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This Week’s Events

U.S. President Barack Obama will ask government agencies on Wednesday to find cost savings by cutting back in areas ranging from travel and vehicles to purchases of promotional coffee mugs and gadgets. Although it is claimed as much as $4 billion can be saved from this in a single year, this will not be used to reduce the deficit, but it will be used to be spent on other things.

According to Jack Abramoff, as many as a dozen members of Congress and their aides took part in insider trading based on foreknowledge of market moving information on Capitol Hill. It should not be a shock that Congressional members tend to see their wealth grow dramatically more than the mainstream.

Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. This is the New York-based firm Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing. Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal.

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing to stonewall congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. This time, Holder is refusing to provide 11 of the 12 witnesses Grassley and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa have requested be made available for interviews.

Democrats walk away from the super-committee (this is the committee which is supposed to find $1 trillion in savings over a 10 year period of time, which is very little, when the country goes $1.5 trillion more into debt each year. However, they are back at it again.

Democrats have since offered a deal that would cut $1 trillion in projected spending over the next 10 years and raise taxes by $1 trillion over 10 years. The Democrats' plan calls for cutting $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid and another $400 billion from a combination of defense and non-defense programs in equal amounts. It also calls for an additional $200 billion in cuts from unspecified which are under discussion right now by the Super Committee.

The US Senate just passed legislation that most everyone agreed on: a jobs bill to help unemployed veterans get back to work.

During the latest debate, Herman Cain referred to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy.” A petition is being circulated to protest this mean language.

Bill O'Reilly's `Lincoln' book banned from Ford's Theatre because of mistakes. However, the article I read did not ennumerate these mistakes beyond saying that, O’Reilly and co-author Dugard did not use footnotes, but put all of their sourcing at the end of the book and did not differentiate between the credibility of their sources. In the article, we have: Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia who has written about the Civil War, Lincoln and the South for 40 years,...said he had not read the book in question. But he noted in an e-mail, "I would not be surprised if there were historical errors as [O'Reilly] is better known as a TV polemicist than as a scholar.” Someone in academia has a negative opinion about Bill O’Reilly and has an opinion on his book without reading it? I am shocked!

Karen Kraushaar, 55, who has accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment, filed another complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999.

The American Mustache Institute has decided to withdraw its endorsement of the former Godfather's Pizza CEO.

The extinction of some Ice Age animals, such as woolly mammoths and Eurasian musk oxen, resulted mainly from climate change over the past 50,000 years, suggests a new study published today in the journal Nature.

Last week, one or more Occupy Oakland protesters smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo branch. This week, the group's general assembly agreed - in a near-unanimous vote Monday - to temporarily place $20,000 of the group's money in an account at the country's fourth-largest bank holding company, Wells Fargo Bank.

Man is shot and killed at Occupy Oakland, although he does not appear to be a part of the movement. A newsman who tried to file a live report was attacked by Occupy Oakland enthusiasts. Police say that the suspect has been living at the Occupy Oakland camp.

Man found dead in Occupy Salt Lake City. Finally, officials decide here that the demonstrators don’t get to camp out any more.

Tuberculosis breaks out in Occupy Atlanta.

Occupy Washington confronted a conservative group, surrounded the building where they met, and some even used their own children in the buffer zone.

Richmond, CA Mayor Gayle McLaughlin will skip a Veterans Day memorial to attend an Occupy rally. I guess this is because we don’t know the next time that they will have an occupy rally near her.

Jay-Z sees a goldmine in this movement, and begins producing tee shirts with occupy slogans. As of now, he has no intention of sharing the profits. He has since removed the shirts from his website.

Police in Occupy Portland look as though they may move to quell overnight parking. They are putting up signs and these signs are being quickly removed. Occupy Portland protestors are observed making weapons, which suggests that they expect a confrontation with the police.

The AFL-CIO and the SEIU will begin demonstrating with the Occupy Wall Street Protesters next week, demanding the passage of a job’s bill.

Schizophrenic Ohio voters vote, by a sizable margin, to opt out of the Obamacare mandate; and yet, by a similar margin, vote to keep collective bargaining for state employees. However, unions from all over the United States spent $30 million to get this initiative defeated, and Governor Kasic made the tactical error of not exempting police and firemen from the ending of collective bargaining for state, county and city employees (it is the right thing to do to stop collective bargaining for all government employees, but it was a step too far in this case).

A federal court has ruled that a California public school had the authority to prevent students from wearing clothing emblazoned with pro-American messages on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.

Text books in Pakistani schools foster prejudice and intolerance of Hindus and other religious minorities, while most teachers view non-Muslims as "enemies of Islam," according to a study by a U.S. government commission released Wednesday.

In Iran, a police circular reported that women and girls are no longer allowed to ski in the absence of a husband, father or brother.

The Islamic extremist Boko Haram sect attacked northern Nigeria and, at the end of their four-hour rampage, some 150 people had been killed - at least 130 of them Christians. When the Muslim extremists went to New Jerusalem, they said, any Christian they met who could not recite the Islamic creed was instantly shot and killed or slaughtered like a lamb.

Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) closed the Great Pyramids on Friday after protesters said various groups, among them Jews, planned to attend a numerologist ceremony on the Giza Plateau. Egyptian media reported that some Egyptians feared that the event would be used by Jewish Masons to reclaim the Pyramids as ancient Hebrew structures, denying Egyptians their claim to the pharaonic monuments.

Say What?

Liberals:

President Obama: "The way I think about it is, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track."

President Obama: "Instead of working to boost our economy, they're out there spending time trying to defund Planned Parenthood and prevent millions of women from getting basic health care that they desperately need - pap smears and breast exams."

President Obama on retaining the Hispanic vote: "I don't think it requires us to go negative in the sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, or character assassinations. We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim. We won't even comment on them, we'll just run those in a loop on Univision and Telemundo, and people can make up their own minds,"

DCCC Executive Director Robby Mook of Herman Cain calling Nancy Pelosi, “Princess Nancy”: "That's outrageous. As the first and only woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has spent decades standing up for women and fighting for the middle class."

Democratic Party Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Herman Cain for using the word "princess" for Nancy Pelosi: "I thought it was a pretty callous, sexist throwaway line."

Wasserman Schultz: "I think Herman Cain needs to come clean and address them and say far more than he's said already."

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.): "I hope that they [the super-committee] cannot reach an agreement...I think we should have large military cuts. Why do we need, how many troops - 60, 70,000 troops - still in Germany? Why do we need troops in half the places they're at? We're still worried about Soviet tank armors invading Western Europe? It's ridiculous."

National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB's suit against Boeing would kill jobs in South Carolina: “The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.”

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg: "All of us should help carry the load, and there is actually a very straight forward and achievable way to do that. Just allow the Bush tax cuts to expire at the end of 2012 -- not just for high income workers as the president has proposed, but for all tax brackets."

Solyndra Insider Email: "They about had an orgasm in Biden's office when we mentioned Solyndra."

Occupy Portland person to citizen journalist: "Snitches don't get stitches, they wind up in ditches."

Occupy Portland leader: “If there are any incidents of sexual violence...confidentiality is really, really, really, really important...if you come across an incident of sexual violence, direct them to someone with a pink arm band or direct them to the medic tent...the medics are really, really rad and on top of their sh*t...the policy regarding contacting the police is, if the survivor wants to contact the police after a sexual assault [inaudible]; if they don’t want to contact the police [inaudible] our policy is, we do whatever the survivor wants.” Crowd breaks into jazz hands after hearing this.

D.C. occupiers to Black security guard: “A slave, that’s all you are.”

Nancy Pelosi: “God bless them [the occupy movement] for their spontaneity. It's young, it's spontaneous, it's focused and it's going to be effective.”

Mayor Michael Bloomfield: "We watch very carefully and they generally do not break the law. I would prefer that we open up the park and begin to let people come through. The park . . . is not necessarily designed for sleeping..They say, `We don't know what we want but we want it now,'" he said. "But that's just as good a way of saying it as anything. . . . They express it by camping out and yelling and and screaming."

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) On Herman Cain's referring to Nancy Pelosi as "Princess Nancy": "That kind of boorishness that we see on the part of Mr. Cain plays into a narrative that's been out here now for the last two weeks. He ought to be very, very careful how he reacts to or treats women going forward and that was a disrespectful comment about one of the outstanding women in our great country."

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

NBC’s David Gregory: “This was not necessarily the format or I should say the subject to try to distinguish one from the other. What they wanted to do was level attacks against President Obama, but that's going to be difficult as well. I don't think the Republican nominee for President really feels like that is the most vulnerable area for President Obama. His foreign policy by a lot of accounts has been very successful, particularly on the war on terror, and I think they want to focus on the economy.”

ABC’s co-host Bianna Golodryga: “So all eyes were on Rick Perry. He had a relatively fumble-free performance, a solid night, and he took a tough stance on foreign policy, national security. But it seems Americans still can't forget what happened last week with that 53-second brain freeze, including Saturday Night Live. Let's take a look.” Then she played the SNL parody of Perry’s brain-freeze. Then she asks: "will ever be able to live down those 53 seconds?"

NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry played an ad from the former president's 1992 campaign and remarked to Clinton: "First of all, how cute were you and your hair hasn't changed.”

Toure: "It's looked like a circus consistently for several years now, but, I mean, I can't go any further without pointing out that it's yet another blonde white woman who's accusing him of doing and saying things that are inappropriate. The instinctual fear in America of black men being sexually inappropriate or aggressive or dominating with white women is very, very deep. And when is this going to start to come out? People start to feel this on a deep level. 'This is wrong. He keeps going after our women. We don't like this.' That is going to definitely have a problem. But look, the GOP knows if this had happened earlier, maybe it sinks him right away, but this is the last stop before Romneyville. After we get off the Cain train, we are stuck with Mitt Romney. We're marrying him, we're going all the way to the nomination with him. So there are so many GOPers who don't want to go the distance. Don't want to get married to Mitt Romney. So they're going to stick it out with Herman Cain as long as they humanly can."

Chris Matthews of MSNBC: "Those Tea Party people are just awful...We don't send them [elected politicians] to D.C. to not govern."

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow: "But the idea of a Newt Gingrich surge is almost as absurd as people - uh, you know, Googling Rick Santorum and saying, 'I like what I found here, I`m going to vote for this guy.'"

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty on Perry’s brain freeze: "Not since Sarah Palin sat down with Katie Couric as a candidate for one of the nation's highest offices disgraced himself the way Rick Perry did last night."

The Compliant Obama Press Corps on Herman Cain:

Bob Shrum: “But the truth of the matter is, he [Cain] wasn’t going to be the Republican nominee before this; [and] he isn’t going to be the Republican nominee now.”

