It seems that our site is getting a lot of people asking what happened to Jason Lewis. Well, if you go to KTLK’s website, you will notice his profile is still up. So at this point, we can assume he is on vacation.
Even superstars such as Jason need to take a break sometime.
KTLK would be stupid to ever lose Jason. He is basically the face of KTLK. Without him, they are just another radio station.
Despite what last week’s reports said, IndyBank has collapsed. Due to the collapse, the Federal government has stepped in, and done something worse. The United States federal government has created a black hole.
How has the government done this? They just nationalized IndyBank. The bank is now to be known as IndyMac Federal Bank. Since the nationalization of the bank, there has been a run on IndyMac Federal Bank. People are lining up to take their money out.
Banking expert Tom Davidoff had the following to say about the banking disaster:
“I don’t think this is the last bank we’re going to see fail. After all, a lot of banks are invested in mortgage-backed securities. Mortgage-backed securities have declined in value, and if they face a lot of cash needs on the part of depositors, we’re going to see more bank failures.”
So is this how our new government works? Now, we nationalize companies as they fail. Just wait until factories start to close, are we going to take over them as well.
How about churches? They benefit society, should we bail them out and nationalize them if they fail?
We are paddling down a river towards the point of no return. The waterfall is near, and the current is strong. Will we make the right decisions, or plunge towards our own facist revolution?
Oftentimes, it is difficult to find officially sanctioned blog buttons, widgets, etc that support your particular political candidate. As you can guess, this is a major marketing loss for the candidate. Without all those free, grassroots ads, it is much harder to get their name out there.
This is all the more true with third party candidates. Not only must the third party candidate carve out a base for himself, but he must also show people where he stands while fighting an uphill battle for any media coverage.
When a really good candidate comes along (like Bob Barr), you can be sure that there are many people who would love to post links, banners, widgets and more on their Facebook, MySpace, or blog.
Bob Barr’s campaign has made this as harmless as possible. He has a page dedicated for just that purpose. It can be found here:
Over the past few weeks Bob has been traveling from city to city and meeting with supporters and groups who share our message of liberty.
Additionally, the strong media coverage continues with Bob being interviewed by the Washington Post, Fox News, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Time Magazine, NPR, Alan Colmes and many local radio and television stations.
On top of that, Bob’s running mate, Wayne Allyn Root, has been hitting the radio waves several times a day to promote our ticket.
Our staff is coming together strongly as our web team has relocated from California to our campaign hub in Atlanta. I’ve also made the move from Virginia along with the Libertarian Party’s media coordinator, Andrew Davis.
We are working around the clock to get this campaign moving at full speed for our outstanding presidential ticket.
A few days ago, you heard from Russ Verney regarding our need for ballot access funding.
I need to reinforce this need to you.
Money is our number one need right now. We have the media; Bob is climbing in the polls; and our grassroots efforts are exploding – we’ve picked up 2,000 Meetup members in a week!
On top of our ballot access needs, Russ has instructed me to immediately raise $31,000 to move into our permanent campaign headquarters. We need to rent and install “bullpen” desk setups for our staffers. To start, we’ll have 30 dedicated, Barr/Root staffers and volunteers which will cost us $200 for setup and takedown plus $125 per month for each staffer.
To get rolling and cover the first month we need to raise $40,750.
Right now, we’re completely out of space in our temporary location (as I type this, I’m literally back to back with six others in a single office) and can’t fit in any more workers.
The location that we need to secure – if we can raise the funds – is an old AT&T call center. Russ loves it because it’s a very big open room with only two, small windows.
It really is a perfect space for our campaign team that is sprinting into what has been a two-party contest.
If you have not done so recently, please take a minute right now and donate what you can. We need $31,000 to sign this lease plus $325 to setup and cover a staffer for a month.
P.S. We’ll have a campaign store launched early next week! I’ll send you a note when we launch but don’t forget to donate today so that we can take this campaign to the next level! Click here to donate.
In a very unanticipated turn of events, our most popular post on Tundra Politics has been one on Chris Baker taking the morning show spot.
It seems that there is a lot of pent up anger against Chris for him being the “replacement” for Dan Conry. I would like to point out that Chris did not chase Dan away. In fact, they seemed very similar. While I wish KTLK would have left Dan on the air, I understand that show business is tough.
I thought that the following would help our readers understand Chris Baker. This is from his website on KTLKFM.com.
So who are you Chris Baker and why are you on my radio station?
Who is Chris Baker: Let me give you the basics:
I am an independent conservative with 3 small children and a wife who I love more than anything I could have ever imagine.
Politically I don’t see one qualified person running for the office of President nor do I think that it matters at this point. I see politicians as nothing more than puppets and gangsters and that is regardless of party. Mexico owns this election.
The candidates I supported were Fred Thompson and Ron Paul.
I believe in the concept of the individual. We are all individuals to start and we join groups as we grow but it is the concept and acknowledgment that we are individuals that is supposed to keep us on the right path. When our group goes down the wrong path then it is up to us as individuals to make a decision as an individual to leave the group and walk a path of righteousness.
