Thanks, Kevin

WCSI News Director, Kevin Keith, is moving up and out of his current position at the Columbus-based radio station.

Kevin has been a genuine champion of fair-and-balanced news reporting.

During his tenure he has interviewed a number Indiana Libertarian candidates along side Republicans and Democrats. Dr. Eric Schansberg, Mike Kole, myself and others have been honored to sit at the microphone at WCSI's studios — thanks to Kevin Keith.

Kevin's last day will be Friday, February 1st.

He will be missed!

Rights vs Liberties

Question for Indiana Libertarians and conservatives:

One year in jail + $10,000 fine for speaking one's mind.

Is this "social tolerance"?

Watch 2-minute video, then answer.



HB 1076 would provide a greater penalty for insulting a homosexual outside a gay nightclub than punching an elderly grandmother outside a hospital (unless the grandmother happened to be a lesbian).

By specifying specially protected persons against bias (such as national origin) it excludes others (such as state origin) by default. Calling someone a dumb Mexican will be constituted a hate crime. Calling someone a dumb New Mexican will not be constituted a hate crime.

While Libertarians are to be praised for their support of human rights, they should object when those "rights" replace liberties.

Are liberals open minded?

When I was in high school a teacher challenged me to be more open-minded -- like her.
As a flaming liberal her view was that conservatives -- like me -- had closed our minds to her way of thinking. The thought that liberals -- like her -- never considered conservative views never entered her "open" mind. (Perhaps the door was open; but her thinking was so cluttered there was room for reason.

In his more recent column, Larry Elder points us to "a biennial survey conducted by the University of Michigan's American National Election Studies uses a scale from 0 to 100 — 0 meaning shoot-the-person-on-sight hatred, and 100 meaning find-a-place-for-him-on-Mount-Rushmore adoration. The 2004 survey then asked 1,200 adults to define themselves politically."

"Sixty percent of these extreme liberals gave Messrs. Bush and Cheney a 0. In other words, six out of ten Americans on the far left found that no evil, heinous person in the world could be worthy of more hatred than Bush and Cheney."

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Opinion: How diversity and multiculturalism promote racism

by Kenn Gividen

The 2008 Mindy Lewis Above and Beyond Diversity Awards were presented Monday night. The recipients and Ms. Lewis are to praised for their efforts to advance a harmonious culture.

Good intentions, however, do no always produce the desired outcome. The awards should remind us that efforts of multiculturalists often result in more discrimination, more racism and more resentment among people groups.

Michael S. Berliner, Ph.D., and Gary Hull, Ph.D. are among those who point to the adverse effects of multicultural programs. Racism, they note, is the notion that one's race determines one's identity. By emphasizing ethnic diversity multiculturalism promotes racism.

Properly our focus should be on individual achievement.

"The diversity movement claims that its goal is to extinguish racism and build tolerance of differences," say Berliner and Hall. Collective identity, however, defies individualism. Acknowledging the worth of individuals, regardless of race, is the valid alternative.

Humans are not viewed by multiculturalists as individuals, but as mere racial components. "To the multiculturalist, race is what counts—for values, for thinking, for human identity in general," they add.

Diversity proponents further the notion of celebrating differences. That requires emphasis on racial distincitves; those attriubes that make us different. It "means we're being urged to glorify race...we're being asked to institutionalize separatism."

In short, multiculturalism fails to build bridges between races. Rather, it cuts deep chasms of separation by over-emphasis of racial distinctives and identity.

Read the complete article by Berliner and Hall here ►

The new AIDS: S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph

For sounding the alarm on gay-related health risks I've been saddled with the slur, "homophobe," and consigned to piñata status by militant gay-extremist hate groups.

But the new strain of highly resilient staph bacteria may be difficult for even the most obstinate of militants to deny.

Below is the report from the San Francisco Chronicle:

A new variety of staph bacteria, highly resistant to antibiotics and possibly transmitted by sexual contact, is spreading among gay men in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, researchers reported Monday.

The study released online by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found the highest concentrations of infection by the drug-resistant bug in and around San Francisco's Castro district and among patients who visit health clinics that treat HIV infections in gay men in San Francisco and Boston.

