Re: Obama Addresses Race and Gates Incident
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post
July 23, 2009
President Obama said Wednesday night that racial issues still haunt America, even as he noted "the incredible progress that has been made."
Obama was asked at the end of his news conference about the arrest last week of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside his home. The incident has sparked a national discussion about race relations.
Obama noted that "Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here," and he referred to the professor's account of arriving home to find a jammed door, forcing it open and then being confronted by a white police officer looking for proof that Gates lived in the house. According to Gates's account, he showed the officer his ID and became angry when the officer would not identify himself.
The president said he understands the professor's outrage. If he were trying to "jigger into" his old house in Chicago, Obama said, he would assume that the police would be called on him as well. But once Gates showed his ID, he added, it seemed to him the officer should have considered the issue resolved.
"Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that," Obama said. "But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."
Racial superiority and sacred cows is the issue
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
July 23, 2009
Harvard race scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. trumped the police by playing his sacred cow and racial profiling cards. Admitting he was biased and that Gates was a friend, President Obama didn't hesitate to back him up saying the "police acted stupidly," knowing only Gates' side of the incident. Which, under the circumstances, was a stupid thing to say.
As a retired sheriff's sergeant with 41 years of law enforcement and criminal justice system experience, the more obvious problem here seems to be Gates' outrage at the police sergeant for not knowing who he was and how important he is. Racism and profiling are not the issue. Superiority is.
Taken together, Professor Gates' and President Obama's superiority complex have set back race relations at the expense of a dedicated police officer performing his difficult duties in the people's first line of defense of life and property. That particular sergeant is also a racial profiling instructor at the police academy.
Obama the Transformer
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
July 25, 2009
If the arrest and booking of Henry Louis Gates Jr. was legal and justified, why is he not being charged? Is he a sacred cow? If so, that is why race relations have not progressed further. If anything, race relations have been regressing because racism and profiling are assumed without question, along with imbedded hostility and the entitlement of sacred cow superiority, which results in one-sided racism and growing resentment.
Professor Gates and President Obama fed and nationalized the resentment by acting stupidly. Racial justice simply cannot be served by the antithesis of equality and tolerance.
The glaring question in the Henry Louis Gates case is why was he not charged with the crime he committed? The sad answer seems to be that black activist Americans, particularly prominent black activist Americans, are sacred cows with racial immunity to the law. And that is one reason why race relations are not doing better.
The sad truth is, socialized racism and embedded racial enmity against white Americans is deeply ingrained from cradle to grave in most black Americans and justified by prominent black Americans such as Henry Louis Gates, and Charles Ogletree, and perpetuated by the self-styled leaders of the victim-based, profitable racist business of one-sided animosity, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
The ACLU is an enemy within America:
The ACLU's founder, Roger Baldwin, stated: "We are for SOCIALISM, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the SOLE CONTROL of those who produce wealth.
COMMUNISM is the goal." (Source: Trial and Error, by Geo. Grant)
Following are some of the stated goals of the ACLU, from its own published Policy Issues:
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises
Us and What We Can Do About It
Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
March 2009
Synopsis
Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.
The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.
The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani .[Ramo has] managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world-a world in which uncertainty and indeterminacy are givens, and avalanches, negative cascades and tectonic shifts are ever-present dangers.
Biography
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.
BLACK HAND:
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of Boxer Enriquez, a Mexican Mob
Killer
Author: Chris Blatchford
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
September 2008
Synopsis
An astonishing and groundbreaking look at the Mexican Mafia, The Black Hand is an unprecedented story of depravity, violence, and redemption
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to
the Politics of Meaning
Author: Jonah Goldberg
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
January 2008
Synopsis
"Fascists," "Brownshirts," "jackbooted stormtroopers"-such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel -
Why Everything You Know Is Wrong
Author: John Stossel
Publisher: Hyperion
May 2006
Synopsis
Now in paperback: The major national bestseller that the New York Times says
"tosses sand on liberal sacred cows"
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and
Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media
Author: John Stossel
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
January 2005
Synopsis
Ballooning government? Millionaire welfare queens? Tort lawyers run amok? A $330,000 outhouse, paid for with your tax dollars? John Stossel says, "Give me a break."
Celebutards
Author: Andrea Peyser
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
February 2009
Synopsis
Celebutards. A compound of celebrity, debutante, and retard, this blunt term
describes lazy and egotistical stars with too much money, fame, leisure
time, and media attention, but too little common sense or knowledge, who
love to spout off on topics about which they have zero expertise.
The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
By Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD
Monday, December 4, 2006
Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr.,a forensic psychiatrist, explains the madness of liberalism in his new book The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. You can read an excerpt below, and read more at his website libertymind.com.
Like all other human beings, the modern liberal reveals his true character, including his madness, in what he values and devalues, in what he articulates with passion. Of special interest, however, are the many values about which the modern liberal mind is not passionate: his agenda does not insist that the individual is the ultimate economic, social and political unit; it does not idealize individual liberty and the structure of law and order essential to it; it does not defend the basic rights of property and contract;
OUTRAGE
Author: Dick Morris
Book Description:
Half of all illegal immigrants came into this country legally-and we have no way of knowing they're still here!
