Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

"The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?" " [Investors Business Daily]

Annals of Government Medicine

"For reasons I have never understood, some people think it would be a good idea to put the government in charge of their families' health care. Most who favor government health care would admit that socialism, whenever and wherever it has been tried, has been not just a failure but a debacle. Still, they seem willing to give socialism a try where it matters the most." [PowerLine]

Solutions for U.S. Congress - 545 people

Real Sherrod Story Still Untold

"This past Sunday, in his weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle, "Willie's World," veteran black politico Willie Brown confirmed that "there is more to the story than just [Sherrod's] remarks."

"As an old pro," Brown acknowledged, "I know that you don't fire someone without at least hearing their side of the story unless you want them gone in the first place." Brown observed that Sherrod had been a thorn in the USDA's side for years, that many had objected to her hiring, and that she had been "operating a community activist organization not unlike ACORN." Although Brown does not go into detail, he alludes to a class action lawsuit against the USDA in which she participated some years ago." [American Thinker]

Obama's Mean Streak

"Barack Obama seems to have a pattern of using ceremonial or stately events as opportunities to ambush and humiliate people. This behavior is unpresidential and reveals a vindictive streak that makes Richard Nixon look like Mister Rogers." [American Thinker]

Democrats Keep Door Open to Dangerous Lame Duck Session

"Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after offering a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives calling on Congress not to hold a lame duck session after Election Day for the purpose of passing hugely unpopular legislation like a national energy tax, enormous deficit spending bills, and the kickback to Big Labor known as “Card Check.” " [Republican Study Comm.]

The Year America Dissolved

"It was 2017. Clans were governing America.

The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable." [InfoWars]

The IRS is Watching You…

"Americans are already outraged by President Obama's new health care law. And now, many are up in arms about a little-noticed provision buried deep in the 906 pages of that law.

“The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (Health Care Act, P.L. 111-148) contains a sneak provision (IRC §6041(h)) that is set to directly impact you.

This law requires any person engaged in a trade or business to file an IRS Form 1099, reporting all payments totaling $600 or more in a calendar year to any single person, other than a tax-exempt corporation (non-profit)." [Wallpaper and Life]

Annals of Government Medicine

"In the United Kingdom, decentralization of the National Health System is being planned in response to widespread revulsion with rising costs and lousy health care. The latest case in point: Babies died after junior surgeon left to cope on his own." [Power Line]

Eric Holder and Race Privilege

"The very belated legacy media reports on the Black Panther intimidation story have overlooked one critical aspect. Concentration on the antics of the two Black Panthers at the polling station -- whom careful examination shows to be officers of the New Black Panther army's specialized "Midnight Slob" unit -- has led to a failure to address the Justice Department's response. Namely, the contention by former DoJ attorney J. Christian Adams that he was ordered "not to bring any other cases against blacks and other minorities." " [American Thinker]

SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure

"So much for transparency.

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act." [FoxBusiness]

Radical-in-chief

"Stanley Kurtz's political biography of Barack Obama -- Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism -- is set for publication in October. Here, in part, is how the press release describes the book:

Part biography, part history, part detective story, RADICAL-IN-CHIEF reveals the carefully hidden tale of Barack Obama's political past. Stanley Kurtz, whose research helped inject the Bill Ayers and ACORN issues into the 2008 presidential campaign, presents the results of more than two years of digging into President Obama's radical political world. The book is filled with previously unknown information about the president's past, tied together by a bold argument about what Obama's deepest political convictions really are. " [POWER LINE]

Judges evade Obama birth-certificate query

"Judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suddenly have abandoned plans to assess damages against an attorney whose clients are challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president after he argued that if there was to be punishment, he would have the right to know whether the defendants could have mitigated their injury by publicly releasing Obama's birth documentation." [WND]

The Productive Class and the American Aristocracy

"As the hostilities between the current government and the Tea Party movement have become increasingly rancorous, the division of American society into two cultures holding thoroughly incompatible worldviews has become obvious. In fact, the two forces are clearly on an unavoidable collision course.