The culprit is a form of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that was once confined to hospitalized patients but, since the late 1990s, has been circulating outside medical settings, afflicting anyone from injection-drug users to elementary school students. A strain called USA300 has been a leading cause of MRSA infection in this decade, and an exceptionally drug-resistant variant of it is now on the loose, researchers say.

The study estimated that 1 in 588 residents living within the Castro neighborhood 94114 ZIP code area is infected with that variant, which is resistant to six types of commonly used antibiotics. The risk of contracting this difficult-to-treat bug is 13 times greater for gay men than for the rest of the city's population, researchers found.

"We probably had it here first, and now it is spreading elsewhere," said Binh An Diep, a researcher at San Francisco General Hospital and lead author of the report. "This is a national problem, and San Francisco is at the epicenter."

The germ typically causes boils and other skin and soft-tissue infections and, despite its resistance to some drugs, is still treatable by surgical drainage and several classes of antibiotics. What is unusual in this case is the high percentage of infections - up to 40 percent - occurring in the buttocks and genitalia.

Although researchers have stopped short of declaring this form of staph a sexually transmitted disease, the infections are found where skin-to-skin contact occurs during sexual activity.

Most of the infections are limited to the skin surface, but the bacteria can invade deeper tissues or disseminate through the bloodstream. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, various forms of MRSA are causing 95,000 of these more costly and potentially life-threatening infections - and 19,000 deaths - annually in the United States.

Until last year, staph infections had never been linked to sexual activity. Early last year, New York City physicians traced three instances of staph infection apparently spread by sexual contact. Their report was published in February in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A month later, doctors from the Albany Medical Center in New York reported in the Journal of Urology three cases of multi-drug-resistant staph in the groins of three patients - one of whom developed a form of rapid-tissue destruction popularly known as "flesh-eating bacteria" disease. The patients recovered after treatments with surgery and antibiotics.

San Francisco General Hospital physicians have been battling an aggressive strain of MRSA, called USA300, since 2001. The most recent study estimates that this strain alone is infecting about 2,000 city residents a year.

But the latest problem is being caused by a new variant of USA300 that was first detected in a San Francisco patient in 2003. Among the six antibiotics it is resistant to are three that are normally considered for treatment of suspected MRSA. The study estimated that 200 cases of this highly drug-resistant variant are turning up in San Francisco each year, mostly among gay men.

"We are nowhere near the peak," Diep said. "The peak will occur when it spreads into the general population."

Diep said there is reason to believe that the more drug-resistant strain will make that leap because it is just a slight variant of USA300, which became one of the most common strains of MRSA in the United States only a few years after it was first detected.

The latest study focuses on the spread of the more drug-resistant strain in San Francisco and Boston, but reports of the bug are turning up in New York and Los Angeles.

Just why the new, more drug-resistant variety is concentrated among gay men is not yet known. Patients infected with HIV appear to run a higher risk of infection, but the study suggests that gay men are being infected with the staph germ regardless of whether they are HIV-positive.

One factor that could be in play is a medical history of heavy use of antibiotics, which creates conditions for breeding drug-resistant strains. Any patient, HIV-positive or not, who has had high previous exposure to antibiotics might be more susceptible.

The good news is that, once the public is aware of the risk, there are ways to prevent the spread of drug-resistant staph. It can be as simple as soap and water.

"Taking a shower after sexual contact may minimize contamination," said Dr. Chip Chambers, director of infectious diseases at San Francisco General, a co-author of the study. "Ordinary soap will do. It dilutes the concentration of bacteria. You don't need antibacterial soap."

Chambers stressed that some people, no matter how fastidious, could be more prone than others to staph infections. They could have unknown genetic traits or a history of antibiotic use that raises the risk.

"Despite one's best efforts, it is still possible, of course, to get a staph infection," he said. "This is why if one has a cut or open wound that it is important to clean it out and keep it clean."

The new variant of USA300 is resistant to the antibiotics erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, Cipro-like antibiotics and drugs in the penicillin family. It also does not respond to mupirocin - a gel that is often used to kill MRSA growing in people's noses.

That still leaves a variety of antibiotics that will kill the new USA300 strain, but they tend to be more expensive and require intravenous drips. One common oral antibiotic, Bactrim, is still effective against it.

Chambers also pointed out that researchers at San Francisco General have shown that many skin sores and boils caused even by these drug-resistant strains of staph often can be treated without any antibiotics, just by surgical drainage of pus.

