Wednesday, April 29, 2015

The true history of the Republican Party

       Hey Leftists, since the textbooks have been reduced to lies, thought you might enjoy a little truth.  Your head may explode though.  The transcript is with Glenn Beck, Stu, and Pat. If the link to the video didn't transfer, just go to Glenn Beck's website.  But it should be good to go.
 
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                       The true history of the Republican Party   
                
                                                    Tuesday, Apr 28, 2015 
 
   As promised, this morning on radio, Glenn revealed the true history of the Republican party in relation to the Civil Rights Movement. Glenn used an article from Gateway Pundit entitled “ON MLK Jr Day-Here’s the realy history of the US Civil Rights Movement You Won’t Read About” by Jim Hoft as one of his main sources doing his on-air history lesson. During the program, Glenn pointed out that he is not a member of the Republican party, saying “I’m not here as a Republican shill…They’ve lost their way. But let’s get history right.” Why is the history of a political party so important? Who cares if someone labels themself a Democrat or a Republican, right? As Glenn said, “Why are we having to explain ourselves?” Because, it was the Republican party that fought for the Civil Rights movement and the right to vote. As Glenn said: “we have to stand up for ourselves…enough is enough…Here’s who we are! Here’s who you are. Why are we defending our record? Our record is fine…We should be putting them [Democrats] on the offense and asking them to explain their record…in every city that they have destroyed.” Watch some of the facts and Glenn’s powerful argument below.
 
 A full transcript has been provided so you can have all the facts, as well as, the link to the original article at Gateway Pundit.         Rough Transcript Below:
 
GLENN: The left is rejecting Bruce Jenner because he has said he is a Republican. And the Republicans are the ones that have always been the sticks in the mud. The Republicans are the ones that have the problems. They’re the racists. They’re the haters. I just want to go through history. And I want to take you — I want to take you from 18 — 1862 to 1870. 1871. And I just want to — I want to show you the roots of the Republican Party. What was — why — who was the first Republican president?      Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party started in the 1850s. It gathered steam because there was enough — listen to this. There were enough Whigs and enough Democrats that afternoon that what was happening with slaves was wrong. And they knew the Whigs and the Democrats wouldn’t do anything. Congress was just stalled on it and wouldn’t do anything. Does this sound familiar? Finally on both sides, they said enough is enough. And within a decade, they had nominated and elected the first Republican president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln. And had you seen him? Not an easy election. January 1st, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation has been issued in 1862. January 1, 1863, it starts. And they begin to implement the Republicans Confiscation Act of 1862. The Democratic party continues to support slavery. February 9th, 1864, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to US Senate supporting — when you think — when you hear those two names. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, which party do you think of? It’s women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to the U.S. Senate supporting the Republican plan for the constitutional amendment to ban slavery. June 15, 1864, Republican Congress votes for equal pay for African-American troops serving in the U.S. Army. June 28, 1864, Republican majority in Congress repeals the Fugitive Slave Act. October 29, 1864, African-Americans abolitionist, Sojourner HEP Truth says to President Lincoln, I was never treated by anyone with more kindness than he has shown me. January 31st, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery passed the US House with unanimous Republican support and intense Democratic opposition. The Republican support, 100 percent. The Democratic party support, 23 percent. That’s to ban slavery. March 3rd, 1865, Republican Congress establish Free Men’s Bureau to provide healthcare, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves. That’s the Republican Congress. April 8th, 1865, Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery passed by the US Senate. Republican support, 100 percent. Democrat support, 37 percent. June 19th — on June Teenth, US troops land in Galveston, Texas, to enforce a ban on slavery that has been declared for more than two years by the Emancipation Proclamation. November 22nd, 1865, Republicans denounce Democratic legislature of Mississippi for enacting black codes, which institutionalized racial discrimination. 1866, Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights — did you even know there was one? The Republican Party passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves. December 6th, 1865, the Republican party’s Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery is ratified. 1865, the KKK launches as a, quote, terrorist arm, end quote, of the Democratic party.
 
PAT: Of the what party?
 
GLENN: The Democratic party. The Klan.
 
PAT: Wait. The KKK. STU: You mean the Tea Party? You said Democratic party. I think you meant Tea Party.
 
 GLENN: Democratic party. February 5th, 1866, US representative Thaddeus HEP Stevens, Republican from Pennsylvania, introduces legislation successfully opposed by Democratic President Andrew Johnson to implement forty acres at a mule relief by distributing land to former slaves. Stopped by the Democrats. April 9th, 1866, Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Johnson’s veto, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, and it becomes law. The Democratic president vetoed the Civil Rights Act. The Republicans stood when they knew what they were all about. April 19th, 1866, thousands assembled in Washington, DC, to celebrate Republican party’s abolition of slavery. May 10th, 1866, US House passes Republican’s Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteed due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens. 100 percent of the Democrats vote no.
 
