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		<title>Had Pelosi been waterboarded?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you tell when House Madame Nancy Pelosi is lying? She showed us in a fitful performance in front of the national media yesterday as she tried to weasel her way out of a trail of whoppers that made Bill &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have sexual relations with that woman&#8221; Clinton look like a piker.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can you tell when House Madame Nancy Pelosi is lying? She showed us in a fitful performance in front of the national media yesterday as she tried to weasel her way out of a trail of whoppers that made Bill &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have sexual relations with that woman&#8221; Clinton look like a piker.</p>
<p>Pelosi tried answering questions about what she knew and when she knew it about waterboarding of terrorist suspects. She has been the leading partisan hack on the Democrat side of the aisle accusing our CIA and the Bush administration of torturing terrorists, including the mastermind of 9/11.</p>
<p>Everybody who cares knows that San Fran Nan has been lying about what she knew. The CIA and Bush administration briefed her and other high-ranking Democrats about the enhanced interrogation techniques. During her Thursday appearance, she might as well have had &#8220;liar&#8221; written on her forehead.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.118/.f">Is there such a thing as an ethical member of Congress? Find out in Sen. Tom Coburn&#8217;s &#8220;Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>She stumbled, backtracked and gave no plausible explanation about how the most powerful woman in the world (in her mind) could <em>not</em> have known the basics. When pressed by the media &ndash; a shocking development in itself &ndash; she shook like a Chihuahua trapped in a kennel with a pack of Rottweilers.</p>
<p>It was much more entertaining than watching Bill Clinton try to get an inquisitor to define the meaning of &#8220;is.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Even the liberals&#8217; personal propaganda machine, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/us/politics/09detain.html?_r=1&amp;sq=nancy%20pelosi%20and%20waterboarding&amp;st=cse&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;scp=2&amp;adxnnlx=1242241221-72aEJM8TOL9lKlgQyGxwug">New York Times</a>, was forced to question the veracity of Pelosi&#8217;s explanations. The Times reported on an exhaustive list of briefings about interrogation techniques to Pelosi and her buddies on the left.</p>
<p>&#8220;The new chart of briefings, prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was the first full listing of briefings to members of Congress and their aides. It appears to call into question the longstanding assertion of Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she was never told that waterboarding and other methods were actually used, only that the Central Intelligence Agency believed they were legal and could be used,&#8221; the Times reported.</p>
<p>In other words, &#8220;liar, liar, pants on fire.&#8221;
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<p>The Times continued, &#8220;On Sept. 4, 2002, Ms. Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Representative Porter J. Goss, the committee&#8217;s Republican chairman, were given a &#8216;description&#8217; of the interrogation methods that &#8216;had been employed&#8217; against a prisoner, Abu Zubaydah.&#8221;</p>
<p>So they told Nancy that they had already used the interrogation methods. That directly conflicts with Pelosi&#8217;s fibs that she didn&#8217;t know they had waterboarded. The Obama administration&#8217;s CIA director, Leon Panetta, disputes Pelosi&#8217;s account.</p>
<p>Pelosi yesterday had the gall to accuse the CIA of lying, or &#8220;misleading,&#8221; as she called it. This was not smart. The CIA knows things and they don&#8217;t mind leaking them, as the Bush administration found out.</p>
<p>So why should we believe Pelosi? Could it be because she had a prepared statement, then had to rustle around to check back on what she had already said just to keep her stories straight? That doesn&#8217;t give me much confidence in her words. Words come easy when you&#8217;re telling the truth. She couldn&#8217;t even remember what she said a couple minutes earlier without her cheat sheet of talking points. She was so shaken, it looked as if she had been waterboarded by Jack Bauer, then turned over to the Vietcong for some real torture.</p>
<p>The more she talks, the better the GOP looks for 2010. She wants a truth commission? I guess that depends on what the definition of truth is. The House madame doth protest too much, methinks. If she doesn&#8217;t get her Manolos out of her mouth soon, that gavel may be pried from her shaking hands and Pelosi may be demoted from head of the House to chair of a subcommittee on Midwest manure beetles.
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		<title>Gitmo: Dems&#039; ongoing headache</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration and Democrats are in a pickle over Obama&#8217;s boneheaded decision to close Guantanamo Bay. The Democrats are backpedaling at light speed because the issue is a real stinker for them. They are the party of &#8220;yes the terrorists can&#8221; come to America.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Obama administration and Democrats are in a pickle over Obama&#8217;s boneheaded decision to close Guantanamo Bay. The Democrats are backpedaling at light speed because the issue is a real stinker for them. They are the party of &#8220;yes the terrorists can&#8221; come to America.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the only option for Obama if he insists on closing Gitmo. This week the Democrats woke up a bit and refused to give money to Obama to move forward with the closure.</p>
<p>Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, wants to postpone action on the Guantanamo request until after the administration provides a clear plan for what will happen to its detainees, according to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo-politics7-2009may07,0,3870315.story">Los Angeles Times<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo-politics7-2009may07,0,3870315.story"><em></em></a><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.554/.f">Are you the Obama administration&#8217;s idea of a dangerous subversive? Fight back with the magnetic message: &#8220;Why is being Right Extreme?&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to spend the next two weeks debating something that hasn&#8217;t congealed,&#8221; Obey said.</p>
<p>So far, Obama doesn&#8217;t have the slightest clue what to do with the terrorists. The brainiacs in the White House forgot that those guys held at Gitmo are actually dangerous. Yes, they do want to cut off their heads!</p>
<p>Even Obama&#8217;s own administration agrees that at least 100 of them, including the mastermind of 9/11, wouldn&#8217;t make good neighbors for American families. And what happens when one of these monsters gets out of prison and hurts Americans, as they tend to do? While in an American prison, they would grow their ranks by recruiting criminals.</p>
<p>Even the Los Angeles Times wrote a story headlined &#8220;Democrats face hard time over Guantanamo&#8221;:
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<blockquote><p>President Obama&#8217;s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, one of his first acts after taking office, is putting fellow Democrats on the political hot seat as word spreads that terrorism suspects and other detainees would be relocated to the U.S. or transferred to domestic prisons.</p>
<p>States and municipalities around the country are saying &#8220;not in my backyard,&#8221; and Republicans are raising the prospect of relocated detainees putting Americans in danger.</p>
<p>&#8220;By releasing trained terrorists into civilian communities in the United States, the administration will, by definition, endanger the American people,&#8221; said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.</p>
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<p>What is exceptionally scary about this issue is that Obama treated it like he was changing the drapes in his bedroom. No big deal. He made a dangerous promise during his campaign to &#8220;change&#8221; America, then he followed through with the closure plans even as experts and his own administration reported that Guantanamo Bay is secure and abides by all Geneva Conventions. That&#8217;s change we can do without.</p>
<p>I have warned since Obama&#8217;s misguided plans were unveiled during his campaign that closing Gitmo would endanger America. I visited Gitmo at Christmas and saw firsthand the terrorists in the prisons. Let&#8217;s just say they didn&#8217;t welcome us with flowers and tea. One hardcore terrorist made the universal throat-cutting gesture at our group, so he wasn&#8217;t thinking of cutting flowers.
