CONSERVATIVE CLIPPINGS

Obama's Crony Capitalism

2012-01-27T17:35:00.002-05:00

The problem with Government "investing" in winners ............
[clipper]

The Real State of the Union

2012-01-27T17:10:00.002-05:00

"What should Obama have said in his speech? Here's what I wish he'd said:"
[John Stossel]

REAL DEEP UNDERSTANDING !!!!!

2012-01-27T13:37:00.003-05:00

Solid proposal ....... as he talks down to the idiots who support him......
[clipper]

President Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22 fossil-fueled vehicles

2012-01-27T13:29:00.002-05:00

These Economies Will Dominate The World In 2050

2012-01-27T13:12:00.003-05:00

"Economists on Wall Street are out with their recommendations for 2012. A few have come out with calls for 2015. But one, HSBC, is out with a call for 2050.

"The World in 2050," a new report by HSBC economist Karen Ward, forecasts the economic prowess of the 100 largest economies" [Business Insider]

Click here to see how the 50 largest economies stack up next to each other

You dumb racist conservatives are dumb. And racist.

2012-01-27T12:58:00.000-05:00

" We’ve got a brand spanking new, rootin’ tootin’ study, fresh off the press from a distinguished group of scientists. (And I can tell they were scientists because I checked, and most of them were wearing white lab coats.) In it, we find what we already suspected about the party that hates science, clings to their guns and their God, and disapproves of Barack Obama not because of his damaging policies, but because he’s black. Yep… you guessed it. Turns out that conservatives are stupid. And racist." [Hot Air]

Let's Be Fair about Taxation

2012-01-27T12:53:00.001-05:00

"Today, the current top tax rate of 15% for capital gains and dividends is getting a lot of attention because of the recent release of Mitt and Ann Romney's tax returns. They reported millions of capital gains and dividend income and paid a tax of around 15%.

Let's take a look at fairness in the context of investment income. We will see a very different picture of their tax situation and the taxes paid by others with investment income." [American Thinker]

Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks On By

2012-01-27T12:43:00.001-05:00

"Two AT writers attended yesterday's hearing in Georgia over President Obama's eligibility for the presidential ballot. Cindy Simpson writes:

President Obama has a habit of turning his back and walking away from those with whom he disagrees, as recently discovered by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Professor John Lott, in an interview with Teri O'Brien, recalled similar experiences with Obama while at the University of Chicago.

Ms. O'Brien commented to Professor Lott: "Gods don't debate. They just issue decrees."

And apparently they also tend to place themselves above the law." [American Thinker]

Wait A Minute !!!!!

2012-01-26T18:06:00.004-05:00

Now we've got Mc Cain AND Bob Dole dumping on Newt Gingrich !!!!!! Those paragons of conservative values support Romney over Gingrich! Next, you will be trying to tell me that Thomas Dewey, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover and Harold Stassen would be objecting to Newt's candidacy!

If you want a REAL CONSERVATIVE (warts and all) SUPPORT NEWT GINGRICH

[clipper]

Fox News Drifting Leftward?

2012-01-26T16:40:00.000-05:00

"Cliff Kincaid at America's Survival has launched a call for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck.

This announcement comes on the heels of troubling revelations about Beck's firing and other disturbing trends at Fox. It quickly got front-page coverage at the Huffington Post, presumably to launch a campaign of ridicule and smears before Kincaid's idea builds momentum. No matter how much they sneer, the left is terrified of Beck.

Beck's firing was the work of George Soros, Kincaid has revealed." [Americsan Thinker]

U.S. outrage as Egypt bars Americans from leaving

2012-01-26T15:51:00.000-05:00

"Six Americans working for publicly funded U.S. organizations promoting democracy in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country, provoking angry demands in Washington that Cairo's new military rulers stop "endangering American lives"." [Reuters]

The “fair share” administration owes over $800,000 in back taxes

2012-01-26T10:15:00.000-05:00

"A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes" [Hot Air]

Obama, Arizona Gov. Brewer Have Words in Phoenix

2012-01-25T19:33:00.001-05:00

"President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) had what appears to have been an angry exchange of words on the tarmac in Phoenix over her portrayal of him in a book she published late last year." [White House Dossier]

Haven't We Heard This Before?

2012-01-25T09:04:00.003-05:00

Did he XEROX last year's speech?

South Carolina Message

2012-01-24T18:00:00.004-05:00

Thomas Sowell delivers insight on the Gingrich / Romney differences....... [clipper]

"Mitt Romney's supposed "electability" -- his acceptability to moderates and independents -- has been his biggest selling point. Moreover, he is just the kind of candidate that the Republican establishment has preferred for years: a nice, bland, moderate who offends nobody.

This is the kind of candidate that is supposed to be the key to victory, no matter how many such candidates have gone down to defeat. If the bland and inoffensive moderate was in fact the key to victory, Dewey would have won a landslide victory over Truman in 1948, and John McCain would have beaten Barack Obama in 2008." [Thomas Sowell]

Is THIS the Image Of GREED?

2012-01-24T17:32:00.004-05:00

Read comparison of Obama vs. Romney charitable giving.......

Under Obama, Price of Gas Has Jumped 83 Percent, Ground Beef 24 Percent, Bacon 22 Percent

2012-01-24T17:15:00.000-05:00

"So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up 22 percent." [CNS]

Goverment Employees Paying For Ads in Florida Attacking Romney

2012-01-23T11:35:00.001-05:00

"In the anti-Romney ad, which begins airing Saturday, the male voiceover says that while Romney was a director of Damon Corp., a medical testing company acquired by Bain Capital in 1989, "the company was defrauding Medicare of millions." The ad goes on to point out that Romney profited handsomely from his investment in the suburban Boston company (which Bain, the private-equity firm Romney co-founded, sold several years later).

