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If you've ever seen the old newsreels from pre-WWII Germany, you'd notice an eerie feeling seeing the homosexual anti-Proposition 8 "protest" rally at Boston City Hall last Saturday.

It was easily the largest single homosexual event of the dozens organized around the country that day. It was carefully calculated to ignite the passions of the participants against people of faith and those with traditional values. A sign at the Seattle rally - fairly typical anti-Christian message.

The homosexual movement's organized response to losing popular votes on Marriage Amendments has exposed their total dysfunction. America has never seen this kind of barbarism. From posting a list of Proposition 8 donors (so they can more easily be harassed) to terrorizing Mormon churches, to rioting, to displaying vile anti-Christian signs - it's truly a sickening sight.

Rather than having us describe it, look for yourself at some of the videos that have been posted.  You will see the true nature of the homosexual movement.  This is how they want to rule you.   

San Francisco: Homosexual mob attacks group of Christians, sexually assaults one of the men.  Squad of police needed to guard Christians as they leave the area.  See the VIDEO. 

• New York City: Screaming "Fascist Church" a large mob of homosexuals terrorizes Mormon temple.  See the VIDEO.
   
• In Los Angeles the largest and most venomous attack was against a Mormon Temple. It lasted over ten hours. Words can't describe it: you need to look for yourself.
  Video #1      Video #2      Video #3      Video #4
   
• Even the Fox News building in Los Angeles endured a terrifying riot, apparently because they didn't cover the homosexuals' issues as biased as the other networks. See the VIDEO.
   
• Northampton, Massachusetts: A bizarre "transgender" speaker reminding us that the next frontier for the homosexual movement is the state supporting having one's mutilated to "change" your sex.
  MassResistance Blog with link to video.
   
• Los Angeles: Well-known Mexican Restaurant forced to donate $500 to homosexual group because manager donated $100 to Proposition 8. Homosexual activists converged on the restaurant and threatened patrons. See the VIDEO.  Also see LA Times article
   
• "Cry Babies" - a fascinating and frightening video that analyzes the rage of the homosexual movement's recent attacks.  See the VIDEO.
  
  It's very clear that the homosexual activists do not consider reason, discourse, and general citizenship to play any part in their game plan.  It's all about anger, emotion, and doing whatever it takes to get their way. 

by Frederick W. Kagan

This morning, I had the honor of testifying before the House Budget Committee on the situation in Iraq.  The discussion was polite and civilized, and was a reminder that even now it is possible for people who disagree about what to do in Iraq to argue without raised voices and disagreeable language (apart from the Code Pink women, yelling for those who think that shouting opponents down is preferable to arguing with them).

Congressman Brian Baird once again demonstrated that it is possible even for those who bitterly opposed the war to recognize the importance of doing the right thing now--as well as the possibility of crossing the Republican-Democrat sectarian divide on this issue.  One question came up repeatedly in the hearing that deserves more of an answer than it got, however: Why, after all the assistance we've given to Iraq over the past five years, was the first major Iraqi oil deal signed with China and not with an American or even a western company? The answer is, in part, because three Democratic senators intervened in Iraqi domestic politics earlier this year to prevent Iraq from signing short-term agreements with Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, Chevron, and BP.

The Iraqi government was poised to sign no-bid contracts with those firms this summer to help make immediate and needed improvements in Iraq 's oil infrastructure.  The result would have been significant foreign investment in Iraq , an expansion of Iraqi government revenues, and an increase in the global supply of oil.  One would have thought that leading Democratic senators who claim to be interested in finding other sources of funding to replace American dollars in Iraq, in helping Iraq spend its own money on its own people, and in lowering the price of gasoline for American citizens, would have been all for it.  Instead, Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her "to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq ."
The Bush administration wisely refused to do so, but the resulting media hooraw in Iraq led to the cancellation of the contracts, and helps to explain why Iraq is doing oil deals instead with China .

Senators Schumer, McCaskill, and Kerry claimed to be acting from the purest of motives: "It is our fear that this action by the Iraqi government could further deepen political tensions in Iraq and put our service members in even great danger."  For that reason, presumably, Schumer went so far as to ask the senior vice president of Exxon "if his company would agree to wait until the GOI produced a fair, equitable, and transparent hydrocarbon revenue sharing law before it signed any long-term agreement with the GOI."  Exxon naturally refused, but Schumer managed to get the deal killed anyway.  But the ostensible premise of the senators' objections was false--Iraq may not have a hydrocarbons law, but the central government has been sharing oil revenues equitably and there is no reason at all to imagine that signing the deals would have generated increased violence (and this was certainly not the view of American civilian and military officials on the ground in Iraq at the time). 