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<p>Most unbelievable is Obama&#8217;s arrogance that he knows better than others when he had never even seen Gitmo, but listened to the radicals on the left who want to close it. Obama didn&#8217;t want to hurt their feelings. Now he may hurt Americans.</p>
<p>The Los Angeles Times claimed that &#8220;The GOP effort to spotlight the issue is part of a campaign to sow anxiety about Obama&#8217;s stewardship of national security.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p>We all know that Obama doesn&#8217;t have a grasp on national security. Conservatives and even some Democrats recognize that it is downright dangerous to subject America to the presence of the very terrorists who helped plan the attack that killed 3,000 innocent people on Sept. 11, 2001. The Democrat Party thinks only in political terms instead of the real-life consequences of their irrational policies.</p>
<p>Some Americans who voted for Obama are starting to wake up from their Wizard of Oz poppy-field comas and realize that he might set free trained terrorists in the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need the administration to step it up and cover our flanks more,&#8221; said a senior Democratic aide who requested anonymity in acknowledging the political problem, the L.A. Times reported.</p>
<p>They better think less about covering their flanks, and more about the safety of the American people.</p>
<p>&#8220;Guantanamo is a huge political problem,&#8221; Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told the Times. &#8220;All of us will take some political heat for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Right now it is just a huge political problem for Democrats. But, if they don&#8217;t rein in their leader, Obama, they will have huge national security issues and the threat of another cataclysmic attack on our homeland.
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		<title>How Obama and I ousted Arlen Specter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all had an earful of the things President Obama has done to America over his first 100 days.  We know that Obama has moved the United States perilously close to socialism with his policies that have also given us a budget deficit of $1.5 trillion.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve all had an earful of the things President Obama has done to America over his first 100 days.  We know that Obama has moved the United States perilously close to socialism with his policies that have also given us a budget deficit of $1.5 trillion.</p>
<p>Obama has held hands with America-hating socialist dictator Hugo Chavez and accepted an America-bashing book from the thug, while offending our ally Britain by returning a bust of Winston Churchill.</p>
<p>Obama has indebted our grandchildren and even our great-grandchildren with billions in debt in his first 100 days. He has endangered Americans by his pig-headed insistence on closing Guantanamo Bay prison &ndash; even after his own administration investigated and found the facility is safe, state-of-the-art and abides by all Geneva Conventions.</p>
<p>To top it all off, Obama&#8217;s administration spit on our military veterans by labeling Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as potential terrorists.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.118/.f">Is there such a thing as an ethical member of Congress? Find out in Sen. Tom Coburn&#8217;s &#8220;Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>The lists of Obama&#8217;s dangerous policies and missteps in his first 100 days are too long for this column, so I wanted to focus on something that he and I did together, a real accomplishment: We finally got Arlen Specter to leave the Republican Party.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right. Obama used the carrot and I used the stick. I know that Benedict Arlen won&#8217;t give me credit, so I&#8217;ll take it for myself. I&#8217;m one of those right-wing extremists Obama&#8217;s administration warned you about. The same ones that made Specter shiver when we stormed his office and told him not to vote for the porkulus bill.</p>
<p>When I was in Washington, D.C., before Specter&#8217;s fateful vote with his new BFFs, the socialists in the Democratic Party, my extremist friends and I decided we would have a chat with Benedict Arlen.  It was apparent when we introduced ourselves that Specter&#8217;s office isn&#8217;t used to seeing real Americans. The front-office help looked as if she would need a translator to understand us. That office speaks liberal-ese, so our requests didn&#8217;t compute.</p>
<p>I tried to make her understand that Specter works for the people, not the other way around. Employees need to listen to their bosses instead of locking doors and hiding under desks. This wasn&#8217;t going to be easy.</p>
<p>After the office help tried ignoring, then patronizing us, I flung the door open to the back offices and used my ballpark voice to alert the back-office people &ndash; and hopefully Benedict Arlen &ndash; that I wanted to talk with him.  <a href="http://www.melaniemorgan.com/">You can see video on my website</a>.
