Posts Tagged ‘Progressives’

Andrew Marcus

Liberal Hypocrisy On Display In Berkeley As Student Defends Riots Against Education Immigration

by Andrew Marcus

Instapundit points to this video interview of a Berkeley student representative explaining why it’s okay for students to riot in the streets in the name of their cause.

We posted the raw video of the rioting here.

What’s so interesting about this interview is that during two separate moments, the student representative displays an astounding level of liberal-Progressive hypocrisy.

We have taken the liberty of transcribing these two sections below.

Moment number 1 – (2:00)

HOST: Describe to me what exactly what you guys are going through that just absolutely causes this outrage.

STUDENT: Absolutely. Well um in the fall the UC regents voted in a %32 fee increase to over 10000 a year for in-state tuition. This at a time that they are cutting classes, letting in fewer student from in-state and more students from out of state. Um, so effectively we are closing off the campus, making it less accessible to people, and those who are here are getting less out of their education.

That complaint doesn’t sound too immigrant friendly. Is she saying that Berkeley students only want immigrants from other states and countries just as long as they go to private schools?

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Posted Mar 5th 2010 at 6:13 am in Culture, Education, News, Politics | 171 Comments

Jeffrey Jena

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Bunning Throws Reid the High Hard One

by Jeffrey Jena

I grew up in Kentucky where every boy who ever played baseball knew the name of Jim Bunning. He is the Hall of Fame pitcher who threw a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies and knew how to play hardball long before the tingly-legged Chris Matthews co-opted the name for his decidedly softball show.

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If you are anywhere near being a fiscal conservative you have to absolutely love what Senator Jim Bunning did this week. This week Senator Bunning showed Senator Harry Reid, and a few Senate Republicans how to throw one high and tight. His one man play at fiscal responsibility has the Washington “in” crowd crying foul and showing their hypocrisy.

In case you missed it here is a brief rundown. A few weeks ago the Congress passed a bill known as “Pay-Go,” a fluffy piece of nonsense posturing. On its surface Pay-Go seems to be fiscally responsibly, if you want to spend some money you need to show where it is going to come from. Senator Bunning knew the bill was hogwash because any spending could avoid being subject to Pay Go if it was “an emergency.” He didn’t vote for the bill for that reason. He also saw another flaw in the bill, a single Senator could hold up the whole Senate if they wanted to.

This week when Senator Reid tried to push through an extension to unemployment benefits Senator Bunning played a little chin music for the Majority leader and put the breaks on the additional 10 billion in spending. Senator Bunning invoked his right to stop the bill and call for the application of the Pay Go rule. When members of the media hounded Senator Bunning for a comment he showed them the door, of the elevator he was taking. Nice added touch!

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Posted Mar 4th 2010 at 12:59 pm in Congress, News, Politics, federal spending | 141 Comments

David J. Bobb

This Is Your Country on Progressivism

by David J. Bobb

Picture an incandescent light bulb. This is your country.

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Now imagine a compact fluorescent light bulb. This is your country on Progressivism.

What does a country on Progressivism look like? To start with, in the evening hours it’s pretty dim. Have you tried reading at night in a hotel room recently?

With more than 300 million of those little curly-Q fluorescent light bulbs now sold annually, our country is looking a lot less bright. Ever since Congress a few years ago declared that by 2012 Americans needed to be more energy efficient, it’s been out with Edison, in with the EPA. And turn on some more lights—I can’t see a thing!

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Posted Feb 17th 2010 at 2:16 pm in Uncategorized | 417 Comments

Andrew Marcus

There’s Something About Sarah

by Andrew Marcus

We have been poring over our thousands of photos from the Tea Party Convention, and in so doing, we discovered the following shot among our Sarah Palin files.

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Founding Bloggers photographer, Michael Kadela, didn’t know it at the time, but he had captured the exact moment Sarah Palin glanced down at her left hand, to read the note she had written there earlier.

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Posted Feb 11th 2010 at 1:11 pm in Culture, News, Obama, Politics, Tea Party | 400 Comments

Morgan Warstler

Think Progress: ‘Let’s Not Pay Back China’

by Morgan Warstler

If there’s anything that should convince China to become more capitalist, and put less faith in socialism, it is American progressives.

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Yesterday Matthew Yglesias’ head shook violently and he barked out like Paul Krugman with Tourette’s :

…you could start musing allowed about how many we just won’t pay the Chinese the money we owe them. Or you could reflect on the fact that if the People Bank of China is determined to buy bonds and prevent the dollar from falling at all costs, then we may as well totally forget about the short-term deficit and just not collect any taxes at all for the rest of FY 2010.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe this marks the first time in modern history a liberal has suggested we stop collecting taxes.