Jimmy Williams on MSNBC: “This guy is lying; he’s a big fat liar. Herman Cain—I’m going to say it on TV—Herman Cain is a big fat liar, okay?

Jimmy Williams on MSNBC: "When Bill Clinton shook his hand, his little finger at the nation and said `I did not have sexual relations with that woman,' everybody in the country knew he was lying. You can smell it. This guy is lying. There is no difference between Herman Cain - being accused of sexually harassing woman after woman after woman, we're now at five - by the way, there are five flags behind that podium, I just want to point that out. There's no difference between that. Why should Herman Cain, if he's even accused of one of these and found guilty, that man should have to register as a sexual offender."

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: “Because Mr. Cain is such a showman, because he preaches the need for a sense of humor, it's easy for us to be seduced by his rapid-fire one liners, his singing of "Imagine there's no pizza," and his smoking chief of staff. It's all good fun. But while Mr. Cain's campaign might be a joke, his conduct, his alleged conduct, is not. In fact, as the accusations pile up, Mr. Cain seems less funny by the day and more like a dirty old man.”

Former Times reporter Jack White on NPR: “Basically, Herman Cain tells them what they want to hear about blacks, and in turn, they embrace him and say, see, that proves we aren't racist. He's even willing to be a minstrel for them, referring to himself sometimes as Cornbread, or quoting his father as speaking ungrammatically, as saying, you know, things like I does not care.”

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From the PBS NewsHour:

Jim Lehrer: “What about -- how is Herman Cain and his problem being -- how is Herman Cain dealing with his problem, which is sexual harassment?”

David Brooks (who the media tries to seel us is a conservative): “Yes. Well, he's, I think, behaving badly. First of all, what I think of the -- he's gone for the home run. They're all lying. And then his lawyer said watch out for the next people, which was brutal and rude. So far, his polling is up there. I think this is an illusion. I think his polling will be down quite quickly...I think he will be deflated very seriously within a week or two.”

Liberals from the past:

Senator Ted Kennedy to actress Carrie Fisher: “So, do you think you'll be having sex with Chris [Dodd] at the end of your date?" After she indicated that she wouldn’t, Kennedy then said, "Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub? Perhaps as a way to say good night?"

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Wolf Blitzer (June 2011): “Let's talk about your colleague, Anthony Weiner. I noticed on the House floor, you had an animated conversation with him today. What were you talking to him about?”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I was actually just talking to him about the votes that we were -- that we were casting at the moment. And just, you know, kibitzing with him a little bit. But you know, what Anthony Weiner is dealing with right now is a personal matter, and that's -- that's where it should be left.” 4x she says this is a personal matter and should not be discussed.

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Former South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene: "I'm running for president of the United States. I'm the greatest person ever. I was born to be president. I'm the man." He has since changed his mind.

Liberal civility:

Radio show host Bill Press: “Are they gonna defend Sandusky? Or not defending him, just defending Herman Cain because he happens to be a conservative politician running for president...What's the difference, really? There's no difference, really. I mean, okay, we have maybe sexual assault in the case of Sandusky, but let me tell you something, assuming, and if what Sharon Bialek says is correct, that's a lot more than sexual harassment on Herman Cain's part. That's sexual assault on his part. I think any lawyer would tell you that. So I just get sick of these right-wingers trying to defend this guy when five different women come forward. Five different women come forward! Same story. You're just believe him?”

Bill Maher, Host: “...Jon Huntsman...He's always talking ‘He's the adult. He's the smart one.’ Go to his website. He wants to cut taxes. We have too much regulation. He's getting out of the same clown car as the rest of them. Jon Huntsman can suck my ____.”

Crazy Muslims:

Yousef Al-Khattab (aka Joey Cohen) encouraging the occupy movement: “Hello, Occupy Wall Street. My name is Yousef Al-Khattab, and I'm the former co-founder of RevolutionMuslim.com, which I have nothing to do with, and had nothing to do with when they did the whole South Park thing - whatever that was all about. I have to say honestly that for the first time in 43 years, I'm proud of something that the Americans have done. I am an American national. I live overseas, I live in Morocco now. I left. . . That's a whole story in itself. . . But I just want to say: Keep up the great work with what you are doing...I just want to tell you that you're doing a fantastic job. Keep up the great work. Yesterday I saw what you did to Geraldo Rivera...He's one of the biggest pigs that I've ever met in my life. Geraldo - whatever his name is . . . Goldstein. . . They turned my mic off and just let him try to whip me with his tongue. You can find "Geraldo Rivera and Yousef Al-Khattab" on YouTube. Anyway, keep up the good work. I'm very proud of y'all. If I can, I'll try to send support your way, by anyone who is on my Facebook page. Thanks so much for all you're doing. I appreciate it. Cheers.”

Liberals making sense:

Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to the family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry: "I am sorry for the tragic loss of your son, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Brian was a hero who served his nation bravely and made the ultimate sacrifice. I agree with you that the tactic of allowing guns to `walk,' as was permitted in Operation Fast and Furious, is completely unacceptable."

Bob Beckel: “For those of us who must defend the left, I just wish that [Bill] Maher would shut his mouth.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Senator Joe Lieberman: "To me, it's insulting to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is obviously an ally of both France and the United States. It's totally unacceptable, totally offensive."

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Government commission report on education in Pakistan: "Religious minorities are often portrayed as inferior or second-class citizens who have been granted limited rights and privileges by generous Pakistani Muslims, for which they should be grateful. Hindus are repeatedly described as extremists and eternal enemies of Islam whose culture and society is based on injustice and cruelty, while Islam delivers a message of peace and brotherhood, concepts portrayed as alien to the Hindu."

Columbia Journalism review: “Yet, while the allegations against Cain are significant, it is irresponsible the extent to which some segments of the political press has allowed them to dominate the political news cycle these past nine days. Much coverage has had a sort of frenzied, single-minded focus that has come at the cost of coverage of just about everything and everyone else.”

Crosstalk:

Scott Pelley: Speaker Gingrich, if I could just ask you the same question, as President of the United States, would you sign that death warrant for an American citizen overseas who you believe is a terrorist suspect?

Newt Gingrich: Well, he's not a terrorist suspect. He's a person who was found guilty under review of actively seeking the death of Americans.

Scott Pelley: Not-- not found guilty by a court, sir.

Newt Gingrich: He was found guilty by a panel that looked at it and reported to the president.

Scott Pelley: Well, that's ex-judicial. That's-- it's not--

Newt Gingrich: Let me-- let me-- let me tell you a story-- let me just tell you this.

Scott Pelley: --the rule of law.

Newt Gingrich: It is the rule of law. That is explicitly false. It is the rule of law.

Scott Pelley: No.

Newt Gingrich: If you engage in war against the United States, you are an enemy combatant. You have none of the civil liberties of the United States. You cannot go to court. Let me be-- let me be very clear about this. There are two levels. There's a huge gap here that-- that frankly far too many people get confused over. Civil defense, criminal defense, is a function of being within the American law. Waging war on the United States is outside criminal law. It is an act of war and should be dealt with as an act of war. And the correct thing in an act of war is to kill people who are trying to kill you.

Male Voice (one of the other presidential candidates): Well said. Well said.

From:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/11/13/newt-gingrich-schools-cbss-pelley-killing-american-born-terrorists-ov

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (see above): "I can't see him anymore, he's a liar."

President Obama: "You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day."

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Herman Cain supporters chanting: supporters chanted, "Yes we Cain! Yes we Cain"

Herman Cain: "How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain."

When Cain was later asked why he used that term, which could be interpreted as racially insensitive, Cain said, "Cain. Herman Cain. C-A-I-N. Do I have to connect all the dots for you?"

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas): "Can you name me one person who's been held accountable for this Fast and Furious Operation? Just one in the Department of Justice?"

Attorney General Eric Holder: "Well we have made a number of changes with regard to personnel both in the Phoenix U.S. Attorney's Office, also at the ATF headquarters here. I will certainly await the report that comes out of the Inspector General. And I will assure you and the American people that people will be held accountable for any mistakes that were made in connection with Fast and Furious."

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Jewish man wearing a yarmulke: I work 65 hours a week.

Protester: You probably live in the Hamptons `n' some shit.

Jewish man: I live in the Hamptons? I live in Brooklyn.I work 62 hours a week. Do you work 62 hours?

Protester: You know what's funny? Your people own schools and f*ckin' government buildings, but your wives are on welfare. I don't understand that. I don't understand that. I met a public assistance officer. And they were Jewish, but their husbands own f*ckin' everything.

Jewish man: I work 62 hours a week. How many hours a week do you work?

Protester: I don't work. How about them apples?

Jewish man: So why don't you get a job?

Protester: I don't need a f*ckin' job.

Jewish man: Why not?

Protester: You don't need paper! We can grow our own f*ckin' food. We can shoot our own f*ckin' animals. We can do all that shit. We can build our own f*ckin' houses.

Jewish man: How do you get the materials?

Protester: We can just take it from the Earth! You come from the Earth. This comes from the Earth. Everything comes from the Earth, you dumb motherf*cker! Like seriously. Technology comes from the Earth, protons, neutrons, electrons.

Jewish man: Is this a real conversation? Is this a real conversation?

Other OWS protester: He's making points. But he's making points.

Jewish man: What are the points?

Protester: I don't need a point. It comes from here (indicating the ground). It came from here for free! Why we gotta pay for it? It's here for free! Why we gotta pay for it? It's bullshit. This is bullshit.

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Time Magazine: “Speaking of policies, you balanced the budget and cut the size of the government. How come you're not a hero of the Tea Party?”

Bill Clinton: “I thought I should've been their favorite politician. I think because I didn't do it according to the ideology. I raised taxes and cut spending. I did it with a mix of policies that also left us money to invest in our future and in our quality of life. I think that's really important. There are some things that the government has to do because the private sector does not have the capacity to advance the public interest in that way.”

Conservatives:

Ann Coulter: “Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod. ”

Newt Gingrich on his global warming/couch commercial with Nancy Pelosi: "First of all, that is probably the dumbest single thing I've done in years."

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney: "I think people know me pretty well. .. People understand I'm a man of steadiness and constancy."

Rick Perry: "If we're electing the debater-in-chief, don't elect me"

Atlanta attorney Lin Wood (Herman Cain’s new attorney): "I would certainly at some point and time give him my legal evaluation of whether any of these particular statements are potentially actionable. But I was not hired to run out and file a lawsuit against anybody."

Herman Cain, about an alternative healthcare bill which Nancy Pelosi held up in the House: "We didn't hear about it in the previous Congress because Princess Nancy sent it to committee and it stayed there, it never came out."

