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This Week’s Events

The President is pushing for a return to the lending policies which destroyed our economy.

The president has also called for Israel to return to its 1967 borders, and, according to the Guardian, he will ask UK Prime Minister David Cameron to back him in this. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to back Obama on this, and I suspect the Cameron will follow suit.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) announced Friday he would introduce a congressional resolution disapproving of President Obama's stance on Israel's border lines, saying that "threatens Israel's security."

Google is reportedly setting aside $500 million to resolve a case with the Justice Department alleging that the company cashed in-to the tune of hundreds of millions-on paid ads from rogue online pharmacies. No charges have been filed—I do not know if this is even illegal—but, apparently Google is going to cough up a half a billion dollars to get the government off their case.

Republican Senators block President Obama's nomination of Goodwin Liu to serve on the very liberal 9^th Circuit United States Court of Appeals (if memory serves, about 90% of their rulings are overruled, whereas, only about 10% of appeals are successful). Although such a block of nominees was begun by Democrats against Robert Bork (with insane demagoguery by the late Senator Kennedy), this has become more and more of an issue, as the courts have begun to legislate more and more from the bench.

Herman Cain announces his run for the presidency; I heard that he only has $16,000 in his war chest so far. However, on FoxNews Sunday, he said he has more than on hand, which will not be revealed until it is required to be.

Sarah Palin purchases a home in Arizona.

There is a new bill in the Senate about 401(K) retirement plans (also known as the Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage, or SEAL Act). You will be limited to borrowing 3 loans at a time against your retirement plan (that is according to 2 online reports I ready; I got the impression from FoxNews that this was a 3X limit overall). In any case, there are more potential regulations regarding this plan potentially coming our way. It is legislation like this which makes me wonder—just where do they come up with ideas to do these things? I am not aware of some movement across our country calling for reforming 401(k) plans.

There are demonstrations in the streets of Spain, as it is time to vote, and it appears as though the socialists may take a drudging. Socialists are being blamed for Spain’s dying economy.

Saudi Arabia’s religious police detained a woman for driving and encouraging other women to drive.

A helicopter plucked Western and Arab diplomats from the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen on Sunday after the mission was surrounded by armed supporters of Yemen's president.

The president has called for $2 billion in loan assistance to go to Egypt.

Jihadi Zachary Chesser, 21, was sentenced earlier this year to 25 years in federal prison following his guilty plea to making the "South Park" threats as well as providing material support to terrorists. It turns out that he was a volunteer for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign (he did decide not to vote in the U.S. election, according to court records).

Tennessee Senate passes bill to forbid schools talking about or teaching that some people prefer same-sex partners.

Michael Steele might work for MSNBC? Say it ain’t so, Joe!

George Soros, besides contributing $48 million to various news organizations, has set up a site which will go after FoxNews advertisers, in order to ruin their revenue.

Anything goes, keep your hands off my body, San Franciscans get anti-circumcision measure on their ballot. People who circumcise a minor could get a $1000 fine and a year in jail.

Say What?

Liberals:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "There's no need to have a Democratic budget in my opinion. It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage."

Ed Schultz: "You see, being from the south, you know what these code words are all about. To say something about food stamps is not about white folks, it's about black folks. There's no question about it."

Herb Kohl: “A 401(k) savings account should not be used as a piggy bank.”

Senator Richard Blumenthal, speaking in favor of confirming Goodwin Liu to the bench: "There is no Asian-American member on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

Harry Reid noted of Goodwin Liu after meeting with him: "The court of appeals is where law is made, and we need the finest minds in the world for that."

Sally Kohn, on all of the waivers issued for Obamacare: “It proves that it [Obamacare] works.”

President Obama: "Since April 4, U.S. participation has consisted of: (1) non-kinetic support to the NATO-led operation, including intelligence, logistical support, and search and rescue assistance; (2) aircraft that have assisted in the suppression and destruction of air defenses in support of the no-fly zone; and (3) since April 23, precision strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles against a limited set of clearly defined targets in support of the NATO-led coalition's efforts." Translation: “I do not need Congressional approval for what I am doing in Libya.”

President Obama: "We do not want a democratic Egypt to be saddled by the debts of its past. So we will relieve a democratic Egypt of up to $1 billion in debt and work with our Egyptian partners to invest these resources to foster growth and entrepreneurship."

Obama understanding that Israel cannot negociate with terrorists, and then urging Israel to negociate with terrorists: “Now, I have said repeatedly that core issues can only be negotiated in direct talks between the parties. And I indicated on Thursday that the recent agreement between Fatah and Hamas poses an enormous obstacle to peace. No country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. We will continue to demand that Hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace: recognizing Israel's right to exist, rejecting violence, and adhering to all existing agreements. And we once again call on Hamas to release Gilad Shalit, who has been kept from his family for five long years. And yet, no matter how hard it may be to start meaningful negotiations under the current circumstances, we must acknowledge that a failure to try is not an option. The status quo is unsustainable. That is why, on Thursday, I stated publicly the principles that the United States believes can provide a foundation for negotiations toward an agreement to end the conflict and all claims - the broad outlines of which have been known for many years, and have been the template for discussions between the United States, Israelis, and Palestinians since at least the Clinton Administration.” [emphasis mine] Luckily, this man only has 2 sides of his mouth to work with.

Peace protestor at Medina Benjamin’s small gathering: “Now we are working hand in glove with the Palestinian authority.”

Media Matters Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg (pretending to be a newsperson) tweeted: “I love hearing a terrorist [Netanyahu] decry terrorism.”

Dr. Addison Montgomery (played by actress Kate Walsh, a real-life Planned Parenthood activist), on ABC's "Private Practice," as a part of the show: "I hate what I'm about to do, but I support Patty's right to choose. It is not enough just to have an opinion, because in a nation of over 300 million people, there are only 1700 abortion providers. And I'm one of them."

Liberals from the past:

PBS host Tavis Smiley said on MSNBC: "I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic."

Goodwin Liu, blocked court nominee: "Judge Alito's record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance." Liu later apologized for this statement.

Liberals being civil:

Bill Maher, on the IMF rape scandal: "This could be a teaching moment, could it not for the teabaggers? Or maybe all of America - who don't understand that socialism doesn't mean we're going to come to your house and make you work on a collective farm. You know, in Europe, socialism is just another political party and it doesn't mean that we're against making a profit. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals and prisons, and the military, schools - and things that should not be run for profit." [emphasis mine]

MSNBC union guest Damon Silvers: “[Republicans] literally deny clothing to foster kids to give rich people tax cuts."

Liberals making sense:

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch: "I believed that then-Senator Obama would be as good as John McCain based on his statements at the time and based on his support of Israel. It turns out I was wrong."

Jon Tester on removing debit card swipe fees: “Now, I'm not asking to repeal these rules - or even change them. All I'm asking for is that we take a closer look - so that we truly understand all impacts, intended and unintended.”

Eugene Robinson (actually making a little sense): “They want an American where we take care of the elderly; we take care of the poor; we give them the retirement they thought they were paying for in social security...and we take care of their physical health. I think people are saying, they want that kind of America—they don’t necessarily want to pay for it.”

Crosstalk:

Conservatives:

Presidential candidate Herman Cain: "I have spent my entire adult life creating private sector jobs, so I know what it takes to get businesses hiring again. It's time for a return to our Constitutional principles of limited government and individual freedom, coupled with free market principles that have long made America the envy of the world."

Congressman Paul Ryan to David Gregory: “I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. Leaders change the polls, and we are leading in the House. We are not seeing this kind of leadership from the President of the United States. The Senate Democrats haven't even proposed or passed a budget for 753 days and we have a budget crisis. So, yes, we are going to lead and we are going to try and move these polls and change these polls, because that's what the country wants.”

John Boehner: “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase. ”

John Boehner: "It's true that allowing America to default would be irresponsible, but it would be more irresponsible to raise the debt ceiling without simultaneously taking dramatic steps to reduce spending and reform the budget process. To increase the debt limit without simultaneously addressing the drivers of our debt -- in defiance of the will of our people -- would be monumentally arrogant and massively irresponsible."

Newt Gingrich: "You want to be a country that creates food stamps, in which case frankly Obama's is an enormous success; the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates paychecks?"

Rep. Elena Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "I am deeply concerned that the president did not rule out providing aid to Egypt if the Muslim Brotherhood is part of the government. The U.S. should only provide assistance to Egypt after we know that Egypt's new government will not include the Muslim Brotherhood and will be democratic, pro-American and committed to abiding by peace agreements with Israel."

