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10 Years After - The Atrocity of September 11

2011-09-11T23:47:00.000-05:00

As everyone must know, today is the anniversary of the Muslim jihadist attacks on New York and Washington DC, and the fight back by ordinary Americans ending in Shanksville, PA.

It was Todd Beamer who said "Let's Roll", a mantra taken up by Americans after the attacks.

Unfortunately, in the ten years since our united effort to beat back Islamic terrorists has turned into "Let's Roll Over."

The current Department of Homeland Security has abdicated is job to protect our borders and eject illegal aliens. Furthermore, DHS believes that Christian Americans are the greatest terrorist threat in the United States -- an opinion unfounded in fact or experience.

The current President is attending a 9/11 healing and forgiveness observance where Christians are not welcome.

Travelling by air in the United States as a Christian American means being treated like a terrorist suspect, and being forced to choose between a virtual strip search or an actual molesting.

Everyone says about September 11 - "Never Forget." What is it about September 11th should we remember?

All the hijackers were Muslim men between the ages of 18 and 40.

All the hijackers were in the United States on lawfully obtained visas.

The FBI and the CIA could not communicate with each other about each bureau's suspensions regarding these Muslims by a policy set up by Clinton Administration hack named Jamie Gorelick, who inexplicably took a position on the 9-11 Commission. Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation. (Gorelick was also appointed vice Chairman of Fannie Mae during the Enron-like accounting era, helping to bring the United States' credit lending system to a near-halt).

All the hijackers could readily point to verse after verse in the Koran supporting the attack on the United States.

The enemies are jihadists and politicians who refuse to see the danger Islam poses to the West.

These are the things I remember on this September 11th. We would all do well to remember this.

Thoughts on the Proposed Debt Limit Deal

2011-08-01T09:27:00.000-05:00

We now have a proposed “bipartisan” debt deal hammered out by the people who have put us in the position of having unsustainable spending levels and unsustainable debt in the first place, and foisted upon the American people and Congressional rank-and-file sight unseen:
Spending levels are economically unsustainable now, and will be unsustainable after this debt deal.

The debt level is economically unsustainable now, and will be worse after this deal.

While raising the debt limit will allow the treasury to borrow money to continue the present unsustainable level of spending, it will not preserve the US’ AAA bond rating.

The US will not default on its debt obligations whether or not the debt deal passes.

The debt deal permits immediate access to the first tranche of borrowing, and will permit the entire amount to be borrowed in less than a year, yet the spending “cuts” are spread out over ten years. This gives Barak Obama a blank check for two years, and handcuffs the replacement President for the next eight.

The spending “cuts” are reductions in the baseline growth over government spending over the ten years, not actual cuts to the existing budget. This deal actually cuts nothing, it only slows the growth of spending, and not even at a rate below inflation.

The deal exempts cuts to the greatest sources of budget busting in the future: Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare.

The debt deal will permit the balance of the fiscal year to be spent as set forth in the continuing budget resolution (remember, the Democrats have not passed a actual federal budget in more than 800 days).

If a budget deal is not passed, the US will not be able to borrow additional sums of money. It would be, therefore, a “poor man’s” balanced budget amendment, or better yet, a spending cannot exceed revenues cap. It is a back-door way to forced fiscal responsibility in spending.

If the US is not in the market for loanable funds, the demand for investment funds is therefore decreased, which has the effect of lowering interest rates on such investments.

Given all this, what is the benefit of this debt deal?

If a budget deal is not passed, the US’ bond rating will certainly be downgraded.

If the US’ bond rating is downgraded, interest rates might rise from 0.1 to 0.5 points, and they are already at near historical lows, however, this will be offset by the decrease in interest rates on investment funds. Given the Fed’s qualitative easing over the last several months, an small interest rate increase is likely in any event.

If a budget deal is not passed, the Obama administration would pick and choose which programs get paid and which programs will become prorated or impounded, that is, which are short-paid and which are not paid at all. In any event, there is adequate revenues coming into the Treasury to service all US debt and continue Defense, FAA, Social Security, and Medicare payments if Obama so chose. Senator Pat Toomey has proposed legislation directing the priority of payments, and Congress can certainly direct the Administration by law if it so chose.

If a budget deal is not passed, non-essential government workers would likely be furloughed. Thus, we will get to see how many people are on the government payroll that are not doing anything essential for taxpayers. One wonders why we have non-essential government workers in the first place. In years past, when this happens, the government workers get paid for the furloughed days anyway, which just provides these government workers yet another paid holiday at taxpayer expense.

Politically, Obama will blame Republicans and the Tea Party for a government shutdown. But, as all elements of government are held in extremely low regard by the people, what difference would it make? Since none of the GOP’s leading candidates for president in 2012 are involved in this budget and debt limit mess, but Obama is, a shutdown will hurt Obama’s reelection chances as much as anyone’s.

Lastly, it bears mentioning that every budgetary and economic government action has unforeseen economic consequences. These can be good or bad, and they are certainly hard to predict. So, the budget deal at least alleviates uncertainty, even as it simply postpones a real date of reckoning.

So, is it worth it to the taxpayers and for the rank-and-file of each party in Congress to accept this budget deal to possibly avoid a bond rating downgrade, in fact avoid forced government belt-tightening, and the political ramifications of a partial government shutdown?

Tienanmen Square 22 Years Later

2011-06-05T09:32:00.002-05:00

June 4th and 5th is the twenty second anniversary of the true face of Red China.

In the weeks before June 4, 1989, nearly one million workers and students occupied Beijing's Tienanmen Square to demonstrate for liberty and democracy and against the corrupt, oppressive communist system in Red China.

As the Chinese Army units located in Beijing refused to put down the protesters, the communist government in China brutally slaughtered thousands of these citizens by rolling in tank units from different regions and assaulting the defenseless people in the square.

Nothing, of course, has changed in China in the subsequent twenty two years. Over the last week, the oppressive ChiCom internal security forces have been rounding up anyone suspected of desiring to organize or participate in a remembrance of the slaughter of innocents. See http://bit.ly/ivlZEP

Despite Red China's attempt to demonstrate to the world that they are a respectable first world nation and budding superpower, events like Tienanmen Square, suppression of its people's Internet usage, hostilities towards the United States military, threats against Taiwan, and spy operations against the United States show the true nature of this brutal, Fascist regime.

As Ronald Reagan said, communism will be tossed into the ash bin of history. With China, it will just take longer than many of its imprisoned citizens shall survive.

References:
http://on.wsj.com/kyEYrr
http://bit.ly/kKLAdS
http://bit.ly/lJOj0o

Osama bin Laden Has Assumed Room Temperature

2011-05-02T09:30:00.006-05:00

The one time in my life I was pleased to hear something - anything - out of B. Hussein Obama's mouth was last night. Osama bin Laden has been killed by the United States military. In Pakistan, which we knew was harboring al Qaeda's founder all along.

We are sure of two things: bin Laden's death was assured on 9/11, and Barak Hussein Obama had nothing to do with causing it.

We can all be very, very thankful that we killed the bastard so he can rot in hell. And that he was not captured so the idiot AG Eric Holder could put him on trial.

As a super added bonus, May Day will no longer be referred to as that Communist celebration in the United States, but as The Day We Heard Osama bin Laden Was Dead Day. It has a better ring to it.

A toast to our fighting men putting bad guys down in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. May many, many more follow bin Laden to Hell.

P.S. Rob Bell: there is a Hell, and Osama bin Laden is in it.

Reform the TSA Now!

2010-11-23T08:14:00.005-06:00

In the balance between security and liberty, the Obama regime has gone too far. The obtrusive, offensive, and unconstitutional searches of airline travellers must end.

Under what legal theory do we believe that airports are Constitution-free zones? Under what legal theory can it be implied that a commercial transaction between private parties (purchasing an airline ticket) comprises a waiver of Constitutional rights?

Under what legal theory does the Obama regime assume that American citizens that do not qualify for even a Terry stop can be subjected to sexual assault or a strip search merely because they want to travel?

Why does the "brilliant" Obama need to be told that treating each and every airline passenger as as a potential terrorist is anti-intellectual? Is EVERY traveller a potential terrorist? And, we are willing to trust the controls of a plane to a pilot, but we want to search him for explosive underwear first? We do have a description of suspect airline bombers/hijackers. Let's put those people to enhanced searches. It is usually those people who are waved through security, sacrificing real airline safety and civil rights of travellers on the altar of political correctness.

I understand why Obama would innately be drawn to Soviet-style police state searches of American citizens, but even the KGB targeted its efforts. Even authoritarian overseas regimes in terrorist-rich regions do not subject travellers to physical assaults and strip searches to travel. I know, I've travelled there.

Congress needs to step in now and end the offensive touchings and virtual strip searches immediately. A valid, effective security process would involve merely this - metal detectors for persons, x-ray the belongings, and send everything past an explosives sniffer (either mechanical or animal). Instead of spending money on a radiation-spewing back scatter device, we should have spent the funds on a combination x-ray machine/explosive compound detector. Enhanced

I knew when Bush wanted the Department of Homeland Security created, we could not trust it to the Democrats because they would use it against the citizens. Liberals can never, ever be trusted with power.

An End to Stalinists

2010-11-23T08:10:00.003-06:00

One way or another, the Stalinist regime in North Korea needs to fall. If we do not have the fortitude to do it militarily, then we need to end all cooperation and economic aid to this Asian tin horn and force the national concentration camp to collapse.

North Korea is nothing but a threat to themselves and others. Let's end it.

Continued Fleecing of Taxpayers by Government Motors

2010-11-18T08:51:00.005-06:00

Today, Government Motors will issue an "initial" public offering of taxpayer-owned GM stock. While the taxpayers and shafted secured debt holders of GM paid for GM's bailout, the taxpayers took about a half interest in Government Motors and Obama gave the other half to the UAW, which invested nothing. Obama's justification that the labor of the UAW workers on the line amounts to corporate capital is straight out of Karl Marx's Das Kaptial.

Today's Government Motors stock firesale means that the taxpayers will see a permanent loss of over 9 billion dollars on the GM bailout. Furthermore, it will make the UAW the largest single shareholder and corporate controller of Government Motors.

In their wildest dreams the union thugs in this country would never have imagined that a president would transfer the ownership of GM to the unions, but it has indeed occurred -- and financed by the taxpayers and secured debt holders of GM to boot!

The transfer of taxpayer wealth to unions continues unabated, and more generosity to Government Motors new union owners is forthcoming. Wait until Obama and the Democrats forgive the loans to Government Motors Ed Whiteacre lied about repaying.

Religion of Peace Update

2010-10-08T07:21:00.002-05:00

When considering how establishment politicians in this country bow and scrape before their false god of tolerance, particularly in regards to the Muslims trying to establish a Ground Zero mosque to commemorate their victory over the Great Satan USA, we should keep this in mind.

At least twelve Catholics have been arrested and charged with proselytizing in Saudi Arabia for saying the Mass in a private home. http://bit.ly/cgVqRZ

Tolerance is a one way street with Muslims. Keep that in mind.

It Is Constitution Day!

2010-09-17T22:45:00.005-05:00

September 17th is Constitution Day. You can read the document here:

http://patriotpost.us/document/the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america/

On this day, of all days, we should remember that the Constitution says what it means, and means what it says. It needs neither embellishment, discovery of penumbras, interpretation, nor improvement.

What it DOES need is a government that believes it is bound by the terms of the Constitution, or a citizenry that is willing to force the government back within the limited powers set forth in the Constitution.

The Constitution is a living document, not because judges unconstitutionally create new rights from the bench, but because of this one important clause:

Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

Article V sets forth the only manners by which the United States Constitution may be changed. You will notice that Article V does not say "a majority of the supreme Court determine so."

If there is a finer national Constitution, I have not found it. We should all rededicate ourselves to being governed by the letter of the Constitution.

God bless our Republic. God save the Constitution. Let freedom ring.

Message to the GOP Establishment

2010-09-14T22:08:00.004-05:00

During times of intense crisis, the greatest directive we had in the United States Army Infantry was "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!"

The United States is in a time of crisis, and the GOP establishment is bound and determined to stay in the way and point fingers at those who are acting to save the nation.

Charles Krauthammer - get the hell out of the way.

National Republican Senatorial Committee - get the hell out of the way.

Michael Steele - get the hell out of the way.

RINOs - get the hell out of the way.

Bill Kristol - get the hell out of the way.

I've read the Federalist Papers from cover to cover. I respect James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. With all due respect, Bill Kristol is no James Madison.

Citizen patriots, not career politicians and pundits, will do what it takes to save this country. It must be tough for these career politicians and pundits to come to realize they are irrelevant. But, irrelevant they are.

Get the hell out of the way.

Krauthammer Gets It Wrong on Delaware

2010-09-14T09:57:00.006-05:00

Krauthammer says of Delaware's senate election that GOP members voting for Christine O'Donnell is "capricious" "self indulgent" and irresponsible".

On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.

Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.

Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.

In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.

Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.

So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.

In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.

Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.

No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.

Remembering 9/11

2010-09-12T22:36:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of the Islamic attack that destroyed the twin towers in New York City, hit the Pentagon in Washington DC, and forced the passengers of a jet to crash in Shanksville, PA.

