This is a story that I have not talked about much, if at all, but because of the conflict between the grassroots conservatives and the institutional Republicans I feel I should. It involves a now vacant New York Congressional seat in a Republican district, NY-23.

Let me bring you up to speed, in case you have not been following it either.

On June 2nd, President Obama nominated Rep. John McHugh to the position of Secretary of the Army. McHugh’s Congressional seat was then up for grabs in a special election scheduled for November 3rd.

On July 16th, Brian Faughnan at Red State wondered if the New York GOP would nominate liberal Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, “a union supporter who has voted for gay marriage, and has pledged to support abortion rights in the state.” To the astonishment to conservatives across the country, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava was nominated to run for McHugh’s seat. Faughnan points out that Scozzafava is so liberal, the Democrats wanted her for their ticket.

On August 4th, Erick Erickson wrote about a man named Doug Hoffman, citing that while he was generally against the idea of third parties, this race in NY-23 was an exception.

We don’t need a third party in this country. And it is too hard to set one up anyway. But there is a viable third party in New York that conservatives can use to remind the GOP what happens when the local Republican Party rejects the Republican platform. Above all else, we must make sure Scozzafava is defeated.

On September 1st, Aaron Blake at The Hill noticed something. There was a third party candidate that was starting to change the game.

Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman is beginning to look like he might be a force in the upcoming New York special election.

On September 9th, polling showed “Republican Dede Scozzafava with 30% of the vote, Democrat Bill Owens with 20% and Hoffman with 19%.”

On September 24th, Josh Kraushaar at the Politico notices the race, calling it a free for all where “any one of the three candidates having a shot to win.”

Erick Erickson wrote about Scozzafava again on September 24th, this time noting her connection to ACORN:

We have broken down in detail how ACORN has its own political party called the Working Families Party in New York. When a candidate appears as a Working Families Party candidate in New York, it is a signal that this is the candidate ACORN is putting up.

In New York’s 23rd Congressional District, the Republican Party rushed to nominate Dede Scozzafava as the replacement for Congressman McHugh, now in the Obama administration. It turns out that Scozzafava is also an ACORN backed candidate having received the Working Families Party endorsement on numerous occasions.

On September 28th, Jim Geraghty reports at The Corner that Hoffman has the support of Fred Thompson.

On October 1st, founder of the Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas, endorses Scozzafava, saying “she’s been willing to raise taxes when budgets require it, and is to the left of most Democrats on social issues…” Nice. For the record, we now have the Daily Kos and the NRCC working together to elect the same candidate. That’s what I call a “red flag.”

On October 8th, The Prowler reports at The American Spectator that National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions lashed out at conservatives who questioned why the NRCC was supporting a liberal over a conservative:

Sessions, according to sources, angrily responded to the criticism, though not directly defending Scozzafava. According to NRCC staff, Scozzafava was viewed as the “most cooperative” candidate of a group put forward by local Republican Party bosses in the 23rd District. “She wasn’t going to be a loose cannon and the money was happy with her,” says one NRCC source, saying that “money” referred to a pool of high-dollar donors with ties to former New York Governor George Pataki. “Ideally, we wanted someone who could self-finance, but we didn’t have anyone like that,” says the NRCC source. “Then we went with someone who would have a natural pool of donors; [Scozzafava] met that criteria.”

On October 9th, Ramesh Ponnuru highlighted the biggest problem with the GOP. They put party over principle. So much that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was running attack ads against the only conservative in the race. Brilliant.

Just an aside, but what is better: a sitting Republican who votes to the left of most Democrats, or a sitting Democrat who could be defeated in a year or two? The MaryHunter at Moonbattery knows:

When victory is only measured through short-term wins by RINOs who would just as soon lick the toes of ACORN in order to get elected, the Grand Old Party will continue to fail.