One of the paradoxes of bacterial infections is that using antibiotics to treat them is one of the quickest ways to promote antibiotic resistance. Although the drugs sometimes are essential, overuse is weakening their effectiveness worldwide. [source]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ben Stein rages against evolution in new movie

Comedian-slash-Republican speech writer Ben Stein has a web site promoting his pro-creationist movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Stein associates Darwinism with racial imperialism and claims that, eventually, it will suffer the same fate.

Maybe Darwinism will be different. Maybe it will last. But it’s difficult to believe it will. Theories that presume to explain everything without much evidence rarely do. Theories that outlive their era of conception and cannot be verified rarely last unless they are faith based. And Darwinism has been such a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies, maybe we would be better off without it as a dominant force.

The movie is planned to be released later this year.

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Bio-chips to be used for immigration control

Well, I've always said that something akin to Verachips would be used to control immigration. Now it's about to actually happen.

Here's the news clip...

Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) has said it will introduce electronic registration for foreigners entering the country through the southern border to curb illegal immigration.

In a communique, the INM Thursday said Biochip implants would be used to control the entry of workers and visitors from Belize and Guatemala from March 2008, Spanish news agency EFE reported Friday.

The implant will replace the currently used local pass, which can be easily modified. Source ►

Gay marriage bans lead to economic boosts

So much for the theories of the "creative class."

Our friends at www.VeritasRex.com published an interesting post indicating that the gay marriage ban SJR-7 would be a boost to Indiana's state economy. That prompted me to research the eleven states that banned gay marriage in 2004.

Below are links to charts that indicate the eleven states (Michigan being the lone exception) experienced an economy upturn following 2004 as measured by increased employment.

Let's have a look at the hard numbers of states that banned gay marriage in 2004.

Note the increase/decrease of both employment and unemployment in these states. (Click on the state name to view employment data.)

Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Ohio
Utah
Oregon

With the exception of Michigan, the eleven states that banned gay marriage in 2004 experienced an upsurge in their economies as measured by employment vs unemployment.

The charts indicate a dramatic upward movement beginning in 2004.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/30/politics/main646662.shtml

250,000 teachers quit

Class room discipline in the once civil British Isles has prompted 250,000 teachers to seek work elsewhere. Some say lax immigration policy is to blame.

Such statistics pose problems for liberals who advocate open-border immigration as humane while seeking more funding for government schools.

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The power of greasy chicken

Supposing you have a formula — a secret recipe — for great tasting chicken.

The problem is your recipe requires your chicken be deep fried in vats of shortening (or grease). The process saturates the meat making it unbelievably messy.

Try to eat a leg and the grease rolls down your arm. Take a bite into a thigh and hot shortening squirts at the guy across the table; maybe across the room. One meal requires a dozens of napkins.

How do you market greasy chicken?

Colonel Sanders turned the negative to a positive. Rather than boasting of greasy chicken he claimed his product was "finger lickin' good."

A mistake marketers often make is what I call "overselling by silence." That is, marketers often don't alert prospective buyers to the product's flaws. (It's akin to overselling by overstating.) By ignoring negatives marketers often miss opportunities to turn negatives into positives.

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Central planning ignores the free market reality

When will they learn?

The curmudgeonesk city planners who are determined to revitalize Columbus' downtown fail to recognize what is obvious to the rest of us: Downtown moved to the suburbs.

Common sense has never played a role in central planners. No wonder, considering they have your tax dollars at their disposal.

The ramblings of Richard Florida, for example, have been heeded by the cultural architects who drive city planning in Columbus. The notion is that attracting the "Creative Class" (a term for gay professionals) will boost a community's economy.

Normal people can see through the spoof. We're no more impressed than with the clothes-free goddess Eos plopped in the midst of Fifth St. greeting visitors to Columbus and, not coincidentally, the Cummins World Headquarters.

San Francisco, long the epicenter of the "creative class," proves their folly: According to the Wall Street Journal, "San Francisco [had] a whopping domestic outflow of 10%...." The time frame compared 2006 to 2000.

In other words, folks are abandoning the hub of the creative class.

So when will they learn?

Turn to the Liberty Tree News for a hint.

Frank Jerome has an article in the upcoming edition in which he wonders why the city can afford a new parking garage catacorner from Cummins World Headquarters. Cummins couldn't afford it, he notes. Apparently taxpayers will flip the bill.

