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This Week’s Events

Somehow, and I don’t fully understand this, agreements reached previously have made the $1 trillion+ debt ceiling raise to be perfunctory, except that Republicans can complain and make it sound as if they are against it. However, apparently, it is a done deal. At the same time, the Federal Reserve, under Ben Bernanke, is seriously considering more quantitative easing (essentially, this is simply printing money out of thin air and putting it into the economy). It may sound like counterfeiting and laundering counterfeit money, but it’s not; it’s quantitative easing.

Solandra, the green company that was given a half billion dollar os taxpayer funding, and then went bankrupt, is requesting to be able to pay bonuses to their executives during the bankruptcy.

Here’s the list so far (according to CBS): Solyndra, Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, and AES' subsidiary Eastern Energy are all Green Energy programs which have received billions from taxpayers by way of Obama, and are in bankruptcy. Nevada GeoThermal, SunPower, First Solar, and 4 other companies are in serious financial trouble.

Companies that supply motor fuel will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to adhere to EPA standards, which requires that they mix cellulosic biofuel (a special type of biofuel) into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the necessary cellulosic biofuel does not exist. Just as shocking is, the NY Times reported this.

Occupy D.C. is resulting in a rat problem. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has decided that pest control personnel relocate the rats across the Potomac River. As far as I can tell, he was not speaking metaphorically.

Its been difficult to determine who the liberals and conservatives are integrity the Republican primary. Mitt Romney worked for Bain Capital, which is a decidedly free enterprise company which takes investors money and buys troubled

companies and either turns the companies around (which can involve some tough limits) or dismantles them. So, because Newt Gingrich was mad at the effect that negative ads had against him in the Iowa caucus, has attacked Bain Capital from the perspective of a liberal (a moderately dishonest 30 min. film was produced to attack Romney’s association with Bain Capital). Newt has backed off somewhat from this line of attack. Rick Perry, on the other hand, has used even harsher language, calling this “vulture capitalism.” Rick Santorum has had to grudgingly defend Mitt Romney, because, of course, he is asked about this.

Standard and Poor’s downgrades 9 European nations.

Rick Perry supported and signed a bill into law requiring doctors to show women about to have abortions ultrasound images of the child they are about to abort. Planned Parenthood has filed a court challenge to this, calling such a practice abhorrent. They are not calling the practice of slicing and dicing up a live fetus and then sucking out said fetus from the womb with a vacuum abhorrent; that’s okay—that’s a woman’s right to choose—but showing the expectant mother an ultrasound of the live fetus? That is abhorrent.

GM is thinking about stopping production of the Volt, and the could occur as soon as this summer. Could this be a ploy to get more money from Obama’s stash or are things really that bad, even with government funding? Other sources indicate that GM is going to build 60,000 more Volts in 2012.

William Daley is stepping down as White House chief of staff and budget director Jack Lew is taking over his duties.

Hillary Clinton, John McCain, the Taliban and CAIR have all agreed that it was very bad for Marines to urinate on dead Jihadists. A Taliban spokesman called this barbaric. The Taliban are known for beheading their enemies. Nevertheless, ABC News has reported that “The criminal charges are expected to include bringing dishonor to the military and possible war crimes charges.”

There was a second ATF gun-running operation that lost track of all their guns as well?

The Department of Homeland Security is going to be monitoring journalists, and keeping track of who has said what.

Turns out that in 2009, President Obama had quite the extravagant Halloween party, members of the press knew about it, but they saw no reason to report on it. There are plenty of articles out the disputing that it was kept quiet, but I certainly don’t recall such a party.

Magpies and bears mourn the loss of Kim Jong-Il.

Indian Islamist Magazines Report that Obama is 'Currently the World's No.1 Violent Extremist, the World's No. 1 Killer of Children.' Remember that Muslim outreach that Obama has been doing.

Members of Islamist group Boko Haram shot dead four Christians who were believed to be fleeing violence-torn Maiduguri in Nigeria.

Afghan child suicide bombers say they were told by their handlers that the "bombs would not kill us, only the Americans would die."

Iranian Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is in prison in Iran (of course). Iranian officials said he can leave prison if he publicly acknowledges Islam's prophet Mohammed as "a messenger sent by God" He has refused.

President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top officials have apparently delivered a string of private messages to Israeli leaders warning about the dire consequences of a strike.

Say What?

Liberals:

Barack Obama: "We can make sure that we are doing right by our environment and, in fact, putting people back to work all across America. When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology. When we put in place new emissions standards for our vehicles, we make sure that the cars of tomorrow are going to be built right here in the United States of America, that we're going to win that race." Keep increasing regulations, and there will be jobs, jobs, jobs for those we need to enforce them.

President Obama: "I'm not a perfect man. I'm not a perfect president, but I've kept this promise: I'll always tell you what I believe in. I'll always tell you where I stand. So if you've still got that energy, if you're still fired up ... if you want to keep reaching for that vision you hold in your hearts, I promise you, change will come."

Barack Obama: "By the way, you won't meet harder working folks than some of the folks in these federal agencies. They devote countless hours to trying to make sure that they're serving the American people, but they will tell you their efforts are constantly undermined by an outdated bureaucratic maze." This explains, I guess, why they get paid far more than those in the public sector.

Obama: “So, with or without Congress, I’m going to keep at it. But it would be a lot easier if Congress helped.”

Oprah Winfrey on Barack Obama: “I think he is, uh, a masterful leader and I think that what it takes to be able to do that on a daily basis and to stand up in a world where everybody is open to attacking you all the time, very hard job...I’m proud of him.”

Oprah Winfrey: "No, I don't think it's necessary because my endorsement is that I am a 100% supporter of him. And if he or his office called me tomorrow and said that they needed me I would do whatever I thought would be of service."

President Obama, to a crowd of supporters: "This will be my last campaign."

Obama at a Chicago fundraiser, according to transcripts: "The first bill I signed - a bill that said that we're going to have equal pay for equal work because I want my daughters treated the same way as my sons."

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "The president has responsibility for the green jobs programs where he made investments. But the decisions that were made at Solyndra that ultimately led to their bankruptcy were those of the people who worked at Solandra."

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "There is a reason that the Democratic Party is far more diverse than the Republican Party, because the natural home, politically on major issues to Hispanics, to women, to Jews, to Asian-Americans, the diverse spectrum - to African Americans." She forgot to mention that any woman or minority who reaches a high ranking in the Republican party or as a conservative is savaged by the Democrats and/or by the media: Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales.

Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated: "We condemn any assassination or attack on an innocent person, and we express our sympathies to the family."

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: "We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords, who is doing really well by the way, and I know everybody is so thrilled, as I am, to hear that, making tremendous progress. But the discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular, to answer your question, very specifically, has really changed. And I'll tell you, I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and a lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.” Giffords was shot a year ago, and within hours of the shooting, editorials, blogs and even news articles were blaming Sarah Palin, the TEA party or “ramped-up TEA party rhetoric.” Even NPR this week still blames TEA party rhetoric for this shooting. However, behind the scenes, emails were being sent back and forth between those in the justice department, panicked that she may have been shot by a gun let loose in Operation Fast&Furious.

