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This Week’s Events

The President sets his jobs speech for the night of the Republican candidate debate; the White House claims that this is no big deal. Speaker of the House Boehner tells the president to make it another night, and so he does.

Solyndra, a solar energy company that intends to file for bankruptcy, had already received $535 million from the federal government and they have a history of giving large political donations to Democrats and to Obama. Three such U.S. solar energy companies have declared bankruptcy in the last month. It appears that current White House officials were instrumental in getting this funding for Solyndra.

This just in: Obama bundler George Kaiser made multiple visits to White House in months prior to $535 million loan guarantee to Solandra. It is certainly reasonable to ask, at this point in time, where did all of this money go? Did it all get invested in the business? The House of Representatives is investigating this.

The government has sued 17 financial firms, including the largest U.S. banks, for selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac billions of dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic when the housing market collapsed.

Arizona, has reached a settlement with two federal agencies, with the result that teachers who have thick accents or use bad grammar can teach English-immersion classes.

Seven oil companies have been charged in federal court with illegally killing 28 migratory birds in Williams County. For some reason, wind farms have not been sued yet for the same offense.

Gibson Guitar has been the target of multiple raids, at gunpoint, by the Federal Government for alleged importation of illegal wood. Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz claims the Feds told him that his problems would `go away' if the company used Madagascar labor.

Vice President Dick Cheney releases new book, which appears to upset both Colin Powell and Condi Rice.

In the FEMA website, the word government has been all but banished, replaced with such Orwellian phrases, federal family and partners.

New policies in New Jersey encourage students to anonymously call a Crimestoppers hotline to report lunch line bullies.

Billionaire Warren Buffet, who has recent called upon the rich to pay more taxes, has a company, Berkshire Hathaway, that may owe as much as a $1 billion in taxes. This is a dispute that has gone on for about a decade.

GM, in August, had the best selling compact car in America, for the second month in a row. There were 21,807 Chevy Cruze cars sold. Also, there was a dramatic increase in sales of the Chevy Volt: 302; up from 125 in July.

California, apparently awash in cash, passed what amounts to being a state version of the DREAM act, so that illegal immigrants can get the state to pay for their college tuition. Estimates of cost are somewhere between $22–42 million.

California is also shutting down some public parks, due to budget constraints.

The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase.

Australian national education officials are requiring that references to the birth of Jesus Christ be removed. The government would replace the terms BC, Before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini, with non-religious language. The new terms will be BCE (Before Common Era), BP (Before Present) and CE (Common Era).

67 U.S. troops died last month in the Afghanistan war, nearly half of them killed when the Taliban shot down a Chinook helicopter, making August the deadliest month for Americans in the nearly decade-long conflict.

Obama's illegal immigrant uncle Oyango Obama was arrested Massachusetts last week for allegedly driving under the influence after nearly ramming a police car.

The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.

The President goes to Camp David for some R&R.

NASCAR champs have been called to visit the White House, and nearly half of them have “scheduling conflicts.”

More than 400,000 Israelis poured into streets in cities across the country Saturday night, Israeli media estimated, in a show of strength behind a social protest movement that has rocked the country for two months. The chief complaints seem to be about the cost of living and high taxes, most of which they claim is hitting the middle class.

Looks like Qadaffi is toast. The rebels are winning in Libya.

in Pakistan, two Christian men were seriously beaten with iron rods by young Muslim men in Karachi when they refused to convert to Islam.

Iranian police have started cracking down on water fights springing up across the country with the arrests of several young men and women who took part in the latest organized water pistol battles.

CBS news reports that, next to poppy fields, the second biggest income source for the Taliban was U.S. contracts, due to mismanagement and corruption.

Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who came under criticism for the "Fast and Furious" program involving illegal weapons sales, is being reassigned to the Department of Justice as a senior adviser on forensic issues. There is still some question as to the purpose of this program, and many conservatives believe it was to curb gun sales in the United States.

It has been revealed that the White House had received emails about “Operation Fast and Furious.”

The Obama administration is taking the lead in an international effort to "implement" a U.N. resolution against religious "stereotyping," specifically as applied to Islam. Although this denies that there will be any curbing of free speech, this is just step one.

Say What?

Liberals:

President Obama about some of his non-existent jobs legislation before Congress: "The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party."

Barack Obama on more jobs legislation which does not yet exist: "These are common-sense ideas -- ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The only thing holding them back is politics. The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That's the problem right now. That's what's holding this country back. That's what we have to change."

Press secretary Jay Carney on the scheduling SNAFU: "Americans are sick and tired of the partisan bickering.”

Congresswoman Maxine Waters: "If [banks] don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're going to tax them out of business,"

Democratic Rep. Andre Carson: "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree."

Jason Tomcsi, Carson's spokesman: "The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities. We are talking about child nutrition, job creation, job training, housing assistance, and Head Start, and that is just the beginning. A child without basic nutrition, secure housing, and quality education has no real chance at a meaningful and productive life."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about Republicans: "You name it. Forget about it. They're defunding every [clean air/clean water] initiative in that regard. You wonder do their children breathe air? Do they drink water? Why do they not care? But they don't,"

Unnamed high WH official to FoxNews: “There's no question the president will want to keep returning to jobs. I don't want to downplay the speech [next week] - it's going to be substantial. But the idea that this is the be-all and end-all is wrong.”

Official White House statement for 9/11: "As we commemorate the citizens of over 90 countries who perished in the 9/11 attacks, we honor all victims of terrorism, in every nation around the world . We honor and celebrate the resilience of individuals, families, and communities on every continent, whether in New York or Nairobi, Bali or Belfast, Mumbai or Manila, or Lahore or London." No mention is made of Israel.

Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Statement: "With 14 million Americans still looking for work, this is not the time to tinker around the edges. We must take bold action, and that requires federal emergency jobs legislation... The country's infrastructure needs an estimated investment of $2.2 trillion. We should not delay these crucial investments, especially while millions of Americans are out of work. Rebuilding America - without creating expensive new corporate tax loopholes - will further boost our economy and create badly needed jobs."

David Swanson, Washington Director of Democrats.com who has worked for Dennis Kucinich and served on many progressive organizations: "We're planning to model our behavior after the actions in Cairo, Egypt and Tahrir Square. We're going to be at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C.. we're going to occupy it beginning October 6th, and we're going to remain, and we're not to nonviolently interfere, and shut down the offices of our government until we begin to get some movement. You know the actions in Egypt are very much an ongoing struggle and they're very much trying to get that momentum they had in Tahrir Square. So we're going to be there until we begin to take back control of our government."

Actor George Clooney: "As for running for president, look, there's a guy in office right now who is smarter than almost anyone you know, who's nicer and who has more compassion than almost anyone you know. And he's having an almost impossible time governing. Why would anybody volunteer for that job?"

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “I’m offended by Marco Rubio and I think that we are seeing that he is not a true American because he runs from debate...one thing that my dad taught me—maybe your dad taught you this, but it doesn’t seem like it—don’t ever run from a debate and don’t ever be afraid to speak your peace if what you believe in your heart is that you are speaking the truth...you’re a TEA partier and you don’t give a damn about any of the Americans because, you see, it’s kind of in your makeup, Senator; unless your bio is wrong, I don’t think you’ve got any private sector experience in your background. Hell, you’ve been a government guy.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-ca), Minority Leader: “What more do they [the rich] want? They have -- homes, they have their yacht. The taller the mast. The whole thing. They have museum-quality art. Then I decided if, in fact, they are advocating for this, which I'm not sure they are. I think the Republicans just like to have that position. They want immortality.”

Keith Olbermann, on Obama not being liberal enough: "When the Chamber of Congress pats you on the back, you are doing something desperately wrong. When Boehner's spokesman compliments you with the Freudian slip, `It's the tip of the iceberg,' you have made a terrible mistake. What the hell is going on in the White House?"

New Black Panther Party member King Samir Shabazz teaching kids Black survival techniques: "Know and understand everything around you is a weapon."

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

MSNBC contributor Richard Wolffe: "The interesting question is: What is it about this president that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the Office of the President? Why do Republicans think this president is unpresidential and should dare to request this kind of thing? It strikes me that it could be the economic times, it could be that he won so big in 2008 or it could be, let's face it, the color of his skin. This is an extraordinary reaction to a normal sequence of events."

Those on MSNBC who will comment of this week’s GOP debate: Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell and Al Sharpton. Plus, Eugene Robinson, Howard Fineman, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry of the far-left The Nation and Huffington Post's Alex Wagner.

Bill Keller questions of Michele Bachmann: “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?”

Liberals from the past:

About 2 months ago, President Obama put Israel on list of Countries that "have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members." Israel was on this list.

Liberal civility:

Randi Rhodes: “Every time I look at him[Rush Limbaugh] now I see [serial killer] John Wayne Gacy! You know - because he's got a webcam - that, you know whenever they uh show what he said on the radio, they are able to show the video. Every time I look at him now he looks like John Wayne Gacy in a polo shirt!”

Randi Rhodes: “And yes, we've never had a black president before! You know - I don't think Republicans would have ever reacted to the timing of the speech like this if it weren't for the fact that the President of the United States is black -- and yes, I'm saying that partly to annoy conservatives by reminding them that the President of the United States is black! That piece of crap that only sees skin color, Rush Limbaugh, reacted to President Obama's request yesterday by saying no genuine President would have done that - no genuine! You see, he's got a question whether or not this President is legitimate!”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D), California: “Are you going to say to FOX News, when they try and choke us, lie on us, undermine us and destroy us, we will turn the television off on you? Are you willing to understand that you cannot get your news from the enemy?”

Guest host for the Ed Schultz show, Mike Panantonio: "Don't believe it, it's not true. The rage [of TEA party members] has just started. We got a glimpse of that hate, if you'll remember, when we saw the signs they held up at their rallies. There were pictures of Obama depicted as a monkey. Or Obama hanging in effigy like the good ol' days to this crowd, when this same group no doubt would be lynching real black people for real.”

Crazy Muslims:

Salem Abu Al-Futouh on Egyptian television: “The Jews have two holidays: Passover and another one. What is the Passover, you ask? This holiday is a kind of. . . The Jews celebrate this holiday by eating sandwiches. . . Rather, they eat matzos. What are these matzos made of, you may ask? Concentrate now. They are made of flour and, instead of water, of blood...These people are blood-sucking vampires. When a Jew wants to get married, he must fetch human blood and give it to the rabbi. The rabbi takes this blood and puts an egg in it. He cooks the egg in blood, instead of water. After the egg absorbs the human blood. . . Let me just say that when there is a wedding, they gather at the rabbi's. The rabbi puts the egg in the man's mouth, and he takes a bite. Then he puts it in the woman's mouth, and she also takes a bite. The egg contains human blood. These are blood-sucking vampires, brothers.”

Liberals making sense:

Solyndra president and CEO—and big Obama supporter—Brian Harrison: "Regulatory and policy uncertainties in recent months created significant near-term excess supply and price erosion. Raising incremental capital in this environment was not possible. This was an unexpected outcome and is most unfortunate."

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman: "The administration still refuses to call our enemy in this war by its proper name - violent Islamist extremism. You could find names that are comparable to that but not the ones that the administration continues to use, which are `violent extremism.' "

After several shootings in Florida, organizer Mikhail Muhammed: "We want to call our leadership to the table. We want to address these concerns. We believe it's a black problem, and we believe the black leadership must step up."

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd: "Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Toronto Hydro chief Anthony Haines: "If you connect about 10 per cent of the homes on any given street with an electric car, the electricity system fails."

