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This Week’s Events

Apparently, bin Laden had a little porn to watch.

There was a retaliatory attack by Al-Qaeda upon the Pakistan military, which killed 80 people, most of whom were military recruits in training. This attack was because Pakistan’s military failed to stop the killing of bin Laden by the United States. Revenge was also promised against Americans living in Pakistan.

Osama bin Laden apparently received visits from Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters while he was hiding out in a fortified compound in a Pakistani garrison town.

CIA is going through diaries and an extensive cache in terrorist information from Osama’s lair. Apparently, this information was seen as important for the Obama administration to get out.

More violence against Christians in Egypt.

Nine-year-old Ghulam Farooq left his home in Pakistan with three other would-be boy bombers and headed into eastern Afghanistan, on the orders of their religious teacher. They were to go into Afghanistan, strap on a suicide vest and kill foreign forces. The boys were intercepted at the border, as a result of a tip.

Two Muslim mothers were arrested in northern India for allegedly killing their grown-up daughters, because they had brought dishonour to the family by marrying Hindu men.

Remember the fledgling democracy being formed in Egypt? Tens of thousands of them recently gathered in Tahir Square for an anti-Israel protest.

The United States nears its debt limit within a few days. Other reports are, that we have exceeded that debt.

Various oil companies have been called in before Congress for a Congressional show to make a big deal of “oil subsidies.” These oil subsidies are valued at $2–3 billion, and would cover less than 1% of the budget shortfall.

The President has announced that he will speed up oil production in his weekly message. He made this same announcement March 31^st, 2010.

Speaker of the House John Boehner is going to give a commencement at the Catholic University of America. About 80 far left Catholic teachers and deans sent him a letter chastising him for cutting back on moneys given to certain social programs. No similar letter has been sent to liberal Catholic Congressional members for supporting abortion, which is a far more clearly held belief of Catholics.

Letter signer Stephen F. Schneck of the Catholic University of America (CUA) is a board member of the Soros-funded Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG). Because this group receives significant funding from George Soros, an atheist, the CACG has been called a "fake Catholic" group designed to undermine official Catholic teaching on abortion and homosexuality and to promote Obama Administration Big Government policies. The former CACG executive director, Alexia Kelley, now works for the Obama Administration.

New York is holding a special Congressional election at the end of May. This has been a Republican seat since 1968, but the Republican candidate does not know how to argue in favor of the Ryan budget plan (which she supports). To further complicate matters, the independent candidate is claiming to be a TEA party candidate, while the Republican party is claiming that he is a Democratic plant (since he has run as a Democrat in the past.

Unionized phone company employees say they were beaten or threatened after they accused

their labor bosses of looting their coffers through various scams. One member of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1101 said that after he reported a time-sheet padding scheme, a thug beat him so badly his spine was injured. Another says he found a dead rat in his locker, while a third said a union officer warned that suspected informants should be brought off company property and "taken care of."

Mrs. Obama brings “socially-conscious” Common to the White House to speak at a poetry fest. Previous raps by Common support 2 different cop killers.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has decided that the City of Chicago must hire 111 black firefighter applicants who were passed over for jobs years ago and pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to about 6,000 other black candidates under a ruling issued on Friday by a federal appeals court. These men scored lower on a qualifying test than those who were hired in preference to them.

President Obama's half-brother, Abon'go Malik "Roy" Obama, has established an American charity called the Barack H. Obama Foundation. It claims to support poor Kenyans. There are a great many questions concerning the legitimacy of this charity.

Because he chose not to run for re-election, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley still has $1.1 million in his campaign fund. In 1998, the General Assembly banned politicians from converting leftover campaign money for personal use. However, the law included a grandfather clause, so it didn't affect any of the politicians voting on it. The sponsors, Barack Obama and Kirk Dillard, went along with the amendment, because they knew that was the only way to pass the bill. Daley will therefore be able to pocket this cash.

The president gives a speech on comprehensive immigration reform in El Paso, Texas. The Democrats have no bill proposed or pending on immigration. This is just a speech to say, Obama is all for it.

Mike Huckabee is not running for president.

An example of how states differ: the Texas house passes an anti-grope law for airport security. Meanwhile, a teacher in Massachusetts has determined that hanging a student drawing of the American flag might offend another student, so he will not display this picture.

In an letter, Steny Hoyer suggested the colleges and universities of the Fifth Congressional District consider placing links on their homepages, distributing flyers along with graduation materials and hosting information sessions about the Obama Affordable Healthcare law.

Concerned that there might not be enough dumb things that liberals say for me to quote, Michael Moore has joined Keith Olbermann’s program.

There are several Republican budget approaches out there and available to the public. On the other hand, Illinois Democrats reveal their budget only minutes prior to being voted on.

NASA gets caught faking climate change data—again!

Say What?

Liberals:

President Obama concerning border safety: "Even though we've answered these concerns [that Republicans have raised about border security], I've got to say i suspect there's still some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. You know, they said 'we needed to triple the border patrol.' Well, now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol, or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied.”

Christian Dorsey: “There is nothing that puts more money into the economy than unemployment benefits.” [Quoted from memory]

Kirsten Powers: “I don’t think the Ap is a partisan organization.” [Quoted from memory]

Southern CA Democrat ad: “We minorities should stick together.”

Chris Matthews on Newt Gingrich: "I cannot believe there are young Republicans idealists out there, young people with hope who want our country to be good and have good politics to want to resurrect this element of Freddy Krueger, Nightmare on Elm Street politics."

Chris Matthews: “Why don’t we have Cheney try that water board thingamajig of his on Karl Rove and Scooter to find our really who said what in that CIA leak case?”

Substitute judge in Milwaukee county Russell Stamper (from his facebook posting(: "I was saddened. You murdered a man. For me, if the choice is condemnation of the CIA, DEA, FBI and IRS or Osama bin Laden, it's an easy call. I remain unconvinced that bin Laden committed the 911 attack, whereas we know the lettered government organizations are thieves, assassins, dope peddlers, government destabilizers, did I say assassins?, arms purveyors and various and sundry other planetary criminals."

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said if Congress fails to lift the debt ceiling and the U.S. defaults on its obligations "this abrupt contraction would likely push us into a double dip recession...A default would inflict catastrophic far-reaching damage on our nation's economy, significantly reducing growth and increasing unemployment. Even a short-term default could cause irrevocable damage to the economy."

Bill Maher, full-time comedian and part-time climate expert, speaks about the tornadoes throughout the Midwest and south: "This is global warming. This is global warming - there's more moisture - it's what scientist always said. There's more moisture in the atmosphere. It's going to cause these giant disasters."

Randi Rhodes: “Look, the conservatives, if Shakespeare were alive, and he went to the White House to get, you know, some sort of a reading, they would be outraged about him -- talking about killing his brother, and the father had to go, and a mother he slept with -- They'd be out of their fricking minds with this. They don't understand culture! Or literature!”

Former member of the US House of Representatives Cynthia Anne McKinney: "As an American, I am upset with the policies of my country, but the measures adopted by the first Afro-American president of the United States has ashamed us all. If there is no truth, there won't be any justice, and today the US policies are rooted in lies, injustice and war." Give her points for consistency.

President Obama on the multiple attacks against Christians in Egypt: “...”

Liberals from the past:

Columnist David Neiwart: “One of the reasons Fox News has become such a serious problem is that journalists as a profession have utterly failed in their traditional role of self-policing their colleagues. Journalists need to be speaking out about the truth that Anita Dunn pointed out in October: That Fox has ceased offering even a resemblance of a news organization and has become a propaganda channel 24/7. Fox has largely been able to get away with it because its money and influence are so sizable that it has silenced with profession with a combination of threats and bribes: If you call them out, you get blackballed. On the other hand, if you play along, you get invited on their shows and get a fat contributor's paycheck. Among the most disturbing examples of this have been NPR's Mara Liasson and Juan Williams, who have become such regulars on Fox that their identities are increasingly that of a typical Fox commentator. And in the process, they've deeply marred NPR's hitherto-sterling reputation as a reliable source of accurate and unbiased news.”

Chuck Schumer giving Obama a lot of love: "Finally it should not be forgotten the job that President Obama did. His steely courage - his quiet courage was incredible. I want to say something about this president, Mr. President. He's not a chest-thumper. He's not somebody who involves in a lot of rhetorical flourishes, he is serious, he is focused, he is factually driven, but let no one mistake the fact that he is fact-driven and often quietly contemplative for a lack of steel or a lack of courage or a lack of strength."

