Israeli Officials: Attack on Iran Must Come ‘By Summer’

Hmmm - in other words, just before the US presidential election.

Of course, the timing would be pure coincidence.

Stop thinking outside the Beltway!

Almost everyone agrees DC is a bloated, bungling mess that's dragging the country it mismanages down with it.

But here's the standard response from Mitt Romney: "If people want change in Washington you have to bring in someone from outside Washington."

You see, no matter how bad the central government screws things up, we can ONLY think in terms of how to adjust the machinery of power in DC. No other option is thinkable.

But there IS another way. It's already in place, and already in use. Alabama, for example, has successfully tackled the crime and unemployment made worse by illegal immigration - and the ruling elite's Inquisition is screaming bloody murder. Those squeals tell us we're on to something.

But you're not supposed to know that! And those who find out will be called bad names by you-know-who.

Dismantling the Republic

The Ebook edition of “Dismantling The Republic,” which was reviewed in the Jan.-Feb., 2012 edition of Confederate Veteran, is now available at www.smashwords.com. The book contains 14 chapters and two appendices. Appendix A is a parallel comparison between the U. S. Constitution of 1787 and the Constitution of the Confederate States of 1861. Appendix B contains all of the secession ordinances of the seceding states. This book sells for $15 in the print edition, but it can be purchased online by clicking here. It's only $3.99.

“Dismantling The Republic” chronicles the incremental attacks on state sovereignty from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the present. Abraham Lincoln, is identified as the principal figure in the dismantling of the American republic, and how he, and his political heirs, achieved that. It delineates the specific issues that gave rise to the Tea Party Movement and concludes with a difficult, but feasible, solution to restoring the republic of 1787---secession.

“Dismantling The Republic” was authored by Jerry C. Brewer, Commander of the Pvts. Grayson & Brewer Camp, 2118 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Elk City, Oklahoma and is a true account of history from the Southron perspective.

A free ebook reader for computers may be downloaded from Adobe Digital Editions.

Leon Panetta defends dictatorship

Glenn Greenwald rips into the Democrats' fake concern for Constitutional rights. With one of their own in the White House, Panetta (and many other Democrats) say it's just fine that the Commander-in-Chief wields all the dictatorial powers, and then some, that W and Cheney claimed:

But this is one of the towering, unanswerable hypocrisies of Democratic Party politics. The very same faction that pretended for years to be so distraught by Bush’s mere eavesdropping on and detention of accused Terrorists without due process is now perfectly content to have their own President kill accused Terrorists without due process, even when those targeted are their fellow citizens...

Whoa! Panetta, a liberal Democrat from the Clinton administration, now clicks his heels and defends the president's power to call legal hits at will?

Sure. As George Will recently observed, "progressives" have always longed to forge a nation where the citizens march "in lock step, shoulder to shoulder, obedient to orders from a commanding officer." All in the name of "progress," you see.

But that's the role of liberalism in the DC Empire - it gussies up brute power with a facade of noble intentions. What I once wrote about the Bush regime is just as true about Obama:

With Communist egalitarianism and Nazi economics, Neo-Conism avoids the flaws (racism, planned economy) while appropriating the strengths (universalism, mercantilism, and really good citizen surveillance) of both totalitarian systems. Combining the world's largest economy and the world's noblest ideals, Bush's USA is the most powerful force the planet has ever seen.

And ... the greatest threat to our liberty and security, as Leon Panetta just admitted.

Bitter cold records broken in Alaska

Now this is cold:

The weather station in Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971. That’s not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, the weather station stopped reporting at -79°F.

And, as Jack London once warned, you just don't go out when it's below minus 75:

The cold of space smote the unprotected tip of the planet, and he, being on that unprotected tip, received the full force of the blow. The blood of his body recoiled before it. The blood was alive, like the dog, and like the dog it wanted to hide away and cover itself up from the fearful cold. So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body.

Just reading that makes me shiver!

DC's "Blowback" foreign policy

EndorseLiberty gives us a great video summary of how we got tied into knots in so many places around the world. The unforeseen consequences of sticking our nose into everybody else's business leads to some ironic, even bizarre, screw-ups. For example: guess who the CIA once described as "a presentable young man," a socialist we ended up backing?

It's time to end this insanity.

Thanks to Peter for the heads up!

