Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Be sure to read my piece "Socialist Rock" following this post.

Great thoughts from Neal Boortz begining with what happned in DC yesterday.
http://boortz.com/nuze/200505/05122005.html#airplane

Dallas-Fort Worth talk show host Mark Davis has a great piece defending Bill Cosby.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/051105dnedidavis.96081dc2.html

Larry Elder goes after the Today Show for their "attack" on Bill Cosby. Notice how Katie Cookie Cutter Couric and Mattman Lauer did not put themselves on this one. You can truly blame the weatherman on the show on this one...I truly mean it The WEATHERMAN!!! Think it over
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050512.shtml

Do we have rightys promoting Federalism??? Not so says David Boaz.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156260,00.html

Could Bush have won Wisconsin??? The answer is Yes if you took out certain people that should have not been voting and then some.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/10/232336.shtml

Still think that Uncle Walter Cronkite could be trusted??? Not after you read this profile from Discoverthenetwork.org Takes a socialist to know a socialist and David Horrwitz is such a man.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1795

Neil Cavuto has something to say for the DC winnies regarding yesterday's events.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156253,00.html

Herman Cain takes the Dems to task on Classless Warefare
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HermanCain/hc20050512.shtml

Know thy enemy. Great advice from Cliff May
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/cliffordmay/cm20050512.shtml

Doomsday is doomed so says Alan Reynolds
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/alanreynolds/ar20050512.shtml

Robert Novak says the GOP is standing up for John Bolton
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050512.shtml

Ross Mackenzie talks about the power face off in DC
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rossmackenzie/rm20050512.shtml

This piece could make it as a Token Lefty piece but not quite. It is from Pat Buchanan. Asks if WWII was worth it since Soviet Union did expand in Eastern Europe.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44210

Joseph Farah warns of Cheep Labor from south of the border
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44229

Hal Lindsey warns not to forget the dangers of NUKE especialy now that danger is much greater in the 21st Century.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44230

Would the Saudis blow up their oil infrastructure? Daniel Pipes says Yes...MUST READ!!!
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2601

Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder have a great piece on how American Jews are clueless when it comes to public policy and their blind loyality to the Democrats.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44228

Now we get to the Token Lefty and its Norman Solomon. His piece is called "Political Bluster and the Filibuster."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0511-21.htm

Bonus Lefty Piece: John Nichols wants to fight for Media Reform so that Socialism can prevail.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=2435

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Socialist Rock

Musicians (and most in in arts for that matter) tend to be liberal when it comes to public policy issues. Members of the rock bands Pearl Jam and REM both have promoted the likes of hard line leftist Noam Chomsky who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Pearl Jam got themselves a 75 waitt "pirate" radio station which transmits at their concert stops featuring not only their songs, but marxist propaganda from the mouth of Chomsky himself. R.E.M. took their love for Chomsky one step forward by inviting the MIT professor to speak at their concerts. Pearl Jam promotes many other far left causes on their website while R.E.M.'s Peter Buck paid a visit with Fidel Castro and his country that he rules with a iron fist called Cuba. R.E.M also supports the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.

While many of their songs are tongue and cheek and encryptic their are other groups that are more blut about their socialist convictions.

One of those blut groups was "Rage Against the Machine." RATM was one of the first groups to combine hard rock with rap and Hip-Hop.

Lead vocalist Zack de la Rocha had a hard childhood. He was an outcast from his own people (he is of Chicano decent) and being surounded by white kids with lots of money. Rocha himself was not economically deprived but did quite fit in with these "rich kids." In high school he became involved in California's underground punk rock scene and played with a band called Hardstance. He would form and lead the group "Inside Out" which gained a loyal following in Huntington Beach and Irvine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_de_la_Rocha

Rocha would soon achive greater fame when he started to embrace early 1990's hip hop music and acts like KRS-One, Public Enemy, and Run DMC. While freestyling at a hip-hop club he met Tom Morello and Brad Wilk. Morello and Wilk would eventually become the gutarist and drummer of RATM along with bassist Tim Commerford who had befriended Rocha prior to meeting Morello and Wilk.

Rage released a cassette tape of ten songs and soon would sign with Sony Music. With a major label backing them, Rocha and company would be able to take their far left political belifes to a greater audience. Some thought that the group was not being honest about their convictions; but Morello points out;

A lot of labels contacted us, and lots of them just didn't seem to understand what we wanted to do. They kept talking about the message of the music as a gimmick. They were interested in us just because there was a buzz... They saw us as the latest local rock band to be hyped. But Epic agreed to everything we asked--and they've followed through... we never saw a conflict as long as we maintained creative control. When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Against_the_Machine

The song "Bulls on Parade" is an anti-Milltary song (Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal), while Vietnow is an attack on the talk radio format just because the "progressives don't have a monopoly on it (Let's capture this AM mayhem Undressed, and blessed by tha Lord Tha power pendulum swings by tha umbilical cord Shock around tha clock, from noon 'til noon...I tune in wit a bullet ta shut down tha devil sound Shut down tha devil sound Tha program of Vietnow).

