Trey Garrison For DMN!

So being the unemployed bum that I am, I recently stumbled across this job opening in my daily searches of the interwebs for potential work.  As much I as I would like to think that I had the chops for such a position, it’s quite obvious that I don’t and that such gigs should be reserved for the heavy hitters. The particular heavy hitter I have in mind is my blogger friend Trey Garrison. If you haven’t already made the journey over to his blog to check out his stance on the issues, then I highly suggest you do so.

In a media world drowning in Republican/Democrat, Liberal/Conservative, Right/Left bullshit, Garrison’s voice is one of unique clarity. He represents those of us who don’t fall into the convenient, pre-determined social labels. His words reflect an undying commitment to freedom, not just as a buzzword to be thrown around for political gain, but as a mantra to be cherished and respected. He combines humor and a sharp tongue to accentuate the absurdity of the spectacle that passes for political discourse these days.

Garrison is an accomplished journalist who already works as a freelance contributor for The Dallas Morning News. Before that, he was a contributing editor at D Magazine and also worked on several other D Custom publications.

So, I officially announce the Trey Garrison for DMN campaign. If you agree, spread the word. On your blog. On Facebook. On Twitter. Everywhere.  Let the DMN know who think should be their next choice for their editorial page. Tell them you’re sick of the chosing between the ultra-conservative bible thumpers and the khaki-clad marxists. It’s time for a something different. It’s time for the rest of us to be heard.

Sarah Palin’s Effect On The Limp-wristed Media

My blogger friend and fellow agitator Trey Garrison hits the nail on the head again. This time his targets are the “opinion geldings in New York and Washington” who have waged a media jihad against Sarah Palin and her family. While I doubt I would support a 2012 presidential run by Palin, I definitely consider myself a fan of hers. She’s gorgeous, smart, family-oriented and she makes pussified liberal whiners squirm in their Armani suits. The thought of Keith Olbermann shaking his fists and stammering incoherently from his wheelchair every time Palin appears on t.v. makes me happy on the inside.

Anita Dunn Loves Mao Tse-Tung

This blog has been light on political commentary for last few months. Hell, it’s been light on all content and I apologize for that. However, here’s a bit of a dandy to get your political pants in a bunch.

This video is of Anita Dunn, the current White House Communications Director, espousing her love of Mao Tse-Tung. That’s right. Mao Tse-Tung. The man responsible for the Communist takeover of China and for the deaths of 70 million of his own people. He killed more people than Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini combined.

This administration doesn’t even try to hide its love of Communism anymore. Look what you goddamn hippies have done to this country.

Trey Garrison: No you can’t, Mr. President

My blogger friend, professional journalist and staunch Libertarian Trey Garrison has written an excellent piece for The Dallas Morning News explaining exactly why it’s NOT okay for the president to use our nation’s grade schools as a means for communicating his “vision” for America. I believe the crux of his argument is best explained in the following paragraphs.

Look, watching a president’s speech in a middle or high school civics class? No problem. In a few years, I want my kid to be confronted by challenging ideas, informed debate and opposing values. That’s how a kid learns, evolves and strengthens her own ideas and beliefs.

That’s not what this is.

These are grade school kids. You know, the ones who giggle over the word booger and do their financial planning based on the tooth fairy’s visits. Critical thinking and nuance? Not their strong suits yet.

What this is, though, is imprinting on them the idea that one person is their leader.

And if he’s the leader, what does that make them?

Trey correctly explains that this worship of power and of the office of the President didn’t start with Obama, but at some point it’s up to us to say enough is enough.

This Lady Is My Hero

This is the kind of person that such “pundits” as Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews refer to as an “extremist.” She’s passionate, intelligent and completely right. So, I guess I can see why they’d be afraid of her.

Sorry Folks, But It’s Liberals Who Kill Presidents, Not Conservatives

The constant chirping from Left-wing windbags recently about the threat of potential Right-wing “terrorists” and “assassins” has reached a fevered pitch in this country. In an effort to play their omnipresent victim card, liberals have been up-in-arms about the threat of Obama being assassinated or other terrorist acts being perpetrated by the “extremists” who have shown up in force to denounce the socialist policy reforms of this administration.

However, as it is with most dealings with the fanatical Left, none of their theories are based on history or facts. How about we take a long look back at the history of political assassination and assassination attempts in this country? Every presidential assassin in the history of America has been a leftist – or had no politics at all. Not a single one was a right-winger.