Alan Krueger, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers explaining why there is great economic inequality): “There have also been important institutional changes that have contributed to the rise in income inequality, including the decline in union membership and fall in the real value of the minimum wage. Tax policy has played a role in rising inequality. Although our tax code is still progressive, tax changes in the early 2000s benefited the very wealthy by much more than other taxpayers, compounding the widening gap in pre-tax earnings.”

Former US president Jimmy Carter: "They have pledged to me and to the world that they will take an objective point of view, the Muslim Brotherhood, and that they will govern as one of the major parties in the new parliament in a balanced way and respect the human rights of others who might have a different approach to religion."

House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson of Connecticut: "[I would] prefer everything happen in regular order...Of course, we'd love to see regular order, and I dare say so with the president, but when you block these people, when you can't fill these positions and there seems to be more than a veiled attempt to prevent people from doing their job in terms of the oversight that needs to take place on Wall Street, then of course it was a timely thing for the president to do."

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said on MSNBC: "I think it's a shame that people will be so sophomoric about the questioning of activities with wealth development. I have no problem with Mitt Romney or anybody else making millions, or even billions. What my problem is, is that if you question things done in the name of capitalism, then he calls it being 'envious.' I don't think anybody was envious or fearful of being envious when they fail to question what Bernard Madoff was doing. he did all of that in the name of capitalism. We can question what people are doing and the way they do it and to make sure that people adhere to fair play. This whole issue is about fundamental fairness."

House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi: "I have a great deal of respect for Ron Paul. He acts upon his convictions and he's a nice fellow in the Congress of the United States. He's a gentleman."

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland concerning the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that it would "not recognize Israel under any circumstances": "We've seen this press report. I would say that it is one member of the Muslim Brotherhood. We have had other assurances from the party with regard to their commitment not only to universal human rights, but to the international obligations that the Government of Egypt has undertaken."

Liberal movie maker Michael Moore: “And that's younger people also, because they're not as racist as the previous generation. I mean, can I just, can I just throw out one statistic? The only white age group that President Obama won was 18 to 29 year olds. He lost every other white age group. So, I know that may sound depressing, but the hopeful part of it is our young people. They are going to fix this. You know this. Those of us my age, our kids, they're not bigots, they're not homophobes. They don't look at it the way that the grandparents and the great-grandparents did. This is going to get better with the next generations, I believe it.”

Former Vice President Al Gore: "In a moment when the future of civilization is at risk, we need to find a way to talk about how we deal with [global warming]."

Question on a 3^rd grade worksheet for some Georgian students: "Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" Got to be a lib teacher here.

Obama is losing his far, far left:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "[The United States is] not going to be able to dominate this world. Forget about it (President Barack) Obama, forget about it. It would be better to think about the problems in your country, which are many."

Fidel Castro: "[Obama is] hopelessly immersed in seeking re-election."

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Political analyst Goldie Taylor to CNN Newsroom host Don Lemon concerning “recent racially-insensitive incidents among several GOP candidates.”: "Let's be clear, these are not stumbles or miscues, these are absolutely planned, seeded, on-purpose stuff."

Politico's Evan Thomas (previously at Newsweek): "It's interesting that Perry stayed in because there is still this angry, white, middle class male out there that is a seething force, and Romney is not really their guy. It's not clear who is, I'm not sure, I mean, Santorum for the moment, but in some ways, that is a force to be tapped, and nobody's really found a way to do it."

Newsweek's Allison Samuels to liberal New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, who did not portray the first lady reverently enough in her new book: "Surely it would be impossible to ignore the grace, charm and intellect of the 5'11" Chicago native, with her Harvard Law degree, committed marriage, and two young daughters. Society would come to realize that Michelle Obama was not the exception but more often the rule in the black community."

Time Magazine’s Ideas blog: “A number of justices long for a fairytale world where "government can insist on a certain modicum of decency," as Justice Antonin Scalia archly observed. Chief Justice John Roberts, a father of young kids, plaintively noted that "all we are asking for is a few channels" where kids won't be exposed to profanity and sexual acts. Justice Elena Kagan opined that "it seems to be a good thing to have a safe haven" during prime time. A safe haven on television? How quaint. Leaving aside the availability of profanity and sex to anyone with cable or a laptop, the Supreme Court justices - and most Americans - are kidding themselves if they think keeping F-bombs off TV will keep children safe. It's like taking your car to be detailed when the brake pads are worn out: it deflects attention from what really matters.”

Bob Shieffer on CBS News on Mitt Romney’s statement, “I like to fire people”: “You know, his people are saying it was taken out of context but, you know, when people are out of work, there are certain words that you just avoid—saying, I like to fire people is just one of them, whatever the context that was taken in.” This 3½ minute story never once mentions what the context is.

Bill Moyers, after praising George Soros, adds: “He has been the victim, of course, of Glenn Beck and the right wing, the Fox News assassins.”

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: "Well, I think there is a lot of things that they (Republicans) like about 1860. Obviously, part of it is a clear kind of racial discourse. This is about states' rights and states' rights are all kinds of discriminatory possibilities. One is certainly about African-Americans, about voting rights, but the other piece of it has been this profound anti-immigration legislation that states have passed, these marriage equality -- states rights becomes a cover for talking about the ability to remove the rights of some American citizens because those citizens' rights exist in the states rather than as national rights." At the bottom of the screen was a large banner which read “Party Like It’s 1860" and there were the faces of 3 Republican candidates on it. Yep, that is what Republicans want, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and voter restrictions for the coloreds. Does this have anything at all to do with news? She has not even the slightest interest in the truth. Essentially these people get on MSNBC and just make stuff up. This one came with graphics.

Liberals from the past:

Che Guevara: "To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow."

January 2009 report by the Obama administration: "In the absence of stimulus, the economy could lose another 3 to 4 million more [jobs]. Thus, we are working to counter a potential total job loss of at least 5 million. As Figure 1 shows, even with the large prototypical package, the unemployment rate in 2010Q4 is predicted to be approximately 7.0%, which is well below the approximately 8.8% that would result in the absence of a plan."

Liberal civility:

David Axelrod: “Governor Romney may be rooting for slips and falls here [in the economy]. We're concentrating on moving this economy forward.”

Bill Press“{Newt Gingrich] is the suicide bomber of the Republican party; he knows he’s not going to win...he’s not in it to win it anymore, he’s in it to take down as many people as he can as he goes down, and he has that same silly grin on his face as he pulls the plug as the suicide bomber.”

Bill Press : "I couldn't believe it and then I looked up at the screen and there he was on his knees with his hand up to his head in the pose that he has now made famous. It was Tebow doing the Tebow and I just wanted to throw up,"

Wasserman-Schultz on candidate Rick Santorum’s support of a federal marriage amendment, which would annul same-sex marriages: "That would be un-American, undemocratic and entirely inappropriate and unacceptable."

Leftist talk radio host Mike Malloy continuously wishes for the death of conservatives: "I think he's Catholic, right? What you ought to do is call Francis Cardinal George out in Chicago and maybe you and he can get together for a cup of -- hemlock."

Malloy: "I hate to see an organization like the Catholic Church -- that has been one of the bloodiest, most suppressive, most oppressive, most violent organizations in the history of not just religion but of the entire human race try to claim victim status because a bunch of queers want to march a parade down the g*d*m street! That's what drives me crazy!"

Bill Maher about what he said to Herman Cain: “I don't, like, hate your f------ guts...like I hate Newt Gingrich.”

