Savage lawsuit calls CAIR ‘vehicle of international terrorism’

Trend-setting radio talk show host Michael Savage has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), and has accused the organization of being a “political vehicle of international terrorism” that seeks to do “material harm to those voices who speak against the violent agenda of CAIR’s clients.”

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in California, seeks damages equal to the ongoing donations from CAIR supporters “who expect CAIR to act in this manner in exchange for continuing financial support” as well as “actual damages according to proof.”

Here is a link to the full text of the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in California by [well-known liberal] Attorney David Horowitz on behalf of Dr. Michael Savage against the Council on Islamic-American Relations.

Read All About It: WorldNetDaily

From our good friend Bill Felkner of the OSPRI:

There are only two weeks left to the Holiday Freedom Celebration Dinner, hosted by the Ocean State Policy Research Institute. The featured speaker for the event will be GROVER NORQUIST, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). Please order your tickets today.

You may have seen Grover on Wednesday night’s Presidential YouTube Debate asking the candidates to take the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. He founded ATR in 1985 at the request of President Ronald Reagan. Since 1986, ATR has sponsored the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a written promise by legislators and candidates for office that commits them to oppose any effort to increase the federal income taxes on individuals and businesses.

Ocean State Policy Research Institute has taken the lead in protecting taxpayers in Rhode Island and is particularly focused on effective and efficient government. OSPRI also continues the reform movement by sponsoring The Thursday Meeting - RI’s version of Grover’s Wednesday Meeting.

Please join us for an evening of drinks, dinner and stimulating discussion when our fellow “Counter Revolutionaries” meet at the Cuban Revolution restaurant on the evening of December 12th at 60 Valley Street in Providence.

Kindly RSVP by December 5, 2007.

There was a special election in House District 22 in Warwick on Tuesday between Jonathan Wheeler (R), Frank Ferri (D), and Carlo Pisaturo (I). The final “unofficial” results are listed below, broken down by polling place. At this time, there are believed to be about 25 mail-in ballots left to be counted, but that would not be enough to affect the eventual outcome of the race. Voter turnout appeared to be light to moderate, with approximately 20% of eligible voters casting ballots.

House District 22 (1659 total votes cast)

Ferri: 878
Wheeler: 553
Pisaturo: 228

St. Mary’s (751 votes cast)

Wheeler: 312
Ferri: 305
Pisaturo: 134

John Greene (417 votes cast)

Ferri: 257
Wheeler: 114
Pisaturo: 46

Sherman (281 votes cast)

Ferri: 195
Wheeler: 63
Pisaturo: 23

Jonah (210 votes cast)

Ferri: 121
Wheeler: 64
Pisaturo: 25

From a Letter by Governor Don Carcieri:

If you ever wondered why we need more Republicans in the Rhode Island General Assembly, look no further than 2007.

As the General Assembly was drawing to a close this June, the Democrat leadership passed a budget that places the burden of Rhode Island’s fiscal challenges on the backs of working families.

Their budget cut school aid, raised taxes, squandered one-time tobacco settlement funds, and protected unions by preventing the privatization of any state services.

I vetoed their budget. And I’m proud of it.

But the next day, that same budget was back on my desk. The Democrats overrode my veto.

If we had more Republicans in the General Assembly, it would have been a different story. The Democrats would have failed to override my veto. And we would have continued negotiating until we crafted a better budget.

That’s why we must do everything we can to elect more Republicans to the General Assembly. And that means supporting the Rhode Island Republican Party.

This fall we will have an opportunity to elect two Republican candidates to the Rhode Island State House. Special elections will be held in Warwick [Jon Wheeler] and Newport [Steve Coaty] to fill unexpected vacancies.

Each district is considered “winnable” for Republicans based on recent voter results. And Republican victories in both districts would get momentum moving in our direction for the 2008 elections. So it’s very important that we support the RI GOP and help our two Republican House candidates win their races.

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We’ve just received this top secret advance copy of the 2008 Democratic National Convention Schedule of Events. Of course, the agenda subject to change.

7:00 pm - Opening Flag Burning

7:15 pm - Pledge of Allegiance to The United Nations

7:20 pm - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

7:25 pm - Nonreligious Prayer and Worship
(Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton)

7:45 pm - Ceremonial Tree Hugging
(Darryl Hannah)

7:55 pm - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

8:00 pm - How I Invented the Internet
(Al Gore)

8:15 pm - Gay Wedding Planning
(Rosie O’Donnell)

8:35 pm - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

8:40 pm - Our Troops Are War Criminals
(John Kerry)

9:00 pm - Memorial Service for Saddam and His Sons
(Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon)

10:00 pm - “Answering Machine Etiquette”
(Alec Baldwin)

11:00 pm - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

11:05 pm - Collection for The Osama Bin Laden Kidney Transplant Fund
(Barbara Streisand)

11:15 pm - “Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay”
(Sean Penn)

11:30 pm - Oval Office Affairs
(William Jefferson Clinton)

11:45 pm - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

11:50 pm - How George Bush Brought Down the World Trade Towers
(Howard Dean)

12:15 am - “Truth In Broadcasting Award” Presention to Dan Rather
(by Michael Moore)

12:25 am - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

12:30 am - Satellite Address
(Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)

12:45 am - Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton (Rep. Nancy Pelosi)

1:00 am - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

1:05 am - Coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton

1:30 am - Sen. Ted Kennedy Proposes a Toast

1:35 am - Bill Clinton Asks Ted Kennedy to Drive Hillary Home

Jonathan R. Wheeler is the endorsed Republican candidate for the Special Election in Warwick, House District 22. The seat was vacated by Peter Ginaitt in early September. He’ll be running against ultra-liberal Democrat Frank Ferri.

