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This Week’s Events

5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the East Coast, near the nation’s capital, and felt all the way up to New York.

Hurricane Irene crawls up the eastern coast of the United States, dropping a lot of rain and doing considerable damage.

The president cuts short his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard by a day. A day later, he decides to take charge of hurricane command center, issuing warnings and having meetings.

Federal agents raid several Gibson Guitar factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Apparently, the concern is, these guitars are being made of illegally harvested wood, although that is not clear, as the Feds are keeping mum on the reasons for their actions. Companies can be destroyed by huge legal fees, in situations like this, whether they have done anything illegal or not.

Labor Day parade organizers in Wisconsin confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year's Labor Day Parade. Council president Randy Radtke says they will not invite elected officials who have "openly attacked worker's rights" or who did nothing when state public workers lost most of their right to collectively bargain.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg desires a 9/11 memorial and ceremony without religious leaders.

Teens put sexy photos of themselves on MySpace and their school disciplines them for it. The ACLU steps in and sues the school over this. The problem, as I see it, is the parents of these girls seem to be siding with the ACLU rather than with the school.

This, sex education in schools, and what has happened in other countries tells us the direction that we are going. Headline from the Blaze: “Graphic `Sex Box' for Swiss Kindergartners has Genitalia to Teach Kids that Sex is Pleasurable”

Steve Jobs steps down from Apple, probably due to illness.

New home sales are at a low not seen since 1963. New home loans are at a 15 year low.

President Obama issues executive order to create the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which will ensure that the entire U.S. government develops comprehensive strategies to drive and integrate diversity and inclusion practices. It will assist the different agencies in building a workforce that "respects individual and organizational cultures" by examining policy options, data trends and employee survey findings. Their goal is to eliminate demographic group imbalances in targeted occupations and improve workforce diversity. Specific groups which will be targeted: Hispanics, African Americans, American Indians, women and gays and lesbians.

Warren Buffett will host a fundraiser for President Obama next month in New York City.

On the other hand, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka warns that labor groups are planning to scale back their involvement with the Democratic Party. Color me skeptical, apart from the unions simply having less money to work this with next year.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to reimburse the state $350 million to cover costs of imprisoning illegal immigrants.

In Wisconsin, pro-union people super glue doors of Catholic school shut prior to Gov. Scott Walker’s visit.

The National Labor Relations Board is now requiring that businesses post information in the workplace telling employees about their rights to unionize. The NLRB recently shut down Boeing’s efforts to open up a new plant in a non-union state, which would have provided hundreds of jobs.

Jeffrey Immelt, head of U.S. Jobs Council, has his company, GE, joining forces with China to develop jobs in China.

It was revealed this week that employees of media giant Comcast have contributed more money to President Obama's reelection bid than employees from any other organization. The president has spent significant time with Comcast executives as of late, including during his time at Martha’s Vineyard.

The Center for American Progress, headed by Obama ally John Podesta, just released a report that blames Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America, whose views are being backed by millions of dollars. This "network", according to the news release, has worked hard to push narratives that Obama might be a Muslim, that mosques are incubators of radicalization, and that "radical Islam" has infiltrated all aspects of American society - including the conservative movement.

Affiliates of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation gave more than half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood in 2010, according to federal tax records.

The Associated Press revealed that the NYPD is using covert surveillance techniques "that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government" and "does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying." CAIR is outraged.

Remember that wonderful Democratic uprising that is going on in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood has been threatening to kill Israel's ambassador to Cairo if he does not leave the country. The radical Muslim group has been leading daily protests at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the envoy and a break in relations between Egypt and Israel. This reminds me of how I heard dozens of liberal commentators say that the Muslim Brotherhood wa s a very small faction in Egypt and would have little or no say in the new government.

Iranian authorities seized 6,500 copies of the Bible in northwest of Iran and, in another incident, officials burned 300 Bibles. A spokesman said the Bibles were confiscated to block missionaries who "are trying to deviate our youth."

Iranians across the country, along with other people around the world, held massive anti-Israel rallies on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan to show their opposition to the continued occupation of Palestinian land by Israel.

More than 1,000 Muslims marched Saturday in Berlin, Germany, chanting anti-Israel slogans to mark al-Quds Day, set by Iran following the Islamist revolution in the country.

Demonstrators who gathered for protests outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Friday not only called for the cancellation of Egypt's peace agreement with Israel and for the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador, but also called for the destruction of the Jews.

From Reuters: A research center near Tripoli has stocks of nuclear material that could be used to make a "dirty bomb," a former senior U.N. inspector warned on Wednesday.

In Malaysia, religious councillor Datuk Hasan Ali has set up a "faith-rescue unit" to look into problems faced by Muslims when they are exposed to the risk of losing their religious conviction through Christian proselytizing.

The Rebels have the momentum in Libya, and Kadhafi is in hiding. Although this is not big news, many of those in the resistance are Al-Qaeda-trained soldiers.

Libyan rebels have made it clear that they will not deport the Lockerbie bomber.

Somali Islamist rebels have beheaded at least 11 civilians in the capital of Somalia in the past two weeks

Filmmaker Michael Moore is desiring to fly to Iran and to express his displeasure of U.S. policy.

Al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, by a drone air strike.

Say What?

Liberals:

Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to students at the University of Florida: "This is the election of our lives. . . . The stakes have never been higher," she said. "We have to make sure that the extremists don't take control of our country...They are so controlled by the extremists in the Tea Party now, they would just let Pell Grants wither on the vine, because they really believe that people should fend for themselves. They believe, if you listen to (Republican presidential candidate) Mitt Romney, that corporations are people."

Al Gore: "We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it isn't finished yet, but we need to have an American spring. A kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change where people from the grassroots get involved again. Not the, you know, not in the Tea Party style." Just not real grass roots; just not grass roots movements that disagree with him.

The ACLU legal director Rebecca Glenberg. to the Pittsylvania Board of Supervisors: "The ACLU of Virginia has learned that opening invocations at the Pittsylvania Board of Supervisors meetings are consistently Christian in nature; that is, they explicitly refer to Jesus Christ. I write to inform you that such sectarian prayers by a government body violate the First Amendment under the clear precedent of the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and to ask that you cease the practice immediately."

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD): "There's another thing the press seems to not get. A lot of African-Americans that I've talked to, most of them say that they `feel this President has been treated unfairly.' They believe he has done every single thing in his power to try to create jobs, to try to make sure this economy moves forward. He's gone against just fierce opposition. I think, I mean if you look at the evidence, that's true. He's accomplished a lot in the short time he's been President. But the fact is, it has not been easy and will not continue to be easy."

Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and senior economic adviser to President Obama, Goolsbee: "Now, at the beginning of this year we get earthquakes, tsunamis, revolutions in the Middle East, European financial crises, now they even have earthquakes out of Washington, D.C. I mean, we've had a series of things that have put some heavy blows and slowed the economy back down again. But, I think it's a little - I don't think you want to confuse something that is way down and starting to grow out." Apparently, all of the greatest disasters have taken place during Obama’s administration.

Kerry Emanuel, an expert on the issue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "On a longer time scale, I think - but not all of my colleagues agree - that the evidence for a connection between Atlantic hurricanes and global climate change is fairly compelling."

Richard Tumpka: “We don’t have a short-term deficit crisis; we have a short term job crisis.”

Richard Trumka, president of union giant AFL-CIO, and member of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, may have gone a little off the reservation, when he said: "This is a moment that working people and quite frankly history will judge President Obama on his presidency; will he commit all his energy and focus on bold solutions on the job crisis or will he continue to work with the Tea Party to offer cuts to middle class programs like Social Security all the while pretending the deficit is where our economic problems really lie,"

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

NY Times columnist Maureen Doud: “WHY is it not a surprise to learn that Dick Cheney's ancestor, Samuel Fletcher Cheney, was a Civil War soldier who marched with Sherman to the sea? Scorched earth runs in the family. Having lost the power to heedlessly bomb the world, Cheney has turned his attention to heedlessly bombing old colleagues. Vice's new memoir, "In My Time," veers unpleasantly between spin, insisting he was always right, and score-settling, insisting that anyone who opposed him was wrong. His knife-in-her-teeth daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, helped write the book. The second most famous Liz & Dick combo do such an excellent job of cherry-picking the facts, it makes the cherry-picking on the Iraq war intelligence seem picayune. Cheney may no longer have a pulse, but his blood quickens at the thought of other countries he could have attacked. He salivates in his book about how Syria and Iran could have been punished.” And she goes on and on and on. The tough thing to decide is, should this be under the heading Liberal Civility or under The Compliant Obama Press Corps (which the president may pronounce as corpse).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/dowd-darth-vader-vents.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Forbes Magazine named Barack and Michelle Obama as the world's most powerful couple.