Crazy Muslims:

Thousands of Iranian mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" over nuclear scientists who have been assassinated.

In Tunisia:

Crowd: "The people want the liberation of Palestine.

 

"The people want the liberation of Palestine."

 

Crowd member: "Killing the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Crowd member: "Killing the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Crowd member: "Driving out the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Crowd member: "Driving out the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Crowd member: "Crushing the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Crowd member: "Crushing the Jews."

 

Crowd: ".is a duty."

 

Prior to the Arab Spring, this would have never occurred.

Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh, in a sermon given on Al-Nas TV: “They are doing all kinds of things so that people keep suffering. They send Christian missionaries in the form of doctors and nurses, who caress and embrace the child, like they do in the West. They give him a very beautiful toy, and all of a sudden, they snatch it away from him. When the child screams: "Where is my toy?!", they say to him: "Muhammad stole it from you." Thus, from infancy, they make the child hate Muhammad. That's what they do in Spain.” Not even a passing interest in the truth.

Liberals making sense:

Chris Matthews: “Here it is, Hardball, coming back in just a moment on MBSNBC.”

Christian Dorsey (economic commentator for FoxNews): “It may not be the Volt that sets the world afire.” He did not fully realize what he had said.

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain on the book on the Obama in the White House: “They can write whatever they want; they’re still in office—I have no problem with this type of thing being written when they are out of office. I think some small emoticon of privacy . And granted, I’m no fan of the Obama’s, but in general, I’m a Republican—but I’m just saying, they deserve some small emoticon, I mean it’s okay for her, I mean continue.”

Meghan McCain: "I'm a big proponent of gay marriage; It has isolated me in Republican circles. People don't think I'm Republican enough because I'm a big advocate of marriage equality in this country. But I'm very proud to do it. My mother joined me. You know, I just - it's one of the reasons why love being in politics. I just think this is my generation's civil rights issue...I think if Ronald Reagan were running today, he would be called a dirty moderate like me, unfortunately."

Mercedes-Benz Chairman of the Board of Management Dieter Zetsche: "Some colleagues still think that car-sharing borders on communism. But if that's the case, viva la revolucion!" A picture of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara loomed large over Zetsche and Che's signature beret sported a Mercedes logo. Mercedes-Benz has since privately apologized for this commercial.

Ted Nagengast, the New Jersey Bay Shore schools athletics chair, of devices that will be used to monitor some overweight kids: "It's a great reinforcement in fighting the obesity epidemic. It tells kids, in real time, `Am I active? Am I not active?' We want to give kids the opportunity to become active."

Crosstalk:

Warren Buffett to Time magazine: "It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have been around Washington all this time and are not yet so cynical as to think that [the deficit] can't be solved by voluntary contributions. And, I'll even go three for one for McConnell."

Mitch McConnell spokesman Don Stewart: "And since some, like President Obama and Mr. Buffett want to pay higher taxes, Congress made it possible for them to call their own bluff and send in a check. So I look forward to Mr. Buffett matching a healthy batch of checks from those who actually want to pay higher taxes, including Congressional Democrats, the President and the DNC." Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, still owes taxes back to 2002

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Newsman George Stephanopoulos: “Senator Santorum?”

Rick Santorum: “What’s the question?”

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Neil Cavuto, leading a panel discussion on FoxNews: “Ben Stein?”

Ben Stein: “What?”

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Interviewer: “Some people say they’re disappointed in Barack Obama’s presidency, that is hasn’t accomplished all that they thought that it would or all that he said it would.”

Michelle Obama: “They don’t know. They don’t know all that. You know, this campaign is going to be all about making sure that people understand all that’s been accomplished. I think people are confused about, some may be confused by how much have been [sic] accomplished.”

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Bill Maher: The other is what he said, you know, he says things that at almost every Republican debate, the rest of the people in the audience and on the stage who look at him like he has three heads. And one of the things he says is, "We got an empire, and we should bring all the troops home." He's the one who is really in my heart on foreign affairs, not Barack Obama.

[Mild applause]

Rob Reiner: Only a smattering you got on that, Bill. You notice that? It was a small smattering.

Maher: Because they're brainwashed liberals.

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Amanda Peyton of Slash blog calling Senator Charles Schumer’s office: "Why does the Senator support this [internet] legislation?"

The guy on the other end of the phone said: "well, he's a co-sponsor so he's not changing his position."

Peyton asked the same question again. This time the reply was: "Senator Schumer is in favor of censoring the internet."

From Peyton’s site.

Conservatives:

Former Army lieutenant colonel Rep. Allen West: "I have sat back and assessed the incident with the video of our Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. I do not recall any self-righteous indignation when our Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon had their bodies dragged through Mogadishu. Neither do I recall media outrage and condemnation of our Blackwater security contractors being killed, their bodies burned, and hung from a bridge in Fallujah. All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?”

Sarah Palin, when told that her husband came out in support of Newt Gingrich: "First dude went rogue."

Sarah Palin, after seeing a clip of Michelle Obama saying that most people were confused about what the president has accomplished: "Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord - what are we—just a bunch of numbskulls out here in the heartland of America? Just a bunch of numbskulls who can't read the unemployment numbers and see that 5 trillion dollars in new debt later under her husband, President Obama. 5 trillion dollars more! And we have fewer jobs today than we had before we took over, but, no, we're numbskulls out here and we don't know what the numbers actually represent!"

Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: "Those who underestimate the Barack Obama underestimate him at their own peril. He is as good a politician as I've ever seen."

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, the hawkish former ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush: "I think Gov. Romney is the person who can best lead the party, best articulate our conservative principles and is most likely to beat Barack Obama."

John Bolton explained why President Obama ought not to take any credit for the killing of Usama Bin Laden: "It's because navy seal team 6 killed Usama bin laden. that's his definition of success. as somebody pointed out, in 1969 when Americans landed on the moon, it's like Richard Nixon taking for credit for that, because it happened to occur during his presidency."

Mitt Romney: “This election is a choice between two very different destinies. President Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great. He wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society. We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America.”

Greg Gutfeld: “Capitalism is the tide that raises all boats. Socialism attempts to legislate the tide.”

Mitt Romney: "I want individuals to have their own [healthcare] insurance. That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide [inadequate or unsatisfactory] services to me."

Jon Huntsman, coming in 3^rd in New Hampshire: “We only go south from here.”

Rush Limbaugh: "People getting fired is part of life. It's nothing unique to capitalism. It's nothing unique to humanity."

Rush Limbaugh: "In the so-called conservative media establishment, I know there are people who think that the view that the country's in peril and that we are facing a forever transformation from which we can't come back, they don't think that. To them, $16 trillion of national debt's no different than five trillion. As long as we keep making the interest payments we're cool."

Rush Limbaugh: "Rush Limbaughisms? So this babe thinks that this is forcing Romney to parrot me? If Romney were parroting me he would have the nomination sewn up!"

Rush Limbaugh: "I'm all for vetting candidates -- I'm all for finding out just exactly who they are and I'm all for finding out if they can defend themselves -- but I don't think you tear down the engine of freedom or any other conservative principle in the process of doing all this."

Rush Limbaugh: "The Democrat Party has made a lifetime career out of bashing every successful corporate entity in this country. Big Oil, Big Drug, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Walmart, Big Retail, 'Big' whatever. Look at their enemies list."