President Barak Hussein Obama spent it trying to appease Muslims.

While my motto about 9/11 is "never forgive, never forget, and never submit", we have a President far more interested in convincing Americans that heretical Islam is "true" Islam because he says so.

While it may well be in the United States' best interests to pervert Islam into some sort of watered down Rick Warren-esque meaningless mainstream religion, he should not spend time trying to convince the American people that madrases funded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan already instruct Muslims in that manner. They don't.

Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Submit. Not even if a President named Barak Hussein Obama tells you that we have nothing to worry about from Islam.

Good Service

2010-09-10T16:18:00.002-05:00

Just a post to point out that I received excellent service from A Briggs Passport and Visa Expediters. It is not the usual case that these outfits meet or exceed my expectations, but these folks absolutely have. They have my highest recommendation.

http://www.abriggs.com/

Down Goes Murkowski!

2010-09-01T07:12:00.002-05:00

First, let me concede that Lisa Murkowski has, so far, taking her loss with a fair amount of class, conceding before all the votes were counted, but knowing that she lost.

Now, let me celebrate another Tea Party truth - the Tea Party is against big spending/big government types of all parties, and Joe Miller's win proves it.

We should also mention that Sarah Palin is the biggest political force on the Right today. She just is. No other right wing politician has the weight of her endorsement.

Chart of the Day

2010-08-14T15:29:00.002-05:00

Reagan's Tax Cuts Increased Federal Revenues

Obama's Economic Guru Resigns

2010-08-06T08:03:00.003-05:00

Christina Romer, chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, is resigning her post. Romer, said to be an expert in the Great Depression, has done her best to get us into another Great Depression.

Romer's economic guidance has been devastating to the country. Never before has this nation had so much long term unemployment, not even under Carter's devastating tenure.

Roemer was the chief architect of Obama's great economic failure, the Obama Excessive Government Spending and Debt Plan (a/k/a the "Stimulus"). Romer co-wrote a justification paper saying the Obama Stimulus would keep unemployment rates from rising above 8%. She was, predictably, dead wrong. Liberals who call themselves economists always are. Even so, she has advocated a path of "doubling down" by borrowing yet more Chinese money and increasing government spending even more.

Her failure will almost certainly be rewarded with an appointment as the chairwoman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Such is the path of the liberal elite.

GM Funnels Tax Dollars to Dems

2010-08-05T09:14:00.003-05:00

How is GM spending your tax dollars? By funneling $41,000 to liberals, including $36,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus.

The only thing being drained in Washinton DC is the taxpayer.

Draining the Swamp

2010-08-04T09:25:00.002-05:00

Arizona - Effective Legislation In Action

2010-07-26T09:51:00.002-05:00

The mainstream media is full of hand-wringing stories today with one true unifying headline:

Illegal Aliens Flee Arizona Ahead of Immigration Law Enforcement

Apparently the yardsale bargain hunters were having a field day in Arizona last weekend as the illegals sold off their goods ahead of their moves to sanctuary cities. You will not see a quote from one of them saying they are going back to Mexico. They do say "We have no alternative. They [Arizona] have us cornered."

Of course when Americans are cornered where they lawfully reside, they stand and fight. See: the Alamo.

The MSM also likes to point out that legal residents are leaving Arizona, too. That's because they are harboring illegals, which is a crime, too. Again, mission accomplished. Not only is Arizona ridding itself of illegal aliens, it is ridding itself of those that harbor and support the illegals.

In short, the Arizona illegal immigrant law may be the most effective piece of legislation passed by anyone, anywhere.

The Inevitable Result of Health Care Centralization

2010-07-26T09:46:00.003-05:00

Rationing. It is all a government can do when consumers are not allowed to self-ration based on disposable income and evaluations of actual need.

Headline: NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html

Privatize or die. Literally.

GM Continues to Rob Taxpayers

2010-07-22T08:54:00.002-05:00

GM announced today that it is taking $3,100,000,000.00 of the taxpayer money it has lying around (and lied about repaying "in full") and using this taxpayer money for purchasing a sub-prime lending firm. Recall that GM jettisoned their own dying credit arm GMAC (now the ironically named "Ally" Bank) into the TARP bailout fund.

The Obama Administration has used your hard-earned tax dollars to enrich his union enablers the UAW as surely as if he personally put their hands in your wallet. While GM is still overbloated and losing money, they are spending your tax dollars to take a profitable business down with them.

In what world turned upside down does this make any economic, financial, business, or political sense?

A Win for the Second Amendment

2010-06-28T09:35:00.005-05:00

The Supreme Court today, in a bare 5 member majority, held that the Second Amendment applies equally to the States as it does to the Federal government.

The case is McDonald v. Chicago, and it effectively extends the reasoning from the DC v. Heller case to all governmental subdivisions in the United States.

Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the court: "Self-defense is a basic right ... and in Heller, we held that individual self-defense is "the central component" of the Second Amendment right. It is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty ... a provision of the Bill of Rights that protects a right that is fundamental from an American perspective applies equally to the Federal Government and the States."

So, all rights stated in the Bill of Rights apply equally to the States and the Federal governments (not just the liberal-approved rights), and the opinion is firmly rooted in the AMERICAN experience, not some wiggly international standard.

Don't tread on me! Just in time for Independence Day, too!

Krugman: So Utterly Wrong, Again

2010-06-28T08:40:00.003-05:00

Former Enron advisor and liberal "economist" Paul Krugman opines the following today in his New York Times column:

"And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world — most recently at last weekend’s deeply discouraging G-20 meeting — governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending."

I would offer this statement as Exhibit A in his involuntary commitment hearing.

The primary, secondary, and tertiary cause of the present economic condition is too much GOVERNMENT POLICY. World wide, we are suffering from too much government, too much spending, too much government economic regulation, and too much government-enforced wealth transfer, and too many government schemes designed to try to legislate around the market.

The real fix to the present economic condition is not just less government spending, but less government period.

Until liberals like Krugman come to understand the truth that governments are a net drain on the economy, they will continue to visit this government-approved pox of malaise upon humanity. Governments produce nothing and generate no profit. Every tax dollar to the government is both a market distortion and a violation individual economic rights.

More importantly to the current condition, every dollar provided to the government is worth less to the economy than a dollar left in the hands of the person that earned it.

More government, more spending, and more stealing of the wealth of the future generations is not just bad policy, it is criminal. Paul Krugman should be ashamed for suggesting otherwise. But we all know that liberals have no shame whatsoever.

Goodbye Robert "Sheets" Byrd

2010-06-28T08:03:00.004-05:00

Ku Klux Klan leader, longest seated Senator, the King of Pork, committed racist, and poster child for term limits Robert Byrd died this morning. West Virginia has a chance to field and seat a Tea Party candidate and replace a spendthrift blowhard.

The immediate benefit of Byrd's death is that the Democrat/Socialist financial "reform" bill may not have the votes to proceed pending a replacement. They have been rolling Byrd out and voting for him all session.

I sincerely hope Robert Byrd became a death-bed Christian and spent his last days in confession. I wish no ill on the soul of Robert Byrd. But in life, Robert Byrd was a destructive force of rare proportion, and I do not feel any constraint in telling the truth about his life and legacy.

Goodbye Robert Byrd - we knew you far too well in life.

Why Americans Prefer Conservatives

2010-06-25T09:13:00.003-05:00

Ronald Reagan: "Well I've said it before and I'll say it again — America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead."

Timothy Geithner: "US can no longer drive global growth. The world cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past."

UPDATE: Joe Biden: "[T]here's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost..."

Part of the Problem, Not the Solution

2010-06-06T20:17:00.002-05:00

Via the Tax Prof Blog, it has been reported that B. Hussein Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is bemoaning that it does not have enough funding or staff to complete a report by Obama's December 1, 2010 deadline.

Harry Reid has taken it upon himself to write a letter to the Anointed One to ask for additional funding and staff on behalf of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the board.

Really? Just can't get recommendations done by December 1.

I could get constitutionally based common sense balanced budget recommendations to the President by July 1 working only in my spare time and with no budget at all.

Give me a break! If these guy wanted to be part of the solution, they should have come into this job with ideas. The entire commission is as intellectually bankrupt as the rest of the Washington DC establishment from which they were drawn.

Demon of the White House Press Corpse

2010-06-05T11:20:00.005-05:00

Helen Thomas is now an outed racist, and has been a barely closeted racist for the past 70 years.

Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder was fired for less. Helen should be put out to pasture, finally.

See the racist spout off here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14

Edit: Here is a photo of at least two anti-Semites at the White House.

Our Financier Snubs Obama Again

2010-06-02T09:37:00.002-05:00

Red China says NO to a proposed "fence mending" visit from Sec. Def. Gates while he was in the region.

Hey Obama - how is that era of improved foreign relations coming along? How does this help us address North Korean aggression?

I've said it before - weakness invites attack, from terrorists, competitor nations, and politicians. The Obama regime is so obviously out of their league on the world stage that they endanger Americans every second the regime remains in power.

Today is Memorial Day

2010-05-31T13:39:00.004-05:00

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Today, during our national recognition of Memorial Day, be sure to take time out to remember those men and women of the United States military (and those civilians, too) who have given their lives so that we may remain the last ember of true liberty in the world.

Today, I remember three specific groups of soldiers in particular:

First, those men who gave their lives on Takur Ghar in Afghanistan. A summary of the military action on Roberts Ridge is located here. http://www.defense.gov/news/May2002/d20020524takurghar.pdf
The sacrifices made that day in support of fallen comrades is moving. The dead of Roberts Ridge are:
Petty Officer 1st Class Neil C. Roberts, 32, Woodland, California
TSgt John A. Chapman, 36, Waco, Texas
Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham, 26, Camarillo, California
Pfc. Matthew A. Commons, 21, Boulder City, Nevada
Sgt. Bradley S. Crose, 22, Orange Park, Florida
Spc. Marc A. Anderson, 30, Brandon, Florida
Sgt. Phillip Svitak, 31, Neosho, Missouri

Second, I remember Staff Sergeant Morgan and Spc. Hall of the Second Platoon, Bravo Company, First Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 193 Infantry Brigade (Separate). Sergeant Morgan and Specialist Hall lost their lives while on patrol near La Ensanada, Panama during Manuel Noriega's drug money financed regime. While making a river crossing, several sharks attacked Sergent Morgan, who was the last of the platoon to cross the river. Believing Sergent Morgan to be drowning, Specialist Hall ignored the danger to himself and jumped back into the river in an attempt to rescue Sergeant Morgan. Both Morgan and Hall succumbed to the shark attack.

The third group of soldiers I wish to remember today are those that lost their lives on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Because of their impromptu heroic action, they became soldiers committed to defending the United States as surely as if each enlisted. I believe each of these civilians are true soldiers, made so because of their induction through combat against the enemies of the United States. The United States should declare each of these men and woman veterans, award each of them the military medals and citations appropriate to their actions, pay survivors benefits to their families, and memorialize these men and women in a way appropriate to the military nature of their action. Their heroic story is here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93mainstoryp7.asp

Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. May God bless their souls, and may God bless and protect our soldiers fighting still in the cause of the defense of the United States of America.

How to Try to Bury a Story

2010-05-28T10:39:00.003-05:00

Release it past the deadlines on Friday before a three day national holiday, of course! From the self described most transparent and ethical administration in history.

White House asked Clinton to talk to Sestak about Senate run

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/exclusive_white_house_asked_cl_1.html

More On Obama's Destruction of Intelligence Sharing

2010-05-28T08:15:00.002-05:00

A week ago, I posted that B. Hussein Obama was damaging the nation's security and ability to prevent terrorist attacks by withholding intelligence sharing between this nation's intelligence services.

http://redwarning.blogspot.com/2010/05/obama-is-destroying-us-intelligence.html

I the prior article, I stated that John Brennan was favored by the Obama regime over Jim Clapper for the appointment of the next DNI. I still believe this.

Today, Obama's operatives on the Senate Intelligence Committee have leaked that they do not want to have Jim Clapper sent to the committee as the next DNI.

Yesterday, it was revealed that Obama's real first choice, John Brennan, gave a speech saying that jihad was a legitimate tenant of Islam, and that the nation should not refer to attacks by Islamists as either terrorism or jihad.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/27/counterterror-adviser-defends-jihad-legitimate-tenet-islam/

These statements reveal that Brennan is so out of touch with political realities that he will never get past the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Which means that the nation will likely suffer the appointment of a career politician, Leon Panetta, currently the director of the CIA, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Leon Panetta was at the time of his appointment as the DCIA the least qualified person in the history of the position to be named to it. Of course, B. Hussein Obama was the least qualified person in history to obtain the office of the Presidency, so it really is a case of "next verse, same as the first" for the Obama regime.

We will see if Leon Panetta has the gut to take on Obama, Holder, and Napolitano over the issue of segregated intelligence streams. I doubt it.

Obama: Sending Troops to the Border?

2010-05-25T22:20:00.004-05:00

I had been wondering what Obama would do to preempt Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's effective use of the Arizona National Guard to enforce the border between Arizona and Mexico. We now have the answer.

