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This Week’s Events

President Obama releases his long-form birth certificate, and then went on to attend to more important things, like appearing on Oprah and attending some more fundraisers.

Interestingly enough, one of the real stories of that day was, Obama shifting around people in the defense department (David Petraeus will be head of the CIA). This got almost no press because of the birth certificate thing.

The Federal Reserve gives a press conference and tells us not to worry about anything.

A couple dozen states are ravaged by tornadoes.

Shell Oil spent 5 years and invested $4 billion into a drilling site in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. Then the EPA tells them they can’t drill there (the EPA withheld crucial air permits).

At least 5 oil rigs have shut down operations in the gulf, because they were denied a permit to drill for oil (Rush Limbaugh claims 7). Many of them moved to Brazil.

An Interior Department report just released said more than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle, neither producing oil and gas nor being actively explored by the companies who hold the leases.

The Democratic House of Representatives in Massachusetts passed a bill which would reduce public unions ability to collectively bargain when it comes to healthcare benefits. I have seen almost no coverage of this in the news.

A libertarian Republican candidate quietly entered into the presidential race (Gary Johnson?). I have seen almost no news on this.

FoxNews is hosting a Republican debate on May 5^th, and right now, it appears that there may be 2 people in this debate. Any contender wanting to take part needs to have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and also have averaged at least 1 percent in five recent national polls, among other requirements. Right now, this comes down to only former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the only 2 to have filed this paperwork. If Herman Cain isn’t there, I am going to be quite unhappy.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a bill that authorizes the erection of a security fence along Arizona's portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, either in a compact with other states or by itself. How many hours will pass before the U.S. Justice Department files suit against them?

Lefties dressed up like zombies protest Representative Dan Webster in Florida.

Assistant pastor Brett Coronado, of Hemet, CA, read some of the Bible to people waiting for the DMV to open. He was arrested. He, and 2 friends, were charged with “impeding an open business.”

Last week, the federal government tried to block Boeing from opening up a new plant in South Carolina. This week, the FDA is attempting to remove a drug company CEO. Although I have heard there are legal considerations here, if he has broken then law, then he needs to be arrested. However, the federal government now thinks it can pick and choose CEO’s? The Department of Health and Human Services this month notified Howard Solomon of Forest Laboratories Inc. that it intends to exclude him from doing business with the federal government. This would prevent Forest from selling its drugs to Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration.

Superman has renounced his American citizenship.

More and more things are coming out about our elementary schools. Children in the first grade are singing songs about boycotts and petitions, with regards to taking care of mother earth; and the books on sex are quite graphic and explicit for children in elementary schools, introducing explicit information years and years before children reach puberty. This is the battleground where we will fight for the souls of our children.

The princess fairy tale story occurred this week when commoner Kate Middletown married Prince William.

There appears to be a power struggle going on in Iran, and reports are, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not be showing up for work

Qadaffy’s son is killed in an air attack.

In Afghanistan, a 12-year-old suicide bomber killed three other people.

Also in Afghanistan, Taliban Jihadists drag four women from their house and execute them.

Muslims storm Christian church in Pakistan over alleged Koran burning. 20 killed.

NATO airstrike scores direct hit on school for disabled children.

Say What?

Liberals:

Barack Obama: "There's more than one way to mortgage America's future. We mortgage that future if we don't get a handle on our deficit and debt, but we also mortgage it if we're not investing in those things that will assure the promise of the American Dream for the next generation. I'm not going to sacrifice investments in education. I'm not going to make scholarships harder to get and more expensive for young people. I'm not going to sacrifice the safety of our highways or our airports. I'm not going to sacrifice clean air and clean water. I'm not going to sacrifice clean energy at a time when we need to free ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, and folks are getting killed at the pump." Emphasis mine.

Reporter Justin Farmer: "I took in the man himself, this man, President Barack Obama. Regardless of one's political leanings, there's no doubt this is a gifted and complex man. Think about what he ponders in any given day?"

Justin Farmer: "I admit as he was answering one of my questions, I did look carefully at his face. (Our chairs were oddly placed almost uncomfortably close.) I pondered the responsibility, the challenges this one man bears."

Farmer: "It is the President's job to preserve and protect a nation of laws that affords all of us a fair shot in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Being in the building that houses the man required to carry out that grand task was a thrill."

NBC newsman Brian Williams: “Let's be candid here. When you and I go home, you see friends and family, you get e-mail from people you know. People ask the same question: What's going on here? Is this something we have done? What has happened to the climate because it seems so much of what we cover is relentless weather-related tragedy?” Emphasis mine.

CBS news anchor Katie Couric: "It was an extraordinary moment, President Obama went on national television today and did what no other president has ever even been asked to do, prove he's a natural born U.S. citizen."

ABC newsman Sam Champion: “You know, all winter long, Diane, we've been talking about the fact that the leaky Arctic fence, that unusual cold polar air, the melting sea ice, the thing is, there's no coordinated effort to study what that looks like on climate change compared to severe weather, so we don't know the answer to that.”

MSNBC newsman Chuck Todd: "I guess what I'm confused about, how is this an administration - what is it that the president could have done about the price of gasoline?"

MSNBC report Andrea Mitchell: "I mean, people who want to raise these conspiracy theorists - theories - and there is no other explanation other than, you know, sort of pure racism, because it's never been raised about a white president." Both of the previous 2 statements are false.

The Washington Post: "The White House is warning that catastrophe will strike if Congress fails to raise the limit on the national debt: With too little cash to pay creditors, the US government would default. Interest rates would skyrocket. And the economic recovery would collapse."

Politifact (an Obama shill truth site: “According to the report, 39 shallow-water permits for new wells have been issued since June 8, 2010.”

Nation magazine's Washington editor Chris Hayes: “"The issue of the president's origins is one thing. The reality is global warming quite another. There seem to be the same dynamics at play in both."

Rosario Dawson: “I will just say immigrants pay more taxes than Exxon!”

Robert DeNiro (about Donald Trump questioning Obama’s birth certificate): “Go get the facts before you start saying things about people. It's like a big hustle. It's like being a car salesman. Don't go out there and say things unless you can back them up. How dare you? That's awful to do. To just go out and speak and say these terrible things?”

Letter to the editor of the OU Daily: “[Paul Ryan’s] Budget plan will destroy Medicare.”

Riverwood Elementary School children in Tennessee sing the following rap:"Boycott, petition, let the big business know / that if we mess it up here, there's no else we can go." The videos of little children singing this have been removed from YouTube; I could not find any of them (although I have heard this sung by a 6-year-old child from there).

Julian Epstein: “If we extracted every ounce of oil in the United States, according to the Department of Energy, we wouldn’t have an impact on our dependency on foreign oil...until the year 2030, when the dependency upon oil would go down by 2.5%...when people say, ‘We need to do more drilling;’ that’s not going to have an impact for 15 to 20 years.”

Randi Rhodes: “Now that we're done with the birther thing, and we have insulted an entire population of the American people . . . we've wounded an entire population of the United States of America in a way that I don't think the Ku Klux Klan ever even aspired to

Liberals from the past:

White House adviser David Axelrod said on ABC's "Good Morning America" show: "No additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here and whether there was something unique and preventable here. No domestic drilling in new areas is going to go forward until there is a adequate review of what's happened here and of what is being proposed elsewhere."

President Obama upon signing his healthcare law: "So after I signed the bill, I looked around. I looked up in the sky to see if asteroids were coming. I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth. But you know what? It turned out to be a pretty nice day. Birds were still chirping. Folks were strolling down the street. Nobody had lost their doctor. Nobody had pulled the plug on Granny. Nobody was being dragged away and forced into some government-run health care."

Liberals being civil:

Rosie O'Donnell: "Sarah Palin has ushered in a whole new level of ignorance as a consumerable quantity." Imagine if Sarah Palin had used the word consumerable. She was given enough grief for using the words blood-libel in a legitimate way.

Joy Behar: "I give Sarah Palin credit. She's out of favor. She's out of the limelight. And then, suddenly, she's back like jock itch, and just as snarky as ever."

On the same show, Josh Gad: "I miss her anti-Semitic jokes so much." No idea where this point of view comes from.

Laura Flanders to Andrew Breitbart: “It's just an opinion, but you're not a journalist or a commentator. You're a con man, and that's your job.”

The Washington Post ran a story on the devastation of the tornadoes; some of the comments were as follows:

 

arewedoneyet: God’s Wrath for all that Christian Right, Teabaggers & GOP mean spirited behavior toward their fellow man.

 

Hritewing: I don’t want to hear of no Teabagger accepting federal money. They can make a way for there-self or go to the Koch brothers and ask them for a handout...

 

Talkingheads: Pledge as little as possible, so the rednecks who always demand spending cuts are satisfied.

 

This goes on and on and on.

 

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/04/29/wapo-commenters-bashing-tornado-victims-gods-wrath-for-the-christian-right-teabaggers-gop/

Liberals making sense:

Barack Obama: "I continue to believe that domestic oil production is an important part of our overall strategy for energy security. But I've always said it must be done responsibly for the safety of our workers and our environment." The President says a lot of things which sound sensible.

Democratic Representative Dan Boren: "President Obama is completely uninformed about the oil and gas industry. The industry is not made up of just major companies. It is made up of small independent firms like those in Oklahoma that produce a vast majority of our domestic production. For every CEO of a major company, there are literally thousands of blue collar jobs that are affected by his administration's energy policy. It is a policy that is very inadequate and has left so many on the gulf coast unemployed. Americans are tired of empty rhetoric on both sides and want a real plan. If the President doesn't want to stand up and be a leader, then his silence would be appreciated from people who are trying to find solutions."

Dan Boren: “We have a 100 year supply of natural gas [in the United States].”

Crosstalk:

Moderate:

Jonas Max Ferns: “I think it would be good in the sort run to increase drilling...in the long run, it’s not a great policy...here’s why: you’ve just talked about the dictators and all that—you want to go through their fuel first, you wanna go through Saudi’s oil first, you wanna hold the last oil left in 20 or 30 or 40 years, because it’s going to be $30/gallon of gas, and we want to have that here, secure...we want to make sure our future is secure first, and the way to do that is to go through everybody’s fuel first.”

