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"For ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." John
8:32
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U.S. Supreme Court in the Balance
It took a bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse and enjoin
the anti-Christian, anti-life Florida Supreme Court from changing the
voting rules in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Billions of lives, especially those of unborn babies, will literally
hang in the balance in the years ahead. The next President of the United
States will appoint at least five [5] justices to the U.S. Supreme
Court. It is and will be our Christian duty to vote for politicians who
believe and fear God --- not those who believe and fear dirty muslim
terrorists!
Vote Bush/Cheney!
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$$$Millions for Abortion Funds = Teresa Heinz Kerry
Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2004
With Matt Drudge's recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to
his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam "brothers," the senator's
presidential campaign may depend more than everon the actions of his
wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far
overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a
far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed --
financially -- with the radical Left.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the
tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a
"charity" established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike,
distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political
organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its
closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in
1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants
in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for
the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade
demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal
groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual
activists and open borders advocates.
During the years 1995-2001, the Howard Heinz Endowment, which Heinz
Kerry chairs, gave Tides more than $4.3 million. The combined Heinz
Endowments (composed of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz
Endowment) donated $1.6 million to establish the Tides Center for
Western Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh office of the San Francisco-based
Tides Center. Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an
anti-business agenda in the name of "preserving the environment."
However, it is the Tides Foundation's national organization whose
connections are most disconcerting.
The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most
extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously
contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check
out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money.
Tides does so. The Tides Center will even manage a left-wing project,
for a nominal fee. Drummond Pike told The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
"Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with." That
becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant
recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
The Antiwar Movement
Senator John F. Kerry has gone far with his nuanced view of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. He voted for the war resolution but specified a litany of
conditions the Bush administration must meet before hewould support
combat, then proceeded to vote against funding troops already in harm's
way -- then claimed he had always supported the president when Saddam
Hussein was captured. The grant recipients of the Tides Foundation, to
which Kerry's wife has steered millions of dollars in "charitable"
funds, understand no such nuance.
Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to
fund the antiwar movement. These projectsfueled such hysterical protest
organizations as MoveOn.org, the website that recently featured two
separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. (Howard
Dean, not Kerry, won MoveOn.org's "virtual primary.")
The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the radical
website Indymedia provided them "alternate media coverage." Indymedia,
an enormous news and events bulletin board with local pages in most of
the world's major cities, provided a vital link for radical activists
often with violent agendas to coordinate their protests. Indymedia
received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation.
The Institute for Global Communications is another leftist
communications facilitator that received Tides grant money. IGC, which
during the 1990s was the leading provider of web technology to the
radical Left, links to "recommended sites" such as the War Resisters
League (a group whose purpose is enabling peaceniks to refuse to pay
taxes) and the leftist American Friends Service Committee. Most
disturbing is the link to Ramsey Clark's International Action Center,
which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and North Korean strongman Kim
Jong-Il. The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which
sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion
of Iraq.When ANSWER was outed as aCommunist organization, United for
Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie
Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. UFPJ is also a Tides
grant recipient.The Tides-funded "A Better Way Project," which opposed
war in Iraq, also coordinated efforts of United for Peace and Justice
and the Win Without War Coalition. The celebrity-laden Win Without War
Coalition, along with the Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann
Foundation, ran full-page ads in the New York Times opposing the War on
Terrorism. This will not be the last overlapping of far-Left causes.
The Islamist Front
Immediately after 9/11, Tides formed a "9/11 Fund" to advocate a
"peaceful national response" to the opening salvos of war. Part of the
half-million dollars in grants the 9/11 Fund dispersed went to the New
York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project to protect the rights of
homosexual Arabs. The Foundation replaced the 9/11 Fund with the
"Democratic Justice Fund," which was established with the aid of George
Soros' Open Society Institute. (Currency speculator and pro-drug
advocate Soros is, like Teresa Heinz Kerry, a major contributor to
Tides, having donated more than $7 million.) The Democratic Justice Fund
seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States,
particularly from countries designated by the State Department as
"terrorist nations."
Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic
Relations.Ostensibly a "Muslim civil rights group," CAIR is in fact one
of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations within the Wahhabi
Lobby, with links to Hamas. CAIR regularly opposes and demonizes
American efforts to fight terrorism, claiming, for instance, that
Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in
"hate crimes."
CAIR officials have reason to fight Bush's anti-terrorism measures: all
too many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorism. CAIR
Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, "I am a supporter
of the Hamas movement." Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi has
been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications
Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with
a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad.
CAIR has defended terrorist "charities" shut down by the Bush
administration. Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested
for aiding and abetting terrorism.
The Legal Matrix
The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical
legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild,
which began as a Commnist front organizationand is proud of its lineage.
At its recent convention last October, the concluding speaker was Lynne
Stewart, an indictedterroristNLG lawyer arrested for helping her client
-- convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar
Abdel Rahman -- communicate with his terrorist cells in Egypt. In her
speech, Stewart said she and her NLG comrades were carrying on a proud
tradition of their forebears, past and present:
And modern heroes, dare I mention? Ho and Mao and Lenin, Fidel and
Nelson Mandela and John Brown, Che Guevara who reminds us, "At the risk
of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided
by a great feeling of love." Our quests like theirs are to shake the
very foundations of the continents.
