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Anita Dunn is done

So we have a second communist radical leaving the White House:

White House communications director Anita Dunn, on whose comments about President Obama's "control" of the media WND reported, is slated to step down from her post at the end of the month, according to sources talking to the Washington Post.

Dunn had been leading a campaign against Fox News Channel, slamming the top-rated network as an "arm of the Republican Party" and "opinion journalism masquerading as news."

Last month, WND posted a video of Dunn in which she disclosed to the Dominican government that President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled."

Secular society is to blame

David Kupelian blames the Progressive left's secular PC agenda for what happened at Fort Hood:

Now imagine there's a religion, which we'll call "Religion X." Many adherents to "Religion X" live peaceful lives in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Whatever their religious doctrine is, they don't bother anybody.

But other adherents to Religion X believe – indeed, are taught by prominent clerics, including within the U.S. – that they must rule the world, and that the lord of their religion condones, even encourages, their killing those who refuse to convert to Religion X, or who leave Religion X.

So, one contingent of this religion we are inclined to allow freely to exist within our borders – indeed our laws and culture demand it. But virtually all Americans would rightly categorize the other contingent of the same religion as a murderous, mind-control cult that should be driven from our shores.

The problem with Religion X, then, is that it's really hard to distinguish one type of adherent from the other.

That's the problem we're having with Islam. Every time a jihadist like Hasan goes on a terrorist killing spree, invariably all who knew him say they were totally stunned, as he was always so "calm, cool and soft-spoken." And yet there were warning signs, such that were we not blinded by our fears and cowardice, we would not merely have seen them, we would have acted on them – and prevented last week's terrorist attack.

According to the London Telegraph, in an article headlined, "Fort Hood gunman had told U.S. military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut":

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America's Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.

He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire.

Hasan made these incendiary jihadist comments "in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington, D.C." during a talk on the Quran, according to the report.

And how did his fellow doctors respond?

Although they were horrified, "One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints," reported the Telegraph.

Are you with me? "A fear of appearing discriminatory" caused 51 brave American soldiers to be shot by an Islamist monster, 13 fatally.

This inordinate fear, implanted in us by the lords of politically correct attitude, the subtle brainwashers of modern, secular society, is to blame.

AARP to benefit from Obamacare

AARP is a far-left political machine and will benefit financially if the House helath care bill becomes law:

However, seniors have the option of joining Medicare Advantage plans, allowing them to use Medicare funds to purchase private insurance plans that offer extra benefits and lower copayments than the Original Medicare Plan. An estimated 10.2 million seniors have enrolled in Medicare Advantage.

When seniors enroll in Medicare Advantage plans, they often drop Medigap policies because Medigap plans won't pay deductibles, copayments or other cost-sharing under the Medicare health plan. The switch slashes Medigap revenues – and simultaneously impacts AARP royalties from Medigap insurance.

However, Sec. 1161 of the House bill would slash payments to Medicare Advantage health plans used by 20 percent of seniors and cause them to lose some benefits, including vision and dental coverage.

Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, one of the leading health-care policy organizations in the country, told WND's Radio America AARP saw that it would lose revenue if it didn't stop the Medicare Advantage programs.

"The House bill would dramatically cut money out of Medicare Advantage programs, forcing people to need the Medigap policies that are such a big cash cow for the AARP," she said.

"Seniors are going to have higher costs in Medicare. Because of the cuts in Medicare, they are going to have ever more need for these Medigap policies. So the AARP, therefore, will be able to make even more money off of us," Turner explained. "The legislation both kills competition that the AARP has with these Medicare Advantage programs, and it boosts the number of people who need the Medigap insurance because Medicare is going to become an even more deficient program than it is now if you take half a trillion dollars out of it."

Federal government using propaganda to promote sex in schools

This is very disturbing:

Two members of a Centers for Disease Control team that evaluated studies of sex education programs have raised alarms, reporting that the data actually conflicts with the agency's stated conclusion that comprehensive programs such as those emphasizing "safe sex" over abstinence are working.

The alarms are being raised by Irene Ericksen and Danielle Ruedt, two members of the CDC panel that evaluated dozens of studies and came up with the conclusion supporting the so-called "comprehensive" programs that teach children to use condoms.

They issued a minority report to warn policymakers and educators against relying too heavily on the majority document.

