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Affirmative Action Heading to the Supreme Court?

Action Item, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Educational Material, In The News June 11, 2009

0511-0809-0509-4848_Justice_is_Blind_Clip_Art_clipart_imageSo much for “Justice is Blind“…

60% of Sotomayor’s rulings have been over turned which is proof positive, that she is not qualified to hold the highest position in our justice system,  that affirmative action is “not” equality for all under the rule of law and that this nominee needs to be derailed and FAST!!!

Take for example this excerpt from the Times interview:

“Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land,’ in most instances they’re not even law,” she said.

That principle, she said, explained the outcome of a high-profile 2008 Supreme Court ruling, Medellin v. Texas, which involved an International Court of Justice ruling that some Mexican inmates on death row in Texas should get new sentencing hearings because the authorities failed to help them get help from the Mexican Consulate, contrary to a treaty the United States had ratified.

But the Supreme Court ruled that the international court’s decision had no legal force and that the treaty was not binding, because Congress never passed a statute explicitly making it domestic law.

. . . read the entire interview for further enlightenment as to her many opinions regarding the law that irrefutably disqualifies her for this lifetime position.

Even I as a lay person knows that treaties do “not” trump the Constitution unless Congress as ratified a law stating otherwise. No wonder her rulings have been overturned so often and no wonder she needed “Affirmative” action to get where she is today.

I do not care the race or color of the person who holds such a high position, the only thing that I do care about is that the most qualified person gets the job. That is the American way and affirmative action is a deterrent in the process and needs to be outlawed.

Former SD Lawmaker Says State Constitution Should Preserve Right To Secret Ballot Voting

Action Item, Contact Your State Senators & Representatives, Educational Material, In The News, South Dakota State Legislation June 11, 2009

KNBN Rapid City:

Former State Legislator Joel Dykstra is working on the “Save Our Secret Ballot- South Dakota Campaign”, to preserve the right of a secret ballot.

(snip)

Dykstra says saving secret ballot voting like this came about because of the Employee Free Choice Act, or the Check Card Bill. 

The campaign needs 40,000 signatures to get the issue on the Nov. 2010 election ballot.

Experts on What Miranda Rights for Combatants and Terrorists Means for Our National Security

Educational Material, In The News June 11, 2009

The Mark Levin Show 6/10/2009: The discussion on Miranda rights begins at 36:49

Congratulations Mark! “Liberty & Tyranny” has now been the #1 best selling book 10 out of last 11 weeks!

“Commander in Thief” Ordered Naval Academy Midshipmen to “Undress” for Graduation

Educational Material, In The News June 11, 2009

This is “NARCISSISM” in its extreme:

NY Times Inside the Beltway reported on May 21 that:

Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis are being told in writing to leave at home or in their vehicles all “ceremonial swords” and anything else “that might be considered a weapon or a threat by screeners” for Friday’s outdoor commencement ceremonies featuring an address by President Barack Obama.

Inside the Beltway has obtained the academy’s list of prohibited items for this year’s graduation exercises, which, besides ceremonial swords, includes umbrellas.

I guess he was as sword-shy, he was  gun-shy:

How sad and demoralizing for our service men & women. For the 1st time in the Academy’s history, the midshipmen were not be allowed to be in “FULL” dress uniform when they graduated.

Obama is truely the “Commander in Thief”. Maybe his selective service record that has a document locater number from 2008 instead of 1980 has something to do with his disdain for our military.

 

Finally, A Judge with Some Constitutional Ethics?

Educational Material, In The News June 10, 2009

img_321_6A NJ judge is finally taking the eligibility issue seriously:

The federal court in Camden, N,J has granted the defendants (Obama and Congress) a second request for a time extension but wrote a lengthy order reasoning the importance of the case.

Granting the delay indicates the court is taking this case very seriously — as I read the order.

Attorney Mario Apuzzo: “My idea to sue Congress over this matter and the violations of my rights may be the key to getting this issue finally addressed.  The judge in New Jersey indicates in his order that this case raises very important constitutional issues.”

 You can read the full order at this quick post link.

Iraqi Freedom Speech from the US Troops

Educational Material June 5, 2009

This video is for Obama, Clinton, and John McCain to see what it is really like in Iraq, that its not as bad as the media portrays and we have a civil duty to help these people of Iraq…

Listen to what John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln have to say about the war in iRaq!

