"So this is really a juridical center that is being established to study and promote and train and recruit Shariah law advocates which will become terrorists. ... We're establishing literally a command center for terrorism right at the 9/11 site."That's Ron Johnson's BFF speaking.
Among those who say Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent [37 million] say they learned about his religion from the media, suggesting that their opinions are fueled by misinformation.Well, that's not a very nice thing to say about the media, is it.
Independents, too, are now more apt to see the president as a Muslim: Among independents, 18 percent say he is a Muslim, up eight percentage points [since March, 2009].Nearly double. There's a spot of tarnish on the noble "independents."
25 percent [77 million] say most Muslims in the United States are not patriotic Americans.Nice. And the strongest representative demographic within the poll:
More than a third of conservative Republicans now say Obama is a Muslim.What's really sad is, that's not at all surprising.
[There is a] long-standing belief by many in the black community that some opposition to high speed rail in Wisconsin is tied to the fear of a transportation system that would allow blacks and other minorities to travel the state more easily ... — the Journal-Sentinel's Eugene KaneAssuming there is such a belief in the black community, and assuming further that that belief is grounded in discoverable facts, I think Eugene Kane is giving Scott Walker's caucasian posse waaay too much credit if he's expecting them to have been aware of it or them.
According to one of her professors, she spent most of her doctoral training time "pulling fat pads off rat testicles."Now that's the Dr. Laura I shall remember.
I still got a flip phone! I'm gonna have my flip phone until my contract expires! We need fiscal conservatism in Wisconsin!Sara N. Dipity via capper.
When a WisOpinion reporter asked Ron Johnson if he would drill for oil in the Great Lakes, Ron Johnson replied, Yeah, we've got to get the oil where it is. Later, Ron Johnson claimed he hadn't heard the question. When a Tea Party group requested Ron Johnson's views on the Second Amendment, Ron Johnson said he would like to license firearms exactly like they do with cars and stuff. Later, Ron Johnson claimed he'd merely chosen the incorrect terms to describe his support for concealed carry.*At least he is right about one thing; there were not tons of cars* on the roads back during the Middle Ages. Only a few.Ron Johnson explains what the True Menace is.
The video was a clip of African-American dancers singing, "C'mon, Get on the Train," from the old "Soul Train" television series.No it wasn't, it was a WHPR 88.1 FM joint. It was simply more effectively communicative to call it "Soul Train-style" and ensure pop culture* recognition. And the tune is C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), which isn't really talking about choo choo trains at all, truth be told.
Ideally, candidates [the object example in this instance being Willie Soon pupil Ron Johnson] who are too bizarre to speak to the media probably shouldn't be running.* But once the damage is done, a campaign has to realize it's political suicide to let its candidate speak freely and make a fool of himself.* I respectfully dissent. The nuttier the better.
3:59 PM Aug 3rd via Twitter for Blackberry®Sara Sendek must have been following the Rasmussen Reports, as Pete Hoekstra lost by ten percentage points in the MI GOP primary.
3 hours until polls close! Looking positive for @petehoekstra
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere "gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow," said Republican/Fox News candidate for United States Senate Ron Johnson.That's a fascinating hypothesis.
Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere increased from approximately 280 parts per million in pre-industrial times to 382 ppm in 2006 according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth Systems Research Laboratory, a 36 percent increase. Almost all of the increase is due to human activities. The current rate of increase in CO2 concentrations is about 1.9 ppmv/year. Present CO2 concentrations are higher than any time in at least the last 650,000 years.Versus:
Global deforestation sharply accelerated around 1852. It has been estimated that about half of the Earth's mature tropical forests — between 7.5 million and 8 million km2 of the original 15 million to 16 million km2 that until 1947 covered the planet — have now been cleared. Some scientists have predicted that unless significant measures are taken on a worldwide basis, by 2030 there will only be ten percent remaining, with another ten percent in a degraded condition. 80% will have been lost, and with them hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable species.So let's see here. You got increasing carbon dioxide emissions contemporaneous with decreasing global forestation, therefore excess carbon dioxide emissions make the trees grow. And Ron Johnson has said his greatest strength is in accounting functions.
Ron Johnson described believers [sic] in manmade causes of climate change as "crazy" and the theory as "lunacy."Insofar as the Earth's moon governs the tides, I suppose it is lunacy.
Pandering for votes may help embattled Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina this year ...I'm not sure how "embattled" Lindsey Graham is, but he probably won't be embattling anybody until nearer to the end of his term, which expires on January 3, 2015.
Palin said she wanted him born in Alaska ... — ADNAll persons born ... in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of ... the State wherein they reside.
In addition to any issues appellants [the Prop. 8 proponents] wish to raise on appeal, appellants are directed to include in their opening brief [due 09/17/10] a discussion of why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of Article III standing.IT IS SOOO ORDERED (.pdf; 2 pgs).
[Ron Johnson] said he preferred justices who would strictly follow the Constitution in their rulings.How would he know whether they were or not? Ron Johnson has admitted himself that he's barely even read the damn thing:
I will say, y'know, prior to doing this,* I've sat down and read the Constitution probably, thoroughly, three ... probably about five or six times. It is not an easy document to read. It is not, unless you study it in detail, it's hard to study. — Ron JohnsonBetter:
[Ron Johnson] said he would have voted against both of President Obama's Supreme Court appointees, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, as well as both appointees of President Clinton — Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.I would like to hear why, in detail. Did the J-S think of asking? Is it not significant that the imaginary Senator Ron Johnson would have attempted to block four of the last six Supreme Court appointees?
Senate candidate Ron Johnson maturing quickly* Answering Dick Morris's plea for a "rich guy from Wisconsin."
— Wisconsin State Journal, 08/01/10
@ScottKWalker #believeinjillbaderHey, remember when two of Scott Walker's top communications directors giddily repurposed some indigenous Miami Bass-style R&B boogying-on-down as Obama's response to critics of a proposed rail link in Wisconsin? "Ha!" they tweeted, and retweeted they, "Ha!"
Ha! @hotair blog commenter: Pres. Obama's response to @ScottKWalker's www.NoTrain.com: http://youtu.be/A_Zi-YSW3aQ #railfail #believeinwiSo Jill Bader, the communications director for the leading Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor (that's Scott Walker's hashmarked official slogan, "believeinwi") actually expects you to believe that she doesn't know the difference between a blog post and a comment to a blog post. That alone strains credulity. As anyone who has spent more than five minutes on the internets clearly understands, the disparity in intellectual quality between blog post writing and blog commenting often, uh, varies widely. We all know the difference.
9:40 AM August 14 via webErick Erickson is a leading conservative religious intellectual.
Paging the Church of Satan: Our founding principles demand Barack Obama support your rights to human sacrifice. Carry on.
9:44 AM August 14 via web
Paging Islamofascists: Our founding principles demand Barack Obama support Jihad.
12:04 PM August 15 via web
began the daunting task of teaching Romans 9 in Sunday School this morning.
The school board says [erectile dysfunction drugs] are used primarily for recreational sex, not out of medical necessity.They have to argue that but as we learn from the abortion cases,* it's hard to inscribe a line between the physio- and the psycho-logical.
Mark Block, State director for Americans for Prosperity, said his group's filing forced the board to back down more quickly in the case it agreed to settle Tuesday.Makes sense. That explains why One Wisconsin Now, and not Americans For Prosperity, is party to the proposed settlement.*
The proposed settlement "indicates that (the GAB) feels they are really concerned that the rule was unconstitutional, or they would be mounting a vigorous defense," Bopp said.I doubt that. More likely, OWN demonstrated successfully that the rule would apply to some speakers that the rule wasn't necessarily formulated to reach. That doesn't make the rule unconstitutional, it only makes its application in certain situations unconstitutional.
"Despite his misleading rhetoric, the truth is that Russ Feingold’s 18-year anti-gun record in Washington has earned him failing grades from Second Amendment organizations," said a spokesman for the GOP group, Chris Bond.Patrick McIlheran:
Feingold also curries at least the neutrality of voters for whom the Second Amendment is a top issue, earning good ratings from the NRA — an important metric in a State bristling with deer rifles.They can't both be right, but they're both about as trustworthy.
[The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Patrick] McIlheran made sure to refer people to this study, but apparently never bothered to check its date. Nor did he bother to check the J-S clips on this subject. (They’re computerized, Patrick; it wouldn’t have taken more than a couple minutes to do the check.) Is this just sheer laziness or did McIlheran want to spread misinformation? Either explanation is equally troubling.If we hadn't seen Patrick McIlheran's standard operating procedure implemented so many times, we might even be surprised. McIlheran has been degrading the paper's reputation and credibility for years.
The firm had a line of credit based on a federal Small Business Administration loan, and Tea-Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Dave Westlake's salary came from this line of credit.Plaintiff in civil suit maintains he is a gruntled former colleague
THEODORE B. OLSON: Since 1888 the United States Supreme Court has 14 times decided and articulated that the right to marriage is a fundamental right. We're not talking about a new right here, we're talking about whether a fundamental right — something that the Supreme Court has characterized as the most fundamental relationship we have in this country — can be deprived of certain individuals because of the color of their skin or because of their sexual orientation.As I was saying. And to which needs to be added, "can be deprived of certain individuals because of their religion." I expect most folks would concur that that right cannot be deprived of certain individuals because of the color of their skin or because of their religion.
"The public loves me, and they hate public (employee) unions," Clarke supposedly said to Graber, according to the sergeant. "You just don't get it." He's right in part. Clarke is beloved by some segments of the community. Conservative talk-show hosts, for instance.Haha.
TONY PERKINS: One judge, and a district level judge,* and an openly homosexual judge at that ...He knows you think it has A bearing. He asked you what bearing.
JOHN DICKERSON: You mention this claim that he's openly homosexual. I'm not sure if that's in fact the case, but whether he is or isn't, what bearing does that have on the case?
PERKINS: Well, that according to the San Francisco Chronicle,** that he is openly homosexual, one of two federal judges ... I do think it has a bearing on the case.
DICKERSON: You think it's made his ruling skewed?David Boies, who tried the case, is on the split screen, barely containing his laughter at this clown: Face The Nation (8:46).
PERKINS: Well, I mean, you look at, he ignored a lot of the social science ...
'The Senate is not an entry-level job.' ― Erick EricksonAccording to today's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ron Johnson's most pointed comments were directed at Senator Russ Feingold, saying that when [Feingold] and other senators "come out and start demanding a U.S. pullout and that kind of thing in public, it just undermines what our troops are trying to do."But a few days ago, according to WisPolitics.com, "GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson [said] he wants to restore the tradition of Congress declaring war before the military is sent abroad."
Said Johnson: "That's not saying if you have real grave concerns as a member of Congress you should not be talking to the administration. It's just extremely harmful to our nation when it's all done in public."
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require secrecy ... [art. I, sec. 5, cl. 3.]It sounds as if Ron Johnson wants to turn an exception into a rule. Then again, Ron Johnson did say he found the U.S. Constitution "difficult" to read, after the three or four times he attempted it.
That's what I HATE about the leftist though!!!!! They can chose to live, or die, as they chose; but, when they force their ideology and worship of their own minds and the environment; or, their "PERVERSIONS" like the sicko gays do; then it not only pisses me off; but, makes me HATE them all personally!!!Come to think of it that's more of a candidate for Zoloft, or Paxil.
— Rdog1
Further, absent an immediate stay of any ruling invalidating Prop 8, same-sex couples would be permitted to marry in the counties of Alameda and Los Angeles (and possibly throughout California). Same-sex marriages would be licensed under a cloud of uncertainty, and should Proponents succeed on appeal, any such marriages would be invalid ab initio.*Jeez, how patronizing is that. Gays: This is for your own good.
"Stays are for people condemned to death and are on the gurney," said Columbus attorney Bill Mason.What about if they're in a straitjacket.
Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred W. Phelps, will have 30 minutes to argue before the Supreme Court that the protest is protected speech.Fool for a client and all that.
So the 14th Amendment — written long before anyone even thought about illegal immigrants [it was adopted in 1868] — is why illegal immigrants' kids born here are automatically citizens? Not so fast, says Ann Coulter. It’s of more recent vintage: "Out of the blue in 1982, Justice Brennan slipped a footnote into his 5-4 opinion in Plyler v. Doe, asserting that 'no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment "jurisdiction" can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.' (Other than the part about one being lawful and the other not.)"I understand it's nearly impossible to believe, but Ann Coulter is lying and Patrick McIlheran is playing her apparently witless dupe.
In [Superintendent Plyler's] view, persons who have entered the United States illegally are not "within the jurisdiction" of a State even if they are present within a State's boundaries and subject to its laws. Neither our cases nor the logic of the Fourteenth Amendment support that constricting construction of the phrase "within its jurisdiction."[10]To that passage is attached Footnote 10, which reads in its entirety:
10. Although we have not previously focused on the intended meaning of this phrase, we have had occasion to examine the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides that "[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. . . ." (Emphasis added.) Justice Gray, writing for the Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), detailed at some length the history of the Citizenship Clause, and the predominantly geographic sense in which the term "jurisdiction" was used. He further noted that it wasEnd of Footnote 10.
impossible to construe the words "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," in the opening sentence [of the Fourteenth Amendment], as less comprehensive than the words "within its jurisdiction," in the concluding sentence of the same section; or to hold that persons "within the jurisdiction" of one of the States of the Union are not "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States."Justice Gray concluded that
[e]very citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.As one early commentator noted, given the historical emphasis on geographic territoriality, bounded only, if at all, by principles of sovereignty and allegiance, no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment "jurisdiction" can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful. See C. Bouve, Exclusion and Expulsion of Aliens in the United States 425-427 (1912).
According to one Republican candidate's analysis, 3,800 of the 4,200 voter signatures gathered to put third-party candidate Jim Schneller — who once filed a lawsuit to force President Obama to present his birth certificate — on the ballot were collected by Democrats.Why, those devious scamps.