Liberals being civil:

Email from a teacher at East Allen County Schools in Indiana, concerning school choice: "Why do you distribute this propaganda? Do you have a conscience? Do you really believe any of this? I am not a union member but feel that [Governor] Mitch [Daniel]'s agenda is killing Indiana. The education agenda is a holocaust against our children. Please understand I am speaking as a grandson of a Holocaust survivor. This is truly as bad or worse than what was done to the Jewish people only it is happening to innocent young people. It is frightening to me." Emphasis mine.

Liberals making sense:

Mara Liaison: “Medicare is off the table in those short-term negotiations. So are taxes, any kind of big tax reform. I think if you're a Republican, and you believe that you are going to get the Senate in 2012, which is a widely-held assumption in this town on both sides of the aisle, why should you compromise on taxes before you have a much stronger hand after the next election? And why would you allow Medicare, which is the one thing that might stop you from getting that majority in 2012, to be part of the discussion?”

Ted Koppel on the notion of democracies popping up all over the Middle east: “Democracy. Let's dump it; toss it on the scrap heap of history. The concept remains worthy, but the word is rapidly being exhausted of all residual value.”

Crosstalk:

Rockefeller: "What about the fact that, in the case of ExxonMobil, that your effective federal tax rate is substantially 3 percent lower than what the average individual federal tax rate is? Does that mean anything to you?"

 

Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exon-Mobile: "My effective United States income tax rate on my United States income from 2005 to 2010 was 32 percent. Now, if you look at any individual year, it could be as low as a single digit. It can be as high as 38 to 39 percent, because we don't settle our taxes in -- for that year in that year. We have tax filings that are open for multiple years, as we resolve issues with the IRS, they are recognized in the year we file. So in some years when our taxes appear low, it's because we have recognized closing of issues with the IRS where we overpaid."

 

Rockefeller: "And I understand. But still, do you understand the American -- the average American's feeling -- that over between 2008 and 2010 your effective tax rate was about 20, about 17 percent, and theirs was about 20 percent?

 

Tillerson: "From 2005 to 2010 our effective tax rate is right at 32 percent."

Conservatives:

Newt Gingrich: "[President Obama is] the most successful food stamp president in history"

Newt: "This will be the happiest, most positive, most fun campaign of my lifetime."

Bill Schultz (of Redeye): “Newt dot org sounds like a place where witches go shopping.”

Cal Thomas: “The media should not do its own polling—it’s a conflict of interest.” [Quoted from memory]

Dick Cheney: “I think you’ve got to give him [President Obama] a lot of credit for making the decision to have SEAL team 6 conduct the raid that got bin Laden.”

Defense Secretary Gates: “Frankly, a week ago Sunday, in the Situation Room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out bin Laden. That all fell apart on Monday, the next day.”

Tom Edwards, the county attorney in rural Motley County east of Lubbock, said the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives was responsible on Tuesday for sparking a fire that consumed 150 acres, adding: "You can quote me on it: That bunch has a real corner on stupid."

President Bush to President Obama on taking out Osama: "Good call."

Rush Limbaugh: "We are the majority in this country -- Tea Party conservatism -- particularly if you look at the way people live their lives. We are categorized each and every day as the fringe, but we are not. We are the mainstream."

Rush Limbaugh: "I have never once said, 'What do I need to do to attract women?' I do that naturally."

Rush: "One of the truths of life is that the Republicans are never going to be able to outbid the Democrats with freebies. It's never going to happen. To go down that road is an absolute loser, a total waste of resources and time."

Rush: "You don't talk about prosperity when liberals are running the show; that's not how they advance their game. Shared misery is what they want."

Rush: "Instead of going to El Paso and pushing for amnesty, shouldn't Obama be going to Mississippi and all those other flooded states? I mean, he's got the ability to lower the sea levels. Why does he not put it to use?"

Rush: "If Obama had leveled with the American people about what he had planned, he wouldn't have gotten 30% of the vote. No liberal would! No liberal Democrat, if they were honest about their intentions for this country, would ever get 30% of the vote."

Conservatives not making any sense:

State Sen. Shane Cultra: "It's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids. Take the tax deduction away for parents that have obese kids." He has since tried to walk this statement back.

Newt Gingrich appeared with Nancy Pelosi in a stupid ad about climate change. Rather than say, “This was a stupid mistake, and I got taken in by climate change propaganda,” spokesman Rick Tyler said in an email "Newt does not apologize for trying to persuade his ideological opponents that his conservative solutions are the best solutions. His attempt to work with Speaker Pelosi is another testament to Gingrich's willingness to debate his conservative solutions with liberals, in this case Pelosi. As it turned out, Pelosi . . . and Gingrich still disagree about how to best protect the environment. But Gingrich will never shy away from debating those on the left on issues like the environment, education and healthcare that they think they own."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

The Palestinians and the Egyptians are going bat-snot crazy over the Jews as of late.

Must-Watch Media

Glenn Beck’s May 13^th show is all about the new rebels on campus—conservative students, and how they are being shouted down and berated by their professors:

http://thedailybeck.com/

The Media Research Center Gala Awards:

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/dishonor/2011/fullevent.aspx

Chris Wallace interviews Dick Cheney on the killing of Osama bin Laden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwLovQvmD8

Mitch Daniel’s on school reform in Indiana (text and video):

http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/05/13/indiana-school-employee-education-reform-nazi-ovens/

President Obama on the uprising in Egypt, and then Egyptians telling us their own plans:

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/05/14/before-obama-hey-these-pro-democracy-egyptian-youths-are-really-pro-israel-now-same-youths-call-for-annihilation-of-jewish-state/

David Barton spends 4 minutes on Noah Webster, one of our founding fathers. As is his common approach, Barton focuses on Webster’s own words.

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=hdaG2GZuaG

3.5 minutes by Hardee’s executive on job creation. None of this is ground-breaking, unless you are a liberal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbf6a59XaDI

We minorities should stick together (Dem ad):

http://www.breitbart.tv/so-cal-democrats-campaign-ad-we-minorities-should-stick-together/

This is a complete change of pace; it is very non-political, but I had to share it. These are photos of west Texas, which are quite amazing (it is a video presentation with music):

http://vimeo.com/22132017

A blast from the past; a young Thomas Sowell who speaks against welfare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GklCBvS-eI

Short Takes

1) Right now, inflation is beginning to rear its ugly head, although the news has tried to obscure this story. We are being told that there is maybe a half a percent inflation rate each month (and even less, depending upon the source), and that does not seem like much. Annually, that is a 6% inflation rate, and the things which we buy are going up quite fast, and often not included in the inflation figures; and the things which are not being purchased right now—houses, are deflating, which balances everything out.

2) There is a lot of discussion in Washington about revealing which corporations gave how much and to whom, when it comes to receiving government contracts. I even heard one person speak of this as a desire to know which employees gave what to whom. Now, I have a big problem with a corporation giving money to various candidates and then, ending up with a big, fat juicy government contract. On the other hand, I am in favor of transparency as well. So, let’s say that there must be an equal number of pro-Dem and pro-Rep companies competing for the same contract. If there are cost overruns, then the company getting the contract must either eat those losses or be barred from offering up their services for, say, the next 5 years. If there is any collusion between a politician and a company, then that politician immediately is fired and the company cannot offer its services to the government for the next 5 years.

3) Do you know what is going up faster than medical costs? Tuition costs. Do you know what sorts of medical procedures are going down in cost? Elective plastic surgery and elective eye surgery (like RK surgery). The more the government is involved, the higher the costs; the less government is involved, the lower the costs.

4) The government continues to put impediments in the way of the housing market. Foreclosures are being stopped by the federal government; small banks are being threatened to give loans to those who cannot pay them back; and all banks with mortgages are told to reduce the principal on the mortgages of those underwater; so no one has any idea when the housing market can recover. However, as long as home prices are held down, the government can claim that inflation is low.

5) After going into a public swearing fit, Donald Trump smartly kept his mouth shut for a couple weeks, and now sounds a bit more polished and not as stupid as he did 3 weeks earlier.

6) When you say or do something stupid (Romney and Romneycare; Newt on sitting with Nancy Pelosi on agreeing about Climate Change), just admit to it being a mistake. Tim Pawlenty did this on cap and trade, and that issue is behind him. Newt and Romney will re-litigate this problems in every other interview that they do.

7) Obama wants to be reelected? Pretty simple; balance the budget—not in 10 years, but in 2 or 3. He’s talked about facing tough issues with resolve; this is it.

