Mob of Black Adults Beats White Man Into Critical Condition, Says It’s “Justice for Trayvon”

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Matthew Owens was sitting on his porch when a mob of adult black Americans, armed with “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on,” approached him and beat him into a coma.

Owens has made a fuss about some kids playing ball in the middle of the street. The kids left. The adults returned:

Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens.

Owens’ sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.”

Police will only say “multiple people” are involved.

What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding on the ground, Parker says one of them said “Now thats justice for Trayvon.” Trayvon Martin is the unarmed teenager police say was shot and killed February 26 by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Samford, Florida.

The blame for Owens’ beating doesn’t lie at the feet of Owens for hassling kids playing ball in the street. Even if Owens chased them away with racial slurs and baseball bats, he doesn’t deserve such a brutal attack.

This beating was caused by race hustlers enraging a people into doing something they normally wouldn’t do. Al Sharpton, specifically.

This man lays in the hospital, in a coma, because Al Sharpton’s rhetoric once again led to violence.

I said it would happen, and now it has.

Soon, someone is going to die because Al Sharpton’s livelihood depends on racial division and tension.

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The Inspiration for “If I Wanted America to Fail,” By Paul Harvey…from 1965

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I woke up this morning at 4 am, as per the norm on a workday. But this morning, I couldn’t stop thinking that I had heard that video I posted last night. It was strange.

I don’t know why I started thinking about it, but it was just such a strong feeling, I couldn’t stop wracking my brain to remember where.

Then it dawned on me.

Paul Harvey did almost the same video in 1965, only rather than it being about wanting America to fail, it was titled, “If I Were the Devil.”

Here it is:

While Free Market America didn’t plagerize anything, but a tip of the hat to the classic conservative commentator would have been nice.

Way ahead of his time. Paul Harvey.

Good day!

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WH Counsel Clears WH Of Wrongdoing in Colombian HookerGate, Won’t Deny Obama Ate a Dog

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Surprisingly, the White House counsel took a good, hard look at the White Houses involvement in the whole Colombian hooker scandal and found that the White House was pretty much free and clear of any wrongdoing:

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced that White House legal counsel has concluded no White House staff engaged in any “misconduct” in Cartagena.

“The decision to conduct a review here, internally, was simply done out of due diligence,” Carney said. “There is no indication of any misconduct by any member of the White House advance team or staff.”

He added that “there have been no specific, credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or White House staff.”

I’m sure that’s good enough for you, right? After all, this is the most transparent administration in the history of cellophane.

What did the White House Counsel look at, you ask? That’s not important, citizen. Move along:

“There’s no point in getting into the details of this internal review except to say that it was conducted,” he said.

White House counsel has yet to weigh in on the fact that Obama ate a dog. The White House chef has been unavailable for comment.

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Weekend Link Love: Bill Brasky Edition

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I’m at BlogConCLT this weekend, where I have been able to make Bill Brasky live again.

I once saw Bill Brasky scissor-kick Angela Lansbury. BILL BRASKY!

Conservatives 4 Palin: Coroner’s Report: Andrew Breitbart Died of Heart Failure

iOwntheWorld: Saturday Silliness: Stupid Things in Super Slow Motion

Conservative Byte: New Law To Require ‘Black Boxes’ In All Cars

Scared Monkeys: ABC News Has Exclusive Pic of George Zimmerman’s Bloodied Head Post Trayvon Martin Shooting Death (Photo – VIDEO)

Pirate’s Cove: Union Supporting Speaker Says Of Scott Walker “We Cut Your Head Off”

Powerline Blog: More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

This Ain’t Hell: Ted Nugent booted from Fort Knox concert


Conservative Byte: Fewer US states reported job gains last month

DBKP: Spectacular NASA Satellite Image of Popocatepetl 2009 NASA Image Sarychev Volcano

Weasel Zippers: Romney: I’ll Build Keystone Pipeline Even ‘If I Have To Do It Myself’

Ace of Spades: Spinning Fast and Furious: DOJ Refers Reporter To Media Matters

Say Anything: Kent Conrad: “There’s No Need To Do A Budget For Next Year Right Now”

