This isn't enough bad news for the Obamunists; they're pushing for another stimulus.h/t Big Government
November 6, 2009
GRAPH: OBAMA STIMULUS SWINDLE
This isn't enough bad news for the Obamunists; they're pushing for another stimulus.h/t Big Government
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The real struggle is between persons who love liberty and persons enthralled with power. A liberty lover refuses to exercise power over others and, therefore, has solid principles upon which he can stand when defending himself against those who would exercise power over him. In contrast, someone enthralled with power – by endorsing its exercise over others – kicks out from beneath his own feet the principles he will need to stand on when the time comes for him to defend himself against the power of those who would force him to submit to their will."
- Donald J. Boudreaux
His comments on writers and their political parties' struggles
- Donald J. Boudreaux
His comments on writers and their political parties' struggles
November 5, 2009
WHY FOX NEWS DOMINATES
It's not complicated. The average American wants the news - all it can get- as raw as it can get it...this is exactly what Foxnews, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al, are providing -- unfiltered, up to the minute(if you choose) real, raw...this is what New Media provides, so long as there is a venue to show it to the people...hence, the ever-growing domination of Foxnews in the cable networks. Folks are witnessing for themselves, the devolution of liberalism before their eyes, and more importantly...in their own lives.
I'll repeat a phrase I read some where: The New Media(internet, blogs, talk radio, etc...) is having the same effect on liberalism everywhere, as the fax machine had on the fall of communism... the capabilities of truth can be/are being delivered to every and anyone in real time.
Facts are stubborn things, that's why MSNBC is at the bottom of the ratings ;)
-Link
November 3, 2009
NOBAMA TRIFECTA?: ELECTIONS IN NY, NJ, VA TONIGHT!
-Link to Hotair
Update:
1. Winner in Virginia - (R) McDonnell wins Governor over (D) Deeds !!!
Update II:
2. Winner in New Jersey - (R) Christie wins Governor over (D) Corzine !!!
3. Update III:
Bummer. No trifecta. (D) Bill Owens won New York Congressional seat.
Overall, great news for Republicans last night. The sweep in Virginia is huge!
Gay marriage failed to pass in the ballot box in Maine.
November 2, 2009
THE PUBLIC OPTION
Here is the video where Obama uses the Post Office as an example of why the public option won’t hurt private competitors. His argument is that Fed Ex and UPS thrive even though there’s a Post Office. He forgets to mention that the Post Office has a legal monopoly on first class mail and still loses money. And he forgets that the struggles of the Post Office make it harder to claim that the public option will stand on its own without taxpayer support.
If you want to understand how the public option will work, look at GM. It’s exists right now because it is being subsidized out of my pocket and yours. It is being run as a political organization, not just a company trying to make good products and cover its costs. And it is hurting its competitors, Ford, and others, whose success is being reduced by an artificially enhanced competitor.
By Russ Roberts - Cafe Hayek
October 30, 2009
FRIDAY LAUGHER! - "CONGRESSMAN WITH GUTS"
-Link
And this, an interview-actually an awesome smackdown- with Neil Cavuto from earlier this year. His ignorance of Separation of Powers alone, should really disqualify him from being a legitimate candidate for Congress again... Who wants to bet a steak dinner that Grayson does not get re-elected??...
Update:
Grayson goes from guts to nuts
October 29, 2009
QUESTION FOR ALL OF US
Can we really expect this President/administration to accurately, successfully build-up America's capitalist, free enterprise based nation while they inherently, philosophically, have no working faith in, or belief in? This is an administration that acknowledges capitalism and America as one, but, cosmically wants the capitalism minus the capital-apparent when you analyze their platitudes on "wealth" President Obama's consistent lamenting of America's free market system(See Saul Alinsky)...its evils and inequalities have been the rallying cry for his unabashed ambitions for statism.
Why is it that we all should have any trust in a messenger who does not believe in his own message?
I often see Obama as like an atheist that works in a bible factory. Not knowing what your President really believes in is frustrating.
-Link
Why is it that we all should have any trust in a messenger who does not believe in his own message?