Obama plans to nationalize the Arizona National Guard and put them in an unarmed, away from the border, purely ineffective support role "supporting" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This after John Morton, Assistant Secretary of State for Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the Arizona law enforcing the federal laws is "not good government."

It was clear that the Obama regime was going to fight Arizona all the way on this. Obama just did what he could by removing the Arizona National Guard from Brewer's control, while spinning it like he is doing something to support border enforcement. Brewer would be wise to tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi "thanks, but no thanks."

UPDATE: 24 hours later, my beliefs are confirmed. The State Department announced the US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will NOT be used to stem the flow of illegal aliens across the frontier and will not enforce US immigration laws.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, "It's not about immigration."

Your move, Arizona.

Plug the Damn Hole!

2010-05-25T22:17:00.001-05:00

Word leaked that Obama was acting all tough with his aides behind closed doors and said "Plug the damn hole!"

At first, I thought he was talking about the leaky border between Mexico and the United States, but no, he was complaining about BP.

Obama's Redistribution Plan Is Working As Designed

2010-05-25T08:25:00.003-05:00

Private pay is down, government handouts of taxpayer money is up. Just like Obama told Joe the Plumber in a rare moment of honesty. Of course, tax revenues are down and the taxable base of private workers is shrinking, just like Greece.

White House approved media story at the link "Private Pay Shrinks To Historic Lows" cannot hide the facts.

http://tinyurl.com/2wushl6

New Black Panther DoJ Trial Attorney Resigns

2010-05-22T13:39:00.002-05:00

The Obama regime is OK with violent criminals intimidating voters, but wants desperately to find someone, ANYONE, with a Tea Party affiliation doing anything wrong.

The ethical attorneys remaining in the DoJ are jumping ship.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31574180/J-Christian-Adams-resignation-letter-051910

Obama Is Destroying US Intelligence Sharing

2010-05-20T23:00:00.004-05:00

B. Hussein Obama forced retired Admiral Dennis Blair to resign the office of Director of National Intelligence. The mainstream media spin will be that Blair never had the support of the White House, fought unnecessary and unpopular turf wars, appointed the wrong people, and had to take the fall for recent intelligence failures.

If I have learned anything in my years walking this earth, the mainstream media will have it wrong. This is assuredly NOT a case of Admiral Blair "walking the plank" for intelligence failures during his tenure.

Maybe this is a case of removing an unpopular DNI. And maybe this is a case of the President of the United States removing a watchdog from the warehouse so the criminals will have an easier time of it.

I believe it likely that Obama insider and White House operative John O. Brennan, not retired General and current Pentagon intel chief Jim Clapper, will be named the new Director of National Intelligence. Liberals opposed John Brennan for the top spot at the CIA early on in the Obama tenure. Watch as liberals wilt in the face of Obama/Brennan now.

The Director of National Intelligence, a position few people know about, is actually the new head of the US Central Intelligence operation - boss of the CIA. I have a long job description of the Director of National Intelligence at the bottom of this post. Suffice to say, his job is to act as the gathering point for all US intelligence, and provide the methods for effective sharing of intelligence between US intelligence agencies so these agencies are not “stove piped” and miss seeing the larger intelligence picture.

Now, it has happened since the ascension of the Obama regime, that the Department of Justice, including the FBI, is no longer sharing intelligence information of any sort with the United States Military intelligence apparatus. The Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General, and the Attorney General (both by his own authority and upon the instruction of the President) has the ability to veto the intelligence sharing rules promulgated by the Director of National Intelligence.

The Attorney General is Eric Holder. Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, along with B. Hussein Obama, are not concerned with protecting the homeland from foreign invasion. This much is crystal clear. Janet Napolitano was the prior governor of Arizona who failed to stem the tide of illegal immigrants in Arizona, directly leading to recent Arizona laws designed to make the state safe again. The same Janet Napolitano that said she would never have signed the new Arizona law if she were still governor. The same Janet Napolitano that issued a Homeland Security warning upon taking office warning US law enforcement against the threat of “right wing extremists.” Not worried about al Qaeda, worried about the Tea Party.

This is the same Eric Holder that made a huge deal about arresting a “right-wing militia” group in Hutaree (later discovered to be composed of registered Democrats). Even the FBI case against the Hutaree group is falling apart. Even U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts exclaimed in a pre-trial hearing “I share the frustration of the defense … with all of the responses that are coming from this witness [FBI Lead Agent Leslie Larsen] that she doesn’t know anything.” Judge Roberts release the group on bail, ruling that they “do not pose a threat to the community.”

If I were to speculate, I would suspect that Dennis Blair was pushing for complete sharing of the intelligence gathered by the Intelligence Community among the entire Intelligence Community. I would additionally speculate that Eric Holder, either of his own directive or under the direction of B. Hussein Obama, overruled Dennis Blair and determined to keep the Department of Justice intelligence information completely away from the U.S. military intelligence services. I would suspect that this caused friction between Blair and the White House, and lead directly to the sacking of Blair. And, I would suspect that the FBI does not want the military to see its intelligence gathering because it is focused on US citizens who oppose the policies of the Administration in an attempt to paint them as right-wing militia members, and that some of these folks are or are close to people in the military.

If my speculation is correct, it means the FBI is stove piping their intelligence information, whether it pertains to US citizens or foreign nationals with ties to overseas terrorists, because they wish to mask their politically motivated investigations from the larger intelligence community.

The stove piping of intelligence information is the pre-9/11 mindset, and directly lead to the intelligence gaps that made the 9/11 attacks successful. This stove piping runs directly against the purpose of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004. Recall the report of the post-9/11 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:

"A "smart" government would integrate all sources of information to see the enemy as a whole. Integrated all-source analysis should also inform and shape strategies to collect more intelligence."

When the Department of Justice, which includes the FBI, withholds its intelligence from other members of the Intelligence Community, it is the opposite of “smart” government. Of course, that has been the hallmark of the Obama regime.

What follows is the job description of the Director of National Intelligence. You can see how the Attorney General has the Director in a political headlock:

Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the President, the Director of National Intelligence (Director) shall serve as the head of the Intelligence Community, act as the principal adviser to the President, to the NSC, and to the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security, and shall oversee and direct the implementation of the National Intelligence Program. The Director will lead a unified, coordinated, and effective intelligence effort. Except as otherwise directed by the President or prohibited by law, the Director shall:
A. have access to all information and intelligence. For the purpose of access to and sharing of information and intelligence, the Director: (1) will determine that intelligence, regardless of the source from which derived and including information gathered within or outside the United States, pertains to more than one United States Government agency; and (2) Shall develop guidelines for how information or intelligence is provided to or accessed by the Intelligence Community. All guidelines developed in accordance with this section shall be approved by the Attorney General and, where applicable, shall be consistent with guidelines issued pursuant to section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458) (IRTPA).
B. Shall ensure, through appropriate policies and procedures, the deconfliction, coordination, and integration of all intelligence activities conducted by an Intelligence Community element or funded by the National Intelligence Program. In accordance with these policies and procedures:
(A) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall coordinate the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence collected through human sources or through human-enabled means and counterintelligence activities inside the United States;
(B) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall coordinate the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence collected through human sources or through human-enabled means and counterintelligence activities outside the United States;
(C) All policies and procedures for the coordination of counterintelligence activities and the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence inside the United States shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney General; and
(D) All policies and procedures developed under this section shall be coordinated with the heads of affected departments and Intelligence Community elements.

1.5 Duties and Responsibilities of the Heads of Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. The heads of all departments and agencies shall:
(a) Provide the Director access to all information and intelligence relevant to the national security or that otherwise is required for the performance of the Director's duties, to include administrative and other appropriate management information, except such information excluded by law, by the President, or by the Attorney General acting under this order at the direction of the President.

It is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

2010-05-20T00:20:00.003-05:00

Here is my original sketch, Mohammed At a Conference.

Thought for the Morning

2010-05-17T09:35:00.003-05:00

If the Miss USA organization thought the open borders crowd was going to cause trouble if Miss Oklahoma was named the winner, wait until they see what the Islamists are going to do about a Muslim girl parading around on television dressed like a whore in front of infidels living in the Great Satan USA.

Mullah Omar Captured in Pakistan!

2010-05-14T10:42:00.001-05:00

Osama bin Laden and 9/11 attack enabler Mullah Omar has been captured. Hopefully, no one will read him his Miranda warnings.

This could be a game-changer in Afghanistan.

http://tinyurl.com/28djgmx

2010: A Long, Hot Summer of Bombs and Misery?

2010-05-03T08:57:00.008-05:00

While Barak Hussein Obama and his radical leftist fellow traveller Eric Holder want to treat war-making terrorists as criminals, the Islamic terrorists are plotting to attack the United States and its people directly with any means available to them. This weekend's car bomb in New York City and the earlier efforts of the panty bomber was just the first salvos in what I expect will be a series of Islamic attacks that will be conducted inside the United States this year.

Pakistan-based Taleban leader Hakimullah Mehsud appears to have survived a missile attack against him, and has vowed to attack US cities in communications since the attack. His group claimed credit for the attempted car bombing this weekend, although it remains to be seen if there is evidence that ties the Taleban this car bomb.

"The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in the major cities," said Mehsud in a recent Internet posting.

All of this comes on the heels of the statements by Noman Benotman, who was the head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in 2000 and a former associate of Osama bin Laden. Benotman reported in a recent interview that “What happened after the [9/11 attacks] was beyond [al Qaeda's] imagination.” He said that al Qaeda was convinced that the United States had no appetite for military actions overseas based on the US response to the terror group’s attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

It appears that al Qaeda now understands that there are differences between George W Bush and Barak Hussein Obama, and that the United States is free to attack again without fear of a devastating military response from the United States in their own homeland. After all, the innocent must not suffer for the actions of accused criminals with legitimate gripes.

The weakness of Barak Hussein Obama and Eric Holder invites attack, and I believe attacks will come. The United States is a wide-open society full of soft targets, undocumented foreigners, and mosques. We are demonized for looking at anyone with suspicion, not matter what their behavior might be. We punish law enforcement for taking initiative to defend the nation.

The most likely response from the Obama Regime will be to further curtail the civil liberties of the American public by having the Department of Justice bring profiling cases against law enforcement, signing Executive Orders curtailing the possession and transfers of weapons and ammunition, making construction and agricultural materials harder to come by, and slapping travel bans on private citizens.

I truly believe that the Islamic enemies of the United States will not be content with bombings and shootings this year, and will attempt biological or chemical attacks within the United States. I am frankly surprised that such attacks have not yet occurred. And, frankly, the posture of the United States government invites attack.

I do not mean to suggest that Obama or Holder wish attacks upon the United States. I do suggest that they are so ignorant and inexperienced in matters of national security that they have no earthly idea how to protect a country beyond what their radical leftist professors taught them. The actions of the Obama Regime back up my beliefs. From changes in communications (no more "global war on terror" its an "overseas contingency operation" and from "terrorism" to "man-made disasters"), reading terrorists their rights before intelligence agencies can interrogate them, deciding to prosecute foreign terrorists in U.S. civilian courts, destruction of the CIA's interrogation facilities, the hiring of al Qaeda lawyers at the Department of Justice, and the attempt to shut down Guantanamo Bay all within B. Hussein Obama's first year in the Oval Office demonstrate that the Obama Regime operates in a mindset of a leftist fantasyland.

The United States economy is fragile right now, along with much of the world's economies. Even if no material terrorism occurs in the next twelve months, I believe that we will see a default of sovereign debt somewhere in the world this year.

Add to the current economic instability a series of effective terrorist attacks within the United States, and we will see an economic meltdown in the United States that will spread to Europe and Asia. This economic posture cannot be overlooked by Islamic terrorists bent on the destruction of the "Great Satan" United States. This is their moment if they truly wish to do the United States harm. We can only pray that our military, fighting with one hand tied behind its back and the Department of Justice out to prosecute anyone who fights effectively, can stave off attacks against us through the use of timely intelligence gathering and immediate, violent action based on that intelligence.

But if the intelligence leads the military to believe the actionable targets are already within the United States, all bets are off because the military has to had the intel over to the Department of Justice and look the other way.

Under the Obama/Holder regime, Justice Department intel sharing is starting to become a one way street as the DoJ has taken some or all their intelligence work completely in-house and off the government intelligence sharing processes. This action runs completely contrary to the underlying reason the Untied States reformed the intelligence services following the Trade Center Attacks by Islamic terrorists. Intelligence sharing between government agencies was at the core of the justifications for the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Under this law, the Department of Justice is a member of the United States' Intelligence Community under the direction of the Director of National Intelligence. The goal of the law was to force more effective sharing of national security related intelligence. A member of our intelligence community keeping their intelligence away from the other members only hinders our ability to defend the nation.

Responsible, forward-thinking individual action should be taken now to protect yourself, your family, and your community. http://www.ready.gov/ may be a good place to start.

Fort Knox Trains To Engage Tea Party Members

2010-05-01T22:44:00.005-05:00

Patriotpost.us, a right-thinking Internet publication I enjoy reading and recommend to all, got wind of a U S Army exercise that set out the scenario where the Army was deployed against Tea Party protesters.