In his excellent American Spectator article on "America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution," Angelo Codevilla calls these two antagonistic and irreconcilable groups the ruling class and the country party. Although I agree with Codevilla's outline of the two groups, I prefer to characterize them as the progressive aristocracy and the productive class. In fact, I think that it's vitally important for those in the productive class to understand that what Codevilla calls the ruling party is an aristocracy, albeit a corrupt one." [American Thinker]

A Very Partial Correction

"We have been waiting for liberal media sources to correct their many misstatements about the events of March 20, when three Democratic Congressmen falsely claimed that protesters against Obamacare at the Capitol yelled racial epithets at them. As our readers know, multiple eyewitnesses and videos disprove this claim, while Andrew Breitbart's offer of $100,000 to anyone who can provide evidence in its support has gone unclaimed." [Power Line]

New York Times - - - Wrong Again!

In the NYT on-line edition today (July 25,2010 - Politics, "Battle Looms in Washington Over Expiring Bush Tax Cuts") the paper of record blows off the significance of the increasing tax rates looming if the Democrats allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on January 1st, as currently scheduled.

The article reports: "The top marginal income tax rate, for example, would go back to 39.6 percent from 35 percent now, with corresponding increases in rates for lower income brackets." [emphasis added]

This top rate increase (4.6 percentage points) will cause a taxpayer in that bracket to pay 13% more in taxes than previously on the same income.

However, at the lowest income bracket, the rate jumps from 10% to 15% (5.0 percentage points). For this low-end earner the taxes he or she will pay next year jumps by 50% . Hardly, simply a "corresponding increase" ! ! !

Isn't it cunning how this liberal rag can hide the realities from their readers!!!

Taxation or Totalitarianism

"First came the Great Society, then the New Deal, and now comes President Obama's special brand of interventionalist tactics with redistributive aims. When it suits him, the president wants the power to take from some and give to others. But how do you keep the public from correctly identifying this as stealing? You do as his predecessors did: You call it charity.

Today, the idea that it is wrong for the government to take in taxes and spend in "charity" would be considered ludicrous.

There have been many arguments under which government has expanded its powers:

..... that government serves as a charitable organization -- first, because this argument can be leveraged for ever more spending,

..... The most recent offshoot is the idea that certain businesses are too big to fail

This ever-expanding role of government as a charitable giver obscures the fundamental truth that in order to give, government [Got that? GOVERNMENT must take, not you or I voluntarily being charitable] must first take. But with a "right" to health care, it is more perilous than that. Giving someone a "right" to a service provided by another indentures the other. The freedom to purchase is transmuted into an obligation to provide. " [American Thinker]

Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

".... the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

“The current architecture of the health system has developed piecemeal, involves duplication and is unwieldy. Liberating the N.H.S., and putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians, means we will be able to effect a radical simplification, and remove layers of management.” " [New York Times]

THE U.K. HAS PROVEN IT (AGAIN)..... CENTRAL PLANNING DOES NOT WORK !!!!

CUT OFF OUR U.S. IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY VOTING OUT THIS NOVEMBER THE RASCALS WHO BROUGHT IT TO US !!!!!!

See also:

Axe falls on NHS services .... RATIONING

Another RECORD DEFICIT Projection !!!

"New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends." [Gateway Pundit]

The scandal that wasn't

For a long time the Washington Post ran front page stories on the "scandal" of Bush's replacement of eight U.S. Attorneys. The Post clamored for an investigation. The Justice Dept. has now completed its investigation, finding no improprieties and filing no charges. The Post buried THIS story deep in the bowels of it's rag!

Obama's words sting CEOs

"In the eyes of corporate America, President Barack Obama relied on a healthy dose of industry-bashing to sway votes in Congress for health reform and the new Wall Street regulations signed into law Wednesday.

Now those efforts threaten to undermine the one agenda item essential to Democrats’ hopes in the midterms and Obama’s chances for reelection: turning around an economy still just a half step out of recession.

