Tammy is an author and syndicated host, flag-shipped at TalkRadio 790 KABC-AM in Los Angeles. The Tammy Bruce Show is heard on 163 affiliates. Former president of the National Organization for Women’s L.A. chapter, she holds a degree in political science. She officially launched her new blog on Sept. 29, 2005.

Tammy Bruce - A classical liberal takes on the left

I am classical liberal, a registered Democrat, a pro-choice lesbian. I see my party as being under the influence of the equivalent of a home invasion robbery in which I am outside the house but determined to make sure people remember who really owns it. When I became an activist, I was not impressed with how the local chapter of NOW was running or responding to the choice issue. I am proud of my work there, but I also saw the ugly underside of the left, which I contributed to in some ways. I resigned in 1996 from NOW and made a pledge to be independent.

The heart of my first book ‘The New Thought Police,’ was about the cultural framework that punishes people for opinions that either offend or challenge the status quo and the leftwing McCarthyism. I look at those who are supposed to perpetuate freedom of expression and new ideas, yet who in fact are creating a cultural atmosphere in which people who think progressively and want to dissent are punished.

In 1998 I took Bill Cosby’s wife to task for saying her son’s killer was “taught by America to hate black people.” Here you had a woman from one of the richest couples in the world — a person whose family has really experienced the love of the American people — making an outrageous claim. My calling attention to that was forbidden, and as a result I lost my radio gig at a previous station I worked for. There’s a reticence in dealing with racial issues because of racist attitudes that in many cases emanate from the black elite. The real racism is not what Mrs. Cosby imagined, it is in allowing the left to continue to condemn people of color to the ghettos of victimhood and marginalization.

My book, ‘The Death of Right and Wrong,’ was a New York Times bestseller. My upcoming book, ‘The New American Revolution,’ is about the power of the individual. I talk about how the collectivist policies that condemned the people of New Orleans will not be stood for, how decades of letting the left dominate the poverty debate has mired many Americans in poverty and despair. The only way to be really free is to be responsible for yourself and make your own money, but the left has created a new plantation for people to live on - and done it via threats, guilt, personal assassination and other ways.

On her upcoming blog - Providing tools and information to take action

My politics have not changed, but I’ve recognized that the old approach was the wrong road to get to real personal freedom. So the blog will look at the malignant narcissism of the left. It will give people the information they need to be aware of why something is happening, how to protect and maintain their own personal power and how to take action that makes a difference.

One example would be the Crescent of Embrace memorial — telling people to call U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton and reminding people how to speak up by giving them the tools. My blog will reflect my past as an organizer and will make sure that people know that while collectivism hurts people terribly, collective action is a good thing and you will not lose your individualism in the process.

On our direction

The core of the American people has manifested itself most purely in blogs because elites for so long controlled all avenues of communication. Those days are over now. Americans face a media collective elite that views the rest of us as the great unwashed masses. For a framework like this to really face down the elite mainstream media, it must become better organized. It’s also the American way to make things bigger and better. So I am invested in the idea of organizing and having things grow and in making them the best they can be.

My being asked to join this effort, I feel, reflects that I have experience that makes me aware of possible emerging problems, and it reflects your strong desire to maintain the free and grassroots nature of this venture under an organized framework. So it’s very, very exciting. Mediums of communication are in a complete revolution. This is the frontline, and it will change everything.