Why a gun is civilization

Jack E. Kemp

Munchkin Wrangler asked to make this article go viral. I'll do my part here, as he has an excellent point. As Munchkin states, gun ownership is the true women's equality, making her equal with a 230 lb. gang-banger who wants to steal her car...or worse. It also makes senior citizens equal to thugs, etc. This is one argument that Gloria Steinem's fans almost never considered...and Sarah Palin thinks is almost too obvious to mention.
Without further adieu..

Why the gun is civilization.

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

Video: Suzanna Gratia Hupp explains meaning of 2nd Amendment!

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The Real War on Women

While attacking Romney, Obama continues to largely ignore abuses in the Muslim world

FINBARR O'REILLY/REUTERS  - Women in Istanbul, Turkey

NY Daily News:

For the greater part of this election cycle, we’ve heard a good deal from the left about a fictional Republican “war on women.” Everyone from President Obama himself to Georgetown-law-student-turned-Democratic-mouthpiece Sandra Fluke has tried to convince female voters that Mitt Romney is hostile to the female portion of the electorate.

But thousands of miles away, there is a real war on women. It is one that Obama and his supporters would prefer to ignore.

In the same region where four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, were brutally murdered on Sept. 11, women suffer each and every day. Radical Islamic thugs were behind the fatal attack in Benghazi, as well as the riots that spread across the Middle East; Muslim females, however, are persecuted and oppressed not by terrorists, but by their own communities, governments and even families.

Obtaining insurance-covered contraceptives (a big concern for the American left) is the least of these women’s worries. Instead, females in many Muslim countries are focused on having their bodies fully covered from head to toe, aren’t allowed to drive and cannot leave their homes without the supervision of a male family member. Laws and cultural norms vary from country to country, but it is undeniable that, as a whole, the Muslim world has a serious problem with how women are treated.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Time magazine investigated this problem in an article called “The Women of Islam,” a piece that remains relevant today. It diagnoses the problem as a profound one, dating back centuries: “The Koran allots daughters half the inheritance of sons. It decrees that a woman’s testimony in court, at least in financial matters, is worth half that of a man’s. Under Shari’a, or Muslim law, compensation for the murder of a woman is half the going rate for men.

“In many Muslim countries, these directives are incorporated into contemporary law. For a woman to prove rape in Pakistan, for example, four adult males of ‘impeccable’ character must witness the penetration, in accordance with Shari’a,” writes Lisa Beyer.

And while all religions must grapple with how to integrate ancient texts, with their sometimes-outdated notions, into modern life, the Muslim world seems to have done far too little in this regard,

Take, for example, Islam’s attitude toward domestic abuse, with the Koran (sura 4:34), which has been “interpreted to say that men have ‘pre-eminence’ over women or that they are ‘overseers’ of women and that the husband of an insubordinate wife should first admonish her, then leave her to sleep alone and finally beat her,” as Beyer chillingly wrote.

Not much has changed in the decade or so since. It was only two years ago when Time magazine ran the horrific and now infamous cover picture of, Aisha, an Afghan woman with her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban for fleeing her abusive in laws.

There is no excuse for this kind of medieval behavior in the 21st century. And yet it goes on. As Riffat Hassan, professor of religious studies at the University of Louisville, told Beyer, “The way Islam has been practiced in most Muslim societies for centuries has left millions of Muslim women battered bodies, minds and souls.”

The Arab Spring, which Obama has celebrated, has hardly been a boon for women. In fact, quite the opposite. “For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment — which sometimes turns into violent mob-style attacks — is a daily fact of life,” reports the BBC. One blogger calls the harassment of women in the post-Moammar Khadafy Libya as “out of control.”

It seems, then, that the “revolutions” in the region have only empowered fanatics to take their misogyny further out into the open. To her credit, Secretary of State Clinton has acknowledged this violence, but Obama has largely ignored it, even seemingly aligning himself with the culprits by hosting the Muslim Brotherhood at the White House.

