Sally Meininger
We’ve heard the stories: from the teacher complaining to NJ Governor Chris Christie, to reports of banned candy canes, to Planned Parenthood distributing condoms in elementary schools. It’s apparent there’s a connected, concerted effort by the Left to exploit our children. But what does a classroom full of kids have to offer liberals?
Follow the money and the politics. The answer becomes clear.
We’ve heard the stories: from the teacher complaining to NJ Governor Chris Christie, to reports of banned candy canes, to Planned Parenthood distributing condoms in elementary schools. It’s apparent there’s a connected, concerted effort by the Left to exploit our children. But what does a classroom full of kids have to offer liberals?
Follow the money and the politics. The answer becomes clear.
Editor’s Note: Today’s featured list post was first published on Sunday.
Now that U.S District Judge Susan Bolton has hamstrung the Arizona Illegal Immigration law. Governor Brewer has vowed to fight. Regardless of the final outcome, the real issue lies with the illegal immigrants themselves—their choices, and the effect of those choices on their families–and ours. The way this is playing out in the media is a typical leftist tactic– use the victims to manipulate public opinion into alignment with their agenda. All in the name of Reform. Cue the weeping Hispanics with American-born children.
Now that U.S District Judge Susan Bolton has hamstrung the Arizona Illegal Immigration law. Governor Brewer has vowed to fight. Regardless of the final outcome, the real issue lies with the illegal immigrants themselves—their choices, and the effect of those choices on their families–and ours. The way this is playing out in the media is a typical leftist tactic– use the victims to manipulate public opinion into alignment with their agenda. All in the name of Reform. Cue the weeping Hispanics with American-born children.
Not content with making Ground Zero a symbol of Islamic triumphalism with a 13-15 story Cordoba House mosque, plans are in the works to memorialize the sacred ground of the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, PA.
For a memorial, I can imagine something with park benches, maybe a reflecting pool, the names of the victims carved in shiny stone. Too mundane? Well, the Heinz Foundation–yes that Heinz–funded the design competition to come up with something that would reflect the grief and pride of Americans: A red Islamic crescent design symbolizing the features of a mosque.
Huh?
The Crescent (or Bowl) of Embrace, as it’s called, I’m guessing is so named in an effort to sound comforting. Um, it’s not working. It was, after all, militant Islamic jihadists who caused the plane to crash in the first place. So why are the main features of the memorial so closely linked to Islamic symbols? read more…
Now that Obama is sinking fast in the polls due to his abysmal performance as President, a guaranteed second term is slipping away like the bloom of youth. Solution? Change the rules in the middle of the game. Why not? It’s been done before.
The latest (but hardly new) game changer to come down the pike is to make the Electoral College obsolete. A group going by the moniker of National Popular Vote is leading the way to get states one-by-one to switch from the electoral college system and go straight to a majority rules vote in presidential elections. Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Maryland have already enacted the bill (is it a coincidence that all these states went for Obama?) and its passed in another 19 states.
It was primarily Christians who sought freedom of worship by coming to the New World, but since then America has flourished with just about every hybrid of religion you can imagine. And we manage to get along pretty well. Of course we must ‘endure’ overly nice people with tracts and flowers or those who woo you with green Jell-O. But bottom line, if we don’t like it, we ignore it, we shut the door, we abstain. It’s our right as Americans because we’re free to worship…or not.
Lately, there’s been a new kid on the American block. Sharia, an interpretation of Islam, is proving to be more aggressive than cheerfully persuasive. What’s different about Sharia is that it’s not just a case of religious freedom–it’s a case of freedom for all Americans.
According to Reliance of The Traveler: The Classic Manual of Sacred Law, Sharia is the stated goal for Muslim and non-Muslim alike. After all, Islam means submission. I think there’s a theme here. The Council on American Islamic Relations has said as much:
Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” – Omar Ahmad, founder of the CAIR.
Don Feder, writing for Human Events, said
Islam has the concept of the dhimmi (non-Moslem living under Islam), which is several steps below blacks in the Jim Crow South — though slightly better than Jews in Nazi Germany.
Well, when you put it like that.
Here are some signs Sharia is on the march right in your own backyard:
A Massachusetts rulings finding the federal law banning gay marriage unconstitutional is just one more tier being kicked in on the institution of marriage. This particular tier is over health benefits for significant others. Nothing offensive about that, right?
When it comes to marriage, what’s all the fuss? We’ve been told for decades it’s just a piece of paper. It’s just an institution put in place by a patriarchal culture to keep women down. It’s the height of hypocrisy because of a sky high divorce rate. The Left has had an all out assault on marriage for about fifty years and now that it’s been beaten to a bloody pulp, they apparently want to remake it in their image.
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The snark in me gets a kick out of this poster, but maybe there’s more than just cynicism in its message.
Thinking of the movies released this summer–Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to name a few–share more than just a huge FX budget. Each film pivots on the destiny of one individual to affect the world for the good of mankind. It’s an effective and entertaining device in any theme, but it’s also showing up in a vast number of movies lately. It got me wondering if it’s merely filling a niche–or filling a need.
For a trashy culture that insinuates itself between parents and children—from grade school onward—the sexualization of children is just the cherry on top of the garbage sundae.
Hollywood perpetuates this idea, calling it art. This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that art to the Left is the theft of innocence. From Lolita to American Pie, so-called ‘coming-of-age’ stories and films are primarily about a child’s transformative sexual experience. And, as the Left likes to assert, life imitates art.