It is certain that killing the deals has delayed the maturation of Iraq 's oil industry without producing the desired hydrocarbons legislation.  Nor is it entirely clear what the senators' motivations were.

Their release (available along with their letter to Secretary Rice at the New York Observer quoted Senator McCaskill as follows: "'It's bad enough that we have no-bid contracts being awarded for work in Iraq. It's bad enough that the big oil companies continue to receive government handouts while they post record breaking profits. But now the most profitable companies in the universe--America's biggest oil companies--stand to reap the rewards of this no-bid contract on top of it all,' McCaskill said. 'It doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect these dots--big oil is running Washington and now they're running Baghdad . There is no reason under the sun not to halt these agreements until we get revenue sharing in place,' McCaskill said." So was this about what's best for Iraq and American interests there or about nailing "big oil" in an election year?  

Either way, like Barack Obama's asking the Iraqi foreign minister to hold off on a strategic framework agreement until after the American election, it was nothing but harmful to American interests and our prospects in Iraq.

   Bob Weeks

 According to the Wichita Eagle article School board plans no tax increase for coming year, USD 259, the Wichita public school district, does not “plan to raise property taxes” to pay for school operations next year.

Now if you read that and that alone, you might want to congratulate Wichita school officials for respecting the taxpayer.

But not so fast.

For one thing, the taxes that are under the control of USD 259 are increasing. The rate is not, but the amount collected is. That’s because property taxes increase each year as property is reappraised to a higher value, and as new property comes into existence. This increase can be high, too. From 2005 to 2006, the two most recent years I could find data at usd259.com, the total assessed value of property taxable by USD 259 increased from $2,314,710,733 to $2,428,891,164. That’s an increase of 4.9%, and even without an increase in the mill levy (the rate at which property is taxed), much more tax will be collected.

Then, it’s not like the school district’s appetite for tax increases is sated. Last August the board increase the mill levy by two mills. That brought the district to its statutory limit. It can’t increase the mill levy further without asking for voter approval. If not for that, we can be fairly sure that the board would pass another tax rate increase.

Finally, remember that this Wichita school board and its surrogates Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture and Citizens Alliance for Responsible Education are campaigning for the voters to approve a large tax increase in the form of the bond issue, which may or may not appear on a ballot soon.

• creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
• satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
• augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
• rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

by Mass Resistance

On the surface, it would seem strange that the homosexual movement is so enraged at the passing of Proposition 8.  California already had a domestic partnership statute that gave same-sex couples all of the significant rights and obligations traditionally associated with the institution of marriage. Proposition 8 doesn't change that. Prop 8 only deals with the word "marriage". It simply says, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

Like the recent weak Massachusetts marriage amendment, it allows any kind of exact copy of marriage.  So they already have everything they want.

But they don't really have what they want. They're not that interested in technical rights. They want acceptance. They want acceptance of homosexuality to be forced on a society that would never accept it without coercion. That's why the word "marriage" is much more important to them than the rights and obligations of marriage.

At a very visceral, emotional level they want all of society's institutions -- the schools, government, business, media, etc. -- to recognize homosexual behavior as a natural equivalent to heterosexuality. That's why the word "equal" is a part of so many of their activities and organizations.

But humanity being what it is, over all these thousands of years, the radicals know that what they want won't ever happen on its own. Ultimately, a human court or legislature can't repeal the laws of nature. That's a big problem for them.

Gay activists continuing angry protests in cities across America this weekend (including Boston).

They are not letting up. They want to bring their message of intimidation and rage to everyone. They want you to be afraid. And they probably feel empowered by the national election results.

This Saturday, November 15, homosexual activists across the county are claiming that they've planned California-like protests and marches in all 50 states!

     Homosexual website listing planned protests across America.

The Boston protest is planned for 1:30 pm on Saturday at Boston City Hall.

