From Eric Dondero:

The Arizona Republican Party is sponsoring a nationwide petition to deport Obama's "Uncle Omar," Onyango “Omar” Obama.

Onyango “Omar” Obama, an Illegal Alien from Kenya, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he allegedly nearly rammed his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts.

According to the Kerry Picket at the Washington Times – Omar Obama charged with DUI among other violations. When Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan illegal alien replied: "I think I will call the White House."

Dann Crain, a San Diego libertarian Republican and local Tea Party activist contacted LR to urge other libertarians around the Nation to "sign the petition!":

Dammit! First Auntie Zetuni, now Uncle Omar. What was Barack Hussein Obama? Kenya's anchor baby?

Arizona Republicans are asking all GOPers - moderates, conservatives and libertarians - to sign their petition:

AZGOP.org

by Eric Dondero

No matter where you stand with regards to the GOP presidential field, Tea Partyer for Bachmann, deep thinking libertarian Gingrich supporter, Herman Cain-o-nator, Mitt Romney mainstream libertarian-leaner, Ron Paulist, or even a libertarian for Huntsman, you gotta admit this was a priceless moment for Wednesday night's debate.

Texas Governor Rick Perry corrects NBC's ultra-liberal news anchor Brian Wilson on an inaccurate statement regarding Texas's job numbers.

It's 95% of new jobs above the minimum wage, not burger flippers, housmaids and car washers Brian.

H/t Jim Hoft, Gateway

From Eric Dondero:

Republican Senator Scott Brown was on the libertarian-conservative Howie Carr show out of Boston on Tuesday.

Carr asked Brown about Obama's uncle Onyango Obama who was recently busted in Boston for drunk driving, and subsequently found to have been in the country illegally since 1992.

Brown (via The Hill):

"Well, yeah. He's here illegally. He's obviously broken the law. I don't know enough about the details of the case, but, God, he's been running around for how long now?" Brown said in an interview on the Howie Carr Show. "Let him go through the process and see what happens."

Onyango is an employee at a Framingham liquor store.

As The Hill reports, White House spokesman Jay Carney asked about Onyango, said that the President was unaware of his Uncle Onyango being in the country illegally.

A Ronald Reagan - Lech Walesa defense against Violent Islam

From Eric Dondero:

Our friend Ayn Randist Pamela Geller at highly-rated Atlas Shrugs blog featured a story we ran here at few days ago, on Geert Wilder's speech in Germany.

From Atlas "Geet Wilders Speech in Germany":

In case you missed Geert Wilders' remarks in Germany -- he is, as always, brilliant:

Wilders speech in Germany: Netherlands moving forward with De-funding Islamism hat tip Eric Dondero

Dutch Parliamentarian, and leader of the Party for Freedom, addressed a crowd of 600 supporters in Berlin, Sept. 3.

Included in his speech were a number of libertarian proposals for defunding Islamism and anti-Dutch activities of Radical Islamists living in the Netherlands.

The reason why we reject Islam is exactly Islam’s violent nature. We believe in democracy. We fight with the force of our conviction, but we never use violence. Our commitment to truth, human dignity and a just and honourable defence of the West does not allow us to use violence nor to give in to cynicism and despair. We cherish the tradition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Jelena Bonner, Lech Walesa and Ronald Reagan. These heroes defeated a totalitarian ideology by the power of their conviction and without firing a single shot.

Thank you Pamela!

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT?

From Eric Dondero:

In Wednesday night's GOP presidential debate held in California, Texas Congressman Ron Paul let it rip on TSA abuses of airline passengers (via TheHill):

"If the perpetrators were a gang of criminals, their headquarters would be raided by SWAT teams and armed federal agents," he continued. "Unfortunately in this case, the perpetrators are armed federal agents."

Fox News Nation gives further context:

After saying airlines should be responsible for the securities of passengers - not government bureaucrats - Paul added: "And look at the monstrosity we have at the airports."