Welcome to the naked liberal mind.  Technically, it shouldn’t shock us, Matt is just riffing off the subtext of Paul Krugman’s prescription for what ails us – massive inflation.  Liberal economics springs forth from this assumption: We just keep printing money to payoff Dem voters until our debts aren’t so big any more.

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Posted Feb 9th 2010 at 2:07 pm in Economics, News, Politics | 183 Comments

Jim Hoft

Heartless Progressives Send Message to Tim Tebow: We Wish You Were Never Born

by Jim Hoft

They wish he was never born.

Heartless progressive women’s groups don’t want Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow to speak. They don’t want him to tell his story. They wish he was never born.

The Women’s Media Center and over 30 other liberal and women’s advocacy groups sent a letter to CBS urging the channel not to air a Super Bowl ad about Tim Tebow’s birth. The Heisman Trophy winner and Focus on the Family will air an ad during the game on Tim’s story.

Tim Tebow was born on August 14, 1987 in the Philippines to Bob and Pam Tebow, who were serving as Christian missionaries at the time. While pregnant Pam suffered a life-threatening infection with a pathogenic amoeba. Because of the drugs used to rouse her from a coma and to treat her dysentery, the fetus experienced a severe placental abruption. Doctors expected a stillbirth and recommended an abortion to protect her life. Pam carried Timothy to term, and both survived- via Wikipedia.

Now Tim Tebow wants to tell his story. He wants to air an ad at the Super Bowl. Earlier this week he responded to the attacks by progressives:

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Posted Jan 27th 2010 at 11:01 am in Culture, Politics | 400 Comments

Andrew Marcus

Hitler’s Other Little Helpers – IBM And GM/Opel

by Andrew Marcus

Let’s give the Progressives a rest today. Judging by the 700+ comments on yesterday’s Big Government thread: Media Matters Attacks Beck – Ignores Progressive Roots Of The Klan And Holocaust, it looks like they could use a breather.

Today, we would like to focus on Hitler’s other little helpers: IBM and GM/Opel.

Edwin Black, who authored War Against The Weak, a forensic examination of the Progressive-Eugenic movement, also has written extensively on the role IBM played prior to and during the Nazi Holocaust. From the introduction of War Against The Weak.

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From the IBM and the Holocaust website:

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Posted Jan 25th 2010 at 7:19 am in History, Politics, Uncategorized | 260 Comments

Andrew Marcus

Media Matters Attacks Beck – Ignores Progressive Roots Of The Klan And Holocaust

by Andrew Marcus

Media Matters is attempting to attack Glenn Beck over his exposé of Progressive violence and crimes against humanity in the previous century.

Media Matters can spend all year trying to deny the blood soaked roots of the progressive movement, but that’s a little like Democrat Robert Byrd arguing that there was no such thing as slavery, let alone the KKK.

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Case in point, one topic Media Matters and other progressive groups don’t want to deal with is how Progressive Eugenics inspired the Master Race holocaust of WWII.

I have covered this here before, and the facts are truly damning as well as irrefutable.

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Posted Jan 24th 2010 at 5:51 am in Featured Story, History, Media Criticism | 914 Comments

Andrew Marcus

Media Matters: Progressives Take A Courageous Stand Against Israel

by Andrew Marcus

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Media Matters’ evil twin, Media Matters Action Network, has posted a disgustingly biased screed, casting Israel as a villain in a vacuum:

Progressives Speak Out On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

December 18, 2009 5:07 pm ET by MJ Rosenberg

This week there was new evidence that mainstream progressives are confronting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  After years of silence on the issue, progressives are coming around to understanding that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not just a “Jewish” or “Muslim” issue but one that affects all Americans.

We have to jump in here for a moment to point out that the conflict is exactly a “Jewish” and “Muslim” issue.  Because of the Muslim concepts of Jihad, Infidels, and Dhimmitude, an uncountable number of Muslims feel humiliated by the reality of Jewish self determination on what they consider to be “Muslim land.” They really don’t like that a group of Judeo-Christian infidels from the US help support the Jew infidels of Israel.  They have vowed to recognize no boundary in their depravity as they relentlessly drive for their final solution to this Infidel transgression.

It would be more honest to have a debate as to whether the Islamists will stop hating us if we stop supporting the Israeli Jew Infidels, but attempting to portray the conflict as anything other than as described above is either naive or dishonest. We leave it to you to determine which applies best to the Media Matters Mafia.

Now back to our regularly scheduled bias:

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Posted Dec 20th 2009 at 10:08 am in Politics | 144 Comments

Andrew Marcus

The Green Mask Is Being Peeled Away From The CO²mmunists – All Eyes Now On Copenhagen

by Andrew Marcus

Now that we are learning prominent leaders of the global warming movement destroyed the data they claim to have used to construct their climate models, and only the most rabid environmental fraud deniers still cling to the authenticity of their “science”, a serious moment of truth is fast approaching.

That moment is Copenhagen, which has always been about much more than so called “man-made global warming”. Copenhagen has always been about striking a “Global New Deal”.

