Homegrown Jihad

Below is a a newly released terrorist training video by Sheik Muburak Gilani. He trains members of Muslims of America how to kill Americans, use guns effectively, betray Americans by gaining their trust, etc. They have 35 compounds throughout the U.S.

The video is part of Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S., a documentary that aired in DC this week.

The American public was never supposed to see Sheik Muburak Gilani’s terrorist training video, but the Christian Action Network managed to get a copy and reveal this shocking video in their documentary.

Copies of the documentary can be obtained at www.christianaction.org.

GOP Rises

Keep fighting, House GOP, keep fighting:

Are Republicans winning the public relations battle over spending in the $800-billion-plus economic stimulus package? Democrats and Republicans are nearly even in this week’s edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys found that the Democrats’ lead is down to just one percentage point. Forty percent (40%) of voters said they would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 39% said they would choose the Republican (see crosstabs).

This marks the lowest level of support for the Democrats in tracking history and is the closest the two parties have been on the generic ballot.

The thing about the “generic ballot” is that it always tends to over-state Democrat support. Generally, if the GOP is sitting three or four points back in the “generic ballot”, then GOPers are doing well…to be one point back means that if the election were held today, the GOP would utterly crush the Democrats.

Trouble is, the election isn’t until a year from November…

On the other hand, after more than a year of Obamunism, we might have the GOP up by ten in the generic ballot…

What this shows is that when we fight on conservative principle, we win – people want to vote for something, and right now the GOP is once again becoming the watchdog of the people in Washington, DC. The only thing which could harm us now (other than the impossible: ie, Obamunism working) is a failure on our part to keep fighting. Tooth and nail, toe to toe – lets have at them with gusto and give them not a moment’s rest. They are corrupt, they are dishonest, and they are destroying our nation – the harder we fight them, the better things will be.

Obama's Plan: Soak the Poor, Tax Cuts for The Rich

I know, you liberals out there are going, “huh?” with that look of confusion you normally have on your faces made even more pronounced. Don’t worry, I’ll explain.

You see, Obama can’t tax to get the money for his Porkenstein “Stimulus” Bill. Neither can Obama borrow the money – with the world heading into deep recession, there just won’t be the global funds to, willy-nilly, buy $800+ billion in US bonds in addition to normal bond sales to finance our debt/deficit. So, what is an Obama to do? Print it, of course. But printing money is inflationary, and inflation is essentially a hugely regressive tax on the poor, especially poor people on fixed incomes. Obama is going to bail out CEOs and unions on the backs of the poor.

But, surely, he’ll throw some taxes on The Rich in order to make them pay their fair share, right? Well, no. You see, Obama has placed caps on CEO pay and this means that there will be less The Rich income to tax…and more and more compensation paid to The Rich in non-monetary (and thus un-taxed) instruments. CBO estimates (PDF) that Obama’s plan will reduce tax revenues from The Rich by more than a billion dollars per year – and if you think The Rich are going to lie down on this, you’re nuts. The Rich will just have the corporation buy the Manhattan penthouse and then allow The Rich to live in them as part of their compensation package.

The thing is, liberals, is that you can’t do liberalism – as it is based upon false premises, anything you try to do with it will come out wrong. You’re starting out here with a desire to stimulate the economy and help the poor – what you’re going to do is provide swag for corrupt entities and harm the poor, while The Rich get richer. I know the adage is “if at first you don’t succeed try, try again”…but we’re on experiment Number 1,056,095,009 in Liberalism, and each of the first 1,056,095,008 failed miserably. After a while, we have to go with the adage, “don’t be a freakin’ moron”.

Cased Closed?

The Washington Times notes that the FEC complaint i filed against Hillary Clinton last year was finally taken up.

It was just over a year ago that conservative blogger Matt Margolis filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission surrounding questionable fundraising practices by then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The complaint dealt with a $380,000 “cooks and dishwashers” fundraiser in New York, which sought campaign contributions ranging from $1,000 to $2,500. As Mr. Margolis pointed out, there was at least one donor who admitted to being an illegal immigrant, while another claimed she was illegally reimbursed for her contribution.

