Midterm elections 2010: Prepare for a new American revolution

A Brit speaks out ........  "More than three centuries ago, the residents of America staged a rebellion against an oppressive ruler who taxed them unjustly, ignored their discontents and treated their longing for freedom with contempt. They are about to revisit that tradition this week, when their anger and exasperation sweep through Congress like avenging angels. This time the hated oppressor isn't a foreign colonial government, but their own professional political class."     [Telegrah U.K.]

President Obama and the Radical Socialist Agenda

"Stanley Kurtz's new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is a detailed look into the forces that shaped Barack Obama. Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has written a highly detailed and definitive account of the president's conversion as a radical activist; he provides minute and abundant evidence confirming the long-disputed label of "socialist" that has dogged the president since his undergraduate days. Kurtz describes Obama's ideology as "stealth socialism" and called his views "Barack Obama's secret." In the preface of the book, Kurtz writes, "The president has systematically disguised the truth about his socialist convictions, sometimes by directly misrepresenting his past and sometimes by omitting or parceling out damaging information to disguise its real"     [American Thinker]

Boxer’s sweetheart deal with reinstated Indian tribe

.... and her son made $8 Million off of her deal !!!!!

"In 2006, Democrats successfully won back control of Congress by highlighting corruption scandals involving Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist specializing in Indian tribes.  But does one Democrat in particular have a problem of her own with her interventions on behalf of a California tribe that now operates a casino just outside of San Francisco?  Barbara Boxer pushed a bill reinstating a tribe designated as “defunct” by the BIA 40 years earlier through legislation that she also amended to remove a prohibition on gaming on any land the tribe owned.  Rick Manning at The Hill says the deal — and what ensued — would have “made Jack Abramoff blush”:"     [Hot Air]

A Crossroads Election

"Most elections are about particular policies, particular scandals or particular personalities. But these issues don't mean as much this year-- not because they are not important, but because this election is a crossroads election, one that can decide what path this country will take for many years to come.

We have a strange man in the White House. This election is a crossroads, because either his power will be curbed by depriving him of his huge Congressional majorities or he will continue on a road that jeopardizes both our freedom and our survival."     [Thomas Sowell]

Sarah Palin to Lisa Murkowsky: “Lisa, You Can Sue If You Want To… You Won’t Be the First”

"Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski’s hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan’s show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.” The station, unlike Murkowski, who is flush with millions of dollars from vested corporate interests, does not have a budget for a legal defense. So it did what any small market station would do when threatened by Beltway lawyers charging $500 to $1000 an hour – they pulled Dan Fagan off the air."     [Gateway Pundit]

There They Went Again

"Democrats and their allies are already rationalizing their likely defeat next Tuesday, variously blaming the economy, GOP obstructionism, corporate money, or an inexplicable collapse in President Obama's communications skills. Whatever minor truth lies in these excuses, they obscure the larger reality: Americans appear ready to repudiate Democratic governance for the fourth consecutive time."     [WSJ]

Obama to Jon Stewart: Obamacare ‘As Significant’ As Any U.S. Law Ever Passed, But Only First Step in Government Transformation of Health Care

"President Barack Obama told comedian Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" yesterday that the health care reform bill he signed in March was as significant as any legislation ever enacted by the U.S. government, but that it was only an initial step toward an even greater transformation of the health-care system which he intends to achieve as president."     [CNS]

State Department Chose a Tea Party Critic to Explain the Tea Party to Foreign Journalists

"The U.S. State Department recently asked a New York Times reporter who has criticized the tea party movement to discuss the the tea party and its role in the midterm election with foreign reporters who are covering next week's contests.

Kate Zernike, who spoke at the Foreign Press Center in Washington on Friday, Oct. 22, has authored a book that is critical of the conservative grassroots movement. "Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America" was published by her own employer. Times Books is a partnership between the New York Times and Henry Holt and Co."     [CNS]

Why Do Jews Vote for Their Enemies?

"American blacks vote Obama for the color of his skin. American Leftists vote O because they hope he will shaft this country more royally than anybody else has so far.