More recently, the NLG has endorsed the March 20 call to End Colonial
Occupation from Iraq to Palestine and Everywhere" organized by
International ANSWER, and has posted a petition for "Post-Conviction
Relief" for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Tides' Peace Strategies Fund has funneled money to the Center for
Constitutional Rights. The CCR was stablished by Sixties radical William
Kunstler, defender of the Chicago 8, and Arthur Kinoy. The two also had
plans to establish a new Communist Party. Executive Director Ron Daniels
has been honored by the Communist Party USA for his work. Daniels also
has a long and cordial relationship with racist, anti-Semitic "poet
laureate" Amiri Baraka. Since 9/11, CCR has channeled its efforts into
fighting every effective Homeland Security measure. They have opposed
increasing the government's ability to wiretap Islamists suspected of
plotting terrorism and moaned the sequestering of terrorist detainees at
Guantanamo Bay was an unexcusable form of "racial profiling." CCR
President Michael Ratner has portrayed American soldiers as the
offenders, guilty of 9/11 by their Middle East policy and guilty of
keeping Islamist killers "shackled, hooded and sedated during the 25
hour flight from Afghanistan." CCR has also defended Lynne Stewart's
"innocence" in aiding Sheikh Rahman's Islamic Jihad.
Tides also funds the Alliance for Justice, a group dedicated to stopping
Bush judicial appointees (a cause John Kerry can agree wholeheartedly
endorse). Other Tides grants have gone to the Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights and the Asian Law Caucus.
Environmental Extremism
The Tides Foundation has funded the Ruckus Society, a group ofanarchist
Greens who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade
Organization riots. The Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania,
established in Pittsburgh with Heinz Family funds, advocates for
environmentalist measures that have helped put holes in the Rust Belt's
economy.
Tides money has also squashed free speech. Thanks to complaintsgenerated
bythe Tides-funded Environmental Working Group, ABC cancelled a John
Stossel piece exposing the misleading nature of environmental advocacy
in public elementary schools.
Greenpeace is a well-known Tides grant recipient. Greenpeace is best
known for its illegal actions,endangering humans in order to make a
point about theenvironment. Tides gave Greenpeacea quarter of a million
dollars over ten years.
Lest one think only Tides' money is going to radicals, not funds
directly controlled by Teresa Heinz Kerry, remember that Heinz money has
repeatedly found its way to the Earth Island Institute. On September 14,
2001, the Institute's website bore the headline "U.S. Responds to
Terrorist Attacks with Self-Righteous Arrogance."
Heinz family philanthropic funds have also had some dubious effects on
the presidential race. The League of Conservation Voters has recently
endorsed John Kerry's presidential campaign. The Heinz Family Foundation
gave LCV at least $20,000 and donated almost $250,000 to a member of the
LCV board.
Perhaps this circular rotation of cash and endorsements should not
surprise anyone. The grant-making institutions of the Left and their
feverish recipientsultimately forman amorphous, leftist entity. One
never needs to search very far to find connections between a leftist
foundation andextreme advocacy groups. Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros,
Bill Moyersand the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center;
Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.organd United for
Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to
protest against their common political enemies (Republicans).
Ultimately, their representativesend up on Bill Moyers' PBS programs or
active within the Democratic campaigns of their fundraisers. Between now
and the election, these organizations will run constant interference for
the Democratic presidential nominee (presumably Kerry himself): they
will march en masse against the Bush administration again and again;
they will file more lawsuits against the administration's Homeland
Security measures, decry any effective response to terrorism, claim the
United States is guilty of slaughtering Iraqi civilians and petition
leftist judges to open America's borders to Islamist terrorists. After
they help his election, President Kerry will be indebted to them. And
then they will insist he begin implementing their political agenda.
Moreover, they will have a close ally in the East Wing of the White
House, an ally more intimatelytiedto them than she isto her (second)
husband. (She only adopted his last name and political party
registration less than 18 months ago. "Politically, it's going to be
Heinz Kerry," she recently said. "But I don't give a sh-t, you know?")
Teresa Heinz Kerry will play a potent role in saving her second
husband's presidential campaign now -- as Hillary Clinton did in 1992,
and again during her husband's impeachment. Like Hillary, in return for
her service, Heinz may demand a place at the table for her pet causes.
Caveat emptor.
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Detroit Free Press: Demon-KKK-Rats' Genocide of Black Babies
The Detroit Free Press. Eye on Politics: Blacks' abortions tragically
ignored. September 13, 2004.
By Dawson Bell (Detroit Free Press Staff Writer)
One of the familiar features of a political rally in any urban area in
Michigan is the recitation of ills and injustice that befall many black
citizens.
They are, of course, legion. Dysfunctional schools. [Blame
Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and incompetent teachers unions. Ed.] High crime.
[Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges. Ed.] Low employment. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' high
taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions. Ed.] More African-American
men in prison than college. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and
incompetent teachers unions + liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges + high taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions.
Ed.]
But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians
black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an
injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a
tragedy.
It is the shockingly high number of African-American women who have had
abortions. In Michigan last year alone, black women had 10,911
abortions. (For the sake of comparison, 1,283 Michiganders of all ages
and races died in traffic accidents in 2003).
The numbers are highlighted in a new report produced by Right to Life of
Michigan from state Department of Community Health data, which is broken
down by race for the first time this year.
The report shows that African-American women of childbearing age were
three times as likely to have had an abortion last year as were women of
other races. Black women, who comprise less than 16 percent of the
female population in Michigan, obtained more than 38 percent of all
abortions.
According to the RTLM report, if African Americans in Michigan had
abortions at a rate comparable to women of other races, the number of
abortions overall in Michigan would be 25 percent lower.
One can argue that the high rate of abortion among African Americans is
not an ill unto itself, but a symptom of underlying problems like
poverty and family breakdown.
Thus, if young, black, pregnant women had the kind of financial and
family support available to women of other races, they would be no more
likely to terminate their pregnancies.
In its report, Right to Life, the state's leading abortion opponent,
cites economic pressures as the likely culprit for a slight but steady
rise in the overall number of abortions since 1999, and its officials
concede that those pressures are more acute for urban blacks.
But we can cite the same underlying causes for high rates of violence or
illiteracy among urban African Americans. No one uses that as an excuse
to ignore either (that we seem to make so little progress with remedies
is a separate issue).
One explanation is the increasingly partisan nature of the abortion
debate.
As it stands now, Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to limits on
abortion. African Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic. [Gam zeh
ya'avor - This too shall pass. Ed.]
Hence, the people most likely to share Right to Life's view that there
is an "abortion crisis in the black community" don't speak at political
rallies in the inner city.
Maybe that will change over time. [Vote for Black Christian Family
Values! Vote for the Party of Lincoln! Vote Bush/Cheney! Ed.] Right to
Life is scheduled to open its first Detroit office soon.
More and more young people describe themselves as pro-life.
In the meantime, the number of unborn black babies speaks for itself.
[Black Churches, get on the GOP bus! Ed.]
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Why Christians, et al. Shouldn't Trust ARAB Zogby "Polls"
PoliPundit http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=4176
Back in 1996, pollster Zogby hit the bullseye in predicting the results
of the Presidential election. In 2000, they were close again, though
their aggregate error tied them with 5 other national polls. In 2002,
Zogby appeared to show a lean in favor of the Democrats, and he was way
off in his mid-term election predictions. This year, at the end of the
spring, John Zogby actually came out and predicted John Kerry would win
the election, which appeared to indicate his bias had reached the point
of full-blown partisanship against the President, reflected in a growing
number of opinions made out of personal preference, rather than on the
evidence. Zogby's refusal to show his work, only magnifies the apparent
distortion of his results.
Zogby runs two polls; a telephone poll and an Interactive Internet poll.
Unlike almost every other poll, Zogby's telephone poll is not RDD
[random digit dialing]. Zogby describes his list as follows:
"The majority of telephone lists for polls and surveys are produced in
the IT department at Zogby International. Vendor-supplied lists are used
for regions with complicated specifications, e.g., some Congressional
Districts. Customer-supplied lists are used for special projects like
customer satisfaction surveys and organization membership surveys.
Telephone lists generated in our IT department are called from the 2002
version of a nationally published set of phone CDs of listed households,
ordered by telephone number. Residential (or business) addresses are
selected and then coded by region, where applicable. An appropriate
replicate1 is generated from this parent list, applying the replicate
algorithm repeatedly with a very large parent list, e.g., all of the US.
Acquired lists are tested for duplicates, coded for region, tested for
regional coverage, and ordered by telephone, as needed." Zogby notes
that "regional quotas are employed to ensure adequate coverage
nationwide."
That is, Zogby takes pains to insure that his respondent poll is not
random.
As for his weighting, Zogby states "Reported frequencies and crosstabs
are weighted using the appropriate demographic profile to provide a
sample that best represents the targeted population from which the
sample is drawn from. The proportions comprising the demographic profile
are compiled from historical exit poll data, census data, and from Zogby
International survey data."
In other words, Zogby uses his own polls to drive some of his
demographic parameters, a practice not approved, much less recommended,
by either the NCPP [Nat'l Council on Public Polls] or the AAPOR
[American Association of Public Opinion Research].
All in all, Zogby's habit of confusing his personal opinion with
data-driven conclusions, his admitted practice of manipulating the
respondent pool and his demographic weights, by standards not accepted
anywhere else, along with mixing Internet polls with telephone interview
results, forces me to reject his polls as unacceptable; they simply
cannot be verified, and I strongly warn the reader that there is no
established benchmark for the Zogby reports, even using previous Zogby
polls, because he has changed his practices from his own history.
Except for some specific polls whose practices earned remarks for their
excellence or a distinct lack of it, I have tried not to rank or grade
the polls. I would also recommend the reader read through the polls
himself, to determine which is most thorough in its work and results.
But hopefully, this guide will help sort through who is chasing the
money, and who is serious about their work.
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