Political Correctness will never rest until we are all miserable about everything.

Here is an excellent recap of a recent flap that I found on a blog named Powerline:

The Thanksgiving holiday is a happy time for pretty much everyone, but that will change if the Seattle public school district gets its way. The District's "director of Equity, Race & Learning Support"–there's a position that you can tell, just from the title, should be eliminated–sent a letter to teachers urging them to instruct their students in the "myths" of Thanksgiving.

The "myths" are a means of teaching students, among other things, that the Pilgrims were "rigid fundamentalists" who "egregiously" stole Indian lands and "massacred" Indians. Here is the final "myth":

Myth #11: Thanksgiving is a happy time.

Fact: For many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, “Thanksgiving” is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship.

And here is a great comment I found that captures a great reaction:

Mz Hollins is just one of at least ten million college indoctrinated America Haters who have basically taken over most of the country. The most obvious takeover is the Movie Studios which are so loaded with Ms. Hollins and her pals that it is impossible to get a movie made that doesn’t attack our own country, and in spite of the nearly $300 million in losses nobody has been fired and nobody will be fired because everybody agrees with everybody. The attacks on Thanksgiving, Christmas, religion, and democracy itself through the tyranny of Political Correctness…
Comment by Howard Veit — 11/22/2007 @ 12:50 am

As-Sabiqun is an Islamic movement that believes in the Islamic State of North America no later than 2050. Those who engage in this great effort require a high level of commitment and determination. We are sending out a call to the believers: Join with us in this great struggle to change the world!

In another victory for Citizen Power, New York Governor, Elliot Spitzer,has abandoned plans to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

A poem to remind us of what creates and maintains our freedom: 

It is the veteran, not the preacher, who has given you freedom of religion.
It is the veteran, not the reporter, who has given you freedom of the
press.
It is the veteran, not the poet, who has given you freedom of speech.
It is the veteran, not the protester, who has given you freedom to
assemble.
It is the veteran, not the lawyer, who has given you the right to a fair
trial.
It is the veteran, not the politician, who has given you the right to vote.
It is the veteran, who salutes the Flag, who serves under the Flag, whose
coffin is draped by the Flag.

God bless our Veterans!

From Gary Bauer's "End of Day" daily email — November 5th 

Two weeks ago, I wrote an item in this report critical of the treatment of women in Islamic society.  Just in case anyone thought my comments were exaggerated, the folks at the Middle East Media Research Institute recently posted a video of a Saudi cleric instructing three young men on the “right way” to beat their wives.  

The cleric does note that beating your wife should not be the first resort in disciplining her.Muhammad Al-Arifi says husbands should, “Admonish them – once, twice, threetimes, four times, ten times.  If this doesn’t help, refuse to share their beds.”  

If that doesn’t work, there is a third option – “light beatings.”And, just so you know, there is an “etiquette” to the beatings.The beatings should be light and “must not make her face ugly.”  “He mustbeat her where it will not leave marks.  …He should beat her in some placeswhere it will not cause any damage.  He should not beat her like he wouldbeat an animal or a child.”

Most telling about the Islamic view of women was that Al-Arifi began his diatribe on the “how-to’s” of wife beating by comparing women to animals:“Beating in the face is forbidden, even when it comes to animals.  Even if you want your camel or donkey to start walking, you are not allowed to beatit in the face.  If this is true for animals, it is all the more true when it comes to humans.  So beatings should be light and not in the face.”

Seeing this video and reading the transcript is shocking.  But this is the same ideology that compares Christians and Jews to monkeys and pigs, that turns its children into homicide bombers, that turns airplanes into weapons of mass destruction, that vows to “wipe Israel off the map” and refers to the United States as “the great Satan.”

The homosexual advocacy group GLAD is targeting the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The group is conducting surveys of the nearly 10,000 homosexual couples that have “married” in Massachusetts. If Democrats control Congress and Hillary wins the White House next year, there will be a full-court press in 2009 to redefine marriage in America.

Gary Bauer provides this insight into modern day business ethics:  

House leaders … were publicly shaming American corporate executives for betraying human rights activists incommunist China.  Evidently, a number of Chinese dissidents have beenjailed as a result of Yahoo’s cooperation with the communist state.

In one case, a Chinese journalist who e-mailed a government memo
prohibiting coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre
was sentenced to 10 years in prison after Yahoo turned over the reporter’s
e-mail account information to the Chinese government.

