Here’s a treat for animal lovers.
The Anchoress writes: Why Susan Boyle matters so much.
I’ve given it is some thought, too. My take goes like this. We all feel at some level like nobodies in need of affirmation. Some of us live our entire lives trying hard, but unsure even of our successes. I know my strengths, but they are not necessarily in demand. Sometimes, I’m the only one clapping, and then again, I wonder why I bother at all. As long as we’re living, as long as we’re still trying, at least, we are in the game. We haven’t given up. Now, to me, Susan is like Judgment Day. Finally, we find out Someone is aware; Someone notices; Someone is clapping loudly and eternally.
I hope and pray Susan doesn’t get messed up since she is so beautiful just as she is.
Listen again
Contemptuous CNN
Allahpundit thankyou for showing us CNN with their teeth bared and as we’ve come to know them.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
10th Amendment Center give us these as well:
10th Amendment Resolution Introduced in Wisconsin
Pleading the 10th in Georgia
– Serving Notice in New Mexico
– Sovereignty for Ohio
– Alaska Resolution: Sovereignty Under the 10th Amendment
– Michigan: The Confines and Original Intent
President Obama needs a scapegoat. He is in the process of creating one with the help of Janet Napolitano. George W. Bush worked for a while but Obama needs a handy underdog not unlike Hitler needing social unrest and the Jews. The DHS document is a wake up call. It smacks of the same sardonic mentality and underhanded efforts to stereotype veterans as were operative in the production of the Pennsylvania State University (video below). The admittedly unsubstantiated document targets various conservative segments of the population that have legitimate grievances with the current administration.
Roger Hedgecock who first covered the story wrote,
“The report linked people holding conservative views on immigration, abortion, the U.N., the New World Order, etc., to dangerous and violent “militias” that Missouri law enforcement were instructed to be on guard against. Conservative opinions were demonized and made the subject of law enforcement scrutiny.”
Liberty Paper’s Stephen Gordon also early writing:
“Also targeted in the report are veterans, folks anticipating additional restrictions to their Second Amendment rights, and those concerned about the loss of U.S. sovereignty.
This report implies that one harboring these sorts of views is a racist as well as a potential terrorism suspect.”
Michelle Malkin called the document “one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real.”
Ed Morrisey calls it “The execrable DHS report on “right-wing extremism”
The Anchoress thinks “DHS Documents picking a fight”
Jim Blazsik has a “Warning: If you are a pro-life conservative, you may be considered an enemy of the State.”
The “report”: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment…. (PDF file here). The report state it has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorist are currently planning acts of violence but it say rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears. It points to returning veterans as possible perpetrators of violence.
The Anchoress gives us Stephen Colbert Defender of Gospels, taking on Bart Ehrman. I don’t know what Pope Benedict would say for the style of his exegesis? It does feel good seeing someone getting a few good punches in there for the Lord. I think, though, of Jesus turning the other cheek. However, my feistier side recalls, Jesus calling out his assailant in John 18: 22-23 when He was struck by the temple guard, saying,”If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?” But, I digress. I do like Colbert’s agility as an apologist. However, for the sake of reverence, feel on safer ground with Scott Hahn.
Be Holy! 