MSNBC cable host and fervent Obama supporter, Ed Schultz: “I've had lunch with President Obama. I mean, he calls me Schultzy.”

WTTG-TV reporter Tucker Barnes, covered in a greenish sea foam, which is probably ocean waters mixed with human waste: “Our chief meteorologist back at the station tells us that, that it is some sort of organic matter, I guess, uh, plankton or something, and mixed in with sand and salt. And I can tell you first hand that, it doesn’t smell great...never seen anything like it.”

MSNBC contributor Touré wonders on MSNBC if Hurricane Irene is an example of global warming. He speculated, "When you talk about an unusual weather event happening in New York and this sort of thing, is this really evidence of global warming to see this sort of a massive storm happening here?"

Liberals from the past:

Candidate Barack Obama on July 3, 2008, at a campaign event in Fargo, N.D.: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic."

Columnist and commentator Thomas Friedman: “Despite the carping by critics, I'm glad the president went on vacation because one of the most useful things he could do right now is play golf - a lot of golf - ...Obama is smart, decent and tough, with exactly the right instincts about where the country needs to go. He has accomplished a lot more than he's gotten credit for - with an opposition dedicated to making him fail. But lately he is seriously off his game. He's not Jimmy Carter. He's Tiger Woods - a natural who's lost his swing. He has so many different swing thoughts in his head, so many people whispering in his ear about what the polls say and how he needs to position himself to get re-elected, that he has lost all his natural instincts for the game. He needs to get back to basics.”

Liberal civility:

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D- FL): "Let us all remember who the real enemy is. the real enemy is the Tea Party. the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage."

Al Gore: “[When racist comments would come up in the course of conversations,] There came a time when people said, `Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that.' That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won; and we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better. And we have to win the conversation on climate."

Nearly forgotten son of Ronald Reagan, liberal Ron Reagan: "But the fact of the matter is . . . [Cheney's] a war criminal. Torture is a crime and this is a guy who can't travel to Europe anymore for fear of being - ending up in the Hague."

Several liberal bloggers spreading joy and love to their loyal opposition. I decided not to post these, as I would have to spend 10 minutes editing out all of the swearing. However, for those of you who think every sentence ought to be peppered with the f-word, enjoy:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-johnson/2011/08/28/daily-kos-week-review-hurricane-irene-early-christmas-gop

Crazy Muslims:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Iran believes that whoever is for humanity should also be for eradicating the Zionist regime (Israel) as symbol of suppression and discrimination." This is, of course, because "[Israel is an] infectious tumor and this regime full of rascality."

Abu Ibrahim on the Shoumokh Al-Islam jihadi forum: "Allah has struck New York and the capital city Washington by an earthquake as a punishment for their disbelief...[T]his earthquake is a warning to the crusaders to stop their infidel policy, abandon their crusader religion and convert to the true Islamic religion. If they don't listen and don't stop, Allah will strike them again by an earthquake or a hurricane. You have no other way but to repent and move away from your path that will take you to the abyss."

The leader of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement, Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah: "We stand by Syria's side and by the leaders to support them in their reform process."

Liberals making sense:

Richard Trumka, about the job’s council he sits on: "I don't know whether the commission's making a difference or not . . . it's a legitimate question whether that commission has done anything worthwhile."

Great headline from the LA Times:

On Day 938 of his presidency, Obama says he'll have a jobs plan in a month or so

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/obama-jobs-package-debt-deal.html

On Obama’s promise that his Stimulus bill would lower unemployment, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.): "I think if you asked them now they will say that was the stupidest thing that basically any administration probably ever said because that's not something they can necessarily control."

Representative Barney Frank, on the Same topic: "President Obama, whom I greatly admire . . . when the economic recovery bill - we're supposed to call it the `recovery bill,' not the `stimulus' bill; that's what the focus groups tell us - he predicted or his aides predicted at the time that if it passed, unemployment would get under 8 percent. That was a dumb thing to do."

Moderates:

Conservative Refocus’s Barry Secrest’s teenage daughter, who has very little interest in politics: "Dad, how is it that the President of the United States can take so many vacations, and you don't have the time to even take one vacation in over two years?"

Crosstalk:

CNN host Howard Kurtz: “Given the limitations in what we’ve seen in Obama’s governing style—he comes in late, his critics say he is too much of a compromiser, what does he stand for—[Did] the media blow it in portrayal of candidate Obama in 2007? Were we swept along by the emotion of the Obama oration ”

Thomas Friedman: “Way too soon to tell that.”

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Willie Geist: “Andrea, Alzheimer's runs in her family. Her mother had this problem as well. But she says she will carry on through the season, says she'll lean a little harder on some of her assistant coaches. And she basically said at points this season, she felt like things just weren't clicking right. So she went out to the Mayo clinic to get it checked out.”

Andrea Mitchell: “Well, she's handling this the way all of us fans, Pat Summitt fans, she's an icon for women in sports in particular. Title IX, you know, was so important as I was growing up.” Andrea was 25 when Title IX was passed.

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Chinese Student addressing Joe Biden: “Public speaking, and English public speaking, in particular, is getting all the more popular in China. So my question is twofold: First of all, what role has public speaking played in your life? Because we say that public speaking is the language of leadership. And secondly, what role do you think public speaking will play among our youth of the two countries and to our bilateral relations? Thank you very much. (Applause.)”

Vice President Joe Biden: “That's a very good question. Let me order my thoughts here to make this as brief as I can. The commodity that is worth a lot more than public speaking is sincerity when one speaks. I mean this sincerely now. (Laughter.) There are great orators that have come along in the world history who have been charlatans. So the most important thing to look to in a leader's speech is not the elegance or the rhetorical flourish of his or her comments, but the judgment of whether or not you believe they are sincere in what they're saying.

Secondly, you compliment me by saying I'm an accomplished public speaker. I don't know whether you've had an opportunity to see a movie that has gotten worldwide circulation called "The King's Speech." Well, but for the royal blood and the money, that could have been me. I was a serious stutterer when I was in school as a child, as a high school student, and even into college. And I practiced very, very hard by myself, standing in front of a mirror, trying to annunciate without contorting my face.

When you think about it, whether it's China or America, the only impediment people feel free to make fun of and humor of is a stutterer. If I had a deformed face, you would not make fun of my face. But if I stood before you and ta-ta-talked to-to-to you like that, you'd do what you're now -- you're smiling. And it's offensive. It's offensive. Because it is a serious impediment. When one stutters, people believe they are stupid. People believe they are not worth much. And there's tens of millions of people around the world trapped with a keen mind and big heart, trapped inside of a body that cannot articulate what they feel.

And the reason I bother to mention that to you is to get to the third and most important point. Speech, communication -- to state the obvious -- is the currency of understanding. It's the currency with which we exchange ideas. It's stuff from which flows the sense of whether one is being truthful or honest or sincere. We judge from the way people speak whether they're being transparent and open, whether they're being cramped and cabined. And so the thing that I'm most embarrassed about in my career of 38 years of having an opportunity to literally meet every major world leader in the last 38 years. I was elected as a 30 -- 29-year-old, young man from modest means. And I've had that opportunity. The thing that always embarrasses me is -- and in the back of my head, I'm embarrassed in front of you -- I'm embarrassed I can't speak to you in Chinese. I would -- seriously -- I would rather be able to honor you and show my respect for you by speaking your language, as you honor me by speaking mine.

And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking.

So I think there is no greater resource that a nation could seek than having a group of people who were able to communicate in the same idiom, the same dialect, the same -- the same pattern as the people to whom as they're speaking. Because this is all about -- all about -- understanding one another.

