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

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

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

Despite soaring gas prices and middle east unrest, President Obama continues to try to slow down oil production in the Gulf of Mexico by appealing to a court which has directed the administration to act on several pending gulf oil permits.

The judge who declared Obamacare unconstitutional give the President 7 more days.

Democrats and Republicans come to an agreement which averts a government shutdown, but only for another 2 weeks. The public seems to be in favor of such a shutdown.

Both the Democrats and Republicans use phony math when it comes to this year’s budget. President Obama says he has met the Republicans halfway because he has decided to forgo $41 billion of spending which he originally wanted. Republicans, in reporting that they are reducing this year’s budget by $100 billion, also use that bogus $41 billion figure.

The Department of Defense released a study which they did in 2009 about the causes of the sudden stock market drop. They suggest that this could have only been done by a very large economy (another country). They called this economic terrorism. Obviously, our irresponsible lending practices and faux mortgage loans contributed heavily to all of this.

Jihadist kills 2 American servicemen, bound for Afghanistan, while they were in Germany. The White House is reticent to call this a terrorist act.

Protests continue in Egypt. Remember your hopes for democracy in Egypt? 4,000 rampaging Muslims recently attacked Christian homes and torch church about 15 miles outside of Cairo. The Muslim mob attacked the church, exploding 5-6 gas cylinders inside the church, pulled down the cross and the domes and burnt everything inside.

John Dodson, an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, was to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

20 year-old Mexican Police Chief Marisol Valles Garcia left her job as police chief after constant threats against her life; and she may seek US asylum.

40 rounds of .22 caliber long rifle hollow points were found in the surrounding areas of the Madison, Wisconsin capitol building.

There is a bomb threat at Governor Walker’s press conference; the guilty party has been arrested; the Obama Media Complex ignores this story.

House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he's determined to offer a budget this spring that curbs Social Security and Medicare.

The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 to uphold the speech of the Westboro Baptist church (the cult which demonstrates near the funerals of servicemen, somehow connected their deaths to a judgment from God over homosexuality).

Chicago homicide involving Daley nephew closed without charges. Daley’s nephew was apparently a suspect in this case.

As a result of the protestors in Madison, Wisconsin, state officials said that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million to repair.

Berkeley protestors chain themselves together to the ledge of a building at U.C. Berkeley because of the coming cuts to education in California.

At Northwestern University, there was an explicit after-class demonstration involving a woman being publicly penetrated by a sex toy on stage in the popular Human Sexuality course last week. This is part of a college course.

ABC pilot "Good Christian Bitches" is causing no little stir among both feminists and religious groups.

On Saturday, February 26^th, there were “Save the American Dream” rallies in all 50 states. Although it was made to seem as if these all

coincided with the Wisconsin union protests against Governor Walker there, these rallies were planned quite awhile ago. Some of the rally permits were pulled by the International Socialists Organization.

“Environmentally-safe” low water volume toilets in S.F. have caused a problem with a collection of sludge throughout the pipes of San Francisco, which apparently has developed a noticeable odor. This is being solved by pouring millions of pounds of bleach down into the city’s treated water system before it is poured into the bay. Some are claiming that, using that much bleach may not be very good for the environment.

Michelle Obama: “ We call the President ‘The Fact Guy’ because he reads so much he knows facts about everything.”

Newsman Chris Matthews: “"Everything he's [Obama] done has been good for this country."”

Chris Matthews: “[Tonight, we have] the right-wing freak-out over Egypt. Take Glenn Beck - please. Here's his delusional analysis. The pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt could lead to a Muslim takeover of the world and the establishment of a new Islamic caliphate. Did you get that?” Beck suggested, almost from the get-go, that the intent of some participants in these Muslim insurrections is an Islamic caliphate (a worldwide Muslim government).

Newsman Chris Matthews on Newt Gingrich: “He looks like a car bomber, he looks like a car bomber ... he looks like a car bomber. He's got that crazy Mephistophelian grin of his. He looks like he loves torturing. Look at the guy. This is not the face of a president.”

Donald Collins, columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribute-Review: " .. our own House of Representatives has been recently overstocked with neo-Neanderthals who fail to connect the dots on denying women access to contraception and this looming [population] crisis. Defunding Planned Parenthood is akin to denying that sex never produces results unwanted by women."

President Barack Obama: “I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon.”

President Obama, in accepting Joe “You lie” Wilson’s apology: "I do think that, as I said last night, we have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big, important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name-calling, without the assumption of the worst in other people's motives."

At a private White House dinner, a guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to "take back" their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn't dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a "subterranean agenda" in the anti-Obama movement - a racially biased one - that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it.

From the Huffington Post about the rallies held in all state capitols last Saturday: “On Saturday, the powers-that-be (in both parties) should see a rainbow force coming together: organized workers, business leaders, veterans, students and youth, faith leaders, civil rights fighters, women's rights champions, immigrant rights defenders, LGBTQ stalwarts, environmentalists, academics, artists, celebrities, community activists, elected officials and more -- all standing up for what's right.” Part of those who were intimately involved, and did not just show up, were communist and socialist organizations, conveniently left out of public statements like this.

Diana Butler Bass on Scott Walker: “...none of these prayers or sermons has swayed Scott Walker...He has steadfastly stayed on his original course, unfazed by the full weight of Roman Catholic authority or the mainline social justice tradition pressing upon him and urging him toward compromise and change.And this is why Scott Walker's religion is actually dangerous in the public square. Because it lacks the ability to compromise, it is profoundly anti-democratic.”

Congressman Charles Rangel: "Collective bargaining is something that is so close to slavery in terms of abolishing it, that it is not an American concept to tell people that they cannot discuss their economic position."

Michael Moore, at a recent and smaller rally in WI: "Madison is only the beginning. The rich have overplayed their hand.”

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin reminded the rally of the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery: "What they did was change the course of history. That is what you are doing today."

Attorney General Eric Holder, who refuses to prosecute the Black Panthers who intimidated some voters in 2008: "Think about that—when you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate .. .to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people."

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm: “I love the smell of democracy. It's so inspiring that so many people feel moved to come out and express themselves.”

Bill Maher: “When George Bush ran for president he had the thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen.”

Funny man Bill Maher manages to draw some sort of a straight line between Charlie Sheen and Sarah Palin. In reference to Sheen, Maher concluded; “So yes, it's childish, it's needlessly defensive, it makes no sense. So if you ever wondered what it would be like if Sarah Palin was on coke.”

Michael Moore: "They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this -- we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it."

Rosie O’Donnell: “I believe the people of Wisconsin were inspired by watching the people of Egypt ... stand up to tyranny and dictatorship, a thirty-year dictatorship taken down in seventeen days of peaceful protest. The people in Wisconsin deserve our support ...They are us.”

Democrat Gordon Hintz to Republican Michelle Litjens: “You are f___ing dead.” Litjens dismissed this as his being simply on edge from working on the legislature so long; and Hintz apologized to her as well.

Norther western Professor Bailey (regarding a sexual demonstration for his class): "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watching naked people on stage doing pleasurable things will never hurt you."

Student Justin Smith: "It is probably something I will remember the rest of my life."

Laura Anne Stuart, the sexual health education and violence prevention coordinator at University Health Services, said, concerning the live sex event as part of a sexuality course at Northwestern: "As a sexuality educator, I do think that demonstrations of specific arousal techniques - those definitely have educational value."

Let’s not forget the civil left; Salon.com is a leftist website, and they published an article which expressed some disenchantment with an interview that ABC did with Sarah Palin (perhaps because they were too nice to her?).

One letter to Salon read: “Let’s let Michael Vick keep Sarah Palin as a pet...Vick gets to torture and we get rid of Palin.”

Another response was: “I hear you, brother. I tried to convince the networks to have that obnoxious dumbass bitch torn apart and eaten alive by starving dogs, but their _____ executives wouldn't buy it.”

Some of the other letters I would not print:

http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/salon-publishes-multiple-calls-for-torture-murder-of-sarah-palin/

Vladimir Lenin: “The way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. “ About a year ago, not knowing this quotation, I described the liberal plan as to trap salaries by inflation right below $250,000/year.

Singer Neil Young: “I’m angry because we don’t take care of the planet; that makes me upset...I think about it everyday; I wish there was something I could do...and I realize how hypocritical I am, because I’m part of the problem...I fly around, I do all these things in jets.”

Charlie Sheen: “I'm tired of pretending like I'm not a total bitchin' rock star from Mars.”

Charlie Sheen: ''The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards just look like droopy-eyed armless children.'' Which, by the way, now has its own facebook website:

DAVID KERLEY (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover) But should he stand firm with the government poised to run out of money and shut down this week?

REPRESENTATIVE JOE WALSH (REP) (ILLINOIS): How many people would like me to vote against that even risking the government shutdown?

PEDESTRIAN (MALE): Shut it down.

PEDESTRIAN (FEMALE): Shut it down.

PEDESTRIAN (FEMALE): Call the Democrats out on the tactics.

PEDESTRIAN (MALE): If we ran our households as irresponsibly as the government has been running itself for the last 20 years, we'd be in prison.

DAVID KERLEY (ABC NEWS) (Voiceover): For two days, we followed the new congressman crisscrossing his district from a steel plant to classrooms and conference rooms, as he canvassed his constituents, asking if he's on the right track.

From:

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007216&docId=l:1368351232&isRss=true

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., House Homeland Security Chairman: It was an assault on military personnel by a person carrying a heavy duty weapon, an automatic weapon, shouting jihadist chants. I mean if that isn't a terrorist act, I don't know what is.

Reporter: Even if it's somebody acting alone that's not a terrorist attack?

P.j. Crowley, State Department Spokesman: For example, was the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords a terrorist attack?

Reporter: The secretary herself called it a terrorist act.

P.j. Crowley: You have to look at the evidence and look at the motivation, and then you make a judgment and that is a process as far as I know that is ongoing.

Greg Gutfeld: “P.J., which must stand for ‘poor judgment,’ actually compared a horrible crime linked to radical Islam, to whatever was bubbling in Jared Loughner's damaged head.”

Chris Christie, still refusing to run for president: “You're barking up the wrong tree. I already know I could win [the 2012 presidential election].' That's not the issue.”

Mitt Romney, with a little soaring rhetoric of his own: "He [President Obama] created a deeper recession, and delayed the recovery, reviewing his campaign message before Republicans in this influential early nominating state. The consequence is soaring numbers of Americans enduring unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index, and it is at a record high. It's going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - it's going to take a new president."

Jonah Goldberg on the brevity of Joe Biden’s remarks on the budget: “Joe Biden said enough to fill one bumper sticker. That is saying these guys are on message.”

Michelle Litjen, state congresswoman in WI: "If we give in right now to the thuggery happening in Wisconsin, we'll have to give in every time"

Charles Krauthammer: “Was the guy in Germany a terrorist? All the evidence says yes. This is a guy who shouted by the word of many witnesses repeatedly, "Allah hu Akbar," which is the jihadist cry, as he shot the Americans and as he was being taken away. Now, and he was recently radicalized, he's a Muslim, either born or emigrated out of Kosovo, and now he has confessed. Clearly this was a jihadist attack. And the fact that when the president came out and spoke yesterday about this, he talked about it as if it was a bus accident, it was a tragedy. It is incomprehensible why he can not even say out loud that this could have been a jihadist attack, a part of the war on terror. This was an attack on the American military abroad, an attack on our country, an act of war by a terrorist enemy. And if a president can't speak about that, what does it say to moderate Muslims around the world who are against the jihadist, and here a president of the United States who won't speak the truth about it? It's demoralizing.”

Wisconsin Governor Walker: "No he [the President] shouldn't [interject himself into Wisconsin politics], for a couple reasons. One, we're doing this to balance our budget, and the president of the United States should be focused on the much, much graver budget crisis we have in our nation's capital, which he's failed to lead on. Secondly, the president really has no position talking about this, because what we're asking for here is still more generous than what federal employees get. I think many people do not recognize - I certainly hope the president was aware of it - the fact that the federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. And in fact the average federal employee pays twice as much for their health insurance premiums as what we're proposing in our budget repair bill," Walker says. "So the reality is, it's really quite ironic that the president would be criticizing us for something that is less restrictive, when it comes to collective bargaining, and less expensive, when it comes to healthcare, than what we are proposing here in the state of Wisconsin."

Speaker of the House John Boehner: "The constitutionality of this law [The Defense of Marriage Act] should be determined by the courts -- not by the president unilaterally."

Rush Limbaugh: "When Bush was president and the unemployment rate was 4.75%, do you ever remember the giddiness about that that there is today over 8.9%? No!"

Uncommon Knowledge (an article about welfare): “No one under the age of 45 has any memory of government being organized any differently - FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society fundamentally changed the intellectual framework for our government, We went from a limited constitutional government to a more energetic, powerful government that can (try to) solve people's problems.”

Rush Limbaugh: "If anybody looks at African-Americans in this country as inferior and incompetent, it's the American left and the Democrat Party."

Rush Limbaugh: "The left can say and do anything. In fact, the left can abort 60% of black babies, and it's cool. Let me report it, and all hell breaks loose."

New German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, in connection with the investigation of the deaths of 2 American soldiers there at the hand of Islam: "Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point."

Collective bargaining 101; this is what should be in your news, but is not (2.5 min.):

Government Unions Gone Wild. Unless you have watch FoxNews, you have not seen any of these videos of union people from all over the United States (rated V for violence; not all of the language was bleeped):

Here is a television report on how our tax dollars are going to restore mosques in Egypt:

Beck’s Friday show was quite informative as well: Lessons from Failed Revolutions:

Jon Stewart distorts the public union controversy in Wisconsin and goes after Wall Street again (video and text):

CNN is very excited about a new film which will educate America about Muslims. 30 second film trailer and commentary:

Jodi Miller: “Kathleen Parker has left CNN’s Parker-Spitzer Show; it seems that she was uncomfortable being on a show with most hosts than viewers.”

1) If the hiding Democratic state senators of Wisconsin really believe that the public is behind them, then they would return to the capitol, lose the vote, and then run on the promise to undo what Governor Walker did, and to restore complete collective bargaining to the public employees in Wisconsin (I believe this was Rush’s reasoning).

2) There is no doubt a political element to the reducing of the power of public unions. Democrats promise them the moon; they get high salaries and benefits, the unions often get the dues taken directly off the top of the paychecks (no choice for public employees); and that is given to Democratic political campaigns.

3) We all know that there is an incredible amount of waste and fraud found in every government program, a small portion of which was revealed by a recent GAO report. The problem is, Washington is simply unable to manage all that it has on its plate right now, even with the many employees that they have. Part of that problem is, these are non-business governmental employees. These are people who do not have business savvy in their skill set, so waste and fraud naturally eludes them. This will always be the case with any federal program.

4) Monica Crowley has pointed out that the Libya situation is fairly black and white. Kaddafy is a terrorist dictator who is ultimately responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, and the U.S. has no ties to him whatsoever. So, it should have been an easy call for Obama to publically called for him by name to step down. It would be even smarter to have established a no-fly zone, so that he does not continue to use his planes to kill dissidents. We are doing nothing to gain any alliances in the middle east uprisings.

5) So, did you know that possible Republican president hopeful, Mitch Daniels, Indiana governor, is Arab-American? I heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago.

6) I still think that these widespread demonstrations by union people are a tactical mistake for Democrats. More and more people are figuring out what public unions are all about, and it is not a very pretty picture.

More than 2 trillion barrels are 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains; this is the largest untapped oil reserve in the world.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the Bakken deposit (in the Dakotas and Montana) at 503 billion barrels (another estimate I read puts this at 200 billion barrels).

For every 25¢ that gas goes up, that is another $3 billion that goes to the middle east.

Just fetching the 10 billion barrels of oil off the Alaskan continental shelf means another 55,000 jobs.

In the United States, we have 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia; 18-times as much oil as Iraq; 21-times as much oil as Kuwait; 22-times as much oil as Iran; 500-times as much oil as Yemen.

A GAO report found 82 federal programs to improve teacher quality; 80 to help disadvantaged people with transportation; 47 for job training and employment; and 56 to help people understand finances.

About 70,000 union workers and sympathizers showed up to Madison, WI on Feb. 19 and more on the 26^th. About 12,000 more recently showed up when Governor Walker announced the first layoffs.

There is 4x as much fraud in Medicare than in all of the health insurance companies.

The present administration sees this as the future; this is the heavily subsidized pride and joy of Government Motors.

It has been over 2 years since the stimulus passed and we have 2 million fewer jobs to show for the $821 Billion spent on the "recovery act."

In 2002, about 22% of youths aged 15 to 24 said they had no sexual contact with another person; in 2006-2008, 27% of males and 29% of females report having no sexual contact (also known as complete sexual abstinence).

63% of Americans think that government workers should pay more for their benefits and retirement programs

Have you noticed how dramatically different some polls are becoming this past month?

I “dogpiled” the names “Huckabee Portman” and the first 10 story hits were Mike Huckabee Slams [Rips, Disses] Natalie Portman. I heard the interview in question live, and Huckabee did no such thing. This is on Yahoo news, the Huffington Post, MSNBC, AOL news, ABC news (which was the only one which was almost accurate).

What would have happened if live ammo had been found after a TEA party demonstration? Do you think that, perhaps, this would be a topic on every single Sunday talking heads show?

Remember all of those stories about Bush and Big Oil and how the price of oil was going up and up; same thing is happening now, but not so many stories about it. ABC broke from the pack today and a reporter there asked a gas price question. However, as of right now, the networks link Bush to 'skyrocketing' gas prices 15 times as often as Obama

MediaMatters recently posted an article “Who’s Funding the Conservative Movement.” MediaMatters does not, however, release the names of their major donors.

Obama has a very difficult needle to thread, because many in the Hollywood elite do not think that he is liberal enough (because they are very stupid, for the most part). So, how does the president reveal just how insanely radical he has been, without letting this get out into the media? I suspect, very closed meetings with Hollywood types, with a guarantee of no cameras and no recording devices, so that the President can level with the people.

If you think there is some kind of inherent right for public employees to collectively bargain; if you do not recognize the great problem that this sort of bargaining involves.

My best guess is, this will be the week the Wisconsin state senators return to Madison. They will return as a group.

Expect the press to continue to pummel all possible Republican candidates, much in the manner that they have with the supposed Huckabee-Portman controversy (and as they have done for years with Palin). No high-ranking Republican candidate will be immune from this. The tricky part will be, how does the Obama Media Complex continue to acts as if Islam is not much of a problem, but that Mitch Daniels might be rather dangerous, because he is part-Arab.

Sarah Palin - stupid, dim-witted; prominent comedians continue to make her the punch line of any joke which suggests that she is stupid.

Newt Gingrich - his old divorced will be brought up; and rest assured that his writings are being scoured for anything that can be used against him. Expect his attacks to come out of his writings; possibly that he wants a theocracy (a favored attack from the left).

Herman Cain - If he gets traction, then he will be portrayed as having no experience. Expect to see the terms dark-horse, inexperienced associated with him.

Mitt Romney - failed Romneycare in Massachusetts (and they might give him a break on this, until the main election)

Rudy Giuliani - he might be the favored candidate of the left, just as John McCain was 4 years ago. There will possibly be a lot of cross-over votes for him by Democrats during the primaries.

Tim Pawlenty - they are waiting for any gaff or near-gaff (as they got with Huckabee and Portman).

We are heading for a different sort of world war. In past wars, our opponents were well-defined nations; this will consist of various Muslim terrorist groups. It is hard to say if this will bubble up suddenly and be put down suddenly, or whether this will continue to be an oblique war, as it has been over the past 20 years.

Is it possible that the press will ignore $4.50/gallon or $5/gallon gas? So far, they have all but ignored $4/gallon gas.

Obama’s meetings with the far left in order to get funding are going to be very tight with regards to security. This will be passed off as normal security necessary for any seated president, but the idea will be to keep video and audio from escaping these meetings. The same will be true if he sends our surrogates.

Red China is filled with a preponderance of men and there is a great deal of self-righteousness in China. Let’s say that we fail to meet our financial obligations to China or attempt to inflate our way out of this situation of great debt; my concern is, they will parlay their honor into war, to simply come here and take the United States and that which is rightfully theirs.

40 rounds of .22 caliber long rifle hollow points were found in the surrounding areas of the Madison, Wisconsin capitol building.

Most conservatives are live-and-let-live types. The less government, the better; the less that the state regulates us, the better. For that reason, many conservatives have not put up much of a fight when it came to the abolition of sodomy laws; nor did we care much when gays wanted to “show their pride;” nor did many of us object to civil unions. For most of us, it was, “Fine, fine, do what you want.” However, we have come to find out that, each of these steps was not a pinnacle, but merely one step in a very long ladder. We have come to realize that, the legalization of gay marriage will not be the end of it either.

We have found the gay marriage movement to be very litigious. It does not matter what society says; they can vote again and again to recognize marriage as being between one man and one woman; gays will use every legal maneuver possible to get their way. I do not doubt that there are some gays who are sincere in this movement. However, for others, this is simply more of their “in your face” attitude (which describes a gay pride parade, if you have not been to one before).

Allow me to present a few examples, many of which are well-known to most of you?

The Boy Scouts was one of the greatest and most honorable organizations in America. Then the gay activists and the ACLU attacked the Boy Scouts because they did not want self-proclaimed homosexuals as scout leaders. As a result, the Boy Scouts were kicked out of city parks, public schools and other meeting areas. They lost funding from the city and county governments and from the United Way for their programs to mentor boys without fathers. What will happen to this organization when, gay marriage is put on a par with heterosexual marriage? At one time, the girl scouts or boy scouts were a rite of passage for young people, and these legal battles have diminished their once great position in our society. You need to remember, in a court battle, often, whether a person wins or loses is not as important as to how much money the whole thing costs. The sad thing is, there was no reason for such a savage legal attack, beyond simple meanness. I would love to know what wonderful thing homosexuals believe that they achieved in this attack of the Boy Scouts.

We know for a fact that, gays will use “hate speech” legislation and “gay marriage” laws to attack churches and other organizations. This has already been done in our country and in other countries.

Sweden has a law now which bans “all speech and materials opposing homosexual behavior and other alternative lifestyles” and there can be a 4-year stint in jail for breaking this law. This is a law almost specifically for the pastors of a church who teach the Bible and what it says about homosexuality.

Gay marriage is just a step in the ladder; it is not the end game nor will it be the last law, nor will this be the end of gay lawsuits. It will become ammunition for more lawsuits.

