The cartoons come from:

www.townhall.com/funnies.

If you receive this and you hate it and you don’t want to ever read it no matter what...that is fine; email me back and you will be deleted from my list (which is almost at the maximum anyway).

Previous issues are listed and can be accessed here:

http://kukis.org/page20.html (their contents are described and each issue is linked to) or here:

http://kukis.org/blog/ (this is the online directory they are in)

I attempt to post a new issue each Sunday by 2 or 3 pm central standard time (I sometimes fail at this attempt).

I try to include factual material only, along with my opinions (it should be clear which is which). I make an attempt to include as much of this week’s news as I possibly can. The first set of columns are intentionally designed for a quick read.

I do not accept any advertising nor do I charge for this publication. I write this principally to blow off steam in a nation where its people seemed have collectively lost their minds.

And if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, always remember: We do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12).

This Week’s Events

National Public Radio fires Juan Williams; Fox News gives Juan a new contract for $2 million/year. Bills have already been written to defund NPR.

Turns out that Google has found some ways to reduce its taxes to 2.4%. 75% of Google’s contributions has gone to the Democrats.

Polling on the legalization of marijuana in California is finally turning around. What many Californians do not realize is (1) this is a bell they cannot unring and (2) their state will be flooded with stoners from all over the United States.

There is a proposal to provide dinner for the school children in Washington D.C. This is the school district which (1) spends nearly more per student than any other school district; (2) turns out one of the worst products; and (3) has just fired possibly the best chancellor that they have ever had. So, now, they have decided to expand their duties.

Marisol Valles Garcia just recently became the police chief of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, a crime-ridden town near Ciudad Juarez, epicenter of drug cartel activity. She is only 20 years old, and the mother of an infant child. She needs our prayers.

Countrywide mortgage CEO Angelo Mozilo has agreed to pay a fine of $22.5 million and to pay back $45 million of ill-gotten gains. As a part of his agreement, he will not release any of the names of the Senators and employees of Senators who received preferential treatment for home loans (Friends of Angelo). I could not find a single story which mentions this final fact (I heard it on Fox News).

Billionaire George Soros has offered up to a million dollar bounty to Media Matters for taking down Glenn Beck and FoxNews. Media Matter has previously denied any connection between themselves and Soros. Soros' Open Society Institute just announced that would give $1.8 million to NPR in order to add 100 journalists across the country. Media Matter just launched an effort to attack Fox News via their advertisers (http://mediamatters.org/action/dropfox/). Soros also funds The Tides Foundation, and American Center for Progress.

The parliament of Great Britain is looking to make $130 billion in budget cuts.

While setting up a stage for Obama in Los Angeles, a union worker was fired because he wore a shirt and hat with the name Bush on it. The aircraft carrier that his son is on is the George H.W Bush, and, like any father would, he wears this garb proudly. He said he was willing to take off the hat, but not turn his sweatshirt inside out.

Yesterday, the Yuma Sun reported that two organizations Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona submitted more than 3,000 voter registrations in Yuma County right before the deadline for registering voters. The groups submitted over 20,000 registrations statewide. What the Yuma Sun did not tell you is, over 65% of these last minute registrations were invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, a wrong/invalid address, or a false signature.

Curing a debate, Kristine O’Donnell correctly states that separation of church and state is not found in the Constitution. However, the room of law students broke out in laughter when she made this statement. For those who believe her to be wrong, they would also have to say that gay marriage and abortion rights are found in the Constitution.

20 year-old French kids are rioting in the streets because retirement age is being raised from 60 to 62.

Democrats are putting money behind 3^rd party candidates in order to siphon votes away from Republican hopefuls. In California, Republicans have received recorded phone calls from a professed but unidentified "registered Republican" who says she is voting for the American Independent Party's candidate for a House seat, Bill Lussenheide, not for the incumbent Republican, Mary Bono Mack. The caller says she is voting that way because "it's time we show Washington what a true conservative looks like." The recording was openly paid for by the Democratic candidate for the seat, Mayor Steve Pougnet of Palm Springs.

In Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidate for a suburban Philadelphia House seat, Bryan Lentz, admitted this week that his volunteers helped Jim

Schneller - a prominent skeptic of President Obama's citizenship - collect petitions to run against Mr. Lentz and his Republican opponent, Pat Meehan.

In Nevada, conservative radio listeners have heard an advertisement promoting the Senate campaign of a "Tea Party of Nevada" candidate, Scott Ashjian. The ads criticize Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee and favored candidate of the actual Tea Party movement in the race against Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader.

Full-body scanners are unveiled at JFK Airport; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano does not volunteer to be scanned.

Wikileaks released a who new set of classified documents on the Iraq War.

Say What?

Liberals:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: “But For Me, We'd Be in World-Wide Depression”

Joe Biden: "I was amazed at the amount of money, this $200 billion of money [being used in advertising by Republicans].” Biden, of course, mean to say million.

Joe Biden: “I've never seen this before, so the only caveat I'd put in terms of the House is how much impact this $200 billion [in Republican advertising] are [sic] going to mean." Biden, of course, mean to say million.

President Obama on the campaign trail: "They [Republicans] are clinging to the same worn-out, tired, snake-oil ideas that they were peddling before."

Liberals Making Sense:

Juan Williams (on the Bill O’Reilly show): "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot..But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." This is the comment which got him fired.

Later, Williams said, “I was fired for telling the truth.”

Conservatives:

Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference: "Look, the time to go along and get along is over. House Republicans know that. We've taken firm and principled stands against their big government plans throughout this Congress, and we've got, if the American people will send them, we've got a cavalry of men and women headed to Washington, D.C. that are going to stand with us."

Pence later said: “There will be no compromise on stopping runaway spending, deficits and debt. There will be no compromise on repealing Obamacare. There will be no compromise on stopping Democrats from growing government and raising taxes.”

Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden: "We have a constitutional remedy, and the Framers say if that don't work, revolution...If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary" I was going to rule him out as a complete crackpot, but then, he is running in the sovereign nation of, hand-over-the-heart, Texas. Broden has since walked back these remarks, saying that he was ambushed in a contentious interview. Now, ask yourselves why Broden is not front page news in every liberal paper in the country.

Roger Ailes (Fox News head): "Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997. He's an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis."

Must-Watch Media

This is one of the best ads I have seen; it only lasts a minute; make sure you see it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM

And one of the best ads I have seen for younger people:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWV5-1LXvwg

Excellent Hannity interview with Jim DeMint; this will be quite instructive to those who are on the fence, or have voted Democrat, but now question this. Although there is a 1:54 introduction, the intro is worth seeing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KD-wxvG5SI

2 excellent Glenn Beck shows. However, if you are a liberal and you have made up your mind to hate Beck, then I don’t think you can get what he is saying (that is, there are a lot of Beckian affectations on these 2 shows, I think as a result of personal threats). Beck throws down the gauntlet.

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/2010/October/glenn-beck-show-october-19-2010-get-the-duct-tape-ready/

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/2010/October/glenn-beck-show-october-20-2010-george-soros-mr-potter-moment/

Political ad: Barney Frank and FNMA and FHLMC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIKMkZm6Oqw

Political ad for Nevada—this is quite excellent, even if you do not live in Nevada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ36H9lkeRc

A reasonable article and tv interview of Dallas Congressional Steve Broden. Now, why haven’t the alphabet media brought out Broden front and center as typical of the TEA party movement? First time you see him, you will understand why:

http://www.wfaa.com/news/politics/Broden-on-population-control-Nazis-and-revolution-105484458.html

Indoctrinate U (this is a 5 part show; each is about 10 minutes; and I guarantee you, you have no idea what is happening on our college campuses—you will think, this is just made up stuff; it’s just too crazy):

http://rightnetwork.com/episodes/860061587

This was a nice 3 minute segment by Griff Jenkins on legal immigrants:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTzDkCdTrw

In case you do not understand why our economy is tanking, here is part of it (it is rough on Barney Frank):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1kKb3uPNXs

Here is a whole new angle on the foreclosures and how some banks are making millions on them:

http://www.youtube.com/user/fiercefreeleancer

Klaven on, the extremists are coming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_I1lzJ94w

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “President Obama recent said that Black people probably don’t watch Meet the Press; well, guess what, Mr. President, they probably didn’t play 52 rounds of golf in the last year and a half either.”

It made me smile:

http://vimeo.com/16072732

Short Takes

1) Our taxpayer dollars indirectly go to fill the coffers on public unions. They use this money to buy elections and to buy candidates, which then, make certain that higher salaries and more benefits go back to these public unions. These unions need to either (1) be outlawed or (2) not allowed to contribute to candidates.

2) The largest public and private relationship in our country was that between Countrywide Mortgage and FNMA. This is why I do not believe in any sort of partnership between government and private enterprise.

3) President Obama either thought the stimulus bill will create jobs and it didn’t; or he didn’t think it would, but this allowed him to get a lot of pet projects out there. The end result was the same. What would have been nice to hear is, “All of my economic advisors told me that this would work; clearly it has not. I have fired all of my economic advisors and have replaced them with those of a different viewpoint.”

4) Bill O’Reilly pointed out that, if the Ground Zero Mosque imam had come out from day one and said, “This mosque will be dedicated to non-violence by Muslims and repudiates that which radical Muslims did on 9/11;” the mosque would be built without incident. Let me add, if they said, “This mosque stands as a repudiation to Sharia Law in a free country like the United States;’ again, there would be no problem with building the mosque.

5) As Rush has said many times, you can tell who the left is afraid of based upon the incessant media attacks (Palin is #1, Michelle Bachman and Kristine O’Donnell are up there as well).

6) We have to be mindful of how much sin and evil we are willing to tolerate as a society. Mexican officials, at first, when the drug wars began, decided, “These are drug cartels killing members of other drug cartels; why get involved with that?” Hopefully, we can see, in retrospect, how flawed that approach is.

7) The president is now accurately quoting the Declaration of Independence as of Oct. 22, 2010; one 3 previous occasions, he has left out the words endowed by their creator. It is possible that this was simply a tweak.

By the Numbers

I just heard that Obama outspent Senator McCain 7 to 1. Was it that much?

In 1981, Galveston and two other Texas counties opted out of Social Security and established their own substitute Social Security systems for county employees. Today, these retirement systems are paying 50–200% higher than social security.

42 million Americans now get foodstamps (remember; this can be the head of a family). The income eligibility limit for a Hawaii family of five is $38,568 a year. More than 1 in 8 Americans eat food bought with foodstamps.

There have been 16,270 deadly attacks by Muslims since 9/11 (as of Saturday evening; 3–8 attacks occur each and every day).

7 banks closed this week in Fla., Ga., Ill., Kan., Ariz.; 139 US bank failures this year. Notice how each small bank is given over to a large conglomerate bank each and every time. We bail out the large banks and let the small ones get absorbed. If you do not know why, then you do not understand what is going on. The government can control large banks much easier than it can control small ones.

Polling by the Numbers

Rasmussen:

43% of all Likely Voters say someone who voted for the health care law deserves to be reelected. 50% oppose their reelection.

36% say if their local representative voted for the taxpayer bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler, he or she deserves to be returned to Congress.

53% say that person does not deserve reelection.

41% say their representative in Congress should be reelected if he or she voted for the stimulus plan.

50% say the individual should not be reelected.

A Little Bias

An AP story covering the Angle/Reid race for Senator in Nevada called Angel an ultraconservative twice, but does not label Reid as ultra liberal or even liberal. Of course, Reid’s quote about Angle being too extreme was also included in this story.

From:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/10/23/ap-labels-angle-ultraconservative-twice-reid-ada-95-not-even-liberal

Saturday Night Live Misses

They need to do Christian Amanpour before she is fired.

Obama-Speak

Extreme means someone who does not believe that the government ought to be running healthcare, car companies, the student loan business or the housing industry.

Questions for Obama

Do you believe the Stimulus Bill with its shovel-ready jobs worked?