I believe in killing terrorist before they kill someone I love.
I believe that illegal immigration will destroy this country and that supporters of illegal immigration have no argument, they can’t honestly debate because their entire position is based on a lie.
Global warming is a scam. Anyone who thinks that we can control nature is delusional.
Talk radio is my job and my dream come true. Talk radio is one of many entertainment mediums. It’s the most important entertainment medium because it is the only real time, interactive medium where politicians are held accountable for their actions. It’s the only medium where the people who really make America work (you) gather to exchange ideas and opinions. Where they find out they are not alone in their beliefs, get some information and have a laugh at themselves and their neighbors. It’s where true free speech is exercised on a daily basis.
Today was a milestone in my life. Today, gas prices hit four dollars a gallon. I had hoped that this day was not coming in the near future. In fact, it shouldn’t have.
If gas prices kept even with inflation, we should see a four percent growth in prices from year to year. Instead, we have seen 36% increases in single years.
What makes this so infuriating is that it was preventable. Most of us are on a shoestring budget after the latest round of energy price increases. The sad part is that idiots like John McCain and Barack Obama still don’t get it. They are pushing for more legislation that breaks the backs of normal Americans. I guess that’s easy to do when the feds give senators a blank check for their gas expenditures.
For my house, gas prices have been cutting into our savings in a major way. Its getting to the point where we are seriously having to cut back on driving.
It should have been different. We are sitting on more energy than most countries can imagine. Yet we do nothing. Nancy Pelosi is playing the fiddle while our economy tanks. Are there any good politicians out there?
This is no longer a political issue. It is a moral issue. I don’t say this lightly, but forget about your stupid tree hugger legislation. Tree hugging is not something we can afford right now. People are losing their lives, their liberty, and their ability to pursue happiness.
Our congress has failed us. It is time to elect new ones. Lets begin to ask for their resignations! Many republicans and democrats alike should be fired for their gross negligence. If they were running a business, they would be thrown in jail for their misuse of funds. Perhaps we should give congress a taste of their own medicine. They hold “trials” on the house floor, maybe we should put them on trial as well.
In victory for Ten Commandments posted in Kentucky, court criticizes ACLU for misusing concept that is outside of the Constitution Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 1:20 PM (MST) |
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CINCINNATI - In a ruling handed down today affirming as constitutional a Ten Commandments display in Mercer County, Ken., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit declared, “The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.” The court also criticized the ACLU’s repeated reference to the construct, calling it “tiresome” and “extra-constitutional.”
“For years, the Alliance Defense Fund has argued against claims by the ACLU and its allies that their interpretation of the Establishment Clause is a correct interpretation. The good news for Americans is that today’s ruling says the ACLU’s interpretation is outside the Constitution. This is a dramatic rollback of the far-left’s misguided legal agenda,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb.
In American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Mercer County, the court wrote that “the ACLU makes repeated reference to ‘the separation of church and state.’ This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.”
The court went on to note that the ACLU’s argument that the Ten Commandments are religious does not answer the question of whether the display actually endorses religion. The court stated that the ACLU “erroneously-though perhaps intentionally” equates merely recognizing religion as government endorsement of religion. “To endorse is necessarily to recognize, but the converse does not follow,” the court wrote.
The full text of the court’s opinion can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/ACLUvMCopinion.pdf. ADF attorneys had no role in the appeal, but attorney and ally Frank Manion, with the assistance of a friend-of-the-court brief funded by ADF, was successful in his efforts to have the lawsuit dismissed prior to the ACLU’s appeal of the dismissal to the 6th Circuit.
ADF is a legal alliance defending America’s first liberty–religious freedom–through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. ADF President Alan Sears is co-author with Craig Osten of the new book The ACLU vs. America (www.acluvsamerica.com).
America is in danger of collapse and I don’t say this lightly.
I have believed in the exceptionalism of America for as long as I could understand what that meant. Five years ago, I would have told you that our economy will recover, that times will get better, and that freedom will prevail, but now I am doubting that optimism.
Freedom is like a tender flower. It is beautiful beyond description. Freedom is something that is wonderful, life changing, but all together fragile. Freedom trampled upon will wither quickly. Just like the flower, trampled freedom will take a lot more work to revive it than it does to destroy.
Our congress has forsaken their sacred duties. They have rejected the idea that they are for the people, by the people, and of the people. This is not something that is easily remedied.
At this point, we have the choice between two major candidates (John McCain and Barack Obama) who’s political ideals line up closer to that of a socialist/nationalist agenda than to the principles that kept us free for so many years.
Last year, we stood on the edge of a great divide. As our nations toes inched closer to a cliff that would spell disaster if we should we ever pass the tipping point, and fall face first to peril, our leaders laughed, played their fiddles, and said that all is well. Instead of heeding the warning signs, our leaders offered populist fixes. They guaranteed a short term happiness, but willingly neglected our future. The US congress has sold our futures for the price of an election.
