The left is in an uproar today. They got their panties in a bunch over a piece that ran on the conservative newsblog NewsMax.com where it was suggested that Obama’s irresponsible actions as president could result in a military coup that would “restore” the Constitution.

Not completely without reason, many lefty blogs have lost their tiny little minds over this article. The piece was written by NewsMax blog contributor John L. Perry and talked of a “bloodless coup” where “Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars.” Perry wondered if some “patriotic general” might confront the president (or a president of the future) and demand that he allow the military a shared power in government or face a military overthrow.

It was all speculation and phrased as a question, not asserted as fact or presented as imminent, of course. But this sort of over-the-top foolishness really does not add to the national debate, I have to agree. So, the lefty sites that railed against this NewsMax.com piece were right on that base level.

NewsMax.com has since removed the article and issued a statement that Perry is an unpaid member of NewsMax.

But there is one tiny, little, bitty fact about this story and its author that every single one of these lefty sites that are railing about this story have left out.

The fact of the matter is that John L. Perry is not a conservative. In fact his bio page says that he’s worked for Jimmy Carter, a Democrat governor of Florida and other Democrat Party institutions.

Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.

In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development and was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Perry served as press aide to Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida and executive assistant to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

Perry was also assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the top-management team and director of public relations for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and an academic fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.

With all that background as a liberal democrat, Perry does not fit the normal image of a “right wing conservative.” Yet not on eof the lefty sites going nuts on this story have mentioned this.

The profane and unserious Wonkette.com that the lefties love so missed it. So did Crooks & Liars, a popular site for lefty extremists. The far left talking point site conveniently called TalkingPointsMemo.com has several updates about this tale and not one of them mentions Perry’s liberal background. FiresDogLake.com also touts the story without all the relevant facts. Finally, no one at Media Matters was able to ferret out the truth, either.

One has to wonder what sort of standards these lefty sites have? I mean, if they are claiming to inform their readers why leave off the fact that the writer they are upset at has a long history of liberal activism?

Curiouser and curiouser.

(Confederate Yankee has the full text of the pulled Perry piece.)

We are discovering that Obama’s promised transparency only goes so far in reporting where stimulus money ends up going. The new tracking website, Recovery.gov, is supposed to let us all know where the federal “stimulus” money is going but apparently will not track money that goes to groups like the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

The Denver Post published a story by reporter Miles Moffeit that reveals that the stimulus tracking website will only report so far into the chain of agencies and organizations that end up receiving stimulus cash and will not report where billions of dollars actually end up.

The site will delineate which state and local governments get what amounts of money but will not report any destinations after it arrives in the accounts of state and local governments. If I read Moffeit’s article correctly the site apparently will not report the identities of the agencies and vendors that end up actually getting all the cash at the end of the line.

The Post reports that payments to “grassroots-level recipients and their identities, such as subcontractors, the subcontractors’ own vendors” will not appear on Recovery.org and will remain unreported unless the states themselves decide to post the ultimate destination of the funding.

It seems to me that this is saying that groups like ACORN and other community activist groups that might receive federal funding will not become public knowledge through Recovery.org. It certainly is convenient that “subcontractors” like ACORN will remain unreported, isn’t it?

We should also realize that this blind spot in the reporting process will also leave unreported the cash that ends up in the hands of cronies of local and state pols, too. After all, ACORN isn’t the only sort of “subcontractor” that has an all too cozy relationship with our tax money — it is but the latest, most controversial example. Each and every state has it’s insiders, cronies, henchmen, and corrupt bargain makers that have cozied up to government officials that have an bottomless wallet at their disposal.

And, apparently, we the people will be left in the dark about these shady financial arrangements yet again.

Poor Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK has been the subject of some scurrilous web rumors lately that he is “self-medicating” by popping pills in order to “get himself through” his high pressure/low respect days.   Who could blame Brown, if he took to at least the bottle after not only being snubbed five times in a row to get a bilateral conference with US President Barack Obama but ended up disgracing himself and his country over the Lockerbie bomber release-for-oil fiasco earlier on?  Brown strikes me as a scotch and soda sort of fellow, who drinks in private but that old adage about never drinking alone because, if discovered, it will only arouse pity comes to mind here.