Congressmen are putting their wives on their campaign payrolls-so that campaign contributions are really personal bribes!
The ACLU won't allow its own directors free speech.
Liberals want to strip us of the tools to stop terrorism.
The UN is a cover for massive corruption-and eighty countries, who pay 12 percent of the budget, are blocking reform.
Drug companies pay off doctors to write scripts-whether we need them or not.
Teachers unions block the firing of bad teachers-and battle against higher education standards!
Katrina victims are being stiffed by their insurance companies!
Special interests cost our consumers $45 billion-through trade quotas that save only a handful of jobs!
Never heard of these abuses? You won't in the mainstream media. That's why Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote Outrage. Their proposals:
Ban immigration from terrorist countries
Ban Congress putting spouses on their payroll
Ban lobbyists who are related to senators or congressmen
Ban nicotine additives to cigarettes
Ban trade quotas that drive up prices and save few jobs
Ban drug company bribes to doctors
Ban teachers unions' work rules that stop education reform
Ban insurance companies from backing out on Katrina coverage
In Outrage, you'll get the facts-and learn what we can do about them. You won't read about these outrages anyplace else; too many people are working hard to cover them up. Get them here instead-and learn how to fight the special interests of the left and right.
About the Author
Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton's political consultant for twenty years.
A Fox News political analyst, he is the author of five New York Times
bestsellers, including Rewriting History and Condi vs. Hillary.
Eileen McGann, an attorney and consultant, is CEO of Vote.com and
Legalvote.com. She works with Dick on campaigns around the world,
specializing in using the Internet to win elections. They live in Florida.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming: (and Environmentalism)
Author: Christopher C. Horner
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company
February 2007
>From the Publisher
This latest installment in the P.I.G. series provides a provocative,
entertaining, and well-documented expose of some of the most shamelessly
politicized pseudo-science we are likely to see in our relatively cool
lifetimes.
The need for environmental regulatory reform is hard to ignore. The United States has invested almost $1.5 trillion in environmental protection over the past 25 years and will be spending more on the environment than on national defense by the presidential election of 2000. Environmental regulations now cost the average American household $1,800 annually. Yet continuing public anxiety over the health of environmental resources indicates that few Americans are satisfied that they're getting what they pay for. Regardless, anything on which the federal government currently spends $200 billion annually (albeit indirectly through regulatory mandates) deserves scrutiny. Even minor improvements in regulatory efficiency would produce significant gains for the American consumer.
The Dark Side of Liberalism: Unchaining the Truth
Author: Phil Kent
Publisher: Harbor House
(Kent is also the author of Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super
Rich Undermine America)
>From the Publisher
Once upon a time, conservatives were called the "silent majority." No more.
The Little Book of Plagiarism
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
January 2007
>From the Publisher
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our
cultural landscape-plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and
film-by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars.
Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal
Agenda
Author: Angela McGlowan
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
April 2007
Former Democrat, turned Republican, exposes the 50-year liberal agenda of exploiting women, blacks and latinos to get their vote. Then betrayed them
Somebody's Gotta Say It
Author: Neal Boortz
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
February 2007
>From the Publisher
"I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this
country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in
a free society.
Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless
Author: Cora Daniels
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
March 2007
>From the Publisher
Cora Daniels takes on one of the most explosive issues in our country today in this thoughtful critique of America's embrace of a ghetto persona that is demeaning to women, devalues education, celebrates the worst African American stereotypes,
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
Author: Martha Raddatz
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
March 2007
>From the Publisher
>From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, the story of a brutal
forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of
war not just
on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home.
In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were on a routine patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under surprise attack. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, 8 Americans would be killed and more than 70 wounded. Back home, as news of the attack began filtering in, the families of these same men, neighbors in Fort Hood, Texas, feared the worst. In time, some of the women in their circle would receive "the call"-the notification that a husband or brother had been killed in action. So the families banded together in anticipation of the heartbreak that was certain to come.
The firefight in Sadr City marked the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and Martha Raddatz has written perhaps the most riveting account of hand-to-hand combat to emerge from the war in Iraq. This intimate portrait of the close-knit community of families Stateside-the unsung heroes of the military -distinguishes The Long Road Home from other stories of modern warfare, showing the horror, terror, bravery, and fortitude not just of the soldiers who were wounded and killed but also of the wives and children whose lives now are forever changed.
About the Author: Martha Raddatz is one of our most respected news journalists. As ABC's Senior National Security Correspondent, she reported extensively from Iraq. A two-time Emmy Award winner, she was recently named Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News, and has appeared on Nightline, Larry KingLive, The Charlie Rose Show, Washington Week, and many other news programs. The Long Road Home is her first book.
The Enemy at Home:
The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11
Author: Dinesh D'Souza
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
January 2007
>From the Publisher
In THE ENEMY AT HOME, bestselling author Dinesh D'souza makes the startling
claim that the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts around the world can be
directly traced to the ideas and attitudes perpetrated by America's cultural
left.
ENOUGH: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That
Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do about It
Author: Juan Williams
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
August 2006
INTERNAL COMBUSTION:
How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the
Alternatives
Author: Edwin Black
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
September 2006
ARTIFICIAL HAPPINESS: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
Author: Ronald W. Dworkin
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
April 2006
In Mortal Danger: The Battle For America's Border and Security
Author: Tom Tancredo
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
June 2006
HONOR: A History
Author: James Bowman
Publisher: Encounter Books
May 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Two Kinds of Honor 1
The Average American:
The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
Author: Kevin O'Keefe
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
October 2005
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"John Q. Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We know the type but we've
never met the person, until Kevin O'Keefe look matters into his own hands.
O'Keefe hit the road, pored over surveys and studies, and asked questions of
all the "just-folks" that he met, in an effort to find the one man or woman
who is more average than any other.
BABY JACK
Author: Frank Schaeffer
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
August 2006
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In the year 2001, Todd, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the
world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Emily,
is living and painting in his two-hundred year-old Massachussetts farmhouse
when his youngest child, Jack, chooses the Marines over college. Feeling
puzzled and ultimately infuriated by his son's incomprehensible switch to
"the other side," a situation only further aggravated by his disapproval of
Jack's "townie" fiancée, Todd ultimately turns his back on his son
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
Author: Charles Murray
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
March 2006
(Also from Charles Murray: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure
in American Life
Authors: Richard J. Hernstein, Charles Murray - January 1996)
ABOUT THE BOOK
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Charles Murray proposed a plan to eliminate all welfare transfer programs at
the federal, state, and local levels, and substitute a $10,000 annual cash
grant to everyone age 21 or older. Sound too good to be true? The book
describes the financial feasibility of the plan and its effects on
retirement, health care, poverty, marriage and family, work effort,
vocations, neighborhoods, and civil society.
THE NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION &
THE DEATH OF RIGHT AND WRONG
Author: Tammy Bruce
Using the Power of the Individual to Save Our
Nation from Extremists and
Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and
Values
The World Is Flat:
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2005
The West's Last Chance:
Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations
Author: Tony Blankley
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
September 2005
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The West, says author Tony Blankley in this new book, is down to its last
chance. Within our lifetimes, Europe could become Eurabia:
INDIVISIBLE: Uniting Values for a Divided America
Author: Martha Zoller
Publisher: Stroud & Hall Publishers
October 2005
FOREWORDS & INTRODUCTIONS
"...one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." -Pledge of Allegiance
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are core values that have defined Americans for over two centuries. In a time when many pundits argue that America is a politically divided nation, Martha Zoller, a radio and television personality herself, argues that in our shared national history we have more common ground that unites us as a people than divides us.
Do as I Say (Not as I Do):
Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy
Author: Peter Schweizer
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
October 2005
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children's rights, consumer rights, and more. But do they actually live by these beliefs?
Intellectual Morons
Author: Daniel J. Flynn
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
September 2004
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Daniel J. Flynn shows how people can be so blinded to reality by the causes
they serve that they espouse bizarre, sometimes ridiculous, and often
dangerous positions. The most influential social movements have spawned
ideologues who do not care whether an idea is good or bad, true or false,
but only whether it can serve their cause.
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Women's Crusade
Author: Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher: Princeton University Press
August 2005
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for
many the symbol of the conservative movement in America.
On Paradise Drive:
How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
May 2005
Bobos in Paradise:
The New Upper Class and How They Got There
Author: David Brooks
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
March 2001
The ACLU vs. America: Exposing the Agenda to Redefine Moral Values
Authors: Alan Sears, Craig Osten
September 2005
The Marketing of Evil:
How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as
Freedom
Author: David Kupelian
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
September 2005
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government
Author: Charles Murray, Read by Phillip Sawtelle
Publisher: Blackstone AudioBooks, Inc.
Edition Description: Unabridged, 7 Cassettes
December 1993
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Authors: Richard J. Hernstein, Charles Murray
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
December 1995
Are Men Necessary? Author: Maureen Dowd Publisher: Penguin Group November 2005
TALK TO THE HAND:
The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or,
Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
November 2005
100 People Who Are Screwing up America (and Al Franken is #37
Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
July 2005
ONE NATION UNDER THERAPY:
How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
Authors: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
April 2005
Books by Shelby Steele:
Shelby Steele
Hoover Institution
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
Shelby Steele
September 1991
Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Shelby Steele
October 1999
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the
Civil Rights Era
Shelby Steele
May 2006
White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay
Author: Star Parker
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
March 2006
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Authors: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
April 2005
Manliness
Author: Harvey C. Mansfield
Publisher: Yale University Press
March 2006