Writes Mark Whittington for Yahoo, “It seems the Obama administration is capable of accusing Republicans of hating women for not wanting to see the Catholic Church hand out free birth control contrary to the Church’s doctrine. While it is doing this, it is treating with a terrorist group that has as its governing platform the imposition of Shari’a Law, which would send Egyptian women into lives of degradation and oppression.”

Worst of all is that thousands of Muslim women have suffered from female genital mutilation if they don’t comply with these strict rules or have been the victim of honor killings — murders conducted by spouses or family members in the event of misbehavior. There is a growing trend of honor killings happening in the U.S., as well.

This, too, demands attention from the administration. But the silence has been deafening.

Let’s not even wade into the issue of homosexuality, which can be met with death or imprisonment in many Muslim countries — yet Obama supporters are preoccupied with painting the right as anti-gay for opposing gay marriage, a position President Obama and Joe Biden held until recently.

But the left would rather forget these inconvenient truths. The Obama administration is comfortable railing against Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and some Republicans for sticking to their peaceful religious beliefs, traditional though they may be, but refuses to call out the Muslim world for sticking to its own outdated prejudices.

In fact, when he went to Cairo in 2009, Obama praised Islam for sharing the West’s principles of “justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” He is clearly uncomfortable admitting that there are violent strains of Islam that want nothing more than to hurt not only Americans, but women living in their own countries.

Rather than appease the violent strains of religious extremism, Americans of all political affiliations (as well as peaceful Muslims) should band together for what we support: the advancement of women and tolerance for everyone. Radical Islam is a threat to more than just females; it’s determined to kill and to eradicate freedom all over the world.

The real issue is the tolerance of the intolerant. If President Obama, many on the left and the media truly cared about women’s rights, they would acknowledge the real war on women instead of tip-toeing around it for political gain. A true champion of women’s rights stands up for all women, all of the time, not just when it’s expedient in an election year.

Video: Tantaros: Obama ignoring real war on women

This is also part of the real war on women: 

Little lambs to the slaughter… THIS IS BEYOND SCARY

That’s the quickest way to populate the world!
Poor kids – what a terrible fate to be born as a girl
in a Muslim country, esp. one in the Middle East.

HAMAS PLAYS HOST TO PEDOPHILIA

Muhammed married a six year old bride. But Islam has evolved in 1500 years. In Hamas land, in 2009, the brides are almost seven

Is this, Sharia(h) Law, not the ultimate insult to and a direct war on women and children? And it applies not only to child brides and the abuse of women and girls under Sharia Law, but to boys as well!

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The Real War on Women… WoW

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Vanished!… Islamic Jumah Disappears From Official DNC Schedule – But Maybe Not From the Event? - Updated

UPDATED: The only questions left now are: (1) Is the DNC and Team Obama lying to us again… and just took the official designation supporting Jumah off their site? (2) Are the Jumah events now moving forward in Charlotte on their own and without sanction, now that Team Obama decided it was a liability for President Obama’s reelection? (3) Or will the Jumah event move forward as planned at the DNC Convention (with unofficial sanction) but not be televised or discussed by the liberal bias media. See: Jumah prayer event prior to the 2012 DNC goes off without a hitch or disruption No one has been able to get a definite response from either the DNC, Team Obama or the White House about the status of this event since they removed it from the DNC Convention Website as an officially sanctioned event… But it was then noticed that it had not been removed from MuslimBureau.com and is now being reported as having started and taking place as planned.

A good friend of mine said… “I almost wish that this had not been cancelled so people would see what is really going on.” Seems she might get her wish!! And that a Storm is headed for Charlotte thanks to 'Jumah at the DNC' Islam, especially radical Islam, is not a religion, at least not in the pure sense of the definition. It is a political philosophy disguised as a religion whose goal is to takeover the world… and the radicals in our government like Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama are promoting their integration into our lives, laws and way of life.

Via: Congressman Tom Tancredo and at Gateway Pundit

That’s weird?
Back on Monday the Obama Campaign listed an “Islamic Jumah at the DNC” as an “official function” at the DNC convention in Charlotte next week.

But now it’s gone. **But the event is still listed at MuslimBureau.com.

Gerard Direct has more on the disappearing Jumah:

Earlier this week, we posted an article about the DNC sponsoring, as an “official event” JUMAH at the DNC (watch the promotional video here).

