Women With Suntans Will Be Arrested, Iran Police Chief Warns

"Women with suntans are violating Islamic law and will be arrested in Iran, the capital city's police chief was reported by The Daily Telegraph as saying Wednesday." [Fox News]

IRS lacks clout to enforce mandatory health insurance

" Under the law, Americans who can afford health insurance but refuse to buy it will face a fine of up to $695 or 2.5% of their income, whichever is higher. More than 4 million Americans could be subject to penalties of up to $1,000 by 2016 if they fail to obtain health insurance...." [USA Today]

ANYONE who makes MORE THAN $27,800 WILL PAY MORE THAN $675 !!!!!

So long, Charlie

"Jay Cost argues persuasively that, as an independent third-party candidate for the United States Senate, Charlie Crist is not a man in tune with the times. Just a few weeks ago Crist sat next to Marco Rubio on Fox New Sunday and uncomfortably declared his bona fides as a Republican candidate. Why he thinks that anyone would or should ever take him at face value again or trust another word he says is beyond me. Based on other compelling considerations, Cost arrives at a similar conclusion: "What a fool." " [Power Line]

10 Year-Old Girl Saddened & Confused After Obama SWAT Team Ruins Her First Tea Party Rally

The Obama Syndrome

"Most liberals ...... envision illegals as those pleasant maids or house-painters who could do no harm. And that benign image often is accurate. .....

This government mandates compulsive niceness at all costs. Consequently, we've been transformed from a blunt-talking nation to Codependents Anonymous.

Illegals importing drugs or robbing and raping is no big deal. The most heinous crime these days is not being nice. This government, in fact, demands it, and refuseniks are targeted and demonized.

The fear of being marked a meanie keeps much of the country straitjacketed. The Left is behind this: They know how to control people through terror.

With the radicals in charge, liberals may be stricken with a pathological case of niceness that resembles Stockholm Syndrome. Perhaps the newest incarnation of Stockholm Syndrome is the Obama Syndrome." [American Thinker]

Redistributor Obama to Wall Street: “I Do Think at Certain Point You’ve Made Enough Money”

The President of the United States thinks you should be limited in how much money one makes!!!!!!

His personal income last year = $5,500,000 !!!

Why reporters are down on President Obama

"One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.

“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat. Now, a year later, with another correspondents’ dinner Saturday night likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press’s cozy relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the public perception." [POLITICO]

Only in the U.S. Government!!!!!!

This "PowerPoint" slide was the keystone of a presentation to military brass in Afghanistan.

PowerPoint has become public enemy number one for many US officers who find themselves battling slide presentations rather than insurgents.

Some have gone as far as to declare all-out war on the software after the military command was over-run with mind-numbing 30-slide presentations.

Obama's Tea Party Straw Man

"Why does it seem that the public is being told that the only demand the Tea Party activists have is that their taxes be lowered? Though the activists would doubtless welcome such an outcome, it is by no means the sole impetus of their objections. In fact, the demand is explicitly absent from their "Contract from America."" [American Thinker]

Mexico Issues Travel Warning for Arizona Over Law

GREAT NEWS

It's about time the Mexican Government warned their citizens !!!!

"Mexicans in Arizona should carry documentation and “act carefully” after the state passed a law requiring local police to determine the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said." [Bloomberg]

We Are Headed This Same Direction

This Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away

A first hand description of what happened to Austria after Hitler took over their country. The same thing is happening right now in the U.S.

Obama’s Budget Director: Powerful Rationing Panel (Not Doctors) Will Control Health Care Levels

"Not that any of this comes as a surprise to those who paid attention to the ObamaCare bill, of course. I wrote about the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) twice in December, first when the CBO scored the bill as a $130 billion deficit reduction, and the second time just before the passage of ObamaCare by the Senate. In both posts, I noted how the IPAB was set up specifically as a rationing system, which ObamaCare advocates denied, but which none other than OMB Director Peter Orszag confirms in this interview from earlier this month, caught by Naked Emperor News for Breitbart TV:" [Hot Air]

Immigration Protesters Threaten Police at Arizona Rally… Media Silent

Compare the reports on this Arizona rally of liberals




to this report of Tax Day Tea Party rallies.

THE CONSUMER FRUSTRATION AND PUNISHMENT AGENCY (CFPA)

".... the bill would “require anybody who makes a loan of any type or amount to any consumer for any reason to register with” the CFPA and get its approval for “the structure of that loan.” So any bank or store or credit card company or merchant or service provider who offered credit in any form to anyone would have to get advance approval from the CFPA.

Can you imagine the bottleneck? Businesses will be waiting like planes over O’Hare Airport for permission to proceed. Business will stagnate as credit grinds to a halt. In the name of protecting consumers, the Obama Administration will strangle credit in a mass of regulation." [Dick Morris]

Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation

"Six years ago I wrote a book called "Uncle Sam's Plantation." I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.

I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas. A poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism. " [Star Parker]

How are those lower health insurance rates you promised working out for you, Barry?

"It does no good to say "I told you so." The Democrats will simply attack "greedy insurance companies" and further regulate an industry already regulated to the "nth" degree." [American Thinker]

The Dreadful Equation

"What is money? It’s a medium of exchange – you use it to make purchases. To the average individual, money is also a means of cooperation. It transforms the value of your labor into a very efficient form of communication. .....

Every dollar you pay the government in taxes and regulatory costs is another moment of your time that cannot be invested in willing cooperation with others." [Hot Air]

THE SILENT KILLER: OBAMA’S VAT PROPOSAL

"In 2011, we will have three choices:

a) Raise taxes up to 40%

b) Cut spending down to 30%

c) Or half and half

Now Obama proposes the ultimate step to convert us into a European nation – the VAT.

The VAT (value added tax) is levied at each stage of a commercial transaction. So the raw material seller charges the manufacturer who then adds a new tax onto the price when he sells his finished product to a retailer who then adds on a new levy when he sells it to a customer.

And the customer doesn’t know it." [DickMorris]

Lying Through Omission

"General Motors chairman and chief executive officer Ed Whitacre took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal last week to announce "The GM bailout: Paid back in full. ......

TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky: "I think the one thing that a lot of people overlook with this is where they got the money to pay back the loan. And it isn't from earnings....It's actually from another pool of TARP money that they've already received. I don't think we should exaggerate it too much. Remember that the source of this money is just other TARP money."

Federal securities laws take a dim view of a company omitting the disclosure of information that is necessary to make disclosed information not misleading. The omission of such information is known as lying through omission: " [Power Line]

Obama's credibility crisis

"Hard on the heels of that shocking Pew Research Center survey finding that four out of five Americans don't trust government comes a blitz of new revelations about the Obama administration that amount to a full-fledged credibility crisis." [Washington Examiner]

Taxes Aren't the Problem

"Taxes and spending and debts and deficits are just symptoms of the problem. The real problem is the philosophy and culture of our governing class." [American Thinker]

Health Care Law Creates 159 New Bureaus, Programs and Boards

Here's the list of the 159 new Federal bureaus (and who knows how many similar bureaus in each state) to be created by the Health Care Law ....... that law that is going to save us $500 Billion every year, after insuring 30 million more persons!!

The Salt Police are Coming

"Public health groups want Uncle Sam to start separating us from salt for our own good -- along with saturated fat and sugar. Uncle Sam is listening -- and doing. Call it the blanding of America. Or call it another blow by the nanny state for freedom -- freedom from our undisciplined appetites. Freedom from personal responsibility. Freedom from choice. Why, even freedom from freedom. " [American Thinker]

Did GM Pay Back Its Loan? Sort Of

"General Motors will make a big splash in the news today by announcing that the automaker will repay several billion dollars loans from the federal government earlier than expected. But it’s not really coming out of the GM wallet. .........

GM is taking money from the Wall Street Bailout – the TARP money – and using that to pay off their loans ahead of schedule." [Seeking Alpha]

See also: How did GM pay off its bailout loans?

