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Posted at 11:05pm on May 11, 2008 America chooses their favorite Mom!

By Jaded

I have had the pleasure of the meeting the woman that has been picked as America's favorite Mom....military Mom Patti Patton-Bader...she is a testiment to the love and admiration that Americans feel towards military personnel.

Patti's Soldiers Angels is a godsend to men and women serving in the United States Military who may not have someone to send them packages and cards to lighten their day....to this Mom she is indeed the personification of a real American Mom and hero....God Bless her and the men and women who keep us safe.

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Posted at 1:31pm on May 9, 2008 Notes on the Theory of Crypto-Bigotry

By TomlinsonDouthat

1.) By crypto-bigotry, I mean the phenomenon of people holding bigoted views against certain groups, but trying to keep these views secret from all but trusted, like-minded intimates, due to the various pressures against bigotry in modern society. By the theory of crypto-bigotry, I mean the belief that this phenomenon is common today and that this affects the workings of modern society in various, significant ways. One of the effects most commonly alleged is that politicians play to the crypto-bigotry of their constituents by uttering "code words," sending hidden messages, and supporting policies designed to harm the groups targeted by crypto-bigotry, but the effects of crypto-bigotry are also alleged to be seen in the media and elsewhere.

The belief I refer to here as the theory of crypto-bigotry is rarely expressed explicitly or explored systematically, but it clearly serves as an implicit premise to much political discourse today.

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Posted at 11:07pm on May 6, 2008 The Supremes spoke and Georgia got down to business.

By Jaded

The Roberts Court has been quite good at allowing state laws to prevail in a majority of their recent opinions. I am grateful for that conservatism in the Court. I believe that when the people speak and a state legislature reacts to the demands of the citizens that a group such as the ACLU http://www.aclu.org/ coming in and trying to usurp the will of the people should be shot down by the Supreme Court every time.

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Posted at 6:10pm on May 6, 2008 Mary Mitchell's Pre Emptive New Race Card

By mike volpe

In Mary Mitchell's new column, she pre emptively plays a new race card. If you are in Indiana or North Carolina and you vote for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, then it is strictly because you are a racist. Here is how she begins to frame the issue.

Looks like Clinton has gotten a lift from the fear-mongering, and is now slightly ahead of Obama in Indiana, and has narrowed his double-digit lead in North Carolina.

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Posted at 11:19am on May 6, 2008 Mary Mitchell and Louis Farrakhan

By mike volpe

As I have pointed out earlier, Mary Mitchell has been a steadfast supporter of Barack Obama. I haven't read every article that Mitchell wrote in relation to Obama, however everytime her support is mentioned toward him it is men, it is mentioned in the context of race.

At a time when African Americans are on the cusp of watching a barrier come crashing down,

As such, the only times I have seen her attack Obama is in response to his own attacks on African American figures. She made several attacks of Obama vis a vis Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and then there is this defense of Louis Farrakhan

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Posted at 1:12am on May 6, 2008 The Beauty of Unconditional Love

By BlackRepub

I hadn't realized that I haven't blogged in an insanely long time until people that I know started to publicly wonder whether I had taken a leave of absence from politics until after November. Well the truth is, I have been busy lately with something much much bigger than the political scene, as bleak as it looks. In just 3 weeks now, I'm going to be going from the role of boyfriend to husband, and officially being one with my lovely wife, and hopefully having ourselves a baby girl soon to go along with our son. I have been exhausted with marriage and planning, and moving up to our new apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan that I haven' really had time to look into presidential politics. But what I have been able to do that is actually related to politics is to ponder this idea of unconditional love.

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Posted at 7:57am on May 5, 2008 HOLY COW! Another Case Of Nanny State Syndrome!

By Roger Allan

Some of us in this world enjoy milk. But we don't necessarily like the milk that you buy in the store. We like the milk that comes right out of the cow BEFORE it goes to a dairy to be "processed". It's called "raw" milk and up here where I live it's pretty easy to get with all the dairy farms we have. Many can and do argue that raw milk is much better for you. There is actually evidence mounting that processed milk causes clogged arteries.

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Posted at 11:07am on May 4, 2008 No Joke: Flowers Have RIGHTS in Switzerland

By patriotroom

This is not a joke. The Swiss have decided that their Constitution gives plants the right not to be arbitrarily killed.

From The Weekly Standard.

You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called "plant rights" is being seriously debated.

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Posted at 1:02am on May 4, 2008 Higher Education, Affirmative Action And The Sword Of Damocles in The Hands Of The ABA

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Much has been made of the adherence maintained by a number of higher education institutions towards the policy of affirmative action. What hasn't been discussed at length is the fact that this adherence comes largely from the need of higher education institutions to bow and scrape before agencies that have the power to deny accreditation to institutions that do not toe the line regarding affirmative action.

Via Southern Appeal comes this editorial by Professor Gail Heriot (who is well known to people who read The Right Coast), which outlines the degree to which higher education institutions must bow and scrape when it comes to the issue of affirmative action. The need to bow and scrape very nearly got George Mason University School of Law in trouble with the American Bar Association.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 4:47pm on May 3, 2008 Tear Down this Wall: I Just Saw "Expelled"

By Tom Bombadil

I just returned from seeing the Ben Stein documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" for the first - but not the last - time. It is outstanding, and the theater was crowded. The audience applauded loudly and boisterously at the end of the film. From what I had read widely in the Leftist blogosphere, this was not at all what I had expected to see.

Ben Stein's brilliant documentary is a truly must-see for everyone who is interested in science and truth. It is NOT an "evangelical" or religious film, but one that objectively explores the vicious and cold censorship that is vigorously and uniformly enforced on campuses and research institutions across America with regard to the question of intelligent design. It also tells the stories of numerous academic heroes who have been "expelled" for daring to question the rigid Darwinist hegemony that dominates by brute foce so many institutions.

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Posted at 3:23pm on May 3, 2008 A Court of Tar and Feathers

By lesliecarbone

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Posted at 9:24am on May 3, 2008 Wright on BoT at Virginia Union University

By lesliecarbone

Jeremiah Wright is a member of the Board of Trustees at Richmond's Virginia Union University. Mr. Wright attended VUU for three and one-half years before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, according to the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site, which still names him as Pastor.

Founded in 1865, VUU describes itself as "a premier historically black institution of higher education, transforming the world one student at a time".

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Posted at 8:14am on May 2, 2008 Monica Conyers (MI-14) goes to school... errr... gets schooled

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Friday morning fights.  This morning we have a battle for the ages.  Brains versus brawn.  Age versus youth.  Decades of experience versus precocious curiosity.  A contrast in styles for the ages.  A sitting Detroit City Councilwoman and wife of a United States Congressman versus a girl barely in her teens.  

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Posted at 2:00pm on May 1, 2008 Let the Protests Begin

By TXPoet

With this being an election year, I would expect a lot of protests. The DNC has already been promised protests at their own convention.

A group sponsored by the Salt Lake City attorney Bob Breeze is protesting the SLC Jazz and Houston Rockets. He wants them to cancel the playoff center until the State of Texas releases all the FLDS children that it removed from the compound in El Dorado.

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