Herman Cain, later on: "I apologize for calling her Princess Pelosi, if that's the biggest story you all want, OK? I apologize. I apologize for calling her Princess Pelosi. You know, I remember when Speaker Pelosi called me and the Tea Party people Astroturf. I don't remember anybody asking about that story."

When asked why he was apologizing, Cain said, "So you all will stop asking me about it. I'm about the big issues fixing this economy, not focusing on stuff like that."

Herman Cain on deciding to run for president: "I prayed and prayed and prayed. I'm a man of faith, I had to do a lot of praying for this one, more praying than I'd ever done before in my life. And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses: `You've got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'"

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley: "We have requested 12 Justice Department witnesses be made available for transcribed interviews. Despite the department's promises of good faith cooperation, only one witness has been provided so far - former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. The department has refused to schedule interviews with any of the other 11 witnesses. That's not the good faith cooperation I was promised, and it is unacceptable."

Tracy Byrnes: “We’re creating a society of slackers.”

Greg Gutfeld of Gloria Allred: “If she were a native American, her name would be fingernails on the chalkboard.”

Rush Limbaugh: "I'll guarantee you Newt is gonna be the next one targeted if he keeps this slow creep back up. This is how the left works."

Rush Limbaugh: "You don't need sex for there to be a Republican sex scandal. All you need are allegations. But a Democrat, as long as it doesn't affect your job, who are we to judge? There's a clear double standard, and it's one of the reasons why people are sticking by old Herm."

Rush Limbaugh: "I'm just gonna tell you something, if Obama wins reelection, this pipeline's gonna be approved after the election. The only reason he doesn't do it now is because it will upset his base."

Rush Limbaugh: "Obama can't do something good for the country [the Keystone pipeline] without harming his reelection chances, it's just amazing."

Rush Limbaugh: "This school dinner business, just so that you understand this, the push for this is from the Service Employees International Union. It's a union deal because they run the kitchens. They run the kitchens, school cafeterias, and providing dinner at the schools gives the SEIU more employees and more wages, and therefore more union dues, which end up where? Circuitously right back at the Democrat Party."

Rush Limbaugh: "We're now asking ourselves, if Moscow took over this country, if Putin came in, if we went full-fledged, no question about it wall-to-wall communism, would the establishment Republicans want to do something about it? Or would they want to share power?"

Rush Limbaugh: "What is it, no matter where you go here, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, they're urinating on people. What is it? Is there a syndrome that I missed?"

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

IAEA shows intel on suspected Iranian nuclear weapons program to 35 nations on agency board

Based on 1,000 pages of research and nearly a decade of probing Iran, that document included evidence that the agency says indicates the Islamic republic is working on the clandestine procurement of equipment and designs to make nuclear arms.

"While some of the activities identified in the annex have civilian as well as military applications, others are specific to nuclear weapons," the report said.

Watch This!

The best presidential debate so far (apart from the Cain/Gingrich debate in the Woodlands). The candidates were much more somber, recognizing that the media was out to destroy them, individually; so they hung together more so than in any previous debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kl9TLzuAk (Part 1 of 11; and the rest will be accessed through youtube). Or...

http://raymondpronk.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/republican-party-presidential-debate-november-9-2011-rochester-michigan-cnbc-videos/

Obama, Occupy Wall Street, and the TEA party movement; great vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P7uuPCWXng

Short Occupy Portland interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SFm3xNOJjnc

Denver teacher brings her students out to watch Occupy Denver as they are about to storm a conservative conference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OYt5I5l8Ao

The actual history of Blacks and the two primary parties. If you think the Democratic party is where most African-Americans should put their trust, watch this:

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

Frantz Kebreau about Uncle Tom’s Cabin and what an Uncle Tom actually is. I must admit, this surprised me.

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

Occupy Portland cuss out news crew:

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

Person filming Occupy SF, thought to be a TEA partier, is attacked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKpbD1kQaAc

New Anti-Semitic Iranian feature film: rabbi leads Jews on mission to build war machine to take over the world. This is a preview, and I would normally have thought, this is parody material, but apparently, it is not.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/10/new-anti-semitic-iranian-feature-film-rabbi-leads-jews-on-mission-to-build-war-machine-to-take-over-the-world/

Crossroads ad; Clinton versus Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZZf3QLHOI

Top Ten Reasons Rick Perry messtup last week’s listing of departments that he would eliminate (precede by a commercial):

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/11/perry-gives-top-10-gaffe-excuses-on-letterman/

Republican Joe Walsh gets a little over-enthusiastic and yells at some constituents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-1khWObxw

The 50 minute version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ct-76UB98s

Mother explains why she brought her children and put them in front of the doors they wanted to stand in front of:

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/11/occupy-dc-mom-who-used-kids-to-blockade-door-says-she-doesnt-regret-it/

Short Takes

1) I have the first link to the MIchigan debate of last week, which was the best debate so far. Herman Cain had been pummeled for more than a week with allegations which had no actual proof (particularly from the most visible accuser, Sharon Bialek).

2) As I write this, I am watching the South Carolina debate, and the candidates are continuing with the same approach—a general solidarity among the candidates punctuated by a few differences in policy issues.

3) There was a very good to come out of the Herman Cain press conference—at the end, some of those in the media clapped. This does not happen with very many Republicans.

4) I posted a comment on Flopping Aces, suggesting that Herman Cain be president and that Newt Gingrich be his press secretary, which approach I believe is brilliant. There is no one I’d rather see explain conservative policy than Newt. Dee Dee Benke, on FoxNews this week, said that she would also like to see Newt as the press secretary.

5) So, what is our exit strategy for GM, the student loan fiasco, FNMA and FHLMC? For Obama, this is a permanent occupation.

6) If the super-committee is able to come to an agreement to cut $1 trillion or so over the next 10 years, that is a big drop in a very big bucket. Our deficit is $1.5 trillion/year. We will be downgraded if they cannot cut considerably more. Also, the only cuts that are required here is to just freeze most spending in place. That would do the trick.

7) Was it Newt that made this point? Every bit of federal spending is taxation.

8) I am thinking about these “occupy” characters and I wonder if, these are the children that we taught not to compete, that everyone was equal, and if anything was too hard, then mommy or daddy would take care of it?

9)  Chris Matthews says that George Bush is more successful in getting his message out than Obama?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/11/13/chris-matthews-shocker-bush-better-obama-conveying-message

This is easy to explain, by the way. Obama rarely states simply what he actually believes or wants to see happen. He often couches his policies with language that means often the opposite of what it really means: investments, fair share, tax cuts. Investments are not really investments; this simply refers to the federal government spending money. When Obama uses the words fair share, he means that people who pay by far the most taxes need to pay even higher taxes. When Obama talks about all of his tax cuts, he is really talking about tax credits, which are a bribe from the federal government to do things that Obama wants us to do. He uses Orwellian language in order to try to gain the support of people who would not support his policies if they knew exactly what they were.

A Little Comedy Relief

Jodi Miller: “A panhandler in Sacramento ransacked a Starbucks after patrons wouldn’t give him any change. Wow, throwing a tantrum because people won’t give out free money? Where’d he get that idea?”

Jodi Miller: “There are now over 100 probes investigating the money doled out under the 2009 Stimulus; or, as the Stimulus is also called, the list of Obama’s campaign donors.”

By the Numbers

Securities firms, which are - the trading arms of big banks and hundreds of other independent firms, have generated at least $83 billion in profit during the past 2½ years as compared with $77 billion during the entire Bush administration.

Michelle Obama's make-up artist charges $15,000 a day.

Polling by the Numbers

CBS News.

60% of voters said they disapprove of Mr. Obama's handling of the economy, the highest on record.

34% approve of the job he is doing on the matter.

His overall approval rating is 43%

47% disapprove of the job he is doing as president.

McClatchy-Marist poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents

Mitt Romney 23%;

New Gingrich 19%;

Herman Cain 17%;

Ron Paul 10%;

Rick Perry 8%,

Michele Bachmann 5%.

Jon Huntsman 1%

Rick Santorum 1%

A Little Bias

In 9 days, NBC, CBS and ABC have devoted a staggering 99 stories to sexual harassment charges against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. In comparison, eight days into Bill Clinton's scandal's with Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick, there were a combined 8 reports. The average casual news watcher today can tell you intimate details about the allegations against Herman Cain. That same person, in the 1990's, could not even differentiate Jones, Willey and Broaddrick; and probably could not tell you what their accusations were.

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CNN's Piers Morgan on Monday did the first interview with Herman Cain's accuser, but failed to ask Sharon Bialek - who was in the company of her liberal activist attorney Gloria Allred - any questions about her two bankruptcies, the paternity lawsuit her former husband filed against her shortly after their child was born, or exactly why she was terminated by the National Restaurant Association a month before the alleged actions by Cain took place.

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So, are we going to see a lot of news stories about the Dems proposing to cut $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid? I suppose the same coverage that Obamacare got for its $500 billion cut in Medicare.

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For those of you who are over 35, you remember than former vice president Dan Quayle misspelled potato and this was seen so often, that it was burned into our brains. Simply google Dan Quayle and within the top 10 matches, there will be something about him spelling potato. So, is Rick Perry’s brain freeze going to be used to

define him by the media? When you think of Rick Perry, will you think immediately of him drawing a blank and then saying oops. I hope the MRC does a story count on this item.

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NBC and ABC have skipped the story about Obama putting off the Keystone Pipeline completion. This could mean 20,000 jobs, but it puts Obama favoring one of his constituencies (the unions, who support this) as over against another (environmentalists, who are against it). I guess they needed the air time to run Perry’s brain-freeze 3 more times, so the Obama story got squeezed out. CBS news did cover this story.

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer collected “highlights” of Republican debates, all of which were intended to make the candidates look foolish. Still waiting for that collection of bloopers from Obama’s 2008 campaign.

SNL Misses

Will we ever see a skit on Obama, his bundlers, and the funneling of billions of taxpayer dollars into the businesses run by his bundlers? I doubt it.

Yay Democrats!

I forget who, exactly, but at least one Democrat was talking about the grand compromise of reducing the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 10 years. It is still not enough, but definitely a step in the right direction.

Questions for Obama

Do you realize that your policies might have something to do with the slow economic growth in our country?

Political Chess

Herman Cain was on quite a roll until there was a sudden outbreak of accusers. Something had to be done to (1) take him off the air and (2) hurt his likeability. Great damage was inflicted on him in the space of less than 2 weeks.

News Before it Happens

It is getting to look more and more like the super-committee will not be able to come to an agreement. Whether they do or not, we are looking at another downgrade in our credit rating. We have to make a serious dent in our budget, and what the super-committee is charged with does not do that.

Expect for the propaganda to be, Obama’s stimulus saved or created millions of jobs; Rick Perry had very little to do with job creation in Texas and much of that was because of the stimulus.

