Heh, Florida politics.

“Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene accused The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times in a libel lawsuit filed Wednesday of orchestrating a “plan to assassinate [his] character” that cost him the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Florida.

Greene, who lost to Miami U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek by 26 percentage points, said the newspapers published stories about his real estate dealings in California and his 145-foot yacht Summerwind that were “knowingly based on false information.”

“Defendants … published the articles with the goal of destroying the personal, business and political reputation of Greene,” the suit claims.

Greene, represented by prominent Atlanta lawyer L. Lin Wood, is seeking a total of $500 million in damages from the two papers.

“We don’t have any comment on the lawsuit, since the case was just filed,” said Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal. “But we can say that the coverage of this race and the candidates was fair, deep and thorough.”

Said Times Editor Neil Brown: “It is our firm opinion that the allegations in this lawsuit are preposterous. We believe Jeff Greene is a sore loser and he’s blaming the newspapers because he can’t accept the verdict of the voters.”

Greene’s defamation suit, filed in Miami-Dade circuit court, is unusual for a political figure. The news media enjoy strong protections of freedom of the press under the First Amendment. To win damages, Greene’s lawyer would have to prove the two stories that allegedly defamed him were published by the papers with “actual malice.”

The 55-page suit claims that The Herald and The Times “had actual knowledge of facts prior to publication that disproved their false accusations but nonetheless proceeded to publication in an intentional effort to harm Greene and his campaign.”

The two stories cited by Greene’s suit were written and edited by members of the Times staff, but also published in The Herald.

In the suit, Greene also condemned a Times editorial that urged federal investigators to look into Greene’s role in a California real estate transaction.

The first story delved into Greene’s campaign assertions that he made hundreds of millions of dollars by betting that the housing boom would go bust and that he did not personally contribute to the real estate meltdown. The story detailed Greene’s 2006 sale of converted military housing in the California desert to a man now facing federal conspiracy, fraud and money-laundering charges.

The 300-unit deal led to buyer defaults, mortgage foreclosures and lender losses.

According to the suit, the second story suggested that the boxer Mike Tyson, who was best man at Greene’s wedding in 2007, used drugs while on the real estate mogul’s yacht two years earlier. Both papers ran corrections in which Tyson clarified that his use of drugs did not occur aboard Summerwind.

“Democracy won’t work if we let lawsuits full of baseless charges from a political candidate inhibit us from providing voters with the independent information that they need and rely on,” Brown, the Times editor, said.”

Actually it might be that Greene could win this case. It would be long overdue. Both endorsed Meek so the bias could be argued. For too long gotten away with the “correction” excuse. However a later correction doesn’t take away the sting that the false story caused. Yet it may well be that Greene is simply suing as payback as neighther the St Pete Times or the Herald have the deep pocket that Greene has and well ill afford a drawn out court battle now. In both cases The St. Petersburg Times and the Herald have laid off workers and trimmed staff and cut the size of their papers as cost cutting measures. Greene could conceivabily cost them millions in legal fees if not much more if he wins.

Again, I think in light of the absolutely journalistic malfeasance we’ve seen from the press over the last 10 years this is long overdue.

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Kendrick Meeks
Florida Senate Race

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I wrote back here that according to the Bible “litmus” test Obama may not be a “Christian” in the pure Bible sense. Indeed he couldn’t be. Ann Coulter in her article, “Obama is Not a Muslim, he is an Atheist”:

“The only evidence for Obama’s Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years.

Yes, the guy bellowing “God damn America!” is the one vouching for Obama’s Christianity. That’s like saying you got sober with the help of your A.A. sponsor Lindsay Lohan.

It is a fact that any non-retarded person (thank you, Rahm Emanuel!) sitting in the Rev. Wright’s church for 20 minutes, much less 20 years, does not believe in God. Even stepping inside Wright’s church for a moment to get out of the rain is borderline racist.

Going to Trinity United Church of Christ is even stronger evidence of nonbelief than Bill Clinton returning from Sunday services to receive oral sex from Monica Lewinsky. This isn’t mere sin — everybody sins (though some with more frequency and less remorse than others).

Attending Wright’s church is the conscious, calculated decision to immerse yourself in hate-filled demagoguery and call it “Christianity.”

But according to North Korean TV’s Chris Matthews, it is a provable, scientific fact that Obama is a Christian because he says so. “Everybody watching right now,” Matthews said to his several viewers last week, “gets credit for being of the religion you say you are. … We accept that in America. It’s called freedom of religion and respect for religion.”

Well Matthews is wrong. First the term “Christian” is a “non-believers” term, given by them of the first century believers of Christ to explain their behavior thus “Christ’s People”. This was of course based on association with the group, but it didn’t necessarily make everyone of the group a “Christian”.

