Newt Gingrich denies the existence of the Bohemian Grove

No doubt it is because I am really ticked about Gingrich these days for making his  attacks on Capitalism that bring me to this post. So here goes, my effort to take a swipe at him. I wonder how he tolerated all of the “vulture” Capitalists that he mixed with at their annual meeting.

Vanity Fair did a story on the Bohemian Grove get-together some time ago. Its author spent a night at the Grove and came up with a benign piece, concluding nothing nefarious was afoot where the super rich and powerful play. What else happens is up to interpretation. Having said this, regardless of the take on what goes down at the Grove, there is little doubt that Newt Gingrich knows  about the group. The link is now archived, but I include it.

From The Sacramento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local11_19990802.html

MONTE RIO – The Bohemian Club’s Annual Summer Encampment came to a close here Sunday, ending a two-week retreat for the rich and powerful that President Herbert Hoover once called “the greatest men’s party on Earth.” The club’s famed annual gathering has been held for more than 100 years at the 2,700-acre Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, about 70 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County. This year’s event drew in notables such as former President George Bush, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff, as well as actor Danny Glover.

Over the years all the usual suspects have made appearances: Nixon, Clinton, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, two former C.I.A. directors (including Papa Bush), the masters of war and the oilgarchs, the Bechtels and the Basses, the board members of top military contractors—such as Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and the Carlyle Group—Rockefellers, Morgans, captains of industry and C.E.O.’s across the spectrum of American capitalism. The interlocking corporate web—cemented by prep-school, college, and golf-club affiliations, blood, marriage, and mutual self-interest—that makes up the American ruling class. 

Video here with information about the July 13, 2011 meeting

 Here is the background of the group by The Sonoma County Free Press and Wikipedia

Aerial Map view of Bohemian Grove area. – http://bit.ly/k3bHAD

FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=233094456710551

 

Supreme Court, 9-0 Landmark ruling in favor of Religion

This is a stunner.  A 9-0 Supreme Court decision that knocked down Obama and the EEOC. Can it get any better? Obama’s two picks for the Supremes hang with the majority. This should put a spring in our step. Bill Bennet on his morning program reviewed the case, and believes it bodes well for us in the future by setting a precedent that will be hard to overcome by the Progressives. The Progressives no longer being the arbiter of Truth, and how we shall live. Nice to see some backbone.  Here we go:

Religious organizations won a landmark victory Wednesday as the Supreme Court held that churches have the right to make employment decisions free from government interference over discrimination laws.

In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court endorsed for the first time the “ministerial exception” to state and federal employment discrimination laws while rejecting the Obama administration’s argument that churches should be treated no differently than other employers.

“When a minister who has been fired sues her church alleging that her termination was discriminatory, the First Amendment has struck the balance for us,” Chief Justice Roberts said. “The church must be free to choose those who will guide it on its way.”

Allowing former employees to file anti-discrimination lawsuits “could end up forcing churches to take religious leaders they no longer want,” he said.

Advocates of religious liberty hailed the ruling as a crucial win for churches in the face of government encroachment.

“We are pleased that the Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration’s profoundly troubling claim of power over churches, and glad to see that the Supreme Court has stayed out of the Lutheran Church’s affairs and allowed its internal rules as a body of believers to stand,” said Ken Klukowski, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council.

Full story at the Washington Times