Blackburn College and Police Intimidate Press Over Ken Snider Racial Incident?

As reported in an earlier item, it’s unusual enough to learn of  a police department visiting a newspaper to advise them to not pursue covering a story. New information obtained from reliable sources in Carlinville, Illinois makes it appear as though local authorities may have visited a local paper, the Macoupin County Enquirer-Democrat, advising them to [...]

Powerful Illinois Democrats, State Police Covering Up Racial Incident?

Breitbart Media has worked for days to get to the bottom of a seemingly highly-charged story allegedly involving racism from a high profile Democrat and now former law enforcement official that may reach into the upper-level of Illinois state government, including the office of Governor Pat Quinn. Based upon sources in Carlinville, Illinois, at least on the [...]

The 51% President

When Americans voted in Barack Obama in 2008, they thought they were getting a “post-racial,” “post-partisan” President.  For Barack Obama himself had declared that having merely won the Democratic nomination, “the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”  What Americans didn’t realize however was that Barack Obama was [...]

SEIU Protesters Call Gay Black Tea Partier ‘Stupid, Uninformed’ and Ask Him If He Has Any Children He ‘Claims’ (Video)

A pro-public union SEIU rally turned ugly Tuesday outside the Colorado Capitol in Denver.
The Colorado union supporters started out the day chanting, “Tax the rich!”
During the rally several of the pro-union protesters took turns harassing a gay black conservative tea partyer who was participating in the counter-rally.
The SEIU supporters called him stupid, uneducated. They [...]

Commission Report: DOJ Stifled Investigation Into New Black Panther Party and Voter Intimidation Charges

Attorney General Eric Holder and others within the U.S. Department of Justice prevented members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from conducting a complete and thorough investigation of the department’s decision to drop charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for their 2008 election day actions in Philadelphia.

Members of the commission issued [...]

Ronald McDonald Is a Murderer and Racist!…Or Something

Something HUGE happened Tuesday…
No, not the shift in power in the House or the Republican gains in the Senate, this wasn’t done be the voters. No, the big story is…
…San Francisco banned the Happy Meal.
The new law takes effect on December 1 and bans the practice of giving away toys with kids meals unless the [...]

Black Panthers and Election Day

But I’m concerned that revelations that enforcement of laws against voter fraud is race-based and political at the Obama DOJ will encourage lawlessness on Election Day. Sure enough, the Black Panther group is set to “watch” polls in Houston on Election Day. And Tea Party and other conservatives concerned about voter fraud are being accused by leftists of trying to intimidate voters.

Franchise.

Reid Slams GOP for Opposition of Pigford

Obama’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

Another town hall meeting, another embarrassing gaffe by President Obama.  But this time, the President’s honesty revealed an arrogant defiance toward poor, mostly African-American parents trying to provide a better life for their children.
While President Obama was conducting a town hall meeting on MSNBC this morning with Matt Lauer, he was asked (by a parent [...]

Obama’s DOJ: ‘I Believe There Was an Environment of Hostility Toward Race Neutral Enforcement’

On Friday, we received affirmation of the true nature of the Department of Justice in the Obama administration,  and its incredibly disturbing.  Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section, and still a DOJ employee defied his bosses orders and testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to discuss [...]

Obama: Congressional Black Caucus the ‘Conscience’ of the U.S. Congress

Remarks of President Obama at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Dinner, as prepared by the White House:

Hello CBC! It is wonderful to be back with all of you. I know you’ve spent a good deal of time talking about what the future holds for the African American community, and the United [...]

Big Government: What a Difference a Year Makes

One year ago today, we launched BigGovernment.com. As you probably know, our first posts dealt with the video sting of ACORN, orchestrated by the new citizen journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. It had an impact.

It also marked a new chapter in on-line media. Most of the conservative on-line media are scorekeepers. The provide opinion, [...]

You’re a Bigot, Now Vote for Me! The Progressive’s Plan for November.

Are you opposed to Obamacare or illegal immgration? You’re a racist. Are you opposed to gay marriage? You’re a homophobe. Did you oppose Elana Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court? You’re a sexist. After less than two years of complete Democrat control of government, there aren’t many Americas progressives haven’t accused of some sort of [...]

Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher’s Failed Defense of the ‘N-Word’ Lie Dismantled

Tommy Christopher at Mediaite has decided to wade into the “Phantom N-Word” story and do the heavy lifting of the Congressional Black Caucus, Media Matters, MSNBC and all of the networks and publications that spread the false charges of racism emanating from the health care protests in Washington DC on March 20th. After reading [...]

Prager: Black Murders Eight Whites; Media Blames Whites

From Prager’s column today:
The title of this column seems unbelievable, but it is in fact what happened in America this past week. And almost no one has noticed.
After 50 years of being inundated with stories of white racism, and being taught in college that in this white-dominated society, only a white can [...]

AP: Black Members of Tea Party Dispute Racist Claims

WASHINGTON (AP) – Black members of the tea party movement on Wednesday rejected charges that the group’s activists are racist, saying they oppose President Barack Obama because of his policies not his skin color.
The members gathered at a Washington news conference in the wake of allegations about its rank and file, heightened by the [...]

Why You May Not Want to Join the Shirley Sherrod Fan Club (Part 1)

A day after excerpts of Shirley Sherrod’s speech were released by Andrew Breitbart and she was denounced for racist comments by everyone from the NAACP to the Obama administration, the pendulum has now swung to the opposite extreme and most people are tripping over themselves in their [...]

Breitbart: Enemy of the Left with a Laptop

From the Associated Press:

Andrew Breitbart strips off his blazer, windmills it over his head and lets it fly to the stage with a matador’s flourish. He booms into a microphone, sneering, taunting. Breath sprints to keep up with words.
A Breitbart boil is under way, before a cheering throng of tea partiers on a moonlike strip [...]

CNN’s Cooper Apologizes for Not Challenging Sherrod on Racism Accusations, Delves Into Husband’s Newest Controversy

In the early stages of the Shirley Sherrod controversy, the media began to craft the narrative Shirley Sherrod was the embodiment of the term “post-racial.” Then on July 22nd on Anderson Cooper 360, this happened:
SHIRLEY SHERROD: I think he [BREITBART] would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s [...]

Matthews Slams Dean, Defends Breitbart: Sherrod Video Included Her Redemption

***UPDATE:  “Hardball” Defense of Breitbart Memory-Holed
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Today, on MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews acknowledged (and appears to be the first member of the mainstream media to acknowledge) that the video Andrew Breitbart posted in his July 19th Big Government article about an NAACP audience’s reaction to a particular moment in Shirley Sherrod’s speech, does in fact [...]

Silent No More.

The Sherrod Affair: The Obama Gang Can’t Shoot Straight

Over at The Daily Beast, editor Tina Brown weighs in on the Sherrod kerfuffle:

Let’s NOT have a conversation about race. The calls for Obama to now make the Shirley Sherrod debacle a teachable moment fills me with panic that the president will retreat to the Oval Office and craft a soaring piece of oratory, instead [...]

Althouse: On Sherrod and Taking Things Out of Context

Analysis from Ann Althouse today.  Read the whole thing:
Don’t we constantly extract quotes and clips from larger contexts? I do blog posts by that method all the time. I find the juiciest line and quote it often deliberately out of context or with intent to misdirect for humorous or shocking effect. It’s [...]

Godwin’s Law II: ‘Racism’ Charge Loses Debate

We owe a great favor to Mike Godwin. Those of us who have spent any amount of time arguing nonsense on the Internet are familiar with Godwins Law. Briefly, Godwins Law states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches … given enough time, all discussions —regardless [...]

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