How much of the Stimulus Bill was dedicated to infrastructure?

Do you know the difference between tax cuts and tax loopholes? You keep calling a set of tax loopholes tax cuts.

Missing Headlines

Countrywide/SEC Agreement: no Senators to be named

Democrat Favorite Google 2.4% Tax Rate

Great Britain to Try Huge Budget Cuts

French Rioters over Retirement Age are 20

Political Chess

The news media has figured out that, TEA party members are not very good when it comes to politics. They are not politically astute and they are easy to prod into saying goofy things. So, several candidates who clearly favor a smaller government and a balanced budget have been easily led to speak about issues about which they may be passionate, but issues which are not really on the table right now. The press is operating very effectively as the arm of the Democratic party. They get the sound bite and Democrats can take this sound bite and use is in political ads. This has been a good and effective strategy—particularly to the voting public which does not realize that news corporations are not about news, but about advocacy.

Democrats, particularly Obama, have discovered, all they need to do is keep repeating, “It took us 8 long years to get into this mess and it is going to take a long time to get us out;” does work with some voters. There are very few who ask “Exactly what happened to get us into this mess?”

Come, let us reason together....

This is a very disturbing story; in how many large cities is this taking place?

Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston

By Ed Barnes

When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn't enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, "about 50" of her friends volunteered to work at Houston's polling places.

"What we saw shocked us," she said. "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."

Their shared experience, she says, created "True the Vote," a citizen-based grassroots organization that began collecting publicly available voting data to prove that what they saw in their day at the polls was, indeed, happening -- and that it was happening everywhere.

"It was a true Tea Party moment," she remembers.

Like most voter watchdog groups, she said, her group started small. They decided to investigate voting fraud in general, not just at the polling places, and at first they weren't even sure what to look for -- and where to look for it.

"The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .

"But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."

It was Houston's poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, "It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers."

The task was overwhelming. With 1.9 million voters and 886 voting precincts, Houston's Harris County is the second largest county in the country -- and the key to Texas elections.

The group called for help and quickly got 30 donated computers and "tens of thousands of hours" of volunteer work. And then the questions started to arise.

"Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address," Engelbrecht said. "We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."

Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state's office and the Harris County district attorney.

Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.

The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.

Caddle told local newspapers that there "had been mistakes made," and he said he had fired 30 workers for filing defective voter registration applications. He could not be reached for this article.

"The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," the Harris voter registrar, Leo Vasquez, charged as he passed on the documentation to the district attorney. A spokesman for the DA's office declined to discuss the case. And a spokesman for Vasquez said that the DA has asked them to refrain from commenting on the case.

The outcome of the efforts grew in importance the day after Vasquez made his announcement. On the morning of Aug. 27, a three-alarm fire destroyed almost all of Harris County's voting machines, throwing the upcoming Nov. 2 election into turmoil. While the cause wasn't determined, the $40 million blaze, according to press reports, means election officials will be focused on creating a whole new voting system in six weeks. Just how they do it will determine how vulnerable the process becomes.

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/23/voter-fraud-houston-tea-party-truethevote-texas/

The TEA Party vs. the Ruling Class

by Robert James Bidinotto

Twenty months ago, on February 19, 2009, business reporter Rick Santelli of CNBC took to the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to deliver his famous rant against government bail-outs, and call for "a Chicago tea party."

Santelli may have sparked the Tea Party movement. But he only tapped into outrage that had been growing in many of us for decades.

For too long, you and I have watched helplessly as a clique of politicians, intellectuals, activists, and bureaucrats from both parties have tried to obliterate our Constitution, our capitalist system, and our personal liberty. This "bipartisan Ruling Class"-as scholar Angelo Codevilla describes it-sees itself as a moral, cultural, and intellectual elite. Codevilla says that "Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits."

Oozing sanctimonious arrogance, viewing the rest of us as coarse, unsophisticated rubes who cling bitterly to guns and bibles, this class seeks to impose its own supposedly superior values and visions upon the rest of us, by force of law.

As we know too well, the ultimate goal of our Ruling Class is power. They exist-not to produce, not to invent, not to create-but to manipulate and master others. Ronald Reagan memorably summed up the Ruling Class's governing outlook this way: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

By contrast, the rest of us Americans seek power over circumstances, but not over each other. We acquire our personal sense of identity and self-esteem through productive work-not through imposing our will, values, and visions on our neighbors. We accept a "live and let live" philosophy.

This is the spirit embodied in our "Declaration of Independence." That document was more than a declaration of political independence from our European rulers; it was a declaration of the moral independence of every human being. It was a declaration of each individual's moral right to his own life, his own liberty, his own pursuit of happiness.

This is the vision enshrined in our Constitution. That governing framework grants to public officials only specific, enumerated, and narrowly limited powers. As James Madison and the other Framers made explicitly clear, the Constitution was intended-for the first time in human history-to bridle the authority of politicians and bureaucrats, and thus to protect the moral right of Americans to go about our lives without interference.

So, the Constitution imposes upon government officials a host of constraints: separations of powers, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights. By constraining government, citizens enjoy the fruits of freedom.

Which explains why, since the early twentieth-century Progressive Era, Ruling Class power-seekers have targeted the Constitution for annihilation. The regimes of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt subjected constitutional limitations on power to systematic, bipartisan attack. So did the "New Deal" of Franklin Roosevelt and the "Great Society" of Lyndon Johnson.

In our time, the clamor against individual rights and constitutional constraints on power has risen to a crescendo. And that is why we're here. Today's Ruling Class consists of the intellectual heirs of the earlier progressives. From Obama to McCain, from Arianna Huffington to David Gergen, from George Soros to Michael Bloomberg, our Beltway grandees continue to impart their wisdom and good taste upon us by law-telling us what to eat, what our children should learn and in what kind of schools, what vehicles we should travel in, what fuels should power them, where we should live, where our thermostats should be set, what we should grow, how we should use our land, with whom we should engage in business, what we should sell and at what prices, what portion of our earnings we may be allowed to keep, what "good causes" we must support, what language we must use in conversations about "sensitive" topics ranging from race to romance to religion, what medical coverage we must have, who must provide it, and at what price, and on, and on, and on.

It goes on without limit, because our Ruling Class accepts no limits, legal or moral, on its power to "do good" to us. We are mere mortar and bricks for their social engineering. Like missionaries visiting primitive tribes, they view us as savages, whom they must cage and civilize.

We see their boundless arrogance in Barack Obama, who tells his fellow Ruling Class members that "We are the ones we have been waiting for," with his nose held so high in the air that any passing rainstorm would waterboard him. We see it in Senator John Kerry when, like some monarch, he refers to himself in the third person. We see it in Barney Frank, the only human on the planet who is able to strut even while sitting. We see it in Harry Reid, who told us the other day that, "But for me, we'd be in a world-wide depression." We see it in Nancy Pelosi, who-when asked where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to order us to buy health insurance-replied: "Are you serious? Are you serious?"

Never mind that the Ruling Class and its progressive policies have failed miserably to achieve their announced objectives. For more than a century, countless government programs have plundered untold trillions of dollars from taxpayers, then redirected them, supposedly to eradicate poverty, to end unemployment, to prevent disastrous business cycles, to put everyone in his own home.

But what do we see? Record levels of people on food stamps; soaring unemployment rates; a recession longer and deeper than any since the 1930s; a debacle in the housing market. Yet, what does the Ruling Class do in response? It demands more power to enact more of the same.

They say that a sure sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different outcome. By that criterion, progressives are bat-crap crazy.

But then, what are we, if we re-elect them?

Bad as this is, it is even more sickening to watch ambitious young men and women trying desperately to enter the Ruling Class, then rise through its corrupt ranks, in their lust for power and position. For an example, look no farther than our freshman congressman in Maryland's First District. In his disgustingly dishonest campaign ads, as well as his voting record, Frank Kratovil has demonstrated that he'll eagerly sell his soul for a seat at a Ruling Class table.

Mr. Kratovil has spent most of his campaign running away from his voting record-even from his party affiliation. From his ads, you would think he's running as an "Independent," not a Democrat. He demonstrates this independence by voting with his party 84.6 percent of the time-then accepting well over a million dollars in campaign contributions from party coffers.

Consider his votes on ObamaCare. Like Hamlet, Mr. Kratovil spent a year in anguished public indecision. This waffling persisted all the way to the last week before the final vote, while Nancy Pelosi collected the backing she needed to pass the bill. Then, after Pelosi had lined up enough support to let him off the hook, Kratovil first voted for ObamaCare to proceed to a final vote, then announced he would vote against the final bill on the floor. But since then, he has refused to back a bill to repeal ObamaCare.

Doing John Kerry one better, Kratovil was for ObamaCare before he was against it, before he was for it once again. This, he says, demonstrates his independence from the Democratic party line.

On the other big bills of the past two years-namely, the "stimulus" and "cap and tax" bills-this self-described "fiscal conservative" voted to add more than one-and-a-half trillion dollars to the government credit card. The stimulus boondoggle poured billions of tax dollars into pork projects for public-employee unions. Meanwhile, cap-and-tax was designed to clobber the oil, coal, and natural-gas industries, and to raise your energy costs $1600 per household. Kratovil voted for other earmarks and pork projects, too.

Two years ago, Frank Kratovil boarded a flight headed into Ruling Class territory. He's well on his way-unless you cancel his flight on November 2nd.

Happily, I think that will happen. And it will happen to many other members of the self-appointed elite. Signs are everywhere that people are, at last, wising up and fighting back. Your presence here today is one of those signs.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've been paying close attention to politics since I was a teenager in the 1960s. I've never been so optimistic about America's future-and you are a major reason for that. For nearly half a century, I wrote and preached about our lost liberties and endangered rights, feeling like a lonely voice in the wilderness. But now, millions of voices are carrying that message.

However, we can't stop on November 2nd. Our next task must be to transform the Republican Party into something more than an auxiliary chapter of the Ruling Class clique. The GOP has pretended for decades to be the party of freedom, capitalism, and limited government. And it has betrayed those principles repeatedly.

But we have not just a political party, but a cultural legacy, to reclaim-a legacy often described as American individualism. From our nation's earliest days, when our pioneer ancestors blazed trails through forbidding frontiers, we Americans have never viewed ourselves as victims of circumstances. Fiercely self-assertive, proudly independent, we, more than any other people on earth, view ourselves as masters of our fates, as captains of our souls.

The spirit of American individualism, and the moral quest for personal liberty, motivated the Founders to pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause. It is a cause for which many have fought and died, so that we don't have to.

So, let us win a peaceful victory for that cause on November 2nd-and then, in the words of Washington, let us continue in the months and years ahead to raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

Thank you.

From:

http://biggovernment.com/rbidinotto/2010/10/24/the-tea-party-vs-the-ruling-class/

Obama Underappreciation Syndrome

By Charles Krauthammer

In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they've habitually attributed to the American right -- the paranoid style in American politics. The talk is of dark conspiracies -- secret money, foreign influence, big corporations, with Karl Rove and, yes, Ed Gillespie lurking ominously behind the scenes. The only thing missing is the Halliburton-Cheney angle.

But after trotting out some of these charges with a noticeable lack of success, President Obama has come up with something new, something less common, something more befitting his stature and intellect. He's now offering a scientific, indeed neurological, explanation for his current political troubles. The electorate apparently is deranged by its anxieties and fears to the point where it can't think straight. Part of the reason "facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time," he explained to a Massachusetts audience, "is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared."

Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican.

But of course. Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the "New Foundation" of a more regulated, socially engineered and therefore more humane society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them Obamacare, the stimulus, financial regulation and a shot at cap-and-trade -- and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful.

Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.

