In February, the U.S. Census Bureau paid civil rights figure and "comedian" Dick Gregory $1,400 to be the keynote speaker at its Black History Month event. An official announcement promised that during his February 11 speech, Gregory would "share a wealth of history as a Civil Rights Activist" (sic). Instead, Gregory used the opportunity to say that teaching young men to obey police officers was a … [Read more...]
Should Your Tax Dollars Pay for a Speaker Who Said Obeying the Police is ‘A Violation of God’?
Is Big Sis Reading Your FaceBook Page?
The Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security is monitoring numerous media outlets — and new guidelines open the possibility that the DHS will spy on private citizens’ Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace pages and retain personal information in its database for up to five years. The “Social Networking/Media Capability” program is conducted by the DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC)’s … [Read more...]
GOP Ignores Voting Irregularities In The Iowa Caucuses
Maybe I’m distrustful by nature, but something about the Iowa caucuses’ results last night bothers me. Just weeks ago, anonymous left-wing activists threatened the Iowa Republican Party with hacking its vote totals. The Hawkeye state GOP insisted all was fine but took the threat seriously enough to alter its usual methods. In the weeks leading up to the vote, the Republican Establishment … [Read more...]
Is Occupy Wall Street a Domestic Terrorist Threat?
If the most recent news reports are to be believed, all the Occupy Wall Street protesters have to fear is each other. A 19-year-old demonstrator says her tent-mate, "Leland," raped her last weekend in Cleveland's Public Square. Seattle police arrested a man who took part in that city's occupation after he allegedly exposed himself to children five times. At the protest's center of … [Read more...]
Election Fraud Watch: Did Obama Submit Phony Ballot Petitions in 2008?
A former Democratic governor of Indiana says a petition to place Barack Obama on the state ballot during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary is not his, raising the question of voter fraud. Former Governor Joe Kernan, a Democrat, replied, "No, not at all," when the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune asked if the signature, which helped qualify Obama for the ballot, belonged to him. The … [Read more...]
Terrorist Plot or Terrorist Ploy?
Rush Limbaugh is asking if the foiled terrorist plot Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday was a ploy to distract the American people from Holder's role in a deadly Mexican gun-running operation. Holder announced the plot -- in which Iranian forces allegedly plotted to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. in a Washington, D.C., restaurant -- shortly … [Read more...]
Obama Spends $25 Million to Prevent Illegal Immigrants’ Kids from Getting Fat
Law-abiding politicians would deport illegal immigrants; the Obama administration spends scarce tax dollars assuring their well-being. Judicial Watch reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a ground-breaking new program to stamp out childhood obesity -- among the children of illegals. (Apparently Americans aren't the only ones who have "gotten a little soft.") "Like all … [Read more...]