Welcome to the Age of Obama… where brandishing weapons at polling locations on election day is perfectly acceptable… if you’re supporting the right candidate.

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

And as a reminder of what this case was about, and what the Obama Justice Department apparently considers appropriate polling location conduct:

Here’s an affidavit from one eyewitness, who at one time was a civil rights lawyer and activist in the 1960s.

For example, I heard the shorter man make a statement directed toward a white poll observer that “you are about to be ruled by a black man, cracker.”

Honestly, I’m less worried about these militant morons playing dress-up on election day than I am about them possibly spitting in my hamburger when I come through the McDonalds drive-thru. I wonder if the short dude was Hope or Change.

Received a few emails about this story.

Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office?

For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. “I was just totally speechless. I was like, ‘You’re kidding me,’” McLucas said.

McLucas’ husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, “I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing.”

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie’s flag herself.

If the sight of the American flag is offensive, one has to wonder why this idiot came to America in the first place, and why he or she is still here. Instead of coming here to enjoy and exploit the freedoms America provides, and then complaining about the very symbol of that freedom, why don’t you go back to your hellhole, third-world, flies-in-your-face, desert-dwelling, crappy country where you can enjoy the sight of less offensive things like starving children, murderous dictators and ebola. Jackass.

UPDATE: Many of you who emailed me the story also copied me on emails you sent to Kindred Hospital. Apparently they heard you loud and clear.

Kindred Hospital and its corporate bosses in Kentucky got a lesson in patriotism Wednesday.

After a thorough roasting in the blogosphere, Kindred officials decided to let hospital supervisor Debbie McLucas put an American flag back on her office wall. “We have invited the employee (McLucas) to put the flag back up,” Kindred said in a brief press release.

Good work!

Sonia Sotomayor makes the perfect nomination for the Community Organizer in Chief. As a judge, she has an extremely high rate of her decisions being reversed. She’s also a racist…

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor.

And a judicial activist…

And according to liberals and her own judicial colleagues, she’s not too bright.

But despite the praise from some of her former clerks, and warm words from some of her Second Circuit colleagues, there are also many reservations about Sotomayor. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York. Most are Democrats and all of them want President Obama to appoint a judicial star of the highest intellectual caliber who has the potential to change the direction of the court. Nearly all of them acknowledged that Sotomayor is a presumptive front-runner, but nearly none of them raved about her. They expressed questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative.
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The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,” as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. “She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren’t penetrating and don’t get to the heart of the issue.”

All of these things point to someone whose nomination liberals would readily support under any circumstances.

But I’d like to remind GOP Senators of the standard for confirming Supreme Court nominees… that it’s absolutely proper to vote AGAINST a nominee based on “philosophical and political views, not just on the narrower grounds of character and temperament” even if they think he or she is “clearly qualified”… the standard that was set in the nominations of Roberts and Alito… by Senator Barack Obama.

UPDATE: I wonder how many Democrat Senators are going to oppose Sotomayor’s nomination because she’s a Latino…

…like they did with Miguel Estrada.

This plunge into the murky deep comes from staff strategy memos we’ve obtained from the days when Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001-02. Or, rather, appeared to run the committee. Their real bosses are the liberal interest groups that more or less tell the Senators when to sit, speak and roll over–and which Bush judges to confirm or not. Here are some excerpts:
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“They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible.”

For those of you who are, or have, served our nation, I extend my deepest respect and sincerest gratitude. I dedicate this poem to my grandparents (pictured below), who served in WWII, and my uncle, who served in Vietnam.

As I stroll among the crosses, where our fallen heroes lay.
I hear the sound of a bugle, playing Taps again today.
I take a moment to say a prayer, standing with my head bowed low.
And I think of friends and family, and strangers I don’t even know.
Who’ve come from every community across our blessed land.
So we might live in freedom, they now lie beneath the sand.
I feel a sense of guilt, for my sacrifice has been small.
Compared to these great heroes, some of whom lost their all.
Soon this holiday will end, closing another Memorial Day.
But to the names upon the crosses, I have but one thing to say.
Thank you for what you’ve given, we could not ask for more.
May you rest in peace with God in heaven, for now and evermore.

Thank you for your service to our country.

The Democrat fundraiser, Norman Hsu, who was fundraising for Hillary Clinton and other high profile Democrats while a fugitive on 1991 fraud charges was convicted this morning in New York of violating federal campaign finance laws.

