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THE CONSERVATIVE MOB

Ann Coulter, who loathes the demonic mob, recently let that demon in when she, along with other mainline conservatives took on the bash Newt mantra. They now sadly look like the very liberal pundits they so vehemently despise. Master of pen eloquence, Peggy Noonan, basically implies that Newt disturbs her. This is the same woman who inferentially endorsed Obama as a sort of political breath of fresh air. Excuse me! Newt disturbs you. Many might feel a little frightened at the mindset that deemed Obama a fresh start. Yes, Newt has infidelity issues. Yes, he throws bombs. But, most take him out of context. He thinks outside the box. That bothers cultural prophets like Coulter and others who can brilliantly read the tea leaves yet, fail to comprehend a blueprint. Newt Gingrich majors in blueprints, not predictions.

And, proof is in the pudding. Mr. Gingrich was the last practical CONSERVATIVE to LEAD congress into some formidable changes. Thus, impelling President Clinton to move right. Perhaps before conservative hormones drive them to despair they ought to take an objective look at Newt's 21st Century Contract With America. I defy anyone to watch the presentation below and label this man a left wing progressive as many, including Glenn Beck, have done. 

Conservative pundit Brent Bozell, makes some salient points concerning this hate Newt phenomenon when he opines:

It brings us back to Angelo Codevilla’s piece last summer in The American Spectator on “America’s Ruling Class.” What Codevilla called the “country class” – the party of freedom, as opposed to a “ruling class” that resents the country’s input – has rarely captured the GOP flag. The GOP rulers sabotaged Barry Goldwater and ultimately were stuck with Ronald Reagan. Contrary to quaint historical rewrites, they were not in his camp, and instead bogged Reagan down with establishmentarian deal-makers and principle-shredders.

The country class is demanding the GOP choice be independent of the GOP establishment and confrontational with the radical Left. It is why both camps are now united in their desire to tear this man down. He is a threat.

 This blogger is greatly disappointed with conservatives whose myopic vision for America seeks to destroy a true creative conservative genius. 

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS RIP

British writer turned American citizen Christopher Hitchens, remained committed to his atheism even during his tragic battle with cancer. I liked Hitchens because he made me think. He bowed to no one, including partisan politicians and corporate interests. He made fools of his debating opponents who failed to do their homework-a lesson all witnessing evangelical Christians must consider. Hitchens eternally fancied himself a modern day Edmund Burke who zealously defended our historical American rights. I will miss his passionate patriotism, penetrating intellect, and mesmerizing accent. In the end I pray he found peace with God. (Read Vanityfair's tribute below)

Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.

“Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eyeretrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades.

“My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,” he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.

 

JESUS AN ASSASSIN?

Watch out all you evangelicals. The left and mainstream liberal media's template is to weave such atrocities into their belabored narrative-one which incessantly convicts conservative christians of fostering this sort of hallucinatory behavior. (via USA Today)

"It's not just a coincidence that I look like Jesus," Ortega says in the rambling 20-minute video. " I am the modern day Jesus Christ that you all have been waiting for."A witness told FBI agents that Ortega wanted to "hurt" Obama and referred to him as "the anti-Christ." 

Need I say anymore? The kind of "guilty by"...well...by relentless false assumptions, reveals the left's flawed progressive fundamentalism. Yes, that's right. Lefties sport fundamentalism in the most extreme way. They cannot think outside their narrow, prefabricated, narcissistic, philosophical box. Once conservatives instinctively realize this, then the shock and awe factor of liberal radical accusations subsides, becoming nothing more than predictable drivel. 

JACK LASTRAIN RIP

You probably know by now about the passing of fitness guru Jack LaLain. Who can argue with his regimen. He lived to a ripe old age of 96. 

Yet, my favorite fitness trainer was Jack LaStrain. Mr. LaStrain remains relatively anonymous even to this day. And, he died about 20 years younger than LaLain. But, he taught us the healthy art of laughing. 

Follow this link to watch this incredibly buff individual offer tips for getting in shape and living longer.

MARK LEVIN ON THE WAR PATH

Attorney and talk show host Mark Levin is mad as hell and he's taking names:

Talk-radio host Mark Levin has publicly threatened to sue Chris Matthews and a laundry list of MSNBC hosts who suggest that he might have some culpability in Saturday's mass murders in Tucson, Arizona.

Others, like talk-radio host Michael Savage, have done similarly, but Levin has clout and credibility in the legal profession, given that he's an attorney who heads the Landmark Legal Foundation and is a former official of the U.S. Justice Department.

Levin was responding to an assertion by Matthews and a couple of guests on a recent Hardball episode that Jared Lee Loughner was somehow influenced by Levin and Savage when he went on a killing spree at an event hosted by congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

"I'm waiting for an allegation that is very specific against me because I'm going to sue... I'm going to drag your ass into federal court," Levin told his estimated 8.5 million listeners during his syndicated radio show.

"I'm going to personally depose you. I'm going to drag you in front of a jury and I'm going to get your assets," he said.

Levin went on to challenge practically the entire lineup of MSNBC talent.

"Somebody has to draw the line," Levin said. "Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough. Test me."

He also stuck up for Sarah Palin, who has been a hot topic of discussion at MSNBC as hosts and pundits link her political rhetoric to the killings.

"I challenge Chris Matthews. I'll put $100,000 on the table to find any example where Sarah Palin has promoted the murder of anybody," Levin said. "A hundred-thousand dollars on the table if Chris Matthews can find anywhere where Mark Levin has urged the murder of people who have different political viewpoints."

