Rules? This. Is. Congress!

Yes, Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings (Fla.) just said this in the most powerful committee of the United States House of Representatives. The people’s [??] house:

“There ain’t no rules here, we’re trying to accomplish something. . ..All this talk about rules. . . .When the deal goes down . . . we make ‘em up as we go along.”

Jihad as American as apple pie

He has a point. After all, John Brown was the first to bring holy war to this land. And we should look for more, says this dangerous man:

Violent jihad, or Islamic holy war, is "becoming as American as apple pie," US-born fugitive cleric Anwar Al-Awlaqi said in an unauthenticated message released Friday. ...

Awlaqi has been cited as an influence on three of the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks and exchanged emails with Major Nidal Hasan, the US army psychiatrist accused of opening fire on fellow soldiers at a Texas army base, killing 13 people in November.

The imam has also been linked to Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight with explosives in his underwear on December 25.

Actually, it's really inevitable we'll see much, much more violent jihad here at home, thanks to DC's ongoing demographic reconstruction of this country.

Fess Parker, Star of 'Davy Crockett,' Dies at 85

A sad good-bye to a childhood hero. Yes, I had a coonskin hat and sang "The Ballad of Davy Crockett."


Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew ev'ry tree, kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!

He went off to Congress an' served a spell, fixin' up the Govern'ments an' laws as well
Took over Washin'ton so we heered tell, an' patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell
Davy, Davy Crockett, seein' his duty clear!

He heard of Houston an' Austin so, to the Texas plains he jest had to go
Where freedom was fightin' another foe, an' they needed him at the Alamo
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear!

His land is biggest an' his land is best, from grassy plains to the mountain crest
He's ahead of us all meetin' the test, followin' his legend into the West
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!

The Wars of Tribe and Faith

Leave it to Pat Buchanan to point out the growing fault lines the multiculturalists want to ignore:

What the splintering of the Soviet Union and of a Yugoslavia whose baptismal certificate dated to the Paris peace conference of 1919 revealed was the accuracy of Arthur Schlesinger’s insight in his 1991 "Dis-Uniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society":

"Nationalism remains after two centuries the most vital political emotion in the world — far more vital than social ideologies such a communism or fascism or even democracy. … Within nation-states, nationalism takes the form of ethnicity or tribalism."

Ethnic ties, Schlesinger wrote, might prove more powerful and historically important than the forces of globalism and democratism, which then seemed ascendant. He only neglected to mention religious faith as often a "far more vital" emotion than ideology.

Regular readers of this blog will recognize this as old news (See "Why the Southern Cause? Here's why ... "). Human nature will outlast and outwit all the ideologies and other-worldly theories. The lumping together of the entire human race into one Earthly Paradise isn't a new idea -- ambitious despots have dreamed of it for centuries, from Alexander to Genghis Khan, from Napoleon and Hitler, from Stalin to George Soros. Erasing heritage means erasing history and identity -- and human beings will not have it. The urge to assert and preserve one's authentic individual and social nature will inevitably triumph over theory.

And don't think for a moment the DC Empire is an exception, says Buchanan:

Globalization is no longer on the march, but on the defensive. Economic nationalism is rising. Across the Third World, we see an upsurge of ethnonationalism and fundamentalism, especially among the Islamic peoples. From Nigeria to Sudan to Mindanao, Muslims battle Christians, as Christians are persecuted in Egypt, Iraq, and Pakistan. ...

Ethnonationalism, that relentless drive of peoples to secede and dwell apart, to establish their own nation-state, where their faith is predominant, their language spoken, their heroes and history revered, and they rule to the exclusion of all others, is rampant.

In speaking of the rising tribalism abroad, Schlesinger added, "The ethnic upsurge in America, far from being unique, partakes of the global fever."

Indeed, separatism and secessionism seem to be in the air.

The globalists will use the power of government to enforce large-scale versions of "Mix It Up at Lunch" programs all they want. People will fight and die to preserve community, tradition, and place, those things that provide context and meaning in their lives. The globalists, on the other hand, dream of a flattened world where all is standardized and homogenized. To them we say, "Come and take it."

Another pair of hands reaching for your tax dollars

Should Floridians fork over even more subsidies to the lucrative film industry? Check out the debate here.

