» Grassroots Movement?

The Tea Party movement, The 912 Project, etc., which seem to be gaining popularity in response to big government tyranny, are simply the people of this Country spontaneously remembering what our Founders envisioned for an engaged populous. A government Of The People, By The People, and For The People must be made up of The People engaged in their own governance. The awakening of Civic Responsibility in this Country was forestalled by an insidious plan foisted upon us by the Progressive Left. We have been lulled to sleep by the whisperings of peaceful security by the Serpent of Socialism.

Grassroots? I think not. We are simply starting to be the citizens that we should have been all along. We should be well rested from the century-long vacation that we have had. Time to roll up our sleeves and take care of the business of governing.

Ben Shapiro, writing for BigHollywood, provides still more in-depth understanding of the communist, now worm chow, Howard Zinn.
» HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Religious Fanaticism and Illegal Indoctrination of Your Children

» ‘Bi-partisanship’ out

Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head when she told the Tea Party Nation Convention that this repeated mantra of ‘bi-partisanship’ needs to find exit. Quickly. Like right now.

From what Scott Brown has been telling about his senatorial style, it appears he is of the same conviction cloth. He’s not going to be cute with other Congressmen; instead, he’s going to stand up for what Brown believes and so go at it.

It’s time that this wishy-washy laudatory verbiage be cut out of Congressmens’ giving forth. It does not make points with the grassroots.

Let feathers fly. Let sparks flash. Let the moralist convictions light up the sky.

Ross on a Roll
» Finally! Fatwa Issued Against Facebook

It's about time. The curse that some know as Facebook suffered a religious edict from a prominent Muslim cleric (let's just call him Yabba Dabba Doo for ease of reading).

Folks, I take pride in having read each and every article I link to on this lil website of mine. This article, I didn't actually read the whole thing.
One reason it's Doug Ross, and after so many years I know he don't write trash.
The main reason: "Yabba Dabba Doo for ease of reading". That's funny enough to me to pass this one on without reading the rest.

In what appears to be an unfortunate gaffe, however, Dabba Doo's fatwa was initially posted on Twitter.

» Oh my heavens! Sarah Palin wrote some words on her hand. Wait here while I alert the media.

» The New Black Panther Stonewall Continues
» The New Black Panther Stonewall Continues Part 2

It has been months since the Eric Holder Justice Department agreed to begin an internal investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility into the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. Rep. Frank Wolf has continued to bird dog Holder and Justice, inquiring about the status of the investigation and whether they will share the results. He’s been rebuffed at every turn ...

It is yet one more example of the consequences of one-party rule and the absence of significant Congressional oversight. Wolf, to his credit, is writing letters; but the power to hold Congressional hearings and to demand documents remains with the Democratic majority. They, of course, have no interest in getting to the bottom of this.

There are three fact witnesses who will testify at the hearing scheduled for February 12, 2010: Mike Mauro, Chris Hill, and Bartle Bull. Each of these individuals was a poll watcher affiliated with either the Republican Party or the McCain campaign.

Both Mr. Hill and Mr. Bull were interviewed by reporters. Their comments are reflected in the video excerpts provided.

... subpoenas for Justice Department witnesses are outstanding. It is unclear ... that they will show up ...

ACORN, SEIU, DNC - Black Panthers: organizations of criminals and thugs that joined forces to stage the takeover of the government of the United States, placing at the pinnacle of power their puppet-in-chief.

Typically, when anything goes wrong and embarrasses the PIC, Bush gets the blame ...

... the Obami have persistently claimed that the Bush administration did not adequately enforce civil-rights laws and that they intend now to correct this delinquency ...