Let me conclude by saying this. My father was a high school-educated man. He never went to a university and -- nor did my mother or anyone in my family at that time. But my father was an elegant, decent man -- eloquent and elegant, decent man. My father used to have an expression, and maybe it's the best way for me to conclude my comments with you all, and I wish I could stay later -- longer, sincerely wish I could. He used to say, Joe, the only conflict that is worse than one that is intended is one that is unintended. The only conflict worse than one that is intended is one that is unintended.

Language, speech, interchange, openness, communication -- that is the material that can be used to lessen the possibility of the unintended, the unintended conflict. I have great faith in all of you. I mean this sincerely. You're an incredible country, an incredible people. And the fact there's a hundred thousand students here at this great university, the fact that there are millions of Chinese at universities throughout -- throughout this country; the fact that there's 130,000 Chinese nationals speaking -- citizens, going to American universities is the stuff which gives me faith.

Believe in yourselves. Believe in yourselves. You have the capacity to do anything, anything anyone in the world has ever done. And the more you do, the better off my granddaughter and my great granddaughter's generation are going to be.

Thank you for the honor of being here. (Applause.) Thank you, all, very much. (Applause.)”

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Florida Republican Congressman John Mica offered up the following Amendment:

“Amendment requires that the rules of engagement [ROE] allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a designated hostile fire area to have rules of engagement that fully protect their right to proactively defend themselves from hostile actions.”

143 out of 185 Democrats present - 77% - voted against this amendment; 217 out of 235 Republicans present - 92% - voted for it.

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U. S. Senator Tom Coburn: "His (President Obama’s) intent isn't to destroy. It's to create dependency because it worked so well for him. As an African American male, coming through the progress of everything he experienced, he got tremendous benefit through a lot of these programs. So he believes in them."

The Virginia State NAACP Conference calls the comments racist. "People like Coburn attempt to create the myth that only African (Black) people receive food stamps or other forms of public assistance. White women do as well along with Wall Street, the banks, the auto industry, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, and many others that live on the public dole to the tune of trillions of dollars over time. Coburn implies that the President benefitted from this dependency on the government. White males have been the beneficiaries of the greatest affirmative action program in U.S. history. Yet, the face of government programs is the African welfare queen and now the President himself. This kind of racist propaganda is perpetuated through those with a platform to tell their lies to the people. The comments of Senator Tom Coburn are unconscionable, unfathomable and unacceptable. They should be condemned by all, especially those in the Republican Party. The Virginia State Conference NAACP condemns these remarks that are racist to the core!"

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Ed Schultz,teasing segment: “Florida Senator Marco Rubio got some good press this week for saving Nancy Reagan from a fall at a Reagan Library event. But when it comes to the rest of the American senior citizens, Rubio wants to leave them high and dry. He's coming up in Psycho Talk. Stay with us.”

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Schultz: “And in Psycho Talk tonight, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. He's on the attack against the Big Three. Now Rubio is an early favorite to take the number two spot on the Republican presidential ticket next year thanks to his Tea Party ideology and his pretty boy looks. But his policies are downright ugly. During a speech at the Reagan Library this week, Rubio had this to say about programs like Social Security and Medicare.”

(Begin video clip)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R), Florida: “These programs actually weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever it was institutions and society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and for your future because you had to. But all of that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. And as government crowded out the institutions in our society that did these things traditionally, it weakened our people.”

(End video clip)

Schultz: “I'll tell you what's weakening our people, political hacks like Marco Rubio, who want to get rid of social safety nets. Before Medicare -- check this out -- half of American seniors didn't have hospital insurance. Almost a third of Americans lived in poverty. But after Medicare was signed into law, the poverty rate among senior citizens plummeted from 30 percent to around 10 percent in just 30 years. And it's the same story with Social Security. According to the Census Bureau data, 20 million more Americans would live below the poverty line if Social Security did not exist. Forty five percent of senior citizens would be poorer. And in Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty.

But these right wingers remain determined to dismantle the Big Three, no matter how many Americans suffer. For Marco Rubio to say programs like Medicare and Social Security weaken Americans is flat out Psycho Talk.”

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American pop star Katy Perry tweets: "My prayers are for you guys tonight, Shalom!!! Please pray with us."

Responses of pro-Palestinian supporters to her tweet:

"Katy Perry prays for Israel but spits on Gaza and its murdered children."

"Go to hell with Israel."

"whore"

"heartless lesbian".

"[I hope your plane will] crash land in Palestine so they can stamp on you like the whore you are. See if Israel come help you."

Conservatives:

George Will: “[Obama is] going to say if it weren't for Congress, I could spend more money. Now, I'm not sure that is going to be a good selling point. He's going to say that Congress is stopping me from another stimulus. He is going to say, in fact, that the government is too frugal. These are hard arguments to make, particularly when you consider, in Keynesian terms, we've not just had an $862 billion stimulus. Keynes said deficit spending is a stimulus, so we've had $5 trillion in stimulus in the last three years. Progressives, who used to be called liberals, want more investment, which used to be called spending. And I don't think that resonates with the country. ”

George Will to Jake Tapper: “You referred to the Hoover Dam, great achievement of the '30s. You couldn't build the Hoover Dam today because they'd discover a snail darter in the Colorado River and would stop it. ”

Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry: "I not only pledge to protect unborn life, but have a record of doing so in Texas. I have signed legislation requiring parental consent for a minor to obtain an abortion, and have long advocated adoption as an alternative to abortion in order to protect unborn children."

Rick Perry on Social Security: "It is a Ponzi scheme for these young people The idea that they're working and paying into Social Security today (and) the current program is going to be there for them is a lie. It is a monstrous lie on this generation, and we can't do that to them."

Michele Bachmann: "As the stock market continues to sink deeper, unemployment lines are growing longer and the debt is increasing by millions, President Obama seems more interested in checking his own poll numbers than he is in providing any real leadership to create jobs and fix our economy. And the Democratic leadership in Congress is no better. Earlier this week, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters shouted, `the tea party can go straight to hell.' The Democrats would rather attack honest, patriotic Americans than try to rein in government spending or reduce the deficit. President Obama's failed leadership and Maxine Waters' socialist policies have driven our economy into a deep financial hole. If the United States is going to get back on a path to prosperity it begins by ensuring Obama is a one-term president."

Ann Coulter: “Our hearts and prayers go out to those who lost their balance in the earthquake.” [quoted from memory]

Mitt Romney: "Do I think the world's getting hotter? Yeah, I don't know that but I think that it is. I don't know if it's mostly caused by humans. What I'm not willing to do is spend trillions of dollars on something I don't know the answer to." For being sort of a squishy conservative, Romney redeems himself in the end; maybe that is the idea here, given the attacks on Perry as being anti-science.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann: "The United States is the number one country in the world for energy resources. That doesn't even include. . . all the oil in Alaska. Instead of thinking we are beggars out here begging for oil and for energy, we are the king daddy dogs when it comes to energy...The radical environmentalists have demanded that we lock up all our energy resources. President Bachmann will take that key out of the door. I will unlock it."

Conservatives from the Past:

I missed this quote from before. Rep. Raul Labroador to David Gregory: “You asked David Plouffe a very simple question. Will the military be paid? Instead of telling you the truth, what he did is he demagogued. I want to show you real leadership. In 1985, the president of United States, Ronald Reagan, was asked the same question. And his Treasury Department said, ‘The Secretary of the Treasury does have the authority to choose the order in which to pay obligations of the United States.’ This is an official document from Department of Treasury. ‘We are aware of no statute or any other basis for concluding that Treasury is required to pay outstanding obligations in order in which they are presented for payment unless it chooses to do so.’ And this president has not been willing to tell the American people that Medicare recipients and the military will be paid, as long as we receive sufficient money in the Treasury. We have to solve this problem. I want to solve this problem. But there has been a failure of leadership from this president. And all he's doing is demagoguing and scaring the American people.”

