Go here to listen to the podcast. Paul Ibbeston is an outstanding interviewer and the entire broadcast is interesting & well worth your time. Zack’s segment starts just after the 25 minute mark on the podcast.
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Check it out here— great piece by journalist Joe Hatton.
Hope ‘n’ Change is like an alternate universe experience: all the news & latest headlines are the same as in our world, except they’re funny. John Boehner is here preparing to take the gavel from Pelosi, but this time he’s threatening her with it. New congressional Republicans read aloud from the Constitution, and in response a Democrat rises demonically from a bed a la “The Exorcist.” Creator Stilton Jarlsberg presents thorough highlights of what’s going down in the world in a style anything but smelly or European despite his name. It’s a blog I still go back to regularly and recommend highly, especially if you can’t stand leftists.
Jamie Glazov’s new show has an astounding line-up of interviews scheduled (Robert Spencer, Stanley Kurtz, etc.) including some of the foremost experts on Islamoterrorism in the world today. Here’s the premiere installment, with part two already available at Frontpage Magazine. Phillippe Karsenty has courageously exposed a notorious hoax perpetrated by virulent antisemitic participants (and bought into by the ever anti-Israel left, as usual). Must-viewing for fans of Courage.
I was honored to be interviewed by that titan of anti-leftism, Dr. Jamie Glazov: interview now up at Frontpage Magazine. Any readers interested in some of the ideas and motivations behind Diversity Lane are welcome to read the extended, two-page interview here.
Thanks To Frontpage Magazine for this piece, which ran at the website earlier this week. I’m most grateful to founder David Horowitz, editor Jamie Glazov and all involved at Frontpage, easily one of the world’s most important and courageous websites for many years now.
Afficionados of George Orwell, political fables, political cartoons and powerful symbolic imagery, take note: Oliver’s Tale, Paul Ibbetson’s conservative twist on Animal Farm, has just been released and is now available at Paul’s website, Amazon.com and CreateSpace.com. A press release discloses fascinating hints of what’s to come: “…The story of how one average squirrel became a servant of God and led a revolution to save the animals of Three Fingers Cove [from] the Gray Skunk, the most mesmerizing and dangerous foe the Cove has ever faced.” This sounds not only like a one-of-a-kind literary feast for any political junkie but also a sort of Essential Reading for your children or grandchildren to help them comprehend the ever-unvanquished threat of the Left– particularly these tumultuous days. Author, columnist and radio host Paul (The Conscience of Kansas) Ibbetson’s unique background makes the prospect of this political read all the more intriguing: among many other credits he’s a former Chief of Police holding an MA in Criminal Justice and currently completing his Ph.D. in Sociology. I can’t imagine anyone better equipped to man the helm of an allegorical warning about the perils of liberalism.
Here’s a real find: Chad Kent Speaks is a new website with short videos featuring young professional public speaker Chad’s exciting, down to earth approach to American government. You’ll come away from these a) interested all over again about our Founding Principles and b) wishing these videos were longer. Fortunately you can find more of his public speaking at the blog linked at this website and at Youtube where I found these. Highly recommended for you, your family and your kid who thinks he doesn’t care about dry historical stuff and what’s really in the Constitution but will learn that he does after hearing a couple of these vids. Liberals, beware: this stuff scoffs at the “living Constitution” concept and may be harmful to your self-delusions.
Don’t let the butterfly graphic at the top throw you off. There’s nothing airy or flighty about the Christian conservatism at two or three.net. This is a dynamic blog written by a highly articulate and very modern preacher and is perfect for exploring the links between culture, politics and religion. Read Daniel G’s (and some excellent contributors’) fresh takes on religion today, check out some of his fine sermons, and get up on the latest news– all at the same time. Highly recommended.
I get a fair amount of flack from liberal/left types who complain that I have no sympathetic people of color in my series. This is 100% factually untrue, as for example see this and this (and there are others). Of course, the treatment these sympathetic characters of color receive at the hands of the lefties who run this household is another story; I cannot be held responsible if, for example, Diversity brings a perfectly delightful Latina child home to play with and she is rejected by Devon for being the wrong kind of Latina, politically.
Another point: more than 90% of this series revolves around the inner dynamics of a family which happens to be white– therefore, outside characters in general, of whatever color, will tend to be uncommon. Until the current administration enacts an Adopt a Person of Color into Your Family policy, the prevailing color around the house will, sadly, tend to be white.
HOWEVER– I am not immune to creative criticism and have today initiated a new, experimental line of Diversity Lane cartoons, based on Politically Corrected earlier cartoons. Here are three such samples for your inspection, with feedback of all kinds welcome as always (except for profane, vicious and/or substance-free screaming). I’ve included in this initial series an African-American woman, Latino man, Asian man, and for good measure an Environmentally Sensitive Green Worker. I hope my new alternative line of Diversity Lane cartoons meets with your approval!
