Back Talk

That menacing Glenn Beck

2010-09-06T01:10:01Z

One must chuckle at the Post's Leftie No. 3 because of his article titled, "Beck's popularity is a concern." Beck has, in fact, become very popular so that much is true. He is popular and it is a concern to Liberals because his message is anathema to the Liberal's existence. He is crusading for smaller, non-meddling government, a free market, conventional family values, and low taxes. Beck is a Libertarian who also happens to be a Mormon with strong religious feelings. He scares the pants off the Lefties, who are often atheists and who, without a positive message of their own, resort to the demagoguery of class and ethnic warfare and accusations against Conservatives of racism, homophobia, sexism, and cold-heartedness for the less fortunate. What exactly is Leftie No. 3 concerned about? What does he think the menacing Beck is going to do? Perpetrate a Beck coup, take over the government, and require all Lefties to join the Mormon Church? Make them wear American flag pins in their lapels, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance?

Tiresomely predictable

2010-09-03T00:04:52Z

One of our newspaper's tiresomely predictable leftist writers did the predictable this week; he penned a hit piece in response to the huge turnout at the Glen Beck rally. It was not easy since it so popular and interesting in that even most of the liberal media reported that it was generally non-political. One writer noted, "One striking feature of Saturday's rally was how deeply religious and ecumenical it was." Nevertheless, Libertarian Beck is so threatening to the left, because he promotes smaller government, lower taxes, free trade, and freedom from bureaucrats that Liberals need to spring to the attack. Our Leftie titles his column, "Beck's popularity is a concern," His tortured analysis of Beck embodies the usual Liberal demagoguery: Scour the Internet for a few extremist writer quotes about Beck - protecting himself on the distinct possibility that quoted facts are actually lies. Then, our boy spews out the tried and true class hatred weapon by saying, "Beck is a millionaire, getting rich off foolish and gullible Americans who are scared their country is being taken over by commies or fascist or the Trilateral Commission or that scary Negro in the White House." This last statement betrays an underlying element of the liberal nature - they are elitists who believe they are smarter than the average bone-headed American citizen.

The big lie about the economy

2010-08-30T22:35:32Z

VP Joe Biden says the economy is swiftly recovering; everything is going to be just peachy. Mr. Credibility said further that we are re-building after the terrible mess that Bush and the Republicans left the Democrats. Some writer compared this obvious fabrication to the Monty Python episode where the pet store owner insisted the stone dead parrot was only resting. When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, unemployment was 4.5%, stock market was at 12000, and the deficit was 1.4% of GDP. Today unemployment is 9.5 and will likely climb higher, more than 18 percent of people who want full-time work can only find part-time jobs. Consumer confidence is destroyed, housing sales recently hit a 15-year low, and the stock market is off 11 percent since its April highs for the year. Runaway federal spending isn't likely to be brought under control as long as the major entitlements - Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - remain completely out of control. The number of entitlement beneficiaries is growing faster than the number of taxpayers, and entitlements account for more than half of federal spending.
When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 it was precisely the time that marks the beginning of the recession. The actual facts put the big lie to one of the many lies of the current Democrat regime.

Harvard study discovers the obvious

2010-08-26T23:08:45Z

Expectedly, our left-wing media has virtually ignored the results of a long-term Harvard University on diversity in America.
One always hears the clichéd argument proclaiming the benefit of diversity with the claim that "Our country was built on diversity." A truly meaningless and probably even an inaccurate statement. I have never heard a truly persuasive defense of the politically correct idea that diversity is a benefit to the country - only generalities about a broad variety of ethic groups somehow adding to our culture. In fact, I have always suspected that multiculturalism and diversity are, in fact, a drag on the culture for reasons so obvious one could anticipate the results of the above mentioned study. The study, for which the government no doubt granted a few million dollars to the Harvard group to perform, came up with the following: The more diverse a culture, the less the members participate in group community functions, the less the volunteering, and the least amount of full-community activity. People become balkanized, remaining within their own ethnic society, more aloof, and never becoming part of the fabric of traditional American social culture. My response to these results is: duh.