Conservatives:

Jonah Goldberg: “The administration is just being dishonest about the idea that somehow we're gonna default on our debt if we don't raise the debt limit immediately. In 1985, we took three months, in 2002 it took four-and-a-half months. In 1995, we took four and a half months. We always take a lot of time to figure out how to do the debt ceiling thing. It doesn't mean automatic default. And why have a debt limit at all if you're not gonna have strings attached to it. Why not just raise it to 100 quadrillion dollars, right? And if -- the limit is supposed to have some sort of disciplining effect. And I see nothing wrong if you're spending wildly to cut up someone's credit cards and put them on a payment plan.”

Eric Bolling: “We’ll be lucky if it stops at $5/gallon this time.”

Michele Bachmann: "Let's look at the number one. Number one. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office.”

Rush Limbaugh: "Trump's not a conservative, folks. You do not promise to raise tariffs on the ChiComs 25%. That's not conservative, that's protectionism, and protectionism is Smoot-Hawley -- it's a death wish."

Rush Limbaugh: "Fearless, core beliefs are such that you don't need to read a memo before you go out and make a speech, that you don't need a teleprompter. You believe it. You believe it to the point where every media event is an education opportunity."

Rush: "If you're a columnist at the New York Times and you actually write that you are mesmerized by the crease in some politician's slacks, and then you say that because of that crease he's going to be a damn good president, I submit you are a fool and the essence of star-screwer. But that's David Brooks."

Rush: "It's a dirty little secret about Haley Barbour, but one of the reasons he pulled out is because he doesn't have the hair to compete in this Republican field. I mean, you have Michele Bachmann out there, Sarah Palin, Romney, and Trump... It's tough hair competition."

Rush: "Obama says there's no silver bullet to lower gas prices, but there is. It's called boosting production, and it's worked every time it's tried."

Rush: "David Brooks in the New York Times recently had a piece saying that Obama is so brilliant and so hard to keep up with because there are so many wonderful aspects to him. Folks, I don't have a word for how silly and stupid that is."

Rush: "We have a president who is excusing sloth, who wants to reward it, and who wants to convince everybody that the people who are working and paying taxes are the problem."

Conservatives not making any sense:

Donald Trump talks about gas and oil prices, and drops the F-bomb several times in Las Vegas. Nothing that he said required this.

Must-Watch Media

Brett Baird interviews Herman Cain:

http://www.therightscoop.com/bret-baier-gets-a-closer-look-at-herman-cain/

Ray Stevens sings about the Obama Budget Plan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6TcpfBHlbs

Glenn Beck on the indoctrination in schools today:

http://thedailybeck.com/2011/04/28/glenn-beck-tv-show-april-28-2011-2/

What a shock! The left plays the race card:

http://www.therightscoop.com/montage-of-the-left-playing-race-card-again/

Excellent graphs, showing that the devaluation of the dollar is tied directly to the price of gold; the increase in the stock market is simply a reflection of quantitative easing (pumping more money into the economy); and how QE simply explains the increasing cost of oil. Great Beck.

http://thedailybeck.com/2011/04/27/glenn-beck-tv-show-april-25-2011/

An example of where you will never hear anyone utter the word racist:

http://rightscoop.tv/protesters-disrupt-another-allen-west-town-hall-meeting/

LaRaza students run wild during a school board meeting:

http://rightscoop.tv/la-raza-students-shut-down-tucson-arizona-school-board-meeting/

Chris Matthews and guests disparage George Bush’s intelligence for the 9,389^th time, and are horrified that this is done about Barack Obama:

http://www.therightscoop.com/matthews-youd-never-say-that-about-a-white-person/

A Little Comedy Relief

Seth Meyers: "You know how you know I'm not in New York? In New York, no one is excited to go to a Bloomberg party. In New York, a Bloomberg party is five people standing outside of a bar complaining about Bloomberg."

Seth Meyers: “MSNBC has a new slogan this year: lean Forward. As if the problem has been, we couldn’t hear them. Have you seen Hardball? Chris Matthews yells like an auctioneer in a wind tunnel. I’ve never listened to Hardball and thought, I need to get a little closer to this.”

Seth Meyers: “Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic, because a fox often appears on Donald Trump’s head.”

Short Takes

1) I am not too thrilled hearing Republicans talk about raising the debt ceiling the a balanced budget amendment. Not raising the debt ceiling is a defacto balanced budget requirement. It is just like when the Democrat majority during the last 2 years of Bush threw fits about Iraq. It was all show. They could have defunded the war at any given point in time and the war in Iraq would have been over. They had the votes to do this, yet they chose to act as if this was important, but it was just politics. Hopefully, the Republicans are not doing the same thing with the budget and debt ceiling.

2) I hear liberals speak against more drilling, saying there will be no impact on prices for 5–20 years (depending upon who is speaking). However, wind and solar is never going to have an impact on our energy unless the technology improves. Furthermore, high prices are, in part, a result of futures. These same traders would take into account new drilling which is started.

3) One of the things which has grated me about President Obama is his constant use of the word I. I can tell already that, if Donald Trump is elected president (which I have predicted), he is going to make Obama look like an amateur when it comes to egomania. And, on top of that, Trump apparently has no problem with swearing in public (I hope he loses that approach).

4) Several people have suggested that, liberals are setting an unelected, substructure of government which is filled with unelected officials who will, for the most part, run things. We saw this play out in these past 2 weeks when the EPA kept Shell Oil from drilling in Alaska, when Boeing was blocked from opening a new plant in South Carolina, and the Department of Health and Human Services told a drug CEO that he had to go.

5) The federal government making an attempt to block Boering from setting up a new plant in a right-to-work state is a new precedent. This has never been done before. Boeing began this process 17 months ago and have spent $2 billion on this new plant. The complaint was lodged a year ago. We have never before seen a federal government attempt to exert so much power over private enterprise before.

By the Numbers

U.S. households received $2.3 trillion in government income support in 2010. That is $7400/person/year. Did you get any of this?

Wages made up 51% of personal income last year, while government payments hit a record 18.3%

Government cash accounts for 79% of household income growth since 2007.

During that news week when the President complained that there was too much birther news, 4% of the news was about his birth certificate and 40% dealt with the economy.

According to the relatively liberal wikipedia, the Bureau of Land Management says that the United States has the largest known deposits of oil shale in the world, according to and holds an estimated 2.175 trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil.

281 Chevy volts were sold last month.

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism showed that 39% of news coverage during the week before Obama released his long-form birth certificate, was about the economy and only 4% was about "birther" questions.

With regards to cable news coverage, the Project for Excellence in Journalism found MSNBC dedicated about 10% of its airtime to Obama, and the birth certificate issue; CNN devoted 5 percent of its airtime to Obama, with all of it dedicated to the birth certificate discussion; and Fox News also covered Obama about 5% percent of the time, spending very little of that time on the birther issue.

Polling by the Numbers

Gallup/USA Today poll:

48% of seniors (those 65 and over) support Ryan's plan over President Obama`s plan,

42% back the president’s plan

A Little Bias

Republican Congress and governor in Wisconsin seek to reduce collective bargaining on the part of public unions, and this is presented in the news as the next Armageddon. However, as this travels through the Democratic Massachusetts legislature, the news has all but ignored this story.

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Can you imagine any reporter saying the same things about Bush as Justin Farmer did about Barack Obama? No one on FoxNews would come close to such unbridled adoration.

In case you doubt me, check out Hannity, the most partisan of editorial figures on FoxNews, and wait until you hear him talking about the current Republicans in Congress. There are some things which he will say that make him sound like a Democrat.

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Donald Trump was booed by media types at the White House Correspondents dinner. Of course, if he is the Republican candidate, I am sure this will have absolutely no effect on his coverage by the Obama Media Complex.

Political Chess

The news can be quite clever. Brian Williams does not come out and say, “Climate change caused the tornadoes.” He quotes an email which he received, which read, “What's going on here? Is this something we have done? What has happened to the climate because it seems so much of what we cover is relentless weather-related tragedy?” This has been a tried and true staple of news teams everywhere. What we are to remember is, a very serious Brian Williams said, “What's going on here? Is this something we have done? What has happened to the climate because it seems so much of what we cover is relentless weather-related tragedy?” And he has complete deniability, if he needs it.

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Obama, Trump and the birth certificate: as I suggested a long time ago, it appears as though Obama simply did not release his birth certificate in order to make Republicans seem silly. In the past few weeks, I thought maybe there is something on the certificate which is problematic, but, apparently that is not the case.

President Obama never figured on being made to actually reveal his birth certificate, since the press was on his side.

Donald Trump saw this as a no-lose approach. He gets a lot of mileage, he doesn’t really have to have any information on the President’s birth certificate. If the President never revealed it, Trump can say Obama is hiding something; or, as Trump did, once Obama released a copy of the birth certificate, Trump took credit for it.

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President Obama does everything possible to drive oil prices up, and then demagogues the oil companies, so that they take the blame for the high gas prices, instead of him. President Obama has always favored crafting an enemy to play off of.

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

President Obama goes to another Liberation Theology church for Easter. Does he not even have a clue as to how this looks to the outside world? Has he never been to an evangelical Christian church?

He forgets to issue an Easter proclamation.

If the release of Obama’s long-form birth certificate is not a big deal (and it isn’t), why did the president release it himself and give a statement. The assistant to the press secretary should have released it; or this included in a list of information coming from the White House. The proper approach is to indicate in every way that this is a trivial matter. By announcing the release personally, Obama was elevating Trump’s attacks beyond what he should have.

3 weeks ago, the Secretary of State calls Asad (the dictator of Syria) a reformer (while he is simultaneously shooting people in the streets). His military is going house to house and killing people, the threat of which spurred Obama into action in Libya, while there is 2 weeks of silence from Obama. He addresses the nation twice on Egypt, once on Libya, but not at all on Syria. Sanctions of U.S. held assets have been threatened, which gives Asad enough time to wire his liquid funds out of the U.S. As Charles Krauthammer reeled off all of these things, he adds that Obama’s foreign policy is incomprehensible and a disgrace.

News Before it Happens

Of course, the U.S. Department of Justice will file a lawsuit against Arizona (again) for their law to put up a border fence. My guess is, they will wait until supplies have been gathered and money has been spent before they file an injunction.

Prophecies Fulfilled

These were two easy ones. Republicans are out in town meetings with charts, explaining how we are in deep debt doo doo. What I should have predicted, but did not, is the organized opposition. There are those coming to these meetings, not to express disapproval, but to stop the process of explaining what kind of trouble our economy is really in. I should have seen that coming.