Quote of the day

"I wish I could claim that I’m Hispanic." Mitt Romney

Police arrest Occupy Charlotte protesters

With shouts of "Arrest us! We'll multiply!" some members of Occupy Charlotte refused police warnings to end their protest on the City Hall lawn. The six who were arrested had locked legs and refused to budge, requiring the police to physically remove them from the lawn, and take them into custody.

These are dangerous people. A month ago, four Charlotte Occupiers were arrested for arson.

Fighting the smears

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog features a post that slams State and local efforts to stop illegal immigration as the work of "xenophobes and nativists." (I assume there's nothing wrong with the radical alienists of La Raza and MEChA.) The Immigration Reform Law Institute has filed an amicus brief defending Utah's immigration law, and that just won't do, rails Mark Potok, because the Institute is connected to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and they're connected to the Pioneer Fund. And the Fund, according to Potok, was "started by Nazi sympathizers."

Really? The links Potok provided are to older SPLC rants, rather than to the maligned group. So I Googled "Pioneer Fund" just to see what they had to say for themselves.

It turns out that five of those founders fought for the Allies in World War II, and one served as a staff attorney at the Nuremberg Tribunal. The Fund is purely a research organization, dedicated to the "scientific study of heredity and human differences."

And if there are scientific explanations for such differences as, oh, the racial performance gap - which even liberals acknowledge - then by all means let's explore them. Maybe, suggests Steve Sailer, understanding them can lead to better policies in the schools and the workplace.

What burns me about Potok's post is the utter dishonesty of his argument. On the Internet, a link serves the function of a footnote - it's the proof of your assertion. Instead, he linked to his own organization's past attacks on the very individuals and groups being attacked.

You'll notice that whenever I make a point, I link to that person's or group's own web site to back up my argument. For example, if I claim Mark Potok collaborates with Communists, I don't link to the Free Magnolia, but to the SPLC and to The Socialist Worker, where the reader can examine the quotes and make up his own mind if I characterized the facts correctly.

But distortion of the facts and intimidation are all our enemies have going for them. Read the SPLC attack on FAIR, and you'll see it comes down to nothing but name-calling. That's not a free exchange of ideas, but character assassination. Such will only poison the public forum.

The South's history, thought, and actions have long been subject to similar intellectual dishonesty and outright slander, and the left and its allies are doing the same to conservatives. But the truth is on our side, and we will fight our fight honestly and energetically. That's what I try to do on this blog, and I deeply appreciate the contributions from readers who want to see this work continue.

So when you consider whether to renew your League of the South membership, or if you want to support this blog, just remember the unethical and deceptive methods of those who attack us. You'll know what to do.

An exclusive interview with Robert H. Goldsborough

Robert Goldsborough's lively and long career as a border security activist is both inspiring and fascinating. Peter Gemma interviews this aging but still active warrior. Here's a sample:

The Obama administration is attacking the rights of states on how they handle the illegal alien threat along a number of fronts, and they have lots of resources -- especially our tax money. The Supreme Court holds the key to many questions of how far states will be allowed to protect their citizens. Congress lost its will to fight the larger battle: the greatest threat to U.S. homeland security comes from illegals who enter the country. It is all too easy for illegal aliens to slip in beneath the radar -- never being detected and deported.

You definitely want to read the whole thing.

NAACP opposes popular vote

This May, North Carolina will give the people of this State the opportunity to consider an amendment upholding traditional marriage.

But the NAACP wants it struck from the ballot. NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous claims same-sex "marriage" is today's battleground in the never-ending civil rights movement: "And if we at the NAACP are committed to anything, it's pushing America closer to her ideals."

No, it isn't. The NAACP now stands with the venomous left, which seeks to wreck this country so it can rebuild it on its own twisted terms. In fact, the NAACP is collaborating with hard-left groups against blacks, who overwhelmingly support traditional marriage. In fact, a 2009 Pew Forum poll revealed that 62% of blacks opposed gay marriage.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation is a conservative black organization which has gone on record opposing Mr. Jealous' actions. You want some stubborn resistance to the radical homosexual agenda? Check out the Frederick Douglass Foundation blog.

Ed Sebesta watch

Eek! Homophobia! Ed Sebesta says I have it.