"These TSA agents are abusive," he said. "Sometimes they're accused of all kinds of sexual activities on the way they maul people at the airport."

Editor's comment - This is the Ron Paul we like here at LR. If he could just stick to his domestic policy and stay away from his mostly anti-liberty foreign policy.

Whatever happened to Real Men with Real Jobs?

From Eric Dondero:

Author and social commentatorAnn Coulter on Fox News Morning (via Daily Caller):

“What I really think needs to be talked about is that no one is mentioning this is Jimmy Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters. They used to be truck drivers and pipefitters. Now he’s representing public school teachers? Kindergarten teachers? Cafeteria workers? Fighting for every last bit of their government pension? What a pathetic downfall!” (RELATED: Coulter: Palin has become ‘the Obama of the tea party’)

Coulter went on: “And how about a little of this tough talk back when the Teamsters supported drilling [for oil] in ANWR? You know: ‘Real jobs for real men’ — as opposed to kindergarten teachers. And how about fighting for nuclear power plants being installed? … He’s not even representing men who have actual jobs. He’s representing a bunch of useless public sector workers.”

Coulter went on to strongly back private schooling versus government schools.

They are government workers. Let’s turn it over to private [schools], to vouchers, to charter schools. No, they fight for every last dime. They get summers off. They’re off at two [o'clock] and they make more money than most of those pipefitters who no longer have jobs.”

Note - In the mid-1990s Coulter flirted with a congressional run in Connecticut on the Libertarian Party ticket, even going so far as to meet with the LPCT Exec. Comm. to discuss the idea.

From Eric Dondero:

One brave Democrat Assemblyman voted against the recently-enacted spend-happy California budget. His name is Rep. Anthony Portantino, and he has the reputation for being rather frugal: Not changing the carpet in his office to save bucks on his allowance, turning down the car allowances and for cell phones reimbursement.

But for his Nay vote, the Democratic leadership decided to punish him. They released numbers showing his office spent more for staff and expenses than any other in the Assembly. Problem was, the numbers were cooked.

Enter the Libertarian Math Geeks. Portantino asked a group of Stanford students to go through the office allotment budgets of all Assemblymen. Surprise! When all the hidden costs were factored in he ended up right in the middle at 37th.

From the San Jose Mercury News "How a Stanford group shook a sacred cow in Sacramento":

As a matter of course, Stanford students pay scant heed to the strange events unfolding in Sacramento. Unlike their cousins at UC Berkeley, they don't depend on the state budget.

That happy neglect ended this summer when a group of mathematically talented students from a libertarian-leaning group got involved with an assemblyman from Pasadena.

Portantino's chief of staff, Trent Hager, called a group of Stanford students who had volunteered to help under the rubric of California Common Sense (www.cacs.org).

By 4:30 p.m. that Friday, the politically minded Stanford group had picked up the accusatory numbers -- originally on paper, though later put on the Web -- and began comparing them with payroll data.

Their analysis revealed that Portantino was only the 18th-highest spender on personal staff. Because many salaries are hidden under nondescript categories like committees or overhead, the Stanford group judged his real total of expenses was 37th, about in the middle of the 80-member Assembly.

The Stanford students had exposed mathematically the Assembly's dirty little secret: Legislators spend far more than the $263,000 allocated to each office for staff. And leaders spend more than rank-and-file legislators like Portantino.

Later in the piece, the Geeks are quoted:

Nothing we do is particularly complicated,'' says Dakin Sloss, a Stanford math major who is president of California Common Sense. "We're using basic common-sense technologies to get this information out there.''

Sacramento Democrats argue that the kids from Stanford are aligned with a group with its own agenda. The founder of California Common Sense is Joe Lonsdale, a member of the often libertarian-leaning Paypal Mafia. (In fact, http://www.cacs.org is a sophisticated site that takes a critical view of government.)

To support California Math Geeks California Common Sense.