Fred Wszolek, spokesperson for the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI): "Today, President Obama's labor board issued another regulation on businesses that will only create additional burdens as opposed to helping employers produce jobs. The notice comes the same week the White House was seeking recognition from the business community for scaling back regulations that inhibit economic growth."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to Washington Post's Eugene Robinson: "Isn't there also though a larger context that the United States citizens may have just elected a president that was not ready to run the most complex economy in the world?"

Chuck Scarborough of WNBC: "We're in the news business. We deal in doom."

Crosstalk:

Chris Matthews, Host: “This week we want to do something slightly different with our "Tell me Something" segment. Let me ask you all, all four of you, what has been President Obama's biggest mistake in his two and a half years so far? Howard.”

Howard Fineman, Huffington Post: “Chris, on things under his control, not the wars so much because they were built in, his decision to spend all of his political capital in a year and a half of his time on the healthcare reform law I think was his biggest political mistake.”

Matthews: “Wow. Smart statement.”

David Ignatius, Washington Post: “I would agree with Howard. The idea of launching a major change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in Congress about what that should look like was a mistake. That's just not how a president makes good policy.”

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ABC's Jonathan Karl: "You can't even get the Congress to agree on a date for the speech without a political sideshow. How can the American people expect you to do something much more difficult, come up with a jobs plan, dealing with the deficit?"

Press secretary Jay Carney: "Because the sideshows don't matter, the economy matters. The American people matter. Jobs matter."

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Reporter: “How has the president reacted to the whole debate over, the issues over the scheduling of the speech?”

Jay Carney: “I spent a great deal of time with him [Obama] this morning, and it never came up. Honestly.”

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Question: “If Congress were to pass the package that the President's going to announce, unemployment would be under 9%?”

Jay Carney: “Based on, when you're talking about economic predictions, yes. Economic analysts, economists will be able to look at this series of proposals and say that `based on history, based on what we know, based on their collective expertise, that it would add to economic growth and cause an increase to job creation.”

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Christian Amanpour: “Dana, I wanted to ask you, again, alluding to some of the things that Governor Perry has said. And he is a Tea Party favorite, and yet he's talked about Social Security, he's talked about it as a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal. But we know and the polls show that 87 percent of Americans believe, of course, Social Security has been good for the country. Does that not put him completely out of step with the rest of the country on this major issue?”

Dana Loesch: “Not really, because I think that what he wants to do is reform Social Security and hopefully take it out of the hands of the government and allow people to be able to decide what they want to do with their own money. And that's something that grassroots has always been supportive of. We trust ourselves more than we trust the government. And the government has done a horrible job. They said this money was supposed to be there for people who are my parents' age, who are my aunts' and uncles' age. This money was supposed to be there for them when they retired. It was supposedly put in some sort of lockbox. And then when you open the box, when these people hit retirement age, it's not there anymore. So I think that this is something that grassroots has pushed for. I think Perry is beginning to speak to that.”

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Jay Carney, before the speech day was changed: "There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint-session speech. There are other issues that you have to deal with, as well as congressional scheduling and the president's scheduling...There are many opportunities for the American people. There's a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate. A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour."

Carney after the speech day was changes: "If Thursday's the day, Thursday's the day. It's irrelevant. It's small stuff. Wednesday was the soonest possible day upon Congress's return from recess. But Thursday is fine with us."

Conservatives:

Charles Krauthammer: “[Obama] doesn’t understand that his administration has stopped the recovery in its tracks.” [quoted from memory]

Krauthammer: “I think the Republicans have the perfect slogan: President Zero.”

Charles Krauthammer: "President Zero: zero economic expansion, zero jobs, zero ideas on how to cure the economy"

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint: "I'm so tired of his speeches it's going to be hard for me to watch...What I've heard the president is going to talk about Thursday night is more of the same: extending unemployment benefits, payroll tax cuts. I just don't think those things are going to create jobs."

Dick Cheney on the TEA party: "I don't think we would have gotten as far as we have without them sort of holding the feet to the fire of members of Congress."

Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, former Dick Cheney aide: “This is a government that is not entirely comfortable with the role it has to play in some cases to keep America safe. I think it's incredibly telling that the Obama administration would have weeks of torturous deliberations just to figure out how to talk about 9/11.”

John Bolton on Barack Obama: “I don’t think he cares about foreign policy.”

Charles Krauthammer: "When Jay Carney says 'and I can honestly say that this was only a coincidence that the original scheduling land on the Republican debate.' You've got to ask yourself 'how much are they paying him?' Whatever it is, it's not enough.”

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that "Shariah [law] is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and in the world as we know it."

Congressman Joe Walsh: "How idiotic is this president? I don't want to be disrespectful, but he's going to bring forth a jobs plan next week. Think about that for a minute. He's been in office for three years. He's destroyed job creation systematically for three years."

Walsh may miss the Obama speech: "I don't see the point of being a prop for another of the president's speeches asking for more failed stimulus spending and more subsidies for his pet projects."

Republican Congressman Joe Walsh to MSNBC anchor Martin Ashir: "Your profession did not vet [Obama]..."

Presidential candidate and guitar playing Thaddeus McCotter on the Gibson Guitar plant raid: "It`s one more reason big government doesn't rock."

Chris Wallace: “How can we get a deal on jobs if we can’t even agree on the night the president speaks?” [quoted from memory]

National Review's Rich Lowry on MSNBC host Al Sharpton: "We know he'll never be President of the United States because he can't read a teleprompter"

Rush Limbaugh: "I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison."

Rush Limbaugh: "The left would love for the Tea Party to get distracted, start talking about immigration, abortion, gay marriage, all this other stuff, because right now the chief vulnerability faced by Obama and the Democrats is the economy."

Rush Limbaugh: "Jobs, stimulus spending, federal regulations, those are the three things that are killing this country. Those are the three things that every Republican needs to focus on."

Rush: "If you end up doing what you love, you're really never working. It doesn't strike you as work. There's nothing really arduous about it."

Conservatives not making any sense:

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul: "There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. . . . And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. . . . And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators . . . We need to take out the CIA."

Watch This!

Herman Cain ad; somewhat unusual:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0M_rEcHls

Cain ad #2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vjXVndWSbY

Michele Bachmann’s anti-Perry ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyVMi-eOeA

Black Panther teaches survival and offensive action, using guns, bats and machetes to kids:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-video-new-black-panther-party-member-teaches-black-survival-tactics-with-guns-and-machetes-to-kids/

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “After suffering a big decline in his job approval rating, the prime minister of Japan just announced that he’d resign. Your move, Obama.”

Jodi Miller: “Iran’s Ahmadinejad repeated his desire to destroy Israel. In response to this violent threat of longest surviving culture in human history, President Obama said, ‘Fore!’ ”

Jodi Miller: “Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings said, ‘Many Black people feel that Obama is being treated unfairly.’ And by unfairly, they mean he is being held accountable for his actions and his policies.”

Tarantula in studio freaks out TV weatherman during live broadcast

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/huge-tarantula-in-studio-freaks-out-tv-weatherman-during-live-broadcast/

Short Takes

1) I think we are getting very close to the public understanding that the tax code, social security and medicare will have to be revamped. This is going to put a great burden upon the next president. Also, this time, it is going to be a much more public debate, because a lot more people are involved now in the political system.

2) Has any previous administration sued so many private businesses and state governments before?

3) When it comes down to Perry versus Obama, I will have no difficulty making that choice. However, I don’t know that I see Rick Perry as a true conservative. He’s more of a Texan than George W. Bush, but I don’t know that he is more of a conservative. The simplest example is, school choice. Texas has been, for the past 20 years, trying to guide out schools from the top down, and, as a result, they have gotten worse and worse. Perry has said or done little to change that trend. Schools were my #1 problem with Bush, and they will continue to be the same for Perry. However, he is still light years ahead of Obama, who is both in over his head, with liberal ideas ingrained in his skull that he is unable to change.

By the Numbers

0 jobs were created this past month, and unemployment has remained at 9.1%.

Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984

U.S. debt held by public tops $10 trillion for first time—up 59% under Obama

Polling by the Numbers

The Pew Research Center

81% of US Muslims have heard about the Ground Zero mosque project,

72% of them say it should be allowed to be built.

Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters

47% would vote for Obama

35% would vote for Palin

The generic Republican would gain 48% of the vote,

the president picks up support from 40%.

4% prefer some other candidate,

8% are undecided.

A Little Bias

NPR's does a story on the zero jobs created this past month. They choose soundbites: from an Obama aide, a Former Obama aide, and a Liberal Philly mayor. That seems pretty fair and balanced to me.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/09/04/nprs-zero-jobs-soundbites-obama-aide-former-obama-aide-liberal-philly-ma#ixzz1X0UsIMIC

NBC and MSNBC have completely ignored the Solyndra bankruptcy. CNN has mentioned it, but has not referenced the possibly scandal associated with it.

ABC World News reported these stories in this order: (1) Up first on one of the nation's most-watched nightly news programs was a two and a half minute discussion about gas prices heading into the Labor Day weekend. (2) After that came a minute on the President's helicopter being inconveniently rerouted forcing the Commander-in-Chief and his daughter to be driven to Camp David. Imagine how that must have ruined their holiday weekend. (3) Then came an almost four minute report on tropical storm Lee. (4) Zero jobs created in the month of August, the lowest since 1945. NewsBusters Noel Shepherd asks, would that have been the 4^th story if there was a Republican in office?

Life Dynamics Incorporated has documented that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry always takes the lives of a disproportionate number of pre-born African-American and Hispanic babies. Have you heard anyone in the Alphabet media talk about this?

ABC presents a jobs solution: spend and build a stimulus program as big as the one launched in WWII. It is possible that this piece is simply laying out what Obama’s agenda is:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/09/03/abc-s-jobs-solution-spend-and-build-stimulus-program-big-one-was-launch

At the same time, bear in mind that Most of the Republican candidates have laid out economic solutions. Are they discussed on ABC?

NY Times film critic all the R-rated “Old Fashioned Orgy” a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" albeit "somewhat laugh-deficient" while a G-rated drama, “Seven Days in Utopia,” about a young golfer being mentored by a retired pro is panned as a "stultifying hybrid of instruction film and Christian sermon" that "swoons into its own solemn sanctimony."

NY Time editorial to John Boehner: “Oh, Grow Up.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/opinion/oh-grow-up.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=oh%20grow%20up&st=cse

There are 2 very big stories which reek of government obstruction and/or corruption: “Fast and Furious” and Solyndra. Will any news organization pursue these stories vigorously? Who in my age group can forget, “What did he know and when did he know it?” The news went after any Bush crony they could when it came to the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame. However, if there is not a constant drumbeat, these stories will just fade away. Luckily, the House is going to pursue the Solyndra story.

Questions for Obama

How is your new jobs plan any different from your old jobs plan?

More Proof Obama is an Amateur

It is hard to figure out what Obama had in mind when it came to setting his speech to conflict with the Republican debate. Did no one in the White House know about the debate? Did they set up this time in order to take away from the debate? Whatever they had in mind, the president quickly backed down and held this speech on the following night. Either the White House had no idea what else was going on, did not realize that this would be a problem, or thought this would be a savvy political move. Who is making these decisions?

The White House has warned that the President will not reveal his entire jobs plan on Thursday, nor would this plan be released in its entirety by that time. Wonder if they are putting some extra touches on it?