I encourage you to read the whole background story at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/04/29/army-preps-for-tea-party-terrorists/

The guys at Patriotpost are predisposed to give the military the benefit of the doubt, even those officers that would remain in the United Stated Army under Commander in Chief B. Hussein Obama. As a result of the Patriotpost's desire to be good guys, they withdrew the unclassified Army documents

I do not share the Patriotpost's benefit of the doubt in favor of the Fort Knox officers' corps. This is not a critique of Mark Alexander or the Patriotpost; I simply see things differently than they do.

So, here are the documents Patriotpost removed from its website.

http://static.infowars.com/2010/04/i/article-images/exercise3.png

I want these documents to be seen by as many folks as possible so we can understand the lengths to which the Obama Regime will plan to destroy its political enemies, the People of the United States of America.

Arizona: Mission Accomplished

2010-04-29T10:50:00.001-05:00

The citizens Arizona (by which I exclude illegal aliens) must be beaming about this headline from AP:

Illegal immigrants plan to leave over Ariz. law

Now THAT is a law working as it is intended.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100429/D9FCDCN00.html

Marxist Quote of the Day

2010-04-29T10:06:00.001-05:00

We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly [sic] earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

- Barak Hussein Obama
April 28, 2010

If only the Anointed One believed that at a certain point government has SPENT enough money.

Open Letter to Ed Whitacre

2010-04-23T10:18:00.004-05:00

Dear Ed,

I've just seen Government Motor's (GM) new television advertisement (bought with taxpayer funds) where you claim "...we have repaid our government loan, in full, with interest..."

This announcement comes after GM paid less than 7 billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury.

Your commercial implies GM only had one loan from the US Government, that it was less than 7 billion dollars, and that you are now free and clear of taxpayer bailout funds. One might even reasonably imply from your commercial that the funds you paid were out of earnings from GM since the loan.

You and I both know that this is not the case at all. The "loan" does not even begin to cover the amount of taxpayer-funded bailout.

Off the top of my head, I can demonstrate that GM received all of the following taxpayer bailout funding for GM's "second chance":

Auto Supplier Support Program: GM received not less than 2.5 Billion dollars of taxpayer money

Automotive Industry Financing Program: GM received not less than 49 Billion dollars of taxpayer money

This does not even include the 13+ Billion dollars of taxpayer money received by GMAC, GM's financing arm.

Let's also be honest about where the "loan repayment" money came from: you have paid off taxpayer loans with other taxpayer "investment" dollars, not earnings from car sales. I can read your SEC filings.

As to your remarks about paying the "loan" back "with interest", after hearing of your statements, even the White House had to issue a statement saying that the taxpayers will almost certainly LOSE MONEY on the GM investments. That is not interest; it's a loss.

I also recall that one of the lynchpin arguments in support of the Automotive Industry Financing Program was that it was necessary to save American jobs. Yet since the socialization of GM, 65,000 jobs were cut by GM. It seems redundant to point out that GM could have accomplished the same thing in bankruptcy restructuring without requiring the taxpayers to foot the bill.

This commercial of yours will go down in history as one of the most disingenuous commercials ever to be aired on American television. I could not even characterize your statements has half truths - the lies by omission in this ad are monumental and inexcusable.

I challenge you, Ed Whitacre, to immediately pull this ad and replace it with an ad that correctly lays out what GM has received from the American taxpayers, what has been returned to the taxpayers due to actual profits generated by GM, and together with the UAW beneficiaries of all this American taxpayer largesse, thank all the taxpayers for the help and beg us to be merciful on your failing, disingenuous welfare case of a corporation.

More Lies from The Liar In Chief

2010-04-21T23:36:00.003-05:00

While B. Hussein Obama told the socialists at Barbara ("Don't Call Me Ma'am") Boxer's fundraiser this week that he was trying to "lower taxes on 98% of Americans" [well, Mexicans are Americans, too], not even Obama's sycophantic press could suppress the following stories:

Millions face tax increases under Dems budget plan:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_budget

Obama suggests value-added tax may be an option:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_tax

Tax increases are on the way, it is what Democrats do. They think it is their money, not yours.

NY Times Irritation of the Day

2010-04-19T00:44:00.003-05:00

Black NYT "reporter" Charles Blow (no relation to Marion Barry) went to the Dallas, Texas Tea Party and wrote his predictable screed "A Mighty Pale Tea."

I wonder if Charles Blow has ever gone to see the line for Section 8 housing handouts or other similar government giveaways. Here is a photo from one in similarly Red-Stated Alabama: http://tinyurl.com/y435lef

And I wonder if Charles Blow wrote an article about the folks who attend government giveaways, would he title his screed "Looks like Black Tea"?

Somehow, I doubt it.

Pray for Poland

2010-04-11T22:22:00.003-05:00

In the last twenty years, very few nations have been as good a friend to the United States as Poland. This weekend, the people of Poland, our friends, have suffered a tremendous loss.

I grieve for Poland; my heart aches for them. I pray for the people of Poland, for the nation of Poland, and for the Church in Poland. May God wrap his loving and protective arms around Poland, ease the pain, instill hope, and keep that nation safe.

The Gift That Keeps on Taking

2010-04-09T09:07:00.004-05:00

National Socialist Party member Bart Stupak's retirement gift to Obama: socialized medicine with abortion on demand. http://tinyurl.com/y9b5rjf

Bart Stupak is a prime example of precisely what is wrong with American politics. He is a gutless, spineless, unprincipled coward. Voluntary retirement is too good for him.

Cuba's Rubbing It In

2010-04-06T13:49:00.007-05:00

Fidel Castro's prison island is rubbing it in a bit today, releasing pictures of Elian Gonzalez in a Cuban para-military uniform. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100406/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1481

Elian Gonzalez was a Cuban refugee who came to the United States in a rubber tube after his mother drown trying to escape Cuba with her family. Elian Gonzalez was rescued by Americans, and placed with family member in the Miami area.

That should have been the end of the story, but the second most Communist-friendly President in history, along with the child hating Attorney General Janet Reno, conspired with Fidel Castro to take Elian Gonzalez from his family in the United States by force and send him back to the Cuban prison.

In the middle of the night, with President Bill Clinton's blessing, Attorney General Janet Reno sent heavily armed Federal agents into the Elian's family's house to snatch young Elian to send the child back to Cuba.

The Gonzalez action was taken after Janet Reno ordered the murder of twenty children and two pregnant women in Waco, Texas, ostensibly to save them from child abuse.

What you see in these pictures is the result of Federal government tyranny. What you see in the pictures Cuba released today is the inevitable result of helping Communists. There is no telling how much damage the National Socialist currently occupying the White House will do to this nation. His weakness invites mischief.

In the Face of World Challenges, More Weakness

2010-04-05T22:50:00.004-05:00

The international community, from China to Russia to Iran to Hamid Karzai to Iran, have taken the measure of B. Hussein Obama and found him to be weak. So, they have steadily taken advantage of the Anointed One and his equally ineffective Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Chinese are manipulating their currency to affect the balance of trade with the US. Instead of declaring them currency manipulators as the US law requires, Obama directs Timmy Geithner (Timmahh!) to blink.

Russia flaunts its trade with rogue regimes like Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. We do nothing.

Iran laughs at the possibility of facing sanction over its nuclear ambitions, while Obama and Clinton attempt to cow the Israelis.

Hamid Karzai is fed up with the duplicitous nature of dealing with the Chicago mafia in the White House, and threatens to welcome the Taleban into his government.

All of these nations can do so because they know Obama has no interest in projecting real power around the world. Obama is ashamed of the power of the United States - a nation he, his wife, and his minister all detest.

So, in the face of all these challenges, Obama wants to take the nuclear deterrent off the table. Do what you like, world, we will not use nuclear weapons against you. Really, Obama won't do anything at all. The doors are open, take whatever you like.

We won't protect our borders, but we subject our own citizens to virtual strip searches.

We won't fight Islamic terrorism, but we will target critics of Obama for investigation.

We won't nuke you, even if you use chemical or biological weapons against us. I'm sure taking nuclear weapons off the table puts real fear in our enemies.

Time out doesn't work on terrorists, rogue regimes, or competitive superpowers. We have never had a president so completely clueless about the nature of foreign affairs - either that or B. Hussein Obama really wishes ill to come to the United States. The bad guys are out there and trying every day to hurt us. Fewer defensive tools is not what we need.

This man's presidency is going to ruin this nation. God help us all.

Meanwhile you might familiarize yourself with this:
http://pandemicflu.gov/professional/federal/pandemic-influenza.pdf

Today is the Anniversary of the First Veto

2010-04-05T08:57:00.003-05:00

April 5, 1792 is the anniversary of the first Presidential veto ever cast in the United States. George Washington vetoed the Apportionment Bill, and provided the following message to Congress.

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,

I have maturely considered the Act passed by the two Houses, intitled, "An Act for an apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration," and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections.

First—The Constitution has prescribed that representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers: and there is no one proportion or divisor which, applied to the respective numbers of the States will yield the number and allotment of representatives proposed by the Bill.

Second—The Constitution has also provided that the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand; which restriction is, by the context, and by fair and obvious construction, to be applied to the seperate and respective numbers of the States: and the bill has allotted to eight of the States, more than one for thirty thousand.

George Washington

How I long for the day when we again have a President that reads the bill, applies a Constitutional standard to the bill, and vetoes it because the bill is at odds with the plain language of the Constitution.

US Consulate Attacked

2010-04-05T08:12:00.003-05:00

The US consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan was attacked overnight by car bombs and homicidal Islamists, likely Taleban. The Keystone Cop-esque response of the Pakistani security services show on newsreels this morning is matched only by the cluelessness of the B. Hussein Obama administration.

B. Hussein Obama campaigned on the promise that he would focus efforts on Afghanistan, which was, according to the Anointed One, the real source of the terrorism in the Mideast region. Since his election, he has handcuffed and criminally prosecuted our warfighters, interfered with military operations, rejected the advice of his commanders, and allowed the fight against the Taleban to spill into Pakistan.

I weep for the men on the ground in Afghanistan, who are placing their lives on the line every day for a President who does not understand the military, how to fight a war, the true nature of our enemy, or his own personal limitations. This Administration's abuse of the nation and its finest warriors is criminal.

I Wish This Was an April Fool's Day Joke

2010-04-01T08:24:00.005-05:00

Of all the dim bulbs in Congress, Rep. Hank Johnson of Decatur, Georgia, might be plain broken. Remember, Hank Johnson is the "upgrade" to former member of Congress Cynthia McKinney.

Watch as this idiot asks Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Robert Willard whether Guam will "tip over and capsize." He must have just watched the movie 2012.

The nice Admiral was kind enough not to call him an idiot right there at the meeting.

Good thing was a brilliant minds in Congress like Hank Johnson to write health care, energy, national security, and economic-related legislation! Hank Johnson is the perfect tool in Obama's National Socialist Party. Hank Johnson has a bright future in Obamaland.

Is He Lying or Just An Idiot

2010-03-31T10:54:00.004-05:00

Today, Barak Hussein Obama, he of the 3000% raises, said this:

"We have 2% of the world's oil reserves but we consume 20% of the world’s production. Therefore we can never drill our way to independence."

First, there is no correlation between the amount of the known world oil reserves and the amount of the present level of oil production. None. There is no logic to his statement.

Second, in the 2% number, he intentionally excluded our vast oil shale reserves.

The Devil Is In the Details

2010-03-31T08:58:00.002-05:00

B. Hussein Obama has a plan to lease more offshore oil exploration in the East and Southeast along with Alaska. If that is as far as the plan went, fantastic.

But this is a socialist president, and his plan with come with strings attached. Let's see how he intends to nationalize the oil companies with his plan, because you know that is what he wants to do.

Also, this idea that the U.S. military is going to start using more vehicles using biofuel is a BAD IDEA. Military vehicles need to be able to use the most commonly available fuels appropriate to their use. That is not biofuel in any way, shape, or form.

Celebrate Economic Achievement

2010-03-27T13:06:00.004-05:00

Instead of turning off all my lights for the Eco-Nazi Earth Hour tonight, I will be celebrating the light of comparative economic freedom by burning all my houselights brightly at 8:30 pm local time.

Let those that desire the darkness, depression, poor economic conditions, and lack of freedoms in places like North Korea, central Africa, Afghanistan, and barren deserts turn off their lights at night. I prefer the safety, security, economic prosperity, and civilization of the light.

A Joe Biden Limerick

2010-03-24T10:14:00.001-05:00

This is a big f**king deal!
More freedoms and money we’ll steal.
So sign on the line,
Our futures devine.
But the People this bill will repeal!

Questions for the al Qaeda 10 at the DoJ

2010-03-23T09:41:00.002-05:00

Fox News names some names - I missed this earlier.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/03/exclusive-unknown-doj-lawyers-identified/

For those who defend these al Qaeda lawyers because everyone deserves an advocate, let me bring up a couple lines of inquiry:

1. Were the members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 paid for their services? If so, by whom? How were they assigned these cases by their law firm?

