For those of you that have followed my writings in this blog and on our main site know, that my greatest goal is to restore our civil liberties. Civil liberties that we are entitled to, mind you. I have gotten heat from this from both sides of the aisle, something that has always irked me. I have been banned from one political forum because I attacked Obama’s “change” of mind in regard to the Patriotact or the wiretap bill. I have been attacked by conservatives for my call to end the Patriotact.

Hey liberals, are you not the same people who attacked the patriotact when it was in place?

Hey right wingers, are you not the same people who want to keep your gun rights and fear that Obama and Polosi are going to take them away from you?

I feel I am a conservative, but I do not think the average “conservative,” is actually a conservative. Calling for something like the Patriot Act is more liberal than anything I have ever heard of.  How much increased (liberal) spending did our police departments or federal departments get to enjoy? Still enjoy? Can we just bring back the good name that conservatism once had?

I am sick of all this. We NEED our rights given to us by our founding fathers. This post is a response to an article I read from an Associated Press writer featured on Yahoo! news. In this article it talks about how over 1 million people are just randomly searched in the street. I dont like it when I am patted down when I go to a Patriots game (very patriotic, get it?) let alone “randomly.” I urge you to read this article. Next time a cop stops you for no reason and asks to search your car, or to pat you down… scream like bloody hell. No they are not “just doing their job” they are treading on our rights. Their job is to protect law abiding citizens. You do not decide who is law abiding by doing random searches, breathalysers, or pat downs.

And Barack Obama doesn’t even know it. The Administration is in full attack mode. Obama and his administration has specifically targeted fox news and Glenn Beck. His latest attack will do nothing more than give Fox News and Glenn Back more power and higher ratings. Controversy is the best promotion. Obama, by doing this, has given Glenn Beck even more power. It amazes me that nobody in the current administration thought it was a bad idea to specifically target a popular network. Barack Obama just signaled himself out as Fox News’ biggest target.

This all shows that Barack Obama is getting flustered and getting more vulnerable. His failure to control his one-sided congress when it came to the matter of health care, showed his weakness. You cannot blame him for thinking he would be able to rally the troops. He has finally figured out that congress is just functioning to save their own necks, not his. Fox News and conservative blogs have been able to take down Van Jones and ACORN. The latter was not a simple task.

Glenn Beck’s ratings are already incredibly high, especially for the 5PM time slot. Glenn Beck’s Ratings have even been surpassing Fox News’ Hannity at 9PM. Imagine what would happen if Fox News changed Glenn Beck to the 9PM time. Watch out Rachel Maddow! Oh wait, nobody is watching you anyway. Like him or hate him, Glenn Beck is enjoying all this controversy. It just makes him stronger.

The Fact that Chicago completely lost its bid to host the Olympics, in the first round, shows that Barack Obama’s attacks were an act of desperation. Watch the BBC video here. Barack Obama went all in, and lost big.

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David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier have directed and produced a film on have directed and produced a film on the controversial academic Norman Finkelstein.

The film is currently in extremely limited release in the US, with only a few screenings at the Chicago film festival.

I have not yet had the chance to see the film, but when I do I will do a full review on the main PoliticalLore.com site. So check back in the coming weeks for that review and also for updates on where you can see the film.

If you are not familiar with Norman Finkelstein he is a scholar on the Israel/Palestine conflict. He is an American Jew who has long been sympathetic with the Palestinian plight and has even been banned from Israel for vocalizing his views. He also was denied tenure at Depaul University in Chicago for voicing his critical views of the Israeli government’s military aggression.

This is sure to be an intriguing and polarizing film, but hopefully it will also be a catalyst for discussion on this extremely important topic.
If this film is playing near you in the coming months, and you are interested in the Israel/Palestine conflict I would urge you to go and support this film.

