

They are actively engaging in a campaign to undermine support for this war, and the warriors who fight it.

Tomorrow I will be in Berkeley, Calif. to stand with others from our Move America Forward staff and supporters as the assault begins again on the recruiting station there.

There is only one word for this type of behavior --SEDITION.

From today's WaPo the sedition crowd crowed over their plans to disrupt, assault, and make life miserable for ordinary people.

"We believe it will be an unprecedented day of action," said Lisa Fithian of the 5 Years Too Many coalition. "There will be people coming from almost 40 states to bring their message to those . . . that are promoting . . . and profiting from war.

"On one day, the anniversary of the war, we will intervene in their business," she said.

...Fithian invited the public to participate.

At the same time, she apologized. "We want to say to the people of Washington, D.C., those people who may be inconvenienced by our activities . . . we want to now extend our apology to you," she said. "Our intention is not to disrupt your day. But we ask that you keep things in context."

Get that? Fithian plans to make life a living hell in the District of Columbia, but she and her cretin friends are apologizing in advance.

Not. Gonna. Work.

Tomorrow in Berkeley, I anticipate the same kind of lawlessness. There will only be a few of us, perhaps the Patriot Guard Riders will join in, but we WON'T STAND DOWN.

People all across this wonderful country are rising up to say to the left-wing moonbats --ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I'll be in front of the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center on Shattuck Avenue with Catherine Moy, and Ryan Gill at 6:00 a.m.

You will know us by our sweatshirts that read "Our Troops, Our Heroes."

First Elliot Spitzer.

And now, hours after being sworn in, Governor David Paterson admits he cheated on his wife.

And she admits to cheating on him!

Sheesh.

 What's in the water in New York?

And in New Jersey. (Warning, another Democrat disgusting sex scandal. Hold your nose while reading.)

 This is horrible for Democrats. Awful. Really, really bad.

 Why?

Because it reminds everyone that Senator Clinton's bed-hopping hubby might be back in the White House, chasing down chubby chicks (and skinny ones, too) while Madame President is sending her minions around looking for him.

Not. A. Pleasant. Thought.

And Barrack Hussein Obama has his own problems --though not sexual--with the race card that he is playing to his benefit, and now to his redound.

Haunted by association … Barack Obama, left, with the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright in 2005.
Photo: AP

Let's see if these 'unfortunate circumstances' for the Democratic party conspire to help elect a Republican in November.

One thing is for sure. It doesn't help.  

UPDATE: The Code Stinkos in Berkeley continue Marine Recruiting Harrassment 

UPDATE: The cool crowd pushed back against threats to shut-down Tacoma Washington mall --defending Marine Recruiters! 

The incoherent ramblings of some disaffected soldiers over the weekend in Washington, D.C. was a complete bust.

Winter Soldier II wasn't even good street theater.

But the bad actors tried their damndest to slander our troops.

After-action reports here and here.

While Iraq Veterans Against the War were making our troops look like murderers, baby-rapers and thugs, the patriots took to the streets to celebrate our troops, our heroes.

We 'owned' Constitution Avenue in D.C. with our flag-waving crowd. The Eagles flew (really walked) in a five-mile long patriotic parade on Saturday. YankeeMom has a super report, and some great pictures, too here.

Meanwhile, the 'Peace' crowd has a hissy fit over "The Sedition Report" produced by Move America Forward. Jeff Gannon has details here.

Susan Duclos has a very compelling piece from Digital Media here.

Further pick-ups.

 Well, nobody should be surprised. I posted this story right here in February of '07. Maybe Hillary's oppo research folks snagged it from my website and held it for just the right 'kitchen sink' moment.

Obama Worships at Afrocentric Church

By Catherine Moy

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., worships in an “unashamedly Black” church with covenants and a “vision” that include a “disavowal of the pursuit of “middleclassness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.”

The Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago has a “congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA,” according to its Web site.

“We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization,” the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site says.

Hells Bells.

If Howard Fineman of Newsweek and MSNBC's favorite Mainstream Media go-to guy can do his best reporting from the Green room (the holding area where guests get make-up and hair done) -- so can I.

I was invited on Hannity and Colmes on Friday night to talk about THE SEDITION REPORT  released by Move America Forward earlier in the day at a national press conference in Washington, D.C.