Cannot understand

2010-08-20T21:53:05Z

The Obama regime will raise our taxes on January 2011 to a level higher than any other time in history, including the sunsetting of the Bush cuts that spurred our economy after Bush took office. Since our economy is already in its death throes, the increases should just about finish us off.
History has repeatedly shown that raising taxes can kill the economy or kill a complete industry, whereas cutting taxes has always spurred the economy and increased revenues to the government. Socialist community organizer Obama said that he knew this, but that it "it is not fair" for higher income earners to get a cut while there are those less fortunate in America. The yacht tax broke the industry's back and caused buyers to leave buy out of the country. Cigarette tax causes bootlegging and is a hypocrisy (the governments want the revenue. It is the most heavily taxed consumer product and punishes the poor.) Liberals cannot or will not understand basic economics.

And so it goes

2010-08-11T20:29:07Z

For years, liberal teachers, the preponderant majority, have fed to their defenseless young students a steady diet of "America sucks and socialism into the empty minds of our school children. In turn, the eager youngsters take their indoctrinated selves to college where liberal professors, having gotten into the trade to crusade for equality of outcome for all, further their anti-American schooling. Not surprisingly, some of the most pliable and crusade-prone of those young sponges themselves go into teaching where they can "make a difference."
And so it goes, one generation after another, while our young people continue to decline in standardized tests in comparison to the other advanced nations of the world. The only winners in the disintegrating education system are the teachers unions and educators who manage to gain more and more benefits, higher salaries, and ironclad tenure while, at the same time, blocking any attempt at innovation that might threaten their security such as teacher performance tests and student vouchers.

Harvard discovers the obvious

2010-08-06T22:56:24Z

Unsurprisingly, our left-wing media has virtually ignored the results of a long-term Harvard University on diversity in America.
One always hears the clichéd argument proclaiming the benefit of diversity with the claim that "Our country was built on diversity." A truly meaningless and probably even an inaccurate statement. I have never heard a truly persuasive defense of the politically correct idea that diversity is a good thing for the country - only generalities about somehow adding to our culture. In fact, I have always suspected that multiculturism and diversity are, in fact, a drag on the culture for reasons so obvious one could anticipate the results of such a study. The study, which the government no doubt granted a few million dollars to the Harvard group to perform, came up with the following: The more diverse a culture, the less the members participate in group community functions, the less the volunteering, and the least amount of full-community activity. People become balkanized, remaining within their own ethnic society, more aloof, and never becoming part of the fabric of traditional American social culture. My response to these results is: duh.

Balkanization of America

2010-08-03T05:00:56Z

It is hard to put into words in a few sentences the situation we have in America regarding the illegal alien problem. It may not be a problem to the chronically politically correct and Democrats who want to somehow make the 15 million illegals American citizens who, presumably, will vote Democrat. These people even refuse to use the term "illegal alien." They insist upon referring to people who broke U.S. law by sneaking across our border as undocumented immigrants or migrants or just plain immigrants. They also seek to blur the distinction between illegal and legal immigrants, because, and who could object, immigration is a healthy thing for our country because of the vague benefit of diversity. This cliché is, of course, pure bunk because diversity never caused anything but balkanization of ethnic groups that do not assimilate nor participate in civic functions. A subject for another blog. However, the illegal problem is our most serious threat. The state of Arizona has been asking the Federal Government to enforce the law and do something about the horrendous problem of violence, crime, and law enforcement problems that illegals are causing. The Feds have ignored their responsibility so Arizona passed their own immigration law that actually just mirrors the federal law. The feds filed a lawsuit claiming Arizona was preempting the fed law. That is, we won't enforce the law but we will not allow you to do so.