Yes, if you do not support the radical "gay" agenda, then you suffer from a debilitating, irrational fear. Just as the old Soviet Union would ship protesters to mental institutions, the last surviving Evil Empire dismisses its dissidents as just plain crazy.

Sebesta's latest blogging project is entitled, "Neo-Confederate Homophobia," and sub-titled, "A blog for the Lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender communities about neo-Confederate homophobia. Homophobia and neo-Confederacy overlap and intersect much more than is realized." No, really.

Intrigued, I wanted to leave a helpful and supportive comment. Sadly, I was informed, "Only a member of this blog may post a comment." Now the "Neo-Confederate Homophobia" blog has been in business since May of 2011. I scrolled down the page to tally the number of comments made on each of Ed's posts. Here are the results:

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I was never good at math, so I ran these numbers through an Excel spreadsheet. If I correctly used Excel's @Sum() function, then "Neo-Confederate Homophobia" is clearly Ed Sebesta's most successful offensive against Southern heritage. So far.

The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution

Clyde Wilson, who refers to himself as a "recovering professor," demonstrates that the Constitution is NOT a surrender of all rights to DC, but a "limiting document" designed to halt any possible centralization of power.

Well done, Clyde!

Quote of the day

"After Iraq, after Afghanistan, after Libya, after all of these horrors and many more, can the American people be led into another war? Why, it's the easiest thing in the world." Arthur Silber

The Decline of the American Empire

Kirkpatrick Sale, the director of the Middlebury Institute, reviews Morris Berman's Why America Failed. Berman's book, argues Sale, is essential to understanding how the DC Empire achieved its present status. It did so by relentlessly pursuing its notion of "progress," an impossible goal perfectly suitable for "a nation of hustlers," a people "relentlessly on the make."

And what does a nation of hustlers do to those who get in their way? The South is a perfect example - as well as a model for future conquests:

In fact that civilization will always take steps to marginalize it, even destroy it if necessary, a fact that Berman illustrates in a chapter on the antebellum South. He shows how the South was "the one example we have of an opponent of [the dominant] ideology that had real political teeth," and blatantly opted for a life premodern (indeed "neofeudal"), agrarian, slow, conservative, and honoring tradition, honor, chivalry, and hospitality more than making a buck or inventing a gadget. This ultimately the increasingly industrial and expansive North could not stand and so began a war to destroy it. "The treatment of the South by the North," Berman says, "was the template for the way the United States would come to treat any nation it regarded as an enemy: not merely a scorched earth policy, but also a ‘scorched soul’ policy’" that it would use in Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else it could achieve it.

This is why the Civil War remains a hot issue today - the triumphalist mythology that grew out of the Northern victory is the foundation for today's militarism, which is prettied up with talk of "liberation" and "equality."

Thanks to Robert for the heads up!

Kelly Clarkson cheers the return of States' Rights

It started with one little tweet:

Pop singer Kelly Clarkson wasn't expecting such a harsh response when she tweeted her endorsement in the Republican presidential race.

"I love Ron Paul," she wrote late last month. Later, in a radio interview, she elaborated, "He believes in states having their rights, and I think that that's very important."

Of course, the hyenas started cackling and growling over a term that drives the Empire and its parasites over the edge whenever they hear it. Too bad - they're going to just have to get used to it - and more.

Thanks to Peter for the heads up!

Scottish independence vote draws a step nearer

Looks like the 21st century is going to be a good one for small government and the resurgence of historical cultures:

Scotland’s government today took the first official step towards holding a referendum on whether the nation should secede from the United Kingdom, according to The New York Times.

Scottish officials hope to hold the referendum in 2014, which could allow the nation of five million to sever itself in as little as four years from England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Good for Scotland! Now - when do we get our referendum? Or is the DC Empire actually the Hotel California of nations?

Quote of the day

"The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized." Vox Day

The US drops in ranking of freedom of the press

At number 47 in the world, the US now lags behind Costa Rica, Ghana, and Botswana.

Alabama kills two birds with one stone

One law successfully cuts illegal immigration AND unemployment! Here are the numbers:

Ever since Alabama began implementing its immigration enforcement law, H.B. 56, in late September, the state’s unemployment rate has been dropping like a stone. In just the first month the law was in effect, unemployment in Alabama shrank from 9.8 percent of the workforce to 9.3 percent. And now the latest figures are in…and the news couldn’t be worse (for the Obama administration, the illegal alien lobby, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that is): Alabama’s unemployment rate checked in at 8.1 percent in December. That’s more than a 17 percent reduction since September.