Normally, web rumors are just that and usually go no further especially in a country where the media works hand-in-hand with the government.  The pro-Labour BBC is solidly leftist these days so Brown was not expecting the sucker punch live interview question on BBC TV by UK political presenter, Andrew Marr, when Andrew asked point blank, “…something everybody has been talking about in the Westminster village… A lot of people in this country use prescription painkillers and pills to help them get through.  Are you one of them?”

Brown, of course, reacted in outrage because the insinuation carries behind it the acknowledgment that Labour has lost the approval of the media.  Earlier in the week the UK’s political Rasputin of the Left, Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, commented that he could easily work with the Tories should have let everyone know that Labour’s days in power are numbered.

Andrew Marr’s question is also interesting on a different level because, quite frankly, it needs to be asked of all the world’s current leaders.  Drugs, booze, decadent excess, jet lag and plain old mental instability would go a long way in explaining why we’re all in this hand basket and where we are all going.

We can skip over Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Kim Il Jong of North Korea and Ahmadinejad of Iran since each one merits a complete analysis of their own.  They are obviously crazy but, the way they game the West in general and the US in specific, shows that they are crazy like foxes.

Coming over to the US, Can you imagine anyone within America’s slavish Main Stream Media connecting the physical and mental damage that their beloved demigod, King Obama the First, Last and Always, incurred from his former pot and cocaine use or from his current smoking and liquor intake?  Obama is always jetting off here, there and everywhere in order to avoid more pressing issues at home so wouldn’t jet lag alone short circuit him?

What about Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi?  She swings wildly in her accusations, lies outright about the CIA, disappears when the heat is on, indulges in paranoid fantasies about non existent rightwing violence while remaining mute about actual leftwing violence and compulsively nips-and-tucks for a better camera image.  Somehow, though, I don’t think Botox alone is to blame here; her bullying, lack of emotional restraint and wild facial contortions are not the actions of a rational individual.  Pelosi is the type of person who gives bi-polar disorder a bad name.

Senator Kennedy is mercifully gone to where he can no longer cause this country mischief but the booze and broads brigades all up and down the East Coast are still holding candle light vigils for him.  It would be interesting to have a study done on all the members of Congress in both the House and the Senate to see who is on what.  State and local governments need to be looked at too.  With all the drugs flooding in to this country, someone besides down-and-outers is using them and heavy drug use in college usually follows the user into adult life.  If those adults attain positions of power then that TV anti-drug ad using a hot frying pan prop as drugs then dropping an egg to sizzle away as it fries as a brain on drugs might explain the laws currently being formulated in DC.

Quite frankly, nothing makes sense anymore and evidently that’s just the way the ruling elites like it.  Their socialist agendas trump your Constitutional rights and that’s it from now on as far as they are concerned.  However, perhaps instead of the Andrew Marresque question of, “What drugs are you on?”, it might be more germane to ask the Democratic Party and, yes, the RINOs and their behind-the-scenes financial backers, corporate sponsors and globaloney mover and shakers, “Just who do you people think you are?”

Many persons think of women’s libbers as a bunch of over-zealous but basically well-intentioned souls. That’s what I used to believe. But last week news of two incidents came out that put feminism in whole different light.

First, columnist Mike Adams reported on the plight of Mark Harwood, psychology professor at Humboldt State University which is located in Birkenstock-addled northern California. Based on extensive research, Harwood informed his students that women were as likely as men to engage in partner aggression.

Harwood probably was thinking of Sahel Kazemi who murdered former NFL star quarterback Steve McNair in July as he slept. Or Real Housewives starlet Kelly Bensimon who was arrested for hitting her boyfriend.

But scientific truth apparently did not goose the gander of these gender guerillas. So the women took it upon themselves to disrupt the class, taunting the good professor as a “privileged, rich, white male.” Judge, jury, and executioner!

Then the head of the Women’s Studies program demanded Harwood be barred from ever again teaching the course. In disgust, the professor resigned his post to go elsewhere.