The original term “iron curtain” was coined by Churchill. (Winston, that is; the radical U of Colorado professor by the same name is irrelevant.) He didn’t have theater curtains in mind but considering the amount of persecution of non-liberals that goes on in the entertainment arts, maybe he should have. That’s why any conservative actor to emerge from that left-lurching, intellectually strait-jacketed world is such a welcome commodity. Confessions of a Closet Republican is the blog of just such an actor and I enjoy reading her thoughts regularly. So will you. Just don’t expect her to give her real name, though; like all conservatives in any of the arts, that would without question result in untold harassment at best and out and out blacklisting at worst a la Joseph McCarthy (though infinitely more widespread).
“Incognito” is smart and interesting– visit her site, I know you’ll like it.
I see the hot new blog Letters To Liberals as a series of elegantly phrased, impeccably well-groomed envelopes which once you open them turn out to be full of gun powder and dynamite. Creator Jason Sanborn understands the pestilence called Obama through and through, and in his drily delivered but scathingly mocking letters & etc. you can really learn a lot about what’s going down politically these days. Plus get a good laugh while you’re at it. Recommended!
There’s no better name for a blog or website than that, so I won’t even try to top it with a clever post title. I Own The World is a humor site for those who liked Airplane! and prefer their jazz real rather than “smooth.” When you tire of the ersatz-edginess of people like Letterman– whose worldview afterall fits neatly into the Katie Couric/Oprah Winfrey intellectual continuum– try this stuff. Nary a PC post to be found… breathe the air of Freedom!
Something tells me The Lonely Conservative isn’t raising any spoiled, whiney children. It comes through in her edgy forthrightness: she just doesn’t take any guff from self-important liberal-Left types, and I don’t think she’d take any from her kids either. These are the kind of posts that ring with humor due to their intelligent honesty (and honesty about the inane words and actions of the Left can be pretty damn funny). Give her a visit, she’s in a Blue State and could use some thoughtful company for a change.
The Desert Glows Green , manned by Vegas Art Guy, chronicles the day to day travails of a teacher (9th grade English class starts in the Fall) with a conservative and Christian outlook. Also a voracious reader with whom you can chat up the dozens of books he reads per quarter. If that scenario doesn’t provide enough drama for you, he’s also a man committed to maintaining good values and decency in his classes. (Below: one of the posters he’s thinking of putting up come September. See what I mean?) Swing by his spot, it’s impossible not to like this very smart, very good-natured teacher and master blog diarist.
From The Conscience of Kansas, Paul A. Ibbetson’s great radio show. Zack’s is the last interview on this link, approximately the final third of the broadcast.
The exclusive Paul A. Ibbetson interview with Zack Rawsthorne scheduled for 5:00 PM Central Time, Tuesday, June 30 may also be heard at www.wildcat919.com in addition to the other sources mentioned: The Conscience of Kansas and www.blogtalkradio.com .
This coming Tuesday, June 30, my interview with outstanding author and talk show host Paul A. Ibbetson will be aired on his lively show, The Conscience of Kansas. The interview is scheduled for 5:00 PM Central Time and can be heard on KSDB 91.9 “The Wildcat” in the Kansas area. It will also be available at Blog Talk Radio, or better yet go to Paul’s website The Conscience of Kansas around 5:00 PM Central this Tuesday and give a listen. The site is well worth bookmarking anyway: Paul’s got a fantastic backlog of interviews (Dinesh D’Sousa, Rick Santorum, Paul Shanklin, etc.) as well as editorials, columns and books he’s authored that can be purchased at the website. He’s a vital force in modern conservatism and I had a blast chatting with him about Diversity Lane.
You can’t get more Heartland than either Kansas or Paul A. Ibbetson, at his superb site The Conscience of Kansas. Author, lecturer, former Chief of Police and radio talker, he’s also currently working on his Ph.D– all while maintaining a great sense of humor. Bookmark his site– it’s got a wealth of highly interesting radio podcasts to keep handy for the next time Rush goes on too long about his latest golf game or Sean gets embroiled in conversation with a liberal nutcase. Also well worth investigating are his books, which I’ll be ordering this week. I left this smart, fun site feeling like I’d made a very impressive new friend.
Imagine stumbling long and dangerously through the darkness of a nation thoroughly fogged up by Progressivism, then suddenly coming across a pristine village where all the inhabitants love America, flags are for waving (not burning) and A,C, L and U are just letters in the alphabet, untainted by destructive organizations. You’ve reached Conservababes , a large, joyfully conservative cluster of bloggers (men and women can be Conservababes, it turns out). Pull up a comfy chair, pour yourself a cup of coffee (or something stronger) and just hang out: you’re safe now. Handy navigation tips will help you weave your way through the many topics, forums and personalities but getting lost is part of the fun as it turns out and at least you’ll be among friends.
In My Copious Free Time is one of those sites I think of as “good cuppa coffee blogs.” Like that morning cup of joe it’s an utterly warm and pleasant presence, all the while delivering that special jolt that sets it apart from, say, orange juice (or, to finish out the metaphor, from many other personal-reflection type blogs). Wes is a fine, thoughtful, creative writer, conservative, interesting, multifaceted and upbeat. You can’t do better than to stop in and check out his latest unique ruminations on politics, the culture and everything in between.
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