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This Week’s Events

The United States is invested billions in oil drilling by Brazil in the gulf, and President Obama is telling us that this is a great economic move for both countries....while oil platforms belonging to us are not being utilized.

There is a free state project, where 20,000 libertarian activists are being encouraged to move to New Hampshire, with the hope of changing the face of that state.

It became known the GE made $14.2 billion last year and paid no taxes. Jeffrey Immelt, GE CEO, is Obama’s jobs czar, and he has positioned GE to do the stuff that government wants them to do, which means, all kinds of tax credits for GE.

Debt-stressed Portugal's Parliament on Wednesday refused to endorse more austerity measures aimed at avoiding a bailout.

A prominent group in Pakistan, the Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat, has called for "death" to US pastor Terry Jones for his act of burning a copy of the Quran and threatened its members will march to the Pakistani capital if the US ambassador is not expelled by April 7.

Egyptian television people are beginning to say that the Muslim Brotherhood have taken over the Egyptian revolution, and the revolutionary youth have been replaced by bearded men with guns.

A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a 45 year old Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. The Muslims claimed they were applying Sharia law because Mr. Mitri allegedly had an illicit affair with a Muslim woman. Mr. Mitri, a low grade administrator at a secondary school, from elHasweya, in Qena, 492 KM from Cairo, had rented his flat to two Muslim sisters, Abeer and Sabrin Saif Al-Nasr, through an agent. After nine months he learned the sisters had been indicted for prostitution, so he asked them to leave and they did.

Iranian authorities have licensed a website calling for "war," including the use of volunteer suicide militants, against what its founders see as the "invasion" of Bahrain by troops from countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Although the news has presented the U.S. no-fly zone as something we will be involved in for a short time, it looks like this could be for many months. When Secretary Gates was asked if we ought to expect this to continue until the year’s end, Gates said, "I don't think anybody knows the answer to that."

Sri Lankan Muslims beat and stamp on an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest rally against the allied forces' air strike in Libya,

Eric Elliott, spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, admits that “Odyssey Dawn” was not necessarily the best choice for names for the Libyan air strike, as Homer spent 10 years on his odyssey.

Qaddafy is sending out feelers to determine if some sort of cease-fire can be reached.

Unrest continues throughout the Middle East, including Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Jordan, Oman, and Bahrain. When this all began, Glenn Beck began warning that the end game may be a caliphate (a huge Muslim nation; ideally, one which encompasses the world). He was ridiculed as a nut-job for these pronouncements. Now, even the NY Times is coming around to his way of thinking.

As many as 250–500,000 take to the streets in London to protest austerity cuts. This is very well-organized, with professional pre-made signage, speakers and even a band. The end result is smashed windows, graffiti, and splattered paint.

Speaking of revolutions, Canadian opposition parties toppled Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in a no confidence vote Friday, triggering the country's fourth election in seven years.

After teaching middle school math for only nine months in this tiny Chicago suburb, Safoorah Khan requested 3 weeks off for a pilgrimage to Mecca. She was refused (1) because this is totally ridiculous and (2) she was the only math lab instructor at the end of the semester, which is when she wanted the 3 weeks off. The school district refused and she has sued the school district. The U.S. Justice Department has just filed a lawsuit on behalf of this Muslim teacher.

Muslim activists and CAIR are calling for a federal investigation into claims Arab-Americans and Muslims are routinely harassed, groped and grilled about their religion at U.S. border crossings.

Israel’s new iron dome rocket defense system deploys today.

ACORN is becoming active in Egypt, South Korea and the Prague.

Apparently, there was a Sharia-compliant mortgage program in Minnesota, which Governor Pawlenty shut down.

In Iowa, there was to be a mock school shooting/terrorism exercise scheduled for Saturday, March 26, 2011, at Treynor Community Schools. The plan, Operation Closed Campus, is described as a full scale plan and exercise used to educate players in the proper response of a domestic terrorism or school shooting. The proposed scenario to be acted out by the students, staff, faculty members, and emergency response teams. The scenario details two white males, ages 17 and 18, with ties to anti-immigration groups and gun enthusiasts, opening fire on a group of minority students, hitting a Hispanic student. This exercise was called off, and there was a threat which was reported about the exercise.

Jamie Gorelick may be appointed by Barack Obama to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director. She has been a key Janet Reno advisor as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton years, but, apparently, she was also rewarded with a 7 year stint at Fannie Mae, where she made $26 million. Somehow, all those who worked at FNMA during that time period, walked away with a lot of money, despite the fact that FNMA and FHLMC agreed to insure worthless loans and is billions upon billions in debt.

64 Senators sent Barack Obama a letter (half Democrats and half Republicans) asking for him to get involved in the budget process.

It has come out that Samantha Power, Obama advisor, has called for a meaningful military presence in Israel by the U.S.

In Madison, WI, that controversial legislation limiting collective bargaining for public workers was published on Friday despite a judge's hold on the measure, sparking a dispute over whether it takes effect Saturday. The President has ignored at least 2 court orders; perhaps the Wisconsin legislature has decided to follow suit.

It’s not just in Wisconsin now—the Florida House delivered a major blow to public employee unions Friday, approving a bill that would ban automatic dues deduction from a government paycheck and require members to sign off on the use of their dues for political purposes.

It is the one-year anniversary of Obamacare.

It looks like Katie Couric is out as NBC’s nightly news anchor.

Caterpillar is talking about moving its business out of Illinois because of the tax hikes.

The liberal group Media Matters, funded in great part by George Soros, has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of "guerrilla warfare and sabotage" aimed at the Fox News Channel. The staff of about 90 will no longer monitor a variety of media outlets, but will focus on FoxNews and a few conservative websites.

UAW rally in Detroit shuts down Bank of America, chanting “Money for jobs.”

Former member of Ku Klux Klan, 70-year-old John Paul Rogers, is running for mayor of Lake Wales, FL as a Democrat.

Dem Rep. Gary Ackerman and MSNBC's Cenk Uygur both agree that opposing Obama in this Libyan no-fly zone is "Unpatriotic."

Democratic Senator suggests that tracking devices be added to cars, so that people could be taxed according to the miles that they drive.

Republican leaders in about half the states are pushing to require voters to show photo ID’s.

Newt Gingrich is calling for abolishing the Ninth Circuit Court, which he sees as part of an activist judiciary, abolishing all "czars" created by the Obama administration and ensuring no American money pays for abortion.

News from 1977: Movie actress Elizabeth Taylor offered herself as a hostage for the more than 100 Air France hijack victims held by terrorists at Entebbe Airport in Uganda during the tense days before the Israeli rescue raid last July 4.

Say What?

Liberals:

Tim Flannery, a zoologist and author of an acclaimed 2005 book on climate change, "The Weather Makers": “If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO₂ that has to be absorbed and that only happens slowly."

Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg: "Planned Parenthood is under attack by Tea Party Republicans who have put their extremist ideology above women's health... These people (referring to the pro-life advocates) don't deserve the freedoms in the Constitution...but we'll give it to them anyway."

Barbara Boxer, who (eventually) vehemently opposed us going to war in Iraq, recently said of Obama going into Libya: "This is different; you're facing a dictator who vowed...to destroy his own people."

Bill Moyers: “{NPR is] independent reporting that toes neither party nor ideological line. We've heard no NPR reporter -- not a one -- advocating on the air for more government spending (or less), for the right of abortion (or against it), for or against gay marriage, or for or against either political party, especially compared to what we hear from Fox News and talk radio on all of these issues and more.

Ed Schultz posts op-ed entitled "Why I Support President Obama's Decision to Invade Libya." (Which we haven’t, by the way).

Dennis Kucinich about Obama;s no-fly zone in Libya: "I asked the question as to whether that was an impeachable offense; that's different than actually calling for an impeachment or inducing a resolution, which I am not intending to do."

Barney Frank about House republicans: “Even the bigots ain’t stupid.”

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Thursday that security on the southern U.S. border "is better now than it ever has been"

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): "[Obama-care] is a matter of life or death. We're one job loss away when you have a pre-existing condition from being uninsurable. And that's - that's unacceptable, and that's what health care reform did for Americans."

Louis Farrakhan has called President Obama "the first Jewish president."

Lead speaker at UAW rally in Detroit: “In 2009, Bank of America made $4.4 million.” He meant to say billion.

Ousted NPR CEO Vivian Schiller: “I will be back.“

From the Huffington Post: “The Huffington Post is committed to fostering a lively and often provocative debate about the issues of the day and encourages a wide range of voices from all perspectives to participate. Andrew Brietbart's ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller - right down to calling him a "commie punk" and "a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak" - violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page.”

Liberals from the past:

Barack Obama, 2009: "In many ways, you can measure America's bottom line by looking at Caterpillar's bottom line"

Barack Obama, 2007: “But the fact of the matter is that when we don't talk to the American people - we're debating the most important foreign policy issues that we face, and the American people have a right to know. It is not just Washington insiders that - are part of the debate that has to take place with respect to how we're going to shift our foreign policy. This is a seminal question.”

Obama, 2007: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

Liberals making sense:

Anthony Weiner, requesting a waiver from Obamacare for his district: "We in New York already have hospitals, we already employ doctors and we employ nurses. We have a lot of uninsured people. . [Setting up] the exchanges is the one piece of the puzzle that would be difficult for us to do. I'm just looking internally to whether the city can save money and have more control over its own destiny." Weiner was one of the big cheerleaders for Obamacare.

Crosstalk:

From Limbaugh’s show; presidential declarations of war:

ROOSEVELT: December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.

REAGAN: At seven o'clock this evening Eastern Time air and naval forces of the United States launched a series of strikes against the headquarters, terrorist facilities, and military assets that support Moammar Khadafy's subversive activities.

BUSH 41: Just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in Iraq and Kuwait.

CLINTON: Our mission will be limited, focused, and under the command of an American general.

BUSH 43: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.

OBAMA: Hello, Rio de Janeiro! Alo! Cidade! Maravilhoso!

Robert Borosage on AOL/HuffPo: “Contrast that to the right-wing smear merchants, the modern day McCarthyites, that have gone into high gear to slime Van Jones. Jones has been a favorite target of Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart and many castigators on the right for over a year now. The most recent ad hominem slur from Breitbart was characteristically beyond the pale. Van Jones is an extraordinary leader, so it isn't surprising that the right has targeted him.”

Dana Loesch: “He's a 9/11 truther who apparently believed our government murdered thousands of Americans - instead of terrorists. He supports cop-killing. He's an admitted Marxist. He's admitted to using the green movement as a ruse to destroy capitalism. He's not targeted because he's an "extraordinary leader," he's targeted because his admitted goals are entirely antithetical to the Constitution. That Borosage believes Jones a great leader says a lot about Borosage's own ideology and agenda.”

President Obama on Libya: "It's in Our National Interest to Act"

Defense Secretary Gates: "No, It's Not a Vital Interest for the United States."

Check here for a whole bunch of things the Democrats said under Bush and what they are saying now:

http://floppingaces.net/2011/03/26/if-hypocrisy-was-a-crime-democrats-would-be-looking-at-the-death-penalty-reader-post/

Conservatives:

Sarah Palin on Geraldine Ferraro: "When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation that someday that final glass ceiling would be shattered by the election of a woman president. She was an amazing woman who dedicated her life to public service as a teacher, prosecutor, Congresswoman, and Vice Presidential candidate. She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. The world will miss her. May she rest in peace and may her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women."

Newt Gingrich: "Until you replace this president and until you have the Congress and the new president replace large parts of our bureaucracies, we're going to continue to be dominated by a secular, anti-Christian and anti-Jewish elite, which is seeking to impose on us rules that make zero sense."

Gingrich on Attorney General Eric Holder filing suit on behalf of a new Muslim teacher who wanted time off to go to Mecca: “it’s absurd. It's part of this desperation of our secular elites to do everything they can to prove they are not anti-Muslim."