So what excuse do the Jews have? The black and the radical leftist vote O for reasons I can understand. Obama is black, even if his life experience has no relationship to the average American black person -- none at all. And Obama is a radical, so even the radicals have a reason. However, why does Obama keep his favorable standing with American Jews? It makes no sense."     [American Thinker]

“If You Don’t Know What’s Going On, Don’t Vote”

"This letter is directed at a particular subset of Americans who manage to weave their way through life without the slightest concern or knowledge about the critical issues facing the country today.  For you, “news gathering” consists of watching John Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” even as you remain undeterred by the fact that the network which broadcasts it is called Comedy Central.  Some of you are the kind of people who voted for Barack Obama because, as one of your herd put it to me, “all my friends voted for him.” "     [Arnold Ahlert ]

A classic case of Obama's sophistry and lack of candor

"President Obama told a group of liberal bloggers today that his views on gay marriage are "evolving":"     [Power Line]

The Hundred Year Starship: The Nasa mission that will take astronauts to Mars and leave them there forever

"Nasa is planning an audacious mission to send a manned spacecraft on a one-way trip to permanently settle on other planets.

The ambitious idea is known as the Hundred Years Starship and would send astronauts to colonise planets like Mars, knowing they could never come home.

NASA Ames Director Pete Worden revealed that one of NASA’s main research centres, Ames Research Centre, has received £1million funding to start work on the project."  

   [U.K. Mail]

Pelosi Promises NO NEW DEBT !!!! Then Her House INCREASED DEBT BY $5 TRILLION

"Under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, debt has grown $5 trillion, even though she promised “no new deficit spending” when she took the gravel. But it’s not too late for Pelosi to revisit her promise. In the last few weeks of the 111th Congress, Pelosi could consider:

*Cutting federal government spending by 23 percent – the same amount spending has increased since President Obama took office.
*Proposing and passing a balanced budget for 2011 with no tax increases.
*Canceling outstanding “stimulus” funds.
*Returning repaid TARP funds to the U.S. Treasury.
*Repealing Obamacare and all of its ugly, expensive tentacles."     [Michele Bachmann]

Rubio for Senate TV Ad, "A Generational Choice"

And You Thought There Was No Such Thing As DEATH PANELS In Obamacare?

Bathroom Science: 10 New Studies that Change What We Know About Restroom Hygiene

"Restroom hygiene is a hot topic thanks to diseases that are reaching epic proportions. While kids are taught to soap up for the duration of the Happy Birthday song (in some cases, kids are taught to run through the song twice while washing hands), adults are quick to wash their hands with little soap and water or give just the fingertips a wipe with antibacterial gel. New studies are showing what we have to do to protect ourselves from illnesses and were restroom hygiene comes into play."     [Operations Management]

Reid: ‘But For Me, We’d Be in World-Wide Depression’

WHAT UTTER ARROGANCE !!!!!!!!

Boxer: I've Worked So Hard for this Title

Call Me Senator

Checking In, With Some Thoughts on the Story of the Day - Juan Williams

"Reading between the lines of Juan's statement and those of NPR officials, it's apparent that NPR was moved to fire Juan because he irritates so many people in its audience. An interesting contrast: many NPR listeners apparently could not stomach that Williams also appeared on Fox News. But it doesn't seem that any perceptible number of Fox News viewers had any complaints that Williams also worked for NPR. The Fox audience seems to be more tolerant of diversity than the NPR audience."     [Michael Barone - Power Line]

Felons Can’t Own Guns. So How Did This Guy Acquire Three … Gun Companies?

Authorities have a lot to answer for in the case of convicted kidnapper Lee Booth.

"This guy was convicted and served time for second degree kidnapping in the early 80's.  Since then he bought an Airline and ran it into the ground, owned three firearms manufacturing companies and has been issued a Concealed Weapons Carry permit.  All of these are illegal for a convicted felon.  What sort of Federal and State corruption is at work here?"     [Pajamas Media]

MAZDA develops 70 mpg car - On Sale in 2011

"Reuters is reporting that the Mazda2 subcompact, which goes on sale in Japan next year and will eventually make its way to America, could get gas mileage of around 70 mpg. That would make it the most efficient gas-only car in the world."     [Gas2.0]

The Jihad Against A Seattle Cartoonist

"It should be front-page news in every newspaper in the country: Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris has given up her job, her home, and even her identity because of death threats for Islamic supremacists. That Islamic jihadists can force an American citizen into hiding for exercising her freedom of speech is bad enough; that her cause has aroused only indifference from the media and the nation’s leading officials is even worse."     [Resistance and Life]

Hot air? White House takes credit for Bush-era wind farm jobs

"Administration claims 50,000 jobs created, but many projects were completed before funds were handed out"     [Investigative Reporting Workshop]

UK unveils dramatic austerity measures - Equivalent to U.S. Cut of $650 BILLION !