The Anglican Bishop of Chester, England, but put under police investigation for saying, “Some people who are primarily homosexual can re-orient themselves. I would encourage them to consider that as an option.”

During Homosexual Pride Week in Saskatchewan, Canada, Hugh Owens took an ad out in the paper, showing the symbols of 2 men holding hands in a red circle with a line drawn through it, next to 4 Bible references. The verses were not written out. He was fined $4500.

A video was made in New Zealand which pointed out the link between AIDS and homosexual behavior; the New Zealand parliament outlawed the video, because it promoted hate speech.

Chris Kempling has a PhD in psychology, is head of the Central British Columbia Public Health Board and he is a counselor at a high school in British Columbia. He wrote a letter to his local paper, which suggested that homosexuality was not simply a genetic orientation, that homosexual sex could be unhealthy and promiscuous, and that homosexuals could become straight. He was suspended from his teaching job for a month without pay.

In California, a lesbian asked 2 Christian doctors to artificially inseminate her. The doctors refused and she sued them. The doctors lost on appeal.

I suggested in an earlier piece that schools would be sued for not having enough of a positive message about homosexuality; and that there would be lawsuits over “institutionalized homophobia.” This has already occurred in British Columbia, where the ministry of education had not gone far enough by avoiding discrimination against homosexual and bisexual students; they were guilty of not having a positive message out there concerning sexual orientation in the classroom.

Robert Jason of Foothill, Ontario sent out an email expressing a belief that marriage should be between one man and one woman. The police actually showed up at his front door and interviewed him, and they warned him not to threaten anyone (which he did not do).

A printing business in Ontario was put out of business through litigation because the owner did not want to print up stuff for a local homosexual and lesbian group.

Even now, there are a few public schools in California where students who object to a pro-homosexual policy can be sent to counseling.

So, ask yourself; will this get better or worse after gay marriage? Will there be more or less government interference with our schools and businesses after gay marriage? Will there be more or fewer lawsuits filed?

I oppose gay marriage for many reasons, but the certain increase of laws and lawsuits is one of the primary reasons that I oppose it.

When you step back and try to get a sense of the larger picture in the battle between the states and their public-employee unions, two elements emerge. One seems small but could prove decisive, and the other is big and, if I'm seeing it right, carries significant implications.

The seemingly small thing is that the battles in the states, while summoning emotions from all sides, are not at their heart emotional. Yes, a lot of people are waving placards, but it's also true that suddenly everyone's talking about numbers; the numbers are being reported in the press and dissected on talk radio. This state has a $5 billion deficit; that state has projected deficits in the tens of millions. One estimate of New Jersey's bill for health and pension benefits for state workers over the next 30 years is an astounding $100 billion-money the state literally does not have and cannot get. The very force of the math has the heartening effect of squeezing ideology right out of the story. It doesn't matter if you're a liberal or a conservative, it's all about the numbers, and numbers are sobering things.

The rise of arithmetic as a player in the drama is politically promising because when people argue over data and hard facts, and not over ideological loyalties and impulses, progress is more possible. Governors can take their stand, their opponents can take theirs, and if they happen to argue the budget problem doesn't really exist, they'll have to prove it. With numbers.

Let's look for a second at one of the most famous battles, in New Jersey. A year ago Chris Christie was sworn in as the new governor. He immediately faced a $10.7 billion deficit and catastrophic debt projections. State and local taxes were already high, so that if he raised them he'd send people racing out of the state. So Mr. Christie came up with a plan. He asked the state's powerful teachers union for two things: a one-year pay freeze-not a cut-and a modest 1.5% contribution to their benefit packages.

The teachers union went to war. They said, "Christie is trying to kill the unions," so they tried to kill him politically. They spent millions on ads trying to take him down.

And it backfired. They didn't kill him, they made him. Chris Christie is a national figure now because the teachers union decided, in an epic political drama in which arithmetic is the predominant fact, to ignore the math. They also decided to play the wrong role in the drama. They decided to play the role of Johnny Friendly, on whom more in a moment.

If the union leaders had been smart-if they'd had a heart!-they would have held a private meeting and said, "Look, the party's over. We've done great the past 20 years, but now taxpayers are starting to resent us, and they have reason. They're losing their benefits and footing the bill for our gold-plated plans, they don't have job security and we do, taxes are high. We have to back off."

They didn't do this. It was a big mistake. And the teachers union made it just as two terrible but unrelated things were happening to their reputation. In what might be called an expression of the new spirit of transparency that is sweeping the globe, two documentaries came out in 2010, "The Lottery" and "Waiting for Superman." Both were made by and featured people who are largely liberal in their sympathies, and both said the same brave thing: The single biggest impediment to better schools in our country is the teachers unions, which look to their own interests and not those of the kids.

In both films, as in real life, the problem is the unions themselves, not individual teachers. They present teachers who are heroic, who are creative and idealistic. But they too, in the films, are victims of union rules.

That's the unions' problem in terms of atmospherics. They are starting to destroy their own reputation. They are robbing themselves of their mystique. They still exist, and they're big and rich-a force-but they are abandoning the very positive place they've held in the American imagination. Polls are all over the place on union support, but I'm speaking of the kind of thing that is hard to quantify and that has to do with words like "luster" and "tradition."

Unions have been respected in America forever, and public-employee unions have reaped that respect. There are two great reasons for this. One is that unions always stood for the little guy. The other is that Americans like balance. We have management over here and the union over here, they'll talk and find balance, it'll turn out fine.

But with the public-employee unions, the balance has been off for decades. And when they lost their balance they fell off their pedestal.

When union leaders negotiate with a politician, they're negotiating with someone they can hire and fire. Public unions have numbers and money, and politicians need both. And politicians fear strikes because the public hates them. When governors negotiate with unions, it's not collective bargaining, it's more like collusion. Someone said last week the taxpayers aren't at the table. The taxpayers aren't even in the room.

As for unions looking out for the little guy, that's not how it's looking right now. Right now the little guy is the public school pupil whose daily rounds take him from a neglectful family to an indifferent teacher who can't be removed. The little guy is the beleaguered administrator whose attempts at improvement are thwarted by unions. The little guy is the private-sector worker who doesn't have a good health-care plan, who barely has a pension, who lacks job security, and who is paying everyone else's bills.

This is a major perceptual change. In my lifetime, people have felt so supportive of unions. That great scene in the 1979 film "Norma Rae," in which the North Carolina cotton mill worker played by Sally Field holds up the sign that says UNION-people were moved by that scene because they believed in its underlying justice. When I was a child, kids bragged if their father had a union job because it meant he was part of something, someone was looking out for him, he was a citizen.

There were hiccups-the labor racketeering scandals of the 1950s, Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters. But they served as a corrective to romanticism. Men in groups will be men in groups, whether they run a government or a union. Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan captured this in their 1954 masterpiece, "On the Waterfront," in which Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando, stands up to the selfish, bullying union chief Johnny Friendly. Brando's character testifies to the Waterfront Commission and then defiantly stands down Johnny and his goons. "I'm glad what I done today. . . . You hear me? Glad what I done."

We're at quite a moment when public-employee unions remind you of Johnny Friendly. They're so powerful, such a base of the Democratic Party, and they must think nothing can hurt them. But they can hurt themselves. And they are. Are they noticing?

In refusing to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act, President Obama has just made a huge mistake -- a telling mistake that demonstrates what a hard-left bubble he must now be in.

President Obama's nearly unprecedented decision, based on very weak legal logic, to refuse to defend DOMA will backfire, both tactically and politically.

Even as gay marriage advocates lose battle after battle in actual elections, they feed into the media a consistent message of despair: Their victory is inevitable. People don't care anymore, they say (and The New York Times and The Washington Post dutifully echo the theme). President Obama must actually believe those carefully worded and deeply deceptive polls that purport to indicate that a "majority" now support gay marriage.

To read the truth about public reaction to gay marriage you have to read the gay press, which actually covers what is happening.

Take the battle for gay marriage in two deep blue states: Maryland and Rhode Island.

Getting a gay marriage bill through the Rhode Island House of Representatives with Gov. Lincoln Chafee's support and a new openly gay House speaker was supposed to be a cakewalk. Instead, as The Boston Phoenix (an alternative paper) reports: "The end game is proving trickier than advocates had hoped. ... They've been caught off guard by the prowess of the church, which has joined with the nation's leading anti-gay marriage group to mount a surprisingly potent defense of the status quo." (By "anti-gay group" they mean the National Organization for Marriage, which I chair). Speaker Gordon Fox suddenly pulled the bill, and its future is now uncertain.

Similarly, this week in Maryland, black Democrats from progressive districts are beginning to jump ship. First Melvin Stukes, a co-sponsor of a gay marriage bill in that state's House of Delegates, unexpectedly announced he was switching sides.

A few days later, two black Democrats counted as "yes" votes suddenly went missing, refusing to show up for a committee vote, which had to be postponed.

Maryland is a deep blue state -- core Democratic territory -- but opposition to gay marriage is also surging:

"With opponents, including the Maryland Catholic Conference and the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage, applying enormous pressure on wavering delegates, (Maryland state Sen. Richard) Madaleno and Equality Maryland officials said support in the House might be in jeopardy," reports the Washington Blade.

Leadership may yet ram through a bill, and the people of Maryland, like the people of Maine did in 2009, will have to exercise their "people's veto" through the referendum process.

But the really big newsworthy event in these blue states is the surging, unexpected opposition to gay marriage from the public at large, from the Catholic church, and most significantly, from the black church.

Politically, President Obama just nationalized the gay marriage issue, potentially alienated parts of his base and caused all major GOP presidential candidates (except Mitch Daniels) to weigh in on marriage.

What did he gain? He almost certainly just helped us win the legal case for DOMA.

Here's the honest truth: I've been tearing my hair out for the last six months while strategizing behind the scenes with others to figure out some legal strategy to get someone to intervene in the DOMA case. President Obama's incredibly weak legal defense was causing DOMA to lose in court. How could we get a great lawyer in that courtroom who actually wanted to defend the law?

By pretending to defend DOMA, President Obama was blocking the door to the courthouse for marriage advocates.

This week, he just removed that obstacle. The U.S. House of Representatives will intervene to protect DOMA. Our chances of winning a great victory for marriage at the Supreme Court just shot way up.

President Obama, this decision will cost you votes, energize the GOP base, and most important, dramatically increase our side's odds of legal victory on DOMA. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Bill Maher said Friday that George W. Bush when he first ran for president had the "thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen."

Such happened on HBO's "Real Time" during an interview with author T.C. Boyle (video follows with transcript and commentary):

BILL MAHER: But people like confidence, don't they? I mean, that is part of the attraction there.

MAHER: It doesn't matter what you're saying. I mean, obviously, Charlie [Sheen] is saying crazy stuff. It's the fact that he's so confident in what he's saying. Reminds me of George Bush. George Bush was like that. When George Bush ran for president he had the thinnest résumé anyone had ever seen. He was just the ne'er-do-well son of a, of a, you know, guy who had been president. And, but he acted like he owned the f--king world.

BOYLE: It gets worse. It gets worse. I had to explain American foreign policy to audiences in Germany and France for eight years.

BOYCE: Well because everybody's saying, "This is your president. What do you want from him? Who are you?"

So how would one explain America's foreign policy to audiences in Germany and France today?

We've got a president that was given the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months in office having accomplished absolutely nothing, and now less than two years later, parts of the Middle East and Africa are exploding in violence.