Reporter Scott Powers, when being confined in a storage closet, during a Democratic fund-raiser, with a low-level staffer standing guard outside the door, "When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, 'Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.'" I actually don’t know Powers’ political leanings.

Reporter Barbara Hollingsworth on global warming enthusiast Tim Flannery warning that it will be several hundred years or more before our carbon emission reduction will take effect: “A thousand years is a long time to wait for results.” I don’t know her politics either.

Ben Human race (comment on Jon Stewart not giving Charles Krauthammer his due): “Krauthammer writes his own material.”

Rush Limbaugh: "You think Obama cares about whether we can afford anything? If he cared about whether we could afford anything, we wouldn't have Obamacare!"

Rush: "Drudge has a picture up of Muslims beating and stomping on an effigy of Obama in protest. So how's that NASA Muslim outreach working out for the regime?"

Rush: "Unlike Iraq, we're not seeing photos and video of innocent civilians bombed by our forces in Libya. There must be collateral damage. I wonder why they're not showing it?"

Rush: "Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force, and liberals hate that. To them, this is a world governed by the aggressive use of speeches, but all the speeches in the world didn't stop Khadafy."

Rush: "We have a bunch of liberal Democrats demanding that Obama's Nobel Peace Prize be withdrawn, and a bunch of leftists are saying, 'Gosh, he's no different than Bush.' This is the final insult."

Conservatives from the Past:

Ronald Reagan of Gadhafi: "I find he's not only a barbarian but he's flaky."

Conservatives making no sense:

Presidential candidate Haley Barbour: “[Our country should] proceed in national policy as if global warming is actually happening."

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

What is going to happen in the Middle East. Does anyone in the WH have any ideas at all?

Must-Watch Media

This is 6:25 minutes long, but watch just a minute of it. It is all about Obama talking about spending. You’ll enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JuE9esfUc

Fox’s Bret Baier on Jon Stewart’s show; you’ll smile, no matter what your political beliefs are.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/03/26/bret-baier-handles-jon-stewarts-attack-on-fox-news-channel/

Glenn Beck had a couple of good shows. There are those out there who would like to topple our country. One of the latest is a former SEIU organizer, Stephen Lerner, who has plans to try to destroy our present system by getting more people to default on their mortgage. This is quite fascinating. This is known as economic terrorism, and there are minds at work trying to destroy the United States economically. This was Beck’s Tuesday and Wednesday shows:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/2011/march/glenn-beck-show-march-22-2011-economic-terrorism/

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/2011/march/glenn-beck-show-march-23-2011-economic-terrorism-part-two/

Glenn Beck on the history of the fed, Friday’s show. This took place on Jekyll Island, and it sounds as if the fed simply launders money that they create. These people could choose to bankrupt our nation if they chose to.

http://watchglennbeck.com/

The Blaze, side-by-side interviews with Stephen Lerner:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/liberal-conspiracy-or-something-less-nefarious-stephen-lerner-responds-to-blaze-audio-side-by-side-comparison/

I can’t find all of it online yet, but John Stossel did an excellent show on FoxNews called “Freeloaders.” If you read this right after I send it out (Sunday late afternoon), this show will play at least one more time Sunday night on FoxNews. I’ve watched it twice. Here is one segment of it on he Pigford scandal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6xQLS33z1c

John Stossel’s program on reducing the size of government (featuring the “Leave us alone” coalition and the free state project):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8xRCobruA4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbihFiZfa1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lArH65t9wkI

You saw President Bush trying to exit through a locked door in an unfamiliar place—over and over again. You may or may not see Obama unable to get into the White House (this is the 2^nd time, by the way).

http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/03/video-obama-locked-out-of-white-house/

“I don’t care; Obama is awesome.” It’s all true, by the way:

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

Ronald Reagan talking about attacks made on Libya. This is how it is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEB3_5H90Lc

A short vid so you get a little of the flavor of the protests occurring in England:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/half-a-million-activists-join-anticuts-march-2253791.html

A longer vid with many individual short interviews:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/26/anti-cuts-march-police-rioters

In case you want to get jazzed up about “the cause”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eyhnw6TBfI

ReasonTV, an excellent operation, suggests that Governor Kasich’s budget is fundamentally flawed with huge state-spending increases:

http://reason.tv/video/show/ohio-tea-party

Walter Williams, one of my favorite economic people, talks about his new book, Up from the Projects. This is 30 minutes long, but well worth your time. Williams occasionally sits in for Rush Limbaugh, which always makes for a great show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7butJGdUmK0

Children playing suicide bomber game in Pakistan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_xoyosKy3w

Americans are a bunch of prozac-taking wusses who will not riot like the Greeks.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hey-hysterical-beck-blaze-readers-pivens-socialist-pal-says-she-was-just-asking-why-americans-are-prozac-popping-wusses-who-wont-riot-like-europeans-while-piven-details-her-part-in-anti-capitali/

Beauty queen kills home invader with pink gun. My biggest question about all this, is how does this gal’s bf score such a babe?

: http://www.youtube.com/v/bh_zbC9vL3U

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “New Jersey’s Barack Obama Elementary School will close due to low attendance. Apparently, half of the teachers were on vacation, the other half were out playing golf, and the students were unable to name all 57 state capitols.”

Jodi Miller: “A dog breeder in China sold a red Tibetan Mastiff for $1.5 million. It’s the most expensive dog since Democrats passed Obama-care.”

Jay Leno: "A miniscule amount of radiation from Japan reached L.A. People panicked and ran out and bought gas masks and radiation suits. Then they went to the tanning salon."

Conan O'Brien: "California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid."

Jimmy Fallon: "Moammar Gadhafi is said to be hanging out in a series of underground tunnels. That's basically admitting you're evil."

I’ve posted this before, but it is only 24 seconds, and quite funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4

Short Takes

1) Worst idea ever is public-private partnerships. A good president would end all such cozy relationships. That is what FNMA and FHLMC are; and what GE is becoming in a defacto sense. It means lots of money, government ineptitude and corruption and no risk to the company,

2) Admittedly, it is easy to criticize Obama about the Libya attack, but presidents have to make decisions. When Bush made the decision to make TARP funds available, first with one purpose, and then with a different purpose; I must admit to being skeptical, and I have changed my mind on TARP 2 or 3 times. At this point in time, I believe it was the right thing to do. However, there were times when I wondered if Bush didn’t just give away the whole store. However, it ought to be obvious that, with the Stimulus Bill, that is exactly what Obama did. With Libya, it will take time to determine if the no-fly zone was the correct approach; or the quick handing off of the no-fly zone to others. What is apparent though is, the rebels are filled with Islamic radicals, and that could be the new face of Egypt and Libya both—whether we involved ourselves or not.

3) However, what is clear is, when initiating any sort of military action, presidents have always taken this as one of the most serious decisions that they make, and, insofar as I recall, nearly every president has come to the American people almost immediately after and sometimes even before a military action. In many cases, this was done before military action was taken. Our President will finally do this on Monday.

4) As much as I would love to see Newt Gingrich debate Barack Obama, he clearly comes out for a Libya no-fly zone on one day; and comes out against it a week later.

5) I have mixed feelings about Donald Trump; but he will certainly spice up the election.

6) Can we find a presidential candidate that will look to reduce Washington’s power from the very beginning, legislatively? For instance, set up specific guidelines for the dubious office of czars. Executive orders mean nothing, because the next president can come along and issue new executive orders.

7) One of the areas where we have all been brainwashed in America is how a revolution is a popular uprising, likely to end with a more just government. This is despite all evidence to the contrary.

By the Numbers

Almost half of California's income taxes come from the top 1% of earners.

In New York, the percentage is now 41%, up from 25% in 1994.

In Connecticut and New Jersey, the top 1% pay more than 40%.

Polling by the Numbers

Rasmussen:

49% of Likely Voters say the nation's current economic problems are due to the recession which began under the administration of George W. Bush.

40% feel the policies of President Obama are more to blame.

11% are not sure.

57% of voters trust their own judgment more when it comes to economic issues affecting the nation than Obama's. But that's the lowest level measured since late November 2009.

26% trust the president more than themselves 17% are undecided.

The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism analyzed a computer-generated random sample of 1,910 emails from the more than 50,000 that flooded Walker's office in the week after he unveiled his plan on Feb. 11. Nearly all were related to the bill.

Of the emails related to the bill, 62 percent supported it, while 32 percent opposed it. The margin of error for the Center's sample size is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

A Little Bias

What you rarely read about is, leftist demonstrations leave an area filled with trash with intentional acts of vandalism. TEA party demonstrators often leave the place cleaner than when they showed up.

Saturday Night Live Misses

A series of Obama “clips” where the President gives his explanation as to what we are doing in Libya.

Or, this could be done as a news conference, where real quotes are mixed in with fake ones, each answer contradicting the previous answer.

SNL has a one-note approach to almost every Republican—play them stupid. Bush, Reagan, Ford and Palin....everyone of them played stupid.

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

This basically goes for the entire White House; every few hours, some authoritative figure emerges and gives a new take on Kaddafy and Libya.

You Know You’re Being Brainwashed if...

If you think the President has a clue as to what he is doing in foreign affairs. Same goes for the economy. He played his trump card within a month of becoming president—spend a trillion dollars. It didn’t work.

News Before it Happens

In his public address on Monday, President Obama will tell the American people that our mission in America will not be to remove Muammar Qaddafi from power. I don’t think he will use the words kill or assassinate.

More people than ever before will watch the Republican candidate debates, if Donald Trump is a part of them.

Prophecies Fulfilled

The Muslim Brotherhood has taken control of the Egyptian revolution; Google boy is no longer a part of this.

Virtually no mainstream coverage on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or on innocents being killed in any of Obama’s wars. Iraq and Afghanistan have almost disappeared from view. No apparent atrocities in Libya. Very little negative press on Obama, except from the right. Little or nothing in the mainstream.

Missing Headlines

NY Times sabotages conservative books, moving them from list to list.

Former Ku Klux Klan Democrat running for mayor

Wisconsin Public Employees now folding

Several Economists Ask—Why Brazil Drills in the Gulf, but we can’t

She Looted FNMA and helped destroy the economy; next job, FBI head

Obama-Speak

Kinetic military operation = just doesn’t want to make it sound anything like war, invasion, shooting Kaddafi planes out of the sky, etc.

Come, let us reason together....

An Appeal to Morality

One of the things which we seem to have in America is a sense of morality, and morality is necessary for the function of any republic.

Recently, a Stephen Learner has been out speaking to radical groups, with the proposition that, we need to double the number of foreclosures in order to bring down the system. Now, he teaches that, this will restore the wealth to its rightful owners by bringing down the banks. The idea is, you cannot simply tell someone, “You need to perform this very immoral act.” You need to present it to them so that they can justify what they are doing in their own minds.

At the same time, there is a website about how to walk away from your house, and “stick the bank with the bill.” However, since FNMA or FHLMC probably guarantee that mortgage, and since these institutions are failed institutions, that means the loss will ultimately come out of the taxpayers’ pockets.

Let me tell you about your bank and your house: the bank did not guarantee that your home would always maintain its value or go up in value. Taken in the long term, this nearly always happens, say, over a period of 20 years or more. But that is not any sort of guarantee that comes with your mortgage.

Our mortgages worked for a very long time because people understood this. FNMA offered guaranteed loans, as long as the buyer paid 3% down and their closing costs and prepaids. It was a lot of money, especially to a first time buyer, but people took their financial obligations seriously, so this program worked for decades. At this point in time, these kinds of mortgages may go away, because of all the bad housing loans (the government and lending institutions also played a big part here, but that is because they were immoral as well).

John Stossel did a show on this called “Freeloaders” and presented a number of ways that people play the system. One woman has lived in her foreclosed house now for 25 years, as she is able to outsmart the bank’s lawyers.