Also, another easy one, there are several sites saying that the tornado outbreak is related to climate change. Brian Williams came close to proclaiming this, making a remark about climate when speaking of the tornadoes. However, there have also been a larger number of articles questioning this connection (part of the reason is, tornadoes are thought to be spawned by cold weather).

It is worth pointing out that, even without a lot of additional news media help, many of those who posted on WaPo’s story of the tornadoes saw these as the result of global warming.

Missing Headlines

Federal Government Puts the Hurt on Shell Oil

Federal Government Puts the Hurt on Boeing

Federal Government Decides it can now Fire CEO’s

Schools Major in Brainwashing

Come, let us reason together....

How it plays out

Liberals will be running anti-Trump information like crazy when they realize that Trump is the Republican candidate. They do not realize this as of yet.

Those who read this ezeen are very knowledgeable people. To just make up a percentage, my guess is, we would all score in the top 10% of a test on current political knowledge and constitutional knowledge. Unfortunately, most people are not like that.

Here is what it is going to come down to. Trump is going to get a lot of people engaged in the Republican primary. Half of these will be political neophytes. Of those who vote, they will look at their ballot and see a list of 10 political candidates and Trump. That is how many will see the primary; so that Trump will win a plurality wherever turnout is high.

Then in the main election, it will be Trump versus Obama. Everyone knows our economy sucks and many, even if they do not blame Obama, recognize that he did very little in 4 years to turn things around. Many of these will not even realize that Congress changed from being strongly Democratic to half and half.

Trump is successful in economic ventures and knows how to deal with the Chinese.

Obama is not so successful in economic ventures and ready and willing to bow to the Chinese. There will not be this sheen to Obama that he had 2.5 years ago.

Furthermore, name recognition is the best predictor of political success, and Trump and Obama are not far apart in this realm of celebrityship.

The hope of the left will be to take every bit of slime that they can find on Trump and shout it from the highest mountain (front page in the newspapers, front page of all the magazines). Just as flattering photos of Obama (and family) were the default cover for nearly every magazine in America in 2008, this time, it will be split more evenly, with unflattering photos of Trump staring out at us from every newsstand.

I agree with most of you that, there are 5-10 candidates better than Trump. However, he is the card that we are dealt. The key will be Congress. A good Congress will keep Trump from getting too goofy.

Who here will have the tee-shirt franchise with the heads of Trump and Obama, with the ubiquitous phrase, "You're fired" emblazoned along the top?

Obama's Silence on Boeing Is Unacceptable

The president's appointees have moved to block the company from building planes in my state. He owes us an explanation.

By Nikki Haley

In October 2009, Boeing, long one of the best corporations in America, made an announcement that changed the economic outlook of South Carolina forever: The company's second line of 787 Dreamliners would be produced in North Charleston.

In choosing to manufacture in my state, Boeing was exercising its right as a free enterprise in a free nation to conduct business wherever it believed would best serve both the bottom line and the employees of its company. This is not a novel or complicated idea. It's called capitalism.

WSJ Editorial Board member Mary Kissel and Assistant Editor James Freeman discuss Washington's attempt to tell Boeing where to build its planes.

Boeing has since poured billions of dollars into a new, state-of-the art facility in South Carolina's picturesque Low Country along the Atlantic coast. It has created thousands of good jobs and joined the long tradition of distinguished and employee-friendly corporations that have found a home, and a partner, in the Palmetto State.

This a win-win for South Carolina, for Boeing, and for the global clients who will see Dreamliners rolling off the North Charleston line at the rate of 10 a month, starting with the first one next year. But, as is often the case, a win for people and businesses is a loss for the labor unions, which rely on coercion, bullying and undue political influence to stay afloat.

South Carolina is a right-to-work state, and we're proud that within our borders workers cannot be required to join a labor union as a condition of employment. We don't need unions playing middlemen between our companies and our employees. We don't want them forcefully inserted into our promising business climate. And we will not stand for them intimidating South Carolinians.

That is apparently too much for President Obama and his union-beholden appointees at the National Labor Relations Board, who have asked the courts to intervene and force Boeing to stop production in South Carolina. The NLRB wants Boeing to produce the planes only in Washington state, where its workers must belong to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

Let's be clear: Boeing is a great corporate citizen in Washington and in South Carolina. The company chose to come to our state because the cost of doing business is low, our job training and work force are strong, and our ports are tremendous. The fact that we are a right-to-work state is an added bonus.

The actions by the NLRB are nothing less than a direct assault on the 22 right-to-work states across America. They are also an unprecedented attack on an iconic American company that is being told by the federal government-which seems to regard its authority as endless-where and how to build airplanes.

The president has been silent since his hand-selected NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon, who has not yet been confirmed by the United States Senate as required by law, chose to engage in economic warfare on behalf of the unions last week.

While silence in this case can be assumed to mean consent, President Obama's silence is not acceptable-not to me, and certainly not to the millions of South Carolinians who are rightly aghast at the thought of the greatest economic development success our state has seen in decades being ripped away by federal bureaucrats who appear to be little more than union puppets.

This is not just a South Carolina issue, and President Obama owes the people of our country a response. If they get away with this government-dictated economic larceny, the unions won't stop in our state.

The nation deserves an explanation as to why the president's appointees are doing the machinist union's dirty work on the backs of the businesses and workers of South Carolina.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576287290266016016.html

Medicare As We've Known It Isn't an Option

Paul Ryan's premium support plan is preferable to Obama's rationing panel.

By Betsy Mccaughey

The Democratic Party is urging Americans to choose Medicare as we've always known it rather than a new plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) that would enroll seniors in private health insurance beginning in 2022. This choice is a hoax: Medicare as we've always known it is already gone. It was eviscerated by President Obama's health law. Yet if the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters, they may win back independents and registered Democrats who voted for Republicans in 2010. The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.

The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years and spends the money on other programs, including a vast expansion of Medicaid. In 2019, Medicare spending under the Obama health law is projected to be $14,731 per senior, instead of $16,162 if the law had not passed, according to Medicare actuaries (Health Affairs, October 2010).

Senior Editorial Writer Joseph Rago breaks down the Obama and Ryan plans for the nation's largest entitlement.

Such cuts might be justifiable if the savings extended the financial life of Medicare. Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim. Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.

The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare. Mr. Ryan's plan, on the other hand, stops the Medicare heist and puts the funds "saved" in this decade toward health care for another generation of retirees.

Beginning in 2022, the Ryan plan offers each new Medicare enrollee a choice of private health plans and a premium paid to the plan they choose. The key is that the premium will be equivalent to what Medicare is projected to spend under the Obama health law: $15,000 a year on average, more for the oldest enrollees, less for the youngest, all inflation adjusted.

Still, critics are howling that seniors will suffer under Mr. Ryan's plan. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report claims that the $15,000 premium will quickly become inadequate because the cost of private health plans will outpace Medicare costs.

The CBO conclusion, reverberating nationwide, is that this will force seniors to "bear a much larger share of their health costs," and that it "would be particularly challenging for elderly people with less savings and lower income."

The CBO authors admit their analysis is "stylized." Deceptive is more like it.

After 2022, competing private plans are likely to control costs better than government-run Medicare, so the inflation-adjusted premium paid by government should be adequate. In the Medicare Part D drug benefit, competition between competing private drug plans has kept costs below what was predicted-nearly a first for a government program. A 2008 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research also demonstrated that regions with competing Medicare Advantage Plans have lower health-care costs because of the impact of competition.

The Ryan proposal also includes a $7,800 annual medical savings account to help low-income seniors with out-of-pocket costs. Amazingly, the CBO analysts exclude this $7,800 benefit from their calculations. Their warning about low-income seniors suffering is baseless.

So what can retiring Americans count on in 2022 and after? The Obama health law leaves that up to an unelected board of presidential appointees called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a cost-cutting panel.

The board is a radical departure from Medicare as we've known it. Congress cedes nearly all control of Medicare spending to the board on the rationale that budgeting decisions should be shielded from outraged seniors and political pressures. On April 13, the president reiterated that the board would decide what care is "unnecessary" for seniors. Even the CBO cautioned that as the nation's debt crisis worsens, benefits will be put on the board's chopping block.

Will Americans now in their 40s and 50s choose to put their health care in the hands of this cost-cutting board, or pick their own health plan when they retire? Whatever decision the nation makes should not turn on the false claim that President Obama has protected Medicare.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576284863481052434.html

Obama's Likability Gap

Obama today is different than the 2008 candidate.

By Daniel Henninger

If it is true, as Michelle Obama said in February, that her husband isn't smoking anymore, maybe he'd better start mellowing out with the cigs again before it costs him the presidency.

The Barack Obama we've been seeing lately is a different personality than the one that made a miracle run to the White House in 2008.

Obama.2008 was engaging, patient, open, optimistic and a self-identified conciliator.

Obama.2011 has been something else-testy, petulant, impatient, arrogant and increasingly a divider.

Never forget: That historic 2008 victory came with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters. David Axelrod recently noted "how small the margin for error is."

Presidential personality is well inside the margin of error for 2012, but the one on display recently has not been attractive. And it's happening a lot.

This Monday, after wrapping up a White House interview with a Dallas TV reporter, the station reported that Mr. Obama said: "Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, alright?"

Obama today is different than the 2008 candidate.

Podcast: Listen to the audio of Wonder Land here.

This self-referencing, snappish tone tracks with the president's "open mic" comments last week at a Chicago fund-raiser. Dismissing the GOP as "nickel and diming" him on budget negotiations, he asked, "You think we're stupid?" White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president wasn't embarrassed. But he should be. Not because his comments were caught, but because suddenly he's sounding more like Travis Bickle ("You talkin' to me?") than the president of the United States.

The Obama migration from the high road to the low road is evident even in nonpolitical settings. Here he is last weekend talking about the White House phone system: "You know the Oval Office always thought I was going to have like real cool phones and stuff. I'm like 'come on guys, I'm the president of the United States.' Where's the fancy buttons and stuff, and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen."

I'm like? Real cool phones and stuff? Would Franklin Roosevelt or John F. Kennedy ever have affected whatever their generational equivalent was of "Where's the fancy buttons and stuff?"

