Russ Carnahan's Office Firebombed by Employee - Blamed on Tea Parties

Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan's (MO) office was firebombed on August 17th in the wee hours of the morning. An arrest was made almost immediately. The Looney-Left quickly blamed Tea partiers,...then the "suspect" was released and the Carnahan office clammed-up. Reportedly, the perpetrator is Chris Powers, a "progressive activist" working for Carnahan.

Chris Powers (left in orange shirt)

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit has the story of Chris Powers, the "disgruntled" Lefty who didn't "get paid" for canvassing for Carnahan. According to Hoft, Powers is a TMP blogger under the name Ripper McCord.

 Dana Loesch blasts the rush to judgement and asks if Carnahan's office knew the perpetrator but kept quiet about it.

Take a look at this quote in the Riverfront Times Blog about the suspect that was released before the Carnahan employee (Powers) was identified:

Police aren't releasing the man's name until charges are officially filed. No motive was given for the attack, though one could suspect that the perpetrator is not a fan of the congressman. Given what we know of him -- 50, white, angry -- he certainly fits the demographics of a Tea Party member. 

Michelle Malkin:

...being a Tea Party-bashing liberal means never having to say you’re sorry for smearing conservative dissent. 

Obama Taking Your Water and Your Land: Great Outdoor Land Grab Initiative Underway

What is the one natural resource we cannot live without? The answer is water. How do you feel about the government owning and/or controlling ALL of the water in the U.S.? The government wants your pond. And they will get it through numerous manipulative ways. Several times here I have reported on the Obama land grabs. Today we learn of one more, and friends, we need to know the difference between "navigable waters" and the "waters of the United States."

Obama Taking Your Water and Your Land

Michelle Malkin's column says the Great Outdoors Initiative is out take our land, both public and private. The plan has quietly been underway since April when Obama issued a memo:

It was addressed to the Interior Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The memo calls on the officials to conduct “listening and learning sessions” with the public to “identify the places that mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the Federal Government” to “protect” outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned sessions have already been held. But there’s much more to the agenda than simply “reconnecting Americans to nature.”

The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States. This is apparently not enough. At a “listening session” in New Hampshire last week, government bureaucrats trained their sights on millions of private forest land throughout the New England region. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for “the need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the need to promptly support full funding of that fund.”

Malkin says both the House and the Senate has set aside $900 million each for funding The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) - a government slush fund for buying up private lands - and doling out the funds needs no input from the appropriations Committee - meaning no oversight - not votes.

In September 2009, when we were talking about the preservation of the Delta Smelt to the expense of water for agriculture in California's Central Valley, I went back and resurrected American Daughter's post on the Clean Water Act and the "waters of the United States." Senate Bill 787 would change the language of the Federal Water Pollution Act from government jurisdiction over only "navigable waters," to 'waters of the United States'...

WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term ‘waters of the United States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution. 

 Private Fishing Pond on Spring Gulch Ranch, Colorado

The above means your pond, your stream. Since the above is a change to the Clean Waters Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, I'm not sure how government control of your pond or stream is constitutional.

Malkin says that the Great Outdoors Initiative has a website that taxpayers pay for:

The initiative’s taxpayer-funded website has been dominated by left-wing environmental activists proposing human population reduction, private property confiscation, and gun bans, hunting bans and vehicle bans in national parks. It’s time for private property owners to send their own loud, clear message to the land-hungry feds.

 Private Pond BedandBreakfast.com

In my original post in September 9, I told a true story of Arab countries in 1967 attempting to divert Israel's irrigation water. That ater was instrumental in the 1967 War. Letting government control our private water is a grave and mammoth mistake. Thanks to The Lonely Conservative for the latest on government land grabs.

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Janis Baird Sontany: Have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women

Tennessee State Congresswoman Janis Baird Sontany (D) says you can't tell if Republican women are really women without "lifting their skirts." She doesn't like how we vote.

