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Hillary Clinton spoke to an assembly of New Hampshire vocational school students today, telling them that we have an “on your own society” rather than an “ownership society” as President Bush suggests. Hinting at higher taxes, she said, “I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society. I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.”

From Whitewater to cattle futures to the lastest scandal involving InfoUSA, a nefarious outfit that has shoveled millions of dollars into the Clinton bank account, the Clintons have diligently used their considerable connections and influence to get wealthy with little or no effort on their part.

If Hillary is serious about sharing the prosperity, why don’t we start with her and her wealthy pals? The truth is that Clinton doesn’t believe the rules that apply to those she pretends to serve also apply to her and the rest of the ruling class.

Just yesterday, I wrote that if the darling of the American Left, Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez had his way, TV station RCTV would be off the air. Wasting no time, Chavez has indeed closed RCTV with the help of the military and replaced it with his own personal station, TVES.

According to Breitbart.com, Chavez justified the action by claiming that RCTV had been “poisoning” viewers by promoting Capitalism. I hope everyone is paying attention. The Left in this country sympathizes with Chavez, including 90% of the mainstream media, billionaire Leftists like George Soros, and the Hollywood elite.

To these folks, Capitalism is something that is better left to the experts (like Soros), but should not be tried at home by ordinary Americans. Capitalism and all that naturally flows from it (freedom for example) is the primary target of the Left.

According to TheBostonChannel.com, police in Natick, Massachusetts, discovered a number of small American flags burning in a trash cans around the town square late Thursday afternoon. Bob White, one of the area veterans who placed the flags in the Natick park, said, “We decorate this park every Memorial Day. We have never had anything like this happen.”

Whether the flag burning was politically motivated or not is not known since there are no suspects to put the question to. But local veterans, sensitive to the possible political nature of flag burning, were careful to lay the foundation for a future prosecution. Veteran John MacGillivray told a reporter, “I am aware that people have a right to protest, but they don’t have a right to take property that doesn’t belong to them and that’s here to honor the veterans. It is a disgrace.”

MacGillivray has inadvertently hit on one of the core issues in the flag burning debate. When do any of the dregs of society (i.e. delinquents and/or Leftists) who burn American flags, regardless of motivation, ever actually buy the flags themselves?

Reuters reported yesterday that “tens of thousands of Venezuelan protesters” hit the streets in Caracas to protest the impending demise of a popular television station. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been reshuffling the deck to better position himself as Socialist Dictator Chavez, has apparently had enough of the political opposition from RCTV and is attempting to yank the plug.

Leftists Americans like Cindy Sheehan have praised the Chavez regime, preferring it to the American version of democracy where leftists are forced to contend with conservative views that occasionally slip past the main stream media censors on stations such as The Fox News Channel. In fact, look for Sheehan and other leftists to take a cue from Chavez and call for the shuttering of Fox News.
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What’s so shocking about a vandalized Rush Limbaugh billboard? Yesterday, a smug and gleefull Baltimore city employee called the Baltimore Sun newspaper offices at 8:00 AM to report a vandalized billboard and by evening, everyone in America with a TV, computer or radio had heard of it. The city employee approved of the vandalism and wanted to let people know it, while city officials and conservative commentators were outraged.

But why the sudden outrage? There’s nothing new here. The Left, in every instance since the twisted social order set forth by Marx and Engels was put into play by the vicious brutality of Vladimir Lenin, answers opposition with threats, violence and property destruction.

City employee Robert Murrow told the Sun, “It looks great! It did my heart good.” In the eyes of Murrow and every other Leftist, destruction of property to the tune of $10,000 is OK as long as they don’t like the message. Instead of feigning shock at the violent nature of Leftism, conservatives (i.e. people with jobs) should call them out at every turn. Sooner or later, the threats, from the seemingly innocuous burning of American flags to the call for the murder of Henry Hyde by Alec Baldwin, will turn into action.

The American Family Association is a powerful grassroots conservative activist organization. Besides the AFA’s tremendously effective ability to rally predominantly conservative Christians, they also serve the noble cause of aggravating leftists of every stripe, such as lesbian Pam Spaulding, who’s hatred of conservative Americans in general and conservative American Christians in particular is more than she can bear.

Though the AFA’s track record is impressive, the ongoing boycott of Ford Motor Company to stop the funding of various Gay-rights causes seems to have had little effect on Ford CEO William Clay Ford Jr.’s support of the Gay agenda. Maybe there’s more to the picture than meets the eye.

Disgraced New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy appeared to be a happily married (to a woman) man before an aid and lover (a man) ratted him out. Just conjecture, but judging by Bill Ford Jr.’s insistance on Gay activism in the face of a dire financial situation seems to signal the possibility that Bill Ford Jr. is in the same closet as McGreevy was.

Only the left is surprised by the outcome of the French Presidential election. The Associated Press reported yesterday that support for French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy came from unexpected segments of the population – namely women and workers. The left finds the news perplexing since Sarkozy’s opponent, Segolene Royal, is both a woman and a socialist.

Evidently, the left is at a loss to understand what motivates people, that is, people with jobs, in western society. Over the past several decades, France has lured hordes of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries to her shores with the promise of all a Socialist welfare state can offer in exchange for the hope that the immigrants would help to pay for the pensions of the native French.

Now they have discovered that the Muslims are more interested in the welfare benefits part of the equation than the work part. And to make matters worse, the Muslims have taken to rioting in an effort to extort even more welfare benefits from an already overtaxed system.

Enter Sarkozy with a promise to solve both problems – stem the tide of immigrants, get tough on the Muslim rioters and fix the economy. The women vote comes from fear of the Muslim criminals and the worker vote from a weariness of footing the bills for a parasitic Muslim population.

If there was ever a great example of why the framers of the Bill of Rights thought gun ownership was so important (it made the number two spot on the list of amendments), this is it. French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal, watching as her support further erodes, warned that France will face violence and brutality if her oponent, Nicolas Sarkozy, is elected. In a bizarre statement, Royal announced, “It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won).”

Get it? If that scary right-wing nutjob, Sarkozy, wins the election (as he almost certainly will), France will face violence and brutality at the hands of right w…, no, wait a minute… start over, left wing nut jobs! That’s right, Royal is threatening that her own base will lash out with violence and brutality if she is not elected!

Private gun ownership, aside from driving leftists into involuntary convulsions, is protected by the Second Amendment precisely so that ordinary citizens have some measure of defense against political tyranny. And when a politician such as, say, Royal, threatens violence from her followers if they don’t get the results they want, people who wish to play by the rules of the democratic process need to defend themselves against that tyranny.