I often see Obama as like an atheist that works in a bible factory. Not knowing what your President really believes in is frustrating.
-Link
October 28, 2009
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW: ONE CAN NEVER GET TOO MUCH CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
The man is an intellectual giant! The interview pieces are always good- particularly so here, where this is primarily for the European audience...as Krauthammer is keenly aware.
-Link to interview here
October 27, 2009
October 26, 2009
OBAMA: A GOOD 'OLE BOY WANNABE?
Why not, I say go for it. And for a guy that throws a baseball like a girl...swings a bowling ball like a girl...good luck with that golf swing ;)
Obama will double, maybe even triple the amount of golf that President Bush played. At this pace of double standards in Obama's Presidency, it's only a matter of time that he'll ensure not getting re-elected.
-Link to report Obama has tied Bush for rounds of golf played thus far.
October 25, 2009
October 23, 2009
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: IRONY HIS SPECIALTY
The genius of Krauthammer points out the intellectual emptiness of the Left; and its deaf ear to what dissent really is. From nationalreview.com in full...  |  |
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Fox Wars
The Obama administration wants to delegitimize any significant dissent.
By Charles Krauthammer
Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed.
Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily.
The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.” Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox “not really a news station.” And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to “be led (by) and following Fox.”
Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration — from exposing White House czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 “truther” to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health-care legislation — the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry — finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.
At first, there was little reaction from other media. Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House “pool” news organizations — except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to as well. The administration backed down.
This was an important defeat because there’s a principle at stake here. While government can and should debate and criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes beyond that. It wants to delegitimize any significant dissent. The objective is no secret. White House aides openly told Politico that they’re engaged in a deliberate campaign to marginalize and ostracize recalcitrants, from Fox to health insurers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality. We have norms, Madisonian norms.
Madison argued that the safety of a great republic, its defense against tyranny, requires the contest between factions or interests. His insight was to understand “the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties.” They would help guarantee liberty by checking and balancing and restraining each other — and an otherwise imperious government.
Factions should compete, but also recognize the legitimacy of other factions and, indeed, their necessity for a vigorous self-regulating democracy. Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize, and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.
But didn’t Teddy Roosevelt try to destroy the trusts? Of course, but what he took down was monopoly power that was extinguishing smaller independent competing interests. Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical — and that doesn’t even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.
Fox and its viewers (numbering more than CNN’s and MSNBC’s combined) need no defense. Defend Fox compared to whom? To CNN — which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a Saturday Night Live skit mildly critical of President Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?
Defend Fox from whom? Fox’s flagship 6 o’clock evening news out of Washington (hosted by Bret Baier, formerly by Brit Hume) is, to my mind, the best hour of news on television. (Definitive evidence: My mother watches it even on the odd night when I’m not on.) Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She’s been attacked for extolling Mao’s political philosophy in a speech at a high-school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one’s own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?
The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?
— Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2009, The Washington Post Writers Group
October 22, 2009
GETTING WORD OUT: WARRIOR LEGACY INSTITUTE
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VIDEO: DICK CHENEY NOT SITTING QUIETLY.
The left calling him Darth Vader never really was an insult to me - as an admirer of Dick Cheney, I always saw it as a perfect metaphor for how incredibly wrong of a perception it is of him. Here is a man made of granite-philosophically and patriotically- who has given virtually his whole life to a stellar, accomplished, career of public service, and when he's not working, he most prefers to be with family, and in the solitude of nature; hunting and fishing. To some soft heads... this is what naturally qualifies one to be a SHAMELESS, DARK, EVIL, SLEUTH.
-Link via Hotair
October 21, 2009
October 20, 2009
GREEN LIGHT: PALIN IS GOING ON OPRAH.
I think Palin going on the Oprah show is going to be huge! I believe it's a win-win for Sarah for a couple reasons:
1. She's confident and very likable; even if she comes out just seeming average, it's nothing lost for her. Her book is going to be a giant seller regardless of her showing on Oprah!