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AUSTIN – Rep. Ron Paul’s newly released attack ad refers to the congressman as, “the one who stood with Reagan.” But his 1987 letter announcing his resignation from the Republican Party indicates Reagan drove him from the party.

“Ronald Reagan was one of the most significant presidents of our generation, and a proven fiscal conservative,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner said. “Like President Reagan, Gov. Perry has cut taxes and freed employers from government regulations that kill jobs.”

“Rep. Paul’s letter is a broadside attack on every element of President Reagan’s record and philosophy. Paul thought President Reagan was so bad, he left the GOP,” said Miner. “It will be interesting to hear Rep. Paul explain why Reagan drove him from the party at tomorrow’s debate on the grounds of the Reagan Library.”

In one part of the letter, Paul wrote, “There is no credibility left for the Republican Party as a force to reduce the size of government. That is the message of the Reagan years.”

Paul continued, “Thanks to the President and Republican Party, we have lost the chance to reduce the deficit and the spending in a non-crisis fashion. Even worse, big government has been legitimized in a way the Democrats never could have accomplished.”

Paul even went so far as to call Reaganomics, “warmed-over Keynesianism.”

Paul summarizes his reason for leaving the Republican Party with the following tirade: “I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy.”

Full text of Paul's letter at RickPerry.org

From Eric Dondero:

This is a story that you are not seeing at any of the national gay rights sites such as Queerty, or Gawker.

From Iran Human Rights blog, "Three men were executed convicted of sodomy" Sept. 2:

The state run Iranian news agency ISNA reported that three of those executed were sentenced to death by the Ahvaz revolution court, convicted of "unlawful" acts and acts against Sharia, based on the articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian Islamic penal code. Articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian Islamic Penal code are part of the chapter covering the punishment of "Hadd" for "sodomy". Article 108 says: "Sodomy (or Lavat) is sexual intercourse between men”, and article 110 says:”Punishment for sodomy is killing; the Sharia judge decides on how to carry out the killing".

The men were identified as: "M. T.", "T. T." and "M. Ch." (age not mentioned for any of them)

Note - A quick check of top so-called "libertarian" sites shows similar non-coverage of this story. There are obviously more pressing issues out there for them to report on like the "right" of gays to marry, rather than stopping gay executions.

The responsibility of Parents or Public Schools?

From Eric Dondero:

According to PolitickerNJ.com, the recently introduced anti-bullying legislation by Democrat State Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono (D-18) and Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-37):

Provides that by the 2011-2012 school year all candidates for school administrator or teacher certification will be required to complete a program on harassment, intimidation, or bullying prevention, and that training in this area will be a part of the professional development requirements for these individuals. Includes training regarding harassment, intimidation and bullying in schools as a part of the training program provided to all school board members

All at taxpayer expense, of course.

Republican legislators and candidates for legislative seats are not impressed.

LD 37 GOP challengers John Aslanian and Keith Jensen called rival Huttle’s anti-bullying bill little more than "reactionary, big government liberalism" that will do nothing to improve education and only add to the burden of teachers and school administrators, and threw their support behind the "Fair School Funding Plan" advanced by state Sen. Mike Doherty (R-23).

“This anti bullying morass of regulations is precisely what we don’t need in New Jersey," declared Jensen on the first official day of campaign season. "It’s another way of jacking up the cost of education without teaching our children anything that will help them in the workplace."

Aslanianian added:

“Teaching kids not to be bullies is the parents’ responsibilities, not the schools’ job," said the challenger. "Our children need more time learning to read, write and compute so they can compete in the global economy. They don’t need more nanny state lessons.”

Outserve

From Right Guy:

Our First guest is Jonathan Hopkins, a spokesman for OutServe, a group that supports open gays in the military.

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Radical Muslims "hate us for who we are"

Jamie Radtke, from an interview with The Libertarian Examiner (Photo h/t VictoryFilmGroup):

“It was really remarkable to think that somebody could have that much hate,” Jamie Radtke recalls thinking at the time of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011.