Rush Limbaugh: "All capitalism is, is the American dream, for crying out loud! Without capitalism, there is no American dream. Sorry. There cannot be an American dream to pursue without capitalism."

Rush Limbaugh: "Everything to practically everyone who works in Washington, the Gospel of Wealth is why they are there. The Gospel of Wealth is why they want to get the Senate and the committee chairmanships! They want to be in charge of the money."

Rush Limbaugh: "The Government does not have to make a profit running anything. I give you the Volt. They don't care! The Volt ends up costing $250,000 per car when you account for all the subsidies and everything else."

Rush Limbaugh: "Reagan defended conservatism. This is the thing that people forget. Reagan taught conservatism. When he talked about cutting taxes, he explained how it benefited the middle class, how it benefited everybody. And everything Reagan taught was oriented around reducing the size and role of government in people's lives, which equals more and more freedom."

Conservatives not making any sense:

Jon Huntsman told Politico. "I believe we are in one such cycle. I think that cycle ultimately takes us to a sane Republican Party based on real ideas."

Ron Paul on the 3 assassinations of nuclear scientists in Iran: “Well, obviously, if we’re doing this, we shouldn’t be doing it. This is an act of terrorism. I can empathize with them; these are victims of terrorism and we have condemned all terrorism...we should have great empathy for ‘em.“

Joe Biden Prophecy Watch

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been in both Cuba and Venezuela as of late. This is the man who may determine what Iran does with its nuclear weaponry.

Watch This!

10 million hits in 4 days?

"Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus" by spoken-word artist Jefferson Bethke

Mike Huckabee’s presidential “debate” forum (so far, his previous forum was the best I have seen). This one was not as good, but it was better than the other televised debates.

Romney

Huntsman

The others are not posted yet (but will be by the time you get this)

Great Eric Bolling/Sarah Palin interview.

Glenn Beck TV's Amy Holmes Schools Current's David Shuster on Bain Capital

CNN Interviews Prostitutes Endorsing Ron Paul Will they interview heavy drug users who support Barrack Obama? Not hardly.

Salem Witches Hold `Ritual' to Stop Tebow & Broncos From Winning. Sounds a little like that chapter of the Bible dealing with Elijah and the prophets of Baal.

Newark, NJ mayor’s campaign; turn in your neighbor who has a gun, get $1000.

We’ve seen the President dance on Ellen; but the first lady did some random dancing on iCarley.

Yeah, Chris Matthews really said, MBSNBC

Taking a page from the U.S. political left, group supporting Putin in Russia has put together a video comparing his opponent to Hitler.

Obama, in the office of president elect in 2008, promises to cut wasteful government spending.

A Little Comedy Relief

Wizard Vermin Supreme for President; free ponies and zombie power.

Jodi Miller: “The Grand Warlock of Mexico is predicting that President Obama will not be reelected, and he should know—he’s also Obama’s immigration advisor.”

Jodi Miller: “The Obama campaign is looking for a theme song. Actually, the campaign already has 3 theme songs: the opening music for the ABC, NBC and CBS newscasts.”

Short Takes

1) From 2006-2008, Jack Lew, President Obama’s new chief-of-staff, was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. His division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments."

2) I must admit, I was shocked and confused the other night. When riding home from church, I was listening to NPR, and they were discussing Romney’s win in New Hampshire, and one of the commentators, Mary Kay (Simms?), actually spoke in support of Romney and his speech, and sounded like she was sincere and had an idea as to what she was talking about. Does NPR has a real, living, breathing conservative on staff, who, unlike David Brooks, would probably not vote for Barack Obama? Or did I somehow drive through a parallel universe for a few moments? Tough call. This is the first time that I have heard a reasonable-sounding conservative on NPR in my life.

3) If news services today were slightly fair and balanced; and simply reported facts and did not bury stories, the Democratic party as it is today would go down in the greatest electoral defeat ever seen before. What would happen is, hundreds of Democrats like Joe Machin or Evan Bayh (or, like JFK and Truman) would suddenly appear—almost out of nowhere, and they would begin to take over the party. The end result would be, Republicans would move far right and Democrats would move to the center. But news is not news; most of our news today is designed to make you think that what Democrats are doing makes economic and moral sense; and they will lie about, distort and filter the news in order to make you believe that.

4) Income inequality is a false issue. The problem is not how much more someone else makes but how are you doing financially? How is your life compared to (1) 10 years ago; (2) 20 years ago; and (3) your expectations 10 or 20 years ago. If you are doing okay, then government taking a lot of money away from the very rich is not going to make your life any better. We already know that government is going to squander it or give it to those who elected them into office. Let me caveat the expectations with, if you have been living off of welfare for the past 10–20 years (or housing or food stamps), then you ought not to expect that your life will get a lot better. That requires work; and, in most cases, hard work. Income inequality is a non-issue drummed up by politicians who want to tax more than they already do.

5) Since there are 2 Oprah quotes, it made me think—back in 2008, Oprah was one of the richest, most successful and most influential women ever. Whereas, I am certain that she is still rich, is she presently successful and influential? Not so much anymore. Bad business decisions and bad political decisions.

6) Eric Boling, of FoxNews and FoxBusiness Channel, said that Romney’s Bain Capital experience is politically very marketable. Romney went into companies that were hurting and he either restored them or shut them down if they were unprofitable. He can certainly sell that as exactly what a president needs to do.

7) Similarly, Newt Gingrich needs to tout, more than anything else, how he worked with Democrats and got welfare reform and a balanced budget. “What other candidates are promising to do, I have actually done.”

8) How should a Christian view Mitt Romney, who belongs to what many Christians believe is a cult? Regardless of Mormonism’s shortcomings, it is strong when it comes to patriotism, family, self-reliance and hard work. These things are known to some believers as the laws of divine establishment; laws which apply to both believers and unbelievers alike. The more a nation adheres to these laws, the greater that nation is; and the more a nation strays from these laws, the worse off that nation is. We already know what it is like to be under a president who is undeniably an evangelical Christian who does not understand the Bible or the laws of divine establishment: Jimmy Carter. If faced with such a choice of someone like Carter, who is clearly as Christian, as versus Mitt Romney, who may or may not be a Christian, the choice is easy: Romney.

9) Lest you think I am a huge Romney supporter now, let me disabuse you of that notion. I disliked Romney in 2008 because his negative ads were vicious and mostly exaggerated and incorrect. He avoided this for a long time in this campaign, but finally resorted to it. I strongly dislike candidates who are knowingly dishonest, no matter who they are—including dishonest attacks on liberals.

10) According to Michael Moore, and I will assume that this stat is true, is that Obama only won in the 18–29 age group. I don’t recall that from the election, but the news doesn’t tend to be very helpful when it comes to making Obama look bad. In any case, it is reasonable to expect these young people to pay the lion’s share of the Obama debt (which they will).

11) I must admit to being disheartened by the public being so easily manipulated by the media. What happened to Herman Cain and Sarah Palin are prime examples of this. What will happen after Republicans pick a candidate and the news media then goes after him as they went after Cain or Palin?

By the Numbers

President Obama has held 67 fundraisers in 12 states and played 33 rounds of golf in 2011, both record-breakers.

Net worth of all the Presidents.

President Obama is set up to borrow $6.5 trillion in his 4-year term, which is more than all of presidents from Washington to Clinton combined (over a period of 200 years). However, to be fair, the president has been talking about merging 6 federal agencies, to streamline the government. This will save taxpayers as much as $3 billion over a period of 10 years. I think the theory here is, the president does not figure you grasp the difference. Sure, he is borrowing a lot of money over here, but then he is also cutting a lot of money over there. So, here are some numbers you can understand. Your husband (or wife) just ran up your credit card debt $162,500 this year alone, but, don’t worry, because he (or she) has a plan that will save your family $30 a year! So, the spouse has run up over $160,000 in debt, but will make up for it by skipping Starbucks for a month.

Of the 81 affiliates of Planned Parenthood monitored in a new report, more than 22 CEOs are paid in excess of $200,000 per year. Of those examined, $158,000 was the average salary.

“RT” means “re-tweet.” That means, you tweet that supporting abortions is sexy to more people. Should work as well as the “I got an abortion” tee shirts did. Nothing sexier than making $200 grand a year. Injecting the skull of your own child with salt solution, decidedly less so.

Bain Capital, which Mitt Romney headed for awhile, bought companies that were in trouble and either brought them into the black or parted them out. Of the 77 companies studied by the WSJ, 17 of these companies were disbanded. Considering that these are companies in trouble to begin with, that strikes me as a good record.

47,000 people have been killed in Mexico in the drug wars since they began in 2006.

Polling by the Numbers

Washington Whispers Poll:

As we enter the presidential election year of 2012, what potential news event do you fear the most?

President Obama wins reelection 33%

Taxes will increase 31%

Iran will get a nuclear weapon 16%

Obama will lose reelection 16%

North Korea will attack South Korea 4%

Rasmussen:

27% of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the president has about the same ideological views as they do.

55% say Obama is more liberal than they are,

11% believe he's more conservative.

Gallup:

40% of Americans consider themselves to be conservative;

35% consider themselves moderate;

21% see themselves as liberal.

Gallup looks at all the issues that people are concerned with:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.aspx

A Little Bias

MSNBC's Alex Wagner mutters "Jesus" while playing a Rick Santorum clip.

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CBS discussion with Bob Schieffer, in a 3½ minute segment, which discusses, in part, Mitt Romney’s statement, “I like to first people” does not give the context for the statement, although they suggest there is context, and they rag on Romney for the lack of enthusiasm of his followers as well. CBS, in another segment, presented the context.

Most of the stories I saw online, even for liberal outlets, provided the context as well; some more than others.

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Washington Post writer shows how, with an impressive graph, that if we had no economic problems, the President Obama’s yearly $1.5 trillion budget excess would not be so much. What I find sad is, almost all liberals I know would look at this graph and think that he is making a very good point.

There are so many dishonesties with this graph, I barely know where to start. First of all, tax cuts are not a cost; and the Bush tax cuts increased revenue to the government; so how can something that increases revenue be a cost? Furthermore a tax cut of any kind, whether it raises or reduces revenue is not a cost. The money belongs to the person who earned it. Letting that person keep the money they earned is not a cost.

Secondly, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were voted for by both Republicans and Democrats; so this cost is not all on Bush’s shoulders (recall the Hillary Clinton independently confirmed what Bush said Saddam was up to). Plus you cannot take something that your administration pays for, and say this cost belongs on another administration. Obama did a surge in Afghanistan; that is Bush’s expense?

Half of TARP was spent by Obama. He did not have to spend it but he chose to. So the entire TARP does not fall on Bush’s shoulders again. Plus, most of TARP was paid back with interest. If something is paid back, it is not an expense.

Finally, any expense of the Bush administration could have been voted away by Obama and the Democrats who controlled Congress. They chose to keep these expenses going, even though they had majorities large enough to cancel them out. The Obama administration wanted one thing and one thing only; they wanted the blue to look small and the red to look large—who cares if it is the truth or not?

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In the Stephanopoulos debate, 20 or 30 minutes were devoted to whether or not states ought to be able to ban contraceptives. Yes, ABC found the burning issue of the day. You know all they wanted is some Republican to mess up and accidentally make a statement which sounds like this is something that they support.

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CBS spotlighted the other “Solyndra’s” out there. Newsbusters reasonably asks, will we see similar stories on NBC or ABC? Or, is it okay to indiscriminately throw money around if you are a Democrat?

Saturday Night Live Misses

Remember that so-so Debbie Downer setup on Saturday Night Live? American Crossroads has managed to put that skit to good use; some SNL would never think to do.

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Last week, I featured a half-dozen Obama pleas for money. Why don’t we have both Obama’s thinking out loud and putting their idea “on paper” (in their political email blasts)? No need to even write the script, as the actual emails were quite entertaining in themselves.

Questions for Obama

What is the highest percentage that government ought to be allowed to take in taxes, overall?

Do you believe that government ought to give money to people who did not earn it from someone else’s taxes?

News Before it Happens

Both Romney and Gingrich will eventually understand where their strengths are and try to sell them. Romney will see how Bain Capital is good experience for him, and it can be sold that way; and Newt will begin to tout, over and over again, that he has balanced the budget with the other party and he has achieved welfare reform with the other party.

Gingrich’s problem will probably be that he cannot hone down his intentions to just 5 or 6 things, which he says over and over again (unfortunately).

However, I believe that Gingrich, who had an uphill battle anyway, destroyed his campaign by ragging on Bain Capital. He could have spent his money touting that he has already done what everyone is promising to do—instead, he returned tit for tat with Romney, and this will make him lose in South Carolina, probably by double digits, coming in 3^rd or 4^th.

As noted in the remarks made by angry Muslims, the hatred against Jews is continuing to ramp up. This will not just fizzle out. They aren’t going to just get tired and meander on back home. When hatred is ginned up, it will go somewhere; it will express itself. Right now, the simple attacks on Christians within Muslim countries is just the beginning. Expect a full-on war against Israel—my guess, either within the year or immediately after Israel bombs Iran.

My Most Paranoid Thoughts

It just feels to me as if many politicians realize that the jig is up, that the United States is going to crash, and they are taking as much money as humanly possible to live off of during the crash. The Obama administration has spent billions upon billions, and much of it ends up in the pockets of their supporters.

Great Headlines

This one is a two-fer; a Weasel Zipper headline for a Drudge Report headline:

Matt Drudge, Wordsmith

Emperor Obama Threatens Congress: Grant Me More Executive Power Or I'll Do It Anyway. (Weasel Zippers)

Missing Headlines

11 Green Companies on the Government Dole; Bankrupt or in the Red

EPA Fines Businesses for Not Using Non-Existent Biofuel

The Chevy Volt—Another Government Boondoggle

Why is the DOJ not Arresting Anyone for the Financial Crisis?

Republicans and Democrats Agreed to the Debt Ceiling Going up Long Ago; everything else is just Rhetoric

Come, let us reason together....

Kodak and the Post Office

By Thomas Sowell

The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era.

The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those of most people - until a man named George Eastman created a company called Kodak, which made cameras that ordinary people could use.

It was Kodak's humble and affordable box Brownie that put photography on the map for millions of people, who just wanted to take simple pictures of family, friends and places they visited.

As the complicated photographic plates used by 19th century photographers gave way to film, Kodak became the leading film maker of the 20th century. But sales of film declined for the first time in 2000, and sales of digital cameras surpassed the sales of film cameras just 3 years later. Just as Kodak's technology made older modes of photography obsolete more than a hundred years ago, so the new technology of the digital age has left Kodak behind.