The world today is in a more tenuous condition than it has been since the end of the Cold War, and the current White House resident seems totally clueless.

As for the previous president's résumé, he was twice elected governor of our nation's second most populated state. Prior to that point, Bush:

• Was a campaign advisor and media liaison for his father's first presidential campaign in 1988

• Created Arbusto Energy company which later merged with Spectrum 7 eventually becoming Harken Energy which he served on the Board of Directors

• Graduated with a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School

Is going to Harvard and Yale, creating an oil company, and being twice elected governor of our nation's second most populated state a "thin résumé?"

As it pertains to the highest office in the land, which résumé looks thinner to you?

The New York Times has a story out today purporting to show that "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions." But this poll is completely worthless. To understand why just look at the question they used to justify their headline:

Unsurprisingly, 60% of Americans told The New York Times they did not want to take away the rights of other Americans. Problem is collective bargaining is not a right. It is a privilege.

There is a big difference between rights and privileges. Americans have the right to vote. The state, barring a felony conviction, cannot take that right away. Driving, on the other hand, is privilege. The state can refuse you the privilege of driving for a myriad of reasons including failure to pass a test showing you know the rules of the road or failing to purchase auto insurance.

Similarly the freedom of association is a right shared by all Americans and protected by the First Amendment. In contrast, collective bargaining is a special power occasionally granted to some unions. In upholding North Carolina's ban on government union collective bargaining, a federal court wrote in Atkins vs. City of Charlotte: "All citizens have the right to associate in groups to advocate their special interests to the government. It is something entirely different to grant any one interest group special status and access to the decision making process."

Gov. Scott Walker's (R) budget bill in Wisconsin in no way infringes on any Americans' right to associate and lobby government. What it does do is allow Wisconsin employees to choose not to join a union and keep their job at the same time. It also forces the government unions in Wisconsin to collect their own union dues instead of using the power of the state to withhold them directly from employee paychecks.

Now there is a question you'll never see in a New York Times poll: "Do you favor forcing all state employees to join a union and empowering government unions to take union dues directly from employee paychecks?"

When the history books record l'affaire Wisconsin, public-employee unions will have plenty of villains. They will remember Republican governor Scott Walker, who proposed scaling back their ability to collectively bargain. They will revile Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, who cut off debate and "rushed" the bill to a vote after 61 hours of debate on the Assembly floor. But for the Left, the most enduring villain might be the billionaire Koch brothers.

When frequently vile Buffalobeast.com blogger Ian Murphy prank-called Walker, he pretended to be David Koch - thinking that would be the most embarrassing call Walker could take. (Or perhaps Murphy simply hadn't perfected a Kim Jong-il impersonation yet. "Hey Scott, it's your boy Kim!")

The vitriol from protesting Wisconsin workers towards the Kochs emerged quickly and intensely. Signs ranging between lame and vulgar (often both) dot the public-union marches.

But what the protesters don't realize is that they actually have a reason to root for the Koch brothers.

According to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the Wisconsin Retirement System owns $5.5 million in Georgia Pacific corporate bonds. (Georgia Pacific is owned by Koch Industries.) This is the retirement system in which the overwhelming majority of state and local employees participate. These are the pension benefits that public employees are trying so hard to protect.

So here's the challenge: Explain to a Wisconsin state worker that they are the ones helping fund the Koch brothers. Then sit back and watch the fun.

Granted, $5.5 million out of a $18.5 billion fixed-income bond fund isn't a whole lot. (The state also holds about $5 million worth of Colgate bonds, meaning it is in the pocket of Big Toothpaste.) But one imagines the public unions' vitriol will soften a little bit when they realize their retirement payout is incumbent on the success of the Kochs. They're all part of the same money-making ecosystem, despite many state employees believing all their retirement funds are invested exclusively in dreams and rainbows.

So in the end, public unions should recognize that the real Koch will do them a lot more good than the fake one ever did.

Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-school 8th graders can't read proficiently-despite highest per pupil spending in Midwest

Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee (you actually know her, even if you live outside of Texas; when tv cameras are on in Congress, Ms. Jackson Lee is right out front.

Hollywood’s crush on Obama cools, apparently because he is not liberal enough.

Diana Butler Bass rips on Scott Walker for his brand of Christianity. Do you recall when the left portrayed Bush as thinking that he was receiving messages and guidance from God? Do you recall that he was far too religious? Here, Walker is simply the wrong religion:

RUSH: Yesterday on this program we had a news story, a news story on which I commented. I didn't really say much. I just reported it to you. That was the story that Eric Holder felt offended having to investigate and perhaps level charges against the New Black Panther Party because those are his people. He didn't want to have to do that. Those are the quote, "my people." So I report this, and I report the quote by Bartle Bull suggesting that some of this is hard to understand, outrageous, Bartle Bull a Democrat. I get up today and I get an e-mail from somebody, "Do you realize you're being attacked for introducing race into this story?" I said, "What? I am being attacked for introducing race into the story?" "Yeah, it's at Mediaite." So I went to Mediaite and indeed I, El Rushbo, am being accused of introducing race, once again in a very risky way, into the story of Eric Holder suggesting he didn't want to go anywhere near the Black Panther story because it hurt him because those are his people. And I'm the one injecting race. And they had a link to explain what they meant about how I am once again riskily involved in injecting race.

You hit the link and it goes to another Mediaite story in which they had a cow because we learned the abortion rate in New York, Planned Parenthood. I simply categorized that as Planned Parenthood finishing the job the Klan never could. I didn't know but that set 'em off. Oh, yeah, that blew 'em a new one, and so when I just happened to mention that Eric Holder didn't want to get anywhere near the Black Panther story because they were his people, somehow I, harmless, lovable little fuzzball minding my own business, bothering nobody, am accused once again of injecting race into the story. Meanwhile, the left can say and do anything. In fact, the left can abort 60% of black babies, and that's cool. Let me report it and all hell breaks loose. Eric Holder can say, (paraphrasing) "I'm not prosecuting the New Black Panthers. Those are my people." Can you imagine if Edwin Meese, attorney general during Reagan, said, "Hell no, we're not gonna go after that group. Those are my people. Those are a bunch of white guys." Can you imagine what would happen?

So I point all this out and it proves that we conservatives are not allowed to mention a word, we're not allowed to talk about it, we can't even report it. They can sit there and literally preside over the death of 60% of black babies in the womb via Planned Parenthood and it's none of your business, Limbaugh, you shut up, very racist of you to mention that. Racist to mention it? What about the actual act here? Sixty percent of African-American pregnancies end in abortion in New York. I don't work at Planned Parenthood. I have nothing to do with that outcome.

Meanwhile, in the Jerusalem Post: "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan says his comments on Jews are meant 'to pull the cover off Satan' and 'Zionists dominate the US government and banks.'" This guy's a good friend of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's preacher. He's a good friend of Moammar Khadafy. Anybody denounce this guy? (interruption) What are you, doubting me? H.R. in the IFB said, "Where did he say this?" Jerusalem Post. Of course it didn't make it here. A lot of stuff ends up in the foreign press that doesn't happen here. Here's what it says. He said it on Tuesday at the Nation of Islam annual meeting in Chicago.

"Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews and Zionists are 'trying to push the US into war' and are a cover for Satan. 'President Obama,' Farrakhan said, 'if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Khadafy and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I'm warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.' Farrakhan called Moammar Khadafy 'my brother' and 'my friend.'" My people. Just like Eric Holder referred to the New Black Panther crowd as "my people." Now, nobody's denouncing this guy, and nobody's denouncing the Reverend Wright.

"Farrakhan also accused American Zionists of attempting to push Israel into war with Iran, adding that 'Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.' One panel at the conference," this is at the Nation of Islam conference, "titled 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,' claimed that Jews were disproportionately involved in the slave trade and accused them of controlling the media. 'Some of you think that I'm just somebody who's got something out for the Jewish people,' Farrakhan said. 'You're stupid. Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think it was important for you to know Satan? My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so that he will never deceive you and the people of the world again.' In response, ADL National Director Abe Foxman said,"Rush Limbaugh is a racist and we demand an apology."

RUSH: Just a few weeks ago Khadafy was calling for the Arab world to rise up against Israel, and now Calypso Louie is talking about "uprisings" against America. Who do you think Farrakhan sees as some of the first targets in these uprisings? Who do you think it would be? The Jews! Now, apparently Khadafy said he can't leave because he's not the president. He says he's not a president, he's not a king, he's a colonel (he hasn't even gotten a promotion to general all these years). So he has no power and no position to step down from. He's just an inspiration; he's just a messiah. This is not good, folks. Let's hope we don't face this same line of reasoning in 2012. (impression) "Uh, I'm Barack Obama, and I can't resign!" You never know.

RUSH: Doesn't everybody know that there is a direct correlation between spending money and the quality of education? That's why US students lead the world in economic achievement, right? There's obviously this correlation. We keep spending more money. We keep hearing that we're not investing enough money in education so we keep spending more and more money. We need more and more pensions and more and more health benefits, and we have more and more increasing salaries, and all that. Yeah, and, boy, we're really getting a big bang for that buck, aren't we? ... Except that we aren't. How come nobody ever thinks to ask exactly who are the public sector unions "organized" against?

We always hear about "union organizers," and we always think (and I touched on this last week) that unions are organized against "These eeevil, mean, rotten, fat cat, cigar smoking, country club-member, private-jet flying CEOs, and that these are cutthroat people and they not only would looove if they could see these union guys starve to death, these are the same people love to kill their customers! That's what the left would have you to believe about corporate America: "They kill their customers. They feed 'em poisonous food! They sell them poisonous products! They serve them dangerous, deadly drugs," all of this rotgut that we get. Well, okay, who are the public sector unions "organized" against? Isn't it against us, taxpayers?

And actually, when it comes to their fight against merit pay and firing incompetent teachers, they are organized against the children. When we, the people who pay them, say, "Hey, you know what? We want to see some evidence that you know what you're doing. We want to see some teachers testing. We want to see some evidence that you're qualified," they say, "Hey, you can't do it! The union prohibits it. You have no business doing that!" Okay, so you're organizing against us. The public sector teachers unions are organized against us and the children. Now, the Wisconsin assembly just passed a bill to fine these 14 AWOL Democrat senators.

From the AP: "Capitol Chaos: Resolution Passed to Fine the Wisconsin 14 -- Fourteen Wisconsin Senate Democrats who left the state two weeks ago will now face signs of $100 for each day they miss, if they miss two or more days. The resolution passed today also requires missing Democrats to reimburse the Senate for any costs incurred during attempts to force them to return." Ah, the union will just pick up the tab for this. That's what they've been doing up 'til now.

RUSH: Quick little question here, folks. If you pay teachers more, which is what we're told we have to do every year -- I mean we can go back, I'll bet you I could go back as far as LBJ. I'll bet you I could go back to Eisenhower. As long as there was video to be found, I'll betcha we could go back to all these presidents, every damn one of them talking about education and how we need more money, we need to invest more in education. The education of our children, why, that's the most important thing in our country, why, we cannot waste a single moment, why, we must not leave a single child behind, takes a village to raise a bunch of idiots. We need more education dollars. I'm choking on that I've heard it so damn much, right?

