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This Week’s Events

Hamza Hendawi in Cairo suggests that it was a military coup which caused Mubarak to leave Egypt.

74 House Democrats have signed a letter to Clarence Thomas asking the Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the national health care overhaul, arguing that his wife's work as a lobbyist creates "the appearance of a conflict of interest."

White House says it will continue to implement Obamacare, despite it being ruled unconstitutional.

Arizonan governor countersues the federal government over [lack of] federal immigration enforcement.

Noted scientist and heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, slams climate change skeptics, whom he says are denying a great body of scientific evidence.

Republican Congressman tries to start up a little something, something on Craig’s List, sending a shirtless photograph to someone. He quickly resigns.

GM and Chrysler pay nice bonuses. Some managers will bet as much as 50% of their salary as a bonus (most will get a 15–20% bonus). The last figure I heard is, GM still owes the federal government $27 billion. Not sure about Chrysler.

Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens of Shi'ite Pilgrims in Iraq. Taliban Attack on Kandahar Kills 15 Police. Pakistani Troops Capture Would-be Suicide Bomber, Handlers. Insurgents Blow Up Gas Pipelines in Pakistan. 4 Militants, Politician Killed in Southern Russia. Just another typical busy day for the religion of peace.

In Saudi Arabia, flower shops and gift shops have been asked to remove all red items and heart-shaped gifts until after Valentine's Day by the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia).

AOL buys the Huffington Post.

British women are now taking booty-fattening pills (pills which are designed to fatten up chickens).

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would cease to exist under the housing plan released Friday by the Obama administration. If this is the true end game, this could be the crowning achievement of the Obama administration.

House Republicans unveil a new bill which would ban the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine.

Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll (as usual) with Mitt Romney 2^nd (as usual).

US Weekly and Time both feature a false story about Sarah Palin calling Christina Aguilera an `air head' and calling for her deportation (I believe that Time featured this online).

Reuters headline: President Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2012 will seek to cut the record federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years. It was unclear by this story whether it is the full out deficit reduction or whether, this reduction is the overall reduction over a period of 10 years (which I believe is the case).

Say What?

Liberals:

Joe Biden: "Even in this contentious political climate in which we work, on this issue, the United States has largely spoken with one voice, Democrats and Republicans alike. This unity has been important and it will be even more important in the delicate and fateful days ahead."

On Tuesday the Obama Administration asked Hosni Mubarak to step aside.

On Wednesday they said that transitioning power "now means yesterday."

On Saturday morning the Obama Administration said Mubarak must stay.

On Saturday evening the Obama Administration said Mubarak should step aside.

On Sunday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Mubarak must stay in power.

On Tuesday the Obama Administration said that political reform will be a gradual process.

This list is from:

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/02/11/biden-on-egypt-revolt-u-s-has-largely-spoken-with-one-voice/

Chris Matthews: “You know, gentlemen, I'm a little bit jubilant right now, a little bit frisky so I'll say something that will bother people...In a way it's like it took Obama to have this [the revolution in Egypt] happen, or it's just so serendipitous.”

Wolf Blitzer: “A lot of us remember that speech President Obama gave in Cairo in 2009. I'm not sure he expected that this would develop. I don't know if that was a result of this or what the impact was, but it was a dramatic speech at the time. Now we're seeing what's happening on the streets of Cairo. I suspect it will spread elsewhere.”

Former leader of the parliamentary bloc of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed el-Katatni: "I salute the Egyptian people and the martyrs. This is the day of victory for the Egyptian people."

Bill Mayer: “I think he’s [Obama] a centrist the way he’s a Christian...he’s pretending to be a centrist.”

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: "The term Muslim Brotherhood is an umbrella term for a variety of movements. In the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam,"

Howard Dean (on O’Reilly’s interview with President Obama): “O'Reilly laid out a proposition, that is, we shouldn't have redistribution. That's what governments do is redistribute. ”

Nancy Pelois fund-raising letter: "We cannot and must not stay silent in the face of this extreme effort to undermine women's health and reproductive freedom in our country." Reproductive freedom is the right to kill your own baby before it is delivered.

Democratic Senator Charles Schumer: "They [the Republicans] are blindly swinging a meat ax to the budget when they should be using a scalpel. Some of these House Republicans won't be satisfied with anything less than a shutdown of the government."

Speaking about the need for high-speed rail, Vice President Joe Biden said, "If we don't get a grip, folks, they'll not only be teaching us, they're gonna own our kids."

Willie Brown: “Obama is probably more like Reagan than he is like anyone else.”

Ed Asner, when asked about the TEA party: “I haven't the foggiest idea what they stand for, and the more you watch President Obama, I don't see what they have to complain about.”

State Senator Robert Ford: “We need these workers here. A lot of people aren't going to do certain type of work in this country. The brothers are going to find ways to take a break. Ever since this country was built, we've had somebody do the work for us.”

President Obama, who thinks he ought to get Reagan’s old nickname: "And then somebody - I don't remember who it was - turned and said, `You know what? What about Gibbs' tie? What about Gibbs' tie? That might look good.' And, frankly, Robert didn't want to give it up because he thought he looked really good in the tie. But eventually he was willing to take one for the

gipper, and so he took off his tie, and I put it on. And that's the tie that I wore at the national convention."

Bill Mayer: “And Bill O'Reilly, who claims he's such a patriot, how unpatriotic in my view to treat a president that way. How does that look to other countries when you're interrupting and belittling? I just find it astounding.”

Shirley Jackson Lee: “What we [referring to members of Congress, because there are so many Republicans recently elected] will be doing is ignoring the people's business of creating jobs and, frankly, putting ourselves in the role of a clogged toilet, meaning that we're doing nothing, we're stopped up.”

Journalist Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of former Labour prime minister Tony Blair: "If the number of British Muslims increases you should know it will be only good for the country."

Headline for article by CNN centrist John Avlon: "Is Right-Wing Talk [radio] Dying?"

Ron Reagan: "Just on the basis of intelligence, you would have to say Barack Obama. I don't think my father has anything in common with Sarah Palin whatsoever. I'm a little offended that we even have to talk about Sarah Palin, who has nothing interesting to say."

NPR’s Jonathan Katz, explaing contemporary homophobia among conservatives: "It's no longer the same game that it was 15, 20 years ago, where you simply had to point out the homo and yell 'Kill it!' And the mob attacked. Now, you have to clothe your homophobia in something else."

More civility from the left. Randi Rhodes calls Michele Bachmann a “freak” and a “loser.”

Liberals from the Past:

Joe Biden, shortly before being chosen as Obama’s running mate: "I had a successful dump." (Okay, he is not saying what you think he is saying, but he was being clever).

Liberals making sense:

Lindsay Lohan tweet: “I pray Egypt maintains it's [sic] treaty with Israel and sets the trend for its neighbors to create peace with Israel and the entire region.”

NPR’s Lee Smith column: “President George W. Bush's Freedom Agenda was based on the notion that around the world all men share the desire for liberty. It was our founding fathers who put forth the idea that this was not merely a human aspiration but a natural right, and it was the many generations of our forefathers who fought for that right, both at home and abroad. The Arabs had not been born with that privilege.”

Joe Biden: "I say to our Iranian friends: let your people march, let your people speak, release your people from jail, let them have a voice." A little late, but still a good thing to say.

John F. Kennedy: “This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963. I am not talking about a quickie or a temporary tax cut which would be more appropriate if a recession were imminent. Nor am I talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm to ease some temporary complaint. The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.”

John F. Kennedy: “When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases and profits are higher. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital. The government has already taken major steps this year to reduce business tax liability and to stimulate the modernization, replacement, and expansion of our productive plant and equipment.”

President Obama: “We [the people of the United States] still have, by far, the world's largest and most vibrant economy. We have the most productive workers, the finest universities and the freest markets. The men and women in this room are living testimony that American industry is still the source of the most dynamic companies, and the most ingenious entrepreneurs.”

Crosstalk:

Bill O'Reilly: Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth.

Barrack Obama: Absolutely.

O'Reilly: You deny that?

Obama: Absolutely. I didn't raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years. I lowered taxes for the last two years."

Conservatives:

Allen West at CPAC: "If we are to have a new dawn in America, it means reclaiming our Judeo-Christian heritage."

Donald Trump: “I have a reputation for telling it like it is. I'm known for my candor...By the way, Ron Paul cannot get elected, sorry to say."

Herman Cain, also a possible Republican presidential candidate: "They call me racist too because I happen to disagree with the president."

Tim Pawlenty, another possible candidate: "I'm not one who questions the existence of the president's birth certificate."

Mitch Daniels, another possible candidate: "Medicare 2.0 should restore to the next generation the dignity of making their own decisions, by delivering its dollars directly to the individual, based on financial and medical need, entrusting and empowering citizens to choose their own insurance and, inevitably, pay for more of their routine care like the discerning, autonomous consumers we know them to be."

Mitch Daniels: "When one of us - I confess sometimes it was yours truly - got a little hotheaded, President Reagan would admonish us, `Remember, we have no enemies, only opponents.' Good advice, then and now."

Mitt Romney: "Obama misery index ... and it's at a record high.” adding that there were more jobs created in Canada than the United States last month.

Mitch McConnell: "The legislative agenda of Barack Obama is over."

McConnell: "And to the extent that the president wants to do what we think is right for America, we won't say 'no' simply because there's an election coming along."

