“ANDREW BREITBART is an invaluable asset to the Commonsense Conservative cause.  RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions… Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country’s future by staying true to core values and never retreating.”
– Sarah Palin

“RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION starts off where many conservatives are born:  after college when liberalism’s theoretical utopia begins to clash with the real world.  Gen X slacker Breitbart transforms himself – with a little help from yours truly – into a cultural warrior, a New Media powerhouse, and one of the conservative movement’s most ferocious fighters.  Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent, Breitbart and his Big sites put liberals on the defensive – where they belong”  – Rush Limbaugh

This is not a book review (at least the way I understand it).  I love the book, I’ve had it for a long time, and I am not even finished reading it yet.  I read the middle first, and then the end, and now I am reading the beginning.
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Excellent post at American Thinker today, by Robert Oscar Lopez, “The Political Problem of Evil.”
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I post this with trepidation – knowing that it will spark yet another round of comments about racism at the Tree.  I say, “The Truth Will Set You Free”, and ask the question, as does the author of this Politico piece, Why Can’t We Talk About IQ?
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I just heard the founder of Life Remodeled, Chris Lambert, interviewed on Detroit AM radio station, WJR.  He’s a man who was born in California, was raised in Indiana and, in his words, was called to Detroit.
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/53132004]
His organization has been working in the Southeast Michigan area for several years now, concentrating on improving the life of one family, and one neighborhood, at a time.  The family gets a new home, financial counseling, family counseling, and religious counseling if the family desires it.  The neighborhood gets a facelift.  Since 2011 they have built five brand new houses (each in 6 days) in Farmington Hills, Hazel Park, Pontiac, Redford, and Westland, Michigan.  These are all in the Metro Detroit area.
The 2013 Build in is Detroit.  Their goal, to accomplish in just 6 days:
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When I was a punk teen and twenty-something, I did drugs, dealt drugs, debased women, burglarized homes and was kicked out of both high school and college for my behavior.
When I was sixteen-years-old, I was arrested on Mother’s Day for stealing water skis and was placed on probation.

This essay by Doug Giles appears today in Townhall.
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My experience started when the NAN website coordinating the national protests was posted on reddit.com/r/trayvonmartin.   I contacted the listed organizer, named Chas Moore, and asked for additional information.  I received the link to this facebook group.    Later, I would meet the leaders of the event including Chas Moore (NAN),  Lucian Villasenor (Int. Socialist Org.), Sterling Lance, and Ana Correa (texascjc).
The time and place was Noon on Saturday at the state capital.  I reached out to my friends  in the Austin Police Department to make sure they were aware of the gathering, and prepared  for potential violence or rioting.  I was concerned about this growing list.
Unable to contact my friends in the police, I continued with my plans to attend the rally.  I immediately had some female friends design and construct my sign. Unfortunately, due to the heat and lack of fellow Zimmerman supporters to delegate holding of the sign  to, I decided to leave it in my car. (Don’t tell the girls, they worked hard on that sign!)
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Who Was Dr. Ossian Sweet?

By any measure, Ossian Sweet’s life was a success story. Born in Bartow, Florida, in 1895, he was a grandson of slaves, and the oldest of 10 children of a share cropper and his wife.
His supportive parents sent young Ossian, at age 13, to Xenia, Ohio, to complete his education. This was an ambitious undertaking for the Sweet family as the typical schooling for blacks in Barstow, Florida was four months a year, to the eighth grade only, in an inferior school. Eventually, Ossian graduated from Wilberforce University in 1917. It is worth noting that this was an exceptional accomplishment, since, out of some 10 million blacks in the United States, fewer than 2,000 were enrolled in college.
Poor eyesight kept him out of World War I, so he was able to continue his education in medical school at Howard University in Washington, DC, receiving his MD degree in 1921. During his years at Howard, he was caught in the middle of the Washington race riots of 1919.
Upon graduation, no white hospital would take him as an intern, no white patients would seek him out, and, like all blacks, he could not join the American Medial Association.  Since he had once spent a summer in Detroit as a bellhop at a hotel, he moved to that city, where a large black population provided a pool of patients. Over half a million blacks had migrated North in 1917 alone; Detroit’s black population had increased by 600% in the decade between 1910 and 1920. Opportunity, then, for a new medical school graduate, seemed to exist in cities like Detroit.  Read more….
As his practice flourished, Dr. Sweet sought to move his family to a nicer home in a good neighborhood, as was being done by other prosperous blacks in Detroit.  In the 1920’s there was no real integration in cities like Detroit, so it was difficult just to find a realtor who would help him find a home, not to mention a homeowner who was willing to sell to a black family. (more…)

The title is “A Great Friday Post”, because that is what WeeWeed called it when I shared it with her last night.  She thinks (me too) that you will enjoy this story.  It was written by the author of “Rocket Boys”, Homer Hickam.  You may remember the movie, “October Sky”, which was based on his book (The name of the movie is an anagram of the name of the book).
I love everything that Homer writes, and  he is an amazing story in and of himself.  He grew up in the fifties and sixties in a West Virginia mining town; his dad was the Superintendent of the mine in Coalwood.  Homer was inspired by the space race, the launch of Sputnik, and his idol, Wernher von Braun.
The “Great Friday Post” is a story written by Homer a few years ago for Air & Space Magazine; I became acquainted with it yesterday, when Homer posted a link to it on his Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/HomerHickam.
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When I heard that Rush Limbaugh had read my American Spectator article — “How a Miami School Crime Cover-Up Policy Led to Trayvon Martin’s Death” — on his radio show today, obviously credit was due to many others. It was Pamela Geller who called my attention to it Sunday and, in doing so, she mentioned that Andrea Shea King and Pat Dollard had been calling attention to it before. But the yeoman’s work in exposing this cover-up was done months ago by The Last Refuge blog.
Read the rest of the article HERE.

As to the count 1 of 2nd Degree Murder: Not Guilty
As To the count 2 of Manslaughter: Not Guilty