PAT: Jeez.
 
GLENN: I am not a fan of the Republican Party. I’m not here as a Republican shill. I don’t like them. I’m not a member of the Republican Party. They’ve lost their way. But let’s get history right. June 8th — sorry, July 16th, 1866. Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the Free Men’s Bureau Act, which protects former slaves from black codes denying their rights. July 28th, 1866, Republican Congress authorized formation of the buffalo soldiers. Yes, the buffalo soldiers, two regiments of African-American’s calvary men. July 30th, 1866, Democratic controlled city of New Orleans orders police to storm racially integrated Republican meetings. The raid kills 40. Wounds more than 150. January 8th, 1867, Republicans override Democratic President Johnson’s veto of a law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C. July 19th, 1867, Republican Congress overrides the veto of legislation protecting the voting rights of all African-Americans. March 30th, 1868, Republicans being impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson who declared, this country is for white men. And by God as long as I’m president, it shall be a government of white men. You never learn that. When we had the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, they always talked about Johnson, but they never taught us this part of history, did they? Ever heard that quote?
 
 PAT: No.
 
GLENN: You know why? He was a Democrat. May 20th, 1868, Republican National Convention marks the debut of an African-American politician. In fact, many. Two of them, Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris attended as delegates and several serve as presidential electors. 1868, July 9, Fourteenth Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as US citizens. The Republican Party support, 94 percent. Democratic support, zero. September 3rd, 1868, twenty-five African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans expelled by Democratic majority. Later reinstated by Republican Congress. September 12th, 1868, civil rights activist, Tunist Cambell HEP and all other African-Americans in the Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by a Democratic majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican Congress. September 28th, 1868, Democrats in Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor. We’re coming back to this one. October 7, 1868, Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme. The Democratic Party’s national campaign theme in 1868. Do you know what it was? This is a white man’s country, let white men rule. We’re the Democratic Party.
 
 PAT: Jeez. Wow.
 
GLENN: October 22, 1868, while campaigning for reelection, Republican James Hines HEP is assassinated by Democratic terrorists who were organized as the KKK. November 3rd, 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democratic Seymour HEP in a presidential election. Seymour HEP has denounced the Emancipation Proclamation. December 10th, ’69, Republican governor, John Campbell of Wyoming territory. Republican governor of Wyoming. Signs the first in-nation law granting the right to women to vote and to hold Republican — sorry, to hold office. A Republican. February 3rd, 1870. US House ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment. Democratic support, 3 percent. Republican support, 97. February 25, 1870, Hiram HEP Rhodes becomes the first black seated in the U.S. Senate. Becoming the first black in Congress and the first black senator.
 
 PAT: It was the next year when the Republican War on Women began, right, 1871?
 
STU: We’re about to get to that.
 
PAT: There we go.
 
GLENN: I’m going to skip a whole ‘nother page of these. Because I want to get to something here at the end. February 28th, 1871, Republican Congress enforces — passes the Enforcement Act, providing federal protection for African-American voters. March 22nd, 1871, Spartanberg HEP Republican newspaper denounces Klan. The Klan campaigned to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina. That brings us to this. Remember I said, September 28th, 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Louisiana. It began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and a school teacher for X slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friends. And in response, Democrats, quote, went on a Negro hunt killing every African-American. All of whom were Republicans. As all African-Americans at the time were. April 28th, 1871, the Republican Congress enacts the anti-Ku Klux Klan act, outlawing the Democratic Party terrorist group. Which oppressed African-Americans. That’s who these people were.
 
PAT: You didn’t even get to the 1960s. 1950s. 1960s.
 
GLENN: No. I didn’t even get to the 1930s. The 1930s are pretty —
 
PAT: But as late as the ’60s, it was Republicans passing civil rights. Republicans pushing for it. Republicans voting for it. Democrats fighting against it. People like Al Gore Sr. fighting against it. People like Lyndon Baines Johnson, HEP the hero of the left, fighting against it at first.
 
 GLENN: People saw some of that if they saw Selma. They saw how racist this guy was. And I contend they’re still this racist. Look at what they’ve done to the great city of Detroit. Look what those policies have done. Look what it’s brought on to the African-American. Look at what the great Democratic policies have done to the city of Washington, DC. To the city of Philadelphia. Name any city —
 
PAT: Cleveland.
 