Great names of companies in other fields have likewise vanished as new technology brought new rivals to the forefront, or else made the whole product obsolete, as happened with typewriters, slide rules and other products now remembered only by an older generation. That is what happens in a market economy and we all benefit from it as consumers.

Unfortunately, that is not what happens in government. The post office is a classic example. Post offices were once even more important than Eastman Kodak, and for a longer time, as the mail provided vital communications linking people and organizations across thousands of miles. But, today, technology has moved even further beyond the post office than it has beyond Eastman Kodak.

The difference is that, although the Postal Service is technically a private business, its income doesn't cover all its costs - and taxpayers are on the hook for the difference.

Moreover, the government makes it illegal for anyone else to put anything into your mail box, even though you bought the mail box and it is your property. That means you don't have the option to have some other private company deliver your mail.

In India, when private companies like Federal Express and United Parcel Service were allowed to deliver mail, the amount of mail delivered by that country's post offices was cut in half between 2000 and 2005.

What should be the fate of the Postal Service in the United States? In a sense, no one really knows. Nor is there any reason why they should.

The real answer to the question whether the Postal Service is worth what it is costing can be found only when various indirect government subsidies stop and when the government stops forbidding others from carrying the mail - if that ever happens.

If FedEx, UPS or someone else can carry the mail cheaper or better than the Postal Service, there is no reason why the public should not get the benefit of having their mail delivered cheaper or better.

Politics is the reason why no such test is likely any time soon. Various special interests currently benefit from the way the post office is run - and especially by the way government backing keeps it afloat.

Junk mail, for example, does not have to cover all its costs. You might be happy to get less junk mail if it had to pay a postage rate that covered the full cost of delivering it. But people who send junk mail would lobby Congress to stay on the gravy train.

So would people who live in remote areas, where the cost of delivering all mail is higher. But if people who decide to live in remote areas don't pay the costs that their decision imposes on the Postal Service, electric utilities and others, why should other people be forced to pay those costs?

A society in which some people make decisions, and other people are forced to pay the costs created by those decisions, is a society where a lot of decisions can be made despite their costs being greater than their benefits.

That is why the post office should have to face competition in the market, instead of lobbying politicians for government help. We cannot preserve everything that was once useful.

From:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell011012.php3

Random thoughts

by Thomas Sowell

Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Talk show host Dennis Miller said, "I don't dig polo. It's like miniature golf meets the Kentucky Derby."

Nothing illustrates the superficiality of our times better than the enthusiasm for electric cars, because they are supposed to greatly reduce air pollution. But the electricity that ultimately powers these cars has to be generated somewhere - and nearly half the electricity generated in this country is generated by burning coal.

The 2012 Republican primaries may be a rerun of the 2008 primaries, where the various conservative candidates split the conservative vote so many ways that the candidate of the mushy middle got the nomination - and then lost the election.

Because morality does not always prevail, by any means, too many of the intelligentsia act as if it has no effect. But, even in Nazi Germany, thousands of Germans hid Jews during the war, at the risk of their own lives, because it was the right thing to do.

In recent times, Christmas has brought not only holiday cheer but also attacks on the very word "Christmas," chasing it from the vocabulary of institutions and even from most "holiday cards." Like many other social crusades, this one is based on a lie - namely that the Constitution puts a wall of separation between church and state. It also shows how easily intimidated we are by strident zealots.

If you don't like growing older, don't worry about it. You may not be growing older much longer.

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

When an organization has more of its decisions made by committees, that gives more influence to those who have more time available to attend committee meetings and to drag out each meeting longer. In other words, it reduces the influence of those who have work to do, and are doing it, while making those who are less productive more influential.

Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

The wisest and most knowledgeable human being on the planet is utterly incompetent to make even 10 percent of the consequential decisions that have to be made in a modern nation. Yet all sorts of people want to decide how much money other people can make or keep, and to micro-manage how other people live their lives.

The real egalitarians are not the people who want to redistribute wealth to the poor, but those who want to extend to the poor the ability to create their own wealth, to lift themselves up, instead of trying to tear others down. Earning respect, including self-respect, is better than being a parasite.

Of all the arguments for giving amnesty to illegal immigrants, the most foolish is the argument that we can't find and expel all of them. There is not a law on the books that someone has not violated, including laws against murder, and we certainly have not found and prosecuted all the violators - whether murderers or traffic law violators. But do we then legalize all the illegalities we haven't been able to detect and prosecute?

In the 1920s, Congressman Thomas S. Adams referred to "the ease with which the income tax may be legally avoided" but also said some Congressmen "so fervently believe that the rich ought to pay 40 or 50 per cent of their incomes" in taxes that they would rather make this a law, even if the government would get more revenue from a lower tax rate that people actually pay. Some also prefer class warfare politics that brings in votes, if not revenue.

Can you imagine a man who had never run any kind of organization, large or small, taking it upon himself to fundamentally change all kinds of organizations in a huge and complex economy? Yet that is what Barack Obama did when he said, "We are going to change the United States of America!" This was not "The Audacity of Hope." It was the audacity of hype.

From:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell122711.php3

Romney New Hampshire Speech

Thank you, New Hampshire! Tonight, we made history!

This state has always been a special place for our family. Ann and I made a home here and we've filled it with great memories of our children and grandchildren. And this Granite State moment is one we will always remember.

Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work.

We remember when Barack Obama came to New Hampshire four years ago.

He promised to bring people together.

He promised to change the broken system in Washington.

He promised to improve our nation.

Those were the days of lofty promises made by a hopeful candidate. Today, we are faced with the disappointing record of a failed President. The last three years have held a lot of change, but they haven't offered much hope.

The middle class has been crushed. Nearly 24 million of our fellow Americans are still out of work, struggling to find work, or have just stopped looking. The median income has dropped 10% in four years. Soldiers returning from the front lines are waiting in unemployment lines. Our debt is too high and our opportunities too few.

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, "It could be worse."

It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse?

Of course not.

What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

That conviction guides our campaign. It has rallied millions of Americans in every corner of this country to our cause.

Over the last six months, I've listened to anxious voices in town meetings and visited with students and soldiers. In break rooms and living rooms, I've heard stories of families getting by on less, of carefully planned retirements now replaced by jobs at minimum wage. But even now, amidst the worst economy since the Great Depression, I've rarely heard a refrain of hopelessness.

Americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. We still believe in the hope, the promise, and the dream of America. We still believe in that shining city on a hill.

We know that the future of this country is better than 8 or 9% unemployment.

It is better than $15 trillion in debt.

It is better than the misguided policies and broken promises of the last three years - and the failed leadership of one man.

The President has run out of ideas. Now, he's running out of excuses. And tonight, we are asking the good people of South Carolina to join the citizens of New Hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him. This is such a mistake for our Party and for our nation. This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We must offer an alternative vision. I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. In these difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define us as unique - We are One Nation, Under God.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Our campaign is about more than replacing a President; it is about saving the soul of America. This election is a choice between two very different destinies.

President Obama wants to "fundamentally transform" America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great.

He wants to turn America into a European-style entitlement society. We want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America.

This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

He is making the federal government bigger, burdensome, and bloated. I will make it simpler, smaller, and smarter.

He raised the national debt. I will cut, cap, and balance the budget.

