» Adam Kokesh: An anti-war smear merchant in “Republican” clothing

The Gordon Libby Radio Show Libby interviews retired SEAL, Captain Larry Bailey about the RINO Kokesh

“No better friend, no worse enemy.”
» Former Marine’s past fuels his candidacy

I'm starting to feel purdy good about the GOP these days.
» GOP Senators Pen Letter to Reid Vowing to Block Reconciliation

» The Middle East Peace Scam

For nearly twenty years the great sham of the Middle East Peace Process has dragged on. And this despicable scam has consisted of only one policy, only one platform and only one plan. Pressuring Israel for more concessions.

Year in and year out, new peace conferences were declared and new plans for peace were hammered out. All of them had one thing in common, they carved up Israel for a non-existent peace.

Listen instead to the soothing words of Ahmad Bahar, the Speaker of the Palestinian Authority Parliament.

"Make us victorious over the infidel people… Allah, take hold of the Jews and their allies, Allah, take hold of the Americans and their allies… Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.”

Ah, but you say it's about "the occupation". And there will be peace when the terrorists have all the land they feel they're entitled to. But... no.

"Our enmity with the Jews is a matter of faith, more than an enmity owing to occupation and the land."

Oh yes, there will be peace when they have all the land that they feel Muslims are entitled to. And this is the scope of their territorial demands.

“Soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, like Constantinople was conquered, according to the prophecy of our prophet Muhammad. Their capital will be the first post of the Islamic conquests that will spread all over Europe then it will turn to the two Americas and even to Eastern Europe."

» Another state to feds: Take your gun regs and stuff 'em

Local governments in massive revolt against rules ordered by Washington

» A simple point: why health care is not, and can never be, a "right"

Health care is a set of goods and services that are procured through payments.
...
Our country's founders would never have countenanced the mandated delivery of services compelled by an authoritarian, centralized government.

Health care is an infinitely complex series of transactions facilitated by doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, hospital systems, brokers, third-party networks, caregivers, volunteers and others.

The Democrats want to nationalize this entire system, and set up small committees of central planners who will formulate all of the rules, set prices, dictate treatments, and proscribe the activities of every kind of market participant, including patients.

Can a tiny group of Harvard-educated elites, serving as central planners similar to the Politburo, replace millions of decisions based upon free will?

» Another Socialized Medicine Success Story

» What's Arabic For 'You're No Atticus Finch'?

A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.

Not only do Americans have a right to know the legal backgrounds of lawyers setting detainee policy at the Department of Justice, but I personally demand the right not to have to listen to Eddie Haskell lawyers constantly claiming to be Atticus Finch.

» Monica Conyers convicted of bribery, sentenced to 3 years, but claims her taped cry of "you'd better get my loot" was taken out of context

She is the wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

» Latest Dem Project - Taking Lessons On How To Sound Tough On National Security

“The fact that Democrats have to train their own candidates on how to talk about defending America is an indictment not just of their candidates but of their policies, as well ..."

» My race is “American”

Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government’s business

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

She didn't really say that. No way. She can't be that stupid, and she can't possibly think we're that stupid.

Ok, she is that stupid.
And about 52% of us are stupid enough to nod head and recite.

» Liberals want to suspend self-government for Obamacare

President Obama is demanding a final vote on Obamacare before the members of the House and Senate return home for the Easter recess, which begins March 29.

Whatever your views on the merits of the variety of health care reform proposals that collectively have been debated over the course of the past 15 months, you should be offended and repulsed by this schedule.

Why? Because there is no bill to look at and debate; no text to read; no budget estimate to examine for its assumptions and calculations.

Well, so what? Nancy says we can worry about all that stuff after it's passed.

This is a massive proposed law, thousands of pages long, with extraordinarily dense language.

Does it matter how big it is, or how complicated? No!
A congressional bill should be understood, debated and carefully analyzed ... even if it was only one sentence long.

» Hatch: Biden Gambit Will ‘Blow Up the Senate’

“No option will be overlooked. There is a distinct possibility that the Democrats’ very partisan exercise could shut down the Senate. Let’s face it — if they’re going to play this kind of game then we will make sure they have one heck of a rough time from this day forward. There are all kinds of ways we could shut down the Senate, and I know them all.”

The Title alone says enough.
» 70% in Massachusetts Approve of Scott Brown’s Job Performance

Lemme Summit Furya
It's Massachusetts. Brown is a Republican with 70% polling.
Obama's polls are 44%, and dropping.

Stupid season started more than a year ago.
» Stupid Season

A crop of stupid like this doesn’t just spring up on its own. Stupid has to be lovingly tended. Plenty of stupid fertilizer and stupid water. The one thing you don’t want to do, if you want to win the big “Stupid” prize at the county fair next fall, is prune your dumb.

» Anything to Save the State Worker and His Program

“There is no money left. It does not grow on trees. Look in the mirror.”

» Sean Penn Suggests Prison Time for Journalists Who Call Hugo Chavez a Dictator

Too bad that finger wasn't loaded.

» Foreign Leaders Not Fond of Anointed One

Arrogance doesn't appeal to everyone.

Given the number and frequency of recent earthquakes across the globe, it would probably be a good idea if Michael Moore does NOT do any jumping jacks.
» Michael Moore’s Jumping Jacks
S'matter o fack, I insist.

» For ‘Best Performance in a Theater of War Not of One’s Own Choosing’,

THE AWARD GOES TO

…American soldiers! (*wild applause*)

» Report says fire support denied to Marine team

Staff Sergeant José Pequeño.
» He has a name now.

» Most Transparent President Ever Has Bar Records Redacted This Week, Leaving Only Traces of His Existence Some Betamax Videos and a Fraternity Pin

» Massa: Rahm Emanuel "Would Sell His Own Mother" For Votes

» Lying Libs Discover they Can’t Trust Each Other

Their entire agenda hinges on fooling the public into thinking liberal policies are something other than liberal policies; they rewrite history and convolute the American lexicon. Nobody can remember the last time their president looked us in the eye and told the truth about something. Yet, liberals are shocked-just shocked- to discover they can’t trust each other when it comes to passing the nefariousness camouflaged as “health care reform”.

» Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Judith Butler

Butler recently showed up in the Middle East, to strut her support for the intifada. As a militant feminist, however, she was on a bizarre mission. In February, 2010, she spent her time in the West Bank shilling for the very same Palestinian Islamic terrorist groups who make a point out of torturing and murdering homosexuals and who insist that the place of women in Muslim society is somewhere out back and out of sight, barefoot and scarved. Like so many apologists for Islamofascism, the only “oppression” of Palestinian women Butler could find was their supposed mistreatment by the Zionist “occupiers.” You know, the same ones who have a woman Chief Justice in their Supreme Court, who have more women doctors than men, and who have elected a woman as Prime Minister. Butler denounced Israel at length for its “mistreatment” of Arab women, and never mind that they are treated at least a thousand times better by Israel than they are inside any Arab regime. Meanwhile, Islamic religious figures in Egypt have been proclaiming that Muslims have the natural right to rape all Jewish women. Butler has yet to issue a response to that.

» Why Democrats Don’t Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt

the Democratic Party and the president are leftists. And most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the left. They may understand liberalism; but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are leftists. And most Americans do not understand the difference between liberal and left. They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic Party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that from Karl Marx to Obama, the left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.