That was before the moonbats took to the streets spreading lies about our soldiers during the Iraq Veterans Against the War propaganda-fest. 

Of course, those half-baked contentions were  soundly refuted. 

I found out late that evening that the entire show was going to be Obama, Obama, Obama and his connection to the Trinity Church in Chicago and the hate-filled rantings of it's retiring pastor Jeremiah Wright.

As I was waiting to go on-the-air, Major Garrett of Fox News was on stand-by to do further reporting on his excellent interview with BHO in which he simply asked a number of questions like: "Did Reverand Wright marry you? Did Reverand Wright baptize your children? How often did you attend church? Did you donate money to the church?"

After that segment aired, Major Garrett's phone started buzzing. He recieved a call from Obama's campaign, and they were REAMING him over the report. From his end, I heard Garrett say "I have nothing to apologize for." 

He repeated that several times, and he amplified by saying that he was merely asking questions that everyone wanted answers to.

That did NOT satisfy Obama's people, and Garrett flushed a couple of times while responding to the invective thrown his way.

He finally ended the conversation by saying 'I'll see you guys in April after I go home and visit my three children who barely know their father anymore."

I was scheduled for the last segment with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes. Bob Beckel, a Democrat strategist with whom I have shared a split screen on several previous occasions, appeared just before me.  

This time, he was FURIOUS. Madder than I have ever seen him on TV. He was making a point that I didn't really understand about kids who go to Obama's church growing up to become President, and was drilling Sean about that.

Whatever.

Here's the interesting part.

After the segment was over, I exchanged seats with Beckel. As he was leaving, he slammed the studio door so hard that it almost broke some expensive audio/video equipment, according to the technican who was threading my microphone.

He was STEAMED.

Later, I asked him why he was so upset.

He replied ..."because Obama's people didn't vet him and now Hillary's going to win.'

Catch that? A senior Democrat strategist thinks that Obama has lost the campaign over his association with Reverand Jeremiah Wright's militant separatist language that includes statements like "God Damn America."

I pointed out in my segment that my co-author Catherine Moy wrote about Obama's close personal association at this very website about a year and a half ago. Catherine and I were excoriated for making that piece public.

What a difference a year or so makes, plus VIDEO of those hateful rantings.

I think Bob Beckel really loves Obama. But just a guess on my part. An educated guess, but a guess.

I know for a fact that Alan Colmes does.

My advice to any pundit going on TV --stay away from Bob Beckel when he gets mad.

You might get singed.

P.S. Beckel was really quite cordial after he cooled down. He even complimented me on my H&C segment.

And that's my complete report from Inside the Green Room....

Are there consequences for sedition? Oh, excuse me, 'advocating for peace'?

Yes, dammit.

Are Iraqi Insurgents Emboldened by Antiwar Reporting?

Just hours ago, I, along with Melanie Morgan, Cat Moy, Mary Pearson and the rest of the Move America Forward team, attended the Eagles Up!/GOE “Eagles Muster” rally. Move America Forward was honored to assist Eagles Up and Free Republic in organizing today’s events.

Pictured are Melanie Morgan (left) Colonel Harry Riley of EaglesUp, and Gold Star Mom Debbie Lee of Move America Forward.

Walking through the lawn up to the Washington Monument, at the bottom of which everyone was assembled, I felt way more comfortable surrounded by Veterans and military families than I did yesterday when we had those insurgents at our press conference. At the press conference I was literally shaking because I did not know what to expect from the large group of Code Pink activists, and I guess we saw what their intentions were. Well it was clear there would be none of that today!

Our MC for the day, Lawrence Hoffa or “GUNNY” as we call him, introduced Col. Harry Riley who spoke very eloquently about why we are here and what we are doing with this rally here today.

“Eagles Muster” he explained, is the anniversary rally to last years March 17th Rally where it was estimated that several thousand patriots braved sleet, wind and ice to rally on the capitol mall and send a message to the ‘moon bat’ fringe-left: “We’re Coming For You!”