I have a better explanation. Better because it adheres to the ultimate scientific principle, Occam's Razor, by which the preferred explanation for any phenomenon is the one with the most economy and simplicity. And there is nothing simpler than the Gallup findings on the ideological inclinations of the American people. Conservative: 42 percent. Moderate: 35 percent. Liberal: 20 percent. No fanciful new syndromes or other elaborate fictions are required to understand that if you try to impose a liberal agenda on such a demonstrably center-right country -- a country that is 80 percent non-liberal -- you get a massive backlash.

Moreover, apart from ideology is empirical reality. Even as we speak, the social-democratic model Obama is openly and boldly trying to move America toward is unraveling in Europe. It's not just the real prospect of financial collapse in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, with even the relatively more stable major countries in severe distress. It is the visible moral collapse of a system that, after two generations of increasing cradle-to-grave infantilization, turns millions of citizens into the streets of France in furious and often violent protest over what? Over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62!

Having seen this display of what can only be called decadence, Obama's perfectly wired electorate says no, not us, not here. The peasants have seen the future -- Greece and France -- and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model -- Europe -- is in chaotic meltdown.

And it isn't as if this political message is new. It had already been sent in the last year with clarion clarity in the elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts where independents -- the swing voters without ideological attachment one way or the other -- split 2-to-1, 2-to-1 and 3-to-1, respectively, against the Democrats.

The story of the last two years is as simple as it is dramatic. It is the epic story of an administration with a highly ideological agenda encountering a rising resistance from the American people over the major question in dispute: the size and reach and power of government and, even more fundamentally, the nature of the American social contract.

An adjudication of the question will be rendered on Nov. 2. For the day, the American peasantry will be presiding.

From:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102104856.html

Tea Party to the Rescue

How the GOP was saved from Bush and the establishment.

By Peggy Noonan

Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.

The first: the tea party is not a "threat" to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

In a practical sense, the tea party saved the Republican Party in this cycle by not going third-party. It could have. The broadly based, locally autonomous movement seems to have made a rolling decision, group by group, to take part in Republican primaries and back Republican hopefuls. (According to the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, four million more Republicans voted in primaries this year than Democrats, the GOP's highest such turnout since 1970. I wonder who those people were?)

Because of this, because they did not go third-party, Nov. 2 is not going to be a disaster for the Republicans, but a triumph.

The tea party did something the Republican establishment was incapable of doing: It got the party out from under George W. Bush. The tea party rejected his administration's spending, overreach and immigration proposals, among other items, and has become only too willing to say so. In doing this, the tea party allowed the Republican establishment itself to get out from under Mr. Bush: "We had to, boss, it was a political necessity!" They released the GOP establishment from its shame cringe.

And they not only freed the Washington establishment, they woke it up. That establishment, composed largely of 50- to 75-year-olds who came to Washington during the Reagan era in a great rush of idealism, in many cases stayed on, as they say, not to do good but to do well. They populated a conservative infrastructure that barely existed when Reagan was coming up: the think tanks and PR groups, the media outlets and governmental organizations. They did not do what conservatives are supposed to do, which is finish their patriotic work and go home, taking the knowledge and sophistication derived from Washington and applying it to local problems. (This accounts in part for the esteem in which former Bush budget chief and current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is held. He went home.)

The GOP establishment stayed, and one way or another lived off government, breathed in its ways and came to know-learned all too well!-the limits of what is possible and passable. Part of the social and cultural reality behind the tea party-GOP establishment split has been the sheer fact that tea partiers live in non-D.C. America. The establishment came from America, but hasn't lived there in a long time.

I know and respect some of the establishmentarians, but after dinner, on the third glass of wine, when they get misty-eyed about Reagan and the old days, they are not, I think, weeping for him and what he did but for themselves and who they were. Back when they were new and believed in something.

Finally, the tea party stiffened the GOP's spine by forcing it to recognize what it had not actually noticed, that we are a nation in crisis. The tea party famously has no party chiefs and no conventions but it does have a theme-stop the spending, stop the sloth, incompetence and unneeded regulation-and has lent it to the GOP.

Actually, Maureen "Moe" Tucker, former drummer of the Velvet Underground, has done the best job ever of explaining where the tea party stands and why it stands there. She also suggests the breadth and variety of the movement. In an interview this week in St. Louis's Riverfront Times, Ms. Tucker said she'd never been particularly political but grew alarmed by the direction the country was taking. In the summer of 2009, she went to a tea-party rally in southern Georgia. A chance man-on-the-street interview became a YouTube sensation. No one on the left could believe this intelligent rally-goer was the former drummer of the 1960s breakthrough band; no one on the left understood that an artist could be a tea partier. Because that's so not cool, and the Velvet Underground was cool.

Ms. Tucker, in the interview, ran through the misconceptions people have about tea partiers: "that they're all racists, they're all religious nuts, they're all uninformed, they're all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever." These stereotypes, she observed, are encouraged by Democrats to keep their base "on their side." But she is not a stereotype: "Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?"

There is also this week a striking essay by Fareed Zakaria, no tea partier he, in Time magazine. He unknowingly touched on part of the reason for the tea party. Mr. Zakaria, born and raised in India, got his first sense of America's vitality, outsized ways, glamour and crazy high-spiritedness as a young boy in the late 1970s watching bootlegged videotapes of "Dallas." What a country! His own land, in comparison, seemed sleepy, hidebound. Now when he travels to India, "it's as if the world has been turned upside down. Indians are brimming with hope and faith in the future. After centuries of stagnation, their economy is on the move, fueling animal spirits and ambition. The whole country feels as if it has been unlocked." Meanwhile the mood in the U.S. seems glum, dispirited. "The middle class, in particular, feels under assault." Sixty-three percent of Americans say they do not think they will be able to maintain their current standard of living. "The can-do country is convinced that it can't."

All true. And yet. We may be witnessing a new political dynamism. The Tea Party's rise reflects anything but fatalism, and maybe even a new high-spiritedness. After all, they're only two years old and they just saved a political party and woke up an elephant.

The second fact of 2010 is understood by Republicans but not admitted by Democrats. It is that this is a fully nationalized election, and at its center it is about one thing: Barack Obama.

It is not, broadly, about the strengths or weaknesses of various local candidates, about constituent services or seniority, although these elements will be at play in some outcomes, Barney Frank's race likely being one. But it is significant that this year Mr. Frank is in the race of his life, and this week on TV he did not portray the finger-drumming smugness and impatience with your foolishness he usually displays on talk shows. He looked pale and mildly concussed, like someone who just found out that liberals die, too.

This election is about one man, Barack Obama, who fairly or not represents the following: the status quo, Washington, leftism, Nancy Pelosi, Fannie and Freddie, and deficits in trillions, not billions.

Everyone who votes is going to be pretty much voting yay or nay on all of that. And nothing can change that story line now.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023804575566503565327356.html

Obama's failure will make black voters relevant again by Vince

Barack Obama is doing something that no politician has done in 50 years. He is making black voters politically relevant again. Blacks have been largely irrelevant to the political discussion for much of the last 50 years. Not that they haven't been important on Election Day. On the contrary, the black vote has been very important on Election Day for decades. It's the black voters who have been invisible.

The black vote has been relevant to the success of Democrats for years - without the black vote Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all would have lost, not to mention countless down ticket Democrats. Black voters. not so much. Why? Because they are taken for granted. Across the country, across economic lines, in almost any election, blacks vote for Democrats 85% of the time. or more! Black voters (as in the people themselves) are of little importance to Democrats because they understand that regardless of the policies the party puts forth, 85% of black votes will come down in the Democrat column.

For years Democrats simply had to ensure blacks voted, they didn't actually have to compete for their votes. Democrats knew that if they just got out the black vote, it was theirs. The beauty of this for Democrats is that they didn't have to worry about discussing policies that might actually help black voters, might improve their lives, might address issues important to them. No, all they had to do was paint their GOP opponents as racists who would somehow repeal various Civil Rights Acts and then the black vote would be delivered. Sound familiar?

And it's easy to see why blacks have been so loyal to the Democrats over the last five decades. The education gap has disappeared. Black unemployment is equal to the general population. Crime is no longer a concern in Democrat strongholds like Detroit, Gary, and Baltimore. The poverty rate and out of wedlock rate for blacks are the lowest in a generation. Oh, wait, none of those things are true.

The $64,000 question is, what have black voters gotten in exchange for their loyalty to the Democrats. I'd argue, not much.

That is where Barack Obama comes in. By demonstrating with unparalleled clarity the absolute inability of the Democrat / progressive / liberal agenda to make the lives of citizens better, and indeed its penchant for making them worse, I believe he has finally done what the GOP could not: Break the Democrat's monopoly on black voters.

This might sound oxymoronic, but I believe that Barack Obama may be the Moses who (accidentally) leads black voters to the Promised Land. In this case the Promised Land is not beyond some body of water, but rather it is the garden of success that can be built in their own communities.

And how is he doing that? By focusing the country's attention on the feckless and, frankly, the pernicious nature of the liberal agenda he will have loosened the grip Democrats have on black voters. They, like so many others in the country will be asking themselves, is there something else, is there an alternative to these failed policies. Not that I imagine black voters will be jumping to the GOP in droves starting tomorrow. No, it will take time, but thanks to Barack Obama, conversations will begin.

The beauty of this is that unlike the Democrats, the GOP doesn't need to pander to black voters with a platform built on racial grievances and a race based agenda. No, the GOP can focus on blacks as Americans as opposed to the the Democrat policy of focusing on blacks as blacks.

How can the GOP take advantage of the opportunity that Barack Obama has placed at their feet? By reaching out to black voters in places where they have rarely done so. They should buy advertising and pursue interviews on urban radio stations. They should advertise in magazines and various other media that target a black demographic. They should seek to bring their message to groups like the NAACP and the National Bar Association. Importantly, what I didn't say was that they should change their message.

With the rise of the Tea Party influence, the GOP may finally be able to make inroads with black voters. Conservatives understand that government is the problem and not the solution to problems in America in general and in the black community (to the degree that such a thing exists) in particular.

By focusing on the notion of free market solutions to American problems, the GOP can make itself a viable alternative for black voters. School choice, vouchers and other kinds of education reform have the potential to help black families far more than virtually anything else in the country. Low taxes and reduced regulation are fundamental elements to inducing entrepreneurs and investors to take risks by starting new companies or by expanding existing ones, both of which entail the creation of jobs. With black unemployment 60% higher than the national average, such investments and jobs are particularly important to black voters.

This November, if history is any gauge, 85% of black votes will go to Democrats. Nonetheless, the GOP should not look at that as a lost constituency, but rather as an opportunity that represents 12% of the American population. Black Americans are more American than they are black - a black teenager in St. Louis or LA has much more in common with a white kid from Chicago or Seattle than he does with someone growing up in Liberia or South Africa. As such, the GOP should proactively reach out and make the argument that small government, low taxes and private enterprise are the foundation of success in America for everyone, including blacks stuck in the fog of Democrat / progressive failure. Straightforward discourse on policies that offer everyone the opportunity to succeed in the pursuit of the American dream. Now that's real relevance.

From:

http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/10/20/obamas-failure-will-make-black-voters-relevant-again-reader-post/

Obama's Incoherent Closing Argument

While the economy is the No. 1 issue, the president constantly changes the subject.

By Karl Rove

At an April 2008 fund-raiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama let loose with his famous "they cling to guns or religion" line. Last Saturday at a West Newton, Mass., fund-raiser, the president said, "facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning . . . because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared."

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

The economy and jobs are the No. 1 issue in every poll. Yet Mr. Obama of late has talked about immigration reform and weighed in (unprompted) on the Ground Zero mosque. He devoted Labor Day to an ineffective Mideast peace initiative. He demeans large blocs of voters and now is ending his midterm pitch with attacks on nonexistent foreign campaign contributions and weird assertions that "the Empire is striking back."

Meanwhile, Republicans have talked about little else than the economy-drawing attention to lackluster job growth, the failed stimulus, out-of-control spending, escalating deficits and the dangers of ObamaCare.

On Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod promised that the administration's focus next year would be "to generate more growth and jobs" and "on our fiscal situation." That must have left congressional Democrats-battered for months by the GOP's message discipline-wondering why there's been no focus on that up to now.

Much of the blame lies with the president, who has left his party with an incoherent closing argument 12 days before the election.

In a penetrating piece in the New York Times Magazine on Oct. 12, Peter Baker profiles a president who "believes he is the smartest person in any room," according to one prominent Democratic lawmaker. He and his aides think that the core of their difficulties is "a communications problem" and the result of a "miscalculation" that the president could "forge genuine bipartisan coalitions."

Communications? After the president devoted 58 speeches and events to health care over a 51-week period, his bill grew progressively less popular.

The comment about bipartisanship is a joke. As a candidate Mr. Obama spoke about it, but as a president whose party enjoyed massive majorities in both houses of Congress, he ignored it. He could have severely weakened his opposition by drawing them in. Instead, Mr. Obama strengthened Republicans by taunting them with their seeming irrelevance, and he fashioned legislation that only Democrats could vote for. Now many of them will lose their jobs because of their votes.

How many? Virtually everyone agrees that 20 of the 37 Senate seats on the ballot this year are in play. Twelve are now held by Democrats and eight by Republicans. The Republican-held seats appear increasingly safe. It's Democrats' seats that are at risk.

As for the lower chamber, the political handicappers Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg both now have 91 Democratic House seats and nine Republican House seats in play (albeit with slightly different names on each list). Politico.com sees 99 Democratic House seats up for grabs versus five Republican seats.

How many are likely to fall? The American Enterprise Institute's Henry Olson examined wave elections (in which one party gains a big number of seats) and found that the winning party picks up roughly 70% of the seats considered vulnerable. If that model holds, we're looking at a net Republican pickup of 64 to 69 seats in the House and roughly eight seats in the Senate.

Matthew Kaminski and OpinionJournal.com Columnist John Fund discuss the Pennsylvania polls and the national voter mood.

I doubt Republican gains will be that big, at least in the House. Democratic candidates have a financial edge-they ended the third quarter with an average of 53% more cash on hand than their Republican opponents. While the GOP is closing the financial gap in the final weeks, money matters.

Democrats have also invested heavily to turn out their vote. Not only will unions spend an estimated $200 million to get their supporters to the polls, but the Democratic National Committee is also investing $50 million in helping state Democratic parties with their ground games. The GOP's efforts have been much smaller.

These tactical advantages will save some Democrats in close contests. Still, even a superior ground game will not save most of them. The political environment is awful. The party's record is toxic with the public. And compounding these problems, Mr. Obama is now overseeing one of the worst White House midterm strategies in American history.

Earlier this year Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas warned moderate Democrats of a midterm bloodbath comparable to 1994. "Well, the big difference here and in '94 was you've got me," he reported the president as having said. "We're going to see how much difference that makes now," Mr. Berry added. Yes, we will.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304741404575564383870852928.html

Kids Aren't Cars; Schools Aren't Factories

by Kyle Olson

As "Waiting for `Superman'" so eloquently points out, the industrial assembly-line model of America's public schools, created decades ago, isn't working. In fact, it's setting us further and further behind our global competitors.

Today, it is essential that our children graduate high school and college prepared for the fierce competition they will face in the global marketplace. Their economic survival will be determined by their ability to compete with countries like China, India, and other emerging economies.

This requires that our public schools be innovative and effective. Instead, our schools are using a failed, one-size-fits-all approach to education that may actually end up hurting our children.

It's interesting that our slide began in the 1970s. Just ten years earlier, collective bargaining, the crowning glory of labor unions, took root in our public schools. Coincidence?

Collective bargaining agreements, which carry the weight of law, enshrine such policies as seniority (last hired, first fired), tenure (lifetime job protection in as little as two years) and due process (an extra-legal process outside the court system). Oh, and automatic yearly raises- not for performance, but simply for logging another year in the system. In other words, we give teachers raises simply for not dying over the summer.

This is a beautiful system - if you're a public school employee. But if you're a student in the public school system, well, it's like being drafted by the Detroit Lions.

By bringing the auto manufacturing mentality into our public school system, it has turned teaching from a hard-earned, highly-respected career into a blue-collar, see-you-on-the-picket-line endeavor. Taxpayers deserve better. Teachers deserve better.

So just imagine my disappointment when Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced an Education Reform Conference with Dennis Van Roekel and Randi Weingarten, the presidents of the two national teachers unions. The unions are taking a lot of fire right now, and rightly so. But instead of isolating and marginalizing the unions, Duncan is giving them credibility. And the unions' purpose is clear: buy enough time until the outrage caused by "Waiting for `Superman'" dies down, and then quietly maintain the status quo.

What's troubling is not just that the Obama Administration is going to link arms with the biggest problem in public education; it's the mindset with which it's being conceived.

It's called a conference on collaboration between "labor" and "management." Is Arne Duncan now the auto bailout czar and I missed that press release? Or is he using terminology usually reserved for blue-collar factories?

What "Waiting for `Superman'" showed us is that this assembly-line approach to public education is horribly flawed. If its financial future wasn't guaranteed by tax dollars, it would be fatally flawed.

But Duncan has once again picked up the union song book and will join Van Roekel and Weingarten's "Amen" chorus.

So much for looking to the Obama administration to get kids off the assembly line.

From:

http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2010/10/22/kids-arent-cars-schools-arent-factories/

A Disgraceful Decision by the National Public Radio Outfit

by Bill O’Reilly

NPR has fired Juan Williams, who worked there for more than 10 years. You may remember that in February 2009, NPR warned Juan not to advertise his association with them on this program. And now NPR has terminated Juan's contract because he said this on "The Factor":

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JUAN WILLIAMS, FIRED NPR NEWS ANALYST: I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I have written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I have got to tell you if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NPR president Vivian Schiller, a former New York Times employee, is too cowardly to come on this broadcast to explain, but we did catch up with her on Thursday in Atlanta:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

VIVIAN SCHILLER, NPR PRESIDENT AND CEO: This action was not anti-Fox. This action was pro-journalistic standards, and a news analyst cannot continue credibly to analyze the news if they are expressing opinions about divisive issues. It's that simple, and the same would go with anybody. We are not picking on Juan.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Ms. Schiller is a pinhead. Juan was not giving an opinion about Muslims on airplanes. He was simply stating what he felt. If he had said that his uneasiness should be embraced by others, that would have been a personal opinion.

In my opinion, Ms. Schiller should resign immediately because she is simply not smart enough to run a media company, even if it is NPR. Juan Williams did nothing wrong. He was just being honest -- something NPR might strive to learn.

But Juan wasn't fired because of that remark. He was sacked because of his association with the Fox News Channel.

A few days ago, NPR accepted $1.8 million from far-left bomb-thrower George Soros. That in itself is a disgrace because NPR also takes taxpayer money. Now the National Public Radio crew is in bed with the radical Soros? Talk about a lack of standards.

"Talking Points" is calling for an immediate suspension of all public money going to NPR, and we understand that Sen. Jim DeMint will introduce legislation to defund that enterprise. No taxpayer dollars should be going to an outfit that abuses freedom of speech.

Even devoted liberals are outraged by what NPR has done to Juan Williams:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": Here on "The View," you know, we have our -- we have our great opinions. But in all of our opinions, it seems, the firing of Juan was a total mistake and sends the wrong message and NPR, get yourself together because we all got to work on this together.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NPR has now devolved into a totalitarian outfit functioning as an arm of the far left. As a corporation, NPR has the right to do what it wants, but it does not have a right to any of our tax dollars. It should compete in the private marketplace, but I guarantee you if NPR did that, it would go the way of Air America and file for bankruptcy.

There is no excuse for this in America. NPR will rue the day.

And that's "The Memo."

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/disgraceful-decision-national-public-radio-outfit (the video is here)

Obama By the Numbers

●                                                                                                                 $26.2 Trillion: Projected federal debt in 2020 due to Obama's generational theft spending.

●                                                                                                                 $8.5 Trillion: Cumulative deficits caused by Obama's proposed budgets - FY2011-2020.

●                                                                                                                 $43,000: Your share of the national debt.

●                                                                                                                 $3.9 Trillion: Total cost of the Democrats' tax hike to taxpayers.

●                                                                                                                 $3.0 Trillion: Amount Added to the National Debt since Obama was inaugurated.

●                                                                                                                 $1.42 Trillion: Federal budget deficit for FY2009 - highest in U.S. history.$1.29 Trillion: Federal budget deficit for FY2010 - second highest in U.S. history.

●                                                                                                                 $831 Billion: Net interest payment on national debt in 2020 due to Obama's budget.$814 Billion: Price of Obama's failed Stimulus Package.

●                                                                                                                 100%: Percent of GDP that U.S. National Debt will rise to in 2102.

●                                                                                                                 2.6 Million: Jobs lost since Stimulus was passed.

●                                                                                                                 2.3 Million: Private sector jobs lost since Stimulus was passed.

●                                                                                                                 89,000: Number of Stimulus checks sent to dead or incarcerated people.

●                                                                                                                 79%: Amount of Stimulus funds for wind, solar and geothermal energy projects that went to foreign firms.

●                                                                                                                 $18 Million: Cost of Obama's Stimulus website.

●                                                                                                                 68%: Amount of Americans who think the Stimulus was a waste.60%: Amount of young voters who are "more cynical about politics" now than when Obama was elected.

●                                                                                                                 $2.5 Trillion: Cost of Obamacare once fully implemented.

●                                                                                                                 $575 Billion: Amount of Medicare cuts in Obamacare.

●22,000: Number of seniors in MA, NH and ME that will lose their Medicare Advantage Plans as a result of Obamacare.

●$569.2 Billion: Amount of taxes in Obamacare.

●80%: Amount of small businesses that could be forced to change health care plans as a result of Obamacare.

●30: Number of waivers granted to businesses so that the White House could avoid admitting Obamacare causes people to lose their health care plans.

●27%: Amount of increase in premiums by some insurers in Colorado as a result of Obamacare.

●$10 Billion: The cost of the teacher union bailout.

●41.8 Million: Number of Americans receiving Food Stamps.

●20: Number of straight months that food stamp participation has hit a record.

●14.8 Million: Unemployed Americans.

●9.5 Million: Number of Americans working part-time for economic reasons.

●                                                                                                                 6.1 Million: Number of Americans unemployed for longer than 27 weeks.

●                                                                                                                 17.1%: Amount of Americans either unemployed or working part-time for economic reasons.

●                                                                                                                      1.2 Million: Americans who have given up looking for work.

●                                                                                                                      14: Number of straight months with unemployment above 9.5%.

●                                                                                                                      964,900: Number of American jobs that could be lost per year under Obama and Democratic Cap-and-Trade legislation.

●                                                                                                                      $1,761: Cost to American families per year as a result of Cap-and-Trade.

●                                                                                                                      5.4 Million: Number of properties receiving foreclosure filings since Obama's inauguration as President.

●                                                                                                                      3.8 Million: Increase in the number of people in poverty in 2009 over 2008.

●                                                                                                                      23,000: The number of jobs Obama knew his drilling moratorium could kill.

●                                                                                                                      $1,540: The amount of the tax hike the average middle class family will see as a result of the Dems' tax hike.

●                                                                                                                 83: Number of fundraisers Obama has attended as of 10/12/10.

●                                                                                                                 53: Rounds of golf played by President Obama since taking office.

●                                                                                                                 49: Number of visits to the White House by Radical Marxist Andy Stern, former president of SEIU.

●                                                                                                                 9: Number of vacations taken by President Obama since his inauguration.

●                                                                                                                 4: Number out of 10 likely voters who once backed Obama but are less supportive or no longer support Obama.

●                                                                                                                 2: Number in the line of succession that Joe Biden believes he is in (hint: he's #1).

●                                                                                                                 0: Number of other people Obama will have left to blame for HIS failures in 2012.