Some corporate leaders said Obama’s comments prove that he’s hostile to business. Others cited corporate fears of a credit crunch as banks comply with financial reform or the possibility of significant tax hikes if the Bush administration tax cuts are allowed to expire." [Politico]

The New Racial Mess

"Weren't we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of President Barack Obama?

His half-black, half-white ancestry and broad support across racial lines suggested that at last Americans judged each other on the content of our characters -- not the color of our skin or our tribal affiliations.

Instead, in just 18 months of the Obama administration, racial discord is growing and relations seem to have been set back a generation." [Townhall]

Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures

"Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout -- closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler -- were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky."

Not reported by ANY Main Stream Media descriptions of this report are the following points contained in it:

"-"[D]ealerships were retained because they were ... minority- or woman-owned dealerships";

-Thousands of jobs were lost, unnecessarily, due specifically to Obama's "mandate for shared sacrifice";

-A disproportionate number of Obama-forced closings were of rural dealerships, in areas unfriendly to Obama, even though such closures could "jeopardize the return to profitability" for GM and Chrysler."

[American Thinker]

The Tax Tsunami On The Horizon

"Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers.

Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn't the only tax problem that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will materialize. And it's not just the rich who will pay.

The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves up 50% — to 15% from 10%. The next lowest bracket — 25% — will rise to 28%, and the old 28% bracket will be 31%. At the higher end, the 33% bracket is pushed to 36% and the 35% bracket becomes 39.6%.

But the damage doesn't stop there....... " [IBD]

No city manager's worth $800K

California town of about 38,000 residents whose per capita income averages $9,900..... is paying its City Manager almost $800,000 per year, its Police Chief $457,000 per year, Ass't City Manager is being paid $376,288 ..... in addition to many perks, mandatory annual increases up to 12% and extremely lucrative retirement benefits.

EVERYONE should become familiar with their local leader's salary and benefit packages and reign in those that get out of hand.

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

The radical friends of Barack Obama which include Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, and Jeff Jones among others, wrote this PRESCRIPTION FOR REVOLUTIONARY TAKEOVER OF OUR COUNTRY in 1969. It is now being played out..... Go HERE

Impeach judges, Crush and Replace the Left - 2012 "Victory or Death"

Newt Gingrich speaks on what it will take to defeat the liberals in 2012.

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Was Obama Lying Then, Or is He Lying Now?

"Remember Bill Clinton's linguistic sleight of hand in answering whether or not he was alone with Monica Lewinsky?

"It all depends on what your definition of "is" is."

I think I have discovered Obama's "Is" is moment. On September 20, 2009 Obama was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos: ......." [Left Coast Rebel]

Opposing view on the Supreme Court: A big-government vision

"After carefully reviewing Elena Kagan's record and testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I must oppose her nomination." [Sen. Jeff Sessions]

Is This the Best They've Got?

"On its web site, the NAACP promotes its resolution accusing the Tea Party of being racist:

The resolution came after a year of high-profile media coverage of attendees of Tea Party marches using vile, antagonistic racial slurs & images.

Really? The NAACP's blog post is accompanied by seven photos, all of which are credited to Think Progress, a far-left web site. These photos evidently comprise the best evidence the NAACP has to support its claims against the Tea Party movement.

It is striking how weak that evidence is. Not a single one of the images is clearly racist (even assuming that they all came from Tea Party events; there is no way to tell that). " [Power Line]

George Will: NAACP Tea Party Resolution is “Left-Wing McCarthyism”

Bob Schieffer: I Didn’t Ask Holder About the Black Panther Thing Because I Didn’t Know About It

There has only been hours of testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and hours of coverage on Fox and Internet blogs..... but CBS says they did not report it because "they didn't know about it" ?????

Justice Loses Its Stars and Stripes

"What's black and white and "red" all over? The Department of Justice's newly designed website. Gone are the standard red, white, and blue motifs, replaced by an all-black backdrop. And prominently placed on virtually every page of the site is a quote credited to a man who facilitated a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N., and the global "workers rights movement."" [American Spectator]

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

"Will Americans choose to be governed by a ruling class or will we return to self-governance by the country class?" [Patterico's Pontifications]

A thorough discussion of the issues causing the "Ruling Class" and the "Country Class" to do battle.