Rand Paul "For President Obama to stand up today and insist that Israel should once again give up land, security and sovereignty for the possibility of peace shows an arrogance that is unmatched even in our rich history of foreign policy. If we could learn just one thing from our failures to impose policies on the Middle East over the years, it should be this: We aren't very good at it.”

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who is running for president, posted this message: "Pres. Obama: $2B in loan guarantees for Egypt'. Guaranteed with WHAT?? We're broke. Who will guarantee our guarantee??"

Charles Krauthammer on the end of the world: “You can eat red meat, you don’t have to exercise or floss.” [quoted from memory]

Robert Gates on information leaked about the SEAL operation: “There were too many people in too many places saying too much.”

Robert Mullins on the bin Laden raid: “It is time to stop talking—we have talked too much about this.” [quoted from memory]

Rush Limbaugh on Newt Gingrich apparently dissing Paul Ryan’s budget plan: “There is no explanation for this—I am as befuddled as anyone else is.”

Israeli-born Kiss Rocker Gene Simmons on Obama’s Israel Policy: "He has no f***g idea what the world is like"

Rush Limbaugh: "Obama obviously thought he was talking to a Republican, and he thought Bibi was gonna be like your average Republican: Just sit there and take it, and try to be nice, and not say anything, and let Obama get away with it all."

Rush Limbaugh: "We have to find a birth certificate for Netanyahu in Hawaii. We've gotta be able to establish that he was born in this country so he can run for the GOP nomination."

Rush: "Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall in the Oval Office today when Netanyahu shows up there? A fly with a great comprehension of Hebrew cuss words."

Rush: "The Arab Spring is an uprising against Israel. It's not a flowering of democracy."

Rush: "How many Middle East rulers has Obama now told to step down? Mubarak, Khadafy, and now Bashar Assad. Is this the same Barack Obama who used lecture us on how we shouldn't meddle in the internal affairs of other nations?"

Rush: "If the era of Reagan is over, then the era of conservatism is over. You cannot separate the two. You can't claim to be a conservative and out of the other side of your mouth say the era of Reagan is over."

Rush: "Mexican authorities found two trucks on the way to the United States which were crammed with 513 illegal aliens. So the Democrat get-out-the-vote campaign has already begun in earnest."

Rush: "At 3,000 bucks we almost could excuse Dominique Strauss-Kahn for thinking the maid was included."

Conservatives not making any sense:

Newt Gingrich: “I'm against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.” Newt was characterizing Paul Ryan’s budget as radical change. He has since tried to walk back his remarks, with limited success.

New Gingrich on this statement: "Any ad which quotes what I said Sunday is a falsehood."

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

There is no great democratic movement going on in the Middle East; this is about a war against Israel.

Must-Watch Media

What Herman Cain would offer the Palestinians for peace with Israel:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/05/22/herman_cain_would_offer_palestinians_nothing_in_peace_deal.html

Neil Cavuto interviews Herman Cain (7 minutes); Neil is a pretty funny guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy7Zn-f2zg8

Ban Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck from the airwaves; a petition on a college campus:

http://www.breitbart.tv/exposing-the-left-college-students-sign-phony-petition-to-ban-conservatives-from-radio/

Pat Condell on Osama bin Laden being taken in Pakistan:

http://www.therightscoop.com/pat-condell-justice-for-obama/

2.5 minutes of Herman Cain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ucUCCl0_E

Glenn Beck on Israel:

http://thedailybeck.com/2011/05/19/glenn-beck-tv-show-may-19th-2011/

Interviewer tries to get a straight answer to, “Do you support Hamas” from a group of American peace protestors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRDOzWpT000

Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart battling it out is always good:

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/20/oreilly-let-stewart-off-easy/

Israel-Arab conflict made simple:

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=63hTOaRu7h4

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “President Obama is now saying that recovery will take several years. We’re guessing at least 3 years after he leaves office.”

Jodi Miller: “The White House is urging that all cell phones accept presidential updates. Republicans refuse to support this, unless the texts all end with the letters lol.”

Jay Leno "Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? The only one that hasn't had three wives is Mitt Romney - and he's the Mormon!"

Conan O'Brien "Ron Paul is announcing for President tomorrow. He supports legalizing prostitution and heroin. His campaign slogan is Let's Just See What Would Happen."

Short Takes

1) Maybe I am now hallucinating. On FoxNews, I saw photos of the astronauts in space, and one had crazy hair, which I figured must be because there was no gravity. However, in a later story, there was another photo, and the astronauts are on the ground, and she still has crazy hair. But I cannot find a photograph of this.

2) I cannot recall who pointed this out, but the United States is one of the few places where a chambermaid’s voice is just as powerful as that of a wealthy powerful foreign diplomat.

3) What is this weird obsession with those on the left of Democracies returning land taken in war? Nations taking land, nations breaking up and nation consolidating has been a part of human history for 5000+ years of recorded history. Is there some reason why this ought to be reversed?

4) Why did Obama call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders? Because he does not know a damn thing about Israel.

5) You get a waiver from Obamacare if you have the right lawyer, a lobbyist or a political connection.

6) Did you know that GM doubled its spending on lobbyists since the bailout?

7) The Obama Media Complex likes Jon Huntsman because they are sure they can beat him.

8) For most of the past 70 years, liberals have controlled the media. FoxNews and Talk Radio have changed that. George Soros, for one, is spending a huge amount of money, to attack a lone media network. The stakes here are free speech and free press. They have not ever been higher. I am not aware of any person or organization which is out to, say, destroy MSNBC or CNN. FoxNews gets viewers the old fashioned way; they compete for them. When people watch FoxNews, they often realize, after a few hours, just how slanted the news has been everywhere else (Hannity aside).

By the Numbers

The Stimulus Law may have resulted in as many as 450,000 government jobs, saved or created. Simultaneously, a million jobs were lost in the private sector.

51.5% of African-Americans across the board (compared to 59.5% of whites) have a job. That's the lowest level for blacks since 1984.

Our government spends $7000/year per American Indian enrolled in a healthcare program.

Democrats filibustered Bush court nominations at least 10 times during his presidency. Republicans have filibustered only one judge nomination so far (Goodwin Liu).

The average senior pays $150,000 into medicare and takes out $400,000–450,000. Does this make sense to anyone?

12% is the average amount that a worker pays out of his own pocket for health insurance. No wonder we think it ought to be free.

Nearly 60% of parents provides some sort of financial support for their adult children.

JFK held a news conference every 16.4 days, where anything went

Polling by the Numbers

Suffolk University Poll:

What political reporter would you say that you trust the most? {OPEN ENDED}

Don't know                                     21%

None                                                15%

Bill O'Reilly (FOX)                           9%

Anderson Cooper (CNN)              6%

Other                                               6%

Sean Hannity (FOX)                       4%

Mike Huckabee (FOX)                   4%

Brian Williams (NBC)                     4%

Diane Sawyer (ABC)                      3%

Katie Couric (CBS)                          3%

Chris Matthews (MSNBC)            3%

Wolf Blitzer (CNN)                         3%

Tom Brokaw (NBC)                        3%

Megyn Kelly (FOX)                         2%

Rachael Maddow (MSNBC)         2%

Fareed Zakaria (CNN)                    1%

Howard Kurtz (CNN)                     1%

Candy Crowley (CNN)                   1%

Shepard Smith (FOX)                    1%

Ed Schultz (MSNBC)                      1%

George Stephanopoulos (ABC)   1%

Christiane Amanpour (ABC)         1%

Bob Schieffer (CBS)                       1%

Jon Stewart (COM)                        1%

Glenn Beck (FOX)                          1%

Elliot Spitzer (CNN)                       0%

John King (CNN)                             0%

Campbell Brown (CNN)                0%

Keith Olbermann (CURRENT)      0%

Joe Scarborough (MSNBC)           0%

David Gregory (NBC)                     0%

Gallup:

53% of Americans now approve of gay marriage.

A Little Bias

In less than 11 minutes, Rachel Maddow used the words “kill medicare” or similar phrasing 9 times when referring to Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.

George Soros spends over $48 million funding media organizations, including investigative journalism, industry associations, and even ombudsmen. He has also gone after FoxNews advertisers, in an attempt to destroy their revenue stream. Have you read this story anywhere?