     Homosexual news article on planned protest in Boston

{Christian Newswire}

{I guess Obama will keep the lights on and the economy humming by his brillance - or maybe all the change he is going to effect will somehow generate electrical fields.  Of course, he has no concern about keeping the lights on in the White House - you can be sure that the last amp flowing anywhere in the country will be directed to the White House with the peons paying for it while they shiver in the dark.

"What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there," Obama said in a Jan. 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle that was made public today on the Web site newsbusters.org, which calls itself "the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias."    MORE..

By Laura Ingraham

After October's now-notorious encounter with Joe the Plumber, Obama's media foot soldiers were dispatched with a simple mission: destroy Joe. On Sunday's Fox and Friends, Joe announced their success; his business has been shut down.

Thanks to the intrepid reporting of journalists who've obviously lost all sense of perspective, it turns out Joe has been fixing Ohioans' plumbing without a government-issued license. Talk about irony.  Joe came under fire for humiliating Obama by noting his tax plans interfere with Joe's American Dream.  He wanted to buy his plumbing company and expand it, but higher taxes on small businesses threaten to turn that dream into a nightmare.  The left, in other words, used Big Government to silence Joe Citizen for speaking ill of Big Government.

In turn, Americans have offered financial support to Joe - offers he's politely declined.

Americans have taken to Joe for his willingness to go where the media refuses - that is, for actually speaking truth to power.  Nothing's more infuriating than reporters allowing themselves to be used by politicians, yet that's exactly what's being done on a daily basis at CBS, NBC, CNN, etc.  Joe got the opportunity to tell Obama directly that his tax plans - which penalize hard work while claiming to further America's best interests - were an insult to his intelligence.

Meanwhile, conservative websites are left to do the real reporting on Obama.  NewsMax's Ken Timmerman reports that as much as $63 million of Obama's $150 million September haul may originate from illegal foreign donations. (Conveniently, the campaign refuses to release the names of more than 80% of its 2.5 million contributors.) Obama's tax returns also indicate that in 2000 and 2002, he violated Illinois state law by accepting speaking fees while serving as a state senator.

The press is supposed to hold politicians accountable on behalf of the people. Yet while Obama collects millions in dubious donations and ACORN registers phantom voters in battleground states by the thousands, today's media is doing the Democrats' heavy lifting with its slash-and-smear campaign against people like Joe.

Never before in our history has the media establishment been so derelict in its responsibilities, so one-sided in its coverage, that today it is nothing more than a cheerleader for the Obama campaign.  Never with so much at stake for America's security and our way of life, has the media worked with such single-minded zealousness to elect a dilettante with so little experience and such faulty judgment.

Is the type of bullying and intimidation that Joe's endured what Americans can expect from an Obama administration in response to serious criticism? Will the media closest to the people - talk radio and the blogosphere - be the next targets?

Recently the Overland Park, Kansas City Council voted for mandatory recyling in the city without a public hearing or debate.  The chief proponent of mandatory recycling, councilwoman Donna Owens, stated that “I think we need to move forward with managing this because it will compel people to start recycling even if they don’t want to.”  She further suggested that the "effort by the council was a way to manage/moderate for our residents the impending ‘crisis’ that is ahead on solid waste."  And, who created the crisis other than Council?

The fact that this city council voted not only against the will of the people but with no public debate is the issue, not whether or not, there was public awareness.  Her actions, along with those of other council members, are not the workings of democracy or self-government but rather those of a cadre of elitists who believe they know better than everyone else. 

"Kansas University's campus is buzzing after a student newspaper released its annual sex issue called "Sex on the Hill." It's not new to students. Every year the Daily Kansan releases it's sex issue. But, this year there's controversy over the photographs and where they were taken. I was also shocked. It was graphic. They were naked, the poses they were in.  I was just (sigh). And the boys touching tongues, whoa," said Michelle Scanga, KU Freshman."– Fox News 

It appears that there is little supervision or oversight of tomorrow’s leaders from the KU faculty but rather an aura of the inmates running the asylum prevails. I wonder, if greater awareness and concern might exist on the part of the school administration, if the student newspaper had libeled someone in place of the current faux pas, or would there simply be more of ‘let the taxpayers pick up the legal costs’.

Fox News continues, "Much of the controversy surrounding the cover shot was not about the picture, but the location. KU Campanile is a World War II Memorial. Some said choosing that location for a shot like the cover was disrespectful. "If they were to do it on the top of a brand new scholarship hall go for it."