News Before it Happens

Although Ed Schultz’s rant on Marco Rubio was a little extreme, expect to have more of that from more and more news people. Expect them to attack, in particular, Rubio and Perry (probably the next Republican presidential ticket) as much as they have Palin and Bachmann. They are going to be accused for being afraid to debate, and the ones who want to debate them are “newsmen.”

There is a GAO report that Republican Senator Tom Colburn requested which identifies many areas of waste and overlap in government spending. If any of these cuts are enacted, be certain that President Obama and Democrats will take credit for them (remember “Clinton’s” balanced budgets?).

Do you recall how that WH tattling website quietly disappeared? Organized leftists will put up far left petitions on the new government site, we the people; but there is a reasonable chance that TEA party people will put up a number of petitions as well, which is not what the White House wants.

Unless Obama completely changes his thinking about the economy, it is very likely that we will fall into another recession.

The Daily Kos has put out an article saying the Rick Perry will be the next president of the United States.

There will be nothing really new in the jobs speech and proposals by Obama. I think that ABC is actually testing the ideas in advance. This legislation, which does not yet exist, will be treated as though it did, and used as a weapon against Republicans, because they will vote against it. There will be one or two things that are conservative in the package, a lot of things which sound conservative, and mostly stuff that sounds moderate, but is not. Infrastructure spending, jobs training spending, unemployment benefits extended; and add to this, tax breaks to companies to hire people and to make an impossible tax system even more so. We might even hear more about how we need government-provided internet and more rail projects.

Prophecies Fulfilled

Some time ago, I suggested that President Obama was not at all interested in foreign policy. John Bolton this week made a comment to that effect. Not a fulfillment really, because it is hard to look into Obama’s head.

Missing Headlines

FEMA institutes new Orwellian Language Changes

Green Company Solyndra Gets Millions in Taxpayer Money and Goes Bankrupt

Real Headlines

Don't Fear Islamic Law in America (Op-ed in the NY Times)

Come, let us reason together....

An Unusual Economy?

By Thomas Sowell

Many in the media are saying how unusual it is for our economy to be so sluggish for so long, after we have officially emerged from a recession. In a sense, they are right. But, in another sense, they are profoundly wrong.

The American economy usually rebounds a lot faster than it is doing today. After a recession passes, consumers usually increase their spending. And when businesses see demand picking up, they usually start hiring workers to produce the additional output required to meet that demand.

Some very sharp downturns in the American economy, such as in the early 1920s, were followed quickly by bouncing back to normal levels or beyond. The government did nothing - and it worked.

In that sense, this is an unusual recovery in how long it is taking and in how slowly the economy is growing - while the government is doing virtually everything imaginable.

Government intervention may look good to the media but its actual track record - both today and in the 1930s - is far worse than the track record of letting the economy recover on its own.

Americans today are alarmed that unemployment has stayed around 9 percent for so long. But such unemployment rates have been common for years in Western European welfare states that have followed policies similar to policies being followed currently by the Obama administration.

Those European welfare states have not only used the taxpayers' money to hand out "free" benefits to particular groups, they have mandated that employers do the same. Faced with higher labor costs, employers have hired less labor.

The vast uncertainties created by ObamaCare create a special problem. If employers knew that ObamaCare would add $1,000 to their costs of hiring an employee, then they could simply reduce the salaries they offer by $1,000 and start hiring.

But, since it will take years to create all the regulations required to carry out ObamaCare, employers today don't know whether the ObamaCare costs that will hit them down the road will be $500 per employee or $5,000 per employee. Even businesses that have record amounts of cash on hand are reluctant to gamble it by expanding their hiring under these conditions.

Many businesses work their existing employees overtime or hire temporary workers, rather than get stuck with unknown and unknowable costs for expanding their permanent work force.

As unusual as 9 percent unemployment rates may seem to the current generation of Americans, unemployment rates stayed in double digits for months and years on end during the 1930s. Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration followed policies very similar to those of the Obama administration today. He also got away with it politically by blaming his predecessor.

From:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell083011.php3

Left paints the campaign as a religious war

by Byron York

The fundamental facts of the presidential race at this moment are that unemployment is high, the economy is by far the most important issue to American voters, and President Obama's handling of economic questions is overwhelmingly unpopular. Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and others are hammering the president daily on matters of job creation and economic growth.

Now some of Obama's activist allies and supporters in the press are engaged in a sharply focused effort to change the subject. Even as economic anxieties continue to rise, some of the nation's premier political journalists are consumed with the alleged influences of obscure religious philosophers on Republican candidates; on questions of creationism, evolution, and the age of the Earth; and on the fantasy that a Republican president might transform the United States into an Iranian-style theocracy.

For example, the Daily Beast/Newsweek recently published an article titled "A Christian Plot for Domination?" claiming that Perry and Bachmann are "deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism" known as Dominionism. A widely discussed article in the Texas Observer claimed that Dominionists -- a "little-known movement of radical Christians" -- are readying an "army of God" to "commandeer civilian government," with Perry the "vessel" for their ambitions. Finally, the New Yorker published a long article claiming that Bachmann believes "Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns."

Surveying those articles, the executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, concludes that "an unusually large number" of Republican candidates "belong to churches that are mysterious or suspect to many Americans." Perry and Bachmann, in particular, are connected to "fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity," which Keller says "has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction." Fearing that Perry or Bachmann could be a "Trojan horse" for a religious takeover of the government, Keller advocates strict questioning of candidates on doctrinal issues.

Put aside whether there is some bias against Christianity in these baseless charges, or whether liberals are proposing the kind of religious test for office that the Founders explicitly rejected. It has often been remarked that, given today's terrible economy, Barack Obama cannot run in 2012 on the theme of hope, as he did in 2008. With his record, he'll have to run on fear -- that is, on convincing voters that Republicans are just too scary to elect.

This is what running on fear looks like. Could the president's political strategists be anything less than delighted with the work of Keller and his colleagues?

Out on the campaign trail, Democratic activists are trying to maneuver the candidates into statements to feed the Republicans-are-religious-nuts narrative. For example, in New Hampshire a few weeks ago, a young boy approached Perry with a series of questions about science. How old is the Earth? the boy asked. As Perry answered (he said he didn't know), the boy's mother pushed her son to confront the governor. "Ask him about evolution," she ordered the boy. "Ask him why he doesn't believe in science." Perry's answer -- that evolution is a theory that has "some gaps" -- provided more material for Keller and the subject-changers.

Elsewhere on the trail, so-called "trackers" from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, David Brock's American Bridge, and other organizations follow Republicans around, sometimes posing out-of-the-blue questions in hopes of throwing a candidate off message. "It's all about homosexuality, Islam, anything that is remotely sensitive socially," says Ellen Carmichael, spokeswoman for frequent target Herman Cain. "That's what they usually ask about."

Not even the longest of longshot candidates is immune. Back in May, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson spoke at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, S.C., touting his record on job creation and cutting spending. After Johnson's talk, a staffer for the Center for American Progress approached him with questions about Shariah law. Johnson was baffled.

Meanwhile, with the economy still tanking, some liberal commentators have worked themselves into a virtual panic over religion. On Wednesday alone, one Washington Post columnist declared flatly that "Rick Perry is a theocrat," while another discussed the urgent task of "saving America from Rick Perry."

Will these diversionary efforts succeed? Political journalists can talk about theocracy all they want, but Americans are still overwhelmingly concerned with jobs. The more hysterical the religious speculation becomes, the more voters will be able to spot an effort to change the subject.

From:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/york-left-paints-campaign-religious-war

In Iowa, Sarah Palin Lays Out a Governing Philosophy that Should Worry Both Sides of the Aisle

by John Nolte

Today in Iowa, home of that all-important Caucus (hint-hint?), Governor Palin spoke as clearly as she ever has on a subject near and dear to my heart and one I've been waiting to hear from a serious GOP contender. Palin calls it, quite appropriately, "crony capitalism," where the moneyed and powerful receive preferential treatment from our political class in exchange for the financial support that puts and keeps the political class in charge of the rest of us.

"Corporate welfare is just socialism for the very wealthy."

Indeed.

And while Governor Palin rightfully trained most of her rhetorical fire on President Obama (the most corporatist president of my lifetime), she also took on Republican members of that "permanent political class" who selfishly dole out our hard-earned money to those who keep them in power.

This is nothing more than a racket and it's a disgusting one at that that explains why deficits and wasteful spending occurs regardless of which party is in charge - it is, as the Governor made clear, the disease that's killing our free market economy. But she has a cure that will both cut these insidious ties and create jobs: end loopholes, end corporate welfare, end bailouts (amen) AND end the corporate income tax. In other words: Corporate America - we'll get out of your way but you are now on your own.

When you see Obama cozying up to General Electric and in turn see GE embracing Obama and his stupid "green solutions," what you're witnessing is a scheme designed to snuff competition. GE isn't stupid, they know "green energy" is nonsense, but they also know they're "too big to fail" and that they can afford to pay for burdensome taxes (if they pay taxes at all) and environmental regulations. But do you want to know who can't? Up and coming companies, upstarts who might someday put GE out of business. If you know the government's going to bail you out and snuff your competition, where's the downside in "going green"?

(As a movie guy who speaks that language best, if you want to know of what I speak, rent "Tucker: The Man and His Dream.")

What I'm saying is that Big Business can be every bit as corrupt and harmful to our economy as Big Government and Sarah Palin not only understands this, but while she was Alaska's governor, she fought and beat Big Oil and the political cronies who gave them the upper hand over what was best for her State and its people. This isn't a folk tale and it's not political legend. It's a fact and it's what sets her apart from way too many on our side.

There were a number of other specifics in today's speech, including the repeal of ObamaCare, cancelling all that unused money from Obama's epically failed stimulus, open the floodgates to our domestic energy resources, fix our deficit on our own terms before some foreign country forces us to on theirs, and make America the most attractive country in the world to do business in with the aforementioned tax reform and the reining in of regulations.

But what we really heard was a thematic speech that laid out a governing philosophy, a bold approach to issues and problems in a way that focuses as strongly on our corrupted political culture as it does on the problems themselves - a root cause approach that helps to explain why the GOP establishment currently sitting comfortably in their own feathered nests are so afraid of this woman.

Should Palin run for president (and I hope she does), the debate about what needs to be done to get this economy back on track will no longer pussyfoot around the edges of "entitlements" and "pork." She will drag it again and again back to where it needs to be, at the feet of our bipartisan crony capitalism problem - our diseased and selfish political culture that lurks on both sides of the aisle.

Should she choose not to run, however, hopefully today she at least rang a bell that can't be un-rung.

According to Palin, we'll know by the end of this month as to whether or not she'll be throwing her hat into the 2012 presidential ring. But whatever her ultimate decision, what we're seeing now is a savvy game of chess. Should she choose to run, by holding her fire and patiently waiting (while the Smart GOP Set criticizes her for not letting them open their presents early), she's giving herself and her team time to put their pieces in place and watch the enemy's tactics - the enemy primarily being a corrupt media too invested in Obama to let him lose. Should the Governor choose not run, she'll have used these last few months to affect the GOP debate, especially on behalf of the millions of everyday Americans who make up the Tea Party.

Palin represents my kind of populism, the sincere kind borne of faith in the ability of everyday Americans to govern themselves in a system of government that only works when its primary function is to get the hell out of our way. That's what I want to hear from a candidate.

As far as an announcement, we're months away from the Iowa Caucus and 400-plus days away from the election. I like the patience I'm seeing from the Governor and she doesn't need me to tell her that if you look close enough you'll see that most of those carping about her waiting to make a decision are doing so from a feathered nest.

From:

http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/09/03/root-causes-in-iowa-sarah-palin-lays-out-a-governing-philosophy-that-should-worry-both-sides-of-the-aisle/

Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism

Post-'60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline.

By Shelby Steele

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological wrong-headedness and an oddly undefined character. Indeed, on the matter of Mr. Obama's character, today's left now sounds like the right of three years ago. They have begun to see through the man and are surprised at how little is there.

Yet there is something more than inexperience or lack of character that defines this presidency: Mr. Obama came of age in a bubble of post-'60s liberalism that conditioned him to be an adversary of American exceptionalism. In this liberalism America's exceptional status in the world follows from a bargain with the devil-an indulgence in militarism, racism, sexism, corporate greed, and environmental disregard as the means to a broad economic, military, and even cultural supremacy in the world. And therefore America's greatness is as much the fruit of evil as of a devotion to freedom.

Mr. Obama did not explicitly run on an anti-exceptionalism platform. Yet once he was elected it became clear that his idea of how and where to apply presidential power was shaped precisely by this brand of liberalism. There was his devotion to big government, his passion for redistribution, and his scolding and scapegoating of Wall Street-as if his mandate was somehow to overcome, or at least subdue, American capitalism itself.

Anti-exceptionalism has clearly shaped his "leading from behind" profile abroad-an offer of self-effacement to offset the presumed American evil of swaggering cowboyism. Once in office his "hope and change" campaign slogan came to look like the "hope" of overcoming American exceptionalism and "change" away from it.

So, in Mr. Obama, America gained a president with ambivalence, if not some antipathy, toward the singular greatness of the nation he had been elected to lead.

But then again, the American people did elect him. Clearly Americans were looking for a new kind of exceptionalism in him (a black president would show America to have achieved near perfect social mobility). But were they also looking for-in Mr. Obama-an assault on America's bedrock exceptionalism of military, economic and cultural pre-eminence?

American exceptionalism is, among other things, the result of a difficult rigor: the use of individual initiative as the engine of development within a society that strives to ensure individual freedom through the rule of law. Over time a society like this will become great. This is how-despite all our flagrant shortcomings and self-betrayals-America evolved into an exceptional nation.

Yet today America is fighting in a number of Muslim countries, and that number is as likely to rise as to fall. Our exceptionalism saddles us with overwhelming burdens. The entire world comes to our door when there is real trouble, and every day we spill blood and treasure in foreign lands-even as anti-Americanism plays around the world like a hit record.

At home the values that made us exceptional have been smeared with derision. Individual initiative and individual responsibility-the very engines of our exceptionalism-now carry a stigma of hypocrisy. For centuries America made sure that no amount of initiative would lift minorities and women. So in liberal quarters today-where historical shames are made to define the present-these values are seen as little more than the cynical remnants of a bygone era. Talk of "merit" or "a competition of excellence" in the admissions office of any Ivy League university today, and then stand by for the howls of incredulous laughter.

Our national exceptionalism both burdens and defames us, yet it remains our fate. We make others anxious, envious, resentful, admiring and sometimes hate-driven. There's a reason al Qaeda operatives targeted the U.S. on 9/11 and not, say, Buenos Aires. They wanted to enrich their act of evil with the gravitas of American exceptionalism. They wanted to steal our thunder.

So we Americans cannot help but feel some ambivalence toward our singularity in the world-with its draining entanglements abroad, the selfless demands it makes on both our military and our taxpayers, and all the false charges of imperial hubris it incurs. Therefore it is not surprising that America developed a liberalism-a political left-that took issue with our exceptionalism. It is a left that has no more fervent mission than to recast our greatness as the product of racism, imperialism and unbridled capitalism.

But this leaves the left mired in an absurdity: It seeks to trade the burdens of greatness for the relief of mediocrity. When greatness fades, when a nation contracts to a middling place in the world, then the world in fact no longer knocks on its door. (Think of England or France after empire.) To civilize America, to redeem the nation from its supposed avarice and hubris, the American left effectively makes a virtue of decline-as if we can redeem America only by making her indistinguishable from lesser nations.

Since the '60s we have enfeebled our public education system even as our wealth has expanded. Moral and cultural relativism now obscure individual responsibility. We are uninspired in the wars we fight, calculating our withdrawal even before we begin-and then we fight with a self-conscious, almost bureaucratic minimalism that makes the wars interminable.

America seems to be facing a pivotal moment: Do we move ahead by advancing or by receding-by reaffirming the values that made us exceptional or by letting go of those values, so that a creeping mediocrity begins to spare us the burdens of greatness?

As a president, Barack Obama has been a force for mediocrity. He has banked more on the hopeless interventions of government than on the exceptionalism of the people. His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.

Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people. So the concept of the exceptionalism-the genius for freedom-of the American people may still be a stretch for him. But in fact he was elected to make that stretch. It should be held against him that he has failed to do so.

Spending, not entitlements, created huge deficit

by Byron York

It's conventional wisdom in Washington to blame the federal government's dire financial outlook on runaway entitlement spending. Unless we rein in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the conventional wisdom goes, the federal government is headed for disaster.

That's true in the long run. But what is causing massive deficits now? Is it the same entitlements that threaten the future?

Yes, say some conservatives who favor making entitlement reform a key issue in the 2012 campaign. "We're $1.5 trillion in debt," Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol said Sunday, referring to this year's projected deficit. "Where's the debt coming from? It's coming from entitlements."

There's no doubt federal spending has exploded in recent years. In fiscal 2007, the last year before things went haywire, the government took in $2.568 trillion in revenues and spent $2.728 trillion, for a deficit of $160 billion. In 2011, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the government will take in $2.230 trillion and spend $3.629 trillion, for a deficit of $1.399 trillion.

That's an increase of $901 billion in spending and a decrease of $338 billion in revenue in a very short time. Put them together, and that's how you go from a $160 billion deficit to a $1.399 trillion deficit.

But how, precisely, did that happen? Was there a steep rise in entitlement spending? Did everyone suddenly turn 65 and begin collecting Social Security and using Medicare? No: The deficits are largely the result not of entitlements but of an explosion in spending related to the economic downturn and the rise of Democrats to power in Washington. While entitlements must be controlled in the long run, Washington's current spending problem lies elsewhere.

A lot of the higher spending has stemmed directly from the downturn. There is, for example, spending on what is called "income security" -- that is, for unemployment compensation, food stamps and related programs. In 2007, the government spent $365 billion on income security. In 2011, it's estimated to spend $622 billion. That's an increase of $257 billion.

Then there is Medicaid, the health care program for lower-income Americans. A lot of people had lower incomes due to the economic downturn, and federal expenditures on Medicaid -- its costs are shared with the states -- went from $190 billion in 2007 to an estimated $276 billion in 2011, an increase of $86 billion. Put that together with the $257 billion increase in income security spending, and you have $343 billion.

Add to that the $338 billion in decreased revenues, and you get $681 billion -- which means nearly half of the current deficit can be clearly attributed to the downturn.

That's a deficit increase that would have happened in an economic crisis whether Republicans or Democrats controlled Washington. But it was the specific spending excesses of President Obama and the Democrats that shot the deficit into the stratosphere.

There is no line in the federal budget that says "stimulus," but Obama's massive $814 billion stimulus increased spending in virtually every part of the federal government. "It's spread all through the budget," says former Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin. "It was essentially a down payment on the Obama domestic agenda." Green jobs, infrastructure, health information technology, aid to states -- it's all in there, billions in increased spending.

As for the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP -- it has no specific line in the budget, either, but that is because it was anticipated to pay nearly all of its own cost, which it has.

Spending for Social Security and Medicare did go up in this period -- $162 billion and $119 billion, respectively -- but by incremental and predictable amounts that weren't big problems in previous years. "We're getting older one year at a time, and health care costs grow at 7 or 8 percent a year," says Holtz-Eakin. If Social Security and Medicare were the sole source of the current deficit, it would be a lot smaller than it is.

The bottom line is that with baby boomers aging, entitlements will one day be a major budget problem. But today's deficit crisis is not one of entitlements. It was created by out-of-control spending on everything other than entitlements. The recent debt-ceiling agreement is supposed to put the brakes on that kind of spending, but leaders have so far been maddeningly vague on how they'll do it.

This issue could be an important one in the coming presidential race. Should Republicans base their platform on entitlement reform, or should they focus on the here and now -- specifically, on undoing the damage done by Obama and his Democratic allies? In coming months, the answer will likely become clear: entitlements someday, but first things first.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/york-spending-not-entitlements-created-deficits

Email from Obama

After his Martha’s Vineyard Vacation, his bus tour, and numerous fundariasers, the president apparently had time to put together the following while preparing to go to Camp David. Maybe I have been taken in, but this appears to be a real campaign email to come from the Obama camp.

From:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/president-obama-frustrated-in-campaign-email/

Obama proposes 7 New Regulations, each of which would top $1 billion in costs.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/15359465/obama-7-proposed-regs-would-exceed-1-billion

White House email about the “we the people” project. “People will submit petitions, people will sign them, then it will go to the appropriate policy experts and an official response will be given.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHBxn3qGidY/Tl_1U83JXlI/AAAAAAAABdw/EWlnnIWstwY/s1600/whitehouse-wethepeople.jpg

We Have a President, Not a King by James Joyner

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/we-have-a-president-not-a-king/

Fred Wszolek on NRLB regulations that could strangle business:

http://townhall.com/columnists/fredwszolek/2011/08/23/regulations_will_be_central_to_falls_economic_debate/page/full/

Coloring books on the 9/11 attacks cause some controversy.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/08/31/publisher-calls-fbi-over-muslim-backlash-on-911-coloring-book/

Nonprofit used $330,000 in grant money to open strip club in Washington D.C. The government has filed a civil suit but there does not appear to be a criminal investigation of this.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/d-c-govt-after-nonprofit-that-allegedly-used-grant-money-to-open-strip-club/

Kelo Update: Tax Abatements, a Rubbish Heap, and Continued Establishment Press Neglect

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/09/03/kelo-update-tax-abatements-rubbish-heap-and-continued-establishment-pres#ixzz1X0XQXHgM and

http://biggovernment.com/bgarst/2011/09/03/years-later-land-seized-in-kelo-decision-used-for-debris-dump/

Planned Parenthood targets minority neighborhoods:, a fact ignored by the press

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/09/03/report-planned-parenthood-targets-minority-neighborhoods-press-ignores

Michael Moore had threatened newsman Bill Hemmer that, if anything happened to him, his family would come after Hemmer. This was a number of years ago, but it helps to understand just who Moore is.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2011/09/04/michael-moore-threatened-bill-hemmer-my-family-will-come-after-you

Additional Sources

FEMA is your new federal family:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/femas-use-of-term-federal-family-for-government-1808751.html

We Can and Must Oppose Obama with Open, Honest Conservatism

RUSH: Let's go to audio sound bite number 28. This December 6, 2009, the Biography Channel's Shatner's Raw Nerve. William Shatner interviewed me and during a discussion about health care reform, we had this little exchange.

SHATNER: Here's my premise, and you agree with it or not, that if you have money you're gonna get health care; if you don't have money, it's more difficult.

RUSH ARCHIVE: If you have money you're gonna get a house on the beach. If you don't have money you're gonna live in a bungalow somewhere.

SHATNER: Right. But we're talking about health care.

RUSH ARCHIVE: What's the difference?

SHATNER: The difference is we're talking about health care --

RUSH: No.

SHATNER: -- not a house and a bungalow.