Charles Krauthammer: “Everything said about Egypt - the educated population, the proud history, the long civilization - all of it applies to Iran in 1979 as well, and it ended up hijacked by the Islamists. That's the threat in Egypt today. The Brotherhood wants the institution of Sharia law.”

Budget expert Stan Cullender on the effect of continued TEA party involvement in politics: "The real fight here is between Republicans and Republicans, not Republicans and Democrats."

Republican House Speaker John Boehner "Today it's the Tea Party calling us to our senses."

Jodi Miller: “Time Magazine’s Mark Halprin said, President Obama, “has a level of skill and sophistication that not one Republican can duplicate.’ Hey, Obama also has a level of high unemployment, budget deficits and vacation time that no Republican can duplicate.”

Jodi Mill: “Al Gore now says that all the recent snow storms do not disprove global warming. You’re right, Al, it’s the record low temperatures that disprove global warming.”

Andrew Breitbart, recounting a friend speaking to him awhile ago: “ ‘ACORN is protesting right now in front of the Fox television affiliate—right now!’ Right at the height of the ACORN scandal. ‘That’s the Fox affiliate; Fox News is about a block and a half away.’ I said, ‘What are they doing, protesting American Idol?’ ”

Rush Limbaugh: "You can't win the future with poor judgment, a mountain of debt, an addiction to spending, and an administration staffed with amateurs and radical leftists. We're not winning the future, folks. Slogans be damned."

Rush: "If a true audit of the entire federal budget were ever done, there'd be a revolution in this country."

Rush: "We are surrounded by people who want to tamp us down, and sadly, some of those people are now in positions of power in our own government -- which is why there is a Tea Party made up of people who understand that the greatness of America is under assault."

Rush Limbaugh: "If Egypt, my friends, has made anything clear, it's that Obama has no idea what's g

oing to happen five minutes from now."

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

Must-Watch Media

Breitbart at CPAC (my favorite speaker so far):

http://vimeo.com/19870479

Mine stopped, so here is an inferior handheld camera on him (and links to a parts II and III):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueocad2iVgc

Allen West at CPAC:

http://www.therightscoop.com/allen-wests-keynote-speech-for-cpac-2011

Obama graded at halftime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaRCq9eXKw

Short Reagan Obama comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABEm6Zzxa1E

Dana Loesch interviews Richard Dreyfuss at CPAC, and I find myself agreeing with what Dreyfuss has to say.

http://www.breitbart.tv/richard-dreyfuss-at-cpac-2011-the-dana-loesch-interview/

Steven Crowder and GOProud comments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQz3jFlVt4

The is John F. Kennedy on tax cuts; does he sound like a contemporary Democrat or Republican?

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

Kennedy on the U.S. economy and free trade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4S5nM8BjwM

A Little Comedy Relief

President Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood (this will open up a media program on your computer):

http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/New/muslimbrother.asx

Short Takes

1) Based upon what President Obama said to the Chamber of Commerce, he thinks that business ought to be hiring because it is their patriotic duty (it is their responsibility). It is more proof that he hasn’t the slightest idea of how businesses are run.

2) We conservatives pride ourselves in having some sort of a realistic outlook when it comes to the world, the budget, foreign affairs, etc. At CPAC, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump plainly said, Ron Paul is not going to be the president. There were a lot of jeers and booing. So much for conservative realism. Hey, I do like Ron Paul, and agree with him about 80% of the time.

3) What has surprised me is, news organizations have been treating the army of Egypt as if it is this nebulous but homogenous force. In almost every army, there is a clearly defined system of authority and there is usually one person (or a handful of people) at the very top. For the first time, FoxNews has begun to talk about the man who is probably head of the army in Egypt.

4) Here is how I see it. The head of the Egyptian army walked up to Mubarak and told him, “You need to leave, or we turn the protection off.” I don’t think he made any sort of a direct threat, other than to end his protection of Mubarak.

5) The fact that we are closely associated with Egypt’s army, and that we give them gobs of money is testimony that someone in the state department, once and awhile, actually knows what they are doing.

By the Numbers

CBO estimates that the new healthcare law will kill 800,000 jobs.

40 million watch “Sharia and Life” on the Al Jazeera network. Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the Egyptian Islamic theologian who is also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which “experts” tell us daily is not that much of a factor in Egypt. 40 million. About 5 million watch Bill O’Reilly. Yusu said, in 2009, “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them - even though they exaggerated this issue - he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them.” He also said "I support Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. I oppose the peace that Israel and America wish to dictate. This peace is an illusion. I support martyrdom operations."

Polling by the Numbers

Rasmussen:

68% of likely U.S. Voters believe that government and big business already work together against the interests of consumers and investors.

13% disagree with this assessment,

18% are not sure

Gallup:

10.3% unemployment

19.7% underemployment

Israel Viewed Favorably by 68% of Americans,

19% Feel Same Way About the Palestinians.

27% of Americans approve of Obama on the deficit, while

68% disapprove.

A Little Bias

Can you imagine what would happen had an intelligence head under Bush or Reagan said the stuff that James Clapper has said?

2 networks, so far, have not spoken about the Planned Parenthood sting; but Congress is talking about it.

NBC, ABC, and CBS spent 2 days on the scandal involving New York Republican Congressman Christopher Lee; these same networks made little or no mention of Florida Democratic Congressman Tim Mahoney admitting to numerous affairs in 2008.

Saturday Night Live Misses

Head of Intelligence director James Clapper, being interviewed about his [lack of] information about foreign affairs. Real quotes could be easily interwoven with absurdities.

Questions for Obama

Since you have never had your own business, shouldn’t those in the Chamber of Commerce lecture you?

Political Chess

Since conservatives saw historic gains in the 2010 election, now Obama is compared to Reagan, a conservative favorite.

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

He or others in the White House have expressed several different positions with regards to Egypt and Mubarak. Why put out statements, if those statements will be contradicted in the near future.

You Know You’re Being Brainwashed if...

If you think the Muslim Brotherhood will probably not have much influence in Egypt.

News Before it Happens

The talk and discussion about how Obama was partially the cause of the Egyptian freedom uprising will continue for another week or two. However, if this revolution goes bad (which it probably will), no one will talk about it or associate Obama with it.

More talk this week about states have a way to go bankrupt. This will become a reality within the next few years. If a Republican is elected president in 2012, it will happen within the first 2 years. It will be used more as a bargaining chip.

Neither Mitt Romney nor Ron Paul will be on the Republican presidential ticket in 2012 (or ever).

Prophecies Fulfilled

More talk this week about states have a way to go bankrupt.

My Most Paranoid Thoughts

Like many others, I am concerned that Egypt will move toward a Caliphate as opposed to being a western-style democracy.

Missing Headlines

Employers Post Fewer Job Openings

The Economy is not Recovering as in the Past

Egyptians Lean Toward Islam and Against the United States

Come, let us reason together....

The Reason for the Recession

Michael Medved had a guest on his program, and the topic of discussion was the recession and what led us to that point. I forgot the guests name, but he was a part of those who studied the economic collapse.

It was his opinion that the housing debacle was a contributing factor, but “Predatory Loans” were the true culprit. I listened respectfully, and was even ready to retract some of what I said. However, there were things which were completely ignored.

Few people recognize just how large the housing industry is in the United States. Over and over again, I have said it makes Enron look like a child’s lemonade stand. The mortgages of the United States, many of which are guaranteed by FNMA or FHLMC, account for trillions of dollars. A company of this magnitude exists nowhere in the world. So, when you hear pundits talk of the housing giants, FNMA or FHLMC, this is not an exaggeration. No other company anywhere else in the world even comes close. Therefore, what happens with FNMA and FHLMC affects the world (because so many people have some sort of securities related to the US housing market).

Many people do not even get what FNMA and FHLMC do. They buy mortgages. No matter where you get your mortgage, most of the time, FNMA (or FHLMC) purchases that mortgage and then guarantees it. 10 or so years ago, they guaranteed 50% of all mortgages; today, they guarantee somewhere between 90–95% of all mortgages.

What they did was, in order to make certain that more people of the right skin color got mortgages, FNMA and FHLMC lowered their requirements. When mortgage companies realized this, they began giving mortgages to everything that moved, and selling those mortgages to FNMA and FHLMC.

Apparently, this was kind of like musical chairs, so, it seems as if FNMA and FHLMC stopped buying all of the mortgages, leaving many mortgage companies with sucky mortgages, which they turned around and bundled into weird financial packages, in order to save their own skins.

For decades, FNMA and FHLMC had very high standards, and a mortgage company could not sell loans to them unless those loans were solid. Furthermore, these giants, at one time, allowed the free market to operate as well (that is, some mortgage groups continued to hold their own loans).

I still firmly believe that, without the changes which they made in the market, the housing bubble and subsequent collapse could have never occurred. As a result, the bailing out of the banks and FNMA and FHLMC would have never occurred.

Obama Still Doesn’t Get it

Our president said a few things which made perfect sense during his address to the Chamber of Commerce. I even included one paragraph under things which some liberals have said that make sense.

However, the first big problem is, there is no give and take. Our president has no real experience running anything; he has never had to hold to a budget or hire and fire workers. He has never run a company. So, when it comes to free enterprise, he is completely outside of his element.

Because the president favors labor, he seems to think that labor ought to have as much input into businesses as the owners and/or stockholders of a business, even though they have little invested themselves.

