Center for New Community Has Links to Violent Far Left-Wing Extremists June 26, 2007
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The Center for New Community, a Chicago-based SPLC-style organization that, like the SPLC and the ADL, has raised a lot of money peddling fear of supposed right-wing extremist conspiracies, is now the one embroiled in a scandal about its clear and present links to left-wing violent extremists.
Last week, the CNC released a report, highlighting what it feels are the ten most offensive quotes of pro-American immigration groups and individuals. Its #10 listing has a footnote citation to the website of the Los Angeles Independent Media Center. “Independent Media Center” means anarchist, and where there are anarchists, there is violence.
These links between small time leftist money hustlers and the fringe, sometimes violent elements of the extreme left are troubling.
St. Louis City Hall Orders Anti-Eminent Domain Abuse Mural to be Removed June 26, 2007
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This painted mural is on the south-facing side of the four-family flat on 1806-8 South 13th Street, in the Soulard Neighborhood. It faces the I-44/I-55 junction, and can be seen easily by the many vehicles per day that uses that interchange, and by cars on Gravois and Tucker, which are heavily traveled city boulevards in the area.
Today, a planning and zoning committee attached to St. Louis City Hall, the Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority, ordered to mural removed. Lawyers for MEDAC (Missouri Eminent Domain Abuse Coalition) promise to take the matter to court to keep the mural up.
It is very likely the the case that this is the same LCRA that allowed homeowners on Loughborough Avenue and South Grand Avenue south of Carondelet Park to be run out of their houses in order to create the Loughborough Commons Strip Mall. Therefore, this commission might not like this mural for its message, not for its size.
CofCC CEO Gordon Lee Baum on “Political Cesspool” Tonight June 26, 2007
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To discuss today’s cloture vote, and other related issues. 7 PM CT. Listen here.
Juvenile Diabetes More Prominent In White Youth June 26, 2007
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Journal of the American Medical Association reports that in the USA, Type I Diabetes is more prevalent among white children than any other racial group.
When studies in diseases, infections and other health care issues show that racial minorities are disproportionately affected or less well off, the mainstream media are quick to blame racism and discrimination. That does not seem to be happening here, much less any theories floated on why this diabetes disparity exists.
Iraqi War Refugees Arriving In U.S.A. June 26, 2007
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Conservatives opposed to the Iraq War in 2002 and 2003 warned about this.
In February, the US agreed to accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees this year, a large jump over the fewer than 700 Iraqis accepted by the US in the first three years of the war but a drop in the ocean when measured against the estimated 2 million Iraqis who have fled the country since the war began. About 2,000 of those Iraqis coming this year, say refugee officials, will start their lives anew in Michigan.
Ohio’s Democrat Governor, Ted Strickland, opposes this resettlement plan. Luckily for him, the first wave will be living closer to Michigan’s Governor than Ohio’s.
Cloture Passes, 64 to 35 June 26, 2007
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Names and their votes here. The bill will probably pass the Senate, and a few of the 64 that voted to end debate will vote against the bill, in an attempt to fool you. But don’t be fooled — their vote for cloture is effectively a vote for the bill and its soft amnesty. Without cloture, the bill would have never gotten to the floor for a passing vote. If Trent Lott votes against the bill at the final vote, and tries to use that excuse that his yes vote on cloture was a “procedural matter,” then his excuseology there would be particularly egregious, because he, as the Senate Minority Whip, twisted arms to get the cloture measure passed.
The battle now moves to the House. Pelosi has already said that she’ll sit on it unless she can get 90 Republicans to support it, which is not likely, but don’t leave anything to chance. Start writing and calling.
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The following U.S. Senators who voted for today’s cloture are up for re-election in 2008. Some of these may retire, so you may not have the opportunity to vote them out.
Biden (D-DE)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Graham (R-SC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
McConnell (R-KY)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Warner (R-VA)
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John Barrasso (R-WY), who was just appointed to the Senate to replace the late Craig Thomas, voted no. The National Website has the rundown on who changed their votes compared to the cloture vote of two weeks ago.
President Bush Makes Freudian Slip June 26, 2007
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President Bush has admitted that his non-amnesty “comprehensive immigration reform” is indeed amnesty.
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: President Bush has spent a whole lot of time in recent months claiming that the immigration bill isn’t “amnesty.”
But in describing the measure Tuesday morning, an apparent slip of the tongue suggested otherwise — providing fodder for the talk-radio crowd that loathes the bill and wants it defeated in the Senate.
“You know, I’ve heard all the rhetoric — you’ve heard it, too — about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you’ve got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that,” Bush said, according to the official White House transcript.
This just might get the attention of Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh — and it’s terrible timing for the president, with a key vote in the Senate Tuesday afternoon.
Tony Snow is claiming that President Bush misspoke, which happens quite often. But it is an excuse that does not wash, because anything entitled “comprehensive immigration reform” supported by Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) is going to have the net effect of amnesty, even if that rose isn’t called a rose.
Britons Keenly Aware of Draconian British Hate Speech Laws June 26, 2007
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Only one-third of respondents in a new survey of British adults believe free speech exists in their country, and only one in five believe that they can safely voice their opinion on a sensitive issue.
That minority that answered those questions in the affirmative are probably left-wing or non-white Britons, who are rarely persecuted and prosecuted for “hate speech.” They have free speech, by and large.
The poll by YouGov, an Internet market research firm, was conducted on behalf of www.friction.tv, a video-based forum for political debate.
While 98 percent of respondents said they believed in the right to free speech, only half said they had ever spoken out on a sensitive issue.
“We supposedly live in a truly democratic society where freedom of speech is a fundamental right enjoyed by everyone,” friction.tv Chief Marketing Officer Andy West said in a press release. “However these survey results have shown rather powerfully that most adults in the U.K. feel that this is not the case.”
West added, “We live in such a politically correct society that people don’t know what they can and can’t say anymore and there is a constant fear that if you go against the grain, you’ll be vilified by your peers.”
This article does not exactly make this clear, but the odious thing about the British situation is that they actually legislate against “hate speech.”