Flags of the Rebellion

Governor Sanford displays the American flag that North Carolinians bravely fought under from 1861-1865 at the “Confederate Centennial."

Bernie from North Carolina

Send me your flag pictures at rebellionblog@gmail.com

CIS points out race-baiting tactics used by La Raza

Now this is fun -- someone's putting the high 'n mighty SPLC under the microscope for a change. The resulting picture ain't pretty:

While the SPLC presented itself as a public-interest watchdog, it became a propaganda arm of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Its designation of Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as a 'hate group' was a publicity stunt in the service of La Raza's 'Stop the Hate Campaign.' That campaign, formally launched in early 2008, is actually an effort to stop the debate on national immigration policy.

The investigative reporter who uncovered the SPLC's smear campaign to de-legitimize dissent against DC's amnesty agenda is Pulitzer Prize-winner Jerry Kammer. You will want to read the whole thing, and bookmark it for future reference. The next time your local paper quotes these leftist fat cats, it'll make great ammunition for your letter to the editor.

Computer snafu is behind at least 50 'raids' on Brooklyn couple's home

To err is human -- but to really screw things up, you need a computer:

Embarrassed cops on Thursday cited a "computer glitch" as the reason police targeted the home of an elderly, law-abiding couple more than 50 times in futile hunts for bad guys.

Apparently, the address of Walter and Rose Martin's Brooklyn home was used to test a department-wide computer system in 2002.

What followed was years of cops appearing at the Martins' door looking for murderers, robbers and rapists - as often as three times a week.

I'm afraid we're looking at a growing trend. Not in computer glitches -- but in blaming them for "unfortunate accidents" by government.

JPMorgan, UBS and Deutsche Bank Charged with Derivatives Fraud

More shenanigans in the world of international finance -- with the growing possibility the US government is involved:

More like international crime families sending out enticing emails trying to lure and trick the unsuspecting than serious financial institutions. This is banking? ...

There is speculation that the US government cannot reform these banks because it is deeply involved in financial transactions of a questionable nature with them itself, ranging from enormous individual campaign contributions to market manipulation in various financial instruments in support of government policy which is otherwise failing badly.

Why do you think we call them "banksters"?

Obama's Approval Rating Lowest Yet, Congress' Declines

Here are the numbers:

President Barack Obama's job approval is the worst of his presidency to date, with 46% of Americans approving and 48% disapproving of the job he is doing as president in the latest Gallup Daily three-day average. ...

Americans hold Congress in far less esteem than they do the president -- 16% approve and 80% disapprove of the job Congress is doing, according to the latest update from a March 4-7 Gallup poll.

Can you imagine a business retaining an employee with such a dismal record of under-performance? Why do we need these clowns?

Letter from a student: How did States' Rights return?

You'll love this email:

"I am a freshman at the University of Michigan. I have no ties to the South, but have always been interested in Southern history. Please do not be offended, but I have always believed that the Civil War (or War Between the States if you will) decided that the Constitution and the federal government take precedence over the individual states. Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis were good men, and no doubt brave men, but were wrong in their understanding of American law and where ultimate loyalty lies.

My question is how do you explain the resurgence of nullification and States Rights when those issues were supposedly settled in 1865? Thank you."

T.M. of Lansing, Michigan

First, there's the logical side of the question: Did the people of the States have the right to withdraw the powers they had delegated to the Federal government? Do they still have it? This article by Al Benson Jr. will explain the Constitutional, legal question.

Then there's the other aspect: How did this defeated Cause remain alive, glowing like a spark, and finally rekindle into a direct challenge to the Federal government?

Now we're in the realm of the heart, of memory, and the undying human spirit of rebellion against tyranny and domination. Below are the best responses I can think of:


Arlington, Virginia

They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace. Patrick Pearse, Irish patriot

Salisbury, North Carolina

States in rebellion?

Obama's power grab is about to blow back in his face:

Virginia will sue over health care

Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate

Prediction: Obama and the Democratic majority will ram through socialized medicine despite these feeble protests. Forget the government courts. Instead of playing "Mother, may I?" with this out-of-control "servant" of the sovereign States, it's time for some serious resistance.

The great divide between state capitols and Fantasyland

Why the renewed interest in States' Rights, nullification, and secession? It's not nostalgia for the Old South, nor a cover for irrational hatred of minorities, as the Empire's Inquisition would have you believe.