2. Were the members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 doing work pro bono? If so, then they were doing the work for free because they personally believed that the al Qaeda terrorists are wrongfully detained and they disdain US action to keep Americans safe from these terrorists and further attack.

The first line of inquiry may provide members of the DoJ al Qaeda 10 a reasonable excuse that does not make them a prima facie objectionable attorney to serve in the Department of Justice.

Attorneys who worked without pay to free terrorists (who already had legal representation, by the way) should be treated as pariahs.

Democrats Are Now the National Socialist Party

2010-03-21T22:04:00.005-05:00

Today, the Democrats of the United States have fully laid themselves bare. This is not just Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. This is every Democrat in the Senate and 90% of the Democrats in the House of Representatives have demonstrated their naked socialism.

They have acted against the United States Constitution.

They have acted against the consent of the governed.

They are attempting to take over fully one-sixth of the economy; a part of the economy that is world class and in no danger of financial collapse. This is not a “bail out” – this is an unconstitutional takeover of a huge segment of the economy for no other reason than they are socialists and possess the votes in Congress to get it done, damn the rules, damn the people, damn the constitution, damn the republic. The actions the Democrat party have taken in the past year are by any definition totalitarian. I am certain that Jefferson and Jackson are rolling in their graves today.

In short, I see no difference between the Democrats and a National Socialist Party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_socialist_party

So, what can the nation do in response to the totalitarian National Socialist Party and their takeover of State and personal sovereignty?

First, it is incumbent upon the States of the United States to engage in a national nullification of the National Socialist Party’s socialization of health care. States, and states alone, are granted the power under the constitution of the United States to regulate both the health care and the insurance provided in their particular state. Every state that values the continuation of the republic should take legislative and executive action immediately to prohibit the Federal government from implementing the health care portions of the National Socialist Party’s socialized medicine program. This should include the following elements:

Assert the State’s preeminence on matters of health care and insurance laws within the State borders; and

Enact nullification laws and prohibitions against the enforcement of unconstitutional Federal laws – that is, criminalize the enforcement of the National Socialist Party’s socialized medicine program within the State.

To the extent this can be done in concert between states, it should be done. Nothing would make me happier than to see several states all pass nullification laws and resolutions on the same day, at the same time.

Second, there is an election a mere six and one half months away. No National Socialist Party member should be re-elected to Congress. Any congressional district or state that re-elects a Democrat should be shunned in every possible way. No visits, no conventions, no investment, no money, no nothing. The home bases of the National Socialist Party must be dead to us. And the new Congress must repeal this scar on the nation, and overrule the expected veto by the National Socialist Party’s leader, Barak Hussein Obama. UPDATE: It occurred to me after writing this that another action a nullification-minded Congress could take would to be to withhold funding for some or all of the activities authorized under this law. Again, it would face a veto, but budget bills can and do get passed as overrides to a veto.

Third, even with the expected veto, a mere two thirds majorities in both houses of Congress (and without the approval of the President required) may propose an Amendment to the constitution of the United States that would repeal the National Socialist Party’s healthcare takeover. Thirty eight of the states would be required to vote in favor of the amendment for it to become the supreme law of the land.

Fourth, there are two opportunities to mount of constitutional challenges against the National Socialist Party’s socialized health care takeover.

One path of objection is the nature in which the House passed its approval of their version of the bill. Because the House added amendments or stipulations to the bill prior to its being signed into law, the identical bill was not passed by both houses of Congress, thus the President was never constitutionally presented with a bill that passed both houses of Congress, and thus there was nothing for the President to sign.

The next path of objection is a challenge on the constitutionality of the most socialistic provisions of the law; however, it is questionable when such an objection would be ripe for court review because there is a significant delay in the implementation of most of totalitarian provisions. However, when such a case or controversy becomes ripe, much of the law violates the first Article and second Articles and the ninth and tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Beyond these, there is always the Declaration of Independence. The states created the Federal form of government, and the states can opt out of it. Remember that the Declaration of Independence was not superseded by the Constitution – it remains the enacting document whereby the colonies declared independence in the name of the united States of America. The principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence are both universal and eternal:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.

Epic Threat Weekend

2010-03-20T10:26:00.003-05:00

This weekend is a huge pivot point for the future of the United States and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi government takeover plan for 17% of the economy.

In their typically deceptive way, the Democrats have pointed to the crushing amount of unfunded future "obligations" imposed on the projected Federal budgets by the socialist Medicare program, and then said they needed to tackle the cause of this burden: private health insurance. Talk about kicking the dog because the cat made a mess.

Certainly the only completely wrong way to reduce the future costs of socialized medicine is to create more socialized medicine.

I am left to ponder the question: Do we need health care insurance reform, or do we really need government reformed?

The Inexorable Force of the Market and the Unbearable Weight of Government

2010-03-18T08:55:00.004-05:00

In the ongoing debate regarding the Democrat's nationalization of health care, precious little time is being focused on a discussion of the actual market changes that will occur as a result of the passage and implementation of this unconstitutional piece of legislation.

What today’s Democrats, and believers in Government action of all stripes, believe is that the market is like a giant Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man – giant, lumbering, and able to withstand nearly any amount of central committee diktats without really changing either its nature or behavior. Of course, the real-life evidence is that the market is agile, responsive, demanding, fickle, and smarter than bureaucrats.

Tinkering with reimbursement rates on socialized medicine programs in an effort to realize “savings” to government bodies already occurs. The effect of the tinkering is that it shrinks the supply of goods and services being bought by the socialized medicine program recipients.

In a self-regulating market, a decrease in supply will result in an increase in prices, which will decrease the total demand for the product or service, and the market will find its equilibrium at the new higher price. However, in a world of government price controls, such as the reimbursement rates for prescription drugs in a Medicare plan, while the supply is decreasing, the price cannot change which inevitable leads to rationing or shortages. Demand will outstrip supply.

What the government relies on in this scenario is a belief that businesses are irrational – they will conduct their primary business in a way that causes financial loss. As we are seeing now in Washington state, several pharmacy chains are ceasing to fill new Medicare prescriptions because they lose money on the deal.

What is a Democrat to do when her great economic schemes wash up on the rocks of reality? Step 1 is denial. “Doug Porter, the state's director of Medicaid, said Medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need."

Step 2 is anger. “Insurance profits are bad for my health.” And we are being defrauded by “fly by night operators.”

Step 3 is more government diktats. Hey, “we won the election.”

Soon, Washington state will make accepting Medicare prescriptions mandatory for a pharmacy license. Democrats are happy to force people to do things as a “cost of doing business.” In practical respects, this means costs for things that are not Medicare prescriptions will go up. This is an indirect tax on all consumers at the pharmacy, including food and medicine brought to you by enlightened bureaucrats.

More philosophically, being forced to do business in a manner that is not a purely voluntary transaction is slavery. Being forced to do things because the government says you should (like buying health insurance whether you want to or not) is slavery. Even a fifth grader knows the 13th Amendment prohibits slavery. The question is: are Democrats smarter than a fifth grader.

Who Fights The War Against Jihadis?

2010-03-15T08:36:00.006-05:00

Over the past two weeks, we have seen a spate of captures of jihadists of one stripe or another. All these captures sound like good news, but what is coming from such captures is greatly worrisome to me.

From the possible capture of Adam Gadahn, to the confirmed captures of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Janan Andewal, Colleen LaRose, and Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, one might come to conclusion that we are prosecuting and winning the war against Islamists.

Looking deeper at the facts, however, indicated that our existing Administration is neither fighting a war, nor even aware that one exists.

Neither Baradar nor Andewal were captured by the United States. Andewal was caught by the Aussies, and Baradar was captured by Pakistanis. Of the two, Baradar is clearly the bigger catch. Baradar has not been delivered to the US by Pakistan, and likely never will be. I would hazard a guess that Baradar slipped on his protection payments to Pakistani security officials. We might have reason to suspect the intelligence being fed to us by the Pakistanis coming out of the Baradar interrogations.

Paulin-Ramirez, one of the Jihad Janes recruited by Colleen "Tokyo" LaRose, has been released - lack of evidence and all. I guess the Attorney General's office can't figure out a crime she committed. Surprise! The same Attorney General and his "at least" nine other Department of Justice employees that worked on behalf of those wrongfully accused al Qaeda prisoners in Gitmo can't seem to put their finger on a crime that might possibly have been committed by a woman who travelled to Europe for the purpose of killing someone for a cartoon they drew.

Colleen LaRose was not caught by the government, she was caught by US citizens who band together to track jihadist information on the Internet. They have no funding, keep day jobs, pay bills, and spend time with their families. In their spare time, they do the job the US government would be doing if this Administration took seriously its job to protect the country.

Of course, if this Administration took seriously its job to protect the country, it would not have announced the closure of Gitmo, would not have stated the Gitmo prisoners would be tried in US criminal courts, and would not have read a Miranda warning to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Panty Bomber) when they took him into custody (again depending on civilians for the capture).

It is clear the Barak Hussein Obama does not intend to prosecute a war against Islamist jihadis, because Muslim-born Barak Hussein Obama does not believe a war exists. But just because one believes a war does not exist does not preclude the factual existence of such a war - and such a war is being conducted by Muslim jihadis against the United States.

It is the first and most solemn duty of the President and every person working in government to protect the nation and its citizens against foreign attack. The first step in this is to believe a war exists. We know they are coming, and have come. The second step is to fight back like it is a war.

Wars cannot be won by civilian prosecutors who very recently were representing the enemy combatants in court. Only in the mind-numbingly bizarre world of the group of committed leftists currently occupying the White House would this approach to national security possibly make sense.

This Administration is endangering the lives of every citizen of the United States by ignoring threats and failing to fight the war we find ourselves in. This nation has become reliant upon the actions of civilians to ferret out and expose the threat to the United States posed by jihadis. Are you ready to accept your part in the defense of your State and the Republic?

I Hope This Changes

2010-03-15T08:09:00.002-05:00

The B. Hussein Obama Administration, the "smartest people in the room", the calm and detached believers in soft diplomacy, the anti-cowboys, appear to be spoiling for a fight with the United States' single largest creditor, Communist China. It appears that elements of the ChiCom's political class want this fight as well.

While I have no love for Communists, and detest Communist China particularly, I know Obama has no stomach for a military confrontation, which the US would decisively win.

Instead, having bloated the debt markets with cheap US Bonds, Obama will pick a fight with China over currency manipulation. China has the capacity, and may be looking for an excuse, to dump its US debt holdings. If they do so, they will make it impossible for the US to borrow more money in the short term and mid terms.

Because B. Hussein Obama has neither the stomach or the capacity to understand government austerity in such an event, all Obama will be left with is US currency manipulation. Inflation and interest rates with skyrocket, and my prediction of a "Welcome Back Carter" presidency will be fulfilled.

In the long run, the US (or what is left of it) would come out ahead due to the innovative economic thinking of its people, not its government. But, in the long run, we are all dead.

B. Hussein's Next Target: Fishermen and Anglers

2010-03-09T16:13:00.002-06:00

As reported by no more Yankee a source than Hartford-based ESPN, the Obama mafia is headed towards an end to all fishing in the United States. Story linked below.

From the story: "The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco ... [she] and others in the Obama administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy."

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry."

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

The Chicago Way in Washington

2010-03-09T04:25:00.004-06:00

Hand it to the Chicagoans currently occupying the White House. Rahm Emmanuel and B. Hussein Obama have offed two political enemies in two weeks. First was the bumbling, stumbling New York Governor David Patterson - who never saw it coming. Patterson was in the office Obama promised to Andrew Cuomo. The White House indicated that Patterson should not run, but David could not see his way clear to get out of the race. Patterson was destroyed by leaks to the daily organ of leftist government, the New York Times.

This week, it was Rep. Eric Massa, done in by leaks from the Ethics Committee and Rahm Emmanuel himself, including a House gymnasium shower room showdown, like a scene straight out of the Godfather.

The thug culture instituted by this Administration is stunning. Soon, they will be a paranoid as Richard Nixon.

Update: By the way, now that Massa "sleeps with the fishes", I believe the fix is in for the House to pass the Senate's socialized medicine bill.

Congrats to Hurt Locker

2010-03-09T04:13:00.003-06:00

The Oscars got this year's Best Picture right. Hurt Locker is a riveting and gritty film about war in Iraq made by Hollywood outsiders and seen in the theatre by very few. I went to see the film and convinced two friends to come along. The film is a work of fiction, to be sure, but does not portray Americans in war as anything other than warriors.

Contrast Hurt Locker with radical leftist Matt Damon's Green Zone or the imponderable Syriana. There is no lecture in Hurt Locker. No American self loathing. No hating on George Bush. No accusations of trading blood for oil.

Hurt Locker is not a film that is easy to watch, but is watchable. It is accessible even to those without a military background. If you have not seen the movie, rent the DVD and give it a try. But set aside time to focus on it, you cannot multi-task watching Hurt Locker.

Watch the film, and thank God that you are safe and at home doing so.

Adam Gadahn May Be Captured

2010-03-07T14:00:00.003-06:00

Pakistani sources are saying that US-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn has been captured. While nothing pleases me more at the moment than fantasizing about Gadahn being waterboarded at Gitmo, this Administration will provide Gadahn with all the rights and privileges granted to Teddy Kennedy when he killed Mary Jo Kopechne.

While Adam Gadahn still walks this earth, the best I can hope is that he gets put into general population in a prison in Alabama.

More information will leak out about this capture as time goes on. It will be interesting to follow.

Open Questions About The Healthcare Meeting

2010-02-26T10:14:00.003-06:00

Why are the Democrats involving Republicans in the discussion about the bills only AFTER the bills have been written and passed by both houses of Congress? The bills have not been withdrawn or rebuked by the Democrat leadership, and the Democrats have had for a year all the votes they need to put a health care takeover on the Anointed One's desk. This was not the Democrats seeking advice and counsel. This was the Democrats seeking a criminal accomplice.

What I did not hear from the Republicans is just as concerning as what I continue to hear from the Democrats. Not one Republican (and certainly no Democrat) said that it is the responsibility of the individual, not government, to provide for his or her own health care. The GOP has bought into this notion that someone other than the recipient must pay for a person's health care.

And that mindset is how we got into the fiscal pickle in the first place.

The price of freedom is not vigilance; the price of freedom is self-reliance. You are a slave if you are dependent upon any other person or entity to receive your needs. If you depend on the government for health care, you are a slave.

Update: People are starting to get it. A CNN poll shows that a majority of Americans now see the government as a threat to their rights. It's been that way all along - slaves have no rights. Glad the "moderates" are catching on.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/26/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights/?fbid=iT32dtaoaK5

Even ABC says "You Lie" to Obama

2010-02-26T09:55:00.003-06:00

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/02/a-health-care-summit-fact-check.html

Lie number one: Health Care premiums go up under the Anointed One's plan, not down as B. Hussein Obama claims.

Lie number two: Obama claims that under his plan, people won't have to pay for other people's health care. Whoops, the truth is there are "generous subsidies for families with incomes under $88,000". That means taxpayers WILL be paying for other people's health care.

Lie number three: "If you like your plan, you can keep it." The truth: even if the insurance company maintains your plan under the weight of the Federal diktats, you can keep it only for a limited time.

Lie number four: full abortion on demand is covered under the Anointed One's plan. Joe Wilson was 100% right.

Al Qaida's Lawyers Now Running the Justice Department

2010-02-23T08:22:00.004-06:00

Let that sink in: Al Qaida's lawyers are now occupying high level positions at the Justice Department, including the National Security Division of the Justice Department.

We now know why the Anointed One wants to have the Islamic terrorists' trials removed from military tribunals and have their prosecution handled by the Department of Justice.

Barak Hussein Obama wants the terrorists found not guilty and released.

To ensure this occurs, Eric Holder and B. Hussein Obama have packed the Justice Department with political appointees that have represented the terrorists in Gitmo.

That's right: the terrorist defense attorneys are now in charge of their prosecution.

In the real legal world, this is called a conflict of interest. Once an attorney obtains a client, that client is for all practical purposes always that attorney's client, and the attorney cannot ever bring or work on a case against that client. Attorneys can and have been disbarred for such behavior.

All of this has arisen from a simple set of questions Senator Charles Grassley asked of Eric Holder nearly six months ago. Addressing Holder about the terrorists' defense attorneys now working at the Justice Department, Grassley asked: Who are they, which terrorists did they represent, and what are their duties at the Justice Department today?

Grassley asked because he knew of two: current Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal represented Osama bin Laden's driver, and Jennifer Daskal, now an official in the National Security Division of the Justice Department, represented several detainees through her work for the extremely liberal Human Rights Watch.

Since that question, Holder has responded that there are "at least" nine such persons, but he will not reveal who they are or who they represented. Holder continues to hide the names and jobs of the other terrorist's lawyers now embedded at Justice.

Beyond Incredulity

2010-02-22T22:59:00.004-06:00

The Anointed One has really shown his true Statist/Syndicalist nature this week. After being stung by the Scott Brown election, B. Hussein Obama wanted the voters to know that he "got it" and will focus like a laser on jobs.

I suppose he meant con jobs. So, with this new focus on jobs, B. Hussein Obama invited the GOP to an open discussion about the health care bill while the Democrats and Rahm "it through" Emmanuel continued their back room scheming to enact the government takeover of health care. B. Hussen Obama announced his own plan for socialized health care.

And now this: B. Hussein Obama of the corrupt Chicago machine wants to appoint SEIU president and Marxist Andy Stern to Obama's federal deficit panel. Exactly what does Andy Stern bring to a deficit panel other than a demand for more wealth to non-working sluggards and illegal aliens, the explosion of the federal debt by way of healthcare socialization, and a penchant for running a criminal enterprise called the SEIU?

B. Hussein Obama's occupation of the White House cannot end soon enough.

Toyota vs Government Motors

2010-02-22T22:48:00.002-06:00

I warned earlier that it is fundamentally unfair for other car companies to compete against the industry's regulator which is also a manufacturer. Toyota, the most successful car company in the world, is finding this out the hard way.

The US government cannot be both a regulator and a competitor. Certainly the anti-trust laws or RICO laws are being violated by this anti-competitive behavior.

Obama to Double Down on Socialism

2010-02-22T08:11:00.004-06:00

For nearly half a year, the American people have pointed out the most outrageous and costly elements of the Democrat's socialist health care nationalization plan. And for half a year, Obama's lackeys have claimed "that's not the President's plan."

This week, B. Hussein Obama is set to reveal his plan. It turns out that the Reid-Pelosi plan was not costly or socialist enough for a true Statist like the Anointed One.

To the extent the Federal government should be involved in health care "reform", it must be to reduce the Federal role in health care -- after all, everyone agrees that the existing health care projections and expenditures in the Federal budget are unsustainable. But only in a Statist's wildest Socialistic dreams could an exercise in cost reduction result in the quintupling of the size of the program and budget.

Unlike most of the Conservative commentators, I hope the GOP does meet with B. Hussein Obama on television this week, and they should launch a principled and unrelenting critique of the Anointed One's plan, destroying it element by element. The American people do not want Socialized medicine, do not want a Federal takeover of health care, and do not want Washington DC running their lives.

The GOP does not need to propose an alternative plan to win this. Doing nothing is better than enacting any Democrat's plan. It is appropriate and instructive to recall the first principle of the Hippocratic oath -- first do no harm.

Update: As more details come out, the Anointed One's plan has all the tried and failed socialist remedies: higher taxes, higher government spending, higher deficits, more government control over citizen lives and medical decisions, prices controls, a huge new bureaucracy, and illogical reasoning: we're spending your money to save it.

Additional Update: Follow this media talking point: "Mandating insurance coverage for all Americans will mean that the insured will stop paying for the medical expenses of the uninsured. And there are government insurance vouchers to pay for insurance for those who can't afford it."

More Army Jihadi Coverup?

2010-02-19T11:14:00.003-06:00

Word is leaking out that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson, South Carolina were arrested around Christmas 2009 in a food poisoning plot. Coming after the coverups that went on associated with jihadist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, this is not a hopeful sign that the Army gets it.

Joe Stack - Terrorist

2010-02-18T22:07:00.003-06:00

Today, a man who claimed to be tired of watching the US Government continue to punish the productive in favor of illegal immigrants, the unproductive, labor unions, and leftist intelligentsia flew his private plane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas.

Like all terrorists, Joe Stack misdirected his attack against people who were not the cause of his angst. All he harmed were innocent people, no more at the controls of the government he came to see as opposing him as he himself was.

So for those of us who also believe the Government has grown far beyond its constitutional limitations, life just got tougher. Now, Big Sister Janet can point to Joe Stack and say "Ah-ha! I told you right-wingers were terrorists!"

But life should be a little tougher for leftists as well. Let us see if the New York Times will delve into a real discussion about whether Joe Stack was an ideologically driven murderer or perpetrated an act designed to call attention to a legitimate plight. We'll see.

Joe Stack, you died a schmuck. You died for nothing. Your act will achieve nothing positive. In short - EPIC FAIL you terrorist loser.

Bye Bye Bayh

2010-02-15T23:25:00.003-06:00

Evan Bayh, Democrat Senator from Indiana, announced that he would not see reelection in 2010.

You may recall that Evan Bayh followed in the footsteps of his father, liberal Senator Birch Bayh. Evan was born with his hand in your pocket.

State run media will try to pain Evan Bayh as a moderate or centrist, but recall that Evan Bayh voted for a government dictatorship over the medical practice, and without requiring a Louisiana Purchase or a Cornhusker Kickback.

There are no moderate Democrat Senators. To say otherwise is a lie.

The Theory of Man Made Climate Change is Dead

2010-02-14T17:57:00.004-06:00

"Professor" Phil Jones, former Director of the now thoroughly discredited University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, had a very interesting interview with the BBC over the weekend.

For perhaps the first time in his career, Phil Jones told the truth to the public, not just a handful of global warming sycophants. Recall that the truth Phil Jones told his sycophants was that he was manufacturing evidence to support the theory of global warming -- man-made or otherwise.

The truth he told the public over the weekend:

+Climate change on earth happens entirely without human influence.

+There has been NO GLOBAL WARMING for the past fifteen years - the hockey stick graph is a lie.

+The raw data has been "lost", thus no real scientific method can be applied to weather data used to support the conclusions of the now discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change pronouncements.

Perhaps most telling is that Phil Jones still "believes" that the earth is warming and man is responsible. That is, he has faith, about man made climate change. You need faith to believe when there is no evidence to support your beliefs. The climate realists have long alleged that the global warming crowd were practicing a religion, not science. We now see that

Beliefs are fine, but they should never be confused with science. And Phil Jones has been a scientific malpractitioner for the past twenty years. He and his ilk (including NASA's James Hansen and the IPCC) are charlatans, snake oil salesmen, big government shills, agents of fascism, and psuedo-scientific hucksters. At least this weekend Jones admitted as much.

Any further government action associated with addressing climate change, capping carbon emissions, hindering economic growth, and limiting energy consumption can no longer be justified on science. Those who support these measures are apostles of a centralized economy, and have more in common with Jozeph Stalin than they care to admit.

RIP -- Charlie Wilson

2010-02-10T20:21:00.002-06:00

Charles Nesbitt Wilson, an ethically-challenged Democrat Congressional Representative from Texas and US Naval Academy graduate, passed away today.

Charlie Wilson, more than any other legislator, did the things that were needed to fund the Afghans in their fight against the Soviet Union's occupation. Together with CIA agent Gust Avrakotos, Charlie Wilson made sure the Afghans were equipped to fight the Red Army, and win.

The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan was one of the five great external shocks (along with Solidarity, Desert Storm, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and SDI) that brought down the Soviet Union.

No matter Charlie Wilson's other shortcomings, he kept the faith with the Afghan mujaheddin standing toe to toe with the Soviets and his defeatist fellow party members.

Obama's Anti-Catholicism

2010-02-06T13:48:00.003-06:00

The Anointed One continues to reveal himself as promoters of rabid anti-Catholics. Two recent appointments come to the fore in this regard.

Currently, B. Hussein Obama has appointed noted anti-Catholic Harry Knox to the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council. This is the same Harry Knox that said Pope Benedict XVI is "hurting people in the name of Jesus" for suggesting that homosexual men with AIDS in Africa engage in sexual self control instead of endorsing UN efforts to distribute condoms.

One might assume that members of the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council are members of or associated with religious faith. Not so at the B. Hussein Obama White House.

Knox's "faith" which qualifies him to be on a board associated with faith based initiatives, is radical homosexuality. He is a former Methodist minister.

Recently, the Anointed One has re-nominated virulent anti-Catholic Dawn Johnsen to head up the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. This is the same Dawn Johnsen that has a history of extreme pro-abortion advocacy for NARAL, the ACLU, and the Abortion Rights Mobilization group. As counsel for the Abortion Rights Mobilization group, Johnsen sued the IRS to attempt to force the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Roman Catholic church in the United States. While working for NARAL, Johnsen adamantly opposed parental notification laws when their children sought medical treatments. For the ACLU before the Supreme Court of the United States, Johnsen aruged that pregnancy was slavery barred by the 13th amendment.

Johnsen's long history of radical left wing advocacy in no way indicates that she has the bearing or temperament to head any office where compromise and the ability to listen and understand all aspects of a conflict are critical.

However, Obama's radical anti-life, anti-Catholic agenda must move forward at all costs.

The Jobs Bill Joke

2010-01-31T11:02:00.004-06:00

All this talk about a "Jobs Bill" is downright laughable. The government cannot create jobs (certainly not private sector, entrepreneurial jobs). The government can only create more government, and to do so, will rob the economy of job producing private capital.

For a president that claims he is not an ideologue, all of his proposed solutions only come out of one book: Das Kapital by Karl Marx.

The Republicans should put forth a real solution: deep, permanant cuts to the federal tax rates, and deep, permanent cuts to the federal budget, starting with so-called "entitlements."

Tonight's Joe Wilson Moment

2010-01-27T23:37:00.003-06:00

Following up on Joe Wilson's "You lie!" is Justice Samuel Alito's head shaking "Not true."

A supreme Court Justice is under no obligation to withhold criticism of any other Constitutional officer, even the President. Especially when the President tries to intimidate the members of the Supreme Court.

Good for Justice Alito. And God Save this Honorable Court.

Massachusetts: Nope! Keep the Change

2010-01-19T22:58:00.002-06:00

Tonight, none less than the Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts voted to reject the Obama-Pelosi-Reed Democrat plan to socialize health care in the United States.

The nation is on day 25 of the Democrat-only behind closed doors plotting to socialize the nation’s health care system, take away your medical insurance, increase taxes, and degrade the health of all United States citizens and really, the world.

And 364 days after the Anointed One occupied the Office of the President, the nation, through the election of Scott Brown, gave a clear message to Washington and the Democrats – HANDS OFF OUR HEATHCARE.

Not that liberals will listen. Being a liberal means never having to say you are sorry because you know better than voters how to spend their money and run their lives.

For the citizens watching their nation being spent into bankruptcy and their freedoms being lost, they did the only thing they controlled.

Scott Brown reminded the Democrats that the Massachusetts Senate seat belonged to the people, not the Democrats. The Democrats better keep in mind that our healthcare insurance, our relationships with our doctors, and our money belong to US, not THEM.

This is a stinging defeat of the Democrat’s socialist agenda. With double digit unemployment, and declining dollar, and out of control government spending, let me remind the Democrats what they once knew – It’s The Economy Stupid! Government takeovers must stop now. Scott Brown in the Senate will make it harder for Obama to keep socializing our economy.

UPDATE: Democrat Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, a supporter of socialized health care, tonight called for a suspension of Senate votes on health care until Scott Brown is seated in the Senate. I sense that Jim Webb's views of socialized medicine are "evolving."

Hey John Ensign - Zip It

2010-01-12T10:05:00.003-06:00

So the philandering ethically- and morally-challenged Senator John Ensign wants everyone to just leave the racist Harry Reid alone because he apologized. Ensign says that people should just accept apologies and leave it at that.

I bet he does.

Senator Ensign was caught in an affair with one of his staffers and conducted a "pay to play" scheme with her husband. The FBI is investigating the matter, and indictments may well be forthcoming. But, he's sorry, and we should just accept apologies and leave it at that.

Senator Ensign should become Senator Resign. At this point, Ensign's replacement would be a Republican, and Ensign will not survive a primary challenge. Stick a fork in him -- he's done.

More importantly, he should have the sense to stay out of the way of a purely political fight when he is such damaged goods. Providing cover for Harry Reid is not going to help him in the least. The GOP will still reject him at the polls and Eric Holder will still make sure he is indicted.

Veteran's Day Call to Action

2009-11-11T09:08:00.000-06:00

Today, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, signifies the armistice ending the Great War, the World War. In 1954, this day was designated as Veteran’s day, a day to honor all Veterans, not just the Veterans of World War I.

It is appropriate to honor our Veterans, each of whom has made real sacrifice for this country.

But it is not enough to honor Veterans only on this day. This nation’s military conflict with Muslim jihadists is creating a huge influx of wounded Veterans, all of whom deserve the best possible rehabilitation services, and they are not receiving them. In an age when so many unproductive Americans and illegal aliens claim entitlement to high quality government programs at taxpayer expense, it borders on criminal that the U.S. Government does not ensure that every war Veteran receive the best possible care. We all know that this is not occurring, and it bodes ill for the quality of “care” all citizens might receive in a government run health care system.

It is also not enough to pay lip service to finishing the job in this nation’s military conflict with Islamic jihadists. While good men have fought and died to strip Afghanistan from the death grip of the Taleban and al Qaida, it is clear that more troops are needed to finish the job. Yet the Islamist sympathizer in the White House is not sure if more troops are needed at all, cannot make time to have a meaningful discussion with the Generals in charge of conducting the war in Afghanistan, and cannot make force projection and force protection for our troops in Afghanistan an immediate priority.

The race hustler Barak Hussein Obama campaigned for the job he has, and a part of that is Commander in Chief. It is ultimately the Commander in Chief’s job to win wars in which the United States is engaged, and do the best he can to provide for the troops fighting those wars.

Leaving the military understaffed in Afghanistan and postponing immediate deployment of the troop strength necessary to win in Afghanistan is a dereliction of duty. It is an affront to all citizens if B. Hussein Obama wastes American lives in Afghanistan because he cannot commit himself to fighting Islamic militants.

There is no greater affront to Veterans than to abandon them; to leave them exposed and unsupported as Obama is doing in Afghanistan. Our troops in Afghanistan are barely hanging on. This Veteran’s Day, think about what you can do now to get our troops in Afghanistan the support they need.

Today is VG Day

2009-11-09T10:53:00.000-06:00

Today is V-G day; victory for Germay. On this day twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall was forced open, which signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War. On this day in 1989, East Germany opened the gates to the Berlin wall, allowing East Germans to once again freely and safely travel to West Germany and freedom for the first time since

The action followed a decision a few weeks earlier by the Hungarian government to permit Hungarians to freely travel to Austria. Once that occurred, East Germans had been traveling to West Germany through Hungary and Austria, a fait accompli for the freedom-loving people of East Germany.

In a desperate bid to maintain power, the East German Communists offered the direct travel route, adding the diktat that the East Germans that they had to come back to East Germany after their visit.

It is the natural state of man to seek freedom, and the East Germans did so, not only fleeing to West Germany, but also tearing down the Berlin Wall, at first with their bare hands, and finally with machines. No longer slaves to the Soviet Union, Germany reunified.

On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke the people of Berlin at the base of the Brandenburg Gate, near the Berlin Wall, and thundered to the Soviet political masters on the other side of the Wall:

“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Naturally, the weak-kneed American liberals in the United States dismissed this dangerous and inflammatory talk. Naturally, the liberal bedwetters were wrong, and little more than two years later, the wall came down, but Gorbachev had nothing to do with it.

Reagan was right, the liberals were wrong, and thank God for men like Ronald Reagan.

Where have all the cowboys gone?

Why the US Should Bar Muslims from Military Service

2009-11-06T09:11:00.000-06:00

Once again, yesterday, November 5, 2009, while screaming "Allah Akbar!”, Major Nidal Malik Hasan provided abject and deadly evidence that sincere Muslims cannot honestly serve in the United States military. The Army psychiatrist killed twelve and wounded more than thirty Army personnel at Fort Hood, Texas. In this, he joins such other sincere followers of Islam as Quinton Ezeagwulaby, Mir Aimal Kasi, and US Army sergeant Hasan Karim Akbar in murderously attacking those who stand watch and protect the United States of America either in the United States or on US bases.

Nidal Malik Hasan, was born in the United States, raised in genteel Virginia, public school educated, Virginia Tech graduate enrolled in ROTC, and made a doctor through the military medical school. Yet his religion prohibited him from serving in the Army of a non-Muslim nation.

I believe Nidal Malik Hasan was a sincere Muslim well versed in the Koran. The Koran clearly prohibits Muslims from serving non-Islamic masters. He was no “religion of peace” believer, because Islam is NOT a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission – submission to Islam.

Let there be no doubt here – the United States Army itself bears partial responsibility for this carnage by not running Major Hasan out of the service long before this event. There is ample first hand evidence that Major Hasan frequently and publicly denounced the United State’s war against Islamic terrorism and supported terrorist acts undertaking by Muslims against the United States military. In what kind of twisted, politically-correct, uber-sensitive Army would we not discharge such a disaffected, disloyal soldier?

Thank God -- and by God, I mean the God of Abraham, God the Holy Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Sprit – thank God for brave first responders and true Americans like police Sgt. Kimberly Munley who did her duty and engaged the murderous Islamic terrorist alone and injured.

What should be abundantly clear at this point is that sincere Muslims should honestly admit that they cannot in good conscience remain in the service of the United States military. Today, immediately, the United States Army must discharge all sincere Muslims as conscientious objectors – in this, there really is no shame. The government should not attempt to deprive Muslims of their faith, but the government must be honest in determining that US military service is incompatible with the Islamic faith, and we need to quit making excuses about it.

Until that happens, persons in the United States military should distrust any Muslim assigned to their unit or post. This nation must put aside its political correctness and see Islam for what it really is, not was Christians and liberals want Islam to be.

God bless the Fort Hood community and the Army community. We put enough on the Army as it is – we should not tolerate ticking human timebombs in its midst.

Misplaced Priorities

2009-10-02T11:09:00.000-05:00

B. Hussein Obama just spent three days of his presidency devoted to being the mayor of Chicago in his trip to Copenhagen to try to convince the International Olympic Committee to send the 2016 Summer Olympics to his organized community.

Obama's bid came in fourth, behind Rio, Madrid, and Tokyo. Fourth. Kicked out of the competition in the first round.

This same week, B. Hussein Obama, as Commander in Chief, spent only twenty five minutes with General Stanley McChrystal discussing Afghanistan and McChrystal's request for an additional 40,000 troop surge to disloge the Taleban from power in Afghanistan. There are only two places for the United States in Afghanistan - defeat or victory. There are no consideration rounds; no fourth, no third, no second places. Defeat or victory.

If you have not seen it before, this week brings into sharpest focus ever the fact that B. Hussein Obama, noted community activist, is a complete amateur currently employed so far beyond his capacity to serve that the Peter Principle will soon be rename the "Obama Principle."

This man's presidency cannot end soon enough.

Obama Shows His True Colors - Red

2009-09-17T09:27:00.001-05:00

On the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, B. Hussein Obama once again abandons Poland and the Czech Republic to Soviet oppression by abandoning the plan to install and support anti-missile technology on the soils of both of our allies.

In this action, Sec. of Defense Robert Gates again shows himself as a purely unprincipled political hack. The thought that Russia would engage Iran in a manner to reduce Iran’s bellicose behavior is criminally false.

Obama is doing this to appease his Communist masters in the former Soviet Union. Such an action is completely consistent with a fifth column member, and Obama is now the Commander in Chief of the fifth column in the United States.

The presidency of this destructive useful idiot continues to show weakness in the face of Russian aggression:

-- Russia invaded Georgia with no meaningful American response.

-- Russia threatens nuclear war with Poland due to the inclusion of Poland in the new US missile defense shield.

-- Russia cuts off Ukraine's electricity as penalty for Ukrainian support of the US missile defense shield.

-- Russia practices nuclear war on the United States in a joint exercise with China as a part of the new "Shanghai Cooperation Organization."

-- Russia is designing and adding next generation ICBMs in violation of START.

-- Russia continues to provides extensive nuclear expertise and technology to enemies of the US, including Iran.

-- Russia is reestablishing a Warsaw Pact which features Iran as one of its members.

The presidency of B. Hussein Obama cannot end quickly enough. The very existence of the free world hinge on his anti-freedom agenda.

Update: "This is not good news for the Czech state, for Czech freedom and independence," said Mirek Topolanek, the former Czech Prime Minister. "It puts us in a position where we are not firmly anchored in terms of partnership, security and alliance, and that’s a certain threat."

Reminder: Both Poland and the Czech Republic have provided troops to work along side US troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Both of these countries are part of the coalition of the willing. Chilling relations with staunch allies is so foolish as to defy description.

This Guy is a Dick

2009-09-15T10:18:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone got a chance to see Megyn Kelly of FoxNews rip Richard "Dick" Harpootlian over the Joe Wilson story on FoxNews this morning. Megyn, who is VERY pregnant (and therefore quite likely hormonal) chewed this hypocrite up and spit him out on her show this morning.

I'll try to add a link if I can find one.

United We Stand; Divided We Fall

2009-09-11T08:04:00.000-05:00

Today is the eighth anniversary of the Islamic terrorist hijacking and homicide aircraft attacks on the people of the United States in New York, Washington DC, and Shanksville, PA. After these heinous terrorist attacks against unsuspecting, hard-working people, the United States of America united to launch a global war on Islamic terrorism.

For a time, this nation was united. Our national motto was “United We Stand”.

We all knew that would not last. Since the 1960s, American leftists have made sport of bringing down this nation, its achievements, its political institutions, its history, and its people. National unity in support of military action was going to be opposed, degraded, resisted, and demonized. Eventually, the followers of Alinsky succeeded in once again dividing the nation, sapping the national will, and perverting the national efforts to protect the United States from Islamic terrorism.

Currently, we have as president the Great National Divider. No longer do we have a global war on Islamic terrorism – we now have “overseas contingency operations.” We no longer interrogate the terrorists held (for the moment) at Guantanamo, we now have “high value interrogation group” prohibited from using any method more coercive than exposing these killers to rainbows and teddybears. As I recall people in the twin towers having to choose between dying in the inferno or jumping to their death, I am not so concerned about the 9/11 mastermind being waterboarded under the supervision of doctors, then fed a nice meal.

The Great National Divider, a true Saul Alinsky acolyte, spent last night calling his dictatorial socialist policies “market choice” and his opponents “liars” “obstructionists” and “reactionaries.” He has promoted policies I’ve detailed in this blog that will irreparably harm this nation.

On this anniversary of terror, the White House will not use a motto of “United We Stand.” Instead, they will say “United We Share”, as in, you do not pay enough taxes, and you have to fork over some more of your hard-earned pay to the government so they can do with it what they deem important.