"The sweeping cuts in spending and entitlements far exceed anything contemplated in the US where Barack Obama, the president, has proposed only a three-year freeze on discretionary spending and Congress is still debating whether to extend tax cuts for the wealthy.

The UK cuts of £81bn ($128bn) over four years are the equivalent of 4.5 per cent of projected 2014-15 gross domestic product. Similar cuts in the US would require a cut in public spending of about $650bn, equal to the projected cost of Medicare in 2015."     [Financial Times]

Juan Williams Not Sufficiently Islamophobic for NPR - FIRED!!

"NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik’s Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams’ contract was terminated — over comments Williams made about Muslims on The O’Reilly Factor. He gave his honest opinion: “[W]hen I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” "     [Michelle Malkin]

What illegal aliens are not

"Those illegally in a country are not immigrants. Technically, there is no such thing as an "illegal immigrant". An immigrant is involved with an established and orderly procedure of immigration (entering a country to which one is not native in order to settle there by legal process)."     [American Thinker]

A benign Obama blunder, but a scary blunder nonetheless

" The Washington Post reminds us of how President Obama sabotaged the Middle East "peace talks." He did so by insisting on a settlement freeze. For years, the PA had conducted talks with Israel in the absence of such a freeze. But when Obama came to power, suddenly the PA treated settlement construction as an obstacle to talks."     [Power Line]

Democrats make pre-election pitch to help seniors

DEMOCRATS BUYING YOUR VOTE

Democrats are making a pre-election pitch to give Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250, part of a larger effort to convince senior voters that their party, and not Republicans, will best look out for the 58 million people who get the government retirement and disability benefits.

[AP]

The Crumbling RNC and Its Replacement

"In this election cycle, the RNC has had several preferred candidates lose to Tea Party challengers in the primaries, and the RNC's chairman, Michael Steele, has been largely ineffective and at times controversial. Republicans, specifically conservatives and Tea Party members, have felt that the RNC has become entrenched in a middle-of-the-road political strategy. All of this has caused the RNC to become increasingly irrelevant during this campaign season and may point towards further weakening of the GOP among the Republican Party faithful."     [American Thinker]

Obama and Company trying to pull a fast one to keep his old seat in the D column?

"There is a very tight Senate race going on for the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama before his Ascension. The Republican, Mark Kirk (a military reservist), is in a tight race with the Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer who has close ties to Barack Obama and the Cook County machine. There has been a fair amount of mudslinging between the two sides, but there seems to be some mischief coming from on high. Illinois has been tardy in getting ballots out to our men and women serving in the military, and thus their votes may not count in November."     [American Thinker]

Joe Biden:’It’s Just Too Hard to Explain Our (Failed) Policies”

"Democrats aren’t running on the administration’s accomplishments like health-care and financial-regulatory overhaul and the stimulus because “it’s just too hard to explain,” Biden said."     [Gateway Pundit]

"It’s hard to pack more condescension, arrogance, and elitism into a 6-word phrase."     [blogger]

Barack Obama: Liar and Demagogue

"There are among the population of the country Barack Obama has been chosen to lead those who have experienced firsthand the iron fist of a dictatorial government and who have survived the bloodshed that resulted. Tens of millions died during the past century under dictators. Deep within their psyche, these survivors are extraordinarily attuned to those factors that gave rise to the devastation when dictators have their way.

Therefore, on behalf of those of us who have live through the worst of times, and based upon the president's words and deeds, it must be stated that Mr. Obama is a liar and a demagogue."     [American Thinker]

Google Cars Drive Themselves, In Traffic

"With someone behind the wheel to take control if something goes awry and a technician in the passenger seat to monitor the navigation system, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. One even drove itself down Lombard Street in San Francisco, one of the steepest and curviest streets in the nation."     [NY Times]

No Social Security Increase In 2011

"As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits."     [AP]

Book Thrown at Obama- Literally

"This was in the British press. Did you hear about it in any of the US media? Someone threw a book at Obama?? What's the matter? They didn't have a shoe???"     [Left Coast Rebel]

I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They’ll Make Me Work Less.