Gateway Pundit: Barack Obama Weekly Address: “We Cannot Just Cut Our Way to Prosperity” (Video)

Fausta’s Blog: Corzine still bundling for Obama

American Thinker: The Dog Daze of Obama

Holy Coast: White House Gourmet Cartoon of the Day

The People’ Cube: I Ate A Dog And I Laiked It

Here are some awesome Bill Braskey quotes, like:

  • Brasky’s family crest is a picture of a barracuda, eating Neil Armstrong.
  • Brasky’s ranked eighteenth in the AP College Football Poll.
  • Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky was in a production of The King and I? Well anyway, before the show, Brasky chloroforms the entire cast, and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.
  • He breast feeds John Madden.
  • Brasky named the group ShaNaNa. They did not want to be called that.

BILL BRASKY!

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Ford Sold Zero Electric Cars in February and March; Zero, as in NONE

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Despite the Obama administrations best efforts to raise the price of gas to a level that was unprecented in the history of the country, people still do not want to drive around in an electric car.

It turns out, the free market doesn’t care how much money is looted from the masses and shoveled into green energy:

Electric vehicle sales have been slow out of the box, despite marketing hype, government incentives and the hopes of green car advocates.

Total sales last year were 17,425, which is less than 0.1 percent of the U.S. car and light truck market.

Nonetheless, automakers show no signs of pulling back their multibillion-dollar bets: They need electric cars to meet tough new fuel-efficiency standards. About a dozen new plug-ins and fully electric cars will go on sale in the next year.

Just so you understand, it isn’t the free market that is demanding electric cars. Car makers must make these vehicles to lower the fuel economy average of their production.

But no one wants them:

Toyota will launch two electric vehicles later this year. Toyota sold nearly 900 of its new plug-in Prius in March, but that was 3 percent of the more than 28,000 plug-in and gasoline-electric vehicles that Prius sold last month.

Ford Motor Co. sold about 12 Focus Electrics in December and January to fleet customers — and none in February and March, said Erich Merkle, a Ford spokesman. The Dearborn automaker plans a slow ramp-up as it begins production this spring for retail sales; the New York area and California are the first markets.

Analysts forecast modest gains. The auto website Edmunds.com predicts 40,000 electric vehicles will be sold this year, with 70,000 sold in 2013. The projection for 2017 rises to 250,000 cars — about 1.5 percent of the market.

If the federal government had not changed the CAFE standards, raising the average fuel efficiency standards, these cars would not be in production.

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Now Racist in the US: Banners That Read “Obama Isn’t Working”

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The latest claim of racism in the 2012 campaign is a banner that the Mitt Romney campaign unfurled at a recent campaign stop that reads, “Obama Isn’t Working.”

Because blacks folks don’t have jobs, or something:

The slogan is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about black men.

When I first saw the banner this afternoon, the multiple meanings were clear: President Obama‘s policies aren’t working, the Obama presidency isn’t working, President Obama…isn’t working, as in, doing any work. That’s not a nice thing to say about any president, but like it or not, it becomes a more loaded accusation when leveled at our first black president.

Just to be sure it wasn’t just me, though, I asked several friends about the banner, and four out of four pointed out, unprompted, the stereotype of the “lazy,” “shiftless” black man.

That’s a really powerful sample of the population. A liberal asked a bunch of liberal friends what they thought and *GASP* they all thought alike.

I know. Shocker.

Anyway, this is the latest edition to my wesite, Now Racist in the U.S.

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Obama’s America: Food Stamp Rolls Increase By 70%

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President Obama has added five trillion dollars to the national debt. His supporters say he’s made a difference.

He has, but not for the better:

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.

This is winning in Obama’s America.

In a report, the CBO said roughly two-thirds of jump in spending was tied to an increase in the number of people participating in the program, which provides access to food for the poor, elderly, and disabled. It said another 20% “of the growth in spending can be attributed to temporarily higher benefit amounts enacted in the” 2009 stimulus law.

CBO said the number of people receiving benefits is expected to fall after 2014 because the economy will be improving.

I wonder if that is based on Obama losing the election. There should probably be different projections based on who wins.

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#BlogConCLT is Underway (Video)

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I’m in Charlotte, North Carolina for BlogCon.  It’s an event started by FreedomWorks and now cosponsored by The Franklin Center organized to help train conservative bloggers.  The room is filling up as the event gets underway.

The event opened with a video I produced.  It was met with cheers and applause.

That made me happy.  Here it is:

I’ve also been invited to speak on one of the panels regarding video editing tomorrow at lunch. If you are here, please come and introduce yourself if we haven’t met. I come to these events to network and learn, but mainly to network.

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Rasmussen: 92% Favor Strict Limits on Government to Protect Individual

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The headline at Rasmussen is encouraging, but when you sit back and digest it a bit, you have to wonder how these folks define “protect the individual.”

Sixty-five percent (65%) of Likely U.S. Voters agree with the statement that a government powerful enough to do everything you want is also powerful enough to take away everything you have. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 23% disagree with that statement. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure about it. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Thirty-five percent of Americans are ignorant about the tyranny of government.

I know a majority of the readers here would agree with limiting the power of government to protect the individual, but let’s get back to what I mentioned before.  What does it mean?

For example, I would submit that ending the war on drugs, or in other words, limiting the power of government to dictate what I can and can’t put in my body, would be a move that would protect the individual.  By limiting the reach of government, it protects the liberties of the individual, in this case the liberty to do yourself harm.

Others might suggest that the government is protecting the individual by engaging in a war on drugs.

I’m curious about what you think, not just about the war on drugs, but about the idea of what people were thinking when they came out in favor of strict limits on government to protect the individual.  Let me know in the comments.

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Warning: This US Tax Code Analysis May Cause Liberal Heads to Asplode

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The Wall Street Journal has a long article by Sen. Phil Gramm and Steve McMillin that is worth reading. Yeah, it’s on taxes, but it’s interesting enough that even my ADD riddled brain could stay focused long enough to finish it.

And I’m glad I did. It’s filled from start to end with the good stuff.

For example:

While income distribution has become a source of protest and political debate, any analysis of taxes paid in high tax-and-spend countries shows that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system in the world. An inconvenient truth for the advocates of higher taxes on America’s rich is that big governments in developed countries are funded not by taxing the rich more than the U.S. does, but by taxing everybody else more.

That truly is a game changer for the the debate scene. Talk to any liberal about socialism and eventually two countries will come up: Sweden and France. America has a more progressive tax structure than both of them. So what if we became more like these to liberal wonderlands where taxation is involved?

We’d tax the rich less and the poor more:

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data on the ratio of the share of income taxes paid by the richest taxpayers relative to their share of income show that the U.S. has the world’s most progressive tax burden.

The top 10% of earners in the U.S. pay 35% more of the income tax burden than in Sweden and 22% more than in France. These figures—from the 2008 OECD publication “Growing Unequal?”—include all household taxes imposed on income at the federal, state and local level, including social insurance taxes.

In an eternal irony unique to large welfare states, it is the expansion of government in the name of the poor and middle class that always costs poor and middle-class families the most. When the U.S. collects 16.1% of GDP in income taxes, the top 10% of taxpayers pay 7.3% and the other 90% pick up 8.9%.

In France, however, they collect 24.3% of GDP in income taxes with the top 10% paying 6.8% and the rest paying a whopping 17.5% of GDP. Sweden collects its 28.5% of GDP through income taxes by tapping the top 10% for 7.6%, but the other 90% get hit for a back-breaking 20.9% of GDP.

If the U.S. spent and taxed like France and Sweden, it would hardly affect the top 10%, who would pay about what they pay now, but the bottom 90% would see their taxes double.

That’s important information. That’s data you need to commit to memory for the next time you have to debate taxation with either a liberal or an ignorant would-be pundit.

As I have said over and over, France and Sweden may have more government funded programs, like medicine and welfare, but they have to loot more from the citizens to fund it. While you get “free” health care, it’s lower quality health care than the free market would provide and you get less of the property you earn from your labor.

That’s a lose-lose, no matter how you look at it.

The article also describes what would have happened if the tax rate changes made in 1986, 1997 and 2003 werent’ made. Turns out, income inequality would be flatter. So would our wallets:

Lower tax rates made dividend-paying stocks more attractive to high-income investors and made dividend payouts more attractive for companies that would have previously retained those earnings or bought back their stock. Capital trapped in companies with below-market rates of return was redeployed and the entire economy benefited.

All of this has had a huge impact on the measured income of the top 1% and the growth in income inequality. This impact can be estimated by examining what would have happened to the income of the top 1% if tax rates had not been lowered and these economic transformations had not occurred.

If the share of income coming from businesses, capital gains and dividends had remained at the levels before the tax rate changes of 1986, 1997 and 2003 respectively, the income of top 1% filers would have been 31% lower in 2007. The growth in income since 1979 for top 1% filers would have been only 2.5 times as large as the income growth of all taxpayers—not 3.6 times as large.

More businesses would have remained C-Corps and been taxed as corporations, fewer assets would have been sold and thus fewer capital gains would have been declared, and fewer dividends would have been paid. All of this would have lowered the income declared by the top 1%. Economic growth would have been lower and aggregate measured income of all taxpayers would have fallen, but the distribution of income would have been flatter.

That reaffirms an old Winston Churchill maxim:

Sure, we’d all be closer to being equal, but we’d all be poorer, with limited chances of increasing our economic state.

I’ll take income inequality with greater freedom any day.

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Michelle Obama Reminds Us, Barack is Akin to Jesus

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The 2008 campaign was full of imagery selling President Obama as a savior on a Biblical level. It was so overt, I made a video about it:

I guess the campaign is going to what works:

“I am so in,” Michelle Obama said toward the end of her remarks. “I am going to be working so hard. We have an amazing story to tell. This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light.”

The crowd of nearly 450 folks applauded as the first lady likened her husband to a Jesus-like figure.

In the book of Matthew, we read, “the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.” (Matthew 4:16) The phrase is used to describe the words Jesus preached.

In Micah, light, however, is a reference to God’s words. “Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me,” it says in Micah 7:8.

Either way, in religious terms, light is used to denote the true path, presented either by God or a savior. Or by Barack Obama.

If this is the light, I am disappoint.

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Obama Ate Dog Meat

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The left has been pushing this idea that Mitt Rmmney is a monster because he put the family dog, Seamus, in a pet carrier, then strapped said carrier to the top of the Family Trusckster and took the All American vacation.

The Huffington Post even has an article titled, “Why Seamus Matters,” where they spell out why the story of a traveling dog matters when the country is swirling the bowl and we’re trying to choose a leader to stop it from flushing completely:

Romney’s treatment of Seamus is potentially damaging to his candidacy because it reinforces much of what many Americans, particularly swing voters, already feel about Romney-that he is a smart enough man, but simply unable to connect or relate to the problems and challenges facing ordinary Americans. The Seamus story is consistent with this because it shows Romney to be goal driven, singularly focused and insensitive-it should be remembered that after the dog got sick, Romney pulled over, hosed him off and kept going-even when taking his family on vacation.

I’m guessing that liberals who are pushing the idea that Romney was cruel to this dog have never A) traveled across country with a dog in the car or B) seen this driving down the highway:

Like Ace said:

I don’t know why this is horrifying. Ever drive with a dog in the car? What is the first thing he does, and in fact the only thing he wants to do?

Stick his head out the window and feel the air rushing by.

This is well-nigh universal. Dogs dig this.

Here in Fly-Over country, it’s common to see big boxes in the back of pickup trucks for coon dogs to get in for transport. It’s not cruel.

It’s not like Romney skinned Seamus and served him up to his kids:

Can you name the author of this quote?

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

Yep, that’s Barack Obama, writing about his childhood with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia, from Chapter Two of his bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

“So what? It was a long time ago,” you say. “He was a lot younger. Customs are different there. He was just doing what his stepfather told him. And hey, you can’t even prove that the dogs were ever left on top of a car, you racist.”

Hey, whatever you have to tell yourself, libs. Say what you want about Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth. And whenever you bring up the one, we’re going to bring up the other.

The sad fact is we are discussing this topic in the first place. It’s an indictment of how awful this administration is when rather than tout how successful their policies have been, they’re resorting to pushing a story about a car sick dog and how Mitt Romney is guilty of animal cruelty.

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