There is an important second stanza to “United We Stand” that the Great National Divider forgets – “Divided We Fall”.

President B. Hussein Obama’s policies, if enacted into law, will tear this nation apart. I firmly believe that if Congress enacts both the health care nationalization bill and the Mandate, Cap, and Tax bill being pushed by the Great National Divider, the result will be an end to the United States of America as it is composed today.

There is no national consensus on federal action on either of these bills, but if August’s town hall meetings have proved anything, it is that the Statists in the United States do not feel the need to unite the nation to dictate to it.

The great irony of this day is that the Islamic terrorists that launched the attack on the United States eight years ago wanted to destroy the United States as we know it. Now, we have a Muslim-born president working hard to achieve their goals.

Divided We Fall. The governing party presently in Washington DC needs to keep this in mind.

Socialism's BIG Lie of the Day

2009-08-12T08:17:00.000-05:00

"I have not said that I am a supporter of a single payer system." - Barak Hussein Obama, August 12, 2009

"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program." - Barak Hussein Obama, June 30, 2003

"I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately." - Barak Hussein Obama, May 2007

The Price of Freedom

2009-08-12T07:42:00.000-05:00

Thomas Jefferson opined that "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." This was uttered in a different place and time, before the advent of National Socialism, Communism, and the nanny state.

Today, I suggest that the price of freedom is self-reliance, for it is only with a national belief of self-reliance that a nation may keep its freedom from a dictatorial government.

The modern American Democrat has long known that their power is based upon expanding the class of people who are dependent on the government for their way of life. The larger the dependency class, the greater the power the Democrats will possess.

Controlling the nation's health care is the ultimate power grab. Not just because controlling health care means providing Democrat-appointed bureaucrats the power of life and death over everyone, but also because it creates a dependent class of all citizens who cannot afford to leave the country for appropriate medical treatment.

Furthermore, it will create a direct dependency class of those citizens who are directly employed by a nationalized health service. Currently, the third largest single employer in the world is the National Health Service in England, behind only the PRC Army and Indian Rail (the employment numbers for the entire UK would be higher, as you add the numbers servicing Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). The English National Health Service has more than 1.2 Million employees, less than half of which are actual care-givers, and only 109,000 of which are English doctors.

Applying this ratio of NHS employees to the English working age population, it would be extrapolated that in the United States, a government run health care system would employ Eight Million Americans, over Four Million of which would be administrative employees. The Democrats know that there would be Eight Million citizens whose livelihood would be dependent upon the preservation of that nationalized health system, and Eight Million votes to preserve such a system once it was put into place.

I had the pleasure of speaking with several English doctors on holiday a couple of years ago. What we should understand is that NHS doctors are not college and medical school trained doctors at all, but identified during high school as having a competence for medical learning, and diverted to medical training in what Americans would call a trade school. At best, the standard NHS doctor would be a physician assistant in the United States. This mirrors my experience in the other government-provided health care service I have experienced first hand, the United States Army.

James Madison on Obamacare, Bailouts, and Car Giveaways

2009-08-08T11:26:00.000-05:00

"[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." --James Madison

So Now The Press Laments ...

2009-08-08T10:20:00.000-05:00

I just saw a well-fed Betty Nguyen's CNN on-air lament that when she leaves poverty-stricken Communist Vietnam, she "never leaves feeling like [she's] done enough."

I'd say CNN's news-reporting ancestors have done quite enough to Vietnam, working the United States public into an anti-war frenzy and forcing us to abandon the hope for Vietnam's future to Ho Chi Minh and the brutal Communists.

For a member of the United States news media to lament that the Vietnamese under Communist rule are so poor is disgusting. Not one second of Nguyen's report delved into the question of WHY the Vietnamese are poor, WHY the Vietnamese are struggling under the Communist yolk, and WHAT role the US media played in their predicament.

Bleeding hearts to the end, all the press can see is their good intentions regarding its handling of the reporting on Vietnam. Now they want credit for their good intentions handing out a few pairs of shoes and some rice to villagers in a rice paddy. Disgusting, intellectually vacant hypocrites, the lot of them.

Another Racist On the Supreme Court

2009-08-08T10:10:00.000-05:00

In B. Hussein Obama's "post-racial" America, his first appointment to the United States Supreme Court is an admitted racist, Sonia Sotomayor. Sonia is not the first racist on the supreme Court, and likely will not be the last, but this appointment was preventable and is unfortunate.

Sonia replaces another unfortunate appointment, and one of the supreme Court's least qualified and least meaningful members, David Souter. David Souter was a wasted appointment of President George Bush the first, a gift of RINO Chief of Staff John Sununu and RINO Sen. Warren Rudman. While Earl Warren and Harry Blackmun rank as the worst GOP supreme Court appointments, David Souter's middling intellect reduced his supreme Court role to being merely a liberal sock puppet.

Today, the nation is a little more at risk because of Sonia Sotomayor. Let us see how this "wise Latina" performs.

How Participatory Democracy Scares Democrats

2009-08-06T10:20:00.000-05:00

As more and more people come to read the liberty destroying portions of the House version of the Obamacare Health Reform bill, the members of the Democrat party are becoming uncomfortable with hearing from their constituents. The whole thing reminds me of an interchange between Count de Monet and King Louis XVI in the Mel Brooks film History of the World Part 1:

Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting.
King Louis XVI: You said it! They stink on ice!

Watch the clip on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpYs9GBXwY

Democrats have been participating in rent-a-mob politics for so long they believe any group of people that show up at a political meeting focused on a single issue MUST be organized by some puppet master, just as they play puppet master to their “constituents.” To a Washington liberal, it is beyond the realm of the possible that citizens – of their own volition -- might come to a town hall meeting or other public forum to challenge the permanent political class. The voting/tax-paying class is clearly not politically savvy enough to behave in such an effective manner! Don’t we have our willing sycophants in the mainstream media telling them that this “reform” is good for the children?!?

The reaction of the Democrat political class is at once laughable, predictable, and hypocritical. When a Bush was president, it was “patriotic” to “speak truth to power.” Now that Obama is in the White House, Senator Boxer says that “organized groups" are planning to "harm our President!” With AIG execs were being paid pursuant to their contract, liberals bussed agitators into the neighborhoods to stand on their front lawns. When Conservatives show up to voice opposition to an unconstitutional Federal power-grab, they are called “well-dressed Nazis” or “racists”, or more likely, both.

Even the White House is behaving like a Chicago thug, issuing a video clip calling accurate quotes from Barak Obama about ridding the nation of private insurance “fishy” and a “distortion.”

The direct quote from Barak Obama was as follows: ““I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

Clearly, this is at odds with both what Obama is saying about “choosing” your insurance, and at odds with the terms of the House bill Obama is pushing. But, apparently believing Obama means what he says and says what he means is a “distortion.”

Additionally, the White House, through Macon Phillips, the director of new media for Mr. Obama, also issued the following request for snitches: “Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

Most hypercritical of all is that while Obama’s political allies are accusing some shadowy group of Republicans and evil insurance companies of paying people to show up to voice their displeasure at the unconstitutional Federal healthcare power grab, Obama is sending out emails to his ACORN buddies to get ready to mobilize to support Socialism.

What follows is an email to his activists sent by Barak Obama. I’ve included the whole thing so I cannot be accused of a distortion.

from President Barack Obama info@barackobama.com
reply-to info@barackobama.com
date Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
subject This is the moment
mailed-by bounce.bluestatedigital.com

This is the moment our movement was built for.

For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you.

Home is where we’re strongest. We didn’t win last year’s election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you’re willing to step up once again, that’s exactly where we’re going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves.

There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.

That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.

But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here’s what I need from you:

Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?

In politics, there’s a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it’ll be easy. Well, let’s be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way.

But every day we don’t act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear.

So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don’t know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what’s easy, and doing what’s right.

This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?

Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform.

Let’s seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.

Thank you,
President Barack Obama
-end-

You know, this email from President Barak Obama looks fishy to me. I think I will send this on to the White House.

When a community organizer objects when a community organizes in opposition to his policies, that is pure, naked, unadulterated liberal hypocrisy --particularly when he is in fact organizing to support himself.

Obama has given marching orders to his ACORN minions and his Ministry of Truth lackeys Linda Douglass and Macon Phillips. Contrast that with Conservatives, who are independent, self-motivated, and aware. Conservatives do not need marching orders, trinkets, or payments to make their voices heard. The Tea Party Movement lives on. Liberty may yet be rescued. If not, the nation will surely fail.

Popping Up in the Los Angeles Area

2009-08-03T09:16:00.000-05:00

THIS poster is political fair use at its best.

Update: The Washington Post charges in to the rescue: this poster is "racist". WaPo proving their lack of relevance and objectivity again.

A Kenyan Birth Registration Appears

2009-08-03T09:10:00.001-05:00

While I have been leery of claims that B. Hussein Obama is constitutionally prohibited from holding the Office of the President of the United States, I can at least understand that the constitutionalists have a valid point regarding B. Hussein Obama's "most transparent administration in history" lack of transparency on the issue of releasing the State of Hawaii Department of Health Certification of a Live Birth document issued in August of 1964.

While the Certification of a Certificate document released by the Obama campaign last year is invalid on its face by its own terms, a competing Kenyan certification of birth has emerged today as a competing claim on Obama's birth narrative.

Let the battle of the documents begin.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105764

Thoughts on the Meaning of Patriotism

2009-07-31T08:53:00.000-05:00

While I was meditating on the meaning of American Independence, my mental process jumped a lane, and I started thinking about patriotism. For the past eight years, those in the United States who hate the success, strength, and exceptionalism of this country have desperately made the argument that working to harm this country’s economy and safety is somehow “patriotic.” Their mantra “Dissent is patriotic” became some cover for their opposing common sense safety measures applied in the fight against Islamic terrorism.

Unfortunately, the mantra misconstrues the actions of the Patriots, and therefore, perverts the meaning of Patriotism. The Patriots were not dissidents for the sake of fomenting dissent.

To be a Patriotic United States citizen means to support the ideals and beliefs of the Patriots. So, to be Patriotic, one must be in favor of:

- Representative government
- Maximum independence in all matters
- The smallest possible central government
- A preference for local government over remote or central government
- Personal and national self-reliance
- Defense of your state against invaders, pirates, and thieves of all types
- Low taxes
- Low tariffs
- Low barriers to commerce
- Direct action in support of the above beliefs

Leftists in this country seem to think that direct action in support of their own beliefs alone fully qualifies them to claim the mantle of Patriotism. I would remind them that Benedict Arnold engaged in direct action in support of his beliefs, but none would label the great American traitor “Patriotic”.

Dissent in an of itself is not, and cannot be, Patriotic. It is not the activity that makes one Patriotic; it is belief that motivates the activity that determines whether a person is a Patriot or a traitor, coward, thief, or tyrant.

Pope Pius XI famously said "No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true socialist."

In the same vein I declare: No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Patriot and a supporter of government dependency, higher taxes, government regulatory schemes, gun bans, or surrender in the face of our enemies.

In short, no one can be, at the same time, a sincere Patriot and a modern American Democrat.

Reflections upon the Notion of American Independence

2009-07-30T08:57:00.000-05:00

I’ve spent a fair part of this month - the month in which we Americans celebrate Independence Day - thinking about the meaning of Independence. I am struck by the irony of celebrating a national holiday commemorating cutting the ties of dependency upon a government while at the same time laboring under a Presidency and Congress leading the nation toward greater government dependence, even subjugation, of its people.

Independence is what is celebrated in this Nation, and with good cause. We have no national Dependence Day celebration.

Independence Day does not celebrate the mere notion of being independent. Independence Day celebrates the act of declaring our Independence. Independence in the United States is not just an ideal, a philosophy, a goal – it is our national birthright. The act itself founded a confederation of independent states.

Independence is not a death rattle, it is the cry of life! Independence has been the goal of self-conscious humans since humans achieved self-consciousness. Hundreds of Thousands of Americans have lost their very life and all they own in the pursuit and preservation of Independence, and with it, Liberty and Opportunity.

The pursuit of Independence is what fueled the rush of immigrants to this nation. The pilgrims were pursing Liberty from oppression. Later waves of immigrants were pursuing Opportunity – Enterprise – a better life for themselves and their descendants.

Government dependency is antithetical to Independence. Statism is antithetical to Independence. Blame shifting is antithetical to Independence. Failing to speak out against a power hungry, all-powerful central government is antithetical to Independence.

Where are our Patriots today? Where are the successors of Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Madison, and Adams in our government? Where are the successors of Thomas Payne in the press? Where are the successors of Samuel Adams in the grassroots?

Whither courage? Whither conviction? Whither truth? Whither self-reliance? Whither our frontier spirit? Whither the United States.

A government which seeks to make slaves of its people is no successor of our Founders. Such a government – such men and women -- cannot legitimately govern a free nation founded in Independence.

This nation has never celebrated or feted those who would not or cannot do for themselves. They are pitied, and with good cause. Not because their lives are valueless, but because their independence is lost.

Socialism is slavery. A government that issues intrusive decrees is a tyranny.