There are “terror cells” and “sleeper cells” of people who are training and “plotting on how to bring down this country, who hate us for who we are,” she explained.

“There’s nothing we can change about who we are that they don’t like.”

She explained that she has “supported the war in Iraq and Afghanistan because it was in a direct response” to the attacks of September 11.

Radtke cautioned that “we have to be careful that we’re actually still in there tackling terrorism” rather than “nation-building,” which is “a careful balance for the United States.”

Get involved! radtkeforsenate.com

From Cliff Thies:

From earlier in his speech warming up the crowd for Obama's appearance:

"We gotta keep an eye on the battle that we face, a war on workers, and you see it everywhere in the tea party”

Of course Obama, even with those big ears of his, didn't actually hear his homeboy say anything bad, just like he didn't hear Jeremiah Wright.

NANNY-STATE MADNESS!!

Police advise her that if she continues to allow her to ride her bike, she would be "breaking the law and treated accordingly"

Via DC.StreetsBlog.org, "Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School" Sept. 1:

Now, we have the case of Teresa Tryon of [Elizabethtown] Tennessee, threatened with criminal charges for letting her child ride a bike to school.

Bike Walk Tennessee highlighted the case on its blog, saying it was “crazy” to threaten a mother with arrest for doing more or less what all parents should be doing: encouraging active lifestyles for our kids.

“On August 25th, my 10-year[-old] daughter arrived home via police officer,” Tryon said. “The officer informed me that in his ‘judgment’ it was unsafe for my daughter to ride her bike to school.”

Bike Walk Tennessee says Tryon’s daughter’s route to school was reasonably safe... an un-striped, residential street. Police say it’s one of the busiest streets in town, connecting public housing units and subdivisions to the downtown area.

Nonetheless, when Tryon complained to the police, she was reportedly told that until the officer can speak with Child Protective Services, “if I allow my daughter to ride/walk to school I will be breaking the law and treated accordingly.” She asked what law she would be breaking, and was told the answer was “child neglect.” The officer acknowledged Tryon’s daughter wasn’t breaking any laws.

Photo credit - TopNewsnet.nz

He's a "crotchety, bitter congressman" who supports isolationism and social anarchy

From Eric Dondero:

Ron Paul supporters have been quite aggressive in their campaign tactics over the years, using harsh words and some would say over-the-top rhetoric. Rick Perry, in particular, has been at the receiving end of the harshness of Paul supporters. He took numerous shots from Debra Medina (a longtime Paul ally) and her backers in the 2010 primary for Governor. But Perry backers may be learning to hit back.

From The SMU Daily Campus "Ron Paul finds support among college crowd":

SMU senior Charlie McCaslin, former president of College Republicans, isn't so sure.

"Republicans deserve someone better than a crotchety, bitter congressman who wants to turn back the clock to isolationist foreign policy, anarchic social policy and put the country on a bizarre fiscal trajectory by ending the federal reserve and returning us to the gold standard," he said.

While he gives credit to Paul for being the first to "understand the potential of libertarian policy with young people who tend to be more socially liberal and fiscally conservative," he believes that independent conservative students will eventually turn over to support Perry once his campaign picks up steam.

Editor's comment - Of course, McCaslin is spot on with Paul's isolationist foreign policy. But even us arch-Paul critics in the libertarian movement would stand with him on ending the federal reserve and returning to a gold standard. Perry seems inclined to support Paul's position on gold and the fed, as well.

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From the CBC:

Nobody who was killed on 9/11 deserved it. It has nothing to do with wealth versus poverty. In this particular case it has to do with a hateful ideology that has attacked people around the world...

The fact that Afghanistan became a failed state, you know, to the point where an Islamic-Fascist regime set up camp in the country; that kind of situation bred a threat... it's the right thing to do to help countries so that we don't get into that situation.

