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Ground zero for freedom
Aug 31, 2010 Opinion Leave a comment
The Muslims who want to build this mosque didn’t fly airplanes into skyscrapers. They don’t support terrorism. By what understanding do we assign guilt to all for the actions of a relative few?
When a ‘Ground Zero mosque’ really is neither
Aug 31, 2010 Opinion Leave a comment
It can no more be considered the “Ground Zero mosque” than, say, the existing New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club one more block away could be considered the “Ground Zero Gentlemen’s Club.” From the pitched rhetoric of its opponents, though, you’d think a minaret-topped mosque was going to be built atop the site of the former WTC.
McCain Crushes Conservative Challenger
Aug 31, 2010 Opinion Leave a comment
Sen. John McCain took no chances in his primary fight with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, a talk radio host mounting a challenge from the right against the 2008 Republican presidential candidate.
Net-neutrality group challenged by ties to MoveOn.Org, ACORN
Aug 31, 2010 Opinion Leave a comment
A bipartisan coalition in favor of net neutrality has lost a key conservative supporter amid signs that the issue is becoming more divisive. The Gun Owners of America (GOA) severed ties with the net-neutrality coalition Save the Internet after a conservative blog questioned the association with liberal organizations such as ACORN and the ACLU.
St Louis Pizza Franchise Store Sign (Pic)
Aug 31, 2010 Opinion Leave a comment
…..someone is not happy with the way things are going!
Glenn Beck ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally (VIDEO): Attendees Talk Illegal Immigration, Gun Rights For Terror Suspects
Aug 31, 2010 Politics Leave a comment
Glenn Beck told the estimated 87,000 people at his rally Saturday that “America today begins to turn back to God.”
But the Fox News host’s preaching may have escaped some attendees.
A video of encounters with rally goers at “Restoring Honor” captured political views and comments that sound nothing like the words of Rev. Martin Luther King, who spoke from the same spot as Beck did, 47 years ago today.
While angry protest signs that have come to characterize tea party events were mostly absent from Saturday’s rally (Beck asked attendees to leave the signs at home), many people wore their political hearts on their sleeves.
The video, put together by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, shows rally goers weighing in on President Obama, “liberals,” the NRA’s support of gun rights for individuals on a federal terrorist watch list, and illegal immigration.
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Al Sharpton: Glenn Beck Rally Distorts King’s Dream
Aug 31, 2010 Politics Leave a comment
WASHINGTON Broadcaster Glenn Beck and tea party activists have a right to rally in the nation’s capital but not to distort Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday.
Sharpton described the demonstration planned for Saturday by Beck and his supporters as an anti-government rally advocating states’ rights. And he said that goes against the message in King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, in which the civil rights leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality.
Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally will be held at the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his speech exactly 47 years earlier. Beck and other organizers say the aim is to pay tribute to America’s military personnel and others “who embody our nation’s founding principles of integrity, truth and honor.” The broadcaster toured the site Friday as supporters cheered.
Sharpton wasn’t the only one upset with circumstance surrounding the event.
Leaders in the nation’s capital said they were offended by a tea party blogger’s warning to those attending to avoid two of Washington’s subway lines because they go through certain neighborhoods. Many parts of the city are safe, he wrote, “but why chance it if you don’t know where you are?”
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, who is running for mayor, invited visitors into the city’s neighborhoods and said Friday he would urge any tea partiers he meets to ride the subway.
“Frankly, we need to put an end to that venom,” he said at a news conference. “This is a city of 600,000 people people who enjoy living here, people who pay their taxes.”
“Let’s not let them get away with portraying the District of Columbia as some kind of frontier city,” Gray said. “We live in peace.”
The original post early Monday morning by blogger Bruce Majors was offered as a visitor’s guide for those coming to the district for the rally. It offered hints on cheap eats, free wireless Internet spots and the home addresses of Democratic political leaders, with the note, “Feel free to protest!”
Majors also wrote that the population includes “refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in D.C. whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their family would be in danger if they went back.”
He also wrote that taxi drivers and waiters and waitresses frequently are from foreign countries.
Majors, who said he has lived in D.C. since 1980, did not respond to telephone messages requesting comment Friday.
On Saturday, Sharpton and others plan their own rally at a high school and a march to the site of a planned King memorial not far from the Lincoln Memorial to mark the anniversary of his speech.
During a news conference Friday, Sharpton questioned whether Beck and others understand King’s words.
“They have the right to rally. But what they don’t have the right to do is distort what Dr. King’s dream was about,” he said.
He said King’s legacy is not owned by black people alone, and others can have different views of him. But he said they can’t have different views of King’s speech.
“His speech says clearly that he wanted to see a nation where the federal government protects us from those and states that would not uphold our civil rights,” Sharpton said.
“You can’t have a march telling government to leave us alone and say you’re reclaiming a march where they came to appeal to government to protect us,” he said. “They’re having an anti-government march on a day that King came to appeal to government. You can’t have it both ways.”
The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, who formerly represented the District of Columbia in the U.S. House, said Beck’s rally organizers “seized the hallowed ground of the 47th anniversary … to promote their universal vision of exclusion.”
“Their purpose is to turn the clock back in a time in America” when blacks and other minorities lacked rights, he said.
“It would be wrong for us to allow those who espouse the universal value of exclusion to hijack the site and the message of that marvelous day and to use it against the very vision that Martin Luther King Jr. articulated so magnificently,” he said.
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GOP Leader Boehner’s One-Liner Politics Falls Flat
Aug 31, 2010 Politics Leave a comment
Democrats—and the country—would benefit from a responsible opposition party. I’m still looking for evidence of one.
Redefining the American Citizen
Aug 31, 2010 Politics Leave a comment
As a nation with a large number of immigrants, however, there are social advantages to immediately offering citizenship to the second generation. It eases the path of assimilation for the whole family, who now have more motivation and opportunity to get involved in their communities and to learn the American culture and language.
Social Security Is ‘A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits’
Aug 31, 2010 Politics Leave a comment
Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is “like a milk cow with 310 million tits,” according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women’s League Tuesday morning. Simpson co-chairs the deficit commission, which is considering various proposals to cut Social Security benefits.