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[UPDATE : you can review the whole Fredhead Archive here at your leisure:]

The past 9 months have been instructive, yes? We’ve seen what happens in the utter absence of conservative governance; when evil, arrogant, and ambitious people have unfettered control over the reins of power. We’ve seen they are unable to govern either themselves or their lust for power, riding roughshod over all Constitutional safeguards in order to ‘help’ those they assay to govern. It is only due to a tremendous and wholly unexpected backlash by ordinary citizens that the advance of arrogant rule has been blunted (hardly halted).

So today, let’s talk about governance as it should be: Burke and Kirk style.

After a long operational pause, we resume the series on Russell Kirk’s 10 Conservative Principles. I hope you missed me, as I have missed our discussions of conservative principles and foundations. To tell the truth, in light of the last 9 months, I’m half inclined to start over at #1. We’ll thin about that. But for today, #5:

Fifth, conservatives pay attention to the principle of variety.

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Is darkness the opposite of light?

In a conversational and practical sense, you could answer yes. You can live your life treating these as opposites and you would function just fine. Yet you would be factually, scientifically wrong.

Darkness is the absence of light. You may think that’s a ‘distinction without a difference’. Walk with me and I’ll show you otherwise, and why the distinction is at the very heart of what makes our conservative struggle so epic, so grand in both scale and importance; a struggle for all time.

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Which two voting constituencies would you suppose despise Obama the most these days? I’m just speculating, because for so many people Hope-n-Change™ has become Hope-You-Won’t-Steal-My-Change™, now that America has gotten to know this jerk. My guess: (1) older citizens who see that he wants to rob Medicare to fund his health care system take-over, and (2) supporters of American military.

With his poll numbers consistently sub-50 these days, with his pet vote-stealing army ACORN going down in flames, with his takeover of 16% of the American economy in dire, dire straits, with the press occasionally asking moderately stern questions, with America becoming an international joke, and with soldiers dying in Afghanistan while he tries to make a Coke-or-Pepsi decision, he consults the Chicago playbook.

Buy off seniors and veterans with cash

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And true to the Chicago way, don’t even give them much money, just enough to make him some glowing headlines by the government-run media. $250 checks. It’s probably at least a moderately successful tactic, which is a shame.

Jerk. Liar. Punk. Cheater. Thug. Panderer.

In the Book of Habakkuk, the prophet asks (paraphrased) “Why do the evil men prosper?” He says he will wait on the city wall until he gets his answer. And after a fashion, he gets an answer:

For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

I know when one part of that reckoning comes. On November 3, 2010, Republicans will take the House and break the filibuster-proof Democrat Senate. That’s not the whole reckoning, when the wronged are avenged and returned to power. But it’s a start.

It’s really that simple. Obamacare has already been rejected by America. It is manifestly outside the legitimate purview of the government in a free country. It is fiscally irresponsible on an epic level. The “bill” being passed around in the Senate is a blank slate to be signed at the bottom, with the details to be filled out later by Democrats, likely by people whose names nobody knows.

If you know all of the above and you vote for that bill, you are a crook. You are some kind of person who has put power above principle, a person who took an oath that you are breaking by voting for this bill. You may be gaining personally, you may just be gaining power over ordinary Americans, or you may have been pressured or blackmailed into voting for it. At any rate, you are a crook.

If you are *not* aware of the above, and vote for ObamaCare, you are an idiot. If you think the Democrats are offering some kind of deal in good faith you are an idiot. If you make a habit of signing the bottoms of blank sheets, you are an idiot. In fact, to the extent that you agonized over whether to vote for this ridiculous economy-killing, freedom-killing power grab…….you are an idiot.

If you vote against ObamaCare, in every committee vote, every cloture vote, every possible way to vote against ObamaCare, then good for you. America thanks you. You can come to my Christmas Party. I want a pony, by the way. Or anything Dr Pepper. Or anything bacon, such as the famous BAK-47.

If Al Sharpton ever actually earned the title “Reverend”, I’d sure like to hear about it. Did this talking pile of pig-crap ever actually pastor a church? That would be a sad, unshepherded flock if so.

Irrelevant Al is bleating again, in the oh-so-unsurprising matter that has come to light recently. He’s unhappy, and the left-biased media wants to make sure you hear about it, because he’s so……….irrelevant, dishonest, racist, and stupid, I guess. I can’t actually think of a good reason. Rush Limbaugh, along with St Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts, has put in a bid to buy the St Louis Rams. Rush, you may recall, cut his teeth on sports broadcasting with the Kansas City Royals, and has ever since maintained a keen interest in sports. He’s shown his sports acumen repeatedly, particularly in football matters.