Here is a 10 minute preview of the film:

The Chicago Sun Times ran the headline “Drudge wrong on Web site report”. Of course the newspaper who is in Chicago, who has a Chicago 2016 banner at the top of their site, who is posed to gain millions if the games are in town, is being truthful here. The Sun Times has every right to “fact check” the Drudge Report’s story on a local Chicago TV station being strong-armed to stop covering negative sentiment about the games. But the story that the Sun Times printed was not a fact check, it was blatant propaganda.

They interviewed the Chicago 2016 spokesman, who stated that there was no such “request” to run the story. This is Chicago people… Who are we to believe? The fact of the matter is, the Sun Times should not have run with that headline. It would have been fine questioning where exactly the Drudge Report got their “unnamed source”, but to call it wrong completely… that is something else.

In the age where journalistic integrity is gone and each paper or organization is doing everything they can to further their own goals, or just stay alive, these things can be expected. That does not make it any more ok.

Read the Sun Times story and see for yourself. This is propaganda at its finest form.

No wonder why newspapers are going out of business, the internet can do it better. My prediction for 2010, the remaining U.S. newspapers will continue to demonize Craigslist and internet news sources.

Here is the original story from the Drudge Report

FOX-TV CHICAGO ORDERED NOT TO RUN ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY
Sun Sep 27 2009 21:56:11 ET

A local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT!

The Chicago Olympic Committee told FOX Chicago that its broadcast “would harm Chicago’s chances” to be awarded the games.

The station’s news director ordered staff to hold fire after the report aired once last Thursday morning, claims a source.

Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio are mounting strong bids for the honor to host in 2016.

The International Olympic Committee makes its decision on Friday. President Obama will lead the in-person push.

Developing…

*Update #2* One of our readers asked the question, “Why does any of this matter? The Sun Times has a declining reader base, while Drudge Report has millions of readers a month.”

Your right, Drudge Report is untouchable. It just further proves that standard media (print/network) will do anything to destroy Drudge, or any other internet source. Drudge Report is typically, nothing more than a bunch of links. The Sun Times would be better off trying to get a link on Drudge than trying to slander it.

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Surprise, Surprise! It does not matter which side of the isle you are on, or if you are right in the middle, you are disgusted with congress. When the American people pay attention to politics, congress tries its very best to put on more than a show than normal. What a sad thing to see. I am almost embarrassed I watch C-Span, though it is the best reality programming on television right now.

If you really need proof that congress is doing horrible, look no further than the most recent Congressional Performance poll by Rasmussen Reports.

“Despite their control of both the House and Senate, Democrats are fairly evenly divided in their views of Congress’ job performance, with 23% who give the legislature good or excellent ratings and 28% who say it’s doing a poor job. A majority of Republicans (64%) and unaffiliated voters (72%) give Congress poor ratings.”

The scariest thing about this poll is that only 19% of Americans feel that congress has done anything to help improve their lives. This means all of the stupid programs that we have been wasting money on have done nothing. This includes the TARP bailout, that other bailout, cash for clunkers, and anything else. These programs have only worked at making the U.S. more in debt. Was Bush the problem? Was Obama the problem? Or… wait for it… Was congress the problem? Nothing a president wants can be done, legally, without congress.

Patriot Act, congress. Cap and Trade, congress. TARP, congress. First, Second, and Third bailout, will be congress.

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School Kids Taught to Praise Obama in Burlington, NJ. The truth of the video has yet to come out, but if somebody does not drive to NJ to figure this out… I will. If this was filmed DURING school, I am going to flip. I sure hope this was just a bunch of parents putting their kids up to this. If teachers were involved in anyway, while on pay… They should be gone. Plain and simple. It is one thing to put your own children up to things. As long as you do not harm you child feel free to use them for your propaganda. The difference here was this was in a school.

In high school I was literally taught that “some people believe” that redistribution of wealth was a good thing. Needless to say I flipped out and started arguing with the teacher. At least that was high school. Teachers cannot brainwash our children like this. I do not see how anybody can defend this, but I am sure there will be some crazies out there. And no, I am not scared of this video because our President is a black man.

This was filmed at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ and uploaded on June 19, 2009.

Lyrics
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Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”

Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!

Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!

So continue —- Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray —-

Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!