He seems to think that creating jobs and making work for the unemployed and providing good healthcare coverage is the right thing to do; the patriotic duty. Once that premise is granted, then, when business does not meet that approach, hen it is up to someone more powerful to enforce it.

However, business simply does not work like that. I have a very small business; and my youngest brother has a larger business. I never make up a job and call someone up on the phone and tell them to go and do this made-up job. If

there is something which needs to be done, and I am unable to do it due to time or skill constraints, then I hire someone to do that job. My kid brother is the same way. He does not pad his work force in order to provide as many people as possible jobs and health insurance. He has responsibilities and, in order to meet those responsibilities, he hires as few workers as possible, which maximizes his profit.

There is no trade-off with government: “You make governmental restrictions better and we promise to hire more people.” That is what usually happens, but, when it comes to guarantees, there are none.

You buy someone flowers and candies for Valentine’s Day; what did that guarantee you? Nothing! The other person is not obligated to do anything for you.

Government has a responsibility to make it so businesses can thrive. Obviously, there must be reasonable care taken with respect to the environment and with respect to doing things lawfully; but, beyond that, the less government is involved, the easier it is for a business to thrive, which means, it is likely they will hire more workers. They do not hire more workers because this is their patriotic duty; they hire more workers because they need more workers.

What about perks and healthcare benefits and salary? That is dependent upon a health economy. The more pro-business the climate, the more people who are hired, the more competition there is for good workers, the better the salary and benefits.

I recall reading an article in the middle of Bush’s term in office, and it was about the spoiled millennials. These were workers who, because unemployment was so low, that they were demanding and getting very high salaries and great benefits, because, they had a lot of options open to them. I thought to myself, “What a lot of spoiled, snot-nosed kids” when I read the article; but that is a part of a good economy—there is competition among businesses for good workers. Sometimes, a business, to stay competitive, has to offer a lot by way of salary and benefits.

Instead of the president delivering a 30 minute speech to the Chamber of Commerce, telling them what they were responsible to do, the President needs to develop a little humility, and allow various members of the Chamber of Commerce to speak to him. Give them 4 or 6 hours and give the president plenty of water to drink and no microphone. Have his closest aids sit next to him and take notes. Then let one business owner after another tell the President how he sees things.

I do not expect a president to begin his office knowing everything. Private business ownership is completely outside of this President’s skill set. However, if this president is so arrogant as to think he already knows everything, then he is unteachable, and business is going to continue to be stalled (despite numerous summer of recovery speeches). If he is willing to stop talking and listen, our country and American businesses would benefit greatly.

You know what else would happen? If the President actually listened, he would probably win reelection.

Full text of Obama’s Chamber of Commerce speech:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/07/obama-chamber-of-commerce-speech_n_819571.html

Dear Obama, Please Leave Me Alone

By: Nancy Morgan

Dear Obama,

I'm not a member of the elite. I'm not a millionaire and I don't claim to have any power or influence. I'm just an average taxpayer who lives in fly-over country. On behalf of all the Suzy Homemaker's and Joe Six-Pack's who are my neighbors, I'd like to request a favor. Please, please, leave us alone.

With all due respect for your office Mr. Obama, you were not elected to tell me what to do. You were elected to protect and defend my right to do it, as long as it's not illegal. (Please refer to the 10th amendment)

I left home years ago and have learned how to take care of myself. I don't need, or want you dictating to me how much salt I can use, where I can smoke, what car I can drive, which light bulbs to use, what temperature I set my thermostat to, which religions and sexual preferences I should respect, and which thoughts I can express. I know you're all in favor of choice, so please respect mine. Please, please just leave me alone.

I'd also appreciate if you could leave my doctor, insurance company, bank and employer alone. It seems that everything you do in my name just costs me more money. Money I can't afford because I'm on a very tight budget for the next two years. And unlike you, I can't just print some more. I would if I could. (Ha Ha, just kidding)

While we're on the subject, could you please pass along a message to your wife? Please tell her that, even though I am no "expert," I'd prefer if she quit trying to regulate the behavior of my kids. I know best what their diet, education and beliefs should be.

I know she's spending a lot of our money on her good works, but I'm firmly convinced that if she just concentrated on Sasha and Malika -and her own garden - we would all be much better off.

I hope this doesn't sound rude Mr President, but most of the stuff you and Michelle are doing up there in D.C. are things that are morally, legally, personally and constitutionally just none of your business. You are not my daddy. Sir.

On a more positive note: Here's a big shout out for your handling of the Egypt crisis. Even though it took a week, you finally took a stand. You looked very presidential.

Personally, I'm not convinced you should have chosen sides so early, but, like you, I was pretty sure everything would die down after your call to Mubarak. What a coup - all it took was one phone call from you and he decides to resign. Kudos.

Again, I'm no "expert," but I'm getting pretty mad at those darn Muslims, especially after all your "outreach." You'd think they would be grateful. Go figure.

I'm sorry your signature health care legislation has been ruled unconstitutional. It's a good thing that ruling won't affect your own health care plan. I've been worried at how skinny you're getting.

And speaking of health care, I don't mean to nag, but could you please cut down on your smoking? And maybe you should cut down on your partying, too. I know, I know, who am I to tell you what to do? But I do worry about you, and I don't think America is ready for a President Biden.

I know you're a busy guy, what with all the stuff you've decided to take on, but I hope you have time to read this letter. Granted, I'm just a nobody, but I do have a second cousin who used to work for G.E. - and my best friend belongs to a union. Oh, and I still have a vote, too. Even though I'm not dead yet. (That's a joke)

I hear you watched the Super Bowl with J Lo last weekend. How cool!

Take care and hang tight,

Nancy Morgan

From:

http://floppingaces.net/2011/02/09/dear-obama-please-leave-me-alone-reader-post

Hey Obama - You're Not My Daddy

Nancy Morgan

When I left home at age 18, I breathed a sigh of relief. Free at last. I was legally of an age where I assumed the right to make my own decisions. No longer could my mother tell me to eat my vegetables, to quit smoking, to clean my room or to modify my behavior to someone else's standards. Heady stuff.

As I threw off the shackles of parental supervision, I willingly assumed the responsibilities of a grown-up. I got a job, I paid my bills, I planned for the future. I worked hard and focused on being the best I could be. After the requisite 'teachable moments,' I succeeded. I achieved the American dream, on my own. Without any government handouts. Like most Americans.

Enter Obama and the change he promised. Obama and his buddies seem intent on treating me as if I am still a child. Not a day goes by that I don't see the image of our dear leader on television imploring me to wash my hands, urging dads to be good dads, and lecturing me on what I can and cannot say.

Even first lady Michelle is getting in on the act, solemnly advising one and all to donate to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. As if she has a lock on moral virtue. Color me offended.

Hey Obama, you're not my daddy. I don't need or want your advice on how to live my life. In fact, I quite resent your blatant patronization and condescension. I'm not a child any more. And I don't need you to lecture me. Most especially when you yourself don't walk the walk.

Being elected President did not give you the right to assume a parental role. I have a family for that. And I don't need your wife to lecture me on the virtues of compassion. I have a church for that. And I most assuredly don't need your minions appropriating my hard earned money under false pretenses, and spending it faster than I earn it. I had a husband for that.

Here's a thought: How about you concentrate on your responsibilities and let me take care of my own. Your responsibility includes keeping America safe, not arbitrating football rules. Your responsibilities include waging a war against murdering Islamists who would see America ruined. Maybe you should point that wagging finger at them instead of SUV drivers and fellow smokers.

I'm not an expert on community organizing, nor am I an intellectual. I'm just an ordinary citizen living in fly-over country, trying to be the best I can be. And frankly, Obama, I think there are pressing world problems you should address, instead of lecturing me on what I eat, what I drive, what I say and the life decisions I have made.

You may be President, but you are not a role model I aspire to. I, gasp, judge people by their actions, not their words. And though I have respect for the office you hold, I don't respect you. Your actions have been shrouded in secrecy and double dealing. Your [successful] attempts to manipulate people through poll tested buzz words and high sounding rhetoric are wearing thin.

Here's a heads-up: no-where in the Constitution that you swore to uphold, is there anything that entitles you to assume the role of parent. You're not my daddy. So please.... tend to your own garden and get off my back. I quit needing parental supervision decades ago. And I am thoroughly offended by your self-righteous patronization.

I'll make you a deal. When you start living by the same rules you are imposing on the rest of us, then I might take time from my busy schedule to listen to your advice. Until then, I sure wish you'd start living up to your own responsibilities and quit lecturing me on mine.

Here's a clue: Quit campaigning and start leading - and make sure your own house is clean before you start inspecting mine. Most of all, quit with the lies. Most Americans see through them by now and all they do is offend us. Step up to the plate Obama. Stop with the townhalls, public service announcements and staged photo ops. This country needs a leader, not a lecturer. Its time for you to grow up. Please.

Nancy Morgan

From:

http://rightbias.com/News/013110smart.aspx

Planned Parenthood, Spiked

by Brent Bozell

Those censorious liberals who truly hate the very existence of the Fox News Channel denounce it for being a political organization, not truly a news network. Behind that line is decades of liberals being able to strangle, smother and spike news stories they didn't like. Liberals defined what "news" was and what it wasn't. They're still at it today.

Take the pro-life group Live Action. On Feb. 1, they released shocking videos showing what they found when they brought hidden cameras into Planned Parenthood clinics, with a man and woman posing as pimp and prostitute. An office manager was taped telling the "pimp" how to evade the law, such as lying about prostitutes' ages if they were children 14 or over. Any younger, and the clinic would be obligated to report to the authorities. "We want as little information as possible," she said conspiratorially.