He enacted job-killing regulations; I'll eliminate them.

He lost our AAA credit rating; I'll restore it.

He passed Obamacare; I'll repeal it.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

He doesn't see the need for overwhelming American military superiority. I will insist on a military so powerful no one would think of challenging it.

He chastises friends like Israel; I'll stand with our friends.

He apologizes for America; I will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the Earth.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle-to-grave assurances that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise more benefits, then I'm not your President. You have that President today.

But if you want to make this election about restoring American greatness, then I hope you will join us.

If you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour, not our destiny, then I am asking for your vote.

I'm asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American.

I want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline.

I want you to remember when you spent more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than wondering how to make it to the next paycheck.

I want you to remember when you weren't afraid to look at your retirement savings or the price at the pump.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

That America is still out there. We still believe in that America.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

This election, let's fight for the America we love. We believe in America.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

That was the written speech; this is the speech as delivered.

Marc Thiessen: Don't let these Taliban leaders loose, as a release of some Taliban prisoners is being considered by President Obama.

Femme-a-gogue Debbie Wasserman Schultz smears Tea Party, exploits Tucson massacre anniversary

Reason Magazine article on Obama’s promises to reduce the budget.

Apparently the left has discovered so many people making fun of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s hair (turns out to be a grand total of 3 people). However, Jennifer Anistan has stood up for Debbie, calling her a hair hero; and it is worth noting that Debbie herself threw her own hair into the political ring, saying "My hair is an asset. As a politician, it helps me get noticed. It helps me get talked about." (A quote featured many weeks ago in Say What?).

Rick Perry defends the urinating Marines.

Newt is booed in South Carolina for his attacks on Bain Capital.

Doug Ross’s 20 most popular posts of the year.

Election Year Conversion: Barack Obama Wants to Streamline Government

RUSH: "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm!" had a big meeting at the White House today where, all of a sudden, Barack Obama wants to make the government smaller. All of a sudden, Barack Obama's concerned about the inefficiency of the bureaucracy. All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized that government isn't working for small business. All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized the trouble that average people have dealing with the government. All of a sudden, Barack Obama has realized that there are one hundred... Oh. No, this is the way to put it. "The Department of Homeland Security," according to Barack Obama just moments ago, "reports to 100 different congressional committees and subcommittees and agencies."

And, all of a sudden, Barack Obama said (paraphrased): "That's too much paper! That's too many reports! We've gotta streamline this." The streamlining Barack Obama's talking about will be unnoticeable after his health care bill is implemented. What a joke. What an absolute transparent, phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller FM type of a scam. All of a sudden, Obama's the great small government reformer in an election year, with health care just waiting to be implemented, which will blow the size of this government up in ways that people cannot imagine -- and then yesterday he had a big meeting on insourcing jobs.

RUSH: That's right, ladies and gentlemen, all of a sudden, Barack Obama wants to streamline government. Wow. Isn't it a beautiful thing. Well, let's look, shall we, at what it is Obama wants to shrink. These are the agencies that Obama suggests that we merge, downsize, shrink, what have you. The Commerce Department. The Small Business Administration. The Office of the US Trade Representative. The Export/Import Bank. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation. The Trade and Development Agency.

Now, what do these agencies all have in common? They're all pro-business. They are all pro-business. And this is where Obama wants to shrink. You could even say those agencies might lean to being pro-Republican or pro-conservative, and that's what Obama wants to shrink. He had this big press conference yesterday or whatever it was at the White House where he introduced a new term, insourcing, as opposed to outsourcing jobs. I have a question. I brought this up earlier. Are we to presume that Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, and Leon Panetta and Hillary Rodham Clinton will enjoy firing those four soldiers captured in the worse-than-Abu Ghraib video? You heard about this, right? Dawn, you haven't heard about this? Well, there's a video, nobody knows how old it is, of some US Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban combatants in Afghanistan. They peed on them. And of course it's Marines. It violated the rules. There's no defense of this. The overreaction to this is nuts, but still, it happened.

You know, 80,000 soldiers were fired by the regime. Oh, yeah, we're gonna cut defense, we don't care. We'll cut defense. Eighty thousand

soldiers fired, 80,000 soldiers laid off without a lot of tears from the regime. So what's getting rid of four more? But when it comes to laying off cops ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, no way. Can't lay off cops. Why, cops are too important. Armed resistance in our neighborhoods, the first responders, the police in your local community, whenever local leaders tell you that they just don't have the money anymore, they have to make budget cuts and the first to go will be the cops and teachers and firemen, what do you do? "No, no, no, no, don't cut our firemen. I don't want to be less safe." "Okay, fine, then we can't cut anything." No problem cutting 80,000 soldiers. Snap your fingers, it's done. Eighty thousand soldiers, outsource, insource, doesn't matter. The big difference is that the soldiers are not unionized and can't kick anything back to Obama. The cops are.

NPR: Obama Looks To Merge Agencies, Streamline Government

Only 2% Hate the 1%

RUSH: So the Gallup poll is out, two different Gallup polls. According to Gallup, for more than three years now, 40% of Americans describe their views as conservative; 35% as moderate; 21% as liberal. So, as I so poignantly, saliently inquired the previous hour, why is it that all of the polling organizations like Gallup continue to oversample Democrats and independents? Forty percent conservative. We know they're not Democrats. What percentage do you think might be Democrat? There might be some in there. The old Reagan Democrats, so forth. But given our culture and given the way the media presents life in this country, this is a stunning poll result: 40% of people identify themselves as being conservative.

That's a little short of amazing. Just imagine how conservative this country would be if we had a level playing field. Imagine how conservative this country would be if conservatism was not-of-was an maligned, impugned, laughed at, made fun of, and all that. Imagine if the entire establishment, the news media, the entertainment industry, educational system, publishing, imagine if they were not all lockstep liberals, imagine what this country would be like. In other words, imagine if more people were allowed to hear more of the truth. This is why, folks, for me it's all ideological. Ideas are ideological. It's not party versus party. It's liberal versus everybody else. And that's why I've always believed the more time we spend telling people about liberalism and liberals, the much greater advance we would make.

The second Gallup poll is this one. "Americans name jobs, the national debt, continuing economic decline, outsourcing, and politicians' bickering -- including President Obama and Congress -- when asked to say what worries them most about the national economy at this time." The first three on the list, the national debt, jobs, and continuing economic decline make up 51%. Those three. The other stuff is small potatoes. You have to go down to the bottom of the list to find out how many people say that the divide between rich and poor is one of their primary concerns. In fact, the number is 2%. Two percent. It's up there with campaign finance reform. Only 2% consider the divide between rich and poor.

The whole argument for class envy, the whole argument for redistribution, only 2% of the people in this country identify it as something that's a major concern to them. You got that? That means Occupy Wall Street is a creation of the regime. Occupy Wall Street didn't gin up on its own. There's no such thing as a 2% movement that ends up being covered as Occupy Wall Street was. Americans are worried about jobs, the deficit, the economy, not the divide between rich and poor. Now, in polling data, this is interesting, too, if I can remember this. I don't have it right in front of me. In polling data that I've seen of people who are concerned about the divide between the rich and the poor, people are less concerned about what they have than they are more concerned what somebody else has.