As everyone knows, Rush enjoyed a brief stint working for ESPN in the NFL pregame show in 2003. What informed people know is that he got run out of town for making a perfectly valid (and true) observation that Eagles QB Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media had a vested interest in seeing a black quarterback succeed. What other people think they know, thanks to either their own biases, blatantly leftist media coverage, or both, is that Rush made a racist slam against Donovan McNabb.

So now that Rush wants to become an ownership stake in an NFL team, and Tawana Bradley Al Irrelevant Al has his panties bunched in drearily predictable fashion. He’s written a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to complain that Rush has beein “divisive” and “anti-NFL” — pretty amusing coming from a guy who has made his life’s work criticizing white people for being white, and extorting businesses for money and to force them to institute racial bias into their company policies. NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith has called Rush “divisive”, and is attempting to rally NFL players to oppose the move.

How typical. How irrelevant.

PS - special note to liar, tax cheat, thug, and punk, Attorney General Eric Holder: You said a few months ago that America was a “nation of cowards” when it came to race.

He said that Americans are afraid to talk about race, adding that “certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one’s character.”

OK, what happened to Rush is what happens when a white person mentions race in any context, for any reason. Democrats and the media have made this environment. Do you know that the Dallas City Council went into an uproar because two black members objected to a white member using the term “black hole” [to describe central collections ] and demanded an apology? Did you know that? And did you find amusing that whole story about Skip Gates making a racist scene, and Obama making a national uproar over it? So why do you suppose, then, that white people are reluctant to bring up race?

If you want to have a national dialog about race that is honest and objective, then maybe you could use your influence to combat this sort of thing — instead of using your influence to cancel Justice Department investigations of civil rights violations committed by the New Black Panthers brandishing weapons outside voting facilities and caught on nationally viewed video. I hope you get impeached over that, by the way. You should.

Just saying.

PPS - If the team including Rush actually does buy the Rams, then the Rams instantly become my second favorite team. Not only that, every NFL player that makes it known they will not play for the Rams on account of Rush joins my Sports Hall of Shame - adding them to the list that includes Barry Bonds, Dwight Clark, everybody that kept Bob Hayes from the Hall of Fame while he was alive, and Fernando Cabrera, and Josh Howard, among others.

From the diaries, by Erick.

If you are judged by the enemies you accumulate, Honduras is one of the better republics around — all the local tinpot Marxist despots in the region, one that would like to be (Ortega), and the cherry on top : the world’s lone Superpower, led by a radical Marxist sympathizer who has already acted against Honduras and signaled that the world should do likewise.

Purely on the basis of its all-star collection of enemies, I declare Honduras, interim President Roberto Micheletti, the Supreme Court, and the Congress:
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Promoted from the diaries by Erick

From the lips of Obama at the United Freak Show last week:

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed.
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There are basic principles that are universal; there are certain truths which are self-evident — and the United States of America will never waver in our efforts to stand up for the right of people everywhere to determine their own destiny.

OK then, big boy. How about let’s start with Honduras? How about you butt the heck out of Honduras, seeing as how the smart people conclude you are wrong about the recent so-called ‘coup’?

This week we find that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) states that Honduras acted within their laws in deposing Chavez-buddy, would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya.

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[h/t Hunter Baker and Robert Sloan at AmSpec]

In an interview this week with Wall Street Journal’s “Deal Journal” column, noted film-maker Michael Moore speaks out about soon-to-be released Capitalism: A Love Story, produced by his own film production company, Dog Eat Dog Films. In the interview he suggested some changes in the ownership and decision-making structure of his own company*:

My role is not to applaud half measures. My job isn’t to start from a position of compromise. The workers need to own [100%] of Dog Eat Dog Films, Inc. The workers decide whether to accept investors. The consumer who watches the movie needs to have a representative on the board. If you let them have a say, the company will make a better movie….I didn’t deal with [the film industry] very much in the movie… I started to construct some scenes, but it felt like been there done that.

OK, that’s quite an interesting viewpoint. Let’s see, Michael Moore:

• went through all the trouble to begin the new company (in something like 1989), filled out forms, paid fees, and followed strict incorporating requirements
• at the beginning, took considerable personal financial risks on a venture that might or might not succeed
• writes, directs, stars, produces, and maintains creative control over all major processes
• makes many, many public appearances on behalf of the company
• risks considerable capital and his own reputation every time he takes on a film project, in an industry notoriously subject to the fickle imaginations and desires of the public

All that, but he thinks he’s not entitled to ownership or the profits. This part is important: He’s not being charitable. He BELIEVES he is not entitled to ownership or the profits.

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[UPDATE 6:30 EDT : the government has imposed a curfew from 4pm today till 6am tomorrow]

Multiple sources (Reuters) (AP) report that ousted and exiled former president Manuel Zelaya is back in Honduras, hidden for the moment in somebody’s embassy and therefore out of the reach of authorities, who have promised to arrest him and try him for treason if he re-appears on sovereign Honduran soil.

By the way, when you hear the name Manuel Zelaya, you should think pal and disciple of Venezuelan thug dictator Hugo Chavez.

Zelaya was ousted in what has widely been reported in the American press as a “coup” on June 28. The United Nations, the Obama administration, the OAS and other dubious characters like Hugo Chavez have roundly condemned the constitutional government in Honduras and have worked diligently to bring pressure to bear to reverse events in Honduras. The Reuters link above includes the assertion that “Soldiers toppled Zelaya”.

The truth is quite the opposite. Honduran officials acted perfectly according to their own constitution and within their authority in removing from office a president who was attempting to install himself as the permanent ruler similarly to how Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. Take your time reading the sources. The facts of the matter are widely available, yet the Obama administration has led the way in applying pressure to Honduras, invoking economic sanctions and going so far as to revoke the visas of most high Honduran officials in order to block their attendance at this month’s United Nations General Assembly. You don’t want to know who all *did* make the cut and will attend. OK, yes you do: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Muammar Gaddafi.

So far today:

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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama’s 20-year association with preacher Jeremiah Wright became toxic when the magnitude of Wright’s anti-Americanism and racism came to light. When pressed, Obama grudgingly distanced himself from Wright, carefully orchestrated and packaged by the press as some sort of ‘falling out’. He first said “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community” before later conceding Wright was divisive.

One thing we’ve learned about Obama in the last 24 months is that he’s willing to betray or under-bus just about anybody - except his old radical associations. Pelosi, Reid, Murtha — all expendable. The Blue Dogs — so much chattel. But Wright was not jettisoned, just moved off the front stage. Van Jones was not canned - he was transferred to another division of Soros Inc. Obama said not a word about SIEU’s violent antics during the August recess.

Then there’s ACORN.

As anybody knows, Obama’s ties to ACORN run deep and go way back to his beginning. If you believe he has not been closely following the ACORN video scandal then you are a moron. There’s no other way to put it.

Now meet George Stephanopoulos if you have not already.

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The cure for sinking poll numbers - more lollipops!
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And my very own newspapers!

If you get your news primarily from the typical newspapers and alphabet-soup TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, et al) then:

• Van Jones must be some kind of NBA center or NFL lineman, just like Johnny Malibu, Truck Johnson, or Tractor Traylor.
• The words ACORN, hidden cameras, underage prostitution, and tax cheating are not especially related to each other
• Republicans are racists because they oppose health care for poor people.
• People who protest are racists.
• But that didn’t become true until this January.
• Democrats could get more done if those 40 Senators and 178 House Republicans would quit blocking everything.
• You hear the word teabagger in your dreams, and are unaware of a site called urbandictionary.com
• Honduras overthrew their president in a coup, but Obama is standing up to them.
• Hugo Chavez is misunderstood.
• All the world’s thugs and dictators are now learning to appreciate how warm and fuzzy America is, and at any moment are about to break into Kum-Ba-Ya and will probably wish us Happy Winter Observance around mid-late December.
• America sucks, but Obama is changing that by apologizing to everybody, and fixing all the broken stuff like the banking industry, the auto industry, the health industry…and anything else he can get his hands on.

And because you are so well-informed, the government would like to make it so you are always that well-informed.

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You may have missed this crisis if you get your news from the alphabet soup partisan media, who have mostly failed to cover it except to misrepresent it in favor of Obama.

You are probably not surprised to find that Poland and the Czech Republic are not the only loyal and faithful American allies getting screwed by the Obama Administration these days. The ongoing drama in Honduras is an outrage and a disgrace, but not because the Hondurans have done anything wrong. It’s because the Obama administration is actively intervening on behalf of a thug would-be dictator whom the Hondurans properly and legally drove from power.

Shame on you, Barack.

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Follow closely, because this is an extremely important and telling example of the kind of foreign policy we are getting from Barack Obama. Let’s review what’s been going on in Honduras this year, and how the Obama administration has come down completely on the side of tyrants, cheaters, and marxists They’ve done it deliberately, and in keeping with their overall global policy of rejecting freedom and snuggling up to the thugs and bandits of the world [remember Iranian protesters after the fraud election? remember soldiers shooting them? remember Obama's reaction?].

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You did not suffer under the delusion that Democrats are ashamed of their America-haters, cretins, adulterers, racists, perjurers, thieves, tax cheats, and other criminals, did you?