RATM would spead their message of socialism through their music untill 2000 when Rocha decided to leave the group. Morello, Wilk, and Commerford would continue on as Audioslave with former Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell. As Audioslave the band steers clear from the socialist ideals that they hold...at least in their music. Cornell has made it loud and clear that he does not want to write any political lyrics.

With RATM inactive another group has taken their place in using rock to promote political messages. That group is called System of a Down.

Their current radio single B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bomb) that will be featured on their upcoming release "Mezmerize" is a direct attack of our millary action in the middle east, especially Iraq. In the lyrics lead vocalist Serj Tankian screams that we have living in a "fascist nation" while our milltary is having a "party" in the middle east. The band also demands the question "Why Don't Presidents fight the war, Why do they always send the poor?"

Maybe these musicans should enlist in our milltary rather than complain about our men and women in the Armed Forces? Yea I am sticking by that statement, but will the members of SOAD enlist and serve our country??? I doubt it. They are way too busy stealing the limelight from American Idol judge Paula Abdul on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/307679p-263255c.html

Most musicians (and those in arts community for that matter) don't know Jack about the founding of our country and what the framers of our country envisioned. They are likely to have avoided taking some kind of class in which they could learn how our free market system works and why we need a strong milltary to protect us from those who would distory us inside and outside our borders. I wonder what they were taught in their American History classes. Does not matter since their minds have been poisoned by the ideals of Marx and Lenin, and their carriers (Chomsky, Zinn, Castro, Ward Churchill etc etc).

Keep in mind that most if not all socialist movements were always started by people that had deep pockets of money, and grew up not being poor. Their was no worker that was the brains behind these movements. The workers were nothing but "useful idiots" these elite rich socialists used and that includes RATM and and SOAD even if they had "humble" childhoods.

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Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

What could have been a terriorist attack in DC.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156217,00.html

I would rarely link a piece from Focus on the Family's James Dobson, but I do agree that the GOP must not compromise to the Dems regarding to the fillbuster. The Dems would only continue to act like the gangsters they have always been. Vote yes and no on the judges dammit...oops I said someone thing that might offend Dr. Dobson. Oh well time to move on...Yes I am not sorry.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/11/vote_em_up_or_down/

Joel Mowbray has two words "Confirm Bolton"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20050511.shtml

John Stossel looks at hype behind the health
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/js20050511.shtml

To everyone's life a little anger must come out. Ben Shapiro shows us that it is not a bad thing.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20050511.shtml

Cal Thomas talks about the new blog that Arianna Huffington has just started.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050511.shtml

Want to know how NOT to be poor??? Read this piece from Walter Williams.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050511.shtml

How must the media still loves the Soviet Union in spite of death so many years ago??? Read this piece from Brent Bozell.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050511.shtml

When it comes to Social Security the labor unions play hardball and corporates give in. Linda Chavez has a MUST READ!!!
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/lc20050511.shtml

When it comes to law enforcement their will be those that abuse their power. However Michelle Malkin asks you to thank are men and women in the blue.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20050511.shtml

While Neal Boortz has issues on Wal Mart regarding eminent domain abuse, Thomas Sowell deals with an unesscary attack on the chain.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-5_10_05_TS.html

Speaking of Boortz here are a few highlights from the talkmaster

The Kerry
http://boortz.com/nuze/200505/05112005.html#poodle

Tom DeLay's Travels and ones who should be put on the hot seat regarding this but will never happen.
http://boortz.com/nuze/200505/05112005.html#delay

Telling the truth when it comes to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://boortz.com/nuze/200505/05112005.html#truth

Georgia taxpayers will have to dish out more money becuase of the anti-abortion crowd and a law that was just passed in that state.
http://boortz.com/nuze/200505/05112005.html#taxes

Is their hope of stonewalling Hillary when it comes to how the campaign money is spent??? Dick Morris has the scoop.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/46214.htm

John P talks about the mass media meltdown
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/46203.htm

Token Lefty is a "different" Walter Williams. Says Bolton is Bush's Frankenstein monster
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/223656_bolton11.html

Bonus Lefty: Molly Ivins says Saddam was no threat.
http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=19022

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Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Howard Dean loves Sanders...NO GOOD!!!
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/10/220742.shtml