The reason local self-government has roared back into the marketplace of ideas is because it's increasingly apparent that DC is too big, too entrenched, too detached. Its own bulk makes it oblivious to the consequences of its own policies, as David Broder argues here:

There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, on one side, and governors and legislators around the country on the other.

The record of the Washington politicians is summarized in the report that came out of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week. That nonpartisan scorekeeper announced that it projects the cumulative national debt to increase in the next decade by $9.8 trillion.

That unimaginable (and indigestible) sum is more than a trillion dollars higher than the Obama administration's estimate. It means a lower future standard of living for Americans because of vastly increased debt. ...

The Great Recession knocked state tax revenues down by $87 billion in the fiscal year that ended last September — an 11 percent decline that was the steepest on record.

In response, the first thing the states did was to cut spending. General fund outlays were reduced by 4 percent in fiscal 2009 and by another 4.8 percent in 2010 — even as Medicaid rolls swelled and other recession-related expenses climbed. ...

Governors live in the real world, where budgets mean something more than a formula for shifting burdens to the next generation and where there is much less room for partisan game-playing.

Once again this year, Congress has passed a "pay-as-you-go" bill requiring it to make compensatory cuts whenever it increases appropriations for some worthy purpose.

Then it turned right around and began waiving the requirement when circumstances pinched.

Discipline is visible in the states. It is still a stranger to Washington.

And discipline will remain unknown in the District of Corruption as long as the people of the sovereign States support it with their tax dollars and blind support. Congress, the President, and the bloated bureaucracy in DC are parasites and maniacal spendthrifts, but we are their enablers. Since they will never learn, it's a question of when we will learn.

Flags of the Rebellion

Sophia Loren, Confederate Supporter!

8/12/1957-Washington, DC: Italy's gift to the movies, glamourous Sophia Loren, waves a Confederate flag and explains that she's a gal of the Old South herself- from the Old South of Italy.

Many a boy had a crush on Sophia in the 1950’s and 1960’s, here is why. Thanks to Joe Vallente.

Bernie from North Carolina

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Some races ARE more equal than others

A recent posting on the Southern Poverty Law Center blog makes this frank admission:

We make no apologies for sharing that research with others in the human rights community, including La Raza, which we consider an important ally.

Ally, huh? Let's see:

ally - noun. a person, group, or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose

What cause does La Raza promote? La Raza (translation: "Das Volk") is in the thick of Latino nationalism, which MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan) spells out on its website:

Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.

For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada. ["For the race everything, outside the race nothing."]

El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán sets the theme that the Chicanos (La Raza de Bronze) must use their nationalism as the key or common denominator for mass mobilization and organization. Once we are committed to the idea and philosophy of El Plan de Aztlán, we can only conclude that social, economic, cultural, and political independence is the only road to total liberation from oppression, exploitation, and racism. Our struggle then must be for the control of our barrios, campos, pueblos, lands, our economy, our culture, and our political life. El Plan commits all levels of Chicano society - the barrio, the campo, the ranchero, the writer, the teacher, the worker, the professional - to La Causa.

MEChA and La Raza not only share similar goals, but significant crossover membership:

Former MEChA members include Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was officially endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza's Graciela Olivarez Award. Now we know why he refuses to condemn a sea of foreign flags in his city. California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He delivered the keynote address at La Raza's 2002 Annual Convention.

The National Council of La Raza and its allies in public office make no repudiation of the radical MEChA and its positions. In fact, as recently as 2003, La Raza was actively funding MEChA, according to federal tax records.

Please refer to these facts the next time someone tries to argue that La Raza or the SPLC are "civil rights" organizations. They are Hispanic ethnic lobbies -- and rich, powerful ones at that.

States’ Rights Is Rallying Cry for Lawmakers

Even the New York Times acknowledges the growing resistance to DC:

Whether it’s correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll. ...

Alabama, Tennessee and Washington are considering bills or constitutional amendments that would assert local police powers to be supreme over the federal authority, according to the Tenth Amendment Center, a research and advocacy group based in Los Angeles. And Utah, again not to be outdone, passed a bill last week that says federal law enforcement authority, even on federal lands, can be limited by the state.

