Kerry Tries to Save Boston Globe

Left unsaid at the Free Press summit was the fact that direct federal payments to these papers might enable these unions to avoid taking pay or benefit cuts. Indeed, officials of Free Press said they didn’t think the Cardin bill goes far enough and they want tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies and payments from the federal government to the liberal media.

clipped from www.newswithviews.com In this context of “saving journalism,” as Free Press described it, the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a May 6 “Future of Journalism” congressional hearing featuring testimony from Maryland Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, who has introduced a “Newspaper Revitalization Act” to rescue failing liberal papers by letting them operate as non-profits. The hearing was said to be the brainchild of Senator John Kerry, the chairman of the subcommittee. One of those failing papers, the Boston Globe, is owned by the New York Times and regularly endorses Kerry’s campaigns and ideas. Ironically, however, another factor in the liberal media decline, and in the Globe’s demise in particular, has been the unreasonable demands of liberal labor unions which normally endorse and finance the campaigns of Democrats for office.

British Journalists March for Palestine

The National Union of Journalists' participation in an upcoming anti-Israel rally is all the proof of media bias you'll ever need.

clipped from pajamasmedia.com Did you like the film Groundhog Day? Well, even if you didn’t you will know what I mean by a “Groundhog Day” sequence of events. Two years ago I wrote in my diary about my anguish and hurt over the behavior of my fellow journalists at an NUJ (National Union of Journalists) magazine branch meeting. You may ask, “What is a good conservative lass doing hanging out with a trade union crowd?” Okay, I admit: I am a union member in Britain because I do think we workers need protection. In fact, that is why I think the NUJ exists, but every time I go to a meeting the obsession is not jobs or wages but — you guessed it — evil Israel! I have not been feeling well from time to time and had to miss my branch meeting — known as a “chapel” (apologies to all you Christian Zionists out there) — on May 11 but received this email the following morning regarding events in Bloomsbury and then in Trafalgar Square on Saturday, May 16:

Scientist arrested for smuggling vials used in Ebola research into US

A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada's National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday. Are we being told the truth?

clipped from www.breitbart.com Konan Michel Yao, 42, "was taken into custody" while crossing the border from Manitoba province into the western US state of North Dakota on May 5, said a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab. According to US prosecutor Lynn Jordheim, Yao was detained for carrying unidentified biological materials in vials wrapped in aluminium foil inside a glove and packaged in a plastic bag, along with electrical wires, in the trunk of his car. Yao said in an affidavit he stole the vials, described as research vectors, from the Winnipeg lab on his last day of work there on January 21. He told US border guards he was taking them to his new job with the National Institutes of Health at the Biodefense Research Laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland. US authorities feared their contents could pose a terrorist threat. But tests later showed "they are not hazardous," said Jordheim.

Revolt in East Lansing

Defending students and faculty whose free speech rights are being denied.

clipped from townhall.com In April of 2007, two groups at Michigan State University (MSU) decided to host a speech on illegal immigration. The speech was disrupted by radicals. Some arrests were made. As a result, some protestors decided to retaliate by going to the MSU Office for Inclusion. They claimed to have been harassed in violation of the MSU anti-discrimination policy. The Office for Inclusion then decided to launch a six-month investigation of all members of the two groups who invited the speaker. They also decided to investigate the two faculty advisors. This was despite the school’s claim that its anti-discrimination policy was not meant to trump free speech.

Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off

Unholy alliance between unions and the Government...

clipped from www.familysecuritymatters.org "We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama -- $60.7 million to be exact -- and we're proud of it," boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization's leadership is getting its money's worth. Whether rank-and-file workers and ordinary taxpayers are profiting from this ultimate campaign pay-for-play scheme is another matter entirely. The two-million-member union, which represents both government and private service employees, proudly claimed that its workers "knocked on 1.87 million doors, made 4.4 million phone calls … and sent more than 2.5 million pieces of mail in support of Obama." It dispatched SEIU leaders to seven states in the final weekend before the election to get out the vote for Obama and other Democrats.

President Obama is coming to Albuquerque May 14th!