CNN “newsman” Fareed Zakaria also privately advises President Barack Obama on foreign policy.

Saturday Night Live Misses

Got to admit; the cold open was quite good.

Obama-Speak

Earned income tax credit = an unearned income tax credit = redistribution of wealth (this is, quite obviously, not original with Obama).

Questions for Obama

Why do Blacks and minorities generally do worse economically under Democratic administrations? Why is Black unemployment under you so high?

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

Does Obama have even the slightest clue about what is going on in Egypt or in Israel? His foreign policy seems to be fine, as long as he listens to his gnereals, but, when Obama goes off on his own, he makes little or no sense. There was constant fighting between Israel and other nations with the 1967 borders, so why would Obama want to return to them? Is he brainwashed? Is he stupid? Does he have any idea what he is suggesting?

You Know You’re Being Brainwashed if...

If you think the news today is even close to impartial.

News Before it Happens

This prediction has been made by others (like Dr. John in Flopping Aces): the coming election, from the Democrat controlled media, is going to be all about race. Anything a Republican says about Obama is racist or code words for racism.

Easy call: Israel is not going back to its 1967 borders.

There is a reasonable chance there will be an attack on Israel by an Arabic coalition of some sort within the next 2 years. They know that Obama will be unable to make a fast decision to lend support to Israel.

Democrat challenges to Obama will be all but ignored by the press. Many will be marginalized. Few or no debates will be held.

Expect widespread, all-out attacks against Republicans in general, and front-runners in particular.

The Democratic party and the Obama Media complex will try to make medicare the #1 issue of the 2012 campaign, without offering any real solutions apart from taxing the rich a little more (which is not a solution). Most media sources will not say anything about medicare being unsustainable.

Even though seniors will we untouched by the Ryan plan, it will continue to be dishonestly demagoged as an attack against seniors. No real alternate plan will be offered up by the left.

Although newspaper reporters heads would have exploded if George Bush did what Barack Obama is doing in Libya, expect very few stories on Obama’s refusal to seek congressional approval. The stories which do appear will support the president.

Where I was Wrong

Pretty much all my predictions related to Donald Trump were wrong, for which I am eternally grateful. His biggest miscalculation was, on NBC, he is carefully edited, and does not come off badly. However, out in the real world, unedited, he comes off as being as much of an egotist as Barack Obama. I did not want another president whose favorite word is I.

Another of Trump’s great weaknesses is, he appears to have a limited core of beliefs. Most conservatives, when questioned, know where they stand, and, ideally speaking, do not have ot give a memorized answer. However, when it came to actual issues, there was no telling what Trump might do. He is obviously a hands-on, in-charge guy. As a president without a well-defined core, that can simply end up being a man who amasses more and more power, so that he can direct more and more things.

Missing Headlines

Unemployment for Blacks at Record Levels

Obama Stimulus Plan Destroyed or Forestalled 1 million Private Sector Jobs

Soros Spends $48 million to fund media organizations

U.S. Government Blackmails Google

Treasury Sec warns, “End of the World!”

Treasury Sec’s “End of the World” Postponed

Obama Favors Return to Loose Lending Policies

Come, let us reason together....

Why So Much Hatred for the Jews?

One of the things which has given me great faith in the Bible is the hatred and lies about Israel. Because Jews have lived throughout the world and have intermarried with hundreds of different nationalities, most Jews are indistinguishable from Europeans, Arabs and Americans. If a crowd was made up of New Yorkers, Palestinians and Israeli nationals, I might be abel to distinguish some of the Palestinians because of their garb, but picking out the Jews from this crowd with better than a 50% correct rate would be unlikely.

I can understand prejudice against Blacks, Arabs and even Asians, because there are specific physical characteristics which distinguish them from others. Not so with Jews. Although they once looked physically different (I would assume), there has been so much intermarriage as to blot out physical differences, and yet, some groups—particularly Muslims—hate them, with a hatred I cannot relate to.

When Palestinians refuse to recognize a Jewish nation, when the Democracy crowds in Egypt express a desire to destroy neighboring Israel, and when the Iranian President describes pushing the Jews into the sea, apart from the Bible, this would make little sense to me. Simply saying, this is a hatred which goes way back is not good enough. That explains nothing. As recently as 30 years ago, Jews and Palestinians lived side-by-side, with little of the overt anger which we find expressed today (I know some Palestinian girls who grew up in Israel).

We’ve been at war with the British, the Japanese and with Mexico; I harbor no ill will toward any of these people, and most of them harbor no ill-will to me. So, simply saying, this is just a long-standing hatred is not a good enough explanation.

Hatred has to be taught, whether in school or by parents, and I have seen dozens of examples of anti-Jewish and anti-American footage, some designed for children as young as 2 years old, and that is where this hatred comes from. Why do some films and television programs exist? It is because the Jews are God’s people, and the Bible has described them in that way for the past 3000+ years.

God told Moses: “And I will walk among you and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. ” (Lev. 26:12).

There is a lot which is taught in the Old Testament, but one thing is clear, some people would hate the Jews; some people would despise the Jews.

There are many things taught about the Jews in the Old Testament. For one thing, they will exist till the end of this age. Do you know any Assyrians? Do you know any Chaldeans? Do you know any Dorian Greeks? Of course not. Even if there genes have been perpetuated, we wouldn’t know. But, you do know some Jews. That is because God is going to preserve His people. The children of Israel are mentioned twice in the book of Revelation, in the section which is about the end times.

Most people have absolutely no idea of even the relative size of the Jewish nation. First of all, a recent poll showed that huge numbers of students believed that there was more than 1 Jewish nation (they thought there were 10 or 20 Jewish nations); and most people have no concept of the relative size of Israel. Israel occupied approximately 0.2% of the middle east region—not 2% but 0.2%. To hear Palestinians, Iranians and Egyptian citizens talk about it, you’d think the Israelis occupied half of the middle east and were threatening to take more.

Palestinians lob thousands of rockets into Israel each year, and yet, people continually equivocate the Jews and the Palestinians, as if they stood on level moral ground.

Very little of this makes sense, unless you know a bit about the Old Testament. Then Hitler makes sense—a man possessed or influenced by Satan would certain have a deep and abiding hatred for Jews. The huge uproar in the Middle East about this postage stamp of a country then makes sense. Abject, almost inexplicable hatred, makes sense. As long as you understand, these are God’s people.

Then you can understand the religion of Satan which is also known as the religion of peace. This is why many Muslims see Israel as the little Satan and the United States as the big Satan. The Jews are God’s chosen people and the United States is made up mostly of Christians, who have been redeemed by the death of Jesus Christ on the cross.

When you look at things from the Biblical perspective, then 17,000 attacks by Muslims throughout the world (since 9/11) makes sense.

Implacable hatred for Jews makes sense.

This is why there are so many on the left which support the Palestinians over Israel. They are simply blinded by the god of this world.

Furthermore, the prosperity of the United States makes more sense as well. Because God promised Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.”

Why the Job Market Feels So Dismal

The number of hires is the same today as it was when we were shedding jobs at record rates.

By Edward P. Lazear

Why don't American workers feel that the labor market is on the mend? After all, the May 6 jobs report could suggest that the labor market is improving. Nonfarm employment rose by 244,000 and employment growth over the last three months is averaging over 200,000 per month. With unemployment at 9%, employment is still down many millions from where it should be, but up from its recession lows.

The fact is the jobs numbers that create so much anticipation from the business press and so many pundit pronouncements do not give a clear picture of the labor market's health. A better understanding requires an examination of hires and separations, or what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data. Here are some surprising facts:

First, the increase in job growth that occurred over the past two years results from a decline in the number of layoffs, not from increased hiring. In February 2009, a month during which the labor market lost more than 700,000 jobs, employers hired four million workers. In March 2011, employers hired four million workers. The number of hires is the same today as it was when we were shedding jobs at record rates.

We added jobs because hires exceeded separations, not because hiring increased. There were 4.7 million separations in February 2009. In March 2011 that number had fallen to 3.8 million. The fall in separations reflects a decline in layoffs, which went from 2.5 million per month in February 2009 to 1.6 million per month in March 2011. One small piece of good news is that the just-released April data showed hires up about 2% over last year's average and 12% above the low reached in January 2010.