The Provocateur-in Chief

"President Barrack Obama seems to relish making provocative statements and generally antagonizing his opposition. Whether it's out of habit as a community organizer, or just a major character flaw, this president can't seem to hold his tongue. ......

President Obama's is just following Saul Alinsky's methods from his book, "Rules For Radicals," to change America into a socialist European-style socialist nation.

Excerpts from Alinsky's book help illuminate, in part, President Obama's propensity for making frequent provocative statements: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." These rules have worked for President Obama his entire political and community organizing career, and continue to work to advance his socialist agenda today." [Neil Braithwaite]

Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option

"I will not raise taxes for anyone earning under $200,000 per year"
(Sounds like "Read my lips, no new taxes")

President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Lincoln (D-Ark) cancels Goldman fundraiser as firm turns toxic

"Sen. Blanche Lincoln, under fire for keeping a $4,500 contribution from Goldman Sachs’s political action committee, has canceled a fundraising lunch with Goldman executives that was scheduled for Monday and would have netted many times that amount for the Arkansas Senator’s reelection campaign."

You might consider voting for her (????) ...... at least she's not stupid!!!!!! (or is she?) [Politico]

DeMint Irks GOP, Backs Conservatives in Key Races

"Republican Sen. Jim DeMint is raising eyebrows within his own party by publicly announcing his support for conservative candidates the GOP has not officially endorsed. ..........

DeMint is using his political action committee Senate Conservatives Fund to help conservative candidates that he thinks will appeal to voters who have lost faith in the government and elected officials." [Newsmax]

2nd Circuit restores ACORN funding ban

Judge over rules judge..... ACORN funding by our tax dollars is stopped!

Camp OFA

Have you ANY idea what this "OFA" is all about?

Didn't think so. I didn't.

(click on this "CAMP OFA" link)

This is the Obama administration's latest effort at radicalizing the youth of our country. ....

Organizing for America, Barack Obama's political organization that's run by the Democratic National Committee wants to recruit and train a cadre of activists, and is holding camps all over America. Find one near you here:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/campofa2010/

OKAY ..... so it is Obama's DNC effort to organize young folks ..... BUT, do you know what "Ofay" means????

Below is an urban dictionary definition of "Ofay":

"A word of unspecified West African origin that refers to "white" people. It's commonly used in the American South but has fallen out of favor as "White Devil" has assumed prominence.

e.g. 'This ofay at my job is jealous of my ability to get the job done faster and better than him. But he can't help his ofay ways.'

Disparaging term for a Caucasian."

So this is the sort of crap that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES supports !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nanny State on Steroids: Obama FDA to Limit Amount of Salt Allowed in Food

"The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products. .....

This level of intrusion into the private affairs of a self-governed people must stop. If not for salt, there will be no turning back.... " [Left Coast Rebel]

Arizona Legislature: Requires Obama Citizenship Proof

"The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection." [KPHO News]

U.N.'s Ballooning $732 Million Haiti Peacekeeping Budget Goes Mostly to Its Own Personnel

"The United Nations has quietly upped this year's peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, with two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island

." [Fox News]

The British Obama?

"It seems that Britain is about to make the same mistake America made in 2008.............

With a neutered Conservative Party, a decimated Labour Party, and a bored media, the Cleggite Liberal Democrats could sweep next month's election, with the majority of voters believing they are voting for a moderate party representing something new. Like Obama, it would be only once Nick Clegg is in power that the British public would realize what horrors they have unleashed upon their country." [Adam Shaw]

Sink the Murtha: Outrage on the High Seas

"Naming a U.S. Navy ship after a departed congressman is a slap in the face of all veterans. This God-awful decision should not be allowed to stand.

It is a sacrilege, a savage low blow to the United States military, that the late congressman John (Jack) H. Murtha (D-PA) is being honored now by having a U.S. Navy ship named after him. It is a sacrilege of a high order, in the sense of the term's Latin roots meaning "stealing from holy places."" [American Thinker]

First State Opts Out of Abortion Funding in Dem’s Nationalized Health Care Bill

BRAVO TENNESSEE

"Tennessee Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law a bill that protects taxpayers from for abortion funding under Obamacare." [Gateway Pundit]

Glenn Beck: Zero Evidence of Sedition

"Appearing on NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show” on Sunday, Klein said: “I did a little bit of research just before the show, it’s on this little napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition, which is ‘conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state.’ And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck, and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious.”" [Newsmax]

The human right to room service

Here is Socialist governance run amok !!!

"The European Union's Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry declares that there is a "human right to be tourists" and proposes government-funded vacations, initially for "seniors, youths between the ages of 18 and 25, disabled people, and families facing 'difficult social, financial or personal' circumstances". " [Power Line]

"The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips. " [National Post] Vacationing a human right

Was Vicious Attack On Republicans Sponsored by Democratic Party?

"It is deeply ironic that Democrats are trying to sell the idea that Republicans are somehow violent and unAmerican, when in fact, every actual violent incident is perpetrated by liberals, usually union thugs, against Republicans. It happened again in New Orleans following a fundraiser for the Louisiana Republican Party. Governor Bobby Jindal's chief fundraiser, Allee Bautsch, left the event with her boyfriend, Joe Brown....

They were attacked by a gang that reportedly prefaced their assault with racial and political insults. The attack was extraordinarily vicious:

Assailants knocked down Bautsch and stomped her repeatedly, breaking her leg in five places. " [Power Line]

Barack Obama's Missing Girlfriends

"In his comprehensive, 600-plus-page biography of Barack Obama titled The Bridge, New Yorker editor David Remnick lays down the baseline of what the mainstream media know about the president -- or at least what they want us to know.

Where Remnick falls oddly silent -- not even to scold the blogosphere, which he does often -- is on the question of Obama's love life. This would not be particularly noteworthy save that Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father is in large part a racial coming-of-age story. " [American Thinker]

AMERICA RISING

Goodwin Liu flunks the "mainstream" test

Judicial nominee sticks his own foot in his mouth!

ANALYSIS OF MAJOR HOUSE-PASSED TAX BILLS IN 2009:

Here is a detailed list of tax bills passed by the House under Obama's leadership. It amounts to a total of $1,724,809,000.00 !! Most of these increases represent Obama breaking his pledge for no new taxes on those earning under $200,000.

Obama's Quiet War on Red States

"President Obama is quietly but gleefully sticking it to red states, which by virtue of less government, lower taxes, fewer regulations, and open shops are typically better off than blue states of the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Californian phyla. " [American Thinker]

Clipper at Tampa Tea Party

Clipper appears at Tampa Tea Party Rally ..... that's clipper on the left on the yellow "Don't Tread On Me" tee shirt ..... my friend is holding my sign

"GOVERNMENT - GET OFF OUR BACKS"

White House press corps sued for doing Obama's 'bidding'

"A lawsuit has been filed in Washington accusing the White House Correspondents' Association of doing the bidding of the Obama administration in trying to belittle, exclude and irreparably harm a leading Internet news outlet, WorldNetDaily, which has carried commentary critical of the president." [WND]

What Obama's "Budget Cuts" REALLY are !!!!

Watch this video to understand what Obama's proposed "cuts" REALLY are !!!!

Everything you need to know about the Pulitzer Prize

Here's a good lesson in the bias which rules the Pulitzer Prize committee's decisions.

House Republicans say they're going cold turkey on pork projects

"Congress this year included nearly $16 billion on 9,500 earmarks in its spending bills, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense.

House Democrats recently banned earmarks to profit-making companies -- typically defense contractors (BUT NOT TO THEIR FAVORITE NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS SEIU, ACORN,PETA .....) . Then Republicans, in a display of one-upmanship, announced their no-earmarks policy." [L A Times]

Here's An Idea: Let's Politicize Medicine!

"If you have government-controlled medicine, as the Democrats want to institute here, then every health care decision becomes political. Is that really what you want? The Telegraph reports on what inevitably will happen." [Power Line]

Crash course: Your illustrated guide to the Tea Party saboteurs

"The one-year anniversary of the nationwide April 15 Tax Day Tea Party counterinsurgency is fast approaching — and publicity-seeking malefactors of all stripes want in on the spotlight. .....

Over the last week, conservative activists online have thoroughly exposed the loser behind an Internet call to “Crash the Tea Party.” His name is Jason Levin. To follow his trail, check Free Republic here, Canada Free Press here, and Velvet Hammer here. After failing to cover his tracks, Levin is now basking in the glow of attention on his tpartycrasher Twitter page and on his personal Twitter page (where he brags that he has hit the big time and “gone viral:”) " [Michelle Malkin]

America's War On Islamist Terror...Or Is It?

"The Framers of the Constitution understood that the rights we cherish would be little more than parchment promises unless we could defend ourselves and defeat our enemies. Moreover, they understood that—given human nature—we would always have enemies. Unlike opponents of the war against Islamist terror today, they did not believe that we would be able to define our enemies out of existence by not uttering their names—or rationalize them out of existence by insisting that their hostility is somehow our own fault. Nor did the Framers believe that we would be able to indict our enemies into submission in our civilian courts. They believed that we would have to defeat them, which means being able to enforce the protocols necessary to wage war successfully." [IMPRIMIS-Andrew McCarthy]

With Unemployment Near 10%, Obama Issued Over 1 Million Green Cards Last Year

"The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country." [Examiner - Tampa]

The Myths of Managing Health Care

"A new set of myths and unswerving support for government are now the foundation of "comprehensive" health care reform. The myths affirm the value of a monolithic state collective medical system as the solution." [American Thinker]

Lefty Group Tries to 'Infiltrate' Tea Parties with Offensive Signs - Will MSM Take the Bait?

"This week, Americans of all political stripes will take to the streets -- so to speak -- to protest what they see as excessive and out of control government spending and intrusion into their daily lives. Among the many Tea Party protesters, however, will be individuals plotting to undermine the peaceful grassroots movement." [Newsbusters]

Obama: Interns for me but not for thee

More Hypocrisy from the Obama Aristocracy

"Apparently, the administration's campaign arm knows the reciprocal benefits of offering unpaid internships, so why take that option away from private businesses? Such arrogance is reminiscent of the health care mandates that will exempt select Congressional staffers who work for committees or leadership offices. This shows yet another blatant example of a "do as I say not as I do" policy position of the Obama administration and hitting businesses like this will win him no further fans from the struggling private sector." [Washington Times]

'Professor' Obama? Title never granted

Barack, Michelle not licensed to practice law

"Are attorneys Barack and Michelle Obama currently licensed to practice law?

Was Barack Obama ever a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago?

In recent days, these questions have once again gone viral on the Internet.

WND has traced the current controversy to Doug Ross and a March 1 posting on his DirectorBlue.blogspot.com asserting the Obamas are no longer lawyers registered to practice law in Illinois and that claims President Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago are "a sham."" [WND]

USC scientists figure out how to turn t-shirts into body armor

"Researchers at the University of South Carolina have figured out how to combine the carbon component of cotton with boron to create a cotton t-shirt with the toughness of body armor." [boing-boing]

Race and Politics

"Among the people who are likely to be most disappointed with the Obama administration are those who thought it would usher in a post-racial society. That they wished for such a society is a credit to their values. But that they actually expected a move in that direction suggests that they ignored both Barack Obama's history and the heavy vested interest that too many people have in race hustling.

This is just one of many areas in which this country is likely to pay a very high price for the fact that too many voters paid attention to Obama's rhetoric while ignoring his actual track record.

However soothing the Obama rhetoric, and however lofty his statements about being a uniter rather than a divider-- both racially and in terms of bipartisanship-- everything in his past fairly shouts the opposite, but only to those who follow facts. " [Thomas Sowell]

Race and Politics: Part II

Race and Politics: Part III

Race and Politics: Part IV

One of the most ominous developments of our time has been the multicultural dogma that all cultures are equal.....

Obama Says the Stimulus Led to Big Tax Refunds

B--- S---- ...... I've been retired 17 years and we paid more in taxes in 2009 than I have since I retired! I expect 2010 and onward will be worse !!

Who is playing whom?

"President Obama's "reset" of relations with Russia does not appear to have translated into Russian support for strong sanctions against Iran. According to the Washington Post, Russian President Medvedev has told Obama that there are limits to his country's support for sanctions. ........

One gets the impression that Russia and China are playing Obama. But this assumes that Obama cares about obtaining harsh sanctions against Iran, as opposed to gaining half-hearted measures he can point to as a diplomatic accomplishment." [Power Line]

NPR archive describes Obama as 'Kenyan-born'

NPR has since deleted the reference to Obama being Kenyan born, but copies of the original are still available.... see them here along with several other news sources identifying then candidate Obama as Kenyan born.

Senate Poised to Vote on Democrat-Sponsored Bill Banning Chemical That the FDA Says Is Safe

"When it returns from Easter break next week, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill that would ban the commonly used chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), despite repeated assertions from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the compound is safe." [CNS]

The Naked Left

"Soon Democrats will face directly an electorate that sees right through them. All the procedural tricks and side deals slavered onto a legislative sandwich with thousands of slices fool only the hopelessly prostituted minions of the left. Ordinary people grasp the awfulness of vast legislation pushed through Congress without a single Republican vote and before members of Congress could feel the full dragon's breath of constituent fury. The left was never more naked than in the crass spectacle last month. " [American Thinker]

Muslim Student Org. DID ORCHESTRATE protest

Documents prove that the angry protest against a Univ. of California campus speech by Israel's Ambassador WAS planned, organized and executed by the Muslim Student Union, in spite of their earlier claims of innocence.

CIA spies and Dartmouth deans

Bureaucracies in Universities & Business Similar to CIA

"A challenge to free societies today is the growth in size, power, and cost of highly paid, non-producing administrators and bureaucrats. These Soviet-style nomenklatura classes can stifle the fundamental missions of organizations. " [Power Line]

Prime Example of Government Over Regulation of Minutiae

"Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius said today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a new regulation that would require food manufacturers to display nutritional information on the front of packages." [CNS]

Officer Refuses to Follow Obama's Orders

Quoting Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD: "Last week, I entered Walter Reed Army Hospital to notify the Department of Defense that I would refuse to obey any orders from my commanding officers -- including President Obama -- until the president produces his original birth certificate. ...

Since fall 2008, I have been troubled by reports that the president's original birth certificate remains concealed from public view along with other records which, if released, would quickly end questions surrounding his place of birth and "natural born" status. Many people mistook the online Certification of Live Birth for an original birth certificate. Until the summer of 2009, the Hawaiian Department of Homelands would not accept this Certification of Live Birth to determine native Hawaiian identity -- the Department insisted upon also reviewing an original birth certificate. " [American Thinker]

The weatherization boondoggle, redux

"After a year of crippling delays, President Barack Obama’s $5 billion program to install weather-tight windows and doors has retrofitted a fraction of homes and created far fewer construction jobs than expected." [Michelle Malkin]

New jobless claims rise …

The Main Stream Media (MSM) will, no doubt claim this continued rise in UNEMPLOYMENT claims to be "UNEXPECTED"

To which the only apt descriptor is "Bull S---"...... it is TOTALLY EXPECTED in today's business climate. Notably, the ONLY sector to see a DECREASE in unemployment claims is GOVERNMENT employees ..... which is, in my opinion, TOTALLY EXPECTED.

China’s Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet

"Since late March, when Google moved its search operations out of mainland China to Hong Kong, each response to a Chinese citizen’s search request has been met at the border by government computers, programmed to censor any forbidden information Google might turn up. ....

Today, China censors everything from the traditional print press to domestic and foreign Internet sites; from cellphone text messages to social networking services; from online chat rooms to blogs, films and e-mail. It even censors online games. ....." [NYT]

GALLUP: Tea Partiers Are Fairly Mainstream in Their Demographics

What CNN saw at the Tea Party

"The media meme of the “Tea Party is nothing more than angry white men” continues to disintegrate under close scrutiny. After two pollsters (one Gallup) revealed that the demographics of the Tea Party movement closely parallels that of Americans in general, CNN decided to embed itself in the long series of events taking place in April. Shannon Travis reports that the Tea Party does indeed look like America...." [Hot Air]

Who Will Be Your Health Care Provider?

"The fact is that we as a nation can neither produce nor import enough medical professionals to meet the demands soon to be placed on our medical system. Many physicians will choose to retire, and fewer of the best and brightest will choose to enter the field. All the while, more and more demands will be placed on all health care professionals. In the end, something's got to give. Unless this is stopped, in five years' time, "health care" will be delivered by a whole new group of practitioners. In many cases, it may be "adequate"...and in many other cases, it may not." [American Thinker]

This OBAMA Army Ought to Scare the Hell Out Of You!!!

You Picked a Fine Time To Lead Us Barack

Giuliani: Obama's Anti-Nuke Move 'Left-Wing Dream'

"Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has terse words for Barack Obama’s nuclear policy, describing it as characteristic of an “inept” leader who seems intent on living out a “left-wing dream.”

“A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream of the left, just like socialized healthcare,” Giuliani said during a recent interview with National Review Online. “This new policy, like Obama’s government-run health program, is a big step in that direction.”" [NewsMax.com]

Actual Unemployment Now Over 20%

The Empty Vessel President

"Although African-American in appearance, he was raised by whites and educated in the most elite Eastern liberal tradition, with only a thin veneer of calculated street cred imbued by his time in the south side of Chicago.

Although swept to office as the recipient of the gift of soaring rhetoric, he has been found to be as heavily dependent on a teleprompter as any beginning mass communications student, and prone to stammering and self-contradiction in its absence." [American Thinker]

Obama's Answer Longer than Gettysburg Address

More Left-Wing Violence

"Violence by liberals against conservative and Republican targets continues, picking up where it left off in the 2004 and 2006 campaigns." [Power Line]

Obama's 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman's claim of being 'over-taxed'

"..... a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a "wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care" package.

"We are over-taxed as it is," Doris said bluntly.

Obama started out feisty. "Well, let's talk about that, because this is an area where there's been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I'm going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have," the president said.

He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze" [Washington Post]

Michelle in a Freudian slip? ... or the real truth?

Barack's home country of Kenya ????????

Why MSNBC needs regime change

Rush Limbaugh responded to Obama's description of him as "troublesome" and vitriolic by stating, "Never in my life have I seen a regime like this, governing against the will of the people, purposely."

[MSNBC's Chris] Matthews, in turn, took great offense to the term "regime." Here is what Matthews said:
"We know that word, 'regime.' It was used by George Bush, 'regime change.' You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They're juntas. They're military coups. The use of the word 'regime' in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it. I never heard the word 'regime,' before, have you?"

Here's the factual data on media use of 'regime' referring to the BUSH administration:

New York Times - 16 times in both Bush terms

Howard Kurtz - once referring to President Geo. H. W. Bush

Chris Matthews himself on June 14, 2002 "what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?"

The ARROGANCE of the LEFT IS ASTOUNDING and should cause any really thinking liberal to pay close attention.

Love, Fear, and Tyranny

"I was plenty scared in the fall of 2008. As the weather cooled and the economy collapsed, my financial security crumbled. Then, on November 4th, freedom and rational thought lost at the polls. A year and a half later, I feel powerless while the arrogant radical and dogma-breathing congressional thugs fundamentally transform my country into a socialist hell.

People like me are understandably angry. We are witnessing Barack Obama's and the Democrats' roughhousing of America. Michigan Representative John Dingell admits that the goal is "to control the people." The only barrier between freedom and totalitarianism is the United States Constitution. It has been demoted to near-irrelevance by Democrats' corrupt health care takeover." [Chuck Roger]

Joe Vento wins his "anti English" language case

Paying the Price for Obama

"Call it karma, cosmic irony, or just plain socialism, but many of the very groups most in support of Obama will be hit hardest by ObamaCare. ...... [Paul Kengor]

Congressman Defends His 'Constitution' Comments on Health Care Law

"An Illinois congressman who ignited a firestorm of controversy this week for telling a town hall audience he's "not worried about the Constitution" on the new health care law said his comments were "taken completely out of context." " [Fox News]

Don't leave it to Cleaver, part 3

Regarding the phony claims of racial epithets being shouted at Congressmen by Tea Partiers......

"We've called their bluff. And they have tried to back off. They realize that this race warfare can backfire, just as it did with the railroaded Duke lacrosse players, as it did with professor Madonna Constantine and her faked noose incident at Columbia and the Sergeant Crowley boner by Barack Obama who stupidly said the white police officer had behaved "stupidly" in handcuffing Skip Gates." [Andrew Breitbart]

Doctor asks Obama Voters To Go Elsewhere

Timeline: Anatomy of a Tea Party Smear by the Democrat-Media Complex

"This article attempts to reconstruct the events of 3/20/2010, in which Congressional Democrats were reportedly harassed by Tea Party activists with racial and sexual slurs during their walks to and from the Capitol building. Reports that black Congressmen had been called the "n-word" spread within minutes into mainstream media reports." [Doug Ross Journal]

Amish, Muslims to be excused from Obamacare mandate?

"The Senate health care bill just signed contains some exemptions to the "pay-or-play" mandate requiring purchase of Obamacare-approved health insurance or payment of a penalty fine. As Fox News has pointed out, for instance, the Amish are excused from the mandate. ... Apparently, this exemption will apply similarly to believers in Islam, which considers health insurance - and, for that matter, any form of risk insurance - to be haraam (forbidden). " [American Thinker]

See this Muslim web site ; ISLAM Q & A

which states "Health insurance is haraam like other types of commercial insurance, because it is based on ambiguity, gambling and riba (usury). This is what is stated in fatwas by the senior scholars"

Further, It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah (15/251):

It is not permissible for the Muslim to get involved with insurance companies by working in administration or otherwise, because working in them comes under the heading of cooperating in sin and transgression, and Allaah forbids that as He says: "but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment"

So ..... does this mean our government will exempt Muslims from the mandatory insurance requirements built into Obamacare, as they have for the Amish?

In the Company of Wolves

"The killing of Candice Berner by wolves in Alaska last month is one of those stories that we read through and shudder at before moving on. But it's also one of those stories that carries a lot more freight than appears at first glance. ..... The details are horrific. The attack continued for some time -- Ms. Berner apparently broke away and continued running only to be brought down once again. This may have occurred several times. After she was killed, the wolves devoured her before making off into the woods......

This marks the second such attack in a matter of months. Last October, Taylor Mitchell, an up-and-coming Canadian folksinger, was attacked by two coyotes while hiking in a Cape Breton national park. Canadian rangers intervened, but Ms. Mitchell was so badly injured that she died the next morning." [American Thinker]

Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care

Feelings are running high here in Florida !!!!!!!

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Admits he Was Never Spit on,

"An end to this sad, sad, Cleaver Capitol Hill Tea Party spitting incident? Or something that will simply be ignored by 99.9% of the national press? After all the narrative was just far too juicy to let any of the facts get in the way. With a whimper, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver admits to Fox in Kansas City, MO that he was not intentionally spit on." [Left Coast Rebel]

WE THE PEOPLE

Election Theft Underway in Wisconsin

"Wisconsin Senator Glenn Grothman alerts us that Democrats are trying to push a radical 72-page bill less than 16 hours after its hearing." [American Thinker]

Army 'showdown' at eligibility corral

"A top-ranking, highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army says he's now refusing all orders until President Barack Obama finally releases his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as commander in chief. " [WND]

Army 'showdown' at eligibility corral

"A top-ranking, highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army says he's now refusing all orders until President Barack Obama finally releases his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as commander in chief. " [WND]

How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear