Personally, I’m tired of the whole Barack Obama “what did he know and when did he know it” regarding his former Pastor Jeremiah Wright. We’ve all seen the clips of his fiery sermons. We’ve all heard the arguments pro and con. As Obama was one of his parishioners, it’s assumed Wright will still back him. But what if I told you Jeremiah Wright was not the only crazy uncle in this presidential saga?

To get an idea of where I’m going, check out the videos I posted of the Reverend James David Manning of the Atlah Worldwide Ministries in Harlem. He’s clearly a Hillary Clinton supporter. Once these videos are discovered, will Hillary be told to denounce Manning’s sermons? What will be said of Black churches? Will Manning get a gig on Comedy Central?

Here in Massachusetts, Good Friday is considered a State Holiday, however thanks to political correctness, some schools are not going to observe the religious holiday. Some kids will actually have to go to school. Some parents are upset that their children, who want to stay home and observe the religious ceremony, can’t.

You’re gonna tell me that teenagers are going to attend a church service, and then come home and reflect on the day that Christ was crucified, and forgo their time chatting and interacting on Facebook.

Remember when MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said a Barack Obama speech gave him a “thrill” right up his leg? Besides the horrifying visual that inspired, we moved on. On Wednesday, he appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres program. Aside from the fact he’s a bit rhythm challenged, his recovery from a dance move made for an interesting television moment.

Given his Obama “thrill” disclosure and now this, some things look just plain wrong.  Continued...

“You can't change what you don't acknowledge.”

– Dr. Phil

Barack Obama had a golden opportunity to really clean the slate, but as it would mean addressing his own party’s sins and its deliberate rewriting of black history, he would have to show bravery beyond party politics. As we all know, bravery is seldom seen during election cycles, and Obama missed his real chance to shine.

During the speech Obama said, "We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow."

Had he taken the opportunity to show real bravery and admonish his own party for their past sins, as well as their successful, concerted effort to erase them from history for their political advantage, that may have not only gone down as one of the greatest civil rights speeches of all time, as he could have cleaned the Democrat’s slate for all time and given them the racial moral high ground they still lack.

In the end, it just came back down to politics as usual. So let’s get back to the presidential campaign as the left still attempts to re-write history.

Within an elongated, sometimes contentious thread on a website I posted the “Wrongs and Wright” column on, I received the following response,

“I think the last eight years of Bush rule has shown what the Republicans have done for America. When Bush took office, he had a fiscally healthy nation. Clinton had cut the national debt and we were not running a deficit every year. The economy was healthy. Look at us now.

 “Trickle down economics has been proven wrong. Greed has run rampant in this country, and it was encouraged by the Bush administration. We are a nation borrowing from other nations and giving tax cuts. What is wrong with this picture? Even the "Economic Stimulus" package will cost the country over $600 million and that doesn't include the checks. We just continue to go deeper into debt.”

The economy is on dangerous ground right now, no doubt. But re-writing history all depends on the ignorance of those who receive it, and the skill of others to perpetually recite it.

Think back.   Continued...

Race is still a sensitive issue in the United States of America. Hell, I even received a comment on my previous column from the Ku Klux Klan LLC, bemoaning the fact that political correctness is squelching what they can and can’t say about “radical Republicans” and “Negros”.

What a wonderful country we are that an organization like the Ku Klux Klan qualifies for Limited Liability Company status.

I sincerely doubt Senator Obama will tell the whole truth about race in America. He, like many others, believe that his party; the Democrat Party, is (and always was) the “Party of Civil Rights”. While we are living in times nowhere near as evil as were the days when certain Americans were kept in bondage for the purposes of forced labor, the crime that remains today is the intentional revision of black history to dilute those sins.

Whenever you say that it was Democrats that did everything possible to keep slavery the law of the land, many people are insulted and recoil in disbelief. This isn’t what they were taught in school. Many teachers and professors teach young people that it was the Republican Party who are, and always were, the racists that kept black people down.

Will Barack Obama clarify this? Does he even know the truth?

For example, many credit President Lyndon B. Johnson with the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He did so, even though a greater percentage of Republicans supported it than Democrats. But with that, the Democrat Party has been credited with ending state-sponsored racism in the US.

But what was LBJ thinkin’?

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.”

– Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

Yes, as is the usual retort, President Johnson must have “grown”. But will Barack Obama clarify this? Does he even know the truth?  Continued...

Sure, while 90-95% of Blacks vote Democrat, it is because of the inaccurate repetitions conducted daily by the mainstream media and those they ALLOW to speak for Black America.

Over the weekend, in response to the media firestorm created by past speeches of Barack Obama’s “former” pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his church released a statement that unfortunately fell back on the old victimology playbook.

"We have listened and watched as the wonderful work of our church has been vilified this week," he told about 3,000 congregants on Palm Sunday morning. "This week should be special for us because I guess we know a little something about crucifixion."

– Otis Moss III, the current pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ

 WRIGHT: Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture, that was controlled by rich white people! The Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means they were European, which means they were white -- and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folk are hatin' on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model!

Obviously the whole bit about Jesus being a poor black man controlled by rich white people is an analogy. But by implying that’s why “so many folk are hatin’ on Barack Obama”, Wright is implying that he is some Jesus-like figure.

Obama may be a phenomenon, but to tell thousands of people he is comparable to Jesus is just plain irresponsible.

Then again, if a political objective is the goal, who in their right mind would vote against Jesus?  Continued...

A few weeks ago, the world was about to stop on its axis should the United States not rethink the horror that was terrorist-information-extraction technique, known as waterboarding. At the time, many thought we should waterboard Britney Spears and Ron Paul. Has the Bosnian independence action been fully resolved, because it sure was a two-day blockbuster.

It’s almost like, if the press doesn’t cover it, it ceases to exist.

As of today, Friday, March 14, 2008, everything in the media is either Kristen-Eliot Spitzer or Geraldine-Obama-Are the Democrats playing the race card? As we’ve had a couple of promising days on Wall Street, gas prices and the economy are on the back burner, for now.

A week or so ago, we had a pseudo well-publicized meeting of Catholic-Islamic officials in Rome. Thursday, an Archbishop was found dead after his capture by insurgents in Iraq. Some called the Catholics naïve for issuing such an olive branch, as this doesn’t meet the “blame America first” template, and the “freedom fighters” are now looking like the bad guys again. But most in America don’t know about this because we finally caught the punks who shot and killed the two young college girls.

Geraldine Ferraro was Hillary’s monster for a few days, and the liberals who’ve sold America (and the world) on the whole “Democrats are the Party of Civil Rights” BS, are now squirming with the realization that the First (white) Black President and his presidential candidate wife has successfully polarized their party’s voters along racial and gender lines within that exalted political party.

Barack Obama was the colorless, politically disciplined, brilliant orator who was going to bring the country together, until his pastor’s past speech clips have been revealed. While Michelle Obama dominated the news because she only now claims to be proud of America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who married the Obamas, has been quoted as saying,

"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.”

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Inflammatory stuff to be sure, and watching Obama maneuver around this looming claymore should be interesting, however, I’ll be willing to bet this will not be the big story by Monday.  Continued...

Many in our entertainment intelligentsia consider prostitution a victimless crime, thus Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré’s activities are going to be her ticket to fame and fortune. She’s probably already received many offers from agents who know they can sell her name, face, “voice” and body. They know there will be interested parties waiting to exploit her newfound fame, or infamy depending how you look at it.

As usual with this generation, it’s all about her. On her MySpace page she wrote,

I am all about my music, and my music is all about me…. It flows from what I’ve been through, what I’ve seen and how I feel. I live in New York and am on top of the world.

Well, if she could make it there, she can make it anywhere.

Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré alludes to a broken home and abuse. If true, that is tragic. However, there are many other people who have survived broken homes and not turned to breaking the law. Prostitution IS against the law.

Granted, unlike Eliot Spitzer who gleefully put people in jail as New York’s attorney general and has no sympathy coming his way from the public, Ashley Alexandra “Kristen” Dupré may give community service a new name and will come out of this a rich woman. She may get a book deal, recording contract, or a modeling gig. She probably won’t be earning $4,300-an-hour, but she will be able to work, for the most part, standing up.

Personally, I’m hoping her name becomes a noun.  Continued...

We were told plastic bags were the most responsible alternative, and we were forced to comply.

According to Wednesday’s Boston Herald,

State Sen. Brian A. Joyce (D-Milton) wants to place a levy on plastic shopping bags, calling the ubiquitous carryalls an environmental hazard. Each bag would be taxed 2 cents at the checkout at first. In seven years, that tax would climb to 15 cents.