Conservatives not making any sense:

Candidate Jon Huntsman: “Well, I would say that there's going to have to be a shared sacrifice in this country. And I think that people at all levels are going to have to step up, whether it's recognizing that Medicare is going to be done a little differently; Social Security is going to be done a little differently. And as president, I wouldn't hesitate to call on sacrifice from all of our people, even those at the very highest end of the income spectrum.” Is anyone shocked that, of all the Republican candidates, the liberal press seems to like him the most?

Ron Paul on Islamists who hate the U.S.: "I don't see Islam as our enemy. I see that motivation is occupation and those who hate us and would like to kill us, they are motivated by our invasion of their land, the support of their dictators that they hate...After 9/11, (people said) `Oh yeah, it's those very bad people who hate us,' but 15 of (the hijackers) came from Saudi Arabia. One of the reasons they attacked us, is we propped up this Sharia government and the fundamentalists hated us for it."

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

This is just a picture; a google map. Let it resolve itself. It reveals where there is unrest in the world. It is quite amazing.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=203015973545354677871.000499b16caba320e204a&t=h&vpsrc=6&ll=-1.757537,10.195313&spn=123.523773,281.601563&z=2&source=embed

Watch This!

Without media bias, the typical state would vote like Texas or Tennessee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbosuIX3O3w

Opposition to climate change is akin to racism of the previous generation. When it comes to the moral component, these issues are the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DkZ7VFeZZ84

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman calls for a shared sacrifice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huCsCsX63DM

TEA party terrorist gathering in Waco, TX:

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

Reporter gives report from Maryland boardwalk, covered in sea foam, which apparently is sewage blown back from the ocean.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/fox-reporter-gives-update-covered-in-sea-foam-20110827

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “There’s still no word from President Obama on his upcoming plan to create jobs, but most pundits expect his plan to include more stimulus, higher taxes and losing the 2012 election.”

“Democrats are busy trying to dig up dirt on Governor Rick Perry. You know, like past associations with terrorists or decades spent attending the church of a racist, anti-Semitic reverend.”

Short Takes

1) The one thing that can save Obama’s reelection bid is a 3^rd party candidate; particularly one that would skim of conservative and independent votes. Bill Clinton’s 2^nd terms was saved by this. Expect there to be fake organizations behind the scenes urging Ron Paul and Donald Trump to run as 3^rd party candidates, offering to be involved in raising money for them.

2) Of course, global warming enthusiasts have taken the opportunity of the hurricane along the Atlantic coast to be more proof of global warming, as well as being a harbinger of bad things to come. The same was true after Hurricane Ike, which was followed by several years of relatively little hurricane activity.

3) There are no fledgling democracies in the Middle East, these are younger dictators looking to take the positions of older dictators. Only a strong and ruthless hand can deal with Muslim citizens.

4) The last time we saw the market make such wide up and down swings was during the Great Depression.

By the Numbers

According to USA Today, nearly one in 10 midsize or large employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers once federal insurance exchanges start in 2014, according to a survey from a large benefits consultant. That means, they would pay the penalty and put people into the government system (which many liberals like).

Obama has golfed 4 times in the past 6 days.

Michelle Obama has spent $10 million in taxpayer money on vacations in last year.

The Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit of almost $1.3 trillion for fiscal 2011

2^nd quarter growth was revised down to 1%.

Jobless claims climbed by 5,000 to 417,000 in the week ended Aug. 20

Polling by the Numbers

Rasmussen

17% of likely U.S. voters think that the federal government today has the consent of the governed,"

69% "believe the government does not have that consent."

29% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the president is doing a good or an excellent job on the economy.

51% give Obama poor marks on the economy.

14% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction

79% of voters say the country is heading down the wrong track

Gallup

Obama has a 38–39% job approval this week

A Little Bias

The AP makes it seem as if Governor Rick Perry took all of the credit for the job creation in Texas, but that is simply wrong.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/08/27/ap-reports-erroneously-make-it-seem-if-perry-takes-full-personal-credit-

CBS brought on former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to offer "lessons learned from other hurricanes," as Hurricane Irene bore down on the East Coast. Anchor Chris Wragge never once asked Nagin about his own failures in leadership in the lead-up to Hurricane Katrina, but also twice labeled his guest an "expert in the field"

Bernice King (daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.): “But as I close, I close with the recognition that daddy is standing, Lincoln is seated. Lincoln remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence. Daddy being remembered as standing up for truth and standing up for justice and standing up for righteousness and standing up for peace and standing up for freedom.” I wonder what would happen if some conservative talked about Lincoln signing the Declaration of Independence?

Saturday Night Live Misses

This might be too inside, but could SNL have a field day, impersonating Bernice King, talking about Lincoln as the signer of the Declaration of Independence? Washington could be seen as the founder of Washington Mutual and the Washington Post; that kings all receive their title from her father, Martin Luther King, etc. etc. Every historical inaccuracy available to human imagination could be a part of her speech, which honored her father, whose work allowed her to attend a white high school and a great college

It could be a night of liberal speechmakers. Al Gore talking about how Hurricane Irene is proof positive of global warming, and that the green foamed reporter is additional proof positive of global warming.

Obama-Speak

Jobs plan = more government spending

Questions for Obama

How much additional money do you give to the government, above and beyond the taxes you are required to pay?

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

It is bad optics for a president to announce that he has a jobs plan, but then to say, “And I’ll get around to sharing this with you in a few weeks.” Then he goes off and vacations at one of the most expensive places on the planet, golfing nearly every day. Now, even though I know his plan is just a rehash of everything that has already been tried and has already failed, what Obama should have done is set up 1 or 2 hour meetings with various economists and political leaders, and indicated that he was crafting a jobs plan while on vacation. This would have given him a few photo opportunities and it would have mitigated the seeming callousness of golfing and sitting on a jobs program for a couple of weeks. Now, of course, it is good that he did none of this, because he is a worse president than Jimmy Carter; but it also reveals what political amateurs that he and his staff are.

News Before it Happens

Give it a few years; all Middle East nations today under the siege of democracy will be under a strong leader/tyrant within the next 5 years. The only exceptions will be Iraq and Afghanistan, but they will move that direction as well. You cannot mix democracy with religious tyranny.

Pollsters Caddell & Schoen predict a third-party presidential candidate. Obviously, there will be several. What is key is, will it be Donald Trump or Ron Paul? I am not ready to make any kind of a prediction yet, except that Ron Paul will not be the Republican candidate for president. Trump would siphon candidates from Republicans; but Ron Paul would actually siphon votes from both candidates.

Prophecies Fulfilled

President Obama, one of his spokesmen and David Axelrod have already been coming out and accusing Republicans of standing in the way of new jobs legislation, even though there is no such legislation out there yet; nor has Obama even given much more that the most bare substance of this upcoming jobs bill (his 5^th?). Infrastructure spending, the same thing that was sold to us for the Stimulus Bill (which contained very little by way of infrastructure projects). But then, Obamacare was sold as a jobs bill as well.

My Most Paranoid Thoughts

A viable 3^rd party candidate like Donald Trump enters into the presidential race.

Missing Headlines

Feds Take Down Gibson Guitar

Labor Day Parade in Wisconsin—Republicans and Conservatives not invited.

Bloomberg says, “No religious leaders” at 9/11 Memorial

More Government: Obama’s Department of Diversity

Anti-Israel Protests in Iran, Egypt, Germany,

Real Headlines

Shared Sacrifice: Michelle Obama Wears $156 T-Shirt For Bike Workout. (Actual headline from Weasel Zippers)

Egypt's Brotherhood declares war on the bikini

From:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90058045?Egypt%26%23146%3Bs%20Brotherhood%20declares%20war%20on%20the%20bikini

Come, let us reason together....

Dishonest Liberal Economics

The most dishonest liberal argument is, the economy is not recovering because we did not realize how bad it really was. During 2007 and 2008, all we saw over and over again, were newspaper articles about the Bush economy and it was compared over and over again to the Great Depression. It really does not get much worse than the Great Depression. How can we say, with a straight face, that we underestimated the Bush recession?

The actual difference in most recessions is, how are they handled. Recessions happen; they always do and they always will.

The recession of 1920–1921 is pretty much unknown, because it was handled by government non-interference, by Calvin Coolidge, one of the great American presidents that you will never hear much about.