By the Numbers

Gas prices are up 43% in the past year

Corn is up 101% in 1 year

Cotton is up 147% over a year

Crude oil is up 48% in 1 year

Wheat is up 74% in one year

Beef is up 17%

Soybeans are up 40%

This is stuff you buy pretty much every day, and yet, how many news reports have you seen about the skyrocketing prices?

The liberal Brookings Institution said that raising taxes on the rich will raise revenues about $67.9 billion a year. So, the other 96% of the deficit will be paid for how...?

There are 72,536 pages in the 2011 tax code (that is equivalent to approximately 70 Bibles).

The Obama administration has approved 204 new waivers to Democrats' healthcare reform law over the past month, bringing the total to 1,372.

36% of young New Yorkers are leaving the state over high taxes, high rent and limited economic opportunity.

Polling by the Numbers

Gallup:

70% of Republicans surveyed said they want their member of Congress to oppose a debt-limit increase,

8% support a debt limit increase.

Overall, Gallup found that

47% of Americans opposed to an increase in the debt ceiling,

19% are in favor of one. and

34% said they don't know enough about the issue to register an opinion.

Rasmussen Poll:

51% of American Adults think the recent severe weather is primarily caused by long-term planetary trends.

19% blame the extreme weather on human activity which many climate change activists view as the cause of global warming.

12% say there's some other cause for the bad weather,

19% are not sure.

AP-GfK poll:

Some 45% now say they're dissatisfied with the GOP candidates who have declared or are thought to be serious about running, up from 33% two months ago, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. I am sure there is nothing wrong with this poll.

A Little Bias

Headline for Time Magazine, AP headline: “AP-Gfk Poll: Obama Approval Hits 60%” In the AP article, we have the additional stat 53% say Obama deserves to be re-elected, and 43% say he should be fired. This same article was carried in many newspapers, new sites and on the Huffington Post and on Media Matters. None of these articles mentioned anything about the sampling. However, at the AP site, where the original story was posted, 46% of the respondents self-identified as Democrats and 29% self-identified as Republicans. In other words, this poll was slanted dramatically toward Democrats, and AP pollsters know this. The biased sampling, completely out of step with U.S. population, resulted in many pro-Obama polling results. What a surprise. Not one of the articles which I read questioned in any way the percentage carried in the headline. This is the sort of media we are dealing with. They will lie right to your face.

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Here is a shocker: Sunday talk show host David Gregory accuses Newt Gingrich of being racist for calling Obama a “food stamp president.”

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AP put out 3 stories on Newt Gingrich entering the presidential race; all 3 headlines were negative in some way or another toward Newt.

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ABC’s Good Morning America slips in a photo of Newt Gingrich on a story about attractive people, saying, with a laugh, “And no, not Newt Gingrich”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/05/14/abc-mocks-gingrich-accidentally-splices-shot-newt-story-study-attr

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Liberals, when they start off by attacking like this, indicate that they do not want Gingrich running against Obama.

Yay Democrats!

I hear Clair McCaskill and Dick Durbin talking about budget reform, including dealing with entitlements. Also, Mary Landrieu and others are talking about more drilling.

Obama-Speak

Socially conscious = supports a left-wing agenda

Questions for Obama

What comprehensive legislation have Democrats put together to vote on? When will it be voted on?

Political Chess

It was quite obvious that, when the Republicans introduced any sort of cuts in the budget, the Democrats were going to demagogue every cut, without ever offering up any real alternatives. Paul Ryan, and a few others, have gone out with charts and have educated the public. However, there are quite a number of Republicans who really are not well-versed with any of the budget-cutting plans (there are quite a number of them), so, when they go out, they can give one or two talking points, and little else. Such people are being crushed in public forums.

There are two implied budget alternatives offered up by Democrats: (1) leave everything the way that it is or (2) tax the rich. Here, Democrats have done an surprisingly good job, and I am certain that at least 40% of Americans believe that these are real alternatives. The problem is, we cannot continue to run a $1.5 trillion deficit year after year—there will be a point at which there is nothing that we can do with this indebtedness (right now, the federal reserve is buying most of it, which gives them tremendous political power), Secondly—and this is something which conservatives and Republicans have been weak in pointing out—the rich do not have enough money to come anywhere close to covering the deficit. There have been a few articles which have made it clear that, if you took all of the salaries and moneys from the rich, a year’s deficit could be covered, and that’s about it. The amount that a normal raising of the taxes would bring in would be $20 billion or so (and that is if everything remained static, which it never does when taxes are raised).

So, when it comes to the budget and taxing the rich, all of the facts are on the side of the conservatives; however, this has to be communicated, and communicated in a way that this somehow breaks out of the Obama Media Complex narrative.

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Obama had complete control of the House, the Senate and the White House, so that, a year and ago, he could have passed any immigration bill that he wanted to pass. It would have taken very little effort to do so, and there are probably legislative packages already written and ready to go (remember the Stimulus Bill; it suddenly appeared with almost no preparation time—over 2000 pages, just like the Obamacare bill). However, the problem is, the unions did not want Hispanics taking a bunch of jobs through some amnesty bill. So, President Obama waited until passing such a bill is impossible, and then he goes out and campaigns on a comprehensive amnesty will, as if he and the Democrats wanted it, but the Republicans did not. This way, Hispanics who are not paying much attention thinks that President Obama is on their side; and the unions, who do not want the market to be flooded with non-unionized labor, get what they want (the reality of no comprehensive legislation).

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In short, the Obama White House has floundered quite a bit, but, they are certainly getting things straightened out for the 2012 election.

News Before it Happens

As we near the election, expect a lot of stories on the “recovery.” Expect to hear many pundits say, “Just as we have been saying all of this time, unemployment is a lagging indicator, so we expected this to be the last thing to rebound.”

Unless Egypt gets a strong, autocratic ruler, look for war to break out in the Middle east between Israel and Egypt.

Pretty easy calls: it won’t be Mitt Romney and it won’t be Ron Paul.

Prophecies Fulfilled

In the past year, we have suffered massive inflation in the commodities. It has been “balanced out” with housing prices, which continue to remain low because of government fiddling with the banks, the interest rates and the foreclosures.

Bill Maher blames recent tornadoes on global warming.

Missing Headlines

Egypt Keeps on Killing Christians

Remember bad mortgages? Obama wants more of them

Michael Moore and Olbermann, sitting in a tree...

Hoyer: Colleges Should Promote Obamacase

Muslims Using 9-year-old children as suicide bombers

Obama’s Brother’s Charity Scheme

Come, let us reason together....

Obama's Running Mate

Mitt Romney's ObamaCare problem.

From the Wall Street Journal

Mitt Romney travels to Ann Arbor today to deliver what his campaign bills as a major address laying out his "2012 principles for health-care reform." These are likely to be sensible, but what we'll be listening for is how he explains his health-care principles of five years ago.

As everyone knows, the health reform Mr. Romney passed in 2006 as Massachusetts Governor was the prototype for President Obama's version and gave national health care a huge political boost. Mr. Romney now claims ObamaCare should be repealed, but his failure to explain his own role or admit any errors suggests serious flaws both in his candidacy and as a potential President.

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There's a lot to learn from the failure of the ObamaCare model that began in Massachusetts, which is now moving to impose price controls on all hospitals, doctors and other providers. Not that anyone would know listening to Mr. Romney. In the paperback edition of his campaign book "No Apology," he calls the plan a "success," and he has defended it in numerous media appearances as he plans his White House run.

Editorial Writer Joe Rago previews Romney's speech today.

Mr. Romney has lately qualified his praise, saying in a speech in New Hampshire in March that "our experiment wasn't perfect-some things worked, some things didn't, and some things I'd change." He's mostly avoided specifics other than retreating to the cover of state experimentation, but we can fill in the details based on interviews with Romney staffers as well as others present at the creation.

When Mr. Romney took office in 2003, the state was already enforcing public utility-style regulation of insurers for premiums and multiple benefit mandates. The resulting distortions were increasing rates fast, along with the natural increases from good but expensive Massachusetts medicine.

Mr. Romney applied the approach that succeeded when he was a Bain & Company business consultant: He convened an expert task force. His health-care commission immersed itself in data, crunched the numbers and came up with a technocratic solution.

The conceit was that a universal reform would cover everyone and all but pay for itself by reorganizing the state's health-care finances. Since 1985, Massachusetts footed most of the bill when the uninsured showed up for treatment through a $800 million fund for uncompensated care. That money, along with extra federal Medicaid dollars under a special waiver, would subsidize lower- and middle-income residents.