I'm not an attorney, but I intensely believe some sort of equitable standard must exist when dealing out careless speech bent on personal destruction of one's antagonists. Perhaps conservatives may fare better with the public when the truth is exposed through the legal system.

BOB HOPE KNOWS DEMOCRATS

With all this talk today from Dems about change we can believe in and their European socialist agenda, one sits on the political sidelines scratching his head and asking, "Do these children really know what they are doing?" Many years ago Bob Hope, with tongue-in-cheek, pegged the bombastic, hypocritical party. Except for the names, things rarely change under the sun. 

ACTOR ANDY GARCIA FIGHTING CASTRO IN LA

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been an enigma all my life. Yes, boys and girls, I'm old enough to vividly remember the Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crises and the Kennedy assassination. Castro made a good living playing mind games with US leaders down through the decades. In addition his rather Cinderella success stories leave liberal media types mindlessly infatuated with him. Starry eyed, and hypnotized they drool over his every move as if he really can perform miracles. 

But, the American media lives a utopian, idealistic, adolescent lie. Castro is a murderer who constantly deceives the US. He keeps his people in slavery and squaller. Americans should have dethroned this two bit thug long ago. 

Actor Andy Garcia knows the truth. He's one of the good guys and he's leading an awareness charge against Castro in LA. Click here to see Mr. Garcia in action.

THE LAST SONG

Nicholas Sparks is one of the good guys. We need more screen writers like him. Below he discusses a soon to be released movie based on his novel The Last Song . 

NEWS BUSTED

New project over at News Busters-the web's source for exposing media lies. How about that laugh track.

FOX'S BRIT HUME PROPHETIC

This week veteran broadcaster from NBC and now Fox News, Brit Hume, challenged Tiger Woods to turn to Christianity and Jesus Christ for healing and redemption. Hume discussed his challenge and the firestorm that followed with Bill O'Reilly. Salon Magazine chastises Hume for what they view as pompous proselytizing. Hume predicted such to O'Reilly. I highlight the prophetic utterance in bold:

O'REILLY: Was that proselytizing? 

HUME: I don't think so. I mean, look, Tiger Woods is somebody I've always rooted for as a golfer and as a man. I greatly admired him over the years, and I always have said to people it was the content of his character that made him, beyond his extraordinary golf skills, so admirable. Now we know that the content of his character was not what we thought it was. He is paying a frightful price for these revelations. I - - my sense is that he has basically lost his family, and there's a lot of talk about the endorsements he's lost. But that pales, I suspect, in his mind, with what he's lost otherwise. And my sense about Tiger is that he needs something that Christianity, especially provides and gives and offers. And that is redemption and forgiveness. And I was -- I was really meaning to say in those comments yesterday more about Christianity than I was about anything else. I mentioned the Buddhism only because his mother is a Buddhist and he has apparently said that he is a Buddhist. I'm not sure how seriously he practices that. But I think -- I think that the -- Jesus Christ offers Tiger Woods something that Tiger Woods badly needs.

 O'REILLY: Now, if he does go that route, then he would be accused of -- remember in the Bill Clinton years, he got in trouble, he had the Bible and Jesse Jackson and they were praying and, you know, wouldn't Americans... 

HUME: That's true, Bill. That wouldn't -- and that wasn't the first time. Remember Chuck Colson, who is one of the leading lights of Watergates, if you will. 

O'REILLY: But he made a true conversion. 

HUME: He did. And I'm -- what I'm saying is if Tiger Woods were to make a true conversion, we would know it. It would show through in his -- in his being, and he would know it, above all. And he would feel the extraordinary blessing that that would be. And -- and it would shine because he is so prominent. It would be -- it would be a shining light, and I think it would be a -- it would be a magnificent thing to witness. 

O'REILLY: Now, what kind of reaction did you get when you said that? A lot of letters and e-mails and things? 

HUME: I got some letters and e-mails from people who were like me, who are believers who said, "Great. Right on. Right on. Way to go." I've heard a lot of terrible comments from people who claim that I was a pompous jerk who had no business mouthing off on the subject and that I shouldn't have belittled the Buddhist faith and so on. I really wasn't trying to belittle and demean. 

O'REILLY: I don't think so either. What drives -- what do you think drives the negative comments about -- Buddhism aside, I don't think we're trying to denigrate Buddhism. But what do you think drives the negative comments about Christianity?

 HUME: It has always been a puzzling thing to me. The Bible even speaks of it, that, you know, you speak the name, "Jesus Christ," and I don't -- and I don't mean to make a pun here, but all hell breaks loose. And -- and it has always been thus. It is explosive. I didn't even say the name in that way. I simply spoke of the Christian faith. But that was enough to trigger this reaction. It triggers a very powerful reaction in people who do not share the faith and who do not believe in it.

Anyone who dares criticize Hume must realize as a Christian he readily expects such. Some Christians wear this martyrdom as a sort of prideful badge. To that I wholeheartedly agree with Salon. Pomposity stands opposite of the Bible's exhortation for Christians to humble themselves. It diminishes Jesus and elevates one's own self righteousness. But, I fail to detect a martyr mentality in Hume. Confident-yes. Pompous-no. He simply paraphrased Jesus' own words that those who follow him will pay a price.

In fact, each of us must count the cost involved in both verbalizing and living out our own world view. Salon may pay a monetary price in the loss of readership by criticizing Christians. Hume reflectively counted the cost and presumably looked at the matter from an eternal, experiential eye. He, along with other Christians know personally the power of their faith to transform a broken life. Plus, their redemption impels them to enthusiastically embrace the big picture. God reigns through Jesus Christ, and eventually shall require every human being to acknowledge this claim. It's really elementary for those who, in Jesus' words, "...have eyes to see and ears to hear."