That matches very nicely with the mindsets of ABC, CBS and NBC, which absolutely refused to acknowledge the existence of this damning video. (Fox News did cover it, and so did CNN.)

The same gaggle of broadcast TV watchdogs that has mustered endless outrage over the notion that the Catholic Church would fail to alert authorities about sexual abuse of minors is utterly uninterested in the sexual abuse of minors when someone more pleasing to secular progressives -- like that abortion factory Planned Parenthood -- is caught on camera.

Live Action has been exposing Planned Parenthood since 2007. You would think that by 2011, their clinic personnel would be more careful. It is just the opposite. Their disinterest toward statutory rape and child sexual abuse is shocking.

The latest Live Action exposes began with a visit to a clinic in Perth Amboy, N.J. The office manager advised the "pimp" that underage girls should lie about their age to get around any troublesome questions about statutory rape. She also insisted an underage girl is "entitled to care without mom knowing what the hell is going on."

This woman has now been fired. But lying and squashing information is apparently Planned Parenthood policy. Another video broke, this time from Falls Church, Va., where a clinic worker told the man, "We don't necessarily look at the legal status, like I said. Abortion appointments do require photo ID. It's nothing as far as records. It's just photo ID that's ever going to be required."

In Roanoke, Va., a Planned Parenthood staffer suggested the man consider going to the Health Department with his little girls, since it would be cheaper and easier: "They're discreet. They're confidential. They, you know, don't tell people what's going on, because -- frankly -- it's nobody's business."

The video exposes continued. In Charlottesville, Va., another clinic worker sympathized with the pimp: "Anybody here can help you. Everything here is confidential. We can't give any information out."

The networks refused to acknowledge these stings. But it's not a matter of journalistic principle, objecting to hidden cameras. It's all about politics.

Twenty years ago, on the night of Halloween 1991, ABC's "Primetime Live" aired a story based on its own investigation, complete with hidden cameras, of ... crisis pregnancy centers. They were out to expose the allegedly awful practice of pro-lifers advising pregnant women (SET ITAL) against (END ITAL) abortions. Within days of the ABC story, CBS and NBC also aired reports with hidden cameras and female producers lying about being pregnant.

What caused this perfect storm of stings?

Ron Fitzsimmons, then the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, wrote in a Sept. 4, 1991 memo: "I went to the ABC program Prime Time several weeks ago and they immediately agreed to do an 'expose' on the issue of crisis pregnancy centers."

Fitzsimmons told the Media Research Center that "('Primetime' producer) Ben Sherwood is mad at me about that memo, those words I used. It looked like I was directing that whole show. But I was on the phone every day. I gave him all of that stuff. I gave him all of those names and clinics. Ben would call me every day and ask me about the situation in certain states."

Last December, Sherwood became the new president of ABC News. Now you understand why it's not surprising that ABC spiked the pro-life story, even if it proves they are complete hypocrites.

But there's more. In 1991, all three networks used a congressional hearing chaired by liberal then-Rep. Ron Wyden as the news hook for their hidden-camera probes. Fitzsimmons said the hearing was his work, too: "This story would not have been possible without the hearing," he said, "and that was my idea."

This is why liberals sound so phony when they say Fox is a political organization -- and by contrast imply that ABC, CBS and NBC never act like ideological cogs in someone else's publicity machine. They've been at it for decades.

From:

http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2011/02/09/planned_parenthood,_spiked/page/full/

Patriot Act Facts

by Conn Carroll

Last night, despite a strong majority vote in favor of the bill, the House of Representatives fell seven votes short of the two-thirds they needed to suspend the rules and pass three key counterterrorism amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Many of the headlines you will read today will say things like "Patriot Act Extension Fails in House," but the reality is that much of the PATRIOT Act was already permanently enacted. Of the three amendments to FISA at issue in last night's vote, two were part of the original PATRIOT Act, one was part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and all are set to expire at the end of this month.

Eight of the 26 Republican no votes came from freshmen who, Politico reports, "felt completely uninformed by their leadership." Representative Todd Rokita (R-IN), who voted for the bill, even told Politico that he "didn't know anything about [the vote] until today." The three amendments voted on last night have been extensively modified over the years and now include significant new safeguards, including substantial court oversight. They include:

Roving Surveillance Authority: Roving wiretaps have been used routinely by domestic law enforcement in standard criminal cases since the mid-1980s. However, national security agents did not have this garden-variety investigative tool until the passage of the PATRIOT Act in 2001. Section 206 of the PATRIOT Act allows law enforcement, after approval from the FISA court, to track a suspect as he moves from cell phone to cell phone. The government must first prove that there is "probable cause" to believe that the target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. It further requires continuous monitoring by the FISA court and substantial reporting requirements to that Court by the government.

Business Record Orders: Domestic law enforcement, working with local prosecutors, routinely rely on business records through the course of their investigations, oftentimes through the use of a subpoena. However, national security agents did not have the same authority to acquire similar evidence prior to the passage of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. This provision allows law enforcement, with approval from the FISA court, to require disclosure of documents and other records from businesses and other institutions (third parties) without a suspect's knowledge. The third-party recipients of 215 orders can even appeal any order to the FISA court.

The Lone Wolf Provision: Section 6001 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act allows law enforcement to track non-U.S. citizens acting alone to commit acts of terrorism that are not connected to an organized terrorist group or other foreign power. While the FBI has confirmed that this section has never actually been used, it needs to be available if the situation arises where a lone individual may seek to do harm to the United States.

At least 36 known terrorist plots have been foiled since 9/11. The United States continues to face a serious threat of terrorism. National security investigators continue to need the above authorities to track down terror leads and dismantle plots before the public is any danger. Opponents of these provisions have produced little evidence of any PATRIOT Act misuse. All of the provisions above are subject to routine oversight by both the FISA court and Congress, and no single provision of the PATRIOT Act has ever been found unconstitutional. Congress should not let the sunset provisions expire and should instead seek permanent authorization.

From:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/09/morning-bell-patriot-act-facts/

Californian parents express concern over textbooks which are romanticizing Islam history:

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/02/11/california-parents-upset-textbooks-romanticizes-history-of-islam/

A liberal Christian is an oxymoron:

http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=4566

Latest on the Pigford Fraud investigation:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2011/02/11/open-thread-pigford-fraud-investigation-getting-very-interesting

and

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2011/02/11/open-thread-pigford-fraud-investigation-getting-very-interesting

Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Theologian of Terror

http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A2-02CD-43AF-8147-649E26813571,frameless.htm

Employers Post Fewer Job Openings

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12869240

Additional Sources

Biden’s successful dump:

http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/484362

Military coup in Egypt was behind Mubarak’s leaving:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LAS3U00.html

AZ sues the federal government:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LA8QG80.html

US Weekly and Time fall for phony Palin quotes:

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/02/11/oopsies-us-weekly-apologizes-to-sarah-palin-over-using-fake-quotes/

CBO says healthcare law will kill 800,000 jobs.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/800000-jobs-gone-cbo-admits-health-care-law-will-kill-jobs/

Lindsay Lohan tweeter:

http://twitter.com/lindsaylohan

Judge: Out-of-State NY Property Owners Must Pay NY Income Tax

RUSH: Some of you, if you haven't heard this... (sigh) The best way is to just tell you. "Connecticut and New Jersey residents with [property in New York] are about to get a nasty surprise: New York state wants more taxes from them." Connecticut and New Jersey residents, but this would be Florida residents; this would be anybody who used to live in New York or anybody who owns property in New York but does not live there. "A New York court ruled last month that all income earned by a New Canaan, Conn., couple is subject to New York state taxes because they own a summer home on Long Island they used only a few times a year. They have been hit with an additional tax bill of $1.06 million" to the state of New York.

They live in Connecticut. They've got a place in the Hamptons they visit three or four times a year. Every dollar of income earned throughout the year is subject to New York residential income taxes now. "Tax experts and real estate brokers say this ruling could boost the tax bill for thousands of business executives who own New York City apartments they use only occasionally. It could also hurt sales in the Hamptons and New York's other vacation-home communities. 'People will think twice about spending any summer time in New York,' says Robert Willens, a New York-based tax consultant. 'The amount of tax they could be subjected to is likely to outweigh the benefit.'"

Let me make this personal. If you've been listening for a while, you know that I have been subjected to all this. I sold my fashionable Upper East Side New York penthouse last year precisely because of this. (interruption) Hell, yes, I knew this was coming! In my case... Well, I suspected this was coming based on what my experiences were. In 1997, I declared that I was leaving New York as a resident. I did not sell my apartment there. I moved to Florida, which has no state income tax. I informed the tax authorities in Albany and New York City that I had moved. I sent letters: "This is why I'm not filing tax returns." In the year 2002, I got a letter claiming I owed X-amount of dollars in unpaid taxes from 1997 -- and penalties.

Well, I don't work there. I don't live there. They then demanded to know how many days each of those years since 2007 I had worked, and I had to prove to them 14 different ways for every day of every year in those five where I was. They even wanted to visit my house in Florida and the New York apartment to see if I was lying. They wanted to see which one was really the more lived in. That didn't happen, but they requested it. So the way it ended up is, "Okay," they said, "You will pay a per diem tax for every day that you are in New York City working. The income you make that day will be subject to our state and city taxes."