American Jeopardy: What is Fascism?

"Over the years, words lose meaning and often take on new forms that in no way represent their original usage. This can be observed in the now taboo word "fascism." Fascism is now most closely associated with the system of government that effected the slaughter of over 6 million Jews and other political prisoners. But at its core, fascism is really no more than a system where government, through agreements with the private sector, controls virtually all property and income indirectly. " [American Thinker]

Here Is What Is REALLY Happening in the Gulf!!

Here is a video report on the scene of the folks drilling the relief well in the Gulf! It beats the hell out of the media reports which hype all sorts of scare !!!

Quotas Hidden in Bank Reform Bill Will Cost Taxpayers Millions

"Buried deep in the bowels of the massive financial-regulation bill the Senate passed Thursday are massive race- and gender-employment provisions that will cost countless millions to enforce and appear to duplicate other civil-rights initiatives already in place." [Newsmax]

Ideas To Reclaim America: 23 Simple Ways To Create Jobs, Grow Our Economy And Help The Gulf Coast Recover

To foster a pro-growth economic environment in Florida and across our country, Marco has put forth 23 simple ideas: see his list here

Exempted From Obamacare: Senior Staff Who Wrote the Bill

"For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and for the American people.

One such surprise is found on page 158 of the legislation, which appears to create a carveout for senior staff members in the leadership offices and on congressional committees, essentially exempting those senior Democrat staffers who wrote the bill from being forced to purchase health care plans in the same way as other Americans." [NewLedger]

The Rush Limbaugh challenge

"I have found a fascinating phenomenon among liberals. They feel free to harshly criticize Rush Limbaugh yet rarely, if ever, listen to him. And when they do hear him it is in carefully selected brief excerpts or in second- or third-hand accounts. This leads to a lot of misconceptions on their part.

Do you actually LISTEN to Rush Limbaugh? And I don't mean in bits and pieces. Have you ever listened to entire Rush Limbaugh broadcasts over a reasonable period of time? If not, then I make this challenge not only to you but to all non-moonbat liberals: Listen to the entire three hours of Rush Limbaugh on a daily basis for a full month and then report back your findings.

This Rush Limbaugh Challenge is limited to non-moonbat liberals such as Fein because the moonbat left, exemplified by Keith Olbermann, is beyond hope. Their leftwing minds are already made up and there is no way they would listen to Rush regularly." [P.J. Gladnick]

Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case

"In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. " [FOX News]

In a silent way

"Readers who get their news from the the mainstream media are remarkably ill informed. Much of what they "know" isn't true and much of what they don't know is important. Take the case of what Byron York calls "the NASA (non) feeding frenzy." " [Power Line]

The Fundamental Transformation of America...

A litany of statements indicating Obama's Socialist directions ..... followed by:

"Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ?" [Red County]

Liberal Myth: Defense is Biggest in Federal Budget

"I get so tired of hearing this [that we spend more on the military than anything else]. Here is a chart I whipped up using a table I got from: [Whitehouse web site]" [Left Coast Rebel]

It shows that the military (including VA services) costs about 1/3rd to 1/4th what all of Health and Human Services does!

Six Months To Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes In History

Look at just the INCOME tax changes (the article describes many, many others)...

- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
- The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

So.... if you were in the 10% bracket this year and paid $1,000 Income tax.... you will be paying $1,500 next year ..... that is a FIFTY PERCENT INCREASE in your income tax !!!

Strange ...... I thought Obama promised no tax increases for those earning less than $250,000.

TSA to Block "Controversial Opinion" on the Web

"The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency's computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a 'controversial opinion' ....." [CBS News]

KRAUTHAMMER Speaks on Ridiculous NASA Orders From Obama

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

This Obama Administration is being driven off the rails ..... !!!!

"NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel. " [Fox News]

Ideas have consequences and so do attitudes

"Politico reports that Democrats are encountering a brutal fundraising period in their longtime donor stronghold of mega-rich New York. The exact quarterly figures won't be known until after the July 15 filing deadline, but some Democratic campaign insiders are calling this the worst period for fundraising they've experienced in the New York area since 1994 (there's that year again)." [Power Line]

Gallup: How the Tea Party sees America

"Plenty of media assumptions have fed coverage of the Tea Party, but give Gallup credit — they’ve at least made the effort to find out who Tea Party activists are and what they think. In a new poll released today, Gallup surveys Tea Party supporters, opponents, and neutrals in order to find out what issues matter most to them. And despite the media’s portrayal of Tea Party activists as bigots, it turns out that there is little difference between all three groups on the importance of addressing discrimination (emphasis mine)....." [HotAir]

McChrystal Was Talking to You

"Having pressed his case privately with Obama's war team in Washington, McChrystal certainly saw the handwriting on the wall, and as a final recourse, pled his case to the American people.

Were his actions a breach of protocol? Yes. Did they rise to the level of insubordination? Probably. Was Obama justified in removing him from command? I think so. But after we're done hammering McChrystal for going over the President's head, we better give some serious thought as to why he was so willing to put his career on the line like that." [Peter Heck]

Job Losses in Post WW II Recessions

Feds taking the weekend off in oil fight?

"One local official is voicing his frustration over what he calls a "nine-to-five" attitude by some federal authorities in the face of the oil disaster." [WWL]

Liar! Liar! Officials on the Gulf Cleanup

"Billy Nungesser, president of New Orleans’ Plaquemines Parish, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work -- a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard -- was “somewhat inaccurate.” So, Nungesser asked to fly over the spill to verify the number.

The flyover was canceled three times before those officials admitted that just 31 of the 140 skimmers were actually deployed" [Left Coast Rebel]

Yet another terrorist tie to Obama White House

"The director of the White House Fellows program, Cindy S. Moelis, previously served as director of a group that granted Weather Underground terrorist organization founder William Ayers its "public trust" award, WND has learned." [WND]

Pelosi: Unemployment benefits create jobs?

"Nancy Pelosi telling America that unemployment benefits are "One of the biggest stimulus's to our economy."

Speaker Pelosi went on to say that unemployment benefits are actually "Job creating" and that unemployment benefits "Create jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name. " [Neil Braithwaite]

Why Kagan Is Unqualified -- and Dangerous

Nullification works both ways !!!!

"Despite being thoroughly unqualified to occupy the bench, Elena Kagan will most likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court. This is because most of our hundred senators are almost as unqualified to judge a judge as she is to be one. What is the proper criterion to apply? Well, a simple analogy illustrates the point best." [American Thinker]

Disaster Continues – US Loses 125,000 Jobs in June

"Barack Obama is the worst president in history on job creation–
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Since Obama’s election in 2008, the US economy has shed 4.4 million jobs. That’s worse than Herbert Hoover. The US economy lost 125,000 jobs last month" [Gateway Pundit]

Could Obama Be More Unpopular?

How could he possibly hold our country in such low regard? How long are we Americans going to put up with THIS sort of outlook?


"But our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols. It won't work. Our borders will not be secure as long as our limited resources are devoted to not only stopping gangs and potential terrorists, but also the hundreds of thousands who attempt to cross each year simply to find work." - [Barack Obama]

Did Elena Kagan Lie to the Supreme Court in Last Year’s 9/11 Case?

Kagan argued before the Supreme Court in opposition to 9/11 victims trying to sue Saudi Arabia for funding of Al Qaeda. She made provably FALSE arguments. The court took her advice and has prevented the suits.

Walter Williams: Poverty in the U.S. is anything but

"According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the 2009 poverty guideline was $22,000 for an urban four-person family. In 2009, having income less than that, 15 percent or 40 million Americans were classified as poor, but there's something unique about those "poor" people not seen anywhere else in the world.

What's defined as poverty is misleading in another way. Official poverty measures count just family's cash income.

It ignores additional sources of support such as the earned-income tax credit, which is a cash rebate to low-income workers; it ignores Medicaid, housing allowances, food stamps and other federal and local government subsidies to the poor." [Walter Williams]