Florida Family Association sent out an email alert on August 29, 2012 which reported the following two sub headlines:

“DNC approves Jumah for 20,000 Muslims.” “RNC adopts anti-Sharia plank at convention.”

The email alert and Floridafamily.org website provided a link to the DNC web site calendar of events which at that time and up until yesterday afternoon included the Juma event, which the original DNC website listed as an “official function.”

However, since then, the Jumah event was removed from the DNC web site calendar, and there is no reference at all to the event. A supporter noted in an e-mail, “It was still there 5.30 PM on 8/30/2012 and at 6.30 PM it was gone! I looked everywhere but it’s not listed anymore.”

But now it’s gone… Gone from the Democrat Convention site… but not from MuslimBureau.com. And now it has been reported in the Washington Time’s social journalism section that:

CHARLOTTE, August 31, 2012 — Isaac's winds have scattered. The Republicans are basking in the glow of their convention. The Democrats are headed to Charlotte. And the Jumah prayer at the 2012 DNC kicked off a series of hundreds of events that will spread throughout the city for a week… Jumah prayer event prior to the 2012 DNC goes off without a hitch or disruption

One of the major themes of the Democrat National Convention will be their ‘fake’ war on women developed as a weapon against conservatives that over the past 6 months, since they have no record that they can run on. Anyone that watched the Republican National Convention last week knows there is no conservative or GOP war on women. Unfortunately, there is a real war on woman and allowing Sharia Law to creep into our society and legal system is very much part of the real war and this event being officially sanctioned and included at the Convention by the Democrats and now after an outcry being removed from the DNC site, but seemingly not from Charlotte or the Convention is an example of their goals and tactics.

There are none so blind as those who will not see! Wake-up America!! Wake-up American Women… You are being played!!!

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Conventional Wisdom Edition

Video:  Mia Love’s Speech at the RNC Convention

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

This week’s contest is dedicated to Mia Love, the child of Haitian immigrants, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, the next congresswoman to represent Utah’s 4th congressional district and someone who has an innate understanding of what America is all about and exactly why it’s worth saving.

And of course, To Mrs. Ann Romney, who has always been proud of her country.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, Raising Aspergers Kids, Maggie’s Notebook, Right Truth and The Pirate’s Cove took advantage of my generous offer of linkeage and earned honorable mention status with some excellent pieces.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category.

Then just return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

OK, lets take a look at what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – The DNC Embraces Radical Islam
• The Independent Sentinel – Dems Using Every Trick In The Book To Distract From The Economy
• The Political Commentator – Two pictures that define Barack Obama and one that defines a leader! (Video)
• The Razor – The Democratic Party’s War on Children
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Offensive Meat
• Joshuapundit - Speaking Of Rape – Democrats Oppose Mandatory Sentences For Child Rapists
• Simply Jews – Al Qaeda recruiting via the Internet – and I know why
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD  – “Least Horrible”
• The Right Planet – The Fascism of Sustainable Development
• VA Right! - Homemade Video: ‘Remember” (A Remake of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’)
• Bookworm Room – Democrat gaffes, nastiness, and sheer ignorance – just a few highlights from the Democrat side of the aisle
• The Glittering Eye -Why We Must Change
• Gay Patriot – Why do some Americans who favor ‘smaller government with fewer services’ continue to back Democrats?
• The Mellow Jihadi – Mitt Romney’s Puppet Sticks Out
• Rhymes With Right – To Gain Farm Votes, Obama Will Drive Up Food Prices For Working Americans

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion –  The Real War on Women… WoW 
• Maggie’s Notebook – Movie Review – 2016: Obama’s America – The Focus on One Hyphenated Word
• Raising Aspergers Kids – A Righteous Man….My Father
• Right Truth – 1972 Olympics Massacre – Germany’s Secret Contacts to Palestinian Terrorists
• The Pirate’s Cove – What Say To Muslim Extremists Praying At The DNC?