RUSH ARCHIVE: No. You're assuming that there's some morally superior aspect to health care than there is to a house --

SHATNER: No, I'm not moral at all. I want to keep the subject, for the moment, on the health care thing.

RUSH ARCHIVE: All right.

SHATNER: All right. So now it's the health care --

RUSH ARCHIVE: I'm talking about health care.

SHATNER: Okay. So talking about health care. So isn't the premise, isn't this valid, that the health care system today is breaking the country?

RUSH ARCHIVE: No.

SHATNER: It's not?

RUSH ARCHIVE: I don't believe it is. And if it is --

SHATNER: But we're told that it is.

RUSH ARCHIVE: Of course we're told that because that's the way to get us to act like sheep and go along with --

SHATNER: Well, but how do you know that? You know, the sum total of what I want to ask you politically is, how do you know?

RUSH ARCHIVE: It's my job; it's my life; it's my career; it's my passion. I've studied this stuff. I want the best country we can have, and this is not the way to get it. We're going backwards.

RUSH: I want to go forwards. How do you know? That's the sum total, that's all I really wanted to ask you here this whole show, that's all I really wanted to ask you, how do you know? And the answer is, I know liberals. And I know that that sounds simplistic, and you might think I'm trying to be insulting or funny or what have you. No, I'm being as serious as I know how to be. I know liberals. For example, here is a Wall Street Journal piece, and I think it's Peggy Noonan, I'm not sure, but it's a piece on Rick Perry. It was the Beltway elite warning Rick Perry, he better tone it down. And I'm told -- I had spies while I was gone -- I'm told that a lot of people took advantage of my being away to counter what I would say were I here. So people who would normally hold back, fired both barrels.

And one of the things being said while I was gone was, "Mr. Perry, you better tone it down. You had better dial it back. You're gonna really tick off the independents. You just can't speak the way you're speaking." And yet he pulled away from the pack. Rick Perry stormed away from everybody in polling in the Republican Party. Why? Precisely because he's engaging in straight talk, not inside the Beltway elitism, not defensiveness, not politically correct talk. And it was clearly refreshing to voters based on the polls that were taken last week that launched him. So the people who don't want Perry to get the nomination on our side because there are people competing -- I talked about this, it's quite okay for different factions in the Republican Party to want to be the controlling power in the party. They want their nominee, and they want their guy to be elected president so they run the town, run the country. It's what primaries are all about, perfectly fine.

But in this case with Perry pulling away, and people who don't want Perry to pull away, "You better tone it down. You better dial it back." They're gonna tell him to stop doing exactly what's working 'cause they don't want it to work. Now, here comes Jeb Bush. Now, this is when this job gets difficult because I like Jeb Bush and I've met him, the Bush family has been cooperative, nice, over the top with me. The Bush family has been very welcoming, so this is when the job gets tough. I totally disagree with what Jeb Bush said to Politico while I was gone.

"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush warned the Republican presidential hopefuls against ideological intransigence and knee-jerk opposition to President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying they risk turning off middle-of-the-road voters." My friends, middle-of-the-road voters have abandoned Obama. This is the same trick that has been played against our people for years and it really frosts me. The idea that conservatives speaking openly and honestly about conservatism is somehow gonna cause independents to run away, and to where? A party populated by the meanest, most extreme bunch of people in American politics today.

We're told the independents want bipartisanship. We're told the independents want people to get along. And so here comes a conservative who's not combative. He's just being honest. Independents don't like that, you're gonna send 'em right back to the Democrats. There's no meaner political group of people in America today than today's Democrats. There's no more combative group of people in American politics today than America's Democrats. There's no more extreme group of people in American politics today than the Democrat Party. Where is it written that these independents are gonna flock to that? They're not flocking to that. They're flocking away from it.

Jeb Bush said, "It's fine to criticize [Obama], that's politics. But just to stop there isn't enough. You have to win with ideas, you have to win with policies." If you're conservative, you have to persuade. You can't just be against the president. Conservatism is something. Conservatism is not opposition. Opposition is the result of being conservative. Conservatism is policies. Conservatism is smaller government. Conservatism is responsible spending. Conservatism is belief in the power of the individual. Conservatism is faith in people to be the best they can be. Conservatism is founded in love of all people and a desire for everybody to maximize the great gift they have: being born in America.

Conservatism is not opposition. Conservatism is not obstructionism. Conservatism is action. It's positive. Conservatism is respect for tradition, the institutions and traditions that made this country great and keep it so. And why can't we just be against the president? If there's ever been somebody it's worth being against, it's this guy. That's what this is all about. I am totally opposed to this guy. You can't just be against the president? Yes, you can. Not only yes, you can, yes, you must. Anybody who cares about this country as founded must be against this president. What was the Democrat platform but being against President Bush during all those years? The Comparisons are eerie here. They said same thing about Reagan and that's why people started saying, "Would you just get the consultants away from him and let Reagan be Reagan." Do you remember that? Because the same type of people started trying to tone Reagan down. Other people said, "Let Reagan be Reagan."

People vote on the basis of likability. This is what the news media fear about Perry and Palin, I'm telling you, they are likable. Nothing dislikable about Rick Perry, and there's no reason for him to shut up. And there's nothing dislikable about Sarah Palin, there's no reason for her to shut up. There's no reason for any of us to shut up about opposing this president. Duty, if you want to look at it this way, duty demands that we oppose this president. It is it is not ideological intransigence, it's not knee-jerk opposition. It is the essence of substance. The reason people oppose this president is pure, 100% substance. They oppose this president precisely because of what he has done and what he wants to continue to do. It is not a sign of intransigence or obstinacy or whatever else here.

Conservatism is an idea and the policies flow from a conservative ideological foundation. Jeb Bush says if you're a conservative, you have to persuade, you can't just be against the president. Yes, you can. You must be. We have to be against this president. We have to be, because being against this president is being against massive spending. Being against this president is not being against a black guy. Being against this president is not being against a person. It's being against destructive policies that are destroying people's children and grandchildren's future and their opportunities. That's what being against this president is. And, by the way, that view has majority support including among the nation's independents.

Scientists: Aliens May Destroy Humanity to Protect Themselves

RUSH: There was a story... What's the date of this thing? This happened, I think, either the day I left for vacation -- that Friday, the 19th -- or shortly thereafter.

It's in the UK Guardian, a serious story: "Aliens May Destroy Humanity to Protect Other Civilizations, Say Scientists -- It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim." Wait. You had... Who was it? Oh, it was that idiot, Krugman. He was advocating for a space alien attack in the New York Times as a way to get the economy to rebound. You had a serious story here in the UK Guardian. "Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilization growing out of control -- and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

"This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a NASA-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that," I'm reading this verbatim, "while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future. Shawn Domagal-Goldman of NASA's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity 'prepare for actual contact.' In their report, Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? ..."

Basically you have here a crackpot leftist scientist with influence in NASA coming in the form of an actual NASA employee producing actual NASA documents warning that if we don't adopt lunatic global warming policies of Algore's, space aliens will invade us to wipe us out, to prevent us from destroying our climate! Here's a quote from the story. Folks, this is in the UK Guardian. This story is presented with all the sincerity of any news story that you might find on the front page of any newspaper any day of the week. Here's the pull-quote: "'Green' aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. 'These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,' the authors write." Honest to God, NASA scientists say we're being observed by space aliens, and if we don't dial it back on the greenhouse gases, they're gonna invade us and wipe us out as a civilization to save this planet!

We're being observed.

And we're getting stories today from The Politico asking, "Is Rick Perry Dumb?"

RUSH: You know, folks, every science fiction movie in the fifties, the sixties, was based on space aliens coming to earth to prevent us from developing the nuclear bomb. The nuclear bomb, we're gonna wipe ourselves out, the space aliens always smarter than we were, would show up, and that was the plot. I remember Michael Rennie was in The Day the Earth Stood Still, that stupid robot, Gort, whatever it was. It was all about we're developing a nuclear bomb. Now the aliens are gonna get us to stop doing global warming, and this gets passed off as straight news.

RUSH: Jared in Boulder, Colorado. You're next. Welcome to the program, sir. Can you save us, or is this show gonna have to revert back to being totally me?

CALLER: No, I can talk. Mega dittos, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.

CALLER: I have a couple of comments, first about the UK Guardian article that you mentioned last hour about the alien attack, and second about Hurricane Irene, if there's time.

RUSH: Yes?

CALLER: I'm working on my Ph,D. in meteorology at Penn State University, and I know two of the authors personally of the scientific study that was mentioned in the UK Guardian article.

RUSH: About the space aliens wiping us out for global warming?

CALLER: Correct.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Correct. And UK Guardian got it wrong. The Guardian initially reported that it was a NASA report, and I think that was the version of the story that you mentioned earlier --

RUSH: That's right.

CALLER: -- and it's not. It was a NASA-affiliated scientist and two Penn State-affiliated scientists, but it was done completely on their own free time. It was not funded by taxpayer funds whatsoever.

RUSH: Okay.

CALLER: So...

RUSH: Well, that's not a concern of mine. I don't care who paid for it.

CALLER: Right. Right. I mean, granted, they still are on the left wing of the political spectrum.

RUSH: Yeah, and they --

CALLER: Granted, they're personal friends, but...

RUSH: They've worked for NASA, right?

CALLER: Yeah. One of them worked for NASA.

RUSH: Okay, so NASA has hired people who put a report together saying that there are space aliens monitoring us and our carbon emissions and if we go too far they're gonna come down here and wipe us out to save the planet?

CALLER: What the article said was... I mean, granted it's not a scientific article because anything talking about war with extraterrestrials is --

RUSH: You're not gonna try to defend these guys, are you?

CALLER: No, no. I think the study is kind of ridiculous myself.

RUSH: Well, good. Okay. I appreciate that.

RUSH: Now, that thought-provoking scenario -- space aliens monitoring our carbon emissions -- does appear in a joint study by Penn State and the NASA Planetary Science Division entitled, "Would Contact With Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis." It's in the UK Guardian, and they are identified as people with the NASA Planetary Science Division. You can't make this up. Somewhere Paul Krugman's gonna be shouting, "Bring it on! Bring it on!" because he was all for a space alien attack two weeks ago.

RUSH: Aurora, Colorado, Lee, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just wanted to make a comment. I'm very sorry for the people on the East Coast who got hit by that, quote, unquote, hurricane. But you know, there's a great segment of our population that are still suffering from when they released the levees in the Missouri and Mississippi River. I understand that there are parts of Iowa and Nebraska still underwater. Now, Rush, this is our farmland, and these people have not been able to farm all summer.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Their highways are still dismayed --

RUSH: Exactly right.

CALLER: -- undriveable. Where's the help for them?

RUSH: Exactly right.

CALLER: As well as the people in Texas and the four corners area that lost so much to the fires?

RUSH: Exactly.

CALLER: I guess we don't vote for Obama so we don't get any consideration and all the aid, right?

RUSH: You're more right than you know, and, by the way, get this. FEMA has taken, I kid you not, FEMA has taken money from little Joplin, Missouri, to use for selected victims of Hurricane Irene.

CALLER: Oh, I believe it, Rush, I totally believe it. These people have no concept, if it means buying votes, well, that's what we'll do with the money, regardless whether the intent is to help people, it's buy those votes.