Some will say that this is making a mountain out of a molehill, that polls show independent voters like his proposals to tax the rich and keep every entitlement intact. But if we have learned anything in the media age, it's that molehills can send anyone to a destructive fall, even presidents. Ask George W. Bush about just two defining words: mission accomplished.

In 2007-08, Obama's high-toned, consistent persona was everything. What else was there? Barack Obama took a blank slate and wrote a masterpiece of a presidential campaign across it. From nothing, this fresh Obama persona defeated the familiar, experienced Hillary Clinton in the primaries. In the general election, he ran famously on "hope and change," gave a stirring speech on race in America, and persuaded enough moderate and independent voters to turn 2008 into a "historic" American election.

Barack Obama had levitated himself above the usual, dispiriting muck of politics. This new person seemed to be precisely what a disgusted electorate wanted. Candidate Obama embedded that image in the American psyche. He built it. He fed it.

Now he's deconstructing himself into another Obama. The latest Obama, which seems genuine, routinely ridicules and mocks his opposition. He mocks pretty much anyone who disagrees with him about anything.

Last week, official Washington gathered at George Washington University to hear the president make his contribution to the fiscal-policy debate. What they got was something else (just as the members of the Supreme Court got something else at last year's State of the Union speech). The person who said memorably in 2008 that there were no red states or blue states gave a speech essentially reading the Republicans out of the American political system. "This is not a vision of the America I know."

The political left lapped it up. Finally, wrote the progressive punditariat, Barack Obama was acting like their guy, willing to get in the face of the American right. At last, an American president was calling out conservatism as nothing less than a violation of "the basic social compact in America."

Gallup just reported that the Obama approval rate among independent voters stands at 35%. The conventional reply to this is that the American people fundamentally "like" Barack Obama, or that the GOP candidate will make the election an unlikability Olympics.

What voters like is the memory of the historic Obama they voted into the office of the presidency. The person they voted for in 2008 is different than the person who kicked off his presidential campaign last week by personally stomping his opposition.

Somehow voters are apparently expected to "like" whichever version Mr. Obama chooses to give them. It is asking a lot. By definition, this is a gap, and it's looking like it could be a dangerous one for the incumbent.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704658704576275061542909404.html

The government just keeps on handing out money to private households (government is just transferring money from one household to another):

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2011/04/18/Budget-Deficit-Government-Handouts-Top-Tax-Income.aspx

Wages as a percentage of income at an 82 year low point:

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2011/04/26/Wages-as-percentage-of-income-at-low/UPI-88881303845601/

“Green” pollution in California:

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/04/26/4338/unlikely-polluters

Since President Obama is now on the campaign trail (did he ever stop?), here is a good article from 2 years ago on Obama’s straw men:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561484923478287.html

Additional Sources

Grade-school sex-ed book:

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/04/30/touchy-feely-grade-school-sex-book-upsets-mom/

Even though Obama said the brither news was too extensive to get anything done, it actually comprised 4% of the news:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/27/obama-birther-coverage-dominant/#ixzz1Kn9WjcmS

Almost no drilling going on (this is a video):

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4670822/bulls--bears-gas-pains-hurting-economy

No new drilling going on (April 20, 2010):

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/30/axelrod-new-drilling-answers-accident/

Politifact seems to contradict this completely:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/mar/29/michele-bachmann/michele-bachmann-claims-there-has-been-just-one-ne/

The refer to this report to back up their claim:

http://www.gomr.boemre.gov/homepg/offshore/safety/well_permits.html

Potentially recoverable oil in the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_the_United_States

Oil rigs leave the gulf of Mexico:

http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/23/as-us-oil-rigs-leave-for-brazil-permits-and-prices-only-factor/

DMV Bible reader arrested (video):

http://stonethepreacher.com/2011/04/28/lost-libertiesusa-dmv-bible-reader-arrested.html

Obama Encourages Rest of World to Drill for Oil So We Don't Have To

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Say, I'm kind of reluctant to bring up this point because it might tip the administration off but these yahoos are so ideologically driven that they wouldn't do anything about it. Oil prices peaked right at the point that Bush announced that he would repeal or remove the executive order restricting the ability to drill offshore -- and I mean that was, what, September '08? It was like a week before everything collapsed financially, and nobody seemed to talk about the oil issue after that because oil started dropping. But it peaked like right at that day or the day before he announced that.

RUSH: Okay. So your theory is that Obama might repeal his moratorium --

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: -- in time to cause the oil price to drop, the gasoline price to drop to show, "Hey, see what I did"?

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Okay. Well, you said you didn't think they could do it because they're too ideologically corrupt. Let me tell you about that. I can see that, and I can understand how people think that, but I also know this: I also know that Obama doesn't want the price of gasoline to come down too much. Obama hates oil. Look, folks, let me find it here in the story. Get this. If this doesn't say it, I don't know what does. Reuters story: "President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged world oil producers to lift crude output, as he sought to deflect public anger over high gasoline prices that has hurt his popularity among voters." Now, the original headline for this story was "Obama Presses Oil Producing Nations to Boost Output," but the editors realized that "presses" was a little too bellicose for our courageous president.

So "urges" became the word. But here he is and if you read the whole story, Reuters is trying to make it out like the Republicans are using high gasoline prices to hurt Obama. Never mind they hurt everybody. But what about the hypocrisy here? How come if all these foreign countries increase their output of oil -- in other words, if foreign countries do their own "drill, baby, drill" -- that will lower the price of gasoline, but it won't lower the price of gasoline if we produce more domestically? "Obama Urges Oil Producers to Increase Output to Lower the Price." Would you ever read, "Obama urges domestic producers to increase..."? No! He is hamstringing domestic production, and he also knows that these foreign producers are not gonna do it just because he says so.

Look, his entire economic plan -- green energy and all that -- depends on rising energy prices.

RUSH: So we can't drill our way out of the problem, but they can. They can drill our way out of the problem. All these foreign producers, yeah, if they just drill more, if they just up their output, yeah, baby, yeah, that helps us. Obama says there's not a silver bullet to lower gas prices. But there is. It's called boosting production. It's worked every time it's tried. And the caller was right. In 2008 when Bush announced the end of the Gulf drilling moratorium -- this was after Katrina -- folks, the barrel price and itl literally fell off of a cliff. I have the chart. I could show you on the Dittocam. The price just fell. So the caller could be right. This could be a giant scam Obama's setting up to end his drilling moratorium in the Gulf a year from now causing the oil price to plummet and gas prices to do likewise. It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened in politics. Trump's totally capable of it. I'm just tweaking. Just tweaking.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110427/pl_nm/us_usa_obama_oil_letter

A Converted Obama Supporter

RUSH: Charlie in Omaha, Nebraska. Welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos. It's actually Carly.

RUSH: Carly, sorry about that. You're right.

CALLER: That's okay. So I want to tell you, I started as a huge Obama supporter. I voted in every election since I was 18 years old, and then when I was online one day I took a test that was telling you what candidate you should vote for because I was trying to decide between Obama and Hillary, and then much to my surprise the top three candidates that came up were Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and McCain, and I kind of had this sort of identity crisis, so does that mean I'm not a Democrat? What am I? So I was searching, like you said, for a leader and I really felt during that election there wasn't a leader that I found identified with my values. So luckily enough I stumble on to you. Even though I get a lot of flak for listening to you, I love you to death. And, you know, so now my eyes are opened and I have a lot to learn and I listen to you and like I've heard you say before, you don't need to go out and read or do anything, just listen to you and we'll know all we need to know. I've always wanted to call and talk to you. But today you're talking about we need a leader. Yes, I want a leader. There's no leader out there for me to look to. I had a question. You know, I used to work for Herman Cain. I worked for Godfather's Pizza, that's, you know, in Omaha, Nebraska.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: And I've always loved him, what he supported, you know, I got to work with him directly and still keep in contact with him. What do you think of him as a leader? I have so many questions for you, but I guess, you know, I'll start with that.

RUSH: I love Herman Cain. He's obviously a leader. Herman Cain led Godfather's Pizza, he's great guy, fine guy, played golf with him. No, I haven't, I've not played golf with him. (laughing)

CALLER: You say that about everyone. (laughing)

RUSH: (laughing) I just love to tweak 'em out there. This is the point. We have a lot of great potential leaders out there. In a better world Herman Cain would be seen as one of our foremost candidates. He's a guy who's got it all.

CALLER: Right. Absolutely. Okay, so can I ask you another question?

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: We're talking about solving the economic problems and here on the local radio stations, the conservative radio they talk about flat taxes. And what do you think about that?

RUSH: What do I think about flat taxes?

CALLER: Hm-hm.

RUSH: I like flat tax, FairTax. I like it. The current tax system is not productive. It's a joke. It's rife with favoritism. It's rife with opportunities for fraud. It's so complicated nobody can figure it out.

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: Nobody knows whether they're violating the law every time they file their return or not. It's confusing as it can be, by design. The tax code, Carly, you have to understand the tax code is used as the greatest form of social architecture the government has, and that's why they're not gonna give up the power of going flat tax. Nobody is now. If you hear a politician campaign on it, be very, very insistent that they are serious and not just mouthing the words. But it's going to take more than one person to make that happen. The entire lobbying industry is built around the tax code and we are talking trillions aggregately of dollars. It is built around the tax code and rewriting it and massaging it each and every year. Politicians use it to structure society, to grant favors or to punish opponents.

The tax code is one of the single greatest sources of power elected officials in Washington have. And with a flat tax, politicians would have to use their own money to buy votes. Right now they can use the federal Treasury to buy votes. With a flat tax, with no complication, very simple, here's what you make, here's the rate you owe, send it in, one page. It would be really difficult to camouflage a whole lot of government spending as slush funds. I mean politicians buy votes these days with the tax code. They buy votes with government programs. The simpler the tax code becomes, the fewer government programs there are related to it, and the fewer votes you can buy. It's a way of saying that the tax code today is an insidious device of power maintenance. It is not at all about raising revenue to fund the government. That's the last thing it's concerned with. And, of course, the flat tax idea and the FairTax is all oriented toward creating revenue to run the government. But that's not what the tax code's about. That's not what it's evolved to at all, and don't anybody try to tell me it is.

