Poster boy Che Guevara was particularly keen on "reeducating" gay and effeminate men and dispatched thousands, without charge or trial, to concentration camps

◼ Cuba's proud persecution of gays notwithstanding, many of the same people who are today hectoring imaginary homophobes were then sneaking off to Cuba -- Poster girl Bernardine Dohrn comes to mind -- and singing the praises of this brutally gay-bashing revolution. - Jack Cashill/American Thinker

At some point, however, progressive activists took up the cause of gay rights as part of the larger switch from revolution to "anti-racism." (The how and when of this will make an interesting history.) Given their continuing embrace of Castro's Cuba and their current alliance with radical Islam, these activists would seem to have little long-term interest in the welfare of their new gay friends. No, what excites them is the opportunity to use gay issues to divide America against itself.

They want conflict. They want chaos. They want to undermine this, the last great bulwark against socialism.

And they don't care what happens to gays in the process.

They never have.

These Hands: Texas

Rove: Why isn’t President Hopenchange denouncing Reid’s attack on Romney?

◼ Good question. I can think of three answers: - Ed Morrissey/HotAir

Obama and his campaign asked Reid to make the attacks in order to get the smear out without having Obama’s/Team Obama’s own fingerprints on it

Obama didn’t initiate it, but he’s comfortable with the smear and desperate to get some traction on Romney

Obama’s afraid to tell Reid to stop, and risk angering his class-warfare base

Karl Rove tells Fox and Friends this morning that the President has to be assigned ultimate responsibility for Reid’s smear, especially given his silence on the issue:



◼ Nancy Pelosi: It’s a fact somebody told Harry Reid that Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin

Those voices in Harry’s head? Nancy Pelosi heard ‘em too...

◼ Update: WH Distances Itself From Reid; Carney Says He "Speaks For Himself" - Real Clear Politics

Clint Eastwood: Romney won’t tax Olympic medals

◼ Clint Eastwood surprised many over the weekend by attending a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Sun Vally, Idaho, and endorsing the candidate. - Charlie Spiering/Washington Examiner @CharlieSpiering

“He’s going to restore a decent tax system that we need badly so that there is a fairness and people are not pitted against one another of whose paying taxes and who isn’t,” Eastwood said. “Also we don’t want anybody taking away the Olympic medals, tax wise, from the Olympic athletes. The government is talking about getting a couple of nickels.”

OBAMA’S CARIBOU COVER-UP

◼ President Obama promised to be the “most transparent administration in history” but a Congressional review shows Obama’s staff repeatedly used personal email and held off-site meetings to keep them out of the public eye. Is Obama outraged? No, he’s been silent. How much longer will President Obama continue his Caribou Cover-up? - GOP.com
◼ Highlights From RNC Conference Call on the White House’s Failed Promise on Transparency

“Well, we got more news today that the self-proclaimed most transparent administration in history isn’t transparent at all. They’ve been using the Caribou Coffee shop across the street from the White House as an Executive Branch annex to hold secretive meetings with lobbyists and political cronies. So these newly uncovered emails showed one White House staffer explicitly asking an industry insider to meet him at Caribou so that he wouldn’t have to appear on the White House visitor logs. The White House doesn’t want the American people to know who they’re meeting with on a day to day basis. They’ve had hundreds of meetings at Caribou, so we have no way of knowing what insider deals they’re cutting with lobbyists, with taxpayer money.

“We also have records showing that former Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, who by the way is obviously the campaign manager for Barack Obama, was using his personal email account to conduct official government business during the ObamaCare negotiations, and in one particular email he wrote to a lobbyist at PhRMA, ‘I’ll roll Pelosi to get the 4 billion.’ These are stunning revelations…

“This supposedly transparent administration has spent the last three and a half years actively trying to cover up their own ethical lapses. They’ve tried to hide from the GSA scandal, Fast and Furious, politically motivated intelligence leaks, and stimulus-funded crony capitalism, like Solyndra. It’s time for a full-scale investigation. President Obama must be held accountable to the American people, and he must be held to the standards that he set for himself. The standards of transparency and ethical behavior. If anything, of all the issues here today, I want to highlight the Obama hypocrisy– the fact that he said that he was going to be different than everybody else, that he was going to be the most transparent guy that ever was President of the United States, and here we go again. The Obama White House is actively deceiving the American people, and they’re doing it over a Caribou latte.”

U.S. Congressman Cliff Stearns (FL-6): “Obviously, he mentioned that the administration of the president talked about having the most open and transparent administration in history but through the course of the investigation, at least the Committee of Oversight and Investigation which I chair, has found that the White House, really has failed to live up to this president’s lofty rhetoric.

“In fact, I think a good example of this, when the Citizens of Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked for some records, the Obama administration said ‘okay, we’ll give you some records voluntarily, we’ll give you some visitors logs from 2009′ but prior to this time the administration denied Freedom of Information Act requests for the same White House logs and defended non disclosure of the logs in the federal court. So, we have the administration in federal courts and also denying the Freedom of Information requests. I mean, that’s hard to believe when you think the President of the United States has made these lofty claims in that he is on record in the federal courts trying to deny this transparency and he finally negotiates voluntarily to give over. When you volunteer, I mean, does that mean you have to give them all or just what you think? Where does it turn out that you’re mandated to do it? I think as I pointed out, some of these emails are alarming…”

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Kaahlili warns that Iran already has been practicing with missile launches from ships that simply put the payload straight up and high in the sky. “That is the signature … of training for an EMP launch.”

◼ EMP ATTACK: '90% OF AMERICANS WOULD BE DEAD' - Seminar to reveal dangers, threats from radicals armed with nukes - WND

Just think. A nuclear device carried aloft by an Iranian rocket somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico and a blinding flash in the skies.

Within 12 to 18 months, experts predict, 90 percent of Americans would be dead.

That’s the catastrophic threat from the resulting electromagnetic pulse signal, or EMP... Computers would cease functioning, and every system that relies on those components – food and fuel deliveries, communications, production, manufacturing, travel and everything associated – would halt.

Forstchen cited a 2004 study on the impact of such an assault on America.

“Testimony in that study said 90 percent, let me repeat that, 90 percent of all Americans would die within 12-18 months of an EMP attack,” he said.

Kahlili warns that Iran already has been practicing with missile launches from ships that simply put the payload straight up and high in the sky.

“That is the signature … of training for an EMP launch.”

Kahlili confirmed it would take only 60 seconds for such a warhead to be launched, and the result would “destabilize the infrastructure of America within hours.”