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THE FOUNDATION

"The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man." --James Madison

G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh weren't exactly "right-wing extremists"
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi berated town hall and tea party protesters this month, tearfully warning they'd incite violence. Well, there's been violence all right, at Pittsburgh's G-20. But it wasn't the tea partiers. It takes gall to characterize ordinary Americans, freely exercising their rights of speech and assembly in civic forums, as 'mobs' while ignoring a pack of leftist thugs now smashing a U.S. city. But that's what Pelosi did, directing her righteous tocsin to the Norman Rockwell-like gatherings of Americans who opposed her expansion of government this past summer. 'I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw ... I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco,' Pelosi said, choking up, her eyes brimming with tears. 'This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate in which we, violence took place and ... I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made,' she told a congressional forum Sept. 17 in a bid to silence peaceful protesters. Scroll ahead one week to the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh: Some 1,000 hooded rioters descend on the city waving signs such as 'Smash the G-20' and 'Eat the Rich.' Many take 'direct action' to 'challenge capitalism' in what organizers brazenly call an 'unpermitted protest.' Unlike the town hall citizens, they didn't 'hurl' statements -- just tire irons, bricks and rocks, in an effort to damage private businesses. ... This kind of violence is nothing new. It was found in Seattle in 1999, where former Obama administration green czar Van Jones got himself arrested. It was repeated at other summits in Turin, Italy; Washington, D.C.; and London. These leftists detest capitalism, abhor private property -- and have ties to the Democratic Party. The unwillingness of the Democratic establishment to defend free markets emboldens the rioters. In destroying private property and impeding trade, these anarchists prove their aims aren't democratic. They resemble the mobs of Castro's Cuba who engage in violence against citizens to enforce conformity. The outrage of it all raises questions about Pelosi's real agenda in her one-sided criticism of tea partiers. By criticizing only tea partiers and ignoring rampant thugs, she seeks to repress peaceful dissent. With that setup, it's no surprise that there's a mudslide of violence now rolling down on us from an energized radical left." --Investor's Business Daily

INSIGHT

"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand." --English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

UPRIGHT

"President Obama's speech to the United Nations has been called naive and even 'post-American.' It was something else, as well: the most extravagant excursion into self-worship we have yet seen in an American leader. Beware of politicians who claim to be 'humbled by the responsibility the American people have placed upon me.' It's a neon sign flashing the opposite. And sure enough, in almost the next sentence, the president allowed that 'I am well aware of the expectations that accompany my presidency around the world.' Really? The whole world pulses with hope and expectation because Obama is president? People in Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Taipei have a spring in their step because an Illinois Democrat won the White House?" --columnist Mona Charen

"America is 233 years old. Some think that there are ample accomplishments speaking to our character and cause that predate Obama's ascension to the presidency. Feh, Obama seems to be saying. Look instead to our new greatness, for we have elected a man like him! Having anointed himself America's vindicator and redeemer, Obama's real purpose seems to be to become the leader not of the free world but, simply, the world." --columnist Jonah Goldberg

"With President Obama presiding over 'the historic session,' the U.N. Security Council approved unanimously an American resolution committing all nations to work for -- please sit up straight for this -- a world free of nuclear weapons. Somewhere in the fine print was a clause praising small babies, little puppies and chocolate candy. The resolution was so harmless that even Russia, China and several 'developing' nations (the usual euphemism for the socialist satraps) voted for the resolution." --columnist Wesley Pruden

"The president's announcement that the United States would not deploy long-range missile defenses in Eastern Europe after all was astonishing because George W. Bush had negotiated so patiently with the Czechs and Poles, who took considerable risks in cooperating with Washington. ... The Poles, Czechs and everyone else must hope that Obama got something from Russia in return. For now, the president looks more chump than champ. The president's men made him look like a rube just off the turnip truck for how he gave the word to the Polish and Czech presidents, treating them to a midnight telephone call the night before he announced his decision. It looked like an afterthought, and probably felt that way, too." --columnist Suzanne Fields

"Liberalism holds that there is no human problem that government can't fix if only the right people are put in charge." --former Alaska governor Sarah Palin

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DEZINFORMATSIA

Civil discourse 101: "The Republicans lie. They want to see you dead. They'd rather make money off your dead corpse. They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her. That's how the insurance companies make money, by denying the coverage." --MSNBC's Ed Schultz

Braying Jackass: "This crazy anti-government talk [at town hall meetings] isn't improving any body's life. The clown show is over. It's better now to look like you're at least hopeful of getting a better health care plan for the country, even if you vote against it." --MSNBC's Chris Matthews

We hope not: "Do you think the president's done a good enough job selling government as the solution?" --NBC's David Gregory to Bill Clinton

The depth and seriousness of Leftmedia "journalism": "Who would you want to swap lives with for a week?" --CBS's Cali Carlin to Maggie Rodriguez, who answered, "Hands down, Michelle Obama."