Nobody cares a whit how much money is raised via the tax code. If it is not enough we'll just borrow it. If it's not enough we'll just spend it. The tax code is used to reward and punish, to shape, to motivate, inspire, whatever, social architecture. Asking these guys to vote to give that up would be akin to getting Hu Jintao to sign over the ChiComs to a totally market-based capitalist system. It is not saying we shouldn't aim for it and go to it. I just want to be honest with you here about what it is. It's easy to say you're for a flat tax, and I am, I'm much for simplification, fairer, everything else. I'd be happy to pay taxes 20% of what it is, 15% and be done with it. Everybody would. And, by the way, the amount of revenue that would be generated going that way would double. If people got to keep 80¢ of every dollar they earned, you would not believe all the new income that would be discovered -- that wouldn't be hidden, that wouldn't be sheltered. My God, the government would make out like bandits. But that's not the purpose of the tax code. I gotta go. Carly, I'm glad you called.

The Left's Conspiratorial Hatred for Sarah Palin is Truly Unprecedented

RUSH: There's a story in The Politico today. I don't think I have ever read a piece of reporting like this where the reporter is writing about a coordinated effort to destroy somebody's character and reputation as if it's some kind of a game. Kenneth Vogel in Politico: Meet the Anti-Palin Crusaders." This is how the story begins: She is a promiscuous, petty and unintelligent, yet deviously conniving warmonger intent on capturing the Oval Office and, from there, the world. Those are just some of the opinions about Sarah Palin held by members of a small but extremely active network of gadflies, bloggers and authors who have devoted much of the last 2½ years to proving their case to American voters.

"This self-styled anti-Palin movement -- whose members span the globe and are mostly but not exclusively liberals -- has been behind some embarrassing revelations about the former Alaska governor, her family and allies. But some of their leading theories have been thoroughly discredited and earned them widespread criticism. Yet that only seems to have hardened a commitment to accomplishing what they profess to be their ultimate goal: the absolute and complete exposure of Palin as a fraud unworthy of a role in American civic life. And now, with Palin edging back into the political spotlight in the face of flagging poll numbers, they believe that they are closer than ever to" destroying her.

There are three books coming out about Palin with more to follow, and they are all attempts to destroy her. "St. Martin's Press has scheduled a May 10 release of 'The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power'..." You have here, folks, a story about a serious worldwide effort -- a coordinated effort -- to destroy Sarah Palin's character and her reputation, and this story is written as though this is a fun game: Can they pull this off? Gosh, we hope so! Man, we hope we can pull this off. This is really fun! We're gonna sit around here and we get to watch all these people come out and try to destroy Sarah Palin. Gosh we hope they succeed!

The second book by Simon und Schuster "imprint is set to offer a tell-all memoir by Frank Bailey, a disgruntled former top aide to Palin, using her personal emails to paint an ugly portrait of her as a vindictive and vain dilettante obsessed with her public image, who allegedly broke election laws and targeted a state trooper by leaking damaging information. Then, in September, Crown will release 'The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,' by journalist and author Joe McGinniss, whose decision to rent the house next door in Wasilla last summer prompted Palin to warn him to 'leave my kids alone.'"

I've always said they will tell us who they fear. But, now, folks, this has gone beyond rational. I mean, actually it went beyond rational a long time ago. (interruption) I was thinking of that, Snerdley: How would I compare this to the hatred of Reagan? I'm racking my brain, and I want to be... I'm tempted to say, "I don't recall. I don't recall such a coordinated effort for so long to destroy anybody." Now, the real target of leftist vehemence (over a long, sustained period of time) would be Richard Nixon. That's probably still number one, just simply because of the length of time and the intensity. It was an ongoing effort to destroy Nixon.

But in the case of a story like this, I don't think I've ever read a piece of reporting like this where the reporter is writing about it as fun. I mean, there is an ongoing effort to destroy this woman. Forget anything about Sarah Palin other than she's a person. The left always talks to us about compassion. She's a human being. She has kids. She's got a family. Yeah, she sought public office, but there's no sense of proportion to any of this. No sense of proportion whatsoever to any of this. I'm wracking my brain trying to think of a period of time with anybody else other than Nixon, where there has been anything like this. I mean... (interruption) Oh, I don't even compare, Snerdley, what they've done to me.

That doesn't even compare to what they're doing to Sarah Palin. Ah, what they've done to me doesn't compare to what they're trying to do here to Sarah Palin. We have a vast conspiracy here to destroy a political figure. This is not the imagined fantasy from Hillary Clinton who said that the Monica Lewinsky claims were made up by "a vast right-wing conspiracy" to discredit Bill. This is a genuine, real, existing, right-in-front-of-our-eyes conspiracy. Now, Reagan was attacked by Republicans, too, and hard. People forget that he was an outsider who threatened the establishment GOP base. The Democrats on the left attacked him, too.

But Palin seems to be in a class of her own, and it just keeps ratcheting up. It just keeps becoming even more intense. The attacks on her daughters and her Down Syndrome child is beyond anything I've ever seen. Folks, I can just tell you that this kind of stuff does not happen to people about whom you don't care. There has gotta be... It's almost personal, and you know it can't be. It can't be personal. She doesn't personally know all these people writing these books. It's beyond my ability to comprehend it. Well, not the beyond my ability to comprehend it, but to put it in an explained perspective.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53641.html

Obama Presides Over US Decline, As Libs Use Jesus to Push Agenda

RUSH: I want to take you back to me. I love going back to me. I love going back to me as much as I love going back to anybody else. We're gonna go back to me March 5th of 2010, just a little over a year ago on this program, from this very studio, behind this very Golden EIB Microphone.

RUSH ARCHIVE: It's gonna be an ongoing daily struggle because these people are on the march, and they have only one intention, and that's to manage America's decline and see to it that it happens. Because they think we deserve to be a nation in decline. If I could wave a magic wand one time and make everybody believe something, for just two minutes, it would be this bunch of people in the White House and throughout Washington who are with Obama, been appointed by him or whatever, do not like this country as founded. They resent it, they think it's unfair, immoral, unjust, from our military to our capitalist system, and they are out to change it because we deserve a comeuppance. We've been too rich. We have stolen all the goods and services from around the world. We've kept the rest of the world poor while enriching ourselves, and even the people who really made this country, they've gotten the shaft, too, the blue collar. These people are gonna fix it. They're gonna give this country a bitch slap.

RUSH: Exactly right. Preside over America's decline. Here's the headline from MarketWatch: "IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End -- The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed." I don't know who nobody is, because we've noticed ever since the Obama regime was immaculated. "For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the 'Age of America' will end and the US economy will be overtaken by that of China. According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China's economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 -- just five years from now.

"It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the US dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world's hegemonic power. According to the IMF forecast, whomever is elected US president next year . will be the last to preside over the world's largest economy. Most people aren't prepared for this. They aren't even aware it's that close. Listen to experts of various stripes, and they will tell you this moment is decades away. The most bearish will put the figure in the mid-2020s. But they're miscounting. They're only comparing the gross domestic products of the two countries using current exchange rates. That's a largely meaningless comparison in real terms. Exchange rates change quickly."

It gets into minutia here. Forget exchange rates. Forget the value of the dollar. Well, you can't really forget it. We have a purposeful destruction of the US economy taking place right before our very eyes. We've got rising gasoline prices. We're approaching five dollars a gallon. What's the template? Obama's gonna make sure there isn't any gouging out there. And of course the oil companies are beginning to report their profits now, and that's a big target, so Obama's gonna go after that. The oil companies are the big problem. Forget the fact that the printing of all of this money is leading to all of this. All of this decline is traceable to the Obama administration. Every policy they have implemented has led us to this point. Folks, there can be no doubt among the intellectually honest. It is the preferred policy. The president of the United States routinely now gives speeches encouraging us to be happy with downsizing our lives, downsizing our cars, downsizing our economic expectations, downsizing our travel plans, downsizing everything, as though it is a moral imperative. We've lived too well for too long at the expense of others.

You see, that's the key. Everything this country has done has been on the backs of the disadvantaged or of the poor or minorities or whoever since we were founded. I never understood how the math on that works out, the rich got rich on the backs of the poor. I've never understood the mathematics of that, how it all works out, but they still persist with it. "The Age of America Nears an End." If we had a traditional president in the White House and a story like this, there would be outrage. There would be news conferences and press conferences about how this is not going to happen. There would be inspirational press conferences. The president of the United States would be urging the American people to roll up their sleeves, let's all get to work. Instead we have a president who is excusing sloth, who wants to reward it, who wants to convince everybody else that the working people are the targets, the people who are working and paying taxes are the problem. The people who are not working, can't work, won't work, what have you, they somehow are the chosen ones.

Grab audio sound bite nine. It's Christiane Amanpour. A favorite tactic of the left, you know, when it suits them they'll talk about Jesus Christ. When they can convince or try to convince everybody Jesus Christ was the patron saint of liberalism, then they will herald Jesus Christ. That's what he's good for as far as the left is concerned. He's the first liberal, a great socialist, Jesus Christ. He knew who to punish. Jesus Christ knew it was the rich that were the targets. Jesus Christ stood up for the downtrodden. Jesus Christ stood up for the slothful. Jesus Christ knew. That's how they cite Jesus Christ. And so yesterday morning on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour, she opened the show by saying this.

AMANPOUR: As Christians around the world celebrate Easter, we ask some of America's most influential pastors. In these turbulent times, has America lost its way? Taxes and budget cuts. What would Jesus do?

RUSH: You know what the real question is, Ms. Amanpour and the rest of you who seek to co-opt Jesus Christ as simply another prop in your march toward the decline of America, the question is not what would Jesus do, the question is not what would Jesus cut, the question is what would Jesus take? That's the question you never want to answer. That's the question you never want to ask. Who would Jesus Christ cite as the enemies in the United States and the world today? Who would Jesus Christ decide they got too much and we're gonna take it from 'em. You can try to co-opt Jesus Christ for your cause politically all you want, what would Jesus do? Has America lost its way?

No, Ms. Amanpour, it's exactly on the path you and your friends in the media and your president have chosen, the path toward decline, right on schedule.

Taxes and budget cuts, what would Jesus do? Well, what would Jesus take? That's the question people need to ask to put this in perspective. Of course the answer is, nothing. You want to start equating yourselves and your policies to Jesus Christ, you better first start asking, what did Jesus take, from whom, and how did he go about it? What was his plan for redistribution? Who were his targets? You want to be like Jesus Christ? You tell us. So there you have it, the age of America nears an end, and it says here that IMF dropped a bombshell and nobody noticed. A lot of people have noticed and are noticing, and they're doing everything they can to stop it, pure and simple.

