PolitiZoid: Greatest Moments in Liberal History

DA: West Philadelphia abortion doctor killed 7 babies with scissors

A doctor who gave abortions to minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic was charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday.

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the "black" and "yellow" peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Alveda King is a Christian minister and pro-life activist. She is a niece of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She is the full-time Pastoral Associate of African-American Outreach for the Roman Catholic pro-life group, Priests for Life.

First time in US since 1824; Judge opined on Natural Born citizen; Concludes Obama not a NBC.

Is this the 1st serious legal challenge to Obama?

Did the Judge meet the same fate as the tampered Passport witness?

Obama recently signed an executive order allowing the Feds to confiscate all 401ks and retirement accounts. A single judge adjudicated that Obama did not have that authority and stopped the confiscation: Federal Judge John Roll. He died in the Tuscon tragedy.

Democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s is conducting hearings on a proposal to confiscate your personal retirement savings.

One Islamist Out, Another Islamist in at Victory Mosque

Imam Rauf has been replaced on the Victory mosque charade by Imam Abdullah Adhami.

Adhami, as Rauf, thinks Sharia Law should replace the American Constitution.

His hero is Siraj Wahhaj!

Who is this who Adhami refers to as his “beloved imam”?

Imam Wahhaj is an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was a character witness for the defense in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, “the blind sheik” who is now serving a life sentence for his role in plotting the 1993 WTC bombing.

Wahhaj has made it very clear in all of his sermons that he wants America destroyed and Islam to be built on its ashes.

Adhami is so enchanted with Wahhaj’s hate-filled screeds that he volunteered to design the Al-Taqwa mosque, from where Imam Wahhaj incites his followers with his wrath against the unbelievers.

"Under my plan, electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket . . . . higher prices will be passed on to the consumer."

In a candid moment while running for president, Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle, “under my plan…electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” Last week, the Obama administration moved to make that a reality, using its rule by executive fiat to punish the coal industry. The action comes as Obama is halting offshore oil drilling and threatening one state alone with millions of dollars in lost revenue. His most recent action was “unprecedented,” could kill jobs during a recession, and comes as heating oil and gasoline prices are rising.

Obama’s latest environmentalist imbroglio is his declaration of war on the coal industry. Last week, the EPA revoked the mining permit of Arch Coal’s Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. The EPA granted the permit in 2007. Since then, Arch Coal has complied with all of the agency’s terms and made millions of dollars of investments in the hard-hit Appalachian state.

The EPA reversed itself last week, revoking its validly granted permit and calling into question whether it would honor any of its prior obligations. Its pretext was the company’s use of mountaintop removal mining, which it called “destructive and unsustainable. However, it was known the mine would use this procedure when the EPA granted the permit four years ago.

The mine would have employed 250 people and harvested more than 40 million tons of coal, over 15 years.

West Virginia’s lawmakers are rightly incensed. Newly elected Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s statement read in part: “According to the EPA, it doesn’t matter if you did everything right, if you followed all of the rules. Why? They just change the rules.”

Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller told President Obama in a letter that his action “needlessly throws other permits into a sea of uncertainty at a time of great economic distress.”

Industry leaders echoed his concern. “Every road project, construction project or mine site that has received valid CWA 404 permits in the past is now in jeopardy of having that permit vetoed or revoked,” said Bryan Brown, executive director of the Foundation for American Coal Energy. The crippling handicap of uncertainty harms our economy, undermines confidence in the government, and keeps industry executives from making additional investments in energy exploration.

DAY 729: Obama orders review of regulations that hurt job growth...

Obama Wants to Shed his Rules That Harm Americans Job Growth. Now he is learning about America and Economics 101. Pretty sharp guy he finally came around after harming job growth for so long. Still, there is no improvement yet so he may still cater to his moneyed masters.

Taiwanese mock with video cartoon: Hu Jintao jets into Washington

US-Sino Currency Rap Battle

In observance of Martin Luther King Day, pro-lifers are focusing in part on a major civil rights issue.

Joseph Parker, pastor of two African-Methodist-Episcopal churches in Mississippi, says today's culture often overlooks the critical questions and issues related to life and the unborn. Instead, he says, people tend to avoid pushing their moral views on others or agree that it is up to a woman to decide what she should do with her body.

"Tragically, this kind of argument has become just a smokescreen that has kept too many from really seeing the true issue at hand," Parker laments. "The false claim has been that the abortion issue is about women's rights and reproductive freedom, but this is simply marketing hype and lies. In reality, it was racism and eugenics that drove the legalization of abortion."

What's the most-telling piece of evidence that proves

the abortion industry in the U.S. targets minorities and the poor?

More than 30 percent of abortions that take place in the U.S. involve the killing of black babies -- a truth clearly portrayed in a documentary called Maafa 21, which was produced by Life Dynamics. A group of black pastors will show that film today at its "Festival for Life" at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi.

"One of the great needs in our society is to recognize that there's a huge need for us to take a stand for the civil rights of the unborn child [and] that the civil rights of the unborn need to be respected and protected," Parker concludes.

He goes on to point out that Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., describes standing up for the rights of the unborn as one of the most serious civil rights issues of our time. The Mississippi pastor recently spoke at a rally in Jackson, where he voiced his agreement with that statement.

China's President Lays Groundwork for Obama Talks

WSJ's Jake Lee speaks to Heard on the Street Asia Editor Mohammed Hadi about Chinese President Hu Jintao's comments on currencies, balancing the Chinese economy and China's growing clout abroad.

Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a 'Cancer'

Economist Thomas Sowell explains why he supports Ron Paul's stance on abolishing the Federal Reserve. When asked by Peter Robinson what should replace the Fed, Sowell replies: "When someone removes a cancer, what do you replace it with?"

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Thomas Sowell has studied and taught economics, intellectual history, and social policy at institutions that include Cornell University, UCLA, and Amherst College. Now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell has published more than a dozen books, the latest of which is a revised and updated edition of his classic volume, Basic Economics.

"Through its various editions," Sowell writes, "the fundamental idea behind Basic Economics remains the same: Learning economics should be as uncomplicated as it is informative."

Here, Sowell seeks to uncomplicate some of the economic issues confronting the country today, from the financial crisis and the role of the Fed to the economics of health care and trade imbalances. - Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

Previewing Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. Visit

Kenneth Lieberthal: Next week's Washington meetings between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will provide the leaders with an opportunity to further improve relations between the U.S. and China. The dialogue is expected to cover tough economic and trade issues, security concerns and military expansion. China Center Director Kenneth Lieberthal explains.

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The Brick Thief: A LEGO Short Film

Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties

Christie nominated Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County.

Nat'l Socialist Strategy Session Calls for Head-Cracking Revolution

Man faces charges for defying TSA agents

"What’s really at root in this case is whether travel is a right that we have under the Constitution - an ability to move about the country without having to show papers."

Klavan Explains "Liberal" Culture

Why Leftists Are Far Likelier to Use Political Violence Than Conservatives

No Surprise AZ Shooter Was a Mentally Deranged Anarchist.

The tenets of Classical Liberalism are listed by Amy Sturgis (Sturgis, Amy H. "The Rise, Decline, and Reemergence of Classical Liberalism." Belmont University | Nashville, TN | Middle Tennessee | Liberal Arts College. 1994. Web. 16 Jan. 2011. .):

1. An ethical emphasis on the individual as a rights-bearer prior to the existence of any state, community, or society;
2. The support of the right of property carried to its economic conclusion, a free-market system;
3. The desire for a limited constitutional government to protect individuals’ rights from others and from its own expansion; and
4. The universal (global and ahistorical) applicability of these above convictions.

U.S. Satisfaction Remains Near 12-Month Low

Despite their party's winning House control, Republicans' satisfaction lower than Democrats'