An eagle-eyed viewer -- or someone hitting the pause button on YouTube -- might catch a headline on the black-and-white screen that points out Romney profited from a firm "later tied to fraud" and that Damon was "fined after sale by Bain." Those nuances are (deliberately) lost on the average viewer."
[American Thinker]

Keystone XL and Obama's Subjugation Economics

2012-01-23T11:12:00.003-05:00

"President Barack Obama's decision to nix the Keystone XL pipeline was one of those days when divorce seemed more sensible than attempting reconciliation. The president's Keystone decision is yet another in a long train of affronts, insults, and harm that the left has inflicted on the American economy and the American worker. We're talking decades-worth of assaults on free enterprise and the enterprising -- you know, the enterprising: the men and women who create jobs.

Clearly, there's more on the president's and the left's agenda than economics. The left has long desired to radically alter the nation socially and culturally. Economics -- controlling the means of production -- is a leftist tenet and tool. When you control the means by which people create their livelihoods, you control them.

Make no mistake, there's malice toward flyover country Americans by the left. Flyover country is everything Mr. Obama doesn't want America to be anymore; the mores, beliefs, and values of traditional America are his real targets. Like most leftists, Mr. Obama seeks to strangle the greater portion of America that fails to conform. " [American Thinker]

In Praise of a Do-nothing Congress

2012-01-22T10:37:00.003-05:00

"Here's a question: how can we expect to have small government if we condemn Congress for not growing it?

So if you complain about a do-nothing Congress, I ask, what is it exactly that you want them to "do," whom do you think they'll "do" it to, and what do you think will be done to you? Our current Congress passed 80 bills. How many more do you want and how many more until we're done for?

So if you complain about a do-nothing Congress, I ask, what is it exactly that you want them to "do," whom do you think they'll "do" it to, and what do you think will be done to you? Our current Congress passed 80 bills. How many more do you want and how many more until we're done for?"

[American Thinker}

What We're Learning about Obamacare isn't Good -- Especially for Seniors

2012-01-21T14:33:00.002-05:00

"Our senior citizens are most at risk under Obamacare -- especially those over 70. Rationing of services and death panels (only they're called "ethics panels" under Obamacare instead of death panels for obvious reasons) are now the rule, not the exception. I have a friend who is a loyal Democrat and a strong Obama supporter. In 2008 when she voted for Obama, she couldn't imagine that in 2012 she would have a massive heart attack and need a pacemaker. Prior to 2010 and the passage of Obamacare, that would have been a routine procedure, but not anymore. She's over 70, and under Obamacare people who are over 70 routinely receive "comfort care." That's a euphemism. It means that a panel of experts has determined that your life isn't worth saving beyond 70, so they will try to make you feel good while you die." [American Thinker]

ABC unaccountably excludes Bill Clinton from lineup of pols who led ‘double lives’

2012-01-21T13:32:00.002-05:00

"ABC News offered yesterday a risible lineup of two-timing politicians that omitted Bill Clinton, the philandering 42nd president, but included Thomas Jefferson, about whom the evidence of sexual dalliance is thin at best.

ABC’s roster of “the top eight politicians who led double lives” was posted online and promised “a look at some … tawdry affairs and public scandals” — and how the politicians implicated “weathered the storm.” " [Media Myth Aleert]

....and you want evidence that the media is NOT in-the-tank for Democrat Politicos ????

An Ignored 'Disparity': Part II

2012-01-21T12:39:00.000-05:00

"One of the ways of trying to reduce the vast disparities in economic success, which are common in countries around the world, is by making higher education more widely available, even for people without the money to pay for it.

This can be both a generous investment and a wise investment for a society to make. But, depending on how it is done, it can also be a foolish and even dangerous investment, as many societies around the world have learned the hard way." [Thomas Sowell]

A GOP Candidate's Bitter Ex-Wife Receives More Coverage Than a Video of Obama Dining with Terrorist-Supporters

2012-01-20T19:42:00.002-05:00

"As I watch the media circus surrounding Marianne Gingrich's interview regarding her relationship with her ex-husband and GOP candidate, Newt Gingrich, I am once again reminded of the double standard afforded to the Democrats and Barack Obama in particular.

However, of greater importance in my view is the silence, save for a few journalists and pundits on the right, regarding exposing a videotape recorded in 2003 of Barack Obama at the farewell dinner for terrorist-supporting Palestinian Rashid Khalidi. News of the videotape's existence came to light while Obama was a candidate, and the free pass given to him by the mainstream media was only just beginning to come to light when the enamored Chris Matthews' shared news of the tingle up his leg."
[American Thinker]

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class

2012-01-20T19:33:00.001-05:00

"In turning down Keystone, however, the President has uncovered an ugly little secret that has always lurked beneath the surface of environmentalism. Its basic appeal is to the affluent. Despite all the professions of being "liberal" and "against big business," environmentalism's main appeal is that it promises to slow the progress of industrial progress. People who are already comfortable with the present state of affairs -- who are established in the environment, so to speak -- are happy to go along with this. It is not that they have any greater insight into the mysteries and workings of nature. They are happier with the way things are. In fact, environmentalism works to their advantage. The main danger to the affluent is not that they will be denied from improving their estate but that too many other people will achieve what they already have. As the Forest Service used to say, the person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer." [The American Spectator]

Obama Administration Orders Free Birth Control

2012-01-20T13:57:00.003-05:00

"The final regulation retains the approach federal health officials proposed last summer, despite the deluge of complaints from religious groups and congressional Republicans that has poured in since then. Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are exempt from the requirement, but religious-affiliated hospitals and universities only get a one-year delay and must comply by Aug. 1, 2013." [The Hill]

Why is Solyndra destroying millions of dollars in parts?

2012-01-20T13:15:00.002-05:00

"Well, why not just toss out millions in assets? Isn’t that what the Obama administration did in subsidizing Solyndra in the first place? The CBS affiliate in San Francisco catches Solyndra in the act of destroying millions of dollars in glass tubes after a court ruled that the company was spending more than they were worth on storage, another theme with a familiar ring in this ongoing tale of crony capitalism and the Obama administration [Hot Air]

Democratic Party economics: The “Reasonable Profits Board”

2012-01-19T14:32:00.002-05:00

"Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a “Reasonable Profits Board” to control gas profits.