RUSH: That's what they view the purpose of the office as, the power to spend money, to keep themselves in power. That's precisely what's going on.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/14/paul-krugman-calls-space-aliens-attack-earth-requiring-massive-defens

With Obama Slowdown Here to Stay, Regime Will Sling Dirt in 2012

RUSH: "Economic growth second quarter slightly weaker than previously estimated." Slightly. (chuckles) "According to revised US government data released on Friday, the GDP, which is the broadest measure of our economic health, rose at an annual rate of 1% in the second quarter." The ChiComs are growing at 9.5%. The Cuban growth rate is higher than ours. The Cuban economy is growing faster than ours! We're at 1%, revised down. This is a piece of news from the usual Friday evening dump, further buried by the hysteria over coverage of the Storm of the Century brought on by global warming. God, folks, the lies that have become rote! The lies that appear as news in every one of these stories! It's just amazing. Gross domestic product: 1%. In July we were told it was 1.3%, but they revised it down.

"Economists were expecting the rate to be revised down to 1.1%, according to consensus estimates from Briefing.com." Imagine that, economists getting it wrong! I'm stunned. I can't believe it. And then we're told in this story that the slowdown's here to stay. The slowdown is here to stay. If that's true (and I think you and I know that it is) what does this portend for the presidential campaign? Dirt. Pure, unadulterated dirt. The regime cannot and will not run on its record. The best that this regime can hope for is to say that their record would have been astoundingly good were it not for Republican obstructionism, but that's gonna be a tough sell because the Republican presidential nominee will have had nothing to do with any obstructionism.

The second point is, there wasn't any! The Republicans didn't have the numbers to stop anything. There wasn't any obstructionism. Obama and the Democrats got everything they could get. They could have gotten more if they themselves had been unified. If this slowdown is here to stay, Obama is gone -- unless he can create so much unrest and chaos throughout the culture. I personally am very worried and concerned for what's gonna be happening one year from now, nine months from now in this country, 'cause that's all they're gonna have at their disposal. They can't run on their record. They can't run on, "We know what we're doing, just give us more time." All they can hope to do is try to destroy whoever the Republican nominee is and create so much hell...

Think Chicago '68, Democrat convention, nationwide. Think that. That's what has me concerned. Think race card. These people will play it. They're already starting to. Somebody said to me, "Rush, I'm really worried there are gonna be race riots." There are. What do you think these flash mobs are? There already are race riots taking place. Small, in comparison. They're not reported as such, but they're happening. "Sixty-three percent disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy." This the AP-GfK poll: "President Obama began the summer, 52% job approval, 46% disapproval. Numbers that mirrored his performance in the 2008 election. He ends the summer with 47% approval and 52% disapproval."

In Gallup, it's at 38% approval. We know the AP is adding ten points just because they like the guy. However, even in the AP poll here 63% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy; 92% say the economy is an extremely or very important issue. Eighty-six percent say the economy is bad. Seventy-five percent think the nation's headed in the wrong direction. If the slowdown is here to stay, Obama's gone unless Obama can do something or his party or the regime can do something to create so much... I don't even know what the word is. I have to be very careful about it. Unrest? Anything is possible.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/26/news/economy/gdp/index.htm?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1692232

Irene: A National Embarrassment

RUSH: Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, El Rushbo back at it, in the saddle, ready for broadcast excellence, a full week of it here. (interruption) Why wouldn't it be a full week? What, are you thinking an earthquake or something is gonna happen? Was there a hurricane? That was a hurricane? Really? They called it a hurricane. I gotta be very, very careful about this because Vermont is flooded. For you people that haven't heard of it, Vermont is a state, and there's a city there called Montpelier, and it's underwater, and Brattleboro is underwater. This is more of a flooding and power outage storm than it was a windstorm.

Politics is part of everything. The weather's been politicized; the climate's been politicized; hurricane track forecasts have been politicized. I was over in Hawaii, and they said, "Okay, Hurricane Irene," and start the first tracks, and I looked at it because if it's gonna target my house I gotta leave Hawaii early and come home and get the family out. So I'm looking at it and, lo and behold, on the first day or two of the track, dead hit Palm Beach. I said, "Okay, we're out of the woods. Ain't gonna happen." I know damn well it is not gonna happen. They're gonna move that track, they're gonna be moving it east. I am looking at hurricane models and they've got the track on the far left side of the model guidance, they've gotta have this track over land, over populated areas to get people to pay attention to it. After Hurricane Katrina, everybody is just on politically correct alert, fearful.

The funniest thing -- there are so many funny things -- television networks went out and actually got Ray Nagin as a preparedness expert to advise other communities in the path of Hurricane Irene what to do to get ready. What's he gonna tell 'em? "Leave your school buses parked so that they get flooded?" There was damage from this thing, but it was not nearly as bad as they said. Some guy did something interesting and I decided to check it myself. He's a doubter, and he's watching the reports of 75- to 85- to 100-mile-an-hour winds in Virginia and North Carolina. So he went to the Weather Underground site, and he went to a bunch of cities and towns that were where the hurricane was, and the highest wind speed he could find was 33-miles-an-hour, while they're reporting 75 to 85 to 95-mile-an-hour winds.

So I said, "I'm gonna check myself." I went to Weather Underground and I went to places like New Bern, North Carolina, and Goldsboro, North Carolina, Virginia Beach, and, lo and behold, the guy was right. I found a town where the wind was eight miles an hour while they were reporting hurricane winds of in excess of 80 miles an hour. The Grim Reaper, Geraldo, you saw this Saturday night, out in a little mist in the streets of New York City, abandon this mayor telling everybody to get out of town. Folks, I tell you, it was a storm, but, my gosh, the overreaction, the politics. The New York Times is trying to say that this violent hurricane is indeed indicative of global warming. It was a tropical storm when it left New York. I have friends in Connecticut. They were bull's-eye in the path and they're out there waiting for the winds and they're waiting for the winds and there weren't any winds and they finally went out and they staged some pictures of barely holding on to lampposts and so forth.

There wasn't any wind. It was a rainstorm and there was a lot of flooding and there were deaths associated with it, but the hype, folks, I'll tell you what this was. It was a lesson, if you pay any attention to this, the hype, the desire for chaos, I mean literally, the media desire for chaos was a great learning tool, this was a great illustration of how all of the rest of the media in news, in sports, has templates and narratives and exaggerates beyond reality, creating fear so as to create interest. Anderson Cooper, I think we got sound bites somewhere, I got so many sound bites, no way I can keep track of what's where here, but there's a sound bite we have of Anderson Cooper in a light rain being told by Jacqui Jeras, the weather babe at CNN, that he is in the worst of the hurricane and he's like, "Really? I mean it's barely raining here." "Yeah, well, Anderson, you're in the worst of it there," and he can't believe it.

Folks, it was a national embarrassment, the hype over this hurricane. I'm gonna tell you something else. Obama comes off a vacation to lead his nation through the response to Hurricane Irene, to draw contrast with Bush and Katrina, part of the reelection effort. Speaking of Obama, he and Michelle, there's something up, folks. I don't like commenting on this kind of stuff, but they went to Martha's Vineyard, same day, four hours apart on different airplanes, on their vacation. There are stories throughout the media about Michelle spending money like there's no tomorrow. Ten million on one vacation. But she leaves four hours early -- now, it's fine if they're paying, but they're not. The optics here as they now say about Michelle (My Belle) are not the best.

But this hype over Hurricane Irene is a national embarrassment. The media, the government are out there peddling fear when facts and calm would make for much better investments and would result in much more credibility for these people reporting this stuff. I'm gonna tell you something, Hurricane Obama -- whatever Irene's gonna cost us, it pales in comparison to the hurricane of the Obama administration. The Obama administration's hurricane has cost us far more, and Byron York, while I was gone, great story, fabulous story on the source of all this deficit spending under Obama, the $4 trillion of new spending. Everybody's focused on entitlements and he correctly points out, it's not entitlements that have busted the budget here. Entitlements are known, the spending and entitlements are known. What's been added to the entitlements is where we're in trouble. The purposeful spending, the stimulus, the Porkulus, the TARP, all of these things above and beyond the entitlements.

Now, one of the tricks is to distract people from that and get them focused on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, as the source of the problem -- and they're problems that have to be dealt with, but they are not the culprit here; Obama is. And all the focus on, "He's not serious about entitlement reform," well, that's simply a way to distract people away from what Obama has actually done. This is just another media frenzy without any results, just like the Obama presidency. Look at it this way: Obama's economy has millions of people out of work, millions more living paycheck to paycheck, millions are getting deeper in debt as every month passes. So all it takes is an unexpected expense (say, for example, a heavy rain) to sink the family ship.

Oh, and, by the way, there's a story that has the Drive-Bys all excited: "Consumer spending way up!" Yeah. It's called back to school? Happens every year? Uh, nothing new here. There's not a trend. Celinda Lake, pollster extraordinaire, Democrat Party: 10% chance the Democrats will ask Obama to step down, do an LBJ. A 10% chance. Celinda Lake, she's part of the Battleground poll team with Ed Goeas, very respected. Gallup poll: Obama at 38%; 63% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy -- and make no mistake, that remains the story. By the way, Politico, Jonathan Martin, story: "Is Rick Perry Dumb?"

This is a recycle. It's the same thing they tried against Ronaldus Magnus back in 1979, 1980: "Is Ronald Reagan Dumb?" It's amazing. Nothing new. Media cycles, media templates, media narratives are being repeated, recycled. Here it is, French News Agency: "Obama Takes Charge at Hurricane Command Center -- US president Barack [Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!] on Saturday personally led his government's response to Hurricane Irene, marshaling top officials and visiting a disaster command center as the storm roared ashore. Obama returned home one night early on Friday from his island vacation and appeared keen to be visibly in charge as the response to Hurricane Irene unfolded."

So the fix is in, the campaign's underway.

RUSH: The guy that was tracking wind speeds in hurricane locations intrigued me, and I went and checked it myself. The media and the National Hurricane Center were reporting 75- to 95-mile-an-hour sustained winds. Not gusts, sustained winds. Do you know what the sustained winds in Central Park were? Sixteen miles an hour. They were 16 to 18 miles an hour. Now, that's... Folks, that is a huge, huge gap. Now, you in this audience -- because of me being host -- know how the media lies. You know how politicized everything is to push the leftist agenda. You know how the media extorts. But I'm gonna tell you something about the hysterical reporting on Irene.

They couldn't wait for this storm! Obama... I'll guarantee you this. I'll guarantee you Obama was hoping this is gonna be a disaster, as another excuse for his failing economy. I mean, if he's out there blaming tsunamis -- if he's blaming earthquakes, and whatever other natural disasters there are -- this one was made to order. But it just didn't measure up. Now, you know how they lie and distort, but I'll tell you the hysterical reporting on this hurricane has exposed the media to many people who might not have really noticed it before. For instance, our old buddy Shep Smith at Fox News was gloating that all the people who said that Irene would hit New York City as a tropical storm, you were wrong.

He was just waiting for it -- and you know, Shep's been through natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina and so forth. He claimed the winds were 75 miles an hour, which made it a hurricane. But again I checked NOAA; I checked Weather Underground. The wind speeds were 16 to 18 miles an hour. This was another media frenzy without results, just like the Obama presidency. The real category five here is Obama, when you boil it all down. One of my favorite quotes from the weekend came from Shepard Smith on Sunday morning. He said, "Just as expected, the rainfall totals are lower than expected." Just like the employment numbers are always "lower than expected." Not one thing that was forecast about this turned out to be accurate, except they get the track right. They got the track right, but the intensity and everything else was totally, totally blown. You know, it's a national embarrassment, folks. It really is.

RUSH: Here's that Anderson Cooper bite from Sunday morning on CNN Sunday, during coverage of Hurricane Irene. The meteorologist is Jacqui Jeras, and she talking to Anderson Cooper 29 host, Anderson Cooper.