A year later we return to reflect back upon the year’s worth of events and what has happened since March of 2007. Back then, General David Petraeus had only recently fully taken the reigns in prosecuting the Iraq war; the Troop Surge was in its early stages and still had many critics and skeptics on both sides of the fence. Anti war groups were vehemently opposed to this new strategy, saying that more troops in Iraq would only escalate into more violence, and their efforts to rally, march, and protest all over the country to stop The Surge from happening were in full force.

We have seen the situation on the ground change dramatically. In Iraq we have seen incredible success come from the surge. Violence is down drastically all over Baghdad thanks to our troops restoring order and working with Iraqi security forces and Iraqi Army to maintain it. Shiite militias like the Madhi Army have called a truce and pledged to work with Coalition Forces (and many have owned up to that promise) and Sunni terrorist groups, mainly Al Qaeda, have been kicked out of their stronghold neighborhoods of Baghdad, retreating to the far flung outskirts of Iraq where they stand broken, on the brink of utter destruction, hanging on by a finger nail while United States, Coalition, and Iraqi forces are breathing down their necks.

Then we heard from Melanie Morgan who talked about The Sedition Report that we just finished compiling and how it ties in with the Eagles Up! Rally.

View the photo gallery . 

Forgive me for being redundant on this website (but since it's my own I feel 'entitled' to repeat myself.)

I have thrown my four-ounce tube of toothpaste and small liquid bottles in my suitcase, a couple pair of jeans, a few sweaters and tons of files, documents and visuals I will need for Move America Forward's National Press Conference on Friday at 12:30 pdt in Washington, D.C.

Plus a can of lavender aerosol (my personal favorite) to spray on smelly hippies taking to the streets to undermine support for our troops with the anarchy crowd.

That's because they have figured out they have LOST the PR battle.

The latest polling is from the left-leaning Pew Research Group.

Support for war effort highest since 2006 From politico.com American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a highpoint unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape.

According to late February polling conducted by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 53 percent of Americans—a slim majority—now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.

But our work is FAR from done. 

 DemocratUnderground, Funk the World, The World Can't Wait, CodePink are other far-left groups funded by George Soros are ON THE MARCH this weekend! 

BUT SO ARE PATRIOTIC AMERICANS. 

Move America Forward is joining together with EaglesUP, Gathering of Eagles, Families United and many other pro-troops organizations to splash some truth on a bunch of whacked-out people who lie like they breathe.

WATCH ME LIVE ON HANNITY AND COLMES ON FOX NEWS NETWORK FRIDAY NIGHT.

There is an organized, orchestrated effort going on right now to attack military recruiting centers, and the people who support the troops in city after city.

It is seriously getting weird. I keep saying, and will keep on saying until I'm blue in the face that we need federal authorities to start investigating the terroristic acts taking place in our American Cities.

UPDATE: 

Bryan Weldon at the Lafayette Flag Brigade just e-mailed this urgent ALERT from the San Francisco Bay area...

The wild hyena's from "World Can't Wait", showed up today at our honorable armed forces recruiting offices in Pleasant Hill. 

They say there coming back on the 19th of March. There were about 25 of them, complete with orange jump suits and bullhorns. They brought 20 ft. of heavy chain, to use to block office doors, that's when we made it perfectly clear that they would be arrested! they decided to leave.

We MUST show them that we will not tolerate this disgusting disgrace of our military!

This a wake up call! If we don't stop this nonsense now, we will become like Berkeley!

A frontal assault is taking place by the underground Left (just like the Sixties) and they are running wild in the streets.

Another reminder of what they are capable of. 

Here's a couple of dot connectors for you to consider.

Next week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, anti-war lunatics are planning to storm a military recruiting office and imprison the recruiters in a “movable cage.”

POG Shuts Down Military-Recruitment Station in Pittsburgh
by Jenny Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005 at 2:28 PM

Click here: BCC Students Drive Out Military Recruiters

Refresh my website over the next four days and I'll let everyone know what is happening in Washington, D.C. when I get there. Let's pray no one gets hurt. 

Hopefully, the MSM will pay attention and cover this story as well.

If they won't Michelle Malkin, the Pulitizer Prize journalist (in-waiting) will.

Meantime, Jason Mattera from Young America Foundation (who is working for Michelle covering the situation on the ground in D.C.) has been trailing Senator John Kerry to confront him about Winter Soldiers II.

This is GREAT TV.

The time for talk is over.

The time for action is NOW.

Melanie Morgan

The Daily Show starring Jon Stewart sent undercover former Marine Rob Riggles into the belly of the Pink Beast in Berkeley.

Too. Freakin. Funny.

Comedy Central

Rob Riggle is the newest correspondent on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”

(My, what a handsome brute! But then, he's a former MARINE!) 

As usual, Michelle Malkin has the very latest on what we are up against when we hit the tarmac at Dulles tomorrow.

www.michellemalkin.com

Anarchists heart the Times Square biker bomber

UPDATE: As the entire planet knows, Spitzer is gone. Good riddance to hubris rubbish. 

UPDATE: From Wonkette.com the pictures of the girls Elliott Spitzer was deciding who to pay $4,500 dollars for each visit.

(Sorry, folks, just couldn't resist!)

This lady is Candace, a "smoldering Caribbean beauty." We have nothing more to add to that:

This lady is Julia, a "beautiful European American university student" who European American university colleagues find "agreeable":

This lady is Skyler. Apparently, we'll "appreciate her energetic enthusiasm for life and passionate harmony," which means something.

Here are more prostitute ladies:

Ha ha, Alana and Camila only get three Whore Diamonds, those silly whores.

BREAKING CRUCIAL UPDATE 4:52 EDT: "Maya" gets SIX WHORE DIAMONDS.

I'm breathless with anticipation every time I tune into the news about Elliot Spitzer, Hypocrite-in-Chief.

I am whip-sawed by each development...but I want to link to my pal Mark Williams, who does a daily show in Albany, New York and has every morsel and then some on Spitzer's foibles. Mark has insider stuff!

It's a GREAT read.

My heart goes out to Silda Wall Spitzer. Doesn't she look miserable --beyond devastated?

Women all across America are asking this question: Why do these jerks force the cheated-upon spouse to get up on National TV and humiliate them publicly? And --WHY DO THESE WOMEN DO IT?

Me, I'm just saying, I would be under the bed-covers for the 50 years. But since this is a 'victim-less' crime, maybe the women of the Left don't feel the same way I do.

I need an explanation.

Gloria? Hillary? Anyone? N.O.W?

The dirty dog politicans shouldn't hide behind their wives pantsuits and pearls.

Stand-up by yourself and face the music!!

UPDATE: Nora Ephron, cheated upon ex-wife of Carl Bernstein, weighs in.

The All-So-Snooty NY Times pontificates --note they do not address the actual charges against Spitzer. OH NO! That might be JUDGEMENTAL.

From Yahoo.com we learn....

But more than a day after the scandal broke, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other senior Democrats in the delegation had yet to call on Spitzer to quit.

On Wall Street, where Spitzer built his reputation as a crusader against shady practices and overly generous compensation, cheers and laughter erupted Monday from the trading floor when news broke of his potential ruin.

Many in the financial industry had long complained that the man known as "Mr. Clean" and the "Sheriff of Wall Street" was a sanctimonious bully who was just trying to advance his political career. Many Wall Streeters were delighted to see him get his comeuppance.

"The irony and the hypocrisy is almost too good to be true," said Bryn Dolan, a fundraiser who works with many Wall Street employees. "If he had any shame, he would've already resigned."

Meanwhile, back to Wonkette. Who is she? Or should I say, who WAS she?

The country is swept up in Obama-mania, the candidate who promises immediate withdrawal from Iraq just as we are winning the war.

 The anger in the streets is palpable. And in the middle of election madness, the hate-filled rhetoric of the anti-war crowd has gone under the radar of the Mainstream Media.

ALERT: An ugly thing is set to happen in Washington, D.C. this week.

The same people who are bombing Marine Recruiting Centers and assaulting pro-troop supporters in the streets of Berkeley are organizing to spread MORE lies about the men and women who are currently serving in Iraq.

They plan to make a false comparison to what the Vietnam Veterans were accused of, wrongly, 30 years ago. You have heard it for years--baby-rapers, murderers, insane soldiers let loose to strafe innocent civilians.