You definitely want to read the whole thing. Not only does it quote our friend Thomas Woods Jr., but actually discusses States' Rights without pasting in a canned quote from some faux-outraged SPLC hack. Even better, it includes this:

“Who is the sovereign, the state or the federal government?” said State Representative Chris N. Herrod, a Republican from Provo, Utah, and leader of the 30-member Patrick Henry Caucus, which formed last year and led the assault on federal legal barricades in the session that ended Thursday. ... “Those politicians who don’t understand that things are different are in big trouble because a few people showing up to caucus can have a big influence,” Mr. Herrod said.

I couldn't have said it better myself, Mr. Herrod!

Time for a "Velvet Revolution"?

That's what Congressman Steve King says:

Americans should launch a “Velvet Revolution”-style uprising against the federal government in order to put a stop to creeping socialism and defeat health care reform, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, said Tuesday.

King was a featured speaker at several “Kill the Bill” rallies in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning that were designed to stop health care reform legislation. In an interview with the liberal site Huffington Post, King said there are a lot of similarities between current-day America and Czechoslovakia under communism.

I knew conservatives would recognize creeping authoritarianism when a leftist president promoted it, and would rise up against it. When Bush and Cheney pushed through No Child Left Behind, amnesty for illegal aliens, socialized medicine for seniors, and the PATRIOT ACT, conservatives meekly obeyed, believing they were supporting conservative and patriotic measures.

Thank you, Mr. Obama, for removing the scales from their eyes! You were the defibrillator for a comatose conservative movement.

The Pledge of Allegiance is Constitutional

A major victory in our fight for freedom! A Federal judge has ruled that Americans will be allowed to include the words "under God" when they renounce their sovereignty and swear fealty to their masters in DC:

Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance. Judge Carlos Bea, the author of the majority opinion, finely exhibited what it means to be a constitutionalist judge. His opinion considered the words “under God” not in isolation, but within their proper context and according to an honest analysis of the relevant history.

This gives the absolute, unquestionable power of the Federal government the endorsement of religious faith. Is this a great country, or what?

U.S.-Mexico virtual fence work to end

What a shocker this is.

Big Sister Janet Napolitano must not have read the memo -- she wasn't supposed to drop the pretense of enforcing border security until AFTER amnesty was passed.

Democracy isn't supposed to work like this

THIS is what 4,383 Americans died for? At the obscene cost of three trillion dollars?

The followers of Moktada al-Sadr, a radical cleric who led the Shiite insurgency against the American occupation, have emerged as Iraq’s equivalent of Lazarus in elections last week, defying ritual predictions of their demise and now threatening to realign the nation’s balance of power.

Their apparent success in the March 7 vote for Parliament — perhaps second only to the followers of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki as the largest Shiite bloc — underscores a striking trend in Iraqi politics: a collapse in support for many former exiles who collaborated with the United States after the 2003 invasion.

Of course, it's only surprising to the nimrods in DC and the corporate media that people resent being invaded and having their countrymen murdered by occupying forces.

Here's what is surprising: Iraqis at least get to vote on whether they like domination by DC.

The South is rising again

And this time it's bringing more of the country with it! From One News Now:

... thankfully, Barack Obama and his cohorts are meeting a wall of opposition not seen in well over a century. To this point, 37 states have taken up legislation to essentially resurrect the nullification doctrine and void the enforcement of the blatantly unconstitutional individual mandate should ObamaCare pass.

It’s been a long time since three-fourths of the states in this country have been on the same page regarding anything, much less such a critical issue.

Yes, the spirit of the South is rising again, but this time it’s different. This time it’s all over the country.

Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, saw the threat of a big, authoritarian government coming a long time ago:

If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be subverted, and an Empire is to be established in their stead; if that is to be the last scene of the great tragic drama now being enacted: then, be assured, that we of the South will be acquitted, not only in our own consciences, but in the judgment of mankind, of all responsibility for so terrible a catastrophe, and from all guilt of so great a crime against humanity.

James Clyburn isn't afraid of controversy!

Behold a legislative genius at work:

Question: Do you have the votes to pass health care reform?

James Clyburn: No, I don't but I think we'll get them. ... There are still some issues about how we're gonna pay for this.

Question: This has been going on for more than a year and you still don't have the votes. Doesn't that show you how controversial this is?