The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding “a reasonable profit.” It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees from Congress. …" [Hot Air]

Let us hope this proposal dies the sudden death it deserves.......

Now We Know Who Was Right about Obama

2012-01-19T14:26:00.003-05:00

"Now we know. After three years in office and the launching of his second election campaign, we have experienced President Obama's leadership. We can see whom we elected president -- the mystery man of 2008 revealed.

Democrats were in ecstasy over the great healer, the multiracial candidate who would bring together red states and blue states, black and white, coasts and flyover country. Republicans saw the man with the most leftist, least bipartisan voting record in Congress being installed in the White House. We now know who was right. "[American Thinker]

First Lady Celebrates B-Day at Steakhouse Featuring $28 'Obama' Burger

2012-01-19T10:41:00.002-05:00

As for the peasants ...... let them eat cake!

"- Michelle Obama celebrated her 48th birthday Tuesday night with her husband and friends at a D.C. steakhouse where the menu features a $28 hamburger named "The Obama." BLT Steak describes its "Obama" burger as an 8-ounce American Kobe burger with bacon, cheddar cheese, burnt tomato ketchup, and scallion mustard."[CNS News]

Are The GOP Debaters Foolish Enough to Take CNN's Bait?

2012-01-19T09:30:00.001-05:00

"So CNN's executives have let it slip (at least to Drudge*) that they are "going to let them just go at it" in what they are calling the "Republican Debate of the Year" tonight in South Carolina.

Let me translate:

'We are going to do our damndest to get the candidates to go at each other and totally ignore Barack Obama. We're going to ask those cute little questions like 'Governor Romney, with Speaker Gingrich standing right here, will you say to his face that he's the biggest son of a blah blah blah..... " [AmericanThinker]

Gingrich Goes for Gold

2012-01-18T18:04:00.000-05:00

“Part of our approach ought to be to reestablish something Ronald Reagan did in 1981 and that is to have a Commission on Gold to look at the whole concept of how do we get back to hard money.

“We need to repeal the Humphrey-Hawkins Act. We need to say to the Federal Reserve: your only job is to maintain the stability of the dollar because we want a dollar to be worth thirty years from now what it is worth now because that optimizes saving and investment because people know what they are going to back.

“The very purpose of founding the Constitution was landowners and property owners who did not want inflation. And they felt that under the Articles of Confederation they were increasingly getting inflated paper money." [Weekly Standard]

President Obama Is “Shipping American Energy Security to the Chinese”

2012-01-18T18:00:00.001-05:00

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) pledged to continue fighting for the thousands of much-need jobs the pipeline will create – especially for those hit hardest by the Obama administration’s disastrous economic policies.

“President Obama is destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and shipping American energy security to the Chinese.”

[Gateway Pundit]

Another Reminder Of How The US Government Destroys Business

2012-01-18T17:54:00.002-05:00

"....... The whole affair was just another friendly reminder of why I try to avoid doing anything in the US at all. Regulations, financial tracking, consumer protection… it’s just too damn difficult to get anything done." [Sovereign Man]

An Ignored 'Disparity'

2012-01-17T19:32:00.000-05:00

"With all the talk about "disparities" in innumerable contexts, there is one very important disparity that gets remarkably little attention -- disparities in the ability to create wealth. People who are preoccupied, or even obsessed, with disparities in income are seldom interested much, or at all, in the disparities in the ability to create wealth, which are often the reasons for the disparities in income."[Thomas Sowell]

The one you must read: Letter to Obama

2012-01-16T18:14:00.001-05:00

Here is a four year old letter, very much worth re-reading to refresh your memory on how our DEAR LEADER was known to be a gross liar even back then. [clipper]

Harry Reid's 'Extreme'

2012-01-16T18:01:00.001-05:00

"Having attended a Tea Party rally in Philadelphia that was organized by an African American and in which 9 of 13 speakers were African American and Latino, I keep trying to reconcile Harry Reid's view of the Tea Party with my own firsthand experience.

Saying it's time to rebuild America by working together to create jobs, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday prepared for Congress' return to Washington this week with a warning to Republicans to leave Tea Party "extremism" behind and "learn what legislation is all about." "
[American Thinker]

“Irish homeowners can now legally shoot anyone who enters their property”

2012-01-16T17:53:00.002-05:00

"Irish homeowners can now legally shoot anyone who enters their property,” irishcentral.com reports with incendiary inaccuracy. “A move that has been slammed by civil liberties campaigners in a row with Justice Minister Alan Shatter.” Anyone? Let’s try that again, shall we? “Legislation [a link to which we can't be assed to include] has now come into effect that allows homeowners to use ‘reasonable force’ to defend themselves, their families and their property.” To quote the gatekeeper to The Land of Oz, that’s a horse of a different color. One that seems to have riled-up a lot of people." [The Truth About Guns]

Be sure to read:

Irish homeowners now have legal right to shoot intruders

Our Promissory Note

2012-01-16T17:48:00.001-05:00

"Monday will mark the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. With the opening of his monument on the National Mall, Americans now have a day and a place to honor King's public life and legacy.