Defending indoctrination: "I mean, this is children. They're singing a song. And I'm not clear myself. If you can make your point again about why this is indoctrination, political indoctrination to praise your president. I remember certainly in elementary school when Ronald Reagan was president and we sent him jelly beans. We designed all of these things about Ronald Reagan. We sent them to him. And I don't think everybody in the class ended up a Republican because of that. ... It's about praising the president and making our country great again." --MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell defending the video of New Jersey kids singing to BO -- another video surfaced of kids in North Carolina doing likewise

Newspulper Headlines:

What Would We Do Without Almost 90% of Americans?: "Almost 90% of Americans Think Media Helped Get Obama Elected" --NewsBusters.org

Where's Acorn When You Need It? -- I: "Hooker Furniture Takes 1Q Loss as Sales Slide" --Associated Press

Where's Acorn When You Need It? -- II: "Sex-Service Number Given Out as Government Hotline" --CBC.ca

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "John Jay College Overrun by Bed Bugs" --WCBS-TV Web site (New York)

News of the Tautological: "Pelosi Seeks to Make Health Reform Bill More Liberal" --CBSNews.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Despite Long Debate, Health-Care Costs Could Soar" --Seattle Times

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

From the speech to the UN: "No nation can or should try to dominate another nation." --Barack Obama ("Did a professional speechwriter write that? Or did you outsource it to a starry-eyed runner-up in the Miss America pageant? Whether or not any nation 'should try' to dominate another, they certainly 'can,' and do so with effortless ease, all over the planet and throughout human history." --columnist Mark Steyn)

Arms are for hugging: "We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth." --Barack Obama ("President Obama dreams of a world without weapons ... but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite. Iran since 2005 has flouted five Security Council resolutions. North Korea has been defying Council resolutions since 1993. I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map." --France's Nikolas Sarkozy ++ "It's a sad state of affairs when a Frenchman mocks an American president and you have to go with the Frog." â??columnist Jules Crittenden)

Tough talk: "Iran is on notice that when we meet with them on October 1st they are going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice: Are they willing to go down the path which I think ultimately will lead to greater prosperity and security for Iran -- giving up, uh, the acquisition of nuclear weapons, and deciding that they are willing to abide by international rules and standards in their pursuit of peaceful nuclear energy -- uh, or will they continue, uh, down a past that is going to lead to confrontation? I'm not going to speculate on the course of action that we will take. We're going to give October 1st a chance." --BO

"We're exploring how you broaden and deepen sanctions. Now, sanctions are already in place, as you know, but like many sanction regimes they're leaky. But in the last, ummm, eight months, uh, since we've been dealing with North Korea on a similar, uh, set of issues, we have forged an international consensus around very tough sanctions. And that's given us some additional information about how to proceed on the Iranian front." --Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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Attacking the Tea Parties: "It's fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to the level of the vitriolic rhetoric that we've seen this debate turn up, it's very, I think, dangerous to the fabric of our country." --Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-UI)

Cat out of the bag: "I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does." --Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass-confusion)

Call the Hearse: "If it fails, I'm dead." --Vice President Joe Biden on the so-called stimulus

VILLAGE IDIOTS

It's a conspiracy, man: "Oh, you bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was, because America's changed demographically, but it's as virulent as it was. I mean, they're saying things about [Obama] -- you know, it's like when they accused me of murder and all that stuff they did. It's not really good for the Republicans and the country, what's going on now. I mean, they may be hurting President Obama. They can take his numbers down, they can run his opposition up. But fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America." --Bill Clinton when asked about the "vast, right-wing conspiracy"

Foolish praise: "You are our number one propagandist, in the good sense that a propagandist presents their viewpoint very well. Maybe no one does it better." --CNN's Larry King to filmmaker Michael Moore

Race card: "Racism is as American as apple pie. The presence of a president that as African blood is very, very troublesome to many in this country." --King Salim Khalfani, president of the Virginia NAACP (And without "racism," Khalfani would be out of a job.)

Non Compos Mentis: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape." --Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View" on film director Roman Polanski, arrested this week in a 30-year-old rape case

SHORT CUTS

"There's a new book out about Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage and in it they say Michelle Obama was very upset by all these drooling blondes who would push up to her husband and rub themselves up against him. They said this one blonde was especially suggestive and kept rubbing up against the President. Finally, Michelle said, 'Look, Chris Matthews, get away from my husband.'" --comedian Jay Leno

"Obama is, we are told, the smartest man to sit in the Oval in many a year. And yet he is capable of truly flabbergasting fatuities like this: 'In this hall, we come from many places, but we share a common future." You don't say? That's right up there with Warren Harding's declaration that 'the future lies before us.'" --columnist Mona Charen

"For progressives in the Age of Obama, setting high academic standards is secondary to the self-improvement of the 'whole child' and 'service' to the cause of social justice. Out: readin', writin' and 'rithmetic. In: rappin', revolution and radicalism." --columnist Michelle Malkin

"The White House said swine flu vaccines will be in doctors' offices Monday. Many parents are refusing to have their kids vaccinated. They're afraid the kids will walk out of the doctor's office clapping their hands and chanting Barack Hussein Obama." --comedian Argus Hamilton

*****

Veritas vos Liberabit -- Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff.

(Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)