Palin Assails Hoffa ‘Thuggery’ for SOB Swipe at Tea Party

Sarah Palin lashed out at Teamster President James Hoffa’s “thuggery” in maligning tea partyers as “sons of bitches” as he introduced President Barack Obama at a Labor Day rally in Detroit.

Hoffa called members of the conservative grouping “sons of bitches” during his intro to the president at the Motor City event.

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march,” Hoffa said.

“Let’s take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong,” he said, referring to the tea party.

Palin is the first major politician to respond to Hoffa’s incendiary comment. “Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday,” the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote on Facebook today.

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Obama’s pride in Jimmy Hoffa emboldens hate mongers everywhere

Blame Barack Obama for the vitriol and hatred pouring in to letters to the editors and comment sections overnight for news sites like Canada Free Press (CFP).

Thuggish Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa told Obama over the weekend: “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to where we belong.”

Obama said he was “proud” of Hoffa after his hate-filled Tea Party attack.

Not only did the undocumented President of the United States of America tacitly approve of Hoffa calling the Mothers of all with whom he disagrees politically “bitches”, his stated pride of Hoffa’s vitriol emboldens leftwing hate mongers everywhere.

Shame on you, Obama, allowing your union cronies to refer to American mothers as “bitches”!

Read More at Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press

Three Fall Guys Won’t Make Fast and Furious Go Away

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Kenneth Melson, then-acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was reassigned because of his involvement in the gunrunning operation known as Fast and Furious. At the same time, it was announced that Dennis Burke, the U.S. attorney in Phoenix, was resigning his post due to his involvement in Fast and Furious, and that federal prosecutor Emory Hurley would be moved from “the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in Phoenix” to the civil division.

In other words, after 2,500 guns were bought with illegal intent, transferred to various criminals of one type or another, and used to kill well over 1,100 people to date, the Department of Justice announces that they’re going to deal firmly with three people who were involved in the operation by reassigning them and/or accepting their resignations.

Wow. There are huge problems here.

For starters, it looks like these three are taking the fall for bigger fish higher up the administration food chain.

We know that ATF supervisors William McMahon and William Newell knew about Fast and Furious and were directly involved in it. And we also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about Operation Gunrunner, which ultimately morphed into Fast and Furious. He bragged about his involvement in Gunrunner during a speech in Mexico on April 2, 2009.

Read More at Human Events By AWR Hawkins, Human Events

Obama’s HUD Violated ACORN Funding Ban

Time after time, we have found that this administration cares not one whit about following basic laws. What does it mean for Congress to pass and the president to sign a law banning a corrupt organization and its affiliates from receiving federal funds? Apparently the Obama administration could care less. As you will recall, the Obama Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a grant of $79,819 to ACORN spin-off Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA), despite the fact that Barack Obama signed the ACORN funding ban in October 2009. (And despite the fact that the organization was nailed for misappropriating taxpayer funds!)

We want to know how the HUD can justify this decision. So we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on August 19, 2011, against HUD to obtain records related to the department’s approval of AHCOA as an official “housing agency.”

Pursuant to our FOIA request filed on June 8, 2011, we want access to the following information:
Any and all records concerning or relating to the approval of Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA) as a housing agency under Section 106(a)(2) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. This request includes, but is not limited to, a copy of all HUD-9900 forms and supporting documentation submitted by, or on behalf of, AHCOA, as well as all records of communication regarding AHCOA’s approval.

Any and all records of all applications(s) for grants submitted by AHCOA to HUD.

Judicial Watch’s FOIA request was received by HUD on June 13, 2011, (according to postal records). The agency was required to respond by July 12, 2011. This is about as narrow and simple a document request that Judicial Watch makes. But as of August 19, 2011, the date of Judicial Watch’s complaint, HUD hasn’t turned over a single document, or even indicated when a response can be expected.

AHCOA was previously known as ACORN Housing Corporation, Inc., an ACORN offshoot. ACORN filed for bankruptcy on November 2, 2010. However, as we’ve pointed out many times in this space, the organization lives on in the form of numerous state organizations and various ACORN-allied entities, such as AHCOA.

Read More at Big Government By Tom Fitton, Big Government

What the Tea Party at Sea saw

I’m writing this column at 30,000 feet returning from WND’s Tea Party at Sea cruise to Alaska with Jerome Corsi, David Kupelian, Aaron Klein, Alan Keyes, Victoria Jackson, Floyd Brown, Molotov Mitchell, D.J. Dolce, Joe Miller and many other great speakers and guests.

While there were no Democrats to be noticed among the group, there wasn’t much excitement generated for hopes that Republicans would begin returning the country to constitutionally limited government beginning in 2012.