From:

http://www.gop.com/index.php/briefing/comments/obama_by_the_numbers

48 out of 50 states lose jobs after the nearly trillion dollar stimulus bill became law (with a chart):

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/10/22/stimulus-failure-48-out-of-50-states-lost-jobs-since-democrats-trillion-dollar-stimulus-plansince/

Internal NPR memo about Juan Williams:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/21/raw-data-npr-internal-memo-juan-williams/

Obama fund-raises at Google Exec’s house the same day tax loopholes for Google are revealed.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/23/obama-fundraises-google-execs-house-same-day-companys-tax-loopholes-revealed

Woman shows up to polling place wearing Obama shirt and is turned away (story and video):

http://www.khou.com/news/Obama-T-shirt-Serves-as-Voting-Dress-Code-Reminder-105478623.html

More Houston voting problems; the video simply shows Shirley Jackson Lee in front of the door to the polling place speaking to voters.

http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2010/10/23/houstons-true-the-vote-initiative/

Check out the article, In Two Years Obama Moves from Hope and Change to Fear and Scare; note also the difference in how the news covered his speeches then and how they cover them now (then, the huge crowds were an important part of the story; now, significantly smaller crowds are not mentioned).

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

This map is updated with each new poll; if you have not checked it out yet, it is an outstanding source:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/2010_elections_senate_map.html

Additional Sources

Soros contributions:

http://bearwitness.info/SOROSATTACKONFREEDOMOFSPEECH.aspx

Democrats back conservative 3^rd party candidates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/us/politics/23dems.html?_r=1&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065

The Blue Dog Democrat Myth

RUSH: Shelly in Pittsburgh. It's great to have you with us. Hi.

CALLER: How are you?

RUSH: Very good. Thank you.

CALLER: Great. I just wanted to put my two cents in about who I think is the most dangerous type of candidates running today, you know, in this election in a couple of weeks are these Blue Dog Democrats. I think they're sort of flying under the radar, and I think that they're really counting on their spin on their voting record to keep them safely in office. We all know about the crazy, you know, communist type candidates that are out there running and, you know, they're up front about it. But these Blue Dog guys are the ones who are trying to almost put something over on us as voters and make us think that they're something that they're really, really not. And it's all sort of recent changes in their policy --

RUSH: Now, let me ask you a question.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Serious question here.

CALLER: Sure.

RUSH: Why, of all the Democrats in the country today, none of whom are popular, I mean the Democrats universally outside of the liberal citadels, New York, San Francisco, places like that, everybody's blaming the Democrats -- why are the Blue Dogs somehow insulated from being held accountable by their voters?

CALLER: Because I think that they are not being honest with who they really are. You know, I live in a district where we're trying to get rid of a Blue Dog Democrat. And when you really delve into his voting record, you can see --

RUSH: Who is this guy?

CALLER: His name is Jason Altmire.

RUSH: I thought you were talking about Jason Altmire. Yeah, he's one of these guys playing games with health care. He was trying to make everybody think he was going to vote against health care.

CALLER: Oh, drama queen, it went on forever.

RUSH: Yeah, drama queen, friendship flock and all that, right.

CALLER: Yes, yes. And so he finally announced, you know, a couple days before the actual vote that he was gonna vote "no," but all along, you know, the SBA lists - this is a great example -- had polling of District 4 in Pennsylvania that specifically said we absolutely, our district did not want this health care bill. And he kept saying, "Oh, I'm waiting --

RUSH: I know.

CALLER: -- to hear from my constituents." We were going to his offices. We were bombarding his staff with phone calls and letters, and all this other stuff, and that polling data had been like that for days and days --

RUSH: Well, you're right about something, your instincts are right. There's no such thing as a Blue Dog Democrat. If you scratch the belly of a Blue Dog you get red.

CALLER: No, he is not a Blue Dog conservative Democrat.

RUSH: Of course not.

CALLER: He is a lapdog.

RUSH: The Blue Dogs have tried to define themselves as Blue Dog conservative Democrats on the basis that they're fiscally responsible, right?

CALLER: Well, he tries to do some social stuff, too, he tries to call himself pro-life yet he voted for the stem cell research act of 2007.

RUSH: Yeah, well --

CALLER: He tries to do both.

RUSH: Look, I understand your concern. Everybody's concerned that their Democrat is gonna pull out a surprise here but I don't know that social issues are that much front and center on the table this election --

CALLER: I guess was trying to give an example. There's a ton of, you know, in our district, for example, with Altmire, there's a ton of things that he's fiscally not conservative about. He voted for the stimulus bill, he spent tens of thousands of dollars on these franking pieces, ironically to tell us how he's safeguarding our tax dollars.

RUSH: You make a great point. It's a point that we've been making on this program since before the health care debate really intensified. That is, there's no such thing as a Blue Dog. If they've got a D behind their name, they're a Democrat.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: And they're a liberal.

CALLER: All over the country I urge them, if you live in a Blue Dog district, look at your representative or your Senator and find out if they say they're a conservative Democrat, look at their record, see what they're voting for. Did they vote for Pelosi for speaker of the House?

RUSH: Exactly.

CALLER: Then you're not conservative.

RUSH: See, that's what you have to remember. If it weren't for the Blue Dogs, we wouldn't have had Pelosi as the speaker.

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. I don't know. You know, we are not stupid, Rush. The voters across this country are not stupid people.

RUSH: Okay. So why do you think your voters are gonna fall under the spell of Mr. Altmire?

CALLER: Oh, I'm not. I am definitely not under Mr. Altmire's spell. I just think that the Blue Dog Democrats should know, they need to understand we aren't stupid. We will not fall under their spell. That's why we're working to get the real conservatives in office to get rid of these guys. You know, if the district elects somebody knowing that this person tends to be, you know, more into socialist policies that's one thing. But if these candidates are trying to sort of trick people into thinking that they're something that they're not, I think these candidates should know that people aren't asleep anymore. We are not stupid people.

RUSH: Exactly right.

CALLER: We are mothers and fathers and grandparents and aunts and uncles and, you know, people of all across the --

RUSH: Oh, let's not stop there.

CALLER: -- socioeconomic status. And we're sick of it.

RUSH: Step-kids, step-uncles, grandparents, all that stuff. Let me tell you something, Shelly. I'm really proud of you. This week the most cogent, the strongest, the most forceful, fearless, courageous callers we've had are women, these conservative women. Shelly, people like you, I think you are largely the determining factor in this election coming up. I really do. I'm glad you're out there, and I'm glad you called.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69J48O20101020

Jim DeMint Draws Line in the Sand

RUSH: Jim DeMint has said if the Republican Party doesn't change, he's getting out of it. We have two sound bites. AP story: "GOP Leader Hopes to Work with Obama on Some Issues." This posted last night. It's about Mitch McConnell. Quoted as saying, "I can't believe Obama's gonna continue to ignore the wishes of the American people. If his party has a very bad day on November 2nd, if he pivots and wants to work with us, obviously I'd be happy to talk to him." So here's another ranking Republican, just like the one that told me: "We expect Obama to move to us. He's gonna want to get reelected, he's going to have to, Rush, he's going to have to move to us if he wants to get reelected. He's gonna have to realize the American people don't like what he's doing, and if he wants to, we'll work with him." It's not what people want to hear. People don't want anyone working with Obama. They don't want him working with us. They will figure this out. Don't doubt me. They will figure this out.

RUSH: Now, back to this AP story: "The Senate's top Republican says President Barack Obama and a more-Republican Congress could join to pass laws on trade and spending policy and make changes to the health care overhaul if the administration listens to voters on Election Day. 'I can't believe he's going to continue to ignore the wishes of the American people if his party has a very bad day Nov. 2,' Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a telephone interview Wednesday. 'If he pivots and wants to work with us, obviously I'd be happy to talk to him.'" Why do they think he's a going to do this? Give me one illustration of where he's done it. Let's go back when Scott Brown won the seat in Massachusetts, Senate seat, and that took away the 60-seat majority.

At that point, everybody figured, "Well, that's it for health care now. Obama doesn't have 60 seats, he has nowhere to go." What did Obama do? He doubled down! And did Obama offer...? Look, we had Olympia Snowe in there, Susan Collins, Lindsey Grahamnesty. I mean, there are some RINOs in there that you coulda offered just one thing that they support, and they would have voted with the Democrats on it. But he didn't. Obama didn't offer them one thing. In other words, Obama did not "pivot" in their direction at all. So where is this evidence Obama's gonna read the tea leaves? Obama knows he's hated now. He likes the fact! He likes the fact that this country's divided. That was his purpose.

When he spoke to this famous ranking Republican I told you about two weeks ago, I said, "If you really think that he's gonna pivot in your direction... He will lose rather than do that! He's willing to not be reelected to advance his agenda. He's got a chip on his shoulder about this country," and the ranking Republican thought I was insane. The ranking Republican thought I was insane, because the inside-the-Beltway modus operandi is, "You listen to the voters, and you try to make the voters think you're hearing them, and you give them a little bit of what they want." You still stick to what you really want to do, but you make 'em think that you're changing, a la Clinton triangulating, to get reelected. I said, "You're not dealing with the standard, ordinary rubber-stamp Democrat here. This is a guy... His agenda is not working with the American people.

"His agenda is working against the will of the American people. That's the only way he can get what he wants," and the ranking Republican could not understand. He said, "If you're right, it would be the first time in history I've ever seen a president not pivot and move," and I said, "Well, yeah. It may be the first time in history, and that's where we are. There are a lot of first times in history in this country happening right now. Isn't that the point?" So Jim DeMint. It seems he has a problem with the Republican Party. We have a couple of sound bites. This is Jim DeMint last night, Fox News Channel, on Hannity. Hannity said, "Mike Castle thinks that you are very wrong about your viewpoint. That you would rather lose and have pure conservatives rather than Republicans who are more liberal or, quote, 'pragmatic.'"

DEMINT: It really reveals who wants the big tent in the Republican Party. All of the conservatives that I've supported who have lost their primaries are supporting the Republican nominee. This is not true for the moderates who lose. They don't have room for conservatives. You see me supporting all of our Republican nominees. They may not all be the same as I am as far as how they're gonna vote, but the Republican Party is the only option we have this time. The Democrat Party is to the left of Europe, and what we're trying to do in this election is reshape the Republican Party where it began: A limited government party, less taxes, less spending.

RUSH: So Hannity then said, "Well, you got on board pretty early or guys like Toomey and Rubio and Buck, Rand Paul, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell. You took a lot of hits for going against the Republican establishment. Is that an indicator of future events and battles to come?"

DEMINT: I don't want to be in Washington another six years and watch the Republican Party betray the trust of the American people again. I mean, we had the White House, we had a majority in the House and the Senate, and we voted for more spending and more earmarks. Most of our senior members seemed to be focused on taking home the bacon. I'm not going to be in a Republican Party like that. What I've tried to do and others like Sarah Palin have tried to do is give Republicans and Americans good choices in the primaries so that on Election Day they can go out and not just vote against someone, they can vote for someone.

RUSH: That is South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint. His opponent, by the way, is the estimable... What's the guy's name, the poor guy? (interruption) Yeah, that's right, Al Greene. "Let's Stay Together," Al Green. Not that Al Green. Alvin Greene is his opponent. There you have it: "I don't want to be in Washington another six years and watch the Republican Party betray the trust of the American people again. I mean, we had the White House, we had a majority in the House and the Senate, and we voted for more spending and more earmarks. ... I'm not going to be in a Republican Party like that." Now, you know, Republicans have a historic opportunity here. It appears that they see it as a problem. The Limbaugh Problem. You talked about it, Snerdley, you know, after I talked to Darrell Issa on the phone on the program a couple of days ago.