So we had to go back and calculate the days of those five years I was there, make restitution and so forth. I have been audited every year since. Every year since 2007, I've been audited every year. I have to prove a negative every year, and every year, I document every day where I am 14 different ways. You might ask, "How do you do that?" Well, credit cards, phone records, computer ID addresses. I had a computer in the New York studio that had its own IP address. My New York apartment had its own IP address, all kinds of different ways. Website pictures! We sent Dittocam pictures, because the picture is different from the New York studio to here.

We had to send a hundred pages each year of pictures and video from the Dittocam, and they still claimed I was lying to them about it! I'm paying legal fees and all this. So finally last year, I said, "You know what? The hook for all of this is this New York apartment. They really think I'm there more often than I'm admitting because of that New York apartment," because I never had any New York hotel credit card receipts or any of that. So I sold the apartment. Now everybody who is like me is going to be told, "You are a year-round, full-time resident in New York if you don't live there.

All you have to do is have an apartment there." It doesn't matter if you live in France. This story talks about people in Connecticut and New Jersey, but it's gonna apply to everybody that owns something in New York but who doesn't live there. If they find you, if they find that you own it, you're going to pay tax year round as a full time resident. It used to be that you calculate if you're there 183 days, then you were a full-time resident. Anything less than half a year, you weren't. Then it went to this per diem business.

Like visiting sports teams arriving in New York -- baseball teams, hockey, basketball -- they pay New York State and City taxes for the three or four days they're in town at a time, and they supposedly are refunded that amount from the state where they live. So when the Dodgers go in and play the Mets for a three-game series, that's three days in New York state taxes they owe. California doesn't take the tax. Now, if one of those players happens to own a place in New York... This happened to Derek Jeter, too, by the way. He lives in Tampa. He tried to claim Florida residence and so forth. He got soaked for a lot, and of course in his position, high PR, you pay it up.

But now, you don't live there, but you have an apartment that you're at two or three times a year? All of your income is subject to New York state tax. A court has said it! This is not the New York tax authorities. This is not Albany. This is a New York court. This is how desperate they are for money. They are just out of money. (interruption) Well, I would think, yeah. "If you don't live in the state, isn't that taxation without representation?" But in tax law, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent. So that's why I just got rid of it -- at, by the way (this really irritated the left, too) a really healthy profit during the midst of a horrible real estate bubble. That really ticked 'em off, too.

RUSH: I'm finding people incredulous over this New York tax story. I want you to listen to what the judge gave as his reason for this ruling. The judge is Joseph Pinto, a New York administrative law judge. He made this ruling in a 2009 case that was affirmed last month on appeal by the

New York state tax appeals tribunal. Now, of course a tax court is gonna go along with this. The judge ruled that this couple in Connecticut, New Canaan couple, ruled that their Long Island vacation home qualified as a permanent abode because it was big enough to be. It was suitable for year-round living. It wasn't a cottage. It didn't have an outhouse or anything. It was a biggie. "Whether or not the couple actually stayed in the home wasn't relevant." Whether they were in the state of New York did not matter. They could have been. "Under the ruling, if an owner doesn't spend a single a day in a home it could still count toward a permanent residence," in which case the owner would have two permanent residences, in this case Connecticut and New York. You could have been there.

I have faced that logic in my own audits. "You weren't there but you coulda been. You were close, you coulda been." It's worse than insanity. It's not insanity. It's authoritarianism. It's not insanity. That's the last thing it is. This is not somebody who's mindless. This is somebody who's perfectly of sound mind that has a different view of what freedom is. This is somebody whose idea of freedom and liberty do not jive with you and I.

By the way, Obama's press availability with the media on Egypt was originally scheduled for 1:30, and they moved it back to a "time to be determined." Well, I don't think that now that I know what time they scheduled it for, but we're wondering, maybe he hasn't really resigned, but now that it has been scheduled for, what do you think the time is, Snerdley? It is precisely at 3 p.m. The Obama press release or press availability on Egypt is precisely at 3 p.m. today. And we'll be back, ladies and gentlemen.

RUSH: An administrative law judge, which is what Judge Pinto is, is a bureaucrat for the state. It's not a court in the strict sense. Well, it is, but it's a bureaucratic court, self-serving, you know, to help the state regime on this tax business.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703745704576136671394373928.html

Norma from the Hood: We Must Redistribute the World's Wealth

RUSH: Who's next on the program? Newcastle, Delaware, this is Norma, and I welcome you to the program. Hi.

CALLER: Yeah, thank you, Rush. I just have a comment here, just listen to me, then I'll get off.

RUSH: All right.

CALLER: The reason why we have chaos in Egypt... Uh, President Mubarak, okay. I don't know him personally, but I do saw a documentary this week on CNN that the people live in cemeteries. I'm talking about poor people. They live on $2 a day. How would he like to live off of $2 a day? Okay, we need to do something about -- in all countries, not just Egypt. These leaders and government should be more compassionate to the ones that don't have, the disadvantaged. And this is a problem globally, not just Egypt. This is just like...you know? This is something that...

RUSH: You know what, Norma? This is a brilliant idea that you have.

CALLER: Yes, we need to help. This will remedy our situation, Rush.

RUSH: No, no, wait, I want to explore that. We've gotta find a way to make the poor less poor. We have to find --

CALLER: (garbled) I think the poor getting poorer.

RUSH: We have to find a way to care more about them. Do you realize that that $2 a day that the average Egyptian lives on is almost ten times the amount of money Obama's brother lives off of in that hut?

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: In Kenya.

CALLER: But it's still poverty, I don't care how you look at it.

RUSH: Right, so how would you fix it? How would you fix this poverty?

CALLER: The wealth is not evenly distributed.

RUSH: Ah! The wealth...

CALLER: The wealth is not evenly distributed, Rush.

RUSH: Okay.

CALLER: It's not because okay, President Obama --

RUSH: Is that why we have the poor people we have in America because the wealth isn't properly distributed?

CALLER: It isn't, and Obama does not go down into the hood. He never goes into hood to see the state of Black America, Hispanics, whites living in poverty. He never goes to the rough places. He goes to the places that are safe.

RUSH: Right, well --

CALLER: He's not dealing with the problems of black America. He's not dealing with the problems. He's just ignoring it.

RUSH: You have to understand something: Obama's trying to make it so that we send less money to Egypt, Norma.

CALLER: Well, but why would we enrich a government that has poor people in the streets?

RUSH: Who should be in charge of distributing the wealth?

CALLER: Someone that we trust and who can you trust today with everybody being for "me, myself, and I"?

RUSH: This is fascinating.

CALLER: Who can you trust?

RUSH: Who did you vote for? There's no wrong answer. This is not a trick question or anything. Who did you vote for in the last election?

CALLER: I didn't see anyone when I would have voted for because I'm at the bottom and I can speak because I'm at the bottom and I'm in the hood because I know that we're being left out.

RUSH: Okay.

CALLER: I'm in the hood.

RUSH: All right.

CALLER: I can speak.

RUSH: All right.

CALLER: And I'm very upset that because nobody wants to talk about the poor. It's always the rich and the middle class.

RUSH: I hear you. You got it. I gotta go.

RUSH: Okay, we have our last caller, Norma, making the point that the problem is the Egyptian poor don't have enough money. We've gotta do a better job of distributing the wealth. To hell with that! We don't need to do that. If that's the problem, why doesn't Mubarak just print some money and hand it out out there at Tahiri Square? If that's what the problem is, print the money. That's what we've done. (interruption) Don't smirk at me, Snerdley! That's what we've done. What do you think the stimulus was? Do we have the money? Did we have the money to give away to Obama's buddies? We didn't. What did we do? We printed the money. We printed the money. (interruption) No, but the people Obama wanted to get the money got it, the unions or whoever.

Wherever he intended that money to go, it went. This Mubarak is an idiot. Just start printing money! I mean, we are the model here of how you keep in office and become beloved by the same people that hate his guts here. What's so hard about this? Just print the money! Or, you know, call up Hu Jintao and borrow some, for crying out loud. Offer to make the iPhone cheaper than the ChiComs do. I don't know. "Rush, why are you being so flippant about this?" (snorts) Folks, flippant? I'm taking real-world events and applying the American solution to them. You have problems with people who don't have enough money? You print it! You give it to 'em and you call it a stimulus plan.

You tell people, "This is about getting you jobs, this is about rebuilding roads and bridges, this is about rebuilding our infrastructure, this is about making sure that our country becomes modernized again. This is about bringing unemployment down to 8%. We're gonna have a revived economy and we're gonna finish this. By the time our stimulus is in place, employment will be down 8%, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created, blah, blah, blah." Uh, we did that. We were told all of that. We didn't just print a trillion dollars for Porkulus. We printed $2 trillion for TARP and whatever else the Fed did. We're continuing to print money with QE2 to funnel to the stock market, and it's all for the express purpose of revitalizing our economy.

I don't know what their health care situation is over there, but if Mubarak woulda just, you know, come out in favor of universal health care -- everybody gets coverage, keep your doctor, keep your plan, whatever you have to say to 'em to get it passed -- you wouldn't have people in the streets. The guy's obviously an idiot. He's got the role model of how to do all this but he's just totally ignored it. He sits around waiting for us to give him the money when he could just print it. Why are we the only ones that print our money (laughing) when we don't have any? And we not only print it for us, we print it for a lot of other people, too. Anyway, her call is interesting from one standpoint.