This is a triple embarrassment for Obama. It demonstrates that States' Rights in not only alive, but powerful. Though the Treason Lobby screams there's nothing we can do about the demographic upheaval, Alabama's law validates State and other local efforts to do the job Obama won't do. Finally, it also shows people can solve their own problems without DC's intervention.

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Thanks, Karl!

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New addition to the Rebellion blogroll

Please welcome famous Southern author Tito Perdue to the Rebellion blogroll. If you're not familiar with his novels, you're in for a treat. My review of his latest work, The Node, is in the works.

Meanwhile, check out Tito's lively and informative blog.

The deadly ideal

On the night of January 13, Mark Anthony Cox killed his manager, Danielle Watson, at the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Charlotte as she was closing up. He wrapped her body in plastic and dumped it in the garbage.

He drove off in her car with $2,500.

The victim was engaged and expecting a baby. Cox now faces double murder charges.

But as disturbing as this story is, it gets worse:

The Charlotte crime is eerily similar to other crimes for which Cox served prison time. He was released in November of 2011 after serving three years. He started working at the Flying Biscuit within a few weeks.

Back in 2008, Cox was 18 when he worked in the kitchen at a Sonic restaurant in eastern North Carolina.

Police in Roanoke Rapids told WBTV's Sharon Smith that Cox and some co-conspirators planned to rob the restaurant. His co-workers were held at gunpoint, while the robber demanded $3100.

Cox was given a three-year-suspended prison, which was suspended for probation. It was only activated after his probation was revoked and another crime was committed.

This time, police in Wake County say Cox broke into the home of a man who was trying to help him. The victim had just recently told Cox to move out, and the break-in was how Cox responded, according to Knightdale police investigators.

How could Mark Anthony Cox have been hired with this kind of record? Why would management allow this predatory slime to work in close quarters with unsuspecting co-workers? The article manages to ask the question without asking it: "The owners have been silent on the background check issue and their security policy."

Maybe this story from last week will shed a little light on the mystery:

Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants — even if they weren’t convicted of a crime.

The settlement announced Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is part of a national government crackdown on hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics.

Get that? Checking for a prospective employee's past criminal activity has an adverse effect on certain minorities.

Problem is, NOT checking past criminal activity has an adverse effect on innocent co-workers. What's a business to do - turn their employees into unwitting targets, or risk a crackdown from the national government?

The answer is obvious. So once again, in its never-ending effort to impose equality of outcome in the workplace, the government commits the unspeakable in pursuit of the impossible.

Quote of the day

"My idea of fast food is a mallard." Ted Nugent

Obama completes W's unfinished work

We already knew about Obama's expansion of Bush-era foreign policy, such as surging in Afghanistan and launching yet another "war of liberation" in Libya, despite lacking the authority to do so. And as we've pointed out before, an aggressive foreign policy leads to an oppressive domestic policy, as the disastrous National Defense Authorization Act, which now empowers DC's Armed Forces to suspend habeas corpus and indefinitely detain civilians, chillingly proves.

Obama is also doing his best to make America reflect the demographics you'd expect from a global empire. As FAIR reports, W's Open Borders policy is well under way:

Despite claiming resources are too limited to comprehensively enforce immigration laws, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) announced the creation of a Detainee Hotline. This will be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with translation services available in several languages to accommodate those who "believe they may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime."

ICE, responsible for issuing detainers for illegal alien criminals to ensure they are present for criminal and deportation hearings, has altered policy to allow only making a detainer effective upon an alien's conviction of a crime for which the alien was arrested. This shift to a discretionary "post-conviction" detainer ignores the fact that being in the country illegally is a violation of federal law while simultaneously welcoming criminal aliens back onto the streets since many may post bond and abscond before ever being convicted or may ultimately be convicted of a lesser offense.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a new rule that would help illegal aliens skirt the statutory 3 and 10-year bars to admission. The rule seeks to allow illegal alien relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the U.S. while seeking waivers from the law, rather than doing so from outside the country. Congress passed the 3 and 10-year bars to inadmissibility in 1996 to discourage illegal immigration and marriage fraud.