"According to this minority report, the study recommendations may mislead policymakers by presenting conclusions that don't match key study findings," confirmed Paul Birch, chief of the Institute for Research and Evaluation. "The report is important because it allows differing views on this research to be presented at a time when Congress is re-examining sex education policy."

The overall study, called "Group-based Interventions to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy, HIV, and Other STDs," stated the effectiveness of programs that include condom instruction.

It was based on the compilation of 83 studies done from 1980 through 2007 and was released just in time to be considered for President Obama's request to cut money from abstinence education programs and give it to comprehensive programs that teach kids to use condoms.

But according to Ericksen, a research analyst with the Institute for Research and Evaluation in Salt Lake City, the statistics inside the study showed no difference between abstinence education and so-called "comprehensive sex education" on key factors including teen condom use, sexual activity, pregnancy and STDs.

According to the South-Dakota-based Abstinence Clearinghouse, the statistics actually revealed that abstinence programs produced a significant reduction in teen sexual activity, as documented by 10 studies from six authors.

"But the researchers discounted these results because several randomized AE studies showed lesser effects, even though these studies had important design problems that called into question their impact," the organization reported.

Leslee Unruh, the president of Abstinence Clearinghouse, said the report that may not be supported by its documentation is concerning.

"These results present a different picture than the study's published conclusions, especially for school-based CSE," she said. "Policy makers deserve accurate information regarding the lack of effects of these condom-centered programs.

"Moreover, the emotional health of our children is as important as their physical health and condom education fails youth in both of these areas. Abstinence education protects both," she said.

The underlying statistics were not being released by the CDC, the minority report said.

"The Task Force has made public its Recommendation Statements without also making available to the public the full set of study findings upon which the recommendations are based – both supporting and otherwise. The reason given for this decision is that the data from the study has not yet been scientifically cleared by the CDC for release to the public. However, this policy prevents the public from scrutinizing the body of evidence underlying the CDC Task Force Recommendations in the same time frame in which the CDC recommendations will influence the decisions of policymakers and public health professionals," the report said.

Unruh told WND that there's a huge danger from releasing conclusions that are not adequately supported by evidence. Policymakers in state legislatures and in Washington will determine to what programs to assign state and federal dollars in support of their efforts, but without accurate information, it's like pouring money down a drain.

Recession brings forward anther kind of "Pay to Play"

Certainly playing football should not be considered a Constitutional right. So why should the taxpayers pay for it. In this case, "Pay to Play" makes perfect sense:

Instead of gearing up for playoffs and state championships, South Dakota athletes could become part of budget cuts that would eliminate such activities.

That scenario, while very real in many areas of the country, is not likely in South Dakota. High schools across the country are reporting the recession has led to financial difficulties for extracurricular programs. Schools from Hawaii to Rhode Island have trimmed compensation for coaches, eliminated transportation, added or increased athletic fees for students, held fundraising drives and cut back on night games to save electricity costs. Others dropped some sports and related events.

Many school districts are sharply raising fees for sports and other extracurriculars in what's known as "pay to play" - a move that angers many parents. Some object that imposing heavy fees for extracurricular activities merely widens the gap between haves and have-nots. Others, however, say such decisions rightly reflect schools' primary focus - academics.

"I'm not sure that it is even allowed in South Dakota at this time, but I do know it's something I really don't want to see," said Watertown High School Athletic Director Doug Schooley. "The cost of funding school activities has always been considered part of the educational package."

According to a survey by the American Association of School Administrators, if current school budget trends continue, sharp sports cutbacks may become reality in many hard-pressed schools. The proportion of school districts cutting extracurricular activities, including sports, for the 2009-10 academic year almost tripled, to 28 percent from 10 percent during the 2008-09 academic year.

Christian foundation the key to free-markets and freedom

Ted Baehr and Tom Snyder explain the importance of Christian morals to creating and protecting American freedom:

The lie that capitalism is evil promulgated by Michael Moore, teachers, professors, government officials and even some liberal clergy shows a terrible lack of knowledge and understanding as well as mendacity.

As Adam Smith pointed out long ago, the key to the success of capitalism is a moral culture. When society loses that moral base, the free market becomes a free-for-all. Selfishness and greed triumph and, eventually, tyrants like President Barack Obama emerge to control the markets, sending the economy into the abyss.

