Saturday, June 19, 2010

In opposing the West, its leaders think they are joining the winning side

ANDREW C. McCARTHY: Turkey Turns – National Review « Snow Report Blog

Grass roots militia working in Afghanistan

PrairiePundit: Grass roots militia working in Afghanistan

Honestly, I never thought I would be this embarrassed by an American President.

Power Line - More Profligate than the Europeans

Obama administration speaks with forked tongue

Power Line - Obama administration speaks with forked tongue

Jewish, Muslim Tensions Rise at UC Irvine After Suspension of Muslim Group

FOXNews.com - Jewish, Muslim Tensions Rise at UC Irvine After Suspension of Muslim Group
"We…are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis," the letter read, citing incidents over the past few years that included "the painting of swastikas in university buildings and the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika."

BP disaster started in February?

Hot Air » BP disaster started in February?
Until this week, the general impression of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf has been that the explosion took everyone by surprise, and that neither BP nor a dysfunctional MMS had any idea that the well had reached a critical stage. Two days ago, however, Bloomberg reported that both BP and MMS were well aware of the high risk of a blowout at that particular well. BP and its subcontractor Transocean had in fact been fighting against a blowout for over two months, and MMS was well aware of the situation:

An Oil Spill Is Not a License to Suspend the Rule of Law

American Thinker: An Oil Spill Is Not a License to Suspend the Rule of Law
With pictures of oil drenched birds, blackened beaches and marshlands invaded with oil streaming across our televisions every day, it is easy to become angry and demand retribution from the cause of the disaster. Unfortunately it is also easy for unscrupulous politicians to take that anger and turn it to their political advantage. History is replete with incidents of real popular anger leading to monstrous outcomes of tyranny. On Thursday, June 17th the USA wrote a new anecdote in that awful book.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Are Liberals Breaking Up with Obama?

American Thinker: Are Liberals Breaking Up with Obama?
President Obama still has a couple of years to go in his term. Liberals may not be breaking up with him yet. They may require more epiphanies still. But once the spell cast by identity and charisma begins to fade, it's a sure bet that the gut-wrenching, self-examining morning after is well on its way.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Noose Around Israel’s Neck

The Noose Around Israel’s Neck
Israel is being hanged on a public gallows erected on the grounds of the United Nations with yards of rope gleefully supplied by the Muslim world. But the hangmen are mostly Westerners who still think that the Muslim lynch mob at their doorstep can be pacified with the death of a single victim.

Dems aim for lame duck passage of energy bill

PrairiePundit: Dems aim for lame duck passage of energy bill
It looks like they are going to do it again. The GOP should make this an issue in the November election and make the Democrats take a position before the election. If this strategy is true, it appears the Democrats are writing off 2012 too.

Will we ration health care with our eyes open? | NetRight Daily

Donald Berwick: Will we ration health care with our eyes open? | NetRight Daily
With each passing day, we learn new information about what was inside of the ObamaCare legislation. Many of the concerns that Tea Partiers raised about the legislation, that were dismissed as myths by the Obama administration have proven to be facts. Most notable among these is the Obama denial that the new law would result in Health Care rationing.

Obey stalls Afghan war funding to get public sector union bailouts | NetRight Daily

Obey stalls Afghan war funding to get public sector union bailouts | NetRight Daily
In the end, Obey will move the Afghanistan war spending measure to passage, but do not forget the lesson from this exercise. Obey and his Democrat cohorts would rather put soldiers lives at risk on the battlefield than payoff public sector unions.

The Bully's Pulpit

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: The Bully's Pulpit
Since when is a President's wish our command? Under what legal authority did the "rule of law" President make the decision as to how much a private entity would pay and then "inform" the private party that it must obey or face the harsh retribution of the federal government?

End the Drug War - HUMAN EVENTS

End the Drug War - HUMAN EVENTS
Economist Ludwig von Mises wrote: "(O)nce the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness ... (w)hy not prevent him from reading bad books and bad plays ... ? The mischief done by bad ideologies is more pernicious ... than that done by narcotic drugs."

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Soft Treason Of Civility

Tea Party News: The Soft Treason Of Civility
While I am not a favorite of the heckling and haranguing of public figures and believe that any discourse with them should be engaged in with civility and intelligence, when those attempts have been stonewalled, rebuffed, denied, or met with violence as with Congressman Etheridge, other means should be taken to make sure that the voices of constituents be heard.



Monday, June 14, 2010

Congress mulls bill to revise 14th Amendment birthright citizenship | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Congress mulls bill to revise 14th Amendment birthright citizenship | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Time to Stop Funding Luxuries, Like Public Broadcasting | NetRight Daily

Time to Stop Funding Luxuries, Like Public Broadcasting | NetRight Daily
Most likely you will be appalled. As American families have to adjust their spending budgets due to the depressed economy, the federal government continues to plunge the nation into unprecedented debt levels. The only way out of this mess is for the government to start cutting non-essential programs.

There is something profoundly bass ackwards in the way Obama is reacting to the disaster in the Gulf.

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Claims Adjuster In Chief
There will be time to hold BP to account; what we have needed and still need is action, someone in charge who can do more than point fingers and wag his tongue.

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.