Jon was raised in Warwick and attended Warwick Veterans Memorial High School. He graduated from Rhode Island College, and was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps. He is currently a manager at MetLife Auto & Home and also a Municipal Court Administrator for the City of Warwick. He is a former Chairman of the Warwick Republican City Committee. He is married to Tessa, and has two children, Nicholas, 18 and Elizabeth, 16.

Jonathan has pledged to eliminate the special deals for special interests. He will seek real property tax relief, and promote economic development. He has promised to spend our tax dollars wisely and supports Voter Initiative as a tool for reform.

The Special Election is set for Tuesday, November 27th, 2007.

Jon’s web site is http://wheelerforrep.org

If you wish to make a donation, send your check today to:

Wheeler Campaign Committee
444 Warwick Neck Avenue
Warwick, RI 02889

Pleading “Don’t Sue the Hand That Feeds You,” the Center for Consumer Freedom offers their 2007 Thanksgiving Guest Liability and Indemnification Form to keep your holiday cook in the clear this holiday season. In an effort to prevent greedy trial lawyers from wrangling your guests into suing you for contributing to the so-called “obesity epidemic,” they have prepared this essential liability waiver. Make sure all your Turkey Day guests sign it.

With this waiver, Thanksgiving dinner hosts can keep the nutritional puritans out of their dining room. They can also protect themselves from over-stuffed lawsuits filed by attorneys who threaten to sue restaurants, food companies, school boards, doctors, and even parents for the nation’s extra pounds. Their Thanksgiving Guest Liability and Indemnification Form comes in carbon-copy triplicate for proper record-keeping come court time. The waiver includes an agreement not to haul your host into court on the basis of:

1. Failure to provide nutritional information;
2. Failure to warn of the potential for overeating because food tastes too good and is provided at no cost;
3. Failure to offer “healthier alternatives” or vegetarian “tofurkey”;
4. Failure to provide information about other venues serving alternative, “healthier” Thanksgiving meals;
5. Failure to warn that dark meat contains more fat than white meat; and
6. Failure to warn that eating too much and not exercising may lead to obesity.

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A Gathering of Young Conservatives

Former Reagan Ranch Is Site of Annual Retreat for Politically Active Students

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Up the winding mountain road, Rachel Coolidge pressed her digital camera to the window of the van she shared with other young conservatives, snapping pictures of the rough countryside loved by her hero, Ronald Reagan.

The van’s radio blasted one of the many right-wing radio talk shows that have become the soundtrack of her 21-year-old life, and when she reached Rancho del Cielo, once Reagan’s vacation retreat, Coolidge was almost giddy.

The 40th president is her definition of an ideal conservative leader: He lowered taxes, opposed abortion rights, fought communism. He’s everything that this president of the College Republicans of the University of Houston wants the contenders for the Republican nomination to embody.

But, unlike Reagan, “none of them are perfect,” she said…

Coolidge, wearing flip-flops and round movie-star sunglasses, came here with 39 other handpicked young activists. They would later be joined in a resort hotel nearby by 360 other Republican students from 118 universities and a few high schools for a kind of conservative boot camp designed to cement their beliefs…

Ryan Bilodeau, 22, who chairs the Young Republicans in Rhode Island (*), asked the panelists who spoke on “Why I became a young conservative activist” how he could launch a protest against Clinton, who he said travels to Rhode Island for private fundraisers…

* Ryan is actually the Chair of the College Republican Federation of R.I., not the R.I. Young Republicans.

Read All About It: The Washington Post

Long before Karl Marx unleashed his destructive system on the world through the power of the press, the Pilgrims discovered the folly of socialism. They realized early on, that collectivism breads ignorance and that it creates disincentives for people to work and to strive for things. This is the essence of personal liberty; individual success at the hands of one’s own toil, free from government interference.

Back in Plymouth, if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. There were no liberals seeking to empower the government to take from those who work and strive in order to give to those who don’t — or won’t. There were no government “give aways” in exchange for Democrat votes back in those days. The true story of the pilgrims is just as salient today as it was over three and a half centuries ago. Human nature is forever.

The True Story of Thanksgiving — by Rush Limbaugh

The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who challenged ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs…

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs…

…And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness. There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them… During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford’s own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats. Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper!

This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude [to God] grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments.

Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a “common store,” and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it “equally.” All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the ’60s and ’70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way…

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Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris review “HuckChuckFacts” about former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. We may as well declare the race over. What could possibly top this?

You can never start campaigning too early, right? Go, Jim, go!

