George Soros: Media Mogul

Rush picked up on it early – the liberal bias in the mainstream media. He identified certain phrases that various media would regularly use in response to major news stories and strung them together, and played them on air. It was astounding to hear talking head after talking head saying exactly the same thing, using the very same language. It was hilarious. We put it down to Democrat ‘talking points'. Nobody yet talked of conspiracy.

Story after story focused on Republican stumbles. Story after story promoted Democrats. Important stories that showed Republicans in a positive light were spiked altogether. Eventually it would come to be known as ‘media bias’. Any Republican who dared to speak out on his party’s behalf was immediately slammed by the press. Democrats, however, could do no wrong.

At about the same time, liberal news outlets began experiencing severe revenue shortfalls. Talk radio and the internet surged. Newspapers, like the New York Times became an editorial and financial laughing stock. Technology was blamed for news consumers’ full flight away from traditional media. I remember having expressed doubts at the time. It seemed too pat an explanation. We ourselves had cancelled two newspaper subscriptions and stopped buying magazines – and it wasn’t because we were getting our news from the internet. We were just tired of being insulted every time we turned the pages.

Now it has come out that there is essentially one man who has been behind it all along: George Soros, one of the richest, most influential men in the world.

Dan Gainor, Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture, writes in two recent articles (“Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?” and “Why Is Soros Spending Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations?”): “Since 2003, Soros has spent more than $48 million funding media properties, including the infrastructure of news – journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations.”

Soros is known as a ‘philanthropist’ worldwide, a label he carefully cultivates. It puts him outside the sphere of suspicion. We have since learned that his is not a benign influence. We’ve become aware of his outright hatred for the Bushes and Republicans in general, and Israel. It is now no longer surprising the way the media tracks.

In light of Soros’ hold on major media, his propaganda machine is virtually unstoppable. We can try to starve it in the market place, but there is always more money the man can come up with. There has even been the suggestion that, where he can, Soros spikes rival media outlets with offensive advertising.

In a way, now that we understand the game, it has become somewhat easier to figure out. Forget Republican; forget Democrat. The American media is the issue. It bleeds its poison worldwide. Keep track of what the media routinely smears and what it promotes, and you get a pretty good feel for what George Soros wants you to condemn and what he wants to promote. …and, for God's sakes, run the other way.

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Less Time To Flatten

Emotion – not reason - drives policy. Reason only serves in support. If we are to understand policy, we must first understand emotion. We use a variety of terms to describe emotion. Often such terms are misapplied. It happens quite innocently in the course of common occurrences: The wife asks, “Do you want okra or green beans for dinner?” I say, “Green beans.” She responds by saying, “I know, you hate okra.”“So why did you ask?” I say, and we’re off to the races.

In truth, I’m indifferent to both. Just because I have voiced a preference does not mean I have strong feelings either way. Yet, the word “hate” has been introduced into the conversation.

It’s no secret that Obama does not have a firm grip on the details that define the Middle East. He sees all Muslims as Muslims and all infidels as infidels - black and white. Simple. It is the same view “The Nation of Islam” here in the U.S. holds. Given such scant knowledge would be enough for any average American president to conduct foreign affairs. Unfortunately, Obama is on the wrong side.

Hatred is often mislabeled as ‘fear’. Islamists in the ME fear the West. They see their culture in danger of being diluted by western ways. That’s why they fight. Islam in the West hates the West as an expression of its own self-loathing. There is a difference.

Islam takes fear and envy and wraps them all in the same cloth and sets it on fire. For simplicity’s sake we call it ‘hatred’. They constantly misrepresent the enemy; to make him out worse than he appears. It is for this reason that Islamic nations do not welcome guests – and if they do, these are treated separately – all to maintain the ridiculous notion that all guests are pollutants.