 The idea is to get you, the shopper, to stop using them.

 “I think we’ve come up with a fairly modest stipend,” Joyce said.

Besides the fact this is a money-grab from a revenue-strapped state legislature, why are we being made out to be the guilty party for using this “powerful symbol of consumerism gone wild”?

We, the consumer, never lobbied politicians to make the change from paper to plastic bags. If memory serves, we were all told that plastic bags were the best way to save tress, thus the environment. Why is it when politicians screw up, we are the ones made to feel guilty before we are forced to pay for their errors in judgment?

Shoppers who use paper, biodegradable or reusable bags would be exempt from the tax. His proposal will be aired in a hearing at the State House tomorrow.

 “We’re not trying to make money off this,” he insisted. “We’re trying to gently prod the consumer.”

 Joyce cited a litany of bag evils: They’re made from petroleum, in a process that produces pollutants. A single bag takes 1,000 years to biodegrade, and if they are buried, they block groundwater. Americans use a staggering 380 billion plastic bags a year, most of which wind up as trash or litter.

What I would love to see (and this is a pipedream, so work with me here) is responsibility in legislation.   Continued...

While the news anchors and punditry were guessing what this could all be about, citing the New York Times revelation, there were two people later appearing at the podium who know the whole story, and Mrs. Spitzer didn’t look forgiving. She looked humiliated. If not for the New York state troopers who provide security for the governor, many of us would look the other way if Eliot appeared with a frying pan indentation upside his head.

Many are quick to guess just what Spitzer is up against with these allegations. It does have all the ingredients to make the press want to drag this out as long as possible. It involves a powerful do-gooder-gone-bad, and $5,500-an-hour hos. As I said earlier, we’re all guessing what’s going on behind the scenes.

As of now, the media probably has five percent of the story. When Governor Spitzer was alerted to the fact he was busted last Friday, Mrs. Spitzer probably demanded to know EVERYTHING before it came out later. She looks like someone who hasn’t slept much since.

I keep coming back to Silda because she is the real victim here. But there is an upside for her, which I’ll get to later.

In the less than 24 hours since this scandal broke, there are some things we do know.  Continued...

We supposedly live in a nation where one is innocent until proven guilty, but thanks to the smearing of our entire Armed Forces because of isolated events at Abu Ghraib, as well as Hollywood’s slanderous contributions, many are quick to believe this video’s authenticity and our military’s guilt.

I could be wrong, but I believe the video is a fake. This would not be the first time we’ve all been punk’d. 

Many were in tears listening to the baring of former Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth’s soul to the anti-war crowd. He described the many atrocities he, and others in his Iraq unit, participated in. He claimed to have personally killed more than 200 civilians, run over dogs in the street in their armored vehicle. The problem is Jesse Macbeth never made it through boot camp. Despite the fact he was discredited as a liar, many were quick to embrace his stories of horror because it was a golden gotcha for the anti-war crowd.

They believed it to be true because they wanted it to be true.

Why don’t I believe the puppy video’s authenticity? One, because I’ll give the men and women of our Armed Forces the benefit of the doubt.

Second, because I have a puppy.

Any of you who’ve ever held a puppy or kitten by the scruff of their necks know they just don’t remain motionless. Look at the puppy in the video. It’s hind legs are raised up almost defying gravity, and it’s totally motionless.

As someone who has been in video production for over twenty years, this is not a difficult prank to pull off. There are things called “props”, and sound of a little puppy’s yelping can be edited in as well.

Now let me play Devil’s Advocate for a second.  Continued...

Remember back in 2000? The Democrats accused Republicans of stealing the presidential elections for not wanting repeated recounts using ballots that were deteriorating by the touch. Let’s not forget, those same Democrats so poorly designed those “butterfly” ballots, that voters ended up becoming “confused” and cast for the wrong candidates. What was humorous was the fact that the same ballot was presented to elementary schoolers as an experiment, and they had no trouble at all voting for whom they wanted.

Allegations flew, numerous investigations were made, and the stolen election conspiracy was deemed false, although the accusation is still repeated to this day. Also curious is how few people mention that voting problems almost always seem to happen in Democrat districts, under Democrat handling. How a Republican could just walk in and successfully perform some kind of mischief is beyond me.