Wear a red or white t-shirt, so we can stand united!

clipped from www.albuquerqueteaparty.com Our record turn out on April 15th of 7,000 to 10,000 people did not go un-noticed. We eagerly anticipate the President’s visit on Thursday, May 14th and his speech on credit card responsibility. We are planning a “sizzling” welcome, so start making those homemade signs, get your flags ready, start spreading the word as quickly as possible to everyone around the state, and “yes” get ready to wave those tea bags.  Wear a red or white t-shirt, so we can stand united! Details of the president’s visit have not yet been released, however we will post them on our website and send out an email blast as soon as we get them. Please make sure that you are subscribed to our newsletter so that we can let you know where the demonstration line will begin.  We will not miss this golden opportunity to voice our grievances to our president.

Obama "Car Czar" Threatens Automaker's Creditors

Obama gives the unions 55%

clipped from www.judicialwatch.org Already connected to a massive kickback scandal involving his New York investment firm, the president’s shady car czar threatened Chrysler creditors when they refused to support the administration’s controversial bankruptcy plan.  Steven Rattner, a top Democratic fundraiser handpicked by Barack Obama to save the nation’s failing automaker, is a pro at abusing political influence to bully for profits. As head of the hedge fund Quadrangle Group he used his power to somehow convince a consultant for New York City’s pension fund to invest in his company. The lucrative arrangement is the subject of recent federal convictions for illegal kickbacks and Quadrangle is under investigation in the scandal.

The End of Federalism: Big Labor Edition

This Friday the Obama administration made that fear a reality when they threatened to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money from California unless the state reversed their decision to lower home health care worker salaries from $12.10 to $10.10.

clipped from blog.heritage.org Last week we noted that the Obama administration’s stimulus package had made the federal government, for the first time in our nation’s history, the main source of income for state and local governments. We warned at the time: [A]s states become more dependent on federal funding, they begin to lose their ability to set priorities and make policy decisions that are best-suited to their specific needs. But California, which already has the most unionized public employee workforce, picked on the wrong union. The SEIU owns the Obama administration, and they were a driving force behind the White House Golden State threat. The SEIU has been completely unapologetic about their complete control of the Obama administration. The Los Angeles Times reports: SEIU spokeswoman Michelle Ringuette called suggestions that the union’s involvement was inappropriate “absurd.”

The Story of Lies: Greenpeace in Your Kid’s School

Surely no child would immediately buy the notion that wanting toys or a radio at Radio Shack is contributing to the end of the Earth, do they? The New York Times reports:

“And many children who watch it take it to heart: riding in the car one day with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., Rafael de la Torre Batker, 9, was worried about whether it would be bad for the planet if he got a new set of Legos.”

clipped from blog.heritage.org In case you weren’t reading the New York Times front page today, we wanted to point you to an especially disturbing story. The Times wrote about The Story of Stuff, “a 20-minute video about the effects of human consumption, [which] has become a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation.” What classrooms? Very likely the school your child attends, since over 7,000 American schools or churches have ordered the DVD. The Story of Stuff highlights the very extreme left’s Greenpeace view of America. Essentially it tells the story of how America is not a nation to be proud of, and in fact, your child should be ashamed for living in it. For example: after implying that the radios for sale in Radio Shack are assembled by 15 year olds in Mexico, and by purchasing one, you contribute to the exploitation of the third world and the eventual end of the Earth, the film’s creator and narrator Annie Leonard says:

Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel

Much as with conservatives, a list has been drawn up of those figures who can be won over, and those who cannot. The ones who can be won over are described as "moderates", the ones who cannot be won over are described as "extremists".

clipped from sultanknish.blogspot.com If there's one thing that the Carter Administration can be given credit for, it's creating the new wave of Islamist terrorism, both Sunni, operating out of Afghanistan, and Shiite, operating out of Iran. The Carter Administration cracked down on Israel and put its "faith" in Muslim terrorists, who then went on to wage war on America, even while Carter was in office. 28 years after Carter was removed from office, we're in reruns again with the Obama Administration, which is not only following the Carter line, but whose plans greatly exceed it. 28 years ago, Wahhabi Sunni and Shiite terrorists were generally an afterthought when compared to the standard USSR backed Marxist terrorist groups, such as the PLO. If Iran is to be our new best friend under this arrangement, Israel is to be our new best enemy. Israel electing a conservative government really put the ball into play, freeing up even more resources for attacking Israel. The strategy runs something like this.