Non-Council Submissions

• Sultan Knish – Countdown in Tehran and Jerusalem submitted by The Noisy Room
• Yid With Lid – Why Does Obama Have Anti-Israel Activists On His List of Rabbi Supporters? submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Alan Caruba/Family Security Matters - Destroying our military from within submitted by The Political Commentator
• Taki’s Magazine – No Brain, No Vote! submitted by The Razor
• Weekly Standard – Smart Writing submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• P.J. O’Rourke – Of Thee I Sigh: Baby Boomers Bust submitted by Joshuapundit
• The Contentious Centrist – On Hypocrites and Double Standards submitted by Simply Jews
• Danger Room – Top U.S. General: We Don’t Know Why Afghan Troops Are Killing Us submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• FrontpageMag.com – A Disturbing Event: The American Conservative Union Embraces an Islamist submitted by The Right Planet
• Doug Ross – Urgent Memo for the Mayor of New Orleans submitted by VA Right!
• PowerLine - The Outside Story of the Obama Campaign submitted by Bookworm Room
• Jim Treacher/The Daily Caller – Obama pays tribute to Neil Armstrong, the only way he knows how submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Jennifer Rubin - Is the liberal echo chamber a trap? submitted by Gay Patriot
• Atlas Shrugs – Bulletin Of The Oppression Of Women submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Big Jolly Politics – Harris County Democrats: no diversity, no tolerance submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Iowahawk – Stars Get In Your Eyes submitted by The Watcher
• Raymond Ibrahim – Ramadan: Islam’s ‘Holy Month’ of Christian Oppression submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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W.I.Nning! - Women Impacting the Nation - WIN

This is an incredible organization (Women Impacting the Nation - WIN)!

Video: W.I.Nning! - Women Impacting the Nation 

h/t to AJ

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A Better Life for Julia… ;-)

Last week, President Obama’s team introduced the “Life of Julia,” a portrayal of a liberal vision of life for one woman.

Watch the “Life of Julia”  as presented by the Obama Campaign (mind you… Obama remains President throughout Julia’s 67 (short) years life.

If Obama is re-elected in November 2012 Life of Julia:

Then watch the Heritage Foundation version showing how conservative policies, like the ones outlined in Heritage’s Saving the American Dream plan, where Julia and all Americans are empowered without government interference at every stage of life.

Rather than President Obama’s vision of cradle-to-grave government dependence, conservatives want an empowered Julia with personal liberty and economic opportunities.

Conservatives believe people should be in charge of their own lives, not government.

If Romney is elected in November 2012 Heritage’s Saving the American Dream plan:

h/t to MJ

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War on Women Starts at the Top - Hostile Workplace

Wow…. The self-appointed champion of women against mean unfair conservatives pays women less… My My My!!!

That’s right… records show Obama White House pays women less than men. In fact, records show that female employees in the Obama White House make ‘considerably’ less than their male colleagues.

According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).

Calculating the median salary for each gender required some assumptions to be made based on the employee names. When unclear, every effort was taken to determine the appropriate gender.

The Obama campaign on Wednesday lashed out at presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney for his failure to immediately endorse the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, a controversial law enacted in 2009 that made it easier to file discrimination lawsuits.

In true Alinsky style… (where you blame or accuse your opponent or enemy of what you are doing to divert attention away from you) President Obama has frequently criticized the gender pay gap, such as the one that exists in White House.

“Paycheck discrimination hurts families who lose out on badly needed income,” he said in a July 2010 statement. “And with so many families depending on women’s wages, it hurts the American economy as a whole.”

It is not known whether any female employees at the White House have filed lawsuits under the Ledbetter Act.

The president and his Democratic allies have accused Republicans of waging a “war on women,” and have touted themselves as champions of female equality. Obama’s rhetoric, however, has not always been supported by his actions.

White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters last week that Obama believes it is “long past the time” for women to be admitted to the traditionally all-male Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters golf tournament.

But the president has demonstrated a strong preference for all-male foursomes in his frequent golf outings, a bias that extends well beyond the putting green and into the Oval Office.

“Women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle,” former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers told the New York Times.

In a 2011 article titled “The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan detailed the president’s fondness for male-dominated environments.

