CONSERVATIVE CLIPPINGS ON VACATION

WE'RE SHUTTING DOWN FOR ABOUT THREE WEEKS WHILE WE CRUISE THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
Back around October 12

Sweden Slashes Income Taxes to Promote Job Growth

"Actually, a generation of economic stagnation has taught the Swedes a lesson. They've learned that government does not produce wealth, and if they want more people to work, jobs have to pay better, after taxes. Sweden is therefore in the midst of a series of tax cuts aimed at preserving the long-term viability of its economy." [Power Line]

State plots dog surcharge

"State Republicans are howling mad over yet another tax hike being slipped through the Legislature that would slap an annual $3 state surcharge on municipal licensing fees canine owners pay for their pet pooches.

Annual license fees range from $6 a year in Boston for neutered or spayed canines (and $17 for unfixed dogs) to a flat $20 in Plymouth. Angry GOP senators are pushing to name the bill “Toby’s Law,” after Gov. Deval Patrick’s wriggling Labrador puppy." [Boston Herald]

Brilliant !!!!!!!

ACORN votes are nothing but 'cover'

"U.S. Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, is demanding a straight up-or-down vote on a bill dedicated to removing ACORN from the list of recipients of federal largesse, or says he'll force the issue.

And a key conservative vote, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says unless there is such an action, it will mean the recent votes on that very issue were nothing but "cover." " [WND]

Hi-Ho, the Derry-O

Unconscious elitism at work !

One woman Michelle Obama will not mention

I dare you to read this and come away feeling good about OBAMAcare!!!!

Apples and chutzpah for Rosh Hashanah

"Tonight Jews around the world celebrate the Jewish new year and observe the commencement of the high holidays. President Obama has issued holiday greetings to the Jews of Israel. They come with a peculiar hectoring condescension." [PowerLine]

New Government Policy Imposes Strict Standards on Garage Sales Nationwide

"Americans who slap $1 pricetags on their used possessions at garage sales or bazaar events risk being slapped with fines of up to $15 million, thanks to a new government campaign." [Fox News]

OBAMA’S HEADWIND ON HEALTH CARE

"The ups and downs of the published polls about Obama’s health care proposals dramatically illustrate the ferocity of the headwinds he faces as he desperately tries to sell his program to a suspicious and wary public."[Dick Morris]

Unearthed! Obama's twisted ACORN roots

"While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as "unacceptable."

But just how extensive are President Obama's personal ties to ACORN? [WND]

Radar base on the move

"A leading Czech politician has challenged Washington to state its intentions over the proposed missile defense radar base in the Czech Republic amid growing indications that the plan will be scrapped.

In a major strategy change for Washington and a diplomatic triumph for Moscow, the United States looks set to reverse its missile shield policy.

The multi-billion dollar project was to install 10 interceptor missiles at a facility in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic. It also envisaged placing U.S. Patriot missiles in Poland." [Prague Post]

9-12 Rally in Washington

Here is what the Mall looked like after Obama's January 2009 Inauguration Day "party".......




and here's what it looked like after the 9-12 Rally last week ..................

I suppose this picture was "photoshopped" to clean it up after all those nasty, right wing, red-neck, rioting Conservatives ...........

Go HERE for some really great photos and videos of the march.

Laura Ingraham's 10 for 2010 Project

"The GOP needs to outline a coherent platform of specific ideas that every Republican candidate can run on in 2010 -- that way there's a clear post-election agenda that, assuming big GOP pick-ups, brings its own mandate." [Laura Ingraham]

Health Reform: The Grimmest Of Fairy Tales

"Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth that was walking on a log across a stream.

The dog looked down into the water and saw his reflection. He thought it was another dog with a bone in his mouth — and it seemed to him that the other dog's bone was bigger than his. He decided that he was going to take the other dog's bone away and opened his mouth to attack. The result was that his own bone fell into the water and was lost." [Thomas Sowell]

Dem Senator Warns of 'Big, Big Tax' on Middle Class in Baucus [Health Care] Bill

"It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., ripped into the health-care bill developed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mt., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

The Baucus proposal would impose, starting in 2013, a 35 percent excise tax on insurance companies for "high-cost plans" -- defined as those above $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family plans." [ABC News]

Obamacare runs counter to GOP principles

"The six Senate Republicans seeking a "bipartisan compromise" on President Obama's proposal for a government-run health care system are flirting with a provision - an individual mandate to buy government-approved health insurance - that runs counter to everything the GOP stands for.......... .......the approach makes a mockery of individual freedom of choice because it forces everybody to buy a government-approved health insurance plan from a government-approved insurer with oversight by government bureaucrats. Finally, because of the intensive government regulation involved, mandated rationing of health care is just as inevitable under this approach as it is under Obamacare. And bureaucrats will be just as likely to make treatment choices that ought to be made by doctors and patients." [Washington Examiner]

45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul

"Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found." [IBD]

A History Lesson

Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low

"The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows."

'Pimp & hooker' catch B'klyn staff

Here's the latest video of the "Pimp & Hooker" ACORN sting series. Last week they caught ACORN in Baltimore and Washington offering loans to buy a house to use as a brothel for 13 year-old illegal immigrant girls!

Listening to a Liar

"The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them." [Thomas Sowell]

Listening to a Liar: Part II

"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud.

Calling out Obama’s faulty health care anecdotes

"In his speech to Congress last week, President Barack Obama attempted to sell a reform agenda by demonizing the private health-insurance industry, which many people love to hate. He opened the attack by asserting: "More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care. It happens every day."

Clearly, this should never happen to anyone who is in good standing with his insurance company and has abided by the terms of the policy. But the president's examples of people "dropped" by their insurance companies involve the rescission of policies based on misrepresentation or concealment of information in applications for coverage. Private health insurance cannot function if people buy insurance only after they become seriously ill, or if they knowingly conceal health conditions that might affect their policy."[WSJ]

AP Reports: Obama Plays Loose with Facts

"The president's speech to Congress contained a variety of oversimplifications and omissions in laying out what he wants to do about health insurance.

A look at some of Obama's claims and how they square with the facts or the fuller story:" [Associated Press ]

and Representative Wilson is being criticized for calling him a LIAR !

"President and First Lady encourage non-union laborers to violate OSHA scaffolding regulations".

Instead of visiting Ground Zero on 9/11, President encourages scab non-union labor to violate Occupational Safety & Health Administration scaffolding regulations !!!!!!!!!!

America Spoke

" Obama fled to Minnesota for the weekend, finding, not surprisingly, an adoring crowd to sit raptly at his feet while he expounded on the virtues of his health plan as counterpoint to the march. The White House laughingly denied having any prior knowledge of the march. As the Washington Examiner reported:

On Friday the White House claimed they had no idea the rally was even planned. A ridiculous assertion that shows how dismissive the Obama administration and the Democrat-led Congress are of those who oppose their agenda. It is impossible to believe that President Obama knew nothing of the event. The denial is a perfect example of why the President is losing the trust of many Americans. He stretches his credibility to its limits, and beyond." [American Thinker]

Middle Class Task Force report on college affordability warns about dangers of… equal opportunity

"Huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought — at first — then I remembered who we’re dealing with." [Michelle Malkin]

ObamaCare Will Result in Lower Future Living Standards

"Harvard economist Martin Feldstein penned a sobering article on the perils of ObamaCare and its resulting increase in the national debt, already at dizzying levels. His article, "ObamaCare's Crippling Deficits", which appeared in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, discussed the fact that Obama's massive budget deficits will result in lower future living standards." [Conservatives4Palin]

The Employee Free Choice Act - the "Card Check" Bill

"The "Employee Free Choice Act"--better known as the Card Check bill--is a proposed law that would change how unions are allowed to organize workers in the United States. Big labor unions like the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and the Change to Win Coalition spent heavily during the 2009 election, and are pushing Congress to approve this law. Union membership has been declining--currently about 7.5 percent in the private sector--and they hope this law will change the rules and reverse that trend" [U.S. Chamber of Commerce]

Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue

California judge orders trial of evidence regarding Obama's alleged Kenyan birth. [WND]

The Unvetting of Van Jones

Regarding the vetting of Van Jones: "It is the nature of Pres. Obama and his fellow travelers that the administration needs to have swept under the proverbial rug. Making the story about vetting serves the Obama administration on several levels. It deflects blame to a relatively anonymous bureaucracy, but more important, suggests that the Jones appointment is an aberration.

However, the tactic of shifting the story from substance to process carries its own measure of risk. First, over time, people may yet come to learn that the Van Jones hire was not an isolated incident, resulting in a loss of credibility. Second, people are already figuring out that Pres. Obama is pursuing a raft of left-wing policies; this cannot be covered up with a midnight resignation. Third, a narrative of incompetence is corrosive. Incompetence of this sort has little political traction — until the administration is seen as doing a big thing badly, like Hurricane Katrina or the Iranian hostage crisis. Should that sort of event occur, Obama’s weakened political infrastructure may collapse under its own weight." [Paterico]

Another 1,000,000+ Guns Added to American Homes in August

"Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008. So far that is roughly 9,076,205 gun bought this year.

Conservative estimates of legally owned guns in the USA put the number at 355,029,250 million guns in the USA. That is 1.17 guns for everyone in the USA and if you listen to the liberal press they are all assault weapons."

[Ammoland]

Good Grief. Obama Puts Former SEIU Bigwig In Charge of Creating Manufacturing Jobs

"What exactly does a union leader know about creating manufacturing jobs?" [Gateway Pundit]

Washington Post Profiles Van Jones

"Not quite a month ago, the Washington Post published Lois Romano's admiring profile of the former Obama administration green jobs commissar Van Jones. Romano takes the green jobs con straight while conceding the difficulty of selling the concept. In light of the recent revelations about Jones, one might say that Romano missed virtually everything of interest about this Marxist nutjob." [Power Line]

UPDATE: White House source: We never asked Van Jones to fill out the vetting questionnaire

Obama, the Mortal

"What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?" [Krauthammer]

Obama 'Green Jobs' Adviser Van Jones Quits

A self-admitted Communist, this danger will re-appear !!!

UN President praises Castro as "the best disciple of Jesus"

Another reason why the United Nations is an abomination!!!!

En Espanol.

2 radio towers in Washington state toppled

"Two radio station towers were toppled early Friday, and the station's manager said an ecoterrorist group's initials were left at the scene. " [AP]

Sentenced to death on the NHS

"Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today." [Telegraph U.K.]

Classic Government Response

Chrysler sales drop 15% during "Cash forClunkers" program due to low inventory. Now the program is over. Government now orders Chrysler to increae production by 50,000 vehicles.

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF WHY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING DOES NOT WORK !!!!

CIA Counterterrorism Expert: Obama and Holder 'At War' with Agency

"In the early days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, a small cadre of men (and a few women) with vast amounts of intelligence experience reported to the Langley, Va., headquarters of the CIA. These unsung heroes then were dispatched across the globe to run operations against the al-Qaida conspirators who leveled the World Trade Center and struck the nerve center of the U.S. military.

The FBI, a domestic law enforcement agency, did not have the ability or skills needed to track down and strike the attackers overseas. The Pentagon, with F22s, nuclear aircraft carriers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and battalions of the best armor in the history of mankind, was like an elephant attacked by a mouse — mighty, but helpless in its mammoth rage.

Our best hope was in the hands of the gray-bearded intelligence professionals who fanned out across the world. " [Newsmax.com]

Why Did Congressional Black Caucus Overlook Racism in Cuba?

"Last week [April 2009], the Stalinist regime that jailed and tortured the longest suffering black political prisoner in modern history (Eusebio Penalver) rolled out the red carpet for six gullible members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus. All of these U.S. legislators met with “President” Raul Castro while a lucky three secured back-stage passes to meet Fidel himself.

Lest we forget: these black U.S. legislators were raving about a regime that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 million) in its first six.

Racism is one of the cornerstones of the Castro regime. As Fidel’s close friend and ally, the murderous Ernesto “Che” Guevara, once said, "The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent... We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!” " [Human Events]

PJTV: The Power & Danger of Iconography

Here's the video..............................