Did you now?

September 6 - Van Jones resigns under pressure as Obama’s ‘Green Jobs Czar’.
September 9 - He’s back at the Center for American Progress, where he was previously a Senior Fellow.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that (NTTAWWT), of course.

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[as I post this, ACORN's main site appears to be down...]

Oops.

The fun just does not end for America’s favorite taxpayer-funded racketeering, embezzlement, and election fraud enterprise. Having been caught on video TWICE (so far) giving the OK to under-age prostitution, tax fraud and signing false statements, they’ve reacted petulantly, and MOST entertainingly [caution - you may want to disinfect your hands before and after you visit ACORN's home site]:

But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist “filmmaker” O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was - our lawyers believe a felony - and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.

More excerpts below the fold, hilarity and laugh track included…

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A couple of days ago Barack Obama gave a speech for which he had demanded a prime-time joint session of Congress, an occasion nearly always reserved for national emergencies or extraordinary times. This session was called merely so Obama could mug in front of the cameras and deliver a bitterly partisan invective in hopes of shoring up badly sagging support for the unpopular Democrat proposal to force a government takeover of the health care system.

Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) famously shouted “You Lie!” from the floor of the House Chamber as Barack Obama propounded yet another lie in a speech crammed full of insults toward mainstream America and lies about himself, his virtues, and his political opponents. While Wilson immediately apologized for his incivility and lack of decorum (not for the substance of what he said, which warms my heart), the damage was done, and most headlines featured dual storylines - the regal president and the uppity congressman.

Joe, I salute you, my brother!

Lefty outrage has been predictable, and we on the right have noted the partisan media’s typical convenient memory. Democrats were utterly boorish in their treatment of Bush, far, far beyond what Wilson did, and with less, if any, justification. Now the left and their media lapdogs have made a point of smearing Joe Wilson (the newest revelation? Caffeine junkie, much, much worse than our coke-snorting president) and driving fundraising efforts for his 2010 opponent. Apparently that guy has raised some $700,000 in the last 2 days (mostly needed to retire some $400,000 in debt). Meanwhile, RedState and other New Media have rushed to Joe’s support, both editorially and through campaign donations, and he’s raised over $200,000 himself to add to his existing $200,000 war chest.

Unlike spineless frankfurters like Trent Lott and George Allen, Joe is done apologizing and now he’s fighting back. Follow the jump…..

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Yet another awesomely done video commemorating 9/11 and the GWOT, by country music, aka the patriotic wing of pop culture.

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[h/t]Exposing Liberal Lies

We must never forget.

As we’ve said before at RedState, Ted Cruz brought the house down at the RedState gathering in Atlanta. His story and his success as Texas Solicitor General are gripping. He knows exactly what he stands for, and he is as complete a conservative as you could ask for. At the moment he is the only declared Republican in the race.

Even though the election is 14 months away, this is a new era in electoral politics, and the race is on. A couple of weeks ago the Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, TX) weighed in with an editorial called Candidate Cruz May Pique Voter Interest (which I think is a huge understatement).

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The federal government has effectively unfettered control over one school district in all of America : District of Columbia Public Schools. It is one of the worst in America, combining the normal graft and chicanery of Democrat inner city political machines with the spectacularly incoherent guiding hands of 536 little czars. I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am that the DCPS spends the most per student in the nation, and tests lowest in the nation.

All hail federal control!

So say we all!

Let’s do the same for health care!!!

(wait a minute…..)

So naturally, Mister Hope and Change cares deeply about the kids trapped in that horrid, hopeless environment, in a city with the 5th highest murder rate. Right? After all, he smiles just right and says “Hope!” “Change You Can Believe In!” “Republicans are evil!” and other inspirational droplets of wisdom.

Right?

That would be no.

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He was probably a pretty good community organizer. He’s got the right connections (terrorists, rabble-rousing racist preachers, tin-pot dictators, Chicago political machine), he’s got the shtick, he sounds reasonable, he’s personally magnetic. He’s got his Alinsky studies down pat. He’s got union muscle behind him. I don’t think the demands of actual leadership and governance matter to him one whit, so one can excuse his apparent lack of skills in managing foreign relations with non-Muslim countries, or managing domestic policy in any sense outside the accumulation of power to himself.

But boy has he seriously underestimated Americans. A population unused to its freedoms and with no long history of civilized justice, law and order, might be easily cowed or lulled into giving away those freedoms. But this is America. The land of George Washington, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. The nation that put down the world-ruling aspirations of Hitler and Imperial Japan first, and expansionist Communist Russia second. Our freedoms were bought at a dear price.

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