 Michelle Malkin - Republican Woman

Michelle Malkin asks what's next? Skirt checks. Bra checks. Womb checks. So much for “My body, my choice,” eh, libs?

 When liberals can’t handle GOP women, they infantilize, sexualize, demonize, and dehumanize them. I diagnosed the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse a few years ago.

Stage Four addresses voting for the "authentic" female. Read it at Malkin's.

Linked by Ol' Broad - Thanks Kate!

Michelle Malkin is live blogging the Reconciliation Shell Game

Good stuff at Michelle Malkin's. Read what the Republicans are doing and have tried to do. Find out which Democrat Congressman slated to vote "no", voted for the reconciliation in the budget committee.

Michelle Malkin Liveblogging the House Budget Committee wreckonciliation mark-up.

Related and Background:
Pelosi will Pass Senate Bill in House: Slaughter Rule Ruled Out? Reconciliation a Shell Bill

Bloggers Instrumental in Turning in Jihad Jane aka Colleen LaRose

Bloggers are instrumental in bringing about change in all areas of our lives today. The arrest and indictment of Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, aka Fatima LaRose, is no different. Yesterday I linked The Jawa Report for their past tracking of Jihad Jane on YouTube. Today there is more.

Read this intriguing report about what The Jawa Report did and...there's an informant telling a story through The Jawa Report as well.

Here's a good idea from Michelle Malkin: "be sure to send thanks and praise to the vigilant bloggers and watchdogs looking our for us and acting."

My original reporting on Jihad Jane

Jon Stewart Name Calling Olbermann Video: Jon Stewart on Olbermanns Scott Brown Name Calling

Jon Stewart's 'special comment' takes on Keith Olbermann's recent hate-rant on the new Massachusetts Republican Senator, Scott Brown - but he doesn't stop there. He defends Michelle Malkin.

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Telegraphs Most Influential Conservatives In the Time of Obama

The Telegraph UK is releasing their list of the 100 most influential Conservatives, and the 100 most influential Liberals, while Barack Obama sat in the Oval Office - In the Time of Obama. The lists will be revealed, a few at a time, over the next few days, with the top 20 coming out on January 15th.

The Telegraphs says they view those chosen as "identifiably" conservative, although not "always self-described" as such (dittos Liberals).

These are not lists that rank ideological purity – the number one liberal will not necessarily be any more liberal than number 100 – but they will inevitably discriminate against centrists, technocrats, independents and fence-sitters.

The first Telegraph List covered 2007-2008. If the Conservative was on the previous list, I've put the ranking in parentheses.

The list of Top Conservatives revealed today covers Nos. 61 through 100. I've listed a few that interest me. See the Telegraph article.

Dang! Mark Sanford comes in at No. 100 (91).

Some commentary here - if Mark Sanford is still on this list, what a waste of space. How about Senator Jim Inhofe, who has been a true thorn in the side of Liberals and has thwarted many of their plans, mainly by speaking clearly to the press every opportunity he has. He should at the least be below the 50 mark. Of course, maybe he is. That list has not yet been released.

96) Liz Cheney (Liz is greatly underestimated at No. 96, in my opinion)
93) Charlie Crist, Governor of Florida and candidate for U.S. Senate
92) Clifford May
89) Fred Thompson
88) Patrick Ruffini - Political Strategist
87) Eric Odom - Tea Party organizer
85) Bill O'Reilly
84) Thomas Sowell
83) Lindsay Graham
82) (55) Jack Keane U.S. Army General
81) Marco Rubio - running against No. 93 - Charlie Crist for US Senate Florida
80) Michelle Bachmann - Congresswoman for Minnesota
79) Lou Dobbs

77) Joe Wilson - Congressman from S.C. - that's what speaking about Obama will do for ya' - get you on the right list!

76) (86) Jeb Bush
75) (26) James Dobson
74) (84) Ann Coulter
72) Tucker Carlson (who knew?)
70) (87) Michael Barone
69) Olympia Snowe - Senator from Maine. Dang!
67) Joe Scarborough (hardly conservative enough to be tagged a conservative)
66) (58) Victor Davis Hanson
65) (69) Erick Erickson from RedState.com
64) Chris Ruddy - founder and CEO of Newsmax.com
63) Jim DeMint - Senator South Carolina
63) (17) Frank Luntz



Some notes of interest: In the Telegraph's list of the most influential conservatives in 2007, which was published in October '07, Rudy Giuliani was No. 1, General Petraeus No. 2, Matt Drudge No. 3, Newt Gingrich No. 4, Rush Limbaugh No. 5, Dick Cheney No. 6, Robert Gates No. 7, Chief Justice John Roberts No. 8, John McCain No. 9 and Mitt Romney No. 10.

Michelle Malkin Hannity Fort Hood Video: Malkin Hasans Koranic Worldview

Michelle Malkin talks about the "honking neon signs" that Nidal Hasan didn't attempt to hide for at least two years. She urges us to watch the 50-slide presentation that Hasan presented to superiors and fellow physicians at Walter Reed Army hospital titled The Koranic Worldview as it Relates to Muslim in the Military.

Michelle Malkin

From Malkin's column today:

Slide 11 stated: “It’s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.”

Slide 12 cited Koranic sanctions for killing fellow believers. And Hasan made clear he wasn’t alone among Muslim soldiers who “should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly.”

See the slide show here. Read her column here, but watch the video first, because Malkin is speaking with truth to power (as the Democrats are so fond of saying), and this conversation is deadly serious.









 Michelle Malkin and Hannity - Fort Hood (video)

Related and background:


Nidal Hasan Premeditated Murder Charges

Hasan sent Bouquet and Koran Quote

Michelle Malkin and Hannity: Fort Hood video

 Nidal Hasan Starz Strip Club? Devout Muslim Hasan buys lap dances?

Yousef al-Khattab Mocks Murdered Soldier - Sends get well message to Hasan 

Nidal Hasans Radical Mosque

Read about Kimberly Munley, the police officer who took Hasan down

Fort Hood Killer on Obama Homeland Security Policy Institute task force

Malik Hasan and Hate Crimes See a video of Hasan on the morning of the shootings.

Nidal Malik Hasan and Hate Crimes 

Nidal Malik Hasan Murders in the name of Allah?

Michelle Malkin, Matt Lauer: Malkin Trusses Lauer (Video)

Michelle Malkin makes Matt Lauer sound like Katie Couric. My favorite from Malkin: Obama lost his racial authenticity (speaking of the Gates-gaffe-comment).

Michelle Malkin - Matt Lauer Video

Sonia Sotomayor La Raza: Conservatives and Liberals Agree on Sotomayor

Conservatives and Liberals agree that Sonia Sotomayor hid her liberality while testifying at Congress about her views, and how those views will influence her decisions if she is confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Ignoring Sotomayor's La Raza membership, an extremist organization known as the "Latino answer to the KKK," and many other controversial opinions, papers and speechs, some Conservatives will cast a vote for her. Liberals will all vote for her, but activists are grousing that she has let down the cause, abandonded her judicial captial, and betrayed minorities by donning her Conservative hat and keeping her cool. Conservatives and Liberals agree that the "real Sonia Sotomayor" has not yet stood up.

Sonia Sotomayor

Conservatives are flummoxed that the Sonia Sotomayor witnessing under oath, is a completely different Sonia Sotomayor known by her previous court rulings, her speeches and her mammoth pile of writings. Liberals are flummoxed that this week's testimony is not the Sonia they know and love, ...the same Sonia that will deny a White man his right to have a reverse discrimination case heard, the Sonia that holds membership in La Raza,

La Raza was condemned in 2007 by former U.S. Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., as a radical “pro-illegal immigration lobbying organization that supports racist groups calling for the secession of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland.”