James Clyburn: "I was born in controversy. I spent yesterday down at my university, South Carolina State, celebrating the sit-ins -- controversy doesn't bother me. This is something we have to do to get people back into what society is all about. [???!!!???] Getting rid of all of these discriminations about pre-existing conditions.

Got that? Socialized medicine is the next logical step in the Holy Civil Rights Revolution.

We're back!

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted ...

Ok, I totally botched up the conversion from ftp to Blogger-hosted. So it was up to Dixienet webmaster Terry Compton to haul out the digital hammer and saw and make the needed repairs.

So we're back. And more determined than ever. Stay tuned!

Quote of the day

"Anti-racism will be for the 21st century what Communism was for the 20th century: A source of violence." French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut

"Anti-racism" is just as contrary to human nature as communism. Only an authoritarian government can prop them up -- but only for a while.

Federal deficit worse than expected

Remember all that bad news about the out-of-control Federal budget? Turns out those reports were written by dewy-eyed optimists:

President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.

The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is somewhat gloomier than White House projections, which found that Obama's budget request would produce deficits that would add about $8.5 trillion to the national debt by 2020.

The ship of state is now the Toyota of state.

Tea Party leader paid by GOP-run campaign to promote party goals

The Borg continues to assimilate authentic conservatism:

One of the Tea Party's top leaders was recently paid $7,500 by a campaign run by a California Republican group to promote one of their ballot initiatives.

Mark Meckler is a spokesman for the Tea Party Patriots and had publicly distanced himself from the Republican Party. But state records show that he accepted the money for "petition circulation management" from the "Citizen Power Campaign Supported by the Lincoln Club of Orange County."

"The Lincoln Club." Of course.

And by "assimilate," I mean "suck the life blood out of it."

2050

There's an embarrassingly amateurish new site anticipating that glorious future when whites are no longer the majority in the United States.

Here's a response from a well-done new site called Alternative Right.

The South shall rise

And it shall rise. All we need are enough hands on the levers of power. This report, snarky as it may be, still shows that there are those willing to take a stand in the arena: (and do note the link meant to embarrass him):

Loy Mauch of Bismarck filed for House District 26, as a Republican. (If only the CSA had a party.)

Regular readers of the D-G letters page (those with strong stomachs, in other words) know the name. There was his protest, along with his Sons of the Confederate Veteran chapter, over a statute of Abraham Lincoln on display at the Hot Springs Convention Center. There's his veneration of the Confederate battle flag, as evidenced when James Vandiver lowered the D.C. flag and raised the Dixie banner over his motel.

For Loy Mauch of Bismarck in Hot Spring County, the Confederate flag is a symbol of America’s Christian roots, from which he believes the nation has strayed.
“The government has lost its moral authority over God-fearing Americans and I wish more patriots like James Vandiver would take their stand for what the Confederate Battle Flag truly symbolizes,” Mauch wrote.

As Jesse Helms would always say, just make sure you spell the name right.

Pitching for America

This blunt assessment of the mess DC has dragged us into should be mandatory reading. Since it deals with reality instead of the usual "Go, USA!" mindlessness, you know it comes from Pat Buchanan:

To balance the budget this year would require a 43 percent across-the-board cut in every category of federal spending — defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Homeland Security, highways, etc. — or, if one used taxes alone, a 72-percent increase in federal tax revenues.

Budget cuts of that magnitude are impossible. They would cause a revolution. And any attempt at tax hikes of that magnitude would drain off all available consumer capital and hurl the economy into another Depression.

For the foreseeable future, then, this nation is going deeper into debt

And when Harry Reid and colleagues wave through yet another $10 billion for unemployment checks and making sure farm folks get yard dishes to see reruns of “The Sopranos,” the United States must go to Beijing, Tokyo or Riyadh and borrow the money.

This city does not seem to grasp that the days of wine and roses are over. We are not in the 1950s or 1960s anymore.

Of course Congress isn't going to reverse course. Yeah, the Titanic is sinking, but look! The all-you-can-eat buffet table is still open!

Rash of Scandals Tests Democrats at Sensitive Time

When Republicans were in power, they abused it. Now that the Democrats hold power, they're proving to be just as corrupt. Both parties accuse each other of total incompetence.

I say they're both right.