The decline in layoffs is not unexpected and does not necessarily reflect labor-market health. Layoffs tend to occur early in a recession. When an economy has reached bottom and has already shed much of its labor, layoffs slow. But that doesn't mean that the labor force is recovering. We could have high unemployment and a stagnant labor force even when layoffs are low. Isn't the fact that hires exceed separations indicative of a healthy labor market? Unfortunately, no.

At any point in the business cycle, even during a recession, American firms still hire a huge number of workers. That's because most of the action in the labor market reflects "churn," the continual process of replacing workers, not net expansion or contraction of employment. The lowest number hired in any month of the current recession was 3.6 million workers. Even during the dismal year of 2009 there were more than 45 million hires.

Bear in mind that the U.S. labor force has more than 150 million workers or job seekers. In a typical year, about one-third or more of the work force turns over, leaving their old jobs to take new ones. When the labor market creates 200,000 jobs, it is because five million are hired and 4.8 million are separated, not because there were 200,000 hires and no job losses. When we're talking about numbers as large as five million, the net of 200,000 is small and may reflect minor, month-to-month variations in the number of hires or separations.

The third fact puts this in perspective. In a healthy labor market like the one that prevailed in 2006 and early 2007, American firms hire about 5.5 million workers per month. Recall that the current number of hires is four million and it has not moved much from where it was two years ago. The labor market does not feel like it is expanding if hiring is not occurring at a recovery-level pace-and that means at least a half million more hires per month than we are seeing now.

The combination of low hiring and a large stock of unemployed workers, now 13.7 million, means that the competition for jobs is fierce. Because there are now many more unemployed workers, and because hiring is only about 70% of 2006 levels, a worker is about one-third as likely to find a job today as he or she was in 2006. It is no wonder that workers do not feel that the labor market has recovered.

One final fact is worth noting. Healthy labor markets are characterized not only by high levels of hiring, but also by high levels of separations. Although it is true that the importance of quits relative to layoffs rises during good times, even the number of layoffs was greater in the strong labor market of 2006-07 than it is now. No one would suggest that layoffs are good for workers, but what is good is a fluid labor market, where workers and firms constantly seek to produce better products and to find more efficient ways to produce them. High labor market churn is a characteristic of a strong economy. It generally means that workers are moving to better jobs in growing sectors that pay higher wages and away from declining sectors that pay lower wages.

Allowing maximum flexibility encourages fluidity and means that employers are willing to hire workers who lose their jobs elsewhere. Many European countries have restricted mobility by imposing severance pay penalties on employers that lay workers off. More than reducing layoffs, these rigidities make employers reluctant to hire because of the penalties that they will later incur if a layoff is necessary. Such restrictions are in large part responsible for the chronically high rates of unemployment that have been prevalent in many European countries.

The prescription for the American labor market is simple: low taxes on capital investment, avoidance of excessively burdensome regulation, and open markets here and abroad. We must create a climate in which investment is profitable, productivity is rising, and employers find it profitable to increase their hiring rate. These are the mantras that economists have chanted in the past. But they are our best bet for ensuring a dynamic and growing labor market.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576317142210698436.html

The Most Absurd Cries Of Racism

by John Hawkins

If you just assume EVERY cry of "racism" in politics is illegitimate, you'll only occasionally be wrong. That's a consequence both of liberals thinking all conservatives are racist, sexist, homophobic and generally awful people by virtue of being conservative and because yelling "racism" is at the crux of the Left's political appeal to black Americans.

Black Americans have been voting heavily Democratic for almost 50 years and it has been an utter and complete disaster for them. Never has any constituency in American politics been so loyal to a political party with so little to show for it. Yet, all the Left has to do is say, "Those Republicans are racist," and it locks in 90% of the black vote. Until black Americans stop falling for the single most transparent ploy in all of politics and start basing their votes on who supports policies that will actually make their lives better, that's not going to change.

So, with Barack Obama coming up for re-election in 2012 and the Democrats knowing black turnout is one of the keys to his re-election, expect the charges of racism to be practically endless between now and November of 2012. And, folks, as you're about to see, when it comes to extremely silly charges of racism, there are practically no limits to how far the Left will go.

1) Resigning over the word "niggardly:" One day, David Howard was working for the government of D.C., but then, he used the word "niggardly." The next thing you know, such a furor rose up that Howard had to resign because so many ignorant people didn't know the difference between the word "niggardly," which means stingy and the N-bomb.

Eventually, after D.C. became a laughingstock over the incident, Howard did get rehired by the same mayor who originally said he "thought it was the best thing for the city and the administration" for Howard to resign. For using the word "niggardly." Yes, really.

2) Black hole, black whore, whatever! It was a cutesy talking Hallmark card for graduating high school students that referenced the solar system and a black hole. Who could have a problem with that?

It turns out the NAACP did because it insisted the words "black hole" on the card were actually "black whore." That makes perfect sense, right? After all, the words "black whore" obviously go with solar system references much better than the words "black hole" -- oh wait, no, they don't. Too bad no one alerted the NAACP.

3) Black Barbie is cheaper than white Barbie? Must be RACISM! It all started with Wal-Mart cutting the cost of "black Barbie" to almost half that of the "white Barbie" and next thing you know, people were publicly worrying about whether we "value blackness less than whiteness."

Of course, that explains it all! Somewhere in Bentonville, Arkansas, in the bowels of Wal-Mart headquarters, someone said, "Let's degrade the self-worth of black children all across America by slashing the prices of black Barbie dolls!" It was a clever plan, Wal-Mart, but not clever enough!

4) You own a gun because you're a RACIST! There's a reason the 2nd Amendment is called the most racist amendment....ehr, as far as I know, nobody actually calls it that. But, they might as well if Michael Moore is right.

    .I am loathe to bring up what is in our head because we don't like to talk about it so much. But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this needs to be said. That imaginary person that's going to break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know, it's not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that's not what really, that's not what really people, we never really want to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how it's the poor or it's people of color that we imagine that we're afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it's been a fear that has existed for a very, very long time.

So, there you have it. You bitter gun clingers bought your weapons of death because you're racists who imagine black people breaking into your house.

5) Will those water buffaloes ever shut up? It all started with a gaggle of annoying sorority women at Penn disturbing people by being deliberately loud. Among other people, one Eden Jacobowitz yelled out of his dorm room window at them. Unfortunately for him, instead of cursing, he got creative and called them "water buffalo."

A few minutes later, the campus police were in his dorm room. Soon thereafter, Penn was prosecuting him for racist "hate speech." Fortunately for Jacobowitz, the story got national attention, including on the Rush Limbaugh show, and instead of his getting steamrolled, the sorority women dropped the charges and ambled off into a mudhole or whatever it is that water buffaloes normally do to relax..

6) If the first name you think of when you hear the word "slave" is LeBron James, you might be Jesse Jackson. LeBron James, who was practically the king of Cleveland, humiliated Cavs fans with the way he left the city. Predictably, this spurred a wave of loathing from Cleveland sports fans and an angry written tirade from Cavs' owner Dan Gilbert.

This gave Jesse Jackson a chance to do what he does best -- get TV coverage by accusing people of being racist.

    (Gilbert's) feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship - between business partners - and LeBron honored his contract.

The amount of money James left on the table by fleeing Cleveland? As much as $133 million. If that's slavery, a lot of Americans are probably wondering where they can sign up.

7) Dallas is playing a prank on us, right? "Devil's food cake" is racist? When the name of the game is pretending to be offended by racism, there are always a few people who are willing to go that extra mile to find an affront. One such person is Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price.

Initially, John Wiley Price got upset because one of his colleagues used the "racist" term "black hole." He actually asked for AN APOLOGY for the use of the word. The next day, as the controversy grew, Price added "devil's food cake" and "black sheep of the family" to the lexicon of racist words we should apparently never say. At this point, we have no word on whether "blackout," "blackball," and "dark chocolate" are all forbidden racist words, but the safe money would have to be on "yes."

Incidentally, John Wiley Price is STILL a Dallas County Commissioner and he made news earlier this year for publicly saying, "All of you are white. Go to hell" to some of his constituents.

All of these cries of racism are documented with hyperlinks at:

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/05/17/7_of_the_most_ridiculous_cries_of_racism_ever_made/page/full/

Add to this, David Gregory’s contention that calling Barack Obama the most successful food stamp president ever is code for a racist comment.

Preaching to the Unconverted

by Bill O'Reilly

President Obama once again addressed the Muslim world, urging the Middle East and North Africa to institute economic reform, treat their people with dignity and generally clean up their acts. The president promised economic help for Egypt and Tunisia, and generally laid out a roadmap for Arab countries to succeed in the modern world. Mr. Obama was well-intentioned, but naive.