In early January(2008), the Maliki government began consideration of a new law to politically rehabilitate former Baath Party members.[177]
On January 8 Operation Phantom Phoenix began in an attempt to hunt down the remaining 200 al-Qaeda extremists in the province of Diyala following the end of the previous offensive. The operation also included targeting insurgent elements in Salah ad-Din province. The ongoing conflict between Turkey and PKK [180][181][182] intensified on February 21, when Turkey launched a ground attack into the Quandeel Mountains of Northern Iraq. In the nine day long operation, around 10,000 Turkish troops advanced up to 25 km into Northern Iraq. This was the first substantial ground incursion by Turkish forces since 1995.[183][184] Shortly after the incursion began, both the Iraqi cabinet and the Kurdistan regional government condemned Turkey’s actions and called for the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from the region.[185] Turkish troops withdrew on February 29.[186]
The fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war on 20 March was marked by a speech by George Bush declaring that the surge strategy had been a success and that America was headed for victory. Critics of the war were less optimistic.[187]
Meanwhile the war went on, with American forces targeting al-Qaeda strongholds in Mosul.[188]In late March, the Green Zone in Baghdad came under repeated rocket attack, killing two U.S. government officials and injuring several others.[189] According to General David Petraeus, the attack was the responsibility of Iranian trained insurgents.[190]On a day of increased violence and suicide bombings across Iraq, the death of four soldiers brought the total death toll of American forces, since the beginning of the war, to 4000.

Let not their lives have been lost in vain!

What is a Czar? UPDATED: What do we need a “Great Lakes” Czar for?

Educational Material, In The News June 4, 2009

With the appointment of a new “Internet” czar coming down the road in the near future, my mind continues to question “just what is the purpose of all these czars”? Why after 233 years does this administration feel that the United States of America is in need of all these appointments whom will have to answer to absolutely “NO ONE” but the Oval Office and has authority to by-pass Congress? What is happening to our system of “Checks and Balances”?

Looking into the definition and then the thesaurus for other synonyms for the term Czar, it doesn’t take a genius or a collegiate to figure out that “socialism” is not on the mind of our now rogue central government in DC:

 (noun)

*A person having great power; an autocrat: “the square-jawed, ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell, the czar of the Fifteenth Street police station” (Ernest Hemingway)

*An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity

Moby Thesaurus words for “czar”:

     Dalai Lama, Holy Roman Emperor, Inca, Kaiser, Simon Legree,
     absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, ardri,
     arrogator, autarch, autocrat, bey, cacique, caesar, cham,
     commissar, despot, dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce,
     hard master, kaid, khan, martinet, mikado, negus, oligarch,
     oppressor, padishah, pendragon, pharaoh, rig, sachem, sagamore,
     shah, sheikh, shogun, slave driver, stickler, tenno, tycoon,
     tyrant, usurper, warlord

CommunistPartyGET THE PICTURE!

 

 

 

 

 

UPADTE: HotAir is reporting that there will be yet another appointment of  a “Great Lakes” Czar. While the administration would like us to believe that it is for enviromental purposes, we all know the Great Lakes are vital to imports/exports, military movement and movement between the US and Canada.

Stubborn Facts of the Constitution

Educational Material June 4, 2009

https://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/the-stubborn-facts-of-the-constitution/

The NEA Funding Ponzie Scheme: Keeping Our Youths Minds Bankrupt Through Needless Government Regulations

Action Item, Contact Your State Senators & Representatives, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Educational Material, In The News, South Dakota State Legislation, US Congress Legislation, Youth Educational Material June 3, 2009

Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber

walter_e_williamsBy Walter E. Williams

 

  • Wednesday, 3 June 2009

    • The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students ranked 25th of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science. McKinsey & Company, in releasing its report “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools” (April 2009) said, “Several other facts paint a worrisome picture. First, the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers. In recent cross-country comparisons of fourth grade reading, math, and science, US students scored in the top quarter or top half of advanced nations. By age 15 these rankings drop to the bottom half. In other words, American students are farthest behind just as they are about to enter higher education or the workforce.” That’s a sobering thought. The longer kids are in school and the more money we spend on them, the further behind they get.