The problem we faced recently with capitalism is the same problem that is faced with democracies. People who conduct business and run for office need to be people of faith and values and, quite frankly, not just any faith and values, but Christians and Jews who believe in the Ten Commandments. If Bernie Madoff had believed in "Thou shalt not steal," he wouldn't have defrauded millions of dollars from people. If Castro believed in "Thou shalt not kill," he wouldn't have killed so many of the professors, students and artists in the Cuban gulag.

The problem with every system of organizing society is the propensity of man to erect himself as the final arbiter of what's right and wrong, usually for his own benefit. The more power and wealth, the more control the fallen man wants.

Capitalism is the best possible way to organize economic life. Republican democracy is the best way to organize political life. But both systems have to be built on a moral foundation, where people realize that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom" and "all who follow His precepts have good understanding" (Proverbs 9:10 and Psalm 111:5-10). As Russell Kirk, the father of modern conservatism, writes in "Ten Conservative Principles," "There exists an enduring moral order. … A society in which men and women are morally adrift, ignorant of norms, and intent chiefly upon gratification of appetites, will be a bad society – no matter how many people vote and no matter how liberal its formal constitution may be." In other words, capitalism demands godly, moral practitioners working sometimes together and sometimes in friendly competition.

Too many supporters of free-market principles (most of them ideological libertarians) mean license and licentiousness when they talk about economic and personal liberty. Such lawlessness breeds a complete disregard for the objective standards of moral conduct established by God in His holy Word, the Bible.

Ironically, it also tends to promote an unlimited government that, bereft of its divine charge to repress violence, fraud and depravity and punish true evildoers, suddenly finds all sorts of draconian ways to promote "social justice" and "equality," telling people what to eat, drink and drive, where to live, how to raise their children and what to think politically.

True liberty can only occur when a reasonable moral order is established in a society. That is why true capitalism depends on a society and a government that respects a rule of law derived from the basic moral principles of God. Thus, the very notion of private property, which defines American capitalism and the American way of life, is absolutely dependent on an acknowledgment of God and His law, as represented in such precepts as "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not covet."

It was no mistake, therefore, when the Founding Fathers mentioned in the preambles to the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution the providence of God and the "blessings of liberty" He bestows on us. And, it is no mistake that the back of the dollar bill (which is now in grave danger from the misguided socialist policies of President George Bush and President Barack Obama) boldly declares, "In God we trust."

Let us honor that divine vision as we confront the socialist and libertine lies that would tear it apart.

Obama's political propaganda

Hermain Cain blows the cover off of Obama's propganda:

There's an old saying about a glass being half empty or half full. The optimist will view it as half full, while the pessimist will say it is half empty.

But when the glass is nearly empty and it's called "nearly full," or a big success, that's pure political propaganda. The danger with political propaganda is that it borders on just plain lies, exaggerations or intended deceptions.

President Obama and the Democrats told the public in February that they needed to pass the $787 billion stimulus bill to keep the unemployment rate under 8 percent. The rate has increased in an almost vertical fashion every month since then, and the Labor Department reported Friday that October's rate hit 10.2 percent.

President Obama's response to the report was, "I will not rest until all Americans who want work can find work." With all due respect, Mr. President, you will not get any rest for a long time because spending and debt do not create jobs.

I know it's a long shot, and your people may not show it to you, but I suggested a plan that would make you look like an economic hero.

President Obama also said he would not sign a health-care bill that adds one dime to the deficit. In order for the House Democrats to pretend to get to "not one dime," they low-balled the cost at $894 billion by shifting some items elsewhere, disguising the tax increases and assuming unrealistic cuts in Medicare. The real cost is $1.5 trillion at least, and no government social program in history has ever hit "at least."

Speaker Pelosi recently echoed President Obama's remark that "health-care reform is entitlement reform, which is essential to lowering the deficit." Wow! Really!

They are proposing to spend $1.5 trillion over 10 years on a new social program that looks like Medicare's ugly twin sister, containing more than 50 new layers of bureaucracy, and somehow it is going to magically reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and reduce the deficit at the same time. Right!

And I can fly.

The latest propaganda is the administration's claim about "jobs created or saved" as a result of the $787 billion "stimulus bill." Edward Lazear explained in the Wall Street Journal the emptiness of that claim. The article is titled "Jobs 'created or saved' is meaningless. What matters is net job gain or loss, and that means the unemployment rate." Oops!