In fact, the consensus among the group was that House Republicans squandered the only chance to move Washington in that direction by raising the debt limit, thereby giving Barack Obama a blank check for the remainder of his first term.

Neither did Republicans help their cause in adding to their control of the House and gaining control of the Senate and White House with that remarkable cave to establishmentarianism and business as usual, concluded the group.

Thanks to Obama’s epic failure in the White House, polls show Republicans with historic approval numbers.

Read More at WND By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

Jihadists plot to take over Libya

Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.

“Several forum participants have suggested that, following a transitional stage, the battle should turn against secularist rebels and members of the [rebels’] Transitional National Council,” the unclassified report stated.

Some U.S. officials sought to play down the remarks by noting that such Internet postings are not always accurate measures of jihadist plans.

The report said the jihadists’ strength and influence on the ground “are uncertain at this time.”

Read More at The Washington Times  By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times

Report: Palin speech to offer ‘full-throated defense of the Tea Party’

Although nobody knows yet whether former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to announce her candidacy at her much-anticipated Iowa speech tomorrow at noon, details of the speech’s substance are beginning to emerge.

ABC’s Shushannah Walshe and Sheila Marikar report, citing unnamed sources, that Palin will offer a “full-throated defense of the Tea Party.”

“Regardless of what she decides to do, this rally is for the Tea Party to kick off this [presidential] campaign,” a source told ABC.

Palin’s speech is expected to focus on her…

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Strangers in Our Homeland

Summer is a time of strong memories. Memories of sunshine, lemonade, and bicycles flood our minds. Summertime is the season when our youth is so close we can almost reach out and touch it. This summer we have been extra reflective, the marriage of our first child and the contemplation of our parents mortality have only heightened our introspection. Because it is so integral to our lives, much of our analysis has focused on America and her changes.

Change is not always negative, but as we review the changes of the last decade, we are simply aghast at what has happened. It’s like comparing before and after snapshots of a person addicted to methamphetamines; the picture isn’t pretty. Hence, today we often feel like strangers in our homeland.

The social upheaval of the past decade has been beyond monumental, and it has resulted in a broken America, with a high number of dysfunctional and lost people. Like a colony of termites stealthily destroying the wooden beams of a house, liberalism has devastated the social fabric and consensus that made America the preeminent country in the world.

First, the rule of law is a fading…

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Media: Tea Parties are like the confederates or something

The Sunday August 28 issue of The Kansas City Star, a McClatchy newspaper, devoted several pages of section A to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Among the stories was “The Civil War at 150: The past in the present?” by David W. Blight, a professor of history at Yale. Mr. Blight begins his essay asking: “Why can’t we just get over the Civil War in America?”

[I]deologically, many of the issues of 2011 are much the same as in 1861. Given the hold the tea party seems to have on the base of the Republican Party, we should take notice when some in the group invoke the Confederate constitution as a model for anti-tax, anti-centralization libertarianism.

One can easily find scoundrels and wacko nut jobs in any group, including the Democrat Party and, especially, university faculty lounges. But what animates the vast majority of the Tea Party is its allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, not the Confederate one. But Blight is not satisfied; he goes on to compare his ideological foes to slaveholders:

Indeed, yesterday’s…

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Obama Snubbed the VFW, But Not These Groups

While Barack Obama is the first president not to personally address or assign a top-tier representative to the Veterans of Foreign Wars‘ annual convention, not every organization has received the same shabby treatment as the military. White House spokesman Adam Abramsclaimed Obama snubbed the VFW because he “receives many speaking requests throughout the year, but he is unable to meet them all.” Apparently, if you wish to receive a visit from the president or one of his top cabinet members, it helps to be dedicated to the interests of homosexuals, illegal immigrants, Muslims, or union bosses.

La Raza, Si! VFW, No!

Obama avoided those who protected our homeland, but he had no trouble speaking to those who invaded it. He spoke before the National Council of La Raza’s national convention in June. La Raza (“the Race”) is infamous for its support of open borders, drivers licenses for illegals, in-state tuition for non-citizens, and its undying hostility to border enforcement. Obama’s Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Cecilia Munoz, was vice president of La Raza and is now the administration’s top cheerleader for amnesty. Obama told NCLR that “the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting.” On August 18, Obama continued his strategy of ruling via executive fiat by announcing illegal immigrants would be deported based on “priority.” The new policy effectively granted amnesty to a wider swath of illegal aliens that those covered bythe DREAM Act, which Congress has repeatedly voted down.

He had his bitter-half address the NAACP’s convention this year. The NAACP behaved itself better during the first lady’s speech than it did in 2006 when…

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