The reason I wanted to query her about, "Well, where are we gonna get the money?" is if you have a problem with poverty, what's the solution to it? I intended the question as a think piece. Obviously I failed with her, because she had limited time to respond, and she had the passionate answers that she wanted to say, but think about it. If you have a problem with poverty, what is the solution to that? Okay, creating wealth. But you gotta define that. We have had, in this country, a whooole lot of programs to fix poverty. We've had the Great Society. We've had the War on Poverty. We have had any number of welfare programs, and I would ask you: "Have we reduced poverty as an expression or as a percentage of our population?

No. Now, compared to poverty in Egypt, our poverty isn't poverty. But compared to the standard of living in this country, we do have poverty, but not when compared to poverty in the rest of the world. So we arguably in this country do far, far better with our underprivileged than many other countries do. Why is that? The answer is very simple, folks. It's what's so frustrating about the election of Obama in the first place. The answer is the unequal distribution of capitalism around the world. If you want a prosperous population with robust opportunity, you have to have free markets. You cannot have a command-and-control economy. You cannot have, as your standard operating procedure, the notion that you are going to transfer from earners to non-earners or from producers to non-producers and create wealth.

That is not creating wealth, it's destroying it, which is all governments can do. Governments cannot create wealth. All they can do is destroy it, and that is happening in this country. I'm sure it's happened in Egypt. I don't doubt these people in Tahrir "Circle" are ticked off because of poverty concerns, standard of living concerns. But they're not gonna have a solution to it with just a new figurehead. They're not gonna have a solution. If the military ends up running the show or Suleiman, they're not gonna have a significant change in economic circumstances until there is a significant change in economic structure -- and even then, it isn't going to happen overnight.

We can sit here all day and lament the fact that Mubarak lives in a palace and these people in the protest live on $2 a day. That's not gonna change tomorrow when Mubarak's gone. It isn't going to change next year after Mubarak's gone. What has to happen is an accompanying change of structure, free markets -- and even then, with free markets, not everybody is going to be wealthy. Not everybody is going to be as prosperous as others. You are still going to have gradations of it, of income and wealth. You can divvy ours up into five quintiles, which is done for study purposes. Bottom fifth, second fifth, third fifth, middle fifth, the top fifth, whatever. You could divide it into tenths or quarters if you want to, but you're still gonna have a disparity, and the best efforts to make everybody the same always fail. It's not possible.

Every effort made by command-and-control structure -- economy, government, what have you -- to equalize outcomes under the premise of fairness or whatever is dismal failure. That primarily is what Egypt is based on. Any socialist, authoritarian country is based on the false premise that everybody's gonna be equal; everybody's gonna be the same; everybody's gonna be comfortable. It never works out that way. It all goes back to why and how did this country in 230 short years outrun, outperform every other civilization in history -- and it's the way we structured ourselves, which allowed for our true freedom, intelligence, ambition to surface and prosper and function unimpeded for the most part. Most people in the world do not have that basic structure in which to function -- and, sadly, many people in the world don't want to take the risk.

They'd just as soon sacrifice a little freedom, sacrifice a little liberty for a guaranteed meager wage rather than take the risk or doing hard work or what have you. It depends on how they've been conditioned. But to sit here and say, "They live on two bucks a day. We have to have compassion for 'em"? We do, but you just can't start passing out money to them, because when do you stop? If you start doing that, you're not changing anything. You are prolonging the problem and actually making it worse. The true creation of wealth, the true generation of wealth resulting in legitimate economic growth -- the expansion of the pie -- cannot happen under an authoritarian. I don't care how well intention. It cannot happen under a socialistic government.

I don't care how well-intentioned. I don't care how much passion is behind it. I don't care how much good intention is involved. It is not structurally possible to grow an economic pie. We, the United States of America, are the textbook lesson in how to do it, and I'm amazed. I'm amazed that there have not been greater attempts to emulate what we do. We're surrounded by people who want to stamp us out. We're surrounded by people who want to tamp us down. Sadly, some of those people now are in positions of power in our own government, which is why there is a Tea Party made up of people who understand that the greatness of America is under assault. So, yeah, it sounds really good.

"Oh, yeah, we've gotta redistribute. We have to be fairer as we distribute the wealth." Well, somebody's gotta create it first. Somebody has to earn it before somebody else can take it and give it to somebody else, and as long as there is an animosity and a hatred for those who do that creating of wealth, who do the generating, who create and grow the economy -- so long as we have people who foster a resentment and hatred for those people -- it's going to be very difficult to be constantly successful at doing it. People don't want to feel like targets. People doing good things, people playing by the rules, people using their natural talents are sick and tired of being blamed for what other people don't have. It's not their fault.

It's not Walmart's fault that somebody doesn't have something. It's not the fault of anybody or company or group of prosperous people that somebody else doesn't. But the way we've set things up it's a zero sum game and if there's a bunch of rich people it means there had to have been, at one time, other rich people to have things stolen from 'em. So the socialists and communists come along and say, "We're gonna equalize things. We're gonna get these people that took your money in the first plaace and we're gonna get it back," but you never get it back, because you never had it in the first place. Because the whole premise that you've been stolen from, robbed, or what have you, is flawed.

It's a message and a premise put forth by shameless politicians who have tried their best to convince people, "You just vote for me! Vote for me and I'll end your poverty -- or I'll end your misery, or I'll end your unhappiness -- and I'll make sure these people stealing from you, these unfair people taking your wealth, they stop that. I'm gonna get it back for you. I'm gonna make sure." It never works out, does it? You end up with Egypt every single time. So, yeah, it's frustrating to get somebody calling, "Well, we need to give 'em some more money. We need to transfer more money. That's the solution." Yeah, immediately it is, but unless they figure out a way to produce it for themselves and make it long-lasting and systematic and institutional, it isn't gonna matter a hill of beans.

Conservative Voters Rankled by Size of Republican Budget Cuts

RUSH: Tony in Edmonds, Washington. Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, I'm concerned that this issue in Egypt -- which is very important, yet I'm concerned -- is overshadowing the budget issues that the Republicans are doing right now. You probably heard of the reductions in spending that Ryan's committee has recommended for Fiscal 2011 are like $32 billion. I mean, this is just outrageous when they were talking about a $100 billion.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Now they're talking $32 billion? I mean, where was Obama at this point in his first year in office? I mean, he was passing a stupid stimulus bill, and where are we in our first year in control of the House? We're talking about a measly $32 billion reduction? I mean, here you got Rand Paul talking about $500 billion in the Senate, and what does Paul Ryan and this Hal Rogers in appropriations do? This guy is a disaster. It's just disheartening, and I'll tell you, people are gonna come unglued when they catch wind that the Republicans are acting in this fashion.

RUSH: I'm looking for a column. Here it is. I'm glad you brought this up, because this happens to be after the unemployment news, the second story top of my stack. I have a piece here by Quin Hillyer who writes for the American Spectator. It's a blog post, and he has a piece that he's written aimed at people who hold the view that you just expressed. It says: "Budget Cutters Should Chill Out." Now, stick with me on this, Tony. I just want to get your reaction what he says here. He says, "Before I say what I'm going to say, let me re-establish my bona fides, although I'll still get slammed by angry extremists anyway. But I'm a budget cutter's budget cutter. I served on the Approps Committee when it actually cut $50 billion in domestic discretionary spending in two years, which back then was REAL money.

"It would be the equivalent of about $120 billion today ... I did so in 1998. I did so in 1999. I did so every single year of the Bush administration..." He's got a track record here of complaining about spending that is as documented as yours is. "Nonetheless..." This is a key point here: "Nonetheless, the conniption fits a lot of the House freshmen are having about Paul Ryan's $32 billion in proposed domestic discretionary cuts are totally misplaced. Anybody who thought the $100 billion cut pledge applied to this FISCAL year, which is almost half finished, is crazy. The pledge was for this year -- this first legislative year of the new Congress, meaning for the first full budget this Congress gets to work on, which is that of FY 2012," which will start in October.

So he says there's nobody better at cutting budgets, nobody knows more about what he's doing right now than Paul Ryan. "If the GOP cuts willy-nilly, a full $100 billion for THIS fiscal year rather than the coming one, I guarantee there will be horror stories. I guarantee there will be mistakes. I guarantee there will be a political reversal that will harm or destroy our REAL objective, which is to make significant, PERMANENT, politically sustainable budget savings that lead to a stable, balanced budget while conservatives still hold sway in Congress for a lasting time. The freshmen, and the outside conservatives who egg them on, flat-out don't know what they are doing. They need to plan to win the long game, rather than demand a short-game, instant-gratification win that turns into a horribly Pyrrhic victory." So apparently he has heard people like you and he is fit to be tied that you're putting unfair demands on the Republicans.

CALLER: I can't buy that malarkey. First of all we're talking about a $3.5 trillion budget, you know, and the idea that we it's a squeeze to cut barrel 1%? It's not even 1% that they're talking. I mean, this is ridiculous. We're looking for symbolism, okay? Maybe it's just symbolism we're looking for but at the same time these guys are post-come in with guts and they're supposed to... To cut a hundred billion out of $3.5 trillion, that radical? I mean, come on, man! We need response today. We aren't looking for Fscal 2012. We're looking for fiscal 2011 and I don't care if there's seven months left or three months left, you know, we've got $3.5 trillion to work with, and you divide that by a quarter, you know, you still got a lot of money shloshing around there. Don't give me this malarkey. It's too much.