We can benefit ourselves on this occasion by taking a moment from our busy lives to call to mind King's most famous address, the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It has many memorable thoughts and phrases, but all of them are framed within the context of the opening lines, which declare:

we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
[Letters From An Ohio Farmer]

Michelle Obama and Stokely Carmichael on Collective White Guilt

2012-01-16T10:39:00.002-05:00

"Michelle told CBS' Gayle King that there will always be people who don't like her and that ever since her husband announced his candidacy in 2007, some see her as an "angry black woman." Cue the mainstream media. The lapdog press couldn't get the "angry black woman" story out to the masses fast enough. Once again, the race card proved an effective distraction from the latest surveillance techniques coming out of Big Sis's Department of Homeland Security." [American Thinker]

Costa 'showboating' may have caused disaster

2012-01-15T17:25:00.002-05:00

"A risky practice by cruise ships of close-passing the island of Giglio in a foghorn-blasting salute to the local population appears to have contributed to the Costa Concordia disaster, officials and witnesses said on Sunday." [Emirates 24/7 News]

Yours truly passed by this island six weeks ago aboard a Regent Seven seas Cruise line ship, the MARINA, enroute from Civitivechia, Italy to Barcelona, Spain. Regent is a top notch line so I'm confident there was on our journey no risk of hot-dogging as, apparently, the COSTA Captain was doing. COSTA, a line owned by CARNIVAL, is among the bottom rated lines. You pays your $$ and you take your chances! [clipper]

Obama Berates US Economy “Known for Its Paper Profits… and Financial Speculation”

2012-01-14T12:18:00.002-05:00

"Here’s more proof that Barack Obama is totally ignorant of its economic system. He wants to “rebuild the economy that’s not known for paper profits or financial speculation.”" [Gateway Pundit]

Here is more evidence (as if you really needed more !) that our Dear Leader thinks that government is the source of all things needed by small business. Furthermore, this address again points out Obama's latest re-election gambit .... to appear to be helping out small business. [clipper]

Obama Bid to Cut the Government Tests Congress

2012-01-14T11:05:00.002-05:00

" President Obama on Friday announced an aggressive campaign to shrink the size of the federal government ...... The White House estimated that the consolidation would save $3 billion over 10 years...... The savings is a mere rounding error in the $3.7 trillion annual budget"[NY Times]

Let's run the math on this ........ The government SPENDS $3.7 trillion per year = $10.14 billion per day = $422.3 million per hour.

This fantastic savings that our Dear Leader has announced is $3 billion over ten years = $300 million per year. That YEARLY savings is about 46 MINUTES of federal govt spending! [clipper]

Vulture Capitalism

2012-01-13T13:29:00.001-05:00

"Vultures are unsightly scavenger birds but they form a vital role in the eco-system just as "vulture capitalists" form a vital role in the free market economic system. Both consume the dead or dying for personal gain.

Most carnivores have no interest in feasting on smelly rotten carcasses that they find laying around. Not only do they find it repulsive but the possibility of becoming deathly ill makes it not worth the risk of doing so. Vultures and other scavengers have adapted to this risk though, and during the process of the scavenger being rewarded for that risk, the eco-system as a whole is in turn rewarded by having vital resources returned to the system where the process is then repeated. Having the land piled up to the treetops with dead bodies or lakes containing nothing but carcasses would do those living within the eco-system no good at all."

[American Thinker]

It's all Bush's Fault

2012-01-13T13:14:00.002-05:00

and now Obama has ADDED over $ SIX TRILLION of his very own!!!!

CBS: Obama admin spent $6.5 billion on risky green-tech ventures

2012-01-13T12:54:00.002-05:00

" CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson takes a break from reporting on Operation Fast and Furious to give a closer look at the performance of Barack Obama’s bets in the green-tech sector — and says that Obama bet more than $6.5 billion of taxpayer money in junk bonds:

CBS News counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five have filed for bankruptcy: The junk bond-rated Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES’ subsidiary Eastern Energy and Solyndra.

[Hot Air]

EPA Fines Companies Because They Didn’t Use A Fuel That Doesn’t Exist

2012-01-11T17:15:00.002-05:00

"When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.

But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist. " [NY Times]

"This kind of nonsense is a regular feature of Stalinist command economics. Stalin himself was a bold pioneer in politically decreeing the impossible. He ordered that corn should be grown in Siberia, even though corn cannot grow in Siberia. The results were far worse than a $6.8 million tithe to the Church of Global Warming, so the fuel companies should consider themselves lucky." [Human Events]

Obama uncle seeks police officer’s driving record

2012-01-11T16:35:00.005-05:00

"A lawyer for President Barack Obama’s uncle, an illegal immigrant who is charged with drunken driving, says he will ask prosecutors to turn over the driving record of the police officer who stopped him." [Boston Herald]

Voter Fraud - NH Style

2012-01-11T16:24:00.001-05:00

"Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday." [Daily Caller]

The Donkey Whisperer

2012-01-11T16:09:00.001-05:00

Democrats are NOT keen on this political ad !

Rules for Republicans

2012-01-10T22:06:00.003-05:00

"The two of us—a marketing professor and a political analyst—have just published a book about the highly successful Obama presidential campaign of 2008. We have distilled a number of lessons from our research. Since the Obama camp already knows these lessons firsthand, we call them “rules for Republicans” and have presented them to a number of the 2012 Republican presidential campaigns. In summary, here they are:

[Click HERE for details]

Rule 1: Define your “big idea.”
Rule 2: Sell your benefits, not your features.
Rule 3: Do not dilute your positions to win over middle-of-the-roaders
Rule 4: Do not let the Obama campaign brand you.
Rule 5: Locate your campaign headquarters outside of Washington, D.C.
Rule 6: Develop an electoral strategy with multiple avenues to success.
Rule 7: Quickly and categorically reject public financing.
Rule 8: Run a good ground game
Rule 9: Consider someone like Marco Rubio as your running mate."

[Weekly Standard]

Report: Obama Freed Top Taliban Leaders From Gitmo

2012-01-10T21:55:00.002-05:00

"The United States has reportedly released three high-ranking Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay Prison in return for an American soldier held by the militant group.

The move is also considered as a big concession by Washington to persuade the Taliban to the negotiating table.

The three senior Taliban leaders are reportedly on their way to Qatar despite strong opposition from Afghanistan.