We all know about the Reagan recovery; what did the government do? It lowered taxes. We know of the prosperity of the Clinton era. What did the government do? Reduced and balanced it’s budget, and made welfare recipients work. Even the Bush recession that he inherited (contributed to by 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina) was fairly short-term and soon forgotten, because of tax cuts. What hurt the Bush economy was government’s involvement in the housing market. It ought to be a maxim in every person’s mind—the more government, the more likely something is to be screwed up.

There was a lot of government in the housing market, not just during the Bush years, but increasingly so in the Obama years. What ought we to expect as a result? A robust housing market? Record home ownership? No. The more government, the more likely the government screws things up.

I’ve illustrated this with medicine on many occasions. Medical costs are going up and up and up; every single year, they go up. But, what procedures are not going up in cost? Lasik surgery and plastic surgery. Keep the government out, and there is a free market. Let the government become involved, and prices go sky-high.

You want to know the economies that got bad and stayed bad? The Great Depression, the Carter Recession and the Obama’s “Recovery” Summer. What do these bad economies that just got worse do? Government involvement; government tinkering; government solutions. The government has been involved big time in the housing market, since the housing bubble and the great amount of foreclosures. Has that fixed things? Do we see a rosy future? Of course not!

The government needs to learn to respect business; and the government needs to disengage itself in as many places as possible. Will there be crooks in the business world? Of course, and government ought to get them.

However, if the free market can do A, then the government ought not be in the business of doing A. That means, get out of healthcare, get out of social security, get out of the insurance industry, get out of the medical industry. If there is a function which private industry cannot do—like maintain a world-class military, then that is something government ought to do.

The government ought not to see themselves in competition with big business (or little business), nor should they try to take over and/or partner with business. They are different entities, and government should, at most, have very limited laws which provide a fair and honest playing field.

We need to learn lessons from Coolidge, Harding, FDR, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama: if the economy got better under this or that president, do what this or that president did; if the economy got worse under another president; then do not emulate him. It’s not rocket science (besides, NASA is supposed to be focused on making Muslims feel good about themselves, anyway).

What happened under Coolidge, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton and Bush )for the most part) worked. What happened under Harding, FDR, Carter and Obama did not. It should not take a genius to isolate those things which worked under the successful presidents and contrast that with the stuff that did not work under the unsuccessful presidents. There are Democrats and Republicans in both lists of presidents, so this is not simply a party affiliation spin—there are simply policies that work and policies that do not.

Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics

One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't.

By Stephen Moore

If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama.

The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus.

By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would "overheat." In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a "double-dip" recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight.

My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't.

The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize production-i.e., the "supply side" of the economy-by lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy.

The Keynesians in the early 1980s assured us that the Reagan expansion would not and could not happen. Rapid growth with new jobs and falling rates of inflation (to 4% in 1983 from 13% in 1980) is an impossibility in Keynesian textbooks. If you increase demand, prices go up. If you increase supply-as Reagan did-prices go down.

The Godfather of the neo-Keynesians, Paul Samuelson, was the lead critic of the supposed follies of Reaganomics. He wrote in a 1980 Newsweek column that to slay the inflation monster would take "five to ten years of austerity," with unemployment of 8% or 9% and real output of "barely 1 or 2 percent." Reaganomics was routinely ridiculed in the media, especially in the 1982 recession. That was the year MIT economist Lester Thurow famously said, "The engines of economic growth have shut down here and across the globe, and they are likely to stay that way for years to come."

The economy would soon take flight for more than 80 consecutive months. Then the Reagan critics declared what they once thought couldn't work was actually a textbook Keynesian expansion fueled by budget deficits of $200 billion a year, or about 4%-5% of GDP.

Robert Reich, now at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that "The recession of 1981-82 was so severe that the bounce back has been vigorous." Paul Krugman wrote in 2004 that the Reagan boom was really nothing special because: "You see, rapid growth is normal when an economy is bouncing back from a deep slump."

Mr. Krugman was, for once, at least partly right. How could Reagan not look good after four years of Jimmy Carter's economic malpractice?

Fast-forward to today. Mr. Obama is running deficits of $1.3 trillion, or 8%-9% of GDP. If the Reagan deficits powered the '80s expansion, the Obama deficits-twice as large-should have the U.S. sprinting at Olympic speed.

The left has now embraced a new theory to explain why the Obama spending hasn't worked. The answer is contained in the book "This Time Is Different," by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Published in 2009, the book examines centuries of recessions and depressions world-wide. The authors conclude that it takes nations much longer-six years or more-to recover from financial crises and the popping of asset bubbles than from typical recessions.

In any case, what Reagan inherited was arguably a more severe financial crisis than what was dropped in Mr. Obama's lap. You don't believe it? From 1967 to 1982 stocks lost two-thirds of their value relative to inflation, according to a new report from Laffer Associates. That mass liquidation of wealth was a first-rate financial calamity. And tell me that 20% mortgage interest rates, as we saw in the 1970s, aren't indicative of a monetary-policy meltdown.

There is something that is genuinely different this time. It isn't the nature of the crisis Mr. Obama inherited, but the nature of his policy prescriptions. Reagan applied tax cuts and other policies that, yes, took the deficit to unchartered peacetime highs.

But that borrowing financed a remarkable and prolonged economic expansion and a victory against the Evil Empire in the Cold War. What exactly have Mr. Obama's deficits gotten us?

Tim Groseclose Measures Media Bias

100                                                                                                             Nancy Pelosi Liberal

 50                                                                                                               In the Middle

  0                                                                                                                Michele Bachmann conservative

ABC Good Morning America                                                                                                             56.1

ABC World News Tonight                                                                                                                  61.0

CBS Early Show                                                                                                                                   66.6  

CBS Evening News                                                                                                                              73.7  

CNN NewsNight                                                                                                                                  56.0

with Aaron Brown

Drudge Report                                                                                                                                    60.4  

Los Angeles Times                                                                                                                              70.0  

NBC Nightly News                                                                                                                               61.6  

NBC Today Show                                                                                                                                 64.0  

New York Times                                                                                                                                  73.7  

Newshour with Jim Lehrer                                                                                                                55.8  

Newsweek                                                                                                                                           66.3  

NPR Morning Edition                                                                                                                         66.3  

Time Magazine                                                                                                                                    65.4  

U.S. News and World Report                                                                                                            65.8  

USA Today                                                                                                                                           63.4  

Wall Street Journal                                                                                                                             85.1  

Washington Post                                                                                                                                66.6  

From:

http://www.timgroseclose.com/is-media-slanted/

Tim Groseclose on FoxNews:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbosuIX3O3w

Religious Questions for GOP Candidates

by NY Times Columnist Bill Keller

In my latest column, I wrote about asking our presidential candidates more questions regarding their religious beliefs. Here's the general questionnaire I sent to the candidates:

1. Is it fair to question presidential candidates about details of their faith?

2. Is it fair to question candidates about controversial remarks made by their pastors, mentors, close associates or thinkers whose books they recommend?

3. (a) Do you agree with those religious leaders who say that America is a "Christian nation" or "Judeo-Christian nation?" (b) What does that mean in practice?

4. If you encounter a conflict between your faith and the Constitution and laws of the United States, how would you resolve it? Has that happened, in your experience?

5. (a) Would you have any hesitation about appointing a Muslim to the federal bench? (b) What about an atheist?

6. Are Mormons Christians, in your view? Should the fact that Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are Mormons influence how we think of them as candidates?

7. What do you think of the evangelical Christian movement known as Dominionism and the idea that Christians, and only Christians, should hold dominion over the secular institutions of the earth?

8. (a) What is your attitude toward the theory of evolution? (b) Do you believe it should be taught in public schools?

9. Do you believe it is proper for teachers to lead students in prayer in public schools?

I also had more specific questions for some of the candidates.

For Congresswoman Michele Bachmann:

The following questions are based on recent reports (in The New Yorker and The Daily Beast) about the influences on your worldview. If any of these questions misrepresent those influences, I hope you will correct them.

1.                                                                                                                You have said that watching the film series "How Should We Then Live?" by the evangelist Francis Schaeffer was a life-altering event for you. That series stresses the "inerrancy" -- the literal truth - of the Bible. Do you believe the Bible consists of literal truths, or that it is to be taken more metaphorically?