The McCain-Feingold bill solidified the place of career politicians while making it very difficult for your average citizen to represent his neighbors. The Lieberman-Warner act will chase away our jobs, create faux energy shortages, and artificially inflate prices on necessities such as gasoline, clothing, and food.
Lieberman-Warner will institute a new tax called the “cap and trade” tax. This will give quotas for every company. If their level of Carbon Dioxide (remember that CO2 is the harmless stuff that plants use) increases beyond a certain level, they will be punished. This will often involve a forced payment to their competition.
You have to remember that Carbon Dioxide is not a gas that is poisonous. It is a safe gas that makes up a very small proportion of our atmosphere. Yet, we are willing to over-regulate our workplaces to the point that they will be forced to move to another nation? This is foolishness at it’s worst!
There has seldom been a tax that has ever been repealed. We normally see “reductions” but we never see a complete repeal. If this bill gets through, and it will, it could be the large straw that breaks the camel’s back. Our nation cannot handle any more stress on our economy, our personal lives, and our freedoms.
Right now, we stand with our toes over the cliff of no return, and I have no faith in our politicians to make the right decision. Get your parachutes out, this could be a bumpy ride.
FROM: Russ Verney
Campaign Manager, Bob Barr ‘08
TO: Friends and Associates
RE: Political Assessment
DATE: May 19, 2008
These days, politics seems to revolve around polling and predictions. I’m not convinced it’s the best use of anyone’s time — especially for someone like me who’s spent his whole life in full-time campaign activities — but consider this outline :
>early October: 7% in national surveys
>Mid October: wins televised Presidential debate
>late October: 12% in national surveys
>election day: captures 19% of national vote
That’s what happened in a previous election I was involved with: Ross Perot in 1992. That could have been the case with Ron Paul if he had opted to run on a third party ticket.
I believe former Congressman Bob Barr has the same potential. Maybe better. Don’t be mislead, however: I am no cheerleader by nature. But I do agree with our Senior Policy Advisor, Doug Bandow, in an e-mail I received from him yesterday:
“I’ve just read the early polling data and your election game plan — phenomenal. Congressman Barr is poised to have a huge impact on the public policy debates and political history. His will be no ordinary presidential campaign.”
That’s not going to happen without your involvement, but at this point I’m asking you to just to think about participating and to mull over the following … November 4th is light years away. In terms of laying the foundation for a dynamic and influential campaign, the pieces for Barr 2008 are already in place. Consider …
America is swamped in Libertarian information:
>Congressman Ron Paul’s new book is the number one best-seller in the nation according to the New York Times
>Neal Boortz has 4,000,000 radio listeners daily
>On TV, John Stossel broadcasts such opinions as: “I am a libertarian in that I believe in limited government and as much individual freedom as possible.”
>Finally, you may not have heard this from many media pundits, but nearly 130,000 people — 16% of the Republican primary turnout in Pennsylvania — got out of their easy chairs and voted for Ron Paul and against John McCain … that was after John McCain had won the nomination.
Politically and ideologically, Bob Barr is plowing fertile ground.
It will take an articulate candidate and a powerful message to build the meaning of the Libertarian messages voters are receiving. We have both in the Barr 2008 campaign.
That’s why we need your participation: your investment of time, talent, and financial resources is vital as the campaign builds, from the ground floor, the alternative to politics-as-usual.
Will you take a moment to go to our website and contribute $25, $50, $100 or even $500 today?
I’d also like you to consider a pledge of support so we may plot out our post-convention strategy. Consider making a $25 contribution today — and a further investment of $25 or $50 on June 1st. Your gift of $50 or even $100 right away, with a pledge of another $25, $50 or perhaps $250 on June 1st, will allow us to set some ambitious campaign plans in place now.
If you cannot donate today or tomorrow, please do make a pledge payable on June 1st. Our budget process is the first responsibility I have to deal with.
With just a few days before what I believe will be great news coming out of the Libertarian Party convention, please be sure to act on this memo today so we can further our momentum.
While you are at the website, look around (there are lots more news and information posted) and take time to volunteer. I’d like to count on your support of just one hour a week in June, two hours a week in July, three in August.
Will you help?
Please let me hear from you right away. Your investment in this campaign of $50, $25, $500, or $100 will really be of help right now. We will put the contributions into good use immediately, and if you can volunteer just an hour a week I assure you will be productively busy. Two more things …
Bob Schoen, in his book cited above, also stated, “I have a clear and unambiguous sense that the most important person in the 1996 election was Ross Perot, who in 1995 shaped and prefaced the outcome of the election the next year.” That’s regrdless of Perot earning some 9% of the vote in comparison to 19% in 1992.
There are more than 430 elected Libertarian Party officials in the U.S. How many more do you think a successful Bob Barr campaign will hep elect? I am convinced Bob Barr can match or beat the Perot votes of ‘92 and ‘96. Please be generous with a contribution, a pledge of further support, and your time.
Our fitting legacy of success — yours and Bob’s — would be the impact of a vibrant, effective Libertarian Party. You can make that happen, my friend.
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