Snerdley, said, "You know, you're never going to hear about this, but in closed doors the Republicans are now saying, 'What are we going to do about the Limbaugh Problem?' What are we going to do about this?" So Snerdley may be right; I don't know. We'll find out in due course. Republicans have an historic opportunity and it appears they see this opportunity as a problem. "We can't control government. We're not going to have that much power. We'll have to work with Obama. He's gonna come in our direction; he's going to have to." Uhhh, I think they may be shocked to learn how close attention voters are paying. Voters have taken notes, they've called in, they've attended the Rush to Excellence Tours. The attend lectures here at the Limbaugh Institute. They're subscribed to The Limbaugh Letter. They regularly visit Rush 24/7.

The country class, us, have been preparing for this moment for 20 years. Honestly, folks, isn't that the case? I'm gonna go back. My dad told me... My brother and I used to laugh at him, by the way, when he told us this. We were just barely into our double-digit years of age. "Boys, son, you're going to be slaves if the communists aren't stopped. And the first people who are gonna go are going to be these liberal journalists who think they're going to be bought and paid for, be the most favored people. They're going to be the first to be put in jail. Anybody who disseminates information is going to be the first to go. Son, you're going to be slave," and he was talking about the Democrat Party of that era. (snorts) He wouldn't recognize the Democrat Party of this era.

He was talking about guys like Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson and the Soviets, Nikita Khrushchev. But the Democrat Party still sided with those guys back then. He believed it. Ask my brother. My brother will tell you. He believed it. We laughed at it. (laughs) We were young kids. You know, the concept, we laughed at. "We're Americans. Slaves? Slaves to communists and so forth? Vietnamese driving Jeeps in our town?" We couldn't see it. But here for 20 years now all this time -- 22, 23 years -- we have been aware of the possibility that the left could eventually secure majority control of the country and at this juncture they have. So you could say that the country class, us, have been preparing for this moment for over 20 years. We've been engaged, practicing, well coached, coached up. Now it's time to suit up and go play.

November 2nd is the first day of the playoffs, to use an analogy.

RUSH: I got an e-mail: "Rush, you're missing it here on the Republicans. You keep talking about these ranking Republicans and the story about Mitch McConnell. They're smart by saying they expect Obama to pivot, move in their direction. They're trying to set Obama up as the guy of 'no.' They're trying to make it look like Obama's the obstacle. They're pretty smart." Okay, if you think that, let me give you a Winston Churchill quote: "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston Churchill said a number of great things during World War II, but this is right on the money. If you won't fight when you can easily win, if you won't fight when your victory will be sure and not costly, then you are doomed to lose down the line.

RUSH: Greg in Louisville, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir.

CALLER: My question is, well, first, I think the federal government should not be in the broadcast business, and my question is will the Republicans have the guts to defund NPR? It's not in the Constitution, and they could do anything they want, if they get the House, not one penny can be spent if they have the backbone to stand up for it.

RUSH: What do you think?

CALLER: (laughing)

RUSH: I have my doubts.

RUSH: Yeah, I was going to say.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Anyway, there are people who dream of such stuff. You know, average citizens, "Get rid of it!" Let NPR, let the liberals go out and form their own business network and let them see if they can make it in the marketplace like all the rest of us have. Why should we pay for them? It doesn't sound unreasonable. What makes it sound unreasonable is when you ask, "Do you think the Republicans would defund it?" That sounds unreasonable, not the idea of doing it, asking if the Republicans would do it is where you obviously hit the stumbling block.

Steve in Dayton. wait a minute, now. Dayton, Nevada? Is that right, Steve?

CALLER: Yes, Dayton, Nevada, is correct.

RUSH: Dayton, Nevada?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Where is Dayton, Nevada?

CALLER: It's about 19 miles east of Carson City out in the middle of nowhere.

RUSH: So how close is it to Stoplight?

CALLER: Oh, a long way away from -- you mean Searchlight?

RUSH: Searchlight, yeah, Searchlight.

CALLER: A long way, that's way down in southern Nevada near Las Vegas.

RUSH: Okay.

CALLER: Rush, before I get started here, mega dittos from a Dan's Bake Sale veteran.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: Earlier you were talking about the senators that are talking about making deals with Obama, how they're willing to work with him.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: And you said that they were talking, they had a Rush Problem. Well, I would like to suggest to them that they're not going to have a Rush Problem; they're going to have a citizens problem. Because we are informed, we're engaged --

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: -- we're out there working our tails off to get these conservative candidates elected, such as Sharron Angle here in Nevada. And we know that the hard work is ahead of us looking down the road past this election, going right up to 2012, we know how much we're going to have to keep working and keep motivated and keep pouring the money into this and the time and the effort to get our people elected, and these people that want to make deals, if they can't learn from the groundswell of public opinion that's going on now, that we are fired up and we are ready, then they're gonna --

RUSH: Look, it's going to be interesting to see. This is what everybody's waiting to see. Nobody doubts they hear you. That's not the question. It's not whether they hear you. It's not whether they know what you think and what you're doing. When I say they're saying, "What are we gonna do with the Limbaugh Problem?" you're right, what are we going to do about these people that expect us to... there are some Republicans doing that. There's no question.

http://www.breitbart.tv/demint-gop-must-change-or-im-gone/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101021/ap_on_bi_ge/us_senate_republicans_obama

On Constitution, O'Donnell is Right and the "Smart People" are Wrong

RUSH: I've got 47 sound bites and I got through one of them so far. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to broom all the sound bites about me. That will cut it down to about 27 sound bites. If I just get rid of the sound bites about me, like I don't care what Bill Maher and Joy Behar say, or Whoopi Goldberg. I couldn't care less what they say about me. You think it's entertaining to hear this? It's a waste of time to me.

Okay, here we go, last night, MessNBC, Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell had on the supposed comedian Bill Maher. They're talking about Christine O'Donnell, First Amendment, separation church and state. The arrogant, condescending Lawrence O'Donnell said, "How do you think the crazier candidates -- Christine O'Donnell, Paladino -- how do you think they've been handling their liabilities? Christine O'Donnell does a commercial saying, 'I'm not a witch,' they have real challenges in dealing with these liabilities like we've never seen before."

MAHER: She thinks because she has been living in this Fox News, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh bubble for so long that he's the one who doesn't understand what the Constitution is. It was at a law school so they're all laughing at her. She thinks separation of church and state, the concept, is not in the Constitution. So when Chris Coons actually quotes the Constitution, she says, "Yeah, that's in the First Amendment?" (laughing) Yes, Christine, it is.

RUSH: Now, here's the arrogance and the condescension. It's not. I've told you, I live in Literalville. There is not a whole lot of gray in Literalville. There's a lot of black and white in Literalville. It's not in the Constitution conceptually, contextually, or otherwise. The Founding Fathers never once wrote anything about there being a wall of separation between religion and government and the people. These people are interpreting it to say Pat Robertson shouldn't run for office, or Jerry Falwell shouldn't run for office, or devout Christians shouldn't run for office. That's how they've interpreted it. They're scared of it. But the wall doesn't exist. This is classic. These are the "smart people," O'Donnell and Bill Maher. In their own self-appointed worlds, they are the smart people and O'Donnell's the dunce. That's the template, yet she's the one that's right. And as I said yesterday, the scary thing is not what she said, the scary thing is that a bunch of law students laughed at her, a bunch of law students who obviously are being maleducated, ill-educated or what have you. Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher epitomize the ugliness of liberalism. They are stupid and smug about it at the same time.

RUSH: You know, I'm really curious to know if these liberals elites like Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Maher and all the rest of them -- I wonder if they -- realize that a lot of states did have official churches at the time of the First Amendment's adoption. I wonder if they even know that. Why would they know it? They haven't attended schools that teach the truth about this country in many, many moons.

RUSH: Bob in Framingham, Massachusetts, nice to have you. I'm glad you waited.

CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. You know, I wish I was on the Christine O'Donnell campaign team, because I think she's missing the boat. All she has to do is nationalize the election and skip the rest. All she has to do is just run short ads saying, "Coons equals Obamacare. O'Donnell equals no Obamacare. Coons equals cap and trade, cap and tax. O'Donnell equals no cap and trade, cap and tax." Case closed.

RUSH: You may be right. I believe in the nationalization of elections. There are some people on her team, though, that think, look, this is Delaware, we're talking, what, 70,000 voters, I don't know what the population is, and most of them are liberal, Democrat. So their philosophy is --

CALLER: Most people are against Obamacare and --

RUSH: Yeah, but --

CALLER: -- they're against cap and trade.

RUSH: Yeah, but --

CALLER: She needs to clarify that Coons is a vote for Obamacare and Coons is a vote for cap and trade. She should just stress that in her ads and that's it.

RUSH: Yeah, but see, you're assuming that most people in Delaware oppose Obama. We don't know this.

CALLER: But that's what she's gotta ride on because, look at it this way, the Republicans are opposed to Obama, the ones that are holding back are getting fed this mantra that she's not smart, et cetera, et cetera. All she has to do is say, "What counts is how I'm gonna vote in the Senate and that's all that should count," and she's gonna vote for a strong economy.

RUSH: Well --

CALLER: That's all she has to say.

RUSH: I'll grant you, I'll grant you. Brevity is the soul of wit, there's no question. The simpler and more direct she can make the message, the better off, no doubt about it.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/10/20/cnn-barely-covers-coons-gaffe-1st-amendment-highlights-odonnell

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/19/video-odonnell-vs-coons-on-the-separation-of-church-and-state/

Insane Fed to Print More Money

RUSH: Take a look here at the unemployment news as reported today by Reuters. Headline: "Jobless Claims Drop, Monetary Stimulus Seen." Oh, and we have got to talk about this, this QE2, quantitative easing. This is the second phase of printing money. This is the Fed. The target date here is November 2 or 3. That's when they're going to have their next meeting. And all eyes are focused on this meeting, and some of them are focused with great fear. Quantitative easing is printing money, funneling a bunch of money into the economy in the hopes of igniting economic growth. Now, insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. How much have we "stimulated"? How much have we pumped? The Fed has lent somebody two trillion bucks. We've had TARP, we've had the Porkulus, we've had a couple of stimulus bills of $250 checks to people.

We've done nothing but Keynesian stimulus! It hasn't worked, and yet here comes QE2. Now, the problem with QE2, low interest rates -- they're fighting inflation here, inflation and deflation at the same time. At least this is their stated objective at the Federal Reserve. Now, low interest rates are said to be key to igniting borrowing, which is to stimulate growth. Well, business is already sitting on tons of cash as we have noted on this program. Businesses large and small are sitting on cash; they are not spending it. Many businesses are not interested in credit. It's not a problem. What they need is customers, and yet doggedly and stubbornly the Federal Reserve continues to say the problem is a lack of credit. No lending. Banks aren't lending money. The banks are hoarding the money.

The Fed's printing it, giving it to the banks under the auspices they're gonna lend it and the banks are hoarding it like everybody else is hoarding the cash they've got nobody is willing to spend it because nobody knows what the future holds with the regime. The fear is massive tax increases are coming. People are preparing for that. That looks to be the reality. The best planning. So QE2, quantitative easing, low interest rates. Well, that's good for borrowers but there aren't going to be any borrowers. But who is it hurt? Who is hurt by low interest rates? Savers. And hasn't our government been chiding us for years that we're profligate-spending consumerists, not saving enough money? Well, people on fixed incomes (largely seasoned citizens and the retired sector) are not going to see their stash, their savings, their portfolio grow because all of this printing is ostensibly going to keep interest rates. Well, that's the objective.

All the while there are people saying, "No, we need to inflate. We need to inflate the currency." Well, if you start inflating the currency, the same thing happens to savers. What they have becomes worthless, or worth less, as time goes on. And then what happens? They make up a significant number of people. People who have some savings, retired. If you're taking away their ability to feed themselves -- and, look, one-seventh (ostensibly, supposedly one-seventh) of this country can no longer feed itself. And that's how I interpret one-seventh of the country being on food stamps. Can you imagine? Can you believe this to be true, one-seventh of our population can't feed itself? They haven't the wherewithal to earn a living?