The undermining of America's dominant European Christian culture

Vox Day explains how the wheels fell off and how the Fort Hood terroist attack plays into the Cultural Marxist diversity agenda:

But, as both history and scientific studies have reliably demonstrated, social relations between majorities and minorities are largely dependent upon the existence of a strong majority culture. Most likely, things would have been equally easygoing if the university had been a black one and it was the white athletes in the minority. It is only when two or more cultures are numerically significant enough for there to be conflicts over the social norms and permissible deviations from those norms that serious difficulties begin to arise.

These days, the old problems of black and white racial relations in America that were once so problematic look downright simple compared to the complications introduced by the radical changes to U.S. immigration policy in 1965. Now, the very meaning of what it means to be an American has become a deeply complicated one, as evidenced by the murders of 12 American soldiers by a man who was born in Virginia to Palestinian immigrants, a major in the U.S. Army, and a Muslim. And while the shootings could merely be the last tragic act of a psychiatrist who went off the deep end – let's face it, the mentally unstable do tend to go in for the mind-related professions in disproportionate numbers – that's not necessarily the case. But regardless, the real question is not so much whether Muslims can successfully coexist with secular America; it is whether multiculturalism has succeeded in eradicating the essential concept of America. When the melting pot can no longer melt due to overfilling, is it still a melting pot? And was there ever a melting pot in the first place?

The great problem facing the U.S. in the future, of which the Fort Hood shootings would appear to be an early harbinger, is that the undermining of America's dominant European Christian culture has laid the foundation for what promises to be a long and bitter struggle for cultural supremacy. These struggles usually end one of three ways: division, expulsion or submission to a superior authority. Of the three, the latter would appear to be the most likely given the broad spectrum of global governance programs, but history seldom plays out according to the obvious scenario. Furthermore, economic downturns tend to play havoc with empires. The true tragedy of Fort Hood is that it could have been so easily avoided by rejecting the false promises of multiculturalism and mass immigration 44 years ago.

Time to face the ideology of our enemy

Mark Steyn understands that the far-left diversity nuts are not allowing us to analysis the ideology of our enemy:

But we’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives a man to fly into a building or self-detonate on the subway, and thus we have a hole at the heart of our strategy. We use rhetorical conveniences like “radical Islam” or, if that seems a wee bit Islamophobic, just plain old “radical extremism.” But we never make any effort to delineate the line which separates “radical Islam” from non-radical Islam. Indeed, we go to great lengths to make it even fuzzier. And somewhere in that woozy blur the pathologies of a Nidal Malik Hasan incubate. An army psychiatrist, Major Hasan was an American, born and raised, who graduated from Viriginia Tech and then received his doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, which works out to the best part of half a million dollars’ worth of elite education. But he opposed America’s actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and made approving remarks about jihadists on American soil. “You need to lock it up, Major,” cautioned his superior officer, Col. Terry Lee.


But he didn’t really need to “lock it up” at all. He could pretty much say anything he liked, and if any “red flags” were raised they were quickly mothballed. Lots of people are “anti-war.” Some of them are objectively on the other side — that’s to say, they encourage and support attacks on American troops and civilians. But not many of those in that latter category are U.S. Army majors. Or so one would hope. Yet why be surprised? Azad Ali, a man who approvingly quotes such observations as “If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier’s uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation” is an adviser to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (the equivalent of the U.S. attorneys). In Toronto this week, the brave ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish mentioned en passant that, on flying from the U.S. to Canada, she was questioned at length about the purpose of her visit by an apparently Muslim border official. When she revealed that she was giving a speech about Islamic law, he rebuked her: “We are not to question sharia.”

That’s the guy manning the airport-security desk.

In the New York Times, Maria Newman touched on Hasan’s faith only obliquely: “He was single, according to the records, and he listed no religious preference.” Thank goodness for that, eh? A neighbor in Texas says the major had “Allah” and “another word” pinned up in Arabic on his door. “Akbar” maybe? On Thursday morning he is said to have passed out copies of the Koran to his neighbors. He shouted in Arabic as he fired. But don’t worry: As the FBI spokesman assured us in nothing flat, there’s no terrorism angle.

That’s true, in a very narrow sense: Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. One might say the same about Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale, Ariz., arrested last week after fatally running over his “too Westernized” daughter Noor in the latest American honor killing. Or the two U.S. residents — one American, one Canadian — arrested a few days earlier for plotting to fly to Denmark for the purposes of murdering the editor who commissioned the famous Mohammed cartoons. But Noor Almaleki’s brother shrugs that’s just the way it is. “One thing to one culture doesn’t make sense to another culture,” he says.

Indeed. To infidels, Islam is in a certain sense unknowable, and most of us are content to leave it at that. The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. Don’t hold your breath. We’d rather talk about anything else — even in the Army.

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that’s the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

Palin coming to South Dakota

From the Argus Leader:

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be in Sioux Falls next month as part of her national book signing tour.

Palin will be at Barnes & Noble at 5 p.m. Dec. 6 to sign copies of "Going Rogue: An American Life." The book is about her journey from ordinary citizen to becoming the governor of Alaska and a vice presidential candidate in 2008. It also lays out her vision for the future of the nation.

Money and power

This KSFY report shows that the political environment in America toady is about money and power:

Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin was one of 39 Democrats who voted against a Democratic-written health care bill in the House yesterday. It was one of a series of votes that have put her on the other side of issues pushed by the Democratic majority and the Obama administration.

Yet she has attracted daily partisan political fire from Republican Party operatives. And already, three Republicans have publicly said they want their party's nomination for the right to challenge her in the 2010 election, one year away.

University of South Dakota political science professor Bill Richardson says it will be difficult for Republicans to unseat Herseth Sandlin because she has voted mostly in line with South Dakotans' views on issues. He says she is "careful and prudent" and unlikely to make major missteps.

She has an advantage over Republican candidates in campaign funds. But even though her campaign had more than a quarter of a million dollars in cash on hand at the end of September, that's only about half as much as her campaign had at the same point before the last election.

National Republican Party officials have said they might help support the GOP candidate next year.

The Muslim Mafia

Joseph Farah uses the terrorist attack at Fort Hood to condemn the media for not warning America about the Muslim Mafia:

Are you sick to your stomach about the way the media have soft-pedaled the latest Islamic terrorist attack at Fort Hood?

Do you share my disbelief at the way the press has gone out of its way to portray this slaughter as something other than what it clearly is?

Do you plan to share your revulsion with members of the media who have attempted to bury coverage of the shocking findings of the new book, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," at the very moment this book needs maximum attention if we are to protect our country from future attacks?

Far from being a setback to the organized front groups for jihadism, the massacre at Fort Hood has been a public relations boon to them.

While the courageous American authors of this book have been systematically shut out of mainstream media coverage, the stealth jihadists who pose as Muslim civil rights proponents have had a press field day warning against phantom retribution against innocent Muslims.

Hey guys! This is America. Not one Arab-American, not one Muslim-American has been attacked in response to the wholesale slaughter at Fort Hood. I'm an Arab-American, and I don't have any fear that my neighbors are going to hunt me down because of what happened at Fort Hood. I do, however, fear that I may be a victim of a terrorist attack. And I know I will face retribution in some form for publishing "Muslim Mafia."

Do you want to be outraged? Check out this videotape of radical Muslims condoning the slaughter at Fort Hood.

This is happening in the streets of America. No arrests. No condemnation. No attacks.

I'm not even aware of any temporary restraining orders being filed against these creeps.

Indoctrinating legislators

This is how the Progressive Movement indoctrinates our legislators:

State Sen. Sandy Jerstad, D-Sioux Falls, has been selected to attend the Legislative Leadership Institute on Child Development Research and Policy.

It will be held Nov. 9-11 in St. Paul.

The institute is sponsored by the Council of State Governments Midwestern Office and the Minnesota Community Foundation.

Military a victim of terrorist attack on our own soil

This leaves no doubt that Obama cannot handle being the Commander in Chief:

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly shouted the familiar Islamic phrase asserting the supremacy of Allah, "Allahu Akbar," before he killed at least 13 fellow soldiers and wounded 28 at Fort Hood in Texas, according to the base commander.

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told reporters he's received unconfirmed reports that Hasan uttered the Arabic phrase meaning "Allah is the greatest."

The father of one of the soldiers who was at a staging area for medical and dental checks said she heard the shooter exclaim "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire, reported KSL-TV in Salt Lake City.

She described the incident as an attack by terrorists.

KSL did not identify the family, saying they agreed to talk on condition of anonymity, because they feared their daughter could get in trouble with her superiors.

The soldier's father said his daughter was frantic and upset when she called him yesterday afternoon shortly after the incident at about 1:30 p.m. Central Time.

"She said, 'Dad, I'm OK. Don't worry, I'm OK.' And initially I said, 'What are you talking about?' She said, 'Haven't you heard?' And I said, 'No.' And she said, 'We've been attacked by terrorists.'"

GOP moderates are the problem

I have been pointing out that the so-called moderate Repubicans to be the same as the Progressives who are running the Democrat Party. I have also been saying that the GOP leadership want conservative to be voters, but not part of the party leadership. Allen Keyes has support for that thought:

GOP leaders like to pretend they handpick left-leaning nominees for office out of some kind of political necessity. Anyone tempted to believe them should ponder the bizarre mess they created in the special election just held in New York's 23rd Congressional District. A seat that should have been a safe bet for the GOP is to be occupied by a Democrat instead, simply because the Steele/Boehner Republican bosses put up a candidate whose positions on the issues of Republican principle waved a contemptuous red flag in the face of the conservative moral constituency that is, in electoral terms, the bull elephant of the Republican herd. It was a choice so stupid that it awakened in me vigilant instincts from my days as a high-level Reagan appointee in the U.S. State Department, serving in the trenches of bureaucratic warfare. The personnel at State are generally of high caliber. When they produced a blatantly incompetent result, I made it a rule to assume, for tactical purposes, that someone intended it to happen (since no one as intelligent as the average FSO would do anything so stupid.) My task was to identify and thwart that source of bureaucratic opposition (often sadly within the staff or bureau I was responsible for).

With this rule in mind, what would we say of the events that just transpired in New York's 23rd? Well, some folks saw a reasonably safe GOP seat as a chance to slip a pro-abortion wolf into the Republican congressional fold. When GOP leaders like Michael Steele or John Boehner talk about wanting "moderates" in the GOP, they may not be paying lip service to tolerance for the sake of appearances. They may be stating their strategic political goal. Perhaps from their viewpoint, the deeply held conservative convictions of the grassroots core of conservative voters is like the critical mass of radioactive material needed to produce a nuclear fission reaction. These voters are indispensably necessary for the GOP's electoral success, but under no circumstances must their political activity be allowed to produce an explosion of authentic conservative results. Instead, every opportunity must be used to insert "moderates" into positions of influence who (like the control rods in a nuclear reactor) will absorb and channel conservative political energy to produce a controlled reaction that results in sustained political power for the party elite. The label "moderate," therefore, doesn't refer to candidates' political views (which on issues like abortion and homosexual marriage are anything but moderate). It refers to their political effect.

Keyes gives examples:

They backed Arlen Specter rather than the conservative, pro-life candidate being raised up by the conservative grass roots in Pennsylvania. They back Schwarzenegger rather than the conservative pro-life candidate being lifted up by the conservative grass roots in California. They back Trey Grayson rather than Bill Johnson, the Reagan conservative rising from among grassroots conservatives in Kentucky. Would these vanguard elitists rather have a crypto-Islamic, national socialist with a predilection for Caesarism (the alien-sounding term "czar" applied to Obama's unconstitutional White House dictators is just the Slavic rendering of Caesar) at the political helm than a genuine conservative who pays more than lip service to the belief in God and decent liberty that is characteristic of many American voters? The vanguard elitists sporting the Republican label happily gather and spend millions of dollars on the research and advertising needed to turn unappealing "moderate" mediocrities into viable candidates for office. Put behind conservatives really in tune with grassroots conviction, fewer resources would produce a more assured result, calling forth the conservative majority artfully installed for purposes of manipulation behind the contrived façade of the current two-party electoral sham. The whole point of the sham is to prevent that majority from realizing its true strength.

Seen from this perspective it is clear that the Obama faction's present ascendancy isn't mainly due to anything the leftist Democrats have achieved. It's due to what the false-flag "conservatives" of the Republican Party power structure have prevented true conservatives from achieving.

And that is exactly what played out in South Dakota's District 20 Senate seat during 2008. And Pat Powers was part of the problem. It is time for true conservatives to stop being fooled by the GOP elite and take matters into their own hands. Either conservatives are respected and given the reins of the GOP, or we need to move on.