Israel is seen as a pollutant on what Islam perceives as its land. They do not fear Israel (as Israel poses no existential threat); they fear the influence of a modern, successful, western nation in their midst. They fear not being able to maintain close theocratic control over their own, whom they view as chattel – easily distracted from the straight and narrow and apt to chase anything that glitters. They feel their hold slipping. As such, they will go to increasing lengths to see to it that their sheep, goats, camels and women stay in line.

The frustration that mounts within their populations is building to explode. Even that - by careful, systematic manipulation - can be directed to serve the theocratic regime. All the rage is channeled against Israel and the West (for protecting Israel). In this way the Islamic theocracy shields itself from having to answer for its own failures.

On Aaron Klein’s radio show today, not much was made of NABKA Day. It’s a day like any other for a nation under constant siege. What was interesting, however, was Aaron’s exchange in his last segment with Hussein. Hussein finds it inconceivable that anyone would question Obama’s legitimacy. He asks, how it could be possible for every one of America’s official high legal authorities (plus the media) to give Obama a pass without an adequate background check and takes umbrage at Aaron’s suggestions? He went on to accuse Aaron of fueling hate for hate’s sake.

We have seen other hoaxes before. Some have exploded (‘global warming’), some have not and are ongoing. Maybe freedom and liberty; rule of law; capitalism; a nod to representative governance all are hoaxes. But these are our hoaxes - hoaxes that Americans have chosen to live by. Obama’s hoaxes are entirely different. These are unwelcome. These were introduced into the body politic by stealth. They seek to tear down and destroy everything we’ve ever held dear. All we have to do is just look around: economy is in tatters, foreign policy in tatters; education in tatters; Constitution in tatters; government in tatters; etc.

The long knives are out for talk radio as well. Avlon’s article is one of these. Smerconish’s show is another. Both seek to pour oil on troubled waters. Unfortunately, I have heard, there’s not enough oil. (Can’t you just picture us throwing windmills and batteries into the drink?)

Emotion drives policy. If you hate that sandcastle on the beach with the penis shaped towers, you go over and you level it. It’s that elementary (my dear Watson). Chances are that it will take you a lot less time to flatten it than it took to build.

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We'll Never Know

It is those who question that control the narrative. During the Bush years, we questioned Republicans. The answers were insufficient. This would bring Obama and Democrats to power. Now, the tea parties are questioning Democrats and it looks much like a Republican sweep in November. Questions tend to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”. Seldom fatal, questions nevertheless put the heavy plodding of ideologues to shame in terms of artistic expression alone.

Back in the days when only Walter Cronkite and a just a handful of others read the news, no questions were raised. We all just tuned in to see what was happening. We pretty much accepted what we were being told. No alternate narratives were advanced. We now know that Cronkite was essentially a lefty, though it didn’t show and we never asked. It was during this time that the Left began to build its powerbase under cover of ignorance by infiltrating and taking control of every one of our sacred institutions.

Later, with the advent of (political) talk radio, questions were once again being asked. The public was fascinated and the whole notion of radio – which had been dying – revived. But overwhelmingly most people came to resent the ‘new’ medium. They did not appreciate the discord. Reasons needed to be found to dismiss the intrusion into mainstream corporate/government fiction. The drive was on to marginalize it; to pronounce it as ‘crazy’, radical - or merely burlesque. Still, as the taxpayer would continue to be raked over the coals, radio would grow into a significant player in our nation’s narrative; so much so, in fact, that serious consideration is now being given to banning the medium altogether – or at least to produce legislation to bring it to heel.

This is not to say that controlling the public narrative is akin to power. In some cases it might be argued that the questioning actually served to bolster the status quo by creating a backlash and give the likes of Limbaugh a black eye. However, questions remained and would accrue, especially as it became apparent that the course that the powerful, self-proclaimed elites had chosen for us would lead us to ruin.

The tea parties changed the equation. They succeeded in putting the elites on notice. Fueled by the questions that talk radio had been hammering all along, the tea parties have now grown into a movement. Questioning the powerful has become the narrative that now threatens to implode the very core of what is overwhelmingly seen as a failed agenda: liberalism. A new tactic had to be developed to counter it.