See if I can find a better way. In the rich versus poor, the us versus them, the gap between wealth and poverty, whatever, the people on the low end are not upset about what they don't have. They're upset what the others do have. That is envy. That is what Obama is playing off of. They're not unhappy with what they have; they're ticked off at what others have. Now, you might wonder, what's the difference? It's a huge difference. If the majority of them you were unhappy with what they had, that would mean they didn't care what anybody else has. When they're more concerned about what others have than what they don't have, they themselves don't have, that's just pure envy, resentment, what have you, and that represents an opportunity for the class envy warriors to go out and exploit 'em. All you have to say, "Oh, yeah, I'll take it away from 'em. I'll take it away from 'em." That's how you get 'em. You don't have to tell 'em, "I'll give you more." You don't have to say, "I'll make sure you end up..." You just have to say, "I'm just gonna go out and sock it to them." Two fascinating polls here, both of those are from Gallup. So, again, folks, only 2% hate the 1%. Two percent, that's right, yeah, only 2% hate the 1%. That's a great way of illustrating. Only 2% hate the 1%. The 99% do not hate the 1%.

This is an eye-opening poll:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.aspx

Why Conservatives are Wary of Romney

Mitt Claims He'll Roll Back So Much Liberalism, He May Only Last One Term

Are You Sitting Down? Romney Compares His Career at Bain Capital to Obama's Takeover of the Auto Industry!

Mitt's Best Speech So Far

Rush Blows Up Cable News

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.

Many Economic issues, as well as conservative critiques of various Republicans:

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/

Nonpartisan business news:

http://www.businessinsider.com/

Keeping track of Obama’s promises (although this appears to lean left, it is probably more fair than anything from the Obama Media Complex:

http://obamawatch.wikidot.com/

A similar site on Obama keeping his promises, and also biased. For instance, on government spending, this is shown to be a promise which has been 12% kept, whatever that means.

http://promises.nationaljournal.com/

Great news source; the Gateway Pundit:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Thoughts from a Conservative Mom:

http://www.thoughtsfromaconservativemom.com/

Doug Ross blog; mostly a collection of articles, news links, photos and cartoons; some actual blogging.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/

Political News Now; the Snow Report

http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/

The Long War Journal

http://www.longwarjournal.org/

Christine Rouselle’s website:

http://thecollegeconservative.com/christine-rousselle/

Ending Spending:

http://endingspending.com/

The Congressmen spending huge amounts of money and those who attempt to curb this spending:

http://endingspending.com/sheriffsandbandits/

Very good free enterprise blog and news source; The American:

http://www.american.com/

Crossroads GPS site (the YouTube site is the best organized):

http://www.youtube.com/CrossroadsGPSChannel

http://www.crossroadsgps.org/

http://www.nomoreblankchecks.com/

Excellent set of short videos:

www.youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty

Split nation (news and opinions from both sides):

http://www.splitnation.org/

Very interesting economic news and views:

http://www.zerohedge.com/

The Bluegrass pundit (a collection of stories of the day): pumpkin

http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/

The Global Warming Policy Foundation:

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

Current list of Obama’s executive orders:

http://1461days.blogspot.com/2009/01/current-list-of-president-obamas.html

The Times Watch, which gives example after example of the latest bias on mainstream news sources:

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

A syndicate of talent:

http://www.creators.com/

Conservative Daily News:

http://conservativedailynews.com/

Merging Corruption:

http://emergingcorruption.com/

Liberal blogger:

http://doninmass.com/

Pro/Con on important issues:

http://www.procon.org/

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/

Photos on this and the next page all came from Doug Ross’s website.

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/

Not sure if this is original with Doug Ross, but this small picture explains liberal thinking; no problem with the first act—he is expressing his opinion, it is patriotic. But the second? Well, that just isn’t right!

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

Not a joke; the shirt is for real; don’t misunderstand me; they can sell whatever they want for whatever they can get.

From the left:

http://www.loonwatch.com/

Far left websites:

www.dailykos.com

Weatherman Underground 1969 “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

http://www.archive.org/details/YouDontNeedAWeathermanToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows_925 (PDF, Kindle and other formats)

http://www.antiauthoritarian.net/sds_wuo/weather/weatherman_document.txt (Simple online text)

Insane, leftist blogs:

http://teabaggersrcoming.blogspot.com/

http://poorsquinky.com/politics/all.html

Media

Media Research Center

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

Conservative Blogs

Mike’s America

http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/

Dick Morris:

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/

David Limbaugh (great columns this week)

http://davidlimbaugh.com/

Texas Fred (blog and news):

http://texasfred.net/

Conservative Blogs:

http://atimetochoose.wordpress.com/

http://americanelephant.com/

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

The top 100 conservative sites:

http://deathby1000papercuts.com/dbkpreport/2010/02/the-conservative-100-most-popular-conservative-sites-feb-14-2010/

Sensible blogger Burt Folsom:

http://www.burtfolsom.com/

Janine Turner’s website (I’m serious; and the website is serious too). This is if you have an interest in real American history:

http://constitutingamerica.org/

Conservative news/opinion site:

http://www.humanevents.com/

The Left Coast Rebel:

http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/

Good conservative blogs:

http://tammybruce.com/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/

http://makenolaw.org/ (the Free Speech blog)

http://www.baltimorereporter.com/

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/

www.rightofanation.com

The Romantic Poet’s Webblog:

http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/

Brain Shavings (common sense from the Buckeye State):

http://brainshavings.com/

Green Hell blog:

http://greenhellblog.com/

Daniel Hannan’s blog:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/danielhannan/

Conservative blog:

http://wyblog.us/blog/

Richard O’Leary’s websites:

www.letfreedomwork.com

www.freedomtaskforce.com

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/beacon/

Freedom Works:

http://www.freedomworks.org/

Yankee Phil’s Blogspot:

http://yankeephil.blogspot.com/

Excellent list of Blogs on the bottom, right-hand side of this page:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/

Babes

And simply because I like cute, intelligent babes:

http://alisonrosen.com/

Liberty Chick:

http://libertychick.com/

Dee Dee’s political blog:

http://somosrepublicans.com/author/deedee/

The Latina Freedom Fighter:

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

Ann Althouse ("Crusty conservative coating, creamy hippie love chick center.")

http://althouse.blogspot.com/

Judith Miller is one of the moderate and fairly level-headed voices for FoxNews:

http://www.judithmiller.com/

http://ifbushhaddonethat.com/

A mixed bag of blogs and news sites

Left and right opinions with an international flair:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

This is an odd blog; conservativism, bikinis and whatever else posted by either a P.I. or the brother of a P.I.:

http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/

More out-there blogs and sites

Angry White Dude (okay, maybe we conservatives are angry?):

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Mofo Politics (a very anti-Obama site):

http://www.mofopolitics.com/

Info Wars, because there is a war on for your mind (this site may be a little crazy??):

http://www.infowars.com/

The Magic Negro Watch (this is peppered with obscenities and angry conservative rhetoric):

http://magicnegrowatch.blogspot.com/

Okay, maybe this guy is racist:

http://angrywhitedude.com/

Media

Glenn Beck’s shows online:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/

News busted all shows:

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/search.aspx?q=newsbusted&t=videos

Joe Dan Media (great vids and music):

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

The Patriot’s Network (important videos; the latest):

http://patriotsnetwork.com/

PolitiZoid on YouTube:

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

Reason TV

http://reason.tv/