2.                                                                                                                You have recommended as meaningful in your life works by leading advocates of Dominionism, including Nancy Pearcey, whose book "Total Truth" warns Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians. Do you agree with that warning?

3.                                                                                                                 Last year, in a documentary produced by Truth in Action Ministries, you espoused the idea that the government is not entitled to collect as taxes more than 10 percent of a household's income, the amount Christians are called upon to tithe to the church. Is that a goal you would pursue as president?

4.                                                                                                                One of your mentors at Oral Roberts University, John Eidsmoe, teaches that when biblical law conflicts with American law, a Christian must work to change the law. Do you agree? Are there examples where the Bible guides you to challenge existing secular law?

5.                                                                                                                Another book you have recommended is a biography of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins, who contends that the Civil War was a clash between a Christian South and a godless North. He writes that in the South, contrary to the notion that slaves were victims, there was a "unity and companionship that existed between the races" because they shared a common faith. Do you agree with Mr. Wilkins?

For Governor Rick Perry:

The following questions are based on recent reports (in The Texas Observer and The Daily Beast) about the influences on your worldview. If any of these questions misrepresent those influences, I hope you will correct them.

1. A recent article in The Texas Observer questioned your relationship with the New Apostolic Reformation, which advocates the belief that Christians and only Christians should hold dominion over earthly institutions. A number of leaders of this movement were given prominent roles in the prayer event called the Response. Would you like to clarify your relationship with these leaders? Do you hope for their support in your campaign?

2. You have been close to David Barton, founder of WallBuilders, who has endorsed your campaign. He preaches that America is a Christian nation, that we should have a government "firmly rooted in biblical principles" and that the Bible offers explicit guidance on public policy - for example, tax policy. Do you disagree with him on any of these points?

3. In 2008, Senator John McCain disavowed the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, after Reverend Hagee made remarks offensive to Catholics and declared that the Holocaust was part of God's plan to drive the Jews to Palestine. In this campaign, Reverend Hagee has reportedly decided you are his favorite candidate. Are you willing to accept his endorsement of your campaign?

For Senator Rick Santorum:

1.                                                                                                                Some voters - you have probably encountered them - worry that religious zeal can lead to a rejection of scientific evidence, resulting in policy proposals that are essentially faith-based. In an interview with Rush Limbaugh, you described global warming as "junk science" and "patently absurd," and accused proponents of being part of a plot to expand government control over our lives. Among scientists who specialize in climate, there is now a strong consensus that earth is experiencing a pronounced warming trend, and that human behavior contributes to it. How did you decide that on this issue you agreed with the scientific outliers? Was this an example of faith-based policy judgment?

2.                                                                                                                You signed a pledge circulated by the Family Leader, an Iowa conservative group, promising "personal fidelity to my spouse." Do you think cheating on a spouse disqualifies a candidate from being president?

For Governor Mitt Romney:

1.                                                                                                                In your 2007 speech on religion, you said that "freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom." Where does that leave unbelievers, in your view?

2.                                                                                                                This year, as in the 2008 election, polls show that there is some resistance to voting for a Mormon - including among some evangelical Christians, who have been taught that the Mormon church is a "cult." Do you sense that this prejudice is still a factor in the campaign? If so, how do you address it?

3.                                                                                                                Was your religion a factor in your decision to oppose gay marriage and civil unions?

4. Do you believe that your upbringing in the Mormon faith provided you with some qualities that enhance your abilities as a political leader?

For Jon Huntsman:

1. Though you were reared Mormon, you have described yourself as "not overly religious." I can imagine that is doubly unhelpful in winning the votes of evangelical Christians who figure so heavily in the Republican primary season: on the one hand, many of them have been taught that the Mormon church is a "cult"; on the other, many of them are looking for a candidate they regard as godly. How do you persuade conservative evangelicals to vote for you?

2. If not religion, what do you use as your guide in deciding what is right and what is wrong?

From:

http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/tougher-questions-for-the-candidates/

In his NY Times article, Keller ended with We'll be posting the campaigns' answers - if any - on nytimes.com. And if they don't answer, let's keep on asking. Because these are matters too important to take on faith.

The United States Constitution, in Article VI, section 3, stipulates that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

My own comment: This is what liberals do. The last thing they want to do is engage in a conversation about our economy and President Obama’s handling of same. So, all of a sudden, religion comes to the forefront. You will recall all of the religious questions which candidate Obama was asked by these same people. Virtually, none.

O-Bummer! Hipsters O-Bandon Obama

By David Freedlander

As Election Day 2008 approached, if you were an urban organic kale farmer, or a crochet enthusiast or a vaudevillian with a new song to sing, and you wanted to support Barack Obama for president, you were in luck.

The streets of New York were crowded with "Walks for Change," "Bike4Barack" groups, "Karaoke We Can Believe In" sing-alongs, "Get Out the Laughs and Votes" comedy shows and "Art for Change" auctions. The days leading up to the election saw Pasties for Peace, a Cowboys for Barack Wild West Burlesque Show Fund-raiser, a Yo La Tengo fund-raiser at McCarren Pool, and a $1,000 fund-raiser in Dumbo featuring They Might Be Giants, which sold out.

Richie Fife, who helped lead the Obama effort in the run-up to the primary, estimated that 10,000 New Yorkers had contacted his office to get involved and that three times that many were out on the streets on their own initiative.

"It was an amazing thing," Mr. Fife said, and he recalled going sometimes to five different events a night at various clubs, houses and downtown galleries. "It was like going to an AA meeting, except it was at a bar. You would have all these people stand up and say sort of sheepishly, `I've never been involved in politics but this time I am going to get involved.' It was almost like a religion."

The Urban Dictionary called them "The Obaminators" (or, for the females, "Obaminatrixes") and despite a short lifetime of political ignorance, they helped create in 2007-08 a cultural flourishing tied to electoral politics the likes of which the dreary world of campaign canvassing had seldom seen. It is hard to remember now, but the summer and fall of 2008 in the city were as if an old-timey party convention had met Burning Man, and it seemed like all the political clubs in town had been swept aside in favor of open-mic nights from a generation of supposedly apathetic and skeptical hipsters. They passed around Obama speeches like they were bootlegged concert tapes. They carried around dog-eared copies of The Audacity of Hope. They quoted the 2004 convention address like it was poetry. Even supposedly blasé Williamsburg sported a Shepherd Fairy two-toned Obama poster, with the word "Progress" stenciled in bold font below.

But now the progress posters have begun to wither. A new poster, featuring the president's image superimposed over Frankenstein's monster's face, has been spotted around the neighborhood. The Obama T-shirts-it was, recall, ultrahip if you had a particularly faded one, maybe even one dating back to his Illinois state senate campaigns-have been turning up at the Goodwill and at garage sales. The next election is going to be a tough one that invites a question few campaign officials thought would ever be asked: Can Mr. Obama afford to lose the hipsters? Or was the Obama love last year's record, now destined to wind up in the used bins alongside so many Conor Oberst CD's?

"Everybody was taking the campaign's energy and saying, `Hey, I'm a part of this obscure group of citizens, maybe we can raise $5,000 or $10,000 or whatever," said novelist Amy Sohn, who held a couple of "Authors for Obama" fund-raisers at downtown clubs featuring big name writers like Colson Whitehead and Jonathan Lethem. "At a certain point it was like wink-wink-there are some really bizarre fringe groups around."

Ms. Sohn didn't sound inclined to enlist her literary brethren again, comparing the Obama presidency to a first novelist who signs a big advance for their roman à clef.

"The best day is the day you get the advance, and then everyone wonders if you were worth it and whether or not you will earn the advance back, which of course, you probably won't. Then you just become the person everyone paid too much for."

As the election season approached, David Mahfouda, 29, tied an art project he had been working on to the Obama effort. "Mending Bee for Change," enlisted dozens of supporters to help sew a 65-foot-by-130-foot American flag. He had been, he said, "not so political, and not so good at being informed," but he saw that all of the rhetoric he had been hearing about restoring and repairing the country was "embodied by this living and breathing person."

