Über-rich media mogul Richard Scaife, who has been described as a “Republican George Soros” due to his philanthropic support for a wide swath of conservative causes, has come out of the closet … as an über-liberal.

In a column in the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review titled “Don’t defund Planned Parenthood,” Dick reveals that his grandma was a friend of everybody’s favorite racist/eugenicist busybody: Margaret Sanger. While we can’t fault a man for the companions of his relatives, we can take him to task for lauding Sanger’s “vision,”  “bravery,” and “intellect,” which he does in this piece.

But that’s not all.

Scaife writes:

“ … I am aggravated by the continuing attacks on Sanger and her primary legacy, the Planned Parenthood network that still serves so many Americans today.

Now the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives — urged on by conservatives opposed to abortion — has voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

On this issue, Republicans and conservatives are dead wrong.

Abortions are a minor aspect of Planned Parenthood’s mission to provide reproductive health care, education and other services to Americans, regardless of income.”

Mr. Scaife, pray tell, where in our great Constitution, is our Congress given the authority to fund death camps for the preborn? To fund genocide for minorities? In fact, to fund reproductive health care?

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Mississippi is the most conservative state, reveals a Gallup Poll, but, Montana, according to the Associated Press, is the most certifiable.

In a brazenly biased piece aimed at discrediting the newly-elected legislators who were inspired by the Tea Party movement, the AP ominously described their vision of government (for the Big Sky state) as a “a place where officials can ignore U.S. laws, force FBI agents to get a sheriff’s OK before arresting anyone, ban abortions, limit sex education in schools, and create armed citizen militias.”

Wow. That’s the AP’s snarky, shorthand way to shortchange some of the conservative newcomers’ concerns about the proper role of government and social engineering. For instance, the slam on “limiting sex education in schools” refers to a bill by Rep. Cary Smith, of Billings, which would give parents the opportunity to have their children opt out of age-inappropriate K-12 sex education programs in the public schools.

The part about officials ignoring U.S. laws refers to a push by Rep. Derek Skees, of Kalispell, for the legal principle of nullification which allows individual states to take a stand against federal statutes that they deem unconstitutional. (Think ObamaCare or the Real ID Act.) (more…)

As she should.

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is a nonprofit outfit which strives to preserve the Golden State’s “future through the stabilization of our state’s human population.” Opponents of amnesty who live in the state are usually well-served by the steady stream of material that the organization churns out, noting how illegal immigration negatively impacts Californians’ natural resources, economy, crime, schools, traffic, and so on.

So why in heaven’s name did a blogger at the CAPS website decide to unload on the Duggars, the reality television stars?

Maria Fotopoulos

Jim Bob and Michelle live in Arkansas, not Long Beach.

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In an unusual move, The Oklahoman devoted a house editorial to the recent Miss America competition.

Specifically, the newspaper noted, that the 2011 winner of the iconic pageant, Teresa Scanlan, a 17-year-old Nebraskan, was largely taught at home and that her educational background had “the homeschooling community buzzing with excitement.”

The paper also noticed the homeschooling bonafides of this year’s 4^th runner-up, Emoly West, the reigning Miss Oklahoma.

Quoting homeschool mom, Dawn Shelton, the editorial stated:

I think when home-educated individuals like these young women, or Tim Tebow or Condoleezza Rice earn public acclaim, it helps the public image of homeschooling, showing that it is a wonderful, viable, doable and ‘legit’ way to educate our children.

“Indeed,” agreed the Oklahoman.

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Stooping to a new low, even by Southern Poverty Law Center’s standards, the SPLC recently smeared well-regarded family-values organizations as ‘hate groups’ for championing faith-based moral views, including opposition to gay marriage and support for the military’s DADT policy.

The Family Research Council (FRC) was among the insulted parties and decided to fight back, using the modern tools of intellectual warfare.

On December 15th the organization launched StartDebatingStopHating.com, a website and newspaper ad (the latter appearing in Politico and the Washington Examiner) that denounced the speech-chilling “character assassination” tactics of the SPLC, while supporting the “vigorous” and “responsible” exercise of free speech. Those who sign an online petition show their solidarity with the FRC, American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, and others who are protecting the traditional family. Many heavy hitters signed the full-page ad including Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Tim Pawlenty, Phyllis Schlafly, Frank Gaffney, Alveda King, and David Limbaugh.

The Alabama-based non-profit, started by attorneys Morris Dees and Joseph Levin, Jr. in 1971, tracks the speech and conduct of those they dub as ‘haters’ (e.g. the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan), and champions the civil rights of destitute minorities. But in recent years the SPLC has become known for its aggressive campaign of slamming mainstream conservatives and independent thinkers by likening their views to, say, those of the National Knights of the KKK. In addition to the FRC, the SPLC has slimed Iowa Congressman Steve King, Indian-born writer Dinesh D’Souza, African-American law professor Carol Swain, and prominent immigration enforcement leaders and writers, to name a few. Even the films “Gods and Generals” and “The Lord of the Rings” are suspect. The former is scorned because the Civil War flick “is told from the Confederate perspective,” and the latter is suspect because it is “Eurocentric.”

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The ongoing need (and demand) for a variety of media voices was evidenced, recently, in a modern morality tale featuring a preacher and his prayer.

On Nov. 16th, at the take-the-oath-of-office ceremony for incoming Oklahoma legislators, held at the state capitol, an invocation was offered by a James Hewett, interim pastor of a Methodist church in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Kris Steele

In a puff piece about the occasion, CapitolBeatOK noted:

(House speaker-elect Kris) Steele presided over the swearing-in session, which opened with a prayer from Dr. Jim Hewett of Steele’s home church, Wesley United Methodist. Hewett prayed for “wisdom and sensitivity to circumstances” in consideration of illegal immigration, among other things.

Among other things?  Since CapitolBeatOk is too pro-establishment to go any further, let’s fill in the blanks.

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Oooooh.  I’m so frightened, and it’s not even Halloween yet.

The Huffington Post mocked Tom Tancredo, former Republican congressman, now American Constitution party candidate for governor of Colorado, as a bigoted (“a healthy dislike for anything remotely Hispanic”) man of tempestuous character (“one of the larger anger-grizzlies”) with a bent for bombastic rhetoric (“We are, unfortunately, becoming a bilingual nation. You also have to also wonder about loyalties.”).

Here’s what’s scary: HuffPo’s forte for taser-tag journalism, a.k.a. the ‘art’ of taking sophomoric, cheap shots at political dissidents, ObamaCare naysayers, FOBs (Friends of Breitbart), opponents of comprehensive immigration reform, and never debating the issues.

Since the attacks, with these shallow scribes, are frequently about faux personality quirks, it’s no surprise that they would never mention one of The Tanc’s most endearing traits – that of a passionate victim rights advocate.

Watch this poignant video, featuring Marat Kudlis, a legal immigrant and Centennial State resident, which dramatically begins: “An illegal alien crashed into a Baskin Robbins store and killed my 3 year old son, Marten. The illegal alien had been arrested sixteen times but never turned over to immigration, because of the sanctuary city policies that [Denver] Mayor Hickenlooper supports.” (The latter is the Democrat nominee for governor.)

The ad ends with this dad’s enthusiastic expression of support for Tancredo’s gubernatorial campaign.

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Oh, the hypocrisy, the hypocrisy.

In an interview with Jorge Ramos, Univision’s anchorman, California congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who replaced the great “B-1 Bob” Dornan, discusses the tough November election she faces.

Incredibly, Ms. Sanchez gets her full-blown xenophobe on as she airs her concerns.

At the 2:20 mark she states (and kudos to this blogger for doing the original translation as the interview is in Spanish):

“ … the Vietnamese and the Republicans are — with an intensity — trying to take away this seat, this seat that we [Democrats] have done so much for our community, take away this seat from us and give it to this Van Tran, who’s very anti-immigrant and very anti-Latino.” (more…)

Home foreclosures are up, unemployment is up, food stamp usage is up, and bankruptcy filings – well, they’re up, too.

So what does The Oklahoman, the Sooner State’s largest daily newspaper (which recently had to lay off nearly sixty employees) choose to fixate upon: “Self-funded political races often turn out poorly.”

No kidding – as do races that PACs and lobbyists heavily finance.

In a house editorial, brimming with a grumpy attitude, The Oklahoman scornfully wrote that self-funding is all the rage, with candidates loaning their campaigns their own bucks to “jump start” the process, and that the end goal of such investments is winning (duh!) coupled with the hope that donors will “cover the loans.”

The paper especially singled out Grand Old Party members who are running for statewide office in Oklahoma and are heavy donors to their own campaigns, namely Mark Costello (commissioner for labor candidate who is a businessman) and Dr. Janet Barresi (state superintendent of public instruction candidate who is a dentist). (more…)

The patriotic immigration reform movement lost one of its most creative warriors last week.

Terry Anderson, the self-described “prisoner of South Central,” an African-American Los Angeles talk show host, succumbed to pancreatic cancer and died on July 7.

Anderson was the loud voice of the Sunday evening The Terry Anderson Show. The show, built around the single issue of immigration, was known for “articulating the popular rage.” It aired on KRLA radio and the internet.

And rage he did. Articulately. Against La Raza, John McCain, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Janet Napolitano, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Lindsey Graham, Antonio Villaraigosa, and the Obama Administration. In short, any sanctimonious phony who had allowed the country he loved – especially his corner of southern California – to be invaded by illegals.

For an auto mechanic, whose idea of a fashion statement was donning overalls, he was a natural communicator with a commanding presence. (more…)

Thank God for You Tube, because there they go again.

As is fast becoming a national pastime, yet another busybody governing body discussed a measure to boycott Arizona. This time the culprits were the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors.

But one board member, Peggy West, a proud Democrat, turned a boilerplate meeting into performance art.  Apparently, Supervisor West, who is also a middle school mentor and a Mexican Fiesta volunteer, doesn’t have access to a map. This poor gal didn’t have a clue where the Grand Canyon state is located. (Does she even know that the Grand Canyon is in Arizona?)

She is exactly the kind of U.S. American, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, Lauren Caitlin Upton, must have had in mind, when the charmingly ditzy beauty queen attempted to explain why many citizens, of this fruited plain, are geographic illiterates.

Anyway, here’s Peggy West: (more…)

La Raza, MALDEF, MEChA, and all the rest of the shameless open-borders crowd should be quaking in their collectivist sandals. A fiery, well-spoken, and very wise Latina says that Arizona has the right to “protect our state from foreign invasion.”

That would be Gabriela Saucedo. In this YouTube video, Gabriela, who became a U.S. citizen in 1991, delivers a riveting defense of American sovereignty and SB 1070 (Paging Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano. She’s read the bill! She brings copies to the meeting!) to Mayor Bob Walkup and the Tucson City Council during the public comment portion of a meeting.

“The lack of support, from you, our elected officials, regarding this law is shameful!” scolds Gabby, as she takes a shot at her boycott-supporting congressman, Raul Grijalva, and her anti-rule-of-law city councilwoman, Regina Romero.

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Mark my words. Rand Paul is never, ever going to appear on the Rachel Maddow show again.

The newly-minted Kentucky GOP senatorial candidate’s interview with Maddow, about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, got testy, as exchanges about race in 2010 that feature far-left pundits with a snotty attitude often do.

Here’s what transpired; the exchange is just after the eight-minute mark:

Maddow: Do you think that a private business has a right to say, “We don’t serve black people”?

Paul: I’m not, I’m not, I’m not in … yeah … I’m not in favor of any discrimination of  any form.

But here’s how MSNBC doctored the doctor’s words in answer to Maddow’s original question: (more…)

Mother Jones prides itself on “smart, fearless journalism.”

So, let’s see how MoJo did with a recent profile of Kris Kobach, University of Missouri/Kansas City law professor and Republican candidate for Kansas’s secretary of state position, who was described in the headline as “the man behind Arizona’s immigration law.”

Kobach is an experienced immigration litigator, involved in several high-profile cases over the past few years. (See Hazleton, Farmers Branch, etc). But he’s no legal puppeteer, as the headline implies. He is merely the lawyer who helped draft S.B. 1070.

… Kobach advanced an idea that had long been circulating in conservative legal circles: that local and state officials have the “inherent authority” to enforce federal immigration laws. This unorthodox notion bucked the prevailing view—long held by both Republican and Democratic administrations—that the federal government has principal jurisdiction over immigration under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. If local and state governments were to strike out on their own, they could undermine federal efforts, create the potential for draconian crackdowns, and detract from law enforcement efforts by discouraging immigrants from cooperating with police, critics argue. In 2002, however, Ashcroft’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo, which Kobach contributed to, supporting the “inherent authority” theory.

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Boston-based radio talk show gabber Fred “Toucher” Toettcher, of 98.5 The Sports Hub or WBZ-FM, offered some uninvited color commentary about the gathering of friends and family that were on hand to support Tim Tebow during the NFL draft last week.

As you might have heard, the former Heisman Trophy winner and University of Florida Gator quarterback Tebow was drafted in the first round, number 25, by the Denver Broncos. (Way to go, Tim!)