• Actor/activist John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln because he opposed his Republican war policies. Booth left a letter saying he loved “peace more than life” and he denounced Republicans for pushing an unnecessary war on to the South.
• Charles J. Guiteau shot President James Garfield in 1881. He was a member of a utopian commune called the Oneida Community where free love and communal child-rearing were practiced.
• Leon Czolgosz killed President William McKinley in 1901. He was a devout socialist and anarchist who was inspired to action after hearing fellow socialist Emma Goldman give a speech.
• Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate FDR in 1933. He was consumed with rage and jealousy towards the rich and sought to “make even with capitalists” by killing the president. He had also plotted to kill Hebert Hoover because he, too, was a capitalist.
• Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK in 1963. Oswald was enthralled with communism from the time he was a teenager. He even lived in the Soviet Union for a period of time, attempting to gain citizenship, but he was denied. He returned with this Soviet wife to the US where he tried to preach the glories of communism. He first attempted to shoot Major General Edwin A. Walker as Walker sat in his house, but he missed. He also planned on making an attempt on former vice president Richard Nixon’s life while he was in Dallas, but the timing didn’t work out. After he successfully killed JFK, his first call was to John Abt, lawyer for the American Communist Party, asking Abt to defend him. Abt never got the chance thanks to Jack Ruby.
• Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy in 1968. Sirhan was a Palestinian extremist who thought Kennedy was too supportive of Israel.
• Arthur Bremer, who shot and paralyzed presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972, had ties to the Black Panthers.
• Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme pointed a loaded gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975. She was a member of Charles Manson’s counter-cultural hippie cult.
• Sara Jane Moore tried to kill President Ford 17 days after the Fromme incident. She claimed that Ford’s administration had “declared war on the left.”

Then we have all of the political violence of the Left in the 1970s and 80s caused by such radical groups as the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army.

• Waverly “Chipper” Brown, the only black officer in Nyack, New York at the time, was killed along with two other officers in 1981 when the Weather Underground attempted to rob the Brinks truck Brown and his fellow officers were protecting.
• Robert Fassnacht, a physics student at the University of Wisconsin, was killed in 1971 by a car bomb set off on campus by a group of anti-war protesters.
• Liberals in various groups also planted bombs or tried to plant bombs at an Army dance hall at Fort Dix, NYC police headquarters, the Harvard international-studies center, various corporate offices, National Guard headquarters, the Pentagon and the Capitol Building.

In more recent news, peace-loving liberals have written books and made movies glamorizing the assassination of George W. Bush.

• Death of a President depicted the assassination of Bush and it went on to win the International Critics Prize at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.
• The novel, The Assassination of George W. Bush: A Love Story, advocates the killing of the president for the good of humanity.

So what side of the political spectrum am I supposed to be afraid of again?

h/t to Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America.

Ted Kennedy: Always Remember That He Killed A Woman

In the upcoming days, as you watch the media and those around you gush over the death of Ted Kennedy, I implore you to keep in mind that he killed a woman and just walked away. He wasn’t just “implicated in” or “accused of” her death. He drove her into a body of water and left her to die. There’s nothing more respectable than killing a person and using your daddy’s good name to get you out of trouble.

So, please tell me once again, why should I consider this piece of shit a great man?

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Congressman Ron Paul On Healthcare

As with every other issue of note, Texas Congressman Ron Paul now brings his level-headedness and clear thinking to the current healthcare debate. Paul, who practiced medicine for more than 30 years, gives an explanation for solving our current healthcare crisis that is simple, straight-forward and extremely practical. Therefore, it will never be considered by the heavy hitters in Washington.

I did my part to get this man elected president last year. Did you?

States’ Rights May Kill Universal Healthcare In Texas

Oh man, are the name-calling, uber-intellectual Lefties going to have a field day with this story. Today, Gov. Rick Perry suggested that he would invoke the states’ rights protections afforded by the 10th Amendment in order to prevent Obama’s nightmarish universal healthcare plan from coming to Texas.

In case any of you are wondering, the 10th Amendment 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.

Now I’ve read the Constitution front to back numerous times (yes, I’m that kind of nerd) and nowhere in it does it grant the federal government the right to create and maintain a national healthcare system. Such omissions used to be taken seriously in politics. Nowhere in the Constitution does it grant the federal government the right to ban alcohol. That’s why when Prohibition was passed in 1919, it came in the form of a Constitutional amendment. The 18th Amendment, to be exact. However, as the decades have progressed, our friendly neighborhood politicians no longer take things like the “law” or “Constitutionality” seriously.