The questioning would have to be stopped dead in its tracks. We have been seeing this for some time now. Books that have sold in significant numbers remain ignored in literary and academic circles. Obama’s background remains a blank. The questions put forth by talk radio and other alternative sources are routinely dismissed. Conservative speakers are banned from university campuses.

It hasn’t worked. Despite the best efforts of the politicians and their media lackeys, the country stands on the cusp of rebellion. Stage three (stage one: ridicule; stage two: plead ignorance) would have to be implemented – and fast. We are seeing this now: News being squelched at its source.

As such, tea party activity remains largely unreported; as do problems along our Mexican border; looming economic collapse; the unmasking of the ‘global warming’ as fraud; etc. “Out of sight, out of mind” has become the motto of major news organizations.

To me, the most telling example of this trend came to mind in the non-reporting of the S. Korean naval ship’s sinking by N. Korea last month. The story of a clear act of aggression by a hostile power on one of our allies should be front page news everywhere. It is not. JB is the only one (to my knowledge) who is talking about it. Not even Bahukutumbi Raman who is like ‘white on rice’ regarding anything Asian has mentioned it.

We cross into dangerous waters when we go from ‘no news is good news’ to simply ‘no news’. How long before we will realize that 5.7 Jews have been massacred in Israel? How long before we realize that our dollar is not worth the paper it’s printed on? How long before we realize that our country as we have known it is gone forever? How long before we recognize that the president we elected was a Trojan horse working at the behest of our enemies?

I guess, if current trends take root, we’ll never know.

Moscow Subway Bombing

Looks like a classic example of the dog turning on its master. (Note: I make no qualitative distinction between dog and master.) From these (cyber) pages we have learned that Russia encourages Tehran; that Tehran encourages terrorists. Will Russia now cooperate with America to defeat terrorism?

Answer: No. Putin does not see America as a credible partner in any serious area of endeavor. Putin has looked into Obama's eyes and saw nothing useful there - only immense pride and unearned arrogance. Putin will handle this on his own. He will be utterly ruthless. He can be expected to take full advantage of the crisis. He will make heads roll publicly to distract from his own failings.

Americans watching from the sidelines will not feel encouraged. They will despair at what they see as their own president's efforts to counter terrorism. FBI raids of Christian militia groups will fail to allay fears.

Since passage of the health care bill, there has been much talk in the media about right-wing violence. The NYT – party organ of our current administration - has suggested that the tsunami of public disapproval of the bill has nothing to do with the bill itself; that instead, it has become an excuse by white males to attack a sitting black president. We are now to believe that any criticism of Obama’s policies is the result of racism. This is a dangerous tact this administration is taking.

Obama was elected primarily to vanquish white guilt. It appears to have backfired. Obama’s election is about to give race baiters a field day. I propose we shut down all conservative websites, and silence conservative talk radio. Why, when disagreement alone is deemed sedition, hand them more nails with which to crucify us?

Tantrums

Even one full year after taking office, the Obama administration is still in campaign mode. They still think they’re up against Republicans and, particularly, George W. Bush. It’s a disconnect that everyone is beginning to notice, especially in light of the fact that Republicans have not been doing much talking, and neither has GW. All they’ve been doing is quietly reeling out rope.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration, primarily because of its preoccupation with Bush, is also missing the signals the American people are sending. They’re spinning it so as to attribute their plummeting poll numbers to a failure to adequately explain the agenda (besides, of course, not getting it done within the timeframe predicted). They promise to re-double their effort: making more speeches; making more deals; twisting more arms; etc. They truly believe that the problems they’ve encountered are systemic: inherent in legislative protocol itself; inherent in the (unfriendly to big government) Constitution; inherent in the disinformation disseminated by FOX News and talk radio.