An isolated incident? Judge for yourself.

Because a day later columnist Trudy Shuett reported on a woman named Amanda McCormick of Praxis International who blithely told a group of feminists attending an abuse conference, “I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten.”

And exactly what is Praxis International? Funded to the tune of $1.5 million taxpayer dollars, its website is chock-full of gender liberation cant, claiming it works to “create a clear and cooperative agenda for social change in their communities.” Isn’t that what ACORN has been claiming to do all these years?

But is it going too far to assert that feminism is a hate movement? After all, think of all the opportunities that feminism has opened up for women — and what inspiring role models Hillary and Nancy have become for our daughters!

So let’s ask the good folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center who run HateWatch. They’re the experts, they should know. On its website HateWatch says a hate movement is “an organization or individual that advocates violence against or unreasonable hostility toward those persons or organizations identified by their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability.”

Hmmm. When a person sees fit to entertain a group of domestic violence workers with the remark, “I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten,” doesn’t that indulge in a contemptuous attitude towards members of the opposite sex? Does that give women a green light to be violent to their partners?

HateWatch further defines a hate movement as one that disseminates “historically inaccurate information with regards to these persons or organizations for the purpose of vilification.”

So have you ever noticed how these women habitually pony up “statistics” that portray men in the worst possible light? Ever wonder why these ladies never divulge the scientific basis of their ideologically-driven claims?

More alarming is how these scornful women have stampeded lawmakers to approve domestic abuse laws that gleefully trample on Constitutionally-mandated protections.

Probable-cause for arrest? Now a mere historical footnote in 22 states that have “mandatory” arrest laws for domestic violence on the books.

Equal treatment under the law? Not in 24 states that have “primary aggressor” laws, code language for “haul away the man” no matter what the evidence may say.

Due process? Not part of my living, breathing Constitution.

Innocent until proven guilty? Don’t be absurd, we have an epidemic of partner abuse that must come to a stop!

Each year, over one million Americans are hit with a trivial or false accusation of domestic violence. These persons are plunged into an Alice-in-Wonderland justice system that spurns reason and fairness. Railroaded by hearsay and circumstantial evidence, a false charge stigmatizes a man as an abuser, drains his assets, and can break up his family.

Fortunately, persons are beginning to wake up to the hellish biases that lard our partner abuse system. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and a number of groups have banded together to reform the system. The month’s theme is “Restore Civil Rights to the Violence Against Women Act.”

Driven by a destructive gender ideology, our domestic violence laws now represent the most breath-taking roll-back in Constitutionally-protected rights since the era of Jim Crow.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that, should government extend bailout funds to the nation’s newspapers, the end result will be the state dictating media content.

For did not Obama determine the minutest aspects of GM and bank operations when these institutions fell for government wiles such as where conferences would be held and what models of automobiles would continue to roll off the assembly line?

This has to happen by definition.

The Newspaper Revitalization Act being considered by Congress would permit papers to reorganize as non-profit 501(C)(3) organizations.

This is the same part of the tax code that churches have fallen for granting them formalized tax-exempt status.

In exchange for this favor from Leviathan, churches are forbidden from participating in political activity such as the endorsing of candidates for office.

However, the power to tax is the power to destroy and even the most devout of pastors on fire for the Lord have grown circumspect in how they address issues of public concern from the pulpit as they dig for phraseology that honors God’s revelation without plunging their congregations into financial ruination simply because some unrepentant reprobate in the pew gets in a huff.

This will mean one of two things.

Either America’s newspapers will become increasingly bland as they strive to avoid stepping on the taxman’s toes or that there is an even more sinister thing going on in the form of a religious persecution that will overlook newspapers saying whatever they want but maintaining theological and ideological shackles around the churches of America.

by Frederick Meekins

We seem to have a trio of sudden Republicans in the news these days. I say sudden because there is a lack of any long history on the part of these three candidates of being Republicans for very long before running for office. In fact, it seems that all three only became Republicans once they stepped up to run for office.