GLENN: Where the Democrats have ruled since the 1960s. At some point, you say, this doesn’t make any sense. At some point you say, I’m not getting any better. This is not helping me. They are — they are playing this card again. And this time, we have to stand up for ourselves. This time we have to stand up and say, enough is enough. I know your record. I know who you are. See, I have in the vaults, here at the Mercury Studios. I have the anti-Democratic and anti-Republican literature that went back and forth. The Republicans used to defend themselves. They used to say, I’ve had enough! Here’s the record! Here’s who we are! Here who you are. Why are we defending our record? Our record is fine. Why are we defending our record? We should be putting them on the offense and asking them to explain their record, in Detroit, in Cleveland, in Philadelphia, in Washington. In every city that they have destroyed. Why are we having to explain ourselves? Now they’re doing it with another class of people. Gays. Women. Remember, it was the Republicans that gave you the right to vote in the first place. The first time, they had to drag the progressives, kicking and screaming. Let’s stop taking it and being quiet. With love and peace and armed with the facts. It’s time to go to battle. Because it’s only going to get harder from here. When Hillary Clinton says what she said over the weekend, play it, Pat. This is so critical for you to hear. This is a — this is possibly what the press will tell you is the next president of the United States. Hillary Clinton. In a speech just this weekend said this.
 
HILLARY: Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases, have to be changed.
 
PAT: Wow.
 
GLENN: Your deep-seated religious belief has got to change. Game on, gang. It is here.

Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/04/28/the-real-history-of-the-civil-rights-movement/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link

Friday, April 24, 2015

Wauwatosa Rotary Foundation Winston Churchill Lecture 2015 is April 29th!!!

We could all use a little (OK, a lot!) Churchill right about now.  Have a great show Randy, we will try to be there!





Wauwatosa Rotary Foundation Winston Churchill Lecture 2015

The John Doe and the Dead Tree (Nice job Milwaukee Urinal Sentinel)

The John Doe and the Dead Tree

Published: 6:00 AM April 24, 2015
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You'd think that much has been written locally - and in the Journal Sentinel - about the John Doe proceeding. In a sense, you'd be right. But, in another equally important sense, you'd be wrong. The legacy media's utter indifference to the profound implications for both freedom of speech and the way in which politics will be waged in the future is staggering.
 
We can debate the finer points of campaign finance law. Can coordinated issue advocacy be constitutionally treated as a campaign contribution? Even if it can, does Wisconsin law do so in a constitutionally acceptable manner? Does it do it all? And, even if it does, can the conduct investigated by the prosecutors reasonably be claimed to constitute coordination?
 
But a few things are clear. What the Doe prosecutors are trying is extremely aggressive and highly controversial. Even if you don't think, as I do, their position is beyond the pale, it is on the outer reaches of what can reasonably be supported by state statutes and the Constitution. But even more troubling, they have decided to advance tenuous theories in the most aggressive way imaginable. They have not sought civil forfeitures, they have gone directly to DefCon 1 - criminal prosecution.
 
They have done so in a way that seems calculated to deter at least as much political speech as possible. They have invoked the mysterious John Doe process and attempted to gag their targets. As a result, no one who wishes to participate in the political process can really know what they think is illegal and how their conduct might lead to the same treatment. They have used strong arm police tactics - the type normally deployed against organized crime and drug dealers - that are certain to draw attention and strike fear in the hearts of activists who wonder if they might be next.
 
And all of this has been done at the instigation of partisans of one party who have directed a long running and enormously expensive investigation exclusively at their principal political opponent. (And, no, there is no evidence that any Republican prosecutor has had anything other than perfunctory involvement in any of this.)
 
It is not necessary to question the motivation of prosecutors to be troubled by this. Even if their sin was bad judgment and not bad intent, the impact on free speech is disturbing. And even if they didn't regard themselves as engaged in political warfare, you can be sure that what goes round will eventually come around. Democrats who cheer secret investigations into the other side's speech and associational activities and are heartened by leaks that place their political opponents in a bad light can be certain that, if the Doe stands, they will eventually be hoisted on their own petard. I'm not advocating that his happen (quite the opposite), but I am recognizing that one side's tactics, if successful, will always be emulated by their opponents.
 
You'd think that legacy journalists would love the First Amendment. No matter what the merits of a campaign finance case or how highly they might regard any particular prosecutor, you'd think that they would see the problematic nature of this type of behavior.
 
But that hasn't happened. Part of the problem, I think, is that the mainstream media has traditionally believed that it is not like you or me. It believes that as "the press" it has enhanced First Amendment rights as if the Constitution protected institutions and not actions. This was always wrong. Those who own broadcasting license or who used to buy ink by the barrel (you don't need as much these days) have no greater right to expression than the hoi polloi.
 
But, in an era in which the barriers to becoming "media" are almost nonexistent, it is an incoherent distinction. It is increasingly impossible to know who "the media" is. Perhaps the inability of the legacy media to see the constitutional threat posed by the Doe investigation is a product of its commitment to its own privilege, even at a time when that privilege is slipping away.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Tammy Baldwin is in big trouble...