Liberal Financial Idiocy » Blogs For Victory

Liberal Financial Idiocy » Blogs For Victory
For you liberals out there, I’ll explain: money has to be paid by government to the pension fund for the vastly over-compensated, Democrat-controlled, unionized government employees. The government doesn’t have the money to pay because its all been spent on lavish government salaries and wasteful government programs. Government solution: the government will borrow money from the pension in order to pay the pension.

Abolish the Department of Education? » Blogs For Victory

Abolish the Department of Education? » Blogs For Victory
What, indeed. Pretty much nothing – and if you could sift through the whole thing and find a few worthwhile things, they could better be handled as block grants to States or as part of some other department of government. We don’t need the Department, itself. At any event, the whole thing was just a Carter Administration boondoggle – a payoff to teachers union bosses.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Public employee unions on the defensive

Public employee unions on the defensive

At some point, however, voters turn resentful as they sense that:

-- They are underwriting, through their taxes, a level of salary and benefits for government employment that is better than what they and their families have.

-- Government services, from schools to the Department of Motor Vehicles, are not good enough - not for the citizen individually nor the public generally - to justify the high and escalating cost.

Saudis act aggressively to denounce terrorism

David Ignatius - Saudis act aggressively to denounce terrorism
The Saudi fatwa is a tough condemnation of terror and of the underground network that finances it. It has impressed senior U.S. military commanders and intelligence officers, who were surprised when it came out. One sent me a translation of the fatwa, and Saudi officials provided some helpful background.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes - IBD - Investors.com

Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes - IBD - Investors.com
Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.

ACORN employees tell FBI of deliberate election fraud, according to new documents « » Print The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

ACORN employees tell FBI of deliberate election fraud, according to new documents « » Print The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Flotilla sickness and the ‘progressive’ mind

Melanie Phillips’s Articles » Flotilla sickness and the ‘progressive’ mind

Karzai Doesn't Think US Can Win - Afghan leader doubts West will defeat the Taliban

Karzai Doesn't Think US Can Win - Afghan leader doubts West will defeat the Taliban

A Witness for America - Whitaker Chambers

How I Became a Conservative

American Thinker: How I Became a Conservative
By the end of the meeting, it was clear what was really happening. This was a head-to-head confrontation between liberal and conservative values. In my newfound home in the conservative camp, I was not offended by the liberal arguments -- that felt a little too like something a liberal might feel. I was just disgusted.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Kick Turkey Out of NATO » Blogs For Victory

Kick Turkey Out of NATO » Blogs For Victory
The image has been false for about a decade now – and should have been abundantly clear when Turkey, our alleged NATO ally, refused permission for a US division to transit Turkey to Iraq in 2003. The plain fact of the matter is that Turkey is turning its face firmly from the West and increasingly embracing the worst aspects of Islamo-fascism. It is time to live in reality and understand that Turkey is no friend of the United States.

Mosque and State: The Greater Implications of the 9/11 Islamic Center - Big Government

» Mosque and State: The Greater Implications of the 9/11 Islamic Center - Big Government
The 9/11 mosque however has far greater implications with regard to the fundamental principles of our nation. As reflected by the guffaws of many in the crowd when one of the speakers at the rally argued in favor of the mosque on Constitutional grounds regardless of the abhorrence of its location, many find it hard to reconcile that Islam is allowed to use our freedoms to subvert or mock our freedoms. The religious tolerance of our culture alone deems us largely unable to prevent against mosques in which Islamic supremacism is preached, creating fertile protected grounds for jihadists both peaceful and violent.

U.S. Will be Like Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts

CNSNews.com - U.S. Will be Likehttp Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts
“If we continue to spend much more than we take in," he says. "We'll double our debt in five years and triple it in 10 years and essentially be where Greece is in about seven years,” Gregg told the Fox Business Network in May.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Realizing the True Cost of Obamacare | The Weekly Standard

Realizing the True Cost of Obamacare | The Weekly Standard
In this case, the relied-upon study was completed by Dartmouth researchers, who were thrust into the national limelight by an administration searching to find an angle, any angle, to try to sell its unpopular overhaul. As the Times writes, “The debate about the Dartmouth work is important because a growing number of health policy researchers are finding that overhauling the nation’s health care system will be far harder and more painful than the Dartmouth work has long suggested. Cuts, if not made carefully, could cost lives.”

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

AG Holder Wants to Shut Doctors Up | Verum Serum

AG Holder Wants to Shut Doctors Up | Verum Serum

In other words, shut the hell up, he explained. While this only applies to the defendants, the lesson should be plain to doctors everywhere. Complain about government rates and the full force of US law will be brought against you to shut you up.

How are you doctors liking ObamaCare so far?

In a welfare state, how much is 'enough'?

The Written Word: In a welfare state, how much is 'enough'?
Governments do not generate wealth; they can merely distribute it. The challenge for both liberals and conservatives is simply to define how much distribution is "enough." What would an acceptable safety net look like? Who should be taken care of by taxpayers and for how long? Paul Ryan offered an answer to that question, and liberals scoffed because they reject the question. There's no such thing as enough. That's what the Greeks thought.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Two Americas

Power Line - Two Americas
This is the central economic conflict of our time, between lavishly compensated and ever more gluttonous government employees, and wealth-creating private citizens who are increasingly unable to support their public-sector masters in the style to which they have become accustomed.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009 | Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009 | Judicial Watch