Now, if we pay teachers more and that means you get better education, why don't we double the pay of plumbers and electricians, get better running water, get better traveling electricity. Yeah, we pay the plumbers more, we pay the electricians more, pipefitter, yeah, we get more electricity, cheaper price, we get more plumbing, better flushes, don't need to call Roto-Rooter as much. The more we spend the better pipes we've got. Do we get better oil when the price of oil goes up. Is the quality of the oil any better? Do we get better bread when the price of wheat goes up? Are we gonna attract better plumbers and better electricians and better oil rig workers and farmers and so forth? But yet when it comes to education all of that's stood upside down on its head. Why, magic is going to happen if we just spend more on education. And look where we are in Wisconsin in that regard.

RUSH: Now, this is interesting: "Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests." Uh... (sigh) Didn't we used to hear that the only reason the right wing opposed Hillary was because she's a woman? And, of course, the only reason we opposed Obama is 'cause he's black, and the only reason we opposed John Kerry is 'cause he's...uhhh...and the only reason we opposed Bill Clinton is because he's... uhhh...and the only reason we opposed Harry Reid is he's...uhhh...and the only reason that we oppose Joe Biden is that he's...uhhh...what? They're all idiots, folks! They're all liberals. We oppose liberalism; we don't care about the packaging. Remember this from Eric Holder, our brave attorney general? "My people," he said of the New Black Panther Party.

They're his people. He don't want to prosecute 'em. It wouldn't be right. It makes him feel queasy going after, quote, unquote, "my people," he said. "'Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been -- and continue to be, in too many ways -- essentially a nation of cowards,' Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month." This is a couple of Black History Months ago. Now, if Obama says something in private about race relations that he won't say in public, then according to one Eric Holder, Obama's a coward, a despicable coward. This is from the president of the United States, from a man elected by the people.

Oh! And by the way, speaking of race being a factor Tea Party: What was the black vote percentage for Obama, 110%? No, I'm wrong, it was 120% or maybe 130% of the black vote went for Obama. (interruption) It was only 90%? Well, who's counting? Okay, so 92% of black vote went for Obama, and we're being told here that the Tea Party is obsessed with race, the Tea Party has as one of its "key components" racism. And, by the way, that holds true for all of his conservative opposition as well. You could fill a book -- and it's still an interesting proposition -- with what Obama doesn't know or what he's naive about. In fact, he's done that. (chuckles) He's filled two books with what he doesn't know: His autobiographies!

Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. (interruption) Ninety-six percent? Obama won 96% of black vote. Right, and it's the Tea Party that's racist, and Obama's opposition is racist. Okay, cool. So this is from a man, too -- Obama -- claiming here that the Tea Party and conservative opposition is rooted in racism. It's a "key component." This a guy who sat in Jeremiah Wright's "church" for more than 20 years and said he didn't hear anything. Barack Obama is an elitist snob with troubling opinions of his fellow Americans, but he doesn't say them publicly. He says them in this book. I think he's got some explaining to do. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that presidents don't say. They're presidents of all of the people.

This is shocking. This may be too ugly to explore. This president obviously has a chip on his shoulder, several chips, and one has to do with race. Now, this book is by Kenneth T. Walsh: "Family of Freedom -- Presidents and African-Americans in the White House." It's a book devoted to: What does Obama think about being in there knowing full well that slaves built it? He gets asked about that: What do you think about being here when most of the servants are black? Here's an excerpt from it: "But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the ...

"'Tea Party' movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn't helping them..." That may be true, but none of it was race-based! "A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to 'take back' their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn't dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a 'subterranean agenda' in the anti-Obama movement -- a racially biased one -- that was unfortunate. But he sadly conceded that there was little he could do about it."

I think this is the most... It is totally classless. It is totally classless. The guy just got elected president of this country! He is historic in that sense. He is the first black president. But my point is Eric Holder says that we don't have the guts to have a public discussion about this. We're "cowards." Well, leading the coward parade's Obama. He doesn't have the guts to say this stuff in public but he says it in his Kenneth T. Walsh guy from US News writing this book. Now, let me ask you a question: How many people really think of Obama as black? (I mean, apart from Chris Matthews, who's obsessed with that.) One of Obama's parents was black. Undeniable.

But he was raised by a white mother and by white grandparents. He went to a highly exclusive private school in Hawaii with rich white students and white teachers. He went to exclusive colleges that were practically lily white. "Barry" Obama is from a very white, albeit radical-left, cultural background. He's not from the 'hood. He not from the move-ment. Although I'm beginning to think, you know, maybe he's right. Everything is race for him, the race for the presidency. He can play upon his race and skin color to get reelected (surely he will, surely he is now). So it's all about making himself a victim. I'm telling you, there's a chip on this guy's shoulder -- and, folks, it is a factor in every policy decision he makes. Every agenda item that he has.

And by the way, what Tea Party or conservative types are mad because they aren't getting enough "help from the government"? Is that what they're mad about? They look at the help the mortgage crowd's getting and they don't see themselves getting? They look at all the poor is getting? No, that's not what animates the Tea Party people! What animates them is the size of government, the never-ending spending, the creating of never-ending dependency, and the ultimate destruction of the greatness of the country. When's Obama gonna have the courage to start calling a "bitter clinger" a bitter clinger in public and not just behind closed doors, like he did in San Francisco at the fundraiser, like in this book? Remember, now, it was his own attorney general who didn't want to prosecute the New Black Panthers, didn't want to prosecute his people, quote, unquote. He says that we're cowards 'cause we won't discuss race.

RUSH: Why is the market down? What is it now? Let's wait here. Doo-dee-doo-doo. It's down 111. Why is the stock market down? We finally have unemployment under 9%. Remember, now, the magic number is 8% in terms of Obama reelection, the magic number of unemployment is 8%. (interruption) Well, yeah, but... Well, let's assume they're not bogus. Since everything in politics is perception, if you get 8.9% unemployment -- and by the way, the number of jobs is 192,000. Now, we would have to create 192,000 a month from now until the election to get it down to 8%. The numbers are bogus because the only way you can get from 9.4 to 9.1% is by reducing the total number of jobs available, the entire pool.

The regime has just done that in the past three months. They have just systematically decided on a whim to say, "Yeah, well, unemployment is pretty big out there, but there are also not that many jobs to be found as there used to be: The total number of jobs available," and they don't count that as any kind of an economic failure. It just happens to be the latest statistic. So if you have a smaller number, a smaller total number of possible jobs to have in the country to acquire, then of course the number of people looking for work (coupled with those who have given up who don't get counted) then you're obviously gonna be able to report a smaller unemployment number.

If the number of available jobs to be had -- and it's been cut by significant number, 20%. If that hadn't happened, unemployment would still be in the mid-nines It would be close to ten. Gallup has been saying unemployment has gone up. Gallup saying their unemployment number is 10.3%. But aside from all that, there are real economic reasons why the market (which is composed of people with skin in the game) are not rejoicing here, and there are two primary factors. One is that with unemployment going down, more people working, there's the automatic fear of inflation. Remember, this started during the Clinton years.

I'd scratch my head. Every time there was good economic news, the experts were scared to death because it was all gonna lead to inflation -- and inflation was the number one bogeyman they were trying to keep in check. And it still is. There also is the fear that more demand, with more people working, is going to cause the oil price to go even higher (more on that in a moment) and this is all going to lead to interest rates rising as they attempt to keep a lid on inflation. Now, if you are in the financial services game, money has been free. You've been able to get money from your bank, interchangeable, free money.

That's why it hasn't been lent. It's not that people don't trust the people that want to borrow the money (well, not entirely). It's that if you can get money for practically free, and then invest in your bank or a financial institution, invest that money in your own growth opportunity, why lend it? Why lend it out to somebody who is a risk at whatever percentage when you got zero cost on the money. So these people now fear interest rates going up; which, when you've been playing around at zero cost of money and all of a sudden it starts costing something, that's a big shock. So those are the three primary reasons why the market is not reacting as common sense would tell us it should be.

"Oh, wow!" What would the common sense reaction be? "Oh, wow! Cool! Finally jobs coming back. This is what we've been looking for ever since the Porkulus bill." You would think universal happiness. Unh-uh. It just isn't the case out there. Here's what I was referring to earlier: Since January the Department of Labor has been saying that there are fewer people in the country. They have reduced the size of the labor market. So, in addition to there being fewer jobs overall, there are fewer people seeking that number of jobs, which means a lower unemployment rate (or a higher employment rate, depending on how you wish to look at it). So they reduce the size of the workforce, they kept the same number of jobs, and that makes the rate of employment go up.

That's what Snerdley meant. He didn't know why, but he instinctively knew the numbers are bogus. That's why. They're arguing with the "universe" numbers; they're arbitrarily changing them on their own whim. So I have a friend who lives in Malibu. I got a note. "Hey, Rush, you were talking yesterday about gasoline prices. In Malibu at ten o'clock Thursday morning, $3.99 for regular. At three in the afternoon, it was $4.09 for regular. At 11 o'clock Thursday it was $4.11." So it had gone in less 24 hours from $3.99 up to $4.11. The gasoline price is skyrocketing. Now, at what point...?

By the way, the Drive-Bys are just ecstatic. You could have predicted this. The Drive-Bys are in unmitigated glee over the jobs news -- and over here is the gas price. They're not gonna go with the gasoline price increase. We pointed this out yesterday and the day before. If this were Bush, I mean, can you imagine? When Bush was president and the unemployment rate was 4.75%, do you ever remember the giddiness about that that there is today over 8.9%? No! Likewise, they're ignoring the rise in gasoline prices.

RUSH: Something else about this unemployment business and all these "new jobs." Just another contrast for you. You remember during the Bush years when the unemployment rate was good, like 4.7% (which, in our system, is statistically full employment)? It was 4.7 to 5% unemployment. Remember all the stories about how most of those jobs were not any good? They were "hamburger-flipper jobs" and they really weren't paying people health care benefits. No matter what the news was -- and especially the better the overall news was -- the more meaningless it had to be, according to the Drive-By Media. "They're all hamburger-flipper jobs!" Now we just had 192,000 jobs created. That's the story in February. Are we reading anywhere that they're just hamburger-flipper jobs? No! Apparently every job that people are getting, fantastic, high-paying, no-show jobs, not these hamburger-flipper jobs! No, these Obama jobs, why, they're really, substantiating, meaningful jobs, apparently.

Again, just to chronicle for you the difference in the way the media reports all of this.

RUSH: You know, we just sit here and accept the fact, "Okay, people have stopped looking for work." How do they know? "It's the government." I want to know how they know. I've never seen that explained. Maybe some of you in the audience know how the number is arrived at. Is it a wild guess? Is it an estimate? And the reason I want to know this right now is because, remember, that magic number of 8%. No president, except FDR, has been reelected with the unemployment number over 8%. That's why 8% is magic. Here, let's go to the audio sound bites. I'll show you what I'm talking about. That 8% being magic, the Drive-Bys are all excited -- they're orgasmic -- over this now. Audio sound bite three first, a montage here of State-Run Media glee over this jobs report today.

ROBIN MEADE: Music to the ears, isn't it? So unemployment rate dropped. Good thing two months in a row.

MARK HAINES: Unequivocally, a good report! This is an excellent, excellent, report! Great, great news on the jobs front!

ALISON KOSIK: A strong jobs report! The February number shows the job market is at a turning point!

JOE SCARBOROUGH: (newsroom noise) 8.9% IS A political number! That's very good for President Obama.

RUSH: Yeah, that's all that matters: It's a good number for President Obama. Did you hear that at the beginning? It was Ali Velshi at CNN. "This is CNN breaking news! Unemployment 8.9%!" Yeah, let's have a party. The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 159. Why? I explained that in the first hour. If this is such great news, how come people with skin in the game are getting out of the market today? I'll repeat it very quickly: More employment means more demand on energy and gasoline, higher gas prices (not good); and a higher interest rates or rising interest rates (not good when interest rates for lending institutions have been around zero). So it's a significant change.

That's why this is not inspiring a lot of confidence. Now, here's Rick Santelli on CNBC's Squawk Box today. During a discussion about the unemployment rate he got a question here from one of their reporters. "This seems pretty much in line with what the expectations are for the Federal Reserve here, right, Rick?"

SANTELLI: In terms of the unemployment rate, our panel's a lot smarter about all the algorithms and the calculations than I am, but with the baseline shifts and the revisions, you know, I think U6 is good news. But the ebbing and flowing? I just can't be as happy breaking the 9% as I would have been if this had occurred before last month with all the changes to these numbers. I have lost my GPS. I think the unemployment rate is a very disingenuous piece of information. No conspiracy. It's just the way they do it.

RUSH: Now, what he's talking about here, he would rather see this 8.9% a few months ago, because that's before they started just arbitrarily reducing the number of jobs available. That's what he's talking about. And we had the story yesterday from IBD: Job openings are down 30%. Job openings, meaning available jobs, are down 30%. Well, if we're gonna take the total job universe number and reduce it by 30%, of course it's going to appear that more people are working (particularly if you add 192,000 jobs). So he's covered himself here, "No conspiracy, no conspiracy, that's just the way they do it."

Well, there is one if you ask me. A strict definition of conspiracy is people have gotten together and conspired here to have some good news reported, fine and dandy. But central to it is the number of people who have stopped looking for work. Maybe they do it following Oprah's rating. If Oprah's ratings go down, fewer people are looking for work. I don't know. There's gotta be an answer. If Oprah's ratings have gone up, then there are more people who have given up looking for work. If Oprah's ratings have gone down, then there are more people who are looking for work -- meaning Oprah's show is less interesting to people and they gotta find something to do during the day other than watch Oprah, which means maybe go out and find a job.

RUSH: Did you see, folks, where the Bamster has come out in support again of the unionistas in Wisconsin? And so, by the way, has the Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis. She's gone in there. This is, by the way, not the job of the labor secretary, but it's indicative of much of the way this regime operates. It's total federal control over everything. The states have no rights, no concerns, nothing. If they do, they are to be trumped. Anyway, the president told the governors at their meeting in Washington, "I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon," but apparently, at least according to Obama, nonunion bitter-clingers have no such rights to infringe upon. Certainly the First and Second Amendments don't compare to the right to negotiate your number of sick days!

Here is the president, yesterday, the National Governors Association Annual Meeting.

OBAMA: I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees or denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon. We need to attract the best and the brightest to public service. These times demand it. We're not gonna attract the best teachers for our kids, for example, if they only make a fraction of what other professionals make.

OBAMA: We're not gonna convince the bravest Americans to put their lives on the line as police officers or firefighters if we don't properly reward that bravery.

RUSH: Mr. President, this is so disingenuous. "We're not gonna attract the best teachers for our kids if they only make a fraction of what other professionals make"? Um, they're making twice what their private sector counterparts are making, and they're being paid by those people! How many of you have seen the documentary Waiting for Superman? Have you seen this? Well, go get it. Go download it on iTunes. Go get it from Amazon. It's like an hour-21 minute documentary. It's amazing. I can't believe something like this got produced. It is an indictment of the public school system. It is an indictment of public sector teachers.

It is dead on accurate, and it makes the point that the last thing on the mind of many of these public sector union teachers is teaching. It's all the other stuff. It's the pension, it's the welfare, it's the sick days, the vacations. It's the money. It really is well done. I'm stunned not only that it got produced, I'm stunned that it survived once it got produced. But it's out there, called Waiting for Superman. In fact, it just made it to DVD in Blu-ray. Yeah, you ought to, folks, take a look at this thing because the timing of this thing hitting DVD right now is awesome for it to be part... (interruption) WaitingforSuperman.com is the website.

Okay, you go there and check this out, WaitingForSuperman.com, but I bought it yesterday at iTunes, and I started looking at it amidst blowing my nose, sniffles and all this other cold stuff that I was trying to overcome. It's terrific. So, anyway, anyway, after Obama makes the statement that you just heard, Governor Walker responded in Wisconsin. He issued a statement. "I'm sure the president knows that most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits, while our plan allows it for base pay." They're not doing away with it in Wisconsin. They're only allowing it for base pay and not for all the benefits.

And said the governor, "I'm sure the president knows that the average federal worker pays twice as much for health insurance as what we are asking for in Wisconsin. At least I would hope the president knows these facts. Furthermore, I'm sure the president knows that we have repeatedly praised the more than 300,000 government workers who come to work every day in Wisconsin, and I'm sure that President Obama simply misunderstands the issues in Wisconsin and isn't acting like the union bosses in saying one thing and doing another." Folks, this is dynamite. I mean, that is knife sharp. That is just a fabulous statement.

What it further shows is that Governor Walker does not fear President Obama on this. Now, there's a New York Times poll in today's paper. The headline: "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions. John Steele Gordon at Commentary, the Contentions blog site, says: "The Times thought the story so significant that it put it on page 1, above the fold, and even sent out a news alert last night via e-mail. According to the Times: 'As labor battles erupt in state capitals around the nation, a majority of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits, ..."

"'Asked how they would choose to reduce their state's deficits,' the Times adds, 'those polled preferred tax increases over benefit cuts for state workers by nearly two to one.'" Does anybody buy this? If this is the case, how in the heck did Walker win election? How did the Republicans take over the Senate? I mean, this is an out-and-out lie. "How do you square these figures with the results of last November's elections, in which anti-tax, anti-deficit, anti-public-union forces swept to historic victories in federal and state elections across the country? Well, you can't, of course. The Times doesn't even ask this blindingly obvious question, let alone try to answer it. But if you read down to the seventh paragraph of the story, which is on page 17, not page 1, an answer emerges:

"'The nationwide telephone poll was conducted Feb. 24-27 with 984 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all adults. Of those surveyed, 20 percent said there was a union member in their household, and 25 percent said there was a public employee in their household.'" So, "Although less than 12 percent of the workforce is unionized today," and by the way, the private sector number is light eight. "Although less than 12 percent of the workforce is unionized today 20 percent of the households in the survey had a union member. Although government workers are 17 percent of the workforce, 25 percent of the households surveyed had one living there.

"In other words, the sample was wildly skewed toward the very people most likely to give the answers the Times was hoping to hear," but you have to read to page 17 to get that information. So once again proving a bone of contention: Polls today are used to shape public opinion, not reflect it, pure and simple. Then there's a story from Reuters. Reuters backs unions, Obama, and the fake poll. "Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Monday gave absent Democratic lawmakers an ultimatum to return to Wisconsin within 24 hours and vote on a proposal to reduce the power of public sector unions or the state would miss out on a debt restructuring.

"Walker stepped up the pressure on 14 Senate Democrats who fled the state to avoid a vote on the bill as he prepared to unveil on Tuesday a two-year state budget that he said cuts $1 billion from funding ... For the second time since the controversy erupted, President Barack Obama weighed into the debate on Monday criticizing the Wisconsin plan," the sound bite that you have heard that we played. Never mind that (again, now) according to Obama, nonunion bitter clingers have no such rights to infringe upon. But clearly the rights enumerated in the First and Second Amendment don't compare the right to negotiate your number of sick days if you're a member of the union.

Speaking of "denigration," is this not the same guy who like to say refer to his opponents as "tea baggers" while scratching his nose with his middle finger? And while we're on the subject, I thought "denigration" was a racist term anyway? "Wisconsin's Walker immediately issued a response, saying: 'I'm sure that President Obama simply misunderstands the issues in Wisconsin,'" and then Reuters intentionally misrepresents Walker's response, and they get to a poll. "A new poll released on Monday suggested that if the 2010 election could be replayed the Wisconsin governor might lose. The Public Policy Polling survey found that if the election were repeated the result would flip with Walker's Democratic opponent Tom Barrett getting 52 percent and Walker 45 percent.

"Walker won with 52 percent in November. The shift came mainly from union households." So isn't this amazing? But if you take a look, the Public Policy Polling sample is in itself skewed to get the result that it was the. Now, all this means the Democrats are losing. All of this means that public opinion is actually against them, and they're now having to take drastic action and go to heretofore unseen lengths to start fabricating news in the form of flawed poll results, which basically say to the American voter, "Guess what? Everything you voted against and everything you voted for last November has done a 180.

"Guess what? The vast majority of the American people want taxpayers to continue to pay public sector unions twice what the taxpayer earns. Guess what? That's really happened now! Since this whole became public in Wisconsin now, our polling data shows that the average American taxpayer thinks union people are being cheated and not being given their fair share and they also believe collective bargaining is as important a right as anything that's in the Constitution -- and guess when all this started to change. All this started to change when the news out of Wisconsin went public and people finally got to see what a mean, evil, rotten guy Scott Walker is."

Well, that's what they're asking us to believe here, that public opinion has done a massive 180. Now, you and I know that this is not the case. This is how desperate all of these people are getting. Here would be our poll question: "Do you agree to pay higher taxes so that state government employees can have higher pay (twice what yours is), more time off, better health care benefits, better retirement plan than you will ever get?" Ask 'em that question, New York Times. Ask 'em that question, Public Policy Polling. What do you think the responses would be for that question? (Apart from union households, of course.) And while you're at it, when you ask that question, make sure that the number of union households represented in your poll is no more than 12%, to make it accurate.

RUSH: You know, in a way the US Constitution was on the ballot this past November, and you saw the resounding response. And now you see the attempt by the losers to change the game. There's no question Americans want to hold onto the freedoms guaranteed by a Constitution that calls for a limit government. Getting you and every other concerned American up to speed on what we face when it comes to preserving those freedoms, well, that's the next challenge. There's an easy way for you to learn or relearn those freedoms. For the next few days you can access many of the documents of our Founding Fathers on a website set up by Hillsdale College. It's the website we refer to often when we talk about Hillsdale, rush4hillsdale.com. On that site right now, Hillsdale's virtual professors have posted all kinds of documents for you to read through. It's all there, from George Washington's farewell address to the Articles of Confederation, and many more. And when it's brought to life this is the stuff that gets the professors at Hillsdale and students energized. It will do the same for you.

Everybody can access this for a limited time -- teachers, counselors, tutors, pastors, Boy Scout Leaders, I mean they're all invited to access the information. Take the site over if you want to. Rush4hillsdale.com is the website address and you'll be amazed at the wisdom you'll find in documents like these and understand why informed people are so energized about our rights and how they are under assault, and ostensibly by one of the guardians of those rights. And that would be the press. Think of it as a football game, basketball game, whatever. You got the Republicans on one team, the Democrats on the other. The conservatives on one team, the liberals on the other. The Americans on one team, the Marxists, communists on the other. Who's the referee? Well, the referee's the media. Ideally. It used to be. The problem is the media's on the side of the Democrats. The media's on the side of the communists. The media's on the side of the liberals.

That's why you need to be independently able to inform yourself and why you need to be able to inform yourself sufficiently so that you are confident in what you know and what you believe so that you can't be shaken by these laughable excuses for news stories called these polls. I don't care whether it's health care or the government shutdown or Wisconsin, have you noted that every poll out there shows the Republicans losing? Every poll on every seminal issue shows the Democrats winning. And yet they got shellacked! Are we to believe that that record turn out last November's going, "Ah, damn it, oh, no." And yet after two years of watching a president try to destroy the American economy they still haven't come to grips with that happening? Is that what we want us to believe? They do. And if you are not confident on what you know and understand and believe they can shake you. Don't let it happen.

RUSH: Yeah, isn't it amazing? Every poll you look at, the huge winners last November are now losing every important issue in the country according to polling data done by State-Run Media. And the missing senators, Wisconsin, are being paid by union people to stay away.

RUSH: This is Polly -- one of my all-time favorite top ten female names. Polly from Buffalo. Polly, welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: A speaker of truth. End of story, case closed. (chuckles) I want to ask you, what hope we have here in New York fighting union entitlements when approximately 25% of our workforce is unionized? But also just 70 short years ago our fathers fought and died for liberty and to stop the spread of communism, and today we have a dictator in practice who wants to send his communist friends to fight with the unions. So I just.. How did we forget that hundreds of millions --

RUSH: We haven't forgotten it. We haven't of course forgotten it. There's two things.

CALLER: I feel it is, and I have never been so afraid for my country since November 2nd, 2008.

RUSH: It's like some people still don't get it. They might agree with you that Obama's not what he seemed to be during the campaign, Obama's not that. But they're not yet ready to admit the guy's doing purposeful destruction to the economy. They just don't think that's possible of an American president. The presidency is so revered that they just can't believe that American people would elect somebody who's got a design on this economy of total change that would end up wrecking capitalism and replacing it. The second aspect that you have to deal with is that those people never go away.

I mean, the Obamas of the world, the leftists never go away. They never give you a sense that they've ever been beaten because they never go away. So it's an ongoing, never-ending battle. It's very rare you get to claim victory, and I think that's very frustrating to people. At some point, you want to be able to say you've won -- if not the war, you want to be able to say you've won a battle. But the moment you win the battle and you know you've won it, the war continues because these people are like cockroaches: They just keep coming back. So you look at November. Take a look at what's happening right now.

November: The biggest shellacking the Democrat Party has faced in decades, all the way down to the state legislative level. They got creamed! They lost the House of Representatives by a huge margin. They barely have control in the Senate in a functioning way. The president has a higher disapproval than he does approval. Yet the news today is how the Republicans are losing in the state of the Wisconsin and they're losing on the budget battle and they're lose on the unions, all because of a bunch of phony, fraudulent polling data. These people just never go away.

So you and others like you, even when you win, don't get to celebrate it because it doesn't last long enough because you never get to get off the battlefield. And that, I think, is an important point because not everybody wants to even get on the battlefield because they know once you get on it you're never getting off. Once you take up this battle, once you take up this challenge, you're in it 'til you die. 'Cause these people aren't ever going to go away -- and, you know, the referees or whoever that's gonna proclaim victory are not fair. So it can be very dispiriting. It's why I was saying earlier: You really do need to be confident of what you know, confident that what you believe is right -- confident -- confident enough to know when you're looking at total BS in the media.

You gotta be so confident that they cannot shake you. 'Cause that's their whole modus operandi is to separate you from your confidence, to separate you from what you believe, to get you questioning what you know to be true. Break your spirit. They can't beat you in the arena of ideas. They try to beat you psychologically, public relations-wise, any number of ways. So when that's going on... It's not like football season; it ends. The Super Bowl, you got a champion. The Super Bowl is every day in this game, and it never ends. So you really never get to celebrate victory. You have to do this every day -- and that's why you, I think, experience the frustration levels, and you are not alone, other people, too. Even when there's a big victory, you're told that you're losing.

RUSH: Now, look, folks, at the end of the day we have the most important characteristic on our side, and that's reality. Reality and truth. For instance, the case of Wisconsin. No matter what the Democrats say, no matter what the fraudulent polling data says, no matter how the media spins it, no matter how many fake polls they publish, Wisconsin is still in debt to the tune of $3.6 billion. Wisconsin still cannot afford to pay public sector union people twice what the taxpayers of the state are earning. The taxpayers of that state simply cannot afford to pay public sector unions what they are paying. It cannot sustain itself. That's the reality. Now, they can spin it, they can spin it all they want, but eventually reality is going to catch up with them. It has caught up with them. That's what we're dealing with. We got Greece, and everybody said Greece is coming to America. Greece has arrived. It's in Wisconistan. It's happening there. They're gonna get a huge reality slap.

And if you want to know another little truth here, they would love for you to believe that this is all over this precious somehow God-created, God-granted right to collective bargaining. But that's not what this is really all about. What do you think it's really all about, El Snerdbo? It's about the state of Wisconsin deducting to use the dues automatically. Walker wants the union members to start paying that. He wants to get rid of the automatic deduction. They don't want that to happen. They don't want for their rank-and-file to actually see what the hell is happening here, and that's every bit as big a part of this. The unions want to keep their revenue stream, and the state automatic deduction is the revenue stream. They have to keep that. They don't care about the kids. They don't care about students. They don't really care about their own union members. They care about that revenue stream, that auto deduction. That's why they got thugs flying in from every state in the country in there to raise hell, pure and simple.

RUSH: Missing Wisconsin senators "rely heavily on union campaign dollars" in order to stay away. It's exactly what I was talking about when I said these public sector unions are just money launderers, simply kick-back money from the taxpayers to these Democrat politicians, in this case to replace their salaries that they're not getting so that they can stay away.

RUSH: Daisy in Los Angeles. Glad that you called. You're on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Yeah, thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I wanted to ask you a question. If Governor Walker would declare Wisconsin bankrupt, file state bankruptcy, would this man nullify the union contracts or require them to renegotiate them?

RUSH: I have no idea. I don't know bankruptcy law. Let me pretend to be another host. No, I can't do that to you. I don't know. I'm not even sure states can go bankrupt. I think cities can declare bankruptcy. I'm not sure a state can. In fact, the reality is, Daisy, before that ever happened the federal government would bail them out, and especially this federal government. If it meant the union going sayonara, they'd bail 'em out.

CALLER: Yeah, well, I certainly hope Governor Walker will not give in because this is --

RUSH: There's some moderate Republicans in the Republican assembly in Wisconsin, and some of them might cave. Yeah, but I know, the pressure is intense on this guy.

CALLER: Right. And even if some of the citizens could start the recall for their senators that are out of town.

RUSH: That's true. This is gonna come back and bite these guys running out on the job, running out on this. There's no valor here. There's no courage and bravery here. They're not standing up for the people. They're making it clear who matters to them and it isn't the people, it isn't the voters. It is their paymasters and that is becoming more and more obvious to everybody. So I think I'm right about that, cities can go bankrupt, states cannot. States cannot declare bankruptcy. Daisy, thanks so much for the call.

RUSH: By popular demand, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Donald Trump live here on the EIB Network. Donald, great to have you here, sir, and how are you today?

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, let me tell you what happened here. Last week, after your CPAC speech a couple of weeks ago, we got a bunch of people phoning here wanting to know -- they took you seriously. They think you're running for president, you're seriously considering it. If you go to CPAC they're gonna take you seriously.

RUSH: And a couple people wanted to know -- they had learned you had given some money to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral campaign in Chicago -- they asked me how could a guy that wants the Republican nomination do that? I said, "He's got business in Chicago."

RUSH: Chicago is Chicago. And that didn't sit well with them. So I thought, "I'm gonna have Mr. Trump on and ask him myself." So I'm asking you so that they can hear your answer.

TRUMP: Good, Rush, I like actually giving the answer. Number one, I do business all over the country, and as an example, I'm from New York, which is an almost exclusively Democratic state. So over the years, Republicans in many cases don't even run a candidate, sadly, and I say very sadly. Now, Ari Emanuel, who if you've looked they did Entourage on Ari Emanuel, that's my agent. Rahm is his brother. Ari's a great friend of mine --

TRUMP: Right. Well, you know, The Apprentice, which is going on on Sunday night, is this big successful show, but Ari Emanuel is the biggest agent I guess in this country, and he represents me. His brother is running, and frankly they don't even have a Republican candidate running. You know, over there in Chicago they have Democrats and they're all running as Democrats essentially, but there's no Republican or a Republican that's gonna get more than, you know, anything more than 0% of the vote. So I like Rahm, I've always liked him as a person, and more importantly, Ari, his brother, is my agent. So I did make a contribution to him, and, frankly, I don't think they had any Republicans running.

TRUMP: I'm very loyal to people, Rush. I mean I see a lot of disloyalty around. I'm very loyal to people and that supersedes, frankly, party lines. But I'm very, very loyal to people and I'm also very loyal to people that I think are good for the country.

RUSH: Why are you thinking about running for president? I've talked to you over the years. I've listened to you on various places in the media for years. You sound different this time. You sound really ticked off. China, the economic direction of the country, you sound like it's really bothering you now more than just something to say.

TRUMP: Well, you're right about that, Rush. I've seen what's happened to this country. We're no longer respected. You have places like China, and I know the Chinese, I do business with the Chinese. I've made a lot of money off the Chinese, believe me. I had a partnership with Chinese people. It wasn't fun, and I made a lot of money. I came out very, very strong.

TRUMP: Because I watch them and I see what they're doing to the country, and I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend and when I sit down -- I sold an apartment recently for $33 million from a very nice couple from China. Thirty-three million dollars for the apartment, I'm very happy about it, but I sit down with people and I talk to 'em, from China, and really much more so prior to when I thought I may be running for president, because they're not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs -- you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete and --

RUSH: Would you explain the actual manifestation of that? First off, what are they doing in manipulating their currency, and for the average guy that doesn't understand all this, how does that affect jobs and imports, exports here?

TRUMP: Very good. China should have a currency which is a much higher value relative to the dollar and other things. What they're doing is keeping it low, artificially low. And I mean seriously artificial. I don't just mean a little bit low. I mean major low. Now when a guy comes to Donald Trump who wants to put up a glass curtain wall or aluminum something or even brick or Sheetrock, and you saw what happened with the Sheetrock, people are dying over Chinese Sheetrock because I will say this -- and I have to interject -- our products are better than the Chinese. We do a better job. We make better products. But because the currency is so low versus the dollar versus other things, and so much lower than it should be, it's very hard to compete for our companies.

As an example, recently I built a building and I put a curtain wall, exterior wall, very expensive building, very beautiful wall, and the American companies that competed, the pricing was much higher because they couldn't compete against the low valued yuan. And they just couldn't compete with it, Rush, and I hated to give out the contract, but it's almost impossible for somebody like me that obviously wants to build the building for the best price possible, it's almost impossible to compete. I wanted to go American and I often do. I mean even if it's close I go American, but it's very hard for our companies to compete because they keep it artificially low.

Just take a look. We have the Olympics. They have gymnasts. "Oh, no, these gymnasts are all 14 or 15," or whatever the minimum age. Well, they didn't look it to anybody. They were phenomenal, but don't forget they're not under pressure because all they want to do is they're playing to their mommy, not 20 billion people, okay? So they had the gymnasts, well, it turned out that the gymnasts were a fraud and their medals were taken away and China knew all about it. The same thing with the singer at the Olympics. You had this unbelievably beautiful young woman who had the greatest voice anyone's ever heard. "Yes, this is her voice. She sang their national anthem." It turned out she wasn't singing. It was a fraud, they said it was her.