President Obama issued an executive order Thursday that will make it easier for aliens to obtain nonimmigrant visas by waiving screening safeguards, increasing the potential for terrorism and visa over-stays. In addition to relaxing the screening process for issuing visas, President Obama also proposed expanding the Visa Waiver Program.

ICE attorneys in Denver and Baltimore have recommended that the agency "administratively close" 1,667 removal cases. The recommendation is a result of a six-week pilot review of all pending deportation cases in Denver and Baltimore immigration courts.

Tell me again why it matters which party is in power?

Time to move on!

This is no time to play the blame game about who turned Iraq into a hell-hole! And there's no time to think, either, because we have to move on to our next disaster.

We've got to start a war with Iran!

Why? Because they've got weapons of mass destruction, and intend to enslave us! Just like Saddam! And look at how their military spending compares to ours:


No wonder the crazies on the net and in government are screaming for a pre-emptive attack on Iran. It's us or them!

Charlotte city council to Occupy protesters: Scram!

The Democratic-controlled Charlotte city council has passed some get-tough ordinances designed to knock the wind out of Occupy Charlotte's sails. The protesters can keep their charming tents on city property, but cannot cook or sleep there.

It's true these protests have attracted some unsavory (and brainless) elements, but I'm afraid council has gone too far in its attempts to clean up our city before the DNC comes to town. The ordinances actually empower the police to search people's backpacks and coolers - a clear violation of rights, in my opinion. Incredibly, the Charlotte police support this. Deputy Chief Harold Medlock even claimed backpacks "are frequently used to carry rocks and weapons."

We're so afraid of rocks that we're telling the police to conduct illegal searches?

Knives are now prohibited, and the new ban on body armor is so vague that someone could be arrested for wearing a bike helmet downtown.

Talk about over-reacting!

As much as I disagree with the aims and methods of the Occupy protesters, I have to say measures like this threaten us all, and should be opposed.

Bruins goalie Thomas declines White House visit

Stories like this could make me a hockey fan:

Boston Bruins' star goaltender Tim Thomas skipped Monday's White House visit by the Stanley Cup champions due to political differences with President Barack Obama.

Thomas, a Flint, Mich., native and one of only two American players on the Bruins' Stanley Cup roster last season, was the only Boston player to decline the invitation.

"I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People," Thomas said in a statement.

A lot of people would be so star-struck, they'd accept an invitation from Lucifer himself to go to the White House. Good for Tim Thomas!

Thanks to Joe for the link!

2012 League of the South National Conference

23 January 2012

Compatriots: It is my pleasure to announce that the 2012 League of the South national conference will be held in the new Alabama LS culture center and headquarters in Wallsboro (Elmore County), Alabama, on 20-21 July (Friday-Saturday). The LS building is located on US Hwy. 231 north of Montgomery, the first Capital of the Confederacy. The new venue was opened to the public on Saturday, 21 January, with speeches, music, food, and good Southern fellowship. We look forward to showing off our newest League real estate to you all this coming summer. Please mark the dates on your calendar and plan to join us for a fun, informative, and inspiring weekend on our own beautiful property.

Information about the program, speakers, entertainment, lodging, etc. will be forthcoming.

FSI,

Michael Hill

Newt Gingrich Looks For Latino votes

Warning - gag alert! Check out this typical mainstream drivel on how immigration is shaping the 2012 election:

No Republican candidate has made more of an effort to appeal to Latinos than Gingrich – in fact, no other candidate has made much of an effort at all, a surprising development considering more than half the growth in the country’s total population between 2000 and 2010 was due to the massive increase in the Hispanic population. That fact was not lost on Gingrich, however, and to date he has tried to court Republican Latinos, long before the primaries in Hispanic-heavy states like Florida and Nevada were up next on the calendar.

Gingrich not only supports amnesty for illegal aliens, but affirmative action. And yet, editorial writers can say "With Gingrich, S.C. swings far to the right."

Of course, the corporate media is playing us for fools. We're supposed to read the editorial, shake our fists, and say, "Ha! Take that, liberals!" and defiantly support yet another establishment Republican.

That's why I hope Obama wins. Then folks can get angry at Obama for amnestying millions of illegal aliens. Otherwise, we're going to be assured ONCE AGAIN that flood tide immigration is a "conservative" value, as we were under Reagan and both Bushes.