“There’s a looseness to Obama when he’s hanging out with the boys club that doesn’t appear in co-ed gatherings,” she wrote. “The president blows off steam on the golf course with male colleagues and friends. He takes to the White House basketball court with NBA stars, men’s college players, and male cabinet members and members of Congress.”

As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama was criticized for paying the women on his campaign staff less than the men, and far less than GOP opponent John McCain paid his female staffers.

By Andrew Stiles - FreeBeacon.com – h/t to AJ

Related: Obama paid lower tax rate than secretary

*It really is time that the American people pay attention, especially women.  It is the progressive left including the White House that are waging war on American women.  Just look at the facts above and the attack by White House shill Hillary Rosen and before that Sandra Fluke.

And just like the war on women the White House and Team Obama  is waging class warfare by using the divide and conquer method and attacking his 2012 GOP opponent of being out of touch.  But unlike Obama, Mitt Romney has worked.  He made his fortune, did not inherit it.  And Romney has paid all required taxes on his money.  Obama has proven he cannot turn around the economy and lacks work experience… why not take a chance on a guy who loves America, free market capitalism and knows how to run businesses, how to manage money and what it takes for the private sector to create jobs.

Obama's War On Women

Video: Obama's War On Women

She·PAC Calls on Bill Burton and the Obama Super PAC to Denounce Misogynist Bill Maher

MEDIA ADVISORY  -  March 7, 2012

As recently as March 1st Bill Burton, cofounder of Priorities USA Action SuperPAC, was promoting the views of a donor who referred to women in violent, hateful and derogatory ways. Today, we call on Mr. Burton to follow President Obama's lead and reject this language and messenger. Please see full text of the letter below.

Also, please help us spread the word about Obama’s million-dollar misogynist donor and share will all your friends:

Video:  Bill Maher: Obama's Million Dollar Man

Dear Mr. Burton:

Having watched President Obama’s press conference yesterday afternoon we find ourselves in agreement with him regarding the inflammatory issues that have arisen in the media. We are sure we can all agree we have arrived at what the President might call a "teachable moment".

We were pleased to see Rush Limbaugh apologize for his incredibly unkind and insensitive remarks towards women during his recent radio broadcast. These types of remarks towards women have no place in public discourse – they are wrong, and offensive.

It was an important gesture that President Obama approved the time in his schedule to place a call to the woman to whom the offensive remarks were directed. As parents of daughters ourselves, we were proud when we heard him say he took a personal stand on this issue with the hopes of always allowing his daughters the ability to have their own beliefs in the future. President Obama said, "One of the things I want them to do as they get older is to engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on."

President Obama has categorically condemned this sort of language against any woman. We are calling on you today to put the President's words to action by condemning the equally egregious and despicable behavior of HBO talk show host Bill Maher. Mr. Maher has a history of attacking women and recently attacked a host of women including a specifically violent attack at one woman who regularly, as the President says, “engages in the issues she cares about” and is a mother of three daughters and grandmother.

Mr. Maher, who disagrees with Sarah Palin's politics, has called her a litany of adjectives inappropriate to repeat in any setting and are of the most derogatory of terms reserved for only violent verbal hate crimes against women. We understand that he has donated $1 million dollars of his personal money paid to him through various businesses that thrive on the ratings of his hate speech to your Priorities USA Action to aid in your efforts to re-elect President Obama.

President Obama eloquently stated today in his press conference that, "all decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse.”

We are certain you agree with him, as do we that these types of remarks have no place in our society and the people that unapologetically make them must not be allowed to purchase a seat at the table of public discourse. Therefore, we are calling on Priorities USA Action and you to live up to the standard set by President Obama and take Mr. Maher’s million dollars and pay it forward.

Prove to American’s that your group is run by “decent folks” that President Obama speaks of. Donate this money to a charity of your choosing that focuses on supporting abused women and children.

We look forward to your action and joining with the President in ending hate speech against women.

Respectfully,

Teri Christoph, Co-Chair of ShePAC
Suzanne Haik Terrell, Co-Chair of ShePAC
Tim Crawford, Treasurer of ShePAC

We know conservative women will fight to change America.