Since abortion has been made legal, all sorts of rationalizations have been offered up in order to justify aborting one’s own child, but the simple genetic fact is, that child is a real, living human being with a unique genetic code, which began on day one. Philosophically or religiously, we could haggle about when this child in the womb becomes a real human being; but, insofar as biology goes, that happened at conception. Yet, somehow, we have managed to abort far more babies in the United States than we have killed on he battlefield in our entire history. And somehow, people who are very anti-war and very pro-peace seem to be able to justify the massacre of so many babies.

It is a conservative maxim that, when you tax something, you get less of it, and when you subsidize something, you get more of it. At some point, probably very sincere people decided that, a single mother is in a precarious position and that we need to help her. This resulted in food stamps, rental payments and welfare for these women. What is the result. More and more and more single mothers. When you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Also, statistically, children raised in a fatherless home are more like to use drugs, get pregnant early, have sex at an earlier age, drop out of school and get arrested—oh, and become single mothers—more than their counterparts from homes with a mother and a father. So, helping out single mothers essentially increases our crime rate, our incarceration numbers, and produces more single mothers, while producing fewer children with college or even a high school education.

Someone decided, we have all these poor starving children in schools, and they are not performing to their potential, and we need to feed them. In some schools, those who are fed by the schools at taxpayer expense is between 50–100%. And yet, do we have an epidemic of starving children every summer, when only 10% of kids go to school? No. Somehow, for 3 months, parents figure out how to feed their children.

Recently, some lawyers won a lawsuit about Black farmers who were denied loans, and therefore, could not farm. However, the end result is, huge numbers of Blacks just showed up to get the $50,000 handout, even if they had never farmed a day in their life. All they had to do was fill out the forms. One of them reasoned that, his ancestors were not paid for their servitude, so he is simply taking what is rightfully his.

A lot of this boils down to many of us thinking that the government owes us something. We figure, we pay taxes, here is a benefit that we can get, and so we take it.

We are at 35% of Americans who live by means of a government handout, subsidy or social security. 65% of us who work, are paying for those who do not work; and, in addition to this, we pay for the government as well.

What is the cure for this? Simple morality. Parents teaching their children that they are responsible for their own lives; that they ought not to look to government to take care of them.

Marriage. We face a plethora of social problems because of single mothers. How does this happen? Immorality. We have more public school education and more free condoms being handed out, and more Planned Parenthood clinics; and yet, out-of-wedlock childbirths is skyrocketing.

Blacks complain that they make up a disproportionate percentage of the prison population, or that they are not doing as well in school, or that they lack all of the advantages that whites have. The key advantage is, the huge percentage of Black children being raised by a single mother. That is where all of this disparity comes from. Equalize the statistical information so that we look at the same percentage of children raised by single mothers whether Black or white, and all of the negative stats either are dramatically reduced or they go away.

It boils down to simple, excuse the expression, Biblical morality. Honor your mother and father. Do not steal. Do not commit adultery. To not murder. Do not lie. Do not strongly desire things that do not belong to you.

This immorality is always reflected in the government. We have politicians of both stripes promising more than they can give us, while taking as much as they can for themselves. Government simply does not have the money to pay for everything it has promised, and all of the demonstrations in the world by people with their hands out will not change that.

Some countries have kicked the can down the road as far as they could—and now they are at the end of that road: Greece, Spain, and Portugal. Most European countries and the United States don’t have much road left. To fix this, it will require our politicians to be honest with us, and for us to realize, we aren’t going to get everything that government has promised us. That’s called morality.

When Adam was formed by God in the Garden of Eden, what did he do? He worked. In perfect environment, he worked. When Adam and the woman fell, God continued to mandate that he work. In the New Testament, Paul told the Thessalonians that, “If a man does not work, then he should not eat.” Throughout the Bible, from cover to cover, work is required of everyone—even the poor.

The first relationship in the Bible? A relationship between one man and one woman, designed to be continued throughout their lives; and add children. Nowhere in the Bible is this ideal contradicted. When men in the Bible went against this ideal (like David or Solomon) there were grave consequences. When men had sex with men, this is portrayed as wrong in both the Old and New Testaments.

Today, there are two political views which look to the formation of an international structure: communism and Islam. Both systems have failed everywhere they are tried. What does the Bible teach? Nationalism. Separate countries, each country maintaining their own borders.

These things: simple morality, the work ethic, self-reliance, a traditional family structure and nationalism—they work every time they have been tried. These things will be the difference between us turning into Greece or us returning to an era of prosperity. But prosperity will not come to a people who simply stand there with their hands out.

This is a fantastic slideshow from Heritage, about how marriage is America’s #1 weapon against childhood poverty. I recommend that you email this link to everyone you know.

http://www.slideshare.net/theheritagefoundation/marriage-poverty-slideshow

Here is the more detailed report:

http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2010/pdf/bg2465.pdf

The Unsustainability of Welfare

from Heritage

THE ISSUE:

Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help. Poverty in America is overwhelmingly linked to the absence of fathers and a lack of work, but welfare payments have had the destructive effects of eroding marriage and the work ethic in low-income communities. The welfare reform of 1996 transformed one program, significantly reducing welfare rolls and lowering child poverty. But today that reform is in jeopardy, and some 70 other federal means-tested programs need similar reform.

THE FACTS:

● Welfare on the Rise. The growth of welfare spending is unsustainable and will drive the United States into bankruptcy if allowed to continue unreformed. Welfare spending is projected to cost taxpayers $10.3 trillion over the next 10 years.

● The President's Budget. President Obama's FY 2011 budget request would increase total welfare spending to $953 billion, a 42% increase over welfare spending in FY 2008.

● The Collapse of Marriage. The collapse of marriage is the predominant cause of child poverty in the U.S. today. When the War on Poverty began, 7% of children were born out of wedlock; today, the figure is over 40%. Most alarmingly, the out-of-wedlock birthrate among African-Americans is 72%.

● Amnesty Will Make the Problem Worse. If the U.S. government were to grant amnesty or "earned citizenship" to illegal immigrants, the welfare system would be flooded with new recipients. Of the 11 million-12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., at least half lack a high school degree.

THE SOLUTIONS:

●Use Loans, Not Grants. Granting welfare to able-bodied adults creates a potential moral hazard because it can lead to an increase in the behaviors that generate the need for aid in the first place. A reformed welfare policy can reduce this moral hazard by treating a portion of welfare aid as a loan to be repaid rather than as an outright grant from the taxpayer.

●Establish Reasonable Fiscal Constraints. Once the current recession ends, aggregate welfare spending for all 71 means-tested welfare programs should be rolled back to pre-recession levels. After this rollback is completed, the growth of welfare should be capped at the rate of inflation. This will force Congress to determine whether or not these programs further the goal of alleviating poverty. Programs that do would be allowed to grow; those that don't would be eliminated or reformed.

●Promote Personal Responsibility and Work. Able-bodied welfare recipients should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving aid. Food stamps and housing assistance, two of the largest welfare programs, should be aligned with the TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program to require able-bodied adults to work or prepare for work for at least 30 hours per week.

Projected Means-Tested Welfare Spending

● End the Welfare Marriage Penalty. Current means-tested welfare programs penalize low-income recipients who choose to marry; these anti-marriage penalties should be reduced or eliminated. In addition, government should provide information on the importance of marriage to individuals in communities that have a high risk of having children out of wedlock, with an emphasis on the benefits to children of a married two-parent family.

● Limit Low-Skill Immigration. Around 15% ($100 billion per year) of total means-tested welfare spending goes to households headed by immigrants with high school degrees or less. One-third of all immigrants lack a high school degree. Over the next 10 years, America will spend $1.5 trillion on welfare benefits for lower-skill immigrants. Government policy should limit future immigration to those who will be net fiscal contributors, paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits. The legal immigration system should not encourage the immigration of low-skill immigrants who would increase poverty and impose vast new costs on already overburdened taxpayers.

From:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/08/The-Unsustainable-Growth-of-Welfare

Gov. Walker's Legislation Has Unions Caving Already

by Kyle Olson

Apparently Gov. Scott Walker knew exactly what he was doing.

Before he signed the bill limiting collective bargaining privileges, teachers unions throughout the state were slow to respond to calls for salary and benefit concessions.

They believed their members should be held harmless during a period of necessary cost-cutting. They didn't seem to care that Wisconsin schools were operating with multi-million dollar deficits that were forcing the layoffs of younger teachers and the cancellation of student programs.

Their only answer was to raise taxes at a time when few people could afford it. They didn't want to sacrifice anything, despite the fact that schools spend about 80 percent of their budgets on labor costs.

But now, with Walker's legislation set to become law once it clears legal hurdles, the unions are suddenly coming to their senses. They are jumping at the chance to extend their collective bargaining agreements, in exchange for meaningful concessions that will help schools survive the financial crisis.

In Madison, the teachers union has suddenly agreed to a wage freeze and increases in health insurance and pension contributions. The concessions will save the district an estimated $15 million next year, which would almost make up for the expected cuts in state aid.

In Oshkosh, the union has agreed to a wage freeze, increased contributions toward benefits and a change in the employee insurance carrier, which will save the district more than $5 million per year.

In the Slinger district, the union has agreed to commit 5.8 percent of teacher pay to pension costs and increase contributions toward health care costs. The concessions will save the district about $1.3 million per year.

What are the unions gaining by accepting concessions at the last possible minute? Plenty.

They are salvaging things like automatic annual salary increases for teachers, a generous number of paid sick and personal days off, reimbursement for unused sick days, salary and benefits for union officials who do not teach, retirement bonuses, overage pay for teachers with a few extra students, and many other items.

Those contractual perks would have gone by the wayside if local collective bargaining agreements had been allowed to expire. Under the new law, the unions will not have the power to negotiate for many of the items listed in current contracts.

So the unions will save some time-honored perks and schools will save a lot of money. This type of compromise would not have occurred without pressure from Gov. Walker and his supporters in the legislature.

Perhaps the governor knew exactly what he was doing by creating a crisis and forcing the unions to face financial reality. Nothing else seemed to be working and schools were drowning in deficits.

Ironically, the loss of collective bargaining privileges would not have been necessary if the unions would have come to their senses months ago and started offering meaningful concessions. They lost most of their privileges by remaining stubborn for too long.

From:

http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/03/26/gov-walkers-legislation-has-unions-caving-already/

10 Things You did not Know About Obamacare

by Mike Opelka

1.Did you know that . . . since Jan. 1 of this year (2011), you cannot use your flex-account at work (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) to purchase over-the-counter medicines?

2.Did you know that . . . since July 1 of last year (2010), Americans have been paying a 10 percent excise tax on all indoor tanning services?

3.Did you know that . . . starting in 2018, if your health insurance is "too good" or considered a "Cadillac" plan, then you will incur a new 40 percent tax on your health plan?

4.Did you know that . . . Obamacare has 21 new or higher taxes in it, totaling over $500 billion in increased taxes going to the government over 10 years?

5.Did you know that . . . beginning in 2014, individuals and families that do not purchase "qualifying" - as defined by federal bureaucrats - health insurance will be forced to pay a yearly tax penalty?

6.Did you know that . . . 7 tax hikes in Obamacare directly break President Obama's "firm pledge" not to raise any form of taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 per year and families making less than $250,000 per year?

7. Did you know that . . . the capital gains tax rate under Obamacare will rise to 23.8 percent starting in 2012? That is a 59 percent increase from its current rate.

8. Did you know that . . . in 2013, those Americans facing the highest medical bills and the least ability to pay for them will find their ability to deduct medical expenses is further limited (medical expenses must be reduced by 10 percent of income under Obamacare, rather than current law's 7.5 percent)

9. Did you know that . . . beginning in 2014, businesses with over 50 employees will be forced to offer health coverage for everyone, or pay a hefty tax for each employee?