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<p>I told Benedict&#8217;s chief of staff that &#8220;we will punish him at the polls&#8221; if he continued to follow the liberals in Congress and buy into the porkulus.</p>
<p><em>Well, what can I say, Senator? I warned you. I told you to stop playing in the socialist sandbox, grow a set of cajones and act like a man. I told you to act like a Republican, even though you have always been a liberal and we all knew you were hiding in the left-wing washrooms with the others who want to sell our grandchildren into debt and give our country away.</p>
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<p><em>And what happened? Just as I said, you plummeted in the polls. You were losing because you lost your way a long time ago. Conservative Pat Toomey destroyed you in the polls. And if you think that hiding behind the big D is going to help you survive in the club of disloyal senators, you&#8217;ve got another thing coming.</em></p>
<p>Benedict now has a new master, the man who is leading America in leaps and bounds toward a socialist state. I can&#8217;t say how happy I am to have helped him cross over to the dark side. And to all of you Republicans who are looking for somebody to blame: Thank me &ndash; and of course my partner, Barack Obama. It was a team effort, but it was worth it. A true work of bipartisanship, and we got it done in Obama&#8217;s first 100 days.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the next 100 days. Important safety tip to Sen. Specter: I still know where your office is located and I won&#8217;t have any problem sniffing out the rest of the RINOs who stink up the party of Ronald Reagan.
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		<title>Sean Penn: Shut up and act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I want to apologize for my fellow Marin County resident, Sean Penn. He appears to be off his meds (or on too many) and went on a rant that is common among too many pompous millionaire actors who confuse their vast sums of money with their ability for critical thinking.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, I want to apologize for my fellow Marin County resident, Sean Penn. He appears to be off his meds (or on too many) and went on a rant that is common among too many pompous millionaire actors who confuse their vast sums of money with their ability for critical thinking.
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<p>I hate to bring any serious attention to Penn, who is famous and wealthy because he is good at acting like a stoner (&#8220;Fast Times at Ridgemont High&#8221;), a thug (&#8220;Bad Boys&#8221;) and a drug dealer (&#8220;The Falcon and the Snowman&#8221;). Given his much-publicized penchant for violence, I wonder how much &#8220;acting&#8221; he really does when he plays these parts. But Penn&#8217;s rant needs attention because others who confuse celebrity with intellect might believe his socialist/commie rubbish.
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<p>Sean penned his latest blather, pretending to be a serious commentator, this week. It was posted at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/smiles-for-smirks_b_189801.html">Huffington Post</a>, where the world&#8217;s leftist vipers go to spew their inane ideas that are fit for a rubber room in which their favorite dictators (Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein and the Castro brothers) are housed.
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<p>In his article, &#8220;Smiles for Smirks,&#8221; Penn attacks anybody who thought it was a bad idea for the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044123114545339.html">buddy around</a> with a murderous dictator such as Hugo Chavez. (Count me guilty!) For the record, many of us knew that Obama would hang out with the world&#8217;s thugs because he already had a record of chumming around with domestic terrorist, Billy Ayers, who may still face the music for the terror that his Weather Underground unleashed on America.
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<p>&#8220;Further, the criticisms of President Obama&#8217;s warm greeting toward President Chavez of Venezuela have been the posturing of our nation&#8217;s most bitter and humanly impotent voices. Why is <em>anyone</em> listening to former Vice President Cheney?&#8221; Penn wrote. &#8220;He&#8217;s the one person alive proven wrong on virtually every topic.&#8221;
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<p><em>Sean, I hate to be the one to tell you, but you should kiss Cheney&#8217;s feet for keeping you and your family safe &ndash; yes even your America-hating friends. I also hate to tell you that acting is for entertainment, and politics is for big boys who know a thing or two about the world. You&#8217;re an actor. Cheney has given his life to public service. People elected him over and over again in Democratic contests. People just paid to watch you act like a &#8220;gay&#8221; politician. Get the difference?</em>
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<p>Penn continued: &#8220;Then there&#8217;s Newt Gingrich, who commented on the Chavez greeting as being approached wrong. He suggested that the meeting itself may not be improper, but that it should have been handled with a cold demeanor. This is a pattern of bad acting advice from bad actors. (All wimps think playing a tough guy is done in one-note coldness.)&#8221;
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<p><em>As I said above, Sean: The world is not run by actors, despite what your acting coaches told you. You were in red diapers when Gingrich and Cheney began working for the people. You are not a seasoned diplomat because you are friends with Hugo Chavez, who was buddies with Saddam Hussein and other murderous dictators. Chavez&#8217;s government is moving toward his <a href="http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_8">anti-Semitic</a> buddies in the Middle East.</em>
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<p>&#8220;I know President Chavez well. Whether or not one agrees with all his policies, what is certainly true of Chavez is that he is a warm and friendly man with a robust sense of humor (who daily risks his own life for his country in ways Dick Cheney could never imagine),&#8221; Penn wrote.
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<p><em>Agree with his policies? Which ones? Government intimidation of his domestic opponents? Anti-Semitism? Sean, it&#8217;s not funny to befriend folks like Iran&#8217;s president who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. What do you and Hugo laugh about with his &#8220;robust sense of humor?&#8221; Do you talk about how he demeans Jews? Is he &#8220;warm and friendly&#8221; when he castigates America?</em>
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<p>&#8220;To treat such a man coldly is akin to spitting on him. As a country we&#8217;ve done enough of that,&#8221; Penn wrote.