In the name of personal responsibility, Mr. Romney also introduced the individual mandate, first in the nation, requiring everyone to buy coverage or else pay a penalty. Free riders, he said, transferred their own costs to others, either through higher premiums or taxes. This is the same argument the Obama Administration is now using to justify the coercion of the individual mandate in the federal courts. Because the states have police powers under the Constitution, Mr. Romney's plan posed no legal problems. His blunder was his philosophy of government.

The people who don't buy coverage though they can afford it aren't really a major fiscal problem-unless the goal of the individual mandate is to force them to subsidize others. People who are priced out of coverage require subsidies-so in practice the logic of the individual mandate is that it is a government mandate too. Entitlements automatically grow and grow, and then the political class begins to make decisions that used to be left to markets and individuals.

Massachusetts took off on this entitlement trajectory after Mr. Romney signed the bill in 2006 and stepped down to run for President two years later. Let's go to the data, all of which are state-reported, in search of evidence of Mr. Romney's "success."

The only good news we can find is that the uninsured rate has dropped to 2% today from 6% in 2006. Yet four out of five of the newly insured receive low- or no-cost coverage from the government. The subsidies will cost at least $830 million in 2011 and are growing, conservatively measured, at 5.1% a year. Total state health-care spending as a share of the budget has grown from about 16% in the 1980s to 30% in 2006 to 40% today. The national state average is about 25%.

The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn't. Uncompensated hospital care rose 5% from 2008 to 2009, and 15% from 2009 to 2010, hitting $475 million (though the state only paid out $405 million). "Avoidable" use of emergency rooms-that is, for routine care like a sore throat-increased 9% between 2004 and 2008. Meanwhile, unsubsidized insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses have climbed to among the highest in the nation.

Like Mr. Obama's reform, RomneyCare was predicated on the illusion that insurance would be less expensive if everyone were covered. Even if this theory were plausible, it is not true in Massachusetts today. So as costs continue to climb, Mr. Romney's Democratic successor now wants to create a central board of political appointees to decide how much doctors and hospitals should be paid for thousands of services.

The Romney camp blames all this on a failure of execution, not of design. But by this cause-and-effect standard, Mr. Romney could push someone out of an airplane and blame the ground for killing him. Once government takes on the direct or implicit liability of paying for health care for everyone, the only way to afford it is through raw political control of all medical decisions.

Mr. Romney's refusal to appreciate this, then and now, reveals a troubling failure of political understanding and principle. The raucous national debate over health care isn't about this or that technocratic detail, but about basic differences over the role of government. In the current debate over Medicare, Paul Ryan wants to reduce costs by encouraging private competition while Mr. Obama wants the cost-cutting done by a body of unelected experts like the one emerging in Massachusetts.

Mr. Romney's fundamental error was assuming that such differences could be parsed by his own group of experts, as if government can be run by management consultants. He still seems to believe he somehow squared the views of Jonathan Gruber, the MIT evangelist for ObamaCare, with those of the Heritage Foundation.

In reality, his ostensible liberal allies like the late Ted Kennedy saw an opening to advance their own priorities, and in Mr. Romney they took advantage of a politician who still doesn't seem to understand how government works. It's no accident that RomneyCare's most vociferous defenders now are in the White House and left-wing media and think tanks. They know what happened, even if he doesn't.

For a potential President whose core argument is that he knows how to revive free market economic growth, this amounts to a fatal flaw. Presidents lead by offering a vision for the country rooted in certain principles, not by promising a technocracy that runs on "data." Mr. Romney's highest principle seems to be faith in his own expertise.

More immediately for his Republican candidacy, the debate over ObamaCare and the larger entitlement state may be the central question of the 2012 election. On that question, Mr. Romney is compromised and not credible. If he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off Joe Biden and get on the Obama ticket.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576317413439329644.html

President Obama Launches His Immigration Campaign

by Bill O’Reilly

The president went down to El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday to urge Americans to support his vision of immigration reform. Mr. Obama outlined his plan: secure the border, fine businesses if they hire illegals, fine the illegals themselves and require them to learn English before they can apply for citizenship.

Responsible plan with one huge flaw: the border.

Here are the dreadful stats. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, there are now approximately 11.2 million illegal aliens living in the USA. They comprise about five percent of the labor force in the country. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2010 authorities detained an astounding 445,000 people illegally crossing the Mexican border. And Texas Sen. John Cornyn says 59,000 of those people came from countries other than Mexico, some in the Middle East.

As for narcotics, the Border Patrol seized more than four million pounds of drugs coming across the Southern border last year. Four million pounds. That is unbelievable.

But here's the worst part. Almost 10 years after 9/11, only 650 miles of the border are fenced. Thirteen hundred miles remain open, and the feds don't seem to care.

Also, there are only 1,200 National Guard backing up the Border Patrol.

So, of course you're going to have millions of people coming in here every year. This is a colossal failure by the federal government, a disgrace.

President Obama should know by now that immigration reform will not pass until the border is secure. And right now, it is not secure.

In fact, the Obama administration is cutting $226 million from the border fence program. I know the country is broke, but that's not the place to save money.

So here's the solution: expand and complete the fence, and put at least 7,000 National Guard on the border, mostly in the hot sectors. If Mr. Obama would do that, I think the other stuff would pass.

But instead of pushing hard for border security, Mr. Obama is playing politics and criticizing plans like mine:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, they said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Well, now they are going to say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol, or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they will need a moat. Maybe they will want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Not true for "Talking Points." Secure the border, Mr. President. I'll back the reform.

And that's "The Memo."

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/bill-oreilly-president-obama-launches-his-immigration-campaign#ixzz1MNfuCnF7

John Boehner's Spending and Debt Promise

by Chris Edwards

House Speaker John Boehner has promised to tie substantial spending cuts to upcoming debt-limit legislation. He said spending cuts will have to be at least as large as the dollar value of the allowed debt increase. Thus, if the legislation increased the legal debt limit by $2 trillion, then Congress would have to cut spending over time by at least $2 trillion.

How can we be sure that spending cuts are real?

There are only two types of solid and tough-to-reverse spending cuts-legislated changes to reduce entitlement benefit levels and complete termination of discretionary programs. Republicans will have to define what time period they are talking about, but let's assume it's the standard 10-year budget window.

●Entitlements: The legislation, for example, could change the indexing formula for initial Social Security benefits from wages to prices. The Congressional Budget Office says that change would reduce spending by $137 billion over 10 years (2012-2021). Other options include raising the retirement age for Social Security and raising deductibles for Medicare.

●Discretionary: Each session of Congress decides the following year's discretionary spending. Promises of discretionary spending cuts beyond one year are meaningless. Thus, the various promises in Republican and Democratic budget plans to freeze various parts of discretionary spending through 2021 or reduce spending to 2008 levels over the long term have no weight. Those are not real cuts.

The only way to get real cuts in discretionary spending-cuts that would be tough to reverse out in later years-is complete program termination and repeal of the program's authorization. That way, policymakers in future years would generally need at least 60 votes in the Senate to reinstate the spending.

Thus, if the GOP promises to save $50 billion over 10 years by reducing the levels of Title 1 grants to the states for K-12 schools, that is not a real and solid cut. However, if they pass a law to repeal Title 1 spending altogether, that cut may well be sustained over the long term.

To make spending cuts even more secure, the GOP should also insist on a statutory cap on overall outlays with a supermajority requirement to break, as I've outlined here. For program termination ideas, see www.DownsizingGovernment.org

In sum, the GOP needs to ensure that spending cuts tied to the debt-limit vote are either:

1.                                                                                                                Changes to entitlement laws to reduce benefit levels, or

2.                                                                                                                Discretionary program terminations.

Promises to hold down future discretionary spending levels and partial program trims are not real spending cuts.

From:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/john-boehner%E2%80%99s-spending-and-debt-promise/

The Health Care Number You Didn't Hear

By David Gratzer

On Thursday, the President gathered with Congressional members to discuss health reform. The President and Democratic leaders spoke of many numbers in their attempt to rebuild support for their proposals.

They mentioned 30 million (the number of uninsured Americans, according to the White House), 17 (the percentage of GDP spent on health care), and 1912 (the year when Teddy Roosevelt first called for universal coverage). But here's the number that no one mentioned: 12. And while all the other numbers are important, the key to reforming American health care rests with that one number, unmentioned.

American health care is expensive. If we spent what Switzerland does, we could cut income tax rates by 80%. And American health care is getting more expensive. Federal government figures indicate that health costs rose by 3.4% last year, roughly double the rate of inflation. It's not surprising, then, that the Obama White House has advocated "bending the curve" of health costs since Inauguration.