... as for America wielding less power in the world, that is a positive development for the American left. It is the world community as embodied in the United Nations that should wield power throughout the world, not an “overstretched,” “imperialist” and “militarist” United States.

Rule of law is not a suicide pact for Western civilization -- unless we allow it to be.
» SEALs Case Shows How Terrorists Use 'Lawfare' to Undermine U.S.

Aside from obvious confusion about the appropriate application of the Uniform Code of Military Justice on the part of Major General Charles T. Cleveland (the commander who signed off on the charges), the utter absurdity of the situation must have jihadis everywhere wondering gleefully just what are the criteria Americans are using these days for promotion to general. To be fair, it’s not just Maj. Gen. Cleveland -- it’s the entire system of which he is just one deplorable example.

when the U.S. military sends three of our most elite warrior-patriots, our Navy SEALs, to courts martial because an enemy savage, who has committed unspeakable atrocities against American citizens, whined about a bloody lip or being punched in the stomach, that is not just lawfare, that is a perversion of anything remotely approaching genuine justice.

» ACLU Assaults Obama on KSM Trial

If he [Obama] does the right thing and returns KSM and friends to the military tribunal system where they belong, he’ll earn the ire of the radical left-wing base of the Democratic Party – perhaps the only people in America who still think electing Barack Obama was a good idea.

While the ACLU’s efforts to dismantle America’s ability to defeat and punish terrorists may not usher in their long-held dream of Communism, on a scale of damage to our national security and sovereignty they are not far behind. Terrorists never had better and more committed attorneys than the ACLU -- with the possible exception of some attorneys employed by Barack Obama’s Department of Justice.

» We all want the same thing?!

No, we don't.

Oh, the "Washington Game" was played big time during the recent Health Care Summit at Blair House and thanks to the "Divine Inertia of Democracy", we Americans safely watched the Progressive Democrats and their infinitely Marxist plans for the control of the entire human race face a purely American stone wall.

We watched the Progressives either lie cold bloodedly to us about the long term purpose of their government control of healthcare or we heard their thinly informed puppets mouth off the tired, transparently platitudinous manipulations of their hellish good intentions to save the human race from itself.

What once was a reasonably diverse, two-party system of left-wing, American Democrats and right-wing, American Republicans is now a growing, Tea Party constituency of true Americans and the virtual, New World Order shock troops of a eugenics-obsessed, Marxist-Leninist International Coalition that labels itself as the Progressive Democrats of America.

The Obama Nation wants the United States a docile, shrinking corner of the United Nations' Marxist-Leninist, New World Order

Now more than ever, armed Patriots must stand ready, in the words of Patrick Henry, to "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel."
» Second Amendment -- Still 'the palladium of liberties'

In recent decades, the "enterprises of ambition" and "usurpation and arbitrary power" among Leftist politicians and their corrupt judicial lap dogs have become malignant, eating away at our Essential Liberty and our constitutional Rule of Law. This has never been more so than since the charlatan Barack Hussein Obama duped 67 million Americans into seating him in the executive branch.

... the Bill of Rights was enumerated to ensure against encroachment on our inherent rights. Read in context, the Bill of Rights is both an affirmation of innate individual rights ... and a clear delineation of constraints upon the central government.

Note that the Second Amendment is unique in the Bill of Rights in that it expressly asserts the "right to keep and bear arms" is "necessary," more so than just important, to a "free state."

Also note that the 2nd explicitly says "... shall not be infringed." It doesn't say infringed by whom, where, when or how; just simply "... shall not be infringed." Without any qualifiers that can only be interpreted as saying the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The federal government shall not infringe.
The state governments shall not infringe.
County governments shall not infringe.
You will not infringe.

And the vile U.N. shall certainly not infringe.

» Sixty Million Armed Patriots ... and Counting

Fortunately, millions of gun owners subscribe to Thomas Paine's opinion: "If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

Currently, some 80 million Americans are gun owners, and it is estimated that 60 million of them own guns for purposes other than hunting. If you are not among them, you might thank God for the ranks of us who are, because as our Founders knew, we are the vanguard between liberty and tyranny.

"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?"
--Don Feder

» Census Carnage

Have you heard those Census commercials?

No, not the $250-million TV commercials. But now that you mention it, Avatar only cost $237-million. Shouldn’t Ed Begley, Jr. at least be blue for that kind of money? Or at least bluer than normal?

No, I mean the radio commercials. The ones that say the reason you need to fill out your census is so you can get stuff from the Gummint, so you can get your “fair share”. Karl Marx couldn’t have said it much better. Because he spoke German. And he woulda’ done it for a lot less than $250 million.

The example they use is education funding.

As a pay-off to unions, and to exert liberal control over any runaway school districts that might somehow be suceeding, Jimmy Carter invented the Education Department. Because conservatives didn’t kill it when there was a chance, a generation later it is accepted wisdom that the Federal Government should pay for your teachers and textbooks.

And you should fill out your census, not for the civic duty and representation as we all agreed to in the Constitution, but to get your cut of the booty, including the stuff we’re printing in the basement and borrowing from the Chinese with interest.

» James Pinkerton: ‘Generation Zero’ is the ‘Most Important Film of the Year’

“Generation Zero” is going to do for the tea party movement–and the larger cause of controlling government spending–what Al Gore’s 2006 movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” did for the global warming debate. There are some differences, however. As we now know, “Truth” was based on a deep fallacy, the idea that “global warming” is happening, even as the earth indeed is cooling. By contrast, “Zero” deals with one of the great struggles of our time; the trillions being spent and overspent are real. Down this wastrel road lies the chaotic fate of a banana republic–or maybe today’s Greece or Zimbabwe.

» Liberal Hypocrisy On Display In Berkeley As Student Defends Riots Against Education Immigration

Tea Partiers peacefully rallying in support of smaller government…those are Nazi racist bigots.

Progressive liberals rioting in the streets of California…that’s acceptable, and shouldn’t be used to paint the whole movement in a negative light.

Change. Hope.

» Berkeley hippies riot over cost of socialism.

» Va. man accused of helping smuggle Somalis into U.S.

Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group.

Religion of Peace . . . & Somali Muslim Crime Sprees Across America

.... Obama administration just made it even easier for them to seek asylum under false pretenses and remain here free to do as they please.
Lately, “as they please” includes a crime spree by Somali Muslims across America.

~~ via Around O-Town Blog ~~

» Islam is Incompatible with Diversity

Teaser Excerpt:
Before the rise of Islam, the Middle East had a wide range of religions and cultures. So much so that it is difficult to imagine the world today without the ideas and beliefs that emerged from there. Today however the Middle East has one dominant religion and one nationality. While there may be numerous countries, they all compromise an Arab Muslim Empire that extends from North Africa to the Gulf. An Empire that with the exception of Israel and Iran consists of one race and one religion, with all others either exterminated or subjugated as second class citizens.

That Empire was built through the ideology of Islam, that provided a manifest destiny to the quarreling Arab tribes who had already begun to overrun the region. Islam began by giving Mohammed and his followers the right to loot and enslave anyone who did not obey them, and ended by turning his cult into a fanatical worldwide movement bent on doing what they had done to the Middle East... to the entire world.

» Pass the popcorn, Nahanni: California organizes circular firing squad to determine who will make up its 50% shortfall in revenues

It's another Blue State miracle! The Gaia-friendly Democrat Utopia has hit a budgetary wall, unable to raise taxes and unwilling to cut spending to come anywhere close to meeting its obligations.

» State of Chaos: California Collapsing Before Our Eyes Thanks to Public Sector Unions. But They're Doing It For the Children.

It doesn't take a crystal ball to visualize California's future. All it takes is a quick scan of world headlines to see how public sector unions have destroyed economies around the globe.

Juxtapose.
» Low-tax Texas beats big-government California

Democratic majorities have obediently done the bidding of public employee unions to the point that state government faces huge budget deficits. Californians have responded by leaving the state.

Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes -- and no state income taxes -- and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California's year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.

But Texas seems to be delivering superior services. Its teachers are paid less than California's. But its test scores -- and with a demographically similar school population -- are higher. California's once fabled freeways are crumbling and crowded. Texas has built gleaming new highways in metro Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.

In the meantime, Texas' economy has been booming. Unemployment rates have been below the national average for more than a decade, as companies small and large generate new jobs.

» CBO: Huge deficits to average $1 trillion per year over the next decade

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said President Barack Obama's budget would lead to annual deficits averaging nearly $1 trillion for the next decade.

The estimates are for larger deficits than the budget shortfalls expected by the White House.

CBO expects fewer tax revenues largely because it expects less economic growth than the White House over the next decade.

How long do you think the Dhimmicrats are going to tolerate this kind of insubordinate behavior? If the CBO continues with the blatant Obama bashing, they might find their offices moved to Gitmo.
That would serve them justice, eh? Teach em to go around spouting truth and logic.

» A thousand words indeed.

once again another service member gets used as a media prompt.

» How quick the message fades

It is stunning to find out that there are still some elected officials in Washington DC especially on the Right side of the aisle who dont fully understand the message being sent by the American citizenry regarding their grotesque spending addiction. No, Im not talking about earmarks or pork barrel spending, which in and of themselves should be egregious enough to warrant defeat in the next election. I am referring to how US Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) was thrown under the bus when he demanded that his fellow Senators actually allocate existing funds for a program they wanted to implement.

Bunning was trying to do what the American people are demanding that government be fiscally responsible; that government stop adding to the deficit; that Congress stop spending borrowed money and the Congressional Republicans threw him under the bus, frightened of how supporting his effort would appear.

» WE Are The World, You Will Be Forgotten…

if the forty-plus millionaires had really wanted to do something selfless they could have each kicked in a million or two into an endowment and at an average return of 6.5% on an fund of 50 million they could have donated more money to poor nations and still have the fifty million sitting there working for the starving kids

» Blowing wind up your skirt

Thanks to Freedom of Information requests, the Chicago Tribune revealed significant collusion among Department of Energy officials and AWEA, as well as other third-party special interest groups such as the Center for American Progress, a think tank that pushes Green and other liberal agendas.

» Caution: Progressives Should Fear This Man

The president intends to overthrow American capitalism.
» KUHNER: The United Socialist States of America

From his days as a student radical, Mr. Obama has been obsessed with smashing the traditional free-market system. Like most leftists, he thinks capitalism is the enemy.
One of Mr. Obama's favorite philosophers was Frantz Fanon, a post-colonial Marxist who championed Third World liberation movements.

At Columbia University, while teaching constitutional law, he embraced postmodernist legal theory that maintains that the U.S. constitutional system presents an artificial veneer for liberty while actually advancing the economic interests of powerful white males. As a community organizer in Chicago, he studied and tried to mimic the activism of Saul Alinsky - a neo-Trotskyite who championed "permanent revolution." His longtime associates, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are supporters of Marxist liberation and share a deep hatred for the United States
...
Lenin urged that any disaster should be exploited to "hasten the destruction ... of the capitalist class." The 2008 Great Recession brought Mr. Obama to power. He has been seizing this crisis in order to overthrow the old capitalist order.

That would be article number umpteen-thousand, slew-hundred and 13 in the last year, inferring that Obama is dangerous and hazardous to America. That he has no business being in the white house.
Like all the rest of those articles, why doesn't it just say "We must remove him ... immediately ... by whatever means necessary" ?

» The Democratic Party is Destroying Itself

Ideology programs people to believe things in the same way that a computer is programmed to believe things. At that point reason and facts have absolutely nothing to do with it. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan went off to war fueled by faith that their own superiority would cause them to prevail. Setbacks and defeats could not be processed logically by their leadership-- because their ideology said that setbacks and defeats were impossible. Hitler ignored the pleading of his own generals to retreat. In the last days, his bunker became an echo chamber in which his followers remained convinced that Germany would prevail even as its armies had been destroyed, and children were being thrown into the battle. And when the facts couldn't be ignored any longer, Hitler killed himself. Just as Hideki Tojo tried to kill himself. Just as Stalin had contemplated killing himself when German troops had initially flooded across the border. Just as the Democratic party is now trying to kill itself.

What the Dems are doing makes perfect sense. For them.
» It’s About Government, Not Health Care

... governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible
...
Look at it from the Dems’ point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the GOP co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health-care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That’s a huge prize, and well worth a mid-term timeout.

» Anti-Bush Truther shoots up Pentagon; Should we play the political blame game?

instead of playing the blame game so unapologetically employed by the Left when they feel they can spin things to their political advantage, I’m not going to say that Bedell’s actions at the Pentagon epitomize the leftist worldview. Rather, he was just crazy, as clearly indicated by his belief in the craziest of modern crazy conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truthism.

Are most Truthers leftists? Yes. But that doesn’t mean that all left-leaning Americans are thereby just as crazy as the most extreme among them; it simply indicates that when a leftist goes crazy in the post-9/11 era, he often gloms onto Truthism as his paranoia of choice.

Seems to me that Bedell falls into the Alex Jones / Libertarian extremist camp. Contrary to what [some Web sites] are promoting, I know from first hand experience that these types of “truthers” are ubiquitous at all International ANSWER sponsored anti-war demonstrations, but I have not seen any of them at the handful of “tea parties” I’ve attended. You can call them “right-wing” if you like, but they are definitely not conservative. Actually, they are the exact opposite of conservative, they are radicals – and nuts. They’re anti-military, anti-war, anti-Bush, conspiracy kooks who often stink of marijuana.

If a group like this bunch Alex Jones supporters were to show up at any “tea party” I’ve been to, I suspect they’d be run out, or at the very least booed and heckled. At anti-war demonstrations these very same people are welcomed with open arms. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see followers of “Libertarian” Alex Jones and members of the Maoist group, The World Can’t Wait, marching together carrying the same “9/11 truth” banner.

Bedell may not have been a Leftist, but he was most certainly not a conservative either. And he was not a Republican.

It should be noted that the AlexJonesian cult is often present at Tea Parties. Not as the main ingredient, but as the annoying flies buzzing around, trying to take over. Without exception, their signs, t-shirts and rants include the Jonesian talking points such as "9/11 was an inside job". They also seem to be up-to-date on the lastest Ron Paul talking points.

The RonPauly dope in the photo (linked from Ringo's Pictures) is a perfect example: Holding a "9-11 Inside Job" sign, wearing a Ron Paul "END THE FED" tshirt, in solidarity with the commies behind him waving the signs of the antiwar, anti-capitalist socialists.

» More Diplomatic Incompetence from the Obama Administration

So, once again, the Obama administration has sold Great Britain, formerly our #1 ally, down the river, along with the inhabitants of the Falklands, whose opinions would seem to count for something. We are past the point where anyone could doubt that the Obama administration's hostility toward the U.K. is intentional. Obama seems to have substituted personal pathology for national policy.

» Welcome to College Where You Can Major in Jew-Hatred

Moral clarity and courage are rarely found in universities. The chattering classes almost always find justifications for totalitarian rule.

» Liars, Demagogues and other Communists: The Jim Bunning Story

... the mother with kids who can’t pay the light bill just doesn’t need one more worry right now. Their dad doesn’t either. It’s that simple.

Jim Bunning is as right as rain. His motives are unimpeachable. His opponents are wretched liars and vile scum-sucking opportunists. But this adds to the worries of that mom, and of that dad. And that’s why.

In fact, as far as I’m concerned, they should go ahead and renew it for the next three years. Because I don’t see this economy recovering until we drag that Communist out of the White House.

» AWOL in the Bunning Battle

The GOP shows why Obamacare is a good bet for the Left.

via Mike at ColdFury:

Just as the “stimulus” scam wasn’t about stimulating anything except already out-of-control government, and “climate change” alarmism isn’t about any actual danger from changes in the climate. As with everything else the Left promotes, it’s a subterfuge, a misdirection, and a lie. It’s all about tyranny

» I Know Why the Caged Byrd Stinks

Byrd dropping the “Glennbeckistan”-bomb is less plausible than a George Clooney marriage proposal based on a White House budget assumption.

The first rule of a good staffer is to make it sound like your boss. Whoever the staffer was who wrote “the barkings from the nether regions of Glennbeckistan” didn’t make Byrd sound ironic and hip; all it did was point out that the guy can’t even write a letter-to-the-editor by himself anymore.

Redundant Headline
» Pentagon Shooter: Anti-Bush Nut Case and 9/11 Truther

Liberal Massachusetts congressman Bill Delahunt entered Congress under a cloud and he’s leaving amid scandal.

» Delahunt's Exit

» Dealers up in arms over new Chrysler franchises awarded in their old locations

Last May, a scandal erupted that was quickly dubbed "Dealergate". It involved nearly 800 Chrysler dealerships that were forcibly closed by government officials, many under bizarre circumstances. An analysis showed that dealers who had contributed significant sums to Democrats had little chance of having a dealership revoked, while heavy GOP contributors were almost certain to have their franchises terminated.

» Navy SEALs Supported by Reps. Burton, Rohrabacher and Gohmert

Reps. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) were joined by over a dozen retired SEALS and other special forces representatives at a press conference on Capitol Hill calling for the exoneration of the three Navy SEALS accused of mistreating al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed.

» State polls show gathering storm

Congress, it turns out, isn’t the only institution held in low esteem by voters this year.

According to a POLITICO review of publicly available polling data, numerous state legislatures are also bottoming out, showing off-the-charts disapproval ratings accompanied by stunning levels of voter cynicism.

It all adds up to a toxic election-year brew for legislators inside and outside Washington.

Fact vs Hyperbole
» Lying About Bush's Tax Cuts

The Bush tax cuts did shift the tax burden, but not in the direction most liberals think.

» Onward with Obamacare, regardless

Unfortunately for Democrats, that seven-hour televised exercise had the unintended consequence of showing the Republicans to be not only highly informed on the subject, but also, as even Obama was forced to admit, possessed of principled objections -- contradicting the ubiquitous Democratic/media meme that Republican opposition was nothing but nihilistic partisanship.

The time for debate is over, declared the nation's seminar leader in chief. The man who vowed to undo Washington's devious and wicked ways has directed the Congress to ram Obamacare through, by one vote if necessary, under the parliamentary device of "budget reconciliation." The man who ran as a post-partisan is determined to remake a sixth of the U.S. economy despite the absence of support from a single Republican in either house, the first time anything of this size and scope has been enacted by pure party-line vote.

» Obama comforts House liberals: Don’t worry, this bill is just the beginning of what we’ll do with health care

Don’t look surprised. The left has been remarkably candid about this over the past year or two. Again and again and again and again and again and again and again they’ve warned people that the dream is bigger than universal coverage or even the public option.
Memo from The One to progressives: Keep the dream alive.

» You Have No Right to my Property

Here's the truth: Bunning is a hero and his senatorial critics are villains. That goes for Republicans as well as Democrats. Bunning's opponents are liars and hypocrites of the highest order. The Democrats have no intention of lowering the deficit or abiding by "pay-go," and this only proves it.

» Tea Partiers and the Angry Left

Whatever happened to the mainstream media's high regard for "anger" in politics? From roughly the midterm elections of 2006 through the presidential election of 2008, the "Angry Left" seemed to grow in stature with the media. Liberal pundits spoke of it with a hush of awe. By the election of the Prophet Obama, the Angry Left had acquired a hallowed public status similar to that of the "muckraker" or the "consumerist," though no consumerist whom I ever have known has been agreeable company.

» To Keep and Bear Arms

Citizen access to firearms has reduced crime rates time and again, but this is more than a matter of practicality. It’s a question of principle. The people of an orderly nation surrender the business of vengeance to the government, replacing it with the rule of law. They cannot be expected to surrender the right of defense. The right to protect yourself, and your family, from injury and death is an essential part of your dignity as a free man or woman. Without the First Amendment, you are a slave. Without the Second, you are a child.

» I Will Only Love You, If You Kill Yourself

It is the same thing as a man saying to a woman, "I will only love you, if you kill yourself." His statement contains the word "love" in it, but it is premised on her agreeing to cease to exist. Which means that he hates her existence, and loves the idea of her non-existence. So too the left love their countries.

» The Moral Disarmament of the Civilized World

There are many forms of moral disarmament, but they are all directed at depriving a man not merely of freedoms and rights, but of the idea that he has any freedoms and rights. The second amendment comes after the first, and so before the disarmament of self-defense, there is the disarmament of the pen and the voice, in which people learn to censor themselves, to replace "crimethink" with "bellyfeel duckspeak", to avoid saying things that are not yet illegal, but are disapproved of. And even when they do say them, they take great care to demonstrate that they are not engaging in "crimethink", but that though admittedly controversial, their ideas are legitimate and not extremist. They apologize for their words before they say them, which is the intellectual equivalent of going to war with your hands thrown up in the air. And so before they speak, they have already been disarmed.

» The dicotomy of Kokesh

Did it all crystallize for him after ... the ANSWER-sponsored March on the Pentagon last March?
Or when he carried an upside down flag in the Ron Paul rally on the Capitol West Lawn.

It had to have been after he joined up with several communist organizations to protest Bush, the war and our troops.

» Fox News and Judge Andrew Napolitano Shill for IVAW Traitor Adam Kokesh - Again

There is no mention by Napolitano about Kokesh's involvement with terrorist supporting groups like IVAW and Code Pink, nor did Napolitano mention Kokesh's repeated disciplinary actions in the Marines that resulted in him being demoted from sergeant to corporal and from an honorable discharge to a general discharge.

Napolitano did not bring up Kokesh personally urging U.S. troops on a base in Germany to desert the military and lay down their arms.

In another era, Kokesh would have faced a firing squad or the hangman's noose for his actions in Germany. But we live in a more progressive era where traitors are heroes and heroes are the ones persecuted.

By the way, have I mentioned that Kokesh enjoys the endorsement of Ron Paul? And have I mentioned that Kokesh has endorsed B.J. Lawson?
Consider it mentioned.

» THE JACKPOT ANCHOR BABIES: LAWLESSNESS BEGETS MORE OF THE SAME

This country, staggered by $12 trillion of debt, cannot afford to bleed itself into further financial chaos. As with a thousand cuts, at some point, the living creature dies.

Those 400,000 pregnant women that enter the United States illegally to birth their babies on American soil also add themselves to our welfare rolls—which doubles the costs. Their children become instant citizens and their mothers become instant wards of the American taxpayer.

As it should be, political correctness is dying.
» NATION OF ISLAM GETS A PASADENA TEXAS WELCOME

» State Citizen Asserts Rights. Case Dismissed!

» With Money on the Line, Local Governments Urge Illegal Immigrants to Fill Out Census

Cities, counties and states that haven't been very kind to illegal immigrants over the years are suddenly dusting off their welcome mats. With the 2010 census about to get under way, those undocumented residents will be worth a lot of money for the next few weeks.

Or to state it more succinctly; city, county and state officials are willing to sell our heritage to Mexico for a few more federal dollars.

And who did the federals get those dollars from?

~~ via my yankee friend John Kennedy ~~

» Applying Alinsky: Why Obamacare makes no sense

Nothing coming out of the leadership in the White House or Congress makes a grain of sense and it is calculated to making the public so hopeless that, in the end, when they manage to bribe their way to a "reconciliation" vote to pass it, the public will feel defeated by all their efforts to date and ripe for more legislative horrors such as Cap-and-Trade.

Those efforts were seen in the heated town hall meetings during the summer, a march on Washington, D.C. in September, the elections of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey, and a Senator from Massachusetts. In very obvious ways, the public is shouting No! No! No!

Alinsky taught that Americans must be overwhelmed with a never-ending barrage of crisis, emergencies, and unworkable 'solutions' that exacerbate problems. This is why Rahm Emanuel, the President's Chief of Staff, famously said that a crisis should never be wasted.

It may even explain why the financial crisis conveniently occurred in the last weeks of the Bush term and during the campaign for the presidency.

» Who's the boss?

Is the federal government sovereign, with authority over state governments? Or, are individual state governments sovereign, with authority over the federal government? It's a simple question; it's the answer that's a problem.

Article 1, Section 8 sets forth 17 enumerated powers of the federal government. The first clause empowers the new government to "lay and collect taxes," to provide for the "defense and general welfare" of the United States. Here's where the argument gets nasty.

One group of people argues that the phrase "general welfare" means whatever Congress wants it to mean with no limitations. Another group of people argues that if this is what the designers intended, why on earth would they have bothered to enumerate the remaining 16 specific powers? It's a reasonable question that the first group prefers to ignore rather than answer.

» Big Surprise! Deb Medina (Paulbot-Truther) Refuses to Support Winner of GOP Primary

Feel free to pick any of these parties:

Truthers Rock Texas Party
Dumb as a Stump Party
Anti Black Helicopter Coalition
Just Want to Smoke Dope and Get a Check Party
Imbeciles R Us Party

You know, sometimes I write this stuff just to piss off the Paulbots out there but I swear it works every time.

» America Rising: AlbanyTeaParty2010

» Another Bribe? 'Unprecedented $4.35 Billion' in Education Funds Now Available to Certain States

» Avatar Wins "Progie" Award

Confirmed. Avatar, a movie about blue people, has a red message.

» 159 Big Spending, Big Government Features of Obamacare

remember that all the tax increases starts NOW, if this bill is passed, but none of the coverage starts for four years!

I dont get it ... I found links and comments to this all over the place, and still can't decide if it's real or not.
» 'I will take our troops out of the war zone and put them into space'
She's a Larouchie Democrat? What is that?
She wants to impeach Obama because he's under the control of British imperial controllers?
Out of hundreds of good, solid, sane reasons to impeach Obama (and expel him from the country) she and the nuts that voted for her believe he's control by the Brits. Like I said, I don't get it.

If this isn't satire then she's insane. And is it not a sad commentary that we can no longer distinguish satire from reality?

» Drug gangs taking over US public lands

Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

» No finish in sight for 'virtual' border fence

Illegal aliens and Mexican drug gangs have occupied US public lands in Yosemite and the redwood forests of Ca. They cultivate vast crops of marijuana, while protecting their investment with explosives, snipers and armed patrols.
Meanwhile, our borders remain unsecured. Border fences for which millions of dollars were allocated have not been built.
The Democrat's (and alot of RINOs) only answer to this grievous problem is amnesty for the criminals - reward aggression and criminal behavior with citizenship.
How should I phrase this question for the multitude of Republican candidates that seek to replace them?

» The essence of failed counterinsurgency tactics

Instead of unleashing our forces to win we get a politicized, protracted, lower level boiling pot to toss our service men into like frogs, and they come back missing limbs and traumatized - or get shot to death or poisoned in the canteen before deployment, with the perpetrator getting protection and a public defender.

Hear the voice of sanity.

» How Islam Breathed New Life into Slavery and the Slave Trade In Europe

Louis Farrakhan - Racist? Yes, blatantly so.
Jew Hater? Without a doubt.
America Hater? Passionately.
Terrorist Supporter? Card carrier.
Insane? He claims to have boarded a UFO in 1985 where he met Muhammad, who gave him the ability to see the future.
Obama Supporter? Well DUH!

» Farrakhan predicts 'white right' trouble for Obama
Given Farrakhan's resume, any one with more than two brain cells to rub together would recognize the evil and avoid him like a bucket of ebola.

An estimated 20,000 people attended the heavily guarded Saviours' Day event at the United Center in Chicago. Followers — men dressed in navy uniforms and women in white skirt suits with matching hijabs — cheered on Farrakhan with shouts of "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is great."

So the total brain cell count was 20,000, plus or minus a few.

» The Unemployed Form a Union

just because you don't even pretend to do any work doesn't mean you can't join a union

» The Basis for Tort Reform

It has been argued that the actual cost of medically unnecessary (but legally warranted) defensive medicine takes up to 9% of total health care spending. Others place that figure as high as 25%
...
Approximately 12.1 billion dollars is awarded to plaintiffs each year. Approximately 40% goes to the plaintiffs’ attorneys or court costs, leaving 7.2 billion dollars to the victims. If we use the 25% figure, then $72 is thrown away for a single dollar to go to the victim.
...
Unless we get real tort reform, nothing Congress does will help curtail the runaway costs of medicine. We must decouple malpractice determinations from malpractice awards. There are many ways to do this, but this will be fought tooth and nail by the trial lawyers association. Physicians should adjudicate with lawyers and judges overseeing. If lawyers can oversee lawyers, then physicians can surely oversee other physicians. The British system is also an acceptable manner to deal with malpractice cases. Loser pays the court costs.

The bottom line is that the real victims of the current medico-legal system are the American people, and its time to play Howard Beale and say: “We’re mad as hell, and we’re not gonna take it anymore!”

» In light of Chinese cyber attacks, flashback to 2003, when Microsoft started sharing source code with -- wait for it -- China's military

That's right: Microsoft gave (and perhaps still gives) the PLA access to its critical source code. This wouldn't be so bad if everyone had the same rights -- but they don't.

It would seem that China has a leg up when it comes to crafting attacks for Microsoft products. One wonders whether the IE6 hack came from knowledge gleaned by this "sharing program". In addition, we could speculate that China has numerous other zero-day exploits stockpiled, just like an arsenal, waiting for the day when further attacks are necessary.

Idiots
» US plans 'dramatic reductions' in nuclear weapons

A billboard recently established on I-75 just south of Lake City. A group gathered there to celebrate its unveiling. The cost of 10 months rental of the billboard and doing the artwork was $6500.
"We feel that is a reasonable cost to reach out to 1,000,000 vehicles per month and perhaps motivate their participation in the electoral process to get our country on a sound footing. "

» Quote of the day: Rep. Marsha Blackburn

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, on Face the Nation, discussing whether Democrats have the votes to pass the national health care bill:
If they had the votes, we wouldn't have had the summit.

~~ via Larwyn's Linx ~~

» Islam

In the parallel universe where reside the left and their radical Islamic friends, it makes perfect sense that the only machine that can detect a certain, and most destructive kind of explosive, that has been used exclusively by Islamic terrorists since 2001, is now able to be used with any traveler using American international airports, except, of course, Muslim persons. These Muslim individuals are, as every sane person acknowledges, the ACTUAL REASON we have to put every air traveler through the excruciating security measures that are now in place.

» Bunning Fight Over Jobless Bill Shows Senator’s Contempt for GOP Leader

The legislation has caused heartache for members of his party as Democrats have made him a poster boy for GOP obstructionism. But it has also frustrated Democrats who've been forced to legislate without budget gimmicks.

Senator Bunning has stood fast while catching fire from both sides. What's he doing to rile up the Dhimmicrats and RINOs at the same time?
He simply insists that Congress actually fund the bill they're trying to pass.
It's only been a week of two since the same Congress passed a "PayGo" bill that requires them to do exactly what Bunning is demanding. If they had no intention to 'pay as they go', what was the purpose of passing the PayGo?
The Republicans are getting worried that the Dhimmicrats will be able to twist and spin the issue and gain some advantage. So, rather than stand on principle, with Bunning, they would rather have him shut up and let the Dhimmis do as they please.

Here's some email addresses...

Cecile Bockelman, Director of Constituent Services cecile_bockelman@bunning.senate.gov

Linda Geisselbrecht, Staff Assistant linda_geisselbrecht@bunning.senate.gov

Sharon Klare, Caseworker
sharon_klare@bunning.senate.gov

Terri Laughlin, Systems Manager
terri_laughlin@bunning.senate.gov

Debbie McKinney, Deputy Chief of Staff, State Director debbie_mckinney@bunning.senate.gov

John Salyers, Field Representative
john_salyers@bunning.senate.gov

Darlene Simpson, Caseworker
darlene_simpson@bunning.senate.gov

Just in case you had a hankerin' to write someone on Bunning's staff and say something like:

Tell your boss, THANK YOU for telling the nation what we want to hear, STOP SPENDING!

I wish more politicians had the guts you have demonstrated in trying to stop the out of control spending.

~~ thanks to Frank L. for the addresses and quote ~~

» Chicagoans hope stories will help overturn gun ban

The lead plaintiffs in challenging Chicago's 28-year-old ban on handguns aren't stereotypical gun-rights advocates. They don't represent the agenda of any national group or organize rallies.

Instead they represent average Chicagoans , the kind of people that opponents of the city's ban say should be allowed to protect themselves from gun violence.

On Tuesday, the four plaintiffs will take their seats inside the U.S. Supreme Court as their attorneys argue the lawsuit that bears their names.

~~ thanks for the tip, George ~~

» Restaurant Execs Explain the Disastrous Economic Environment: "Government [is] the greatest single threat we have"

Restaurant News Magazine explains why the industry is shrinking despite a growing population. Restaurant owners are afraid to hire, unwilling to invest, and incapable of expanding because they are terrified of what Democrats -- at every level of government -- will do next.

Is this real? or parody?
» Little-used 'Staple-and-bind' parliamentary procedure will allow Democrats to pass health bill with just nine votes in House, three in Senate
You can't tell anymore. Aint that scary?

» Hillary Clinton slaps Britain in the face over the Falklands

Hillary Clinton’s statements at this press conference are highly significant, as they demonstrate a clear shift in US policy from neutrality (last week’s position) towards siding with the Argentine position of pressing for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands at the United Nations.

The Secretary of State, a highly skilled political operator, knows exactly what she is doing here. She is giving her full support for the official stance of Buenos Aires, despite the fact that Great Britain has made it clear that the sovereignty of the Falklands is non-negotiable. She makes no reference at all to the fact that Argentina recently threatened a blockade of the Falklands, or that its close ally Venezuela has been threatening war against Britain.

The Brits will not allow Argentine commie dictators to snatch their property. Will Clinton, in her never ending coddling of socialists, continue to support the enemies of our allies?
When war erupts between our friend Britain and the Argentina/Venezuela socialists, will Obama and Hillary be tempted to pit American troops against British?

» Are You Packing Heat? Your Local Newspaper May be Planning to Out You

Somehow, the editor felt that the local government trying to protect the privacy, security and Second Amendment rights of its citizens was being secretive.

This issue raises very rational objections. Aside from the obvious – these are law abiding citizens who have a Second Amendment right to carry a gun and have gone through the proper registration process to carry it on their persons and in their homes – there are other reasons for privacy concerns.

If I have a legitimate permit and I’m obeying the law, the general public should have no more business knowing whether I carry a gun than it does whether I carry mace, whether I carry a large rock in my backpack, or for that matter whether I have a cup of steaming hot coffee in my car.

» EPA’s Backdoor National Energy Tax

Clearly, the Obama Administration is moving ahead on EPA regulations to pressure Congress into passing cap-and-tax legislation—if the Democrat Congress does not force a job-killing cap-and-tax scheme on the American people, the EPA will.

» ACORN and the Ku Klux Klan

Last week, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a crime syndicate dedicated to tightening the Democratic Party’s grip on America, dissolved its national structure. Too much of ACORN’s corruption had been exposed to public scrutiny for it to run its vote fraud and extortion rackets effectively. So, ACORN activists will have to soldier on in state-level organizations, such as New York Communities for Change and New England United for Justice in Massachusetts.
...
Democrats used the Klan to suppress their political opposition, with vote fraud and intimidation and violence. Klansmen aimed at African-Americans, nearly all Republicans in those days, and at white Republicans who tried to help them. Once threatened by the KKK, Republicans could in many cases save their lives only by publicly swearing allegiance to the Democratic Party. According to a southern governor, “Few Republicans dare sleep in their houses at night.”
...
Back then, Klansmen had to contend with a Republican administration, but now, with a Democrat in the White House, ACORNistas know that the federal government is on their side. With Eric Holder’s Justice Department condoning polling place thuggery [pictured] and other illicit activity against the GOP, there is less incentive for Democrats to suppress Republican opposition by covert means when government authorities are doing so openly.

The Democrat-controlled 111th Congress has made ACORN spin-off groups eligible for billions of taxpayer dollars. Once an insurgency, community organizers are now part of the establishment. To the victors go the spoils.

» Hot Flashes, Dead Bugs, and Cocaine for Monkeys: The 10 Worst Federal Stimulus Projects in North Carolina

» Obama did NOT "hold the title" of a University of Chicago law school professor.

» Pres. Barack Obama – Editor of the Harvard Law Review – Has No Law License?

» Identifying Terror

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has become the first Obama Administration official to publicly describe last year’s deadly shootings at Ft. Hood, Tex., as a terrorist act
...
The Ft. Hood shootings occurred on November 5, 2009. Elapsed time until the member of the Administration who supervises your protection from terrorism identified it as such: 111 days

It’s long past time to replace Napolitano, and the apparatus around her, with someone who can identify the enemy.

Noteworthy: While Nappy, Obama and dhimmicrats in general have difficulty identifying the enemy, they are not the only ones with their heads in the ground. There's a few camps of so-called Republicans that have dirt behind their ears as well.
In particular, those that subscribe to the isolationist theories of Ron Paul and the truther cult of Alex Jones.

» Is the US healthcare system really broken?

How many times have we heard the Republicans, even the newest Senator, express agreement with the proposition that "the healthcare system is broken?"

By accepting the Democrat's definition of the issue uncritically the Republicans have, they permitted their opposition to frame the debate and to define the battle space.

But the initial question has not been asked. Is the American health care system broken? By skipping over the question and assuming the result have the Democrats created a "crisis" where none exists and have the Republicans missed the point?

I made mention of Arizona's verification measure a few days ago. I think we all need to be aware of it and keep an eye on developments.
» Clever Legislators in Arizona Hit on New Way to Find Obama’s Birth Truth
If, in 2012, one state disallows the incumbent President a slot on the ballot, it's going to be big news. Big enough that the Obamedia will not be able to ignore it, no matter how hard they try. And it won't matter what kind of spin they put on it.

I'd say it will probably not be an issue by then.

The woman is insane ...
» Pelosi: Lawmakers Should Sacrifice Jobs for Health Care

Pelosi told CNN that "in a matter of days" Democrats will have specific legislative language on health care to show to the public and to wavering lawmakers. She predicted voters will warm up to the bill once they understand its details.

She is, clearly, willing to sacrifice her job, and all the dhimmicrats in congress too.

» Iran, Syria mock U.S. policy; Ahmadinejad speaks of Israel's 'annihilation'

The presidents of Iran and Syria on Thursday ridiculed U.S. policy in the region and pledged to create a Middle East "without Zionists," combining a slap at recent U.S. overtures and a threat to Israel with an endorsement of one of the region's defining alliances.

Quoting PatriotRoom, (from whence I found this article) ....

I'm impressed with how this Obama-hand-talkey thing is working out. You?

Quick! Dig up Nancy's burka and get her back over there to kiss Assad's butt some more. And Barry, go do some more bowing - lower this time!
Spread that hopey-changey around!

» Falklands Fallacy

» Obama Fatigue

Every President starts to wear on the public. But the omnipresent Obama has become wearisome in record time. Why?

Can Obama recover in the midterm elections? Compare the following ifs: if the economy grows by 5% (it could, given the massive government borrowing) in the third quarter and unemployment goes below 8% (not likely) in a natural cycle of rebound; if Obama kills or catches Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden (kills is the operative word); if the Democrats clean house of Dodd, Rangel, Pelosi, Reid, etc. and start using old time (are any left?) centrists as their public spokespeople; if Obama himself shows more humility, drops the “I”s and “me”s, weans himself off the teleprompter, quits all the bowing and apologizing, and, Clinton-like, starts talking about balanced budgets, well, then there is a chance of recovery. But note if he were to do that, he would not be Obama as he has been for nearly the last half-century. More likely, he’s going to Carterize it to the end, and end up at 85 writing op-ed responses why he really, really was a great president nearly forty years prior.

Michael Yon, bringing home the ground realities of the wars.

A crew from the United States Air Force spent Saturday night and Sunday morning airlifting different groups of wounded soldiers from Kandahar to Camp Bastion to Bagram, back to Kandahar, then back to Bagram, and back to Kandahar. These patients were from Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Here, an Air Force nurse caresses the head of a wounded, unconscious Canadian soldier while whispering into his ear.

Pamella Geller provides a follow up on Yon's story.
» America, A Love Story

So while some real Americans risked life and limb to save some of our Canadian brothers-in-arms, thereby creating a fresh new outpouring of affection for America by Canadians ....

The anti-Americans in D.C. are doing everything they can to alienate and enrage another of our allies, the Brits.
» Obama refuses to support Britain in Falkland Islands dispute with Argentina

Yesterday we wondered whether President Obama would support Britain in the latest dispute with Argentina over the Falkland Islands? Today we learn Obama decided not to support Britain, our closest ally.

According to the Times, The Obama/Hillary State Department insisted that the U.S. position was one of longstanding neutrality.

Oh, well then. Barry and Hillary insisted. That settles it, bugger off you Limeys. I reckon you'll think twice about helping the U.S. again, eh?
Besides, Barry's buddy Hugo is one of the stink-makers in the situation, and we can't go and make Hugo mad.

Like Dan said at RedState,

This is how Obama repays Britain for continuing to support our special relationship and providing thousands of British soldiers to lay their lives on the line alongside their American allies on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Do not let Obama get away with this latest outrage. Call the White House. Call your Senators. Call your Representative. Tell them the American people, if not their current president, back our most dependable and important ally. So should the federal government.

Thanks to my British friend for bringing this to my attention.

» Another Puzzle After Iran Moves Nuclear Fuel

Ron Paul's foreign policy is bad for the right and America
» KUHNER: Conservatives' isolationist dalliance

Mr. Paul is a fiscal hawk and an economic realist who understands the danger to the constitutional republic posed by the Fed and big-government liberalism. No wonder many younger conservatives and libertarians admire him.

On foreign policy, however, he is wrong - dangerously wrong. His opposition to the "welfare-warfare state" is misguided. A strong national defense is crucial to America's survival, especially in an age of global Islamic terrorism.

Mr. Paul's foreign policy views hearken back to those of the old isolationists of the 1930s and 1940s.
They argued that America was safe within a continental defensive perimeter, protected by two oceans. However, Pearl Harbor demonstrated the myth of Fortress America. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks also exposed it.

» Ron Paul: Dangerous Isolationist, Yesterday’s Man

What is much more important than his fiscal hawkishness is Ron Paul’s foreign policy. No matter how much he makes sense on auditing the Federal Reserve (which is a good idea) his isolationism is 1930s-era “old-speak” that would get us all killed. On foreign policy, Ron Paul is dangerously wrong and anti-American. Our next president will need to be a fiscal conservative, pro- military and someone who recognizes we are at war with radical jihad. That is not Ron Paul. He is yesterday’s man.

» ObamaCare Lays Groundwork for Unprecedented Level of Totalitarianism

Control is an end in itself for liberals. There is no point at which they will ever say to the individual: that's enough, you keep the rest of your freedom, any more than they would ever say, that's enough, you keep the rest of your property. Liberalism is a cancer; it will continue to metastasize mindlessly until either it is cut out or it kills the host. There is no other possible outcome.

» Stop Al Gore Before He Lies Again..and Again...and Again!

In November 2009, the Telegraph, a British newspaper, carried a story, “Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire”, so let us disabuse ourselves of the notion that Gore just wants to save the world.

» Unsettled Science

The scientific community is unsettled. Beyond our borders, the people are unsettled. The press is unsettled. And all because the science, it turns out, is unsettled. The hysteria must end. It’s time for science to de-cult and get back into the business of science.

» Al Gore Mocked at Shareholder’s Meeting (While He Sat in the Front Row)

“He’s a Laughingstock. The Glaciers Have Not Melted!”

» Why would a Devout Muslim Want to Work at Soft Porn Abercrombie and Fitch? So CAIR can Sue, of course!

» A Brief, Illustrated History of the Public Sector Unions That Are Bleeding America Dry With the Full Support of the Democrat Party

In 2009, private sector union members were outnumbered for the first time by their public sector counterparts.
The historical basis of unions revolved around workers receiving a reasonable share of a company's profits. But that tenet is nonsensical when applied to public service. Governments don't make profits; they simply assess taxes.

» Obama's Micro-Mismanagement of HAMP Equates to "Can-Kicking Stupidity"

I've come up with a radical scheme that could possibly work to end the housing crisis:
1) People that can't or won't pay their mortgage lose the house.
2) The banks take the house and sell it to people who can afford it.

There are a few flaws:
1) It doesn't require massive amounts of government money.
2) It doesn't protect people from their mistakes.
3) It doesn't punish responsible people who are patiently waiting for houses to become affordable.
4) It could result in the banks that helped create this mess failing.

In spite of these issues, I believe we should give it a try.

"Honest adults with licensed guns, go away. Lawbreakers looking for sitting ducks, step right in."
» Handgun Derangement Syndrome Grips Restaurateurs

The benefits of having decent citizens carry concealed guns outweigh the one-in-ten-million chance that one of those citizens will turn not-so-decent and shoot you. Law-abiding Americans brandish handguns in 2.5 million defensive incidents a year -- once every 12½ seconds. In most cases, a gun's mere appearance settles a brewing conflict. The National Center for Policy Analysis found that major crime plunges when law-abiding citizens carry concealed handguns [ii]. The same NCPA study, covering every American county, found that murders dropped by 8.5 percent, while rapes and serious assaults fell up to 7 percent in states with licensed concealed carry. Furthermore, if states without licensed concealed carry would institute it, then 1570 murders, 4180 rapes, and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would not happen each year.

» The Dead Road of Socialism

The lure of socialism is that of the golden Utopia, a promised land in which the sun always shines, there are never any rainy days and there's enough of everything for everyone. In real life it doesn't work that way. Economies, like any other natural system, have upturns and downturns. There are losses and gains. Resources are finite and are generated through wise trade and reinvestment. In the rhetoric of the socialist utopian though, it never has to rain, all the days can be sunny, wealth is endless and only greed prevents it from being distributed equally by the wise and all-knowing government bureaucracy.

» Updated: Video - Violence Breaks Out At Tea Party

» While You Are Distracted by the Summit, Obama Democrats Are Targeting the CIA

The Obama Democrats have outdone themselves.

While the country and the Congress have their eyes on today’s dog-and-pony show on socialized medicine, House Democrats last night stashed a new provision in the intelligence bill which is to be voted on today. It is an attack on the CIA: the enactment of a criminal statute that would ban “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”

Here is the fact: Democrats are saying they would prefer to see tens of thousands of Americans die than to see a KSM subjected to sleep-deprivation or to have his “phobias exploited.” I doubt that this reflects the values of most Americans.

» Behind The Scenes, Obama And The Democrats Destroy The CIA's Ability To Interrogate Jihadis

This goes beyond politics. It is a profound lack of common sense and a foul violation of the oath Obama and members of Congress took when they assumed their offices. it puts American lives at risk.

Our enemies fully understand the sort of weak, feckless, appeasement minded administration now in the White House. And I fear we will pay in blood because of it.

UPDATE: Sanity is not entirely dead in DC. After widespread outcry, the Democrats pulled this suicidal nonsense from the legislation.

Here's what Rep. Pete Hoekstar(r-MI) had to say on the matter:

"That Democrats would try to bury this provision deep in the bill, late at night, when they thought everyone’s attention would be focused on the health care summit is a testament to the shameful nature of what they were attempting," Hoekstra said.

"Republicans brought this to the attention of the American people, who were rightly outraged that Democrats would try to target those we ask to serve in harm’s way and with a unified push we were successful in getting them to pull the bill."

"weak, feckless, appeasement". Those words are a vague description of a malady that infects too many facets of American life, thought and action. It's the same sickness that allows us to elect leaders that cannot recognize real threats, that allows in-rank traitors to fester and prosper and finally end up executing dozens of soldiers at Ft. Hood, that allows prosecution of SEALs for doing their job, that allows anti-war protesters to vandalize Marine recruiters without retribution, that allows celebrities to idolize past and present foreign dictators without losing any of their celebrity, that allows for political candidates that condone or tolerate blatant communists, that allows ....

» The Olympic Race Race and the Great Quantum Leap Downhill and Backwards

My own family is Flemish/German from Belgium. Brother, you don’t know what discrimination is until you tell someone you’re a Phlegm-Germ Belcher. Try it sometime.

So from now on, I’ve decided to call myself the dirtiest name of all:

“American”.

» The Big Takeover

One more time: they DO NOT CARE what you think; they DO NOT CARE about standing long-established parliamentary procedure on its head; they DO NOT CARE about integrity, honesty, or following their own rules; they DO NOT CARE about the proper role of Constitutional government. They care only about power, and figuring out any means fair or foul by which they can glom more of it. The only question that matters here is: what are we gonna do about it after they do?

» Rangel 'Admonished' By Ethics Committee - And Why It Won't Affect Him

The CBC membership would rather do almost anything than vote to censure or remove a fellow CBC member from the feeding trough of a prestigious chairmanship or even a committee seat.
And they don't look kindly on anyone else trying to do it either.

Pelosi knows this.

Maggie Thornton has the dirt on Senator Charles Rangel who, by no fault of his own, only made third place on her list of the most corrupt and prison-worthy politicians in D.C.
» Charlie Rangel's Culture of Corruption

Can anyone explain why this man is not in prison, and at least, why he has not lost his chairmanship? Oh...yes, of course, he's a Democrat and they never eat their own.

» Ethics Panel Finds Rangel Broke House Rules

» ObamaCare Summit Follies - The Juicy Bits

Actually, the real audience today is not really the American people - Obama discounted them months ago.The real intended audience is the Democrats in Congress, to try and get their blood up to cast a vote for ObamaCare and take a bullet for the president come November.

» Qaddafi Calls for Jihad on Swiss for Minaret Ban

In November, Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets, in a controversial decision that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population.
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Libya’s leader called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland
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Relations between Libya and Switzerland turned icy after Qaddafi’s son, Hannibal, and his wife were arrested in a luxury hotel in Geneva in 2008 for allegedly beating up their servants.

Lemme Summit Furya
- The Swiss are one of only a couple of European nations with the stones to dam the Islamization tidal wave.
- The other dhimmi-nations of Europe, while secretly wishing they had stones, will eventually go along with the jihad against the Swiss as demanded by their muslim overlords.
- This particular incident of a freaky muslim dictator getting all righteously indignant and making sniveling threats is interesting because it wasn't long ago that Qaddafi surrendered his WMDs and made apologies for being so jihad-prone in the past.
Of course, that was back when the U.S. appeared to be in the MBSM (muslim-butt-stomping mode). Now that we've switched to the MBKM (muslim-butt-kissing mode) Qaddafi has returned to his old ways.


Perhaps, if Obama went and bowed to him ...