Yahoo executives expressed regret, but defended their actions by stating
that doing business in China is complicated.  If the costs of doing
business with the communist Chinese require our companies to sacrifice the
principles of freedom, I would hope every American business executive would
conclude that such costs are too high.

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and
the only Holocaust survivor serving in Congress, castigated the Yahoo
executives, saying, “While technologically and financially you are giants,
morally you are Pygmies.”

So said new President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, in a speech to the Congress yesterday.  Sarkozy, who stunned pundits and liberal media types by winning his election as a Pro-America conservative, eloquently enunciated why there could be great love and respect between our two countries: 

“…Ladies and gentlemen, the men and women of my generation heard their
grandparents talk about how in 1917, America saved France at a time when it
had reached the final limits of its strength, which it had exhausted in the
most absurd and bloodiest of wars.  The men and women of my generation
heard their parents talk about how in 1944, America returned to free Europe
from the horrifying tyranny that threatened to enslave it.

“…France will never forget the sacrifice of your children.  To those 20-
year-old heroes who gave us everything, to the families of those who never
returned, to the children who mourned fathers they barely got a chance to
know, I want to express France’s eternal gratitude.  …I want to tell you
that whenever an American soldier falls somewhere in the world, I think of
what the American army did for France.  I think of them and I am sad, as
one is sad to lose a member of one’s family.

“…It is this ambitious France that I have come to present to you today.  A
France that comes out to meet America to renew the pact of friendship and
the alliance that Washington and Lafayette sealed in Yorktown.  Together
let us be worthy of their example, let us be equal to their ambition, let
us be true to their memories!  Long live the United States of America!”

Here is a very good perspective on yesterday's elections by Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation.  I have added emphasis to the comment about Ken Cuccinelli and Jeannemarie Devolites Davis with which I wholeheartedly agree.

The End of the World?

 I don't think anyone is surprised by the election results.  Republicans lost control of the state Senate, losing four key seats, and leaving the Democrats in power 21 to 19. 

The nearly flawless campaign of pro-family advocate Ken Cuccinelli in retaining his Senate seat proves that a principled leader can overcome the odds and win, even in Northern Virginia, while former Senator Jeanne Marie Devolites-Davis abandoned every conservative principle she could to try to stay in office - and was crushed.

Its also important to remember that former Senators Russ Potts and John Chichester are gone, and while Democrats now hold power in the Senate, with people like Potts and Chichester running the show, conservatives were never in power anyway.  The interesting thing will be to see how those so-called moderate Republicans who have remained respond to losing power.  Will they simply abandon principle as they have in the past and join Democrats to pass massive tax increases and thwart reasonable pro-life legislation, or will they return to their base with their tails between their legs hoping for forgiveness.  Time will tell.

 Of course, how Virginians are going to react to Senate Majority Leader Dick Salsaw, who makes Nancy Pelosi look right wing, is another story.  Famous for his curmudgeon-like appearance, Salsaw once made the comment on the floor of the Senate regarding tax hikes, "There will never be enough money for me," and has dismissed the death of a woman in NOVA from a botched abortion as irrelevant.

In the House, Republican control continued to trickle away, losing 3 more open seats previously held by that party.  On a positive note, Brenda Pogge, who with her husband Roger helped lead va4marrige.org's campaign to pass the marriage amendment, and former Family Foundation board of directors member Jimmie Massie won their elections.  Also, Katherine Waddell, the former head of Republicans for Choice/Abortion lost in her first attempt at reelection.

Certainly, yesterday's elections were disappointing for pro-family Virginians, but no election is the end of the world.  Despite what the pundits and partisans will say, no single election dooms any particular party or movement.  Just one year ago pro-family voters proved their strength - winning the marriage amendment in a landslide.

Regardless of what took place yesterday, you can be assured that The Family Foundation is here to defend your values when our new legislature rolls into town in January.  We will be here because our existence is not dependent upon who sits in office.  We are not here to make Republicans happy or Democrats look bad.  We are here to advance a pro-God, pro-family, pro-life agenda - regardless of the obstacles.

That is because our battle is not about power or majorities or partisanship - it is about the principles of our God and the reality that those principles are threatened. 

If that isn't enough to make you want to continue the fight, I don't know what will.

Victoria Cobb, President

November 7, 2007

 

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.