Cliff Kincaid has a beef with that socialist journalist from Italy
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kincaid/2005/kincaid050905.htm

Bob Parks has great piece on how free speech in "liberal" America is one sided...MUST READ!!!
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/parks/2005/05/liberals-free-speech-and-those.html

You know many socialist movements were started by "rich" people. Thomas Sowell shows how these spoon fed brats how ungreatful ther are to this fine country.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050510.shtml

What would Mike Adams do as director of the Women's Resource Center???
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20050509.shtml

Has Science proven that Global Warming is not happening??? Jay Lehr says that the scaremongers are trying to block evidence that GW is not happening
http://www.suntimes.com/output/otherviews/cst-edt-ref09.html

Victor Davis Hanson says things are turning around in Europe regarding their hate of America
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18535/article_detail.asp

Has Government made us safer at our airports??? Cal Thomas says NO!!!
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050509.shtml

Iran cheats again. Jerome R. Corsi warns us that the mullahs intend to play dirty...NO JOKE and MUST READ!!!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44192

If their is any fear that Americans should get over; its the fear of nuclear power or so says Josh Gilder.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44194

Bush encorages law breaking when it comes to those people from Mexico. This from Joseph Farah
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44191

Abby Wisse shows us what the Minutemen want
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43758.htm

Is their a tax that the enviors and and privacy advocates hate??? Brendan Miniter shows that their might be one soon in Oregon.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110006669

Will Social Securty be eventually seen as a welfare program. George Will thinks so.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43625.htm

The Possibility of a Progressive Ownership Society???? This ideal makes Gar Alperovitz tonights Token Lefty
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0510-27.htm

Bonus Lefty Piece: Bernie Sanders (you know that socialist from Vermont) goes after the right for trying to censor the media. Great Bernine I am with you but please tell your pals to do the same and keep that fairness doctine DEAD!!!
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2098/

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Tonight's Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

Will someone kick out this guy out of our country please. He is even a member of the GOP.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/8/171704.shtml

Star Parker says some thing about going nuclear, and Senate really should it. Great words for Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/sp20050509.shtml

Public Aid = Public Harm. Doug Bandow talks about it, and says that the private non-profits do a better job
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dougbandow/db20050509.shtml

Time for another lesson in economics as Jack Kemp shows you "the static world of the left."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/jk20050509.shtml

Phyllis Schlafly makes great points about our federal government and their encoragment of fatherless homes
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20050509.shtml

Ryan Sanger puts Bush and GOP in their place when it comes to tax and spend government
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43632.htm

Victor Davis Hanson has a MUST READ regarding history and remembering it.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20050506-090931-9566r.htm

Speaking of history, lets take a look the World War II record of the Soviet Union with a little help from Pat Buchanan.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-5_8_05_PB.html

Say good bye to Greenspan soon. Robert Novak has some thoughts
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20050509.shtml

Tonights token lefty is Barbara Streisand. Says were are a country controled by fear and compares Bush to the Nazi Hermann Goering. I am not buying her bloody records ever, even if Barry Gibb produces another project for her and I do like the Bee Gees.
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/statements.html#acountrycontrolledbyfear

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Weekend Recommended Readings from The Blog According to Don

An update on the Pastor who ejected the Dems from this church. Says he's sorry but that not enough for the Dems of his church.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20050508/ap_on_re_us/church_politics

In this weeks audio commentary by Bob Parks, he takes on the government school system and their "social clap trap." Yet they still want more taxes and the product still stinks. Buying Votes as usual, even at the State Level. MP3 software required.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/mp3s/FINAL-Bob%20Parks-School%20Budgets-5-6-05.mp3

Ted Byfield says men get the short end of the stick in the Great White North
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44163

Cliff Kincad looks at media and their attacks on John DeLay, plus the Wall Street Journal sells out to public broadcasting.
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kincaid/2005/kincaid050605.htm

A open socialist in the U.S. Senate...Can very well happen complements of Vermont in which the enlightend hippies took over long ago. Les Kinsolving fill us in.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44161

Henry Lamb talks about UN's Agenda 21 and how forces people how to live
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44165

Lower Tax Rates, Higher Tax Receipts or so says Larry Kudlow
http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlow/kudlow200505051554.asp

You know the news media focus on the dumb things and Kyle Williams talks about it.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44157

Token Lefty is David Kennedy who is worried that PBS is getting away from "His" thinking
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0507-25.htm

Bonus Lefty Piece: Cindy Sheehan has an open letter to Bill Ford, Jr. CEO of the Ford Motor Company. Yet another ant-war garbage.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0507-24.htm

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