And, for the past year, the Administration has attempted to explain to Americans why health costs keep rising. The President spoke in July of Americans being offered two pills - "a red pill and a blue pill" - that are equally good, but one is half the price. Translation: drug companies are greedy. The President toured the Mayo Clinic, one of the best hospital complexes in the world and noted that Mayo physicians are on salary. Translation: your fee-for-service doc is greedy. The President used his September address to a joint session of Congress to bemoan the dearth of competition in the health insurance industry. Translation: insurance companies are greedy (and running a cartel).

If greed is the trouble, the White House seeks to address these woes with a raft of new regulations and rules. Obamacare will cut the profitability of pharmaceutical companies; it will create a committee to pay doctors for what the committee views as quality medicine; it will introduce a new Medicare-style public insurance to compete with private providers. Washington, in other words, will grow. The House version of the White House's proposal would create more than 100 new federal agencies and bodies.

But the problem with American health care isn't greed, its structural. After all, food and clothing are all organized with the profit motive - and the President isn't giving speeches that your butcher is too greedy or that Macy's is overly concerned with the bottom line.

The problem, ultimately, is 12.

A bit of background: American health care is an accidental system. Private coverage - the type most Americans have - has its origins in the wage controls of the Second World War as employers offered rich health-insurance benefits in pre-tax dollars. Public coverage like Medicaid and Medicare, on the other hand, takes its inspiration from the Beveridge report in Britain, drafted in the early 1940s; Lord William Beveridge believed in zero-dollar health care - that people ought to pay nothing at the point of use. Today's American health care fuses these two systems, but with a common economic flaw: people are overinsured, paying pennies directly on every dollar of health service they receive.

The end result: for every dollar spent on health care in the United States, just 12 cents comes out of the individuals' pockets. Imagine what food costs might be if your employer paid 88% of your grocery bill or what a trip to Saks might be like if your company covered the vast majority of the costs of the shopping spree.

Far from addressing the 12 cent problem, Obamacare would exacerbate it. With its rich subsidies, expansion of government programs, insistence that all insurance cover specific services (and some with no copayments at all), Obamacare would pour fuel on the fire of health inflation. It's one reason that even the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - a federal employee - predicts cost rises under the President's plan.

The White House has been sharp with its critics, demanding that they outline an alternative vision. Here's one: that Washington move decisions away from bureaucrats (be they corporate or government) and empower individuals and families. In other words, American health care should be more like the other five-sixths of the economy where consumers spend more of their own money - certainly much more than 12 cents on the dollar - and get more value for it.

From:

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/02/26/the_health_care_number_you_didnt_hear_98362.html

$2 million project in San Antonio to watch over which children are eating which food. This is no doubt because we have so much excess money in Texas so that we can waste it on stupid programs like this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110511/ap_on_re_us/us_calorie_camera

The housing recovery that wasn’t

http://floppingaces.net/2011/05/09/the-housing-recovery-that-wasnt/

Creating poverty through social justice:

http://biggovernment.com/fsalvato/2011/05/14/creating-poverty-through-social-justice/

Sen. Rockefeller, great grandson of oil tycoon, berates CEOs of top U.S. oil companies

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-rockefeller-great-grandson-oil-tycoo

Additional Sources

Yearly commodity index:

http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=cotton&months=12

Chastising letter sent to Boehner:

http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/breaking-news-catholic-academics-challenge-boehner

NASA faking climate change data again:

http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2011/05/13/nasa-gets-caught-faking-climate-change-data-again/

Bo Snerdley on Obama’s Safe Borders

OBAMA: All this stuff they asked for we've done, but even though we've answered these concerns, I've gotta say, I suspect there's still gonna be some who are trying to move the goalposts on us one more time. They said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Or now they're gonna say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied.

RUSH: There's your president. That's Barack Obama, alligators in the moat, mocking, making fun of -- I mean the fence is not even 5% complete. He's out there telling people the fence is done. Basically the problem has been solved. If so, why is he there? At this point in time, ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to bring in the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley, for analysis and commentary on the president's remarks yesterday. Mr. Snerdley?

SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, the Official EIB Obama Criticizer, certified black enough to criticize, 100% American slave blood and a legitimate birth certificate on file in New York state. I have a statement. Mr. President, El Paso, campaigning with the Hispanic audience. You claim the border is safe now, thanks to you, but no matter what you do Republicans will never, ever be satisfied. You said Republicans don't want Hispanics to come to America, they look different. You even said they want a moat with alligators to keep the Hispanics out. If the borders are so safe, why are you even talking about reforming immigration? The problem is solved. Except for those here illegally, and if that's the real issue, why not just say so? If we're all so safe, why are your TSA agents patting down toddlers at our nation's airports, taking pictures of us naked before we can travel, and, finally, if the border is so safe, why don't you pack up your family, spend your next vacation at a border town in Texas, or better yet, Arizona? Shame on you, Mr. President. Race-baiting so early in the campaign season?

And now a translation for the EIB brothers and sisters in the hood. Yeah, what up, my homeys? Check it out, yo. El Paso. Obama blazed up in there like a total O.G. and they took it to them Republicans like Team Six took it to Osama, up all in their grill dog, double tapped him, told 'em the border under control, yo. We puppies ain't gonna chill till they get a moat with some gators to keep those Mexies out, which, you know, a'ight, a'ight, I feel that. But, but, you know, there's some' about this that just ain't -- ain't -- ain't right. You know, if you get your low rider, you roll down south over that boulder, yo, all of a sudden you be in grave land, man. They've got more bodies rolling up in that joint every day without heads, man, hundreds, no, thousands of 'em, with Mexican flags on top of the graveyards, man. They got people showing up dead all over the joint.

Yo Bomb, man, let me axe you this, man. You gonna send your booty-licious home girl, Michelle, and your two shorties down there to party for a weekend on the border, yo? I don't think so. Plus, check this out, man. You hit up the airports, man, TSA is hitting you up harder than five-oh, man. They grabbing three-year-olds, feeling them up like they on some kind of booty call, man. What's up with that, yo? Okay, here's the deal, amigos. Obama playing games with you all, okay? He coulda had this immigration dealy when Democrats had DC up on lockdown. He's just setting up Republicans, making 'em out to be racist to trip y'all up, get you Spanish all tricked out before the election and jack you, you know? It's like the audacity a joke, okay? Obama is playing y'all. But, yo, I got one other thing. Obama, big Prez, man, gas is still high, man. And speaking of the borders, over here in the borders of the hood, man, we still ain't got no jobs. A'ight? When you gonna come to these borders and check that out? I'm outta here. Peace.

Obama Regime Brings Back Subprime Mortgages

RUSH: Now, I have a story here that's simply unreal, and it's from last week. I purposely sat on this story to see if I would see it anywhere else. I've had it in the stack since May the 5th, almost a week. It's from Business Week magazine, a story by Clea Benson, headline: "A Renewed Crackdown on Redlining -- In the wake of the subprime implosion, the Obama Administration has stepped up its scrutiny of disadvantaged neighborhoods' credit access. Community activists in St. Louis became concerned a couple of years ago that local banks weren't offering credit to the city's poor and African American residents. So they formed a group called the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance and began writing complaint letters to federal regulators.

"Apparently, someone in Washington took notice. The Federal Reserve has cited one of the group's targets, Midwest BankCentre, a small bank that has been operating in St. Louis's predominantly white, middle-class suburbs for over a century, for failing to issue home mortgages or open branches in disadvantaged areas. Although executives at the bank say they don't discriminate, Midwest BankCentre's latest annual report says it is in the process of negotiating a settlement with the US Justice Dept. over its lending practices."

Can I translate this for you? They're bringing back subprimes. Bringing back the subprime mortgage. It's simply unreal. While we're all being distracted by other news, everybody but me, the regime and the Federal Reserve are again forcing banks to give mortgages to people who cannot afford them, which is exactly what got us into our current mess. That's 90% of why we're where we are today. And you note here that the government's now telling banks where they have to put their branches. The Justice Department's telling this little bank company where they have to open branches, just like the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing, "You cannot open a plant in South Carolina." And it's being ramrodded -- if I read the whole story to you, you'd hear this -- it's being ramrodded by the same guy, Thomas Perez at the Justice Department, who opposed prosecuting the New Black Panthers.

