Stop, hey what's that sound?
 If you suffer from acid reflux, you may not want to sample the smug sanctimony today over at the Apple iTunes music store. Their celebrity playlists are sometimes useful - however the new Al Gore/Melissa Etheridge playlist collaboration is so smarmy and sickening that I'm beginning to worry what iTunes could become. I'm surprised that they forgot Kumbaya.
 On a more uplifting note, GWAR - from my hometown of Richmond, VA - has a new remake of that old Alice Cooper standard Schools Out. Perfect music for marching to war.
Posted by Stuart Browning
31 Aug 2006 @ 9:24am
Quote of The Day
"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. But America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living ..."
- Ayn Rand, The Monument Builders, 1962
Posted by Stuart Browning
6 Jun 2006 @ 8:12am
Who is "We"?
Ezra Klein
Don't you just love it when a journalist who most likely doesn't have any money starts talking about how much money we should be giving to the "poor"?
Here's young collectivist Ezra Klein today at his eponymous web site:
It would be good if we gave all poor folks $10,000 of discretionary cash a year, and better if we forced them to have bank accounts to receive it.
And - notice his language about "forcing" people to do what he wants. Its the lingua franca of the left.
Posted by Stuart Browning
2 Jun 2006 @ 2:03pm
Quote of The Day
"The next time you encounter one of those 'public-spirited' dreamers who tells you rancorously that 'some very desirable goals cannot be be achieved without everybody's participation,' tell him that if he cannot obtain everybody's voluntary participation, his goals had jolly well better remain unachieved - and that men's lives are not his to dispose of."
- Ayn Rand, Collectivized Ethics, 1963
Posted by Stuart Browning
2 Jun 2006 @ 6:04am
Let Them Eat Pepper Spray
Gateway Pundit has coverage of police in Olympia, Washington demonstrating the proper method of dealing with the treasonous left when they try to interfere with the U.S. military.
Posted by Stuart Browning
30 May 2006 @ 2:39pm
New Movie: El Uno De Mayo
 Our new short film El Uno De Mayo casts a light on the left-wing totalitarian groups behind the May Day marches ostensibly aimed at defending the rights of illegal aliens in the US.
El Uno De Mayo points out that if extremist right-wing groups organized anti-immigration marches, we would not expect the media to stay silent about their involvement. However, when the Stalinist androids of International ANSWER are the organizers, the mainstream media is curiously uninterested.
Watch the film here.
Posted by Stuart Browning
4 May 2006 @ 10:52am
The Left Marches in San Francisco
Here are a few still-photos from my footage of yesterday's May Day rally in San Francisco. We plan to have video coverage of the events here and in New York up before week's end.
Violent statements and imagery were common.
ANSWER was in control. Not acquainted? Read here.
Revolutionary Communists everywhere.
Recent College Graduate
Perhaps it was his barber who 'exploited' him.
New Victims, New Voters.
Danny Boy.
A Peace-Lovin' Zapatista.
Posted by Stuart Browning
2 May 2006 @ 7:40am
Quote Of The Day
"When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the 'right' to 'redistribute' the wealth produced by others is claiming the 'right' to treat human beings as chattel."
- Ayn Rand, The Monument Builders, 1962
Posted by Stuart Browning
28 Apr 2006 @ 10:39am
Mexican Narco-State
 Regardless of where one stands on the immigration debate, it shouldn't be hard to find consensus on a US response to the emerging threat of a Mexican narco-state on our southern border:
On the far side of the Rio Grande, a Mexican drug runner raised his AK47 at US lawmen.
The man and five companions were goading the Americans, 100 yards across the border.
"Hey! We're ready to play now," screamed the gunman, who was probably trying to recover the marijuana abandoned on the American side after a chase earlier that day.
[...]
A fire fight across a border, even when provoked by drug runners, would spark an international incident. Yet the bloodshed on Mexico's northern border is now so serious that an international showdown could hardly make matters worse.
The Americans at the sharp end, the lawmen patrolling 2,000 miles of border, are profoundly anxious. With narcotics gangs controlling swathes of northern Mexico and the forces of the state in retreat, they are the next target and some have already been shot.
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Interstate 35, the great highway which runs from Laredo to the Canadian border, is the main artery for South American drugs.
Whoever controls the Mexican side controls the last distribution point before drugs enter the American market.
Across the border lies Nuevo Laredo, described by many as the drug cartels' heart of darkness. The body count this year stands at 88. Officials predict it will hit 300 by the year's end, double last year's figure.
I have to think that Al-Qaeda would be interested in setting up shop in Nuevo Laredo.
Posted by Stuart Browning
28 Apr 2006 @ 8:45am
Moral Equivalency Watch at the Associated Press
 This just in from the AP: Palestinian Killed in Israeli Airstrike:
DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two cars in Gaza packed with rockets on Thursday, killing one Islamic Jihad militant and critically wounding another, the Israeli army and Palestinian officials said.
The militants were on their way to fire a barrage of homemade rockets at Israeli targets, the military said. The militants belonged to a cell that was especially active in firing rockets, it added. One of the two cars targeted was hit, the army said.
Pillars of black and white smoke billowed from the destroyed vehicle as rescue workers removed burned and dismembered bodies from the car.
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During more than five years of fighting, Israel has killed dozens of militants in targeted airstrikes. The attacks also have killed or wounded dozens of civilians.
Of course, these 'militants' are intentionally firing missles at the homes of civilians with the intent of killing women and children. Islamic Jihad is classified by the US government as a terrorist organization.
Posted by Stuart Browning
27 Apr 2006 @ 12:21pm
Academia and Islam on Free Speech
 Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan on Free Speech:
In February, he told the Detroit Metro Times that the federal government should close the leading cable news channel. "I think it is outrageous that Fox Cable News is allowed to run that operation the way it runs it," he said in summarizing his view that Fox "is polluting the information environment." He went on to claim that "in the 1960s the FCC would have closed it down. It's an index of how corrupt our governmental institutions have become, that the FCC lets this go on."
 Osama Bin Laden on Free Speech:
The leader of the al-Qaeda terror network, Osama bin Laden, has said that people who ridicule the Prophet Mohammed should be killed.
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He defended that freedom of expression has no base when the subject matter is Muslims, and that no apology from the Danish government, no trial for the guilty party responsible for the profane cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and no preventive measure is proof of that.
Posted by Stuart Browning
24 Apr 2006 @ 9:29am
Yasrab the Wanker, Son of Allah
Here's an example of why I love Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs blog: We Got Mail! Apparently, the sons of Allah are selectively pious.
Posted by Stuart Browning
23 Apr 2006 @ 11:51am
The Road To Victory Goes Through Tehran
 Robert Tracinski at The Intellectual Activist lays out the moral and practical justifications for war against the mad mullahs of Iran:
Iran's global ambitions are as grandiose as anything put forward by Osama bin Laden-but they are backed by control of a country of 70 million people with an army, navy, and air force, a vast network of terrorist organizations across the Middle East, and, very soon, nuclear weapons.
If America's failure to act against the comparatively minor threat from Bin Laden in the 1990s resulted in the horrors of September 11, we can expect far worse if we fail to act against Iran.
A war with Iran must begin with the destruction of its nuclear facilities, but it must not end there. Iran is likely to respond to any American attack by escalating, inciting an uprising in Southern Iraq, unleashing a wave of terrorist attacks, launching missiles against US targets in the Middle East, attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. And even if we neutralize all of these threats, Iran's theocrats will not drop their global ambitions. They will merely wait for our attention to wander and attempt to strike us again. The goal of a war against Iran must be to topple the Iranian regime- and to support the rise of a new government formed by the secularist dissidents who now languish in Iran's prisons.
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There can be no victory in the War on Terrorism until we confront - and defeat - the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the real war, and it's time we started fighting it.
The war currently being fought is a preemptive one by the left and their allies in the media against our government's ability to take the war to our enemies. They must not be allowed to prevail.
Posted by Stuart Browning
20 Apr 2006 @ 8:32am
College Student: 'Kill All Republicans"
A Purdue student has been arrested after posting on a Yahoo finance board his desire to kill all republicans.
A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
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In the various messages posted, Buddhi urged the Web site's readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them, according to court documents. Other messages called for the killing of all Republicans.
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Buddhi allegedly posted his messages on a Yahoo finance board dedicated to Sirius Satellite radio, a site that receives 2 million to 3 million hits a day, Martin said. A concerned citizen contacted the Secret Service office in Dallas to report that a subject was posting threatening messages about Bush, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hammond's federal court and unsealed Monday.
The Yahoo finance board? Doesn't he know that The Huffington Post is the place for the unhinged, homicidal left?
Posted by Stuart Browning
18 Apr 2006 @ 10:10am
Bush's Fault Again
 First global warming - then Hurricane Katrina. Does George Bush's malevolence know no bounds?
Now this:
... "Basic Instinct 2" limped into 10th place upon its arrival this weekend, grossing just $3.2 million.
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Paul Verhoeven, director of the first "Basic Instinct" (which scored $353 million worldwide) ... attributes the genre's demise to the current American political climate.
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values.
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Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fueled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?"'
Ah yes. McCarthyism.
Posted by Stuart Browning
4 Apr 2006 @ 9:04am
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