However as the Bible commonly does it gives us a greater definition. The Apostle Paul wrote: ” if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” (Romans 8:9). Now this isn’t about having “team spirit”, like at a football game. It’s about having the actual Spirit of God living in you. As Christ while on earth lived by the indwelling Spirit, the agency by which “The Father in me He does the Works” (John 14:10). So that even Christ didn’t ascribe his identity as Son of God by simply saying so, he ascribed it by the evidence that His Father works done through him.

So that a “Christian” isn’t someone who sits in a “Church” on the corner of “Walk and Don’t Walk” or even in Jeremiah Wright’s presence. It’s someone who has the actual Spirit of God living in him and that can only happen by a genuine conversion to Christ and as Jesus coined it, “a new birth”.

Again, the only way you know whether from the outside whether someone is “In Christ” and that “Christ is in them” is by the evidence of those works which Christ does through them. “”You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?” Matthew 7:16.

The lesson here is that a fake Christian can no more produce Christ’s fruit than a thorn bush can produce figs. Why? Because they are not native one to the other. The source of the fig is the Vine that acts through the branches. “”I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)

So how does Obama do by his “fruit”? That’s for everyone to judge. But from what we’ve seen so far, his fruit appears rotten.

Barack Obama
Barack Obama a Christian?

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Hardly a Tea Party kind of guy. George Soro’s Think Progress:

“Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)

Lee’s immigration screed bears a troubling resemblance to views and policies espoused by anti-immigrant groups such as NumbersUSA, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Progressives for Immigration Reform, and others. Just this past month, FAIR released “The Environmentalist’s Guide to a Sensible Immigration Policy.” The report connects immigration to “pollution, sprawl, congestion, and ecological degradation,” complaining that “so-called environmentalists pretend as if this connection does not exist.” As usual, FAIR prescribes an overall reduction in immigration as the solution to the country’s environmental woes (in slightly more diplomatic terms).”

Sorry, but population control is a purely leftist view, in fact it’s embedded. Fact: Plan Parenthood was founded on such principles of keeping under control of births, specifically blacks and asians.

“At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Sanger’s other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as “scientific” and “humanitarian.” And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America’s human “breeding stock” and purging America’s “bad strains.” These “strains” included the “shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South.”

Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as “unfit,” a plan she said would be the “salvation of American civilization.: And she also spike of those who were “irresponsible and reckless,” among whom she included those ” whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers.” She further contended that “there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.” That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered “unfit” cannot be easily refuted.”

Indeed abortion or as TP would call it, “The Right to Choose” is the greatest form of population control, one which has killed over 50,000,000 since 1973.

But there is more. We know of Lee that he experienced ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” Hardly something you would find from a right winger.

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Tea Party wins again. True conservatism wins again.

“ANCHORAGE — Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer backed by former governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in arguably America’s biggest political upset of the year.
Joe Miller, backed by Palin and the ultraconservative Tea Party Express movement, became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010 amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment.

Murkowski trailed Miller by 1,668 votes after the Aug. 24 primary. Election officials began counting absentee and outstanding ballots Tuesday, and Murkowski made slight gains. But after more than 15,000 ballots were counted, she remained 1,630 votes behind.

She said she informed Miller shortly before conceding the race on live television.
“We all know that this has been a long week, a terribly long week,” she said at campaign headquarters while conceding. She said that while there were still outstanding votes, “I don’t see a scenario where the primary will turn out in my favor, and that is a reality that is before me at this point in time.”

“And for that reason, and for the good of the state of Alaska … I am now conceding the race for the Republican nomination.”

Palin power

The stunning result was a huge validation of the political power of Palin as the former Alaska governor has been playing kingmaker in the November congressional elections ahead of a potential 2012 White House run.

Miller, 43, is an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf War veteran who cast Murkowski as too liberal and part of the problem in an out-of-control Washington. It is a campaign strategy that has helped oust other incumbents this year and that Republicans will employ again in November as they look to take back Congress.

So much for Sarah not mattering any more eh? This is a consistent shot across to the bow to candidate in the GOP who like to ride that RINO fence. It’s time to get off, get with the program, or get out. It’s also a warning to the GOP who threw their money and support behind Murkowski. It’s time for YOU to get with the program too.

Lisa Murkowski
Joe Miller
Sarah Palin

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Lefties like to gloat about the dead in the Iraq war. To them each death equaled a “notch” on their victory in thwarting our efforts on the war on terror.

Yet on par with other wars of greater or lesser lenght it’s been the comflict with the least amount of American casualties. In fact it’s ninth on the list.

But when you factor in the number of troops involved over the years in relation to the length of the conflict the low number is amazing.

It’s a testimonial to the professionalism and sophistication of our military.

Iraq War

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