The guy at Holder's Department of Justice who refused to prosecute the Black Panthers is pushing this new loan program for people that can't afford it, minority loans to people who can't pay them back. Thomas Perez was also the lawyer in the Justice Department who led the charge against the Arizona immigration law. So it looks to me like while everybody's focused on all these other things, hello subprime mortgages again, hello granting loans. This is exactly how it started in the first place. I know a lot of people want to blame Wall Street, but this is exactly how it started. Substitute the name Clinton for Obama in here and Janet Reno for Holder, and it's exactly what happened. And they are threatening all of these people in the banking business with untold investigations and who knows what results they would provide if they don't do this. And this group, the name of the group, the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance. What do you bet that's just ACORN under a new name? So the cycle is continuing. Chew on that.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_20/b4228031594062.htm

Obamacare Oral Argument and the Broccoli Question

RUSH: Interesting reporting on the oral arguments yesterday to the Fourth Circuit on Obamacare. They use the vegetable argument. I've got two stories here. The first one is from USA Today. "About 20 minutes into Tuesday's hearings, Appeals Court Judge Diana Gribbon Motz told Liberty University lawyer Mathew Staver that she was surprised a certain topic had yet to come up: 'the broccoli question.' 'There is a lot of talk in the papers about if Congress can do this, it can require people to buy broccoli,' Motz said," talking about the central point of Obamacare meaning the mandate that you have to buy health insurance or get fined or go to jail, and the constitutional question is, can Congress, can the government, can anybody order you to do that? Because if they can order you -- this is her point -- if they can order you to buy health insurance, can't they order you to eat your vegetables? Can't they demand that you eat broccoli? Where does this stop?

The judge was telling the lawyers, "Why haven't you asked me this? I've been waiting for this question. I've been waiting for this analogy. Why haven't you asked me?" She said she had a broccoli question herself for the lawyers. She didn't wait for the question. "Could the Congress prohibit people from buying broccoli, or to make it more real-world, prohibit people from buying trans fats, because of its bad effects?" Now, if you have to change the question -- this is what's happening here -- the question before everybody is, is it constitutional to mandate the purchase of health insurance? So in order to advance the argument or to illustrate it, let's change the question, let's change health insurance to broccoli. Now, if you have to change the question to fend off the unpleasant conclusion, aren't you in trouble? It would seem to me you're in trouble.

Now, another judge had a different question, different story. From The Politico: "The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals peppered the health reform law's challengers with intense rounds of questioning on Tuesday, suggesting that it could rule against both Virginia and Liberty University -- two of the four cases racing toward the Supreme Court this spring and summer. Oral arguments in both cases were held back-to-back Tuesday in front of a randomly selected panel of three judges -- who all happened to be appointed by Democratic presidents. ... But it's the vegetable question -- broccoli or asparagus, depending on the judge -- that continues to be one of the most significant obstacles for the law's supporters."

Now, the writers of both stories say, as they watched and as they heard the questions, it seemed to them that the judges are gonna rule for Obamacare here and against the states who are suing on the basis of it's unconstitutional. But they won't answer the broccoli question, they won't answer it. You've got a question here central to the argument, the judges are asking, the lawyers will not answer it, the Obama lawyers will not answer the question. So I don't know, this is central to the whole thing. How can you sit there, the judges, well, you can say that they're gonna find for Obama 'cause two of them were appointed by Obama. We know how this works. And they can say, "Yeah, we asked the question. Don't accuse us of being judicially biased here. We explored every avenue here." The can say this in the aftermath, but still, isn't it a legitimate question, "If they can make you buy health insurance, where does it stop? And if they can make you buy something, can they also by the same token order you not to buy something?"

Well, they do do that. I mean, telling a woman what she can't do with her body. We do that in the prostitution laws. I know it changes the argument. They've taken the argument away from health care and they're substituting vegetables for it. My point is when you do that, you're losing the argument. And that's why the Obama lawyers don't want to answer the question. And yet, the reporters say it's a slam-dunk for the Obama team, and it may well end up being. We do know that there are Democrat judges, and there are Republican judges, there's no question about it.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/21/obamacare-and-the-broccoli-man

Record-Low Percentage of Black Males with Jobs

RUSH: "Employment Rate for Black Men at a Record Low," in America. "If the election of America's first African-American president was expected to give blacks an economic boost, it hasn't emerged yet. Indeed, the percentage of African-American men with a job has dropped to its lowest level since records began in 1972, according to the government's monthly jobs report released last week. Even as the economy added a better-than-expected 244,000 jobs, the percentage of black males over 20 who are currently employed dropped slightly to 56.9, the Labor Department's April report shows.

"For whites, the equivalent figure is 68.1 percent. Before this recession, the percentage of black adult men with a job had never dropped below 60 percent, according to Labor Department statistics." Now, they're a gonna say, "Well, yeah, that's exactly right. It's worse than we thought, and it's what we inherited from Bush! We're starting to show progress, though. Look at those 244,000 jobs. Nobody expected that. Things are looking up here. We don't want to change horses in the middle of the stream. We really don't. Now that we got this correction going, and now that we got our recovery going, we don't want to."

That's gonna be the campaign: "These Republicans are gonna come in and they're gonna undo everything we've done that's finally now taking us out of this deep problem that was worse than we ever knew. We had no idea how bad this was. We knew it was bad, but they hid it from us, and it's taken much longer than we expected for our policies to start showing a positive impact." I know how this is gonna go. You're probably upset that I'm giving it away. No. If anything, folks, they'll change the campaign now that they know I'm on to it. One thing I know about marketing campaigns: They are to be executed, not explained.

So the regime does not like me explaining this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110510/bs_yblog_thelookout/employment-rate-for-black-men-at-record-low

Times Change: Budget is Hot News

RUSH: As I pause and reflect, there are massive changes that have taken place, just in terms of what is not only acceptable content for this program, but in fact what might be considered necessary. Now, there's a news story today that had it happened any time in the first 20 years of this program, if I had spent time on it, I would have received calls from various program directors carrying this program all across the country, like Tyler Cox at WBAP in Dallas, Laurie Cantillo at WABC in New York, Robin Bertolucci at KFI in Los Angeles. They would have all called, "What are you doing? If you keep this up we're gonna have to make a change." And it would have been talking about anything to do with the US budget. It was death. Talking about the US budget was something only people 80 years old and older cared about.

And look at today. There's a poll out. Marist has a poll and they're a bunch of lefties. This is stunning to me. According to the latest Marist poll, Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling by more than two to one. Okay, that's interesting in itself. And when you only measure people who have actually been following the issue, the numbers reason more lopsided. But get this. This is what's amazing. "A majority of Americans, 57%, say they are closely following the news

about discussions related to the debt ceiling." I can tell you that 22 years ago that number would be less than 5%. Ten years ago it would have been barely 50%. In the 1995 budget battle you might have had some interest in it for a short period of time. This is stunning to me. It really is, in terms of what's mattering to people. And it goes to a point that I have believed for a long time. Just as it's a violation of conventional wisdom to say that Obama is eminently beatable, I think the majority of this country is us. We just don't see it reflected anywhere. But we are the majority in this country, Tea Party conservatism, particularly if you look at the way people live their lives. We are categorized each and every day as the fringe, but we are not. We are the mainstream.

The way we believe. The way we live. The philosophies, the morality, all of it, we are the mainstream of this country. And it's reflected in any number of places, if you want to accept it. It's a tough thing for people to accept because they don't see it reflected anywhere. They watch a movie and they don't see the way they live reflected as respectable, admirable, or even normal. They read a book, same thing, listen to music. They look at who the White House invites to come read poetry. It ain't from the majority of the country. It's from a genuine true radicalized fringe, the media. The mainstream media is not the mainstream media any longer. The mainstream media is in the minority now. You have to add them all up together, but even when you do that they're nowhere near as large and penetrable as they used to be. It's been amazing for me to chronicle this.

I mean it would have been death for me to talk about this Marist poll at all. It would have been pointless for me to even try to convince you that it was worth knowing about, that it was worth you being interested in. And now here we are, in a leftist poll, the Marist, 57% of the American people are following it, and it's two to one. It's two to one that people do not want this debt ceiling raised. People ask me, "Well, how do you stay so optimistic?" This kind of stuff, these hidden little jewels out there, you're not gonna see this reported in traditional media outlets. You're not gonna see it heralded. This is a problem for our, quote, unquote, opponents or enemies. (interruption) No, I'm not in the business of taking credit, Snerdley. I'll be glad to accept credit, but I'm not gonna go out there and take it. (interruption) Well, it may have started when I talked about baseline budgeting and so forth, but I think the real factor here making this relevant is life experiences.

