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Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Dime’s Worth Of Difference Is Not Enough
  Republicrats piece by J.J. Jackson (3/21/10)

Conservatives are in an abusive relationship with a lying, cheating and stealing spouse.  And just so there is no mistaking who I am referring to, I am talking about the GOP.  A lot of conservatives are fed up and, if you ask me, rightfully so with the party that they have called home.  Republicans have for decades talked a good talk but have never really walked the walk relying on the fact that conservatives have nowhere else to go.  They certainly are not going to become Democrats and other parties like the Libertarian and Constitution Parties have failed to woo conservatives to their ranks in any significant number for a variety of reasons.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Causes and Consequences of Liberal Superiority Complex
  Progressivism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (3/20/10)

Liberal-progressive-socialists, from Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte in the 1800s and Karl Marx in the mid-1800s, to present-day liberal-progressive members of the Democrat/Socialist Party, have believed as an article of secular religious faith that their superior intellects alone are capable of intuiting the inevitable course of history.  Those who disagree with their reading are written off as cranks or imbeciles, unworthy of serious consideration.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Unemployment Tied to Lack of Immigration Enforcement
  Employment/Jobs piece by Jim Kouri (3/18/10)

Although President Obama says creating jobs is his top priority, his failure to enforce immigration laws at worksites has led to job losses for American workers.(1) That is the message of a new television ad campaign by Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and allied organizations concerned about unemployment.

NPR: ‘Patriots’ Are Dangerous to Our Government
  Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/18/10)

Public supported National Public Radio (NPR) posted a report on March 17 during its “All Things Considered” radio show that warns its listeners that “patriot groups” are dangerous and are apparently increasingly prone to attacking government officials and facilities. Oddly the two examples it uses to prove its case have no ties whatsoever to any “patriot groups.“

And That’s All He Has to Say about That: Tom Hanks and Twisted History
  Bird-Brain Flu piece by Selwyn Duke (3/18/10)

Stupid is as Hollywood does . . . and does and does and does.  And the latest example is Forrest Hanks, who has just managed to graduate - in the Tinseltown U. way of thinking - from moron to imbecile.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Two years of cooling has destroyed global warming consensus
   Climate Change piece by Guest: Gregory J. Rummo (3/5/09)

Last June I found myself somewhere over Central America at about 37,000 feet in a 757, en route to the Andes Mountains in Peru for an annual missionary trek that I have been a part of since 1999. While getting a cup of coffee in the galley in the rear of the aircraft, I struck up a conversation with a Peruvian who wanted to know what a Gringo was doing traveling to his country for the eighth time in ten years. I explained that our treks through the mountains to visit different villages of indigenous Quechua often took us through passes or pasos de portachuelos at the edge of snow fields starting around 16,000 feet.

Free speech litmus test proposed
   Big Brother piece by Offsite (3/5/09)

‘Durbin Doctrine’ includes ‘frightening new government censorship powers’ - Free speech advocates have raised alarms over the possibility of a new so-called “Fairness Doctrine” that would regulate speech over the radio airwaves, and now one media leader has suggested a litmus test is needed to protect First Amendment rights from President Obama and his appointees.

Obamanomics sending America reeling
   ObamaNation piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Clint Bolick (3/5/09)

I think I understand Obamanomics. I buy a yacht that I can’t afford. I default on the loan. The bill is sent to my children and future grandchildren (and to yours). The best part: I get to keep sailing.

It’s the Sun, stupid!
   Global Warming piece by Guest: Willie Soon (3/5/09)

New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate -  The theory that climate change is chiefly caused by solar influences “is no longer tenable,“ says US National Academy of Sciences president Ralph Cicerone. Carbon dioxide, he argues, is the key driver of recent climate change. I beg to differ.

Snowmen Rejoice at Latest Climate News
   Global Warming piece by Offsite (3/5/09)

In a column last month, I focused my writing on a snowman “convention.“ The participants of the event gathered together to express their anger and frustration over global warming. “Our very existence depends on temperatures not only leveling out, but actually decreasing,“ said one of the conference’s speakers.

Professor Calls Police on Student Supporter of 2nd Amendment
   EdukShun piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/5/09)

The assignment for Central Connecticut State University student John Walberg and his two classmates was to give an oral presentation on a “relevant issue in the media.“ The three chose school violence for their topic.

Criminal Aliens Invading US While President Obama Fiddles
   National Security piece by Jim Kouri (3/5/09)

It’s old news that the Mexican government exports Mexico’s poorest citizens into the United States for a number of reasons: It relieves them of the responsibility of providing social and healthcare services for them; it provides their country’s economy with an influx of US cash when these illegal workers send money they earn in the US back home; and it defuses problems with far-left groups who are usually successful in using the poor to advance their political agenda.

States’ Sovereignty Granted by the US Constitution
   Big Brother piece by J. D. Longstreet (3/5/09)

Every so often an issue comes along that continues to nag at me until it precipitates some sort of action.  The “State Sovereignty Movement” has done that.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

A Pro-Growth Flat Tax
   Economics piece by FreeCongressFoundation: E. Ralph Hostetter (3/4/09)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires all income to be recorded and reported. All taxes on personal income from nannies to CEOs must be collected and reported on a quarterly basis and remitted to the IRS. This includes taxes on the self-employed.

Inhofe: Democrats Push Stealth ‘Fairness Doctrine’
   Demercrats piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Sen. James Inhofe warns that Democrats are seeking to make an “end run” around a recent Senate action outlawing the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an effort to stifle conservative talk radio.

The Supreme Court’s 1-2 punch
   Law piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Dwight Eisenhower reportedly admitted that he made two big mistakes as president: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, Earl Warren and William Brennan. One day, it might be said that George W. Bush got two things right as president: his two appointments to the Supreme Court, John Roberts and Sam Alito.

Sweden’s government health care
   Health piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

Government health care advocates used to sing the praises of Britain’s National Health Service, or NHS. That’s until its poor delivery of health care services became known. A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, “Delay, Denial and Dilution,“ written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the NHS health care services are just about the worst in the developed world.

Elementary blots out ‘In God We Trust’
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

An elementary school in Tennessee, after successfully rebuffing an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over religious expression on campus, has nonetheless ordered the words “God Bless the USA” and “In God We Trust” covered up on student-made posters in the hallway.

Congressman: Audit the Fed’s books
   Government piece by Offsite (3/4/09)

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who is seeking to abolish the Federal Reserve, has stepped up his attack, introducing an interim plan that would require the private agency to open all of its books for examination.

Romney and the Rebirth of the Republican Party
   Politics piece by Bruce Walker (3/4/09)

The rebirth of the Republican Party and the revitalization of the conservative message might just start with Mitt Romney becoming Governor Romney again.  Republicans lack much ability to stop the Obama agenda at the national level.  Even with real gains in both houses of Congress, Republicans have no real shot at controlling Congress after the 2010 mid-term elections.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does
   Police State piece by Geoff Metcalf (3/4/09)

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.“ —President Lyndon B. Johnson

We Know What’s Best For You
   Socialism piece by Thomas E. Brewton (3/4/09)

Democrat-Socialists are prepared to force everyone to do what their academic planners think will be best for the new one-world government.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Same Constitutional Prohibitions and the Same Politics of Nonconformity
   Congress piece by FreeCongressFoundation: Marion Edwyn Harrison (3/3/09)

The District of Columbia as a Fake State - Some proposals in Congress have a recurring lifespan, patent political and clearly unconstitutional though the proposals may be.  Doubtless foremost in this unhealthy category is legislation to create for Washington, District of [Columbia or Confusion?] a voting Representative in Congress, just as though it were a State of the Union and the Constitution were to be ignored.

AMD No Longer A Chip ‘Manufacturer’
   Economics piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) has wrapped up its deal to spin off its manufacturing operations as a separate company and appointed chairman Hector Ruiz as chairman of the new entity. AMD tapped board member Bruce Claflin to replace Ruiz as AMD’s new chairman.

Space rock gives Earth a close shave
   Science piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

(AFP) - An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.

This is way bigger than Rush
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

The Democrats, along with those on the right who seem more worried about incurring the disdain of the wrongheaded left than of their fellow patriots, are feverishly promoting their Saul Alinsky-inspired scheme to demonize and divide their most effective political opponents.

‘Is there really only 1 human race?‘
   Society piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

One of the most frequently cited facts of life is that there is only one race, the human race. It is said to counteract racism. And it is said to show how much all people have in common - our “common humanity.“

Since When is Promoting Conservatism ‘Ugly?‘
   Republicrats piece by Offsite (3/3/09)

The grassroots base around the country has been ignited by a brief, but powerful comment.  The comment, made by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was directed at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.  It turns out that Steele felt it was necessary to denounce Limbaugh and establish his own manhood in front of a CNN audience.

‘Who Is John Galt?‘
   Society piece by Thomas Lindaman (3/3/09)

Perhaps one of the great literary questions ever written is the title of this piece. For years, it has become almost a code or a password for those familiar with Atlas Shrugged to exchange as a lament for current economic or societal conditions.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Terrorist Sentenced to 20 Years for Conspiracy to Bomb Targets in US and Europe
   Terrorism piece by Jim Kouri (3/2/09)

Christopher Paul, a/k/a Abdul Malek, a/k/a Paul Kenyatta Laws, a 44-year-old U.S. citizen born in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for conspiring with others to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosive devices, against targets in Europe and the United States, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Terrorism Committee.

‘Will Specter vote with Dems on card check?‘
   Republicrats piece by Offsite (3/2/09)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)—Twenty-nine years into his U.S. Senate career, Arlen Specter cast what he calls his most difficult vote—a “yes” on the $787 billion economic stimulus bill that made him the only Republican facing re-election in 2010 to support it.

‘Legislature and Governor caught in a trap?‘
   Government piece by GoldwaterInstitute: Matthew Ladner (3/2/09)

In one episode of Fox’s under-appreciated early 1990s western comedy “The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.“ the heroes teamed up with a sheriff to pursue a group of bad guys into a local mine. The bad guys gave the good guys the slip, and then closed entrance to the mine with dynamite. The sheriff, who just happened to look and dress like a 1972-version of Elvis Presley, declared in a Tupelo drawl, “We’re caught in a trap! Can’t walk out!“

We will win this war. . .
   Government piece by Guest: Carolyn Hileman (3/2/09)

Several thousand people protested in Greenville, 300 people in Michigan, 600 in Nashville, Sand Diego another 600, in Atlanta 200 people stood in the driving rain to protest, St Louis arch 1500, in Kansas about 200 people stood in 28 degree weather to protest and that is just the ones I could find information about. What were they protesting? They were protesting being forced to pay someone else’s way when they are having enough trouble paying their own. They were protesting a stimulus package shoved down the throats of the tax paying Americans and the fact that when the people called and emailed them daily; telling them no, they said yes and we will have to pay for this the rest of our lives and then our kids will pay and their kids will pay and the people are sick of it and we are ready to revolt. The LA times reported, you got to love this that there were tea parties across the nation but few showed up, tell me that is not propaganda, tell those people who stood in below freezing temperatures and driving rain that just a few showed up.

More on Where Our Schools go Wrong
   EdukShun piece by Warner Todd Huston (3/2/09)

U.S. colleges are demanding. That’s right they are sternly demanding. You see, they are all upset that the Japanese government is not promoting study abroad for its citizens and they are demanding that the Japanese government get more of its citizens to pony up the cash for a U.S. college degree and if the people won’t do it, why these U.S. colleges demand that the government do it in their stead.

Global Investors’ Bill Of Rights May Prevent Economic Deja Vu
   Economics piece by Guest: Steve Selengut (3/2/09)

The purpose of IBOR is to protect financial markets and to create self-sufficient investors who produce economic growth instead of government deficits. IBOR standards create transparent financial markets, regulate speculation, and protect retirement portfolios.