Also on October 9th, Maggie Gallagher writes at The Corner about the conflict that is brewing in NY-23:

The Club for Growth is leading the charge for Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman, along with the American Conservative Union, Susan B. Anthony List, and many others.

On October 14th, Hoffman announces that he has Scozzafava on the run, but needs a bit of loot. Robert Stacy McCain writes:

On his campaign Web site, Hoffman announced a fund-raising target of $125,000 this week. Noting that his opponent has previously been supported by ACORN and is currently a favorite of the liberal Daily Kos blog, Hoffman said his campaign has been “adopted” by the grassroots conservative Tea Party movement.

Hoffman has been endorsed by the “9/12″ organization — the political arm of the Tea Party movement, which staged major rallies on Sept. 12, including the 9/12 March On DC — and says the grassroots activists are the foot soldiers of his campaign.

He recently held “six regional meeting with the Tea Party people,” Hoffman said, and many visitors to his Web site have made online contributions of $9.12. The conservative Red State blog recently a $250,000 fund-raising goal for Hoffman’s campaign.

On the same day, Erick Erickson at Red State notes that the RNC hasn’t given Scozzafava a dime. That changes on October 16th, when the RNC gives “a six-figure transfer in order to run more advertising on behalf of Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R).”

Then, Newt drops a bomb:

“The special election for the 23rd Congressional District is an important test leading up to the mid-term 2010 elections,” Gingrich said of Scozzafava’s candidacy in a statement to supporters, as reported by the The Post-Standard. “Our best chance to put responsible and principled leaders in Washington starts here, with Dede Scozzafava.”

On October 15, Siena Research Institute’s polling showed Hoffman rising seven points in 15 days, while Scozzafava dropped five points in the same time, leading Siena pollster Steven Greenberg to write, ““Scozzafava’s seven-point lead has evaporated over the last two weeks, as voters have gotten to know all the candidates better.”

On October 17th, Hoffman posts a guest post on All American Blogger. Just kidding, he went to Michelle Malkin‘s place:

If you want to join my fight, I need you. We need money and we need volunteers – boots on the ground. If you can help, go to my website and sign up. Then show up.

It’s time for conservatives to show the Republican establishment who’s in charge.

The next day, Malkin publishes a column titled, “An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing,” writing, “This race isn’t a fight over the heart and soul of the Republican Party. It’s a battle over its brain.”

Dan Riehl is still trying to figure out how Scozzafava got the nod in the first place, and thinks it might be Dick Nixon’s son in law.

On October 19th,Dick Armey endorses Doug Hoffman.

The same day the Club for Growth and Club for Growth PAC announces a $300,000 advertising campaign for Hoffman, featuring this ad:

On October 20th, Scozzafava was asked some questions by The Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack. He got a visit from the cops.

No…really:

“Minutes later a police car drove into the parking lot with its lights flashing. Officer Grolman informed me that she was called because ‘there was a little bit of an uncomfortable situation’ and then took down my name, date of birth, and address. “‘Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit,’ Officer Grolman told me. ‘[Scozzafava] got startled, that’s all,’ Officer Grolman added. ‘It’s not like you’re in any trouble.’” In thug politics, this is what they call “delivering a little message.” You’re not in trouble, this time.

John Gizzi at Human Events declares the NY-23 race an official national conservative crusade.

On October 20th, Steve Virkler reports in the Watertown Daily Times that Scozzfava’s husband called the po-po on McCormack.

In a bizarre move, Scozzfava spokesmand Matt Burns forwarded e-mails between him and McCormack to liberal blog Talking Points Memo. Hoffman then called for Scozzafava to withdraw from the race:

“It’s obvious that with every passing day and with every drop in the polls, Dede Scozzafava is becoming more desperate,” said Hoffman’s senior communications adviser Rob Ryan. “The best thing she can do for her own career and for the Republican Party is to drop out of this race.”

On October 20th, Chris Cillizza of The Fix reports, “Sources on both sides of the partisan aisle suggest that internal polling shows Scozzafava in third place now.”