RUSH: Okay. So the Republicans made a pledge. It was part of their campaign. They are not meeting the terms of the pledge, as far as you're concerned --

CALLER: Yep, yep.

RUSH: -- and this is not good. Even if people think that these cuts will not pass the Senate, even if people think the cuts will not be approved, they still made a pledge to do this, and do it and apply the pressure and make them veto the cuts, right?

CALLER: That right. That's right. I mean, why pass this repeal Obamacare if it's not gonna pass the Senate? I mean don't give me this line that, "Oh, we can't get by the Senate if we make radical cuts in this budget."

RUSH: Well, I... (sigh) Look, I'm not prepared to give you the details now. Maybe tomorrow. I have to digest a little bit about a couple things that I heard just before the program today, but if what I was told is correct (and I have to check it) you are not gonna be happy about the attempts to defund Obamacare, either.

CALLER: Mmm. Well --

RUSH: I'll have details of that. I've got them now, I just have to check 'em. I just want to make sure that it's accurate. Everybody would love to use this show to get their pet peeve point out. I am diluted every day with people, "Rush, you gotta say this! You gotta make sure people hear this! You gotta!" So I have to check this out, but if this is true, if you're upset over the difference between $32 billion and a $100 billion in budget cuts, the defunding via the continuation resolution of Obamacare, you're gonna forget about this. You're gonna be off on another warpath.

CALLER: Well, let me make one last point before I hang up.

RUSH: And I'll tell you what it also said, the point of this note that I got today, is that the Republican leadership is more concerned with the rules of the House and points of order and making sure that the opposition is not shut out in debate -- 'cause they were shut out when the Democrats ran the show -- than they are with the substance of a lot of this legislation. These are why I must check these things. So tomorrow's Open Line Friday, but you don't want to miss it.

CALLER: Well, let me make one last point: If these guys behave in this fashion and make measly cuts, in 2012 they're gonna split the ticket. There's gonna be a big segment, a lot of us Tea Partiers, who do. I'm a staunch Republican, but I am fit to be tied.

RUSH: I know, I know, I know.

CALLER: People are gonna bail on the Republicans; they're gonna split the ticket.

RUSH: Bah, they're gonna bail on certain ones. I understand you, but -- but –

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/02/09/budget-cutters-should-chill-ou

Billions Spent on Programs, Not Knowing if They Work

RUSH: Okay, before we get back to this Egypt business, we're talking here about printing money, wasting money, spending money that we don't have. The Republicans are talking about cutting spending, cutting the budget, finding areas of the budget that are laced with fat, easy to cut. Get this. This is from Tom Coburn's website, Senator, Oklahoma. "'Financial Audit of the Department of Health & Human Services Reveals Concerning Findings for FY2010' -- The nonpartisan analysis of an audit conducted by Ernst & Young on the balance sheets of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for FY2010, was included in HHS's FY 2010 Agency Financial Report, dated November 15, 2010." Here are some of the results of the audit.

"HHS Is Not In Compliance With Federal Financial Management Law. ... Nearly $2 Billion Taxpayer Dollars Are Stuck in Limbo. 'As of September 30, 2010, the audit identified approximately 102,500 transactions totaling an approximate $1.8 billion that were more than two years old without activity.'" Now, what would those be? Well, could only guess. But imagine you're one of these people that gets paid by a hundred people, you get a check here, a check there, a check there, and you put 'em all in a drawer and you forget half of them, and a couple years go by and you still haven't cashed or deposited them. Now, you might not be able to relate to that, "What do you mean, people sending me money, I wouldn't put it in the bank?" I don't know. I mean here you're dealing with amounts of money that are so large, if people paying you a million and a half here, million and a half there, and you get a $10,000 check, "Ah, screw it, I'll put it in the drawer for awhile, forget about it."

The point is that there are 102,500 such transactions out there -- people have been written checks that they've not cashed, that not done anything with. Two billion dollars in limbo. It must mean that the money wasn't necessary if we've spent it, if we've given it out, and the people who received it don't need it or what have you. "Nearly $800 Million Dollars "Could Not Be Explained" Differing Between HHS' Records and Treasury Department Records. 'Based on our review and discussions with management, we noted differences of $794 million that could not be explained.' Some Processes and Procedural Manuals Have Not Been Updated Since the 1980s. ... Current HHS Personnel Need Training To 'Complete Their Day-to-Day Responsibilities.'"

So there are billions of dollars unaccounted for in the HHS budget. Anybody with a brain knows that in a budget of three trillion, we can't comprehend it, there's no way we ought to be broke. Three trillion dollars. I tell you, the number of freeloaders, the number of people we have feeding off the taxpayers, the number of institutions we have feeding off the taxpayers, the number of people not doing a damn thing or doing very little, it's called work and being paid for it. If a true audit of the entire federal budget were ever done there'd be a revolution in this country, I guaran-damn-tee you what's happening in Egypt would be happening here. There would be barbarians at the gate if there were an audit of this entire federal budget, for the last ten years alone. You would be stunned at where money is being spent. And then to be told we don't have enough for firemen or for cops or for education or all these so-called essentials, you would be blown away when you found out who's getting all this money. It's akin to when they found out janitors in New York City were making $400,000 a year and owned yachts. 60 Minutes did the expose.

http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=6a04c50e-72c7-477e-ac37-cbae0f575d10

The US Manufacturing Myth

RUSH: Here's Robert in Los Angeles. Robert, welcome, sir, to the EIB Network, great to have you with us. Hello.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It's a pleasure to talk to you. I just want to take a minute of your time and I want to ask your opinion on something. I constantly keep hearing the president and government officials saying that we need jobs, jobs, and jobs. I have the solution, and I'd like your opinion on this. Domestic manufacturing. We've lost it to China. We have a trade imbalance of about 200 to $300 billion a year. Why don't we either tax them at a higher rate or, my suggestion would be, reduce the taxes on anyone who makes something in the United States and the product that's made here has to be made with maybe 70%, 80% American made. I'd like your opinion.

RUSH: I have to find the story. I do not have it at my fingertips. It was a story within the past month on an anniversary of something, I forget which. It might have been in the Wall Street Journal, and the point of the story was that we are manufacturing more stuff today than ever before in this country. (interruption) Was it after the State of the Union? That was just a couple weeks ago. I thought this was a little bit longer ago than that, certainly this year. We are the number one manufacturer in the world. There's been this myth that we've shipped all of our jobs overseas. Yeah, certain kinds of jobs have been shipped overseas. And one of the misnomers with manufacturing jobs lost, take a look, for example, at the Apple iPhone. Now, the Apple iPhone is assembled in China, but all the guts are not made in China. There are parts made in America, parts made in Switzerland, parts made in parts of Europe. They're just all shipped over to Shenzhen at the manufacturing plant and they're assembled there, but the whole phone is not ChiCom. It's just assembled there. But because it comes from there, it is considered a Chinese-made product, when in fact the guts may not be. And that's how you can report accurately that we still are the number one manufacturing country in the world.

So we are nevertheless allowing the Chinese to manipulate us in a lot of ways. I'm not saying the premise of your call is wrong. We start tariffs on Chinese imports, that just never works. It just never works. The market is speaking. The market here is speaking. If we, given current labor rates and everything else, an iPhone totally put together and made in this country would cost about $1800. Well, people aren't gonna pay $1800 for an iPhone, and Apple knows it. But with all the parts made elsewhere, shipped to China and assembled over there, you can get an iPhone for 200 bucks now with Verizon thrown in as a carrier, in addition to AT&T. So I'm against Smoot-Hawley-type tariffs. I think the way you deal with the ChiComs is diplomatically, and it's tough to deal with them diplomatically when they own so much of our debt. I'm gonna tell you something, Robert. The Chinese ran rings around us in that last state visit of Hu Jintao. We sit here, we talk about human rights, we demand human rights, and we exempt them. We talk about carbon emissions and making sure that we penalize ourselves for our technological process, but not them.

Donald Trump has some I think intriguing, intelligent stuff to say about China, but he does business with them at the same time. Trump does a lot of business with the ChiComs. But in his view, Trump does not lose money doing it nor does he get humiliated or embarrassed in the process. But there are a lot of myths about manufacturing in this country and the trade deficit and all this. We're not nearly as absent manufacturing jobs as people think. Now, we might have lost sectors. I'm having a mental block. Textiles, we mighta lost a lot of the textile industry and we probably don't make many sewing machines anymore. But there are other things that have replaced them on the manufacturing scale, and we're not a totally manufacturing-free economy. It's just one of the many myths that are out there. I'm gonna have to find that story. Somebody on my crack research staff -- well, I'll look for it myself. It will take them 'til June to find it, but I'll come up with it here and -- (laughing) -- I'll probably have it in the break when we get back.

RUSH: And, as I knew would be the case, we have a couple of stories here on the US and manufacturing. "According to the Federal Reserve data, the U.S. produced almost $3 trillion of industrial output in 2008, measured in 2000 dollars (or about $3.7 trillion in 2008 dollars The US manufacturing sector, the manufacturing sector alone is the third largest economy in the world. Just manufacturing. Compared to the GDP of the top five countries -- Japan, China, Germany, France, UK -- USA manufacturing alone is the third highest GDP, just the manufacturing sector. "If the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate country, it would be tied with Germany as the world's third largest economy.

