Sharia Law Comes to America's HeartlandVincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.
Mosby, 23, of Kansas City didn’t legally wed his 14-year-old bride, however, because Missouri law won’t allow it without a judge’s order. Police said she was pressured into the union because her mother and stepfather thought she was going to be sexually active with a boy her age.
Although the bride’s stepfather arranged the “marriage,” according to court records, other relatives frowned upon the union and told police in late August. The relatives also took the girl to protect her from further sexual abuse, according to court records.
The practice of Muslim men marrying girls as young as 8 or 9 is common place in certain parts of the Middle East. Unfortunately for the two men, this isn't Somalia, Sudan or Gaza; This is the U.S. state of Missouri where a judge has to approve marriages involving 14-year old girls.
Liberal Media treats Women on the Right with scornExpressing praise for Palin, Michele Bachmann and other conservative women in the political sphere, Prejean says that they are bound to be 'Palinized' -- treated to liberal scorn.According to Newsbusters, in an interview with the NBC Today Show on Monday, Prejean told Meridith Vieira:On one particularly bad day, I got a surprising phone call that cheered me up to no end: it was from Sarah Palin.
We talked for a good fifteen minutes. She told me that she was extremely proud of me and told me to stay strong.
"You tell it like you see it, Carrie. People are sick of politically correct answers. You're doing awesome."...
She told me her daughter Bristol was a big fan of mine, and would love for me to call her. We have been keeping in touch ever since."
And there is a double standard out there. There is an extreme double standard that conservative women are under attack for whatever it is. I mean if Sean Hannity went out there and said some of the things that Keith Olbermann has said about me, you know, if he said anything about Sonia Sotomayor or Michelle Obama, he would be off the air. Why is there this double standard? And that's the reason why I wrote this book.(H/t GOP 12)
Paul has meeting set with the Ultimate Establishment Republican in the Senate"Republican primary voters, I think, are unhappy and are going to want something new," says Paul.WHAS goes on to report:
And "something new" is the Paul brand of republicanism...
The Libertarian leaning views may be a tough sell to mainstream republicans, including opposition to federal drug laws and the education department.
So what's next for Republicans?No word on which camp asked for the meeting; McConnell's office or Rand Paul's campaign.
Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans had hosted a fundraiser for Trey Grayson in August.
But Rand Paul is now scheduled to meet face to face with McConnell in Kentucky this Friday.
From Eric Dondero:You CAN fight City Hall: Kozniak wins!!In a heartbreaker Ben Buehler-Garcia of Tea Party Tucson lost to incumbent Democrat Karen Uhlich by 195 votes. Tucson has a 2 to 1 Democrat to Republican voter registration ratio.
by Robert Mayer
As you have seen, the Tucson Tea Party has been engaged in more than just the issues coming out of Washington, D.C. We have also been working tremendously hard to effect local change. The Democratic Party has controlled every seat on the city council since 2005, during which time we have seen hundreds of millions of dollars flushed down the drain, new taxes enacted, and a generally unfriendly business climate that drives away jobs from our community.
I am happy to inform you that this hard work is paying off! Councilwoman Nina Trasoff, the chairwoman of the board overseeing the hundreds of millions wasted on downtown redevelopment, is now no longer a councilwoman.
Steve Kozachik has defeated Nina Trasoff by approximately 1700 votes! The Tucson Tea Party fought Trasoff tooth-and-nail, and we beat her. This goes to show that you CAN fight city hall — and win! This is a major and unprecedented victory!
From Bryan Preston:Liberty County Pct. 4 Commissioner Norman Brown has announced his decision to leave the Democratic Party to join the ranks of the Republican Party.
Brown, who faces a reelection campaign in 2010, said his decision was “not a spur of the moment whim.”
“Much thought and deliberation went into the decision to switch my allegiance. Let me say that I don’t feel as though I’m leaving the Democratic Party as much as they have moved away from me, both locally and at the national level,” said Brown.
From Cliff Thies:That this purported “public use” is now exposed as the façade for corporate welfare that it always was is, of course, little comfort to Suzette Kelo and the other homeowners whose land was seized. But hopefully this will be an object lesson for other companies considering eminent domain abuse as a route to acquire land on the cheap — and especially for state and local officials who acquiesce in this type of behavior.As far as we Libertarian Republicans are concerned, it couldn’t happen to a nicer city. Screw You New London!
Colonel Peters America's new Hero for Liberty?On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.Newly Uncovered Manual shows Hasan part of Obama Transition Team
What cowards we are.
Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.
When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."
But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.
Homeland Security InstituteWhat did Obama and Napolitano know . . . and when did they know . . . that Hasan was a terrorist? If Obama knew and protected Hasan, then he has committed impeachable offenses.
Nidal Hasan
Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
MOOCHER WATCH!But now, they come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.See the video here.
But at what point do we allow the government to order people that you must sell your product to this person or that person, irrespective of any good judgment? We saw what happened in housing when they ordered banks to make loans to people who weren’t qualified. Are we now going to have the same destructive influences in health care because we’re going to order doctors to provide services and so forth?
Albuquerque, NM (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 9, 2009 -- Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson will speak Tuesday night alongside a former DEA task force leader about their joint campaign to legalize and regulate all drugs. 
In commemorating the 20th Anniversay of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, libertarian-leaning Republican Rudy Giuliani penned a two page editorial in the NY Daily News. It's titled, "Ronald Reagan's unyielding style won the Cold War."Before Ronald Reagan came along, the West was dangerously close to losing its will. The Soviet Union was on the march, while the United States continued to deal with the repercussions of internal political scandals and the pullout from South Vietnam. Soviet leaders were flush with confidence; in the West many of the so-called foreign policy establishment accepted the doctrines of moral equivalence and inevitable coexistence.Support the Libertarian Defense Caucus; Promoting a Strong Military and Muscular Foreign Policy approach for Libertarians for over 20 years!
Reagan always understood the basic fact of the Cold War - that when two victorious armies met in Germany in 1945, one wanted to go home and leave the people it had liberated in freedom, and the other stayed and occupied and oppressed Eastern Europe. It was a war only one side chose.
To win the Cold War, the West had to rediscover its confidence. It had to be galvanized around not just the idea of freedom, but the principle that every person in the world has a right to be free.
Reagan understood this truth and made it his purpose to communicate it to the world. Where others equivocated, Reagan was direct and unyielding, calling the Soviet Union the Evil Empire and standing at the Brandenburg Gate and demanding, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
by Jim Lagnese, RightGuyAs an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major Nidal Malik Hasan had a front row seat on the brutal toll of war. It is too early to know exactly what may have triggered his murderous shooting rampage Thursday at Fort Hood – Hasan is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 32 others before he was wounded by a police officer – but it is not uncommon for therapists treating soldiers with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) to be swept up in a patient’s displays of war-related paranoia, helplessness and fury. (See pictures of suicide in the recruiters ranks.)Hasan was by all rights a muslim fundamentalist whose beliefs contradicted what he was doing in the Army, and it came to a head when he was ordered to go to Afghanistan. His religious beliefs and identity trumped his sworn duty to this country. The honorable thing to do would have been to resign.
Unemployment Hits 10.2%. Obama Sends Us on Path to Economic Ruin.
Obama isn't the solution. He is the problem. He knows nothing about business- small or large. He has never owned a business, run a business, funded a business, or created a job in his life. His entire knowledge of economics comes from books. And they are the wrong books- Karl Marx never created a job either.*The hair salon where I've had my hair cut for 8 years- a bustling, loud, prosperous small business in Las Vegas (before Obama)- went out of business last month. Closed with no notice- the doors padlocked by sheriffs.Small business is in freefall. Not only will there be no new jobs, we will continue losing jobs until Obama finds a way to save small business. Unemployment will only go up from here. Saving or creating government jobs won't save the American economy- as we now see. Obama's theories don't work in the real world. They only work in books- books written by Karl Marx. The Obama experiment is a massive failure.
*The healthy fast food restaurant where I ate organic hamburgers, organic milkshakes, and baked fries for years- also a bustling, prosperous business (before Obama)- went out of business last month. Not just one small business, but rather the entire chain of 5 restaurants in Nevada and Florida gone.
*My biggest competitor in the sports handicapping industry, a legend in our industry, after 30 years in business, closed up shop 2 weeks ago. 30 years of prosperity, hundreds of millions in revenues pumped into the economy, and 100 good-paying jobs down the drain. All it took was 9 months of Obama running the economy.
*U.S. Air- the 2nd largest airline carrier into Las Vegas- announced just last week that they are cutting HALF their routes. Does that sound like the end of a recession?
*One of my neighbors- a well-known celebrity, CEO and multi-millionaire- has put his multi-million dollar Vegas mansion up for “short sale” to stave off foreclosure.
*One of my best friends has closed or sold off 8 of his 12 vitamin stores to try to “stop the bleeding” of business losses. He reports that the last 4 months have been the worst of his 25 years in business. He says, “business has literally dropped off a cliff.” He also says and I quote, “anyone that says we are in recovery is either a fool or a liar.”
CHRIS CHRISTIE WATCHNew Jersey's next governor vowed Friday to veto any tax increase the Legislature sends to his desk in the coming year.He also pledged no unfunded mandates:
Chris Christie said New Jerseyans already face severe economic conditions; he pledged during the campaign not to make their financial problems worse.
Christie said his first executive order as governor will be to freeze requirements the state has imposed on towns but has not funded. A Guadagno-led task force will review the mandates with an eye toward getting rid of the most onerous ones.
"But if you mean whose side should one be on Israel or the Arabs? I would certainly say Israel!"
Israel is up against "a group of almost totally primitive savages, who have not changed for years, and are racist, and resent Israel because it is bringing industry, intelligence, modern technology..."
"They're terrorists... they're monsters..."
Note From the Editor: Last night I had the pleasure of attending Pamela Gellers speech to the Collins County Conservative Republican Club in McKinney, Texas (just north of Dallas.) Her presentation was remarkably informative and entertaining. The woman is simply stunning in person. I was especially taken aback as to how well-versed she is in Randian theory, and how open she was about her Randian views, even to an overwhelming conservative audience. 
by Denise Clark"We offer our condolences and prayers to the families that have a person who died," said Imam Mohammed Abdullahi over loud-speakers that carried the weekly Muslim prayer to several hundred worshippers gathered at the mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Hasan was a member.From the Philly Inquirer:
"Islam is not responsible," he stressed.
The mosque's chairman, Arshad Qureshi, said: "They're trying so hard to pin this on Islam. They're working so hard to make it about religion."Okay...while Islam itself may not be responsible (and those of you who know me know that I don't believe THAT), what about the interpretations of the Quran that these radicals teach in the mosques?
Did I just call Abdullahi a "radical?" You bet your sweet ass I did. When you read about this scumbag, you may just agree.
From Eric Dondero:Both [Republican Rep. Mike] Simpson and Minnick have long said they won't vote for a bill that includes a public option. Minnick said Friday that he also is concerned the bill doesn't do enough to control costs.His vote Saturday has garnered a great deal of negative reaction from Idaho liberals.
Walt Minnick should Switch Parties Now!!!From the Blue Moose Democrat:
Well, for me, that's the last straw. Walt, please switch parties. Now, so a Democrat can prepare for the election a year from now. Oh, but wait, that might mean you were actually willing to do something to help Democrats. I guess it's better from your perspective to do all you can to stop Democrats from getting anything done.
Walt, please, just be honest and switch parties. You masquerading as a Democrat is embarrassing and dishonest.
Idaho Democrats should not support Walt, and if he gets primaried (assuming he doesn't switch parties), we should get behind his opponent.
DemConWatch lists Minick as:
If Rep. Walt Minnick (D-ID) loses his re-election bid next year, it won't be because he's too liberal, it will be because he is too conservative.
When we north Idaho Democrats complain about Minnick's votes and consider not voting for him again, we are often told by independents and moderate Republicans to stop whining because he's with us more than anyone else who would win the seat. But maybe not - think about what Vote View is saying: eastern Idaho's Mike Simpson, a veteran Republican, is more liberal than the freshman Democrat Walt Minnick.
If Minnick can't count on even moderate Democrats like me, than he has no base left and is all but a goner come November 2010... while I do want to support him, I will almost have to stand up and cheer when he is defeated by a Republican veteran...
"a turncoat"Minnick has already attracted two Republican candidates, and a third may jump into the race; his former GOP rival from 2008 Bill Sali. The filing deadline for Idaho offices is in January. If Minnick were to switch to run in the GOP field, he'd have to do it before the new year.
NC the latest State to catch the wave of Party Switchers to the GOP"Three years ago I was elected by voters from all of Rowan County: Democratic, Republican and unaffiliated," she said in the statement. "I promised open government discussions, restraint on property taxes, proper use of school funding, and overall support of effective county services.Interestingly, Ms. Hall now has the distinction of being the very first Female Republican Commissioner in the County's history."My stand worried some of my Democratic party officials and I now feel more closely aligned with the fiscally conservative Republican Party. I pledge to continue serving all citizens of Rowan County, and yes, I will continue to ask questions."
From Eric Dondero:Fox News Channel had a big night last night averaging 4.04M Total Viewers between 8pm-11pmET. The channel averaged 1.13M in the A25-54 demo during primetime. At 11pmET, America's Election HQ kept up the momentum averaging 2.37M Total Viewers and 841K in the demo.Hedgehog has a graph which puts it in even starker terms:
In primetime, MSNBC was a distant second on election night averaging 974K Total Viewers/308K in the demo.
HLN was third with 842K Total Viewers, but came in second in the demo with 341K.
CNN finished fourth in Total Viewers with 826K and in the demo with 227K
ELECTION NIGHT RATINGSLibertarians on Fox News:
Fox News 4.04 million
MSNBC 974,000
HLN 842,000
CNN 826,000
NoneLibertarians on CNN:
NoneAny correlation perhaps?
Republicans gained 6 seats (pending one recount) in the State Assembly, giving them a 61-37-2 majority. Republicans gained a seat in the New Jersey House. Republicans took control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and won six of seven statewide races in the Keystone State. Republicans gained in the heavily populated New York City suburbs , taking control of both Westchester County and Nassau County for the first time in a decade. They even gained a couple seats on the New York City Council (in addition to the re-election of their sort-of Republican Mayor Bloomberg). In Michigan, in a special election for a state senate seat that had gone Democratic by 61-39 when it was last up in 2006, the Republican flipped the landslide around and won 61-36. Republicans also flipped a New Hampshire state house seat in a special election.Of particular note for Libertarians, the Michigan seat picked up by the GOP was the seat being contested by Libertarian Party candidate Greg Merle who finished with nearly 2%.
John McAlister was re-elected to the City Council in Gahanna, Ohio.That brings the total of Libertarian Party members elected to public office in Election Year 2009 to 16.
by Clifford F. ThiesThe word on the so-called Arab street is that Major Nidal Malik Hasan should be admired because he stood up for fellow Muslims overseas, against U.S. "aggression," and that his anger, disappointment, and presumed sense of betrayal over U.S. President Barack Obama's failure to end the Afghan and Iraq conflicts is understandable, especially in light of Obama's own Muslim heritage.Then, the Muslim-sympathizers started shifting their position when information started to be revealed that the guy was known to be a jihadist. At this point it was, this act would be illegal for any religion. (Ugh? Don’t many radical Muslims proclaim jihad is a duty? Isn’t this the majority opinion in the Muslim world?)
The President’s reaction was mere sympathy for the victims, as was the reaction of CAIR. NOT the reason why this guy wasn’t identified before he went berserk, or the problem of jihadists living among us will be addressed."I want all of you to know that as commander in chief, there's no greater honor but also no greater responsibility for me than to make sure that the extraordinary men and women in uniform are properly cared for and that their safety and security when they're at home is provided for…"Soldiers don’t need condescending remarks like this. They’re the ones who protect us, they don’t need to be taken care of by a panty waist. The question is: why wasn’t the indications that this guy was a jihadist acted-upon?
What, after all, is the chance of a person who is not a Muslim being a deranged shooter, like the Virginia Tech shooter? I don’t know, maybe 1 in 100 million. But, what are the odds that a Muslim picked at random is a deranged shooter? Given the high level of violence in the world, it is way more than 1 in 100 million. Even if it were “just” 1 in 1 million, that would make it very difficult to interact with Muslims for fear that of being shot or blown up."American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens in offering both prayers for the victims and sincere condolences to the families of those killed or injured."Again, the emphasis is on prayer and condolences. What we need to hear from Muslims is this: We will cooperate with law enforcement authorities to identify people who are a danger to the community.
By Bill Wilson
From Eric Dondero:Among other things, Daniels has ordered agencies to cut spending by 10 percent; reductions in reimbursement rates for some Medicaid providers; no pay raises for state employees next year; delays in some building projects; and state employees be allowed to take unpaid leave voluntarily.In another move, sure to be applauded by libertarians, Daniels is freezing government worker pay raises. Continuing:
October tax collections were $46 million less than forecast... Daniels said the state's surplus that stood at $1.3 billion in July would be wiped out by next August.
He said the state's social services agency would announce the specific cuts next week.
Next year will mark the second consecutive one in which state employees will not get pay raises.Though, in what may come as somewhat of a dissapointment to libertarians, Daniels vows to only "avoid or minimize" state employee lay-offs.
Govs. Mitch Daniels and Frank O'Bannon professed to like Andy [Horning - 2 time Libertarian Party candidate for Governor]... Daniels has even acknowledged his admiration for Libertarian principles and concepts.The Indiana LP is one of the best organized in the Nation. Currently 15 Libertarians serve in elective and appointive office throughout the State, including Indiana Public Defenders Commission Board member Mark Rutherford, Hagerstown Judge Susan Bell, Pottowattamie Town Councilman Michael Sloan, and Indianapolis City Councilman Ed Coleman.
Says Tea Partiers "nuttily" believe Big Government extinguishing FreedomsBehind the Democratic WipeoutNote - Beinart (photo - left) is best known to libertarians and conservatives as a frequent YouTube/NRO debater with his friend Jonah Goldberg from National Review.
After Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey and a near-miss in upstate New York, conservatives have supposedly gotten their groove back. But it’s not the same old groove... what matters are deficits, bailouts and government spending. In other words, economics is the new culture war...
It’s no coincidence that former Majority Leader Dick Armey, the closest thing the “tea party” movement has to a national leader, is a libertarian...
The GOP’s emphasis on social issues played well in the South, but it hurt the party in the libertarian West, where Democrats have made major gains. It also contributed to the party’s near-extinction in the Northeast...
But although the right’s new libertarian thrust paid dividends yesterday, there may be problems down the road. The tea party crowd is ideologically hostile to Obama’s expansion of government; they genuinely (if nuttily) believe that large deficits and a larger welfare state are extinguishing their freedom. Most Americans, by contrast, don’t care all that much how large government is; they just want the economy to improve. If that happens by the time Obama runs for reelection, then the right’s anti-government crusade will likely strike swing voters as irrelevant and obnoxious.
"The greatest American heros are sometimes the most neglected. Here in Augusta you have the most comprehensive Re-hab Center..."
Republican Party of Texas Welcomes State Rep. Chuck Hopson to the GOP
From Eric Dondero:"This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up," West said in a statement. "Our soldiers are being brainwashed."West went on to comment:
The release added that West claims "the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military."
[The Military should find ways] "to prevent Islamic extremism from penetrating our bases."West will be challening liberal Democrat Ron Klein in a Broward County district. In 2008, an off Election Year for the GOP, West polled 45% against Klein.
West said "it is imperative that we take steps to make sure this does not happen again" and that it is important to "objectively assess this situation."
Posts
All Comments