She-PAC is here to fight for them.

Join us in that fight.

Go to SHE-pac:  http://shepac.com/

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Van Susteren Blasts President for Keeping $1 Million From ‘Serial Pig’ Bill Maher: ‘Is That the Obama Price Tag for Decency?’

Do you wonder if the Obama campaign is laughing with Bill Maher? Or worse…laughing at Americans?

Outspoken On The Record host Greta Van Susteren blasted President Obama, along with his senior campaign strategist David Axelrod, for what she sees as the clear double standard relating to Bill Maher‘s history of misogynistic comments and Rush Limbaugh’s remarks about Georgetown agitator Sandra Fluke.

On her blog Thursday, Greta lampooned the president for “looking the other way” and keeping Maher’s $1 million contribution to the Obama Super PAC. She asked if that was the president’s “price tag for decency.”

She also tore into Axelrod’s slated appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time – directly after he criticized Mitt Romney for not condemning (to his degree of satisfaction) Limbaugh.

From Greta Wire:

Is everyone for sale? At least Ed Schultz and Rush Limbaugh apologized (which I think appropriate) for their boorish behavior and their boorish behavior is nothing like Bill Maher! Maher is a serial pig. And Maher, to get cover for continuous vile behavior, gives a million dollars to the Obama super Pac so that the President looks the other way and the President does. Go figure! Is that the Obama price tag for decency? Give a million and you can be as nasty to women as you want? How does President Obama – who dragged his daughters into this, I did not – handle this with his daughters when Maher is the quintessential woman degrader? The C word to women – Maher’s apparent favorite – is as vile as it gets. Do you wonder if the Obama campaign is laughing with Bill Maher? Or worse…laughing at Americans?

Greta adds a “PS” in which she says Maher “can’t hide behind, ‘I am comedian.’”

“Being a comedian is not license to be a bigot or degrade women. Seinfeld is more successful and never degrading,” she concluded.

Needless to say, many will cheer Greta’s candor in exposing the hypocrisy of the left, and in this particular instance, the administration.

(h/t Mediaite)

Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist

Rush Limbaugh apologized on Saturday for calling a Georgetown Law student a slut for testifying about contraception and starting a firestorm of outrage. Kirsten Powers says the liberals who led the charge need to start holding their own side accountable.

Did you know there is a war on women?

Yes, it’s true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts. There have been boycotts by people on the left who are outraged that these guys still have jobs. Oh, wait. Sorry, that never happened.

Boycotts are reserved for people on the right like Rush Limbaugh, who finally apologized Saturday for calling a 30-year-old Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, a “slut” after she testified before congress about contraception. Limbaugh’s apology was likely extracted to stop the departure of any more advertisers, who were rightly under pressure from liberal groups outraged by the comments.

Let it be shouted from the rooftops that Rush Limbaugh should not have called Ms. Fluke a slut or, as he added later, a “prostitute” who should post her sex tapes. It’s unlikely that his apology will assuage the people on a warpath for his scalp, and after all, why should it? He spent days attacking a woman as a slut and prostitute and refused to relent. Now because he doesn’t want to lose advertisers, he apologizes. What’s in order is something more like groveling—and of course a phone call to Ms. Fluke—if you ask me.

But if Limbaugh’s actions demand a boycott—and they do—then what about the army of swine on the left?

During the 2008 election Ed Schultz said on his radio show that Sarah Palin set off a “bimbo alert.” He called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” (He later apologized.) He once even took to his blog to call yours truly a “bimbo” for the offense of quoting him accurately in a New York Post column.

Keith Olbermann has said that conservative commentator S.E. Cupp should have been aborted by her parents, apparently because he finds her having opinions offensive. He called Michelle Malkin a “mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick.” He found it newsworthy to discuss Carrie Prejean’s breasts on his MSNBC show. His solution for dealing with Hillary Clinton, who he thought should drop out of the presidential race, was to find “somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.” Olbermann now works for über-leftist and former Democratic vice president Al Gore at Current TV.

The grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher.