Norwood urged La Raza to renounce its support of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan – which sees “the Race” as part of an ethnic group that one day will reclaim Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs. In Chicano folklore, Aztlan includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas.

...the same Sonia that, speaking as a member of La Raza, said "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion as a judge than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” and then repeated it another 6 times, the same Sonia that supports "the Latino answer to KKK," :

Miguel Perez, a La Raza spokesman at Cal State-Northridge, has been quoted as saying: “The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power.”

...the same Sonia who has had 60% of her rulings overturned by the Supreme Court,

 ...the same Sonia who in January 2009 ruled that States do not have to abide by the Second Amendment. In other words, if a State decides that residents do not have the right to keep and bear arms, then Sonia thinks that decision is Constitutional. In Maloney v. Cuomo, she signed the opinion stating a that the Second Amendment does not protect individuals from having Second Amendment rights.

 ...the same Sonia who holds for abortions at any stage of pregnancy even if the mother's life is not endangered, the same Sonia who ruled in favor of a Muslim inmate's right to have a "holiday feast" (which had been denied him because the particular holiday was not a mandatory holiday in Islam) on the grounds that it was "subjectively" important to him, regardless that it was not important to Islam. ...the same Sonia who opined in a dissenting opinion that minority felons should have the right to vote, based on past discriminations,

 ...the same Sonia who voted for the courts of other Nations to have a say when one parent removes a child from the country without the other parent's consent - in other words, you, the parent, might be subject to the opinion of a court in another land where your spouse absconded with your child without your permission.

 Still yet, some Republican liberals plan to vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The names are no surprise. We learned some time ago we cannot count on Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Senator Olympia Snow (R-MAINE) and now Senator Mel Martinez, a Republican Hispanic senator from Florida who is retiring in 2010. Some more about La Raza and what it means for Judge Sotomayor to hold membership in this organization:

La Raza Facts: 15 things you should know by Michelle Malkin writing for NationalReviewOnline: 

Only in America could critics of a group called “The Race” be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as “hate.” 

Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, “The Race.” 

Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized “The Race” as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. 

The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty. Here are 15 things you should know about “The Race”: 

15. “The Race” supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. 

14.”The Race” demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants. 

13. “The Race” vehemently opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities. 

12. “The Race” opposes a secure fence on the southern border. 

11. “The Race” joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database — and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data. 

10. “The Race” opposed the state of Oklahoma’s tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions, and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing. 

9. “The Race” joined other open-borders, anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California’s bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law. 

8. “The Race” bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an “absolute disgrace.” 

7. “The Race” has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn. 

6. Former “Race” president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: “U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to U.S. English, the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. “The Race” also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.” 

5. “The Race” gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as “a radical racist group . . . one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.” 

4. “The Race” is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration-enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves — in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that current “Race” president Janet Murguia believes “hate speech” should “not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights.” 

3. “The Race” sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: “We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain . . . ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.” 

2. “The Race” has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home-loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal “mortgage counseling” grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks, and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens. 

1. “The Race” thrives on ethnic supremacy — and the elite sheeple’s unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: “[The] organization’s very nomenclature ‘The National Council of La Raza’ is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of ‘race’ in Spanish, not ‘the people’ — and that’s precisely why we don’t hear of something like ‘The National Council of the People,’ which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism.” The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.

Senate Republicans: Start Kickin' Ass for the Good of America

I found this great graphic and even better short and to-the-point commentary at JaneqRepublican. The JaneqRepublican post lead to a January 28th article by Michelle Malkin. Michelle is reviewing some of the pitifully few moments that a true Conservative could applaud the GOP.

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

FLOOD THEIR INBOXES!

MELT THEIR PHONES!

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR AND DEMAND THAT HE OR SHE STAND BY THE REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES ON WHICH HE OR SHE CAMPAIGNED.

DEMAND THAT HE OR SHE VOTE AGAINST THE STIMULUS BILL!