Pillars of non-partisanship

2010-07-30T22:53:31Z

A former media member has blown the whistle on a conspiracy of Liberal elitists whose goal was to elect and support Obama and destroy hosts of Conservative talk shows. Some 400 people joined the by-invitation-only group. Most, it seems, were in the media, but many were college professors and think tanks. They required that no member cover the scandal of Obama's racist, America-hating pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Journalists from so-called news organizations such as Newsweek, Bloomberg, Time and The Economist joined in the conspiracy to come up with the best way to attack Sarah Palin whom, for reason, they had such great fear. One of these pillars of non-partisanship advised the group that they should all demonize any conservative journalist, if they could find one, as a racist if he criticized any of Obama's actions. This, he said, would silence the conservative, defame his opinion and scare any others from covering any story unfavorable to Obama. This sort of revelation is precisely why I question all facts and distrust all news report interpretations by the major media and particularly the Associated Press that seems to monopolize news presentation.

Lefties are at least consistent

2010-07-27T23:12:07Z

One of the Lefties who has been writing opinion pieces on the Post's editorial pages for what seems like an eternity penned another dandy. He said he has been "wondering when, if ever, sane Republicans were going to at least comment on trying to take their party back from the loony right wing that has hijacked it." Lefties are nothing if not consistent. They consider anyone who disagrees with their entrenched opinions a loony. They are furious about the Tea Party movement because, well, how dare the common people stand up and complain about the impossible debt, the huge growth in government, the steady erosion of freedom, and Socialistic actions of the Obama regime. Naturally, our Lefty is a fan of MSNBC's Chris Matthews. He quoted Matthews as having had an ongoing invitation to any Republican who will come on his show and disagree with just one thing that Rush Limbaugh has said, and he has had no takers. Matthews, who has been a liberal activist for his entire career, worked for House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Jimmy Carter. In one of his more giddy moods, Matthews made the silly remark that, when he listened to an Obama speech, it made a chill to go up his leg. I wonder if our local Leftie gets a leg chill thinking about Obama, as well. I am trying to imagine why a Republican would go on Matthews' show to disagree with Limbaugh or any other Conservative. Why would they do so? Because they like having the regime quadruple the deficit, expand the national debt to $13 trillion, nationalize industries, force a government health system through in spite of public disapproval, destroy out world stature, and generally botch everything it has touched, including the gulf oil spill?

Dishonest

2010-07-24T20:08:59Z

What do Lefties always do when their ship is sinking and they can see their power is slipping away? They demagogue, discredit the opposition, make up their own facts, and the big one - accuse their opponents of racism. Thus, all the buzz about the NAACP recently. One of our own tiresome Liberal writers (sorry, he calls himself a Progressive) chimed in on the Tea Party Movement and accused them of racism and then let us know how moderate he is by granting that he did not feel that all Tea Party attendees are racist. Thank you Leftie. He also generously concedes that they "ostensibly believe in government accountability, the Constitution, and not continuing the deficit," but then belittles those ideas by throwing in the grandmother and apple pie cliché. Incidentally, Leftie, they also believe in smaller government, a halt to the runaway spending, and an end to the corruption. This man has never been to a Tea Party meeting, never interviewed any attendees, has no idea what takes place there. He knows only that they hold Conservative ideals and has heard about some racist sign that "ostensibly" appeared at a rally and, therefore, feels justified in using the racist epithet against all Tea Parties. This is simply dishonest writing and adds credence to the actual sign at a Tea Party that read, "What difference does it make what this placard says. You'll call it racist anyway."
I have also not attended a Tea Party meeting, but some friends are regulars. They told me they tolerate no racist remarks and politely ask anyone who shows a racist sign to please put it away.
The Liberals going after the Tea Parties shows once again that the Libs have no positive message; they believe in nothing? All they have is criticism..