"HERE’S the bottom line: Without any taxes, accepting that editor’s assignment would have yielded my children an extra $10,000. With taxes, it yields only $1,000. In effect, once the entire tax system is taken into account, my family’s marginal tax rate is about 90 percent. Is it any wonder that I turn down most of the money-making opportunities I am offered?"     [NY Times]

The Corruption at the Heart of the Global Warming Scam

"Hal Lewis is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A distinguished scientist who has been, among other things, the Chairman of the Technology Panel of the Defense Science Board, Lewis was a member of the American Physical Society for sixty-seven years. Until last Wednesday, when he resigned from the Society in protest over the corruption of science by global warming alarmism. His letter of resignation is reproduced in full here."     [Power Line]

Be sure to read his entire letter here.

The Democrats' Latest Talking Point

"Democrats recently have embraced a talking point at obvious variance with reality to explain  away their massive unpopularity with voters. Since the Democrats ran the perfunctory "Blame Bush!" talking point into the ground by the persistent recitation of it in television studios for the better part of two years, the DNC realized it was time to manufacture another stock liberal argument, one that hasn't been repeated ad nauseam.Yet.

As parroted by mainstream media liberals, Obama's administration and congressional Democrats are struggling with the public because they are inarticulate, goes the narrative. We are supposed to believe that they are defined by the voice of the Republicans and that they don't know how to talk up their own legislative "successes"  -- whereas the Republicans are supposedly "experts" at talking. "

 

[American Thinker]

The Forgotten Evil behind the Iron Curtain

"Two books from Oxford University Press provide a reminder of just what life was like on the other side during the last sixty years of the 20^th century. The books offer a look at two forms of repressive Communist societies.

One, and by far the more brutal, was the Soviet Gulag, a collection of hundreds of work camps where between 20 and 30 million Russians and others were sent after their arrest to help build the Soviet industrial state before, during, and after World War 2. Millions died in these camps -- a full quarter of all prisoners every year during the horrific years of the Soviet war with Nazi Germany from 1941-1945. Prisoners were arrested for two primary reasons: concern that they were not loyal and, to a much larger extent, the need for bodies to work. The prisoners lived  in inhuman conditions -- bitter cold, flimsy sleeping quarters, minimal food and water, in unsanitary surroundings.   

The Stasi was a repressive force of a very different kind. The East Germans did not routinely murder dissidents or conduct mass arrests. Instead, they gathered information on a very large number of the state's citizens. No other country in the world has ever had as high a percentage of the population participating in domestic spying (as many as one in forty adults). This included the employees of the Stasi and the far larger army of informants they relied on. Though Stasi employees furiously burned documents in the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, over 111 miles of such documents remained. A quarter of the East Germans had Stasi files in the documents that were recovered. "

[American Thinker]

The Muslim Brotherhood is ready; is the West?

"The Muslim Brotherhood is ready to move from the era of propaganda and base-building to one of revolutionary action. At least, its hundreds of thousands of followers are being given that signal. Some of them will engage in terrorist violence as individuals or forming splinter groups; others will redouble their efforts to seize control of their countries and turn them into safe areas for terrorists and instruments for war on the West.

The Muslim Brotherhood is ready, but is the West? As I said above, probably not."

[Power Line]

Red Herring Politics

Red Herring Politics: Part I 

Red Herring Politics: Part II

A portent of Things To Come ??? Bad Karma !

Notice his tepid "ha-ha-ha" ...... he knows what has happened in his PR world!

Problems Plague BP's Oil Spill Compensation Fund

From the "Why Are We Not Surprised Department" .........

"In the rush to get compensation from BP after its massive oil spill, the $20 billion fund that the company created has been inundated with questionable documentation, inflated claims and in some cases, outright fraud — all slowing down the process for legitimate claims, the administrator of the program says."     [NewsMax]

Health Care Groups to Congress: Restrict Funding of Office of Medicare Chief Who Advocated Rationing

"Marking three months since President Barack Obama recess-appointed Berwick to be administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), six groups sent a letter to members of Congress about Berwick, who has openly advocated the rationing of health care and argued that “humane” health care funding “must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate.”"     [CNS]

Mondale: Obama's teleprompters are 'idiot boards,' keep him from connecting with audiences

"Former Vice President Walter Mondale said on CNN that President Obama relies too much on a teleprompter -- which Mondale called "idiot boards" when speaking to the American people.'     [Washington Examiner]

"HE's VERY BRIGHT ...... In matter of fact BRILLIANT" !!!!!!  Walter Mondale - pontificating about Obama.  
 

‘No Pressure’: New Environmental Campaign Glorifies Eco-Fascism

This has to be the most egregious violation of the principles of humanity I have ever seen in advertising.  These ECO-FACISTS have crafted an ad campaign which has backfired on them.  Contact them at:

 hello@1010global.org 

to let them know your thoughts............

