The "one" worshipped...

* The continuing saga of a pseudo-Religious Political messiah. While President Obama may never take dictatorial power, I believe that he is proof that an enigmatic person can do so... and yes, even in the United States. With followers like these kids and their parents... a person could do almost anything.

Amazing similarity to this video.... (Thanks to lewrockwell.com for both vids)

* The Obama administration is "lawless".
* "It's only a matter of time before President Barack Obama's vast popularity runs aground on his energy policies." From the good folks at Reason.com.
* The Obama administration says that deficit spending is bad! But they keep on doing it...
* More proof for the liberals that Obama and Bush are one in the same.
* More Americans are "pro-life" than "pro-choice". While the news is heartening, it makes little difference to the millions of babies being slaughtered in our supposedly "free", "fair", and "just" society.
* Maria Bartoromo speaking truth to power at CNBC.
* Why Republicans are just moderate socialists.
* Keith Olbermann on winning friends and influencing people.
* Arnold and the economic destruction that moderate/liberal Republicans cause.
* Pastor Steven Anderson was recently brutalized by "our" police. Read the story here, and see the video that Pastor Anderson recorded here. There is a place to donate to Pastor Anderson's defense fund here, and hopefully soon there will be a civil suit filed as well.

Sell Public Property!

* California should have done this a long time ago. Which leads me to say this; more state governments should consider selling public property to raise money. Airports, highways, and yes, even prisons.... private companies can run these better, cheaper, and more efficiently. The cherry on top? It would save the public billions of dollars in taxes.
* The fine print of the stimulus spending for states? Don't cut spending or we won't help...instead, raise taxes!
* President Obama is being hypocritical...again.
* Why do liberals hate women?
* Hypocrisy of hate speech.
* British Christians who oppose gay adoption are now officially "retarded homophobes".
* Read this quick review of a new site that focuses on liberty. Here it is; Let a thousand nations bloom.
* Sub-Saharan Africa's problem? Bad government.
* Torture.
Al Gore's Green 1984.

* The Barack Obama celebrity roast.

Rockefeller Republicans on the outs...

Too good not to post. Jonah Goldberg build his perfect candidate... and it's me! He doesn't know it's me, but it is. Hmmm... maybe I should give him a call and see if he can get my political career kick started?
* An autopsy of liberal republicans. Interesting idea for an article. The problem is that the article makes a couple of odd mistakes. First of all Rockefeller Republicans would look much more conservative today than moderate/liberal Republicans like Specter, Snowe, and Collins. A second issues is that the writer claims Specter is "fiscally conservative and socially liberal". Specter is a social liberal to be sure...but he is also a fiscal liberal (as is Snowe and Collins), as evidenced by his vote on the bailout legislation. This "Gang of 3", have got to face facts... they are Democrats. They are social liberals which is contrary to the Republican Party platform and base. Most importantly where they are supposed to be conservative (on fiscal issues) they are not. They are fiscal moderates. Maybe they could fit into the Democrats Blue Dog caucus... but they are hardly Republicans.
* Dick Cheney speaks common sense.
* Britain's politicians are really dirty. I mean REALLY. And now they are raising taxes again...I guess those British MP's have more bills to pay.
* Nancy Pelosi is a BIG, FAT LIAR. And she might very well be in a spot of trouble.
* President Obama tells journalists explicitly that they should stress the fact that his proposed budget cuts (what cuts?) are "significant" when writing their reports. More Democrat hypocrisy on display.
* Howard Dean (ex-Chair of the Democrat National Committee) says that we have "had quite enough of capitalism..." Yikes.

* President Obama's economic ideas are really bad. So are his policies on healthcare.
* Thomas Sowell on the kind of judge President Obama wants to appoint.
* How emotions will save our economy.

Dirty Dems at it again!

* Murtha's still a fat, DIRTY pig. An no, I am not being over dramatic, this tool cannot help himself. Here's more.
* Charlie Rangel another fat, DIRTY pig, has some HUGE cojones.
* Here are the top 10 reasons why Obamanomics won't work.
* President Obama versus the DC school voucher program.
* The case against possible SCOTUS pick Sotomayor.
* Criticism of the one is strictly verboten.
* The anti-free speech police in the U.K. run rampant! Micheal Savage barred from Britain...it's amazing how quickly free-speech can be rescinded.
* The truth about the New Deal.
* And you thought it was over. House Democrats want 94.2$ Billion more. No kidding.
* Does anyone else wish that David Brooks would just shut up? Ah yes... the indomitable Robert Stacy McCain does too!

It's all about the Worldview.

