No, Sir, I Will Not Yield ( By Jerry Wilson, Goldfish and Clowns)

In Frank Capra’s classic film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, one that is mandatory viewing for all lovers of America and haters of corrupt politics plus media, there is a scene during the movie’s climax in which Jimmy Stewart’s character is on the Senate floor confronting false charges brought by those who brought him to the Senate to vote for a pet project. One of the senators asks him to yield the floor, to which Stewart’s character angrily replies, “No, sir, I will not yield.”

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So Goes Ohio (By Amy Lidster)

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I have a friend on twitter. Navy vet, Red Sox fan in the Diaspora, good husband, step dad, blogger, hard working guy. Never stuck his hand out except to pull someone else up. 

Conservative dude in Toledo, fighting the good fight, goes to church and works at a job coaching disabled people for a major corporation, but his hours have been reduced. And when his hours have been reduced, so have the disabled workers.

So goes Ohio, So goes the nation.

What's my point?

Our Candidate, Mitt Romney is coming to his hometown this week, and he can’t afford to take the two hours necessary off work to go see him. A once in a lifetime chance to see whom we believe with every fiber of our being the man who will deliver us from incompetence and he can’t go.

In a year, @richjanet96 probably will be able to take 2 hours off. But it will be too late, the campaign will be over and President Romney won’t be visiting Ohio as much.

Maybe Rich and those in his charge can take those two hours off and watch the state of the union together. And heave a sigh of relief.

ACLU: High school's father-daughter dance is discriminatory (By B. Christopher Agee)

The American Civil Liberties Union has certainly taken an interest in disrupting the
 traditions of one Rhode Island school district lately. Earlier this year, the freedom-squashing
 ACLU (naturally) took up the cause of a 16-year-old atheist student
offended by a “controversial” prayer banner donated by the graduating class of 1963.
In the end, the school buckled and removed the donated banner while
 the student’s lawyers stuck the city with $173,000 in legal fees. Agree or disagree with that decision, but the ACLU was not finished dissecting
the school’s so-called offensive practices.
Recently, the left’s favorite group of lawyers turned their focus to the same school district after one parent complained that the traditional father-daughter dance amounted to gender discrimination. Not satisfied, the ACLU also pressured the school to end its mother-son baseball game.
In a statement, an ACLU spokesperson explained why the events are supposedly discriminatory.
“Not every girl today is interested in growing up to be Cinderella,” the spokesperson stated.
That statement seemingly states that, to the ACLU, if an event doesn’t appeal to 100 percent of those who might possibly attend, the event is discriminatory and must be banned. Could anyone imagine a world where each opportunity for entertainment must appeal to the entire population?
Since everyone doesn’t like acting or singing, should there be no drama or choir clubs in schools?
To his credit, the city’s mayor stated unequivocally that he feels the decision was ill-advised, saying it was
 made in “the name of political correctness.”
The district’s superintendent, though, seemed to support the new policy.
In an internal letter, he said, “[T]his is a public school system and under no circumstances should be isolating any child from full participation in school activities and events based on gender.”
Leftists continue to deny there are any differences between the two sexes, which likely helps justify the ongoing cry for gender to be a non-issue in marriage. Traditional parents, though, still see the need to
 reinforce the gender roles the human race has embraced since the beginning.
Within one year and one school district, one can easily see how the ACLU and its liberal amen choir wants nothing more than to redefine this nation and what it means to be American. Beginning in grade school, students are now told boys must not act boyish; girls cannot embrace the girly; and no one, under any circumstance, may be allowed to pray (or even be in the same room as a written prayer) to Jesus Christ.
We cannot let them hijack our future generations and must realize they are well on their way to doing just that.
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Patriots: Don't let Big Brother intimidate you! (By: B. Christopher Agee)

