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Monday, February 23, 2009
John McCaslin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Clyde's Back
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The Democratic National Committee has a new political director, Clyde Williams, who previously served as senior policy adviser at the community-minded Clinton Foundation, vice president of the Center for American Progress (a think tank dedicated to exposing "the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy") and deputy chief of staff at the Agriculture Department.

Mr. Williams, who of late was running a business development firm in New York City, says he looks forward to strengthening the Democratic Party while advancing President Obama's agenda.

RIGHT AND LEFT

As for the future of the Republican Party, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), is on tap to deliver a Tuesday address to the National Press Club, discussing "the state of conservative activism" following the 2008 elections, previewing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that begins Thursday, and unveiling ACU's annual ratings of Congress.

The latter is considered the gold standard for matching the conservative rhetoric of congressmen and senators against their records. Just for kicks (after all, they've taken control of Washington), Inside the Beltway takes a look at the ACU lifetime ratings for today's top Democratic leaders, rated on a percentage scale of 1 to 100:

President Barack Obama: 8

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.: 14

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: 9

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: 3 (she scored a zero in 2005)

Former Vice President Al Gore: 9

OUTRAGEOUS

A correction was issued over the weekend by Americans for Limited Government (ALG), one of several news outlets and Internet blog sites duped by erroneous information:

"ALG News reported, mistakenly, that the new CIA Director, Leon Panetta, had a daughter that was associated with the dictators of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega. In fact, as reported by Accuracy in Media, Mr. Panetta has no daughter."

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John McCaslin is a contributing columnist on Townhall.com and author of Inside The Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops, and Shenanigans from around the Nation's Capital .

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Reply # 1
Date: Feb 23, 2009 - 11:37 AM EST
The Tiahrt Amendment
Just to be a little more accurate, the Tiahrt Amendment was passed after attempts by Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, and several anti-gun groups, tried to obtain the ATF trace data to support lawsuits against firearms makers. The objective of the attempts was to obtain information on "crime guns".

The problem with these attempts is that the ATF traces any firearm which comes to the attention of law enforcement. As ATF itself states, the trace data is not confined to firearms used in criminal activity. Traces are often run on firearms which have come to the attention of law enforcement solely because of non-criminal issues. And the use of the data was always supposed to be for law enforcement purposes, not to supply raw data (which isn't really applicable) to lawyers filing suit against manufacturers who are following all laws governing their business.
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Date: Feb 23, 2009 - 3:54 PM EST
Constitutional rights under attack by
Liberals from the White House, Congress, and the National Human Rights Association have put those they oppress and oppose Civil Rights protected by CRA 1964, United States Constitution and other federal statutes, regulations and codes. The same parties have filled the courts demanding rights for gay coalitions, illegal aliens, and sexual deviants such as pedophiles, all apart of a writing by Ruth Bader Ginsberg for the Civil Rights Commission. Due Process, justice and the american way have been replaced by bribery by the ACLU, NAACP, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE, GLAD, LA RAZA, KKK, BLACK PANTHERS THE URBAN LEAGUE and other domestic terroist race baiting non-profit organizations. It is the reason all tax-exemptions should be eliminated and that would end all the law suit abuse by domestic terrorist commmunity organzations, union organizations, and the funding of prejudice religious organizations.
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