#CANISEE: Frank Gaffney -- Jihad comes to Texas

'But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
Ezekiel 33:6

Longtime readers know that stealth jihad has always been an interest of this website.  Since Obama's reelection, we've focused on areas where we can make a difference.  However, we remain interested in this topic.

This afternoon, we were privileged to hear from Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy.  Frank was discussing how the Common Core method of education leaves us unprepared to honestly discuss Islamic cultural subversion.  This allows various Muslim Brotherhood front groups to engage in "pre-violent" jihad, where they weaken us internally while preparing to confront us violently.

Gaffney's talk was mostly review for anyone familiar with the topic.  He ran through the usual suspects of Muslim Brotherhood front groups and their ties with the Obama administration.  He also discussed some of their favorite tactics.

The discussion got really interesting, however, when Gaffney discussed jihadist activities in Texas, including the following:

• The Holy Land Foundation -- A Hamas front group that was the subject of the largest terrorism finance trial in American History; based out of Dallas.

• Yaser Abdul Said -- Dallas man who committed an honor killing against two teenage daughters.

• Mohammed Elibiary -- A first class, Dallas-based, dirtbag who illegally hacked sensitive Texas DPS files to dig up dirt on Governor Perry.

• Mufid Adulqader -- The younger brother of a major Hamas leader, who was the front man of a pro-Jihad rock band in the 1990's, who just happened to work as a civil engineer for the City of Dallas overseeing critical infrastructure.

• Nidal Malik Hassan -- Obvioiusly, the (first) Ft. Hood shooting happened in Texas.

• Ghassan Hitto -- A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, just happens to be from Dallas.

• Gulen Charter schools -- A turkish based group of Islamic charter schools operating in North Texas (and other parts of the country).

Also, keep in mind, Gaffney's talk didn't include Elibiary's February appearance at UT, the recent flare up at the Texas-Mexico border, or this week's arrest of two Austin-area men on terrorism related charges.

Our Tithing Testimony

"Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
In tithes and offerings.
You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it."
Malachi 3:8-10 

Yesterday, Ronnie Hill was our guest pastor.  While he typically delivers evangelistic sermons, yesterday Ronnie Hill spoke to our church about tithing and going above.  It hit home with some of the upcoming decisions we're going to be making, but it also prompts us to share our testimony about what happened when we started began to tithe diligently one year ago.

Prior to 2013, we'd endured several years of financial instability.  While there were ups and downs, the downs outnumbered the ups.   The ends frequently failed to meet.

In November 2012, the Sunday following Barack Obama's re-election, our Pastor delivered a message on tithing.  We did NOT want to hear that message that weekend.  Cahnman's Musings doesn't object to hearing difficult messages at Church, but we really did not want to hear about tithing on the Sunday following Barack Obama's re-election.  We left Church mad as a hornet's nest that day.  But it was the message we needed to hear.

In Malachi 3:9, quoted above, God asks us to test Him on this topic.  It took a few weeks, but eventually we decided to take God up on this offer.  We resolved, in January 2013, to diligently tithe 10% every week.

It worked, although the path has been a bit of a zig-zag.

Some statistics:

• One year ago, our bank balance was in the single-digits (it was negative the day of the sermon in November); today it's four.

• Our rent is, literally, half of what it was a year ago.

• We have the most stable day job we've had in a looong time.

• Longer-time readers should remember this phone; it rose from the dead 5 more times before finally giving up the ghost in October.

• We've had numerous opportunities to sow seeds, even if they've yet to germinate.

It's important for readers to understand that the transition did not happen over night.  The first six months of 2013 saw our expenses decline dramatically.  Our income didn't pick up until July.  But we never stopped tithing, though it felt very sacrificial at times.  Beginning in July, we were able to stop living paycheck to paycheck and build a cushion.

Cahnman's Musings attributes the stability we've achieved in 2013 to our decision at the beginning of the year to tithe 10%.

People make all sorts of excuses for why they can't tithe.  Most of those excuses are along the lines of "I don't have money yet."  Well, duh!  God never said tithe when you have money, He actually said to give sacrificially.

God sees your sacrificial giving.  In His grace, He will bless you in far greater amounts than your give. If you are in a tough spot financially, try give away 10% of your income.  It's the only place in Scripture where God instructs us to test Him.  Do you have the faith, however, to take the first step?!?

In Memoriam: Ned Vizzini

"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30

Two obituaries in a week isn't fun.  This one's personal.  Ned Vizzini was our best friend in nursery school.  We've known him since we were two years old.  He died by his own hand last Thursday in Brooklyn.

To most people, Ned was a celebrated author.  He wrote four critically acclaimed novels.  His largely autobiographical 2006 release, It's Kind of a Funny Story, was the basis for the 2010 film by the same name.  For those who've seen the movie, the character Craig was Ned's self-portrait:



Cahnman's Musings last saw Ned in March 2011.  He visited Austin to speak during SxSW.  He stayed at our house for three days.  We had no idea that would be the last time we saw him.  We last spoke by telephone during the 2012 presidential election.

Describing Ned as an adult, we concur with this description from Kyle Buchanan:

It hit me like an electric shock last night to find out that my friend, the writer Ned Vizzini, took his own life in New York yesterday at age 32. He was one of the most enthusiastic, vibrant people I knew; his classic YA novel It's Kind of a Funny Story (which was adapted into a film in 2010) was based on Ned's own stay in a psychiatric hospital after he was gripped by suicidal thoughts in his early twenties, but that still doesn't make it any easier to believe that those feelings bested him now, because when I think of Ned, I think of that happy, crooked smile that you barely had to coax out of him.

Where Kyle knew Ned as an adult, we knew him primarily as a young child.  We attended the same New York City pre-school.  As five year olds, we used to play a game: who could sit in a running clothes' dryer the longest.  Cahnman's Musings always won.  This probably does not surprise regular readers.

That's our best Ned Vizzini story.  We also remember Ned's infections love of maps.  As a four year old, Ned gave us a lesson on the geography of Texas, which is pretty ironic in hindsight.

In the late 1980's, Ned moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn.  We lost touch for the next decade and a half.  We resumed contact in the early to mid 2000's.  As a closet conservative in the publishing industry (and later Hollywood), sometimes Ned needed a place to vent.  We filled that role.

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Unfortunately, all of the above is vanity.  To our knowledge, Ned wasn't a believer.  Readers who understand the Bible know what that means.

Here's the real tragedy: whatever pain Ned was suffering, Jesus already bore it.  That's the whole point of the Cross.  Because Ned committed suicide, we can't help dwelling on Lacey Sturm's testimony:



The scripture quoted above is the most important for anyone in Ned's position to consider, but the Psalmist also writes:

"Cast your burden on the Lord, 

And He shall sustain you; 

He shall never permit the righteous to be moved."

Psalm 55:22

 And the Apostle Peter:

[C]asting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you....But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 

1 Peter 5:7...10

Suffering in this world is temporary.  If there's one lesson from Ned's death, it's the transience of this world, compared to the permanence of eternity.  Entering eternity, absent a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, is a really bad way to 'relieve' temporal pain.

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Cahnman's Musings hasn't spoken to Ned's family in a quarter-century.  We've never met his wife or son.  We ask readers to keep them in your prayers.

Ned Vizzini, 1981-2013, Rest in Peace.

Rick Perry quotes Rush Limbaugh

Last night, in discussing Obamacare, Governor Perry made the following remark:

[Author's note: To our knowledge, this is the only video currently online with the quote in it; it contains other highlights]

Good for Governor Perry.  Running away from Rush Limbaugh is one of the stupidest, most self-destructive, things Republicans do.  It's refreshing to see a prominent Republican do the opposite.

Would Ron Paul challenge Senator John Cornyn?!?

This is a blog post we never thought we'd write; how times change.

Following their defeat in the 2012 election, the Republican establishment has attempted a massive power-grab, despite the fact that they were the ones who lost back-to-back Presidential elections.

It's not a secret that we've been looking for a primary challenge for John Cornyn for months.  It's also not a secret that we've been working with Ron Paul supporters on local issues.  It might be time to put two and two together.

Cahnman's Musings doesn't agree with Ron Paul on every aspect of foreign policy, but we oppose the current war in Syria.  We also don't trust John Cornyn.  Under current circumstances, Ron Paul would be a substantial improvement over John Cornyn.

A successful primary challenge requires two things: money and name recognition.  Ron Paul would begin a campaign with both.  If he were to run, Ron Paul would instantly become the favorite.

Louie Gohmert remains our top choice to challenge Cornyn, but Cahnman's Musings doubts he will run; assuming Gohmert's out, Ron Paul becomes an acceptable alternative.

Cahnman's Musings is hardly an anti-war publication.  We are, however, anti-THIS-war.  In 2014, an anti-war Republican doesn't frighten us.  A three-issue campaign, based upon avoiding war in Syria, dismantling the Federal Reserve, and dismantling Obamacare would go a long way in Texas.  It would certainly beat whatever horse manure John Cornyn might offer.

Judge Tim Sulak Kept Dead People on Texas' Voter Rolls

After yesterday's travesty, this ruling from last year isn't surprising:

Texas officials were temporarily barred by a state judge from ordering county election officials to purge presumably dead voters from registration rolls because the initiative may violate the election code. 

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed yesterday by four Texas voters who were told they would be purged from voter-registration lists as deceased. They asked state court Judge Tim Sulak in Austin to stop the state from striking about 77,000 names from the rolls, arguing the plan violates the Texas election code and the U.S. Voting Rights Act. 

The secretary of state is “restrained from further instructing the counties to remove any other names from the voter rolls,” Sulak said in his order. “Plaintiffs are entitled to temporary injunctive relief.”

In other words, yesterday wasn't the first time Judge Sulak abused his office to protect governmental entities from citizen inquiry.

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Reader can contact Judge Sulak via his campaign Facebook Page.

Special Session Politics and Rick Perry's Future

There's been speculation about the politics of this special session(s) of the Texas legislature.  The potential musical chairs of officeholders means people are already angling for future races.  One fact, however, deserves special mention.

No one needs this special session(s) more than the man who controls the agenda.

To call the general session of the 83rd Texas Legislature disappointing is an understatement.  Legislative leadership ran roughshod over Conservatives.  It wasn't the Governor's fault, but he did little to stop it.

Between his botched Presidential campaign and his support of Lt. Gov. Dewhurst in the U.S. Senate race, Governor Perry suffered public setbacks in 2012.  None of those will hurt his future.  The disastrous general session of the 83rd Legislature is different.

The general session of the 83rd Legislature revealed a Governor who is either unable or unwilling to control the Austin insider crowd in his own party.  While it's true that the Texas Constitution grants the Governor little control over the legislature during general session, the Constitution does grant the Governor the power of emergency legislation and his office comes with a bully pulpit.  During the 83rd General Session, Governor Perry used neither.

The good news is that that same Texas Constitution grants the Governor substantially more power during a special session (in addition to his power to veto legislation passed during the General session).  If Governor Perry laid out an ambitions, conservative, agenda for the special session(s), then went on a statewide barnstorming tour to promote that agenda, the public would respond.  The Austin insider crowd is a horse that needs to be broken every two years.  Massive public engagement is how you break said horse.  Cahnman's Musings recommends Governor Perry use every tool the Texas constitution grants him (ie. Vetoes and Special Sessions) and the bully pulpit of his current office to drive a conservative governing agenda for Texas over the next 18 months.

Bottom Line: Unless and until Governor Perry demonstrates the ability to break Joe Straus, there's no reason for Iowa caucus voters to trust him against Harry Reid.....

Texas Tribune: Battleground Texas Reveals Their Weaknesses

The Texas Tribune had an interview yesterday with Jeremy Bird, the director of Battleground Texas.  In the interview, Bird tips his hand on strategy.  Some highlights:

Dems plan to boost turnout (and, even though they don't say it out loud, fraud):

Bird contends that Republicans' confidence is based on elections in which only about half of the state has turned out to vote. “We’ll see what happens when we start to get 60 or 65 or 70 percent turnout. It’s going to look very different,”

 This is a point conservatives would do well to heed.  The Obama campaign made it a priority to register marginal voters and get them to the polls.  There's no reason to believe they couldn't make headway with a similar effort in Texas.  The caution to Democrats, however, is that this is a double-edged sword.  There are dozens (if not hundreds) of people who don't vote in every Church across this state.

Bird reveals their timetable:

Part of the reason that [the Obama campaign] won Florida in 2012 is that we had had a grassroots program running for six years with all the components — digital, communications, field, data, analytics — all of them put together into a 21st century modern campaign that worked for people's votes.

Six years from today would mean that Democrats intend to compete statewide around 2018.  That's not impossible, but it does mean there's plenty of time between now and then for events to intervene.  Personally, we think the global economy will collapse before Battleground Texas has time to execute this plan; when that happens, it will reshuffle the deck of domestic politics in a way Battleground Texas doesn't anticipate.

The specifics of how they plan to boost turnout:

We have to do that here. And it can’t just happen in one part of the state; it has to happen across the state. We need to touch places where we’re getting 25 percent of the vote and get 32 percent of the vote. It’s not necessarily about winning all those places, but we have to compete there. And then we have to have higher turnout in places that have already gone blue.

The point about going from 25 percent to 32 percent in hostile territory is an interesting one Cahnman's Musings had not thought about.  That's a good strategy in a vacuum.  However, like we said earlier, it's a strategy that cuts both ways.  We live in Austin, and there is an untapped pool of potential conservative voters right here.  Both sides are going to work overtime to boost turnout.

Then, almost as an afterthought, Bird lets the cat out of the bag:

In order to do this right, we’re going to have to raise the money, the grassroots money to do it and then ultimately transition that into a 21st century campaign with real organizers in neighborhoods working for every single vote.

If you only take one point away from this post, make it this one: the left doesn't (yet) have the money to pull this off.  The ONLY WAY they will get the money they need is if Republicans expand state government for them.  That's how the left took over Colorado.  That's why School Choice and Medicaid are such important fights.  The left will only acquire the resources necessary to swing Texas if Republicans give them a bigger government from which to siphon money.

Finally, Bird closes out with a cryptic (and bizarre) statement:

There are millions of kids in this state who are currently being denied access to health insurance because of the current governor.

We have no idea what Bird's talking about, but our educated guess is that he's talking about Rick Perry's refusal to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. That's bizarre; Medicaid is a failed program that exploits the vulnerable.  If Battleground Texas wants to make expanding substandard Health Care their central argument, go for it!

Bottom line: The Left intends to get more of their people to the polls than they have in the past (which will also make fraud easier).  Cahnman's Musings expects them to pull that off.  What the left cannot control, however, is turnout on our side.  There are plenty of untapped potential Conservative voters in this state; Cahnman's Musings goes to Church with hundreds of them.  The challenge for conservatives in Texas will be to increase engagement among folks who already agree with us but don't necessarily vote.

Push Junction: Carpetbagging Hipster Leads Battleground Texas

The San Antonio Express News reports on an early meeting of Battleground Texas:

Jeremy Bird, the former national field director for President Barack Obama and the driving force of Battleground Texas, could have picked anywhere in the state to begin the group's launch tour. He chose San Antonio not because it's the “best city in Texas,” as Julián Castro proclaimed, but because — as Medina noted — this is where the political firepower is located.

Like many successful political organizers, Bird is a hipster nerd: a skinny, bespectacled, coolly analytical veteran of the game who also sees that game as an inspiring civics lesson. The product of a suburban St. Louis trailer park, he has no roots in Texas, but tried to make up for lost time by twice expressing his enthusiasm for tacos.

Above all, Bird might be the best representation of the strategic revolution that Obama (via Howard Dean) has wrought in American politics. While the GOP has made great sport of Obama's background as a community organizer (and it's certainly debatable how valuable that background has been in the White House), that experience made Obama unusually receptive to the concept of grassroots political organizing — and unusually aware of the modern-day limits of TV advertising.

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Bird and Jenn Brown, executive director of Battleground Texas, said the campaign will be relentless. It will center on local, precinct-by-precinct drives to tap into the large number of unregistered Latino and African American voters, and the use of state-of-the-art data collection and analytics to get those voters to the polls. And it'll rely on plenty of money.

It all sounded strikingly similar to the ethos that drove the Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012. Obama campaign leaders generally paid little attention to polls. They believed turnout was everything — that they had the votes to win; they just had to go out and get them.

(h/t Push Junction)

 There isn't a lot of new information in this article.  That Battleground Texas intends to win through aggressive micro-targeting isn't exactly news.  That being said, when they say: 'that they had the votes to win; they just had to go out and get them,' Cahnman's Musings considers that statement interesting, considering that Julian Castro is up for re-election in two months.

Governor Rick Perry on Economic Growth and the Hispanic Vote

I was at this event with Governor Rick Perry last summer in Austin; the economic stuff is pretty standard stuff for Rick Perry, but the section on Hispanic voting in the middle is one of the best discussions of how Republicans can compete for Hispanic votes I've ever heard:

Highlights:

• "If you're going to run for the Presidency of the United States, you gotta get in early."

• "I would highly recommend not having major back surgery six weeks before kicking it [a Presidential campaign] off."

• U-Haul Rates:
• California to Texas: $1800+
• Texas to California: $700 and change.

• "The Federal Government is supposed to do a few things well, then get out of the way and let the states compete."

•  What the nation can learn, economically, from Texas
• Low Taxes
• A Fair and Predictable Regulatory Climate
• Don't Allow Oversuing

• "If the Federal Government would focus on the military and defending our border and leave the rest of these problems to the states, America would be a lot better off."

•  Hispanics and Republicans:
• Patriotism
• Traditional Judeo-Christian values
• "If you want to live free, you will become a Republican."

• "If you're going to govern according to your values, you're going to be attacked by those who don't."

•  "We don't need a President who does 'bold reforms,' we need a President who respects the Tenth Amendment."

New Study Documents what we already knew about the University of Texas -- Austin

The permanent bureaucracy of the University of Texas at Austin is one of the great unseen villains of Texas.  Living in the neighborhood of the campus, Cahnman's Musings often observes their crap up close.  That's why we were delighted to read this new study from the National Association of Scholars.

The study, which examines the fall 2010 semester, investigates the lower-level U.S. History course content at UT-Austin and Texas A&M.  The study documents the degree to which Marxist claptrap has infiltrated UT's (and A&M's) curriculum.  While the study's objectives are national in scope, my interests in it are parochial.

While the study documents this phenomenon 9 ways to Sunday, the central conclusion is devastating:

In fall 2010, 78 percent of University of Texas faculty members who taught the freshman and sophomore history courses were high assigners of RCG [race, class, gender] readings.

In other words, 78% of lower level history faculty at UT-Austin are pushing the reflexive, self-immolating, white liberal guilt that just helped re-elect Obama; this isn't surprising.

This study has perfect timing.  Every two years, UT cries poverty to the legislature.  Even though those claims are absurd, people still listen.  Not anymore; the permanent U.T. bureaucracy is a cancer maleducating the next generation of Texans.  This study documents that reality, any Republican legislator who collaborates with the permanent UT bureaucracy deserves a big, fat primary challenge.

Update: I should check my e-mail more frequently, while I was writing this post, BizPAC review found this gem from a UT Journalism professor.

A Conservatism of Two Foundations

"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created He them." Genesis 1:27

"Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto the foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."  Matthew 7:24-27

"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?!?  Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.  But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."  Luke 6:46-49

"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand the wiles of the Devil."  Ephesians 6:11

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights...."  United States Declaration of Independence

I never post on Sunday; that alone illustrates the urgency of this message.

Yesterday, I issued a warning to political conservatives about the coming 'debate' over the second amendment.  In God's infinite wisdom, this morning, I was reading chapter 6 of Luke's gospel.  I'd forgotten that the parable of the two foundations (quoted from both Matthew and Luke above) was in Chapter 6.  The parable of the two foundations re-enforces my point about how political conservatives need to seek God.  The word of God must become the foundation of all future political activism.

The American people have bought into deception.  We can debate its causes, but the reality of the deception is undeniable.  Deception comes from Satan.  We will only defeat deception from the foundation of truth found in God's word.  Debating public policy without that foundation is a vacuous form of political idolatry.

Conservatism as political idolatry will never beat Marxism as political idolatry.  Conservatism as political idolatry cuts off our roots.  The Declaration of Independence (quoted above) is built on a view of man first articulated in Genesis 1:27 (also quoted above).  In other words, the foundation of what the American right seeks to conserve is a saying of God.  Conservatism as political idolatry, by contrast, couldn't beat Lena Dunham and Sandra Fluke.

If you believe that conservative public policies produce better results than Marxist ones, but you don't pray on your knees at least twice a day, then it's your fault Obama won.  The number of hours you phone banked for Mitt and the U.S. Senate candidate in your state are irrelevant.  We will never defeat Satan with yet another discussion of marginal tax rates and monetary policy.

The good news, as always, is that Hope remains infinite.  Individual Liberty remains a gift from God, and He is Faithful.  The question, moving forward, is whether the American political right will hear the sayings of God's son AND DO THEM!!!  If we do, our restoration will come surprisingly fast.  If we don't, we'll deserve what we get.

If you are politically conservative, there's no reason not to seek a God with whom you already agree 95% of the time.  It's common sense.  It's also the only way we'll win.  There is no political solution to spiritual conflict.  When you're in a pit, there's only one way out: Look UP!!!

Ted Cruz at the American Principles Project

Ted Cruz spoke in Washington the other night:



Highlights:

• Big business does just fine with big government.
  
• Republicans need to illustrate they're the party of entrepreneurs, not big business.
  
• When you see the currency debased, it's a cruel tax.

Reagan: A Time for Choosing

Ronald Reagan gave this speech in 1964 on behalf of Barry Goldwater; I'm struck by the parallels with today:


Highlights:

• "This is the issue of this election, whether we believe in our capacity for self-government, whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far off capitol can plan our lives better than we can plan them ourselves."

• "I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you an me, the free men and women of this country, as the masses; this is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America."

• "The full power of centralized government, this was the very thing the founding fathers sought to minimize."

• "It's not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so."

• "The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."

• "A government bureau is the closest thing to eternal life we'll ever see in this world."

• "Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution for peace without victory; they call their policy accommodation."

• "There's only one way you're guaranteed peace, surrender."

Tea Party will tame Mitt; an open letter to James Taranto

Dear Sir,

Yesterday, in your Best of the Web column, you engaged in the following speculation:

Since the House is expected to stay under Republican control, Romney may actually turn out to be the one who has the skills to tame the Tea Party.

Over my dead body.

The Tea Party is currently pulling Mitt, along with a number of U.S. Senate candidates, across the finish line.  When Mitt wins, which he will, Mitt will owe us.  We intend to collect.

One dirty little secret about the Tea Party is that we didn't arise in response to Barack Obama, we arose in response to TARP.  To be sure, Obamacare resistance put us on the national radar, but we were around before that.  The Tea Party cannot wait to hold a Republican President accountable.

I addressed this topic at length last month, but once we get into year two and three of President Mitt's administration, policy will take a major Tea Party shift.  We'll probably pass Paul Ryan's budget in year one, but in year two we will come back and demand Congress pass Rand Paul's budget followed by the Uproot and Overhaul proposal from Rick Perry's Presidential campaign.  Over the next decade, the Tea Party will follow Ted Kennedy's legislative strategy in reverse; take what you can get, then immediately ask for more.

In his speech at FreePAC Dallas July, Sen. Mike Lee pointed out that it took 15 years to get from the original Boston Tea Party to ratification of the Constitution.  America's founders got the country where it needed to get, but it didn't happen overnight.  This is a long-term fight, and the Tea Party is not going anywhere.

Sincerely,
Adam Cahn
Austin, TX
November 1, 2012

Can Glenn Beck prove media complicity in Obama's Libya cover up?!?

Last night, Newt claimed to have information that two media outlets are knowingly assisting the White House in the Bengazi cover up:

Today, Glenn Beck claims to have the goods, but that he'll give the media a couple days to come clean:

 As Matt Drudge would say: Developing....

Libya vs. Hurricane Sandy; our Backwards Government

Today, Obama came off the campaign trail to mug for the cameras monitor the hurricane; I find the whole spectacle insulting.

Natural disasters aren't part of the President's Job Description, unlike being Commander-in-Chief.

This Benghazi story keeps getting worse, but Obama's monitoring the storm!!!

This contrast encapsulates a deeper truth about the Federal Government, best described by Governor Rick Perry in the book Fed Up:

because the Federal Government has inserted itself into so many domestic responsibilities entrusted by the Founders to the States, it can no longer focus on the very duties assigned to it under the Constitution. (115)

We still have a long road in front of us, but next Tuesday cannot come quickly enough.

Test of Fire: Election 2012

Catholics Called to Witness has released this awesome pre-election video:

Barack Obama's Heteronormative and Phallocentric attack ad

Heteronormative - The Cultural bias in favor of opposite-sex relationships of a sexual nature, and against same-sex relationships of a sexual nature.

Phallocentric - Centered on men or a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.

Yesterday, Barack Obama's campaign released the following ad:

Rush Limbaugh discussed this ad at length today.  I offer dittos to everything Rush said.  There is, however, one point Rush missed.

This misogynistic ad is heteronormative and phallocentric.

Why should this gal lose her 'v-card' to "a great guy;"  couldn't a woman "care whether or not you get health insurance and specifically whether you get birth control"?!?

(That's voting card, you pervert.)

This misogynistic ad propagates the power structure of LGBT subjugation!!!

Or maybe it's Friday afternoon and I just wanted to use the phrase heteronormative and phallocentric! :-)

Trevor Louden: An Urgent (pre-election) Message for America

Trevor Loudon, author of Barack Obama and the Enemies Within, sends this urgent message from New Zealand on geopolitical implications of the upcoming U.S. Election:



Highlights:

• There's a ChiCom backed Marxist Govt. in Fiji, 1500 miles away from New Zealand

• The bad guys around the world are getting bolder

• In 1984, New Zealand fell for a Commie influence operation planned in Moscow that drove a wedge between New Zealand and the West.

• The U.S. Military has always been the international Left's #1 target.

• Stalin wanted as many American Commies in Hawaii as possible because it was home to the U.S. Navy.

• Alice Palmer, an agent of Moscow, got Obama his first job in Politics.

• Leon Panetta is was a longstanding friend of a know associate of Frank Marshall Davis.

(h/t Right Reason)