And while this story is in the media for the brief 15 seconds it will likely be covered, let’s not forget what our current Secretary of State thought about this crook’s corrupt fundraising practices…

“What am I going to do with you, Norman? You are working so hard for me that I just don’t know what to say any more. I’ve never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you.”

Seems Barack Obama’s Secretary of State has a habit of immersing herself in campaign finance law violation scandals.

So when will Moveon.org organize protests and marches against the irresponsible government spending? Apparently, not until the Community Organizer in Chief changes his party affiliation.

Yet another fine example of why the federal government should be involved in as little as possible.

Thousands of Americans are receiving federal stimulus checks in the mail, this week. Only problem: many of them are deceased.
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The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, said some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.

The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. But strangely, some of the checks were made out to people — like Romonini — who were never even part of the Social Security system.

More millions of our tax dollars wasted on inefficiency and incompetence. If they can’t even figure out whether people are dead or not, why would we want them involved in making our healthcare decisions for us?

George Soros-funded MoveOn.org was a staple of liberal propaganda during the Bush years. But where are they now?

Remember this little campaign they had for opposing Social Security reform?

The Republicans are spending 100 million dollars to convince you Social Security is in a “crisis”. But MoveOn PAC is taking it to the people! Because the truth is free!

It’s not going bankrupt, there is no crisis.

Privatization will produce massive benefit cuts and trillion in debt and turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

if it ain’t broke, don’t privatize it.

Oops…

Social Security will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2016, a year sooner than projected last year, and the giant trust fund will be depleted by 2037, four years sooner, trustees reported.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the head of the trustees group, said the new reports were a reminder that “the longer we wait to address the long-term solvency of Medicare and Social Security, the sooner those challenges will be upon us and the harder the options will be.”

Where are you now, MoveOn.org?

And remember when they had a contest to see who could develop the best propaganda to question Bush’s $400 billion deficit?

Well Obama’s deficit will be north of $1.8 trillion.

Where are you now, MoveOn.org?

The transparency of Moveon.org’s motives are more clear today than ever. It never was about the real issues… it was about ginning up bogus propaganda to oppose President Bush.

But then again, anyone with any common sense could see that long before now.

Back in February, when the Community Organizer in Chief was feigning outrage on the campaign trail over executive bonuses that he had signed into law, he explained his efforts to “curb corporate excesses” this way…

“Mr. President, I support your efforts to curb corporate excesses in your recovery plan, but from the neon lights of Las Vegas to the Chicago skyline, from the white sands of Hawaii to the Kansas heartland, tourism means jobs,” she said. “We need your support and we need the business more than ever before.”

Obama made his remarks while answering a question during a town hall to muster public support for economic stimulus legislation.

“You can’t get corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime,” Obama said.

His “efforts” were further clarified by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this way:

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that he spoke with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel about Obama’s remarks.

“He made it clear to me that the president’s criticism was aimed at the potential use of taxpayer funds for junkets, and in no way reflects his thoughts about any one particular city,” Reid said.

And to prove just how shameful it looks to take a Vegas junket on the taxpayer’s dime, Barack Obama is going to take a Vegas junket on the taxpayer’s dime.

Still, in politics these days you can never have too much money, as someone showed last fall by raising $750 million, which is even more than those outrageous AIG bonuses. Now Happy Harry’s bringing in Bette. And Sheryl. And some guy named Barack.

All in the name of Money.

And what better way for a new Democratic administration to symbolize cutting out excess in a time of hardship for millions of Americans than to hold a mega-fundraiser in Las Vegas, that urban personification of understatement, for a guy with millions in hand already and no one to spend it against?

Though the Democratic Senate majority leader’s May 26 fundraiser at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace will feature Strip headliner Midler and songstress Crow, the biggest draw will be the commander in chief himself.

I guess the upside is that he won’t be in Washington screwing up the country for a few days.

I will be back on the Allman in the Morning show tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8:10 AM Central.

This will be my 24th time to appear on the show.

…oh, and in case you forgot…

1,305 Days and counting…

NOTE: For those of you who haven’t been reading this blog the entire 6 years it’s been published, the “challenge” was a bet I made with talk show host Jamie Allman during the 2005 National League Championship series between the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals. Back then, this blog was known as “Generation Why” and Allman had a sidekick named “Smash”. I put up a case of Lone Star (because I didn’t want to spend a lot of money) and he put up something that resembled a cross between paint thinner and monkey urine (Budweiser). Needless to say, I won the bet (yeah, who would’ve thought that possible considering it was the Astros) and I’m still waiting for that shipment… apparently Jamie strapped it to the back of a donkey and sent it from St. Louis to Houston via Beijing.