Wednesday Night Conservative Podcast

Tonight On Truth and Hope :

-Illegal Immigration and Terrorism
-Rudy and Planned Parenthood: Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be
-The Balkinization of America
-Two Deceptive Democrats

-Racial Preferences by Any Other Name

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Related:

Michelle Malkin:

Terrorist plot in Cherry Hill, NJ; illegal aliens among alleged plotters;
a John Doe turned them in; press conference at 2:30pm Eastern;
Fort Dix has been a refuge for ethnic Albanians; details from the complaint;

Dix responds

Captain’s Quarters:

The Flight to Fly Over Country

Majority Accountability Project:

Boyda, Shea-Porter reverse course on campaign contributions

LaShawn Barber:

Holistic Review Exposed

Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, The Virtuous Republic, The Random Yak, Big Dog’s Weblog, Leaning Straight Up, The Amboy Times, The Florida Masochist, Conservative Cat, Rightlinx, third world county, The World According to Carl, Pirate’s Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Planck’s Constant, Dumb Ox Daily News, Right Voices, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Linked by Telchai Nation

Prayers Up for Basil

One of my favorites, Basil is in the hospital.

Chief Bender Midweek Open Trackbacks

Chief Bender was a Hall-of-Fame pitcher, but it’s not his pitching we honor today. On this day in baseball history, May 8, 1906, the pitcher had an extraoirdinary accomplishment:

With the A’s shorthanded because of injuries, Connie Mack puts pitcher Alvin “Chief” Bender in left field in the sixth inning of a game against the Boston Pilgrims. Bender hits two inside-the-park home runs.

Now, onto today’s trackback party. Here are the rules.

1) Post about anything that’s in good taste. No porn, no spam, no profanity.
2) Send me a trackback of any tasteful post you want and as soon as I check my blog, I’ll update this post with your link provided you link back to this thread. If your software won’t allow you to send trackbacks, just use the Wizbang Standalone Pinger.
3) Deadline is Wednesday at 11:00 PM MT. Further trackbacks won’t be posted after that time.

For your convenience here’s today’s link. If you’re a registered user, the, trackback should appear below. If not, here’s the process:

Enter the characters as shown in the box and something like this should appear

This is a Trackback URL that’s good one time only so that we can seperate humans from spammer bots.

Below are other great parties:

Linking In:

The Florida Masochist:

The tenth biggest religion
Would you believe Juche?

The Florida Masochist:

The Knucklehead of the Day

The Knucklehead of the Day award
Today’s winner is the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

The Florida Masochist;

Google does blopspot
If google doesn’t give preference to blogspot blogs, I’m a monkey’s Uncle.

Planck’s Constant:

The Gratitude of Muslims
In the Summer of 1969 my brother and I just finished touring Italy and we decided to drive to Greece by going through Yugoslavia. We nearly made a fatal mistake.

Planck’s Constant:

Autism Speaks
Autism speaksOriginally uploaded by forester401. Autism Speaks created a music video of the Five for Fighting song, “World”, which features images of autistic children and their families. It is a truly moving video and was the work of Bill Shea. The ba…

Right Voices:

I Guess My Parents Are Eco-Criminals
I am one of nine children and I guess that would make my parents criminals….
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the …

The Florida Masochist:

Chutzpah North Korean Style

Pyongyang deals in counterfeit US money and now wants the service of a US bank. Next thing they’ll be demanding is a free toaster! Those wild and crazy guys in Pyongyang.

The Florida Masochist

From the Silly News Desk
Some news from South Korea. I agree with the court. Unless getting drunk was required as a job qualification by the employer, Mr. Choi was out of line.

Not Vote Buying

Boise Guardian expresses concern over the number of absentee ballot appliations rolling in:

GUARDIAN sources tell us more than 10,000 Ada County residents have already applied for absentee ballots in the single issue Community College election.

The Community College vote on May 22 has us concerned because there is just too much money being tossed at this thing by too many well to do people in the big business community. We don’t oppose the concept of a community college, but would feel a lot more comfortable if we had hard numbers, names, and taxing authority limits.

While legal, the practice of sending absentee ballot applications reeks of buying the election—especially when the application is attached to a partisan advertisement. My mother would have called the practice “tawdry.”

It also creates costly and unnecessary work for the election clerk’s office.

Sending in absentee ballots is not buying the election and if the Boise Guardian missed it, there was a lot of this going on from Democrats in the last election and they’ll be a lot more going on from both parties in 2008. I personally have not returned a ballot as I intend to do something novel and actually vote on election day. I’m a little old fashioned that way.

Look for an opposition group to fire up its own machine in the next week or two, telling folks why they should vote “NO” on the proposal. Opponents get a “two for one” advantage in the election because it takes a 2/3 majority to pass. All they need is 34% to claim victory.

I would say that given this was written on 5/4 and a week or two for then would be 5/11-5/18 (four days before the election) the opposition will end up a day late and a few hundred thousand dollars short. Polling in the area before the campaign showed support around 60%. With the campaign’s methods and prominence, I think that supporters will get th extra 6 or 7% needed and this will be approved by a broad vote.

Thanks for the Admission

Opponents of State and Federal Marriage Amendments, as well as liberal Presidential Candidates profess we don’t need a marriage Amendment. However my old friend and far left radical blogger/talk show host Russ Belville had this to say of late:

There are too many laws regarding marriage to have a hodge-podge of domestic partnerships, civil unions, and marriages throughout the states. A landmark federal court case will enact marriage equality in one fell swoop.