There will be a Sign Waving Event with Lt. Col. Jim Haldeman — the 2006 and (soon to be) 2008 District 35 State Representative Candidate — on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This event will occur on the corner across from Damon’s Hardware on Main Street in South Kingstown. If you’re able, please come and join Jim in wishing district residents a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Jim can be reached at: 401-580-9155 or haldeman4rep [at] gmail [dot] com.

Bitch is a term for the female of a canine species in general. It is also frequently used as an offensive term for a woman, taken to mean that she is malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant.

When presidential candidates appear at public forums, passions about the field are often on vivid display. Monday, Senator John McCain received a question from a woman in Hilton Head Island, S.C., that was blunt and harsh.

“How do we beat the bitch?” the woman asked.

Mr. McCain was obviously uncomfortable, trying to deflect the vitriol with humor and offering to give a translation. But he did not condemn the questioner, instead calling it an “excellent question.”

He then addressed the question without any apparent doubt as to whom it referred.

“There was a poll yesterday,” he said, “that shows me three points ahead of Senator Clinton in a head-to-head matchup. I respect Mrs. Clinton.”

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SMITHFIELD — In an apparently unprecedented act yesterday, the town’s voters resoundingly banished Stephen G. Tocco from the Town Council.

The controversial council president drew 722 votes from supporters, according to unofficial figures, while his opponents cast 2,606 ballots to remove him from public office. Fifteen thousand residents were eligible to vote.

The town’s Board of Canvassers has scheduled a meeting for 10 a.m. today to certify the election results. Tocco will officially leave the council at that point.

It was the second humiliating loss of office for Tocco in recent months. In July, the Carcieri administration removed Tocco from the post of chief of the Rhode Island Capitol Police after The Journal discovered he had a criminal past.

Tocco could not be reached for comment.

James W. Archer, the chairman of the Republican Town Committee and Tocco’s leading critic, said, “This is about three and a half to one. I feel this big result really vindicates the recall effort. With all the people who said this is not a good enough reason to remove him, let’s just wait, this has shown that the people did think this was a good reason to remove Mr. Tocco from his office. The people stood up and fixed what they saw as a big problem in our town.”

He added, “It’s time to move on now — heal and move forward.”

Read All About It: The Providence Journal

If Rep. Tom Tancredo was trying to get attention focused on his long shot presidential campaign, it appears to have worked just as intended.

The strategy behind the ad seems eerily reminiscent of Barry Goldwater’s famous “Daisy” ad from his failed 1964 presidential campaign. That particular ad was only aired once on television by the Goldwater campaign. However, it generated so much attention, that the media kept rerunning it. Say what you will about the substance of the ad, but it was certainly a masterful use of earned media!

With his poll numbers collapsing, Gov. Eliot Spitzer will pull the plug today on his controversial plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, The Post has learned.

The embattled governor is expected to make the announcement as he meets tomorrow with the state’s heavily Democratic congressional delegation, which as grown increasingly critical of the plan, several sources told The Post.

The decision to wave the white flag was cemented as a Siena Research Institute poll released yesterday showed Spitzer with his lowest approval ratings ever and just 25 percent of voters saying they would support his re-election if the vote were held today.

One source said Spitzer had failed because he “just tried to push [the plan] down everyone’s throats.”

Read All About It: New York Post

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The members of the House Republican Caucus will be holding their annual Holiday Season Open House on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, November 20th, from 4:30pm to 7:00pm at the Office of Minority Leader Bob Watson, in Room 106, at the Rhode Island State House. If you would like to attend you can RSVP at 222-2259.

Warning: House Democrats have been known to frequent this event — primarily for the free booze.

PS The minority caucus members sponsor this event. No public funds are expended and no donations or contributions will be solicited or accepted.

(AP) INDIANOLA, Iowa — Fred Thompson, the candidate billing himself as the most consistent conservative in the crowded Republican field, has won the presidential endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, GOP officials said Monday.

The nod by the prominent anti-abortion group could boost the former Tennessee senator’s lackluster campaign. He has seen his poll numbers drop in recent weeks in Iowa and elsewhere as he has failed to become the consensus candidate of restive social conservatives still searching for someone to embrace.

“It speaks for itself,” an upbeat Thompson told reporters while campaigning here - even as he talked in hypothetical terms and declined to confirm the endorsement. “These are people who supported me in times past. I think it would be a perfectly natural thing to happen. I’ve had a 100 percent pro-life voting record in the United States Senate. And I think they know that, and that’s the way I would govern if I was president.”

Several Republicans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the formal endorsement is scheduled for Tuesday, disclosed the group’s decision…

Read All About It: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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On Thursday, November 15th at 7:00 P.M., the Warwick Republican City Committee will be holding a Campaign Kickoff at Avedisian Headquarters in Airport Plaza (corner of Post Road & Airport Rd.). They will also be holding a campaign rally for Jonathan Wheeler’s Dist. 22 House Special Election, which will be held on November 27th. All Republicans invited. Refreshments will be served. No charge. Jonathan’s election would be a great kickoff to the 2008 campaign season. For information, contact the new Warwick GOP City Chairman, Al Ferruolo at: rilaw [at] aferruolo [dot] coxatwork [dot] com.