On October 21st, Jimmie Bise notes at The Other McCain that it was the grassroots that made the difference in this race, not the thousands of dollars from the RNC or the endorsements of the establishment GOP.
Also on October 21st, Scozzafava goes on the attack and gives Hoffman some more visibility by conducting a stunt press conference in front of his campaign office. As I noted, it didn’t go well for her. How tired does she look in that photo, by the way?

On October 22nd, Dave Wiegel at the Washington Independent reports that Rep. Michelle Bachman endorsed Hoffman, making her “the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava in the roiling NY-23 special election.”

The same day, Jim Geraghty at The Corner adds to the chorus of conservatives calling for Scozzafava to step down. He learns he’s not alone:

My, what a strange coincidence. It seems that the egregiousness of Scozzafava’s behavior has prompted similar sentiments at RedState, RedCounty, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, Ace of Spades, BigGovernment.com and perhaps other places before the day is done. Why, it’s almost as if the natural response to a candidate attacking one conservative journalist was to spur all of them to unite to make that candidate’s life miserable or something.

Again on the 22nd, The Fix reports Doug Hoffman’s campaign donations top $210,000…in a week.

At 5:28 pm, Sarah Palin endorses Hoffman. The next day, Hoffman raises $116,000. (Understand, the $116,000 in campaign donations were not for a 24 hour period. They were made from Thursday morning to Thursday evening. They received that much in less than 24 hours.)

Ed Morrissey writes:

If nothing else, this confirms the power that Palin has with the conservative base. She can raise money hand over fist, even with some considerable negatives with other constituencies. If Hoffman winds up winning this election, Palin will become a very popular woman in the 2010 campaign, especially in Blue Dog Democrat districts where conservatives have grown appalled by the direction of a Democratic Congress. Even if he doesn’t, this has been an impressive demonstration of influence and power.

On October 23rd, Erick Erickson reports “It appears Dede Scozzafava is funneling RNC, NRCC, and donor dollars through her campaign account to her family.”

An October 23rd poll shows “a close race, with Democrat Bill Owens leading Republican Dede Scozzafava 35 to 30 percent, with Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman at 23 percent.”

So, that’s where we sit right now. If you want to donate to Doug Hoffman’s campaign, click here.

I pray he pulls it off. This is bigger than NY-23. A message has to be sent and it has to be heard. The GOP candidate losing to a conservative third party would be loud and clear.

Chris Matthews had Ron Reagan, Jr. and Frank Gaffney on his show and were discussing the American presence in Afghanistan. Besides Matthews’ apparent lack of understanding of what would happen if the American military left, meaning the Taliban would take over and start killing and maiming in the name of Allah, he actually said the religious right in America resembled the Taliban:

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Gentlemen, one of the great ironies of American politics is the group in this country…

FRANK GAFFNEY: Your father would be ashamed of you.

RON REAGAN JR.: Frank, you better watch your mouth about that, Frank.

MATTHEWS: That’s not fair. The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious right.

To that, Gaffney marvelously responded, “Rubbish.”

I wonder when the White House is going to start a war with MSNBC for not being a news organization.

It was the Doomsday scenario. If we didn’t pass the Stimulus Bill, America as we knew it would be destroyed. But, if we had the courage to trust a man named Barack Obama and follow him into the pits of deep, deep deficit spending, we would find ourselves in a land were jobs were as plentiful as the tingles in Chris Matthews’ leg.

So we passed it. Seven months ago, we were promised a recovery. By this time, we were told there would be over three million jobs created. The fact is, we’ve lost over two million. And out of the fifty-seven states, forty-nine of them have lost jobs:

Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus. While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs. To see how stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.

North Dakota created 1,800 jobs. California Conservative points out a strange coincidence. North Dakota cut taxes.

The federal government could learn a thing or two from North Dakota it seems. When you take less from the people who create jobs, they have more money to hire people.

Cross posted at Right Wing News.

Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue: An American Life” will be be released on the 17th of next month. On the same day, the start up publisher OR Books is releasing “Going Rogue: An American Nightmare.” They even designed their book to look like Palin’s.

Entertainment Weekly writes:

Going Rouge is compiled by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, two top editors of the left-leaning weekly The Nation, and includes essays by Nation regulars like Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, and Katha Pollitt. It’s the first release from OR Books, a fledgling outfit founded earlier this year by publishing veterans John Oakes and Colin Robinson that “embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business,” according to its website.

This is another example of how the left does a great job of identifying the candidates the right should be looking at. By their rabid nature towards Palin, it shows how they despise her. And if the leftists hate her, she has to be pretty good in my book.

Hat Tip: Wizbang and SondraK

Imagine it’s 0530.

You drag yourself out of bed, the house is empty and you need some coffee. Oh, and you’re naked.

So you leave the bedroom and head into the kitchen, naked, and start brewing some morning java. Once it’s done, you pour yourself a cup, naked, and start enjoying it.

Little do you know that outside, at 0530 in the morning, a mother and her seven year old son are walking by, doing who knows what, and sees you…naked…and calls the police.

Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Ann Jennings said the woman claimed [Eric] Williamson then moved and exposed himself again through a large front window.

In his defence, Williamson said: “I’m by myself. So I come down here – the roommates are gone, and it’s my house.

“I never had a conversation with anyone, never saw anyone. Didn’t cross my mind, came and got coffee. I mean if I stood and seemed comfortable in my kitchen possibly it’s natural. It’s my kitchen.”

In order for the charges to stick in court, it has to be proven that Williamson knew they were outside his house, looking in his windows and that he intentionally exposed himself to them.

I don’t see that happening. But I do foresee Mr. Williamson being a little more discreet, and using his curtains a little more often.

Liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava decided to hold a photo op outside her conservative primary opponent Doug Hoffman’s office. I don’t know if this was a snap decision and they just loaded up the podium and a campaign sign and drove over there, thinking they were getting a one up on Hoffman, but there didn’t seem to be a lot of thought put into this.

For example, one might wonder, “Hey, if we go over to their office, what are the chances of them having a campaign sign or two of their own?”

Answer: Pretty good.

Hat Tip: Death By a Thousand Papercuts

Yesterday I wrote here about the current situation in Afghanistan. For those who don’t know, Obama has come out in favor of having the Taliban as part of the government in Afghanistan. You know, the same Taliban that we fought to remove:

President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The sharpened focus by Obama’s team on fighting al-Qaida above all other goals, while downgrading the emphasis on the Taliban, comes in the midst of an intensely debated administration review of the increasingly unpopular eight-year-old war.

The Taliban has some changes it would like to see, starting with your religious preference:

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on October 6, members of the Taliban sent threatening letters in Sargodha, Pakistan warning Christian leaders to convert to Islam or face dire consequences.

A copy of the letter obtained by ICC warns Christians to convert to Islam, pay Jizya tax (an Islamic tax imposed on religious minorities) or leave the country. If Christians refuse to accept the choices given to them, the letter explains that they “would be killed, their property and homes would be burnt to ashes and their women would be treated as sex slaves. And they themselves would be responsible for this.”

Well, I think that is clear enough. It’s hard to misunderstand that, now, isn’t it?

I would like to know how Obama plans to negotiate with thinking like this?

Hat Tip: Jihad Watch

I know I’m a bit behind on this one, but it deserves mentioning, so I’m mentioning it.

A blogger in St. Louis found out there were still tickets to Vice President Biden’s local grip and grin event and showed up looking to get a seat. He was instead shown the press entrance. Then he was shown the exit…and then escorted off site…by a cop:

I suspect that someone on Biden’s staff looked at my site and wanted me gone. They used a legitimate means of doing so. I am NOT saying they were wrong for removing me from the press area. They had every right to based on the press pass deadline. But they were letting the general public in the front door. What would have been the harm in me sitting in the audience? Instead they escorted me completely off of the property.