But the slogan remains, “Count every vote.”

Last year in an effort to achieve some electoral relevance, Michigan and Florida decided to change the dates of their primaries, against the protestations of Howard Dean and the party brains. As punishment, those two states were stripped of their delegates, and the candidates declined to campaign there.

Well almost all the candidates….

According to Canada’s National Post,

“In a bid to respect the party's decision and maintain support in Iowa and New Hampshire, Democratic candidates including Ms. Clinton agreed not to campaign in Florida or Michigan.

 “The major Democratic candidates -- with the exception of Ms. Clinton -- went so far as to have their names taken off the ballot entirely in Michigan.

 “Ms. Clinton has subsequently, however, touted her victories in both states as legitimate.

 She won 50% of the vote in Florida's Jan. 29 primary, compared with 33% for Mr. Obama. The former first lady won 55% in Michigan's Jan. 15 vote, while 40% of the votes were for "Uncommitted."

So now that the race has become a bit more competitive, complete with perceived momentum shifts, the Clinton campaign is arguing that those votes be counted (or cast again), while Barack Obama and the other candidates who were alive at the time and played by the rules, don’t want them tallied.

A bit of a quandary, if you ask me.  Continued...

Last week, I was approached by an official by the Massachusetts Republican Party and asked if I would consider running again for State Representative of our heavily Democrat district.

Man, was I torn.

You know me; I’m a fighter. So having to turn my back on my home district was very disappointing because all I would have to do is ask one simple question. A question that many around the nation should ask of their local representatives: “Are we better off now than we were two years ago?”

I ran, not as your stereotypical Republican, but purely on an economic development platform. I laid out my plan to make our district the most business-friendly in the state of Massachusetts (which really wouldn’t take much effort). I spelled out my plan to build badly needed new schools with private monies, thus sparing the property taxpayers from the additional burden any state-sponsored construction would incur. These two initiatives alone would hopefully inspire our young people to perform better in school, as there would be an employment light at the end of their education tunnel.

But, as it turned out, I wasn’t running against an incumbent Democrat. I was running against George W. Bush and The Iraq War. Local Democrats wanted to send a message to the administration about their disdain for The War. If I may be so bold, did that message put food on one local family’s dinner table?

As I watch the red taillights leave town every morning for the only available employment opportunities, as well as see yet another home being foreclosed on because of the poor economy, I ask “Are we better off now than we were two years ago?”  Continued...

One would think, after all the years of being lectured to by the left when it comes to social decorum, that the Democrat presidential campaign would be conducted with the utmost in civility. However, reality is another thing.

Campaign 2008 has all the dreamed-of, potentially historical, liberal elements. On one hand, we have a woman. On the other hand we have a Black (African-American) man. Of all the possible candidates that have made it to the primary finals, we have representatives of two of America’s premier oppressed classes. Under normal circumstances, this would be a golden opportunity for progressives to show us all how it’s done. No gender bias; no racism. Just a campaign run on the issues.

However, that’s far from what we’ve gotten to date.

The Woman

After all the years of being instructed how women should be respected, how women can do whatever a man can do, how women can compete with men, how women are strong, Hillary Clinton has done little to support these long-standing protocols.

Hillary Clinton entered the race with beaucoup negatives. Many in America have still not forgiven (or forgotten) her declaration that a “vast, right wing conspiracy” sought to bring down her husband’s presidency, while knowing all along that he was guilty of almost all he was accused of. With that, half of the nation’s voters polled said they’d never vote for her under any circumstances. So any slip-up would be used against her, and they were.

When her campaign decided she needed to be humanized, we got “the cackle”. Yes, many made fun of her laugh as it just didn’t come off as sincere. When that didn’t work, she committed a big time, feminist faux pas: she cried… more than once. We’ve been told women are strong. Crying is a stereotypical sign of effeminate weakness, even though there are some in our society who think it revealing and sympathetic when men publicly sob.

We’ve been told that women don’t need the assistance of any man. When Hillary began her campaign, she was out there all by her lonesome. Her candidacy was considered “inevitable”. But when she actually found that this wasn’t going to be a cakewalk, she was told to utilize her greatest asset: her man.  Continued...

One of the themes of this year’s presidential election is “The Economy”. The economy is sliding into recession here, the economy is tanking there. The problem is, Wall Street seeks positive outlooks. Any talk of negativity plays havoc with portfolios.

Many people have lost huge amounts of their retirement nest eggs over the last few months, primarily because of the prognostications of the Democrat presidential candidates. If you remember, as recently as last fall, our economy was rolling along like a freight train. But in order to be able to bribe the American people, the economy had to be targeted so the candidates could offer us their benevolent assistance.

Remember, you can’t offer relief to people who don’t need it.

Things do happen that create market uncertainty. The whole sub-prime mortgage fiasco has become a looming financial mushroom cloud that has claimed a few corporate victims. An oil refinery fire didn’t help either, but our economy has always been the envy of the world. We’ve managed to grow, despite natural and manmade calamities. We’ve also shown we can grow the economy no matter how much federal and state government forcibly extracts from the family and business bottom line.

But if someone running for president badmouths something (or someone) enough, it starts to stick.

To understand the sophistry of the Democrat presidential talk-down, if the economy was so bad, how could Obama and Clinton raise over $70 million combined in campaign monies (from “ordinary people”) this month alone? Disposable money seems to be coming from somewhere….

But here’s where the rubber meets the road.  Continued...

“I hate kids. I like working with young adults, but I hate kids.”

I’m sure some of you can imagine how quickly their little jaws drop when I say that. I remind them that when they come to the television studio, they’re no longer in school where teachers have to put up with their crap. I can fire anyone for the slightest misbehaving. There are thousands of dollars of video equipment here, so I don’t have the time to be a babysitter.

Today’s children are not used to hearing this. They believe all the BS about them being “the future”, thus most expect we adults must genuflect when in their presence. They believe they have rights, freedom of expression, and are on equal footing with adults, and to be quite honest, most lack the maturing to be awarded any of those things.

All adults should be paid to have to put up with them.

For example, you couldn’t pay me enough to be a school bus driver. Almost three years ago, I cited a few examples why. Nothing has changed, especially after what happened last week in Gilbert, Arizona.

According to ABC News…

“Tensions began with the 15-year-old girl pretending not to be on the list of authorized passengers. The situation escalated when (driver Kim) Sullivan pulled the bus over and asked, "Why are you on this bus?" and suggested she "find another way" to get to and from school.

 “The tape shows Sullivan trying to confront a student trying to exit the bus at an unauthorized stop after the two got into a discussion about her being disruptive on the bus.”

What would you do if an unruly teen not only played games with the rules, but also publicly challenged you in front of others? You’re responsible for their safety, yet a young teenaged girl gets in your face, uses profanity, and threatens physical violence? You know however it turns out, you’ll be thought of as being in the wrong, the little darling’s mom will assume you were out of line, you may get fired, and probably sued.

There was a time when an authority figure’s claim of our misbehaving would seal our doom with our parents. It was always assumed if a teacher said we did it, we did it. But today, if a teacher says a kid was acting up, the normal parental response is, “Are you sure it was my child? My child would never do that.” The kid hears that teacher’s authority challenged by the willing-sucker parent, and a future license is informally issued for future disruption.  Continued...

The latest eco-panic is global warming. One legislative solution was to mandate the banning of our traditional light bulbs, as they use too much power, and eventually contribute to global warming. That all gets shot to hell IF you believe humans are contributing to “warming” that may or may not be happening. But let’s say it is. Are we knee jerking once again?

These compact fluorescent light bulbs contain a small, but toxic amount of mercury that makes cleanup of a broken one more than just a sweep. After all the positive hype, we’re told that upon breaking one of these bulbs, one must use tape to pick up the glass, ventilate the room, and keep children and pregnant women clear of the area for a few hours. So these light bulbs may be friendly to the environment, but they don’t seem to take too kindly to the saps that bought them.

Eco-panic has resulted in policy that runs the gambit from public inconvenience to, dare I imply it: death. Here are a few examples….

There was the panic that our use of paper bags at the supermarket resulted in the unnecessary cutting down of trees. With public pressure from environmentalists, paper bags were phased out (at a cost to business, passed down to the consumer), and replaced by the lightweight plastic bags. A few decades later, the same environmentalists are complaining that those petroleum-based plastic bags are winding up in landfills, are not biodegradable, and thus should be phased out and be replaced with… paper bags.

Sometimes environmental hysteria costs lives.   Continued...