I’ve written previously about California’s Steve Poizner, gubernatorial candidate and current State Insurance Commissioner. Poizner had no public history of being a Republican prior to his attempts to run for election in the local and state elections he targeted once he got bitten by the politics bug. In fact, he had a history of donating big money to Democrats right up until the time he started to run as a Republican.

California has a second one, too. Meg Whitman has no Republican history prior to her running for governor there. Though she has no history of large donations to Democrats that I have seen, to be sure.

And the third one is a new entrant into the arena; Linda McMahon, the wife of professional wrestling entrepreneur Vince McMahon. On September 16 Mrs. McMahon announced her run for the GOP nomination for the Senate to run against sitting Senator Chris Dodd as a Republican, but her history of political donations does not make one envision a staunch Republican history.

From open contribution records it has been discovered that the McMahon’s have given thousands in donations to Democratic candidates, organizations and causes right up until recently.

According to records, McMahon donated $15,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, $13,000 to Democratic Gov. Mark Warner’s campaign and the campaign of Senator Joe Lieberman (a Democrat until the 2006 election when he became an Independent). The most alarming Democrat donation, though, was to Obama’s bulldog, Rahm Emanuel. The McMahon’s donated $7,800 to Emanuel’s leadership PAC.

Of course, McMahon also donated thousands to Republicans. The split comes down at 54 percent to Republicans and 44 percent to Democrats in donations. McMahon’s explanation for donating so much to Democrats is that it was in the interests of their wrestling business.

It is difficult to get past the shallow party past with many of these candidates who are self-funded. The suspicion is that they are buying their seat with their wealth and only picked the GOP side because they felt that was the side that could hand them a win. In a day when principle must come before utility, these sudden Republicans easily raise suspicions.

Being a sudden Republican, of course, is no guarantee of lack of principles just as being a Republican stalwart is no guarantee of perfect principles. Certainly all of these candidates have a lot going for them (especially Whitman). Still, because of this lack of long-standing Republican history, each of these candidates need to be scrutinized all the more before being afforded our support.

And Now The News from Fake News International

Being a Public Servant is not identical with servicing the public, a lesson learned recently by a Burlington County, New Jersey, police officer.  A Superior Court judge dismissed charges of animal cruelty against the officer for putting his…..well, not his finger…..into the mouths of five calves in 2006.  The court, in its infinite wisdom, decided that a Grand Jury could not infer if the calves felt tormented.  None of the calves, it should be noted, was summoned to testify.  The absurdity of the decision is clear in the parallel case pending against the now-former policeman (suspended) and his girlfriend for the abuse of several young girls extending over a period of years.  The police force could logically add the charge of “Stupidity in the First Degree” to the list after finding both child pornography and videos of the former officer and the cows on his home computer.

From the “Surprising News” Department:  Congressional Democrats and Republicans are wrangling over the request that members be given 72 hours to read legislative bills before having to vote on them.  The recently passed Stimulus legislation, the Cap-and-Trade energy bill, and, of course, the now-infamous Health Care Reform bill all exceed 1,000 pages in length.  Legislators of both parties have signed onto efforts to ensure that the legislation is understood before being enacted, a clear departure from recent experience.  Specious Pelosi had said earlier this session that she would “allow” a 48-hour “Reading Time” for members.

In a possibly related story, The GOP has raised more money recently than the Democrats, by millions of dollars.  Whether at the state or national level, whether the Senate or House, whether the Republican National Committee (RNC) or the Democrat National Committee (DNC), GOP coffers are swelling at a rate exceeding that of their opponents in the beginning of the runup to the 2010 Offyear Elections.  Fake News International continues its own investigation into the rumor that Rep. Wilson of South Carolina is responsible for 117% of the increase in GOP funds, following his two-word speech to the nation recently.

In Costa Mesa, Californicate, the Urban Search & Rescue Team of the local Fire Department responded to an emergency call involving a penis.  No, this is not a repeat of the Burlington, New Jersey, story, so don’t bother paging back.  In an ill-conceived attempt to become the chief of his tribe (unnamed), an unidentified man placed his member into a ring-shaped fastener for a dumbbell.  The police account is unclear as to the identity of the “dumbbell.”  The Search &Rescue Team spent two hours sawing the dumbbell fastener device off the man without causing any additional harm to him.  Stay tuned for further information on the campaign for Tribal Chief.