Attorney Jailed In Attempt to Disqualify L.A. Judge for Taking Bribes

Judges Criminal Acts Forgiven By Legislature?

clipped from www.familysecuritymatters.org The Full Disclosure Network recently attended a Los Angeles Superior Court Contempt hearing in Judge David Yaffe's courtroom, where he sentenced prominent anti-trust attorney Richard I. Fine to “coercive confinement”; in other words, Fine was sentenced to county jail indefinitely until such time as he provides to the Judge his personal financial information. As of today, Mr. Fine has been in solitary confinement for over two months. Judge Yaffe's actions came after attorney Fine pointed out that the Judge had taken illegal money from an interested party in the case. Writ of Habeas Corpus The fact that the Judge insisted on hearing the matter, which involved the County of Los Angeles, was challenged by Fine in a Writ of Habeas Corpus filed with the California Supreme Court just moments before the hearing. Fine pleaded unsuccessfully to the Judge to delay sentencing until both the State and Federal courts had an opportunity to consider his requests for re-hearing.

U.S. threatens to rescind stimulus money over wage cuts

Creeping fascism

clipped from www.latimes.com The Obama administration threatens to rescind billions in stimulus money if Gov. Schwarzenegger and lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers. Reporting from Sacramento -- The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers approved in February as part of the budget. Schwarzenegger's office was advised this week by federal health officials that the wage reduction, which will save California $74 million, violates provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Failure to revoke the scheduled wage cut before it takes effect July 1 could cost California $6.8 billion in stimulus money, according to state officials. The news comes as state lawmakers are already facing a severe cash crisis, with the state at risk of running out of money in July.

WH Correspondents' Dinner: Wanda Sykes says about Rush Limbaugh, "I hope his kidneys fail."

More leftists hate speech...

clipped from www.bluegrasspundit.com Sunday, May 10, 2009 At the White House Correspondents' Dinner: Wanda Sykes says about Rush Limbaugh, "I hope his kidneys fail." She also called him the twentieth 9-11 hijacker and said he needed waterboarding. President Barack Obama thought this crass humor was hilarious.

Black conservative urges you not to give up

So to those of you who say it's too late, or there's no point, or that the battle for hearts and minds is lost, let me say this: NO WAY! We're not going to give up or let up in our fight when the consequences for us to fail or quit are too great.

clipped from paracom.paramountcommunication.com I need you to stand with me and the Our Country Deserves Better Committee if you believe in conservatism, smaller government, greater freedom & liberty and the values that have made America great. I've been reading a lot lately from the "experts" who say that conservatives need to change who we are and what we believe in, if we want to have a relevant voice in America's future.  The argument by these same folks is that the Republican Party also needs to become more like the Democrat Party.  To these people Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords represented the best in American ideals and governance. I say to those people, "No Way!"  I'm sorry, but those who would forsake their own beliefs in exchange for the gratification of electoral victory or media adulation are rather heartless, souless creatures in my book.

Students Watch Role Models Fail

6 Instructors Arrested In 6 Weeks. This county is run by Democrats.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - WPBF.com Five teachers and a teacher's aide have been arrested in Palm Beach County in the last six weeks, leaving many parents in disbelief. "A lot of thoughts have run through my mind, maybe home-schooling, trying to keep my children safe," said Shelley Lewis, who has paid attention to the arrests of both public and private teachers on everything from sexual misconduct to animal cruelty. "My stepson goes to a school and a teacher was just arrested, a teacher that he's looked up to, someone that's really important to him," explained Lewis. "And we just try to explain to him that unfortunately even good people, even people that look good, are not always good on the inside." It is difficult for many parents to explain this to children. "This is not good, nice behavior that we want our children to emulate," said child psychologist Myles Cooley.

Anti-tax crusade to storm Capitol

Grassroots 'tea parties' build strength

clipped from www.washingtontimes.com The grass-roots "tea party" movement that swept across the country April 15 to protest federal tax and spending hikes will hold demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere this summer and fall when Congress will be battling over President Obama's biggest budget proposals. Leaders of the Tax Day rallies that drew an estimated 600,000 people in nearly 600 cities and towns say the seemingly spontaneous local protests have grown into a more muscular movement concerned that the escalating growth and cost of government threatens to undermine economic freedom. Organizers say rallies are planned here and around the nation on the Fourth of July to tie the movement's goals to the nation's founding principles; on Sept. 12, when Congress is expected to be in the midst of debate over Mr. Obama's plans on health care, energy and global warming; and on Oct. 2, when supporters expect that debate to be continuing.