    While the academic performance of white students is grossly inferior, that of black and Latino students is a national disgrace. The McKinsey report says, “On average, black and Latino students are roughly two to three years of learning behind white students of the same age. This racial gap exists regardless of how it is measured, including both achievement (e.g., test score) and attainment (e.g., graduation rate) measures. Taking the average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for math and reading across the fourth and eighth grades, for example, 48 percent of blacks and 43 percent of Latinos are ‘below basic,’ while only 17 percent of whites are, and this gap exists in every state. A more pronounced racial achievement gap exists in most large urban school districts.” Below basic is the category the NAEP uses for students unable to display even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at their grade level.

    The teaching establishment and politicians have hoodwinked taxpayers into believing that more money is needed to improve education. The Washington, D.C., school budget is about the nation’s costliest, spending about $15,000 per pupil. Its student/teacher ratio, at 15.2 to 1, is lower than the nation’s average. Yet student achievement is just about the lowest in the nation. What’s so callous about the Washington situation is about 1,700 children in kindergarten through 12th grade receive the $7,500 annual scholarships in order to escape rotten D.C. public schools, and four times as many apply for the scholarships, yet Congress, beholden to the education establishment, will end funding the school voucher program.

    Any long-term solution to our education problems requires the decentralization that can come from competition. Centralization has been massive. In 1930, there were 119,000 school districts across the U.S; today, there are less than 15,000. Control has moved from local communities to the school district, to the state, and to the federal government. Public education has become a highly centralized government-backed monopoly and we shouldn’t be surprised by the results. It’s a no-brainer that the areas of our lives with the greatest innovation, tailoring of services to individual wants and falling prices are the areas where there is ruthless competition such as computers, food, telephone and clothing industries, and delivery companies such as UPS, Federal Express and electronic bill payments that have begun to undermine the postal monopoly in first-class mail.

    At a Washington press conference launching the McKinsey report, Al Sharpton called school reform the civil rights challenge of our time. He said that the enemy of opportunity for blacks in the U.S. was once Jim Crow; today, in a slap at the educational establishment, he said it was “Professor James Crow.” Sharpton is only partly correct. School reform is not solely a racial issue; it’s a vital issue for the entire nation.

    COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

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    Another useful link on the dumbing down of our youth through progressive NEA tactics:

    ‘Global Citizenship’: An Unsustainable Social Injustice by Adam Baldwin

    After victory he stacked his administration full of communists, socialists and sympathisers to create one of the most far left administrations in US history

    Action Item, Contact Your US Senators & Congresswoman, Economy, Educational Material, In The News, US Congress Legislation June 2, 2009

    GOTCHA! You thought I was talking about Mr Teleprompter in Chief didn’t you?

    Here is a must read history lesson on Communism right out of the Chicago CPUSA and DSA’s dossier on grooming their Presidential candidate while perfecting their Marxist agenda for America:

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    New Zeal Blogspot posted by Trevor Loudon at 6/01/2009

    Hard Evidence! Proof That Obama’s Hawaii and Chicago Communist Networks Were Linked?

    It is now well established that Barack Obama was linked to the Hawaiian Communist Party network through his boyhood/teenage mentor Frank Marshall Davis.

    It is also well known that after moving to Chicago, Obama linked up with the local communist networks.

    Manning Marable, a leader of the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence for Democracy&Socialism claims that Obama “understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years…”

    This leads to two key questions.

    A Were the Hawaii and Chicago networks connected?

    B Did Obama’s connection to Frank Marshall Davis in any way influence his progress up the Chicago political ladder?

    If the answer is yes to both, there are significant implications.

    It means that that the Communist Party USA was watching Obama from an early age and was willing to help his political career.

    Frank Marshall Davis was active in the Chicago Communist Party until he moved to Hawaii in late 1948.

    I speculated in this post that Davis may have known left wing journalist Vernon Jarrett in post war Chicago. A connection would be significant because the Jarrett family has played a very important role in Obama’s rise to power.

    Both Jarrett and Davis worked in the communist dominated South Side Community Art Center and on the communist influenced Chicago Defender newspaper, in late 1940s Chicago.