Here's the State-Run Media setting up Obama's attack on the Big Oil profits. We have a montage from all over the place, CNBC, ABC, MSNBC, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen to this. It's audio sound bite number two.

WAPNER: One hundred fourteen billion dollars, that's what Exxon's revenues are expected to be.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Any anger you feel is likely to rise this week when oil companies report what are expected to be record profits.

JANSING: We're expecting for oil company profits to come out. They're going to be up.

BECKEL: Oil companies are announcing their first quarter profits, which are record profits.

LAKE: Speculation and oil company profits, and that's just inappropriate. No one has ever heard of a poor oil company.

BERRY: As oil prices continue to climb, look for profits to soar at Exxon-Mobil and Chevron.

CAMEROTA: Ten billion dollars, six billion in profits. That's awkward timing.

VARNEY: You can't expect the President to come out swinging against Big Oil.

RUSH: Yes, you can, of course, because it's right on schedule. It fits the template, come out, Big Oil is the problem, it always is. Even Fox gets sucked in. Try this miniature headline on Fox all morning long: "Democrats Call for Tax Hikes on Rich; GOP Calls for Entitlement Cuts." Now, what do you think the result of viewers looking at that headline is? Democrats call for tax hikes on rich; Republicans call for entitlement cuts. What Democrats support is the collapse of entitlements. Democrat policies bring about the collapse of this country. That's exactly what's going on. Even the headline writers at Fox can get this right. Yeah, the oil profits, really bad. You people in public sector, private sector unions where your pensions are invested, a lot of your pensions are invested in oil stocks, the same thing with seasoned citizens.

So you're gonna sit by while the ruling class makes a big show of going after oil profits and if they succeed in skimming them or doing whatever, that's your retirement, that's your portfolio value they're going after. If you own oil company stock you shouldn't mind a big profit. One of the reasons that profits are up is that prices are up and the reason prices are up is because we're printing money. Let's say we want to take away all the oil profits. You know, it's amazing. There were several stories in the news over the weekend that claim drilling for oil in the US will not help lower gas prices, but the same media assures us that raising taxes on the rich will solve the deficit. So how is it that more oil in the marketplace will not lower prices, but higher taxes on the rich will provide more dollars to reduce the deficit?

How does this work? It only works in Liberalville where lie after lie after lie to promote the agenda is the agenda. Just today I saw everybody's favorite, quote, unquote, "liberal," Bob Beckel once again demeaning the whole notion of "drill, baby, drill," right? We have been saying drill, baby, drill for 15 years. If we'd-a started drilling 15 years ago, then drill, baby, drill would have been a factor. As it is, Shell Oil has been told by the EPA, not the Congress, Shell Oil has been told by the EPA, "Sorry, you can't drill offshore in Alaska. You can't do it." The EPA's just shut 'em down. Who gets hurt?

RUSH: Let me ask you a question: How much profit has General Motors made?

We're sitting here talking about the evil oil company profit. We never talk about the real profiteer, and that's the US government via taxes. But how much profit did General Motors make? If we didn't pour tens of billions of dollars into General Motors, it would have failed because it wasn't making profits. So it has cost us a fortune as a nation to support a company that does not make profits. Now, what of these profits? When will the media tell us how much these companies net from sales after paying for the crude, the related expenses and massive taxes?

When they do these stories, why won't they tell us how much the government is taking from all of this? What is Obama's take? What's the state's take and so forth? When you start talking about all the profits of the oil companies, how are the feds doing? How are the states doing on this? Oil companies want to drill, they're not being allowed to drill, and yet we're getting stories of how they are gouging us! They're gouging us? They want to drill and they're being shut down by this regime from drilling! It's unbelievable.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number nine once again. Here's Christiane Amanpour opening her program, ABC News This Week yesterday morning.

AMANPOUR: As Christians around the world celebrate Easter, we ask some of America's most influential pastors: In these turbulent times, has America lost its way? Taxes and budget cuts. What would Jesus do?

RUSH: Imagine, folks, here we are being lectured about morality by a party that stands for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand. We are being lectured to on morality by a party that supports partial-birth abortion. (I'm not gonna get graphic and describe what that is, but you know.) We are being lectured about morality by a party led by a man who believes a baby who survives an abortion shouldn't, because that was the wish of the mother: Barack Obama as a state senator in Illinois. So, "What would Jesus do?"

Folks, I cannot tell you how righteously offended I am at these people who 364 days a year try to make a mockery of Christianity and Christians, on one day a year now try to come out and appropriate Jesus Christ as their own. Not because of His message, but so they can manipulate it and further their agenda. You talk about what would Jesus do? Would Jesus approve of politicians spending money we don't have on programs we don't need? Jesus warned against sloth and self-bondage. Would he approve of the Democrats creating an entire underclass dependant on government? They think so. That's how they define compassion. Would Jesus approve of people wasting their lives sitting around blaming all the problems on everybody but themselves?

Would Jesus approve of Democrats fanning the flames of class warfare for the sole purpose of being reelected? We could go on and on and on with these questions. What would Jesus take? They don't want ask that question. That must be what Obama was talking about last week. Let me find that sound bite. We've got it. I've kept this one going. It's the sound bite where Obama talks about there must be "something about the Resurrection." What number is it, Cookie? I know you're listening. I can't find it on the list here and I want this. I want to play this because it dovetails. I can't find it. Nobody's answering my question, but I saw it on the sound bite roster, and now for some reason I can't find it. Number eight, here it is. Yeah, number eight. Here we go. This is Obama, last Tuesday at the prayer breakfast in Washington.

OBAMA: As busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, uhh, we are reminded that there's something about the Resurrection -- something about the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ -- that puts everything else in perspective.

RUSH: Well, now, we know what Obama was thinking about -- and old Christiane Amanpour, the way she opened her program. Now we know what Obama was thinking about. He must have been thinking about how the resurrected Jesus would raise taxes. That's right. That's exactly right. He was thinking about how the resurrected Jesus would raise taxes. "What would Jesus do?" and then, of course, "Who do we crucify next?" That would be the next question the White House will be asking. If they believe that Jesus would raise taxes, then we shouldn't raise taxes, otherwise we're establishing a government religion.

Isn't it interesting? These people want to go out and co-opt Jesus Christ one day of the year to advance anywhere agenda? It's fine and dandy when they somehow think that they can use it for a political purpose. Now, the oil companies, back to this. I made a point here about the fact that they want to drill; they're not even allowed to drill and they're being accused of gouging and so forth. Let me tell you, if the oil companies wanted to create shortages and wanted to drive up the price they wouldn't be seeking all of these permits to drill for oil, which they are doing. It's a sad state of affairs, folks, that we find ourselves in.

RUSH: Let's go to the Alicia in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. It's great to have you on the EIB Network. You're up first today. Hi.

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. It's such an honor. Okay, just one real quick question: When did the word "profit" become a dirty word in this country?

RUSH: I think in politics, "profit" has always been a target of the American left. In my lifetime, to answer your question, the intense attack on profit occurred during the eighties with Reaganomics, supply-side economics (which worked). FDR talked about it in a negative sense. It's always been part of the class envy strategy that the Democrat Party, the American left has used.

CALLER: Maybe we should take an example from their book and just change the word? You know, when they don't like a word, they change it. Like, "taxes" are now "incentives" and stuff? Maybe we should change it to a little more than expenses.

RUSH: Well, taxes are "investments." They refuse to talk about "taxes" as anything but "investments." You know, I prefer education. I prefer that more and more people understand what a profit is. Profit has been impugned and denigrated as something evil. Profit = Theft to too many people, and the people that believe that or who are made to believe it have also been made to believe that the objective throughout society is that everybody has the same thing, that everybody has the same income, that nobody has anything more than anybody else -- and it's pure ignorance. But the thing that undergirds that, that makes these people believe in it, is this whole notion of "fairness;" and that really is where they focus on profit being unfair. "It's not fair, and who wants unfairness in this society?" That's how they play it.

Many links to go along with this article at:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042511/content/01125106.guest.html

If the Election Were Held Today Obama Would be a Landslide Loser

RUSH: Brit Hume, I think it was yesterday on Fox, joined me -- so now there are two voices that I know of who are using common sense and intelligence guided by experience who say if the election were held today, Obama would lose in a landslide. He would lose and he would lose bad, and yet our old buddy Walter Williams has got this piece floating around the Internet how Obama's reelection's automatic, it's already done. (interruption) Are you kidding me? Walter Williams did not write that? I cannot tell you how relieved I am to know that. Somebody stole Walter Williams' identity? They ran a syndicated column under his name and it wasn't he who wrote it? Well, hallelujah.

Well, anyway, we had a story last week from Larry Sabato, political scientist, University of Virginia at the Sabato Center, and he had analyzed as a political scientist all this data, and he concluded, "Yeah, if the election is held today, there's not much the Republicans can do." Of course he left many caveats available, but how can the November elections turn out the way they did and Obama win reelection if it were held today six months later? Would somebody explain to me how that works? "Well, Rush, the way it goes is you gotta look at electoral votes. You gotta look at the Electoral College. You gotta look at states and leaning and all this." No, no. Elections are about things that matter. Elections have consequences and they are about issues. This notion that Obama is a shoe-in or that his reelection is easy, folks, that is one of the biggest scams that they're trying to perpetrate on us yet.

We're approaching five-dollar-a-gallon gasoline. We've got a lot of people's homes worthless or at least underwater. We've got no relief on the job front. There's not one positive thing happening. We got a guy in the White House who's urging people and telling people how to downsize their lives and their expectations, and we're told that this is the recipe for reelection victory. I'm sorry. But I just don't buy this. I think Obama is a landslide loser if the election's today, big time landslide loser. You know, I don't understand. Well, I take that back. I do understand. Fear can cause a lot of common sense to get clouded. Fear can overcome common sense and basic understanding. But there's nothing in the history of American politics that suggests that what's happening here are resume enhancers. You know, a traditional question, are you better off now than you were two and a half years ago when Obama took office? No matter what question you ask, we are worse off. The country's worse off, a majority of our people are worse off.