» Corpseman- It's No Mere Gaffe
I agree. Obama's mis-pronunciation is revealing on several levels.
1 - It reveals that his 'vast' education just didn't take. The word is part of the english language and as such, knowledge or familiarity with the military is not required to know how the word is pronounced. It's a demonstration of ignorance that could be acceptable from someone with only a high school education, but not from the president of the United States of America. It's an indication of illiteracy.
2 - Education and literacy aside; once again, he's the president - the Commander in Chief. Unfamiliarity with the word reveals the depth of his ignorance of his military AND his absolute disdain and contempt of them. As pointed out in the linked article, the president is surrounded daily, protected and guided by hundreds of Marine Corpse-mans, and after a year still doesn't have enough respect to learn how to pronounce their name.
3 - The guy that's spent the last year typing speeches into the Teleprompter-in-Chief, should have realized by now that his boss is a total moron and would not know how to pronounce such a big, complicated word like Corps. He should have known to type it in phonetically, (core man). But no. That's because the dumby-in-chief has surrounded himself with people of his own caliber.

» Father Buries Daughter Alive for Talking to Boys

Those charming ladies from NOW are too busy protesting Tim Tebow to offer comment. In fact, they never do seem to have a problem with honor killings. Probably don't want to offend anyone.

The reporter here is obviously too afraid to use the word Muslim.

How blow-hard, know-it-all-but-dont-know-squat celebrities killed children.
» Celebrities Who Make Kids Sick

I speak of Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and all the saps at the Huffington Post who by their own earnest idiocy, misled the public into skipping vaccinations. The potential result: measles outbreaks all over the globe – and ultimately, dead kids.

Jim Carrey, the moonbat who made a million or two acting stupid and then denounces capitalism. Perhaps he wasn't acting.

» Scott Lee Cohen: Case in Point How Chicago Media Covers for Criminal Democrats

the Chicago controlled Illinois media has done it again. It's allowed another unsavory Democrat candidate with criminal propensities to slide by unnoticed and to be placed before the voters un-exposed as the low-end sort of fellow he is. And, just like clockwork, this drug addled nut has been elevated to nominee by the Democrat sheeple of the Land of Lincoln -- proving that Democrats will vote for a ham sandwich if one is put before them.

Troop Support?
You wanna talk about supporting the troops?
» Week 251, February 5, 2010 - Ignoring weather warnings to stay off the roads at all costs, the DC chapter recorded its 251st consecutive Friday night at Walter Reed.
"We arrived about 6:40, shoveled and salted a small clear area where we were going to stand and we were on our posts before 7. Even the salted areas eventually got covered so we had to keep crunching the snow into the salt to keep parts bare. My biggest problem was the snow that collected on my clothing kept falling off in clumps. "


Freepers and Protest Warriors of D.C. - Americans to thank God for.

» Green Government

You may not recognize the name John Rapanos, but officials know him well. Some consider him a vile criminal worthy of prison and millions in fines. Did he murder someone? No. Did he steal billions to bail out his buddies in the financial industry, as politicians have from us? No.

Rapanos is a developer guilty of “mov[ing] sand from one end of his property to the other,” according to Judge Lawrence Zatkoff of the Federal District Court in Michigan [who sentenced Rapanos to 200 hours of community service, 3 years probation and fined $185,000
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Unfortunately, all we can say for sure is that recycling is extremely expensive and inconvenient — and that government’s mandates to recycle destroy liberty while empowering the State. But whether recycling actually helps save the Earth depends on how we interpret the data. Which is, to put it mildly, overwhelming and conflicting. Some sources insist that producing new glass from recycled bottles, for instance, uses far more resources than starting from scratch with raw materials; others refute this. So if we consider recycling from a purely practical standpoint — “Does it work?” — we will argue at length and loudly.
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Ohio’s politicians frequently threaten its taxpayers with the dire consequences awaiting them should the national EPA throw a snit over the state’s air. Rather than defying such anti-constitutional dictatorship, officials instead hector citizens to obey.