10. Did you know that . . . in 2013, Obamacare caps the amount individuals and families can put in their flexible savings accounts at $2500? Currently there is no cap and these accounts are used for a myriad of health expenses including paying upwards of $14,000 in tuition to special needs schools for some parents?

From:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/one-year-later-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-obamacare/

Sarah Palin on the Media

From Palin’s fb page

Let's keep pivoting around media bias, and not get distracted with the vulgar personal shots. Call out lies and set the record straight, but always keep the ball moving. No one ever won a game only playing defense."

Upon my return from an outstanding and productive trip to India and Israel, I've been inundated with requests to respond to petty comments made in the media the past few days, including one little fella's comment which decent people would find degrading. (I won't bother responding to it though, because it was made by he who reminds me of an annoying little mosquito found zipped up in your tent; he can't do any harm, but buzzes around annoyingly until it's time to give him the proverbial slap.)

I've given this a lot of thought, and I'd like to share my thoughts on the never-ending issue of media bias.

When it comes to responding to the media, the standard warning is: Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel because calling out the media and holding them accountable is a risky endeavor. Too often the first instinct is to ignore blatant media bias, crudeness, and outright lies, and just hope the media instigator will grow up and provide fairer coverage if you bite your tongue and not challenge the false reporting of an openly hostile press. But I've never bought into that. That's waving the white flag. I just can't do it because I have too much respect for the importance of a free press as a cornerstone of our democracy, and I have great respect for the men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much to defend that First Amendment right. Media, with freedom comes responsibility.

Friends, too often conservatives or Republicans in general come across as having the fighting instinct of sheep. I don't. I was raised to believe that you don't retreat when you're on solid ground; so even though it often seems like I'm armed with just a few stones and a sling against a media giant, I'll use those small resources to do what I can to set the record straight. The truth is always worth fighting for. Doing so isn't whining or "playing the victim card"; it's defending the truth in fairness to those who seek accurate information. I'll keep attempting to correct misinformation and falsehoods about myself and my record, and I will certainly never shy from defending others who are unfairly attacked. This is in the name of justice.

But two decades in politics have taught me that when it comes to picking battles, often it's best to ignore the truly petty, ugly personal media shots because engaging in a counter argument with disreputable, intolerant people doesn't vindicate me; it merely gives those people the attention they seek. It wastes my time and it distracts from what we should focus on.

We must always remember the big picture. The media has always been biased. Conservatives - and especially conservative women - have always been held to a different standard and attacked. This is nothing new. Lincoln was mocked and ridiculed. Reagan was called an amiable dunce, a dangerous warmonger, a rightwing fanatic, and the insult list goes on and on. (But somehow Reagan still managed to win two major electoral landslides, and this was in the days before the internet and talk radio when all he had were three biased network news channels spinning reports on him. If he could do so much with so little and still be such an optimistic and positive leader, then surely we can succeed with the new media tools at our disposal.)

Let's just acknowledge that commonsense conservatives must be stronger and work that much harder because of the obvious bias. And let's be encouraged with a sense of poetic justice by knowing that the "mainstream" media isn't mainstream anymore. That's why I call it "lamestream," and the LSM is becoming quite irrelevant, as it is no longer the sole gatekeeper of information.

Let's keep pivoting around media bias, and not get distracted with the vulgar personal shots. Even with limited time we can try to call out lies and set the record straight, but always keep the ball moving. No one ever won a game only playing defense.

I'll keep correcting false reporting, and I'll defend others to the hilt; but I won't spend any more precious, limited time responding to personal, vulgar, sexist venom spewed my way.

Is it America's duty to intervene wherever regime change is needed?

By George Will

The missile strikes that inaugurated America's latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such - the Bay of Pigs of April 17, 1961. Then the hubris of American planners was proportional to their ignorance of everything relevant, from Cuban sentiment to Cuba's geography. The fiasco was a singularly feckless investment of American power.

Does practice make perfect? In today's episode, America has intervened in a civil war in a tribal society, the dynamics of which America does not understand. And America is supporting one faction, the nature of which it does not know. "We are standing with the people of Libya," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, evidently confident that "the" people are a harmonious unit. Many in the media call Moammar Gaddafi's opponents "freedom fighters," and perhaps they are, but no one calling them that really knows how the insurgents regard one another, or understand freedom, or if freedom, however understood, is their priority.

But, then, knowing is rarely required in the regime-change business. The Weekly Standard, a magazine for regime-change enthusiasts, serenely says: "The Libyan state is a one-man operation. Eliminate that man and the whole edifice may come tumbling down." And then good things must sprout? The late Donald Westlake gave one of his comic novels the mordant title "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" People who do not find that darkly funny should not make foreign policy.

In Libya, mission creep began before the mission did. A no-fly zone would not accomplish what Barack Obama calls "a well-defined goal," the "protection of civilians." So the no-fly zone immediately became protection for aircraft conducting combat operations against Gaddafi's ground forces.

America's war aim is inseparable from - indeed, obviously is - destruction of that regime. So our purpose is to create a political vacuum, into which we hope - this is the "audacity of hope" as foreign policy - good things will spontaneously flow. But if Gaddafi cannot be beaten by the rebels, are we prepared to supply their military deficiencies? And if the decapitation of his regime produces what the removal of Saddam Hussein did - bloody chaos - what then are our responsibilities regarding the tribal vendettas we may have unleashed? How long are we prepared to police the partitioning of Libya?

Explaining his decision to wage war, Obama said Gaddafi has "lost the confidence of his own people and the legitimacy to lead." Such meretricious boilerplate seems designed to anesthetize thought. When did Gaddafi lose his people's confidence? When did he have

legitimacy? American doctrine - check the Declaration of Independence - is that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. So there are always many illegitimate governments. When is it America's duty to scrub away these blemishes on the planet? Is there a limiting principle of humanitarian interventionism? If so, would Obama take a stab at stating it?

Congress's power to declare war resembles a muscle that has atrophied from long abstention from proper exercise. This power was last exercised on June 5, 1942 (against Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary), almost 69 years, and many wars, ago. It thus may seem quaint, and certainly is quixotic, for Indiana's Richard Lugar - ranking Republican on, and former chairman of, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - to say, correctly, that Congress should debate and vote on this.

There are those who think that if the United Nations gives the United States permission to wage war, the Constitution becomes irrelevant. Let us find out who in Congress supports this proposition, which should be resoundingly refuted, particularly by Republicans currently insisting that government, and especially the executive, should be on a short constitutional leash. If all Republican presidential aspirants are supine in the face of unfettered presidential war-making and humanitarian interventionism, the Republican field is radically insufficient.

On Dec. 29, 1962, in Miami's Orange Bowl, President John Kennedy, who ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion, addressed a rally of survivors and supporters of that exercise in regime change. Presented with the invasion brigade's flag, Kennedy vowed, "I can assure you that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana." Eleven months later, on Nov. 2, 1963, his administration was complicit in another attempt at violent regime change - the coup against, and murder of, South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. The Saigon regime was indeed changed, so perhaps this episode counts as a success, even if Saigon is now Ho Chi Minh City.

From:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will032411.php3

Would You Stand by and Watch Someone Be Murdered?

By Bill O'Reilly

As you may know, I am a simple man. I break down the news in basic terms. So let's do that with Libya.

We begin with the quote: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

And that's true, don't you think? Evil wins if it is not confronted. History proves it.

In Libya, we know that Qaddafi is evil. He's a terrorist. He murders people. We also know that some brave rebels finally moved against him. Because the rebels are not well-armed or organized, Qaddafi's mercenaries were able to fight off the rebellion and were closing in for the kill when the U.N. finally OK'd the no-fly zone. That has prevented Qaddafi from slaughtering his opposition; there is no question about it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE: I know that the nightly news cannot cover a humanitarian crisis that thankfully did not happen, but it is important to remember that many, many Libyans are safer today because the international community took action.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

But still, many good Americans object to the Libyan action, and the criticism is coming from both the right and the left.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH, D-OHIO: We can't be involved in regime change, but you have to come to Congress if you are going to attack another country.

PAT BUCHANAN, CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR: Why is the United States all the way across the ocean got to go in and stop Arabs from killing Arabs when they could have done that job themselves?

RALPH NADER, FORMER GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The Obama administration is committing war crimes, and if Bush should have been impeached, Obama should be impeached.

REP. RON PAUL, R-KY.: I don't believe for a minute and I don't think the American people believe that this is only for humanitarian reasons.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Now, let's say President Obama sat it out and did not get involved. Would you, the honest American citizen, feel noble watching the slaughter of thousands in Libya? How would you feel watching that, knowing your country could have stopped it?

Yes, the action will cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars, and there is no guarantee that Qaddafi will be defeated. But in life, there is a right and a wrong. It would have been wrong for America to watch the slaughter of those people in Libya and do nothing. Or am I wrong?

And that's "The Memo."

Links

George Will versus Paul Wolfowitz on Libya:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262576/libya-will-vs-wolfowitz-robert-costa

Why you're an idiot to believe anything Barack Obama says (a collection of what the President has said about the Middle East and about what we are doing in Libya.

http://floppingaces.net/2011/03/23/why-youre-an-idiot-to-believe-anything-barack-obama-says-reader-post/

Schism brews in Coffee Party (yes, they are still around):

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Schism_brews_in_Coffee_Party.html

Color of Change’s form email to keep Breitbart from posting on Huffington Post:

http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/huffpost

Here is the NY Times list of hardcover advice and misc. Huckabee, Luntz and Morris ought to be on the nonfiction list. They were moved around again, but both Huckabee and Morris and Luntz’s book took hits because the NY Times did this.

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-03-20/hardcover-advice/list.html

They got what they wanted (reduced sales?) And now moved them back:

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-04-03/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html

Additional Sources

Video of Frank Lautenberg, who doesn’t think that TEA party Republicans ought to have their constitutional rights before we oppose funding planned parenthood:

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/dem-senator-lautenberg-republicans-dont-deserve-freedoms-of-constitution/

The new “iron dome” defense system in Israel:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israels-iron-dome-rocket-defense-system-deploys-today/

The Rush Section

Surprise, Surprise! The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood Runs Egypt

RUSH: I'm wondering if President Obama had time last night to watch the Sweet 16 basketball games, the NCAA tourney. His brackets have been blown up here, and I wonder if it's just me. You watching, Brian? Are you watching the NCAAs? You did? You watched the games. Billy Donovan, he's the coach there? Yeah, Bill Donovan is the coach. (interruption) Who's playing tonight? Oh, the Florida State Seminoles. They're in the tournament? Is it just me or is anybody else curious if Obama had time to watch Duke lose last night? After all, Obama had Duke going to the Final Four. Obama's brackets are just blown to smithereens. I'd like to know Obama's analysis of the kinetic sports action that's taking place here. He's just so damn good at this. He's so damn good at it. Obama spoke for almost ten minutes with ESPN on his picks before he went on vacation. But we're not even going to get a five-minute speech from Obama on why we are sending our finest into harm's way in Libya. We are not gonna get that speech. We didn't get a preparation speech. We're not getting an update speech.

Think about it. The president of the United States devotes more time to explaining his NCAA basketball brackets to the country than he has explaining his reasons for bombing Libya. It's amazing. (interruption) What did you say, Snerdley? Did you say something? You did, too. I heard something that you were --

Let's go back to Egypt here for just a second. Remember the rioters in the streets? We had an immediate uprising in this country on the conservative intelligentsia side, as well as on the left, that what we were witnessing was a democracy, a democracy uprising. Hallelujah. Hosanna. We had a democracy movement. And then we had this Clapper guy, the security guy for Obama saying, (paraphrasing) "Eh, Muslim Brotherhood, actually a bunch of good guys. I don't even know who they are." They're just like a bowling league, no big deal. From the New York Times today: "In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at the forefront, transformed into a tacit partner with the military government that many fear will thwart fundamental changes. It is also clear that the young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force -- at least not at the moment."

The hell you say! All of a sudden now it's not a democracy movement. It is a Muslim Brotherhood takeover. How in the world did this happen? Obama told us that Egypt was how real democracy works. Obama told us that that's exactly what we were watching. This is how democracy works. Folks, everything that you and I, and let's face it, you and I are the smartest people in the room -- We knew to be cautious. We knew not to accept the conventional wisdom. We knew that the idea, the prospect of this being a Democrat uprising was tenuous. And look what's happened. The Muslim Brotherhood is in association with the military in Egypt. No, the Google guy's not running everything, nor is Mohamed ElBaradei who get stoned or egged or whatever happened to him the other day. Exactly what we were told wouldn't happen, what everybody feared would happen has happened.

"As the best organized and most extensive opposition movement in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was expected to have an edge in the contest for influence. But what surprises many is its link to a military that vilified it." Surprises who? You know, this is an amazingly typical example of the New York Times at work. The same paper that swore up and down the Muslim Brotherhood, nothing to fear, now gives us the news that the Muslim Brotherhood is the real force in Egypt, that they made a deal with the military early on in the uprising and as Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, surprise." They are Islamists! The New York Times says so. Now we all knew that, but the New York Times now admits it. They are Islamists. I wonder if the Times is hoping for a Pulitzer for their reporting on this.

"'There is evidence the Brotherhood struck some kind of a deal with the military early on,' said Elijah Zarwan, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group. 'It makes sense if you are the military -- you want stability and people off the street. The Brotherhood is one address where you can go to get 100,000 people off the street.'" Really? Really? Folks, this is profound. We were lied to. Well, they tried to lie to us. They tried to mislead us. Obama tried to use this uprising as an extension of his reelection campaign. He tried to get out in front of this mob and own the mob. He makes speeches clearly associating this uprising with the demand for change that accompanied his campaign in 2008. The fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is a bunch of Islamists, the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is now in charge with the military in Egypt is not news to anybody except the reporters for the New York Times.

Listen to this. "There is a battle consuming Egypt about the direction of its revolution, and the military council that is now running the country is sending contradictory signals. On Wednesday, the council endorsed a plan to outlaw demonstrations and sit-ins." Well, what a democratic uprising this turned out to be. After they pull it off no more demonstrations, no more sit-ins. "Then, a few hours later, the public prosecutor announced that the former interior minister and other security officials would be charged in the killings of hundreds during the protests." I'm sorry, folks, I don't see the distinction here. This sounds like your average, run-of-the-mill dictatorship to me. I don't see any change. You see any change here, Dawn? "Egyptians are searching for signs of clarity in such declarations, hoping to discern the direction of a state led by a secretive military council brought to power by a revolution based on demands for democracy, rule of law and an end to corruption." Well, that's what everybody told us was happening. That's what everybody told us this was, but it turns out it wasn't. Yeah, nice people were running this. Friends of ours were running this. People we could invest in.

We knew it. Even people on our side talked about this being a democratic uprising, we had to support it, we had to get rid of Mubarak, and the efforts that they underwent, undertook to tell us the Muslim Brotherhood was no big deal. It's just all so predictable. I want to send Nic Robertson from CNN back over there to try to find Mustapha and Ahmed. (imitating Robertson) "I'm here with Mustapha. Mustapha, what is your message to President Obama, his effort to find you jobs and work?"

"I don't care about Obama; Obama doesn't care about us."

"Okay, well, let's go find Ahmed. Ahmed, what is your message for President Obama? Wonderful things to say about your prospects for work and employment here in the new Egypt."

"He didn't do anything for us. He's been all over the board."

"Well, as you can see clearly see," said Nic Robertson, "the crowd here is totally supportive of President Obama and their support for his efforts." What a joke.

You know, women protesters we have learned were tested for virginity. The military was testing female protesters. Yes, I've got it in the stack here, Dawn. How do you think they were testing them for virginity? What is the test, Dawn? You know as well as I do what the test for virginity is. Depends on what the objective is. The test could defeat the purpose of the test. (interruption) What you're saying is the tests would reveal and destroy. Well, right, that accomplishes the same thing, kill two birds with one stone. The point of the matter is that they were doing this. They were testing for virginity among female protesters in Tahrir Square, which was actually a circle. The Egyptian military, after Mubarak, rounded up Tahrir Square protesters, tested the women for virginity, and took naked pictures of them, this according to Amnesty International.

The Google guy is gonna be given the JFK Profile in Courage Award from Caroline Kennedy. That's the same award they gave John Murtha. These are sick people. Remember, Obama said this is how democracy works, and that, of course, now puts what's going on in Libya in a little bit different light, does it not? And the news that we have heard that the rebels are being advised and supported by Al-Qaeda.

RUSH: Remember, regarding Egypt -- I guess I can call them the geniuses on our side, our conservative intelligentsia, the conservative intellectual media elite -- they promised us we'd wouldn't have to worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. You know why? Because the Egyptian military was gonna control 'em: "Yeah, don't worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a ragtag bunch of guys." I mean, even when Clapper went out and made his incoherent statements, even some on our side said, 'Well, we know what he means, and he didn't say it well, but we know what he means. They're a ragtag bunch, they're not really ideological, and the military runs everything in Egypt. They'll be able to control the Muslim Brotherhood." Right. This is the same Egyptian military that the Muslim Brotherhood just cut this deal with -- that the New York Times writes about today -- to get the quick elections that are gonna bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power. They are going to end up replacing Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood is gonna run Egypt, and they'll have the military as their police force.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/middleeast/25egypt.html

EPA Uses Taxpayer Money to Attack Republicans

RUSH: "The Environmental Protection Agency is giving funds to charitable organizations to attack GOP members of Congress." This from Investor's Business Daily. "Did you know telling the truth about climate change causes childhood asthma? We have heard the litany of horrors that climate change is said to bring about -- retreating glaciers, rising sea levels, drought and flooding, disease and famine. Now we are told that fighting the EPA's power grab to regulate greenhouse gases will lead to an increase in childhood asthma. The American Lung Association, considered one of America's most credible and worthy charities, has placed four billboards in Michigan's 6th Congressional District -- including one outside the office of Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee -- that feature a sickly looking girl with an oxygen mask and read, 'Rep. Fred Upton, protect our kids' health. Don't weaken the Clean Air Act.'

"But what Upton and the Republican House majority that most voters elected in November are trying to do is restore the Clean Air Act to its true meaning and congressional intent. The act was created to clean the air, not to fight mythical climate change and regulate down to our lawn mowers the so-called greenhouse gases -- including that product of human respiration, carbon dioxide." At any rate, we'll see if the Republicans want to hold on to their majority. This is exactly the kind of thing that's happening in Wisconsin. Congress funds the EPA. The EPA is giving money to the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association is putting up billboards attacking Republicans in the House over their attempt to stop the EPA from taxing carbon dioxide. It's that simple. What are we gonna do about it? Are we just going to sit around? "Oh, really, yeah, this had better stop?"

Let me ask you a question. You say this had better stop. Okay. There's a provision in Obamacare put in by Nancy Pelosi: $105 billion that implements the program. An election was held last November, the stated purpose of which was to elect people to repeal it. One of the fastest ways to repeal it is to defund it. The House Republicans don't want to go anywhere near that $105 billion. You say this had better stop? I say something better start. For crying out loud, the funding mechanism, just wipe it out. "No, we're afraid of a government shutdown. You don't understand, Rush, we're afraid of a government shutdown. We're afraid of the PR war, we'll lose that. But we want you to know, we just cut $6 billion." Yeah, on the same day we borrowed $72 billion. So you tell me, Snerdley, this better stop. I agree with you, don't misunderstand. And Fred Upton, most favored status among the leadership, Fred Upton, this is a guy who originally went along the idea of getting rid of the incandescent lightbulb in exchange for the compact fluorescent. He has supposedly gotten his mind right on that.

So you say this had better stop. Well, the Republicans in the House are gonna have to be the ones to stop it. I agree with you it's gotta stop. I agree that what's going on in Michigan's gotta stop. But who's gonna stop it? The voters have done their part. The voters voted. The voters donated. The voters rallied. The voters organized. It's called the Tea Party. They've done their part. Yeah, this better stop. The EPA is actually giving money to the American Lung Association. The EPA is funded by US tax dollars. Money laundering, if you want to look at it this way again. And I remind you now in Wisconsin again, the Union Brotherhood trying to destroy the democrat process stuffed the Supreme Court or stack it with liberal activists in hopes that they'll reverse the decisions of the people's representatives, particularly this most recent one by Governor Walker.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/567121/201103241838/Stealth-And-Trade.htm

Human Events: Painful Lessons for Wind Power

RUSH: "Painful Lessons for Wind Power," Brian Sussman, Human Events. "Wind energy took another blow -- this time in Massachusetts. Wind One is the 400-foot-tall wind turbine owned by the town of Falmouth, on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod. The residents of Falmouth initially welcomed Wind One as a symbol of green energy and a handy way to keep local taxes down. Electricity generated by the turbine would be used to power the municipality's infrastructure, thus shaving about $400,000 a year off its utility costs." That was the dream. That was the ideal.

So they installed their giant wind turbine "in the spring of 2010 at a cost of $5.1 million (with some $3 million derived through grants, government kickbacks, and credits)." As soon as the wind turbine was turned on residents began to complain. "Wind One was as loud as an old Soviet helicopter. Neil Anderson lives a quarter of a mile from the turbine. He's an avid supporter of alternative energy," he's a good liberal, "having owned and operated a passive solar company on Cape Cod for the past 25 years. 'It is dangerous,' he told WGBH in Boston. 'Headaches. Loss of sleep. And the ringing in my ears never goes away. I could look at it all day, and it does not bother me . but it's way too close.' Tired of the constant chopping sound, pained residents decided to lawyer up. This month a deal was struck with the town to disengage --" get this, now. Wind turbine, create electricity, save money, green energy, save the planet. They struck a deal with the town to turn it off "when winds exceed 23 miles an hour." I kid you not. "This is problematic because giant windmills such as Wind One operate at optimum efficiency at about 30 miles an hour." When the wind's at 30 miles per hour that's when you get the best output, but it's intolerable, the noise. So they've got a rule. They shut the damn thing off when the winds get up to 23 miles per hour. (laughing)

"So now Falmouth's investment has taken a hit. According to Gerald Potamis, who runs the wastewater facility, shutting off the turbine during higher winds will cost the town $173,000 in annual revenue, because now they'll have to rely more on natural gas." (laughing) Is this not typical of liberals? You put this giant damn thing up there and when the winds are blowing at the optimum level it's intolerable. Hell, it's intolerable at any time the wind is blowing. So they shut it down. They talk about Altamont Pass in California, which is the same thing. Altamont Pass, 4500 windmills in California, this is east of the Bay area. The number of dead birds reported because of those windmills, the activists don't even want to talk about it. They went ballistic demanding action. So a taxpayer funded examination, two years, of the problem was conducted, then the monitoring team determined 8,200 birds were whacked dead by these turbines, Altamont Pass. Yes, I'm sorry. It's funny. To me it's hilarious.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42473

The Bamster and Petrobras

RUSH: Diane in West Union, Illinois, is next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.

CALLER: Rush, Mr. Wonderful. What a pleasure to speak to you.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: It really is an honor.

RUSH: Thanks very much.

CALLER: Every day we learn something from you.

RUSH: Appreciate that. I do, too, actually. (laughs)

CALLER: (laughs) The question I had for you because I feel like I'm the only one that saw this on TV, I feel like they're using everything that's happening like in Libya to, you know, take away everything that we're seeing. Yesterday morning I just happened to see on TV on Fox, Obama's little speech there in Brazil. He said that we're gonna give them $2 billion to drill oil, and we'll be the best customers that they ever had.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Nobody is talking about it.