Missing Headlines

Small Pox Vaccine: Another Obama Bundler gets Taxpayer Money

Dems Propose More Cuts to Medicare/Medicaid

Over 15 Jobs Bills Languish in Senate.

Cain Calls Pelosi “Princess Nancy” We will run 50 stories on this from the sexual harassment angle

Occupy Movement: Killings, Rapes, Suicide; Bring back the TEA party!

Come, let us reason together....

Karen Kraushaar Accuses Cain

Karen Kraushaar is the second most visible person to accuse presidential nominee Herman Cain of sexual harassment. 3 years later, she complained of unfair treatment while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department, She claimed that she ought to be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and she accused a manager of circulating a sexually charged email. Her lawyer, Joel Bennett, assisted her in filing this complain. He had also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999.

Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale ($12,000–$16,000/year) and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

The objectionable email compared computers to men and women and was widely circulated on the Internet. There were some sexually explicit details, according to the supervisor, and it said things like, men were like computers because "in order to get their attention, you have to turn them on." Women were like computers because "even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval."

Kraushaar later dropped the complaint, since it was relative minor, in her own opinion.

Neither Kraushaar or her lawyer has ever given specific information as to what Cain was accused of doing.

From what I have read, the National Restaurant Association is willing to make the records public, but, I have not seen them yet.

There was a Josh Kraushaar who worked at Politico, which “broke” this story. He left a year ago and claims that he is not related to Karen Kraushaar.

She has claimed that she wants a news conference along side of the other women, but none of them seem interested and most have not returned her calls.

She apparently works in the treasury department in the Obama administration and is possibly a carry-over from the Bush administration.

With regards to the only other named person who has accused Cain, Sharon Bialek, she has filed several civil lawsuits in Cook County:

•                                                                                                                 2000-M1-707461 Defendant against Broadcare Management

•                                                                                                                 2000-M1-714398 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management

•2000-M1-701522 Defendant in lawsuit against Broadcare Management

•2005-M1-111072 Defendant in lawsuit against Mr. Mark Beatovic.

•2007-M1-189176 Defendant in lawsuit against Midland Funding.

•2009-M1-158826 Defendant in lawsuit against Illinois Lending.

At least two liens have been filed against Bialek, according to records from the Cook County recorder of deeds.

The IRS filed a tax lien against her in 2009 for nearly $5,200. In August, the Illinois Department of Revenue claimed Bialek owed the state more than $4,300, including penalties and interest, relating to income taxes from 2004, according to county records.

Coincidentally enough, she has lived in the same building as David Axelrod. What strikes me as odd is, how is she able to afford this? Her rent has to be $2000–$4000; I cannot imagine Axelrod as living in a place charging less than this.

Since Cain hired a lawyer, Lin Wood, I have heard virtually nothing from any of these women.

David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior

by Ann Coulter

Herman Cain? has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.

So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod?.

Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).

The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator.

After O'Grady's name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance of Cain's personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of any involvement in producing them -- by vigorously denying that she knew Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)

And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we've suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of ... Chicago.

Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.

Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.

Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."

Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she's Obama's next Cabinet pick.

The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them.

John Brooks, Chicago's former fire commissioner, filed a lawsuit against Daley six months ago claiming Daley threatened to smear him with sexual harassment accusations if Brooks didn't resign. He resigned -- and the sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false.

Meanwhile, as extensively detailed in my book Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America, the only reason Obama became a U.S. senator -- allowing him to run for president -- is that David Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama's Democratic primary opponent, and then against Obama's Republican opponent.

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was way down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader.

But then The Chicago Tribune -- where Axelrod used to work -- began publishing claims that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

From then until Election Day, Hull was embroiled in fighting the allegation that he was a "wife beater." He and his ex-wife eventually agreed to release their sealed divorce records. His first ex-wife, daughters and nanny defended him at a press conference, swearing he was never violent. During a Democratic debate, Hull was forced to explain that his wife kicked him and he had merely kicked her back.

Hull's substantial lead just a month before the primary collapsed with the nonstop media attention to his divorce records. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

Luckily for Axelrod, Obama's opponent in the general election had also been divorced.

The Republican nominee was Jack Ryan, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard law and business schools, who had left his lucrative partnership at Goldman Sachs? to teach at an inner-city school on the South Side of Chicago.

But in a child custody dispute some years earlier, Ryan's ex-wife, Hollywood sex kitten Jeri Lynn Ryan?, had alleged that, while the couple was married, Jack had taken her to swingers clubs in Paris and New York.

Jack Ryan adamantly denied the allegations. In the interest of protecting their son, he also requested that the records be put permanently under seal.

Axelrod's courthouse moles obtained the "sealed" records and, in no time, they were in the hands of every political operative in Chicago. Knowing perfectly well what was in the records, Chicago Tribune attorneys flew to California and requested that the court officially "unseal" them -- over the objections of both Jack and Jeri Ryan?.

Your honor, who knows what could be in these records!

A California judge ordered them unsealed, which allowed newspapers to publish the salacious allegations, and four days later, Ryan dropped out of the race under pressure from idiot Republicans (who should be tracked down and shot).

With a last-minute replacement of Alan Keyes as Obama's Republican opponent, Obama was able to set an all-time record in an Illinois Senate election, winning with a 43 percent margin.

And that's how Obama became a senator four years after losing a congressional race to Bobby Rush?. (In a disastrous turn of events, Rush was not divorced.)

Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the Senate with illicitly obtained, lurid allegations from their pasts.

In 2007, long after Obama was safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, The New York Times reported: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on Hull's sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story."

Some had suggested, the Times article continued, that Axelrod had "an even more significant role -- that he leaked the initial story."

This time, Obama's little helpers have not only thrown a bomb into the Republican primary, but are hoping to destroy the man who deprives the Democrats of their only argument in 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47438

Herman Cain: The Liberal Media's Latest Target for Personal Destruction

By Cal Thomas

In 2007 when she was running for president, Hillary Rodham Clinton told a fundraising event in Carson City, Nev., "I sure don't want Democrats, or the supporters of Democrats, to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction. I think we should stay focused on what we're going to do for America."

Clinton's husband, the former president, used the phrase at the time of his impeachment proceedings for lying under oath about a sexual dalliance in the White House.

The politics of personal destruction is nothing new. It has been around from the beginning of the country when worse things were said about presidents and presidential candidates than have been alleged against Herman Cain.

After more than a week of innuendo, hearsay and rumor about alleged incidents of sexual harassment when Cain was president of the National Restaurant Association, the country on Monday was presented with one woman, a former employee at the NRA's educational foundation, by none other than powerhouse attorney-camera hog-defender of disgruntled porn stars, Gloria Allred.

At a New York news conference, Allred (who, according to the Federal Election Commission, contributed $1,000 to Hillary Clinton and $2,300 to Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign) introduced Sharon Bialek, who read a statement that sounded as though a Democratic Party activist had written it. Bialek claimed Cain touched her inappropriately when she went to him for help in getting her old job back with the educational foundation.

Bialek provided some details that included what she wore during the alleged encounter, what Cain was wearing and the name of the Washington hotel where she met Cain in the bar for drinks. As proof of Bialek's veracity, Allred presented two "declarations under penalty of perjury," which she did not give to reporters, from two people to whom Bialek said she told her story.

The Cain campaign immediately issued a statement calling "All accusations of sexual harassment against Mr. Cain completely false."

When the media and their Democratic Party allies have finished driving a stake through Cain's heart, they will turn to other Republicans who threaten President Obama's quest for a second term. If their effort at burying Cain succeeds, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will need to watch out. Rick Perry has already felt their heat and if his campaign ever gets off life support the attacks against him will resume.

The credibility of big media continues to erode. The Washington Post reported a loss of $6.2 million for the quarter ending September 30, in part because of "continued deterioration in its newspaper and online publishing division."

The public has found other ways to get its news. The fading establishment media blame the Internet for their decline, but growing numbers of the public -- not only conservatives -- view the onslaught against Herman Cain as unfair, unwarranted and inconsequential, given bigger issues facing the country. The question for many of them is why didn't the media conduct themselves in a similar way with Barack Obama? Why, for example, has Obama still not released his transcripts from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School?

Near the end of his inspiring book, "This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House," Cain writes as if he is already president: "In contrast to my predecessor, I am not a community organizer advocating radical social policy with which to manipulate whole segments of the population. I am a community energizer who emphasizes the necessity for individual self-motivation."

In that one paragraph we see what troubles the media and their Democratic Party brethren. If more people currently dependent on government became motivated, self-sufficient and independent of government, it would threaten the foundation of the welfare system that currently has 15 percent of the country addicted to food stamps.

And so, not just Herman Cain, but what he stands for must be destroyed, lest the government "addicts" be liberated and vote Republican.

Even if Cain does not win the Republican nomination (and how about the voters deciding that, not the media?), he's proven that he has backbone. Cain the gospel singer should consider warbling Stephen Sondheim's "I'm Still Here" because he still is, for now.

From:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/cal-thomas/2011/11/08/herman-cain-liberal-medias-latest-target-personal-destruction#ixzz1dED3Aj20

Fire Eric Holder

by Sarah Palin

It's tempting to get distracted with the horse race aspect of electoral politics during a primary season. But as pundits talk about "who's up and who's down" in the 24 hour news cycle, we must keep our eye on the ball with the Obama administration. They rely on distraction to skirt responsibility, but we're going to hold them accountable for their corruption and incompetence.

When the stories about Operation Fast and Furious first broke, it sounded too crazy even for this administration.

Why would any government official with an ounce of common sense think it's a good idea to facilitate the smuggling of thousands of guns into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels? That's what Operation Fast and Furious did.

You might think Eric Holder's Department of Justice was setting up a sting operation in which our federal agents would swoop down and arrest the bad guys the minute the guns traded hands. But that's not what happened. Eric Holder's DOJ had American gun dealers sell weapons to "straw purchasers" tied to drug cartels without actually following the movement of the guns as they were then sold to Mexican drug lords. They apparently thought this so-called "gun-walking" operation would help them chart the path of gun smuggling, but they didn't have a plan to actually control the weapons' movements as the guns were allowed to "walk" into Mexico. All Holder's DOJ did was arm violent criminals. What manner of fools do we have working in this administration? What's next? Supplying nuclear weapons components to the Iranians so we can track their activities?

Fast and Furious isn't just your typical government incompetence. This is a deadly tragedy. U.S. border agent Brian Terry was gunned down with weapons connected to Holder's debacle. At least 200 Mexican citizens were also killed by criminals using Fast and Furious weapons. We can only imagine how many more people will be murdered by criminals our government armed.

When an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blew the whistle on this operation, the DOJ leaked sensitive information about him to the press. This week, the former U.S. Attorney for Arizona, who was ousted in the wake of the scandal, admitted to being the leaker.

And where is President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder in all of this? When did he first know about the operation? In his testimony to the House Oversight Committee on May 3, 2011, Holder stated, "I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks." But the DOJ's own documents prove that Holder had been receiving briefings on Fast and Furious for nearly a year before that date. In other words, our government's top law enforcement official, Eric Holder, lied to the American public. He finally admitted this week to the Senate Judiciary Committee, "In my testimony before the House committee [on May 3], I did say a few weeks. I probably could have said a couple of months. What I said about a few weeks was inaccurate based on what happened."

When the nation's highest law enforcement official lies to the American people, he must go.

And if he claims that he didn't lie, then how else do we explain this situation? He's either lying or he's so grossly incompetent and lazy that he didn't read important life and death briefings from his deputy attorney general and didn't know about this deadly operation run by people under him. So, which is it? Incompetent, lazy, or lying? No matter which explanation fits, he needs to go.

Holder conceded this week, "I have ultimate responsibility for what happens in the department." He can prove it by resigning. And if he refuses to resign, then President Obama - with whom the bucks ultimately stop - can prove that he respects honesty, transparency, and accountability in his administration by firing Holder.

I stand with the members of Congress who are calling for Holder's resignation. I stand with the family members of Brian Terry who are demanding transparency and accountability. Mr. President, where do you stand?

- Sarah Palin

P.S. It can be argued that some elements of this scandal give the appearance of perhaps being intended to be used to infringe on our Second Amendment rights. I invite our President to correct concerned Americans if they're wrong on this.

If You Love Freedom, Thank a Vet!

By Sarah Palin (facebook post)

I proudly display a bumper sticker that proclaims "If you love your freedom, thank a vet!" It was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 that the armistice between Germany and the Allied nations was formed. A year later the White House commemorated the day as one to be "filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory." Years later 11-11 was officially declared Veterans Day.

We are thankful for this day being set aside to remember our vets, and many of us are overwhelmed with pride and respect for those we honor today. America's men and women in uniform selflessly sacrificed - some giving all - to protect the freedom and opportunities we enjoy today. In honor of everything our veterans have given, I implore Americans to remember them and thank them. And I ask that as a nation we not squander what they have fought to protect: American Exceptionalism that was based on free men and free markets.

May God bless, protect, and heal the hurts of America's finest. God bless our veterans. -

The Obamaville Riots

Should the liberal media be held responsible for left-wing violence?

By James Taranto

"The Occupy Wall Street protest continues to inspire demonstrators across the nation and beyond," the New York Times editorialized Saturday. "Actually, Occupy Wall Street is not merely yelling and screaming. The movement's progress is heartening for all Americans suffering lost opportunity and clueless political leaders."

It's certainly true that the so-called protesters are "not merely yelling and screaming." They're engaging in a fair bit of physical violence as well.

"Hundreds of Occupy D.C. protesters blocked streets Friday night around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center where a conservative group was holding a dinner," the Washington Post reports. "About 500 protesters stood in the streets at half a dozen intersections around the building, preventing cars from coming or going. Several said that their aim was to prevent those inside from leaving."

The Daily Caller has video showing that the so-called protesters "tried to force entry into the Washington Convention Center" and "also formed roadblocks, surrounding the convention center and only allowing non-luxury cars to pass." According to another Caller report, a staffer from Americans for Prosperity, the group hosting the dinner, called 911 for help in getting people out of the building safely: "They hung up on me."

The Daily Caller video shows an old lady getting pushed down the stairs by Obamavillians. Blogger Glenn Reynolds got an email from an eyewitness, Ray Patnaude: "My wife and I were at the AFP dinner. Some info on the AFP member who was pushed down the stairs by the protestors. . . . She is the second woman the police are helping up in the Daily Caller video. Her name is Dolores Broderson, age 78. She rode on a bus for 11 hours from Detroit to get there. She went to the emergency room with a bloody nose and bruises on her hand and leg."

Shades of Rachel Corrie: New York's Daily News reports that three Obamavillians were struck by a car outside the convention center. "Lt. Christopher Micciche of the D.C. police said the driver was not cited because he had a green light when his vehicle struck the three on Friday night":

Stacy McCain of The American Spectator, who attended the AFP dinner, has a lengthy report from inside. The Washington riot follows violence amid a "general strike" in Oakland, Calif., last week. Meanwhile, reports of violence have been coming in from Obamavilles across the country. Examples:

• New York. The New York Post reports that "Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent . . . to keep the sickos away." Creeping sharia!

The Post also reports that "a Zuccotti Park protester threw a violent fit in a McDonald's yesterday after employees refused to give him free food. Fisika Bezabeh, 27, ripped a credit-card reader from a counter and threw it at workers." (Meanwhile, as if to illustrate why "Second City" is synonymous with great comedy, "traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below," Mediaite reports. "Demonstrators were angered to find out they were showered with employment applications for McDonald's.")

Yet another Post report brings the news that "a 26-year-old man believed to have been crashing with the protesters was busted for urinating on an NYPD [police] van parked outside Zuccotti." Obamaville: Void where prohibited.

• Los Angeles. "A woman was arrested at the encampment outside City Hall after she set another person's clothes on fire" Friday, police tell the Los Angeles Times. "In another incident hours later, a woman was arrested after protesters said she struck a man with a tent pole. Both were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon."

• Fort Collins, Colo. "Police have arrested an Occupy Fort Collins protester in connection with a $10 million arson fire that damaged dozens of condominiums and businesses," reports Denver's KMGH-TV. "Benjamin David Gilmore, 29, was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of arson, burglary and criminal mischief."

The Times argues that Obamaville should not be judged by its most violent denizens:

They must be John McCain supporters.

Much has been made of the media double standard in reporting on the Tea Party vs. Obamaville--PJMedia's Ed Driscoll has a nice roundup--but the Times editorial page is in a class by itself when it comes to hypocrisy and deception. Contrast this weekend's editorial explaining away violence as the product of "a minority . . . from the fringe" with the infamous Jan. 10 editorial on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:

As we noted at the time, that Times's linking of Republicans, Tea Party members and the paper's media rivals to an atrocity committed by a madman with no recognizable political motive was a lie worthy of Walter Duranty.

Now, however, the Times is doing exactly what it falsely accused media conservatives of doing then: cheering on a political movement built on demonization that paints the government as the enemy of the people. By the Times's own standards, it is legitimate to hold its editorial board, as well as columnists like Nicholas Kristof and former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, responsible not only for "setting the nation on edge" but for fomenting actual violence.

Worst Column Ever

This is from the Washington Post's Colbert King:

Is King serious? There is no reason to think he isn't--nothing jocose about the tone of the column. Its second half is devoted to criticizing Pat Buchanan, in terms that are unremarkable and conventional.

But what he says about Coulter is bizarre. Obviously she was trying to bait the left in the manner of a schoolyard taunt: "My dad is better than your dad." Such taunts may be foolish or offensive, but it's unlikely that anyone's dad ever objected to them on the ground that his child was treating him as a piece of property.

Given the history of slavery, perhaps phrases like "our blacks" and "their blacks" are insensitive or grating. But that wasn't King's complaint. He actually seems to think that possessive pronouns always denote literal ownership. What would his teachers say?

That quote is from Gloria Steinem, the big-time feminist, though of course the man she was defending wasn't Herman Cain. It was Bill Clinton, after Kathleen Willey accused him of groping her in the Oval Office. Cain's new accuser, Sharon Bialek, appeared at New York's Friars Club this afternoon alongside small-time feminist Gloria Allred. (Curiously, Cain's wife is also named Gloria.)

In the late 1990s, having lost her job at the National Restaurant Association's Chicago office, "she reached out to Mr. Cain for help in finding another job," Allred said. "Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package." Although it was considerably less expensive than President Obama's stimulus package, it was equally ineffective: Bialek said she rebuffed Cain and he relented.

Cain denies it. In any case, Since Bialek was not an employee at the time, and the overture she described was a one-off, Steinem is right that this was not sexual harassment. But at least with Bialek, voters--and Cain himself--are not being asked to chase shadows. We have an identifiable person making an actual accusation.

Meanwhile, last week's unspecified allegations by unnamed women grow ever more Orwellian. "Herman Cain Allegation: Accuser Breaks Silence," read a Friday headline at Politico, which broke the original nonstory. There is actually no evidence that she, whoever she is, broke her silence. What happened was that a lawyer representing the unnamed accuser read a statement from her, which she could have prepared without ever speaking a word.

The lawyer, Joel Bennett, said: "Mr. Cain knows the specific incidents that were alleged. My client filed a written complaint in 1999 against him specifically and it had very specific incidents in it and if he chose to not remember or not acknowledge those, that's his issue." As to what the specifics were, Bennett didn't specify them.

Then Charles Blow of the New York Times weighed in:

We guess Blow and "granularity" don't get along either.

One criticism of Cain that seems plausible is that in dealing with these charges, he hasn't exactly put on a clinic in crisis management. New England Cable News quoted one expert in that field:

Pardon us, but has any politician ever weathered a sex scandal by following that advice? Clinton lied through his teeth. David Vitter asked "forgiveness" for an unspecified "serious sin." The only pols we can think of who've actually come clean are ones like Reps. Chris Lee and Mark Souder, who resigned almost immediately.

The Clinton and Vitter approaches probably fail more often than they succeed--ask Anthony Weiner--but the idea of treating sexual allegations as if they were the Tylenol poisoning scare strikes us as cracked. When the only tool you have is a hammer, and all that.

From:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577024071806289062.html#U503124480060YM

The Real Scandal

By Thomas Sowell

The real scandal in the accusations against Herman Cain is the corruption of the law, the media and politics.

Let's start with the law. Some people may think the fact that the National Restaurant Association reportedly paid $45,000 to settle a claim made by one of its employees against Mr. Cain is incriminating.

Most of us are not going to part with 45 grand without some serious reason. But that is very different from the situation of an organization in the present legal climate.

The figure $45,000 struck a chord with me because, some years ago, my wife - who is an attorney - was fervently congratulated when her client had to pay "only" $45,000 in a jury award when the plaintiff was demanding a million dollars, in a case that was as frivolous a lawsuit as you could find.

The person who was suing was a drunk driver, whose car went out of control and slammed into a tree. After the sheriff's deputies arrested her, she sued them on dubious charges, and the sheriff's department was glad it had to pay "only" $45,000.

The department was painfully aware of the uncertainty about what ruinous costs a jury might impose on the deputies.

The real scandal goes far beyond the case of Herman Cain and his accusers. The real scandal is that the law allows people to impose heavy costs on others at little or no cost to themselves. That is a perfect setting for legalized extortion.

The fact that neither judges nor juries always stick to the letter of the law means that people who have zero basis for a lawsuit, under the law as written, can still create enough uncertainty to extract money from people who cannot afford the risk of going to trial.

As for a $45,000 settlement, that is what an organization would pay to settle a nuisance lawsuit - if they are lucky.

If we had a legal system where judges threw frivolous cases out of court, instead of letting them go to trial, that would put a damper on legalized extortion.

If those who bring charges that do not stand up in court had to pay the other party for their legal fees - and should have to pay for their time as well - these games could not go on.

It turns out that the women making televised charges against Herman Cain have past histories that do not inspire confidence, including in at least one case a history of making similar complaints against others.

Another woman who has come forward tells of Herman Cain asking her, at some conference, to see if she could locate some woman in the audience who had asked him a question, so that he could take her to dinner. This apparently struck her as suspicious.

This too reminded me of something I knew about personally. Many years ago, I was at a conference where a woman made some very insightful comments, and I took her to lunch to continue the discussion.

It so happens she was a nun. Contrary to cynics, there is more than one reason for a man to take a woman to lunch or dinner.

The same mainstream media whose responses to proven charges against Bill Clinton was, "Let's move on," is not about to move on from unproven charges against Herman Cain.

What role does race play in all this?

It is probably not racism, as such, that motivates these attacks on Herman Cain. The motivation is far more likely to be politics, but politics makes a prominent black conservative like Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain far more dangerous to the Democrats than an equally prominent white conservative.

The 90 percent black vote for Democrats is like money in the bank on election day. A prominent black conservative who offers an alternative view of the world is a serious danger politically, because if that alternative view has the net effect of reducing the black vote for Democrats just to 75 percent, the Democrats are in big trouble at election time.

In this political context, merely defeating a black conservative at the polls or at confirmation hearings is not enough. He must be destroyed as an influence in the future - and character assassination is the most obvious way to do it.

From:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111011.php3

Why is California's Economy Such a Mess?

by Becket Adams)

It is a well-known fact that California has the largest state deficit in American history. Furthermore, at 11.9 percent, California also has the dismal distinction of having the nation's second-highest unemployment rate.

And that's not all. There are other points that some argue contribute to California's weak economy*:

•Top Marginal Personal Income Tax Rate: 10.55 percent

•Top Marginal Corporate Income Tax Rate: 8.84 percent

•Personal Income Tax Progressivity (change in tax liability per $1,000 of income): $36.19

•Property Tax Burden (per $1,000 of personal income): $27.18

•Remaining Tax Burden: (per $1,000 of personal income): $16.13

•Debt Service as a Share to Tax Revenue: 8.7 percent

•Public Employees Per 10,000 of Population (full-time equivalent): 502.1

•State Minimum Wage: $8.00

•Average Worker's Compensation Costs: $2.72

•Right to Work State: No

Obviously, after reviewing the above, California is not in very good shape (economically speaking).

So what is to be done?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, (D-Calif) believes that "red tape" and an "out of whack" tax system have been detrimental to his city's economic success. Therefore, he is proposing to cut frivolous taxes (including one on new car dealers) so that Los Angeles can attract businesses and create jobs.

However, as is the case whenever anyone talks about cutting taxes or state programs, Villaraigosa has been met with opposition.

Recently, during an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, Villaraigosa had a chance to discuss some of his plans to help spur his city's (and state's) economy.

"You're going after this tax on car dealers," Cavuto said during the interview, "Obviously you face the same budgetary pressures as many mayors, but you're addressing them head on and ticking off a lot of people. Does that worry you?"

"No," Villaraigosa laughed. "I'm operating as if this is the end of the line and I got to make the tough decisions."

"It might well be," Cavuto said in reference to the mayor's actions possibly ending his political career.

The mayor responded that that did not worry him.

"I'm worried about the fact that we have to get our local governments, our state and federal governments, on a more sustainable path," Villaraigosa said. "That means we're going to have to cut cost and cut programs, we're going to have to be more efficient. It also means we're going to have to create more revenues and one way to do it is to cut red tape (which we're doing), cut some of our taxes which are out of whack (which we're also doing), but we're also making investments."

Watch the interview with Neil Cavtuto:

Villaraigosa went on to talk about the national extension of his 30/30 Initiative known as "America Fast Forward," a "loan program" that could supposedly "create nearly 1 million jobs, produce $158 billion in economic output and generate $51 billion in worker income."

And how is this any different from the Federal stimulus plan? It incentivizes localities such as Los Angeles to put up their own money, says the mayor.

Villaraigosa has also argued that the program will put people to work at "little cost, since 98 percent of the federal dollars would be repaid from local sources."

"It's critical that we make investments too," the mayor argued. "We gotta' cut on the one hand, there's no question about that, but we gotta' compete with China and Europe and the developing nations of the world who are all investing in high speed rail, investing in their ports-" he said before Cavuto interrupted him to make the point that one needs to have capital before they can invest.

The Mayor simply reiterated that it will be their own money they invest in Los Angeles' economy.

Final thought: if Californians are really serious about turning their economy around, reducing their state deficit, and spurring job growth, cutting frivolous taxes would seem like an excellent place to start.

However, advocating a program that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says "will help revive manufacturing," and that Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) says is "the kind of initiative that I believe the House and Senate can work together on," may not be the best idea.

From:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-californias-economy-such-a-mess/

Media Bias?

Within just a few days, the network news had run about 50 stories on Herman Cain and allegations about him—allegations which were offered up without any substantiating proof.

Did the networks do even 50 stories on the following?

Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape

Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape

Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation

Regina Hopper Blakely - "forced himself on her, biting, bruising her"

Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats

Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault

22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault

Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault

Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations

Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault

Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault

1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact

1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers

Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault

Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault

Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault

Sally Perdue - post incident threats

Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters

Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned

Maybe the Monica Lewinsky story was covered that much—certainly not within 3 or 4 days time. But the rest of these stories collectively did not receive as much attention as Herman Cain’s accusers.

Grammy Nominee's Violent 'Occupy' Anthem

By Dan Gainor

Despite the violence of the anti-war protests, the `60s demonstrations were about giving peace a chance. The Occupy Wall Street crowd has a new anthem that is anything but peaceful. The song tells how opponents will have their "body destroyed" or when "strung up you'll bleed, like the pig you became."

The song "We Stand as One" was recorded by Joseph Arthur, who has collaborated with rock greats like Peter Gabriel and REM's Michael Stipe. Arthur was nominated for a best recording package Grammy for his 1999 EP "Vacancy," according to his bio. Arthur has "previously been recorded a decade earlier by Gabriel for a Princess Diana tribute album."

The song is an entire rationale of why "we Occupy Wall Street." Included as explanations are to:

    Take back our soul,

    Take back our country,

    Take back control,

    Take back our health care,

    Take back our mind,

    Take back our freedom.

But, this anthem is also filled with violent imagery threatening the opponents of the movement.

    "Your blood is our paint,"

    "Like a pig you consumed

    And like a pig you will roast,"

    "Burning your homes."

    "Your body destroyed"

    "Strung up you'll bleed

    Like the pig you became"

Not exactly Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind," now, is it?

From:

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/grammy-nominee-s-violent-occupy-anthem-strung-you-ll-bleed-your-blood-our-paint

Occupy Wall Street anthem video (it’s kind of long, but worth watching for 3 or 4 minutes—it sounds much less threatening than its actual lyrics):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWg1GVVUE2A

Private investigator, based on body language and language recognition software, says Herman Cain is innocent:

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16002149/investigator-herman-cain-innocent-of-sexual-advances

Which interest groups support which party?

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/index.php

Gene Simmons (yes, that Gene Simmons) speech to London Business School students on “Debt crisis like fat people blaming bakers” A quote from the article: “We outsell The Beatles and Elvis put together. People say things like: ‘Oh, you make so much money. What do you need any more for?’ Well, actually, b*tch, I never asked for your opinion. I'll let you know when I have enough money.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3929275/Debt-crisis-like-fat-people-blaming-bakers.html

Additional Sources

Obama donor drug company given preferential treatment:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,4293298.story

Michelle Obama's make-up artist charges as much as $15,000 a day. Mrs. Obama shares him with Oprah Winfrey.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/1111/Michelle_Obama_Oprah_share_a_makeup_artist.html

In case you thought I was making up the crowd breaking out into jazz hands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1BWETV75hU

Media Harps on Perry's Brain Freeze, Ignores Numerous Examples of Democrat Stupidity

RUSH: Rick Perry. Let's do this. Let's go back October 20th on this show, and I said this. Number three, audio sound bite number three. Go back in order.

RUSH ARCHIVE: Rick Perry -- and I mean this in a complimentary way. People are gonna find this not strange or not hard to believe, but you might be confused by this. Rick Perry makes me laugh. But not at him. I laugh with the guy.

RUSH: I gotta tell you: Rick Perry, to me, is funny. During the debate when he decided to go after Mitt Romney for hiring illegals? When he stood up there and said (impression), "And, Mitt, you have lost all your standing with me, 'cause you, on your own property..." I just started laughing. He's a funny guy -- and Letterman! Letterman brought him on last night; I'm sure Letterman wanted him to bomb. I'll guarantee you they wanted him to come on there and forget his lines as he did the top ten list. Letterman was not happy. Perry was funny. This is a montage of Perry cracking people up on Letterman last night.

PERRY: Actually, there were three reasons I messed up last night.

AUDIENCE: (laughing)

PERRY: One was the nerves, and -- and two was the headache, and three... Ummm... Uhhh...

AUDIENCE: (laughing and applause)

PERRY: Hey, listen, you try concentrating with Mitt Romney smiling at ya.

AUDIENCE: (laughing and applause)

PERRY: That is one handsome dude!

PERRY: I wanted to help take the heat off my buddy, Herman Cain.

RUSH: He wasn't supposed to be that likable. These guys, they think the Republicans are gonna get 'em on there as guests and they're all gonna be these boorish snobs and doesn't work out that way. So Rick Perry is in the process of turning this around, too, and pretty soon the media's gonna be mad that Rick Perry is cashing in on forgetfulness or something like that. Diana Sawyer leading -- leading, now -- ABC's World News Tonight, this is the open.

SAWYER: This is World News Tonight. Damage control. Rick Perry stalls out in a debate and scrambles to revive his campaign for president. His rough day. And we take a look at the science that explains show stopping brain freeze.

RUSH: The lead story! We had the pipeline that Obama shut down. We got the Iranians with nukes. We got Occupy Wall Street. We got an economy going to hell in a handbasket. We got Fast and Furious. We got the attorney general saying, "I'm not gonna apologize," and then he writes an apology letter and shows it to the media first. And this is the lead item on ABC's World News Tonight complete with a look at the science that explains show stopping brain freeze, which translates me, "Okay, we're gonna show you official science about why Rick Perry is an absolute blooming idiot. And we're not gonna have to say it. We're gonna get a scientist in here to say it for you so that you have no doubt that this guy is a stupid, dumb idiot. The lead item on ABC's World News Tonight. And when they finally got to the report by reporter John Berman, he mentions three politicians in addition to Perry who also look stupid, who all happen to be Republicans.

BERMAN: There's nothing worse than completely forgetting your point in a televised debate. Well, except for seemingly losing the ability to talk at all in a televised debate. That happened to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Rick Perry has joined an illustrious club of those who suffer from brain freeze. We use our frontal lobes to sort our memories. The problem is that part of the brain is sensitive to anxiety.

SCIENTIST: The stress hormones go up even higher and then that shuts down their frontal lobes and disconnects it from the rest of the brain, and makes it even harder to retrieve those memories.

BERMAN: Which explains how Chief Justice John Roberts could flub the oath of office or George W. Bush could flub this.

BUSH: Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again.

RUSH: (laughing) Could that be more obvious? Chief Justice John Roberts, George W. Bush, Arizona governor Jan Brewer. And then of course the scientist, Michael DeGeorgia was his name. He's the guy you heard say the stress hormone goes up even higher and then shuts down the frontal lobe. And of course we never challenge these guys, science equals instant credibility and truth. How did they find this guy? Did they interview a bunch of scientists 'til they found one that would say what they wanted to hear? Which explains how the chief justice John Roberts could flub -- how about, Cookie, go back to the campaign with Senator Kennedy and Clinton where we played this for years and we still can't translate what Kennedy is saying. If they're gonna go out there and do this, we can certainly highlight genuine stupidity and other shortcomings that exist in the Democrats.

RUSH: We just heard John Berman's report at ABC's World News Tonight. Yeah, this explains how Chief Justice John Roberts could flub the oath of office, or George W. Bush could flub this, or how Rick Perry could forget things. What's the date of this, Mike? Do you have a date on this when this happened? We don't know. It's gotta be 1996 because Clinton and Kennedy were running for reelection.

KENNEDY: This is Clinton country? (Unintelligible). And after we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you -- (cheers and applause) -- and you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate, we're gonna start on the '96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton and to reelect him on the next (unintelligible).

RUSH: Nobody knows what he said. We used to have that in a loop, because people wanted to hear it over and over again to try to figure out what it was that Senator Kennedy was saying. We do have the loop. Here's the loop so you can hear it over and over again.

KENNEDY: This is Clinton country? (Unintelligible). And after we all do what needs to be done --

RUSH: Which is what?

KENNEDY: -- for the next two and a half weeks and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor and you -- (cheers and applause) -- and you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate, we're gonna start on the '96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton and to reelect him on the next (unintelligible).

(continue playing in loop)

RUSH: Right, right, okay, so there you have it. You ought to see the video. Clinton is just standing there clapping. (laughing) It's a great visual because Clinton doesn't understand. That's just Ted Kennedy saying Resist We Much. Which is the official motto now of MSNBC. And how many clips could we play if we wanted to of Obama off teleprompter? I mean if you want to talk about slow and halting and the frontal lobe synapses not firing, if we wanted to, Democrat speeches are not words, they're just noise. Of course Wolf Blitzer, because of what Perry did, Wolf Blitzer ran a compendium of ten "oops" moments from the GOP debate so far. You remember all the CNN stories of those kinds of bloopers from Democrat debates over the years, don't you? Yeah, right.

RUSH: We put together back in the summer of 2008, Obama goes to the Middle East to apologize for America, Cairo speech, number of other places. ABC World News tonight leads off with what an idiot Rick Perry is and stupid Republicans in their little report there. And I made the comment, you take Obama off prompter and we're not talking about a guy where the elevator goes all the way to the top floor. Sounds more like a guy who's an order of fries short of a Happy Meal. This is from one speech, one press conference on July 22nd of 2008. We have seven and a half minutes, not one thing repeated or recycled. Each one of these is individual, was it's own utterance and occurrence. And out of a forty minute press conference, this took up seven minutes and thirty-five seconds.

OBAMA: Uh, I also want to thank you, uh, uh, uh, the, uh, this, well, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, is, uh, is of their work, uh, uh, uh, uh, we, uh, uh, uh, I called, uh, uh, and I'm, uh, with, uh --

RUSH: It goes on for seven and a half minutes.

OBAMA: And we have to do this.

RUSH: None of these are repeated.

OBAMA: Uh, uh, as well as, uh, uh, I, uh, we -- and -- uh, uh --

RUSH: Okay. That's enough. Where did we get the idea for it? You couldn't miss it. Seven and a half minutes out of 40 minutes was that? It didn't take long before we're all looking at ourselves. For crying out loud, this is like people who say "you know" all the time, except he says, "uh." See, intellectuals have proved that, though, because that in intellectual-speak means you're in deep, deep thought. Seven minutes, 35 seconds. Seven and a half minutes. Seven minutes out of 40 minutes, over 10% of it, and it was a press conference.

RUSH: This is last night's CNN Situation Room, Wolf Blitzed speaking with The Forehead, Paul Begala, about Perry and Rick Perry's mental lapse in Wednesday night's debate. Wolf Blitzer said, "You gotta give him a little credit, [Forehead]. He went on all the morning talk shows, the morning news shows, he gonna be on Letterman tonight. He's not backing down. He's trying to fix this."

BEGALA: Yeah. I know.

BLITZER: (chuckling)

BEGALA: I'm trying to say something other than what I'm thinking which is, "He's an idiot." He's unqualified to be president. He was the candidate for all the people who thought George W. Bush was just too cerebral for them.

RUSH: There you have it. That's The Forehead (also from Texas, by the way) talking about Rick Perry who has been a very successful, productive governor for 14 years in Texas. This morning on Scarborough's show, Morning Joe, Scarborough spoke with noted liberal columnist Mike Barnicle about former President George W. Bush. Scarborough said, "George W. Bush is a very bright guy. You meet George W. Bush one on one, he's bright, he's engaging. Is that not right, Mike? You were not blown away -- you were blown away, right? Engaging how guy was when you met him, right?"

BARNICLE: I know a very good friend of mine, lifelong Democrat, went to a meeting with George W. Bush within the past month down in Texas; came back and was stunned at his reaction -- stunned that, you know, he was like the most personable people he's ever met, terrific time with him.

RUSH: I just continually am amazed by this. Now, I could understand when people meet me for the first time and they've never listened to the program, but they think they know everything about me -- and it's fun to look at people totally shocked that I am a nice, charismatic, engaging, dominate-the-room kind of guy. I can understand that. They've never listened to me, they just believe it. But this guy Bush was president! Mike Barnicle? They really thought that Bush was this big, blithering idiot, which was a total image they concocted. He was president! Everybody knew who George Bush was. I know what some of you are saying.

"Hey, Rush, he came off that way sometimes: When the camera came on, he did look like deer in the headlights." Doesn't matter. They know he's got a Harvard MBA, and these guys know you don't buy those. I don't care what anybody thinks. You've gotta get the grades to get the Harvard MBA, Wharton school; these things are not sold. The fact that they would be stunned by this is quite telling to me.

When Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd Sexually Harassed Carrie Fisher

RUSH: Carrie Fisher, speaking of sexual harassment charges, or rather the lack of them in this case. There's an amusing anecdote out there, Carrie Fisher's latest autobiography. She's the daughter, by the way, of the movie star Debbie Reynolds. I met Debbie Reynolds once at a House Clinic event. She was the entertainer. She's hilarious. I had forgotten. She is a hilarious comedienne, Debbie Reynolds. That's Carrie Fisher's mom, and Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia in the first Star Wars flick. That was before calling someone princess was sexist.

Do you believe Cain had to apologize for calling Pelosi "Princess Nancy "? And you know who got on him for it? Dana Perino. Dana Perino said, "Tsk-tsk-tsk. Ms. Pelosi, you can disagree with her policy or whatever, but she earned that title." So Cain apologizes for calling Pelosi "Princess Nancy." You can't call anybody princess today, but back then you could call Carrie Fisher "Princess Leia." It was the name of her character in the Star Wars movie. Now, in her latest book, "Carrie Fisher mentions an amusing exchange that she had with "the lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy" and his buddy Chris Dodd. This is back in 1985. This is the same year that Kennedy and Chris Dodd went through a restaurant in Washington called La Brasserie and invented (in the modern era, anyway) what's known as the waitress sandwich.

The waitress sandwich is either Dodd or Kennedy on the bottom, the waitress in the middle (either on her stomach or on her back) and then either Dodd or Kennedy on the top and ergo you've got the waitress sandwich. (It's actually a wrap because when you roll it 90 degrees then it changes everybody's angles and more thrills and fun. This was the same year that they invented that procedure. So Carrie Fisher in the book says that while having dinner with these two, "suddenly Senator Kennedy seated directly across from me," she writes "looked at me with his alert aristocratic eyes." That's the first time I have ever considered Senator Kennedy's eyes described as anything other than "glassy." Aristocratic? Anyway, I'm not an attractive woman, so I wouldn't know how Senator Kennedy's eyes appear to a one, but apparently they were "aristocratic" to Carrie Fisher.

Anyway, she goes on. She says that he said was clearly amused. "'Do you think you'll be having sex with Chris here at the end of your date?' and to my left, Chris Dodd looked at me with an unusual grin hanging on his very flushed face, and she writes that she said, 'Funily enough, I won't be having sex with Chris tonight. That probably won't happen, but thanks for asking, though.'" It's not over there. "Senator Kennedy, persistent, says, 'Would you have sex with Chris in a hot tub?'" She says that Senator Kennedy "asked her that perhaps as a way to say good night." She then said, "No, I'm no good in water." Ted Kennedy could have said, "Neither am I, and neither was Mary Jo!" This is incredible. So she says to him, "No, I'm no good in water." Kennedy names his dog "Splash."

Now, how come Carrie Fisher didn't file a sexual harassment claim? Does this not sound like far more risque behavior than anything that's been alleged against Herman Cain? Seriously, now. Isn't this more boorish? Isn't this more obtrusive, intrusive, disrespectful, what have you, than anything Herman Cain's been alleged to have done? She could file a sexual harassment claim now 'cause Chris Dodd's still around out there. He's alive and kicking. Meanwhile, our moral guardians in the news media are all chuckling at what an amusing story this is, in the midst of trying to run Herman Cain out of town for something nobody can say happened.

The Truth About the Keystone Pipeline

RUSH: Ross, in his semi but from Stew something. Hi, Ross? Where are you?

CALLER: I'm on from Nebraska, Stewart, Nebraska.

RUSH: Stewart, Nebraska. Okay.

CALLER: Highway dittos. I usually agree with you almost all the time, but --

RUSH: I know.

CALLER: -- (unintelligible) if the Democrats like it, it's gotta be, you know, bad, but we've been fighting this pipeline tooth and nail, especially my wife, she's the one that's been doing the majority of it, and there's so many things, on the surface it looks good. I'm a huge capitalist, I'm all about making money, but there are so many things involved in this pipeline that, you know, they don't tell you about. One of the biggest things is this stuff is sludge. It's not oil. It's highly corrosive, and there's two things they gotta do just to get it to flow through the pipeline, and one is they gotta add five chemicals to it, and those five chemicals are all cancer-causing agents. And the water table is so high where we live --

RUSH: This is sand oil, right, this is oil -- if I'm on the same --

CALLER: Well, it's tar sand oil. I don't know --

RUSH: Sand oil, okay.

CALLER: -- the difference between sand oil and tar sand oil.

RUSH: You know, this is exactly -- look, you're an audience member and so forth, but you're sounding like the people that opposed NAFTA. They were saying the exact same stuff about the Alaska pipeline, that it was gonna have rotgut poison and all these chemicals, that it really wasn't oil. And they added it was gonna kill the caribou and now there's more caribou than know what to do with up there because the heat has created all kinds of copulation.

CALLER: I get that, but their tactics that they have been using to obtain this land, they came in, they've made threats. The workers are showing up at people's houses saying you need to sign this. Landowners are being told they're gonna be made an example of and they've already put one pipeline through Nebraska, in eastern Nebraska about 25 miles east of where I grew up as a child, and that pipeline the first year had 14 leaks. And one of them was significant. Now, that being said, the soil over in that part of the state is much heavier and the water is much deeper. You're not sinking right into the water, and as a rancher we have to be somewhat of environmentalists because if we don't take care of the ground that supplies us with the nutrients for the beef and everything we don't have anything to live on.

RUSH: Well, you know, if it weren't for pipelines like this, the East Coast wouldn't have any oil. Do you realize the jet A fuel pipeline that goes under New York City out to JFK airport, that probably couldn't be built today, the environmentalists would say, "Well, if that thing goes bad we've got all that jet A, this kerosene and all those wonderful houses out in Jamaica, we can't have that," we'd never get anything done. These companies have decided that it is not sludge, which is why they want to use it. They use it in Canada. If it were sludge, they couldn't use it. There's a market for this. There are people willing to invest everything they've got to make this thing work out.

CALLER: I understand that, but there are refineries a lot closer and they sit there and they say that it's all gonna be used in the United States. Well, if they're gonna ship it -- I mean if they're gonna use it in the United States, why would you build a pipeline 1700 miles long when there are refineries a lot closer? They're shipping it to a port for a reason. And I don't know. I mean if you go up into Canada where they're mining this --

RUSH: What is your number one concern with this? How is this going to change your life?

CALLER: I am afraid of what it will do to the water -- I mean the water basically, I mean the state of Nebraska supplies --

RUSH: What, you're afraid it's gonna leak? You're afraid it's gonna blow up? You're afraid it's gonna rupture?

CALLER: I know it will. It's just the law of averages. The oil they're using is not sweet crude oil (unintelligible) it's highly corrosive.

RUSH: Here's my problem with this. Here's my big problem with this. The New York Times opposes the pipeline. They didn't mention any of this. They only oppose it because of the carbon emissions. The New York Times didn't mention any of the things that you are talking, and, believe me, if it was guaranteed the pipeline was gonna rupture and the state of Nebraska would end up poisoned that would be the lead opposition reason of the New York Times. Let me tell you what the real reason here is, Ross. The real reason is February of this year, Reuters reported that Koch Industries were poised to be the big winners in the pipeline. David and Charles Koch, who I'm gonna tell you right now, I know these men. I've played golf with one of them. I've laughed at dinner with them.

They are some of the most decent, hardworking, I know their brother Bill, they are some of the finest people you would ever meet. They work hard each and every day. And because they are conservative and they give money to conservative causes -- and they're just one for every ten liberal groups like them. And because it is said that the Koch Industries bunch is gonna benefit from this, can't happen. That's why the left opposes it. Because Koch industry's gonna benefit. It's absolutely pure politics. And what you're doing is throwing everything that possible can exist up against the wall and hoping something sticks in terms of persuading somebody.

In May of this year, Congressman Waxman, nostrilitis Waxman and Bobby Rush wrote a letter to the Energy and Commerce Committee citing the Reuters story which urged the committee to request documents from Koch Industries, which relate to the Keystone pipeline. It's because Koch Industries is involved, which means they're investing in it. This is pure politics and you're being persuaded that it's other reasons. 'Cause there are pipelines like this all over the world, all over the country. It's not gonna do anything to the water. The water sources of Nebraska are very deep. All of this can be overcome because it already has. This is an easily accomplished thing. Technology is there. I gotta go. I'm glad you called. You may not think you were, but you were a great caller out there.

RUSH: Every time you hear Obama talk about his laser-like focus on jobs, creating jobs and stuff, just remember 20,000 jobs down the tubes delaying this pipeline or not approving it, and the only reason he did that was to keep campaign contributions coming. And you ranchers in Nebraska, I'm just gonna tell you something, if Obama wins reelection, this pipeline's gonna be approved after the election. The only reason he doesn't do it now is because it will upset his base. The only reason. He can't do something good for the country without harming his reelection chances, it's just amazing.

Comparing the Experience of Obama and Cain

RUSH: To nation's capital, Washington, DC. This is Brian. Great to have you, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos to you. It's an honor to speak with you.

RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

CALLER: I've been listening to you since I was in junior high. I don't remember what I said exactly, but I was with my family. I was probably 14 years old. I said something, and my grandpa's response was, "Has he been listening to Rush Limbaugh?" and that's when I figured I needed to tune in to you.

RUSH: And it was shortly after that that you arrived.

CALLER: (laughing) And I promise you I'm going to get on and order me some Two If By Tea.

RUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: I had a question for you, though, and I'm wondering if you see any comparisons, any similarities between Barack Obama and Herman Cain, aside from the obvious; and what I mean by that is, we all know Barack Obama was hugely unqualified to be president. He had no private company experience, he had limited public experience, but I look at Herman Cain --

RUSH: He never had a job!

CALLER: Exactly. I mean, he was just so grossly unqualified. But I look at Herman Cain, and I want to like him. He's not the establishment, he's not Mitt Romney. But I look at his experience and he doesn't have any public experience, and I wonder if a lack of legislative experience will impair him a little bit; and then I look at his public company experience, and granted he was CEO of --

RUSH: Look --

CALLER: -- Godfather's pizza, but --

RUSH: Let me answer this because time is dwindling here. Politics is a business like any other, and it has its own track of success. It has its own ladder. I mean, there are certain things that you do have to do to advance. I mean, you could win an election being a novice, but then when you get there, you can be outmaneuvered. You can be outsmarted, if you don't know what you're doing about how the business of politics works. But I want to give you another way to think of this. Since you are obviously a critical thinker and open-minded. I want you to put yourself in his shoes for the past ten days, two weeks, and I want you to stop and consider everything. This is not an endorsement. I want you to think about this: Think about everything he has been through, and where is he today after it?

In that debate last night, he was simply outstanding. Now, he has been subjected to an outrageous smear media campaign, and he's handled it like a man. He has not cracked. He has not caved. He has not gone weak. His attitude doesn't appear to have gone negative or sour. He doesn't appear to be tainted by this. I see somebody here who is showing some incredible discipline. He's powerfully disciplined, and he's upbeat after all of this, unflappable. He's laughable about it. He shows some wit and some intelligence, and he is focused. He keeps running around there talking about this 9-9-9 plan. He's not stopped him, even though he's had to address it. So you might want to look -- and, again, I'm not -- at him in a different way here and ask yourself how you would be after ten days of an entire political party trying to ruin your life, your character, your reputation, and your future.

Fast and Furious was all about gun control:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/01/sen-feinstein-lax-gun-control-is-real-problem-with-fast-and-furious/

http://pjmedia.com/blog/holder-plays-dumb-dems-push-gun-control/?singlepage=true

Obama seeks ideas on Black unemployment:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/11/10/obama_seeks_ideas_on_reducing_black_joblessness/

Boston Globe calls Herman Cain racially insensitive:

http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/11/cain-formula-against-obama-beat-him-with-cain/DbCrjb3EJ72uQUS9pQ7LkL/index.html

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.

Stolen History. This is a Black historian who seeks to teach the actual history of the Black man in America:

http://stolenhistory.org/

Which interest groups support which party?

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/index.php

Open Secrets:

http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

Honest news on the Occupy movement:

http://www.owsexposed.com/

Are you a woman who wants a nice bag which is the right size to carry a weapon?

http://designerconcealedcarry.com/

Political Cartoons:

http://drawfortruth.com/

News opinion site I am still thinking about:

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/

Examples of liberal results:

http://urbangrounds.com/

The Global Warming Policy Foundation:

http://thegwpf.org/index.php

The Occupy unofficial site:

http://www.occupytogether.org/

The Freedom Post, a conservative blog who often likes facts and figures.

http://www.myfreedompost.com/

Conservative blogging from the great unwashed

http://www.policymic.com/main/index

The Right Scoop, where there are a number of videos, mostly of recent speeches of presidential candidates.

http://www.therightscoop.com/

James O’Keefe’s website (independent journalist):

http://www.theprojectveritas.org/

Rebel Pundit; citizen journalism from the belly of the beast:

http://rebelpundit.com/

Free Republic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

Anti-Wall Street groups include:

Stop the Machine under October 2011, which apparently had permits for months for October. This is very organized; these are not people who just showed up suddenly. Their issues: protect the planet, healthcare for all, end wars, tax the rich and end corporate welfare.

http://october2011.org/

Freedom’s Lighthouse:

http://freedomslighthouse.net/

The Swine Line (Citizens Against Government Waste):

http://swineline.org/

Right Change:

http://www.rightchange.com/

Misfit Politics on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/misfitpolitics

Translating Jihad:

http://www.translatingjihad.com/

The Five Myths archive of the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/five-myths/2010/07/06/ABCCtvO_linkset.html

The Obama Diary (this is a very pro-Obama diary with lots of videos):

http://theobamadiary.com/

I Hate the Media:

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/

In case someone tells a fib about Obama, we need to turn that person in. Luckily, the President has provided for us such a website:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack or after they have your email address, then use:

http://AttackWatch.com

The Obama Diary. This appears to be a pretty serious site, dedicated to telling you what the president is doing right:

http://theobamadiary.com/

Tomorrow’s Economy Today (lots of graphs).

http://www.economy-tomorrow.com/

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/