Archive for April 2009

The Department of Homeland Security recently released a report about the threat right-wing extremists’ pose to our nation. After reading that report, I have come to the conclusion that our Founding Fathers were right-wing extremists.

One part of the report says that right wing extremists tend to reject federal authority in favor of state authority. Our nation’s Founders included Amendment ten in the Constitution which specifically states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Seeing as how there was considerably little in the Constitution prior to this amendment, it seems as though they generally favored state rule over federal rule.

The Homeland Security report also said that right wingers are those concerned about government infringement of their right to own guns. But, when you consider that the Founders specifically put the right to own a weapon in the Constitution as the 2nd freedom listed (behind only freedom of speech, religion, press and assembly), they might be concerned about infringement too.

Homeland Security also stated that many new right wing extremists will be disgruntled military veterans. This report even disgracefully compared our brave men and women returning home from war to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh. You might wonder how the Founding Fathers fit into this. The French and Indian War was fought from 1754-1763 on U.S. soil. The Colonists and the British fought the French and Indians who were allied. Many of our Founding Fathers, including our very first President, George Washington, fought alongside the British as they defeated the French and Indians. A little over a decade later, those very same Founding Fathers, disgruntled at their treatment by the British began a revolution that started a nation.
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It’s time to help put Arizona and America back on the right track by electing Chris Simcox to represent the Great State of Arizona in the United States Senate. As a grassroots, border security activist and founder of the original Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), Chris has done more to make Arizona a safer and better place to live than most of the sanctimonious career politicians in Washington, D.C.

http://www.simcoxforsenate.com/

Liberal commentators were recently having a great big if indignant chuckle at the expense of all those tea party yo-yos who didn’t get it that President Obama had a tax cut in mind for them, and that, hey, it was conservatism that brewed the current mess.

There was a lesson in this, namely that at least some if not all pundits of leftist stripe are not infrequently outthought by people of far less pretentiousness, by men and women who understand, for starters, what’s headed our way under Obama’s agenda.

The fact is that the thunder and lightning of the so-called stimulus package is only the first part of an Obama storm. Next comes a budget meant to include domestic spending of a kind we’ve never seen in this country. It would come on top of deficits piled up during the Bush administration and tens of trillions of dollars owed Social Security and Medicare, and, at some point, there will be a price to pay.

That price will be gigantic, and the Obama claim that he can somehow deal with it through taxing the rich, finding greater efficiencies and building a stronger economy through his varied programs is a fraud so big it would embarrass the 19th century showman P.T. Barnum, alleged to have said there’s a sucker born every minute.

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Since Friday’s deadly accident that may have involved an illegal immigrant, the topic has once again become a talker. Many want to know what, if anything, can be done to stop it.

Illegal imigration is a problem, especially for law enforcement. There aren’t enough trained officers to deal with a growing Hispanic population. That’s why city and county leaders are fighting for change.

Felix Ortega was charged with murder in the deaths of two teens who died in a fiery car crash Friday night on Airport Road. Nearly a week later, Huntsville Police still have not addressed his citizenship status.

City leaders are frustrated over the lack of manpower to handle the growing immigration issue.

“Our immigration enforcement comes through two ICE employees. They are Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” said Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle.
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A cross-country drug ring that smuggled massive amounts of cocaine into Hillsborough County every week was shut down Wednesday, netting five suspects, piles of money totaling almost $4 million, a cache of weapons and 400 pounds of cocaine.

Smugglers moved the drugs from Colombia and other parts of South America, cloaking their scent with cayenne pepper before the Mexican border and hiding the packages in spare tires on interstate car-carrier trucks, said Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee. Drivers made the run at least three times a week, sending the profits back to Texas.

Altogether, deputies confiscated nearly $4 million in currency from a Plant City stash house, two other homes and a smuggling truck. They also took possession of five SKS assault rifles, three cars and about 180 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated value of $4.8-million, deputies said.

“The economy may be bad elsewhere,” Gee said, standing in front of a table stacked with bricks of cocaine and bags of cash. “But obviously, in the dope biz, it’s flourishing.”
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Hal G. P. Colebatch writes from Australia, still a fairly free country:

BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.

Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution’s principal tasks was “to alter people’s actual psychology”. Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people’s psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.

The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years’ prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out.[Thought police muscle up in Britain, The Australian, April 21, 2009]

He mentions a number of cases of persecution like the case of a “14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher’s first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: “It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police!” Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed.” John Derbyshire wrote about this case for VDARE.com: The War Against White Trash and Kathy Shaidle has written about similar activities in Canada.
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The San Diego Unified school board is struggling with charter school requests to open ethically- and culturally- themed schools. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

Charter schools are public schools that have control over their own curriculum and operations.

Some focus on certain academic themes such as math and technology. But a growing number of San Diego Unified’s charter schools are focusing on a specific culture or ethnic profile.

Yesterday the school board approved what’s considered a Hawaiian-themed elementary charter school called the Pan American Academy. They are also and are considering a Somalian-themed high school called Iftin High School.

But school trustee Katherine Nakamura sees problems and is putting her foot down.

“I just personally feel I cannot support ethnically isolated schools, particularly in high school,” Nakamura said. “I think its important for the kids to acculturate and reach out. That is what our schools are for.”
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I’m often asked: Why do I bother writing about racial gaps in test scores? How can such an arcane subject be of any importance?

And yet test scores are at the heart of what may be the most important upcoming Supreme Court case, Ricci v. DeStefano. The issue: reverse discrimination against white firemen.

Ricci provides a valuable window onto what affirmative action imposes upon American organizations. Typically, the contortions our institutions go through to avoid federal discrimination lawsuits are hidden from public view, but the Ricci case exposes the bizarre, convoluted, and insane way the game is played.

There’s been much talk recently about how the government can stimulate the economy, how it can make our institutions more efficient. The President has been coming up with expensive suggestions—starting with his December call for the government to screw in more fashionable light bulbs.

But the surest way for America to become more productive is for the government to unsnarl itself from institutions that actually do things.

Most obviously, affirmative action is a hugely expensive 40-year-old hairball. Can we still afford it?

For example, our society needs to hire and promote competent firemen, because they keep buildings from burning down and citizens from dying horrible deaths. And firefighting now requires not just bravery but also a wide variety of technical expertise—that is, ultimately, intelligence.
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In Kenya, politics has hinged on the pre-eminence of ethnic identity since 1964. And today, ethnicity has been elevated beyond all other identities and interests. We reject this notion totally and completely. None of us chooses the identity that we are born into, but as we grow older we take on various identities that make us who we are and determine our interests.

We are of the Kikuyu ethnic community ­­— and take pride in our language, culture and norms — but we are far more than that. We see ourselves as Kenyan first and foremost with a national outlook and perspective. But we have suffered for this view, being called “traitors” and “disloyal”; even receiving credible death threats.

Since 2004, it has become apparent that what Narc stood for, nationally, has been seriously eroded. Mwai Kibaki declared in his campaigns he was for zero tolerance on corruption, but he seems to be condoning it. He had stated that he would operate a meritocracy with due regard to the diversity of Kenya, but his appointments to the most sensitive and crucial offices are tilted to one ethnic group and its relatives.
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WASHINGTON — Firefighters from New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday exposed an enduring Supreme Court split, as the justices confronted the year’s most anticipated racial discrimination case.

Conservative justices showed sympathy for white firefighters who were passed over for promotion. The court’s liberal wing suggested that New Haven officials may have acted reasonably. After an hourlong oral argument, most signs hinted at a close decision later this year.

“The court is not fully in agreement on these questions,” noted Gregory S. Coleman, the Texas-based attorney for the white firefighters.

The case, Ricci v. DeStefano, differs from the classic affirmative action disputes that have divided the court previously in areas such as college admissions. It also could end anticlimactically, if the court follows the Obama administration’s urging to send the case back for more fact-finding.

Particularly among the most conservative justices Wednesday, however, New Haven’s refusal to promote white firefighters who had scored well on written tests seemed acutely discriminatory.

“You had some applicants who were winners, and their promotions were set aside,” Justice Antonin Scalia said.

The case arises from New Haven’s efforts in 2003 to promote officers. Among the applicants was career firefighter Frank Ricci, who’s now 34.
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