RUSH: You know, you're right, and I must admit that I didn't mention it here on this program. The reason I didn't is that I have mentioned it -- and don't misunderstand, I just want to say this for the record.

CALLER: Mmm-hmm?

RUSH: We have mentioned Obama and his associations with Petrobras for months on this program: $10 billion to start their drilling. Just last week we had a story where we're giving them even more money for a floating, underwater oil storage depot.

CALLER: That's horrible.

RUSH: While not permitting domestic drilling in this country, we are paying and investing in --

CALLER: Exactly.

RUSH: -- Brazil's oil drilling and distribution largely because, I think (it's not the only reason), George Soros is a primary investor in Petrobras.

CALLER: Right. I mean we can invest $2 billion there but not create any jobs here with oil production or coal or anything else?

RUSH: No, we've gotta shut down our oil production here.

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

RUSH: Meanwhile, the ChiComs can explore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico with the Cubans, the Vietnamese are looking into it -- and of course our friends the Mexicans continue to drill.

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Well, don't half of them have drilling on and off our shores anyways?

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Yeah. But yet our people can't have any jobs or create any wealth in doing this as well.

RUSH: It makes you wonder.

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.

RUSH: It does make you wonder.

CALLER: Right. I mean, we half expected him to make this little sidestep.

RUSH: By the way, a correction: George Soros pulled out of Petrobras last August, I'm told. He still has some shares in it but he pulled out most of his investment there. So this is a strict investment with the country now. Obama to Brazil.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7477165.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110321-707042.html

Chris Christie Hits the Entitlement Mentality Right Between the Eyes

RUSH: Last night in Trenton, New Jersey, Chris Christie appeared on the radio, Ask the Governor show, and he spoke with a caller Penny in Blackwood. She said, "I would like to know why you want to take at least 13% out of state employees' pay for health care. Between what my husband and I make, you're talking about $600 a month out of our money which is gonna cut into our food and our other bills. How do you expect us to live, governor?"

CHRISTIE: How I expect you to live, Penny, is you're gonna have to pick a different health plan that's not nearly as rich as the one you're getting now. That's how.

PENNY: Either that or you're force us to not have any health care.

CHRISTIE: No, I'm not gonna force you to not have any health care. I don't think that means forcing you to go without health care. But what it means is we can no longer afford to pay 90 plus percent of the cost of your health care. Public workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your property taxes, and state workers are getting their health insurance paid for out of your income taxes. If I'm $67 billion in debt and you don't want me to take any more money out of your paycheck, how am I supposed to pay for it? Am I supposed to just raise taxes? Because if I raise taxes you're gonna pay more taxes, and if your property taxes go up, you're going to pay more taxes. I mean the money's gotta come from somewhere. We can't print it.

RUSH: You're gonna make me pay for my health care, how dare you, how are my husband and I gonna live? They've got their hands in there. They've got their hands on the state Treasury. They feel entitled to it. So Penny said, "I realize that, but it seems like it's always coming from the poor and not the rich to make up for these shortfalls."

CHRISTIE: Penny, the top 1% of taxpayers in this state pay 41% of the total income tax. The top 1% pay 41% of the income tax. So to say that the rich don't pay is just not true. How much do you want them to pay? There comes a point where you cannot have everything that you want. And as much as I would like to be able to say to you, "You know what, Penny, you're right, I don't want you to have to pay another nickel for your health insurance," I can't pay for it, and we already have the highest taxes in America. I gotta tell you the truth, your neighbor who works in the private sector pays a heck of a lot more for his or her health insurance than you do. And on the top of it they're paying the taxes to pay for your health insurance. And so I've got a problem to fix here. We're broke and I gotta fix this problem.

RUSH: So this is what angers these people. Here's Governor Christie, he hit this woman right between the eyes. Your neighbors are paying for it! They can't afford it anymore. You are paying less for your health care than they are paying for theirs and they're paying you more than they earn, and we're broke, and I can't raise their taxes anymore because they're paying most of the taxes. Nobody has probably talked to this woman like this before. But this is where we are with this.

RUSH: We had a couple Chris Christie sound bites. He was on Ask the Governor show on the radio last night. He took it to a caller named Penny who didn't understand why she was gonna have to pay for some of her health care with the state being in debt. A story here from the Asbury Park Press: "New Jersey's burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to 'provide more help, more care and more protection' to its suffering residents, according to a report on poverty issued Tuesday. The report, made public by the Poverty Research Institute of Legal Services of New Jersey, says that nearly 2 million residents -- more than the combined populations of Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh -- are either in poverty or hovering on the edge of the federal threshold for poverty."

So what they're saying is that we have three whole cities' worth of poor people in New Jersey, in one state. I'm struck here. Who do you think is hardest hit here? That's right, children, women -- he-he-he -- the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. The coalition of the screwed. These are the people that are constantly suffering the most in America, the coalition of the screwed: women, children, the elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, and single mothers. Now, just stop for a second and think about a culture that embraces, supports, and encourages strong families with a father and mother and see if you find them in the midst of the coalition of the screwed. I mean I hate to be so blunt about it. Now, Asbury Park, New Jersey, is the home of the Barack H. Obama school that is being closed due to lack of students. Oh, you didn't hear about that? Asbury Park, New Jersey, the Barack H. Obama school, they're shutting it down, lack of students. It was just announced last week. It's an elementary school.

Anyway, if you believe these numbers, "The poverty level, as defined by the federal government is $10,400 for a single person, $14,000 for a couple, $17,600 for a family of three and $21,200 for a family of four." That's the poverty level. If there are nearly two million people in New Jersey living near poverty, what more can be done the way we're doing it? I mean this bunch is demanding more government. "New Jersey's burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to 'provide more help, more care and more protection' to its suffering residents." What in the world has the war on poverty been? We're in debt helping people. We're $14 trillion in debt helping people. New Jersey, $76 billion in debt helping people. What have we not done? What's the transfer of wealth that's already taken place? Gonna be $8 trillion since the Great Society. What more could we do? At what point does a person's lot in life become their responsibility? At what point?

Here you have, and isn't it interesting, while all this is happening these reports come out as Christie, in a lot of people's minds, is just kicking butt out there. Every time he opens his mouth he's scoring points. Republican presidential wannabes are apparently flying into New Jersey to talk to him, almost as though getting his stamp of approval. He's saying he's not ready to run yet but nobody's really quite sure whether he means it or not, but clearly there's a lot of interest in him. He is scoring a lot of points with people and now all of a sudden he's presiding over a state that doesn't care about people, according to this report. "New Jersey's burgeoning numbers of poor and nearly poor show the need for government to 'provide more help, more care --"

How can there be any more care? How can there be any more help? At what point does a person's lot in life become their responsibility? Not supposed to ask that question, folks. We are not supposed to ask that. But this coalition of the screwed: children, women, elderly, African-Americans, Hispanics, single mothers. How many of the families that are strong, father and mother, are in this coalition of the screwed? I think there might be some cultural reasons here, folks, rather than the fact that government doesn't care enough.

Here's another story on New Jersey. This is from the Newark Star-Ledger: "Christie's Budget Cuts Left N.J. Schools Unable to Provide 'Thorough and Efficient' Education, Judge Rules -- Gov. Chris Christie's deep cuts to state school aid last year left New Jersey's schools unable to provide a 'thorough and efficient' education to the state's nearly 1.4 million school children, a Superior Court judge found today. Judge Peter Doyne, who was appointed as special master in the long-running Abbott vs. Burke school funding case, today issued an opinion that also found the reductions 'fell more heavily upon our high risk districts and the children educated within those districts. Despite spending levels that meet or exceed virtually every state in the country, and that saw a significant increase in spending levels from 2000 to 2008, our 'at risk' children are now moving further from proficiency,' he said."

So what is he saying here? The story says Christie's budget cuts left schools unable to provide thorough and efficient education. By the way, what's that? What is a thorough and efficient education? Judge gets to define that, I guess. But the story says it's budget cuts. The judge's ruling, "despite spending levels that meet or exceed virtually every state in the country, and that saw a significant increase in spending levels from 2000 to 2008, our 'at risk' children are now moving further from proficiency." Well, what are we to do? Doesn't sound like there are budget cuts. It sounds like spending more than ever before. We're spending more than every state in the country. Education is not thorough, not efficient because of Christie's budget cuts? There are 591 school districts in New Jersey, not 592, and not 590, 591. Two thousand four hundred schools in the state of New Jersey. Might that be a problem, or at least contributory to the problem? But regardless, the long knives are out for Governor Christie on this. I mean this is nonsensical. We're spending more than we ever have, exceed virtually every state in the country, spending levels, significant increase 2000 to 2008, and yet the headline: "Budget Cuts Left N.J. Schools Unable to Provide 'Thorough and Efficient' Education."

Again, at what point is someone's education their responsibility? At what point do we rename the coalition of the screwed the coalition of the willingly screwed? At what point? You feel sorry for these people and we've been feeling sorry for 'em for 40 or 50 years now, and what's that accomplished? One of the things I always ask myself during periods like this, story after story after story of endless poverty, endless suffering, and yet down the street there isn't any. On that part of town and many, many other parts of the town, there isn't any. What is the reason for the disparity? Oh, don't give me this life's lottery is unfair business. That's what the Democrats want you believe. That's, of course, the underpinning theory behind redistribution. Many factors involved: entitlement, I am expected that this should be given me, what have you. Lack of properly motivated people, inspired people, educated people, understanding the difference, misunderstanding the difference between empathy and sympathy. The war on poverty is sympathy. The Great Society is sympathy. Helping people help themselves is empathy. You know, the old teaching a man to fish. That is empathy. But we have a sympathy based foreign policy. We just feel sorry for everybody. We feel sorry for 'em and then come up with policies to make ourselves feel better but not change the outcome of anybody's life in a serious way, because we don't teach them to help themselves. We'd rather blame their plight on political opponents.

RUSH: Here's John in Crofton, Maryland. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.

CALLER: Hello, Rush.

RUSH: Hey.

CALLER: Diamond dittos to you. I haven't seen you -- I guess I saw you in Washington, DC, a little over four years ago at the Warner Theatre but --

RUSH: Oh, yes, I remember that.

CALLER: -- the reason I called is I'm originally from New Jersey and, by the way, I can't hear a thing you're saying, so now I have empathy for your hearing loss.

RUSH: Why can't you hear anything I'm saying? Is he deaf or is our phone system -- (crosstalk)

CALLER: I can barely hear Bo Snerdley and I just heard Crofton, Maryland, so I guess I'm talking on the air. But I went to public schools for all 12 years in inner city Newark back in the forties and fifties, graduated in '58, got accepted at Dartmouth, graduated from there. I don't think I could do this today. I don't think I'd even live through 12 years of school in Newark right now. It's really a darn shame what's happened there, and these teachers that I think are overpaid, Penny was on the phone with the governor and she was complaining that she would have to pay $600 to cover herself and her husband on some kind of a Cadillac health care program. My question to Penny is, how much union dues do you pay? And also, since it costs about 50 or $60,000 a year to go to an Ivy League school today, why can't the academics take a pay cut so that people don't have to take out all these student loans? But you never hear about that.

RUSH: That is one of the fascinating things about tuition and college. The one area that keeps going up, but you never hear the university system gouged or ripped like Big Oil is, or Walmart or big anything else. We just have to give the student loan program more money. We just have to loan more money. It's about 40 grand to go to an Ivy League school nowadays. He's right about that. You may not have been listening and heard what he was referring to. Grab audio sound bite number 25 out there, Ed. This is what he's talking about. It was Chris Christie on the radio in New Jersey last night, Ask the Governor radio show, Penny in Blackwood called. She was upset, said, "I want to know why you want to take at least 13% out of state employees' pay for health care. I mean that's gonna cost my husband and me $600 a month of our money to pay for our health care. That's gonna cut into our food and other bills. How do you expect us to live?"

