reaction to elitism and narcissism
Hickenlooper: Colorado’s ‘Backwards Thinking in Rural, Western Areas’
Magellan Poll: “If trends continue it would not be surprising to find the final vote totals showing Dan Maes at 5% or less, and Tom Tancredo surging past John Hickenlooper.” Oct 22, 2010.
PCuicide
In the wake of NPR’s PC-spasm firing of Juan Williams, consider The Travails of Modern Islam by Daniel Pipes:
QUESTION: In relation to the two questions of what went wrong and how do we fix it, do you see a difference between hardcore Islamists and those that are less committed?
DR DANIEL PIPES: They are roughly the same. Various versions of Islamism exist. For example, in Saudi Arabia women can’t drive, can’t do this, can’t do that. In Iran, they can. The Iranian idea is that they’ve created an Islamic republic where women are safe. In the Saudi vision, danger lurks in every corner and females need to be protected. There are many such differences in both style and substance. But in the end, all Islamists aspire to the same thing which is the application of Islamic law. Islamic law differs slightly in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and India. They have different schools, but these are again details and in general the aspiration to apply Islamic law is common to all Muslims.
The generalizations abhorred by the politically correct need the most scrutiny.
illegal immigration
Illegal immigration is a massive problem that causes your eyes to glaze over when you try to think of remedies in total.
At Tom Tancredo’s meeting in Elizabeth yesterday, however, the question was asked and answered about what percentage of illegal immigrants also end up in our criminal justice process. The answer, confirmed by Tancredo and Sheriff Frangis, is that between 15% and 20% of arrested perps are illegal immigrants.
That’s a huge statistic. Why are we not deporting the 15% to 20% of perps in our criminal justice system who are also known illegal immigrants? What a perfect place to start solving the illegal immigration problem!
Reduce prison load and save a boatload of money from that, make the streets of America safer by deporting a known criminal element, and reduce the illegal immigrant population by its’ most undesirable subset.
Can you think of a good reason why to keep illegal immigrants in our jails and prisons?
Maes is over
People who still support Dan Maes have effectively withdrawn from meaningful participation in this election for governor. Whether Maes goes or stays, you can make a plausible case that voters currently dedicated to Dan Maes are irrelevant to the outcome of the race.
Let’s assume he stays, which seems the most likely case. If all those pledged to him remain loyal and vote for him, they won’t effect the outcome of the race for governor. That race will be decided completely by people who vote for Tancredo and Hickenlooper.
On the other hand, let’s assume Maes withdraws–the unlikely case. Some of his pledged voters will still vote for him, and won’t effect the outcome of the race. Some will choose not to vote at all, and won’t effect the outcome of the race. Some will vote for Tancredo on the principle of conservatism, while others will vote for Hickenlooper purely out of spite. Let’s face it, after all that’s gone wrong with Dan Maes, of the people remaining in his camp today who don’t end up in one of the nullifying outcomes, they’re as likely to go one way or the other (conservatism or spite), and those two camps will cancel each other out.
The bottom line is, whether Maes stays or goes, his voters have become irrelevant. The race is between those who relevantly declare for Tancredo and Hickenlooper, and Tancredo has about pulled even in that contest.
we the people…
…did not found the Elbert County Tea Party and did not elect its self-appointed Chairman. When will the Elbert County Tea Party embrace the consent of the citizens that it claims to uphold and elect its own party leaders? When will the Elbert County Tea Party hold its own leadership accountable for supporting Dan Maes and for siding with the left on Proposition 1A?
tea party and liberal against 1A
Tea Party self-appointed leader Robert Rowland sides with Democrat Whistler on Elbert County Proposition 1A.
ELBERT COUNTY FINANCIAL WOES
by Robert Rowland on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 1:30pm
WE NEED EVERYONE IN ELBERT COUNTY TO SEE AND READ THIS, PLEASE PASS ALONG. ELBERT COUNTY – BALLOT INITIATIVE 1A [Read more…]
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Tancredo’s K w/ Colorado
Vote YES on 60, 61 & 101
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Proposition 101 (Cut car, income, phone taxes)
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holy men vitamins
all litmus tests are not created equal
RE:
Call For The Immediate Resignation of All Republican Officials Openly Supporting 3rd Party ACP Candidate Tancredo
by Cindy Lyons on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:54pmI am calling for the immediate resignation of ALL Republican elected officials and party people who are caught openly defying state GOP party by-laws. It is shameful for a liberal reporter to expose so well what was lying under neath all along. When a Republican supports a party not their own they are called RINO: Republican In Name Only under the truest of circumstances. I call for all GOP Party Chairs to enforce this rule.
Cindy Lyons
Patriot
9-12 member
Republican Conservative
It took a systemic failure of the Republican caucus system for a public call to go out to purge the party of its RINO’s. But RINO’s have been comfortably ensconced in Republican Central Committees for years. Why must they suddenly be purged?
Because Maes zealots need someone to blame for the failure of the caucus system that they perpetrated. They abused the caucus apparatus, they screwed it up royally, and now they have bogeyman in the form of Tancredo supporters to blame.
The caucus system was never a good solution; it’s thoroughly corrupt and has been for a long time. But Republicans have an opportunity to really fix something if they have the courage that their professed patriotism and allegiance to conservatism implies.
Expelling RINO’s, even if they could do it which they can’t, will only further cement the caucus problem in place. So, do Republicans have the courage of introspection to analyze themselves and the conduct of their caucus process? Can they admit that the caucus system is the product of a small minority of self-appointed apparatchiks who convince themselves over time that they are representatives of the people at large, and that this bunch blew it big time?
This would be a great opportunity for Republicans to man up, take responsibility for their mistakes, and fix this broken corrupt caucus process.
The tenor of the Elbert County Tea Party however, full of self-righteous indignation, seems to be running away from these real growth opportunities as fast as they can. Electing the leftist opposition will be their legacy, they’ll never admit it, and they’ll go on nursing their coffee clatch political club for the rest of their days.
clock is ticking
Time is almost up to do the right thing Mr. Peterson.
The right thing would be to stop promoting the grifter for governor and get behind the man with real answers, real experience, real leadership and real command of the office he seeks.
And doing the right thing for the greater good would be to support tax limiting proposals instead of big public money interests.
When Republicans align with the NEA, the Colorado Progressive Coalition, the Democratic Governors Association, and the SEIU, it’s time to say goodbye to the Republicans.
Tancredo dominates debate tonight
The Governor’s Forum debate begins at about 23 minutes into this video.
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
The Closing Of The Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly
Foreword by Roger Scruton
“The roots of Western civilization lie in the religion of Israel, the culture of Greece, and the law of Rome, and the resulting synthesis has flourished and decayed in a thousand ways during the two millennia that have followed the death of Christ. Whether expanding into new territories or retreating into cities, Western civilization has continually experimented with new institutions, new laws, new forms of political order, new scientific beliefs, and new practices in the arts. And this tradition of experiment led, in time, to the Enlightenment, to democracy, and to forms of social order in which free opinion and freedom of religion are guaranteed by the state.
Why did not something similar happen in the Islamic world? [Read more…]
Essay Contest
Kerchner v. Obama
Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court for Kerchner v Obama
The threat to petitioners’ life, liberty, safety, security, tranquility, and property is actual and concrete rather than merely conjectural or hypothetical. The Declaration of Independence recognizes these rights as “unalienable” and as having been endowed upon an individual by his or her “Creator.” The Constitution recognizes these rights not as being abstract or theoretical rights but rather as concrete and real and needing protection from government abuses. It recognizes these rights as the essence of a person’s being. Petitioners sued Obama after he assumed the great and singular powers of the Executive. Obama was not a mere candidate with no power. Obama has had and continues to have executive and military power to harm the petitioners. He actually exercises those powers on a daily basis. Petitioners cannot rely on Obama, who was born with dual and conflicting allegiances to protect them as a “natural born Citizen” would. The United States Supreme Court has recognized the problems presented by dual nationality and has stated that dual nationality is a “status long recognized in the law” and that a person with such dual nationality “may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both.” Kawakita v. United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952). But because Obama has yet to and because he cannot conclusively prove that he is an Article II “natural born Citizen” because of his conflicting natural allegiance and loyalty, plaintiffs are not constitutionally expected to nor do they trust him to protect their life, liberty, safety, security, tranquility, and property as would a President and Commander in Chief of the Military who is a “natural born Citizen.” Petitioners must therefore be allowed to challenge Obama in order to protect these concrete rights.
Dems’ Ad Strategy
Ad Strategy Worked: Weak Tea Party Candidate Won Primary
“The most recently filed campaign records from Colorado Freedom Fund indicate that the Democratic Governors Association donated $150,000, while wealthy Colorado philanthropist Pat Stryker gave $108,000. The SEIU Small Donor Committee gave $200,000 and the Public Education Committee, an education union, gave $150,000. Two other groups gave $5,000 each to the committee.
“Democrats spent more money on Maes in two weeks than he raised in his entire campaign,” said Rob Witwer, co-author of “The Blueprint,” a book about the Democrats takeover of Colorado. “They wanted Dan Maes to be the Republican nominee and they got him.”