The sum of it all is that central planning seldom works — except for the power brokers who could benefit from a new parking garage. And hotel.

Two architectural marvels — the Commons Mall and the majestic Post Office — both have dates with the wrecking ball. (Apparently the goddess is annoyed with the 18-wheelers rumbling in and out of the Bulk Mail Unit's parking lot; also across the street from Cummins.) And both were central to central planning of the not-too-distant past.

The city fathers (and mums) labeled their current wreck-and-build-(slash)-tax-and-spend efforts "Vision 2020" or "2020Vision" or something akin to the year 2020. Those of us with 20/20 vision can see it all too clearly: The epi-center of the effort to revitalize downtown Columbus with gay bars, nekid godesses and mall-with-a-street-down-the-middle is the squashy Cummins World Headquarters.

It's a point lost on the pointy-headed ones; those who know all too well what's best for the rest of us (financed with tax dollars, of course). What they fail to realize is that downtown is as vital as it ever was. It just moved to the suburbs. There you will find Walmart and the new Coldstones Creamery that opened Saturday without central planning or tax dollars.

It's an odd thing that Columbus, the world's most celebrated architectural community, ignores the two fundamentals of architectural planning: First, form follows function (note the 18-wheelers trying to maneuver in the grandiose Post Office parking lot) and wait until the grass is worn to build sidewalks.

While the central planners at city hall continue to fund the downtown revitalization project, the free market is luring real people to Walmart and all their tax-funded projects won't change that.

There is a reason why fast-food, motels and mattress shops are building along Jonathan Moore Parkway and not Third and Washington.

When will they learn? Apparently never.

My guess is that — 100 years from now when commerce is done online — some curmudgeon city planners will be plotting a Vision 2120 strategy to revitalize Walmart.

Benefits of the population explosion

A few years ago I began work on my second book titled, The Late Great United States. Eventually I had to stop, realizing I didn't actually believe much of what I was writing. However, there a few snippets worth retrieving. The following is one example.

Consider this: The world population in 1 AD was about 200 million. By 1000 AD it had grown by less than forty percent to 275 million. In 1750 the population had grown another 154 percent to 700 million. That’s when it happened.

The world’s inhabitants began to multiply exponentially. By 1900 there were 1.6 billion people and that grew to 6.1 billion in the year 2000. Of those, 800 million were added to our planet between 1990 and 2000. The ten-year growth alone was more than the entire world population of 1750.

I find it significant that the beginning of the population explosion preceded the industrial revolution of the 1800s. There is a direct correlation. The more people on the planet, the more advanced we become. The parallel is undeniable.

So how does the increase in population drive the updraft in technology? The answer is simple. Not only are there more people; there are more smart people. When the population doubles, the number of intelligent people also doubles.

In 2005 there were 128 million geniuses (people with IQs in the top 2 percentile.) That’s the equivalent of 64 percent of the entire world population in 1 AD. We live in a world of geniuses. (The rest of us are along for the ride.)

The population explosion produced a swell of intelligence that, in turn, engendered technological advances. The knowledge explosion was predicted by Daniel as one of two characteristics that would signal the era of the latter day Antiochus. “Many shall run to and fro,” he wrote “and knowledge shall be increased.”

Eric Schansberg's well researched article on eugenics is an excellent resource.
Read it here ►

Activist 'banned for life' from criticizing homosexuality

A lifetime ban on public criticism of homosexuality was upheld against a Catholic activist in Canada by his province's superior court.

Bill Whatcott was fined 17,500 Canadian dollars by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in a complaint by four homosexuals who charged he "injured" their "feelings" and "self respect" in pamphlets denouncing the "gay lifestyle" as immoral and dangerous, Lifesite News reported. — WorldNetDaily.com

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Read more on the serious health risks associated with the gay life style here ►

Mom threatened with jail for teaching kids at home

A homeschooling mom in Utah has been ordered by a judge to enroll her children in a public school district within 24 hours, and have them in class tomorrow, all because of a paperwork glitch that very well could be the fault of the district.

The mother, Denise Mafi, told WND that she already has enrolled her children in the district, under the threat from Judge Scott Johansen, who serves in the juvenile division of the state's 7th Judicial District, that he would order her children taken away from her. — WorldNetDaily.com

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100 most influential conservatives

Here's a list of the 100 most influential American conservatives as assessed by Britain's Daily Telegraph. (Note Rudi is number one.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/uscons1-20.xml

Here's a link to the 100 most influential liberals.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JUIBNWTZRG2ENQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/liberals1-20.xml

Feds donate $300,000 of your tax dollars to Columbus church

Don't get me wrong. The good folks at North Christian Church have given much to our community — and for that we are grateful.

But...

"Non-profit" just took on a new meaning.

A news release sent by Sen. Evan Bayh says the federal government plans to dole out $300,000 for repairs to the Columbus church.

North Christian Church is no historical monument. It was constructed in 1964.

It's a part of the The National Parks Service's Save America’s Treasures give-away grants.

North Christian is no national park. Don't believe me? Try setting up a camper in its parking lot next Sunday or go fishing in the baptistery.

North Christian is no needy organization. The church is known locally as the "oil can." It's also well known for its wealthy members; many of whom could easily fork over $300,000. I suspect its membership role would reflect much of Bayh's contribution list from Columbus.

To date, no liberals are screaming about tax dollars being diverted from children who have no health insurance. Nor is anyone complaining about church-state issues.

Birth statistics for 2006 released Dec. 5, 2007

Births: Preliminary Data for 2006 from National Center for Health Statistics:

% of illigitimate births

Ethnicity	1990	2004	2005	2006
All Races	28.0%	35.8%	36.9%	38.5%
Whites	16.9%	24.5%	25.3%	26.6%
Hispanics	36.7%	46.4%	48.0%	49.9%
Blacks	66.5%	69.3%	69.9%	70.7%

Oprah's campaigning points to flaw in BCRA

It was supposed to prevent wealthy people from tipping the political scales in their favor. BCRA (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act) capped the amount candidates for federal office can receive in donations.

Enter Oprah.

Her campaigning for hardline leftist Barack Obama could be valued in millions of dollars. Oprah's in-kind donation bipasses BCRA, violates its intended purpose, and underscores a basic principle: Government efforts to balance the scales seldom work.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316223,00.html

6 ways to love gays

by Kenn Gividen

1. Be honest: A lying tongue hates those it hurts... — Proverbs 26:28

An overwhelming body of scholarly research corroborates the reality that the gay lifestyle endangers lives. According to Dr. Robert S. Hogg, "In a major Canadian centre, life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th birthday."

Still, we persist, answering their lies with truth, their hate with love and their ridicule with reason.

When we concede to the gay myth that their lifestyle is a healthy, wholesome alternative to heterosexuality, we are contributing to their demise.

Read scholarly research on the gay health risks here ►

2. Don't be a mental sponge

The truth is often hidden behind myths advanced by the mainstream media. How can we know the truth if all we hear is liberal lies?

3. Don't be lazy

All you need do is turn on the TV (or read the latest edition of the daily newspaper) to absorb the latest myths regarding homosexuality. Discovering the truth clouded by the liberal media takes effort.

4. Know the truth ...and the truth shall set you free. — John 8:32

The best antidote for lies is... the truth!

http://www.missionamerica.com/homosexual.php?articlenum=16

5. Don't be hateful

Frustration -- and the constant flow of myths perpetuated by militant gay extremists can be frustrating -- often turns to anger. While abhorring lies that destroy others is a valid response, hating those who perpetuate the lies will accomplish nothing.

6. Don't be intimidated

80 years after the DC Stephenson's KKK collapsed in a flury of self-distruction, hate groups continue to flourish. As the Klan hated those with differing skin color, militant gay organizations hate those with different opinions.

There are those within the homosexual community who live in denial of the serious health risk associated with their lifestyle. They hate those who tell the truth, returning love with vindictive accusations. Still, we persist, answering their lies with truth, their hate with love and their ridicule with reason.

Below are a few more links...

• Does God hate homosexuals?
• What is the gay agenda?
• Resources that tell the truth
• Research web sites
• Exit counseling

White suburbanite riot?

Bet you've never seen this before...

A huge crowd of white suburbanites chasing Black Panthers out of their neighborhood. Bits of this encounter were shown on national news networks, but the link below contains raw footage; about ten minutes long.

The Panthers were protesting the death of a (alleged) home-invading robber. White folk apparently had enough.

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/8973.html