I recently discovered an online conservative forum called Right Wing America, which graciously shares my articles and those by other Western Journalism contributors. Upon introducing myself, I was greeted with hospitality and quickly established a rapport with several of the members.
After browsing the posts for a while, I was struck with the unabashedly conservative viewpoints being freely shared among members. It was refreshing to see people unafraid to speak their minds, especially when free speech is being attacked at every turn by leftist ideologues. In a subsequent interview with the co-founders of the site, I determined these patriots understand there might be repercussions for their outspokenness – they just speak out in spite of it.
We cannot simply remain quiet out of fear.  This nation was formed by those willing to call out tyrants no matter the retribution that might follow. They saw the bigger picture, which was creating a sustainable environment to foster individual freedom. Now, as that unique environment is being targeted, it is time again for us to bravely defy their attacks.
After noticing a forum he co-created which focused on issues such as hunting and fishing and received far more political posts than anything else, Ace said he decided to begin RWA as a safe haven for the discussion of conservative issues.
“We steadily rose from 200 to about 900 in six months,” he said, saying outrage over Obama’s destructive policies was responsible for much of that rapid growth.
Though membership is limited to right-wingers (the site has a special forum, known as “Right Wing Hell” for banished liberals) Ace said visitors often have sinister origins. He said he has tracked government IP addresses to Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington D.C.
“I’m sure there are government trolls on the site reading and recording everything we say,” he explained. “If a guy can get arrested for saying something on Facebook, I’m really surprised that no one has been arrested on here.”
Despite that, he said the forum maintains “a firm free speech policy.”
Byrdie, a co-founder who serves as one of the sites “gatekeepers,” is always on the lookout for sinister spider accounts. She said she created a comprehensive list of government IPs, noting she’s seen some of them present on the RWA forum page.
“I always find at least two government IPs watching us,” she said. “Hell, we’ve gone so far as to give them shout-outs on the site.”
She is realistic about the possibility of backlash, saying, “Retaliation will come; I’m sure of that.”
No matter, she is determined to maintain an online location for conservatives to meet and express their concerns about the future of this country while sharing current events about which all American should be aware.
“I just feel it’s worth the risk,” she said. “RWA has exploded lately; it’s growing quickly. Obama has forced people to look for sites to vent.”
“Administrators do have a contingency plan,” she said.
“Ace has a backup site ready to go online if RWA is ever taken down. We won’t go without a fight,” she said.
I’m sure there are similar situations playing out across the Internet, though I must admit a hectic schedule keeps me from spending much time exploring the various conservative forums. I’m just pleased I found a group that shares my beliefs and are unafraid to speak of them openly.
Byrdie said it best, so allow me to close with her eloquent words claiming her right to free speech:
“I’m an American, I have rights just like everyone else. They’ll have to drag me away screaming before I’ll stop fighting for this country.”
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Twitter, Twitter, Little Star ( By Jerry Wilson, Goldfish and clowns)

As the Battle of Butthurt rages on, it’s interesting to note how recent media malpractices are echoed in the echo chamber where the Rockefellers speak only to the Vanderbilts and the Vanderbilts speak only to themselves.
Over the past few days, we’ve seen our ambassador and embassy personnel murdered, our embassies (which are our sovereign territory) attacked, our flag desecrated and replaced with one favored by Al Qaida, embassies of other Western civilized countries attacked, the Middle East drawing ever closer to war… and the media responding by first clamoring loud and long over Mitt Romney having the audacity to criticize an official US State Department communique that threw the First Amendment under the bus as it expressed outrageously outraged outrage over some lame film trailer hurting Muslim’s precious little feelings (after which assorted and sordid members of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage attacked the embassy anyway), then as the horror of our ambassador being dragged through the streets of Benghazi could no longer be avoided shifted its attention to the maker of the aforementioned lame film trailer as the root of all that ails our foreign policy. Apparently Romney and the aforementioned film maker were responsible for egging on an Egyptian crowd to chant “Obama, Obama, we are a million Osamas.” Because, you know, no one in the Obama administration has ever said a word about how Obama was President when the US military found and killed Osama Bin Laden, as to do such a thing might possibly incite assorted and sordid Islamofascists to do things like… oh, attack and murder American officials. Which they’re going to attempt anyway, but now with additional cover reasons for their crimes. Anyway, of course this whole minor incident in Libya by a few misguided misunderstanders of Islam was an entirely spontaneous protest incited by the aforementioned lame film trailer. And one of the protesters  just happened to have a RPG on them. Happens all the time. Why, RPGs are more commonly carried items than cellphones in Libya! As is the case everywhere.
Now that that’s out of my system, moving on to how the aforementioned media malpractice ties into the Battle of Butthurt.

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Authorities continue to intimidate Bible study leaders (By: B. Christopher Agee)

The news of an Arizona pastor jailed and fined more than $12,000 for hosting a Bible study group in his home rightfully outraged a great number of freedom-loving Americans. Granted, some facts emerged later in the case that seem to paint the pastor as less than upfront on some peripheral issues, but the fact remains that his first brush with the law emerged from his desire to increase the faith of his friends and neighbors.
It would be bad enough if this had been just an isolated incident, but prosecution (and persecution) of practicing Christians continues, as chronicled in the recent charges against one Florida couple.
The couple invites up to 10 people into their home on Friday evenings for prayer and Bible study, which local government decided warrants a $250 fine per day for code violations. The targeted hosts framed the hypocrisy perfectly, saying nothing is done when just as many individuals converge on a residential location to view a football game.
Technically, oppressive officials claim, the practice of reading God’s word and invoking Him in prayer makes the home in which it takes place a “house of worship.”
Do we have free speech in America? When churches face the possibility of IRS retribution for politically incorrect sermons, and private citizens are afraid to mention the name of Jesus in their own homes, my contention is that today’s liberal elite views the First Amendment as little more than irrelevant words written by out-of-touch white people.
To be fair, many on the left view everything our founders did as irrelevant, but freedom of speech (and with it, freedom of religion) is the cornerstone of our republic – a right without which liberty becomes an impossibility.
Thank God for informed citizens, even in the liberal hotbed of California. After local officials in that state caught significant flak for fining a couple who hosted a Bible study identified by the city as “a regular gathering of more than three people,” they reversed course and adopted state legislation allowing such small meetings to continue without expensive permits and inconvenient regulation.
For every victory such as this, though, how many dictatorial officials are spying into the living rooms of believers across this nation? The truth is that there should be no need for citizens to fight for their right to pray and fellowship with other Christians. That right should never be threatened in the first place!
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how much manpower is being directed toward every home three or more practicing Muslims happen to occupy at the same time. It’s disturbing we only hear of Christians being subjected to such blatant and overreaching religious intolerance.
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Grieving teen's rosary snatched; called gang-related

Just three weeks into the new school year, administrators in one Colorado school have taken rosary beads away from a high school junior – twice!
Surely, he must have been swinging them around, hitting teachers and fellow students in the face, one might mistakenly assume. On the contrary, officials decided to take this action because of fears the strand of Catholic prayer beads are symbols of the student’s gang activity.
As the student’s mother reports, this student wears the beads to help cope with the recent murder of a close family member. This apparently makes no difference to school officials who are facing mounting pressure to battle gang activity, whether real or imagined.
The school’s principal said certain gangs use rosaries as a way to identify other affiliated members. Though I don’t dispute that information, I can’t rationalize taking a genuine spiritual comforter because it had been hijacked by a few thugs somewhere.
Just as one can appreciate a stunning rainbow without being immediately identified as a homosexual, symbols used by certain groups should not be used to stigmatize everyone else for whom they represent something altogether different.
The only reason given for why either set of beads was confiscated was that the strand contained 13 beads, which authorities know is sometimes used by the Surenos to identify one another. Authorities might have known it, but the teen who had his beads taken said he did not. Further research showed only one of the two confiscated strands contained 13 beads; the other had 10.
Officials later commented on the matter, saying they gave the student the option to tuck the beads in his shirt. The student denied it, saying he would have gladly tucked the beads as a compromise.
Several of his classmates spoke out in his defense and, by all accounts, he was a good student. Using common sense, any school administrator could tell whether a student is a stealth gangster wearing his thugged-out rosary or a good kid who lost a family member to violence and clings to the beads because, as he said, “I feel safe when I have them on.”
Sadly, school administrators have many shortcomings and, in many instances, common sense is very high on the list.
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Library cards used to legitimize illegals?

We all know, after relentlessly being told by countless leftist media sources, that requiring anyone to possess a valid ID before voting is inherently racist. Although research shows such assertions stem from ideology rather than evidence, the opinion has been repeated so often many mistake it as fact.
The fact remains, though, that valid identification is required for a litany of purchases and services, so those without it remain at a distinct disadvantage in their daily lives. I believe legal citizens should be able to affordably attain identification, though the leftist push to give ID cards to illegal aliens would serve only to legitimize their presence and further reduce their accountability for flouting this nation’s immigration laws.
Never a state to be outdone in liberal nonsense, a California proposition hopes to issue library cards – library cards! – to Los Angeles residents, effectively replacing DMV-issued ID cards and even debit cards.
Why would anyone here illegally ever decide to seek citizenship when he or she can visit the neighborhood library and enjoy virtually all of the benefits of an American with none of the work? This is not a rhetorical question; I would genuinely love to hear an answer!
According to the wingnut councilman responsible for proposing this atrocious policy, his only concern is for the financial security of his constituents. Ostensibly, he wants to protect those without a bank account from scams and theft; in reality, he’s providing a backdoor path to pseudo-citizenship.
This is not the first occurrence of lawmakers dumbing down the definition of legitimate identification. Unsurprisingly, two other California cities – Oakland and San Fransisco – have implemented similar plans.
If successful, an estimated 300,000 Los Angeles residents will be able to take advantage of the program. The only requirement is proof of residency, which opponents of the measure say is all too easy to forge.
Liberal politicians, knowing their true intentions would repulse the vast majority of their subjects, always cloak despicable policy in disingenuous language. Those of us paying attention can easily dissect their wordplay, though. It’s up to us to let them know they won’t get away with it!
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The National Bloggers Club and their Super PAC Friends (By Matt Osborne, Crooksandliars.com)

** NOTE FROM NACBU ORGANIZER IMPOLITE CANADIAN**
When I first helped the authors of this post, I was doing it to help out an effort by partisans of HONESTY. Since CROOKS AND LIARS is an uber Liberal site, read and comment over there at your own risk. I was banned after being ATTACKED in the comment section by regulars of the site, by some PUSSY moderator there. No warning, no nothing. Lesson learned. I am sorry I ever associated with that site. The post will remain up as it is informative and well written, but I will advise you to be wiser than I have in thinking that people on the left could be civil. They are NOT.


Co-authored with Alex Brant-Zawadzki and Bill Schmalfeldt. Research assistance by Melissa Brewer.

Ali Akbar, now President of the National Bloggers Club, is one of the conservative blogosphere's most infamous characters. He began his campaign of notoriety with a crime spree in 2006, blazing a six-year trail of fraud. That's him up there, in the mug shots. Akbar's story is as improbable as the Tea Party movement itself, and a lesson on the privileges of power in the age of Citizens United. How did a petty crook rise to these heights in such a short time? Why does he enjoy such influential connections today?
We ask these questions because we see an emerging bipartisan consensus that Akbar's National Bloggers Club (NBC) is entirely notional. Akbar has never applied to the IRS for 501(c)3 status -- despite having claimed as much on the NBC Facebook page. While the NBC requires an unusual amount of personal information from donors, they do not offer those donors an EIN (Employer ID Number) to make their contributions tax deductible.
An EIN is provided upon application for nonprofit status, and should be available if the National Bloggers Club has applied. It is an easy online process. Yet we have been unable to locate an EIN in any database, and inquiries by both liberal and conservative bloggers have been met with silence. When journalist Bill Schmalfeldt contacted the Internal Revenue Service, he was informed that no EIN existed in their database for a National Bloggers Club.
This would be less distressing if Akbar didn't have a long history of covering up his tracks and minimizing his criminal past. In 2006, he stole items from a woman's home; he later broke into a vehicle, stole a debit card, and withdrew money from the victim's account, earning a felony conviction. Yet this record did not keep Akbar out of Republican politics.
Barely a year later, Akbar was accused of discussing election fraud tactics. The accuser, Joey A. Dauben, was a former colleague. In coverage of the controversy, Akbar was frequently and mistakenly identified as a John McCain campaign staffer due to his involvement in Bloggers for McCain, a "cooperating" website independent from the campaign itself. Akbar also caught flak for “scrubbing the web” to cover the tracks of Michael Meissner, a former police chief who was charged with posing as a woman and soliciting photos of underaged boys.
In April 2008, Akbar pleaded guilty to the debit card fraud and was sentenced to four years probation and restitution of the stolen money. His probation ended in May of this year. In the meantime, Akbar has built quite a blog empire for himself -- and runs it from his mother's house.
By 2008 Akbar had linked up with Eric Odom's Don't Go movement. They likely met up when Akbar’s firm, Republic Modern, designed the old website of Sam Adams Alliance, for which Odom was the new media director. When Odom started American Liberty Alliance (ALA), a tea party website that was mainly in the business of monetizing other Tea Party sites with ads, he brought Akbar along with him. Starting off as ALA’s Technology Consultant, Akbar would eventually became Chairman of ALA's Board, spending much of his time collecting non-deductible donations.
Yes, despite claiming to be in the application process for 501(c) 4 status in August 2009, ALA eventually was embarrassed into posting the following caveat on their website (though not their donation page): “The American Liberty Alliance is not a 501c3, 501c4 or a PAC. We are not registered as a non-profit and we do not raise funds as such.” Yet they incorporated under the name “American Liberty Alliance - A Non-Profit Corporation.”
The most excoriating examination of the ALA came from Erick Erickson, who reported that ALA had eventually been rolled up into an Eric Odom PAC:

For a number of months I have had more than my share of phone calls from conservative donors, bloggers, activists, campaigns, and others wishing someone would speak out. Several tried pushing this story into the mainstream media, but we all know what would happen there ? we’d turn people into martyrs who shouldn’t be.
At best this conduct looks like ignorance of the complex bureaucracy and regulations surrounding the FEC. At its worst, it looks like . . . well, you decide. I’m sure even more will come out now that I’m willing to speak up and it does not look like a case of simple ignorance. If it were an isolated incident it’d be one thing, but it is a pattern.

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Fans Defy Prayer Ban Before H.S. Football Game (By B. Christopher Agee)

Football fans were not on board with a Georgia school district's decision to prohibit pre-game prayer. God-hating bullies in the Freedom From Religion Foundation were behind the move, threatening to sue if individuals were allowed to freely express their religious beliefs.
Through its convoluted, skewed interpretation of America's guiding documents, the FFRF alleges such prayers are unconstitutional. Apparently, Haralson County school administrators either agreed or felt the issue did not warrant their resistance.
The resiliency of believers, however, was on display at a subsequent game. Wearing pro-prayer T-shirts, hundreds of students and their parents showed up to join in a prayer before kickoff.
Since the prayers are not being broadcast over the loudspeakers, thus they are not school-sponsored, it seems this group of praying football fans beat the anti-prayer bigots at FFRF at their own game. In theory, the hatemongers wanted to quash all public prayers; in reality, they just gave praying football fans a common cause and renewed dedication to show up early for the pre-game invocation.
This isn't the first time FFRF has used this scare tactic against schools for precisely the same reason. Almost exactly a year before the Georgia incident, just as football season was warming up, the group forced a Kentucky school district to end its tradition of beginning games with a prayer.
Despite social media backlash and a huge majority in favor of the tradition, administrators decided surrendering to the foundation's atheist will was the most prudent choice.
Instead of inviting (not forcing) attendees to join in a prayer for the safety of the players on the field and U.S. troops around the world, FFRF was successful in silencing the Pentecostal pastor who had led the prayer for the previous two decades.
Knowing their contention that allowing prayer is tantamount to endorsing a religion is extraordinarily tenuous, these godless creeps resort to using the mere threat of a lawsuit to force the hand of spineless officials.
One group of Georgians spoke for the silent majority of believers in this country when they proudly stood up for faith and freedom at that high school football game. They proved the silent majority won't stay silent indefinitely!
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I Will ALWAYS Be A New Yorker – My September 11, 2001 Story (A touching story by Zilla Stevenson)

This is my personal story of September 11, 2001 and what happened after – as I experienced it 60 miles away from Ground Zero…
My father’s grandparents, (both sets) Irish Catholics, somehow managed to survive the Famine in Ireland which killed so many. They came to America to escape the oppression in Ireland and landed in New York City. It would be a hundred years before anyone in that family line ever moved out of the City to other places. My mother is from a tiny country called Grenada. She saw there were few opportunities for a young lady there, so she packed her bags and came to find the “American Dream” in New York City. She found it. She also found my father and it was love at first sight. They met at the famous Rainbow Room in NYC and were married a few months later.
They started their family in New York City and they started with nothing.
My parents managed to find success in their lives and eventually moved out of the City to give us kids some fresh air and a taste of the “good life”.
My father continued to work for the City until his retirement despite moving to the country and then the suburbs.
I grew up on Long Island in the shadow of New York City and made frequent trips into the City to see relatives and also to have fun. In sixth grade it was a rite of passage at my school to take a field trip to NYC. I got to go to South Street Seaport, and the Empire State Building. The highlight of the entire day was going up to the top floors of the magnificent World Trade Center, the Twin Towers. The view was incredible. To be at the top of the City looking down on the world is a memory I will always cherish. Even from the ground looking up at those buildings was an experience in itself. Nearly twice as tall as the tallest buildings, they were! As a teen, taking the train into Manhattan and wandering around the village or seeing a concert at Madison Square Garden was the most fun you could have on a Friday or Saturday night.
When I grew up, I eventually left the Island and moved to where I live now, in the Hudson Valley, about 45 minutes north of the City.
You can tell a person is a New Yorker by the way we refer to it as “the City” and are understood that “the City” means no other City but New York City itself.
I remember well that terrible day when the world as we knew it was changed forever. The day we collectively lost our innocence – September 11, 2001. This is the day as I experienced it…

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Canada to Iran: You sponsor terrorists, eh?

 Canada's foreign affairs minister John Baird cut diplomatic ties with Iran yesterday, closing it's embassy in Teheran and expelling Iranian diplomats from Canada, in the latest chapter of a long history of difficult relations with the middle east country.

On Saturday, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security said there could be an "immediate and decisive" response to the move by Canada, according to the Fars news agency and reported by Reuters. "It is essential that the foreign ministry respond to this action by Canada on the basis of national interests," Alaeddin Boroujerdi was quoted as saying. ***CBC.ca***

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A JIHAD against you, Ali? REALLY??

Funny how things can evolve overnight sometimes. Last night, founder and CEO of the National Bloggers Club ALI A. AKBAR went yet again on the record via Twitter denouncing us, NACBU and The Impolite Canadian, of waging a JIHAD against him and his shady organization. A personal HOLY WAR that will lead us to kill the NBC and Akbar. Is that so, Mr Credit card fraudster?
 
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