Russ gets it, when will conservatives realize it and really push for a Federal Marriage Amendment?

Podcast #251: Criminal Charity

An organization that’s attempting to thwart federal immigration enforcement needs to tbe called to account.

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Related:

Washington Times:

Guide Coaches Illegals On Raid

‘Splainin’ Time

For someone who “hates abortion” Rudy sure gave quite a bit of money to Planned Parenthood. So Pro-Lifers out there who support Rudy? When are you going to have enough of this guy?

For the Future of the Treasure Valley: Community College Yes

I write on what I hope will be a day when bloggers across Idaho will come together to stand for an initiative that will move Idaho forward. On May 22nd, we will have the great opportunity to go forward and support the passage of an initiative to create Western Idaho College, a community college for the Treasure Valley.

There are many points to be raised for this college which I’ll address in short order. The point has been raised time and again in favor that we face a coming nursing crisis in this Valley, with not enough nurses to meet the needs of a growing metropolitan area. The case has been made that this will be key to economic growth. All are valid, and have been ably made.

What I would like to bring to the table is my own personal perspective. As the son of Disable American Veteran and Minister, my family didn’t have the money to go to College. Had we lived in Boise at the time, I suppose when I decided at age 19 that I wanted to go to College, I would have ended up a day late and a few thousand dollars short. But I lived in Flathead County (with a population of around 80,000) and the residents had the wisdom in 1967 to create a Community College District.

Because of this, I had a chance at an education. My older brothers had only gotten GEDs, but I was blessed to go to college. It was at FVCC that certain things became clear about my life’s direction. I met an English Instructor who helped spur me on towards better writing, I learned the art of Oral Interpretation which time and time again has informed my professional presentations.

FVCC provided me with a solid foundation for life and the study of journalism. Thanks to a grant the first year, and an Academic Scholarship the second year, I left school with no student loans. I also had the opportunity to attend University of Montana School of Journalism on a full tuition scholarship but chose to enter the workforce instead. The opportunity that was extended to me is something that many Treasure Valley Students will miss out on if we fail to approve Western Idaho College.

Homeschoolers will benefit greatly from the passage of this initiative. While many homeschoolers are sought out by top colleges, for working families where one parent stays home to manage the children’s education find themselves unable to provide their children with a top flight education Many homeschoolers attend Flathead Valley Community College. Community Colleges are traditionally open enrollment and with low tuition, students are able to attend without thousands of dollars in scholarships that are often closed to homeschooled students.

Community Colleges save taxpayers and businesses money, by providing an inexpensive local resource when training becomes necessary. For example, in order to maintain their licenses teachers are required to take a number of credit hours. Wouldn’t it make more sense for these courses to be done through the Community College (if possible) rather than at more expensive universities? In Montana, I saw the state enjoy savings from retraining laid off employees through the Community College rather than the University of Montana, with its much higher tuition.

Community Colleges provide a greater degree of academic diversity. What impressed me about my time at FVCC is that about 70-80% of the Instructors, I couldn’t tell you whether they were Republican or Democrat. I couldn’t tell you where there biases lay. They were simply good instructors. Community Colleges attract a wider pool of potential applicants. If you go to FVCC, you meet people with experience outside the four-walls of academia. You meet people who’ve not sold their souls to gain a position. One of my professors explained why she came from Wisconsin to Kalispell by saying she wanted to raise a family and that she could not do that in an atmosphere of publish-or-perish as happens every major University in this country. Family came first, so she came to Kalispell, taught mostly during the time her children were in school and was able to spend the Summer with them after she taught Interim classes. This type of experience of people with lives and dreams, and interests outside traditional Academia will be far more common at Western Idaho College than BSU.

Let’s be clear, I’m a Conservative. I cast my first vote in the Treasure Valley against the ill-conceived auditorium district in February, 2004. I’m also a Conservative who supports this college. I believe in the values that made this country great. When I look at the Founder’s lives, they give us clue as to how they interpreted government at the state and local level. Thomas Jefferson’s final achievement was the founding of the University of Virginia. He wrote his own epithet and listed three accomplishments: authoring the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, writing the Declaration of Independence, and being “father” of the University of Virginia. Given that Jefferson didn’t mention his status as Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, Vice-President, President, or as an Ambassador, what does it say that the establishment of an institution of higher education ranks with two of the greatest texts of the Founding Era? It suggests that the founders believed in the general availability of education. It is why time and time again, you’ll find the Founding Fathers behind efforts to build schools, colleges, and universities of all sort. Washington in his eighth State of the Union called for the establishment of a National University towards that end.

I believe in expanding educational opportunities to a greater number of Treasure Valley residents, so I urge my fellow citizens to go to the polls and vote Yes on the Community College.

Visit Community College Yes and Community College Now for more information.

Other Blogs taking today to urge passage of the Community College:

Bubblehead

Rep. Branden Durst
The Political Game
Red State Rebels who also provides early voting information:

Ada County will have three days and three locations for early voting. On Thursday, May 17; Friday, May 18; and Monday, May 21, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ballots may be cast at these locations:

Idaho Fish & Game, 600 S. Walnut, Boise
Eagle City Hall, 660 E. Civic Lane, Eagle

Christ Lutheran Church, 1406 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian

Andrea and I might go and vote on the 18th when I have the day off.

Thanks for everyone for joining this blog burst. The level of bi-Partisan support for this will be noted. Let’s get this passed for the future of Idaho.