"It would also be larger than the entire economies of India and Russia combined. As much as we hear about the 'demise of U.S. manufacturing,' and how we are a country that 'doesn't produce anything anymore,' and how we have 'outsourced our production to China,' the U.S. manufacturing sector is alive and well, and the U.S. is still the largest manufacturer in the world." That's Federal Reserve numbers. This is Jeff Jacoby and his column in the Boston Globe on February 6th, three days ago: "There's just one problem with all the gloom and doom about American manufacturing. It's wrong. Americans make more 'stuff' than any other nation on earth, and by a wide margin," damn it! Yeah.

"According to the United Nations' comprehensive database of international economic data, America's manufacturing output in 2009 (expressed in constant 2005 dollars) was $2.15 trillion. That surpassed China's output of $1.48 trillion by nearly 46 percent. China's industries may be booming, but the United States still accounted for 20 percent of the world's manufacturing output in 2009 -- only a hair below its 1990 share of 21 percent. 'The decline, demise, and death of America's manufacturing sector has been greatly exaggerated,' says economist Mark Perry, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington." That's not a liberal think tank.

"'America still makes a ton of stuff, and we make more of it now than ever before in history.' In fact, Americans manufactured more goods in 2009 than the Japanese, Germans, British, and Italians -- combined," and as I've always said it's the European Union that's going to hell when it comes to manufacturing. It's the European Union that is in deep, deep trouble, aside from Germany. France, Great Britain, Italy, they're in trouble as a competitive enterprise. "American manufacturing output hits a new high almost every year. US industries are powerhouses of production:

"Measured in constant dollars, America's manufacturing output today is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. So why do so many Americans fear that the Chinese are eating our lunch? Part of the reason is that fewer Americans work in factories. Millions of industrial jobs have vanished in recent decades, and there is no denying" that. "But factory employment has declined because factory productivity has so dramatically skyrocketed," and not everything anymore that's manufactured in America is made in a factory or a plant.

So there.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/02/06/made_in_the_usa/

Harry Baals Won't Get His Building in Fort Wayne

RUSH: All right, ladies and gentlemen, they've got a problem in Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne, Indiana: "Despite garnering far more support in an online poll than any of the other suggestions, the new government center building in Fort Wayne is not going to be named after the city's longest tenured mayor. The longest tenured mayor's name is Harry Baals and they don't want name their government center the Harry Baals Government Center. The deputy mayor Beth Malloy said naming the building Harry Baals Government Center is "probably not" gonna happen because, quote, "We're not gonna make any decisions that look bad."

The AP has the story: "Scratch 'Harry Baals' Off List of Names for Government Center -- Fort Wayne, Ind., officials against putting former mayor's giggle-inducing name on building." He won four terms as mayor of Fort Wayne in the 1930s and the 1950s and there's a picture of Harry Baals here that accompanies the AP story. So now we know with this story what Harry Baals looks like. We didn't know that prior to this. Fort Wayne, you might want to rethink this. I mean everybody is in the need of economic stimulation. This may be exactly what the town needs to get it stimulated. What I want to know, seriously, a cultural question. Why wasn't this funny when the guy was elected? He was elected four times. Now, stop and think, culturally, just to illustrate how things have changed here. Back in the thirties and fifties a guy running for mayor named Harry Baals, eh, got elected four times. Now they won't name a building after the poor guy. (interruption) Well, Harry Baals was acceptable. Exactly right. Harry Baals was acceptable at one time.

"'We realize that while Harry Baals was a respected mayor, not everyone outside of Fort Wayne will know that,' Malloy said Tuesday in a statement to The Associated Press. 'We wanted to pick something that would reflect our pride in our community beyond the boundaries of Fort Wayne.' An online site taking suggestions for names showed more than 1,300 votes Tuesday for the Harry Baals Government Center. That's more than three times the votes received by the closest contender." But it doesn't matter. "Jim Baals, 51, who has lived in the city his entire life, said it's unfortunate that his great-uncle's name won't be considered for the building." Well, scratch that. (laughing) It isn't gonna be happening.

By the way, an update from Fort Wayne, Indiana. As you know we told you in the first hour they wanted to rename a new government center there the Harry Baals Center, then they decided not to because of the name. A guy named Harry Baals was a four-time mayor, Fort Wayne, in the thirties and the fifties. B-a-a-l-s. They said we're just not gonna do that. But nevertheless the guy was elected four times. In the thirties and fifties it didn't matter that a candidate was named Harry Baals. In 2011 it matters that some government building might be named after Harry Baals. And I got an e-mail. This is the update. There is a Harry Baals Drive. In other words, they named a street after Harry Baals in Fort Wayne, so why not a building?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41480994/ns/us_news-weird_news/

What Egyptians really want:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/562840/201102101920/What-Egyptians-Really-Do-Want.htm

GOP leaders give into freshmen, to cut a full $100 billion from the budget:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-10/republicans-to-propose-100-billion-u-s-spending-cut.html

Job training wastes $18 billion/year. Some federal programs make it less likely a person will find a job after being trained.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-02-09-1Ajobtraining09_ST_N.htm

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.

Palestinian Media Watch:

http://palwatch.org/

Right Bias:

http://rightbias.com/

Red, White and Blue news:

http://redwhitebluenews.com/

The Right Scoop (lots of videos):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Excellent news source:

http://home.myway.com/

Union refund? Really?

http://www.unionrefund.org/

The Right Reasons (news and opinion):

http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php

Meadia Research Center where the bias of mainstream news is exposed again and again.

http://www.mrc.org

Pundit and Pundette:

http://www.punditandpundette.com/

News directly from people in Egypt (called Broadcasting from Tahrir Square):

http://eltahrir.org/

Stand with Us:

http://www.standwithus.com/

A George Soros funded site:

http://thinkprogress.org/

Progressive media matters action network:

http://politicalcorrection.org/

The Jawa Report (there is some moderate emphasis upon Islam):

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

Kids Aren’t Cars:

http://www.kidsarentcars.com/blog/

Stuff you probably did not know about greenhouse gases (this is a good link for friends):

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming (I am fairly certain that this is serious; but it is really hard to tell). It is saying goodbye to French Wines, glaciers, guacamole, mixed nuts, French fries, baseball and Christmas trees and saying hello to cannibalistic polar bears, jellyfish attacks, giant squid attacks, more stray kittens, suffocating lemmings, burning cow poop and acidic oceans.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html

Comprehensive List of Tax Hikes in Obamacare (this includes individual health insurance costing as much as $695/month by 2016—which is not the only cost):

http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-tax-hikes-obamacare-a5758#

Tammy Bruce

http://tammybruce.com/

[California’s] Public Speakers blog:

http://pubsecrets.wordpress.com/

Flashpoint—California’s most significant political news:

http://www.flashreport.org/

The Publius Forum (more of a newscast than a blog; located in Chicago, I believe):

http://www.publiusforum.com/

Political Chips:

http://www.politicalchips.org/

Brits at their best:

http://www.britsattheirbest.com/

Political Affairs, which used to be called the Communist (in case you are interested in what the Democratic Par, I mean, the communist party is up to.

http://politicalaffairs.net/

Headlines, short news stories:

http://www.thehotjoints.com/

Christmas is evil (Muslim website):

http://xmasisevil.com/index2.php

Conservative blogger:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

Verum Serum

http://www.verumserum.com/

The Tax Professor Blog

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/

Moonbattery:

http://www.moonbattery.com/

Arbitrary Vote:

http://arbitraryvote.com/home

The Party of Know:

http://thepartyofknow.com/

Slap Blog

http://slapblog.com/

The latest news from Prison Planet:

http://prisonplanet.tv/

http://prisonplanet.tv/latest-news.html

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

The Frugal Café:

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

The Freedomist:

http://freedomist.com/

Greg Gutfeld’s website:

http://freedomist.com/

This is one of my favorite lists; this is a list of things which global warming causes (right now, it causes over 800 things—most of these are linked):

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

The U.K.’s number watch:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/number%20watch.htm

100 things we can say goodbye to (or, hello to) because of Global Warming (all of these are linked). They are very serious about these things, by the way:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html

If you are busy, and just want to read about the Top Ten things:

http://planetsave.com/2009/06/07/global-warming-effects-and-causes-a-top-10-list/

Observations of a blue state conservative:

http://lonelyconservative.com/

Thomas “Soul man” Sewell’s column archive:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp

Walter E. Williams column archive:

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/

Israpundit:

http://www.israpundit.com/

The Prairie Pundit:

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/

Conservative Art:

http://secularstupidest.com/

Conservative Club of Houston:

http://www.cclub.org/welcome

Conservative blog, but with an eye to the culture and pop culture (there is a lot of stuff here):

http://hallofrecord.blogspot.com/

Conservative and pop culture blog (last I looked, there were some Beatles’ performances here):

http://thinkinboutstuff.com/thinkinboutstuff/nfblog/

Raging Elephants:

http://www.ragingelephants.org/

Gulag bound:

http://gulagbound.com/

Hyscience:

http://www.hyscience.com/

Politi Fi

http://politifi.com/

TEA Party Patriots:

http://teapartypatriots.org/

South Montgomery County Liberty Group:

http://sites.google.com/site/smclibertygroup/

Hole in the Hull:

http://www.holeinthehull.com/

National Council for Policy Analysis (ideas changing the world):

http://www.ncpa.org/

Ordering their pamphlets:

http://www.policypatriots.org/

Cartoon (Senator Meddler):

http://www.senatormedler.com/

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 blower:

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/

Your daily cartoon:

http://daybydaycartoon.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)

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/