Supporters sponsored stars and pieces of fabric, proceeds from which went to the Obama campaign. On election night, they braved the November cold and carried the flag from Bed-Stuy and over the Williamsburg Bridge and unfurled it in Union Square, meeting up with a group a hundred or so people who had planned a previctory parade from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

Mr. Mahfouda said that the flag is now in his living room and hasn't been unfurled in over a year. There are no immediate plans to bring it back out again for 2012.

"My intuitive response is that [Obama] hasn't done a ton," he said. "He hasn't really rocked the boat too much."

The parade was organized by a fellow Brooklynite, Julian Bennet Holmes, then only 17 and too young to actually vote for Mr. Obama. Besides the march, he phone-banked for the candidate during the primaries.

Now, he said, "I'll vote for him, but I think that he could be a little tougher"

Will there be a parade next time around?

From:

http://www.observer.com/2011/08/o-bummer-hipsters-o-bandon-obama/

Social Degeneration

By Thomas Sowell

After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing violence - as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places - Philadelphia's black mayor, Michael A. Nutter, ordered a police crackdown and lashed out at the whole lifestyle of those who did such things.

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

While this might seem like it is just plain common sense, what Mayor Nutter said undermines a whole vision of the world that has brought fame, fortune and power to race hustlers in politics, the media and academia. Any racial disparities in hiring can only be due to racism and discrimination, according to the prevailing vision, which reaches from street corner demagogues to the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Just to identify the rioters and looters as black is a radical departure, when mayors, police chiefs and the media in other cities report on these outbreaks of violence without mentioning the race of those who are doing these things. The Chicago Tribune even made excuses for failing to mention race when reporting on violent attacks by blacks on whites in Chicago.

Such excuses might make sense if the same politicians and media talking heads were not constantly mentioning race when denouncing the fact that a disproportionate number of young black men are being sent to prison.

The prevailing social dogma is that disparities in outcomes between races can only be due to disparities in how these races are treated. In other words, there cannot possibly be any differences in behavior.

But if black and white Americans had exactly the same behavior patterns, they would be the only two groups on this planet that are the same.

The Chinese minority in Malaysia has long been more successful and more prosperous than the Malay majority, just as the Indians in Fiji have long been more successful and more prosperous than the indigenous Fijians. At various places and times throughout history, the same could be said of the Armenians in Turkey, the Lebanese in Sierra Leone, the Parsees in India, the Japanese in Brazil, and numerous others.

There are similar disparities within particular racial or ethnic groups. Even this late in history, I have had northern Italians explain to me why they are not like southern Italians. In Australia, Jewish leaders in both Sydney and Melbourne went to great lengths to tell me why and how the Jews are different in these two cities.

In the United States, despite the higher poverty level among blacks than among whites, the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994. The disparities within the black community are huge, both in behavior and in outcomes.

Nevertheless, the dogma persists that differences between groups can only be due to the way others treat them or to differences in the way others perceive them in "stereotypes."

All around the country, people in politics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are racially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding.

This is not something to ignore or excuse. It is something to be stopped. Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia seems to be the first to openly recognize this.

This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans - and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

From:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell081611.php3

Parts II and III:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell081711.php3

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell081811.php3

An Important New Book:

Responsibility Reborn by John Andrews

Book Review by Dick Morris

The opposite of a socialist planned economy is, of course, free market capitalism. But, by the same token, the opposite of government entitlements is personal responsibility. It is this second dichotomy, perhaps more than the first, which animates the true difference between the governing philosophy of President Obama on the one hand and the Republican Party and the Tea Party on the other.

The more we squeeze out government waste and needless bureaucracy in the various incarnations of federal budget cutting, the more we come to realize that it is our own sense of entitlement that is the real problem. Discretionary government spending now accounts for less than half of the federal budget. The likes of Paul Ryan are quite right that much of that money is wasted. But cash transfers go 100% to the recipient or his service provider. No waste there, just a replacement of individual responsibility for ourselves, our children, or our parents with government entitlement payments.

In Responsibility Reborn: A Citizens Guide to the Next American Century, former Colorado State Senator John Andrews lays out the real problem and articulates the real solution. As the comic strip figure Pogo once said: "We have met the enemy and it is us!"

The burden of Andrews' argument is that it is the entitlement perspective that truly saps our national vitality and leads us to ask what our country can do for us instead of what we can do for our country. He notes that in the transition from the malaise of the 1970s to the can-do optimism of Reagan's 80s, the real changes were psychological as we came to take responsibility for our own lives and move up in the world.

President Bill Clinton tried to marry entitlements to responsibility when he announced his new social "contract" of government opportunity in return for individual responsibility. This two-way street called for scholarships in one direction and public service in the other, welfare payments one way and employment as the reciprocal.

But in the hands of Barack Obama, the responsibility part got lost. Now, 2 percent of the taxpayers fund the majority of the government while half pay nothing at all in federal income taxes. The means of upward mobility is becoming political action and self-help has come to mean voting right.

Andrews calls for a fundamental change in the entitlement mind set and a restoration of the values of self-help, entrepreneurial initiative, and independence from government. It is the splendid irony of the Tea Party that while mobs in Greece demand more government handouts, demonstrators in the U.S. want less.

Lest we become lost in the soulless details of economics or the abstractions of philosophy, John Andrews points the way toward a renewal of our individual sense of duty to our families and our community and explains how to get there. A great read from a great mind!

From:

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/an-important-new-book-responsibility-reborn-by-john-andrews/#more-4083

Boehner's Surprising Success

Time and again the House speaker has out-maneuvered the president.

By Karl Rove

[I am not so sure that I believe this, but I present Rove’s opinion anyway]

The politician who has done more than any other to set the national agenda this year will soon return to Washington. It is not President Barack Obama. It's House Speaker John Boehner.

After his annual August bus tour to help re-elect House Republicans, Mr. Boehner will spend a short vacation next week at his house in West Chester, Ohio, where he'll relax by cutting his lawn with something not often seen on Martha's Vineyard: a Toro push mower.

It's been a remarkable run for Mr. Boehner. It began even before he became speaker, during last December's lame-duck session, when outnumbered House Republicans outmaneuvered Democrats and Mr. Obama on taxes.

Mr. Boehner won by shifting the debate from whether wealthier Americans should pay their "fair share" to whether it is wise to raise taxes amid high joblessness and sluggish growth. It worked. Mr. Obama started by calling for higher taxes. He ended by signing a two-year extension of all the Bush tax cuts.

In February, the speaker and his new House majority cut Mr. Obama's planned 2011 budget by $61 billion and then, in April, slashed the government's spending authority by $38 billion.

Then there was the debt-ceiling battle. Mr. Obama started by insisting on a "clean debt-ceiling vote," meaning an increase without spending cuts.

Mr. Boehner simply refused to accept the president's claim that not a dime of spending could be cut. Instead the speaker calmly and firmly stated his conditions: Any debt-ceiling increase must be "accompanied by meaningful action to cut spending." And in a May speech to the Economic Club of New York, he laid down his marker: Any debt-limit increase must be paired with bigger spending cuts and no tax hikes.

On the defensive, Mr. Obama abandoned his demand for a clean debt-ceiling increase and began advocating "a balanced approach" of spending cuts and tax increases. But Mr. Boehner rallied his colleagues and once again Mr. Obama came out the loser.

Mr. Boehner may not be an inspiring orator, but he has moved the country and Congress in his direction. He has succeeded in large part because he had a more modest view of the post than his recent predecessors. In a private dinner last year in Texas, I was struck by his complaint that only a handful of people mattered in the Democrat-run House-namely, the Speaker and four or five other members. This wasn't the way the Founders intended the House to operate, Mr. Boehner said, with more than a little passion in his voice.

Accordingly, he has ceded power to congressional committees so more of the House's work is done there. He has widened the theaters of operation for younger ambitious House Republican leaders. Mr. Boehner excels at persuading members rather than bribing them with earmarks or threatening them with retaliation. He has long opposed the former; the second is not his nature. All this has paradoxically strengthened his hand.

