(Video) President Lyndon Johnson (D) using the "N" word.

In Honor of Our Fallen Soldiers - Memorial Day

Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!

  The thoughts of men shall be

As sentinels to keep

  Your rest from danger free. 

Your silent tents of green

  We deck with fragrant flowers;

Yours has the suffering been,

  The memory shall be ours. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Deborah Simmons: It’s time to choose helping disaster victims, not politicians

The president and the speaker of the House have already proclaimed that Oklahomans will not go needy for lack of federal government support, something that in itself is a mighty tall order considering the Federal Emergency Management Agency has a disaster relief kitty of $11.6 billion and that the federal government and the state of Oklahoma have yet to tag a dollar sign or a decimal point to the devastation.

 What we do know — or, perhaps I should say, what White House spokesman Jay Carney has told us — is, “Right now, FEMA has sufficient resources” to handle post-tornado Oklahoma.

 It’s on that “right now” note that we should pray no more severe weather reaches devastating levels in the coming weeks and months. 


 Read Entire Article>>> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/22/simmons-its-time-to-choose-helping-disaster-victim/#ixzz2UQ2y0kJH 

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell: Obama’s incredible shrinking presidency

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell , a columnist for Washington Times Communities ask: Where's the Accountability? When it comes to the Obama administration.

President Obama continues to deny accountability over the crises affecting three major arms of his administration: the State Department, the Treasury, and the Department of Justice. Either the President is an incompetent leader or a dishonest one.

 No one seems to know where President Obama was the night of the Benghazi embassy attack last September, and according to White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer, where he was when fateful decisions were being made is “irrelevant.”

 Read Entire Article>>> http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/my-orbit/2013/may/23/obamas-incredible-shrinking-presidency/#ixzz2UN0v5fKG

Deroy Murdock: Obama's Illegal-Alien Jailbreak

Deroy Murdock writes on NRO:

Just before the sequester commenced on March 1, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement division (ICE) freed illegal-alien detainees from federal custody.

 Not to worry, White House spokesman Jay Carney reassured the American people. These were just “low-level, non-criminal detainees.” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said of these inmates, “Several hundred are related to sequester, but it wasn’t thousands.”

 Like so many Obamaite statements, however, these announcements now are inoperative.


 Read Entire Article>>> http://www.nationalreview.com/article/349090/illegal-alien-jailbreak-deroy-murdock

Donna Summer - McArthur Park

Gregory Kane: Race-baiting Julian Bond is at it again

Gregory Kane, The Washington Examiner Columnist and visiting professor at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University takes on Julian Bonds recent comments where he argued that the IRS was ''correct'' to target the Tea Party.

Gregory Kane is a conservative Columnist and visiting professor at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University

Race-baiting Julian Bond is at it again. This time Bond is defending the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party groups. They're racist, you see, and hence deserving of the IRS' wrath and scrutiny. Bond defended his position — and race baiting — in an op-ed piece he wrote for politics365.com.

 He called the piece "Racists Don't Like Being Called Racists."

 Read Entire Article>>> http://washingtonexaminer.com/gregory-kane-race-baiting-julian-bond-is-at-it-again/article/2530275

Quote of the Day

... But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, and the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Suspicions will be raised of his fidelity to his cause. Moderation will be stigmatized as the virtue of cowards; and compromise as the prudence of traders; until, in hopes of preserving the credit which may enable him to temper, and moderate, on some occasions, the popular leader is obliged to become active in propagating doctrines, and powers, that will afterwards defeat any sober purpose at which he ultimately might have aimed. — Edmund Burke, author of Reflections on the Revolution in France

Charles Blow, Unchained

Jason L. Riley, a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board,challenges Charles M. Blow for falling to mention the long series of incidents in which liberals use slave analogies when describing blacks who are conservative. In his latest article he argues for a little intellectual consistency and suggests that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

...I couldn't agree more.

Al Sharpton has referred to Colin Powell and Condi Rice as "house negroes . . . while the rest of us [blacks] are in the field," an allusion to the division of slave labor on a plantation. Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger has depicted Ms. Rice as Prissy, the ignorant slave girl in "Gone With the Wind."

And during last year's presidential campaign, Vice President Joe Biden told a largely black audience that Republicans are "going to put y'all back in chains." Somehow, such examples were left out of Mr. Blow's column. Maybe he ran out of space. But if slave imagery is an inappropriate debating tool, so is Mr. Blow's inference that only his political opponents use it.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578503051350300368.html

Quote of the Day

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go”. — Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) was the first woman in Congress from any state. She represented Montana's 2nd district as a Republican from 1917 to 1919 and Montana's 1st district from 1941 to 1943.

Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations

I rarely agree with New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow, but he's right in this case. Not only is the analogy offensive, it's counterproductive in the long run.

Why do Republicans keep endorsing the most extreme and hyperbolic African-American voices — those intent on comparing blacks who support the Democratic candidates to slaves? That idea, which only a black person could invoke without being castigated for the flagrant racial overtones, is a trope to which an increasingly homogeneous Republican Party seems to subscribe.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/opinion/blow-blacks-conservatives-and-plantations.html?ref=charlesmblow&_r=0

Tips to Win the Black Vote#1 Lose the Democratic Party as Plantation Metaphor politicalseason.blogspot.com/2013/04/tips-t… #bcot #tcot
— Ξ BLACK REPUBLICAN Ξ (@blackrepublican) May 6, 2013

Prof. Susan L. Brown: Capitalism & Slavery

Professor Antony Bradley: Black America, ‘We’ve got no time for excuses’

Anthony B. Bradley is professor of theology at the King's College in New York City. 

President Obama, on Sunday, delivered a touching autobiographic commencement address at Morehouse College, an all-male historically black college that is also the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, that will likely bother many progressives.

Read the full article here: http://blog.acton.org/archives/54970-black-america-weve-got-no-time-for-excuses.html

Dr. Kiron Skinner: American Exceptionalism

Dr. Kiron Skinner is Associate Professor of International Relations and Politics and Director of the Center for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Policy Board, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Council on Foreign Relations. 

She serves on the board of the Atlantic Council of the United States, has coauthored several books with Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza Rice, and is a frequent contributor to CNN.com, National Review Online, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Kiron holds undergraduate degrees from Spellman College and Sacramento City College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Harvard University.

Quote of the Day

"Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether a society is a free society or a fear society." ~Natan Sharansky

Note to Media: The First Amendment Protects All of Us

Stephen L. Carter is a conservative professor of law at Yale, where he teaches courses on contracts, professional responsibility, ethics in literature, intellectual property and the law and ethics of war.

President Barack Obama’s administration announced this week that it is throwing its support behind the press shield law that has been stalled in Congress since time immemorial. Critics insist that the administration, suddenly mired in scandal, is simply trying to curry favor with the news media, but the proposal deserves to be judged on its merits.

And on its merits, the shield law is a bad idea. Let me explain why.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-16/note-to-media-the-first-amendment-protects-all-of-us.html

Crystal Wright: AP, IRS, Benghazi: how can Americans trust President Obama now?

Crystal Wright is the principal owner of the Baker Wright Group, LLC and blogs at Conservative Black Chick. You can follow her on Twitter@GOPBlackChick

How can Republicans in Congress work with President Obama when they can't trust him to be an honest broker or treat them with respect? If Obama isn't blaming Republicans for his inability to advance his agenda, he's calling them names. During Monday's White House press conference, Obama reiterated his disgust with the GOP's doggedness to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi.

"The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow," said Obama. Belittling comments like these don't warm Republicans' hearts to help Obama advance one scintilla of an issue in his second term.

Read More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/obama-irs-benghazi-reputation-tarnished

Why I got into the TV News business

Benghazi, IRS, Associated Press.

This week I was reminded why I got into the news business. Many people have issues with
the current state of journalism. The left say Fox News is racist and the right say all other news outlets have a liberal agenda.

But this week, this week made me smile. Not because the Obama administration was
getting chewed out, but because JOURNALISTS WERE BEING JOURNALISTS!

I saw ABC News (our affiliates) put reporters on all three of these tops stories. Not only 
that, but they did a great job covering both sides, especially Tahman Bradley. I am sure many can and will complain about them not covering it enough or the right way but like I tell the critics: If being a journalist is that easy then you do it. *crickets*

Read more: http://www.eringiddens.com/2013/05/why-i-got-into-tv-news-business.html

Conservatism & The Black Male Vote

Thomas Sowell: Ethnicity and IQ

In light of the recent controversy involving The Heritage Foundations Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation which said that the average IQ of Hispanics and other immigrants is lower than that of the country's white "native" population and that the disparity will likely persist over generations , I offer this old but timely review of the topic from Thomas Sowell.

“Perhaps the most intellectually troubling aspect of The Bell Curve is the authors’ uncritical approach to statistical correlations. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten, and one of the most widely ignored facts in public policy research.” - Dr. Thomas Sowell 

Long before The Bell Curve was published, the empirical literature showed repeatedly that IQ and other mental tests do not predict a lower subsequent performance for minorities than the performance that in fact emerges. In terms of logic and evidence, the predictive validity of mental tests is the issue least open to debate. On this question, Murray and Herrnstein are most clearly and completely correct.

In thus demolishing the foundation underlying such practices as double-standards in college admissions and "race-norming" of employment tests, The Bell Curve threatens both a whole generation of social policies and the careers of those who promote them. To those committed to such policies, this may be at least as bad as the authors remaining "agnostic" (as Herrnstein and Murray put it) on the question as to whether black- white IQ differences are genetic in origin. On some other issues, however, the arguments and conclusions of The Bell Curve are much more open to dispute. Yet critics have largely overlooked these disputable points, while concentrating their attacks on either the unassailable conclusions of the book or the presumed bad intentions of the authors. 

 Read more: http://www.samtiden.com/tbc/las_artikel.php?id=24

A.R. Bernard: "Righting" the GOP

A.R. Bernard the Founder, Senior Pastor and CEO of Christian Cultural Center (CCC) located in Brooklyn, New York, has some choice words for his beloved Republican Party. 

 My American journey has taken many twists and turns. From Panama, where I was born -- to Bed-Stuy where I moved at age four -- to my days as an entrepreneur and banker -- to my role as husband, father, grandfather -- and to my calling as an ordained minister leading the largest church in New York City with 37,000 congregants -- I count every blessing. I am also a committed Republican.

 But I am a Republican who has grave concerns about the GOP's future. What happened to the party of Lincoln? To the party that abolished slavery and championed a woman's right to vote? To the party of Reagan who ended the Cold War and revitalized a moribund economy? To the party of George H. W. Bush who passed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990? What happened to the party of ideas? 

Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ar-bernard/righting-the-gop_b_3286530.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york&ir=New%20York

White Nationalism and Anti-Immigration

More than the issue of amnesty for illegal immigrants, white nationalism becoming ensconced in the Republican Party is what poses the real existential threat to the GOP. It is possible to convince Hispanics who receive amnesty to vote Republican; however, it is impossible to convince any self-respecting minority to endorse white nationalism. It’s never going to happen.

More: http://voiceofchid.com/?p=3016

Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says

The inspector general gave Republicans some fodder Friday when he divulged that he informed the Treasury’s general counsel he was auditing the I.R.S.’s screening of politically active groups seeking tax exemptions on June 4, 2012.

He told Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin “shortly after,” he said. That meant Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/us/politics/irs-scandal-congressional-hearings.html?hp&_r=0

Colbert I. King - Disturbing abuses of power

Colbert I. King is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is deputy editor of the Post's editorial page.

The East German secret police were even more ruthless and relentless in operations against their own citizens. Political suppression in that communist state was total. There was no room for dissent. Thousands of East Germans were arbitrarily imprisoned for “internal security” reasons.

So it was especially galling to learn upon returning to the states in 1969 that the FBI had a counterintelligence program, known as COINTELPRO, that was, in some ways, as pernicious as the threat we were working against overseas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-disturbing-abuses-of-power/2013/05/17/915a7264-bea9-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?hpid=z2

Happy Mothers Day!

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”  --- Tenneva Jordan

Grandpa Tell Me Bout The Good Old Days -The Judds

Obama Did It for the Money

Barack Obama announces his nomination of Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster.)

This story is from the Progressive magazine, The Nation:

The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his, financed his rise to the White House from less promising days back in Chicago.

More: http://www.thenation.com/article/174205/obama-did-it-money#

Quote of the Day

"Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.” —Russell Kirk

What now my Love - Aretha Franklin & Frank Sinatra

Black Workers Claim Race Bias as Farms Rely on Immigrants

"Think of trash collection. That’s not very appealing, either. But if you offer a decent wage and conditions, people do it.”

“If we need them, why not bring them in and make them legal citizens with real protections? The answer is because then they wouldn’t keep working in the fields given the conditions of that work. They would do something else. It doesn’t have to be this way.”  ~ Mr. Knoepp of the Southern Poverty Law Center

VIDALIA, Ga. — For years, labor unions and immigrant rights activists have accused large-scale farmers, like those harvesting sweet Vidalia onions here this month, of exploiting Mexican guest workers. Working for hours on end under a punishing sun, the pickers are said to be crowded into squalid camps, driven without a break and even cheated of wages.

But as Congress weighs immigration legislation expected to expand the guest worker program, another group is increasingly crying foul — Americans, mostly black, who live near the farms and say they want the field work but cannot get it because it is going to Mexicans. They contend that they are illegally discouraged from applying for work and treated shabbily by farmers who prefer the foreigners for their malleability

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/us/suit-cites-race-bias-in-farms-use-of-immigrants.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&smid=tw-share

Anita Baker & The Winans - Ain't No Need To Worry

 

This video is for my Nana who passed away late last year, this was her favorite gospel song.

Deroy Murdock- Why Black Voters Might Be the GOP's Secret Weapon

Based on ballot results and exit polls, here’s how Romney could have added 65 electoral votes to his actual 206 and advanced to the Oval Office.

Boosting black support from 4 percent to 5 and, consequently, white votes from 61 percent to 61.5, would have won Romney Florida. Virginia’s analogous black numbers were 6 percent to 9 and, among whites, 61 percent to 63. Lifting 3 percent black support to 5 and white votes from 57 percent to 58.6 would have clinched Ohio. Success in Colorado meant growing black ballots from 6 percent to 9 and whites’ from 54 percent to 57.5.

These 69 additional electoral votes would have totaled 275 and spelled President Romney.

Read more: http://www.humanevents.com/2013/03/21/seeking-black-votes-could-be-gops-secret-weapon/