This is why it's great to have a blog. 

Not that I ever expected the Chronicle to give me a fair shake, but here is an editorial board that based their endorsement of a Democrat candidate on lies about me, that failed to include the egregious ethical violations of their preferred candidate, and then refused to print my response because they felt it was "misleading" and didn't match up with their printed inaccuracies.  No wonder they can't keep their readers...

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I guess this is what the news looks like when liberals are in charge.

CHINA TO CENSOR INTERNET DURING GAMES

House formally apologizes for slavery and Jim Crow...

APPROVED: L.A. bans new fast-food outlets from poor areas...

McCain tries to show independence and conservatism...

Offers olive branch to Pelosi, Gore...

And then there was this one...next to the giant pic of Nancy Pelosi, no less...

'I AM TRYING TO SAVE THE PLANET'...

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be visiting with G. Gordon Liddy LIVE in studio at 11:00 am EST today.  Tune in!

DeLay warns GOP faces long rebuilding process Aims to get conservative groups to collaborate
Stephen Dinan
Monday, June 9, 2008

Two years after he resigned from the House, former Republican leader Tom DeLay says conservatives haven't bottomed out from their 2006 election losses, Democrats are "cleaning their clock," and it will take years before the Republican Party can compete with the operation Democrats have built.

The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning their clock, and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, 'Well, maybe we ought to do something different,' little or nothing's going to change," Mr. DeLay told editors and reporters at The Washington Times last week.

"I think it's going to take years to rebuild the party," he said. "It is a party that will try to find itself as to what kind of party it is, and it will depend on what kind of leadership emerges from this rebuilding, as to what it ultimately is."

The Texas Republican resigned from the House effective two years ago Monday, months after he gave up his position as House majority leader - a move he was forced to make after he was indicted in Texas on various campaign-finance and money-laundering charges. Some of those charges were thrown out in pre-trial appeals, and Mr. DeLay still has not gone to trial on the remaining ones.

He has spent the time since his resignation studying the way the liberal movement operates, and says it is far more adept under the new campaign-finance rules enacted in 2002, and championed by Sen. John McCain, the Republican's presumptive presidential candidate.

For the rest of the story and the video, click here.   

Now that everyone’s gearing up to read Scott McClellan’s new book, which I plan to read with a few grains of salt, I thought it may be a good time to suggest a summer reading list for conservatives.  I would also like to hear some suggested reading from my friends at Townhall.  Rather than waste time with preliminaries, here’s an abbreviated list of my “must reads” for Summer 2008:

Red Sky in the Morning by Bill Bright

One should know why and how this nation was created.

How Now Shall We Live by Chuck Colson 

It’s crucial to know what you believe and why so you can fight for that worldview.

Politics of Prudence by Russell Kirk 

How it all comes together.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson          

No, I am not joining Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi on the couch.  As an exterminator in the 1970s, this book lit a fire under me…for all the wrong reasons, of course.  It’s always good to know the weapons your political enemies are using, and this is chief in their arsenal.

The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater 

Sounds clich?d, I know, but I know many conservatives who never cracked this book.  It’s hard to stand up for conservatism if you don’t know what conservatism really stands for.

The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics by Matt Bai 

For everyone who has been calling me a conspiracy theorist over the last two years, read this and tell me I’m wrong…

The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party by David Horowitz 

David Horowitz is one of my favorite people, and he put more than a million dollars of research into tracking the network Democrat operatives have created.  Check out the latest developments here: www.discoverthenetwork.org.

No Retreat, No Surrender: One American’s Fight by Stephen Mansfield, as told by me

Shameless self promotion, but it’s also one of the few ways I can debunk the liberal lies about me.

For those of you who are looking for the older posts from TomDeLay.com, here is the archived site.

I think my dear friend Ken Blackwell said it best...

Eloquent Speech, Troubling Worldview

Barack Obama just gave an eloquent speech, but one that
does not address the underlying nature of Senator Obama's
beliefs. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, like Mr. Obama, believes in
a state-centered 21st century form of big-government
socialism.  This 21st century form of socialism is at the
heart of the Liberation Theology Rev. Wright preaches from
the pulpit. Today, Mr. Obama again made it clear, with all
his eloquence, that he still embraces these beliefs that
would require dismantling the free-market system that has
made our country's economy the most prosperous in all of
human history.

In contrast to Liberation Theology, the Christian
orthodoxy teaches about the nature of God, the nature of
man, the relationship between the two in this life, and
about the hereafter. Liberation Theology, on the other
hand, is a belief system about political agendas,
socialistic economic policy, and redistribution of wealth.
Proponents of Liberation Theology, like Rev. Wright, teach
that God commands us to form a government that will
supervise our economy to create government-subsidized jobs
under central-government planning; guarantee healthcare and
education by having government control both; and achieve
'economic equality' by redistributing wealth through
massive taxes on the affluent and massive government
entitlements for the poor. And it advocates replacing
governments that do not embrace this socialistic agenda.

Those are the beliefs of Liberation Theology. Those are
the offensive root beliefs underlying many of Rev. Wright's
sermons. And though Barack Obama does not embrace Mr.
Wright's offensive language, he does embrace this
government-solves-everything-through-socialism worldview.

His speech was magnificent in its elegance and rhetoric,
but today Mr. Obama reminded me yet again of his worldview
that embraces, among other things, partial-birth abortion,
military weakness, and economic socialism.   Thank God for
religious liberty, free market, and free elections!

First of all, I’d like to thank to all of my friends in the blogosphere who helped me jumpstart TomDeLay.com and give me, and activists like you, an opportunity to highlight conservative thought and to voice our common ideas and frustrations.   

When I first left Congress in 2006, I was able to pour myself into the blog, posting and commenting and meeting with other bloggers in the effort to keep online conservatism active.  As I transitioned into life in the private sector, many new opportunities arose, including writing and publicizing my first book, spending time with my wife and our foster community in Texas, and working on building my consulting firm.  But starting last summer, a new project completely consumed me, and I decided it was best to focus full time on traveling around the country, signing up conservative activists in targeted media markets, and raising funds from conservative donors.  This project, Coalition for a Conservative Majority, has been a dream of mine since I started organizing activists as a freshman member of Congress, and under the leadership of former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, it’s off and running with 9 media market chapters underway.  Now that CCM is in the best of hands, I have the time to kick around a few ideas with some old friends, including those here at Townhall.com.

I would like to especially thank Chuck DeFeo and Matt Lewis here at Townhall.com for giving me a new forum where I can help rally conservative activists on specific, targeted causes that will…well…just make liberals miserable.  Here you will find everything from my media appearances to columns and general thoughts on political matters.  You will also find my “Action Points” (as I like to call them) because our superior political philosophy just isn’t enough anymore.  I look forward to reading and responding to your posts and suggestions.  But please, keep it civil, and I will, too. 

Keep the Faith,

Tom DeLay