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Breitbart: NAACP is trying to snooker America

Kerry Picket

Following Andrew Breitbart’s release of a video showing now former USDA official Shirley Sherrod making questionable racial remarks to an NAACP audience regarding how she handled an interaction with a white farmer, she resigned from her position at the USDA on Monday.

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Look who’s talking

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

“You’re a racist!” Screamed kids (not the NAACP) in response to racial slurs thrown back and forth, from kid to kid; in a class of routinely ill-behaved high-schoolers. Prior to my current position, I did time as a substitute teacher. Among many anecdotes I have about the students, this one is most pertinent in the current climate.

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Brennan: Terrorists created through social and economic factors

Kerry Picket

Senior counterterrorism advisor John Brennan visited the Washington Times Editorial Board on June 24, as he took issue with our writers on our June 11 editorial titled Terrorists are the real victims? The piece describes how the Obama administration, particularly John Brennan himself, believe: “United States cannot be at war with terrorism because terrorism is only a ‘tactic.’” The editorial is critical of a speech a Mr. Brennan delivered in May on why individuals turn to terrorism. Mr. Obama’s counterterrorism advisor disapprovingly pointed to the particular piece below, in the editorial, where we discuss his ideas relating to why individuals turn to terrorist activities: Mr. Brennan also asserted that "violent extremists" are victims of "political, economic and social forces." This dense statement implies that counterterrorism should focus not on terrorists themselves but the underlying causes that purportedly "victimized" them. It's similar to the discredited argument that the way to fight urban crime is through big-government social programs rather than putting more police on the beat. Making terrorists into victims also legitimates their grievances, which is a strange way to fight them.

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McCotter: Abolishing RPC solely about cutting spending not a power play

Kerry Picket

November may hold strong gains for House Republicans, but GOP members appear to already be having on the side sniping over who could possibly hold various leadership positions should they win back the majority. Rep. Thad McCotter, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, reportedly angered fellow Republicans back in early July, when he revealed his plan to abolish the entire committee as a cost saving measure to pay down the national debt.

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Kagan's Partial-Birth Partial Truths

Quin Hillyer

Americans United for Life has issued a wonderful report that documents just how wrongly Elena Kagan interfered with scientific judgment, hijacked policy, and eventually distorted Supreme Court case law, all in pursuit of keeping partial-birth abortion legal.

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Nice try, Think Progress

Kerry Picket

Think Progress attempted to smear the tea party movement by stitching together video of an individual saying racist remarks at a tea party event among other suspicious clips whose context remain unknown. However, another video shows tea party members chasing the same racist individual out of the tea party event.

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Racial quotas as financial services reform?

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Although a great deal of attention has been focused on the pros and cons of “the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” overall, little to no attention is being played to specific provisions within the bill which dictate onerous new racial mandates that will be imposed on financial institutions nationwide. Recall that the financial services bill purports to put limits and regulations in place to prevent another financial meltdown from occurring. However these so called affirmative action provisions are ill suited to that task and moreover they are likely to fail to meet constitutional muster.

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Arizona lawsuit lingers over mid term election strategies

Kerry Picket

The timing of the federal government’s lawsuit over Arizona’s immigration law has raised the question if the Obama administration is so concerned about the mid-term elections in November, that the White House and their allies on the Hill are willing to frighten their Hispanic base to get them out to the polls in what expects to be a lackluster turnout for Democrats this year. Western Democratic governors have already cited their concerns to Obama administration officials regarding the “toxic” effects of the lawsuit on state races.