Exposing "hate", the "American Way"

Be sure not to miss the long discussion ongoing under Dr. Keyes's article Notre Dame: Promoting the Glamour of Evil, an article that the leftist organization "People for the American Way" pays its unapproving tribute to, as well as a connected leftist blogger who declares Keyes's site, in typical leftist vernacular, to be "hate-filled." (see the linked articles beneath the comments to the post, one of which will now be this one.)

As I observed in a comment submitted under the entry, self-proclaimed "right wing watch(ing)" leftists are apparently barely capable of writing a sentence out without the word "hate," or some derivative thereof, being incorporated. Whenever the so-called "Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)" decides to release its report on Keyes's site, let us count the ways in which it uses the descriptive "hate" and all the derivatives thereof. These people are obviously obsessed with "hate."

But it's all good. When you attract the attention of leftist groups such as the self-deluded falsely named People for the American Way, you can rest in the assurance that you're doing something right. The folks at that organization haven't the capacity for understanding what the American Way is or entails, which is why they're relegated to casting aspersions and invectives in the direction of those who do.

Update, 3-28-09:

I said the following in a parenthetical remark under the initial entry:

(see the linked articles beneath the comments to the post, one of which will now be this one.).

The latter part of that statement is no longer, at the time of this writing, the case because shortly after this entry was registered as a link under Keyes's article, it inexplicably disappeared. Indeed, three links which were formerly listed under the entry have since disappeared, including the hostile links that I mention above in the initial entry.

What exactly this means, I'm not clear on at this point. But I'm going to moniter the fate of future links to Keyes's articles, both approving and disapproving, to see what happens there. I'll let you know what I find. Perhaps it's just a temporary anomaly, I simply do not know at this point. But I seem to recall another of my linked posts all of a sudden, and inexplicably disappearing under another of Keyes's articles. If that is the case, though, it seems to have re-appeared, as inexplicably as it disappeared before. Weird.

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President Bush set to break out rusty veto pen

From a story brought to us by the folks at CitizenLink, both the House and the Senate have failed to acquire enough votes to override President Bush's promised veto of a Defense spending bill containing a hate crimes amendment passed by both houses:

"The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the Defense Authorization Bill," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told The Associated Press. "This bill will get vetoed."

The full story is entered below...

Senate Passes Dangerous Hate-Crimes Amendment

by Jennifer Mesko, associate editor

Democrats don't have enough votes to override a promised veto.

Democrats passed a hate-crimes measure today, but failed to collect enough votes to override a pledged presidential veto. The amendment, which would create a new federal class of crime based on "actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity," is attached to a Defense spending bill.

Five Republican senators who voted in favor of hate-crimes legislation in 2004 switched their votes today and opposed the measure. They are: Sens. Lamar Alexander, Tenn.; Robert Bennett, Utah; John Ensign, Nev.; and Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens, both of Alaska.

"The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the Defense Authorization Bill," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told The Associated Press. "This bill will get vetoed."

The Democrat-controlled House passed similar legislation as a stand-alone bill earlier this year, and also fell short of the needed votes to override a veto.

In debate on the Senate floor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., again tried to tie hate crimes to terrorism: "This is about the morality of our country, our values of our country, and that is directly tied in to what our men and women are doing overseas in resisting terrorism and fighting for the values here at home."

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fought back: "What are we trying to accomplish here?" he asked. "Do we want to protect the Defense policy matters in this bill that actually matter to our forces in the field, or do we want to debate political and social issues on this measure?"

An alternative amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, also passed. It calls for study of hate crimes.

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