» Prosperity floweth not from bills and Washington

To even suggest, as Mr. Specter did, that prosperity flows from bills and from Washington is a laughable suggestion! How does prosperity flow from laws that tax one man to pay the way of another? How does prosperity ensue when by law companies are forced to produce products of a quality the public does not demand and with features that free people do not want thus consuming their disposable income faster because of increased costs? How does prosperity spring into being when the labor of citizens is directed by fiat to those who have curried favor enough to warrant the malevolent hand of government to intercede?

For years people like Mr. Specter have passed bills upon bills to lift up the poor, to aid the elderly, to benefit minorities who claim an inherent unfairness in American society and to pad the government payrolls with bureaucrats who would better serve this country if they were unleashed from their current roles and sent to create something of true value for their fellow man. These programs have done nothing except expand in number and scope and cost to the point where the debts that they have brought upon us are crushing to not only this generation but threatening to be even a greater weight around the necks of all generations to come.

How is this prosperity? I ask you Mr. Specter. I ask you how raking up debt as far as the eye can see and without a care for paying it back is prosperity.

The answer is simple. It is not prosperity.

» F-22 Or F-35: The Plane Truth

The administration decision to scrap a proven aircraft in favor of a supposedly cheaper, more flexible replacement is proving to be an expensive mistake. We may wind up defenseless and broke.

Bush did it
» Obama Furthers The Cause Of Bipartisanship By…Accusing President Bush Of “Dereliction Of Duty”

So Bush was guilty of “dereliction of duty” because his big-government economic rescue efforts weren’t…big enough? Bush, like Obama, was a deficit spender too. Is Obama suggesting that the “real outrage” of Bush’s term in office were…his deficits weren’t large enough?

I am reminded of the main character in 'Oh Brother! Where art thou?', played by (supreme moonbat) Clooney; who, upon awakening from sleep always yelled in alarm "My Hair!".
I suspect Obama jolts himself awake every morning yelling "Bush did it!"
His Blackberry ringtone is "It's Bush's fault!"

Doctor Zero has ...
» The Answer to Socialism

Our challenge is not merely to win a few elections, or pass a bill here and there. We have to change the direction of a culture that has trended leftward, toward collectivism, through several generations. We have to move the center back to the center. This will require leadership, which we should seek out in the elections to come… but it also demands our involvement as individuals.

The old excuse "I dont do politics" is just that - an excuse, to ignore duty and responsibility in order to spend spare time in leisurely pursuit of entertainment.
I know what I'm talking about, I used that excuse for decades to justify not caring what politicians do or why. It was easy to tell myself that politics is an corrupt game played by corrupt people; that my involvement wasn't necessary nor would there be any effect I could possibly cause. That allowed me to go about my own trivial pursuits while evil people continued to incrementally remove the foundations of my liberties and freedom.

A recent poll showed 36% of Americans, and 53% of Democrats, had a positive opinion of socialism. Our task is to understand why. This moment demands more than a critique of socialism, which is nothing less than a challenge to freedom, and requires an answer. Only by expressing the philosophy of conservatism, in powerful and memorable terms, can we win the popular support necessary to implement concrete proposals. This is a foundation to be laid in countless conversations, both online and around water coolers.

Positive acceptance of socialism is a red flag for ignorance, twisted morals and complacent, apathetic laziness ... period.

If there will always be people who grow rich and powerful through their ambitions, it’s much more sensible to embrace a free-market system, where ambition produces value. Government pursues its ambitions at the expense of its duties.

Dont be satisfied with my few excerpts and rambling commentary, go read the entire linked article.

Then another good one from the same author ...
» The Great Crash

Socialism fails because it’s a static solution imposed on a dynamic society. People respond to incentives, chasing carrots and avoiding sticks. The initial proposition of the New Deal was to provide for the needs of the desperate, by collecting taxes from the wealthy. Unsurprisingly, the system devolved into the vote-buying and corruption we live with today, becoming a heavy wagon hitched to a struggling middle class, which provides far more of the funding than those “fat cats” socialists love to use as whipping boys. Politicians respond to incentives too, and the machinery of the centralized state excels at sucking in tax dollars and spitting out votes. The ugly gears of that machinery are well-hidden behind an illusion of moral authority and seductive promises, alluring enough to compel the faithful support of nearly half the population, even as its unsustainable failures become painfully obvious.

» Unsustainable
"We are incentivizing financial unsustainability"

The palpable whiff given off by the White House inner circle is that they’re the last people on the planet still besotted by Barack Obama, and that they’re having such a cool time starring in their own reality-show remake of The West Wing they can only conceive of the public — and, indeed, the world — as crowd-scene extras in The Barack Obama Show: They expect you to cheer and wave flags when the floor-manager tells you to, but the notion that in return he should be able to persuade you of the merits of his policies seems entirely to have eluded them.

It’s not the “debt” or the “deficit,” it’s the spending. And the only way to reduce that is with fewer government agencies, fewer government programs, fewer government employees, lower government salaries.

Instead, all four are rocketing up: We are incentivizing unsustainability, and, when it comes to “some collapse down the road,” you’ll be surprised how short that road is.

» Our Obama Saga—Part Two. Chapters Five-Six

Americans have never given up on a president so early. To do so would mean to a majority of voters not merely that they were wrong, but terribly wrong. To admit that is difficult; to admit that so early is terribly difficult.
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It won’t be enough for conservatives to say they are not Obama, and not ready to become a socialist Belgium. They need far more — a systematic agenda that outlines exactly how Americans are to become fiscally solvent, what and how much should be cut, a vow to end the congressional culture of corruption and become Spartan in our congressional habits, a confident energy policy that encourages nuclear, natural gas, and oil drilling to tide us over to new sources of energies, and a new resolve to enforce our borders, and end the naïve posturing of treating our war against Islamic jihadism as some sort of interesting legal debate that bounces around the philosophy department lounge.

» A chill hits wind power

The cost of the "free wind"? Projections are about 17 cents per kwh—far higher than other energy sources.
Why build wind turbines at all? Well, wind and solar were the only energy sources the Greens would endorse, probably because they're so expensive and erratic that there's no danger of anybody getting hooked on cheap power again. Denmark was also selling wind turbines to other countries, so they had to be demonstrated at home. Now China is making cheaper turbines. Who will buy?

» Beware of Internet tirades

This throw-the-bums-out call for action concedes that a few members of Congress are trustworthy but screams that "as a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch ever to disgrace our nation," so they all must go. The objective is to start over with people with no experience, owing no political favors, who will "understand that they work for us." This is childishly naïve.

» Obama's Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address

President Obama's State of the Union address was the greatest American rhetorical embrace of fascist trope since the days of Woodrow Wilson. I am not suggesting Obama is a Nazi; he isn't. I am not suggesting that he is a jackbooted thug; he isn't (even if we could be forgiven for mistaking Rahm Emanuel for one).

President Obama is, however, a man who embodies all the personal characteristics of a fascist leader, right down to the arrogant chin-up head tilt he utilizes when waiting for applause. He sees democracy as a filthy process that can be cured only by the centralized power of bureaucrats. He sees his presidency as a Hegelian synthesis marking the end of political conflict. He sees himself as embodiment of the collective will. No president should speak in these terms -- not in a representative republic. Obama does it habitually.

~~ via SmallestMinority ~~

» Is it Crazy to Call Obama a Socialist or a Fascist?

if Socialized Medicine isn’t socialism … if nationalizing companies isn’t socialism … if redistribution of wealth isn’t socialism … maybe we have different dictionaries.

Read your history, they admonish us. Well I have. And it's apparent that either they haven't, or they're banking on the fact that a lot of people haven't and that we will just buy what they're saying, cower before their derision, and Shut Up. Fortunately knowledge is a good inoculation against such ridicule.
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Be very suspicious about any political movement with the word “workers” in the title.

~~ via SmallestMinority ~~

A long, short post from Kevin Baker, saved for last. If you dont have time for a long read, click it, bookmark it and read it later.
» What We Got Here is . . . Failure to Communicate

» 'Can we trust any technology that comes from China?'

» The great peasant revolt of 2010

Democratic opposition to George W. Bush -- from Iraq to Social Security reform -- constituted dissent. And dissent, we were told at the time, including by candidate Obama, is "one of the truest expressions of patriotism."

No more. Today, dissent from the governing orthodoxy is nihilistic malice. "They made a decision," explained David Axelrod, "they were going to sit it out and hope that we failed, that the country failed" -- a perfect expression of liberals' conviction that their aspirations are necessarily the country's, that their idea of the public good is the public's, that their failure is therefore the nation's.

Then comes Massachusetts, an election Obama himself helped nationalize, to shatter this most self-congratulatory of illusions.

For liberals, the observation that "the peasants are revolting" is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

The ankle-dwelling populace pushes back. It recenters. It renormalizes. Even in Massachusetts.

» Moonbat Tech: The Guilt Fork

How dare anyone enjoy a decent meal when there are parts of the world not yet collecting food stamps?

» The Real Reason Sen. Shelby Is Blocking All Obama Nominations

Can we say whining lil' hypocrite? Yes we can!

» Dems cheer after raising Americans' debt limit to $14,294,000,000,000

» Democrats Pushing Back Against Carbon Regulations From the EPA

Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amend the Clean Air Act to exclude regulations based on global warming effects, while Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) has a bill that would keep the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases at all unless approved by Congress.

Michelle Malkin said "Slow learners are better than no-learners."

Gregory at MoonBattery.com said "At some point, liberals will begin denying that the ever believed in Manbearpig; just the way they deny supporting the Soviet Union during the Cold War."

» State of the Union: Obama v. Constitution

Obama reiterated his claims that the current recession was caused by "Wall Street," and then went on to insist that the only hope for ending the recession was government "investment," a euphemism for taxing money out of the private sector, taking bureaucratic handling fees out, then giving it to political constituencies.

One Marine's View
» Never take it for granted

From the smiles of children walking down a street of a recently liberated village to the compassion of our young Marines that tend to those same children after recently slugging it out with the enemy, I often ask “Where do we get such men?" Such men that will sacrifice themselves to protect others they have never met? To demonstrate a nearly inconceivable wrath of weaponry onto the enemy and in a split second later help a young child or elderly man out of the street, sometimes even before the battle is over?

~~ thanks Chris ~~

Obama: Coddling terrorists in bid to please "educated class."
» Easy on the enemy
or O's lame attempt to impress libs

It's a matter of simple fact that the announcement that we'd close Guantanamo and other policy changes didn't prevent Abdulhakim Muhammad from killing US soldiers at the Little Rock recruiting station last June. It didn't prevent Nidal Hasan from killing US soldiers at Fort Hood in November. It didn't prevent Abdulmutallab from attempting to blow up Northwest flight 253 over US or Canadian airspace on Christmas Day.

Somehow, this is Bush's fault ...
» Obama Mispronounces "Corpsman" At Prayer Breakfast
While speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, Obama mispronounced the word "Corpsman" as "corpse-man."

This "more smarter than me", arrogant putz stuck his nose in the air, looked at the teleprompter and demonstrated that his vast education just didn't take.

» Justice Department Inspector General Stripped of Investigative Power

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine wrote in a four-page letter to Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia that Congress stripped him of the power to investigate all alleged wrongdoings within his department.

» Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants

Agents for Britain's MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

» Angry voters track RINOs and incumbents

Barack Obama told reporters that he rode the same wave of public anger into office that brought Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Not quite. The wave of public anger that elected Scott Brown is focused on Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats who are pushing his policies.

» 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Can't Ever Recover As Long As Democrats Control the Levers of Power
Rephrase : " As Long As Democrats or RINOs Control ... "

Dang it! Al Gore promised me that we had these tree things under control!
» Forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years