We can expect them to address all of this and more in the second and third year to smooth the way for Obama’s second term coronation. Senate rules will be changed; ditto, House rules. The Constitution will continue to be ignored (until someone gets it together enough to issue a formal complaint). And FOX News and talk radio will continue to be attacked, if not shut down altogether.

All this will be done in the belief that there is only one way to do things; that, because they won, it is now their turn to do shape the world to their image. Obama keeps saying that if there are any other ideas out there, he will put them on the table and consider these as well. He is lying. He is just as guilty as the next guy of ‘profiling’ – except, Obama profiles ideas. If they serve to advance the cause of socialism, he is down with it. If not, he rejects them outright. No thought is given to actually solving a problem. Problems are simply vehicles – like poverty, race, illegal immigration, and illiteracy have always been vehicles for the Democrat Party. Rather than issues to be addressed forthrightly and solved, they are to be used year after year to augment their power, grow government, and to act as a mace to bludgeon Republicans with.

BHO continues to make the mistake in thinking that he can continue to get away with performing the tricks outlined in the old Democrat playbook. He doesn’t realize that since his ascendancy to power, nearly everyone in this country has become aware of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’. To the extent that Obama himself actually believes it, is unknown. But suspicions are running high. The parallels are just too numerous. In addition, he overestimates his own (firm) support, not realizing it’s down to around 20%, which is what even a slug could expect were it elected POTUS.

No doubt, the Oval Office itself continues wield tremendous power. The man in it can still do an awful lot to affect us. Obama still has three years left to do his worst. We’ve seen that he cannot be educated and that he will not moderate. In his remaining time at the helm, we can expect to witness increasingly destructive tantrums authored by a determined and frustrated man.

Home-Grown Terrorists Plotting

Home-grown terrorists, plotting against us? Where is this coming from? Why is this happening? It's all those madrassahs and mosques and websites, preaching hate. Hatred is often aligned with righteousness for those shallow of thought. It is preached unceasingly in the Middle East.

But wait! Why single out the Middle East? Right here in America we have also succumbed to righteousness' allure. We too allow mosques, our public schools and prisons, our institutions of higher learning, our media to preach hatred directed toward opposing ideologies. Is it any wonder that the weak-minded should take some of this poison to heart?

For years now, we've sat by while talk radio has unabashedly smeared president after president; each duly elected to represent our nation. We're still doing it now, often with the red hot banner of righteous indignation unfurled and snapping in the storm. We listen compulsively for reasons to ridicule. It's become an industry in a nation that's managed to outsource everything else. And then we wonder why there are no longer any jobs in America.

Peace in Our Time

Did you hear the latest? Obama has, or is about to solve the problem of illegal marijuana - by making it legal. Similarly, all around the world, he has shown our enemies that he is willing, even eager, to join their ranks. This way, he figures, there will be no one to fight, and no one will want to fight us. Hence: PEACE in our time; the peace dividend to blow sky-high; and accolades from the likes of the UN and Nobel.

Imagine the world without enemies (excepting, of course, FOX, talk radio and Republicans)! Imagine a world without Israel, Taiwan, India and Eastern Europe. Imagine a world without America.

It’s no longer difficult to predict our future. Yet, there are too many who still don’t see. It may already be too late to reverse course. We’ve already traveled too far along this road.

There was never a reason for why we should lose a war. Yet we’re about to lose our second and third in a row. We’ve tied ourselves into knots for too long. Our whole nations has become the like the Republican Party which is afraid to win. Even when we win, we don’t act like winners – we apologize. It’s no wonder that the Marxists were able to step into the breach (no apologies there).

Nothing new on talk radio either. “The next election; the next election”. Over and over again, “the next election”. And what happens in the meantime? We argue about health care and cluck our tongues. “Did you hear what Rush Limbaugh said about slavery?” Did you read Helen Thomas’ latest book? How come Borders isn’t stocking “Liberty and Tyranny” anymore?