Liberals believe that as intellectual superiors, they have the fundamental right to bear down on the rest of us with any sort of regulation, regardless of it’s legality simply because they know what’s best for the people. It’s the doctrine of Liberal Fascism and if any of you are interested in learning more on the subject, I highly recommend you read Jonah Goldberg’s book of the same name. Here’s a quick snippet:

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don’t matter. It also highlights the real fascist legacy of World War I and the New Deal: the notion that government action in the name of “good things” under the direction of “our people” is always and everywhere justified. Dissent by the right people is the highest form of patriotism. Dissent by the wrong people is troubling evidence of incipient fascism.

Sounds all too familiar, doesn’t it?

RS Magazine: How Goldman Sachs Runs Washington

Every now and then, Rolling Stone will shed its pinko, commie skin and produce an article that is actually insightful and non-biased. In the most recent issue, Matt Taibbi writes about the role that mega-bank Goldman Sachs has played in every single major “bubble” that our economy has experienced since the Great Depression. Taibbi pulls back the curtain to give us a true perspective into who actually rules in Washington.

And if you think these captains of high finance and greed are shills for the Republicans, then you’d be gravely mistaken. Goldman Sachs is balls-deep in the operations of the Democratic Party and they’re pushing harder than any other private sector entity for the new Cap-and-Trade regulations. Cap-and-Trade will create a new trillion dollar derivatives market for the trading of carbon credits. It’s been described as the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. I’ll give you one guess where the majority of that wealth is going to end up.

“It’s Not About Taking Off My Goddamn Shoes” – Trey Garrison

Those of us who live in Dallas are blessed to have one of the few truly great Libertarian voices out there based right here in our community. His name is Trey Garrison and he’s on a personal mission to restore individualism and personal liberty to this country. My challenge to you is to read Trey’s latest piece on airport security and to embrace the feelings that it stirs inside you. You’re going to feel your blood boil and your heart race. You’re going to want to head to your local airport and give the first TSA officer you see the finger.

And then you’ll probably sense some guilt about these feelings since it’s been drubbed into your head to respect authority. To bow down to authority. To worship authority.

But you need to fight back that guilt and realize what you’re feeling is the most inherent and natural human emotion that exists. It’s the longing to be free. It’s your soul’s desire to say, “Fuck you, you nanny-state loving hippie. I can take care of myself.” Embrace these feelings. Learn to love them. Talk about them with your family. Teach them to your kids.

Then ask yourself these questions. Aren’t you sick of being pushed around? Of being treated like a child? Or are you one of the new succubus-breed Americans who will kindly trade a slice of liberty for a taste of security, no matter how imaginary that security might be?

I know which side I stand on. And if you plan on making me budge, you better bring a big stick, buddy. Though I’m not too worried since action would require you to actually do something for yourself.

WSJ: Soak The Rich, Lose The Rich

I apologize for just now getting around to posting this excellent editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on May 18. Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore discuss exactly why it’s such a disaster for states with huge budget deficits to try and solve their problems by soaking their rich residents with a litany of new tax increases. States such as California, New York, Illinois, Minnesota and Connecticut have never met a new tax they didn’t like, and now they’re paying the price.

Here’s the problem for states that want to pry more money out of the wallets of rich people. It never works because people, investment capital and businesses are mobile: They can leave tax-unfriendly states and move to tax-friendly states.

Meanwhile, states like Texas, Tennessee and New Hampshire that have no income tax are weathering this current economic climate just fine.

Updating some research from Richard Vedder of Ohio University, we found that from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people every day including Sundays and holidays moved from the nine highest income-tax states such as California, New Jersey, New York and Ohio and relocated mostly to the nine tax-haven states with no income tax, including Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Texas. We also found that over these same years the no-income tax states created 89% more jobs and had 32% faster personal income growth than their high-tax counterparts.

However, the most compelling and eye-opening statistic that I saw in this report comes at the very end.

Texas created more new jobs in 2008 than all other 49 states combined. And Texas is the only state other than Georgia and North Dakota that is cutting taxes this year.

The Texas economic model makes a whole lot more sense than the New Jersey model, and we hope the politicians in California, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota and New York realize this before it’s too late.