So Washington's agenda this fall will reflect the priorities not of the glitzy Mr. Obama but of the modest, well-grounded Mr. Boehner. Prodded by the speaker, Mr. Obama has already pledged to send to the Hill for consideration three major trade agreements that have languished since the president's inauguration. The annual budget battle will give Mr. Boehner and the House GOP more opportunities to cut spending as the 12 separate appropriations bills needed to fund the government move through Congress.

Then there is the "super committee" formed as part of the debt-ceiling agreement. While it may not meet its mandated target of $1.5 trillion more in cuts, its discussions will take place on Mr. Boehner's terms: where to cut rather than where to tax.

When the president lays out his latest stimulus plan next month, it is Mr. Boehner's challenge to make certain Congress doesn't substitute more spending on food stamps and unemployment benefits for measures that will actually spur job creation and economic growth.

Rarely does the leader of one branch of Congress become the political sun around which the president revolves. Time and again this year, the 61st speaker of the House has out-thought, out-negotiated and outmaneuvered America's 44th president. And Mr. Obama, frustrated and increasingly unsteady, is losing his cool. On his recent Midwest bus trip, for example, the president tried making a virtue of impotence, blaming others-including the GOP House-for his failures.

These are the tactics of a politician who sees power slipping away. Mr. Boehner's influence, on the other hand, increases with every victory.

Who woulda thunk it?

Is President Obama Really Responsible for the Bad Economy?

By Bill O'Reilly

Monday night we had a very lively debate with Wayne Rogers and Ben Stein about President Obama's role in the dismal economy.

Mr. Stein believes the president is a positive when it comes to economic matters, saying his vision of government stimulus is a good thing. I, of course, disagree, and I believe the facts back me up.

Mr. Rogers says that the president is a neutral for the economy, that it is Congress who is most responsible for the out-of-control spending. Again, I disagree. President Obama is the leader of his party, and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of his administration. Clearly Mr. Obama sets the tone for how the American economy is presented to the world, and the stats are grim.

Since Barack Obama took office, the national debt has increased by $4 trillion. That's in just two and a half years. In eight years under President Bush, a big spender, the national debt increased $4.9 trillion.

So doing the math, if Mr. Obama's spending jag continues as is, he would run up almost $13 trillion in debt if he serves two terms. That's nearly three times what Bush did and far more than any president in American history.

Now, we like Wayne Rogers and Ben Stein. They are smart and honest guys, but they are missing the big picture here.

The president of the United States sets the agenda. Mr. Obama and his party tried to get out of the recession by spending tax dollars the nation did not have. Not only did unemployment get worse, but the massive debt is now a crisis. So how on earth can you not hold President Obama accountable? And, of course, Americans are, as his poll numbers continue to drop.

One big problem Mr. Obama has is selecting bad advisers, and here's a great example of what I'm talking about.

The CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, was appointed by Mr. Obama to chair the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. As Vice President Biden might say, a big f-ing deal.

Now we find out that GE is launching a joint venture with China worth $2 billion to build jet airliners which will compete against Boeing and other American companies. GE says it's "all in" on this deal and is proud of it. GE executive Lorraine Bolsinger is quoted as saying: "We don't sell bananas. We can't afford to take a decade off."

With all due respect, you know what you can do with your bananas.

GE is helping the Chinese compete against America while its boss heads up the president's council on competitiveness. Insane? I believe so.

And that's "The Memo."

From:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2011/08/24/bill-oreilly-president-obama-really-responsible-bad-economy#ixzz1WKgIR5ls

How Rick Perry helped stop the Gaza 'freedom flotillas' Perry had a part in stopping 9 or the 10 flotillas.

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=57&SubSectionID=76&ArticleID=15564&TM=44073.23

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/files/2011/06/perryletter.pdf

AP polling show Obama having problems with some of his key constituencies.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_OBAMA?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=

After 3 years, lawsuit against mother being a bad parent is finally dismissed. She was accused of failing to take her daughter to a car show and telling her 7 year old son to put on his seat belt or she would contact the police. This was in Chicago, which may explain why it took 3 years to throw this silly suit out. In Texas, for your information, we would have put the suit to bed on day one, and put the children in jail for a day, without any dinner.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52469658-68/garrity-card-court-lawsuit.html.csp

Some good photos of the storm’s affect on New York:

http://icetubesblog.com/2011/08/28/photos-new-york-is-doing-aight-following-hurricane-irene/

According to the media, Michele Bachmann may be the most savvy candidate when it comes to dealing with the media (she is, of course, called the best-coached). I should add that, Obama was not media-savvy. He did not have to be. He was their candidate, so all gaffs and misstatements were summarily lost on the cutting room floor; and intensive, probing questions were simply not asked.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/08/28/media-magazine-worries-queen-bachmann-too-well-coached-wimpy-media

Additional Sources

Blaze headline: “Graphic `Sex Box' for Swiss Kindergartners has Genitalia to Teach Kids that Sex is Pleasurable” Story (3 links):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/graphic-sex-box-for-swiss-kindergartners-has-genitalia-to-teach-kids-that-sex-is-pleasurable/

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2011/08/26/brave-new-world-arrives-ahead-of-schedule-sex-indoctrination-for-toddlers/

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sex-box-for-swiss-kindergarteners-has-genitalia-toys-will-teach-sexuality-I

Immelt and China:

http://www.conservativerefocus.com/blog5.php/2011/08/23/obama-s-head-of-us-jobs-council-shipping-jobs-to-china-ge-s-immelt-joining-forces-with-china

On vacation

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.

Wrote Left Turn and measures media bias as well as individuals. There is a 40 question test to measure your political quotient and the quotient of various media outlets are given.

http://www.timgroseclose.com/

Conservative Refocus (conservative opinion and a little news):

http://www.conservativerefocus.com/index.php

News and right-leaning commentary

http://www.frumforum.com/

Big Hairy News (right-leaning tongue-in-cheek and some actual news, sort of):

http://peacemoonbeam.typepad.com/bighairynews/

National Taxpayers Union:

http://www.ntu.org/

Millionaires who think they should pay more taxes:

http://patrioticmillionaires.org/

Sunshine State News (almost the only news service which ran a story on Mack’s Penny Plan). They are not a conservative news source, by the way.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/

Bankrupting America:

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/

Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis (a number of fairly easy to understand article on economic matters):

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/

Start Thinking Right, a mostly conservative blog, but he does not support every single conservative in each and every case:

https://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/

The cut, cap and balance amendment:

http://www.cutcapandbalanceact.com/

Club for Growth:

http://clubforgrowth.org/

Social Network of the Revolution (they seem to be a conservative organization):

http://rtr.org/

Watts Up With That (a lot of recent scientific news is posted here—there were 9 stories for July 5^th alone):

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

Corruption Chronicles (wtching things judicial):

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog

If you are a small business and you want to air out your problems with how government has hampered your business, here’s the place to go (enjoy the video):

http://jobs.majorityleader.gov/

Excellent economic news:

http://www.zerohedge.com/

Uncover age, sometimes a sensational right wing blog site:

http://www.uncoverage.net/

The Bare Knuckled Pundit, a right-wing blog site with in-depth articles.

http://www.bareknuckledpundit.com/

Front Page Mag; in-depth right-leaning stories:

http://frontpagemag.com/

Framing the Dialogue (mostly individually produced blog postings and interesting articles):

http://www.framingthedialogue.com/

Obamacare 411 (stories about what to expect from Obamacare):

http://obamacare411.wordpress.com/

The U.S. misery index, determined month-by-month:

http://www.miseryindex.us/customindexbymonth.asp

TEA Party . Org (conservative news and views):

http://www.teaparty.org/

Seems to be a middle-of-the-road news organization; iwatch news:

http://www.iwatchnews.org/

Front Page magazine, which is conservative with Jewish emphasis:

http://frontpagemag.com/

The fake Obama Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002453027874&sk=info (the name "Harrison J. Bounel" - a suspected Obama alias, based on official records)

Our Dirty Spending Secrets:

http://www.dirtyspendingsecrets.com/

The Right Perspective (blog):

http://rightperspective.wordpress.com/

Conservative byte (conservative blog; news):

http://conservativebyte.com/

The Government is not God, a political action committee:

http://www.gingpac.org/

Obama’s autopen twitter account:

http://twitter.com/#!/ObamasAutopen

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: