Fewer poor vs fewer rich

 

20 Reasons you might be a liberal

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you just might be a liberal if... 

1) You get extremely upset about the idea of the government coming into our bedrooms unless it's to give everyone free birth control. 

2) You believe that people who hold the exact same position on gay marriage that Barack Obama did last year are horrible bigots who are unfit to hold office.

And 18 more.

How Obama won the debate a prequel

If Obama were to show up in a clown suit and flip-flops, the media narrative would be that his unconventional attire was a daring and brilliant move designed to challenge the status quo and to reveal his human side, or possibly a laudable effort to make politics more interesting to children. 

He’s got Mitt under his skin

Krauthammer exposes Obama’s biggest weakness—thin skin.

Warren/Brown Debate sparks fly

“Excuse me,” Brown said at one point, landing a zinger as Warren tried to interrupt him: “I’m not a student in your classroom.”

The Left and free speech

They don’t like it and if they can they will suppress it. 

How the Obama Administration failed to fix Wall Street

Four years have passed since Lehman Brothers’ collapse; two since Obama signed financial reform into law; one since the occupation of Zuccotti Park. But the Justice Department has yet to convict a SINGLE high-profile banker.  And despite the Dodd-Frank reform package, critics suggest that the system is hardly safer than it was in 2008—from JPMorgan’s beached “whale” to MF Global’s missing billions. In a recent report the International Monetary Fund called the capital markets just as “vulnerable” to crash and fraud as they were four years ago.

Liberal Media Bias now in the Polls?

Pat Caddell on Bill O’Reilly said the following:

“Whether it’s organized or a straight conspiracy and we have gone down a slippery slope here. Look Bill, we’ve had liberal bias or bias in the press for a long time. And it’s gotten worse starting in 2008. But now we’ve got a press that is actively engaged in a reelection – putting out a narrative that Romney is a loser, they’re running polls… But Romney’s not my issue here. More importantly they not only decided to support Obama. On this issue the last two weeks what we see is a press that has decided that it will not tell the American people the truth.”

And here’s what Pollster admit to under oath

In May, the pollster for Al Gore’s presidential bid in 2000 and John Edwards's in 2004 and 2008, Harrison Hickman, took the stand in the federal criminal case against Edwards over alleged campaign finance violations stemming from payments to support Edwards's mistress.
Under oath, Hickman admitted that in the final weeks of Edwards's 2008 bid, Hickman cherry-picked public polls to make the candidate seem viable, promoted surveys that Hickman considered unreliable, and sent e-mails to campaign aides, Edwards supporters and reporters which argued that the former senator was still in the hunt —even though Hickman had already told Edwards privately that he had no real chance of winning the Democratic nomination.




New Poll has Obama +3 and Democrats +8

The latest CNN/ORC poll has Obama ahead by 3 points, but once again samples more democrats than common sense would allow.

Taking out the skewed number of Democrats we find Romney is up by 4.2%.

WAPO:  Obama ahead in swing states by 10 or Romney ahead by 5

The Washington Post’s latest poll has Obama ahead by 2, so they took a subset of swing states which had 169 people and projected Obama ahead by 10, but the MOE was 8. 

And here is another look at the Washington Post poll.

Romney uses the L word about Obama

Is liberal a bad word?  Evidently when liberals run for election it is.

Medicare and Lies the Democrats are telling us

A debate that has been fought largely over the airwaves is about to go head-to-head. Medicare reform is a huge part of that debate, and the left—bolstered by the media—has been promoting two huge falsehoods on the issue.

They are telling the lies because the truth doesn’t frighten anyone. 

The Angry Left

Nation’s Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows

AMERICANS ARE MORE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE NATION’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK AND OVERALL DIRECTION THAN THEY HAVE BEEN AT ANY TIME SINCE PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FIRST TWO MONTHS IN OFFICE, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment and a cacophonous debate in Washington over the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations, THE POLL PRESENTS STARK EVIDENCE THAT THE SLOW, IF UNSTEADY, GAINS IN PUBLIC CONFIDENCE EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT A RECOVERY WAS UNDER WAY ARE NOW ALL BUT GONE

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/us/22poll.html?_r=1


If you are looking for Obama to be reelected, this is not good news.



Where are the angry Liberals?

These are good days to be a member of Congress. Your job is not popular, per se, and neither is the institution you work for. But AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT GETTING YELLED AT. A controversial Republican budget just passed the House, you're home in your district, and THE ANGER THAT CURDLED TOWN HALL MEETINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE LAST CONGRESS IS REALLY NOWHERE TO BE SEEN….

http://www.slate.com/id/2291844/

An interesting observation here. Where are the angry liberals protesting?



Here are the angry liberals

A crowd of half a dozen protesters concerned with the Wikileaks story disrupted the Obama event at the St. Regis Hotel, with Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn organizing the event for the GROUP WHICH CALLS ITSELF FRESHJUICEPARTY.COM; SHE PERSONALLY PAID $76,000 TOTAL FOR TICKETS FOR THE GROUP TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE HIGH PRICED FUNDRAISER, SHE TOLD US.

THE PROGRESSIVE GROUP PROTESTED what they called the inhumane treatment of Pvt. Bradley Manning in the Wikileaks case. Their protest song — which included lyrics: “WE PAID OUR DUES..WHERE’S OUR CHANGE?” — was sung in its entirety for Obama, who thanked them at the end of the a capella performance

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/A-76000-Obama-Protest-Song-120376699.html


This is another problem for Obama. Those who should be protesting the Republicans instead are protesting him. From the sound of who wasn’t there, that billion dollar fund raising goal may not be realistic.



The Unhappy President

ONE CAN UNDERSTAND HIS FRUSTRATION. The guy who once said to a reporter during the 2008 campaign, “You know, I actually believe my own bulls***” about fundamentally transforming America, is now forced to run as a reactionary, defending “Medicare as we know it” from “radicals” who — gasp! — want to change America. The overrated and inexperienced politician, accustomed to nothing but adulation, who was swept into office thanks to discontent with the incumbent, IS NOW HIMSELF THE INCUMBENT DESPERATELY TRYING TO EXPLAIN HOW HE’S DONE NOTHING WRONG.


He demonized George W. Bush as an evil fool, but Obama has been forced to adopt many of the very policies he derided as evil and foolish. THE “CHANGE” CANDIDATE IS NOW THE “MORE OF THE SAME” GUY….

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265430/unhappy-president-jonah-goldberg

I enjoy Jonah Goldberg’s writing. Here’s another good one.



And more protests on Earth Day

It probably won't get much press coverage, but today President Barack Obama will be met at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City WITH A PROTEST (FEATURING KIM KARDASHIAN!) THAT SPECIFICALLY–AND ACCURATELY–ACCUSES HIM OF BREAKING AN EXPLICIT CAMPAIGN PROMISE: TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE AS PRESIDENT THE TURKISH GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS nearly a century ago.

http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/21/kim-kardashian-others-protest


Hey, wait a minute, these folks are protesting a Nobel Prize winner!!



Medicare: Here’s the truth

….Reforming Medicare is a comparative issue. It is (or ought to be - if the Republicans are minimally competent) a choice and not a referendum on one particular approach. WE AREN'T REALLY ARGUING ABOUT MEDICARE CUTS. WE AREN'T EVEN ARGUING ABOUT MEDICARE CUTS VS. TAX CUTS. PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS ALREADY CUT MEDICARE BY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS. HE HAS NOW PROPOSED TO CUT MEDICARE BY OVER A TRILLION MORE. He has proposed to give a panel of unelected bureaucrats the power to impose service cuts. So our choice is a market-oriented reform in which seniors would have more options (and maybe more disposable income) and a centralized government system in which the government slams the door in your face when and how the government decides. Even so, the Republicans could still lose this argument because...

http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2011/04/a-better-strategery-and-better-chosen-ground.php

We are arguing about saving medicare.

IPAB Is an Acronym for 'Death Panel'

Contemplating the 2012 election that can already be seen looming on the distant horizon, the President's advisors were no doubt hoping that the "death panel" debate was… well… dead. But OBAMA HIMSELF INADVERTENTLY RESURRECTED IT WHEN, IN RESPONSE TO REPUBLICAN BUDGET PROPOSALS, HE CLAIMED THAT MEDICARE COSTS WILL BE KEPT UNDER CONTROL BY THE INDEPENDENT PAYMENT ADVISORY BOARD (IPAB). Obamacare opponents have been screaming about this committee since it was first added to the "reform" bill. And, since that time, anyone with the temerity to call it by its proper name -- death panel -- has been vilified by the Democrats and the "news" media. Nonetheless, that's precisely what IPAB will be. ITS SOLE PURPOSE IS TO CUT FUNDING FOR SOME HEALTH CARE SERVICES SENIORS NOW TAKE FOR GRANTED. AND THOSE CUTS WILL KILL PEOPLE.

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/22/ipab-is-an-acronym-for-death-p

This is a big deal. You’ll be hearing a lot more about the IPAB in the future. Obama has already decided to have a fixed Medicare budget and these folks will be able to ratchet down the budget even further. What this means is rationing and this rationing will kill older Americans. Death Panels is the correct term for what they will do.



What do Light Bulbs Have to do with the Commerce Clause?

Rand Paul, freshman US Senator from Kentucky, at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing last month, summed up in a few choice sentences the Democratic Party progressive agenda:

You're really anti-choice on every consumer item that you've listed here, including light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets -- you name it, YOU CAN'T GO AROUND YOUR HOUSE WITHOUT BEING TOLD WHAT TO BUY... You raise the cost of all the items with your rules, all your notions that you know what's best for me….

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/what_do_light_bulbs_have_to_do.html

This is well worth reading. The Commerce Clause will be redefined one way or another when Obamacare is decided by SCOTUS.



Earth Day: A secular religion

….As all this suggests, environmentalism has become our newest religion. According to Joel Garreau, professor of law, culture and values at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, A RELIGION IS CHARACTERIZED BY “A DISTINCTION BETWEEN SACRED AND PROFANE OBJECTS; A MORAL CODE; FEELINGS OF AWE, MYSTERY AND GUILT; ADORATION IN THE PRESENCE OF SACRED OBJECTS AND DURING RITUALS; A WORLDVIEW THAT INCLUDES A NOTION OF WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL FITS; AND A COHESIVE SOCIAL GROUP OF THE LIKEMINDED.” Environmentalism, Garreau concluded in an article last year, fits this definition of religion very well.

Environmental historian William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin, Madison — president-elect of the American Historical Association — writes of environmentalism that it has “certain landscapes — usually the wildest and most natural ones — [that] are celebrated as sacred”; it is “openly prophetic”; it develops frequent “parallels to biblical prophecy in the Hebrew and Christian traditions”; AND IT OFFERS “PRACTICAL MORAL GUIDANCE ABOUT VIRTUALLY EVERY ASPECT OF DAILY LIFE….FROM THE APOCALYPTIC TO THE MUNDANE…..”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/21/earth-day-a-national-establishment-of-religion/#ixzz1KFLBrRwS

And this religion is not simply allowed in our schools, it is celebrated there.



Global Warming: Earth Day’s secular sacred belief

Our government is in the process of imposing strict controls to reduce greenhouse gases in hopes of staving off global warming even though earth's atmosphere is cooling.

Monday's Washington Post included an op-ed piece by Fred Hiatt titled On climate change, the GOP is lost in never-never land. IT WASN'T A PARTICULARLY GOOD ARTICLE BECAUSE IT WAS UNFOCUSED AND DISJOINTED, BUT ITS THEME WAS CLEAR. HIATT THINKS REPUBLICANS LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD AND THAT CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF THEIR GRAND DELUSION.

I'm not a Republican or a Republican Party apologist. I'm an ordinary citizen who's interested in the facts, AND THE FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE TELL A TALE THAT MR. HIATT AND PEOPLE OF HIS ILK CAN'T OR WON'T ACCEPT. THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING ALRIGHT, BUT IT'S GETTING COOLER - NOT WARMER. At this point, the only way to have missed that fact is to have bought into the liberal progressive lie that global warming is destroying the planet so completely that you refuse to even consider evidence calling it into question.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_climate_is_changing_alrigh.html


Climate change from a political viewpoint is dead. People are worried about the economy, about the deficit, about their children’s future. Here’s a face saving idea for the left. Declare that the Kyoto Accord worked and the climate is actually getting cooler. Declare victory.




SEC off the hook for Madoff

In Molchatsky v. U.S. (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 19, 2011), the federal district court held that two Madoff victims could not sue the U.S. government under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the SEC's "gross negligence" in failing to discover the fraud. The opinion recounts at some length the allegations of the agency's ineptitude, largely taken from the SEC Office of Inspector General's Report, but nevertheless ultimately agrees with the government that the agency's conduct is protected under the Discretionary Function Exception (DFE) of the Federal Tort Claims Act. Because the SEC's decision regarding whom to investigate and how to conduct an investigation are discretionary, any negligence or even abuse of that discretion is shielded from suit by sovereign immunity.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/securities/2011/04/madoff-victims-cant-sue-government-for-secs-incompetence.html/


Sovereign immunity is something that lets the government skate where a private concern would find itself sued and frequently criminally liable. And yet the left keeps looking to turn more over to the government

A Climate of Hate vs a Climate of Lies

The left wing press and Sarah Palin

SHIELDS: Pundits, bloggers, and TV talkers had a lot to say about Sarah Palin this week. She released a video on Facebook to comment on the Tucson shootings. DID SARAH PALIN UNINTENTIONALLY MAKE THE STORY ABOUT HERSELF AND NOT TUCSON? Charles Krauthammer?

KRAUTHAMMER: SHE DIDN’T MAKE IT ABOUT HERSELF. Within hours of the shooting, of which there was no connection to her whatsoever, HER NAME WAS LINKED IN THE AP, NEW YORK TIMES, BY ALL OVER THE AIRWAVES, LINKING HER AND LINKING OTHER CONSERVATIVES WITH THE SHOOTING. This is a speech that should never have had to be made. There was never a shred of evidence about any connection, and in fact, by midweek, we learned from a friend of the shooter, of Loughner, he didn’t listen to political radio, he didn’t watch TV news, he wasn’t interested in the news, he wasn’t in politics, he wasn’t of left or right. THIS WAS THE ACT OF A PROBABLY PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIC. There’s no question he was acting under mental illness. There was not a shred of evidence of, and why did her name come up? Those who brought it up are the ones who have to answer to that. That was a calumny, and it was unwarranted. I AM WAITING FOR APOLOGIES FROM THOSE WHO RAISED THAT NAME FROM THE BEGINNING.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/15/shields-asks-krauthammer-did-palin-unintentionally-make-story-about-h#ixzz1B7qvHvgo


The American public knows this. It appears to me that Liberalism has “jumped the shark.” This episode shows that the left has no new ideas to engage the public with. They are bankrupt.



Are you a liberal or a liberalist?

When the same word means different things to different people, communication is flawed, even perverted. Consider the word "liberal."

 

According to the dictionary, THE ADJECTIVE "LIBERAL" COMES FROM LIBERALIS (LATIN), MEANING "OF FREEDOM." "LIBERAL" DESCRIBES SOMEONE WHO IS HAS AN OPEN MIND, FREE FROM BIGOTRY OR BIAS, NOT CONSTRAINED BY STANDARD DOCTRINE -- indeed, someone who actively resists orthodoxy.

 

Calling oneself "a liberal" connotes an affiliation with the political philosophy known as liberalism. THIS IS A MISNOMER BORDERING ON OXYMORON. Since we desperately need clear communication, let's call THE PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN LIBERALISM A LIBERALIST (not "a liberal"), just as capitalists, socialists, and communists believe in capitalism, socialism and communism.

 

… For the liberalist, THOSE WHO HAVE POWER GOVERN ONLY BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED -- not by heredity, as the exclusive holder of special knowledge, or as the sole conduit to God. The liberalist believes that the individual -- rather than the king, priest, or president -- knows best.

 

SO IN TODAY'S WORLD, WHAT IS A LIBERAL?

 

SAYING YOU ARE A LIBERAL TODAY MEANS YOU ARE ANTI-LIBERAL and anti-liberalism. In today's world, "a liberal" believes the following.

 

• THE CENTRAL AUTHORITY (GOVERNMENT), RATHER THAN THE INDIVIDUAL, KNOWS BEST.
• THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE CARE OF ME (no personal responsibility).
• The government should make the rationing (balancing) decisions between supply and demand rather than letting the market do that.
• A liberal will aggressively and even violently defend "liberal" orthodoxy: YOU EITHER AGREE WITH ME IN ALL PARTICULARS OR YOU ARE AN AMORAL HERETIC AND OUTCAST. 

 

TODAY'S A LIBERAL IS IN FACT A SOCIALIST. Compare the beliefs of "a liberal" as described above to the tenets of socialism below. Only a socialist would use public (taxpayer) funds to bail out and take ownership of a failing private company such a General Motors. The original liberalist, John Locke, would let General Motors fail as the result of its own bad decisions.

 

 

Socialism is the political and economic philosophy that advocates common ownership and central control of the means of production and the distribution of goods and services. Do the following phrases strike a chord with "a liberal," Democrat, effectively socialist views? "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH." "THE RICH MUST PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE AND SUPPORT THE LESS FORTUNATE." "YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE." "THE GOVERNMENT IS HERE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU." …..

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/are_you_liberal_a_liberal_or_a.html


As the left misuses and redefines words, this is an excellent article to understand what they are doing.



Was Liberalism mortally wounded with the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords?

.....BUT ANTIGOVERNMENT RAMBLINGS COMING FROM OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT ARE SO SINISTER THAT THEY ARE SINISTER WHETHER THEY ARE SINISTER OR NOT. “And regardless of what led to the episode,” Hulse and Zernike say, “it quickly focused attention on the degree to which inflammatory language, threats and implicit instigations to violence have become a steady undercurrent in the nation’s political culture.”

To maintain that there’s a lack of evidence for such a sweeping statement would be inaccurate since Hulse and Zernike themselves are doing what they claim is being done. And given the tight deadlines of a Sunday edition they have focused their attention quickly indeed.

THEY MAKE AN INTERESTING CHOICE OF VERB TENSE IN “HAVE BECOME.” Maybe Hulse and Zernike are very young and, what with the way American history is taught these days, ARE UNAWARE OF RIOTS, BOMBINGS, LYNCHINGS, EXTERMINATIONS OF NATIVE PEOPLES, ASSASSINATIONS, ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS, GUN FIGHTS, AND THE CIVIL WAR, NOT TO MENTION THE INFLAMMATORY LANGUAGE, THREATS, AND IMPLICIT INSTIGATIONS TO VIOLENCE IN THE WRITINGS OF TOM PAINE.

… Editorialized the Times: “IT IS LEGITIMATE TO HOLD REPUBLICANS AND PARTICULARLY THEIR MOST VIRULENT SUPPORTERS IN THE MEDIA RESPONSIBLE for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats.” Interesting how A FEW SMALL CHANGES WOULD MAKE THAT SENTENCE APPALL THE TIMES as much as the Times appalls me: “IT IS LEGITIMATE TO HOLD MUSLIMS AND PARTICULARLY THEIR MOST VIRULENT SUPPORTERS IN THE MEDIA RESPONSIBLE for the gale of anger that has produced 9/11.”….

… A reaction so disproportionate and immaterial to a news story by a news organization is indicative of trouble in the body politic—trouble almost as severe as that which the Times claims the Giffords shooting indicates. I WORRY THAT IN THE TREMORS AND HYSTERIA OF THE TIMES WE’RE SEEING THE SAD END OF LIBERALISM….

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/times-loses-it_533697.html


The NY Times and other liberal media outlets have been wounded as they played with a metaphorical gun they found with the shooting in Tucson. The question we have now is will it be fatal?

It’s nonsense, but it’s printed nonsense

There were written by Ronald Brownstein, a progressive journalist.

Here’s the first line he wrote in that column: “LET’S STIPULATE THAT JARED LEE LOUGHNER’S MIND IS A DARK AND TWISTED MAZE.”
There is no need to stipulate: it’s a fact. The second line: “AND THAT HE WAS DRIVEN TO VIOLENCE BY FEVERISH COMPULSIONS, NOT A POLITICAL CAUSE.”

True. Well analyzed by Mr. Brownstein! Third line: “AND THAT HIS CONCEPTION OF POLITICS FITS NO RECOGNIZABLE FRAMEWORK.”

Brilliant!

And now Brownstein starts hitting: “EVEN SO, SATURDAY’S RAMPAGE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE IN THE POLITICAL ARENA TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR.”

It took away my breath.

THERE IS NO LOGICAL, REASONABLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FOURTH LINE AND THE FIRST THREE, BUT BROWNSTEIN FEELS THERE’S NO REASON HE SHOULD BE HELD BACK BY LOGIC AND REASON. And on he goes, line five: “Here’s one reason: Everyone who deals in hyperbolic political rhetoric was only a mouse click from disaster after Saturday’s attack.”……

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/01/15/wonderful/


What’s amazing is how many people on the left are engaged in this kind of thinking. I’ve seen many posts on the subject where you get this kind of condemnation. When you call them on it, they repeat they aren’t suggesting causality of political speech, BUT….. It’s breathtaking in its duplicity.



It was bound to happen: A Satirical Look at the Climate of Hate

"

Dear Lord, this year you have taken away MY FAVORITE ACTOR, Patrick Swayze, my FAVORITE ACTRESS, Farrah Fawcett, MY FAVORITE SINGER, Michael Jackson, and my FAVORITE SALESMAN, Billy Mays... I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT CHRIS CHRISTIE IS MY FAVORITE GOVERNOR."



- New Jersey Education Association memo (April 2010)

http://climateofhate.blogspot.com/



Actually this is rather clever, but you know, if you are a liberal that unbalanced people might act on this.

What a difference a network makes

Here’s the same story as it was relayed on ABC and FOX.

ABC’S VERSION

MUIR: Christiane, thank you. And again, I'll join Christiane for a special edition of “This week,” “After the Tragedy: An American Conversation Continued.” That’s tomorrow morning right here on ABC.

Another note tonight on today's town hall meeting, one of the victims of the shooting who was in the audience became agitated and was detained by security. It happened toward the end of the conversation. JAMES FULLER WHO WAS SHOT TWICE LAST WEEK, TOOK OFFENSE AT WHAT ANOTHER AUDIENCE MEMBER WAS SAYING AND MUMBLED WHAT SEEMED TO BE A THREAT. Security did escort him out of the building, and he's been charged now with a misdemeanor.

HERE’S FOX’S VERSION:

We are getting word now from Pima County Sheriff's office confirming to Fox News that one of the Tucson shooting victims a week ago today has allegedly today uttered a death threat during a taping of a town hall meeting for ABC’s "This Week" that will air tomorrow. Now, toward the end of the town hall meeting today, it was this morning, ONE OF THE SHOOTING VICTIMS, HIS NAME IS J. ERIC FULLER, APPARENTLY TOOK EXCEPTION TO COMMENTS BY TWO OF THE SPEAKERS, Arizona state Representative Terri Proud, a Republican, and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries. AND ACCORDING TO SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES AT THE SCENE, FULLER TOOK A PHOTO OF HUMPHRIES, AGAIN, THE TEA PARTY SPOKESMAN, AND SAID, “YOU ARE DEAD.” Fuller will and has apparently already been charged with a couple of things, threats and intimidation and disorderly conduct.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/15/abc-world-news-reports-threat-its-tucson-town-hall-omits-it-was-made-#ixzz1BCMMAnHR


Looking at this story you can see why liberal hate Fox so much. While ABC reports the arrest, it doesn’t seem nearly as ominous as the Fox version. Funny how FACTS seem to make a difference.

Anti-Energy Left Comes Unglued as ‘Green Economy’ Claims Collapse

The anti-energy lobby, surrogates for Big Wind and Big Solar, is now backed into a rhetorical corner in its effort TO IMPOSE ITS AGENDA OF PROTECTING THE WORLD FROM THE HORRORS OF AFFORDABLE, ABUNDANT ENERGY. Remember, although they say their objective is to use policy to force invention of Flubber or pixie dust to satisfy our future energy abundance, this doesn’t square with their decades of saying that “If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it” (green Energy guru Amory Lovins)……

…..THE ANTI-ENERGY LEFT WANTS YOU TO HAVE THE ENERGY YOU NEED, THAT IS IF YOU AGREE WITH THEM THAT YOU DON’T ‘NEED’ VERY MUCH. They want energy scarcity. It is fair to say they want energy poverty.

And they are willing to say anything to get it. Except they are reduced to remarkably weak claims. Guys, YOUR PRECIOUS RENEWABLES ARE RAT HOLES. They have been for decades and even over a century, depending on the rat hole. But keep eroding your credibility, because it’s clear this gravy train is about to end. And with these arguments you are taking your movement down with it.

http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2011/01/15/anti-energy-left-comes-unglued-as-green-economy-claims-collapse/

You need to read this is you want to get the facts about “green energy.”

Bush and other Progressive nightmares

Rethinking George Bush?

Do you miss him yet? It appears the answer more and more is yes.

Former president George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval
ratings since Richard Nixon. So, for nearly two years, Pres. Barack Obama won
easy applause by prefacing almost every speech on his economic policies with a
“Bush did it” put-down.

But suddenly Bush seems okay. Last week, the president did the
unthinkable: He praised Bush for his past efforts to reach out to Muslims. Vice
President Joe Biden went further and blurted out, “Mr. Bush deserves a lot of
credit.” Biden topped that off with, “Mr. President, thank you.”
What’s going on?

For one thing, recent polls show an astounding rebound in the
former president’s favorability — to the extent that in the bellwether state of
Ohio, voters would rather still have Bush as president than have Obama by a
50–42 margin. Nationwide, Obama’s approval ratings continue to sink to near 40
percent — a nadir that it took years for Bush to reach. IT HAS BECOME BETTER POLITICS TO PRAISE BUSH THAN TO BURY HIM.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246688/rethinking-george-bush-victor-davis-hanson


It’s the spending, Stupid

When Bill Clinton was running for the Presidency, he focused his campaign with a sign that hung in his office, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Unfortunately for the Democrats, the man who should be reading the “It’s the spending, stupid” is not up for reelection and he doesn’t seem to “get it.”

Look at the astonishing numbers in the Rasmussen poll released last
week. Nearly seven in 10 respondents (68%) want a smaller government, lower
taxes and fewer services. The party breakdown: GOP, 88%; Democrats, 44%; and Other, 74%. In short, the independent voters who decide national elections have
moved into the anti-spending column. I don't think they'll leave any time soon.

In a note on last week's poll, Rasmussen points out that the only
time it recorded a higher shrink-the-government number, at 70%, was in August
2006. That was just ahead of the famous off-year election in which Republican
voters withheld support for their party's free-spending members in
Congress

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703743504575493953591176476.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

When Progressives attack

Here’s a tale that actually happened in this country. It is a story of crime and punishment

With his responsibilities as a father of four, Maged should have shunned a
life of crime. Instead, he advertised his criminal activity with a placard in
his shop window, promising to press men's suits for 35 cents. This he did, even
though President Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers, who knew an amazing number of things -- his economic aides were not called a "Brains Trust" for nothing -- knew that the proper price for pressing a man's suit was 40 cents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091505090.html

More bad news

UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts 'very sluggish growth' accompanied by high unemployment
What no recovery in time for the 2010 elections? Not good news if you are a Democrat.
California's recovery will be weaker than rest of nation's

In its third quarterly report of 2010, the UCLA Anderson Forecast predicts
"very sluggish growth" for the foreseeable future as the U.S. economy continues
to recover from the recession. As for the California economy, the state is
looking at a difficult period ahead as it attempts to regenerate not only the
1.3 million jobs lost during the recession but also create additional jobs
needed for new entrants into the job market over the past two-and-a-half
years.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-anderson-forecast-predicts-171752.aspx

Tolerance – Liberal style

A Michigan couple is crying unsportsmanlike conduct after their
6-year-old daughter was removed from a flag football
cheerleading team because they complained that one of the team's chants was too
risque.

"Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties
from left to right."But instead of seeing their concerns with the cheer
resolved, the Tesches saw their little girl booted from the team.

Don’t you just love the tolerant left?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/15/year-old-girl-removed-cheerleading-team-complaint/


Tax cuts for the Wealthy

Washington (CNN) – Thirty-one House Democrats, most of whom face tough
re-election bids this fall, have signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them to extend expiring tax breaks for all income levels, including the wealthy.

The letter–written by Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, Illinois Rep. Melissa Bean, Virginia Rep. Glenn Nye and Michigan Rep. Gary Peters–states that after listening to economists, small businesses and families over recent weeks they are concerned that "raising any taxes right now could negatively impact economic growth."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/15/more-democrats-break-with-obama-on-tax-cuts/

I believe the phenomena you are seeing is the breaking of ranks which normally is followed by complete disarray.

Live Free

Obama Misreads Message of `Live Free or Die'

The failure of big government over small government

Moody compared Maine, a state that more than 60 years ago embarked on
one path, with New Hampshire, which went a different route. Like the president,
Moody favors an emphasis on the household pocketbook. He therefore spends time looking at per capita personal income of individuals.

The result? Decade in, decade out, New Hampshire’s economy grew
faster than Maine’s, so that the Granite State surpassed the Pine Tree
State in 1984 and today boasts an output that is 20 percent bigger.
Maine’s recessions and double dips were worse than New Hampshire’s. Eventually
New Hampshire also won the population contest, passing Maine, in part thanks to
migration. Last month, joblessness was 8.1 Percent in Maine, better than Ohio but still bad, and 5.8 percent in New Hampshire.

What about that family pocketbook that the White House
highlights? Bureau of Economic Analysis data show average per capita income for
Maine in 2009 was $36,745, a bit more than Ohio. In New Hampshire that number
was $42,831, eighth highest in the nation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-24/obama-misreads-message-of-live-free-or-die-commentary-by-amity-shlaes.html

Bad news for the Democrats.

Although their numbers have been in the tank for months now, one rationalization used by the Democrats is that the real election season doesn’t begin until after Labor Day when the public really starts to pay attention. It appears this isn’t the case.

Many More Now Following Mosque Controversy – And Don’t Like
It

A lot more voters are paying attention to the plans to build a
mosque near the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City,
and they don’t like the idea.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of
U.S. voters say they are now following news stories about the mosque planned
near Ground Zero. That’s a 34-point jump from a month ago when only 51% said they were following the story.

Another executive order reversed by the judiciary

Judge Forces Obama Admin to Stop Funding Embryonic Stem Cell
ResearchWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A federal judge on Monday issued a
decision forcing the Obama Administration to stop funding embryonic stem cell
research with taxpayer funds. The judge ruled the executive order Obama issued
allowing such funding contravened a federal law prohibiting taxpayer funding of
the destruction of human embryos.

http://lifenews.com/bio3145.html

Obamacare—the lies are being revealed.

Remember Nancy Pelosi’s statement “We need to pass the legislation in order to find out what’s in it.” Well, they passed the legislation and what we are finding is not very pretty.

Perhaps most tellingly, Politico writes that the presentation's "final
page of 'Don'ts' counsels against claiming 'the law will reduce costs and
deficit.'" Instead, the presentation advises, "Keep claims small and
credible"; "don’t overpromise or 'spin' what the law delivers." Thus, the
administration’s central claim from the start – made ad nauseam by everyone from President Obama on down – that Obamacare would somehow reduce health care costs, is apparently just "spin." (This, of course, was
recognized by a great many Americans all along.) And now, a $2.5
trillion law that's longer than War and Peace must, incredibly, be defended
on the basis of claims that are "small and credible."

http://www.theweeklystandard.com/blogs/leaked-white-house-memo-advises-democrats-how-spin-obamacare

The Failure of Liberal Economics

From the liberal declaring the failure of capitalism two years ago, we now are finding the American people are declaring their substitute a failure today.

You would have expected that, and you would have been right—but only
briefly. Since the beginning of 2010, a surprising reversal has occurred. Rather
than supporting and encouraging government intervention to mitigate an economic calamity caused by “profit-oriented thinking,” Americans have come to believe that government has failed to fix the problem and may, in fact, have made it worse. Now it is liberal, not conservative, economic policies that are suddenly in jeopardy. …..

What bothers the public, plain and simple, is that the steps that
were taken to mitigate the recession—which involved greater government
involvement, including ownership of the largest auto and insurance companies,
and vastly more federal spending—have not worked

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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-failure-of-the-liberal-economic-experiment--15500

Individual Freedom

I just came across a study by Mercatus Center of George Mason University, which calls itself the “first-ever comprehensive ranking of the American states on their public policies affecting individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres." This study came out in May 2009.

One of the findings they came to was that the more liberal the state, the less individual freedom in the state. In fact, New York is the least overall free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland.

The freest states in the country are New Hampshire, Colorado, and South Dakota, which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending -- and middling levels of regulation and paternalism.

Colorado was ranked the #2 state. We achieved this ranking through excellent fiscal numbers and above-average numbers on regulation and paternalism. Colorado is the most fiscally decentralized in the country, with local governments raising fully 44.5 percent of all state and local expenditures. By percentage of adjusted GSP, Colorado has the third lowest tax burden in the country, surpassed only by Tennessee and Texas. It has resisted the temptation of “sin taxes,” with low rates on beer, wine, spirits, and cigarettes. If you read these numbers and think that this shows Colorado isn't spending enough on its citizens, you are probably more liberal. If you read this and think TABOR is working exactly like it should you are probably a conservative.

On the other hand, Colorado’s smoking bans are among the most extreme in the country, with no exceptions or local option for any locations other than workplaces.

As for those liberal states the study found, “The problem is that the cultural values of liberal governments seem on balance to require more regulation of individual behavior than do the cultural values of conservative governments,” say the study’s authors. “While liberal states are freer than conservative states on marijuana and same-sex partnership policies, when it comes to gun owners, home schoolers, motorists, or smokers, liberal states are nanny states, while conservative states are more tolerant.”