Not that this will surprise anyone who has ever read my blog but... I believe the main stream media (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, major newspapers and news magazines, etc.) is in the tank for Obama. For whatever reason I think that the field of "journalism" lends itself to progressive political beliefs and I think that being in the New York-DC-Los Angeles bubble further insulates media personalities from views contrary to liberalism and keeps them from realizing that their personal opinions just might be wrong. Last week, the Center for Media and Public Affairs released a study that claimed the national media treated President Obama better in his first 50 days than it had President Bush and Bill Clinton combined during their same 50-day period of their presidencies. This study was poo-pooed by some however, as being biased. But just today the Pew Research Council has released a study that will not be so easily ignored. In their study Pew shows that President Obama has received twice the amount of positive coverage as President Bush in his first 100 days, and 50% more than President Clinton.
My personal opinion is this: most of our journalists today have been educated by educators who have forgotten that they are to educate...not indoctrinate. They receive "the right" education from "the right" school, then they enter a profession dreaming of Woodward and Bernstein but deciding to never besmirch their ideology. Their worldview (which was molded upon them by their education) is so ingrained in them that the slightest word against their "truth" is heresy. So while searching for their "Watergate" they can only study one side of the fence. On the "safe" side lay the Democrat Party and President Obama. On the side under intense scrutiny lay the Republican Party, conservatives, and anyone else who has the audacity to stand against "progressivism". (For example: just yesterday on "the Chris Matthews Show" on NBC, Matthews was speaking to Joe Klein of Time about Senator Arlen Specter when he said this; "But he(Specter) is good on healthcare!" By being "good" on healthcare Matthews was saying that since Specter is for socialized medicine he is on the right side. That's not journalism...that's op/ed.)
I don't think that journalists today purposefully miss stories that would paint Democrats as bad... I just think that when they see them, their first thought is "Can't be true". I truly believe that most journalists today are so driven by their worldview it as though they were wearing blinders to any reality that might change their thought process.
* Some more examples of the most important stories you haven't learned about our President, thanks to a deity-complex addled media.
* Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post sees a double standard.
* Is the media going to continue giving the Obama administration passes for continuing "bad" Bush policies?
* Nancy Pelosi is blocking investigations into corrupt Democrats. Have you seen it in the main stream news??
(Here's a little video to give you a visual of the problem...stand for Obama, sit for Bush)


* Robert Stacy McCain with a most insightful piece on "what the Republican Party needs..."
* Why liberalism and the courts don't mix.
* We just can't afford government-run business. They have tried before...and failed.
* Hate crime and punishment...just a ruse for more government power.
* Yet another example of government power run amok... a councilman gets arrested for opposing red light cameras.
* FDR's Social Security paradox.
* How a conservative beat Canada's censors.
* A grandmother was arrested for child porn...what does this have to do with you? A whole lot.

** Jonah Goldberg gave a great to salute to the passing of a wonderful man...who happened to be a fairly devout conservative. Mr. Jack Kemp.
"It seems to me that if the GOP needs a makeover, it could do a lot worse than embracing Kempism: A happy warrior love affair with ideas first and tactics second. Good ideas will find their tacticians. Tacticians cannot be relied upon to come up with good ideas."

Good riddance Justice Souter!

Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring handing President Obama his first Supreme Court appointee. With the Republican Party is such tatters it will be difficult for them to stop any of the radical options that the President will nominate. We are about to see the most liberal Supreme Court Justice in our nation's history be appointed to the bench. Souter's resignation gives the President an opportunity to nominate an ultra-liberal Justice because it is early in his administration. He has plenty of time to move back to the center for the next election, because the American electorate has tiny brains and short memories. They will have forgotten in 3 years time that President Obama had only recently appointed the most liberal judge ever to the Supreme Court. One of the worries is that, almost certainly, at least one of the nominees will be from San Fransisco's ultra-liberal 9th Circuit Court. A court that has time and again overruled the people's desires and decided that only the members of the court understand the best path for the people of the United States. The silver lining to this? Two things; first, Arlen Specter's recent switch will actually help the Republicans block liberal appointments. Second, Obama will be replacing a relatively young very liberal Supreme Court Justice. So whoever Obama chooses (if Congress does not block them) will probably not vote any differently than Souter on any major issue. All in all, this ends up as status quo...unless Republicans get lucky and Obama fumbles the hand off (as Ford, Reagan, and the first President Bush did with Stevens, Kennedy, and Souter respectively) and chooses a conservative judge. I highly doubt this outcome because Democrat appointees never seem to be as centrist as Republican appointees. The two judges appointed by Clinton stayed liberal... while Republicans have chosen a mixed bag (two liberal, one moderate, and four conservative). In fact Republicans have been our own worst enemy when it comes to Supreme Court Appointees.
* The mainstream media seems to think that Justice Souter "evolved" from a conservative to a liberal... well, aren't we lucky he wasn't like the rest of the neanderthal conservatives!
* Is the real culture war being fought over capitalism and freedom?
* Paul Krugman is a clown... and he proves it with each new article he writes.
* Obama's revenue relativism.
* Torture bad...almost always?
* Sen. Jeff Bingaman (Democrat from New Mexico), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee says that Obama's cap and trade program will cause an increase in energy prices.
* Schoolgirls in love.
* Why "hate" crime legislation makes no sense. Even more "hate" crime nonsense.
* The end of democracy in Venezuela.
* Michelle Obama is the most popular figure in the Obama administration BUT... she is not as popular as Laura Bush!

No to socialized medicine

* A rational and reasoned argument against national healthcare.
* More proof that National Healthcare will be disastrous...look at the poor cancer patients trying to survive in Britain.
* Have you considered that there would be no secrets from a Nationalized Healthcare system?
* Eugenics is making a comeback...
* What America has to look forward to...
* The Obama administration's policies are fascist.
* How left-wing politics has destroyed the drama genre in Hollywood.
* Congress has decided to expand hate crimes legislation...careful what you think, folks...and be very careful who you tell.
* Some folks are taking this secession talk awfully serious.
* 100 days of lies, blunders, and gaffes.
* Why democracy and freedom don't mix.

100 days down...1360 to go!

I am so tired of the media drumbeat on the death of conservatism. The GOP and the Democrat Party are the same if one is dead so is the other...and honestly they both seem to be a live and well to me. The GOP ran a decrepit, mealy mouthed, double speaking, war hero in the last election and still managed to get 46% of the vote. If they had run a good candidate they might have been able to pull 48-49%. The last few years of downturn in the GOP's standing has been born out of the simple fact that they two parties are too similar. If both parties are for the same goals, obviously voters will choose the party that actually stand by their decisions. The Democrats preach socialist ideology, while the Republicans claim to detest it. But the actions the two parties take is proof that the Democrats like socialism and the Republican Party really doesn't mind it either. The current Republican quandary is not that the party is dead or the American people are more ideologically liberal. The problem is that Republican rhetoric does not match Republican action. Yes, the GOP is at a disadvantage because of the liberal media... but they can overcome that gap by sticking to their guns. Smaller government, more personal freedom, and fiscal responsibility. Wake up, GOP.
* Barack W. Obama. Second song, same as the first... bring on the STATE.
* Will Obama's arrogance be his undoing?
* Obama will be his own undoing.
* Obama a Clinton or a Carter? Yikes...both are bad options.
* The Specter defection could backfire.
* Government help really hurts!
* The truth about gun control and how it leads to state sponsored genocide.
* Neal Boortz is upset with Arlen Specter but not for the reason you might think. He is mad that he won't be able to call Senators from Maine - Snowe & Collins (along with Specter from PA)- "The Three Stooges" anymore!
* Internet fascism in the USA.
* The hypocrisy of Keith Olbermann.
* In defense of Wal-Mart.

Good Riddance!

* Just Breaking today: the RINO Senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Specter is a RINO no more. He finally came out of the proverbial closet and has announced his decision to caucus with the Democrat Party. This is no great shakes for most of us as I am fairly certain that Specter will continue to conduct himself as he always has... The man is a dyed in the wool liberal and the only thought I have for this is... it's about time. The GOP is fortunate to be rid of the dead weight...and now the GOP must throw it's full support behind Pat Toomey who will likely be Specter opponent in the next election.
GOOD RIDDANCE SENATOR SPECTER...
* Specter's switch could prove to be a boon for Republicans in more ways than one.
* The RINO's left behind are whining...
* The poop surrounding President Obama's first Hundred Days is that he has been AMAZING! Well...a little bubble burst here...our governments social policies have taken a hard left turn in his first hundred days.
* It's official Barack Obama is a bigot. Touche Greg Gutfeld!
* The Washington Post calls out the President for his war on small business.
* Here is a great visual of what the Obama budget cuts actually look like!

* Just like Megan McCain and Eric Ulrich, the new wave of faux Republicans is what is hurting the party the most. Robert Stacy McCain brilliantly opposes those who hate themselves.
* Secession is in our future. A brilliant article; well reasoned and properly researched. It is a definite must read.
* If CNN wants to turn around their ratings slide maybe they should turn to the Libertarians!* The children of illegal aliens cost Los Angeles county 44$ Million in welfare last month alone.
* Ayn Rand a "prophetess"?
* Americans bought enough guns in three months to outfit the Chinese and Indian armies!
* Funniest thing all day... Barack Obama's teleprompter has his own blog!

America...world's police?

* Because it is apparently our job to police the Middle East. The King of Jordan says if the USA does not act quickly there will be war in the Middle East.
* Al Gore lied to Congress. When does he go to jail? If I lied to Congress, you can bet I would be looking at jail time... why does Gore get a pass?
* Proof that the teacher's unions care nothing about your children, and only about themselves.
* Government stimulus is economic folly.
* Straight from the horse's mouth! Democrat Congressman John Dingell of Michigan tells Al Gore that "Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one!"
* Washington DC wants your driveway!! More on so-called "private property".
* The "answer" to the war on drugs. From jasonpye.com
***Perfect!***

* Roxana Saberi is an American citizen being held by the tyrannical regime in Iran. It is time for our government to grow a pair and learn to protect our citizens. President Obama needs to call for Roxana's release...and if not heeded he needs to take physical action.
Free Roxana! Join the blog rally for freedom!

Racism is a disease!

I have mentioned before the United Nations conference on racism going on in Geneva, and the fact that the UN is a ridiculous and racist institution itself. The UN had decided to allow Iran, Cuba, and other renowned hatemongers the opportunity to speak at the conference...this decision made it easy for the US to decline to attend. Two dozen other countries did attend but decided to walk out as Iranian President Ahmadinejad began speaking. Several of the countries that decided to stay cheered the racist President on...which was not particularly surprising since those UN attendees are also racists.
Here is a video from the conference of Ahmadinejad's entourage harassing Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel outside of the meeting hall. Wiesel was taking part in a demonstration against the racist President's speech.