    I have since found conclusive evidence that Davis and Jarrett not only knew each other, but worked together in another Communist Party dominated organisation-The Citizen’s Committee to Aid Packing House Workers.

    “organized to support the united packing-House workers of America C.I.O. now on strike”


    The letter above is dated April 12, 1948. Note that CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) was at the time a communist controlled labor federation.


    To the left is a partial list of Citizen’s Committee to Aid Packing House Workers officials.

    Note the names Oscar C. Brown (Treasurer) and Louise T. Patterson (Assistant Treasurer), F.M. Davis and Vernon Jarrett.

    To confirm the connection, below is a close-up of the committee’s publicity committee. Note that it is chaired by Vernon Jarrett and includes Frank Marshall Davis.


    That the Citizen’s Committee was communist influenced is beyond doubt.

    Louise T Patterson was the wife of Illinois Communist Party vice-chairman and attorney William Patterson and a prominent Party member in her own right. Louise Patterson was still a leader of the Illinois Communist Party well into the 1970s.


    Further down the page was list of the organization’s “Food and groceries committee”. Named among them was Ishmael Flory, a leader of the Illinois Communist Party from the late 1930s until his death in 2004.

    Incidentally, one of the eulogists at Flory’s funeral was Timuel Black, a well known member of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy&Socialism and a long time friend and political supporter of Barack Obama.


    Oscar C Brown-later a famous jazz musician under the name Oscar Brown jnr, was also at the time a Communist Party member. he joined in 1946 and was expelled around 1954.

    In 1948 Vernon Jarrett left his job as journalist at the Chicago Defender to start a black oriented radio show “Negro Newsfront” with Oscar Brown.

    Jarrett was clearly on the far left and almost certainly, like his colleague Frank Marshall Davis, a covert member of the Communist Party.

    Jarrett worked hard promoting socialist causes including the communist controlled Progressive Party.


    Vernon Jarrett went on to become the Chicago Tribune’s first black syndicated columnist and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists.

    According to a Washington Post obituary May 25th 2004

    Mr. Jarrett continually shone a light on African American history and pertinent issues in Chicago and throughout the country. He stoked the political embers in Chicago that led to the 1983 election of the city’s first African American mayor, Harold Washington.


    Vernon Jarrett was a key influence in Washington’s decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty and remained a key supporter through his four year tenure.

    Harold Washington defeated the Daley machine to win the mayoralty backed by a coalition led by Chicago’s Communist Party and the local branch of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

    DSA member and socialist historian Paul Buhle, wrote in a 1992 article for the Encyclopedia of the American Left;

    Communists also gained from long-standing political contacts in the black community. Victories of black mayoral and congressional candidates with decades — old ties to the CP — a short list would include Coleman Young and George Crocket in Detroit, Gus Newport in Berkeley, and somewhat more ambiguously, Harold Washington in Chicago

    Washington was actively involved in Communist Party fronts such as the US Peace Council and the Chicago Committee on Southern Africa, right up to winning the mayoralty-with Party support. After victory he stacked his administration full of communists, socialists and sympathisers to create one of the most far left administrations in US history-cut short only by his pre-mature death after four years in office.


    I quote from remarks by Illinois Communist Party organiser John Bachtell to a “Special District Meeting on African American Equality and Building the Communist Party and Young Communist League, Chicago”, IL September 30, 2007.

    The legacy of Harold Washington’s election and his administration is in the collective consciousness not only of the African American community, but the entire city. Many of his democratizing achievements endure 20 years later.

    The historic election of Washington was the culmination of many years of struggle. It reflected a high degree of unity of the African American community and the alliance with a section of labor, the Latino community and progressive minded whites. This legacy of political independence also endures…

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    Barack Obama has stated that Harold Washington’s victory in 1983 was the spur that made him leave New York to move to Chicago.

    Vernon Jarrett was also a fan of Barack Obama. He watched his career from its early stages and became an ardent supporter.


    In 1992 Obama worked for the ACORN offshoot, Project Vote to register black voters in aid of the Senate Campaign of Carol Moseley Braun. Unsurprisingly Moseley Braun also had strong Communist Party ties and was Harold Washington’s legislative floor leader.

    Obama helped Moseley Braun win her Senate seat, then took it over himself in 2004-backed of course by the same communist/socialist alliance that had elected his political predecessors Harold Washington and Carol Moseley Braun.

    Commenting on the 1992 race, Vernon Jarrett wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 11th 1992;

    Good news! Good news! Project Vote, a collectivity of 10 church-based community organizations dedicated to black voter registration, is off and running. Project Vote is increasing its rolls at a 7,000-per-week clip…If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, “it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week,” says Barack Obama, the program’s executive director...

    Dee Myles is a Chicago activist and chair of the Education Commission of the Communist Party USA. In 2004, after Vernon Jarret’s death from cancer she penned this tribute for the People’s Weekly World of June 5th.

    Readers like me can be extremely selective of the journalists we read habitually… We are selective about the journalists to whom we become insatiably addicted, and once hooked we develop a constructive love affair without the romance….

    Such was my experience with Vernon Jarrett, an African American journalist in Chicago who died at the age of 86 on May 23. I became a Vernon Jarrett addict, and I am proud of it!

    Vernon Jarrett’s career as a journalist in Chicago began and ended at the Chicago Defender, the African American daily paper. In between, he was the first Black journalist at the Chicago Tribune, and I first began to read his articles during his tenure at the Chicago Sun-Times

    Jarrett’s claim to fame is that he was a partisan of the cause of African Americans in the broad democratic tradition of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois..

    Robeson and DuBois were both Communist Party members. On April 9th, 1998 at Chicago’s South Shore Cultural Center, Jarrett hosted a Paul Robeson Citywide Centennial Celebration event, with his old comrade and Party sympathiser Margaret Burroughs and former Communist Party members Studs Terkel and his old friend Oscar C.Brown.

    Dee Myles continues;

    Jarrett was fanatical about African Americans registering and voting in mass for socially conscious candidates. He championed Harold Washington like a great warrior, and this March, from his hospital bed, wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for Barack Obama in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.

    The Jarrett/Obama conection did not end with Vernon Jarrett’s death-it moved to a higher level with his famous daughter-in-law Valerie Jarrett.

    A former Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development under Harold Washington, Jarrett continued to work in the mayor’s office into the 1990s.

    In 1991, while Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley, Jarrett hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Barack Obama.

    Later Valerie Jarrett ran the finances for Obama’s 2004 Senate bid and served as treasurer of Obama’s HOPEFUND.

    The relationship is more than professional-Jarrett is regarded as one of the Obamas’ closest friends and advisors.


    According to Take Political Action May 24th 2008;

    “She’s always been the other side of Barack’s brain.” That’s how an Obama insider described Valerie Jarrett as an Obama campaign aide announced Thursday night the former CTA chief and current Habitat Co. CEO is taking on a larger role to help her close friend win his White House bid.

    The development comes as Jarrett, a charter member of Sen. Barack Obama’s kitchen cabinet, has been formalizing her portfolio and stepping up the pace within the past few weeks as a top advisor within the campaign.

    Though she will be part-time, Jarrett will be one of the most visible and powerful African-Americans in the top rungs of the Obama operation…

    Today Valerie Jarrett serves as one of three Senior Advisors to President Obama. She is Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, and Chairs the White House Commission on Women and Girls.

    Frank Marshall Davis works closely in communist causes with Vernon Jarrett in Chicago. Davis moves to hawaii where he eventually meets and mentors a young Barack Obama. Then Obama moves to Chicago where his career is promoted by both Davis’s old colleague Vernon Jarrett and the Communist Party. Vernon Jarrett’s daughter-in-law employs Barack Obama’s fiance, befriends the family and becomes one of President Obama’s most trusted advisors. The Communist Party throws its entire weight behind Obama’s presidential campaign.

    Are we expected to believe that this is all mere coincidence?

    Would there be an Obama/Jarrett relationship today, if there had been no Frank Marshall Davis/Jarrett connection through the Communist Party of post war Chicago?

    What role, if any, has the modern Communist Party USA played in fostering that relationship in more recent times?

    The Communist Party USA continues to back their “friend” Barack Obama.

    How deeply has the Communist Party been involved in advancing Obama’s political career-through the Jarrett family, or by other means?

    The answers to these questions will have major implications for the future of what’s left of the free world.

    Obama file 79 here posted by Trevor Loudon at 6/01/2009