JERAS: I think, overall, we're gonna be experiencing the worst of those conditions now.

COOPER: All right. So, uh, I mean the -- the good news is that it's... I mean, it's an annoying rain but it's not... It's not even a sideways rain. It's not a rain that hurts, uh, as you -- as you're standing in it.

RUSH: So she tells Anderson Cooper that he's standing in the worst of the hurricane and he can't believe it. It's not even a hard rain. So he had to cover for it somehow. So you had Governor Christie in New Jersey telling people, "Get the hell off the beach!" You had reporters out in the middle of the street warning everybody it was Armageddon, while pizza delivery guys are on bicycles behind 'em; and people walking down the streets, people in their cars. Casinos in New Jersey were closed for the first time more than 35 years, it turns out for no reason whatsoever. All this hype, all this panic, all this helplessness.

We're gonna die!

I'll tell you, folks, it's an embarrassment to me. The whole thing was an embarrassment, and at the same time I was laughing about the whole thing.

RUSH: We're gonna start in Ocean Town, New Jersey. Eli, great to have you on the program, sir. You are up first today. Hello.

CALLER: Hello. Great to speak to you Rush. Just a quick point. I think it's actually a quite incredible point. This whole storm thing, I think it proves one point, and that is: You repeat saying something enough times, everyone believes you. You can say the same thing over and over and over, and then we look outside it's hardly raining, and they're like, "Oh, my God, it's a hurricane! It's a hurricane," and there was nothing even there the whole time.

RUSH: Yeah, I wonder how many people did believe it.

CALLER: Well, I don't know. With all those people talking, and you see what's going on with Obama, how he becomes president? It's the same thing. They say the same things over and over. "It's this guy's fault, that guy's fault," and then that's it. You become president.

RUSH: Yeah, I know, but that's what I said at the top of the program: The disparity between the truth of what this hurricane was and the forecast and the prediction was so great, that even people who pay scant attention are talking about this now. This is a huge discussion item. "What hurricane? How can they say this? Seventy-five, eighty-mile-an-hour winds? There weren't any. Maybe at flight level three-oh, who knows?" You know what? You know how they even started excusing this? I know this is true, but I had never heard this as part of official hurricane center warnings. As the storm Irene approached New York, they started hedging their bets. "Well, you know, on the street level the winds may not be bad, but you get up 30 stories? Now we're talking. The stronger winds in this storm are at the higher altitudes: 30 stories, like 300 feet or 350 feet. The winds might be 20, 30% stronger up there." Of course there won't be anybody up there to know because they've all been evacuated or what have you. I think, by the same token, the exaggeration and the large gap between truth, reality, and fiction is such that a lot of people will now start asking the same questions about general news reporting.

RUSH: So we're supposed to believe all these weather people about global warming, when they are willing to lie to us about something as obvious as a hurricane. Folks, it was right out there for everybody to see. I mean this hurricane was not what we were told it was. They continued to tell us something that wasn't true. We could all see it. I mean I find myself watching the coverage and laughing. I'm watching Fox, they got their in-studio anchors, and they're throwing it to John Roberts, who's standing on the beach in North Carolina in the middle of a hurricane, and there isn't any wind. His hair is not even mussed and there's a few sprinkles. And yet the commentary is about how disastrous it is.

I'll tell you where it was disastrous. Inland. It was not a coastal storm. It was an inland storm. You go inland in North Carolina, farms were destroyed and flooded. Ditto parts of Virginia. This was a flooding, and there's still a lot of people without power. You go to Vermont, underwater. It was not a coastal destructive hurricane storm. This was a rainstorm. But ever since Hurricane Katrina and the success they had in politicizing that, every subsequent hurricane has been looked upon as a political opportunity by people in the media, and I don't care if they're weather people, if they're sports people, or if their news people, they're liberals. If they're journalists, they're liberals. They politicize everything.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100102355/perfect-storm-of-hype-politicians-the-media-and-the-hurricane-irene-apocalypse-that-never-was/

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110826043532.aspx

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/vermont-facing-widespread-irene-flooding-while-storm-clean-up-damage-assessment-begins.html

Bush Years vs. Obama Years: How Media Reported the Economy

RUSH: I have here a review of AP stories on unemployment, and it is hilarious. All three are from the AP by Christopher Rugaber. From this morning at 8:30, AP story headline: "Jobs Report Could Show Signs of Modest Growth." This is before the news was released, now. This story ran before the job number of zero was announced. "Businesses likely shrugged off recession fears and kept hiring in August, although not nearly enough to lower the unemployment rate. Analysts forecast that the economy added 93,000 jobs last month, down from 117,000 in July. Unemployment rates expected to stay at 9.1%, according to a survey by Factset." Okay. That's number one. At 8:30, businesses likely shrugged off recession fears, kept hiring in August, added 93,000 jobs in August.

Next story is about 11:15 this morning, same reporter, Christopher Rugaber. "August began with rising fears that another recession was

about to hit. That was then. A month later, the economy and the stock market appear more resilient, suggesting that consumers, businesses and investors remain confident enough to keep spending. A more authoritative test will come Friday, when the government issues the August jobs report. Employers are expected to have added 93,000 jobs, which would not be enough to significantly lower the jobless rate of 9.1 percent. But it would solidify evidence that the economy, though still weak, is growing steadily. Many analysts now expect it to strengthen in the months ahead."

Okay, and then after that Christopher Rugaber heard that the number was not 93,000 jobs added, but zero, zilch, zero, nada and he ran around the AP newsroom saying, "Oh, my God, get me rewrite!" Washington: "Employers Added No Net Workers Last Month -- The unemployment rate was unchanged, a sign that many were nervous the US economy could be at risk of slipping into another recession. The Labor Department said Friday that total payrolls were unchanged in August, the weakest report in almost a year." So actually the first report was 15 hours ago, then early this morning, and then the number comes out. Three AP stories, the first two talking about revived growth, 93,000 new jobs in August. Then they released the number, and the headline: "Employers Add No Net Jobs in Aug.; Rate Unchanged -- The Labor Department said Friday that total payrolls were unchanged in August, the weakest report in almost a year. It's the first time since February 1945 that the government has reported a net job change of zero."

Now, Reuters refrained from mentioning this detail in its report, the 1945 aspect. Now, this is profoundly embarrassing. It's hilarious but it's embarrassing. Two stories from AP, before the number is known, 93,000 jobs expected in August, sign the economy is growing, confidence rebounding, blah, blah. Then the number comes out zero. No mention of their previous two erroneous stories. But the question remains, who told AP that there were gonna be 93,000 new jobs in August? Who leaked that to 'em? And they believed it. I explained that. If the labor force were as large today as it was when Obama was immaculated, the U3 unemployment rate would be 11.4%. The actual unemployment rate, you count people that stopped looking, their benefits have expired and all that, we're up to 20%. We are at 16.9% unemployment in the black community.

One out of five Americans cannot find work in the greatest nation on earth. We have journalistic malpractice going on here from the Associated Press, telling everybody in stories leading up to the release of the number that 93,000 jobs are gonna be created. And what number do you think people might remember? Two stories at 93,000, then the real news hits and it's zero and it's sort of undersold and no big deal. The black youth unemployment rate in August was 46.5%. Black youth, that's teenagers. The real unemployment number should be derived from the number of jobs actually filled in America divided by the number of Americans of working age. That's what most people probably think it is. But it's not.

The regime is reducing the size of the labor force. They're basically saying fewer Americans want to work, so there are fewer jobs to fill. So if you lower the universe, that's how you have an unemployment rate that stays at 9.1% when not one person got a job. Stop and think of that, not one job created in August, not one. There actually was one, and the networks were all ready to interview the guy today, but he got laid off August 31st.

RUSH: Here's Richard, White Plains, New York, Open Line Friday rolls on. Hello, Richard.

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Real quick, Huntsman was on Greta last night, and his plan was basically to reform the tax code. He said nothing about entitlement reform or even cutting spending.

RUSH: Yeah, I've since learned that his tax overhaul plan is sort of like Reagan's '86 plan. He would lower the corporate and individual tax rates, which would broaden the base, taxpayers, he would eliminate loopholes and eliminate the capital gains and dividend taxes.

CALLER: Yeah, but he strategically avoided upsetting anybody on the left or even independents, you know, by saying he's not gonna cut anything. He should be a Democrat. But anyway, the point I want to make was that three years ago when Obama was elected, I said it back then that if he didn't turn the economy around, him and his partners in the Drive-By Media are gonna blame Bush again as their reelection theme. I saw a poll last night that was taken recently that shows 60-something percent polled believe the poor economy is still Bush's fault.

RUSH: What poll was that, do you remember?

CALLER: Oh, God, Rush, there's so many, Zogby, Rasmussen, one of those. It was on Fox.

RUSH: I'm not disputing it. I haven't seen a poll that says 60% still blame Bush.

CALLER: It was in the sixties, Rush, I'm almost certainly positive of that.

RUSH: I haven't yet seen it. I'll try to find it out there. I was wondering if you ask those polled why they blame Bush, the best answer they could give you is a guilt by association answer. Well, he was in office, that's why it was his fault. So, you know, since we have a simple guilt by association logic that is, of course, driven by the liberal media, and now you have Obama and his supporters in the media trying to blame a Republican Congress for our poor economy, my question is, where was the guilt by association when the Democrats took over Congress the exact two years the economy tanked in '07 and '08?

RUSH: All right, a great question. And I, of course, as host have the answer for you. Now, there's an AP-GfK poll from the other day, and I don't know if this is the one you saw, but that poll says that 51% blame Bush. The reason that whatever percentage blame Bush is to me quite simple. Three, if not four years of daily, unstoppable, smothering smearing and criticism of Bush that was unanswered by anybody in the White House.

CALLER: Exactly.

RUSH: And in fact even in the first term of the Bush administration, the media was trying to say that the economy then was bordering on recession. They were trying to tell us when the unemployment rate was 4.7%, then five and five and a half percent, that we were trending toward recession, and they were doing that leading up to the '08 campaign, years prior. This was all about making sure that a Democrat, any Democrat, before they'd even chosen Obama, was elected president in 2008. But if you have the Bush administration, I mean smotheringly smeared multiple times a day for five years and the White House not once reacting to it, rejecting it, disagreeing with it, offering counter evidence, what are people gonna do?

CALLER: Rush, I equate the media to the artillery for those four years shelling, you know, shelling before the infantry goes in --

RUSH: Precisely. The second part of your question is how come nobody has blamed the Democrats since Pelosi took over since 2007? Sir, since 2007 this economy has been in recovery, it's been growing, as far as the media is concerned. Look at this absolute abomination from AP just today and yesterday. Yesterday, AP with a story, 93,000 jobs will be created in August, it will be announced tomorrow. Not enough to change the unemployment rate but a sure sign that there are positive signs of growth. Then the number comes out and it's zero. And they ho-hum report that and never reference the fact that they were dead wrong in their forecast of 93,000.

The answer is, there has not been a smothering smear of the Democrats and their economic policies every day for four or five years. There hasn't been that for a single day in the Drive-By Media. So that's why people still blame Bush. It's not just that. While the media was smearing Bush each and every day multiple times a day, they were ginning up personal hatred for the guy along with opposition to whatever his economic policies were. For seven years we heard the Bush tax cuts were creating poor people and destroying the economy. The White House never responded to it. The answer to your question is simple, frustratingly so, but it's very simple.

Your analogy of artillery is a great one. The media is a constant barrage, and we don't have that. We don't have it. In fact, our side, look what happens when Obama asks to upstage a Republican debate with a phony job speech, our smart people criticize our Speaker for turning him down. We don't have an artillery. We got a bunch of appeasers in our media in Washington, 'cause we're afraid of angering the independents, or I don't know what else. I almost shouted the F-bomb there, folks. I gotta get another call here. Richard, you're dangerous.

http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-econ-advisor-on-lousy-jobs-numbers-blame-bush/

http://news.yahoo.com/jobs-report-could-show-signs-modest-growth-040258990.html;_ylt=AgPW3MCokMXY7preMaFdc0is0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNhYzV2anBkBG1pdAMEcGtnA2Y0MzA4N2Q3LTM3NTUtM2RlNS1iZTFiLWYwMGM3YzNiZmU0OQRwb3MDMwRzZWMDbG5fQVBfZ2FsBHZlcgM2ODVhZGE0NC1kNTJmLTExZTAtYTQ1YS03OGU3ZDE1ZTgxYmM-;_ylv=3

The Truth About Corporate Taxes

RUSH: Jackson, Mississippi. This is Robert, and I'm glad you waited, sir. Great to have you here.

CALLER: Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call. I wanted to tell your listeners about something you may or may not have seen this week, I just read this yesterday, said that, you know, several multibillion-dollar corporations paid their CEOs more than they paid the federal government in taxes. Now, I know how you feel about individuals who don't pay their taxes, but I wanted to know how you feel about corporations who don't pay taxes. I mean, do you harbor the same antagonism for them?

RUSH: How do I feel about individuals that don't pay their taxes?

CALLER: No, corporations.

RUSH: You said that you know how I feel about individuals who don't pay taxes. How do I feel about that?

CALLER: I've heard you say that 47% of Americans don't pay taxes, you know, and of course --

RUSH: Well, but they're not illegally avoiding taxes. They don't have to pay taxes because they're being exempted. Their votes are being purchased.

CALLER: -- a third of their income in sales and property and payroll and excise tax.

RUSH: Look, the only major corporation I know not paying US taxes is General Electric.

CALLER: GE, eBay, Verizon, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Bank of America, Citibank, I mean I could go on.

RUSH: Are you trying to tell me that every one of those corporations pays zero US taxes?

CALLER: Zero taxes, Rush, sometimes they get money back from the federal government.

RUSH: Sometimes there are tax credits. The oil companies have a tax credit for exploration, but I'm not aware that Exxon's not paying any federal -- I thought GE was it.

CALLER: Well, I mean Exxon actually got a hundred something million dollars back from the government last year instead of paying taxes, I mean that's putting a big economic drain on our country, don't you --

RUSH: Let me answer your question, and I don't know where you're going with this, but where we are right now, as much money kept in the private sector, the better. We have a federal government out of control. We have demonstrated that sending all this money to the federal government bankrupts and ruins and destroys the economics of this country. The federal government is not God. The federal government is not the best user of money.

CALLER: So you're saying nobody should pay taxes at all --

RUSH: No, I did not say nobody should pay taxes. I'm saying that a lot of people are overtaxed, a lot of people are undertaxed, the whole purpose of taxation is out the window. The tax code is no longer.

CALLER: -- more than GE pays -- (crosstalk)

RUSH: I don't care about any of that. The tax code right now is not written to raise money to run the government. The tax code right now is written for political patronage purposes.

CALLER: Exactly. That's why the richest and corporations always get the breaks while middle class and the poor always get the biggest hits --

RUSH: The middle class and the poor are not paying any income taxes.

CALLER: They're paying plenty of taxes --

RUSH: Forty-seven percent of Americans who work pay no income taxes. The top 10% are paying close to 50% of all income taxes, sir. You don't know what you're talking about. You're filled with a bunch of liberal misinformation, and you got yourself worked up here into a lather over what you think is a totally unfair system where the rich aren't paying anything. The rich are the ones supporting this country right now, and Obama's taking aim at them, and if you were listening yesterday, you know that in the last two years the number of millionaires and people that earn over $10 million is down by 39%. Now, if that makes you happy, I'm sorry for you, cause that's not helping anybody because those are the people that hire people.

I'm gonna tell you this, the number of millionaires and people who earn over $10 million is down 30, 39%, and is any of that money ending up with you? A lot of people think, yeah, soak the rich, give me my share. You're not getting it. Where's it going? We're still in massive debt, deficits, national debt skyrocketing out of control, wealth is being destroyed. I know a lot of people on the left think wealth ought to be destroyed because somehow they think that with the socialists and utopian redistribution they're gonna get their share of it. Nobody's getting it. The government is out of money. It doesn't have any. And so the only place they can go to get money is to people who do have it and they're taking it from them.

What's going on in this country is an absolute outrage. And instead of being all worked up about five or six individual cases here -- by the way, the biggest culprit in what has you exorcised is General Electric, Obama's best friend. You've been poisoned about taxes and who pays them and who doesn't, and you think the tax code ought to be used for punishment, you think the tax code ought to be used for getting even with people. The purpose of the tax code is to raise sufficient revenue to run the government and the country. It's no longer for that purpose. If it were, we would be lowering everybody's rates, we'd be trying to create as many new jobs as possible, as many new taxpayers as possible. That's how you create more revenue to run your precious government. But tax collections are down because there are more and more people out of work, more and more people not paying taxes, corporations, individuals, I don't care how you slice it, and so what's the government doing? Printing and borrowing and spending anyway. Irresponsibly.

They're spending the money of yours and your children, your grandchildren. They're spending money of sperm cells that haven't even found an egg yet to fertilize, for crying out loud. You need to redirect your anger here, and you need to change the definition of what's gonna make you happy 'cause I'll guarantee you every one of these corporations that you think, that you've been is not paying taxes, let's go just take everything they've got, let's shut 'em down. Let's shut down ExxonMobil, let's shut down every oil company, let's shut down all these people, and I guarantee you you're not gonna be a penny wealthier after that happens. You're gonna be worse off. You vote for people who want you to be made happy when somebody else gets screwed. By screwed, I mean having their taxes raised.

You're voting for people who think you should be satisfied and happy when you hear that somebody else has their taxes raised. It doesn't help your life, it doesn't change your life except for the worse, because for every corporation taxed out of existence or taxed out of profit, that's another corporation for which you have no chance of ever getting a job. But if you think that these corporations ought to be taxed out of existence because for some reason they're nothing but a bunch of giant thieves, I'm gonna tell you that if it ever happened you would still be as miserable then as you are now.

RUSH: ExxonMobil paid $78.6 billion in taxes worldwide. In the United States they paid $7.7 billion in sales tax and duties. But our caller was exploiting one technically correct point, because the company can deduct foreign taxes, and it did get a refund on federal taxes. But Exxon's effective income tax rate was 47% worldwide, the highest in three years. But they can deduct taxes they pay around the world so that's why they got a federal refund, and GE is doing the same thing. GE, $5 billion in profit, and they pay no tax in the United States because it's earned outside the United States.

Now, corporations pay a 35% tax rate in this country. It's the highest in the world. They pay a ridiculously high federal corporate tax for the most part based on what other countries tax their companies, and after they pay their corporate tax, then the shareholders who cash out their investments pay a capital gains tax on top of the corporate income tax already paid by the corporation, and the people who work for the corporation pay an individual federal income tax on top of what the corporation already has paid its corporate income tax. A dollar earned by a corporation is taxed not once but at least twice. This is how successful the left has been. Their enemies list is every corporation. They've got people believing that they don't pay taxes. The people that work at these companies pay taxes. The corporations do.

But here's the dirty little secret, Mr. Dummkopf. The dirty little secret is that corporations don't pay taxes. They build the taxes into the price of the product you buy or pay for. All of those costs are built into the cost of the product or service the corporation's producing for the consumer. Now, maybe Warren Buffett's company is disputing its tax bills since 2002 with the federal government, but many companies have been paying on time what they are said to owe. Warren Buffett is in arrears. Warren Buffett, who wants you paying every dime of your estate tax, is fighting the Berkshire Hathaway income tax. And while we are at it here, what of the hundreds of billions of dollars a year that the federal government misuses or pays in fraudulent schemes every year? Imagine if individuals and businesses could keep the money instead. Why is this never considered when we talk about taxation? Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year.

The General Accounting Office puts out endless reports on this waste. Where do you people get off? I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison. But, no, the government is good, the government is taking care of poor people, the government's caring for people with health care and Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security. Fixing fraud, waste, and crime in the government seems to never be a priority. Instead, whether we are screwing some individual or class of individuals or companies is the priority.

Warren Buffett hasn't paid taxes for his company for four of the last ten years. He's disputing it. But when it comes to the estate tax he wants you to pay as much as you can be made to pay. Claims that ExxonMobil did not pay taxes in 2009 are just plain incorrect. All these other companies as well. ExxonMobil paid $78.6 billion in taxes worldwide. But the precious US government didn't get its fair share of this. Why should they? They're trying to put 'em out of business, for crying out loud. The United States government under Barack Obama is trying to make it impossible for ExxonMobil to do business in this country. God, some of you people are stupid. You people on the left are just plain dangerously ignorant, running around all wound up, ticked off, angry. You don't even know why, and then you make yourself believe you're gonna be happy if somebody gets screwed. What kind of life is that, to run around wanting your happiness to be deponent whether somebody you supposedly hate gets screwed, and you don't even know the people being talked about.

Ah, screw social justice. I'll tell you what. You hate ExxonMobil and all that, you go try to get gasoline, you go do what it takes to put gasoline in your tank yourself, or your hybrid, or your stupid electric car. Whatever it takes to power that, you go do it yourself. If the people making it possible for you to drive your car are such creeps, SOBs, and whatever else, worthy of your hatred. Born of your own ignorance. Yes, Snerdley, I'm ticked at 'em. Just one of these days. Doesn't take much. I'm not suffering fools gladly today. Dummkopfs, sniveling little nasal whinny -- nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah. Take it somewhere else.

RUSH: I'll tell you what ticks me off about this, and I think this is the key. These liberals like this last sniveling little guy that called me, they love the products and services that businesses provide. They love gasoline. They may run around and say they hate the polluting aspects of it, but I don't see any of them taking the hoof express to get where they're going. They all drive. I don't see them driving around in a horse and buggy. They may think they're doing some good by driving a hybrid, but they're still putting gasoline in whatever vehicle they use to get around in.

They use all these products, all these services. They use 'em as much as anybody else does. But they hate the people that provide it. These people drive into a gas station seething with rage. But they buy it. This is how irrational they are. They don't have one speck of appreciation for the work necessary to make their lives easier. They've somehow been convinced to hate all these companies, corporations, people that work at them, or what have you. Folks, we face an irrational, insane, delusional enemy. I'm talking about here in a political sense.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/buffett-irs-back-taxes/2011/09/01/id/409520

Is Rick Perry Dumb? By Politico

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62214.html

Nobody asks that when Obama uses 2 teleprompters in order to deliver a 3 minute speech:

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/three-minutes-two-teleprompters

Obama institutes the DREAM act unilaterally:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/19/backdoor-amnesty-abusing-the-constitution-and-presidential-authority/

17% hold favorable view of the government:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/178521-poll-approval-of-federal-government-hits-new-low

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.

We the people; online petitions from the people to the White House:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WeThePeople

Conservative blogging and news:

http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/

Political news site; looks comprehensive and possibly non-partisan:

http://electzu.com/

Workforce Fairness Institute (it sounds like a liberal group, but it looks like a conservative group):

http://www.workforcefairness.com/

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/