While I completely agree that racism is an evil cancer in our world...I also believe that it is inherent to our human condition. All over the world people hate other people based solely on the fact that the others are different. I also think that it is counterproductive to allow racists to take part in discussions on racism. Their minds will not be changed by words (because they have already heard and not changed), but allowing them a place to speak gives them a platform to spew their hatred on others. Consider that Iran each year hosts a conference on how the Holocaust actually never happened as proof of the unreasonableness of their cause. The plethora of historical evidence; written, pictorial, physical, and anecdotal has not made a difference to the Iranian government or any other anti-Semites. They have chosen to buy into crackpot theories that the Zionist movement staged the Holocaust instead of simply seeing the truth...that 6 million Jews were murdered, simply for being Jewish.
Iran and other nation's who actively seek the destruction of their fellow humans simply because they are different should not be given a platform to speak. Their ideas have no merit.

* The upside down world of John Maynard Keynes.
* California needs a new state Constitution.
* How the war on drugs is actually a war on freedom.
* Last but not least, an interesting breakdown of the numbers of Iraqi dead through the Iraq war. It seems that President Bush may have actually SAVED hundred of thousands of lives...

Liberalism is a mental disorder

More proof (like you needed it) that Janeane Garofolo is an idiot.

* The CIA stands behind their actions...because of the results. The President's administration agrees that the "enhanced" methods got results.
* The documentary that proves Ayn Rand right...accidentally.
* America is fascist.
* Criminals love gun control.
* Planned Parenthood is breaking the law again....
* Canada calls out U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano for being the "dummy" she is.
* The real racists are at the UN's conference on racism. Funny, their newspaper's are racist too.

A political cartoon from 1934, sums up today very nicely too.

WooHoo! Budget Cuts! Not!

President Obama is cutting $100 million from the federal budget! Normally I would say "Awesome", but seeing as how this comes on the heels of increasing the federal deficit by a few trillion $, I can only laugh. The massive budget cuts of $100 million, comes out to 0.0029% of the total budget! In fact as Greg Mankiw observes, "that's the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6."


*** You'll never believe it three more dirty, dirty Democrats!
* Diane Feinstein steers 25$ billion towards hubby!
* Murtha's has some more dirty deeds lined up!
* Jane Harman running scams!
* People who are for gun control are anti-freedom!
* Mitt Romney calls out the President!
* The elusive John McCain will have a primary fight on his hands in Arizona! Go get 'em!

* Ron Paul on secession....oh, and by the way Dr. Paul is right...as usual.

Remember, dissent is good.

Dissent is not unhealthy.
* Racist pig speaks at the UN Racism Conference.
* Janet Napolitano is ridiculous... and no I am not a terrorist, nor will I ever be one.
* I take it back...Janet Napolitano is not ridiculous. Janeane Garofolo is. Unless they can both be?
* The truth about the tea parties.
* CNN covers up for their left wing defender Susan Roesgen.
Here is the video CNN doesn't want you to see...

* Apparently liberals don't have a voice...? Insanity...
* The Democrats can't understand why people are protesting taxes. After all the President just cut taxes for 95% of Americans...errr.... maybe some of the American people are smarter than the President gives them credit for.
* Cristina Gonzalez of the Neal Boortz show on why relations with Cuba are more confused than you realize.
* Antarctic ice is growing!! Let's move the polar bears south! (he said sarcastically)

Media Fatigue Day

The Main Streamers are wearing me out. I have never seen such rancor or bitterness to any other protest. Generally respectable news anchors turned legitimate protests into an opportunity to make lewd sex jokes. Even protests that turn violent get more sympathetic coverage than the Tea Party day yesterday. The media would like to tie the Tea Party movement to the GOP...but as Byron York points out...that just ain't so.
Here is a compilation video of CNN "reporter" Susan Roesgen...in 2006 no prob with Bush being called a fascist, in 2009 big prob with Obama as fascist. Interesting...

A couple of quick links for more Roesgen the "Reporter":
*** Gateway Pundit 1.
*** Gateway Pundit 2.
*** Neal Boortz.
*** Big Hollywood.
*** The Other McCain.
*** Newsbusters.
*** Nancy Pelosi attacks the tea party movement.
*** Some hilarity from Fox's 'Red Eye'!

Other media bias issues of the day....
*** From Canada?? Things must be bad when even the Canadians think the media is too liberal.
*** NBC worried that CNBC is too "conservative". Do they worry about MSNBC? How about that ass clown David Shuster?
*** The LA Times lies in a hit piece.

* I am sorry but when did the entire cast of reporters decide that an assault weapons ban was more important than the story about the broad brush the DHS painted conservatives as terrorists with!?!
Diane Sawyer proves the liberal elite media has no concept of mainstream America. As she presses gun control issues over "Right Wing Extremism" with DHS head Janet Napolitano. Memo to Diane... gun rights awareness is at an all time HIGH! America disagrees with you! Maggie Rodriguez at CBS suffers from the EXACT SAME disorder as Diane Sawyer. Matt Lauer and Andrea Mitchell push the same arguments with Napolitano!

* Some photos from our tea party here in Atlanta!
* By the way...the very early estimated tea party attendance numbers...about 250,000! I would call that a success.

Been a while...

...and I'm back! It has been a hectic last month in our household, so the blog had to be put on the blocks for a bit. But we are back in action and ready to rumble...I thought we should start the tax day extravaganza with some Tea Party News!

* Michelle Malkin covers the Tea Party concept from it's inception thru today's culmination. Here are a few tidbits from the childish left.
* Tax facts to make your head EXPLODE!

* Taxation is exploitation.
* Taxation is robbery.
* Why is it that the Main Stream Media cannot see the difference between the right wing and left wing reports? You can find out if the government thinks you might be a terrorist too!
* The top ten most wanted right wing extremists.
* The childish left proves once again just how much they love "free" speech!
* Real Healthcare reform...the evil, corporate, capitalist way.
* Dr. Ron Paul has a brilliant notion when it comes to dealing with pirates! How much better off would we be if the Republicans had nominated Dr. Paul instead of McCrap?
* Gay marriage by fiat... more important than the gay marriage debate is the debate on how to decide it.
* The Left is still lying... this time it is about taxes and tea parties.
* The Onion as "reality" news? It's bad when satire is more honest than actual reporting...
* George W. Obama. More of the same...not so much as an ounce of change.

Fiction in the White House.

* A must read article from Charles Krauthammer on President Obama's love affair with science...fiction.
* Definitive proof that President George W. Bush is President Barack H. Obama's model on everything Presidential.
* Anybody notice that President Obama's approval ratings are roughly the same as President Bush's from the same time period in 2001? Only difference? Obama's are dropping like a rock!
* A judge has forced a North Carolina woman to stop home schooling and send her kids to public school. The reason? She teaches with a religious slant. The judge believes this to be a "good opportunity" for her kids to "be tested in the beliefs she has taught them". The worst part? (Other than the blatant abuse of judicial powers...and the razing of this poor woman and her children's rights) Her kids have tested 2 grade levels higher than their public school counterparts!
* The way a class act behaves...

Bailouts and Bull****

FRIDAY MARCH 13TH - DREW CARREY WITH JOHN STOSSEL ON ABC'S 20/20! Bailouts and Bull****! John Stossel will cover some of the most controversial subjects using common sense and the ideals of freedom. If you want to understand libertarianism...this is the show to watch.

* Randall Forsyth over at Barrons explains that ignoring the proponents of the Austrian School is what got us in our current economic mess. Reason.com follows up and lays it out.
* Milton Friedman gets smeared by the Huffington Post...no surprise...it sounds like business as usual for HuffPo.
* Remember how bad things were a couple of weeks ago when the President said "we might be in deep s***"? Okay...maybe he didn't use those words...but you get the picture. Well he is reversing course... apparently, everything is now, just fine.
* The brilliant Mark Sanford clashes with the race-baiting hate-monger James Clyburn.
* Maxine Waters (Democrat from California) is a dirty, lying, hypocritical, cheat.
* Police shoot an unarmed college student in the chest during a drug raid. If he dies it will just be another casualty of the drug war.
* The pretense of airport security by the venerable Robert Higgs.

Big FAIL!

* The majority of economists are thus far dissatisfied with President Obama and Secretary Geithner.
* Ready for the next big "stimulus"? Only 27% of Americans want a second stimulus.
* More companies deciding to outsource themselves and move to Switzerland. They should call the exodus of productive companies from the USA to other countries the Obamadus.
* Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and Lew Rockwell...these are the guys that should be in charge. Paul as President, Schiff as Treasury Secretary, and Rockwell as the Secretary of State.

* Will terrorist pig Bill Ayers and his terrorist pig wife Bernardine Dohrn actually go to prison!?!?! One can only hope.
* La Shawn barber teaches Michael Steele a lesson. I would support Ms. Barber for RNC chair over Mr. Steele any day! Especially after his third public debacle to date.
* Global warming fire being fanned by the media? You don't say...
* A strong argument against the use of tax dollars to fund human experimentation.
* Why does the USA want universal healthcare? Canadians who can afford to flee into the US for our superior healthcare service....
* A freedom ranking of the 50 states.
* The disaster of public education.
* They should have left Rush alone.
* El jefe... El caudillo... El gran-pain-in-the-culo, tries his hand at sports journalism. Just die already.
Ari Fleischer hands Chris Matthews a whooping...

Taxes? We don't need no stinkin' taxes!

Common Sense from Wichita Falls:
"Dear IRS,
I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost.
I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing licence tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33 percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can’t recall but I have run out of space and money.
When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Daschle and, of course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.
P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus check.
Ed Barnett
Wichita Falls"

* Camille Paglia's intellectual honesty and her ability to separate each issue from that of the party she supports is a breath of fresh air. I cannot name one other liberal writer as honest or fair as Ms. Paglia. Honestly, I cannot think of a single conservative author as honest or fair either...
In her most recent article for Salon Ms. Paglia unloads on President Obama's weak staff, she also defends Rush Limbaugh! Astounding....
* The New York Times and Investors Business Daily both attack the President's decision to fund fetal stem cell research. Noting that recent study has shown that adult stem cells are the true avenue for scientific advancement.
* Imagine an occupied America...Ron Paul brings perspective.
* Top 20 earmarkers in the $400 billion omnibus bill.
* Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina is the first Governor to reject some of the stimulus money for his state.
* From Reason.com
"Kim Jong Il unanimously re-elected leader of North Korea. Celebrates by writing six novels, successfully hunting a unicorn, impregnating seven Swedish women."
* Liberal Mass Murder.
* Bet you can't guess which Republican Senators voted against school choice...?
Different day same names...Specter, Snowe, Murkowski, and add to the list Crapo (not kidding that's his name). If Specter and Snowe are going to vote with the Democrats on everything...why not just be Democrat?
* La Shawn Barber blogs today about Star Parker who notices that black poverty is overwhelmingly a result of single mother homes. Surprise, surprise...
* And lastly, Jack Cafferty continues to prove that he is an ass-clown.

Sanford in 2012?

With the Republican Party looking for leadership there is one clear place to turn... Ron Paul. What? No Republican is willing to be honest with themselves and realize that the man is nigh incorruptible? No Republican is willing to consider that he may have been right about the war in Iraq? The real answer is, most Republican politicians are just like Democrat politicians...all they care about is keeping their job and making money by fleecing the people with their "pet projects". (PORK) If we won't listen to Ron Paul...then I have an alternative. His name is Mark Sanford... and he could well even win us the Libertarian vote. Mark Sanford is a man of principle and action...I think he's our guy.
* Stand up for capitalism!
* When it comes to foreign relations, the President is over his head. Imagine if President Bush had made all of these gaffes...he would have been roasted!
* Reason.com has a way for you to get in on the billions of $$$$ in stimulus money that is floating around out there. Check the link here.
* Ask the economists how to fix things.
* From Thomas Sowell: "Why should taxpayers who live in apartments, perhaps because they did not feel that they could afford to buy a house, be forced to subsidize other people who could not afford to buy a house but who went ahead and bought one anyway?"
* Someone threw a shoe at the President of Iran...still funny?
* California has issues.
* How to stop the Drug Wars.
* My hometown paper FINALLY decides (with readership dropping like a rock) that it's time to be less biased! It has always amazed me that the major paper in Atlanta, GA could be one of the most liberal papers in the country and survive...but now that it is dying its editors have decided to move to the middle.
* Could the "Echelon Conspiracy" be the worst move ever made? A strong maybe...
Great spoof picture from instapundit.

Violent Democrats

Charlie Rangel wants the American people to mind their "own damn business". Ok, Mr. Rangel...since we are paying your salary we would like to know why you don't pay your taxes? If you don't want to tell us...give us our money back. Oh, and go to jail.

* More Democrat violence, a Chicago Alderman attacks one of his constituents.

* Who's ready to move to New Zealand?
* Is there reason to Paul Krugman's madness? The dude is still an idiot.
* Jim Cramer still taking heat for standing up to the "One".
* A CNN correspondent is the communist party candidate in El Salvador.
* Republicans say "let the banks fail".
* Maine RINO's Snowe and Collins want the base to join them!
* Connecticut wants to regulate the Catholic Church. Massachusetts wants to tell you what kind of car to drive.
* The "Fairness Doctrine" Redux.
* Hugo Chavez wants the President to follow his lead.
* "Going Galt".
* President Obama again agrees with President Bush.
* Poll shows that most Democrats wanted President Bush to fail too.

Republicans moving in the "right" direction?

From lewrockwell.com:
"Writes Thomas A. Olson:
You write: "The American Spectator is alarmed. Rush Limbaugh sounds like LRC. The American Conservative has temporarily dropped its love of protectionism to warn of dollar inflation. The love of war has gone AWOL at National Review. The Heritage Foundation is warning that government spending and taxation are driving us to ruin. Pat Buchanan is defending the free market."
Earthquakes, floods, dogs and cats sleeping together. Indeed it must be the End Times."
Anyone who reads just one post on this blog will quickly realize on what side of the ideological line I stand...so my opinion on this subject may be a little...skewed. I happen to think that conservatism fits very nicely with libertarianism. I think that now that the Republican Party is the minority party you will see much more of this kind of grandstanding. Republicans will once again be the party that speaks of smaller government, more personal freedom, less protectionism, and much less hawkish on war (unless we are victim to another terrorist attack). Now if the Republicans were back in power...their actions would more than likely be very different from their words...but for now, the rhetoric will be classic conservatism.

* The Senate wants to give the FDIC a $500 Billion loan! What's another half trillion? Republicans call for a spending freeze.
* The Dow has tumbled down by 20%! The Wall Street Journal says that Obama's radicalism is killing the Dow!
* The stock market is not fond of the new President.
* This study concludes that the Democrat pushed "card-check bill" will cost 600,000 American jobs.
* The CATO Institute shows how Obama's tax the rich plan will hurt the middle class.
* President Obama's "fiscally responsible budget" will add $4 trillion to the defecit within four years.
* The President is addicted to two things...tobacco and his teleprompter.
* The government's dirty little secret.
* The Common Sense of Rush Limbaugh.
* DL Hughley's show on CNN has been canceled. I hope I didn't cause this man his livelihood.
* Iraq is thriving!

Going Galt!

* Michelle Malkin talks about "Going Galt"!
* Jim Cramer responds to the White House's harrasement. Great article.
* Seems I was right a few days ago about the weird focus of the Obama administration on Rush Limbaugh. More from the National Review Online.
* Neal Boortz wants Barack Obama to fail!

* Great quote from the New York Times on the American way...
"Churn is the American way. Companies are born, rise, fall and die. Others come along to replace them. The country’s remarkable capacity for innovation, for reinvention, is tied to its acceptance of failure. Or always has been. Without failure, the culture of risk fades. Without risk, creativity withers. Save the zombies and you sabotage the vital."
* Jake Tapper takes on press secretary Gibbs on the White House's obvious hypocrisy.
* The folks at lewrockwell.com ask "Should you take stock market tips from a socialist?"* Murray Rothbard is my homeboy!
* I have a constitutional right to my nunchucks!
* Ann Coulter calls out Keith Olbermann.

White House vs. Economics

Have you noticed something interesting happening in the past couple of weeks? Two popular TV money guys... Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer have railed against the Obama administration's economic policies from different angles. Santelli attacked the "stimulus" plan from the Chicago Stock Exchange floor with the agreement of what sounded like all of the traders working that day.

Cramer from his show (and then the Today show) where he said that the President was destroying the wealth of the United States.

The common factor between both attacks? In the following days White House press secretary Robert Gibbs felt the need to respond and attack both men in return.
Gibbs said that Santelli had no idea "what he's talking about".
Of Cramer, Gibbs said his opinions were "geared to a very small audience."
Now, I am not certain but I think it would probably be fair to say that in general Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer... do know what they are talking about. And the size of Cramer's audience has nothing to do with whether he is right or not. These are men who make their living off of our economy ... perhaps instead of flippantly tossing aside their opinions we should take them to heart. I have still not found the group of economists who have supported this bailout...but a cursory search of the internet will find a flood of professional economists who are against the "stimulus". On another point... could you imagine if President Bush's press secretary had responded in like fashion to every reporter who criticized his administration? Maybe if the President and his "men" spent less time attacking political and economic pundits like Rush Limbaugh and now, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer (and anyone else who disagrees with anything the Obama administration does)... they might actually be able to accomplish something.

War on Rush!

* The Politico reports that the Democrat leadership actually planned the Rush Limbaugh barrage of the last month. And the media has been complicit.
* Harry Reid thinks that Republicans want the President to fail. Well...DUH!
* Ron Paul on Rush and the Republicans.

* Ed Henry is a "BUTT BOY"!
* Maureen O'Dowd makes a good point.
* Obama and the Democrats are waging a war on prosperity.
* Obama lied...the economy died.
* The venerable Pat Buchanan says that socialism is here!
* Obama is cooking the books.
* Keith Olbermann is a clown...for George Clooney.
* America...a "free" country?
* Hilarious.
* An insightful book review from La Shawn Barber.

An ex-Republican defends Rush.

I have been watching, reading, and listening to the news for the last month with a steady and growing uneasiness. At some point since the inauguration hunting season has opened up on Rush Limbaugh. He is in the news every single day...and generally not of his own volition. A few weeks ago he said that he wanted President Obama to fail, if, failing meant that his legislative goals would not pass. How is this news? I am sure that we all understood that the Democrat Party hoped president Bush would fail, if, failure meant that his agenda would not pass. I echo Rush's sentiments...I do not want President Obama's agenda to make any headway. I hope that it all falls apart, and that his goals fail miserably.
My personal perspective on this is that this is an attempt by the Democrat Party (and by default their acolytes in the media) to drive a wedge between the Republican Party in general (who do no listen daily to Rush) and the conservative wing of the Republican Party who parrot Rush's philosophy. The idea here is to kill, or at the very least to marginalize, the Republican Party. If you can sever the Party from it's philosophical base...than the party has no ground to stand on. In many ways the Republican Party has already stepped off of it's base and walked away...but there is still a tether connecting the two...and that tether is talk radio and pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Glen Beck.
(I cannot put Sean Hannity in this company because he has long been too staunch a party man...and maybe these others have fallen into that trap too, but less so)
In any case if the Republicans fall into the trap that the Democrats and media has set for them by cannibalizing their base, the Party will be dead for all intents and purposes. The shell that remains will be worthless as the principles and planks which have long guided and supported us will have been torn up and used as kindling in the fire of socialism which burns in Washington, DC.
Rush Limbaugh is not important as it pertains to elections but what he says is important for the soul of the party. His words are spiritual fodder for the conservative masses...if the Party chooses to sever the tether that connects them to the base...I shudder to think what would happen.

* Deconstructing Rush Limbaugh's CPAC speech.
* The White House attacks Rush.
* Letterman calls Rush a "bonehead" and says he looks like "an Eastern European gangster".
* MSNBC bashes Rush.
* NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd, mocks Rush and calls radio a "backward medium".
* White House conferencing over Rush?
* Classless blogger rips Paul Harvey in death...and uses time to attack Rush, too.

DL Hughley is a Nazi!

DL Hughley did it. He went there. He has committed one of my most hated faux pas'. He has likened the Republican Party to Nazi Germany. I hate...hate...when members of the political left choose to use "Nazi" as a descriptive word for the Republican Party. The worst part about it...the only connection they can ever build between the Republicans and the Nazi's is...they both have majority white populations. DL Hughley goes further as he seems to think that Republicans don't even consider the opinions of blacks valid. I can now say without reservation that DL Hughley makes me sick. The Republican Party is averse to government social welfare programs because they increase the size of government, cause taxes to inflate, are generally more poorly run than private welfare programs, and bleed money as if it were pouring through a sieve. NOT because they don't care about the opinion's of the black community.
DL Hughley proves that he should not have a show on a network like CNN with this comment. It shows his utter lack of understanding when it comes to history or politics. The Nazi's were fascists. (From Dictionary.com) Fascism is "a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism." The Republican Party is against government centralization of power, for individual liberties, against all socioeconomic controls and for an absolutely free market system. Now I will admit in recent years Republicans have generally been more nationalist than Democrats but both parties have been comfortable with racism in our history. And neither party today is "racist", to say so is to try and attach moral value to political ideas...and that is dangerous...no matter the political issue.
The values of the Republican Party are polar opposite to the values of the Nazi movement...and to that there is no reasonable argument. So Mr. Hughley, please kindly shut your mouth and think before you speak.
* How would you like the government to tell you who you can and cannot donate money to? What about if it were based on racial quotas? The Obama administration's proposed budget would limit tax deductions on charitable contributions from wealthy Americans. Its aim is to push philanthropic organizations into ignoring donor intent and instead giving grants based on political considerations.
* A list of the top ten earmarkers in the new $410 billion omnibus bill. Bet you can't guess which party half of those lawmakers come from? That's right! Democrats...oh, the other half?? Oh...well they are Republican. Yes the Republicans are as big an ass on the earmark and porkbarrel spending as the Democrats. Hey, don't blame me...you voted for them!
* David Brooks whines that President Obama is not the moderate moderates thought he would be...WAAAAHHH! That is because David Brooks is an assclown.
* The USA has lost $3 trillion in wealth since the election, what happened? Apparently, the people with money don't have faith in the President. Jim Cramer (Yes the crazy loud screaming money guy from CNBC) thinks that "this is the greatest wealth destruction he's ever seen a President commit".

* President Obama is running out of people to blame.
* Thomas Sowell proves that talk is cheap.
* Detroit's leaders are racist.
* The nominee (nominated by the President) for U.S. Trade Representative is also a dirty tax cheat! Can we not pick someone who HAS paid their taxes!?! Is it really that easy to not pay them?
* Which state is the most "free"?
* Sean Penn only understands part of the "Harvey Milk story".

Break up the Government!

* The National Tea Party was a success and some in the media actually noticed! Michelle Malkin takes note and expands on her blog.
* Republicans are wrong. Obama did not bring back the era of big government...the Republican Party under the watchcare of George W. Bush did. President Obama is just expanding on those "Big" Government policies.
* Lew Rockwell teaches us that the economics of stimulus is value destroying.
* The stimulus bill explained in words most of us can understand.
* The Financial Times says that Obama is a...liberal. 'Whew'...glad we got that figured out.

* Paul Krugman blames people who save their money for our economic problems.
* President Obama's spending bill with "no earmarks" actually has over 9,000 earmarks some added by the President's own staff.
* AIG keeps getting rewards for failing! Another $31 Billion Dollars for the failure...
* CPAC introduced "Hi Caliber" (a Republican Rapper) to the rest of the country.
* Representative Paul Ryan writes the Republican response to the bailout.
* The President's appointee to the office of Director of Urban Affairs is dirty. Nothing new here...which is sad...just another dirty Obama cabinet member.
* Almost 20 states have now introduced a "sovereignty" bill to remind the Obama administration about the 10th Amendment.
* The war on drugs is not the answer.
* A little hilarity for your day... some in Europe miss President Bush!
* After years of Democrat leadership the median home price in Detroit this past year was $7,500.
* Oh the pain, of the anti-war left. At least the anti-war non-left is consistently loud and angry with Republican or Democrat administrations. The anti-war left becomes decidedly less anti-war with Democrat leaders at the helm. Does anyone hear the chants for war crimes to be brought against the Obama administration for attacks in Pakistan, Iraq, or Afghanistan? I think not.
* How about some bright news? Geert Wilders People's Freedom Party has soared in recent polls and it looks like they would win the majority of seats in Parliament if elections were held today.