A new Pew poll says that most Muslims in the world do not like Mr. Obama despite his aggressive outreach. Over the past two years, his approval rating in Muslim nations has dropped dramatically.

In Egypt, just 20 percent of the population now likes Barack Obama. That is down from 27 percent. In Jordan, just 13 percent of the population approves of Mr. Obama, down 12 points in two years. And in Turkey, an anemic 10 percent of the population is supportive of Mr. Obama, down 4 points.

The question is: Why?

The answer is complicated, but does reflect my opinion that there is a Muslim problem in the world.

The United States and the West are largely secular societies that believe in human rights. The Muslim world is centered on religion, and many Muslims believe if you don't worship Allah, you are an infidel and, therefore, you don't deserve human rights.

In fact, in certain parts of the Muslim world, if you are not the proper sect of Islam you can be persecuted and even killed. That divide is enormous, and children all over the Middle East are being taught that infidels and women are not worthy of decent treatment.

In addition, you have the Jewish situation. Because the USA supports Israel and many Muslims hate Jews, we are tarred by that hatred. It is centuries old. It is not going away any time soon.

The USA has poured trillions of dollars into the Muslim world, fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan designed to liberate those people from tyrannical governments. But apparently, the vast majority of Muslims are not grateful. They despise President Obama as much as they hated George W. Bush.

Despite that, Mr. Obama is doing the right thing in trying to convince the Muslim world to get into the real world, to compete economically and stop persecuting their own. But American policy cannot be based on hope, and, thus far, Mr. Obama has not been confrontational with countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that are hurting the USA by supporting terrorists. To be fair, there is little the president can do about it. We need Arabian oil and we need access to Afghanistan through Pakistan.

Here's the sad truth: There is a Muslim problem in the world and it's getting worse.

And that's "The Memo."

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/bill-oreilly-preaching-unconverted

Newsweek does a good story on the Taliban in Pakistan:

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/15/the-taliban-s-plan-for-an-epic-afghan-surge.html

Employment for black males is at a record low:

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

Money supply chart and article:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/money-supply-charts

Alternate inflation chart and explanation:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Alternate unemployment chart:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

Alternate value of the dollar:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/dollar-index-charts

Alternate gross domestic product chart:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/gross-domestic-product-charts

Unofficial Obama adviser Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, organized a small demonstration in Washington, D.C. this week to demand that the U.S. terminate military aid to Israel.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36739

Surprising CNN money headline:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/05/22/cnnmoney-headline-florida-and-texas-governors-jobs-pssing-match

Additional Sources

Obama wants to return to lending policies which ruined our economy:

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

Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations

http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Soros_Spends_Over__Million_Funding_Media_Organizations_.html

Gallup Poll on gay marriage:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/us-gay-marriage-poll-idUSTRE74K0B520110521?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&rpc=22&sp=true

SF to ban circumcision?

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2011/05/18/circumcision-ban-makes-will-be-on-sf-ballot/

Nearly 60% of parents provide some sort of support for their adult children:

http://blogs.forbes.com/jennagoudreau/2011/05/20/parents-provide-financial-support-money-adult-children/?feed=rss_search

[I like Newt Gingrich and would love to see him debate the president, but he makes little sense here]

Newt Gingrich Calls the Show

RUSH: We welcome back to the EIB Network Newt Gingrich, who joins us on the phone from Iowa. Hello, Newt. How are you today?

GINGRICH: I'm doing great. We've had two great events in Waterloo and in Marshalltown, and in both places we had to actually move the venue because so many people were coming out to the meetings; and we were talking about the Pelosi Obamacare waivers, and it's getting a very powerful reaction.

RUSH: Did you...? Before we get to that, did you have a chance to hear any of the President's speech this afternoon from the State Department on the Middle East?

GINGRICH: No. No, I have not and --

RUSH: Well...

GINGRICH: -- I'll have something to say about it once we've analyzed but, honestly, I have just not looked at it yet.

RUSH: I won't ask you about that, it wouldn't be fair, but I'm sure you'll have some comments on it. Let's try to cut to the chase here. There seems to be some confusion over your position -- or people's understanding of your position -- on the individual mandate, and it goes back to Meet the Press on Sunday where you seemed to say that you were for a mandate, then later said you weren't; and it sounded to some people like you were being critical of Paul Ryan when you used the term "social engineering" to describe parts of his Medicare solution in his budget. What is "social engineering"? What does that mean to you? I'm not sure I understand.

GINGRICH: Well, can I just take the two one step at a time?

RUSH: Yeah.

GINGRICH: David Gregory brought up an 18-year-old interview, in 1993, on Hillarycare, which we were in the process of defeating. And in 1993, the conservative alternative to government-run health care was you buying your own insurance. Now, I still have not seen the total interview. What I should have said to him is, "Gee, why don't you play the rest of the interview? Let's see the context of that conversation," but that was an 18-year-old tape about a totally different fight when we were trying to stop Hillarycare from taking over health care.

RUSH: But, Newt, I've got some quotes from you from 2004 and 2006, I think, basically advocating the same principle that it's not fair that somebody should be treated if they don't have insurance.

GINGRICH: (garbled) I'm giving a speech in New Hampshire next week outlining how we can apply the Tenth Amendment to solving health problems and how we can use patient power and do it with zero mandates. No federal mandate, no state mandate. This is a topic [John] Goodman and I

worked on now for a decade. He's probably the leader -- you know John well -- of this kind of solution. I'm opposed to any federal mandate. I do not believe any state should adopt a mandate. I think there are ways to solve the problem without a mandate. But we're trying to solve three things: Preserve American freedom; ensure that people can have health care; and have some sense of responsibility that if you do get health care, you ought to pay for it -- which is the opposite of the liberal position that you ought to have free health care and somebody else ought to take care of you. So I think that's a very... That position is very clear.

RUSH: Okay, what was the point of the Republican --

GINGRICH: And by the way, I talked with Paul Ryan about this two days ago and I look forward to very much to continuing to work with him -- and, as you know, I endorsed his budget. I wrote a newsletter endorsing his budget. I think it's a very courageous step in the right direction. He concedes that the Medicare part of it is the beginning of a conversation. It's not a final document; it's not the last bill, and I want us to have an approach which allows everyone in the country to be engaged, to understand that it is a better Medicare system that is fiscally gonna survive and that -- if designed right -- will lead to more innovation, more choices, and better outcomes.

So, I think he and I are pretty much on track. What I was trying to say that day -- and I was answering a very specific question by David Gregory which, by the way, had nothing to do with the budget vote. I would have voted "yes" on the Ryan budget. It had to do with this question -- and I'd be curious, Rush, to hear your answer. "If there was a major change that affected the lives of every American..." and not necessarily in Medicare, "...a major change that affected the lives of all Americans, and the party in power had failed to convince the American people that it was the right thing to do, should that party impose that change against the will of the American people?"

RUSH: No, but you've just described the entire Obama administration agenda.

GINGRICH: Right, and all I was trying to say that day was: It's fundamentally wrong for Obama to try to impose a left-wing America against the will of the American people. I believe as a center-right majority we are the will of the American people. I believe we can get a majority for what we want --

RUSH: (sigh)

GINGRICH: -- but that's not what David Gregory asked me. He said, "Would it be okay for us to impose against the will...?" It was a very specific question he asked.

RUSH: Newt, this is very difficult. You're on a cell phone, and because of that you can't hear questions I'm trying to ask you. So this is a bit frustrating for me 'cause I want to go back to three or four answers ago. You yourself said that it was the conservative position in '93 to support a mandate. The Heritage Foundation even had a paper back then supporting a mandate in opposition to Hillarycare, as you said, 'cause they were trying to eventually get to single-payer. Heritage later said: You know, it's not workable; it's not constitutional; it doesn't work out.

I know that's what Gregory was asking you about, but still: People can produce quotes from more recently than 1993 of you advocating posting a bond or having a mandate that people buy insurance, under the premise that it's not fair that somebody not buying insurance should be able to waltz into an emergency room and get treated. So the question is: Why, back in 1993, was it the conservative position to support a mandate in opposition to Hillarycare?