They are totally conditioned to entitlement receiving. One-seventh of the United States of America can't feed itself? That number is only going to get worse. Now here comes quantitative easing, printing going under the guise this is gonna lead to economic growth. It won't because it hasn't. At what point do we stop the insanity, again defined as doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. This hasn't worked; I don't know where it ever worked for any substantive length of time. I mean you really have to wonder, ladies and gentlemen, all the things the Federal Reserve and other government economic mavens are doing, sure looks like they are purposely devaluing the dollar. Why?

Who and why would somebody purposely devalue the dollar? I mean it makes sense if you are impossibly in debt. It's what Germany tried to do after World War I when they owed the world so much money after the Treaty of Versailles, and look where it got 'em. Got 'em wild inflation and eventually Hitler. So keep a sharp eye on November 2nd, November 3rd. In fact, keep a sharp eye on November 3rd, the day after the election. Keep a sharp eye on what the Fed announces because it will affect how to markets react. In fact, I've got a piece here. It's very long. This is a piece on par, if you remember when I first learned of and then explained to you the concept of baseline budgeting, how the federal budget's put together.

I've come across a strikingly similar explanation of the current financial position that we are in. It prints to 16 pages. My job is to take the complex and make it understandable, to synthesize this into a single segment monologue. I'm still working on doing that. But at some point it will happen. I promise you. So printing, borrowing, I don't care what you call it: The government is doing too much of it. The private sector is not doing any of what they need to do.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11935316

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69K24320101021

Terrorist leaves Al Qaeda because they would not pay for healthcare for his pregnant wife:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322734/Osama-bin-Ladens-ex-pilot-left-Al-Qaeda-wouldnt-pay-healthcare.html

Chris Coons, bearded Marxist in Delaware, says extend the Bush tax cuts for everybody. Now, if that election in Delaware is really such a blowout, why is Chris Coons siding with Christine O'Donnell on tax policy?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010/10/coons-shifts-on-tax-cuts-for-wealthy-extend-them-all-.html

Politico Lies: Palin Didn't Back Out on Hannity, Levin.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/21/mark-levin-demands-retraction-politico-concerning-palin-hit-piece

Michelle Malkin just turned 40?? Really??

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/20/my-40th-birthday-bucket-list-colorado-style/

Since there are some links you may want to go back to from time-to-time, I am going to begin a list of them here. This will be a list to which I will add links each week.

Bear Witness:

http://bearwitness.info/default.aspx

http://bearwitness.info/BEARWITNESSMAIN.aspx (there are a million vids on this second page)

Right Change (facts presented in an entertaining manner):

http://www.rightchange.com/

Bias alert from the Media Research Center:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/archive.aspx

Excellent conservative blogger:

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Send this link to the young people you know (try the debt quiz; I only got 6 out of 10 right):

http://ourtab.org/

Center for Responsive Politics:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

The Chamber Post (pro-business blog):

http://www.chamberpost.com/

Labor Pains (a pro-business, anti-union blog):

http://laborpains.org/

These people are after our children and after church goers as well:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Their opposition:

http://resistingthegreendragon.com/

The Doug Ross Journal (lots of pictures and cartoons):

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

The WSJ Guide to Financial Reform

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315404575250382363319878.html

The WSJ Guide to Obamacare:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574441193211542788.html

The WSJ Guide to Climate Change

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704007804574574101605007432.html

Video-heavy news source:

http://www.mediaite.com/

Political News:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/

Planet Gore; blogs about the environment:

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore

The Patriot Post:

http://patriotpost.us/

PA Pundits, whose motto is, “the relentless pursuit of common sense” (I used many of the quotations which they gathered)

http://papundits.wordpress.com/

Index of (business) freedom, world rankings:

http://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2010/Index2010_ExecutiveHighlights.pdf

U.S. State economic freedom:

http://www.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20080909_Economic_Freedom_Index_2008.pdf

The All-American Blogger:

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/

The Right Scoop (with lots of vids):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

In case you have not seen it yet, Obsession:

http://www.therightscoop.com/saturday-cinema-obsession-radical-islams-war-against-the-west

Inside Islam; what a billion Muslims think:

http://vimeo.com/14121737

World Net Daily (News):

http://www.wnd.com/

Excellent blog with lots of cool vids:

http://benhoweblog.wordpress.com/

Black and Right:

http://www.black-and-right.com/

The Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/

Video on the Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/videos/860061517

The newly designed Democrat website:

http://www.democrats.org/

Composition of Congress 1855–2010:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774721.htm

Anti-American and pro-socialist, pro-Arabic:

http://www.zeropartypolitics.com/

The anti-Jihad resistence (which appears to be a set of links to similar websites):

http://www.antijihadresistance.com/

Seems to be fair and balanced with an international news approach:

http://ibnlive.in.com/

http://www.rawstory.com/

Black and Right dot com:

http://www.black-and-right.com/ (the future liberal of the day is quite humorous)

Mostly a liberal blogger, who says vicious things about most conservatives; and yet, says something sensible, e.g. posting many of the things which the healthcare bill does to us.

http://www.osborneink.com/

Conservative news site (many of the stories include videos):

http://www.theblaze.com/

http://nakedemperornews.com/

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Muslim hope:

http://www.muslimhope.com/index.html

Anti-Obama sites:

http://howobamagotelected.com/

http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/

http://www.exposeobama.com/

International news, mostly about Israel and the Middle East:

http://www.haaretz.com/

http://www.jpost.com/

News headlines sites (with links):

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.thedeadpelican.com/

Business blog and news:

http://www.bizzyblog.com/

And I have begun to sort out these links:

News and Opinions

Conservative News/Opinion Sites

The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/

Sweetness and Light

http://sweetness-light.com/

Flopping Aces:

http://www.floppingaces.net/

News busters:

http://newsbusters.org/

Right wing news:

http://rightwingnews.com/

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/

Pajamas Media:

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

Scared Monkeys (somewhat of a conservative newsy site):

http://scaredmonkeys.com/

Conservative News Source:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

David’ Horowitz’s NewsReal:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

Pamela Geller’s conservative website:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

The news sites and the alternative news media:

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.hallindsey.com/

http://reason.com/

Andrew Breithbart’s websites:

http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/

Conservative Websites:

http://www.theodoresworld.net/

http://conservalinked.com/

http://www.moonbattery.com/

http://www.rockiesghostriders.com/

www.coalitionoftheswilling.net

http://shortforordinary.com/

A conservative worldview:

http://www.divineviewpoint.com/sane/

http://www.theamericanright.com/forums/index.php

http://politipage.com/

Liberal News Sites

Democrat/Liberal news site:

http://intoxination.net/

News

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/home

News Organization (I mention them because I have seen 2 honest stories on their website, which shocked and surprised me):

http://www.ocregister.com/

Business News/Economy News

Investors Business Daily:

http://www.investors.com/

IBD editorials:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/IBDEditorials.aspx

Great business and political news:

www.wsj.com

www.businessinsider.com

Quick News

Even though this group leans left, if you need to know what happened each day, and you are a busy person, here is where you can find the day’s news given in 100 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tpmtv

Republican

Back to the basics for the Republican party:

http://www.republicanbasics.com/

Republican Stop Obamacare site:

http://www.nrcc.org/codered/main.php

North Suburban Republican Forum:

http://www.northsuburbanrepublicanforum.org/

Politics

You Decide Politics (it appears conservative to me):

http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/

The Left

From the left:

http://www.loonwatch.com/

Far left websites:

www.dailykos.com

Weatherman Underground 1969 “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

http://www.archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925 (PDF, Kindle and other formats)

http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/weather/weatherman_document.txt (Simple online text)

Insane, leftist blogs:

http://teabaggersrcoming.blogspot.com/

http://poorsquinky.com/politics/all.html

Media

Media Research Center

http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx

Conservative Blogs

Mike’s America

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Dick Morris:

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/

David Limbaugh (great columns this week)

http://davidlimbaugh.com/

Texas Fred (blog and news):

http://texasfred.net/

Conservative Blogs:

http://atimetochoose.wordpress.com/

http://americanelephant.com/

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

The top 100 conservative sites:

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/dbkpreport/2010/02/the-conservative-100-most-popular-conservative-sites-feb-14-2010/

Sensible blogger Burt Folsom:

http://www.burtfolsom.com/

Janine Turner’s website (I’m serious; and the website is serious too). This is if you have an interest in real American history:

http://constitutingamerica.org/

Conservative news/opinion site:

http://www.humanevents.com/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

Good conservative blogs:

http://tammybruce.com/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/

http://makenolaw.org/ (the Free Speech blog)

http://www.baltimorereporter.com/

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/

www.rightofanation.com

The Romantic Poet’s Webblog:

http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/

Brain Shavings (common sense from the Buckeye State):

http://brainshavings.com/

Green Hell blog:

http://greenhellblog.com/

Daniel Hannan’s blog:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/danielhannan/

Conservative blog:

http://wyblog.us/blog/

Richard O’Leary’s websites:

www.letfreedomwork.com

www.freedomtaskforce.com

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/beacon/

Freedom Works:

http://www.freedomworks.org/

Yankee Phil’s Blogspot:

http://yankeephil.blogspot.com/

Excellent list of Blogs on the bottom, right-hand side of this page:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

Babes

And simply because I like cute, intelligent babes:

http://alisonrosen.com/

Liberty Chick:

http://libertychick.com/

Dee Dee’s political blog:

http://somosrepublicans.com/author/deedee/

The Latina Freedom Fighter:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LatinaFreedomFighter

Ann Althouse ("Crusty conservative coating, creamy hippie love chick center.")

http://althouse.blogspot.com/

Judith Miller is one of the moderate and fairly level-headed voices for FoxNews:

http://www.judithmiller.com/

http://ifbushhaddonethat.com/

A mixed bag of blogs and news sites

Left and right opinions with an international flair:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

This is an odd blog; conservativism, bikinis and whatever else posted by either a P.I. or the brother of a P.I.:

http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/

More out-there blogs and sites

Angry White Dude (okay, maybe we conservatives are angry?):

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Mofo Politics (a very anti-Obama site):

http://www.mofopolitics.com/

Info Wars, because there is a war on for your mind (this site may be a little crazy??):

http://www.infowars.com/

The Magic Negro Watch (this is peppered with obscenities and angry conservative rhetoric):

http://magicnegrowatch.blogspot.com/

Okay, maybe this guy is racist:

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Media

Glenn Beck’s shows online:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/

News busted all shows:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/search.aspx?q=newsbusted&t=videos

Joe Dan Media (great vids and music):

http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeDanMedia

The Patriot’s Network (important videos; the latest):

http://patriotsnetwork.com/

PolitiZoid on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/politizoid

Reason TV

http://reason.tv/

This guy posts some excellent vids:

http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulWilliamsWorld

HipHop Republicans:

http://www.hiphoprepublican.blogspot.com/

Topics

(alphabetical order)

Bailouts

Bailout recipients:

http://bailout.propublica.org/main/list/index

Eye on the bailout (this is fantastic!):

http://bailout.propublica.org/

The bailout map:

http://bailout.propublica.org/main/map/index

From:

http://www.propublica.org/

Border

Do you want to watch what is happening on our border? These are actual videos of observations cams along the border:

http://secureborderintel.org/

http://borderinvasionpics.com/

Secure the Border:

http://securetheborder.org/

Capitalism

Liberty Works (conservative, economic site):

http://libertyworks.com/

Capitalism Magazine:

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/

Communism

45 Goals of Communists in order to take over the United States (circa 1963):

http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm

How this correlates to the goals of the ACLU:

http://dianedew.com/aclu.htm

Congress

No matter what your political stripe, you will like this; evaluate your Congressman or Senator on the issues:

http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

http://www.cagw.org/government-affairs/ratings/2008/ratings-database.html

http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2009/pork-database.html

Corrupt Media

The Economy/Economics

Bush “Tax Cut” myths and fallacies:

http://libertyworks.com/category/obamanomics/bush-tax-cut-myths-fallacies/

A debt clock and a lot of articles on the debt:

http://defeatthedebt.com/

Recovery (dot) gov (where our money is being spent):

http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx

A collection of articles by Michelle Malkin about Obama’s war against jobs:

http://michellemalkin.com/category/politics/obama-jobs-death-toll/

AC/DC economics (start with the oldest lessons first; economics in 60 second bites):

http://www.youtube.com/user/ACDCLeadership#p/a

Economist and talk show host Walter E. Williams:

http://economics.gmu.edu/wew/

The conservative plan to get us out of this financial mess:

www.Americanroadmap.org

The Freedom Project (most a conservative news and opinion site which appears to concentrate on matters financial)

http://www.freedomproject.org/

Bankrupting America, with great videos and maps:

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

This appears to be a daily pork report, apparently as pork in Washington bills is discovered, it gets posted at Tom Coburg’s website:

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=WashingtonWaste

Weekly poll, asking you to identify what we ought to cut in governmental spending:

http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/

Global Warming/Climate Change

This is an interesting site; it seems to be devoted to the debate of climate change:

http://www.climatedebatedaily.com/

Global Warming headlines:

http://www.dericalorraine.com/

Dr. Roy Spencer on climate change:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

Not Evil, Just Wrong video on Global Warming

http://noteviljustwrong.com/

http://www.letfreedomwork.com/

http://www.taskforcefreedom.com/council.htm

Global Warming Hoax:

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php

Global Warming Site:

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Global Warming sites:

http://ilovecarbondioxide.com/

35 inconvenient truths about Al Gore’s film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J7JNfLYco

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/trailer

Wall Street Journal’s articles on Climate Change:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704007804574574101605007432.html

Michael Crichton on global warming as a religion:

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-environmentalismaseligion.html

This man questions global warming:

http://themigrantmind.blogspot.com/

Healthcare

This is indispensable: the Wall Street Journal’s guide to Obama-care (all of their pertinent articles arranged by date—send one a day to your liberal friends):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574441193211542788.html

Republican healthcare plan:

http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare

Health Care:

http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/

Betsy McCaughey’s Health Care Site:

http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us/home.html

Obamacare Watch:

http://www.obamacarewatch.org/

This looks to be a good source of information on the health care bill (s):

http://joinpatientsfirst.com/

Obamacare class action suit (as of today, joining in on the suit costs you whatever you want to donate, if I understand the form correctly):

http://www.van4congress.org/contact/obamacare-class-action/

Islam

Islam:

www.thereligionofpeace.com

Jihad Watch

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Answering Muslims (a Christian site):

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/

Muslim demographics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZT73MrYvM

Muslim Demographics (this is outstanding):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

Muslim deception:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNZQ5D8IwfI

A Muslim apologetic site (they will write out letters to express your feelings, and all you have to do is sign them, and they will send them on):

http://www.faithfulamerica.org/

Celebrity Jihad (no, really).

http://www.celebjihad.com/

Legal

The Alliance Defense Fund:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

Liberty Counsel, which stands up against the A.C.L.U.

www.lc.org

ACLU founders:

http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/stokjok/Founders.html

Military

Here is an interesting military site:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/

This is the link which caught my eye from there:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169400

The real story of the surge:

http://www.understandingthesurge.org/

National Security

Keep America Safe:

http://www.keepamericasafe.com/

Race Relations

A little history of Republicans and African-Americans:

http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/

Oil Spill

Since this will be with us for a long time, the timeline of the BP gulf oil spill:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/obamas-katrina-illustrated-timeline.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/bpdot/7816715/Gulf-of-Mexico-oil-spill-timeline.html

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/bp-gulf-oil-spill-timeline.php

This is cool: a continuous timeline of the spill, with the daily info and the expansion of the oil, and the response:

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/timeline-advanced.html

Cool Sites

The 100 most hated conservatives:

http://media.glennbeck.com/docs/100americans-pg1.pdf

Still to Classify

Army Ranger Michael Behenna sentenced to 25 years in prison for 25 years for shooting Al Qaeda operative

http://defendmichael.wordpress.com/

Maybe the White House does not need to hold press conferences? It releases exclusive articles daily right here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-and-releases

If you want to see 1984 style-rhetoric and tactics, see:

http://www.freepress.net/

Project World Awareness:

http://projectworldawareness.com/

Bookworm room

http://www.bookwormroom.com/

This is quite helpful; it is a list of all leftist groups, with links to background information on each of these groups (when I checked, 879 groups were listed). This is a fantastic resource.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/summary.asp?object=Organization&category=

Commentary Magazine:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/

Family Security Matters (families and national security):

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/

America’s Right

http://americasright.com/

Emerging Corruption (founded by an ACORN whistle blowe:

http://emergingcorruption.com/

In case you need to reference this, here are the photos of all those on the JournoList:

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=29858

A place where you may find news no one else is carrying:

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/

News Website to get the Headlines and very brief coverage:

http://www.newser.com/

National Institute for Labor Relations Research

http://www.nilrr.org/

Independent American:

http://www.independentamerican.org/

If you want to be scared or depressed:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Are you tired of all the unfocused news and lame talking heads yelling at one another? Just grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and see what is really going on in the world:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/video

It is not broken, but the White House wants to control it: the internet:

http://nointernettakeover.com/

Whizbang (news and views):

http://wizbangblog.com/

John T. Reed comments on current events:

http://johntreed.com/headline.html

Conservative New Media (it is so-so; I must admit to getting tired of seeing the interviewer high-fiving Carly Fiorina 3 or 4 times during an interview):

http://conservativenewmedia.com/

Ann Coulter’s site:

http://anncoulter.com/

Allen West for Congress:

http://allenwestforcongress.com/issues/

Their homepage:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp

Wall Builders:

http://www.wallbuilders.com/default.asp

One of the more radical people from the right, calling for the impeachment of Obama:

http://www.ldlad.com/

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a free enterprise site (there are several videos on the flat tax):

http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/

The Tax Foundation:

http://taxfoundation.org/

Compare your state with other states with regards to state taxes:

http://taxfoundation.org/files/f&f_booklet_20100326.pdf

Political news and commentary from the Louisiana Political News Wire:

http://www.lanewslink.com/

This is a pretty radical site which alleges that Obama is a Marxist hell-bent in taking over our country:

http://commieblaster.com/

1982 interview with Larry Grathwohl on Ayers' plan for American re-education camps and the need to kill millions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ

Another babebolicious conservative (Kim Priestap):

http://politics.upnorthmommy.com/

Stop Spending our Future:

http://stopspendingourfuture.org/

DeeDee also blogs at:

http://somosrepublicans.com/author/deedee/

Somos Republicans:

http://somosrepublicans.com/

In case you want to see how other conservatives are thinking,

Zomblog:

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/

Conservative news site:

http://www.liberalwhoppers.com/

http://conservativeamericannews.com/

Here’s an interesting new site (new to me):

http://www.overcomingbias.com/

Here is an interesting blog, but, it is not all conservative stuff:

http://afrocityblog.wordpress.com/

These are some very good comics:

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Helps for liberals to call conservative talk shows:

http://radio.barackobama.com/

Sarah Palin’s facebook notes:

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587

 Media Research Center:

http://www.mrc.org/public/default.aspx

Must read articles of the day:

http://lucianne.com/

The Big Picture:

http://www.bigpicweblog.com/exp/index.php

Talk of Liberty

http://talkofliberty.com

Lux Libertas

http://www.luxlibertas.com/

Conservative website:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

Excellent articles on economics:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/ (Excellent video on the Department of Agriculture posted)

Your daily cartoon:

http://daybydaycartoon.com/

This is a news site which I just discovered; they gave 3 minute coverage to Obama’s healthcare summit and seemed to give a pretty decent overall view of it, without slanting one way or the other:

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/

(The segment was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU-evdGu1Sk )

I have glanced through their website and it seems to be quite professional and reasonable. They have apparently been around since 1942.

An online journal of opinions:

http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/

American Civic Literacy:

 http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/

The Dallas TEA Party Organization (with some pretty good vids):

www.dallasteaparty.org

America people’s healthcare summit online:

http://healthtransformation.net/

This is fantastic; Florida (the Sunshine State) is now putting its state budget online:

http://transparencyflorida.gov

New conservative website:

http://www.theconservativelion.com

Conservative website:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/

Suzanne Somers s supposed to be older than Bill O’Reilly? He interviewed her this week, and she looked, well, hot. She is big into vitamins and human growth hormones.

http://www.suzannesomers.com/Default.aspx

The latest Climate news:

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Obama cartoons:

http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com/

Education link:

http://sirkenrobinson.com/

http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/

News from 2100:

http://thepeoplescube.com/

How you can get your piece of the stimulus pie:

http://www.economicstimuluspackageinfo.com/

Always excellent articles:

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/

The National Journal, which is a political journal (which, at first glance, seems to be pretty even-handed):

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/

Conservative blog: Dan Cleary, political insomniac:

http://dancleary.typepad.com/dan_cleary/

Stand by Liberty:

http://standbyliberty.org/

And I am hoping that most people see this as non-partisan: Citizens Against Government Waste:

http://www.cagw.org/

Lower taxes, smaller government, more freedom:

Citizens Against Government Waste:

http://www.cagw.org/

Conservative website featuring stories of the day:

http://www.lonelyconservative.com/

http://www.sodahead.com/

Christian Blog:

http://wisdomknowledge.wordpress.com/

News feed/blog:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

News site:

http://lucianne.com/

Note sure yet about this one:

http://looneyleft.com/

Conservative news and opinion:

http://bijenkorf.wordpress.com/

Conservative versus liberal viewpoints:

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/other/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/

The Best Graph page (for those of us who love graphs):

http://midknightgraphs.blogspot.com/

The Architecture of Political Power (an online book):

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/

Recommended foreign news site:

http://www.globalpost.com/

This website reveals a lot of information about politicians and their relationship to money. You can find out, among other things, how many earmarks that Harry Reid has been responsible for in any given year; or how much an individual Congressman’s wealth has increased or decreased since taking office.

http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

http://www.fedupusa.org/

Kevin Jackson’s [conservative black] website:

http://theblacksphere.net/

Notes from the front lines (in Iraq):

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/

Remembering 9/11:

http://www.realamericanstories.com/

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball site:

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/

The current Obama czar roster:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26779.html

Blue Dog Democrats:

http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html

Undercover video and audio for planned parenthood:

http://liveaction.org/

The Complete Czar list (which I think is updated as needed):

http://theshowlive.info/?p=572

This is an outstanding website which tells the truth about Obama-care and about what the mainstream media is hiding from you:

http://www.obamacaretruth.org/

Politico.com is a fairly neutral site (or, at the very worst, just a little left of center). They have very good informative videos at:

http://www.politico.com/multimedia/

Great commentary:

www.Atlasshrugs.com

My own website:

www.kukis.org

Congressional voting records:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/

On Obama (if you have not visited this site, you need to check it out). He is selling a DVD on this site as well called Media Malpractice; I have not viewed it yet, except pieces which I have seen played on tv and on the internet. It looks pretty good to me.

http://howobamagotelected.com/

The psychology of homosexuality:

http://www.narth.com/

International News:

http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/

The Patriot Post:

http://patriotpost.us/

Obama timeline:

http://exemployee.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/a-timeline-of-barack-obamas-political-career/

Tax professor’s blog:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/

I hate the media...

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/

Palin TV (see her interviews unedited):

http://www.palintv.com

Liberal filter for FoxNews: News Hounds (motto:

We watch FOX so you don't have to). Be clear on this; they do not want you to watch FoxNews.

http://www.newshounds.us/

Asharq Alawsat Mid-eastern news site:

http://www.aawsat.com/english/default.asp