We got stories like I led with today, IMF, the American era, over. Sorry, that ain't gonna happen on my watch and a president worth his salt would not let that happen on his watch. We got a president engineering it. And don't for a moment believe the American people don't see that. They do. Otherwise November would not have happened. Otherwise Wisconsin would not have happened in November. I don't care, recount reshmount, the fact is that Supreme Court election, the Democrats lost it by 7,000 votes in a huge commie lib state.

RUSH: All right, the Walter Williams's e-mail proclaiming Barack Obama's reelection as essentially a done deal and impossible to stop was a New Year's Day hoax. Some are claiming that it was orchestrated by MoveOn.org. Nobody knows for sure, but it definitely was a hoax, presumably an April Fool's article. A lot of people were affected by it. You know, Walter Williams is an occasional guest host here, and I was overrun by e-mails from people who wrote, "Oh, Rush, say it isn't so! Walter Williams says Obama can't be stopped!" They're hoaxing this.

Folks, everything they do is a hoax. That's not an exaggeration.

Global warming? It's a hoax. Man destroying the climate and the environment? It's a hoax -- or a fraud, one of the two. So now they've gotta rely on a hoax to try to dispirit you into thinking Obama can't be beat? Folks, he is politically dead meat if the election is today, and they know it in the White House. If he's such a shoo-in, why in the hell do they run around trying to raise a billion dollars to spend on his reelection? Well, one reason is (I think) to keep Democrat challengers out of the race -- and don't doubt me on this.

I'll bet you that in the deep, dark crevices of the secret hiding places of liberalism, there are a bunch of people toying with the idea of running against Obama. He's destroying the Democrat Party along with the country! It's right front of our faces. We don't want to say it because, "Nah, nothing could destroy the Democrat Party. Nothing could destroy liberalism." They are destroying themselves! Take a look around the world. Show for me a liberal triumph in a real sense where it gets sustained by virtue of happiness, love, joy, and contentment. The only way liberalism, socialism, communism is sustained is at the point of a gun.

I find it interesting: We are in one of the worst economic periods in this nation's history, and there are people who think the president's an automatic shoo-in for reelection! Gas prices are shooting up. Look, the left is paranoid about this. Audio sound bite number four, Jacob Tapper, Good Morning America today. He's talking to George Stephanopoulos, and this is Jake Tapper in crisis because gas prices are a crisis -- and why are gas prices a crisis? 'Cause they are hurting President Obama. Stephanopoulos says, "These gas prices, they're also knocking down Obama's poll numbers, which is why he's out there really every day addressing the problem."

TAPPER: Right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people. They could be a roadblock to his reelection. When President Obama was sworn in, gas averaged $1.84 a gallon. Today, it's $3.86 -- 71% of Americans say the rising price of gasoline is causing them financial hardship. President Obama says there's no quick fix. After all, what CAN a president do? Four-in-ten Americans say gas prices are causing them a serious economic hardship, and those Americans are much more apt to say they won't even consider voting for President Obama's reelection.

RUSH: Let me tell you something, folks: Gasoline prices are now affecting people's behavior. When you start having to make decisions regarding, "Should I stay or should I go?" and then the decision more often than not is, "I should stay" (snorts), that's not going to redound well to the president. And, hey, Jake, it's nice to know that presidents can't do anything about it now. That was not the fact back in 2005 and 2006, was it? No! Remember John Kerry during the campaign of 2004? Do you remember what Lurch said he'd do? What did he say he would do?

He said he'd go over there to Saudi Arabia and he's "jawbone" those guys. He'd go over there and he'd give 'em what-for! John Kerry (who served in Vietnam and threw his fake medals over the White House fence) would go over there and he'd give 'em holy hell! Yeah, in fact, he almost accused Bush of having a sweetheart deal with the Saudis to keep the price up -- or down, or whatever it was -- to benefit Bush. Oh yeah! But now, now you say, "Eh, there's nothing a president can do, damn it! Oh, gosh, this is gonna hurt his reelection! Damn it, George, what can do?"

(sigh) "I don't know. We've gotta find a way to blame it on Palin, maybe Bush," which is what they're doing. Look at the record number of people running out of gasoline. They are afraid to pull in and fill up! They're coaxing mileage that they don't have. The price they pay for a tank of gas has more than doubled since Obama was immaculated. You heard Jacob Tapper here: $1.84 to $3.86. That's more than doubled. The prices that gasoline stations display on their signs are free ads for Republicans. It's free advertising for Republicans! I want to know where $4.09 a gallon says, "Reelect Obama."

Where does it say that? Where does $4.10 say, "Obama's a shoe-in!" It doesn't. It says, "Vote Republican!" That's what our buddy Jacob Tapper knows; that's what they all know at the regime. When you're used to paying 30 bucks for a fill-up and now it's $65, that's "hope and change" thrown right back in Obama's face. When you're used to paying $50 and now it's over $100 to fill up, that's having "the judgment to lead" thrown back in your face. Folks, I'm telling you: Forget the media spin and the burying of hardship stories about Americans who can't afford to get to work or school. Don't worry that the media's not covering this.

They're starting to now. They can't ignore it. Every minute of every day, along American roads and highways, are signs reminding them that elections have consequences -- and those signs right now are the gas price per gallon that you see as you head down the highway on the roads. Obama's election will be reevaluated several times a day by drivers who don't normally think about such things so far before an election. Those signs -- $3.86 a gallon, $4.09 a gallon -- $5 a gallon nation's capital -- equal the cost of living in Obamaville, and now they are at the top of everybody's mind. Every time an American decides not to drive somewhere due to the price of gasoline, that's Obamaville. Oh, they can try to blame it on Bush all they want, but it isn't gonna fly.

RUSH: Don't forget, folks, the gasoline price is the one data point that the government cannot fudge. The Commerce Department can't fudge it. The Labor Department can't do anything about it. They can't tweak it. They can't tell you it isn't what it is. They can't say there is no inflation. I mean they can do that, but they can't tell you the gas price isn't what it is when that's what you're paying for it.

Reality bites sometimes.

CNN Money: "Drill Baby Drill Won't Lower Gas Prices." That's the theme of the story, "Every time gas prices reach record highs the call goes out for more oil drilling. This year it's no different. 'The Gulf is ready to get back to work to help create jobs and lower gasoline prices,' Washington Republican Doc Hastings... said last week," but the drilling, nah, it won't work! It just won't work. Yeah, of course, drilling now is not gonna have any effect on tomorrow's oil supply, but let's go back: How many years have we been suggesting, "Hey, let's start drilling; let's expand our drilling"? It's easily 15 or 20 years.

If we had started drilling 15 or 20 years ago "drill, baby, drill" would have been an impact, would have made an impact by now. It is intellectual dishonesty for the left to continue to say, "Drill, baby, drill" won't work. It would be no different than saying, "Let's go to the moon! Oh, we can't get there tomorrow? Okay, we're not going. Oh, okay, fine! JFK called for a plan to get to the moon, but we can't get there tomorrow. Go to the moon? That's silly!" Of course it's gonna take some time to get the supply, but what's the point? How many decades have we had to listen to elected leaders tell us we need to end our dependence on foreign oil. Do you think we mighta made a dent on it in the last 15 years of we woulda started drilling, baby, drilling?

I'll tell you what else would happen. There are a lot of ancillaries to drilling, and one of them is jobs. Okay, so let's say we start a policy of opening up drilling in the Gulf and in Alaska, and we do it tomorrow. Now, admittedly it's gonna be a while before any oil is produced that will have an impact on world supplies, but think of the impact that it will make on attitude. Think of the impact it'll make on positive attitude, plus the jobs that will be created. It's a win-win! But no, we can't do it. It's gonna lead to pollution and it's gonna delay our arrival at the clean energy objective that the president has.

And there is no clean energy alternative that replaces any energy supply or use that we have now. I don't know about you, but when I hear the left say, "More oil will not lower prices" (and I hear this constantly), I have the same reaction I do when I hear Obama's a shoo-in for reelection. Really? He's a shoo-in right now? It's just the exact opposite. Obama would lose in a landslide if the election were today, and everybody on the left knows it, which is why they're concocting this image -- this ruse, this perception -- that his election is a lock; his reelection's a foregone conclusion. If drilling for oil will not lower oil prices, if more oil will not lower oil prices, would somebody explain to me how "green energy" that is decades away will lower our energy costs?

I need this explained to me. More oil will not reduce the price of gas, more oil will not expand our domestic supply, but investing in "green energy" that has no payoff for 30 years will somehow lower our energy costs. It is absurd. Five years ago, folks -- five years ago, I think it was -- the Democrats fought the expansion of offshore drilling because "it would take five to ten years to see results." Now they're fighting it saying we need to invest in solar and wind which will take decades to even put a dent in our energy needs, if it ever will. And we're told, "The price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand, Mr. Limbaugh!"

Oh, really, Mr. New Castrati?

"That's right! The price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand. The price of oil is totally dependent on the attitudes of those greedy, selfish speculators."

Ohhhh. Well if that's true, Mr. New Castrati, how is it that our drilling for oil wouldn't put the fear of the Lord into the speculators? How long did it take for Reagan's announcement that we were going to start drilling to drive down prices back in the early 1980s? How long did it take for Reagan's talk of lower taxes to start spurring a rebounding attitude in this country of greatness, exceptionalism, positive thinking? When Reagan announced that we were gonna start drilling for oil to drive down prices back in the early eighties, the Carter oil crisis was over overnight. Yeah, we had a couple of contrived shortages during the eighties, but they were contrived. They were not actual shortages of supply.

Here's Brit Hume, by the way. This is yesterday on Fox News Sunday. It's an overused cliche but this really was a breath of fresh air because I'm sitting here literally pulling out what little hair I've got left, as I listen to the conventional wisdom say, "Obama's a lock. His reelection is a lock. He's a shoo-in, and here are the reasons why: Big business is in total support. If you look at the Electoral College here, if you look at leaning versus committed in these states -- red versus blue, yellow versus brown -- he's a lock." I said, "If Obama's a lock for reelection, how the hell did November happen, and what has happened since November to make things so much better to cancel the elections in November?"

Nothing. It's gotten worse! So here's Brit Hume. This is during the roundtable discussion when Chris Wallace was talking to him about the economy. Wallace said, "When Obama was sworn in a gallon of gas was a buck eighty-four; now it's $3.85. That's over a 108% increase. A New York Times poll this week showed how much this is hurting [Pharaoh] Obama: 70% now think the country's on the wrong track. Fifty-seven percent now disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy. Brit, those are the most negative numbers since a couple of months since Obama took office during the very depth, the low point of the recession. What does all this mean?"