Last month, we compiled and posted extensive evidence of years-long Democratic party coordination with the Party of European Socialists (PES). Click here to see our detailed examination of this special relationship, including then Party Chairman Howard Dean’s full address to the 7th Congress of the PES.

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If you do not have the time to examine the detailed account linked above, just take a look at the video below for a quick and horrifying taste of what the global Progressive movement has been cooking up for Copenhagen. It’s a promotional video for the “Global Progressive Forum”, an event created and organized by the PES.

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Posted Nov 30th 2009 at 12:57 pm in Environment, News, Politics | 84 Comments

Andrew Marcus

Who is Steve Max: Ward Churchill Meets Rahm Emanuel

by Andrew Marcus

From the archives of the extreme progressive left comes this little ditty written in 2001 by SDS founding member, and DSA Vice Chair, Steve Max.

In November 2001, just 8 weeks after the devastating terrorist attacks on New York and DC, Steve Max delivered a speech to the progressive “USAction Delegation Assembly”, on the topic of taking advantage of the new crisis as an opportunity to advance a progressive agenda.

The speech reads like Ward “little Eichmanns” Churchill and Rahm “never let a good crisis go to waste” Emanuel, all rolled up into one offensive Progressive rant.

Why does any of this matter? Because Steve Max, as a co-founder of Citizen Action (which later became USAction) and the Midwest Academy, is one of the people who likely trained SEIU’s Andy Stern, Rahm Emanuel, and even President Bracak Obama, in the Alinsky method of organizing toward revolution.

Mr. Max makes a couple of worthy points in his speech, however they are lost in a sea of moral equivalence and cynical political opportunism. Just 8 weeks after the deaths of 3000+ innocent people, who’s only crime was that they were judged as “infidel” by their islamist attackers, Steve Max opines to the progressive community:

The Chinese character for crisis, they say, is a combination of two other characters standing for danger and opportunity. We are now in such a period of crisis. There is great danger but there is also opportunity to advance to a progressive program.

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Posted Nov 8th 2009 at 1:38 pm in History, Obama | 43 Comments

Kyle Olson

Solidarity Schmolidarity: Teacher Larry Sand Exposes His Union

by Kyle Olson

 When you spend day after day examining the self-serving agenda of the nation’s two largest teachers unions, you develop a tendency to think badly of teachers.

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That’s a mistake. We have to remember that there are millions of great teachers out there, doing their best to help our children develop on a dialy basis. We have to remember that many teachers do not subscribe to the left-wing political agendas of their unions, or approve of their tactics.

Larry Sand is a great example. This recently-retired educator from Los Angeles was a member of the NEA-affiliated California Teachers Assocation. To his credit, he’s also a major pain in the backside of the CTA.

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Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 9:30 am in Big Labor, Education, Politics, State Politics | 41 Comments

Andrew Marcus

EnvironMENTAL Illness!

by Andrew Marcus

What would be the result if someone walked into a psychiatrist’s office and disclosed their belief that the weather is out to get them? Should the doctor be compelled by the state to initiate a competency hearing, or would a prescription for a fist-full of Prozac do?

What if the patient were a cop? Should they lose their badge?

What if the patient were a teacher? Should they lose their classroom?

What if the patient were an entire political movement? Should they lose their credibility and status as an authority on any and all subjects, at least those related to the weather?

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At first glance, this 2007 report pulled from the internet archives of the Tides Foundation would appear to be making the claim described above; however, the cause is not so much driven by delusion as it is pathologically fraudulent.

The basic thrust of the publication (a conversation between the Tides Foundation’s Catherine Lerza and Redefining Progress’ Michel Gelobter) is that the effects of “global warming” are disproportionately felt by disadvantaged minorities.

[Catherine]Lerza: The impacts of global warming highlight social and racial inequalities around the world. It certainly affects poor communities differently. We saw that clearly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Could you talk about these different impacts of climate change depending on geography, race, and class?

[Michel]Gelobter: Communities of color and low income communities in this country clearly feel the impact of climate change and have been feeling that impact for over 20 years.

My organization, Redefining Progress, has conducted a number of studies on Latinos and climate change and African-Americans and climate change. Different communities bear quite a different vulnerability to the risks of global warming. Six years ago, we already had figured out that the greatest victims of climate change were the lower-income communities and communities of color. You can see it in the disparity in heat deaths in St. Louis. You can see there’s an impact on agricultural communities and on border communities and indigenous communities, particularly in the Arctic.

We have to address issues of justice: people have a right to health and to a secure place to live. They have this right whether they’re black, or white, or whatever.

This excerpt clears up at least one major misconception: that the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina was the result of nature mixed with systemic governmental failure at all levels.

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Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 6:00 am in ACORN, Environment, Featured Story, Obama, Politics | 62 Comments