Quite a day in WI politics today.  Another tough day to be a lefty, which is most days anyway.

Baldwin aide breaks silence, alleges senator engaged in ‘coverup’

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By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Watchdog
MADISON, Wis. — Marquette Baylor is finally speaking out against her long-time boss, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
Baylor, fired by the Madison Democrat in February following a scandal at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center that has embroiled the junior senator, has filed an ethics complaint against Baldwin. It claims the senator lied and has engaged in a political cover-up.
“I, Marquette Baylor, bring this Ethics Complaint against my former employer, Senator Tammy Baldwin, for making false statements and representations to cover up actions by her Chief of Staff and protect her political career,” Baylor states in the complaint, filed Monday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
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BREAKING THE SILENCE: U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, fired her longtime aide Marquette Baylor earlier this year in the wake of a scandal involving Baldwin’s office and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, Wis. Now Baylor is breaking her silence, alleging the senator and her chief of staff have been engaged in a cover up.
The senator’s office did not immediately respond to Wisconsin Watchdog’s request for comment.
Baldwin caught heat after investigative reports in January detailing allegations of abuses at the VA medical center, principally the overprescribing of painkillers that allegedly led to the deaths of several patients.
Baldwin’s office, according to reports, did nothing with an inspector general’s report last year outlining the concerns and refused to act when a whistleblower reportedly begged Baldwin’s office to do something.
As the national spotlight grew hotter, Baldwin canned Baylor, her longtime deputy state director with, by all accounts, a sterling resume working for Baldwin and her predecessor, U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Milwaukee.
Baldwin has said nothing about Baylor’s termination, nor the hefty severance package — with a confidentiality clause — offered to the aide. As Wisconsin Reporter first reported , Baylor refused the payout and has enlisted the help of attorneys.
“After the public outcry, Senator Baldwin immediately sought to place the blame squarely on me,” Baylor states in her complaint, filed by Graves Garrett, the Kansas City law firm representing her. “(Baldwin) instructed her Chief of Staff, Bill Murat, to fly to Milwaukee, fire me, and offer me a severance package that required me to stay quiet. Murat then moved into damage control, meeting with individuals in Wisconsin and telling them that the inaction was my fault.”
“When I rejected the severance package, Senator Baldwin revised her plan. She hired a high-powered law firm, paid that firm to prepare an internal report for her — at no point requesting to interview me or ask me questions — and used that report to further deflect blame toward me while protecting those truly at fault,” the complaint alleges.
Baylor’s damning allegations assert that, in August 2014, constituent services representatives in the Milwaukee office she managed identified “broad-scale misconduct” at multiple VA centers. At Baylor’s direction the issue was elevated to Baldwin’s state director, Doug Hill, and legislative director, Daniel McCarthy.
“Months passed without critical guidance,” the complaint states.
Later, in November of 2014, Baylor said she was informed of the VA Office of Inspector General report regarding the overprescription practices at Tomah.
“My staff and I immediately developed an action plan and sought approval from Hill, the State Director, and Murat, the Chief of Staff. Despite repeated requests for approval of the proposed action plan, our efforts were rejected by Murat. My staff and I eventually prepared memorandums directed to the Senator herself. These memorandums were either ignored by the Senator or were withheld from her by Murat,” Baylor states in the complaint.
Baylor alleges the senator and her staff have “disparaged the truth in order to cover up Murat’s actions” and to protect Baldwin’s political career.
“Had Murat, as the Chief of Staff, allowed me and other individuals to properly perform our roles, the issues surrounding the Tomah VA Medical Center would have been identified and addressed long ago,” Baylor asserts. “By attempting to place the blame at my feet, Senator Baldwin has concealed the truth, made false statements, and mischaracterized my service as the Deputy State Director.
“Her actions to cover up Murat’s willful misconduct are unbecoming of a United States Senator. She has acted unethically,” the complaint alleges.
With more than a decade of service to Wisconsin policymakers and constituents, she says she is reluctant to challenge a United States senator.
“I am also reluctant to enter the spotlight, knowing that my actions will be viewed critically, and in hindsight,” Baylor states. “But given the events in recent months — the misinformation campaign designed to protect the Senator and her Chief of Staff — this reluctance must yield. It must yield to defend my name and reputation from unjustified attack. And it must yield to bring focus to where it should have been all along: the veterans who receive care by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.”
Read more coming up at Wisconsin Watchdog.
Read the Baylor’s complaint here.
M.D. Kittle is national First Amendment reporter at Watchdog.org. Contact him at mkittle@watchdog.org.

The National Review Article that has gone viral

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