Analysts, however, believe that US President Barack Obama’s decision to release the top Taliban commanders will do tremendous harm to American national security and to his prospects for reelection." [So you won't see this report in the MSM - clipper]

[Gateway Pundit]

Our Masters in Washington

2012-01-09T10:34:00.000-05:00

" Tootling around Washington, I was struck by—well, not by its prosperity, exactly, but by what is clearly a lavish outlay of funds—your funds, in fact. Everywhere I turned there were huge building cranes. In one spot, I counted 7 over the space of a few blocks. It looked a little like a Third World country suddenly flush from newly discovered mineral reserves of some sort. Which I suppose describes the situation in Washington accurately enough, except that for “mineral reserves” you need to substitute “deficit spending.” I remember meeting my friend Edward Shils several years ago in Washington: “My, they live well on our money,” he said. What would he say today, I wonder, when Washington has come more and more to resemble Versailles circa 1780."
[Roger's Rules]

Real Jobless Rate Is 11.4% With Realistic Labor Force Participation Rate

2012-01-09T10:08:00.002-05:00

"One does not need to be a rocket scientist to grasp the fudging the BLS has been doing every month for years now in order to bring the unemployment rate lower: the BLS constantly lowers the labor force participation rate as more and more people "drop out" of the labor force for one reason or another. While there is some floating speculation that this is due to early retirement, this is completely counterfactual when one also considers the overall rise in the general civilian non institutional population. In order to back out this fudge we are redoing an analysis we did first back in August 2010, which shows what the real unemployment rate would be using a realistic labor force participation rate. To get that we used the average rate since 1980, or ever since the great moderation began"
[Zero Hedge]

Hmmmmmmm ..........

2012-01-09T09:48:00.005-05:00

Stephanopoulos struggles with fairness during NH debate

2012-01-08T14:33:00.001-05:00

"ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos directed pointed, hard-edged questions to Republican presidential candidates during Saturday night’s New Hampshire debate, often attacking without providing evidence to justify his broadsides."
[Daily Caller]

The Times On Obama's Recess Appointments - Republicans Made Him Do It

2012-01-08T14:26:00.001-05:00

"The NY Times pretends to examine the legal and Constitutional issues surrounding Obama's recent recess appointments. They include this "the devil made him do it" howler in the second paragraph:

Senate Republicans had been using procedural rules and filibusters to block or delay the confirmation of nearly 200 agency nominations, leaving vital positions vacant and neutralizing agencies they did not like. That compelled Mr. Obama to escalate matters further on Wednesday, making recess appointments even though the Senate was technically not in recess."

[Just One Minute]

RED SCARE: Obama Plans to Share Nuke Secrets with Russia

2012-01-07T23:03:00.002-05:00

"President Obama signaled Congress this week that he is prepared to share U.S. missile defense secrets with Russia."
[Washington Times]

Red Flag on the Red Planet: China's Great Leap Marsward? Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/red_flag_on_the_red_planet_chinas_great_le

2012-01-07T14:45:00.001-05:00

"On December 29, China released a white paper outlining its near-future goals in space. Writing for Investor's Business Daily, Andrew Malcolm notes that these plans include China's own space station (already partially assembled in Earth orbit) and manned lunar landings by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, President Obama has scuttled his predecessor's project to establish a manned scientific outpost on the Moon; as America's space program withers, China's thrives.

Humanity's historical record indicates that a manned landing on Mars is inevitable, regardless of the risks and costs involved -- and should the Chinese nation commit itself to such a project, the first flag unfurled by a human being on the Red Planet could indeed itself be red."

[American Thinker]

Fed. Gov't Hiring: What a Job !!

2012-01-07T14:31:00.005-05:00

As an "Invitations Coordinator" in the OBAMA created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) you can get paid $103,000 per year, get five weeks vacation, and receive all these other benefits...... [clipper]

"Challenging and rewarding work, opportunities for advancement, competitive salaries, bonuses and incentive awards

Ten paid holidays, 13 days of sick leave, and 13 to 26 days of vacation time each year

Access to comprehensive health, vision, dental, life, and long-term care insurance programs that may be continued after you retire

A wide choice of health insurance plans, coverage for pre-existing conditions, and no waiting periods. We pay a substantial amount (up to 75%) of the health insurance premiums.

Participation in the Federal Reserve Retirement and Thrift Plans; or continued participation in the Civil Service Retirement System or Federal Employees Retirement System.

Public Transit Incentive program (PTIP)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Health Unit Services

Emergency Child Care Service (Contracted Service)

Fitness Center Access"

[USAJOBS.gov]

Dear Mr. President

2012-01-07T14:22:00.002-05:00

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent this scathing letter to the President aswking him to stop increasing the debt and begin cutting spending.

"Rubio went on to pledge that he would challenge any further increase in the debt ceiling, arguing that “we [Congress] need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in.” In the letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, the Florida Senator said that President Obama’s upcoming request to increase the debt ceiling by a whopping $1.2 trillion will cause the nation’s public debt to surpass the $16 trillion mark." [Human Events]

New Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner

2012-01-07T14:09:00.002-05:00

GO FIGURE !!!!!! .....and OBAMA's Justice Dept. Opposes Photo ID Requirement To Vote !!!!

Obama defies Congress with ‘recess’ picks

2012-01-04T18:00:00.001-05:00

"“Although the Senate is not in recess, President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican.

GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner called the move “an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department.”

“The precedent that would be set by this cavalier action would have a devastating effect on the checks and balances that are enshrined in our Constitution,” the Ohio Republican said in a statement."

[Washington Times]

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

2012-01-02T18:09:00.002-05:00

"Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.

The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.

The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department."