As recently as a few days ago, Cindy Sheehan, the woman who dishonors her son with lies about his service wrote this:

..Iraq Vets Against the War is holding a “Winter Soldier” event soon, and they will recount stories of how they participated in war crimes or witnessed war crimes, which is not in dispute because the entire invasion and occupation is a war crime. These young people came home alive and many of them will have to deal with their demons forever as my Vietnam veteran friends still do, but we families of soldiers who were killed will also be haunted by things we know and things we will never know or never know for sure. The stories of military neglect, abuse (sexual, physical, mental, emotional) or lies are almost as many as there are troops: living or dead...

The world according to Cindy says that our troops are participating in war crimes and atrocities, just like the Vietnam Veterans did..and the stories of abuse are continuing today.

Cindy, STOP LYING ABOUT OUR TROOPS.

WE WON'T STAND FOR IT.

This YouTube video explains it all.

Come with us to Washington to stand against the liars of the left, and their enablers.

Go to www.moveamericaforward.com www.gatheringofeagles.com and www.eaglesup.org for details.

I am leaving Thursday to join my friends and fellow patriots. Be there with me.

Dean Who?

Dean Kamen, the man who invented the Segway.

Now he has invented something much, much more important that will change the lives of maimed soldiers returning from Iraq.

You CANNOT watch this video without being amazed at the spirit of compassion, ingenuity, and American resourcefulness from Dean Kamen and the entire team of people with whom he worked.

He accomplished this miracle in 13 months!

No More.

We are NOT going to stand-by and watch the increasing attacks on our military recruiting offices, our military families, and we will question the patriotism of anyone who silently ignores a growing threat by domestic enemies.

Fortunately, our side has Michelle Malkin.

And groups like Gathering of Eagles and EaglesUp.

...and Move America Forward.

Plus our steely determination to win this war against the radicals who are escalating in guerrilla tactics to undermine our national security. 

Eagles Muster: A Call to Action for Our Troops!

Major Announcement: Friday, March 14

Move America Forward will be making a major announcement this Friday, March 14, 2008.

The announcement concerns disturbing information we've collected after extensive research into the work of anti-war/anti-military activists.

We will present our findings at a news conference in Washington, D.C. and simultaneously publish a report containing our findings here at the www.MoveAmericaForward.org website.

Please check back here on Friday - we'll need YOUR HELP in getting the word out to people all across the nation!

Stay tuned...

Meanwhile, is there a master plan at work by the Left-wing underground?

Fort Lewis Washington officials are alerting soldiers and their families to avoid the Tacoma Mall between noon and 5:30 p.m. March 15 because of a planned anti-war protest at the Recuting center. The plans include harassing shoppers and families who the protesters suspect of having military ties.

http://geobent.blogspot.com/2008/03/enough.html

Now please take a minute to read the inspirational story of Debbie Lee, who is MY hero.

off the wire ...

March 7, 2008
 

Here's what's happening at AP radio stations across the California / Arizona / Nevada / New Mexico:

KSFO San Francisco and morning co-host Melanie Rogers part company.

Whoops. I hope I don't get sued.

(Helpful hint to AP lawyers --truth is a valid defense. Lee Rodgers and I were SECRETLY married almost 15 years ago.)

A nice posting from Ron Winter, a Vietnam Vet, author, political consultant and all around American hero who writes about my lay-off...

Nice to See You, How Was Your Vacation? Hit The Bricks? KSFO in San Francisco Axes Melanie Morgan

Monday, March 03, 2008

 The illegal, immoral, and unjust war continues.

And the atrocities, too. Especially the atrocities.

The baby-rapers, killers of innocent civilians --the worst of the worst of military men and women--YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THE BRUTALITY OF THESE SOLDIERS.

Must SEE.

In a message dated 3/7/2008 4:56:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:

(Mayor Tom Bates standing in solidarity with CodePink.)

RESPONSE FROM CATHERINE MOY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MOVE AMERICA FORWARD 

My concern is that you, as elected officials, are not doing everything you can to protect your citizens and businesses within your city.

(Catherine Moy, Warrior Princess for our Troops) 

UDPATE: DRUDGE REPORT FROM TODAY

Fears at Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center...

If anybody else is hurt during scuffles, bombings, assaults, batteries or any other violence at the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center, we will hold you personally responsible.

PatDollard.com has details of news that doesn't really shock me.

Especially when you have groups who feel this way.

The bombing today in New York underscores the danger we face in this country from the far-left crazies who consult the Internet on how to build IED'S and blast our iconic symbols of national security.

Investors Business Daily has a searing editorial about the subject.

From NBC11, the warning to Berkeley. Beef Up Security. 

HOUSE DEMOCRATS RECIEVED LETTER OF BOMBING --BEFORE IT HAPPENED! 

Truly revolting developments ...let's see how the Democrats respond to this. Better yet, contact these people and ask them why their 'base' is alerting them to felonies before they happen.

From Ron Winters' Blog

Google Alert just flashed this on my screen.

I heard about the bombing at the Marine Recruiting Center in New York early this morning, and flew like a bat out of hell to Berkeley.

I have just returned after marching over to Mayor Tom Bates office and served notice to his representative and the City Council we will HOLD THEM PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE if any violence ensues in moonbat central.

Catherine Moy, Executive Director for Move America Forward, jumped in her big honkin' SUV and joined me in speaking with Gordon Wozniak, Berkeley City Councilman who does believe that the Marines are owed an apology for the letter that was to be sent calling our Marines 'unwelcome and unwanted intruders.'

Wozniak says that the police chief has been notified, and that an increased step-up in patrols is underway now. I personally noted that two and three officers are now at the MRC on Shattuck Avenue. And that's a good thing.

I have been warning that violence is on the increase against our servicemen and women, which is why MAF produced the TV commerical pointing out that over a dozen assaults have taken place in recent months, including New York, Washington, and beyond. This is simply unacceptable.

Meanwhile, back at the Marine Recruiting Center, I sent this photo to Michelle Malkin from my iPhone:

Carrying on the left-wing kiddie human shield tradition, here’s a Pinko blocking the recruitment center with her infant:

UPDATE!

 Zanne Joi, CodePink spokesperson, jaywalked with this baby across the street, put him in the CodeStink van WITHOUT A CHILD SAFETY SEAT.

A Berkeley police officer chased her down, and chewed her out for endangering the life of the child. Move America Forward's supporters watched dumbfounded.

Hello, calling Britney Spears! 

Eamon Kelly, his wonderful mother Elizabeth, John from Alameda, and others either are in Berkeley right now to make sure nothing happens to the Center, and the rumor is that the Patriot Guard is riding up now.

This is seriously scary stuff. Thank God no one was hurt in New York Time.

NBC11 is on the story.

http://www.nbc11.com/news/15516108/detail.html

Activists Fear Bombing At Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center

UPDATED: 2:24 pm PST March 6, 2008

UPDATE:

I am getting into my car and going over to the Marine Recruiting Center in Berkeley to make sure our guys are okay.

Melanie

Gathering of Eagles
Fighting the Insurgency at Home
Domestic Terrorism Alert

Thursday, March 6, 2008

This morning an assailant attacked the United States Military Recruitment Station in Times Square with an Improvised Explosive Device.  No injuries were reported but the station received serious damage.  Pictures and video are linked from the New York State Gathering of Eagles website.

http://newyork.gatheringofeagles.org/?p=48

This is the recruiter location that the Gathering of Eagles has most often defended against the domestic insurgents of the radical left.

Dan Maloney
New York State Coordinator
Gathering

 MM: FOLKS, LOOK AT THESE GOOGLE STORIES FROM NEWS SOURCES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

NOT ONCE IS IT MENTIONED IN THE HEADLINES THAT IT'S A MARINE RECRUITING CENTER!

THIS IS WHY OUR WORK IN BERKELEY PROTECTING AND PROTESTING AGAINST MARINE HARASSMENT IS ALL THE MORE RELEVANT!

from MichelleMalkin.com

…Bloomberg weighs in: “The fact that this appears deliberately targeted at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world.”

Photo: Yahoo! News

NYTimes Blog

One of the fabulous things about having your own website is that I get to write about my favorite subject --ME.

But narcissism, while enjoyable for a time, does get a bit old.

So before I move onto other topics, one last shot about the industry and the state of talk radio.

(and yes, this column does talk about ME. Yea!)

From SFist.com

Melanie Morgan Gets the Boot

Politically-correct, conservative KSFO talk show host Melanie Morgan annonced yesterday that her contract would not be renewed due to financial issues over at KSFO's corporate parent, Citadel Broadcasting Corp. Co-host of the Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan Show, Morgan is somewhat (in)famous for jump starting the Gov. Gray Davis recall, which has since left us with Gov. Schwarzenegger; and calling for the rape, murder, hair-pulling, and vivisection of New York Times editor Bill Keller. (Okay, not really, what she actually said was that if Bill Keller should be tried for treason, he should face the ultimate penalty, which is death. So..there you go.)

Regardless of your political slant, we recommend checking out her site. She's entertainingly angry at times. Also, the Bay Area based conservative activist sometimes drinks while she writes -- just like us! We smell a wacky friendship brewing.

Anyway, when Morgan leaves the airwaves, her early morning slot will indeed be filled. But according to KSFO program director Ken Berry, "it won't be with someone the stature of Melanie."

MM: Highball? Chardonnay? Tequilla? Here's looking at the Fisters. 

Here's a look at what the media analysts like John Rook are saying today about the former ABC/Citadel financial mess...and how it affects KSFO and the rest of the business.

The brain-dead tin-foil hat brigade weighs in with it's stupid, misinformed and plain ridiculous speculation about the lay-offs (me) at KSFO...while taking credit for getting me fired.

Nice try, Spocko.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your party.

From SFgate.com

(See above posting from media analysts.)

Oh for cryin' out loud.

Joe Garofoli in today's San Francisco Chronicle, who should know better, takes another opportunity to knock me over comments about Bill Keller, the New York Times editor who published top secret information about the highly successful FISA program.

In today's article "Melanie Morgan, conservative radio jock, axed" Garofoli misrepresents the story (which he wrote originally.)

I just LOVE it when these writers turn a phrase --"...and called for the execution of New York Times editor Bill Keller."

I said that if Bill Keller should be tried for treason, he should face the ultimate penalty, which is death.

What a difference a few words can make.

From KPIX-TV Eye on the Blogs.

RadioEqualizer has a new posting.

I will be posting a bigger 'Think' piece on what is happening to conservative talk radio in the next few days.

Meanwhile, I am reading every e-mail and responding to those who don't use the word c-*$#, b-*!%^, or other vulgar language.

Or threats, like from Media Matters Karl Frisch who wrote to Josh Richman, a Bay Area political reporter:

Karl Frisch, spokesman for Media Matters – the watchdog group from which I culled the three controversial Morgan quotations above — just got back to me.

“A lot of people say these are just fringe characters that deserve no notice whatsoever. We take a different opinion because, whether it’s Melanie Morgan or Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage, these people are communicating to a large audience and it has a ripple effect,” he said. “It’s important that these people are held accountable for accuracy and for the kind of fear-mongering and hate speech that they use on so regular a basis. And just because Melanie Morgan is off the air doesn’t mean she’s off our radar.”

Guess what, Karl.

YOU GUYS ARE STILL ON MY RADAR. 

Here is the full text of Brian Maloney's piece today at RadioEqualizer

Well, folks, I woke up this morning with a hang-over, but what the hell. It's not often you have a great excuse to get plastered, and surprisingly, my attitude today is pretty damn good.

Why?

Because my e-mail inbox is loaded to the gills with thousands and thousands of very supportive letters for which I am extremely grateful. It's even amusing to read some of the dopey liberal e-mailers who think I got what was coming to me, and taking credit for my lay-off. As usual, all the lefty e-mails were filled with ugly obscenities. Typical.

I wish that I could e-mail every single one of you back, but I might not get around to finishing the job until 2012!

I will post some of the great comments and good wishes like from my esteemed friend Thomas Lifson at American Thinker.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/talk_radio_crisis_looms.html

Talk radio crisis looms

And BACK AT YA, Thom!

And from the Mighty Michelle Malkin.

Please bookmark MelanieMorgan.com and I promise to keep blogging while I take some much needed downtime.

God Bless,

Melanie

Don't drink and compute. That's the advice I always give myself, which I have promptly ignored.

 But a couple of thoughts tonight as I swill a few adult beverages.

I lost a job today, but I didn't lose a child.I didn't lose a limb. And I didn't lose my passion for our troops.

My great friend Debbie Lee, whose son Marc Alan Lee, the first Navy Seal to die in the fighting in Iraq, called me to console me about being laid-off today.

I was thunder-struck by her deep generosity, AND the fact that everything in life must be kept in perspective.

Yes, I was laid off and I am sorry to be leaving all my friends from ABC/Citadel Broadcasting. I have some personal grieving to do. And I lost the ability to speak to millions of listeners at KSFO, and on the Internet. (Temporarily.)

But I will NEVER forget the true loss and grief of Gold Star Families who have suffered real agony in the name of our Country, those who fight for the rights of all us to live, breathe and enjoy our freedom.

I want to thank all the KSFO listeners who have supported our causes over the years, and urge them to stay tuned to Lee Rodgers and Officer Vic, as well as my friend Brian Sussman.

I love you all and I'm grateful for nearly 15 years of fellowship, friendship, passion and committment.

I'm not done yet --we've got a lot more work ahead of us.

Join me and Move America Forward as we march forward. www.moveamericaforward.com

And, please keep clicking on my website.

With Deepest Appreciation,

 Mel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 3, 2008

Conservative MelanieMorgan Cut from KSFO Radio

* Vows to Continue Her Role as Conservative Activist *

(SAN FRANCISCO) – Renowned radio personality and national conservative leader, Melanie Morgan, delivered her final broadcast on talk radio powerhouse KSFO 560 AM today – Monday, March 3, 2008.

The owner of KSFO radio, Citadel Broadcasting, decided not to renew Morgan’s contract as part of the company’s announced across-the-board financial cost cutting.

Melanie Morgan has been a fixture on KSFO for the past 14 years, enjoying a run from 1994-2008 that far exceeded industry standards for longevity. During that time, Morgan emerged as one of the nation’s most dynamic conservative activists, using the radio airwaves to motivate listeners who shared her passion to take action and fight for causes important to them.

Morgan’s on-air activism included an effort that removed the carcinogen MTBE from gasoline in California, launching of the historic Recall Gray Davis campaign that led to the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, and co-founding the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, Move America Forward.

“It has truly been an honor for me to work at KSFO for the past 14 years.  What I loved most about my time at KSFO was that it allowed me to connect with listeners and take action to make real changes in the world,” said Melanie Morgan.

“We never had a one-way dialogue with our listeners, and we never believed that we had to resolve ourselves to accept the status quo.  We got out of our chairs, left our homes and offices, and circulated petitions, rallied for our troops and met with government leaders. “We did all this to make sure that we left an even better world for our children than the one we had inherited from generations before us,” Morgan said.

“Meeting our troops who are on the frontlines of the war against terrorism stands as the most powerful experience in my broadcast career,” said Morgan.

Morgan’s career with ABC began in 1981 when she was a television reporter for KGO TV.  In 1984, she became an on-air personality for KGO radio where she worked for six years before switching over to ABC-San Francisco sister-station, KSFO 560 AM, co-hosting the Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan show.

In 2006, Citadel Broadcasting acquired the ABC Radio group.  She has reported on the scene from the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon; the Mexico City earthquake; and the Tiananmen Square massacre in China.

Melanie Morgan says her focus in the days ahead remains unchanged:  She will remain a conservative activist leader. “My commitment and dedication to serve as a leader in the movement to support our military men and women continues to grow,

Morgan will also continue her weekly column for the news website www.WorldNetDaily.com and will continue to serve as a television analyst on news programs on cable and broadcast television stations and networks. “My passion and commitment to the troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world are foremost in my heart.

"While I will miss my good friends Lee Rodgers and Officer Vic, and our great producer Sheri Yee, I am excited to stay close to the conservative grassroots. And I'll always lead with my chin out," Morgan concluded.

Dateline: Scape Ore Swamp, South Carolina

The eery legend of  "Lizard Man" resurrects fears among locals. 

Half-man, Half-creature with a really crappy attitude toward mini-vans may have attacked in South Carolina --and it's owner is pissed, but prepared.

Glock locked and loaded.

via Breitbart.tv

The will of a few (female Muslims) gym rats over the needs of many (Harvard cardio buffs.)

Backlash building.

This could get interesting.

...or the AP will come get you.

The hard-left crowd just can't help themselves --mocking people who love our country and support our troops.

From the creepy kids at Newshounds.