AM I THAT DANGEROUS??

First of all, how funny is it that Biden can’t sell out an event? Is that normal?

Second, what’s up with the police escort? Clearly he wasn’t being unruly. He wasn’t disrupting the event. He was just there, trying to listen to the wisdom of the Vice President.

Is this what it has come to?

Hat Tip: Dana Loesch

While President Barack Obama takes his time and really, really considers listening to the man he put in charge of winning the war in Afghanistan, the liberal wing of the Democrat party is desperate to get him to lose the war. So what happens if we refuse to accept the need for a larger military presence in Afghanistan and allow the Taliban to make more gains.

The Afghan women know all too well:

As an Afghan woman who for many years lived a life deprived of the most basic human rights, I find unbearable the thought of what will happen to the women of my country if it once again falls under the control of the insurgents and militants who now threaten it.

In 2001, when the war in Afghanistan began, the liberation of Afghan women was one of the most important justifications for military intervention. Has the world now changed its mind about Afghan women? Is it ready to let them once again be killed and tortured by militants? Does the world no longer believe in the principles it supported in 2001?

Handing over Afghanistan to those who intend to keep the country centuries behind most of the world — to men who do not view women as human beings — would not only call into doubt the global commitment to human rights, it would also raise questions about the commitment of Western democracies to such rights and to democratic values. Bearing in mind how fragile the Afghan government is at this moment, it will not take long for the country’s women to come under attack again. The consequences will be even more bitter this time because no matter how limited our success, we have at least managed to act in the forefront of public life in Afghanistan. We have had a taste of what it’s like to have rights.

They remember life under the Taliban. It has not been that long that they were freed from the oppression of Sharia law:

Shah Mahmoud, described his first lesson from the Taliban. Soon after they took the city he was walking near his home, wearing trousers and clean-shaven, when he saw a group of Taliban men beating a woman with a length of cable. The woman was carrying a baby and screaming: “Oh God! I’ve done nothing wrong!”

The woman, who was taking her sick child to the doctor, had fallen foul of one of the Taliban’s early decrees, that woman should not leave their homes under any circumstances.

“I was astounded, and outraged that they’d hit her,” said Mahmoud. “I went up to them and asked them what right they had to do such a thing. They started to hit me, and two of them grabbed my hands from behind.” Mahmoud managed to struggle free and ran away. He resisted no more, so the decrees kept coming.

“I didn’t want to wear a beard. They said it was necessary. I didn’t want to wear a turban. It was the law. I didn’t want to paint my eyes. They said you have to paint your eyes. That one came right from the office of Mullah Omar.”

They beat a woman holding a baby with cable…because she left the house. I know the Obama administration says I simply misuderstand Sharia law, and that it really isn’t that bad, but that seems to be a little over the top. However, the Taliban have a place in the new Afghan government. Again, that’s what Obama says:

President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The sharpened focus by Obama’s team on fighting al-Qaida above all other goals, while downgrading the emphasis on the Taliban, comes in the midst of an intensely debated administration review of the increasingly unpopular eight-year-old war.

That’s an interesting perspective. Fight al-Qaida, downgrade the Taliban. Here’s a different perspective, held by a man the Taliban kidnapped and imprisoned for over seven months:

Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become. Before the kidnapping, I viewed the organization as a form of “Al Qaeda lite,” a religiously motivated movement primarily focused on controlling Afghanistan.

Living side by side with the Haqqanis’ followers, I learned that the goal of the hard-line Taliban was far more ambitious. Contact with foreign militants in the tribal areas appeared to have deeply affected many young Taliban fighters. They wanted to create a fundamentalist Islamic emirate with Al Qaeda that spanned the Muslim world.

What right wing rag is this drivel printed in? The New York Times.

It makes you wonder if Barry and Co. really understand there is more on the line here than his re-election. If he bends his knee to the lose at all costs of the left wing, or in other words the Democrat base, then he turns a now free Afghanistan back into subjects of the Taliban.

You may not like the United States having a presence in Afghanistan. That’s fine. I understand that. However, we cannot, in good conscience, abandon these people to living under persecution.

Give the general what he needs. Win the war.

Earlier in the year, liberals were broadsided with an op-ed piece penned by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Mckey advocated for a free market solution to the health care debate and against the government run system.

Here’s a bit of what he wrote:

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:

• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs).
• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits.
  
• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.
  
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
  
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
  
• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost.
  
• Enact Medicare reform.
  
• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Reason.TV interviewed Mackey, one of his employees and some of the union thugs and statists who protested outside Whole Foods. I love the way they take the left’s accusations and squash them with comments from the employee.

Worth five minutes of your time:

White House Communication Director explains to the people in The Dominican Republic how they controlled the media during the campaign.  Note that this is parallel to what she is doing now that he was elected! The press is the key to taking total control!

It is time for all Americans to find out what is planned for Copenhagen and to let our government know we do not want to ceded sovereignty to a world government.  Is the Healthcare debate clouding the issue to prevent us from learning about this treaty until it is too late? The text for the treaty is found at: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/ngo-copenhagen-treaty-legal

YouTube – Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?.

There was a story I wrote about earlier in the year about a woman who was asked to take down her American flag on Memorial Day because others in the office found it offensive. Most of the comments supporting the action said it was because the flag was a 3×5 foot flag, which was kind of large for an office area.

While I don’t agree with that, let’s go ahead and allow it. People weren’t upset about the flag, but about the size of the flag.

How about a little flag then? Should you be forced to take down a little flag?

If you are a firefighter who wears a flag on his uniform, drives a fire truck with one displayed on it and works in a building with a flag flying in front of it, you will be suspended for having a flag sticker on your locker.

It might offend someone.

A Chester City firefighter was suspended without pay yesterday for refusing to remove an American flag sticker from his locker.

James Krapf, an 11-year veteran of the department, could face more days of suspension if he does not remove the sticker, Fire Commissioner James Johnson said.

Johnson directed the force’s 61 members to remove all decorations from the outside of their lockers over the summer after a firefighter posted a cartoon that others found offensive. The drawing, which firefighters said was posted by a black colleague, showed two black men and included a racial slur.

Firefighters can post personal items inside the lockers, but the outside must remain “free of alteration,” according to the directive.

I can see one side of the argument being, “Just take the sticker off. Put a bigger one inside your locker. Policy is policy.” It makes sense.

Here’s the thing for me. This is lazy, knee jerk reaction to someone’s lack of intelligence.

Rather than handle issues as they happen, they simply punish everyone for one person’s stupidity. And why?

Banning all materials from locker doors was the simplest way to avoid bickering among the staff, Johnson said.

“How do we know what offends who?” he said. “I have to play Solomon here.”

Someone could be offended by the American flag.

Someone could be offended by anything. Political correctness destroys free expression again.

Where I work, we have lockers and are asked to keep the outside of them free from decorations. Not because they are afraid of offending someone, but because it simply looks more professional. I agree with that. (And if I find the person who put the “I love Obama” sicker on my locker, there will be a reckoning.) If someone were to have a flag on the outside of their locker and were told to remove it, I would support them being made to remove it, based on the policy of looking professional.

But removing a flag that as been there for years because someone might be offended by it is lazy and reactionary. Personally, I agree with Krapf when he says, “Anybody who finds the American flag offensive shouldn’t be working there.” I wouldn’t want to work with anyone who finds the American flag offensive.

Would you?

Cross posted at Right Wing News.

Brilliant.