[CBS]

Here's what your tax payments are going for !!!! Let the world know by your vote in the coming elections just where YOU stand. [clipper]

When Journalism Becomes Propaganda

2012-01-02T17:47:00.002-05:00

"One of the clichés of popular science is that the very act of observing changes the phenomenon being observed. This is obviously not literally true of all physical phenomena; it would seem to apply more to social science than the hard sciences. But it surely applies to journalism. We’re long past the point where we note with any surprise that journalists are part of the stories they cover, especially election campaigns. At some point, though, journalism crosses the line and becomes part of a propaganda campaign." [Power Line]

A Simple Way to Think About the U.S. Debt and Deficit Problems

2012-01-01T20:08:00.002-05:00

A " reader sent me an email which contained the information below. It's a simple way to think about the U.S. debt and deficit problems. The numbers are several months old so the problems we face are actually worse than the numbers suggest, but they're close enough to get the message across to thinking people:

U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000

Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000

New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000

National debt: $14,271,000,000,000

Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let's remove 8 zeros and pretend the numbers reflect a household budget:

Annual family income: $21,700

Money the family spent: $38,200

New debt on the credit card: $16,500

Outstanding balance

on the credit card: $142,710

Total budget cuts: $385 "

[American Thinker]

Two Silly Notions: Biofuel Mandates as Carbon Neutral and Rhino Horn Medicine

2012-01-01T19:37:00.002-05:00

"To meet a questionable danger (global warming) European bureaucrats have set unrealistic standards for biofuels. Because of obvious errors on their part, these projects will in any event increase, not decrease ,carbon emissions. This, in turn, has promoted the destruction and impoverishment of Africans who rely on the land being prepared for biofuel growth to survive."
[American Thinker]

Obama spent New Year’s Eve signing the National Defense Authorization Act

2012-01-01T19:17:00.000-05:00

"President Barack Obama is still in Hawaii on vacation, but, yesterday, he managed to sign the $662-billion National Defense Authorization Act — a bill that has generated a fair share of controversy in the Capitol city. Even as he signed the bill, Obama added to the drama; he included a statement with his signature to express that he still has “serious reservations” about it"
[HotAir]

Media Abet Obama's Aloofness on Tough Issues

2011-12-30T19:53:00.001-05:00

"Over the past five months, the Republican presidential candidates participated in 13 debates where they fielded dozens of penetrating questions on every major issue facing the nation, and some not so major.

The nationally televised and/or Internet-streamed forums each drew an average of 5 million to 6 million viewers, along with breathless wall-to-wall coverage, commentary and criticism from the news media, radio and TV talk shows, Internet blogs and partisan websites.

Yet, during all that time, the man they hope to defeat next November has rarely been asked by news reporters about many of these issues

No questions on immigration, no questions on Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan or Israel or North Korea -- global trouble spots the GOP candidates have been queried about repeatedly. Moreover, he was not asked about what spending cuts he would make to reduce the deficit, nothing about Medicare and Social Security reform or his health care law, all familiar questions for the Republicans seeking his job.

Obama’s ability to avoid tough questions, skate above the fray and look presidential while his potential successors appear to be futilely flailing is not by accident. It is by White House design, abetted by a press corps that seems content with being shut out by the president and being spoon-fed the message of the day, rather than clamoring for more chances to ask him questions during this critical time."

[Real Clear Politics]

Video: Newt gets emotional

2011-12-30T17:26:00.001-05:00

A counterpoint to all the ANTI NEWT crap political ads ...... the guy IS REAL ! [clipper]

Obama Request for $1.2 Trillion Debt Limit Increase Delayed

2011-12-30T16:34:00.002-05:00

This guy, our "Dear Leader" has asked for ANOTHER $1.2 Trillion increase in our debt limit. Rather than CUT SPENDING he keeps on borrowing, borrowing, borrowing. He'sINCREASED the debt in just THREE years by TWICE as much as Bush (and a DEMOCRAT CONGRESS) did in Eight years. Remember his words on the campaign trail just four short years ago?

[clipper]

Data-Crazy Department of Education Throws Privacy Out the Window

2011-12-29T19:45:00.001-05:00

"Data is king in the progressives' world. The more they have on you, the more they can control you.

In a final version of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy statute published on December 2, 2011, the DoEd, within the space of 57 pages, effectively and comprehensively wills itself to be chief facilitator of state gathered data of public school children Pre-K through college."
[Ann Kane]

The Democratic Party's War on the Poor

2011-12-29T19:23:00.001-05:00

"The city of Medellín, long known as the home of one of the world's most notorious drug cartels, built the people of Comuna 13 six sets of escalators. One column up, one down, both outdoors, both designed to carry the poorest of Medellín's poor back up to their miserable hovels...at a cost to the taxpayer of some USD 6.7 million.

Now, why do we turn to a foreign country for an example of the critical failing of the American Democratic Party? Because the way American conservatives and liberals react to this story of misguided social programs is the American economic debate in a microcosm."
[American Thinker]

Despite GOP opposition, light bulb standards will phase in on Jan. 1

2011-12-29T18:05:00.000-05:00

"New light bulb efficiency standards will begin phasing in on Jan. 1 despite intense opposition from conservatives, who have blasted the rules as a textbook unnecessary federal regulation.

While Republicans secured inclusion of a measure blocking funding for enforcement of the standards in a year-end spending bill, energy efficiency groups say the provision will have little practical impact. The Energy Department rules will nonetheless go into effect at the start of 2012."

[The Hill]

White House lawyers who drafted secret Awlaki kill memo were critics of Bush’s war powers

2011-12-29T17:47:00.002-05:00

"Not the first time that the left’s anti-war legal heroes have morphed from civil libertarians when Bush was in office to war-power expansionists once they went to work for The One. Remember when Harold Koh convinced Obama that he didn’t need to bother with congressional authorization after all if he wanted to wage war in Libya? Good times.

The latest converts to the church of It’s Okay When We Do It: OLC lawyers David Barron and Martin Lederman, who, it turns out, co-authored the legal memo last summer arguing that the killing of Awlaki was legal, notwithstanding the fact that he was an American citizen."

[Hot Air]

Islamo-Coverup: Lib Media Forgets to Mention Santa Killer Was Muslim & Murders Were Likely Honor Killings

2011-12-29T17:25:00.000-05:00

"On Christmas Day Aziz Yazdanpanah shot his family dead. He didn’t want his daughter dating a non-Muslim.