The major threat is still Islamicism... Al Qaeda and those organizations, they hate us regardless. It doesn't matter if we're in Afghanistan or not.

We're not being attacked because we are in Afghanistan; we're in Afghanistan because we were attacked.

Editor's note - A true Ronald Reagan North of the Border!

Hi Eric (& LR Readers)!

Just a quick note to say I am alive and well and in the middle of things here in Kandahar Province!

Keep up the fire back home!

v/r Katherine

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Capt. Katherine Jenerette Receives Combat Spurs Award in Afghanistan?

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - Capt. Katherine Jenerette, who has been serving with the 5th Squadron 1st Cavalry Regiment Task Force Blackhawk since June 2011 was inducted into the 'Order of the Combat Spur' by Lt. Col. David Raugh, Commander of the 5-1 CAV and CSM McFarlan, Command Sergeant Major in a ceremony on September 5, 2011. The Order of the Combat Spur is an Army tradition reserved for Cavalry members who have earned the right to wear 'Golden Spurs' for service during combat operations and have conducted combat patrols or missions outside the Forward Operating Base during their deployment. Capt. Jenerette, of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been serving in Kandahar Province since March 2011 on numerous missions ‘outside the wire’ and recently took part in a Air Assault Operation in northern Shah Wali Kot's Baghtu Valley(see photo).

Editor's note - Katherine was a candidate for US Congress in 2010. Tim Scott, her friend and Tea Party colleague, beat her in the primary. Katherine immediately endorsed Rep. Scott.

From Eric Dondero:

On Friday it appeared as though the NFL was prepared to fine players who wore patriotic gear on 9/11. By Saturday, the league made a complete reversal.

From SFGate.com (via AP) "Players plan patriotic displays for Sept. 11 games":

The move came a day after Chicago linebacker Lance Briggs tweeted that he had expected to be fined for wearing red, white and blue cleats and gloves designed by Reebok. Briggs said it would be "by far the best fine he will ever have to pay."

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league does not "anticipate any issues."

"We have extensive plans for Sunday to respectfully recognize the significance of the day," Aiello said in an e-mail. "Lance Briggs and all players will participate."

Fans will also be encouraged to wear red, white and blue attire for all NFL games Sunday and Monday.

But after 9/11 Memorial Cermonies it's back to usual

From Eric Dondero:

Well even Hitler loved his dog.

And so it is with the 9/11 Truthers. At least they have a modicum of common sense.

From the NY Times "9/11 ‘Truthers’ to Tone Protests Down, for a Day":

“No bullhorning during the memorial.”

That’s always been the rule of thumb among “truther” demonstrators at ground zero on Sept. 11, out of respect for relatives of victims of the terror attack, said Mike Skuthan, 32, a Web designer from Long Island who attends the demonstrations every year.

But after this Sunday’s memorial, Mr. Skuthan said, the bullhorns and signs will again be brought out and the groups will walk from one location to another in Manhattan chanting their message and engaging passers-by to help them call for a new investigation into the attacks.

“You have the usual chants — ‘9-11 Truth Ends Wars,’ or ‘Two planes, three buildings,’ ” Mr. Skuthan said. “The popular one this year will probably be, ‘Ten years, no justice.’ ”

The Times also mentions the emergence of "moderate Truthers":

Members of the so-called 9-11 Truth movement range from extreme conspiracy theorists who believe that the Bush administration engineered the attacks to consolidate power, roll back civil liberties and help oil mogul friends. But then there are more moderate factions that simply insist that top government officials know more about the attacks than they have acknowledged, and then used then used the attacks as a pretext for invading Iraq.

Editor's comment - Funny, that "moderate Trutherism" sounds vaguely familiar to the line promulgated by certain activists on the libertarian left.

Photos - Justin Raimondo of AntiWar.com, Karen Kwiatkowski of LewRockwell.com and Alex Jones/Charlie Sheen. credit - Pirate News