HUME: People's feelings about the economy -- despite declining unemployment, despite the fact that there is now steady growth -- have not improved, and when the conventional wisdom in Washington settled as it seemed to recently on the idea the President is a sure bet for reelection, I think it's upside down. If the election were held today, in my view, Barack Obama would lose.

RUSH: Right!

HUME: He might lose big. Obviously, he's got some time.

RUSH: Yeah.

HUME: Events change.

JUAN WILLIAMS: Who's he gonna lose to?

HUME: He would lose to any reasonable nominee from the Republican Party. The Republican Party might be able to lose this election if they nominated some extremely colorful, freakish candidate.

RUSH: "Might be able to lose if they nominate some extremely colorful, freaky candidate." I think he's talking about Trump there. That would just be my guess. But you heard Juan Williams. See, even while this is going on, I'm watching Fox earlier today, and the guru of polling and projections and election results Charlie Cook was not talking about how poorly Obama's doing. He was not talking about the New York Times poll showing 70% think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

No, no, no! They were talking about how disappointing, empty, vacant and all the that the Republican field is. While in a vacuum, in a static sense that's true (there isn't a whole lot out there to excite us) the fact of the matter is that there was a single Republican figurehead leader in the November elections, either. Those elections were, we all know, votes cast against Obama and the Democrats -- purely based on the fact that it was largely independents who didn't like what they were seeing. Anything would be better, and that's largely going to survive all the way through 2012.

It's a year and a half. There's not much that could be done to turn this around. They can lie about inflation, they can make things up about unemployment numbers and so forth, but they can't lie about the gas price, and they can't lie about food prices, and they can't change the reality of people's costs of living. They can tell people that it isn't that expensive but people aren't gonna believe it. So, now you have two people going against the conventional wisdom that Obama's a shoo-in: Me and Brit Hume. By the way, it was Juan Williams there who wanted to know who Obama was gonna lose to in the Brit Hume sound bite.

RUSH: In support of the notion Obama is not a guaranteed lock to win, Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday: "Obama's Likability Gap." The fact of the matter is we don't really need to get all that many votes to win. The percentages here are very narrow. Henninger says, "That historic 2008 victory came with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters. David Axelrod recently noted "how small the margin for error is," on the Obama side. Now, Henninger points out that presidential personality is important, and it's "well inside the margin of error for 2012, but the one on display recently has not been attractive. And it's happening a lot," meaning there is a huge likability gap. The Obama running around the country now is not the same Messiah who was running around in 2007-2008, and he can't be ever again. The bloom's off that rose. Can't go back and re-create 2008, cannot erase from people's memories the last two and a half years. He's got a record and it's a dismal one, and it's gonna get even more dismal by the time the official reelection campaign and election comes up. We'll just keep a sharp eye.

Saratoga Springs in New York. Brian, I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hopefully this call will pump you up. First of all, you're absolutely right. I agree, Obama is gonna lose in a landslide.

RUSH: Well, he would lose in a landslide if the election were today.

CALLER: Correct.

RUSH: We don't know what's gonna happen, but it's simply delusional to say that he's got it locked up today.

CALLER: Absolutely. No, he will lose and getting back to what you said, we have a great educational moment coming up in the presidential election, because I'm pumped, and my family's pumped, and friends, because it's an educational moment because we've got a few particular candidates, Rush, who are gonna educate the American worker and the American people about how great we are, and also I think they're gonna educate the Republican establishment.

RUSH: Well, you know, the Republican establishment is going to be every bit the obstacle here, depending on who the nominee is, as will be the Democrat establishment pretty much. If we have a genuinely conservative nominee, which we need, the Republican establishment is gonna fight that person throughout the nomination process.

CALLER: You are absolutely correct.

RUSH: But I think the real education's already taken place. Every time you go buy gas, five bucks a gallon, $4.80. Nobody needs to explain a thing. You don't have to go to class. You don't have to listen to a lecture. All you have to do is see four bucks a gallon, $4.25, whatever it is, and then turn on the TV and listen to Obama tell you you should be thankful for that 'cause we're gonna make it worse. There's nothing we can do. Oh, yeah? Well, the American people still, I firmly believe a majority, do not respond favorably to, "Hey, this is the best we can do." The best education system is reality and it's happening right before people's very eyes. And it's going to continue to happen because a sour economy is the objective to this administration, this regime. This is precisely what they want.

Don't forget how we opened the program today, folks. The very first thing that we started with today: "The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the 'Age of America' will end and the US economy will be overtaken by that of China." This is the era of America's decline, and it is being shepherded as a decline purposefully by Pharaoh Obama. It's time we learned what it's like. It's time we got paid back for all this wealth we've stolen from the poor all over the world since our founding. He's happy to see this.

Jake Tapper: President Obama Tells Untruth in Birth Certificate Press Briefing

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-tells-untruth-in-birth-certificate-press-briefing.html

Allen West at a difficult townhall meeting:

http://www.breitbart.tv/rep-allen-west-youre-not-going-to-intimidate-me-heckler-arrested-at-town-hall/

Democratic House in Massachusetts votes to restrict union ability to collectively bargain:

http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-27/news/29479557_1_unions-object-labor-unions-health-care

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.

Lots of current vids:

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Men with Foil Hats (occasionally borders on conspiratorial without being completely nuts; mostly a repository of news stories from elsewhere):

http://www.menwithfoilhats.com/

iwatch news is a repository of interesting news items; there might be a slight left slant? It is hard to tell.

http://www.iwatchnews.org/

Calculated Risk Blog:

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html

Calculated Risk Charts and Graphs:

http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html

This website, asks the eternal question...

http://www.isglennbeckright.com/

Renew America:

http://www.renewamerica.com/

The Party of 1776:

http://www.partyof1776.net/

Climate Realists:

http://climaterealists.com/index.php

In case I did not list it before, Iowa Hawk (insightful economic blogging):

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/

American Legislative Exchange Council (Limited government, free markets and federalism):

http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Right Wing News Watch

http://www.rightwingnewswatch.com/

It is mostly libs who post here, but this way, you get their weird perspective on things political:

http://www.politico.com/arena/

The Right Scoop:

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Pro-Life Unity:

http://www.prolifeunity.com/

Christian Healthcare Ministries (an alternative to health insurance)

http://chministries.org/

Daniel Mitchell’s blog:

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/

Capitalism Magazine

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/

The truth wins (mostly commentary on economics).

http://thetruthwins.com/

Conservative 21 (blog)

http://www.conservative21.com/index.cfm

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/

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/

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

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

Economist and talk show host Walter E. Williams:

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

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

www.Americanroadmap.org

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

http://www.freedomproject.org/

Bankrupting America, with great videos and maps:

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

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

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

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

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

Global Warming/Climate Change

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

http://www.climatedebatedaily.com/

Global Warming headlines:

http://www.dericalorraine.com/

Dr. Roy Spencer on climate change:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/

Not Evil, Just Wrong video on Global Warming

http://noteviljustwrong.com/

http://www.letfreedomwork.com/

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

Global Warming Hoax:

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

Global Warming Site:

http://www.climatedepot.com/

Global Warming sites:

http://ilovecarbondioxide.com/

35 inconvenient truths about Al Gore’s film:

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

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/trailer

Wall Street Journal’s articles on Climate Change:

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

Michael Crichton on global warming as a religion:

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

This man questions global warming:

http://themigrantmind.blogspot.com/

Healthcare

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

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

Republican healthcare plan:

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

Health Care:

http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/

Betsy McCaughey’s Health Care Site:

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

Obamacare Watch:

http://www.obamacarewatch.org/

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

http://joinpatientsfirst.com/

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

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

Islam

Islam:

www.thereligionofpeace.com

Jihad Watch

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Answering Muslims (a Christian site):

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/

Muslim demographics:

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

Muslim Demographics (this is outstanding):

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

Muslim deception:

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

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

http://www.faithfulamerica.org/

Celebrity Jihad (no, really).

http://www.celebjihad.com/

Legal

The Alliance Defense Fund:

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

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

www.lc.org

ACLU founders:

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

Military

Here is an interesting military site:

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

This is the link which caught my eye from there:

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

The real story of the surge:

http://www.understandingthesurge.org/

National Security

Keep America Safe:

http://www.keepamericasafe.com/

Race Relations

A little history of Republicans and African-Americans:

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

Oil Spill

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cool Sites

The 100 most hated conservatives:

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

Still to Classify

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

http://defendmichael.wordpress.com/

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

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

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

http://www.freepress.net/

Project World Awareness:

http://projectworldawareness.com/

Bookworm room

http://www.bookwormroom.com/

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

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

Commentary Magazine:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/

Family Security Matters (families and national security):

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/

America’s Right

http://americasright.com/

Emerging Corruption (founded by an ACORN whistle blower:

http://emergingcorruption.com/

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

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

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

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/

News Website to get the Headlines and very brief coverage:

http://www.newser.com/

National Institute for Labor Relations Research

http://www.nilrr.org/

Independent American:

http://www.independentamerican.org/

If you want to be scared or depressed:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

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

http://www.whitehouse.gov/video

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

http://nointernettakeover.com/

Whizbang (news and views):

http://wizbangblog.com/

John T. Reed comments on current events:

http://johntreed.com/headline.html

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

http://conservativenewmedia.com/

Ann Coulter’s site:

http://anncoulter.com/

Allen West for Congress:

http://allenwestforcongress.com/issues/

Their homepage:

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

Wall Builders:

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

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

http://www.ldlad.com/

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

http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/

The Tax Foundation:

http://taxfoundation.org/

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

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

Political news and commentary from the Louisiana Political News Wire:

http://www.lanewslink.com/

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

http://commieblaster.com/

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

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

Another babebolicious conservative (Kim Priestap):

http://politics.upnorthmommy.com/

Stop Spending our Future:

http://stopspendingourfuture.org/

DeeDee also blogs at:

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

Somos Republicans:

http://somosrepublicans.com/

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

Zomblog:

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

Conservative news site:

http://www.liberalwhoppers.com/

http://conservativeamericannews.com/

Your daily cartoon:

http://daybydaycartoon.com/