Oh, great -- the Federal Elections Commission is commie against us too!

http://nationalreview.com/corner/354801/e-mails-suggest-collusion-between-fec-irs-target-conservative-groups-eliana-johnson
E-mails Suggest Collusion Between FEC, IRS to Target Conservative Groups

Bold and brave words from Pat Buchanan

The ruckus and hysteria over George and Trayvon have reached their peak. We must pray this means they're now on the descendant. Pat Buchanan is in one of his more clear-headed moments and busting up the racial correctness that dominated the affair but failed to win the day.

What astounds me most here is the sheer perversity of politically-correct thought. Zimmerman defended himself and even the lone "black" on the jury said it was a rightful case of the law being honored come what may. Where is there cause for further agitation?

In particular I'm astounded that some blacks are telling their kids the moral of this whole needless drama is that "the policeman isn't your friend." A guy accused of being white stands his ground and settles an assault against like a man; because he was a neighborhood safety volunteer and race hustlers like Jesse and Sharpton see an opportunity for demagoguery, the guy is equated with police, who are demonized next in line.

http://buchanan.org/blog/black-americas-real-problem-isnt-white-racism-5710
Black America’s Real Problem Isn’t White Racism

Fathers telling their sons that police are all mad racists out to get them? I can think of good reasons little kiddies shouldn't take police people at face value, but there's no comparison between the leftist fantasy and commonsense reality on this.

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Nullification is in the air

This N-word has a lovely ring to it. Exciting news here if it pans out:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/states-nullification-obama-94826.html?hp=t1
States seek to nullify Obama efforts

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IRS admits the 501(c)(3) setup is toothless! Stunning column on the founders

"Political sermons" -- why does that phrase sound so totally alien to our ears? Obviously because anywhere right of center, most preachers are so lacking in basic manhood they just go right along with the agenda and valyooz the media dish out. Even most clergy passing as archconservative don't dare defy the common notion about nonprofit or tax-exempt status. Number one, because they live in fear of the fedgoons -- just enough to toe the communist party line and censor their sermons by it. Number two, because if one of them did any actual unspoken moral preaching women of both sexes would beat him to a pulp after the last hymn.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Anghis/roger265.htm
POLITICAL SERMONS FROM PASTORS IN THE FOUNDING ERA

But the common notions are dead wrong, excitingly wrong all over again. The IRS has no power to remove tax exemption from an organization. That "law" was bad from the word go, ergo void ab initio.-- nobody has ever needed to obey it, a small army of real men of God could have overturned it overnight if they wanted to. Everything's in our favor if we'll only claim it!!!

Oh what a quote! In the above article, originally from Pulpit of the American Revolution, (The Federalist Papers Project), pp. 47-50:

‘Civil tyranny is usually small in its beginning, like "the drop of a bucket," 'till at length, like a mighty torrent, or the raging waves of the sea, it bears down all before it, and deluges whole countries and empires. Thus it is as to ecclesiastical tyranny also — the most cruel, intolerable, and impious of any. From small beginnings, "it exalts itself above all that is called God and that is worshipped." People have no security against being unmercifully priest-ridden but by keeping all imperious bishops, and other clergymen who love to "lord it over God's heritage," from getting their foot into the stirrup at all. Let them be once fairly mounted, and their "beasts, the laity," may prance and flounce about to no purpose; and they will at length be so jaded and hacked by these reverend jockeys, that they will not even have spirits enough to complain that their backs are galled, or, like Balaam's ass, to "rebuke the madness of the prophet."

Push over an idol today. Barbecue a sacred cow. Set off brush fires of truth in people's minds wherever you go!

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Conspiracy theory no longer theoretical

We've discussed many times the importance of precision in language and what a great example of its subversion this "conspiracy theory" buzzword is. For at least ten years that term has been the handy label the System threw onto everybody that dared accuse it of wrongdoing. You think politicians actually plan the crimes they commit against us -- that a straight line through history like the ruin of money's value during the age of the Fed? Watch it -- no matter what facts you're armed with. You're a theorist, understand!?!

http://www.trueactivist.com/16-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/
16 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True

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Despite the unconscious ironies of this piece, Rolling Stone mag is a blight!

For instance, I don't assume the writer is pro-Bush or pro-Romney, but one could easily get that impression.

http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/terrorist-rocks-rolling-stone
Terrorist Rocks Rolling Stone

It certainly is good to see the music mag made the subject of scandal after all the sensations it has helped whip up through the years. And to complain about Bush being satirized as an ape is certainly tragicomic -- Bush is an ape, after all, in fact the sometimes sanely leftist smirkingchimp.com was originally named in (dis)honor of this fact, featuring a brilliant photographic logo on Bush as simian fool.

40 years ago Rolling Stone was a fun, informative magazine for those not yet advanced into the real world. Now it's just decadent with a little fun thrown in for window dressing. The book Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of the Rolling Stone Generation is more ironic than it knows as well, being a brilliantly-written chronicle of how the mag has sometimes mirrored but has often scripted the ruin of two generations of world youth. The book's author is clearly a leftist but just jaded enough to want to call down some of Rolling Stone's excesses.

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0385131143

Time for a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q
Cover Of The Rolling Stone-Dr.Hook

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Great summary of the surveillance state

..........Of all the key aspects of an authoritarian regime, secrecy is the most vital in effecting the transition from relative freedom to a full-fledged police state. As the foundations of the liberal democratic order are eaten away by political termites operating in the dark, the democratic polity retains its traditional republican form – but is hollow at its center. That’s why the prescient Garet Garrett called the rising statist trend in the United States a "revolution within the form" – superficially, our old republic appears intact, but the old meanings of such concepts as "democracy" and "the rule of law" have been turned on their heads. Beneath the surface, the tyrant lurks, waiting for his moment….

A real innovation of our "democratic" despotism is the introduction of secret law. One of Snowden’s greatest "crimes" was revealing the text of a routine FISA court orderauthorizing the massive collection of all of Verizon’s meta-data in a given time period: apparently this was one of a series of periodic court orders, issued to other providers as well, giving the government authority to vacuum up all phone records.

The FISA court isn’t really a court in the Western tradition: it is more like something that might have existed in the old Soviet Union, where everything was done in secret and there was no pretense of democratic oversight. The court meets in a special sealed-off soundproof bug-proof chamber, there are only government lawyers present making their case, and there is no public record of the court’s decisions, let alone transcripts of the proceedings. All very Soviet: all that’s lacking is a portrait of Lenin staring down on the participants in this "legal" farce.

Worse, the law itself – or, rather, the administration’s and the FISA court’s interpretation of it – is secret. We aren’t allowed to know the "legal" rationale behind the government’s sweeping data grab. It can’t be discussed in Congress, at least in open session, and can’t be contested by civil libertarians – because they won’t tell uswhat it is! This is a radical innovation that not even the commissars of Stalin’s Russia imagined: leave it to the US Congress, which passed and amended legislation establishing and strengthening the FISA courts, to surpass even the Soviet Politboro in its ability to fasten the noose of state power ’round the necks of its subjects......

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/07/18/is-america-a-free-country-2/#.UektkXpVNPk.email