Playing the race card

2010-07-22T16:06:49Z

As is so often the case, and hypocrisy being what it is, one of our country's most racist organizations - the NAACP - has launched a purely racist attack upon the Tea Party Movement. The claim is that the Tea Parties are racist motivated even though anyone who has witnessed a Tea Party gathering knows it is a hideous lie. These groups are grass roots gatherings with no central or unifying control and have the express concern about the enormous growth of government, the massive deficit, and loss of personal freedom in America. The NAACP like all leftist groups is desperate because of the sad state of America and fear of losing control on congress in the coming election. So what do leftists do when in trouble? They attempt to destroy the opposition and what better way - and one to which they invariably resort? They portray their target as racists or homophobes or whatever works. Although the NAACP can demagogue with the best of them, our train wreck of a President has certainly set the tone by regularly using race as a weapon, although his supporters claimed his Presidency would end the race issue in America. During this same news cycle we read about the scandal involving an Agriculture Department employee, Shirley Sherrod, a Black woman who told an NAACP audience - to applause - how she did not go all out to help a poor Georgia farmer who was threatened with the loss of his farm, because he was white.

Taxes and weed are fun

2010-07-19T00:52:44Z

The Post printed a column from a new writer, Tina Dupuy. The brief description of the author stated that she was as award winning writer, a claim I can only reluctantly acknowledge after reading her article. I am still uncertain whether the piece was tongue in cheek or a serious effort. It was silly enough I could go either way. Could be a serious attempt by a Liberal since Liberals never seem to have a grasp of basic economics and will always argue the leftist point of view regardless of reality. Or, given the apparent absence of reasoned thinking, it could be strictly satirical. She said "we" (apparently not her) are inconsistent regarding paying taxes. That is, we hate paying taxes yet are sanguine about paying for cable TV. She said our dislike of taxes is "an odd character trait in Americans." Seems to me that statement is odd. Her rationalization that we should pay more taxes seems to be mainly because Belgians pay more that us. Great logic. Never mind that raising taxes, any taxes, would be the worst thing to do in this struggling economy. She says, "For politicians, raising taxes is taboo." Miss Dupuy needs to pay better attention to events; bureaucrats need money to wield poser. The Democrat party has raised taxes every time they have gained control of congress and the Republicans also a few times. The Obama regime is raising all manner of taxes the first of the year, including the confiscatory death tax, which steals the savings of the deceased - money that has already been taxed. The Obama regime is also letting the Bush tax cuts expire - which is literally a big tax increase. To add to the inanity of Ms. Dupuy's piece she seems to be proposing that weed be legalized so that the greedy government can tax it.

Hypocrisy abounds

2010-07-15T19:43:25Z

The New Black Panther Party is back in the news regarding the voter intimidation case in Philadelphia when Panther goons blocked voter paths while brandishing billy clubs. The Obama regime has no problem with voter intimidation as long as the result goes in its favor so it dropped the case. New B.P. leader, Samir Shabazz, roared to an approving audience, "You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies!" Now just imagine for a moment what would happen if a famous Conservative made similar remarks about a Black man. For starters, the media, always ready to salivate over Republican problems, would crucify him, he would lose his job, race-baiters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would materialize to inflame the situation, and the justice department would launch an investigation. As some pundit said, "faster than Al Gore moving in on an unsuspecting masseuse." The double standard hypocrisy in this country is as barefaced as the Mexican president visiting our country and criticizing our illegal alien laws in front of our own Congress.

Garbage in, garbage out

2010-07-10T22:46:52Z

The almost universally left wing press has convinced the American people that man made global warming is a fact, when most recent studies indicate this is not so. The biased media has more recently convinced the public that we have inferior health care, which is not true. They have worked tirelessly to the Arizona illegal immigration law by repeatedly misrepresented the law stating that Arizona police will stop and question Mexicans regarding their legal status. It is immoral of the media to claim this since the Arizona only states that authorities may require proof of individuals whom they have stopped for some law violation. Also, the Arizona law merely re-states the federal law, which the federal government has failed to enforce. As writer Dennis Prager pointed out regarding these situations, "the larger problem is that the world thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused. How else explain, for example, why America, the greatest force for good among nation is hated, while China, never a force for good?"