It still amazes me that so-called progressives look down on Texas as their states crumble around them. I believe it’s all too apparent that if this country wants to pull itself out of this funk, that it’s the Texas model we’re going to have to follow, not the California one. But, alas, I just don’t see our President having the good sense to make such a bold move.

New Miss California Prefers Real Marriage, Too

As you can probably tell by the lack of posts on the subject, I couldn’t care less about the issue of gay marriage. I tend to lean more against it than for it, but overall, it’s something I don’t lose a whole lot of sleep over.

However, I have been following the ax job the media has pulled on Carrie Prejean, the Miss California representative who voiced her opposition to gay marriage when asked about it by Perez Hilton at the Miss USA Pagenent. Or I should say, the former Miss California since she was officially stripped of her title yesterday. There’s nothing quite like seeing someone brave enough to voice an opinion in a country that says it values free speech, only to have the media do everything in their power to destroy that person’s life (*cough* Joe the Plumber *cough*).

Well, it appears that Perez Hilton and his henchmen still have some work ahead of them. Apparently the new Miss California, Tami Farell, holds the exact same views on gay marriage as Carrie Prejean.

Get your throwing arm warmed up, Perez, because you have a new batch of poo to fling, you troglodyte rectal wart.

Why Would We Want To Model Anything In This Country After California?

Do you want a front row view of what exactly is going to happen to America if we continue down the current path of deficit spending that the Chosen One is leading us? Then just look to the great state of California. After decades of liberal legislation, hoards of entitlement programs, ridiculous union contracts, anti-business policies and high taxes, California literally is standing on the brink of a total economic collapse. What amuses me the most is that it finally took it getting this bad before the voters stood up and said “no more.” The bill has come for their little hippie Utopian experiment and nobody wants to pay it.

Voters themselves are partly to blame, approving initiatives in years past that have created or expanded programs without identifying how to pay for them.

“One thing we do know is the voters’ wish list is a lot longer than the ‘I’m willing to pay for it’ list. People are going to have to rectify the two,” state Treasurer Bill Lockyer said.

This all comes on the heels of Obama’s announcement that he’s revising the federal requirements for auto mileage and emissions to be more in line with the overly restrictive standards that were implemented in California years ago. Really? Why in God’s name would we want to model any sort of national policy framework after California? Is the epic fail taking place in front of our eyes not reason enough to second guess the judgment of the crazies on the left coast?

“The Treasury Is Bare…The People Are Broke…Thought We’d Be Fighting Less Wars”

It still amazes me that this man can continually come out and give such clear, common sense and well-articulated explanations on what our government needs to do in these tough times and yet, he’s the one both sides try to paint as being a wacko. I guess a stance of “stop spending everyone’s money and leave everyone alone” is just too simple and well-intended for today’s “grab power at all costs” political climate.

Barry’s First 100 Days…

Here you can find how Barry has made a difference in your state and ultimately the nation. What I can’t seem to find on there is undoubtedly his crowning achievement. How he single handedly changed our great nation from a democratic society to a socialist one.

To Arlen Specter: Adios, Mo’ Fo’

What do you do when your declining popularity and a tough new challenger in the primaries threatens to rob you of your cush government job? The answer’s easy: you just switch parties.

What’s ironic is that the only thing standing between the Democrats and a filibuster-proof Senate is Norm Coleman, who is quickly losing his recount bid in Minnesota against Al Franken (gag!). Norm Coleman is also a known a party flip-flopper, having abandoned the Democrats for the warm embrace of the Republicans when he was mayor of St. Paul in the mid-90s.

See What Libtards Consider To Be Good Protesters

Over the next few days, you’re going to see countless images and hear numerous reports about how all of the protesters at yesterday’s relatively benign tea parties were a bunch of radical racist wingnuts who have no goal other than the complete destruction of our union and killing the president of the United States.

While the left considers folks speaking out against out of control government spending as highly dangerous, head over to this site to see what kinds of protests they see as being completely normal.

Now remind me again who the bigot extremists are.

Barry Obama Refuses To Visit Omaha Beach As Not To Offend The Germans

I know I tend to spout off a lot of rhetoric when I’m ranting about politics, but when I read the headline to this story, I reached a new low in my respect for the office of President of the United States. As if he wasn’t a big enough joke already, Barack Obama is now officially a disgrace to America.

We now live in such a politically correct world that the liberators of the victims of the Holocaust can’t be honored for the sake of not offending the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Amazing. Incredibly sad and disgusting, but truly amazing.