This week, the FEC took up the complaint – purporting “contributions were made in the name of another and contributions were made by foreign nationals” – and has now just ruled that it “found no reason to believe” Mrs. Clinton violated FEC regulations and “closed the file.”

It is worth noting that a significant part of the reason the case was “closed” was not so much because no wrongdoing was found, but because the complaint was based on news accounts, not “personal knowledge.” Some questionable donations were in fact returned.

Keep Hate Alive, Part 6

If you liberals really go for this, all you’re doing is building the bonfire which will result in Civil War II:

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the government should look into creating a “truth commission” to investigate the Bush administration’s Department of Justice.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that such a commission, which would answer to both Congress and the executive branch, could probe Bush administration policies on torture, interrogation and surveillance and “get to the bottom of what happened” during the eight years the Bush administration grappled with the legal war on terror.

Leahy called his proposal a “middle ground” between those critics of the Bush administration seeking to prosecute officials, and others wishing to concentrate on the future as opposed to investigating the past. “We need to be able to read the page before we turn it,” said Leahy.

Which assertions by Leahy – one of the more nasty, leftwing partisans in the Senate – are utter nonsense. This would be a political witch-hunt controlled by the kook left and designed to make conservatism illegal. The worst sort of screwball, leftist, anti-American lies would be presented as rational arguments and Bush Administration officials – possibly including President Bush, himself – would be presented as evil men who need to “confess” in order to gain absolution. Nothing doing, lefties.

You do this, and there will be a fight.

Wednesday Open Thread

Dear friends and even you liberals:

We here at the Noonan household are experiencing the end of life for a beloved family member, and thus I am not in good position to regularly update the blog. I will try to update later today with new entries, but at the time of writing this entry, its quite late and I’ve had an exhausting day making arrangements – so the brain is mush (more so than usual) and I’m afraid anything I wrote at this moment would be rather incoherent (once again, more so than usual).

Meanwhile, the earlier entries all seem rather popular, so please have at them – and, of course, you now have this open thread to discuss just how bad the Obama economic disaster will be…plus just how miserable will be Obama’s foreign policy as it relates to Iran and the larger War on Terrorism.

I ask for your patience and, of course, your prayers for our family as we enter in to this trying time.

UPDATE: Thank you all for your kind words and prayers. As of this moment (10:06 PM, PST, Wednesday), she still clings to life, and we’re just waiting for the moment when she’ll go home to the Lord.

Liberal America, Part 1

The first in an unfortunately continuing series of what happens when liberalism occurs:

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as “the avenue of choice” for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett’s wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

Here we have the confluence of liberal ideology on immigration, property rights, civil rights and judicial activism. To think that an American citizen can be hauled into court by illegal immigrants shows just how out of touch liberalism is with reality – and only because liberalism exists is there anything other than laughter at any foreigner, illegally come into the nation, bringing such a suit. They have no standing – they have no business being here; they should be arrested for harassing the rancher, not accorded respect in our courts.

Thank you, liberalism.

What Media Bias? Part 140

Geesh!

What if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh were up front at Bush’s press conferences in the East Room?

Well, as network correspondents sat in the second row, liberal radio host Ed Schultz managed to snag a seat up front, right next to Helen Thomas.

Schultz told Politico’s Jonathan Martin that his front row was seat was assigned to him.

Yep, we can rely upon the MSM and the Obama Administration to be completely straight with us – no mutual back scratching, no wink/wink, nudge/nudge going on here at all…just move along, you Neo-con BusHitlerian idiots…who do you think you are? We won, don’t you know?

$20 for NY-20

Republican activists around the country will be celebrating President Lincoln’s bicentennial in a special way this year.

From February 10th to the 12th, the online rightroots will be pushing an effort called, “$20 for NY-20.” Their goal will be to increase the number of small donors investing into a very winnable seat. Jim Tedisco is running for Congress to lead the fight for middle class families, small businesses and farmers that are the heart and soul of the District.

Lincoln’s bicentennial falls on the 12th, it’s only fitting that we take this opportunity to rebuild the Party by targeting the first real race of 2010.

NY-20 is a Republican district that we can take away from the Democratic supermajority. Jim Tedisco is the only candidate in the race for New York’s 20 Congressional District with a proven record of delivering real property tax relief, strengthening the economy, creating more jobs and reforming government so it’s more open, accountable and transparent to the taxpayers.

This is an effort that only adds to the momentum kingmakers like Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele have given to Tedisco’s Congressional bid.

You can donate to Tedisco’s campaign by clicking here.

Mexico Staggers Towards Breakdown

These are the wages of turning a blind eye to the illegal cross-border traffic between Mexico and the United States:

Mexican Brigadier Generak Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñones, along with his bodyguard and driver, were kidnapped, methodically tortured, and then driven out to the jungle and shot in the head.

This ambush did not take place in a remote area of the country, but in Cancun, one of Mexico plush tourist attractions.

Their bodies were found Tuesday in the cab of a pickup truck on the side of a highway leading out of town. An autopsy revealed that both the general’s arms and legs had been broken.

Tello, 63, had retired last month from active duty and moved to the Caribbean resort city to work with the mayor in the fight against drug cartels that have permeated a large part of Mexican society.

The full-dress military funeral last Wednesday was attended by President Felipe Calderón his defense secretary, attorney general, security secretary, and other high-ranking officials, who flanked a general’s coffin as an honor guard.

Spokespersons for the military and other government agencies issued expressions of outrage over the violent triple killing, in a drug war that cost the lives of more than 5, 000 people last year. The military has become increasingly active in Mexico’s initiatives to destroy the cartels and the leadership has vowed it will not allow Tello’s death to remain unsolved or unpunished.

According to U.S. officials, the attach on the general intended to drive a city into submission. One representative said, “That’s why it was done. (The General) was going in to take back the streets.”

Perhaps he was – but given the way Mexico has worked lately, there would be no surprise if we later discovered that the general was killed because he was trying to kick one gang out in order to allow another gang in. This is not to cast aspersions on the memory of General Tello – for all I know, he was an honest and upright officer, but the plain fact of the matter is that gangland corruption is rife in Mexico from top to bottom, and it largely stems from the way the drug cartels have managed to grow strong moving illegal people and goods across the US/Mexico border with the “wink/wink, nudge/nudge” cooperation of the Mexican government, hungry for that American money which has kept Mexico’s economy afloat.

But now the cartels are so strong and have intimidated or co-opted so many parts of Mexico’s government and security forces that they are essentially vying for control of Mexico – each cartel being run by a war lord who wants to be top dog in his area. Its a frightening lapse back into the Mexican Revolution early in the 20th century which ended up costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and which led to two American interventions in Mexico. The bloody and mostly senseless revolution spilled over several times into the American side of the border, and with larger populations and vastly improved communications of all sorts, what happens in Mexico will just pour over our border in larger numbers, faster, than it did back in the 20th century.

There is, unfortunately, not much we can do to help Mexico – prickly national pride prohibits any American attempt to intervene in Mexico unless we want to invade the whole country and take over, which is an action no American government would ever contemplate. But we can take the lesson – because we, too, turned a blind eye. We made much noise of securing the border and fighting the drug trade, but we really did neither. We wanted the cheap labor and didn’t want to be bothered with having do to the right thing, which was to have enforced our laws, given that all democratically created laws are to be enforced not only for the good of the law-abiding, but for the law-breakers, as well. The rising death and despair in Mexico is a direct outgrowth of two peoples and two governments unwilling to enforce their own laws.

It is to be hoped that the Mexican government will find those hard nosed, patriotic and honest Mexicans who will carry the fight to the drug cartels until they are destroyed. But my fear is that we’re seeing merely the first act of a long, bloody tragedy in Mexico – and a tragedy we helped create. Always, always, always do the right thing – no matter how painful it seems at the moment, its less painful than what will come after, if we take the easy way out.