GINGRICH: I think we went through a long evolution, and I've been part of that. I mean, I'll be clear: I think I've reached conclusions different over an 18-year period than I would have in 1993. In '93, we were narrowly focused on trying to beat Hillary, the Hillarycare project. We weren't thinking fundamentally about resetting the country, and I give Heritage a great deal of credit, and I give John Goodman at the National Center for Policy Analysis a great deal of credit.

They, more than anybody else, began the process of thinking through: "If you were not gonna mandate because it's wrong -- at either the federal or state level -- to impose that on people, how could you design a system that encouraged people to be fiscally responsible, to pay for the things they got, and at the same time enable them to buy health insurance if they wanted to? I've consistently said all along: You could never impose a universal mandate. You'd have to have alternatives that allowed people to find ways to not be forced into buying insurance, because I'm very aware of the fact that there are substantial number of people...

I have a good friend who's a Christian scientist, and she said to me, "You know, it would violate my religious freedom for you to impose on me health insurance since I don't believe in using it." Now, I thought... That, frankly, I thought was a very compelling argument. That was part of the evolution as we thought this through, and in the speech I'll give next in New Hampshire I'm gonna outline the patient power model that John Goodman has been building; and I'm gonna suggest that we want to apply the Tenth Amendment to return most of these decisions back to the states and to recognize that Washington has been a grand failure at trying to solve health care in a centralized way.

RUSH: Now, look, this is really uncomfortable for me because you know that we've known each other a long time and I've had such -- and still do -- profound respect, admiration, and even envy for your intellect at times. But there's just some things that are confusing me. There's a June 2007 op-ed in the Des Moines Register, and you wrote, "Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it."

An "individual mandate," you added, should be applied "when the larger health-care system has been fundamentally changed." The reason why all of this matters now is that 26 states are suing the Obama administration over the Commerce Clause violation of an individual mandate, and yet it appears that there are some on our side who have also supported this, and your appearance on Sunday with Gregory... I know he was going back to 1993, but when you answered it also with the "social engineering" side of it. I don't think it's good left or right, that's why people thought that it was a slam at Paul Ryan.

And so that's why this stuff is there and is not going away, because it seems that they can go back into archives and find where you have continually supported it even since 1993, and in the current context of us opposing all of Obamacare because we think the fastest way to beat it is to knock down the unconstitutionality of a mandate it just offers confusion here -- and that's why people are constantly asking you about this. What they want is a satisfying, reassuring answer. They just don't want to think you're not conservative anymore, Newt.

GINGRICH: Well, look, let me say a couple things that you can verify. When Bill McCollum as attorney general took the lead in the 26-state suit, I actively personally supported him. I encouraged him. I spoke out in his favor. I helped him get coverage. When [Virginia Attorney General Ken] Cuccinelli took the lead was the first person to file a lawsuit, I actively encouraged him and supported him. At the Center for Health Transformation we have been wrestling for nine years with the question: How do you have an affordable health system when you realize if you talk to hospital administrators, people have been taught over the last half century that health is their right, and they don't have to pay for it. So you have people who earn 75 or a hundred thousand dollars a year who won't pay their hospital bills. They just say, "I'm not doing it," and we were wrestling with what's the technique? How do you find personal responsibility without infringing on people's liberty.

RUSH: Right.

GINGRICH: As I said, my conclusion ultimately was that these various efforts were going to work -- and I have opposed the Obamacare proposal largely from the Center for Health Transformation for two and a half years. The three best charts destroying Obamacare's credibility all exist at HealthTransformation.net, and they combine, have 115 square feet of charts that you put up a wall. They're amazing. We did all that work, and we actively, aggressively have opposed Obamacare at every stage.

RUSH: All right. Newt Gingrich is with us.

RUSH: We're back with Newt Gingrich here on the EIB Network. Okay, we want everybody to be responsible for their health care, but you now oppose mandates. So how do we solve that?

GINGRICH: Well, John Goodman has developed an entire approach in which he would give everyone the same tax break if they wanted to buy insurance, and the people who didn't want to buy insurance wouldn't be compelled to. Their share of the tax break would go into a high-risk pool. And if something did happen to them, they would then be eligible for the high-risk pool, but they would also be limited to the high-risk pool. And so they wouldn't have -- you wouldn't have -- an automatic assumption that you would be able to go be taken care of except through the high-risk pool because you'd made the voluntary decision you wanted to live at risk. He wrote a book several years ago called Patient Power and we began meeting at the American Enterprise Institute about these ideas in about 2001 -- and he's really, I think, probably the leading student of developing a personal freedom approach to how you solve the health problem.

RUSH: "The health problem" in a lot of people's minds exists precisely because of government, and therefore to a lot of people -- and I'll throw myself in with them -- the government's the last place the solution to this problem should be. The government messed it up; the government continues to mess it up. There's no evidence or proof that people in government are any smarter than people in the health care business to fix what's wrong. Why do we continue to accept the premise?

I mean, you're in a little bit of a trouble here simply because everybody's accepting the premise put forth by the liberals that government must fix, must police, must control health care because only they can do it fairly. We've gotten ourselves into a circumstance... I saw a statistic the other day that explains why we're in this mess. Of every $1 spent on health care, only 12¢ is paid for by the patient. Imagine, Newt, if you only had to pay 12% of every meal you ate. You wouldn't care what it costs, and that's where we are now, and government has created that circumstance.

GINGRICH: You're right.

RUSH: Getting government out of this is the solution to it.

GINGRICH: Right, and that's why my program will be among the most bold in American history at saying -- not just on this topic, but of many other topics -- we have to have a fundamental break with the last 80 years going back to 1932; that we've had a steady migration towards Washington and a steady migration towards bureaucracy, and a steady migration towards redistribution -- and if we're serious about stopping it, this will be the most decisive break since 1932. I wrote a book in 2002 called Saving Lives & Saving Money, which made exactly your argument.

It said: No third-party payment model ever works because you'd never have the buyer-seller relationship, and you only get satisfaction when the person getting this good or service is paying something and the person who's providing the good or service is getting something and they're looking each other in the eye and the system works. Now, how you migrate back to that is very complicated and you have to do it in a way that the country understands it and will accept it. So in Medicaid I will be proposing that we implement the Tenth Amendment by block granting all Medicaid back to the states, letting the states figure out what to do with it and recognizing that Washington has failed and that we need the experiments of the governors and the state legislatures trying to solve health for the poor.

RUSH: Okay, so you're signing on with the Ryan plan, essentially?

GINGRICH: Oh, yeah. I signed on for that part of the Ryan plan from day one. I've advocated consistently from day one, and, you know, I --

RUSH: What did you call to apologize to him for?

GINGRICH: I have talked to him for years; and my wife, Callista, has known him since he was an intern. We're big fans of Paul Ryan. But the second thing I would do, though, is I -- and this is the part of what probably got me in trouble so let me be very open about it. I believe we are better off as conservatives who believe in markets, to design choice for people so people can make the decision that this is better for them.

And when I was chairing the Medicare taskforce in '96, we initially designed Medicare Advantage to be attractive to people, so they would voluntarily go to it. Well, 25% of all seniors have found Medicare Advantage to be something they like. We began building in health savings accounts, 'cause we want people to decide they like controlling their own money. I would like to see Congressman Tom Price's bill, which allows private contracting on a voluntary basis. I mean, one of these we learned in 1996 with extensive focus groups is senior citizens love to be allowed to choose.

They hate to be forced to choose, and so you want to say to them, "If you would like to have private contracting, if you would like to be allowed to spend your own money, if you're in a position where you'd like to do things your own way, why wouldn't we give you that freedom? We don't have the government require you to buy a government house after 65 or go in a government vacation or pick up a government car. So why not liberate Medicare to the point where seniors can choose?" and then the marketplace -- doctors, hospitals, pharmacies -- they've gotta organize competitively. So it's a more desirable future to accept the conservative personal choice option over the government bureaucrat-control option.

RUSH: Okay, now, I need to ask you because this is something you said on Sunday with Gregory that you didn't believe in "left wing or right-wing social engineering." What is that? Define social engineering for me.

GINGRICH: It's very straightforward. It's when the government comes in and tells you how to live your life and what you're gonna do, whether the values that lead it to do that are left-wing values or the values that lead it to do that are right-wing values. I believe in personal freedom. I believe in your right to lead your life. I believe that we are endowed by the Declaration of Independence, by Our Creator with the right to pursue happiness --and I want a government that is much more humble about its ability to tell you what to do, whether it's people on either side of the ideological spectrum. By the way, it was not a reference to Paul Ryan. There was no reference to Paul Ryan in that answer.

RUSH: Well, then what did you apologize to him about?

GINGRICH: Because it was interpreted in a way which was causing trouble, which he doesn't need or deserve, and was causing the House Republicans trouble. One of my closest friends -- somebody I truly, deeply respect -- e-mailed me and said, "You know, your answer hits every Republican who voted for the budget." Well, my answer wasn't about the budget. I promptly went back and said publicly, and continue to say: "I would have voted for the Ryan budget. I think it's a very important first step in the right direction," and I have consistently said that from the time that Paul first briefed me on it weeks before he introduced it -- and I've been talking with Paul Ryan about budget matters for the last four years.

RUSH: Well, that's good because it's probably the most single unifying thing in the Republican Party today. The Republican Party has got an internecine war going on, and Ryan's budget proposal seems to be the one thing that all these differing factions agree on, so it's crucial. Newt, I've got precious little time left here, and I just want to take the time to thank you for making yourself available today. I appreciate your coming on and subjecting yourself to these withering questions.

GINGRICH: Listen, any time. Any time. I'm honored and I'm grateful to have the time to do it.

RUSH: All right, Newt Gingrich on the campaign trail in Iowa.

RUSH: I got a note from a friend in San Francisco listening to that, they made a good point here that if you legislate for universal health care, you have to have a mandate. That sounds like a simple throwaway, but I mean it's actually simple brilliance. And of course Obama is legislating for universal health care. Everybody on the other side of the glass has got a very distracting, excrement-eating grin on their faces. You're happy? All right, I'm glad you're happy in there. All right, fabulous you're happy. You think it was a good interview and you're happy with that. Okay, cool. Well, thank you. What did you expect?

But the bottom line is if you legislate for universal health care you have to have a mandate. That one sentence explains what Obama's doing. You have to have a mandate. But at the same time if you've come out for that yourself in the past and try to walk it back and push a different plan, then you're gonna have trouble being critical of Paul Ryan, which, whether he was or not, the perception on the part of the American people was that he was critical of Paul Ryan. So I don't know. It's a tough situation. Really is. It's just like I said to him, when you boil it all down, what people want to know, what people want to be reassured of is that Newt's conservative. They see him on the couch with Pelosi and at a joint press conference with Hillary and some of these other things, they just want to know that he's a conservative, pure and simple.

RUSH: Here's Robert in Greenville, South Carolina. Great to have you, Robert, at the EIB Network. Welcome, sir.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Hey, real quick before I get to my reason for calling. Your conversation with Newt reminded me of a prediction I made yesterday about him, and it kinda goes along with his track record. That's why I think it's consistent with him. I would not be surprised if when the primaries get to upstate New York he may convert to Judaism. You know, he's been known to convert from his faith several times over the years, and so that might be a campaign slogan he might use --

RUSH: Well, I get the point that you're trying to make there, but we'll see.

CALLER: Okay, anyway, the reason I called, though, is I lean towards Herman Cain. I like him a lot until he, you know, does something really stupid, which I don't think he will. I'm really leaning toward him. I'm a big FairTax supporter, and I also like Michele Bachmann, and I think they're both long shots and I would love to see, now that we're in a new century, things have changed considerably the way elections are done, the campaigns are run --

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I don't think anybody is a long shot right now. Folks, we're going to have get our heads straight on something here. Throw all this polling data out. Throw all the fundraising out and stop -- and, by the way, it's a suggestion, consider this an admonition. We are 18 months away. Look at what happened to this DSK guy. In five minutes it's the end of his career. Whether he's been set up or not, I don't care. The next president of France is in jail with no bail. That's how fast things can change. It's so easy to get caught up in all this conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is what? The conventional wisdom is that Romney's the front-runner, he's got all the money, now that Huckabee pulled out and whoever else -- (interruption) Who? Yeah, Trump. Well, Trump was never in. See, this is what I'm talking about. Trump didn't pull out 'cause he was never in.

Everybody's a long shot. There's nothing that says Herman Cain can't win this thing. There's nothing that says Rick Perry in Texas can't win if he gets in. Bachmann, she could do it. What's Palin gonna do? She's still lurking out there, who knows, everybody's assuming she not gonna run. Who knows? I guarantee you if she gets in this thing, you throw everything you've got out the window here in terms of what it means.

Official Obama Criticizer Branded "Inappropriate" by Michael Steele

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, in what I think is a first, let's go audio sound bites 18 and 19, Mike. In what may be a first, we have a formal complaint lodged against the Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley. Bo Snerdley was recently utilized on this program last week as the Official Obama Criticizer, and it was as though it had happened for the first time. Now, we've been featuring the Official Obama Criticizer for close to a year, if not more on this program, but something about last week's version of the Official Obama Criticizer has rubbed 'em wrong out there, particularly your translation for brothers and sisters in the hood. The complaint is that there aren't any of those listening to the program. Of course, the left and the media are on this kick now that there's racism everywhere, and really racism and race-baiting has its home on the left. But there's a show out there called Redding News Review.

Now, when I first saw this, I said, "Wow, they've come a long way." Redding is a little town in Northern California. The population might be five. I said, "What is anything coming out of there making national news for?" So I did a little due diligence, I looked into this, and I found the Redding News Review has nothing to do with Redding, California. It's some guy named Rob Redding and his program is syndicated. Whose isn't? And Rob Redding interviewed the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. And Redding says, "Okay, Rush Limbaugh is wildly thought to be a racist." No, accused, baselessly so by members of the left when they can't come up with anything better to criticize me for. But nevertheless, "Rush Limbaugh is wildly thought to be a racist. You've gotten into, as Snerdley would say, his grill several times, and you were repudiated for it within the Republican Party. Is Rush Limbaugh a racist? Is he wrong for doing this satire? Yes? No?"

[Allen West on the right; our president on the left]

STEELE: I can't get into the heart of somebody and how they really feel about stuff. I'm not gonna sit here and say the man is a racist no more than I would say any number of other people who have said and done things over the last couple years or so that one could argue, make the same point. Rush Limbaugh, you know, provides a form of entertainment that is provocative, that is controversial, but that is based in politics and the political context, and I think that this satire falls into that box.

RUSH: So here's Michael Steele talking to -- who? Now, the thing is, I know Michael Steele. He knows me. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee. I went to Washington once for a Rush to Excellence Tour for our affiliate there, WMAL, not long after Michael had run for the Senate in Maryland, a campaign, by the way, in which I heartily endorsed and defended candidate Steele. Remember, he had those Michael J. Fox ads run against him that Claire McCaskill used against Jim Talent in Missouri. And at that WMAL Rush to Excellence Tour we bring people backstage. There's a reception line, shake hands, a couple pictures, and he was there. I was really flattered. Michael Steele of all people in line to say hello. So it's not as though he doesn't know who I am. It's not as though he doesn't know what we do here, and he's been a beneficiary of what we do here. We've been big supporters of Michael Steele. This is the second time he took the easy road. Now this guy Rob Redding, they're all upset about you, Snerdley, the Official Obama Criticizer. But of course it's my fault because I give you the forum. But Mr. Redding was not satisfied with this answer. He said, "Well, come on, Michael, is it appropriate or not? This criticizer bit."

STEELE: I thought it was highly inappropriate. I mean you don't need to do that. Now we're gonna translate this conversation for all the white folks out there? I mean this -- it's stupid. It's not something that, you know, furthers the conversation. You don't want to be in the business of turning people off the ideas. You want to turn them on to them.

RUSH: He clearly has no idea what happened. He has literally no clue what we were doing with the Official Obama Criticizer bit last week, none whatsoever. So he falls into the easy stereotypical response to all of this. So Snerdley, welcome to the club. You, too, are racist now. (laughing) It's exemplary and it's a illustration of a problem that people on our side have of hanging in and being tough. There's nothing here that has to be defended, only explained to people that are trying to mischaracterize it in the first place because it's effective. That is why they don't like it. It's effective. Back in March of 2009 Steele said (paraphrasing), "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer, his whole thing is entertainment. Yeah, it's incendiary. Yeah, it's ugly." We called him on that, he does the back-off and then calls here and apologizes and so forth.

Ruling Class Attacks Bachmann

RUSH: Let's move to this whole notion here of what's happening inside the Republican field and the fact that opposition research is now being conducted on Michele Bachmann. There is a little game -- I don't know if you've noticed this, but if you haven't noticed it, don't doubt me. Part of my job is to notice things before you do, and then tell you. It's called the cutting edge. I'm on it. I own it. There's a little game being played by the established Republican commentariate, what I call the inside-the-Beltway conservative intelligentsia, the Republican intellectual elite. It is aimed at muddling conservatism and discrediting, taking down, if you will, conservative Tea Party candidates in the Republican presidential primary process. The way to do it, by the way, is a page right out of the Democrat left's playbook.

Now, last week I mentioned and discussed at some length the argument that some were making that if conservatives demand candidates who are too pure, they can't win. I don't know if you've seen that, but it is effervescing out there. And it always does. We can't win with a conservative that's too pure, that's too rock-ribbed, that's too rigid. We need a conservative who understands that raising taxes now and then is a reasonable and sometimes intelligent thing to do. We don't want the kind of purity that says never raise taxes. We don't want the kind of purity that gives us the social issues. We need Republicans who aren't as pure, who will realize that sometimes you just have to stop talking about guns and abortion for the larger good of public policy. Well, today in the Daily Caller -- that's Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website, right? Tucker Carlson. There's a guy named Matt Lewis, and it's a takedown of Michele Bachmann in the Daily Caller.

In this case it's not because she's too pure. In her case it's because she is too impure. In other words, let's not support candidates who are unabashedly conservative because they can't win. That's the advice. Michele can't win because she's too unabashedly conservative. Palin can't win because she's too unabashedly conservative. On the other hand, there are no unabashedly conservative candidates in the field, when you get right down to it. This is what happens when you try to analyze politics and write about it, when you don't really understand conservatism and the Tea Party movement, and instead you get swept up in the Washington way and the mentality of "gotcha."

See, this whole notion of purity, the assault on purity is just another way of attacking mainstream conservatives. But conservatism -- I would say, speaking for myself -- conservatism is not about purity. It's about a philosophy. People get sidetracked, purity and all these other aspects, but conservatism is a philosophy. And all conservatives do not agree on all things when it comes to every issue or policy. However, there are fundamental and defining principles and views on life that do define and unite conservatives.

Now, let's look at Bachmann, just a quick peek here at Michele Bachmann. She is a favored target of establishment Washington. Now, that doesn't come as a surprise to you, does it? I mean you know that she's a target, you've seen it. It might perplex you as to why at this stage of the game. Look, I know we are in the Republican primaries and the battle is between ourselves now. It's understandable. But in establishment Washington Bachmann is a favorite target, and even to the point of talking about she's too short or she's radical or what have you. But in this case, in the Daily Caller piece, the attack on her is that she supported earmarks and ethanol. So the argument here, this is the reverse purity argument. The argument here is that she's not pure, and therefore not pure enough for Tea Party activists.

This is an attempt to alert the Tea Party that Michele Bachmann's a fraud, that she's really not one of you. She's out there trying to create support, command support from all you Tea Party people, but she's not one of you, she's not pure, she's voted for earmarks and ethanol. Okay, what else? Michele Bachmann has been a leading advocate for stripping $105 billion from Obamacare so that it cannot be implemented. Michele Bachmann was one of the early conservative leaders, along with Steve King from Iowa, trying to make sure that Obamacare was defunded. She heard the Tea Party, she heard everybody was taking it very seriously. We must not allow the thing to become law, or we must repeal it or defund it. Okay, here's $105 billion put in there, stealth way by Pelosi. She identified it. She wanted to strip it out of there.

She's a leading opponent of the continuing resolution theory of funding government. She steadfastly stood up and opposed the House leadership on funding the government two weeks at a time. She's a leading opponent of amnesty for illegal immigrants. She's a solid conservative on national security and defense. She's a leading activist for the Tea Party, and she's a major speaker at numerous Tea Party events. Now, all of that distinguishes her quite a lot from most of the candidates who are seeking the Republican nomination for president, or planning to. However, because she supported some earmarks and ethanol, she is said now by nonconservatives not to be pure enough for conservatives who are demanding purity and in another piece they'll say, demanding purity is a bad thing. But right now, she's not pure enough. Nobody can be everything to everybody.

On the big stuff, Michele Bachmann has flying colors when it comes to being defined as a conservative. It would be an incredible stretch to try to say that she's not a conservative. I think we've talked about earmarks, ethanol, those two things, considering everything else we face, that's chump change, but if you want to focus on those two things trying to say she's impure, that's what's underway, people on our side.

RUSH: Okay, let me finish with this Bachmann business here, and I want to get to your phone calls. So now she's not pure enough in the Daily Caller today because she has supported earmarks, and she's supported ethanol. So you Tea Party people are supposed to think from that she's not qualified; she's not pure; she strays from the course. Virtually all the other candidates who are running or who are planning on running, and who have served in public office have supported ethanol and earmarks -- whether at the federal, state, or local levels of government. In fact, some say you can't win in Iowa unless you do support ethanol. (For example.) I've had my own run-in with people on earmarks.

I have never been one to base my entire view of a politician on whether or not they supported earmarks, 'cause it's not that much money. I understand the moral aspect and I understand that earmarks open up the opportunity for blackmail and this kind of thing. I understand all the arguments about them. You know, McCain hardly a purist, made earmarks the centerpiece of a failed presidential campaign. It just ain't that big a deal! It certainly is not enough to disqualify somebody from being pure. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, one of the leading conservatives in the Senate, insists that earmarks are actually a more responsive way to reach the voters -- respond to the voters, the will of the people -- than leaving such decisions to unelected bureaucrats. He wants to spend the money.

He says (paraphrased): "Look, this earmark money is going to be spent. I'd rather the elected representatives of the people do it than some faceless bureaucrat at some agency or some president." That's his view. My point is not to defend earmarks. As is the case with everything else, put everything in perspective. We are sinking in red ink -- most of it to do with entitlements, much of it to do with Obama's massive spending on domestic programs -- earmarks in that scene play a minor role in the big scheme of things, just in terms of dollar amounts. The point is: Michele Bachmann fights the big budget items more relentlessly than most people do, which is why she's being attacked. Michele Bachmann focuses on the stuff that really matters in terms of dollars and cents and that's why he's under assault now. Now, ethanol? It's just a subsidy. I oppose all these subsidies where the government's trying to set national policy in one industry or another, and I think conservatives have something to explain when they support it and so forth, I really do. But it doesn't mean that Bachmann is not pure enough to be a good conservative, which is what they're trying to say about her now.

RUSH: Now, I'm just using today's attack on Bachmann -- and it is an attack. It's in the Daily Caller. I'm just using today's attack on Bachmann as an example of the way the game is played in Washington: Tear down conservatives for the kind of superficial approach to governing and philosophy that too many people have. These are dangerous times for the country. People ask me all the time, "Rush, how can there be such divisions within the Republican Party over this?" and I think I've got the appearance. You know, you and I, folks -- let's be honest -- we look at Obamaism and we see a threat to the nation.

We see this indebtedness, the uncontrolled spending. We know what it means for liberty and freedom, children and grandchildren. We are really afraid that the very structure of the country is under a purposeful assault. I don't think that many of the inside the inside-the-Beltway Republicans -- the Republican establishment people -- think that's the case at all. I think that's the reason for the big divide. It's no different than, "Okay, LBJ was president. He gave us the Great Society and a whole bunch of spending. We took over and we spent some, too, but not nearly as much," and it's just the normal cycle of things. Democrats run the show right now, and the objective is to get back in charge of spending the money.

I think that's where the establishment Republicans are. They're trying to get back in charge of spending the money. They don't see the threat. They don't believe the country is threatened, as founded. They drive around and go to Denver. They don't see the strip mall that's there ceasing to exist. They don't see the destruction of the country taking place. They just don't see it. They don't think anything is that bad. It's nowhere near that dire. "Yeah, we gotta get a handle on our spending. It's a little out of control. We gotta do something here on the debt. Yeah, we gotta solve health care but, no, no, no, no, this is not about turning this place into the Soviet Union or any of that," and I think that's the divide. That's my guess, anyway, and that's what it is: A guess.

Western elites skeptical Arab spring will bring democracy

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=32210

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.

The Minority Report (conservative blogging and news):

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/

Shadow Government Statistic; excellent economics site (some information is free, but this is a subscription site):

http://www.shadowstats.com/

A George Soros funded site to go after specific Fox anchors through their advertisers (is there any parallel to this on the right?):

http://dropfox.com/

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: