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Time magazine has an interesting article on one of the various cogs in the left-wing activist machine.  The article , which doesn’t mince words, shows a well-funded, organized operation that is committed to defeating “anti-gay” candidates at every level across the nation.  Time recounts how the group of wealthy donors dumped large sums of cash into the 2005 Virginia legislative elections where four candidates seen as “critical of gays” saw defeat.

This unofficial group of wealthy benefactors has become known as the “Cabinet.”

Among gay activists, the Cabinet is revered as a kind of secret gay Super Friends, a homosexual justice league that can quietly swoop in wherever anti-gay candidates are threatening and finance victories for the good guys.

Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states’ legislatures. Those states’ Democratic majorities now ensure that, among other things, efforts to amend the Iowa and New Hampshire constitutions to ban same-sex marriage will fail.

Those named as members of the Cabinet:

• David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., Billionaire Co-Founder of Geo-Cities.
• Timothy Gill of Denver, tech multimillionaire;
• James Hormel of San Francisco, heir to the famous meat company;
• Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.;
• Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances.
• Jonathan Lewis, grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance
• Linda Ketner, heiress to the Food Lion fortune, who is running for Congress against GOP Representative Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina.

The left-wing of this nation has certainly learned how to play big-league behind the scenes politics.  Where is that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy when you need it?

Tags: gay mafia, national

Pledging to end what he calls “casino capitalism,” Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Thursday introduced a bill that would place all derivatives and swaps under the regulation of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Over-the-counter futures contracts, which were deregulated in the 1990s, would have to be traded on a regulated futures exchange.

When asked if he thought that U.S. legislation banning unregulated derivatives might force the business offshore, Harkin said he expects the U.S. to work with other countries to pass similar legislation.

Credit default swaps are a form of insurance purchased on bonds. Basically, they’re contracts, usually between banks, that act as insurance on debt. Under the contract, the seller, for a fee, agrees to make a payment to the buyer if something bad happens to the debt the buyer has insured with the swaps.

Since the market for the swaps is so much larger than the initial loans they were meant to insure, they have tended to magnify every injury the financial markets have suffered.

Tags: national

Here is a very enlightening video featuring footage gathered for an upcoming documentary on how the media impacted the 2008 election. Check out the details at HowObamaGotElected.com

When you couple the mainstream media’s criminally negligent reporting of facts with the American citizenry’s willful ignorance of history and basic civics, we get the American Idol presidency of Barack Obama.

The Obama voters that I have spoken with fall into two categories:  1) Those who have no idea where he stands on any issue.  2) Those who understand his ideaology but think he will be unable to pass any of his “more dangerous” ideas.  There is no category three for those who agree with Obama on his ideaology because I don’t know any socialists.  I guess I need to get out more.

Tags: 2008, media, national