Moving from the ratings-grabbing sexual to the purely scatological — Not willing to take a backseat to other crises, Greenpeace and other environmental groups have mounted an offensive targeting our use of toilet paper.  You, the public, have been entirely too willing to use softer paper, which is derived from the desirable old-growth forests.  Our European counterparts, on the other hand, use paper which has a much higher recycled-paper content but which is harsher, probably accounting for a good portion of their grouchy attitudes toward us…..and each other.

Those of you who have thought to yourselves that you heard faint noises coming from the sewer grates as you walked along the Las Vegas Strip were not “losing it.”  It turns out that hundreds of people make their homes below ground in the dark and dank spaces under the casinos.  Although the accommodations are not palatial, they are, on the other hand, Spartan.  Above all, though, they are inexpensive.  The residents of this underground world “earn” their living patrolling slot machines for the money left behind by inebriated gamblers, begging, and dumpster diving.  For recreation, presumably, they race away from the Rats and Spiders who were down there first.  The Mainstream Tedium should contact US Senator Harry Reid immediately, not for any legislative relief for his constituents, but to alert him to future available living space since he is up for reelection next year and lagging in the polls.

Those of you who have been perched on the edges of your seats for so long that you have developed welts waiting for this good news may now relax.  The United Nations (UN) Security Council, with US putative president Obama presiding, unanimously approved a UN Resolution that commits all the nations of the world to work for a nuclear weapons-free world.  The Resolution calls upon all nations — presumably including Iran and North Korea – to prevent the further spread of nuclear weapons.  The unanimous vote emphasizes that the UN is determined to take action if nuclear material falls into the hands of a terrorist group.  So you can sleep well, America, the dangers of nuclear weapons are a thing of the past.  The further action by the UN, it is thought, would be the issuance of another UN Resolution.  In a footnote, the only Head of State not present for the Security Council deliberations was Libya’s Muammar Ka-Daffy.

Speaking of Muammar Ka-Daffy, please rest assured that he was not involved in some inconsequential meanderings.  His calendar was taken up with something far more important than preventing the spread of nuclear weapons – his effort to dismember the nation of Switzerland and give the pieces to Germany, France and Italy.  The Libyan action is the latest round in a comedic tug of war ongoing for a year.   In a fit of pique because his son and Daughter-in-law were arrested by Swiss authorities in 2008 for beating two of their servants, Ka-Daffy first escalated his war of words into the withdrawal of billions of dollars from one of his Swiss bank accounts.  While he continues to hold two Swiss citizens hostage, Ka-Daffy now is using his UN Security Council membership to further punish the Swiss people.  Despite continuing efforts, Swiss citizens continue to chortle, although politely.

It must be true – President in Charge of Vice, Joe Biden, said it: “”Some of the guys Chuck (Robb) and I have campaigned for are turkeys.  Not all Democrats are created equal, while most Republicans are.”  Unlike the previous news items, this one will come as a surprise to no readers of Fake News International.  VP Biden’s words were spoken at a gathering of Democrats in McLean, Virginia, held to generate campaign funds for a trio of candidates.  While it would easy for Fake News International to embellish this article in the shameless pursuit of ratings, it could not improve it in any way.  Nuf sed.

In a blatant, transparent attempt to salvage the faltering fortunes of the Democrat Party in advance of next year’s Midterm Elections, the US House of Representatives has voted to prevent the projected increase in Medicare premiums.  With no increase in Social Security checks coming in January because of the “negative growth” (an oxymoron) in the US economy.  the Medicare cost increase would have effectively reduced the size of Seniors’ Social Security checks in an election year.  The speed of the decision should surprise no one and should serve to alert voters to the preferred method of rousting Members of Congress from their afternoon naps in the future.

No less an authority than former Arkansas Governor, Intern-Mentor Bubba Clinton has revealed the existence of a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy in the US.   Speaking in an interview on a Cable News Network that shall remain nameless,  former President Bubba opined that the current alleged administration would not be harmed as was his because the nation is more diverse now.  Competing theories abound, of course.  One theory is that, rather than an increase in the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy, the Leftwing Conspiracy has been reduced by as much as 50%, rendering the Left into a Half-Vast Conspiracy.

I admit it.  I’m not a big sports fan, to say the least.  But as a young child, I loved the Olympics, watching the games on our little black-and- white TV and cheering our athletes in all the events, whether I understood the intricacies of the sports or not.  Sadly, though, over the years a bit of the luster has worn off the Olympics for me.  Maybe the same less-than-sterling motives were always in the background, but as a child, I was completely oblivious to all of the unpleasantness that results when nations compete to host the Olympic Games.

From the perspective of an observer on the outside looking in, it seems that most of the athletes themselves have maintained the principles and honor of the Olympics.  There have been the occasional bad apples, especially in the high-profile events like figure skating and track.  For the most part, however, the athletes are exemplary people, each having reached the pinnacle of his or her sport through hard work and sacrifice.

The organizations supporting the athletes, from the local level to the International Olympic Committee, are perhaps a little less inspirational.  I think many of the athletes’ problems with doping and vicious competition develop because of expectations fostered by their handlers and by the money that has been injected into the sports by “endorsements.”  And these expectations are grounded in financial concerns, rather than in love of the sport.  Nothing exemplifies this more than the perennial competition for selection of host countries.  Now we’re in the throes of battle for the 2016 Summer Olympics.  Why do heads of state have to get involved?  I don’t believe this happened back when the Olympic Games were, for the most part, a celebration of and a competition between the best of the best.

When big money became involved, the governments of the competing nations had to intrude to a much greater extent than ever before.  Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid are contending for the 2016 Summer Games.  Did I say Chicago?  Chicago is synonymous with Obama.  The Press is touting Obama’s efforts for his adopted city.  Why can’t everybody take a deep breath and return the Olympics to the hands of the sports organizations and lower-level government officials?  Answer:  There is too much money involved for that to happen.  I can’t help but suspect additional motives for our “Leader of the Free World.”  First, Obama cannot resist yet another public forum.  As if he doesn’t have enough on his plate, serious problems needing his complete attention.  I often wonder lately, since he is always flying off somewhere to give yet another self-promoting speech to yet another carefully selected adoring audience, when does the man find time to sit at his desk in the Oval Office and diligently work on solutions to our grave national problems?  Obama seems incapable of setting real priorities, because his number one priority is face time before crowds, with maximum Media coverage.  A second motive is Chicago pay-back time.  I don’t think Obama has a deeper set allegiance to Chicago than to anywhere else.  But he does appreciate his Chicago machine that catapulted him to national prominence.  This is reward time.  If Chicago gets the bid, the Olympic Stadium would be a few blocks from his home.  So he not only supports his Chicago cronies in general, but especially the South Side politicians with their fingers in all the local businesses that would benefit.  The benefits, as has been shown in past Olympics by the way, are for the few – the developers, the construction firms – and not for entire cities or nations.

He does take a chance, however.  He likes to be the winner, and things aren’t looking too promising these days on the home front.  Success here would boost his “winner” image.  If he loses, that would be another scratch on his Teflon image.  It could be construed that at least he tried.  But he’s not an “A for effort” kind of guy.  I’ve heard conflicting opinions regarding which country will get the bid.  One commentator said Obama wouldn’t be investing this time and public attention by going to Copenhagen unless he already knew Chicago would win.  Others have said Rio de Janeiro is the favorite.  Considering that no South American country has ever hosted the Olympics, that seems only fair.

We will all have to wait until Friday for the big announcement.  Until then we’ll just have to put on hold the lower-priority problems like our ballooning deficits, failing economy, Israel-Palestinians, health care reform, North Korea, and Iranian nukes.  If Chicago wins the 2016 Olympics contest, be sure to tune in to watch the performance of the Iranian team in the 50-yard grenade toss competition.