"The latest anti-global warming campaign aimed at getting people around the world to reduce their carbon footprint has backfired. Big time.

The people behind the “10:10″ campaign, a movement encouraging people to reduce their carbon consumption by 10 percent in 2010, have been forced to pull their controversial new advertisement from the internet after widespread public outcry. The gruesome 4-minute ad depicts global warming skeptics being literally blown to pieces after their tree-hugging friends insist they’re under “no pressure” to modify their carbon consumption."     [The Blaze]

UK Pundit to Shocked TV Host: Suffering Children Should Be Smothered

"Advice columnists in Britain are known as “agony aunts” (or uncles).  Virginia Ironside is one.  Her latest bit of advice has drawn outraged reaction from television viewers who caught her comments on the BBC yesterday.  She appeared during a segment called, “Can abortion be a kindness?”"     [TheBlaze]

The Roots of Obama's Rage

Dinesh D'Souza  has just come out with this new book.  It is the clearest explanation for ALL of the mysterious behavior of this 44th President of the U.S.     D'Souza makes a convincing argument that Obama is, at his core, an anti-colonialist, bound and determined to wipe out the forces of colonialism he sees remaining ...... including the U.S.A.

Here is a review from the Amazon web site:

"Certainly, the destruction Obama is wreaking on the nation is obvious to all but the most enchanted wishful-thinkers, utopians and leftists. And the task at hand in the face of this destruction is similarly obvious.

For the purely pragmatic, that's enough.

But for many of us, the nagging question that remains is "Why?" Why is the man so set upon bringing down the country? What explains it? Why are his actions so inconsistent with his campaign speeches? Some conclude he is merely corrupt - but that alone would not explain the consistency of the destructive efforts. Others conclude he is a hyper-leftist, or perhaps more clearly stated, a Marxist. I think this is true.

But it's not enough. That would explain his economic "views", if one can call them that. But it doesn't explain the totality of his animus for the West, generally, and America, specifically. There's something deeper that goes to the entirety of the society and culture, and goes beyond class and economics.

Here, D'Souza fills the void. He does so with Obama's own original source material. Some will say that the effort is an unconvincing flight of conspiratorial fancy - but those people are lying, and they desperately want you to not read the book. Anyone who cares about the country will review the source material presented here and reach their own conclusions."      [porterhouse]

Earth to Beltway: It's the uncertainty, stupid

"What will it take for economic policymakers to understand that the chief problem today is uncertainty? And that until they quit moving significant pieces of fiscal, monetary and regulatory policy around, the uncertainty won't abate?

The federal government is in the early stages of completely rewriting the rules for finance and health care. Until the rules are written, businesses don't really know what kind of capital markets they will be operating in or what their employee benefit costs will be."

[The Arizona Republic]

Video: Greta vs Gloria

" Greta van Susteren calls Gloria Allred “insane” and “delusional,” and even gets Allred to admit at one point that her client, illegal immigrant Nicki Santillan, won’t ever end up in court on this complaint. Susteren calls Allred’s ethics into question for exposing the woman and her children — “putting a big neon sign” on them, in van Susteren’s words — for a case that Allred not only admits she can’t win but won’t even survive to an actual trial."     [Hot Air]

Futility

It is no secret that education in America has lagged, by international standards, for quite a few years. The liberals' answer is always the same: spend more money. I would argue that we have carried out a laboratory experiment, and have conclusively proved that more money is not the cure for whatever ails the education system. This chart, just produced by the Cato Institute, makes the point with beautiful simplicity:

Author D'souza Rebuts Critics of His Obama 'Roots' Book

"Best-selling New York Times author Dinesh D'Souza is firing back at mainstream media critics who are taking shots at his new book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," which explores what really motivates President Barack Obama in his ongoing effort to transform America.

The book has drawn sharp attacks from left-wing bloggers and the White House, in large part based on remarks from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who recently cited D'Souza's work in a blistering critique of Obama."     [NewsMax]

Deadliest September Yet for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan; More Than One U.S. Soldier Dying Per Day on Obama’s Watch

"2010 is already the deadliest year of the Afghan war for U.S. forces. So far, 354 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year compared to 303 in 2009, which was the second deadliest year of the war.

A total of 650 U.S. troops troops have been killed in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2010. During his presidential campaign, he vowed to shift the focus of U.S. military efforts overseas from Iraq to Afghanistan."     [CNS NEWS\