Now, here's a woman, state employee, state's paying it all, state's broke, Christie says, "You're gonna have to pay a little bit more for your health care." "How am I gonna live? How am I gonna live? That's gonna cut into our food and other bills." And this is what Governor Christie said to her.

CHRISTIE: How I expect you to live, Penny, is you're gonna have to pick a different health plan that's not nearly as rich as the one you're getting now. That's how.

PENNY: Either that or you're force us to not have any health care.

There's Governor Christie telling her, "The money's gotta come from somewhere. We can't print it." What he's basically saying is, time has come, you're going to have to pay for some of this yourself, taxes are already too high. Your neighbors can't afford it anymore. But you can see, she thinks that this is an entitlement. She works for the state. Her health care should be paid for. The idea she's gonna have to pay for this is just foreign. She's gonna starve now. She's gonna starve.

You know, I have to tell you, you've heard me say this before, I'm a broken record on it and I probably ought to shut up about it. But I am appalled. I'm really wondering where I screwed up in life. 'Cause I think I'm one of the few people who actually pays for everything I have, want, or need. I missed the memo. I missed the instruction on how to get other people to pay for you. And, by the way, this runs at every income level. I have been just as incredulous when I see a big-time corporate CEO retire and get a $700 million package and use of the corporate plane whenever he wants even though he's not there anymore, and the company is buying his apartment and his tickets to sports events. I look and I say, "Well, what's the $700 million for?" Other people say, "Look, that was the deal. He got the deal. Why are you griping about the deal?" No, I understand, but I wouldn't ask for that. You know, give me the money, if I want an apartment, I'll pay for it. Anyway, it all blew up because the ex-wife found out about it and blew the whistle on the deal and he had to give some of it back. Nobody knew about it, except the board. So the ex-wife blew the whistle or the disgruntled wife before -- anyway, that's just one example. I'm just telling you it happens at every income level. I just missed the memo on it. I'm under this obviously mistaken belief that if you want a health care plan, you pay for it. I would love to get a lobotomy and have a brain transplant where I didn't think that anymore. Figure out how to game the system.

RUSH: Bruce in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.

CALLER: Well, good afternoon and thanks for taking my call, Rush.

RUSH: Yes, sir. You bet.

CALLER: You were talking about maybe two million people or so in the cities around the Northeast that were poor?

RUSH: New Jersey!

CALLER: New Jersey.

RUSH: New Jersey. There are more poor people in New Jersey than in Boston and a couple or three other cities combined.

CALLER: And my question is: When are we gonna finally redefine what "poor" is, what the poverty level is in America? Do you know how we even come up with that?

RUSH: I don't know how we come up with it. I'm having a mental block now even though I just read what department does it. Commerce?

CALLER: The reason I ask is because I just don't see "poor" everywhere in America. I don't see anyone starving to death in the streets.

RUSH: Oh, there's a lot of "food insecurity" out there. You can see it standing in line at McDonald's: "Are they gonna have McNuggets or not?" That's out there. Food insecurity, in Port St. Lucie, has resulted in 911 phone calls.

CALLER: But I think that's just exactly what we need to do in America is redefine what truly poor is and who the ones that really need the help are, because I think we're all willing to help out.

RUSH: I did this once. Let me tell you, I did this once. There's a guy at Heritage (speaking of Heritage) and his name is Robert Rector (R-e-c-t-o-r) and he has done exactly what you suggest. He has compared what we call "poverty" to what is poverty in other countries, and you'd be amazed. You'd be amazed at the number of people we say "live in poverty" who have air-conditioned homes and cars, for example. He's got all these numbers, all these stats. I happened to make it public back in the early nineties, and I got creamed for it as somebody just lying and just making stuff up. So it's one of those areas the left doesn't want you to go there, but I went there. Robert Rector at Heritage has every answer you want on your question.

Embarrassing: Politico Drools Over Multitasking Obama at Chile Dinner

RUSH: This is a disgrace, folks, disguised as performing the duties of commander-in-chief. The only question is: Who looks worse in this, the president or Politico? But the Politico...

You people at the Politico, you know we love you here. You know that we love you, but you gotta be embarrassed publishing this! It's on their Politico 44 Blog (Obama being president 44): "While eating at an 'official dinner' with Chile's president Monday night, President Obama was updated throughout the meal on the downed American plane in Libya, the White House says. The national security adviser Tom Donilon told Obama of the plane at 7:45 p.m., before the dinner, and kept Obama updated during the ride, telling him that the United States was 'in touch with the pilots on the ground,' White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday.

"Donilon stayed at the hotel and 'provided two updates' during the dinner to chief of staff Bill Daley, who 'relayed to the president about the ongoing recovery efforts,' Carney said on Air Force One. When Obama returned to the hotel, he spoke with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and learned that the pilots were safe. The intersection of a formal dinner in Chile and an effort to stay updated on the pilots' safety reflects both the multi-tasking nature of Obama and the consequences of his decision to go on his five-day Latin America trip right after ordering an attack on Libya."

Did you realize he was that capable, folks? Are you not dazzled by this unique talent to be informed (while dining!) of the fate of American fire pilots? This intersection reflects "the multitasking nature of Obama." Do you think...? I got a pretty observant note from a friend. "Do you think Bush reading to the kids in the classroom on 9/11 would have ever been praised for his ability to multitask?" Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0311/dinner_and_a_briefing_c79e9ef0-3192-4dfc-a2c9-ad6cb3b9296b.html

Additional Rush Links

CBO wants to tax motorists based on miles driven

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/151765-cbo-says-taxing-drivers-based-on-miles-driven-a-real-option-for-raising-revenues

Perma-Links

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.

Translating Jihad. What is broadcast in the Arabic is one thing; and how it is said in English is something entirely different:

http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/

Here is a chart you MUST see (it is about political party donors):

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

The Center for Responsive Politics:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

What if George Bush did that?

http://whatifgeorgebushdidthat.wordpress.com/

The Lonely Conservative (news and conservative opinion):

http://lonelyconservative.com/

The right weather underground (blog, with some emphasis upon the phony green agenda).

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/sebastianjer/

An article on the federal reserve:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/fed_reserve.htm

The Economic Collapse Blog:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Albert Mohler’s blog, which is Christian and conservative:

http://www.albertmohler.com/

Readers begin a discussion, and other join in:

http://ricochet.com/

The Other Half of History (the history which is ignored in the modern classroom):

http://historyhalf.com/columns/

American History:

http://wallbuilders.com/

Citizen Tom (news and conservative commentary):

http://citizentom.com/

Pronk Palisades (recent news and editorial videos and links):

http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/

The Right brothers (sort of newsy and commentary):

http://therightbrothers.posterous.com/

Freedom Fighter’s Journal (news and opinion articles):

http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/

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

http://www.libertysarmy.com/

News and opinion articles:

http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/

STORM’s official Revolutionary document:

http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf

Climate Depot’s 321-page 'Consensus Buster' Report:

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims--Challenge-UN-IPCC--Gore

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

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

Liberal collector of links and liberal news:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/

Good conservative news blog:

http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/

The radio patriot; a news repository and right-wing blog:

http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/

Glenn Beck’s news page; almost everything is a video:

http://www.theblaze.com/

Conservative Girls are Hot:

http://girlontheright.com/

The Food Liberation Army (I am still unsure whether this is a put-on or not):

http://www.freeronald.org/en/fla/

Good news site—Buck’s Right:

http://www.bucksright.com/

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

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02

Palestinian Media Watch:

http://palwatch.org/

Right Bias:

http://rightbias.com/

Red, White and Blue news:

http://redwhitebluenews.com/

The Right Scoop (lots of videos):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Excellent news source:

http://home.myway.com/

Union refund? Really?

http://www.unionrefund.org/

The Right Reasons (news and opinion):

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

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

http://www.mrc.org

Pundit and Pundette:

http://www.punditandpundette.com/

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

http://eltahrir.org/

Stand with Us:

http://www.standwithus.com/

A George Soros funded site:

http://thinkprogress.org/

Progressive media matters action network:

http://politicalcorrection.org/

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

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/

Kids Aren’t Cars:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy Bruce

http://tammybruce.com/

[California’s] Public Speakers blog:

http://pubsecrets.wordpress.com/

Flashpoint—California’s most significant political news:

http://www.flashreport.org/

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

http://www.publiusforum.com/

Political Chips:

http://www.politicalchips.org/

Brits at their best:

http://www.britsattheirbest.com/

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

http://politicalaffairs.net/

Headlines, short news stories:

http://www.thehotjoints.com/

Christmas is evil (Muslim website):

http://xmasisevil.com/index2.php

Conservative blogger:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

Verum Serum

http://www.verumserum.com/

The Tax Professor Blog

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

Moonbattery:

http://www.moonbattery.com/

Arbitrary Vote:

http://arbitraryvote.com/home

The Party of Know:

http://thepartyofknow.com/

Slap Blog

http://slapblog.com/

The latest news from Prison Planet:

http://prisonplanet.tv/

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

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

The Frugal Café:

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

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

The Freedomist:

http://freedomist.com/

Greg Gutfeld’s website:

http://freedomist.com/

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

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

The U.K.’s number watch:

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

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

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

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

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

Observations of a blue state conservative:

http://lonelyconservative.com/

Thomas “Soul man” Sewell’s column archive:

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

Walter E. Williams column archive:

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

Israpundit:

http://www.israpundit.com/

The Prairie Pundit:

http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/

Conservative Art:

http://secularstupidest.com/

Conservative Club of Houston:

http://www.cclub.org/welcome

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

http://hallofrecord.blogspot.com/

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

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

Raging Elephants:

http://www.ragingelephants.org/

Gulag bound:

http://gulagbound.com/

Hyscience:

http://www.hyscience.com/

Politi Fi

http://politifi.com/

TEA Party Patriots:

http://teapartypatriots.org/

South Montgomery County Liberty Group:

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

Hole in the Hull:

http://www.holeinthehull.com/

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

http://www.ncpa.org/

Ordering their pamphlets:

http://www.policypatriots.org/

Cartoon (Senator Meddler):

http://www.senatormedler.com/

Bear Witness:

http://bearwitness.info/default.aspx

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

Right Change (facts presented in an entertaining manner):

http://www.rightchange.com/

Bias alert from the Media Research Center:

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

Excellent conservative blogger:

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

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

http://ourtab.org/

Center for Responsive Politics:

http://www.opensecrets.org/

The Chamber Post (pro-business blog):

http://www.chamberpost.com/

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

http://laborpains.org/

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

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Their opposition:

http://resistingthegreendragon.com/

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

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

The WSJ Guide to Financial Reform

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

The WSJ Guide to Obamacare:

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

The WSJ Guide to Climate Change

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

Video-heavy news source:

http://www.mediaite.com/

Political News:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/

Planet Gore; blogs about the environment:

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

The Patriot Post:

http://patriotpost.us/

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

http://papundits.wordpress.com/

Index of (business) freedom, world rankings:

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

U.S. State economic freedom:

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

The All-American Blogger:

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/

The Right Scoop (with lots of vids):

http://www.therightscoop.com/

In case you have not seen it yet, Obsession:

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

Inside Islam; what a billion Muslims think:

http://vimeo.com/14121737

World Net Daily (News):

http://www.wnd.com/

Excellent blog with lots of cool vids:

http://benhoweblog.wordpress.com/

Black and Right:

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

The Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/

Video on the Right Network:

http://rightnetwork.com/videos/860061517

The newly designed Democrat website:

http://www.democrats.org/

Composition of Congress 1855–2010:

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

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

http://www.zeropartypolitics.com/

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

http://www.antijihadresistance.com/

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

http://ibnlive.in.com/

http://www.rawstory.com/

Black and Right dot com:

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

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

http://www.osborneink.com/

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

http://www.theblaze.com/

http://nakedemperornews.com/

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Muslim hope:

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

Anti-Obama sites:

http://howobamagotelected.com/

http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/

http://www.exposeobama.com/

International news, mostly about Israel and the Middle East:

http://www.haaretz.com/

http://www.jpost.com/

News headlines sites (with links):

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.thedeadpelican.com/

Business blog and news:

http://www.bizzyblog.com/

And I have begun to sort out these links:

News and Opinions

Conservative News/Opinion Sites

The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/

Sweetness and Light

http://sweetness-light.com/

Flopping Aces:

http://www.floppingaces.net/

News busters:

http://newsbusters.org/

Right wing news:

http://rightwingnews.com/

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/

Pajamas Media:

http://pajamasmedia.com/

Right Wing News:

http://rightwingnews.com/

Scared Monkeys (somewhat of a conservative newsy site):

http://scaredmonkeys.com/

Conservative News Source:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

David’ Horowitz’s NewsReal:

http://www.newsrealblog.com/

Pamela Geller’s conservative website:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/

The news sites and the alternative news media:

http://drudgereport.com/

http://www.hallindsey.com/

http://reason.com/

Andrew Breithbart’s websites:

http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/

Conservative Websites:

http://www.theodoresworld.net/

http://conservalinked.com/

http://www.moonbattery.com/

http://www.rockiesghostriders.com/

www.coalitionoftheswilling.net

http://shortforordinary.com/

A conservative worldview:

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

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

http://politipage.com/

Liberal News Sites

Democrat/Liberal news site:

http://intoxination.net/

News

CNS News:

http://www.cnsnews.com/home

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

http://www.ocregister.com/

Business News/Economy News

Investors Business Daily:

http://www.investors.com/

IBD editorials:

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

Great business and political news:

www.wsj.com

www.businessinsider.com

Quick News

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

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

Republican

Back to the basics for the Republican party:

http://www.republicanbasics.com/

Republican Stop Obamacare site:

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

North Suburban Republican Forum:

http://www.northsuburbanrepublicanforum.org/

Politics

You Decide Politics (it appears conservative to me):

http://www.youdecidepolitics.com/

The Left

From the left:

http://www.loonwatch.com/

Far left websites:

www.dailykos.com

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

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

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

Insane, leftist blogs:

http://teabaggersrcoming.blogspot.com/

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

Media

Media Research Center

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

Conservative Blogs

Mike’s America

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Dick Morris:

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

David Limbaugh (great columns this week)

http://davidlimbaugh.com/

Texas Fred (blog and news):

http://texasfred.net/

Conservative Blogs:

http://atimetochoose.wordpress.com/

http://americanelephant.com/

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

The top 100 conservative sites:

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

Sensible blogger Burt Folsom:

http://www.burtfolsom.com/

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

http://constitutingamerica.org/

Conservative news/opinion site:

http://www.humanevents.com/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

Good conservative blogs:

http://tammybruce.com/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/

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

http://www.baltimorereporter.com/

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/

www.rightofanation.com

The Romantic Poet’s Webblog:

http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/

Brain Shavings (common sense from the Buckeye State):

http://brainshavings.com/

Green Hell blog:

http://greenhellblog.com/

Daniel Hannan’s blog:

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

Conservative blog:

http://wyblog.us/blog/

Richard O’Leary’s websites:

www.letfreedomwork.com

www.freedomtaskforce.com

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

Freedom Works:

http://www.freedomworks.org/

Yankee Phil’s Blogspot:

http://yankeephil.blogspot.com/

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

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

Babes

And simply because I like cute, intelligent babes:

http://alisonrosen.com/

Liberty Chick:

http://libertychick.com/

Dee Dee’s political blog:

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

The Latina Freedom Fighter:

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

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

http://althouse.blogspot.com/

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

http://www.judithmiller.com/

http://ifbushhaddonethat.com/

A mixed bag of blogs and news sites

Left and right opinions with an international flair:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

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

http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/

More out-there blogs and sites

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

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Mofo Politics (a very anti-Obama site):

http://www.mofopolitics.com/

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

http://www.infowars.com/

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

http://magicnegrowatch.blogspot.com/

Okay, maybe this guy is racist:

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Media

Glenn Beck’s shows online:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/

News busted all shows:

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

Joe Dan Media (great vids and music):

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

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

http://patriotsnetwork.com/

PolitiZoid on YouTube:

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

Reason TV

http://reason.tv/

This guy posts some excellent vids:

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

HipHop Republicans:

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

Topics

(alphabetical order)

Bailouts

Bailout recipients:

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

Eye on the bailout (this is fantastic!):

http://bailout.propublica.org/

The bailout map:

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

From:

http://www.propublica.org/

Border

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

http://secureborderintel.org/

http://borderinvasionpics.com/

Secure the Border:

http://securetheborder.org/

Capitalism

Liberty Works (conservative, economic site):

http://libertyworks.com/

Capitalism Magazine:

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/

Communism

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

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

How this correlates to the goals of the ACLU:

http://dianedew.com/aclu.htm

Congress

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

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

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

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

Corrupt Media

The Economy/Economics

Bush “Tax Cut” myths and fallacies:

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

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

http://defeatthedebt.com/

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

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

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

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

If you have a set of liberal friends, email them one chart a week from here (go to the individual chart, and then choose download and format):

http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/

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

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

Economist and talk show host Walter E. Williams:

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

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

www.Americanroadmap.org

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

http://www.freedomproject.org/

Bankrupting America, with great videos and maps:

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

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

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

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

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

Global Warming/Climate Change

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

http://www.climatedebatedaily.com/

Global Warming headlines:

http://www.dericalorraine.com/

Dr. Roy Spencer on climate change:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

Not Evil, Just Wrong video on Global Warming

http://noteviljustwrong.com/

http://www.letfreedomwork.com/

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

Global Warming Hoax:

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

Global Warming Site:

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Global Warming sites:

http://ilovecarbondioxide.com/

35 inconvenient truths about Al Gore’s film:

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

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/trailer

Wall Street Journal’s articles on Climate Change:

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

Michael Crichton on global warming as a religion:

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

This man questions global warming:

http://themigrantmind.blogspot.com/

Healthcare

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

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

Republican healthcare plan:

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

Health Care:

http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/

Betsy McCaughey’s Health Care Site:

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

Obamacare Watch:

http://www.obamacarewatch.org/

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

http://joinpatientsfirst.com/

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

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

Islam

Islam:

www.thereligionofpeace.com

Jihad Watch

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Answering Muslims (a Christian site):

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/

Muslim demographics:

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

Muslim Demographics (this is outstanding):

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

Muslim deception:

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

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

http://www.faithfulamerica.org/

Celebrity Jihad (no, really).

http://www.celebjihad.com/

Legal

The Alliance Defense Fund:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

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

www.lc.org

ACLU founders:

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

Military

Here is an interesting military site:

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

This is the link which caught my eye from there:

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

The real story of the surge:

http://www.understandingthesurge.org/

National Security

Keep America Safe:

http://www.keepamericasafe.com/

Race Relations

A little history of Republicans and African-Americans:

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

Oil Spill

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cool Sites

Weasel Zippers scours the internet for great stuff:

http://weaselzippers.us/

The 100 most hated conservatives:

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

Still to Classify

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

http://defendmichael.wordpress.com/

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

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

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

http://www.freepress.net/

Project World Awareness:

http://projectworldawareness.com/

Bookworm room

http://www.bookwormroom.com/

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

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

Commentary Magazine:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/

Family Security Matters (families and national security):

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/

America’s Right

http://americasright.com/

Emerging Corruption (founded by an ACORN whistle blower:

http://emergingcorruption.com/

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

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

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

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/

News Website to get the Headlines and very brief coverage:

http://www.newser.com/

National Institute for Labor Relations Research

http://www.nilrr.org/

Independent American:

http://www.independentamerican.org/

If you want to be scared or depressed:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

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

http://www.whitehouse.gov/video

The sign says, TEA time is done; the caption for this photo is Would you let your daughter fund this man’s pension?

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

http://nointernettakeover.com/

Whizbang (news and views):

http://wizbangblog.com/

John T. Reed comments on current events:

http://johntreed.com/headline.html

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

http://conservativenewmedia.com/

Ann Coulter’s site:

http://anncoulter.com/

Allen West for Congress:

http://allenwestforcongress.com/issues/

Their homepage:

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

Wall Builders:

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

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

http://www.ldlad.com/

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

http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/

The Tax Foundation:

http://taxfoundation.org/

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

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

Political news and commentary from the Louisiana Political News Wire:

http://www.lanewslink.com/

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

http://commieblaster.com/

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

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

Another babebolicious conservative (Kim Priestap):

http://politics.upnorthmommy.com/

Stop Spending our Future:

http://stopspendingourfuture.org/

DeeDee also blogs at:

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

Somos Republicans:

http://somosrepublicans.com/

This is actually a whole list of stories about the side-effects of Obamacare (e.g., Obamacare may be fatal to your health savings account; Medical devices tax will cost jobs; young will pay higher insurance rates, etc.): Send one-a-day of each story to your favorite liberal friends:

http://blog.heritage.org/tag/side-effects/

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

Zomblog:

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

Conservative news site:

http://www.liberalwhoppers.com/

http://conservativeamericannews.com/

Your daily cartoon:

http://daybydaycartoon.com/

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

http://www.overcomingbias.com/

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

http://afrocityblog.wordpress.com/

These are some very good comics:

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Helps for liberals to call conservative talk shows:

http://radio.barackobama.com/

Sarah Palin’s facebook notes:

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

Media Research Center:

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

Must read articles of the day:

http://lucianne.com/

The Big Picture:

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

Talk of Liberty

http://talkofliberty.com

Lux Libertas

http://www.luxlibertas.com/

Conservative website:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

Excellent articles on economics:

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

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

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

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

(The segment was:

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

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

An online journal of opinions:

http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/

American Civic Literacy:

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/

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

www.dallasteaparty.org

America people’s healthcare summit online:

http://healthtransformation.net/

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

http://transparencyflorida.gov

New conservative website:

http://www.theconservativelion.com

Conservative website:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/

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

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

The latest Climate news:

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Obama cartoons:

http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com/

Education link:

http://sirkenrobinson.com/

http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/

News from 2100:

http://thepeoplescube.com/

How you can get your piece of the stimulus pie:

http://www.economicstimuluspackageinfo.com/

Always excellent articles:

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

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

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

Conservative blog: Dan Cleary, political insomniac:

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

Stand by Liberty:

http://standbyliberty.org/

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

http://www.cagw.org/

Lower taxes, smaller government, more freedom:

Citizens Against Government Waste:

http://www.cagw.org/

Conservative website featuring stories of the day:

http://www.lonelyconservative.com/

http://www.sodahead.com/

Christian Blog:

http://wisdomknowledge.wordpress.com/

News feed/blog:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

News site:

http://lucianne.com/

Note sure yet about this one:

http://looneyleft.com/

Conservative news and opinion:

http://bijenkorf.wordpress.com/

Conservative versus liberal viewpoints:

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

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

http://midknightgraphs.blogspot.com/

The Architecture of Political Power (an online book):

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

Recommended foreign news site:

http://www.globalpost.com/

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

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

http://www.fedupusa.org/

Kevin Jackson’s [conservative black] website:

http://theblacksphere.net/

Notes from the front lines (in Iraq):

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

Remembering 9/11:

http://www.realamericanstories.com/

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball site:

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

The current Obama czar roster:

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

Blue Dog Democrats:

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

Undercover video and audio for planned parenthood:

http://liveaction.org/

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

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

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

http://www.obamacaretruth.org/

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

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

Great commentary:

www.Atlasshrugs.com

My own website:

www.kukis.org

Congressional voting records:

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

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

http://howobamagotelected.com/

The psychology of homosexuality:

http://www.narth.com/

International News:

http://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/

The Patriot Post:

http://patriotpost.us/

Obama timeline:

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

Tax professor’s blog:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/

I hate the media...