Left-wing darling Matt Taibbi wrote on his blog in 2009, “When I read [Malkin’s] stuff, I imagine her narrating her text, book-on-tape style, with a big, hairy set of balls in her mouth.” In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.” When feminist writer Erica Jong criticized him for it, he responded by referring to Jong as an “800-year old sex novelist.” (Jong is almost 70, which apparently makes her an irrelevant human being.) In Taibbi’s profile of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann he labeled her “batshit crazy.” (Oh, those “crazy” women with their hormones and all.)

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Chris Matthews’s sickening misogyny was made famous in 2008, when he obsessively tore down Hillary Clinton for standing between Barack Obama and the presidency, something that Matthews could not abide. Over the years he has referred to the former first lady, senator and presidential candidate and current secretary of state as a “she-devil,” “Nurse Ratched,” and “Madame Defarge.” Matthews has also also called Clinton  “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “uppity” and once claimed she won her Senate seat only because her “husband messed around.” He asked a guest if “being surrounded by women” makes “a case for commander in chief—or does it make a case against it?” At some point Matthews was shamed into sort of half apologizing to Clinton, but then just picked up again with his sexist ramblings.

Matthews has wondered aloud whether Sarah Palin is even “capable of thinking” and has called Bachmann a “balloon head” and said she was “lucky we still don’t have literacy tests out there.” Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene, who is the former president of the Women’s Media Center, told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in 2011 that Matthews “is a bully, and his favorite target is women.” So why does he still have a show? What if his favorite target was Jews? Or African-Americans?

But the grand pooh-bah of media misogyny is without a doubt Bill Maher—who also happens to be a favorite of liberals—who has given $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC. Maher has called Palin a “dumb twat” and dropped the C-word in describing the former Alaska governor. He called Palin and Congresswoman Bachmann “boobs” and “two bimbos.” He said of the former vice-presidential candidate, “She is not a mean girl. She is a crazy girl with mean ideas.” He recently made a joke about Rick Santorum’s wife using a vibrator. Imagine now the same joke during the 2008 primary with Michelle Obama’s name in it, and tell me that he would still have a job. Maher said of a woman who was harassed while breast-feeding at an Applebee’s, “Don't show me your tits!” as though a woman feeding her child is trying to flash Maher. (Here’s a way to solve his problem: don’t stare at a strangers’ breasts). Then, his coup de grâce: “And by the way, there is a place where breasts and food do go together. It’s called Hooters!”

Liberals—you know, the people who say they “fight for women”—comprise Maher’s audience, and a parade of high-profile liberals make up his guest list. Yet have any of them confronted him? Nope. That was left to Ann Coulter, who actually called Maher a misogynist to his face, an opportunity that feminist icon Gloria Steinem failed to take when she appeared on his show in 2011.

This is not to suggest that liberals—or feminists—never complain about misogyny. Many feminist blogs now document attacks on women on the left and the right, including Jezebel, Shakesville, and the Women’s Media Center (which was cofounded by Steinem). But when it comes to high-profile campaigns to hold these men accountable—such as that waged against Limbaugh—the real fury seems reserved only for conservatives, while the men on the left get a wink and a nod as long as they are carrying water for the liberal cause.

After all, if Limbaugh’s outburst is part of the “war on women,” then what is the routine misogyny of liberal media men?

It’s time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.

by Kirsten Powers – Originally Posted: Mar 4, 2012 10:00 AM EST – The Daily Beast

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And to make this all ever more unbelievable is that has come to light that Sandra Fluke was absolutely a plant by the left with connections and direction from as high as the White House… through former WH Marxist operative Anita Dunn.

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Thought For The Day: 8.27.08

It was a Hillary moment!!

“I’d Like to Thank My Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits” ...Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the 2008 Democratic Convention

(Sometimes we all just have to laugh at ourselves!)

"My mother was born before women could vote," Clinton reminded them. “But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for president."

And While We are Laughing At Ourselves...

A musical satire of the US presidential campaign has been released on the internet called "Time for some Campaignin'".

The comical animation has been created by the Spiridellis brothers, who made a similar video for the last election to great acclaim.

Video courtesy of Jibjab.com