TRUMP: Rush, we're not only talking about this one country. You look at South Korea, what they did. We signed a trade pact that nobody in their right mind would have signed. And it was so bad, and yet they didn't want to sign it. Now, two months ago when bombs started getting lobbed over by North Korea and we send this incredible aircraft carrier, the George Washington and 17 destroyers heading right to North Korea, all of a sudden they sign and they announce that they are friends of our country. It's a lot of crap. They make billions of dollars of, let's call it profit, off the United States, Rush, billions of dollars. Why aren't they paying for protection? We protect South Korea, and I know the Koreans very well. I had a partnership with the Koreans that was a fantastic partnership. I built Trump World Tower with Daewoo, which was a Korean company, and I did very well and they did very well. So I understand the people. And, by the way, I don't dislike the Chinese people, I don't dislike the Korean people, because if I were them I'd be doing the same thing. If our leaders are so stupid that they allow what's happening -- we can't have jobs created, Rush, in this country if China is making all of our products.

RUSH: This is what I want to ask you about because the way the Chinese are presented to the average American here, and in listening to you it's somewhat similar, they're relatively omnipotent. On one hand they can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy. At the same time they own an ever increasing amount of our debt. You said we have stupid leaders here. It's almost as though -- this stuff can't happen in a vacuum. There has to be some reason this has been permitted to happen.

TRUMP: It is actually happening in a vacuum. Now, look, the debt is not a problem because, hey, look, nobody, Rush, over the years I've done tremendous business with banks, I work things out with banks and it's not difficult if you know what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing it's devastating because I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them. The fact is that the Chinese are taking advantage of our country. And by the way, the Chinese can't even believe that they're getting away with it.

RUSH: Well, it's more than taking advantage. You said earlier they do look at us as an enemy.

TRUMP: Oh, they view us as an enemy, very, very militant toward the United States, and I don't even think the United States knows it.

RUSH: What would constitute victory to them, then? What is their objective via us?

TRUMP: If you look at what they're doing, they're building military now. They just opened up plants to start building jet liners so, you know, that little trivial order that they gave to Boeing just to be nice because guys like me are talking about what a rip-off -- here's, when you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners and neither do you, Rush, because I know you well and you don't give five-star dinners. If you look at what's happening, they give a $40 billion order, which is not a big deal, to Boeing. In other words, they want to walk off the plane and give us something after taking our trillions of dollars in this country.

RUSH: So they give this order, but look at what they're really doing to Boeing. They're now taking technology and everything else and they're opening up their own airline manufacturing plant. They're gonna make big airlines to compete with Boeing and Eurobus. They're going to be opening up there and watch what happens within a few years with respect to Boeing. That order will not be so important and, by the way, they'll never buy planes from us. They will only buy those planes from their Chinese company that they're forming and that they're starting. That's gonna be a very devastating blow to Boeing. You watch what happens. But when I look at what's going on with China, when I look at what's going on with OPEC, when I look at oil prices hitting a hundred dollars a barrel, and if you remember three years ago, Rush, oil prices were a little bit higher than they are right now.

TRUMP: Yeah, and we'll be up there pretty soon because there's nobody to call OPEC. You know, if it weren't for us -- why do we have troops in Saudi Arabia? We have troops in Saudi Arabia, can you imagine they're not paying us with the money they're making. They're making more money than any country has made in the history of the world, legitimately making that kind of money. They form OPEC, they have 12 men, in this case all men, they sit around the table, any time there's a minor incident in the world they raise the price of oil because, you know, they figure, well, nobody's gonna call. When oil goes over $40 a barrel it's almost impossible for our country to do well. That's what it is. You look at oil, we're up to a hundred now, we're heading up, they keep raising it, when oil goes over $40, watch what happens. And the stock market is gonna end up being a big Ponzi scheme because the only thing that's doing well in this country is the stock market, and --

RUSH: And we are back with Donald Trump. Donald, the things you've articulated on China I think most people are going, "Rah-rah," agreeing with, and I think they totally understand it. Why do you think it's not clear to more people in our government? Do you think Obama understands it the way you do? And what would you do if you were president to deal with all this?

TRUMP: Well, you know, Rush, I talk about China -- and other countries, by the way. But I talk about China 'cause they're the worst abuser, and we have this independent group of people that formed ShouldTrumpRun.com and we have over 400,000 people already signed up. What I don't understand but I think maybe there is an understanding down deep, I believe it could be the lobbyists. Because so many people love what I say on China; they know it's true. When Ben Bernanke gets up and says, "Jobs won't be good for another five years," now, that sounds like a long time, but I disagree.

I don't think jobs will ever be good if we keep going on this policy because we're not making anything anymore. China and other countries are making our products. We are rebuilding China. So I say it over and over again. I do your show, I do Today Show, and I say it -- and everybody loves it; and yet no politician ever says what I'm saying; and then they give, as I said, five-star dinners at the White House. So 400,000 people join ShouldTrumpRun.com and yet nobody... So what I think it is, is the politicians are all taken over by the lobbyists. I really believe the lobbyists keep them shut up because China and Chinese companies have all got tremendous lobbyists.

OPEC has got a monopoly. If you try and get a lobbyist in Washington to go against OPEC, they'll say, "Oh, this is great. Donald Trump wants me to be a lobbyist," and then they'll go check and say, "Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Trump, we can't represent you. We represent OPEC or one of the 12 nations." So it's really... In my opinion, it has to be the lobbyists. Because I'll say this, everybody will agree with me -- and I know you agree with me -- but everybody will agree with me, and then the politicians don't speak up. And I think they don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

RUSH: Well, could there be an element of fear? I mean, people aren't afraid of the United States anymore, Donald.

TRUMP: No, they're not. No, we're not respected. And one of the reasons I'm seriously thinking about running -- and I mean seriously thinking -- is that this is not a respected country anymore. I love this country. It's got potential to be great again. But, really, Rush, it's not great right now. It's not great. China, in 12 years or less, will take over as the #1 nation in the world from an economic standpoint -- and we're doing it! We're doing it. Now, you asked me before: What would I do? I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency -- and I mean fast; I mean really fast -- we are going to tax your products 25%. Now, what that will do is two things. Number one: Immediately will start doing our own manufacturing. We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

RUSH: How about Chinese screws? I mean, Chinese screws? You better not assemble anything with a screw made in China or you'll BE screwed!

TRUMP: Many things are very... They call it the "counterfeiters." And by the way, even those laws, those laws are so bad for us in China -- we make a product here and -- they copy it in China and they couldn't care less about infringement or anything else. We talk about the environmentalists. You know, they all want us to make our plan so that nothing can go into the air. Do you think China's doing that? They laugh at us. They talk "green" but they're not "green." They talk green but they're not -- and this isn't just me saying it on the basis of common sense. These are the biggest people in China who sit down with me and talk to me, and they can't believe what they're getting away with.

I'll give you a little interesting thing -- and this is nothing much, and I shouldn't even waste your program's time by saying it. But I notice that the White House they give a lot of the balls for people, and some should have balls! I mean, if you look at Britain, if you look at certain places, they've come through and they've been good allies, and we should have balls for them. As you know, 'cause you're in Palm Beach, I have the greatest ballroom probably in the world. I built it five years ago, and it's one of the great ballrooms of the world. It's at the Mar-a-Lago Club. And I see that the White House -- the White House, Washington, DC -- when a dignitary comes in from India, from anywhere, they open up a tent. They have a tent. A tent!

TRUMP: An old, rotten tent that frankly they probably rented, pay a guy millions of dollars for it even though it's worth about $2, okay? So they have a tent for a dignitary that comes in. So recently, a couple of months ago, I called up the White House. I said, "Listen, I'm really good at this stuff. I will build you a magnificent ballroom. We'll go through committees. You know, you have all sorts of things with committees. We'll go through committees; we'll pick the one they like. We'll pick the architect everybody likes. We'll pick something that works. We'll do ten designs. You'll pick the one that's the greatest with the greatest architecture. I will build it free." So that's anywhere from 50 to hundred million-dollar gift. I will give that, and I mean, I'm talking, Rush -- it's the first time I've said this. I'm talking to the biggest person, one of the biggest people at the White House. I'm not talking to a low-level person.

TRUMP: One of the most important people. "I will build the White House a ballroom. So when the head of India comes to town we can give him a five-star dinner in a magnificent ballroom, befitting of this country and the White House," right? They never got back to me. It's a hundred million-dollar gift. They never got back to me.

TRUMP: Well, but they never got back to me, Rush. When whether I'm a Republican or an independent or a Democrat, they never got back to me. If I was a Republican they should do it anyway! They should say, "Trump's gonna give us a hundred million dollars? He's gonna build the ballroom? It's gonna be magnificent?" Why wouldn't they get back to me? That's the problem with this country. It's like no common sense. They have no... Let me give you another example. We talk about not only China, Korea. So when we send the George Washington -- the most magnificent aircraft carrier I've ever seen. When we send the George Washington and 17 destroyers and we head them to North Korea to protect South Korea, why doesn't South Korea pay us for that? You know how much that costs just to turn on the engines of the George Washington?

TRUMP: You know what I'm talking about. You turn those engines on, and that sucker costs you a hundred thousand bucks, okay? I mean, just to turn the key is a hundred thousand. Now, they're steaming toward North Korea -- and, by the way, the only reason that North Korea backed down was because they saw these ships steaming in their direction -- and that's all fine. Why isn't South Korea sending us a check for a hundred million dollars for saving them and the protection? Why are we sending all these ships with all of these sailors and all of these soldiers over there? Why aren't they protecting us? And they make hundreds... LG, I buy hundreds of them, LG. They make all of these television sets and all of these products that we take into this country. By the way, we signed an agreement, Rush, which allows them to sell but if we go to them it's very hard for us to sell in South Korea. It's very hard for us.

TRUMP: Rush, we actually have something where for over a five-year period they treat us a little bit better. It's an absolute joke.

RUSH: I have to stop you. I've only got 30 seconds left here and I know you're busy. I wish I... I wanted to talk about Wisconsin with you and get your thoughts on what's going on with the public sector union thing. We'll have to do that at another time.

RUSH: But I want to thank you for your time here, and your willingness to make yourself available.

TRUMP: Well, absolutely, Rush. And I really enjoy your show and I really enjoy you. And a lot of people enjoy you very much, Rush. They just don't like saying it. They don't like giving you the credit that you deserve.

RUSH: Say whatever you will about Donald Trump, there's one thing nobody can deny, and that is he has a can-do spirit -- good old American can-do spirit -- and Trump's can-do spirit is backed up with Trump's can-do action. It really is. I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama. Mr. "Scholar," Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real World Builder. I would love to see that. Obama wouldn't even get out his first sentence by the time Trump had given ten answers.

Scott Walker responds to Obama: You sound a little like a union boss, you know that?

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.

Liberty’s Army (mostly economic and middle eastern revolutionary news right now):

The Iowahawk, which is a blog, at times, heavy with stats, and at other times, it is hard to tell:

In case you want to refer others to this; statistical comparison between gays and straights:

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

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

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.

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):

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

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.

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):

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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):

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):

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):

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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:

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):

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Issue #168	Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views	March 6, 2011