Meanwhile the country is slipping out of our grasp. What march? What tea parties? Did you hear? Obama had a party at the White House where ‘Earth, Wind and Fire’ performed. Awesome, dude!

We’ve got to do better than this. At this rate, we won’t last until the mid-terms. Never mind 2012. I no longer worry so much about Obama serving multiple terms. When things get this hot, there’s usually a world war. As soon as that happens, all bets are off.

The Antichrist Is Alive and Well

Everyone with half a brain can see that Barrack Obama is leading us down the garden path to socialism or worse. Some people have become so concerned that they have sought to organize tea parties, town hall confrontations with their elected representatives, and street protests. Yet, at least half the American population remains unconvinced. These include some of our most highly educated, most talented and most successful citizens. Why?

We might argue that the privileged among us also tend to be blinded by their privilege. They may be so wrapped up in academic theory as to be unable to see the signs that the perhaps less highly bred are able to recognize instinctively. We tend to dismiss animals as being stupid. Yet when the tsunami hit the east coast of India in 2004, it was the curious (humans) who got sucked out to sea while the stray dogs living on the beaches headed inland as fast as their spindly legs could carry them, well in advance of the sea returning in the form of a great, destructive wave. Similarly, those who consider themselves ‘educated’ - and more often than not ‘Godless’ - have lost their intimacy with the world at large, preferring instead to perpetuate their incestuous relationship with like-minded, self-actualized academic elites while ignoring the warnings quite obvious to everyone else.

I count myself among the masses, the salt of the earth (if you will). I’ve always held blue collar jobs and worked closely with immigrants and minorities whose main focus it was to put food on the table for their families. They’d heard about ‘global warming’ but never gave it much thought. Neither did they give much thought to world affairs or to politics in general. If asked, they would say they favor Democrats over Republicans.

Since Obama has been in office, things have gotten decidedly worse for them. Many are now subsisting on some type of government handout; others have gone back home. Still they tend to blame Republicans, capitalism and democracy (in that order) for their problems – this, largely due to the unrelenting propaganda spewed by the mainstream media targeting Republicans, capitalism and democracy for the past 50 some odd years. Curiously, even with their self-appointed savior, Barrack Obama, now at the helm of the most powerful nation on earth, they tend to exhibit a distinct lack of optimism.

There are of course many who know exactly what’s wrong and are able to articulate it. Talk radio has become the vortex of the opposition to the new president and his radical agenda. The hosts are smart, articulate and passionate. Their listeners have become a significant – albeit under-reported - factor in American politics.

Despite a Herculean effort to marginalize the conservative position, the movement appears to be gaining momentum. The government is now working on strategies by which they would be able to take talk radio off the air. No doubt, they will succeed at some point, citing some academic construct intended to illustrate some inequity.

Even as eyes and minds are being opened as to the nature of the government scam that is being hoisted upon Americans, there are still enough intelligent, well-meaning burghers who support Obama’s agenda. They might even know that the ultimate outcome is some version of socialism, but this also seems to be quite okay with them.

Conservatives, who have consistently been raising the alarm to the threat of socialism, are at wit’s end. The word ‘socialism’ itself does not seem to scare people anymore. Maybe they have forgotten their history: the Berlin Wall; Communist Eastern Europe; the Soviet Union; gulags; re-education centers; ovens, Cambodia; Cuba; etc. No matter how vocal we may be with respect to the dangers of socialism, many simply brush it off, denying it is so or, worse, accepting it as inevitable despite virtual volumes of historical documentation pointing to failure upon horrendous failure in terms of human degradation and suffering under such perverse governance.

The failure of our argument against socialism may stem in part from how we are framing it. People who still continue to view socialism as panacea are not likely to look back to understand what has happened in the past. Instead, they are looking to the future. It is there that they perceive a threat much more compelling than the mere surrender of individual liberties: the destruction of the earth itself.

Throughout history, people have been predicting the end of the world. Various causes were cited; various predictions made. Alarms were raised concerning over-population; pandemic; meteor strikes; decline in moral standards; Y2K; etc. Groups that espoused such bizarre ideas were generally considered fringe cults. So far, none of these predictions have materialized.

Today, the big scare is ‘global warming’. It has now become general knowledge that ‘global warming’ is occurring and that mankind, specifically America, is the cause. We are told it would lead to untold ecological and social disasters unless something is done to reverse it. Every child attending school in America may graduate without necessarily knowing the multiplication tables or even how to read the diploma handed to them at graduation, but all have been made indelibly aware of the threat of ‘global warming’. They have been made to feel that they themselves are to blame for polar bears drowning in the Arctic Sea as well as for any natural climate-related disaster. They’ve been made to feel guilty for wars, food shortages or any other social failings anywhere on the planet.

It’s no wonder that all this saturation scare mongering has had an impact. Now we feel compelled to look to anyone who can promise redemption – a way to save the planet as well as ourselves – no matter what must be sacrificed to appease the earth (mother) who has turned angry and threatens to withhold her patronage. This represents a throw-back to when the concept of religion first gained traction.

Socialism, the willing suspension of personal freedoms, is but a small price to pay for the guarantee of seamless continuance. And that is why so many off us are willing to take the unprecedented risk of embarking on an experiment whose proponents are arrogant enough to claim certain absolution for previous sins knowingly or unknowingly committed. Jihad suicide bombers labor under similar delusion.

The lesson learned is that we all are all religious, whether we admit it or not; that the Antichrist is alive and well, forever vigilant and prepared to take advantage of our human weakness ultimately to ensnare us in his diabolic schemes.

Scratching at the Surface

Word on the street has it that any version of any health care bill must be stopped now! Furthermore, any bill (cap and trade; immigration, climate, stimulus, etc.) proposed by this administration must be regarded as a Trojan horse, designed to promote anti-American principles. Due to the diligence shown by 'burlesque queens' like Glenn Beck and Mark Levin in gathering evidence marking many of the president's closest advisers as out and out communists - interested primarily in bringing about the redistribution of all wealth, reparations, the acquisition of immutable political power, and the elimination of the private sector; using social upheaval to effect a total reordering of society to resemble that of a Marxist state - suspicion of a conspiracy has leaked out. There are now enough Americans who do not trust this president's motives.

Hold-outs include those who have not yet brought themselves to see beyond the traditional rivalry between Democrats and Republicans, who refuse to accept that the Democrat Party has been hijacked by far Left elements and, as such, no longer represents any semblance of American values. Hold-outs also include those still wedded to Washington's political chess game and view it as masturbatory amusement or as an opportunity to sharpen and practice their cynical wit.

Even those who have connected the dots continue to snipe at colleagues perceived as rivals in the ratings race. I cannot for the life of me understand why Mark Levin, for example, continues to disparage both Beck and Savage when all three of them are essentially reading from the same page. We cannot continue effectively if we insist on bloodying our own.

JB too, is often heard making light of talk radio. Why? Is he not a part of it? I remember the days when JB himself used to announce his show as 'conspiracy radio'. He would spend endless segments on the vagaries of Bill Clinton's rascally brother, suggesting that this would bring the Clinton presidency down. There were so many scandals brewing in those days and JB was up to his neck in each comedic episodic farce.

Now, suddenly, here's a legitimate tragedy - conspiracy, if you wish. It involves no less than the dismantling of the very essence of our nation and the Constitution on which it is based. And all we hear is that talk radio sucks; Republicans suck; tea baggers suck. What's up with that, John? These appear to be the very people and groups who will need our support if we are to have any chance of fighting this menace.

I know you know what's at stake. I know you only report open source. I know you know much more than you can say. I know you know what's happening. Why are you only scratching at the surface?

Face/Off

We, as a people, have largely abandoned fact. We’ve tied our fate to pure emotion. We either love something or we hate it. We're no longer reluctant to announce our likes and dislikes publicly. We indulge ourselves shamelessly in our prejudice without having to suffer the consequence of being proven wrong.

As such, an expansive and lucrative industry has developed; one, that can supply designer ‘facts’ to suit every mood. Hate Israel? Plenty of material out there to support this position. Hate Republicans? Ditto. Love men? Women? Nazis? Children? Islam? Everyone has a favorite site they can go to find support for their particular perversion. And so, perversion is continually reinforced - anonymously and entirely without consequence. In some cases, some twisted truth manages to gather so much momentum as to become mainstream. (Classic example: Bush Derangement Syndrome.)

JB is right to view right-wing talk radio with suspicion. It is often pompous and tediously predictable. The same is true of its lone counterpart, Air America. To whom, then, can we turn to get a fair and balanced assessment of events? The John Batchelor Show, perhaps? We too have our crazies, to be sure. But Batchelor himself always manages to maintain a stiff upper lip.

I have found that in general it takes more effort to promote a lie; and its promotion, therefore, is apt to be more desperate; more conspicuous; flamboyant. But, as Barry Goldwater once said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” This, I believe, is what gets Limbaugh et al. off the hook.

At the moment, every position regarding Israel is extreme. This has come about because of the unwavering demand by a large and influential part of the world’s population to have Israel wiped off the map. There is no middle ground.

At the moment, the Democrat (turned Socialist) Party is engaged in a bitter campaign to socialize the biggest, most successful free market economy in the world. They have decided to draw support from anyone with a beef. They have made the calculation that Israel can be sacrificed without hurting their cause. As such, they freely disseminate anti-Israel propaganda in the hope of recruiting the larger of the two populations to their side.

Until some semblance of middle ground can be re-established, the crazies on either side will continue to slug it out. As the rhetoric heats and reaches the boiling point, containment will cease to be an option.

Whether Islamist or Democrat (turned Socialist), neither is in a position to accept compromise. Their arguments are too weak to withstand even so much as fair scrutiny. In order to survive, it is essential that Israel as well as Republicans match tactics. The ‘other’ cheek has been bloodied so often, we are in danger of no longer having a face to present. If Israel should fade to a footnote in the ancient scrolls, can America be far behind?

Saving Our Nation

I don't think that simply voting yes (no) on greenhouse gasses will give Thaddeus McCotter a get-out-of-jail-free card. It's not just stating the numbers of those attending the proposed 9/12 March on Washington; he must be there. It's not just keeping silent when talk turns to talk radio (Levin, Gambling, Savage, Hannity, etc.); he must appear (like Peter King). He must not speak in veiled terms when defining this administration as essentially 'socialist', 'Marxist', 'statist', 'Jacobin', usurper, anti-American. The American people already know that this administration's policies make them that and more. He must not be afraid to suffer the slings and arrows of the American media and those of mercenary organizations like ACORN and moveon.org. He must be willing to be pilloried by the Left; to proudly show his wounds and outrage without flinching.

These ads by moveon.org are just a taste. They mean nothing except to those trapped inside Oz. The action has shifted beyond and into the hearts and minds of Americans who see themselves as having been abused by the likes of Ted Kennedy for decades. They are gathering steam; they are fighting back - not violently, as this is not their style - the only way they can, by sitting on their hands and letting the economy grind to a halt. (Washington does not run the economy; the people do.) The final blow afforded them will come at election time when everyone - Democrat and Republican alike - will be unceremoniously swept out.

I hope McCotter reads this. He should know that this great political force that is building will lay waste to all the corruption and double-dealing in DC. For the first time in a long while (probably not since the American Revolution), the decks will be swept clean in a burst of righteous anger. "You're either with us, or against us." There is no middle ground. Line up with the folks outright and conspicuously, or you too will be swept off the stage - along with the rest of us should we fail in this great endeavor which involves nothing less than saving our nation.