2. If she's firing on all cylinders, and if Oprah doesn't bring down good conversation too low, Sarah will hit it out of the park - because she can, and because she's the real deal. GO SARAH!!!
-Link via Hotair
4%
This kind of support of Obama, in Israel, is not good for America. Unfortunately, as in a number of other important policy matters, Americans don't know which side Obama stands on in support. President Obama's want to be all things to all people is dangerous. Obama's lack of leadership on foreign policy is as about as expected from his detractors - but- that it has been as bad as it has...is pretty shocking...even to many of his supporters; some of them mentioned here in this good piece by Dennis Prager...-Link
October 19, 2009
CLAIM: "THE MALDIVES ARE SINKING" LET THE DEBUNKING BEGIN.
Pictured is Maldives' dupe in chief, President Mohamed Nasheed.Thanks to the excellent, ACTUAL science being done on the Maldives...and thanks to Anthony Watts of WattsUpWithThat, this post puts to bed the whole notion that the Maldives are sinking due to sea level rise.
Don't be a dupe.
October 16, 2009
October 15, 2009
HEY, WALMART HATERS!...
...take a break from cramming your square pegs through round holes and patchouli snifffing-while riding your antique bike to the corner co-op... and discover the innovation that is unraveling around the corner at your local, evil, corporate-industrial-retail complex, big-box store -- WAL*MART ! Because, even YOU like a good deal... otherwise you wouldn't be rationalizing why you go to Target because it's a local company(in MN anyway)
It's seeming that shunning Walmart as a corporation from your shopping list is pretty soon going to be as much an unreality as shunning the likes of GE.
-Link
WERE YOU DUPED?
Despite the fact that Obama was running for President as a Democrat, I wanted very much to like him as a person, as a man who would legitimately break real barriers, effect REAL change in government; particularly because Obama was initially against gay marriage - I had at least one string connected with him in this regard. As a conservative, deep down, I also hoped for a level of "change" Fact is...hope is dashed, across the board with a President with 2 faces...or more.
I guess what this blog is about, is a journey with this new Presidency and its policies; and recording them. Stay tuned.
October 13, 2009
WHAT POINTY-HEADED LIBERALISM HATH WROUGHT: THE ZERO-TOLERANCE TITANS OF TOLERANCE STRIKE AGAIN
I JUST LIKE THE WAY SHE SAYS THINGS
October 12, 2009
LIBERAL MANTRAS -VS.- REALITY
Mantra: "America is losing manufacturing jobs"Often, where a liberal says we're "losing"... a conservative will answer with we're "innovating" while still leading the globe in manufacturing.
-Link via the great economic blog, Carpe Diem ;)
"THIS WEEK" - BEST PROGRAM ALL YEAR
This was the best "This Week" in a long time. George Will is spot on as usual...and leave it to George W. and Ariana Huffington , no less, to take down and break apart the hopium high that Donna Brazille is still floating on...good show!
-Link to video here
-Link to video here
October 9, 2009
IS IT APRIL 1ST ?
I'll leave it to the AP(Associated Press, who's been very kind to Obama thus far) on this story. They've stated this about as good as any critic of President Obama could.
-Link
October 8, 2009
October 7, 2009
STREET/NEIGHBORHOOD VIOLENCE: HO-HUM...
The rest of us will just sit idly by and watch the inner cities/metro areas deteriorate as it historically has with perpetual voting in of liberal, democrats. Why it is these cities with major crime problems cannot figure out that it's their perennial, political incumbents...is beyond me! now, as this piece shows, it's becoming difficult for the anti-gun crowd to blame guns - inconvenient.
Until major/metro/inner cities start coming to their senses by electing real leaders, with real ideas that work...with the help of scholars like John Lott and others...they may not be doomed.
-Link to piece on Chicago violence
October 6, 2009
USEFUL IDIOTS
If there wasn't actual photographic proof of this happening on the Whitehouse lawn, the average person would never believe you telling them. The depths of this administrations' cluelessness and shamelessness could be laughable if it were not so sadly desperate and pathetic.Read the story here
-Update- Just when you thought it couldn't get possibly more pathetic, see this
October 5, 2009
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