Toucher ‘joked’ that the group surrounding Tebow “looked like some kind of Nazi rally … so lily-white is what I’m trying to say. Yeah, Stepford Wives.”

Would Toucher have made such an impolitic, over-the-top comment about the folks (‘looked like an NAACP meeting’) surrounding,  say, the amazing Gerald McCoy, who was the number three draft pick and was a stand-out defensive lineman for the University of Oklahoma? (more…)

Charles Key is a one-man truth squad.

The Oklahoma state legislator – who has been a tireless investigator of the Oklahoma City bombing and champion of the Tenth Amendment – was recently misrepresented in an Associated Press report on Tea Parties, militias, and Sooner State lawmakers.

And he’s speaking up about it – loudly, but civilly.

You may recall that Key’s colleague, state senator Randy Brogdon, was falsely typecast just last week by the same AP as a backwoods gun nut – eager to use force against the federal government.

In the same article, AP reporters Sean Murphy and Tim Talley wrote that Key claimed there was a “good chance” that legislation for a state-authorized militia would be introduced in 2011.

Guess what? That was a complete fabrication. (more…)

Last week, Oklahoma state senator Randy Brogdon (R), who is also a serious candidate for governor, inadvertently set off a national firestorm, courtesy of the Associated Press’s egregiously distorting his words.

An article by Sean Murphy and Tim Talley, about tea parties and militias (funny, how those two entities are conveniently linked together), implied that Sen. Brogdon, who was elected to office in 2002, is eager to help launch a kinder-and-gentler version of the Hutaree milita chapter. Or, something to that effect.

The AP story noted that state miltia supporters have chatted up the Senator, and that he acknowledged (correctly), that the Second Amendment allows for a “citizen unit.” Now here’s the colorful quote that got tongues a-wagging and keyboards a-clicking:

The founding fathers ‘were not referring to a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren’t even talking about us having the ability to protect ourselves against each other,’ Brogdon said. ‘The second Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government.’

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Leave it to PETA to push the envelope.

“Doggies Multiply Faster Than Duggars: Be Responsible. Always Spay and Neuter.”  That was a billboard campaign that the controversial animal-rights organization wanted to launch in Springdale, Arkansas, near where America’s most fertile homeschooling family resides. But the company that rents the billboard space (wisely) backed out.

It’s hardly the first time, nor will it be the last, that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their many children have become a contentious national talking point. But People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was downright respectful, compared to how unhinged liberal pundits have smeared them.

Back in 2005 when the Duggars had only 16 children, a San Francisco Chronicle writer named Mark Morford insulted the devout Christian family, sneeringly describing them as:

spotless white hyperreligious interchangeable people with alarmingly bad hair, the kids ranging in ages from 1 to 17, worse than those nuked Smurfs in that UNICEF commercial and worse than all the horrific rubble in Pakistan and worse than the cluster-bomb nightmare that is Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise having a child as they suck the skin from each other’s Scientological faces and even worse than that huge 13-foot python which ate that six-foot alligator and then exploded.

Morford also managed to both give Michelle Duggar crude advice and blaspheme the Lord: (more…)

Holy Mackinac Bridge, Batman. The blogosphere is calling Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a “cheap date.”

Considering what it took to get him to vote for the U.S. Senate health care bill, that’s a fitting way to describe Slick Stupak. According to Stupak, he struck a deal with President Obama, trading his ‘yes’ vote for a ‘worthless, non-binding’ executive order prohibiting federal funding for abortions.  And perhaps an airport or three.

Can you say ‘smoke and mirrors’? As a Stupak constituent (He’s also Michael Moore’s rep., believe it or not.), I can.

I have no doubt that the congressman from the UP would have voted for the bill anyway. Late last year, I attended one of those health care forums – you know, the ones where the annoyed politician comes face to face with a throng of peasants, armed with verbal pitchforks – in Petoskey, Michigan where, none other than Bart Stupak was the moderator: (more…)

Talk about social promotions! Laura Berman, a writer for The Detroit News, recently penned a column about Otis Mathis’ inability to write a coherent sentence.

Berman offered readers several examples of Mathis’ unique talent. Here’s one of his emails:

If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.

Another:

Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?

Mathis, a product of the Detroit public schools, is none other than the president of the Detroit school board – a man who “repeatedly failed an English proficiency exam” at Wayne State University (also in Detroit) but was shrewd enough to mount a legal challenge against the requirement. (more…)