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<p><em>Sean, since when have you and your leftist ilk started worrying about spitting on people? Not during the Vietnam War, when radicals like you spat on returning troops. And definitely not last year, when I personally witnessed leftists spitting and cursing veterans. I&#8217;m glad you are ready to lead your &#8220;people&#8221; out of the spitting age. Maybe you can do a movie about it: &#8220;The Day the Left Grew Up.&#8221;</em>
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<p>I again apologize to the world for Penn&#8217;s idiocy and his puffed up ego that makes him think anybody cares about his diatribes. I am sorry because I think I must have paid to see a movie of his, and I contributed to his delusions of grandeur.
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<p>As one neighbor to another, Sean, shut up and act.</p>
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		<title>Tea parties: Just the beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They came on foot, by car, on Harleys. Some were assisted by metal walkers, others pushed in strollers.  They also came from divergent political parties. Some love Barack Obama, some not so much. They carried signs, chanted, laughed and listened.
But they had one message: America has had enough of big government.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They came on foot, by car, on Harleys. Some were assisted by metal walkers, others pushed in strollers.  They also came from divergent political parties. Some love Barack Obama, some not so much. They carried signs, chanted, laughed and listened.</p>
<p>But they had one message: America has had enough of big government.</p>
<p>I have been around the block a few times when it comes to political activism. I&#8217;ve seen the worst from anti-American punks dressed in Pepto Bismol-colored skirts and orange jumpsuits. On Wednesday, I saw the best of America, and I recognize her from her roots. Yes, I&#8217;ll dare say it: The tea parties that took the country on Wednesday came from the roots of America&#8217;s founding, despite what the lying, pooh-poohing, dismissive, out-of-touch mainstream media reported.</p>
<p>Did you see the ranting of the CNN newsbabe as she failed to report on one tea party and instead resorted to a liberal lashing that only radicals would call real news.  <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/04/15/cnn_reporter_tea_parties_are_anti-government.html">Here&#8217;s video of</a> CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen while covering a Chicago tea party.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.366/.f">Supply-side economics&#8217; father warns of the debilitating consequences of higher taxes in &#8220;The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy &ndash; if We Let it Happen&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>Frankly, if CNN had any news judgment and even wanted to pretend to be objective, editors might want to fire Roesgen and hand her over to MSNBC where she could foam and bark with Keith Olbermann.</p>
<p> Liberals were all for Cindy Sheehan protesting (actually sleeping in a hotel room and getting foot rubs) in Crawford, Texas. But they just hated to see true Americans giving big government the middle finger. I hate to give these nobodies attention, but you really need to look at some of the dribble coming from bloggers and the MSM.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is an idea unworthy of even Ronald Reagan at his most senile: Protest against what you perceive to be an oppressive government by gathering in a public place and waving tea bags,&#8221; <a href="http://www.northstarwriters.com/dbl052.htm">a lefty wrote</a>.</p>
<p>(Notice how liberals are so compassionate to President Reagan, who died after struggling with Alzheimer&#8217;s. They are the heartless, clueless and drooling followers of their ONE, Barack Obama.)</p>
<p>The left were emboldened with the election of their leader, Obama. But on Wednesday during the tea parties I attended, I heard outcry from Obama voters who are scared at the direction he is herding his sheeple. I heard from the elderly and the young. Most had never come to a protest before &ndash; and I didn&#8217;t see a wild-eyed radical among the throngs of people who gathered.
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<p>I was in San Francisco, the belly of the leftist beast. Thousands showed up to stand for freedom. Why is this so offensive to the left? Because socialists and their brothers don&#8217;t believe in freedom. They want the government to take our money, our private property, our guns, and then dish out the cash as the government sees fit.  As Obama himself said during his campaign: They want to redistribute wealth.</p>
<p>Now let me address this cockamamie idea that what happened this week from coast to coast was created by the Republicans or Fox News.</p>
<p>I followed the tea parties along with my friend, Michelle Malkin, from the beginning. It started with a protest here and a protest there. Bloggers stepped in and the word began to spread among people who felt the same thing: There is something wrong in America. It didn&#8217;t just start with this current administration. It began rearing its ugly head years ago.</p>
<p>But like the movement against slavery in this country, the word grew. And the feeling of unease wouldn&#8217;t go away. More and more Americans stepped up and said &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then the singular cries turned into a battle cry. And, finally, Americans stood up. They would not fear the mainstream media, who mocked them. They would not fear the government, which calls them right-wing radicals. They would not fear the freaks on the left who promised to intimidate.</p>
<p>As I walked across the street toward the federal building in San Francisco, I spoke with a woman who the day before had just completed radiation therapy for her breast cancer. But she was not going to let that stop her from expressing outrage over the direction this country is headed, including socialized medicine.</p>
<p>Anybody who believes, who says or writes that what happened on April 15, 2009, was a right-wing conspiracy or a gathering generated from the GOP gives the Republican Party too much credit. It couldn&#8217;t put together a tea party for two. An estimated 250,000 protesters came out on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Just look at the presidential campaign and ask yourself: Could these bumbling fools get grandmas and grandchildren to march together for freedom? The Republicans couldn&#8217;t even get Americans to stop supporting a socialist.</p>
<p>The tea parties were just a start. We will not rest until the government is back in the hands of the people, and run for the people.</p>
<p>We won&#8217;t back down, and our battle cry is &#8220;freedom.&#8221; Go to <a href="http://aftertheteaparty.com/">Aftertheteaparty.com</a> to continue our work.
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		<title>April 15: The day we took back our country</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April 15 has traditionally been a day of horrors for those Americans who pay taxes. Thanks to Barack Obama and his merry band of thieves, also known as the U.S. Congress, this April 15 Americans are giving the thieves the proverbial middle finger during tea parties across the United States.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re mad as hell and we&#8217;re not going to take their tax-and-spend-and-lie behavior anymore. Call it a national &#8220;time out&#8221; for Obama and his followers who have pushed the United States to the brink of bankruptcy and burdened us with historical debt. This &#8220;time out&#8221; isn&#8217;t going to be just a slap on the wrist.  We aren&#8217;t letting up until Obama and Nancy Pelosi &ndash; and all of the tax-loving piglets sucking off citizens&#8217; personal income &ndash; stop their thievery.</p>
<p>I will lead tea parties in <a href="http://www.meetup.com/bayareateaparty/">San Francisco</a> from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 15 at the corner of McAllister and Polk Streets, and in <a href="http://www.sanjoseteaparty.blogspot.com">San Jose</a> from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Plaza de Cesar Chavez (he&#8217;d be proud of us!) at south Market Street and Park Avenue.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.522/.f">Show the world you&#8217;re part of the movement to take America back with the &#8220;Time for Another Tea Party&#8221; magnetic bumper sticker</a></em></p>
<p>My friends Brian Sussman and Barbara Simpson from San Francisco&#8217;s KSFO talk radio station (560am), will host a tea party in <a href="http://www.pleasantonteaparty.com">Pleasanton</a> at the Amador Valley Community Park, 301 Black Avenue. Brian will host from 12:30-2:30 p.m. and Barbara will host from 4-6 p.m.</p>
<p>The thousands of tea parties across the fruited plains will be much larger than the original tea party of Dec. 16, 1773, when 116 people dumped 45 tons of British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxes, among other obnoxious laws imposed on the American colonies by Britain.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s dollars, the tea dumped in the harbor would cost about $1 million, according to Boston-tea-party.org. No wonder the Brits were steamed. I hope Obama and his buddies get the message when thousands upon thousands of Americans stand against them and their pork-laden ways. If they aren&#8217;t sharp enough to catch on this Tax Day, we&#8217;ll continue to send home the message. It&#8217;s kind of like potty-training a puppy: You have to keep taking them outside to show them that it&#8217;s not OK to potty where we sleep and eat.
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<p>The Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party began in the grass roots, and now big political names and conservative heavyweights are getting involved. But let&#8217;s be clear: This started from the ground up. The pushing came from Joe and Jane Taxpayer, the folks Obama calls the &#8220;bitter clingers.&#8221; We&#8217;re just middle-class or working-class or even wealthy Americans who don&#8217;t like Obama&#8217;s sharp left turn toward socialism, less freedom, more debt and increased taxes after his lies about decreasing taxes.</p>
<p>The same held true for the Boston Tea Party participants, according to Boston-tea-party.org:
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<blockquote><p>The men who dumped tea into Boston Harbor were from many different backgrounds. About one-third of them were skilled artisans such as carpenters, masons and shoemakers. A much smaller number were merchants, doctors, clerk, and the like.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Sons of Liberty were likely involved in the planning and execution of the Tea Party and played a big part in the Revolution. The modern-day tea parties, I hope, will inspire a cohesiveness resulting in a renewed Sons of Liberty that will fight for the freedom won for us by our forefathers.</p>
<p>Like the brave men who tossed the tea in Boston, we must be ready to continue the campaign. It has to be part of our lives until we have righted America&#8217;s course. On future Tax Days, we will no longer flinch at the sycophants in the halls of Congress or White House. They will once again answer to the people, the way our founders intended.</p>
<p>For more information on tea parties in your area, go to the <a href="http://www.taxdayteaparty.org/">Tax Day Tea Party website.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Chicken Little, the sky is falling and we are all doomed to die! At least, that&#8217;s what Al Gore and his gangs of cap-and-traders want us to think. They have manufactured a crisis about global warming that is going to cost us trillions of dollars, thrown into a wormhole in the universe, never to be seen again.</p>
<p>A band of Boxers led by Bouncing Barb will try to convince us from the Senate floor that the cap-and-trade money market schemes and carbon taxes are the ticket to fields of green. It&#8217;ll mean green for some, all right, like Green-guru Gore and his Green Goons.</p>
<p>Sen. Boxer is also the same environmental whacko who changed the 1993 Clean Air Act legislation that allowed California to mandate MTBE in our gasoline supplies. It was later banned after a 10-year effort by my radio station, KSFO, grass-roots activists and the leadership of now-retired state Sen. Richard Mountjoy. Later, when I confronted Ms. Boxer about her egregious error endorsing MTBE, she blithely responded &#8220;Oops. I guess I made a mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll say.</p>
<p>At the same time we were fighting the poisonous gas additive that causes cancer in lab rats, Boxer was also busy sneaking in the funding mechanism designed to make a gazillion dollars for the eco-oligarchy (back to Green-guru Gore). You&#8217;d think she&#8217;d worry about the fact MTBE caused cancer in rats if she can&#8217;t work up the empathy for humans.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.1402/.f">Is Al Gore being disingenuous? Read the truth about climate change in &#8220;Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>The so-called the cap-and-trade system is a full-out fraud. There is no other way to describe it.</p>
<p>Richard Drury, Communities for a Better Environment&#8217;s Board president, wrote in a 2006 article: &#8220;Prior to pollution trading programs, there was no &#8216;right&#8217; to pollute at all. &#8230; However, to allow companies to buy and sell the &#8216;right&#8217; to pollute, it was necessary for the first time to create a new property right in pollution itself. The new &#8216;right&#8217; to pollute jeopardizes the public&#8217;s right to govern its own environment, reversing hundreds of years of common law and good government.&#8221;</p>
<p>I worked with Richard Drury on the ban against MTBE in the mid-&#8217;90s and the effort to stop pollution tax credits.  He told me 10 years ago that cap-and-trade is just a scam, and even the Princeton University professor who designed it admitted it doesn&#8217;t strike at the heart of the polluting problem &ndash; smokestacks that belch ugly gases into the air. Instead, it has become a monopoly game, with the very rich and powerful like Al Gore swapping get-out-of-pollution-jail free cards with his wealthy buddies.</p>
<p>Why should you care? Because citizens are going to carry the saddlebags loaded with heavy taxes while the Green Gods of society rake in the greenbacks. Even Barack Obama admitted that cap-and-trade will wallop the middle class with hefty bills.</p>
<p>How does cap-and-trade work? <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Economy/wm1723.cfm">The Heritage Foundation</a> has a clear synopsis of it:</p>
<p>&#8220;These measures would set a limit, or cap, on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use. The effect of such a cap would be to impose rationing of coal, oil and natural gas on the American economy. Each covered utility, oil company and manufacturing facility would be given allowances based on past emissions or some other formula. Those companies that emit less carbon dioxide than permitted by their allowances could sell the excess to those that do not; this is the trade part of cap and trade. Over time, the cap would be ratcheted down, requiring greater cuts in emissions.&#8221;</p>
<p>And how does that translate to the unwashed masses of citizens?</p>
<p>&#8220;A study by Charles River Associates puts the cost (in terms of reduced household spending per year) of (one proposed law) at $800 to $1,300 per household by 2015, rising to $1,500 to $2,500 by 2050. Electricity prices could jump by 36 to 65 percent by 2015 and 80 to 125 percent by 2050. No analysis has been done on the impact of (this legislation) on gasoline prices, but an Environmental Protection Agency study of a less stringent cap and trade bill estimates impacts of 26 cents per gallon by 2030 and 68 cents by 2050,&#8221; according to the Heritage Foundation.
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<p>In other words, we&#8217;re getting hit hard and it will take us years to stagger back &ndash; if we can ever walk straight again.</p>
<p>&#8220;An impartial analysis from MIT makes clear the price will be substantial: more than $300 billion in new taxes every year,&#8221; according to <a>Fox News</a>.</p>
<p>All of this is based on the left-wing farce of global warming, the scare drummed up by scientists who make their living off of government grants handed out by, you guessed it, the Green Gurus and their minions, Mr. and Mrs. Greenjeans.</p>
<p>Is the sun burning up the earth (Uncle Al says &#8220;the earth has a fever&#8221;) because you used a gas lawnmower? Ask the folks in Fargo. Is Mr. Greenjeans Gore raking in the greenbacks on your back? You betcha.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today the city of Oakland, the Bay Area and the entire country say goodbye to four police officers who were murdered by a parolee, no-good street thug. Thousands are expected to attend the funeral of officers killed Saturday: Sgts. Mark Dunakin, 40, of Tracy; Erv Romans, 43, of Danville; and Daniel Sakai, 35, of Castro Valley. Officer John Hege, 41, of Concord, also was shot Saturday and declared brain-dead Sunday. He was taken off life support late Monday.
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<p>Lovelle Mixon, the cops&#8217; killer and a suspected child rapist, is now a popular icon in the sick and twisted minds of those who support Mixon&#8217;s murderous actions and hate the cops. The other night on TV, a reporter held pictures of Mixon&#8217;s victims and some maniacs stepped forward and spit on the photographs. It was sickening, but what do you expect from street punks who take no personal responsibility and worship the likes of Che Guevara, a mass murderer, the Black Panthers, and now Mixon, the pervert and cop killer.</p>
<p>Mixon&#8217;s apologists are proud of themselves and are not only spitting on pictures of the officers who died in the line of duty, but they&#8217;re marching in the open, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QKcARdl2w">videotaping themselves</a> and trying to intimidate folks who don&#8217;t believe in their radical lunacy.</p>
<p>I received an e-mail from a woman identified as Wendy Lea Snyder, presumably an organizer, or at least a support of the Uhuru movement. (Uhuru is a socialist group whose radicalism is based in &#8220;black power.&#8221;)</p>
<p>The subject line was: &#8220;Lay of Uhuru, Bi&#8211;h.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here are the contents of the e-mail. I report, you decide about the intellectual level of the leftists in Oakland:
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<blockquote><p><em>Wendy Lea Snyder wendy.snyder@rocketmail.com</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>You post about our righchous and just march tonigh proves you are an oppresionist pig who will be taken down when the Revelootion comes!  POWER TO THE PEEPLE!</em></p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure if she is saying I&#8217;m an impressionist, such as Degas, Monet and Renoir, which is unlikely given they didn&#8217;t have their start with gang graffiti on the streets of Oakland.  At any rate, she&#8217;s mad as hell and she&#8217;s going to take me down in the &#8220;revelootion,&#8221; which must be what happens when hordes of rioters rev up for looting.</p>
<p> I simply commented on the behavior of those from Uhuru who think it&#8217;s OK to kill four police officers. I wrote about the Democratic wing of the Uhuru chapter of Oakland (<a href="http://melaniemorgan.com/component/content/article/1-latest/1471-join-the-march-for-the-cop-killers.html">&#8220;A Rush to Racism&#8221;</a>) and their support for the man who murdered four police officers and wounded a fifth. I hoped that reporting this affront to civilized society would spark action by our so-called leaders to restore civility.
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<p>Sadly, I was wrong.</p>
<p>The silence from President Obama &ndash; the One, the man who uses his words to calm seas, open the minds of terrorists and drop the Dow like an iron bowling ball &ndash; is deafening. Where the hell are the peacemakers? Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink and Rev. Sharpton: Oakland is calling and they&#8217;re talking your language.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/25/BADD16N9VP.DTL">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported  &#8220;about 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland on Wednesday to condemn the police and honor Mixon.</p>
<p>&#8220;OPD you can&#8217;t hide &ndash; we charge you with genocide,&#8221; chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Boulevard, near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who pulled him over in a traffic stop. He killed two more officers who tried to capture him where he was hiding in his sister&#8217;s apartment nearby.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for the &#8217;60s idiots to snap out of their dope-fueled hazes and take a look around. Four peace officers are dead. Crazies are out in force supporting their killer. This is not OK in a civil society. Got that Obama? How about your terrorist-defending attorney general? Any word out of there?</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not only mourning our four police officers, we&#8217;re mourning the decay in our society fueled by the left whose motto continues to be power to the peeple &ndash; the ones who hate America. They&#8217;re looking to spark a revelootion.
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My &#8220;friends&#8221; at the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that Rep. Ellen Tauscher&#8217;s decision to accept an appointment to work under Hillary Clinton has opened the field wide open for all comers to replace the congresswoman. The problem with the Chronicle, which is going broke (or is broke), is that they didn&#8217;t do a [...]]]></description>
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<p>My &#8220;friends&#8221; at the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that Rep. Ellen Tauscher&#8217;s decision to accept an appointment to work under Hillary Clinton has opened the field wide open for all comers to replace the congresswoman. The problem with the Chronicle, which is going broke (or is broke), is that they didn&#8217;t do a complete job of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/18/MNU316J3T0.DTL">reporting</a>.</p>
<p>So, today, I&#8217;m going to give you some important news that was overlooked by the Chronicle. The Wall Street Journal had the news, but the Bay Area newspaper missed it.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ll offer my analysis: The time is ripe for Republicans to take names and take the 10th Congressional District. The woman to do it is Fairfield City Councilwoman Catherine Moy, who happens to be my best friend.</p>
<p>Catherine has been asked to consider running for the seat, and the state GOP has already begun conversations with her. They would be smart to continue those talks and try to persuade her to leave her position serving the city of Fairfield and Travis Air Force Base.</p>
<p>The Chronicle first touted the Democrats, which is no surprise. I won&#8217;t give them the pleasure of reading their names in my column. Later, the newspaper finally got to the potential Republican candidates, who included my friend Tom Del Beccaro, the state Republican Party vice chairman, who lives in Lafayette.</p>
<p>Tom is a good strong candidate, and his name is well-known.
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<p><em><a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/s.nl/c.811217/id.118/.f">Is there such a thing as an ethical member of Congress? Find out in Sen. Tom Coburn&#8217;s &#8220;Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>But today, since the Bay Area media chose to ignore the brightest upcoming star in the Bay Area&#8217;s GOP, I want to tell you a bit about Catherine and why she can take on the entrenched lefties and anybody else in her way.</p>
<p>Catherine is a journalist by trade, but has led Move America Forward, the nation&#8217;s largest grass-roots pro-troop nonprofit, as it sends more care packages than ever in its history. As executive director, she worked with me to produce the first-time webathon, which raised more than $1.5 million for our troops in eight hours.</p>
<p>Yes, she knows how to raise funds.</p>
<p>She was born in Fairfield and raised in the area. Her grandparents were legal Hispanic immigrants who worked in the fields around Fairfield. The Perezes taught their family to love America and treat her with respect. Every one of their children, except for their daughter who drowned at a young age, served in the military. Catherine&#8217;s Uncle Tony gave his life in World War II.</p>
<p>She carries with her a deep commitment to our warriors, past and present, and she is a fierce advocate for Travis AFB, which is part of the city where she serves on the City Council.
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<p>I have been with Catherine on the streets when America haters are attacking our military. I clearly remember her in Berkeley, where the City Council called our Marines &#8220;uninvited intruders.&#8221; She marched into City Hall, got permits and then helped MAF lead a protest against the slander on our troops.</p>
<p>Catherine is Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s biggest nightmare. She is tough, compassionate, intelligent, beautiful and fearless. She can raise lots of cash, and she has lots of support throughout the 10th Congressional District.</p>
<p>She is not an entrenched politician of any sort. She would not have become involved as a city councilwoman except for the love she had for the town where she grew up. Last year, the young and energetic Councilman Matt Garcia was murdered by an alleged drug dealer. About three weeks later, another councilman killed himself.</p>
<p>Like Dianne Feinstein during the murder of her two colleagues, Catherine stepped up to help her city. She was appointed to the seat and is now a favorite in town.  Unlike Feinstein, she has voted against every tax and given a hand up to the elderly and poor of Fairfield. It is not uncommon to find her at the Matt Garcia Youth Center hanging out with the kids.</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s chief of staff and the other left-wing hacks from Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s guard of jackbooted thugs will come at her. (Important safety tip to Nancy: The Air Force jets that you fly into Travis AFB are in Catherine&#8217;s district, so be nice.)</p>
<p>The liberals won&#8217;t like that she loves this country and believes our Constitution should be followed to the T. They won&#8217;t like that she knows how to shoot guns and has killed and eaten rattlesnakes. She rides horses, has a walnut ranch and spends her days meeting face-to-face with the residents she serves. She can handle the snake pit of liberal congresspunks who have spent our great-grandchildren&#8217;s money while killing our retirement funds.</p>
<p>The only thing holding Catherine back is she is committed to Fairfield and Travis AFB.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&#8221;My heart is in Fairfield, where Travis is a big part of our city,&#8221; Catherine said. &#8220;I am honored that I am part of the discussion about the congressional seat. I am running to keep my seat helping the people of Fairfield on the City Council, but I can also contribute in Washington, D.C., to make sure our troops are supported, as well as the 10th District.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure that we can convince Catherine to run. She can help Fairfield and Travis in a very big way in Congress. If she goes for it, she will spark the revolution that puts America before special interests that feed on the pork trough.</p>
<p>Catherine&#8217;s candidacy will be the beginning of the end for the destructive ways of Nancy Pelosi and the free-spending, anti-American left.
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		<dc:creator>Melanie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 40 years ago, one of San Francisco&#8217;s finest was murdered in a bomb blast. Yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., a former FBI informant, a former San Francisco police sergeant and an investigative reporter said they know who killed Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell on Feb. 16, 1970.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost 40 years ago, one of San Francisco&#8217;s finest was murdered in a bomb blast. Yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., a former FBI informant, a former San Francisco police sergeant and an investigative reporter said they know who killed Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell on Feb. 16, 1970.</p>
<p>The San Francisco police officers association also nailed the suspects in a letter.</p>
<p>All signs point to the Weather Underground and its leaders, Bill Ayers and his bat-crazy wife, Bernardine Dohrn.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are irrefutable and compelling reasons to believe that Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn &#8230; are largely responsible for the bombing of Park Police Station,&#8221; the police union&#8217;s letter says, according to the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/BATK16DHA4.DTL">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The letter, dated Feb. 24, is signed by union President Gary Delagnes, Vice President Kevin Martin, Secretary Tony Montoya, Treasurer Martin Halloran and Sergeant at Arms Christopher Breen,&#8221; the Chronicle reported. (For the record, this report is a hack job that tried to discredit the police officers, the FBI informant and anybody who believes that President Obama&#8217;s buddy, Billy Ayers, would do such a thing. None of this is surprising, given the Chronicle&#8217;s position as Obama lapdog and apologist for radicals like Ayers.)
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<p>Larry Grathwohl, whom my organization Move America Forward flew to San Francisco two months ago as part of a demonstration at St. Mary&#8217;s College against Ayers&#8217; appearance, spoke yesterday for Officer McDonnell&#8217;s family and the rule of law.  Joining him were retired Sgt. James Pera, who has continued his three-decades-long campaign for justice in the murder of his sergeant. Grathwohl successfully infiltrated the Weather Underground during its heyday in the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s as an FBI informant, so he saw the killer instincts and intent of the terrorist group.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the issues in Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama is what to do with the terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after he issued an executive order to close the detention facility,&#8221; Grathwohl said. &#8220;The question we want answered is why terrorists close to him politically have escaped justice for the 1970 bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. We believe the Department of Justice should make available all the evidence in this case to local authorities and law enforcement officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>Grathwohl makes a strong point here.  Is the United States under President Obama going to take on terrorists, foreign or domestic, or not? If Obama is willing to sit down and talk, without preconditions, to terrorists such as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, why won&#8217;t he chat with his old buddy Ayers about his alleged involvement with the killing of a law officer?</p>
<p>At the National Council Meeting that took place in Flint, Mich., in late December of 1969, Bernardine Dohrn praised mass murderer Charles Manson and said, &#8220;The Weathermen is about a communist revolution to destroy the white racist&#8217;s society and establish a democratic centralist&#8217;s government.&#8221;  Furthermore, Bernardine wanted everyone at the council meeting to &#8220;bring the war home and off (kill) their parents.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;One other historical fact that demands mention is the explosion of the Weatherman bomb factory in Greenwich Village in February of 1970,&#8221; Grathwohl said. &#8221; The bombs being built for use at an Army dance at the Fort Dix Army Base on a Saturday night contained roofing nails for the shrapnel effect, and if the bombs hadn&#8217;t prematurely detonated, killing three Weathermen, the effect would have been devastating.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lethal bombs that killed Ayers&#8217; lover and allies were intended to murder soldiers and their dates. When Islamists do this, we hunt them down, kill them, or throw them into prison. Why should anybody get away with this terrorism? I don&#8217;t care if Ayers and his wife are buddies of the president and the first lady. In fact, that makes it all the more scandalous and worthy of investigation.</p>
<p>Ayers already has admitted to using bombs in his revolution against the United States during the Vietnam War. The Weather Underground bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and dozens of other sites. He and his wife were chased for years and got off on criminal charges due to a technicality.</p>
<p>But murder, cop killing, has not statute of limitations.</p>
<p>I applaud the San Francisco police union for speaking out loudly about the injustice and the need to go forward with a full criminal investigation by the FBI, which has recently re-interviewed Grathwohl and perhaps reopened the investigation.</p>
<p>Kudos also go to investigative reporter Cliff Kincaid, who has bird-dogged this case and brought light to the truth of the terrorists of the Weather Underground who roam free to this day.</p>
<p>&#8220;Law enforcement officials, at the federal, state and local levels, want justice to be done,&#8221; Kincaid said during the press conference. &#8220;That is why, with the critical support of the federal government, arrests were made and charges filed against members of the Black Liberation Army in connection with the murder of Sergeant John Young in San Francisco back in 1971. That is the model of law enforcement cooperation that we seek in the case of Sergeant McDonnell&#8217;s murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>There will be many more stories about this situation, but will anything happen for the McDonnell family, who lost their father, son, brother and hero? Will the Obama administration break open this case, even though he is closely tied to the alleged perpetrator?</p>
<p>As a person who has worked on a cold case for almost a decade, I understand how difficult it is to bring this kind of case to a conclusion. But we can only pray and work hard to help Larry Grathwohl and James Pera, who saw his boss blown to pieces 39 years ago, tell what they know about criminal masterminds turned mild-mannered college professors William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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