People are finally now living the disaster that for 20 years we have been predicting would be brought about by liberalism. They're living it now. People are a little bit more sophisticated than they're given credit for. There's no inflation we're told. Why? "Well, because you can't include food or energy prices. Traditionally they're left out of the inflation calculation because price fluctuations are too volatile, they're never stable enough." Oh, really? So the fact that gasoline's over four bucks a gallon, and hamburger's gone up by two bucks a pound, we gotta throw that out? "Yeah, yeah, you can't factor that in inflation." Well, you may not, but the way it causes us to live means we cannot avoid it, so we know there's inflation.

So a majority of the American people know they're being lied to or misrepresented, misinformed, or even better, they now know what's happening that they're not being told about. That's been one of the key powers the mainstream media has always had. It's not just what they reported and how they commented on it. It's what they chose not to report. It's what they did not consider to be news. Even the young people of New York are catching on and moving out of the state. And who was leading that trend? Remember when I said to David Paterson, the governor -- well, I didn't say it to him specifically, but I said, "Look, if you guys are gonna raise taxes, I will lead the exodus out of town." And David Paterson, the then-governor of New York, said, "Hell, if I'd-a known that's all it took to get rid of Limbaugh, I'd-a raised everybody's taxes sooner." Everybody went, "Wow, that's clever. That's funny." But in the meantime young people under 30 are telling pollsters they can't hack it in New York. In the next five years if things don't work out for 'em, they're splitting the scene. They're going to places where job opportunities are more plentiful, housing prices are more reasonable and what have you. So it all ties in here, this notion Obama's unbeatable, that the country's lost. It's not.

Don't Pander to Win Hispanic Votes

RUSH: This is Jeff in St. Louis as we kick off. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hi.

CALLER: Mega dittos.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.

CALLER: Quick question. How do you see the pending demographic shift in this country working for the GOP with the shift to more and more Hispanic voters who are traditionally Democrat-leaning.

RUSH: How do I see that affecting Republicans, did you say?

CALLER: Yeah, in the future. You know, with the Democrat shift going to more and more Hispanic or to just traditionally Democrat, how do you see the GOP fighting that and molding their message to gain some of that demographic vote?

RUSH: Very simply. You talk about unconventional wisdom, this is it. In fact I was in a conversation not long ago with a high-ranking Republican and a high-ranking Democrat, and they were talking about reelect 2012 and what each party was gonna have to do with this group and that group and this group and what they had to do to get the votes of this group and I held up my hand, and I said, "You know what, I don't understand you guys. I can't relate to you. That's why I couldn't be in politics 'cause I don't look at people this way." I think human beings are human beings, and I would go after the Hispanic vote the same way I'd go after the white vote. I'd go after the Hispanic vote the same way I'd go after the female vote. What I would not do is take a group and say, "Okay, what do you guys want? Oh, you want X, okay, fine, I'll give you that, here's my speech for you," and next go over to the women, "What do you women want? Well, okay, here's my speech for you," then hope the other guys don't hear it.

I couldn't categorize the country: the Hispanics, they have a tendency to vote Democratic, because of what? Okay what do we have to do therefore to get those people? I couldn't do it. That's why I will stay here and be on the radio. And I told these two guys, these ranking Republicans and Democrats, who were basically asking me similar opinions to your question, I said, "I can't answer it that way because I don't look at the country this way. I don't look at this country as group A, group B, group C. I think a message of individual liberty, freedom, rugged individualism, basic conservatism, the message of founding of this country will appeal to every human being who hears it if the message is presented with no excuses with confidence, energy and leadership."

So I'm sorry. I'm sure I'm letting you down with your question. But I really don't have an answer. 'Cause I would not pander, I would not say, "Okay, we've got Hispanics, whatever somebody's gonna tell me they want." "Well, Mr. Limbaugh, this is why you will never win an election because the Hispanics want amnesty for every Spanish speaking person." No, they don't. I don't believe that's true. If every Spanish speaking person in this country wants amnesty for illegals, I'll eat my hat. I just don't believe that. And if that's what they want, there's no hope the Republicans can ever get them because if the Republicans offer that, they lose their base.

And I think all these questions are actually traps, and I gave you people a little insight not long ago about how I think and I gotta be very careful here -- consultants in the broadcast business can do harm, particularly in television. And I think political consultants can do the same kind of harm because what they'll apparently do quite readily is decide that candidate A can't be himself on issue A. Go ahead and be yourself on issue B, but on issue C, no, we gotta come up with something else for you to say. This is why there is so much timidity in candidates, why there is such a reluctance to be forthright and honest, because somebody's told 'em, "If you say that you're gonna anger that group over there." I can't do that, as one who does not look at people as victims. I do not look at people as members of groups.

When I do this radio program I guaran-damn-tee you I have never once said, "Okay, how do I attract the 18-year-old crowd?" To the chagrin of program directors all over the country. I have never once said, "What do I need to do to attract women?" I do that naturally. I don't look at it that way. I believe people are people. I think there's some universal messages. I think good radio is good radio. Smart, honest politics is smart, honest politics. And if you have the right message for people that live in this country, want to be Americans, I don't think you need to categorize it.

RUSH: Now, I want to go back to our caller in the last hour who asked me -- Snerdley, it's Open Line Friday. Do you think that was a setup call? Do you think that was a call attempting to entrap me, the host? You remember the question. What should the Republicans do about the Hispanic demographic? You don't think so? Okay. He's worried that the Republicans are going to blow the Hispanic demographic. Well, he might be like a lot of people, then, who think the Republicans -- this caller thinks that if we don't get the Hispanic vote that we don't win anything, and if we don't get the Hispanic vote, that we're never going to win. So how would I advise the GOP to get the Hispanic vote? And you heard my answer.

Now, that again, you talk about being gamed and being set up, unfortunately the media is setting that premise, and we've got people on our side that just fall right for it, are willing to accept the premise and go into a 100% defensive mode. But I'll just say again, I'm not the one to answer that question because I don't look at it that way, and I guess this is one of the reasons why I could never do politics. I just don't have the ability to categorize people. I don't have the ability to tailor a message for a finite group of people and then another message for somebody over here or that group. I'm not made that way. I couldn't do it with a free conscience. And I don't think I would be genuine at all, so I couldn't do it.

Hispanics do not vote in lockstep. In Texas they vote Republican. They vote in droves for Republicans in Texas. Now, if I recall correctly, Democrats got 60% of the Hispanic vote in the 2010 midterms. We'll have to double-check that. But that's only 60%. The premise of the caller was that we get none of it. Okay, so we got 40% of the Hispanic vote in the midterms and we weren't even campaigning, we didn't even have a message. That vote was purely anti-Obama. That vote was purely anti-Democrat. So 40% of the Hispanics, on their own, voted against Democrats.

See, I believe -- and you may call me naive -- but I believe Hispanics want jobs, too. And I'm pretty sure Hispanics have to buy gasoline. And I know that they have to buy hamburger. (interruption) I have just been asked if I understand the fear that if we're not careful, the Democrats could coalesce the Hispanic population as they have the black population and end up getting 90% of the Hispanic vote every election, and if we don't do something, the Republicans don't do something as a party, then the Democrats are gonna succeed at that. No, I don't concede that. I don't concede anything. I do not concede anything. I don't concede any segment of the audience doing this program.

I'm sorry, folks, I don't think this way. I know that they buy hamburger. I know they buy gasoline. I know that they need health care. I know we've got some stereotypes that Democrats are trying to turn as many of them into dependents. I know that's going on, there's no question that that's the battle. The thing is, I don't think we have to convince Hispanics or any other group to become conservative because reality will do that. Ultimately that will happen. It's one of the many advantages of being on the right side of the truth. It's racists like Harry Reid who say that people of Hispanic heritage will never vote Republican. We don't say that. Dingy Harry is out saying things like that. We are a party of converts.

You know, once upon a time, ladies and gentlemen, it was an indisputable truth that Southerners would never vote Republican. It was also an indisputable truth that Catholics would never vote Republican. Now, the bad news for the Democrats regarding Hispanics and blacks and any other minority that they pander to is that eventually people get tired of being forever doomed to being helpless and poor and downtrodden. At some point everybody ultimately wants to take their fate in their own hands. Now, I know what you're shouting at me. "Wait a minute, this hasn't happened in the black population." Yeah, it hasn't. I think that's a special consideration, and I do not see the same set of circumstances existing with the Hispanic population here that existed with the black population. We've never had Hispanic slavery, for example. We do not have institutionalized hatred of this country being taught in Hispanic households.

We don't have to give up on this. There's no reason to cede this. The Democrat Party does not like independent thinkers, and they don't like people who want to take fate in their own hands and run their own lives. I might remind you, it was a conservative Hispanic who beat Harry Reid's son for governor of Nevada. So I don't fall for all of this conventional wisdom business. I'm just telling you, I believe that I could go where Obama went. I believe I could go to El Paso, and I believe I could do a standard Rush to Excellence appearance, and I'll bet you I would have no problems being appreciated, being applauded, being understood, without having to pander one time to 'em. Just talk about America, as founded, the freedom, the prosperity, the opportunities, how it's accessed, how it's happened, give examples. They may not have heard it before. They may not be accustomed to it. (interruption) Well, anywhere, Snerdley. Los Angeles. I just said El Paso because that's where Obama went. (interruption) Well, yeah. I've routinely done it in Los Angeles. Well, not routinely, but in the early days when I was doing the Rush to Excellence Tour.

My point with this is that I believe that the message of conservatism is a universal pro-human message. It is the essence of what this country is all about. And I believe that Hispanics, there are enough of them that want to be genuine Americans and that they can be reached. I don't believe this notion that every damn one of them wants to be a member of the welfare state. I just don't accept it. I know that's the battle, the Democrats trying to create as many dependent people as possible. So I may not be the guy to give you the answer you want on how to politically deal with various demographics, how to get the Hispanic vote, 'cause I don't think that way, which is why I am not in politics.

RUSH: San Antonio, Texas. This is Nick, and it's great to have you with us on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Same here, Rush. It's the greatest honor to speak with you right now, for me being a Hispanic man and openly saying I'm the biggest fan of you. I want to get on the topic because I heard you on the radio right now and it just really got my blood going in a good way, but yet in a way to a point where when I was listening to you, it's like, how much does Rush really know about his fan base of the Hispanics? I mean what I'm trying to get at is just like, Obama's promised so much to the Hispanic voters but yet he's never done nothing for them. Your word is actually being heard by the Hispanics. You're being heard by us.

RUSH: Well, what was it I said that got your blood going in a good way?

CALLER: Well, just, you know, hearing you, you know, the Hispanic voters, you know, just on that --

RUSH: Let me help out. Was it when I was saying in response to a question, how would we protect the Hispanic demographic --

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: -- as Republicans, I don't look at 'em that way, they're Americans, they're human beings, I just approach them with the right message, I don't look at people as members of groups? Is that what you're referring to?

CALLER: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

RUSH: Well, thank you.

CALLER: See, the thing is, you know, Hispanics, we're not really into the whole politics thing, but we do listen to what the politicians are saying, and that's what the words, for example, Obama, his words are what got the Hispanics to vote for him. But yet we don't ask for much.

RUSH: Well, look human nature is human nature. This is the big problem with the Democrat Party and liberalism. I don't care who they're speaking to, they'll promise anybody anything. And they do look at people, in fact, they want people to be victims, and they want people to think they're victims because the Republicans have made them that, and the Democrats will say, "We'll give you this. We'll give you that. We'll protect you here." Doesn't matter whether they follow through on it. I don't know why they still get 90% of the black vote. Black people, for as long as I've been alive, have been complaining about the same injustices and the same economic problems. They've been voting Democrat for as long as I've been alive and they're not improving. The Congressional Black Caucus goes up and complains to Obama, "Look, male unemployment, African male unemployment, 54%, what are you doing?" They want more money. They're not innocent here. They're just looking for more money for themselves, but the point is it isn't getting better. The Democrats don't make life better for anybody other than themselves.

CALLER: Right. Agreeable. But, see, here's the problem with the Republicans. They need to step up, because, like I said --

RUSH: And do what?

CALLER: Well, they need to start going out there and they need to start being aggressive. They need to be aggressive, especially if they want to start winning back their votes. I mean I'm pretty sure that Hispanics never really gone with the conservative way and they've always listened to the liberal, but still, time to step up.

RUSH: Well, but --

CALLER: Go out there and start attacking and start going after these votes, because we Hispanics, even the gay votes, it don't matter, any votes out there that were turned on by Obama's words, they're not there no more. Now step up and start attacking. Go after it. You know, don't let this vote go away 'cause one thing of experience, Rush, is that once a Hispanic gives up on a politician, they won't go back and vote. They won't. And I know this from experience because I've always preached to my parents, my family --

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: -- we need to keep on going, we need to vote.

RUSH: Well, here's what I know. Hispanic governor of New Mexico, Hispanic governor, Nevada, Hispanic Senator, Florida, all Republican. This notion that they're just one way of thinking is absolutely wrong.

RUSH: You know, whether you're talking about Hispanics or any other quasi-minority group, one of the truths of life is that the Republicans are never gonna be able to outbid the Democrats with freebies. It's never going to happen. To go down that road is an absolute loser, a total waste of resources and time. It's a waste to even make the Hispanics or whatever minority group you're talking to think that you're gonna enter the contest. There's no way. The Democrats will give away the country to get those votes, which is what is happening. It is a mistake to pander to minority voters in that way, period.

This is one of many reasons why I've always disagreed with the Republican idea of illegal immigration, how to reform it, which is basically amnesty. It's a race for those voters and it's disingenuous. It's an insult if you ask me. I think these people are smart enough to figure out what's happening. When you hear Obama talk about a path to citizenship, which, you know, at a campaign stop at the Hispanic prayer breakfast yesterday, Obama said a path to citizenship is a moral imperative. That's amnesty. That's what he means. Now, just think about that for a moment. Think about how out of whack Obama's moral compass is if he really believes that, if he really believes that amnesty is a moral imperative. Well, whether he means it or not, he's saying it, and he wants them to believe he means it.

There's no way the Republicans can outbid that. It is silly, therefore, to even get in the game under that pretext using those rules. And I fear that many on the Republican side think that that's how they are going to have to compete for Hispanic voters. The Democrats, the aggressors in any conflict set the rules. The Democrats are offering the store, Democrats are offering freebie here, freebie there, whatever. Institutionally the Republicans can't outbid because they will never give more than the democracy would be willing to 'cause the Democrats will give the country away, in terms of destroying our fiscal solvency. They'll do it. We can't. We won't. It's silly to even target Hispanic voters that way. I wouldn't.

Just the way I approach each of you as members of this program's audience, and that is with a profound respect for your intelligence, your awareness, the fact that you're informed and involved, that you're engaged, and to not be condescending in any way, shape, manner, or form, to look down upon you or to think that you're incapable of understanding something I would say. I think there's too much of this that goes on in politics in terms of wooing voters, and of course the Democrats have it as a policy, to dumb down. They did it in the education system, and this has to stop. And you don't compete with it by being Democrat-lite. It isn't gonna work. They're not gonna be persuaded anyway. Meaning whatever minority happens to be the target, they simply won't be persuaded. The Democrats are who they are. There's plenty of evidence of it.

You're not gonna get all of them, don't misunderstand. The objective here would be to bust up the near monopoly, which is not now. I mean the Democrats in the midterms in November got 60% of the Hispanic vote. That's not 90. That's not the percentage that the Democrats get of the black vote. What do you think would happen in a presidential race if the Democrat candidate only got 75 or 80% of the black vote instead of the 92%? It would make a pretty big difference.

Boston study shows that students with a lot of absences do not do well in school:

http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-13/news/29540686_1_elementary-schools-chronically-absent-students-students-with-high-absenteeism

Frustrated with Obama, Hispanic Voters Might Stay Home in 2012

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/05/10/frustrated-with-obama-hispanic-voters-might-stay-home-in-2012/

McConnell says, the price for raising the debt ceiling limit will be trillions of dollars of cuts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43021185/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/mcconnell-sets-terms-debt-ceiling-vote/

What the GOP can learn from Canada's Conservatives

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/what-gop-can-learn-canada-s-conservatives

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.

Cato Institute’s Downsizing Government

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/

Cool blog with a lot of excellent articles:

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/

Slimeball comics:

http://slimeball-comics.blogspot.com/

Anti-Fox, anti-conservative “news and opinion” site:

http://www.newscorpse.com/

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/

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

http://www.overcomingbias.com/

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

http://afrocityblog.wordpress.com/

These are some very good comics:

http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/

Helps for liberals to call conservative talk shows:

http://radio.barackobama.com/

Sarah Palin’s facebook notes:

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

 Media Research Center:

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

Must read articles of the day:

http://lucianne.com/

The Big Picture:

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

Talk of Liberty

http://talkofliberty.com

Lux Libertas

http://www.luxlibertas.com/

Conservative website:

http://www.unitedliberty.org/