Two Posts That Sadly Go Together

Jimmy Hoffa at Obama Event

"President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,"

Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year : Michelle Malkin

Whose Economy?

Let's say you wreck your car -drove it into a ditch- and a self-professed mechanic 'friend' of yours says he can fix it if you have it towed over to his house.

Would you wait 2 and half years for him to fix it?
(especially if you found out he was selling parts off it to China!)

You would not.
Our elected officials had better get on the ball and get our car fixed -pronto!

Where Do You Go When It's Over?

Glenn BeckTV
 and CurrentTV
The yin and yang of failed politics.

Should We Mock Liberals?

Power Line - Should We Mock Liberals?:
"We have been having fun at Anthony Weiner's expense like just about everyone else. Fun is, of course, valuable in itself. But Glenn Reynolds reminds us that mockery serves a deeper purpose:

I think there's an important point in the comic value: The people who think they're smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else's lives are risible. They're not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they're actually, overall, morally inferior -- I mean, John Edwards, DSK, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Frank, Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, just go down the list -- and mocking them is inherently valuable. They pursue power, and they exercise power, as much for deference as anything else. Deny them that, and make it painful for them whenever possible. That's my take.

The day when hundreds of millions of Americans are simultaneously laughing at liberals will be the day when liberalism dies."

Is Paul Ryan seriously considering a presidential run?

Is Paul Ryan seriously considering a presidential run? | Michael Barone | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

After the speech and colloquy I handed Ryan a paper copy of Rahe’s post and urged him to read it. He said he would. My guess is that Paul Ryan is giving serious consideration to running for president, and that something like Paul Rahe’s call to duty rather than any crass political calculation is likely to persuade him to do so. I note that over at the Huffington Post Jon Ward seems to be drawing a similar conclusion, citing Ryan’s statement to Fox Business News’s Neil Cavuto that “I want to see how the field develops.”

By the way, how often do House Budget Committee chairmen give speeches about foreign policy?  

Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone

Hard to justify such behaviour:
Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone  

Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.
First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer.
Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling “you want to be fucking paparazzi?”
Then they snatched the cell phone from his hand and slammed it to the ground before stomping on it. Then they placed the smashed phone in the videographer's back pocket as he was laying down on the ground.
And finally, they took him to a mobile command center where they snapped his photo and demanded the phone again, then took him to police headquarters where they conducted a recorded interview with him before releasing him.
But what they didn’t know was that Narces Benoit had removed the SIM card and hid it in his mouth, which means the video survived.

Palin Talks Policy and Politics « FOX News Sunday

Palin Talks Policy and Politics « FOX News Sunday: "And it’s very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.”"

This looks like a gradual getting out of the race

Newt Gingrich off on 2-week vacation 

Good idea.

Short Memories And The Constitution

You know it was not so long ago that some Republicans--REPUBLICANS--were pushing for an Amendment to the Constitution to allow a person NOT born in the USA to be allowed to run for President.

That person?
Arnold Schwarzenegger

(see more here )

This is what Democracy looks like:

Now some would say that these are the very fellows who propagated slavery.
They would be wrong.
These gentlemen introduced a form of democracy that would disallow slavery.

History speaks for itself.






Some would say this is what Democracy looks like:

They would be wrong.
While this may be an aspect of what is allowed in a democracy, this actually represents a form that also has historical expressions.
(formerly on display in the fallen Soviet Union)







On display are two competing narratives and social theories:
The first, by operating on its established principles, provided for the freedom of all men.
The second, operating on its principles, disallowed for the free elections by the people.

One ensures freedom for all, the other demands its own terms -regardless of elections.

Which one 'looks like' Democracy to you?

Just a reminder: Love won.

He is not here. He is risen.

He needed a poem

He told me your eyes were warm
  and carried the love of generations.
Eyes, that if one had a suitable ship
  he could sail for a lifetime.
The embrace of your love, he says,
  stokes a fire in his very soul
  and lights his night with joy.

Mubark makes an appearance on SNL

Jennifer Rubin weighs in on the 'New Black Panther Party' case:

New Black Panther Party case: The facts are in:

"1) the New Black Panther Party case brought by career Justice Department employees was meritorious on the law and the facts; 2) there is voluminous evidence of the Obama administration's political interference in the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party case; 3) there is ample evidence that the Obama administration directed Justice Department employees not to bring cases against minority defendants who violated voting rights laws or to enforce a provision requiring that states and localities clean up their voting rolls to prevent fraud; 4) the Justice Department stonewalled efforts to investigate the case; and 5) vice chairman Abigail Thernstrom has, for reasons not entirely clear, ignored the evidence and tried to undermine the commission's work."

Waivers for Favors: Big Labor's Obamacare Escape Hatch

Waivers for Favors: Big Labor's Obamacare Escape Hatch - Michelle Malkin :

"President Obama's storytellers recently launched a White House blog series called 'Voices of Health Reform,' where 'readers can meet average Americans already benefiting from the health reform law.'

I propose a new White House series: 'Voices of Health Reform Waivers,' where taxpayers can meet all the politically connected unions benefiting from exclusive get-out-of-Obamacare passes"

Fatal shooting of missionary

Spouse: 3 trucks worked together in fatal shooting of missionary - CNN.com:

"While noting they have not established a motive in this shooting, police pointed to past reports of 'criminal organizations operating on Mexican roads ... targeting 4-door pickup trucks and ... SUVs.'"

Compare and Contrast

Is Charlie Crist a potential VP Pick…for Obama? | The Shark Tank

Out of the pan and into the fire.
(story here)

Gotta love it!

House to vote early on health care repeal - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com:

"Incoming House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton says the new Republican-controlled House will look to repeal Democratic health care overhaul legislation before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month.

'We have 242 Republicans,' Upton said on 'Fox News Sunday.' 'There will be a significant number of Democrats, I think, that will join us.'

Upton, whose committee will key in the GOP's effort to roll back the law, said that he believes the House may be near the two-thirds majority required to override a presidential veto. Short of repeal, Upton said the House will 'go after this bill piece by piece.'"

Michael Silence: Online backlash might be near » Knoxville News Sentinel

Michael Silence:

Facebook is all the rage. Collectively, it all gets in your face. The noise is so constant it has created five-second attention spans. If you don't get them in five seconds, they're gone.
In 20th century parlance, there are enough terms, applications and platforms out there to choke a horse.
That's why 2011 could very well be the year of simplicity for social media. Perhaps it will be the year people turn off the noise.

(h/t Instapundit)

CrackBerry Congress

CrackBerry Congress
Ruth Marcus seems to believe that John Boehner has done something horrible.
While President Obama insisting on a Blackberry and John Kerry using his in the Senate don't give her any pause or indigestion at all.

Ruth confesses to using the Blackberry herself during meetings:
"I have been known to sneak a peek, or 10, at my BlackBerry during meetings."
Her lecturing is none to impressive, therefore.

One wishes these liberals would try to practice being less patronizing, but one should not hold one's breath.

The Nanny In Chief

Tropical Storm 'HERMINE'

Let me start by saying this is one of the worst names for a hurricane ever.
Secondly, I hope it stays well West of Houston.
Looks like we will get some rain from it, though.

This one kinda snuck up on me.

In the dark my conscience stung

In the dark my conscience stung

reminded of a song I'd sung

Delivered, strengthened, and sent

to leap a wall -and a bow of bronze I bent.

Overcame a troop single-handed

about the armies I'd once commanded.

I longed for the field again

longed to overcome the sin
that kept me here

with Bathsheba.

Tough Love

I nailed His hands to the wood
I dropped the cross into its hole
And three days later Christ arose
and in love embraced my soul.

Sarah Palin and William Shatner in a 'Read-Off' Great TV

The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah by Jack Cashill, American Thinker

American Thinker: The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah

In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.

At that same time, in America's other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him.

At the time, not even Nostradamus could have foretold that the paths of Barry and Sarah would intersect in the "historic" 2008 election, Barry as the first major party presidential nominee of African descent and Sarah as the first woman with a real shot at the vice-presidency.

Each would change names before reaching the national stage. Barry Obama would become Barry Soetero, and then Barack Obama. Sarah Heath would become Sarah Palin after eloping with the formidable Todd Palin. Obama would chronicle his journey in the 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father and the 2006 sequel, The Audacity of Hope. Palin would chronicle hers in the 2009 memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life.

How the literary/media establishment would respond to the respective memoirs of these two political figures would reveal far less about the authenticity, honesty, and literary quality of the tales the authors told than it would about the collective mindset of that establishment.

From a classical perspective, Palin's is the more compelling narrative. The obstacles that she must overcome to fulfill her destiny are many, varied, and real. Raised in the frozen outback by a schoolteacher father and a school secretary mom, Palin accomplishes nothing without a good deal of work, often under difficult physical circumstances.

Palin takes a semester or two off to pay for college. She works at a diner over the summer. She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition and is awarded second runner-up and "Miss Congeniality." She interns during other summers to become a sports reporter.

After college, Palin joins fiancé Todd on his Bristol Bay salmon boat. During slow salmon runs, she works "messy, obscure seafood jobs" until she can find a job as sports reporter, and even then she keeps returning to Bristol Bay when the salmon are in season.

Throughout this period, despite the hard work and harsh environment, Palin never loses her sense of wonder about the spectacular natural theater in which she is so very much at home. When asked about the state's best attributes during a Miss Alaska pageant, Palin responds, "its beauty and everything that the great Alaska outdoors has to offer." Prophetically, she also plugs the state's "potential in drilling for oil," which, even then, "Outsiders don't understand."

Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents' connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii's poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother's race."

In his recent book Barack and Michelle, Christopher Andersen quotes a black friend who rejected Obama's claimed reason for being benched in a particular game.

No, Barry, it's not because you're black. It's because you missed two shots in a row.

Obama admits to "marginal report cards" in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the "diversity" movement in full flower. Diversity's rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama's upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn't care less. His skin color improves their "metrics." Obama will ride this pony far.

After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League -- Columbia, to be precise. In Dreams, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea's nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.

After several years as a low-paid community organizer in Chicago, Obama decides to return to law school. Despite a lack of resources and a mediocre performance at Columbia -- he does not graduate with honors -- Obama limits his choices to "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." He had absorbed the diversity zeitgeist deeply enough to see success as an entitlement.

In the spring of 1989, during Obama's first year at Harvard Law, Palin's "life truly began" with the birth of her oldest son, Track. That summer, with Todd working a blue-collar job on the North Slope oil fields, Palin, her father, and their Eskimo partner work Todd's commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay. Palin's mother, meanwhile, baby-sits the ten-week-old Track.

In 1992, while an anxious Obama dithers in an office that the University of Chicago has given him to write Dreams, half of his $150,000 advance already cashed, Palin is pulling her babies, Track and Bristol, along on a sled as she goes door-to-door seeking votes in her run for Wasilla city council.

Not yet thirty, Palin settles upon the philosophy that will guide her political career: reducing taxes "and redefining government's proper role." Like few Republicans this side of Ronald Reagan, Palin will adhere to these principles throughout her political ascent.

Not surprisingly, Palin's tenacity makes enemies among those who have cashed in their Republican heritage for the perks and power of office. Palin's perseverance in the face of this resistance makes for compelling political drama. That she is a woman challenging the good old boys of backroom Alaska heightens that drama.

Yet despite pushing the boundaries of female accomplishment throughout her career -- as sports reporter, as commercial fisherman, as councilwoman, as mayor, as oil and gas commissioner, as governor, as vice-presidential candidate -- Palin never loses her sense of the feminine. Having five children surely helps. So does living in an environment where manly virtues still matter.

An exchange with the larger-than-life Todd helps clarify Alaskan reality. Todd is a four-time winner of the Iron Dog competition, a 2,200 mile snowmobiling marathon. One night, Sarah expresses interest in competing. Says Todd:

Can you get the back end of a six-hundred-pound machine unstuck by yourself with open water up to your thighs, then change out an engine at forty below in the pitch black on a frozen river and replace thrashed shocks and jury rig a suspension using tree limbs along the trail?

When Sarah answers "Nope," Todd replies, "Then go back to sleep, Sarah." Todd lives his Eskimo heritage. He does not just dream about it, let alone exploit it.

While Palin is slugging through Alaska's political morass like a determined Iditarod musher, Obama is cruising through Illinois politics on skids greased by his Chicago cronies. In his 2004 run for U.S. Senate, both his chief primary opponent and his expected general election opponent are undone by damaging personal information leaked to the media. Obama wins both elections easily.

The combination of his black genes and white upbringing makes the famously "articulate and bright and clean" Obama an irresistible choice to keynote the race-conscious 2004 Democratic convention. "I mean, that's a storybook, man," alleges the inimitable Joe Biden.

The story told in Dreams will become a huge bestseller in the wake of the 2004 convention. The lofty, lyrical style of the book will seal the Ivy-educated Obama's reputation as a genius, and its much-celebrated narrative would serve as a foundational myth for Obama's ascent to the White House.

Said NEA chairman Rocco Landesman just last month, reiterating the accepted wisdom of the chattering classes, "This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln."

The establishment will not be so kind to Palin. In the week of Going Rogue's release, the New York Times house conservative David Brooks will call her "a joke." Dick Cavett, the Norma Desmond of TV talk, will dismiss her as a "know-nothing." Ex-con Dem fundraiser Martha Stewart will brand Palin "a dangerous person." And literally thousands of lesser liberal lights will deride her as "stupid," an "idiot," or a "moron" (8.5 million Google hits and counting for "Palin" "moron").

In that same week, Chris Matthews was worrying out loud that Obama was "too darned intellectual," and author Michael Eric Dyson was celebrating Obama's "sexy brilliance." But while the Associated Press was sending a platoon of reporters to fact-check Palin's book, neither the AP nor any other media outlet dared check either Dreams or Audacity of Hope.

They likely feared what they would find -- namely that Obama's genius depends solely on his willingness to lie about it. "I've written two books," Obama told a crowd of teachers in Virginia last year. "I actually wrote them myself." He did no such thing. He had massive help with both books.

Although the prose of Dreams is often lyrical, it is not Obama's. As I have argued in these pages, and as Christopher Andersen has confirmed, Obama's gifted friend Bill Ayers gussied up the rough outlines of Obama's life and imposed upon them the mythic dimensions of Homer's Odyssey. To accomplish this, the authors invented any number of incidents, many of which are easily disproved. For a serious seeker of facts, Dreams is Sutter Creek in 1848.

In Going Rogue, by contrast, Palin does not shy from crediting Lynn Vincent for "her indispensable help in getting the words on paper." And yet the story is told honestly and sincerely in Palin's voice. There is no artifice, no postmodern mumbo-jumbo, and not a sentence in the book that Palin could not have written herself. My personal favorite, "I love meat." I suspect that, unaided, journalism major and former reporter Palin is a better writer than Obama.

Left to their own devices, Palin is clearly the better speaker. In Going Rogue's climactic moment, the unknown Palin serves up the most dazzling convention speech in modern political history, and she does so in spite of a malfunctioning teleprompter. "I knew the speech well enough that I didn't need it," writes Palin.

Had Obama's teleprompter malfunctioned at the 2004 convention, he would not be president. He has always depended on the eloquence of others. So thoroughly hooked on the teleprompter is Obama that the irrepressible Biden jokes about it. "What am I going to tell the president?" Biden asked the crowd at the Air Force Academy after a teleprompter blew over. "Tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?"

In the final analysis, Going Rogue is a better book than Dreams. No Republican has ever held Palin up as a genius, literary or otherwise, but her narrative is as shrewd, sensitive, and straightforward as its author.

Dreams, on the other hand, is merely a well-crafted fraud.

Manhattan Declaration

Authors: Chuck Colson, Robert P. George, Timothy George

The Executive Summary:
(click link above to read it in its entirety)

Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are (1) the sanctity of human life, (2) the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and (3) the rights of conscience and religious liberty. Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable. Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Human Life

The lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are ever more threatened. While public opinion has moved in a pro-life direction, powerful and determined forces are working to expand abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Although the protection of the weak and vulnerable is the first obligation of government, the power of government is today often enlisted in the cause of promoting what Pope John Paul II called "the culture of death." We pledge to work unceasingly for the equal protection of every innocent human being at every stage of development and in every condition. We will refuse to permit ourselves or our institutions to be implicated in the taking of human life and we will support in every possible way those who, in conscience, take the same stand.

Marriage

The institution of marriage, already wounded by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is at risk of being redefined and thus subverted. Marriage is the original and most important institution for sustaining the health, education, and welfare of all. Where marriage erodes, social pathologies rise. The impulse to redefine marriage is a symptom, rather than the cause, of the erosion of the marriage culture. It reflects a loss of understanding of the meaning of marriage as embodied in our civil law as well as our religious traditions. Yet it is critical that the impulse be resisted, for yielding to it would mean abandoning the possibility of restoring a sound understanding of marriage and, with it, the hope of rebuilding a healthy marriage culture. It would lock into place the false and destructive belief that marriage is all about romance and other adult satisfactions, and not, in any intrinsic way, about the unique character and value of acts and relationships whose meaning is shaped by their aptness for the generation, promotion and protection of life. Marriage is not a "social construction," but is rather an objective reality - the covenantal union of husband and wife - that it is the duty of the law to recognize, honor, and protect.

Religious Liberty

Freedom of religion and the rights of conscience are gravely jeopardized. The threat to these fundamental principles of justice is evident in efforts to weaken or eliminate conscience protections for healthcare institutions and professionals, and in anti-discrimination statutes that are used as weapons to force religious institutions, charities, businesses, and service providers either to accept (and even facilitate) activities and relationships they judge to be immoral, or go out of business. Attacks on religious liberty are dire threats not only to individuals, but also to the institutions of civil society including families, charities, and religious communities. The health and well-being of such institutions provide an indispensable buffer against the overweening power of government and is essential to the flourishing of every other institution - including government itself - on which society depends.

Unjust Laws

As Christians, we believe in law and we respect the authority of earthly rulers. We count it as a special privilege to live in a democratic society where the moral claims of the law on us are even stronger in virtue of the rights of all citizens to participate in the political process. Yet even in a democratic regime, laws can be unjust. And from the beginning, our faith has taught that civil disobedience is required in the face of gravely unjust laws or laws that purport to require us to do what is unjust or otherwise immoral. Such laws lack the power to bind in conscience because they can claim no authority beyond that of sheer human will.

Therefore, let it be known that we will not comply with any edict that compels us or the institutions we lead to participate in or facilitate abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, euthanasia, or any other act that violates the principle of the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family.

Further, let it be known that we will not bend to any rule forcing us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality, marriage, and the family.

Further, let it be known that we will not be intimidated into silence or acquiescence or the violation of our consciences by any power on earth, be it cultural or political, regardless of the consequences to ourselves.

We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's.

Oliver Stone says Hugo Chavez is not a dictator he's a movie star

Oliver Stone's Hugo Chavez Film Makes Venice Premiere

who am I to disagree?

Just to keep Flu Deaths in perspective:

Regular flu has killed thousands since January - CNN.com:
"... even if there are swine-flu deaths outside Mexico -- and medical experts say there very well may be -- the virus would have a long way to go to match the roughly 36,000 deaths that seasonal influenza causes in the United States each year."

Benedict Arlen, buhh, bye!

Just like Benedict Arnold, Arlen Specter today showed his true colors.

Choosing to elevate himself above his country or constituents he joined the side he thought would allow him to win acclaim (and, of course, the next election).

Shame on you sir, and good riddance!

Napolitano says those from Canada still suspect

Reuters AlertNet - US says not testing travelers from Mexico for flu

obviously no one coming from Mexico poses any danger to us...

As Good An Argument As You Will Ever Need Against Mass Transit

A new flu that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico could start a global epidemic, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, as tests showed the strain might be spreading in the United States.

Making Progress in the Global Warming Debate!

Only 34% Now Blame Humans for Global Warming

Minnesota's Missing Votes - WSJ.com

Minnesota's Missing Votes - WSJ.com: "Some Senate absentee ballots are more equal than others."

You may not be aware of this, but Coleman's appeal is based on the fact that Minnesota changes the rules about which votes should count.

Remember Florida 2000.

The Florida Supreme Court also allowed different counties to use differing standards as to what constituted a 'vote'.

THIS is what the U.S. Supreme Court found objectionable. All votes must be accorded the same standard.

Minnesota is attempting to pull the same shenanigans (and thus far, has).

Coleman should pursue this to the end -the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Coleman is not being a sore loser he is looking for equal treatment -equal protection for those who voted for him as well as those who voted for Franken.

So far this has not been the case.

People Who Believe The Constitution Are Now Terrorist Suspects

The Obama administration is loathe to use the word 'terrorist' to describe radical muslims who want to kill us, but seems quite comfortable with labeling America's own citizens as potential terrorist threats.

The report defines what such a group may look like

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

After releasing the DHS Report warning, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro was asked to comment on it:

he said,

"The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins."

(emphasis mine)

How dare they!?

Folks this may just be an attempt to frighten 'moderates' from joining the ranks of conservatives for fear of being called a terrorist (moderates hate labels), but in any case it is cause for concern if not alarm.

Do Christians Have a Place in Politics?

This article, and mainly the first sentence (see below) raises that question.

I am curious as to what people think about this -particularly Christians.

Christians at the Gate - Townhall.com:
"Is the Christian right finished as a political entity? Or, more to the point, are principled Christians finished with politics?"

World's Smartest, uh, man

Remind you of anybody?

Obama threatens CEOs

"Be careful gentlemen. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."

I hope you're paying attention.

Take this Poll at USA Today

Click link. Vote 'yes/no/undecided'
Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?

The Lie of US Guns in Mexico

Sad Times We Live In

Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds

Will They Ever Learn?

Wave the White Flag in the Limbaugh War

Reparations To Be Considered

Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, introduced a bill to "Form a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans"

The Bill: HR 20 IH; is here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.40.IH:

Pay attention folks.


h/t to Michael Ledeen - The Corner on National Review Online

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures » The Foundry

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures » The Foundry

"DANGER Will Robinson!"

Dang it

RON SILVER DIES

Kathleen Parker Trys to Defend 'The Press'

Sounding like an abused girlfriend trying to defend her abusive beau Kathleen Parker
tries to defend those who mount a constant barrage against the very group -Conservatives of whom Kathleen purports to be a member.

For some time now Ms. Parker has been trying to explain to us all how loving and caring 'The Press' is when it's not drunk on power.

Unfortunately for her (and us) we've been there to see the abuse and most of us have seen fit to move on.

She seems surprised and disappointed that we who have been abused by 'The Press' would defend ourselves against it even to the point of fighting back.

Kath, if 'The Press' dies it will be because it brought that fate upon itself and we will not mourn.

The Problem

Good News: Banks start giving money back

Banks start giving back: "Apparently, the restrictions that Congress is putting on bailout monies is pushing a number of institutions to give the money back."

We're Setting Up For A Big Fight On The Right!

Michael Steele: Abortion an 'individual choice'

Must See Shot (twice!)

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Can You Spot 'Mini-Me'?

Some Good News for Today

South Carolina's Sanford to become first governor to reject funds

Laugh of the Day!

Sen. Specter says he's trying to lead the Republican Party

Warren Buffett to CNBC: Economy Has "Fallen Off a Cliff" - Warren Buffett Watch - CNBC.com

Warren Buffett to CNBC: Economy Has "Fallen Off a Cliff" - Warren Buffett Watch
- CNBC.com

Hmmm, this reminds me of something....