Today Reuters and Yahoo wrote about the vigil for the victims in Dallas. They forgot to mention the killer was a Muslim anbd his murders were likely honor killings. Of course, if we weren’t so used to this we would be shocked."

[Gateway Pundit]

‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill

2011-12-28T18:06:00.000-05:00

"Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort.

According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?”

[Michelle Malkin]

Obamacare Kicks In: Tax On Your Insurance Policy Begins 2012

2011-12-28T08:34:00.005-05:00

For those of you who believe that Obamacare is a benign health care program..... here is yet another reminder of it's draconian impact on our lives. Beginning 2012 at $1 per person, up to $2 per person in 2013, thereafter "rising with inflation", the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute collects taxes from us. The insurance companies pay this tax (right !) which is to fund GOVERNMENT research on which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best. This is the beginning of the government first - telling us - then - ordering us - treated with what and by whom they designate. And people thought "DEATH PANELS" was too strong a phrase!

We know that with the camel's nose in the tent, the next step for this outfit will be to "recommend" which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments will be allowed. The next step after that, as this government created agency continues to grow, will be to forbid insurance payment for drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments which are not approved. By 2034 (the 50th anniversary of "1984", George Orwell's masterpiece foretelling the oppression of nanny-statism) we wll be in full-blown government control of our medical care and therefore our lives.

The Washington lap-dog Associated Press has the audacity to report to us that "Major insurers already are carrying out their own effectiveness research, but it lacks the credibility of government-sponsored studies." DOES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT STUDIES ARE MORE CREDIBLE THAN PRIVATE INDUSTRY?????

[clipper]

Obama to ask for debt limit hike

2011-12-27T12:21:00.002-05:00

So here's what failure of this summer's bi-partisan committee to reach agreement has brought !!!

$1,200,000,000,000
more to borrow from the Chinese

"President Barack Obama is expected to ask for authority to increase the borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion, part of the spending authority that was negotiated between Congress and the White House this summer.

Under the agreement struck in August during the showdown over the government's debt limit, the cap is automatically raised unless Congress votes to block the debt-ceiling extension. Lawmakers have 15 days within receiving the request to vote, which is largely symbolic because the president can veto it and Congress would be unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority to override it. Moreover, the U.S. House of Representatives also is in recess until January 17"
[Reuters]

Princess Pelosi Sacrifices For The 99%'ers

2011-12-26T13:20:00.002-05:00

Princess Nancy, fair maiden in the court of Dear Leader Obama, is spending her Holidays at her usual Hawaiian resort at $10,000 per night. I'm sure she is struggling into the late hours, daily, planning on how she can help the masses huddled in their tents in the Zucotti parks of our country. .... [clipper]

Sen. Harry Reid's Unicorns: Fact Checking a Whopper

2011-12-26T11:00:00.001-05:00

"How can we take Congress seriously when the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, makes patently inaccurate, outrageous and bizarre claims on an important tax-policy issue without any heads being turned?"
[Forbes]

Living the Good Life: The Good Old Days Are Now

2011-12-25T11:44:00.000-05:00

"As much as we hear about declines in median income, economic stagnation, the disappearance of the middle class, falling real wages, increasing income inequality, the data tell a much different story: The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting richer. "
[Carpe Diem]

Saved by Christmas

2011-12-25T11:38:00.001-05:00

"Preparations are underway in the United States and the nations of Europe to celebrate Christmas first and foremost as a tribute to materialism. These increasingly agnostic and secular societies have chosen to ignore the existence of God and have instead placed more and more trust in man. The consequence of this misguided reliance and the reality of God's outstretched helping hand is embodied in the story of a young boy from the streets of a nameless city in an unknown country."

[Steve McCann]

Queen Michelle Orders Dear Leader To Hawaii

2011-12-24T18:06:00.001-05:00

"Michelle Obama insisted on the pricey Hawaiian holiday while her husband had said he preferred a short trip to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., The Daily Mail reported Friday, citing news accounts.

The trip to Hawaii is expected to cost taxpayers almost $4 million, and is the latest example of Michelle Obama's skyrocketing spending, sources told the National Enquirer, according to The Daily Mail."
[Newsmax]

An Example Of Mind-Blowing Liberal Court Rulings Driving America To 3rd World Status

2011-12-24T17:43:00.007-05:00

"In Montana’s Finley Basin there are known tungsten deposits. An Australian company wanted to bring revenue and jobs to the state by developing the resource. While the property was successfully drilled and recognized by Union Carbide in the seventies, it is now about 200 yards inside a roadless study area. The Forest Service was willing to offer a conditional drilling permit. Among the conditions were these requirements:

The drill sites must be cleared using hand tools,
The drilling equipment and fuel must be transported to the site by a team of pack mules
The mules must be fed certified weed-free hay, and
Drill site and trail reclamation must be done using hand tools.

The company gave up.

Let’s face it. Liberals hate this country and want you to live in mud huts."

[Gateway Pundit]

This is the sort of picayune bureaucrat regulation that drives conservatives and those who want to move America ahead absolutely up the wall. [clipper]

Fighting Stereotypes in the U.K.

2011-12-24T17:32:00.003-05:00

"In the Telegraph, Damian Thompson has an interesting short piece titled “When Islam met the diversity industry.” He notes the incongruous compatibility between British Muslims and the heretofore aggressively secular diversity industry.

Thompson focuses on the Islamic Diversity Centre in Newcastle. Much could be said about this group’s activities, but I want to focus on just one observation. The IDC’s stated purpose is challenging stereotypes of Islam. It is therefore rather stunning that when the group introduces its staff to readers of its web site, the most persistent stereotypes are abundantly confirmed.

Check out the IDC team page, which describes the individuals on the organization’s staff." [Power Line]

Note the "diversity" in the images of their female staff !!!! [clipper\

Obama’s DOJ Strikes a Blow

2011-12-23T20:46:00.005-05:00

Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General and undercover Democrat Voter Fraud Commander, has announced he will fight state laws which require voters to identify themselves at the polling place! .... it looks like Obama is going to fight state-by-state to prevent voter ID.

The Supreme Court just ruled this week that Indiana's voter ID law IS constitutional.
[clipper]

The Deceptive White House $40 Payroll Tax Campaign

2011-12-23T14:11:00.002-05:00

Obama LIES again !!!!!

The payroll tax increase he said threatens average working Americans wages to the tune of $40 per week is an outright LIE! A 2% increase in the payroll tax of a $50,000 per year salary amounts to $1,000. With 52 weeks per year, the tax increase would have amounted to $19.21 per week!

Exaggeration, obfuscation, misrepresentation ........ that's the Obama game.

[clipper]

Circulating 'round the Internet.........

2011-12-22T17:51:00.003-05:00

Note the 1949 date !!!!!

Did Bo Return From Hawaii for Dear Leader’s Photo Op?

2011-12-22T17:42:00.002-05:00

"Bo ~~Obama~~ Dear Leader was supposed to be in Hawaii. Instead, he showed up at President ~~Obama~~ Dear Leader’s side Wednesday shopping for treats at PetSmart

According to Michelle ~~Obama~~ Dear Leader’s press office, the first dog was planning to go to Hawaii with the first lady and the ~~Obama~~ Dear Leader daughters. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that he in fact had gone there. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser quoted an eyewitness who said he had seen the Portuguese Water Dog having his walk.

So what is Bo doing back in Washington shopping at PetSmart?"

[White House Dossier]

Move On Dot Org: Flaming Hypocrisy or Selective Amnesia?

2011-12-22T17:24:00.002-05:00

"Got an email from Moooove On dot org this AM. And "Flaming Hypocrisy or Selective Amnesia" (or both) came to mind.

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday the tea party-led House voted mostly along party lines to increase taxes on 160 million people starting January 1.1 In other words, "Happy Holidays from the Tea Party." Bah, humbug!

Republican members of the House have caused the "Tea Party Tax Increase" of 2012 by ignoring the needs of the 99% in order to score political points. They rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise that extended the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, and prevented cuts for doctors who care for Medicare recipients.

Now they've left Washington for their holiday vacations, giving middle class families a tax increase for the holidays. It's critical that Rep. LaTourette hear from you today before his office closes for the holidays. If he doesn't act, the Tea Party Tax Increase of 2012 goes into effect on January 1."

[Left Coast Rebel]

When you know thw history of this bill and the FACTS surrounding its non-passage (The Republican House ORIGINATED the bill and passed it calling for ONE YEAR of tax cuts .... the DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED SENATE rejected that House one-year bill and reduced it to a ridiculous two months) you cannot help seeing the HORRIBLE HYPOCRISY of the Left's spin-meisters. [clipper]

Smoke Screening

2011-12-22T13:29:00.001-05:00

"As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts."
[Vanity Fair]

Even Before Fast and Furious, They Had Guns on Their Minds

2011-12-21T19:49:00.001-05:00

"What Obama administration officials, including the president, knew or didn't know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' 2009 Operation Fast and Furious has little to do with what they should have known.

Attorney General Holder, Secretary Clinton, President Obama, and Secretary Napolitano each declared that he or she did not know about Fast and Furious until 2011. But what should they have known about a federal program that eventually led to mass murder?"

[American Thinker]

Analysis: Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers $250,000 Per Vehicle

2011-12-21T19:39:00.000-05:00

"The Audi president called the Chevy Volt a “car for idiots,” but because the average Volt owner earns $170,000 a year and the average American couldn’t afford to buy it if they wanted to, it sounds more like the taxpayers are the ones who have been played for fools:

Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy."

[Michelle Malkin]

Supremes Uphold Voter ID Laws

2011-12-21T19:30:00.001-05:00

"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws."
[Left Coast Rebel]

Liberal Darien, CT Mounts an "Occupy" Protest

2011-12-21T18:01:00.002-05:00

Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy .... VP Joe Biden

2011-12-21T17:57:00.002-05:00

"So who’s trying to kill us? Who’s imposing Sharia law, denying women basic human rights, driving out Christians, burning churches, and beheading those who oppose them? “The Taliban engage in attacks against the civilian population. According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban were responsible for 2,477 civilian casualties [in Afghanistan] (76 percent of all casualties) in the first six months of 2010.” Al Qaeda also supported the Taliban with regiments of imported fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia."
[Godfather Politics]

SEIU Job Description: Train & Lead Members to Occupy State Buildings & Takeover Banks

2011-12-20T16:04:00.002-05:00

"If there was ever any question whether the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a radical and militantly Marxist union, this SEIU job description for a Senior/Lead Internal Organizer, Home Care, posted on the SEIU’s website should remove all doubts.
[RedState]

Among the job duties (screenshot below the fold) listed includes the training of members in civil-disobedience, peaceful resistance (how to get arrested), as well as the occupation and takeover banks and state buildings [emphasis added]

How About A Romney / Rice Ticket?

2011-12-20T15:41:00.001-05:00

"America’s first black female secretary of state is quietly positioning herself to be the top choice of the eventual Republican presidential nominee, ready to deliver bona fide foreign-policy credentials lacking among the candidates. The 56-year-old has recently raised her profile, releasing her memoir in November and embarking on a month long book tour."
[Washington Times]

The Shades at Osawatomie

2011-12-20T10:41:00.000-05:00

"On August 31, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a revolutionary speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, and a couple of weeks ago President Barack Obama visited Osawatomie and wrapped himself in the mantle of Roosevelt's revolutionary progressivism. Thomas Jefferson saw it coming.

Jefferson did not predict that Roosevelt would make a speech at Osawatomie. He merely predicted the subject of Roosevelt's speech. Jefferson feared that at some point social and economic change would call into question the character of the American republic, portending a revolution that would change it fundamentally. He feared this because he talked to a French peasant woman. "

[Letters from an Ohio Farmer]