Thursday, September 9, 2010

Conservative recruiters frog-marched off campus
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (9/9/10)

Officials at a Florida college have ordered police to escort off campus several people who were trying to recruit members for a conservative student organization and who had obtained verbal permission to be at the location.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Progressive Power Grab: Livable Communities Act
   Sustainability piece by Malcolm T. Hedges (9/8/10)

‘The law is promoted as an effort to fight traffic congestion, strip malls and ugly urban sprawl. It would “encourage” local communities to create high-density population centers linked by mass transit networks.‘(1)

Street theater “education”
   GreeenIsm piece by Guest: Paul Driessen (9/8/10)

The climate and renewable energy con is losing its luster - prompting anguish and desperation

Marching Off the Cliff
   Elitists piece by Offsite (9/8/10)

President Obama sure did cover a lot of ground last week in his address to the nation announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq. At times the speech resembled one of those late-night, beer-fueled freshman dorm bull sessions, where you start off discussing Led Zeppelin and end up ten hours later debating the ontological principle.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Time to Let the Housing Market Crash
   Economics piece by Offsite (9/7/10)

A growing numbers of economists and housing analysts are saying the government should stop trying to stimulate the housing market back to life and just let it crash, arguing that lower prices will bring buyers to an exhausted market that government intervention has failed to revive.

Climate Change Is a Failed Political Movement
   Climate Change piece by Offsite (9/7/10)

The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages?

Stadium Deal in LA a Moneypit
   Economics piece by Warner Todd Huston (9/7/10)

Whenever I think of this new Staples sports stadium deal going down in Los Angeles I can’t help but think of the “bread and circuses” that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the City of L.A. sinking millions into this entertainment project leaving the people destitute and all for what? After all, as I wrote in the last column(1), these stadiums don’t seem to pay for themselves. So why is LA doing this? Is it just the prestige of having a football franchise?

Tea Partiers Are Like Kennedy’s Killer Sirhan Sirhan, Are Racists Filled With ‘Madness’
   Progressivism piece by Warner Todd Huston (9/7/10)

For those that thought faded journo Jimmy Breslin had passed on to his great reward, fear not for ol’ Jimmy is back and this time he wants you all to know that you Tea Partiers are wild-eyed racists filled with madness. Heck you are all as crazy as Bobby Kennedy’s killer Sirhan-Sirhan, you Tea Partiers are dangerous, and prone to riot and your inflammatory air is disturbing Jimmy’s retirement. Shame on you.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Church fights for right to bear arms
   Guns/Self-defense piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

As it is legal in Georgia to carry a gun only in a church parking lot—not in the church—some supporters of bearing arms are working to have that law changed.

‘Will The GOP Snatch Defeat Right From The Jaws Of Victory?‘
   Election 2010 piece by Thomas D. Segel (9/6/10)

Harlingen, Texas, September 6, 2010:  We are now less than two months away from an election many feel will be the most important we will see in our lifetime.  For the Republicans, it poses the greatest opportunity they have been able to embrace in decades.  They will be able to show the American people the true face of the conservative agenda.  It is also an important election for the Democrats, because it gives them an opportunity to separate themselves from the far-left policies that have been rejected by the American people.

‘The Higher Education Bubble: Ready to Burst?‘
   EdukShun piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades rises faster than inflation. But people keep buying it because they’re told that it will make them wealthier in the long run. Then, suddenly, they find it doesn’t. Prices fall sharply, bankruptcies ensue, great institutions disappear.

Of course they’re hoarding money
   Money piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

According to the Federal Reserve, businesses are hoarding about $1.8 trillion in cash. There are three reasons for that phenomenon: It’s their money. It’s their money. And it’s their money.

Inspector general wants hearing with fair judge
   Law piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

WASHINGTON - Fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin is asking that his lawsuit challenging his abrupt and apparently illegal dismissal by the Obama administration be reinstated – and he wants a new judge assigned to the case.

L’Shanah Tovah…
   Middle East piece by Gerald A. Honigman (9/6/10)

In the seventh month, on the first of the month, there shall be a sabbath for you, a remembrance with shofar blasts, a holy convocation… Leviticus 16:24 - Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishrei, the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar . Since the latter is lunar, it differs year to year. This is year 5771. The Hebrew Bible (aka, “Old Testament”) refers to this holiday as Yom Ha-Zikkaron (the day of remembrance) or Yom Teruah (the day of the sounding of the shofar). In addition to the opening reference, the holiday becomes more formalized in Leviticus 23:24-25.

Big labor’s big betrayal
   Unions piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

Today New Yorkers, like all Ameri cans, are observing Labor Day—and many have the day off.

The RGGI raid: how cap-and-trade revenues went to fix state budgets
   GreeenIsm piece by Offsite (9/6/10)

A few weeks ago, ten Northeastern states held an unusual sort of auction. What the states were selling was credits for carbon emissions. The buyers were electric utilities, who purchased the credits either to allow themselves to send carbon dioxide out the smokestacks of their own power plants, or to re-sell those credits to other utilities.

I Don’t Celebrate Labor Day
   Unions piece by J. D. Longstreet (9/6/10)

Today is Labor Day in the US. Labor Day is a celebration of Labor Unions. I don’t support labor unions; therefore, I do not celebrate Labor Day.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

It’s Easy to be Critical
   The Republic piece by Robert R. Owens (9/5/10)

With the Not Ready for Prime Time Players holding court in the White House and the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight in Control of Congress it is easy to be critical.  However, as our beloved Republic drinks the dregs of the Grapes of Wrath in this, the Season of our Discontent, being critical is not enough.  Those of us who believe in limited government, free enterprise and personal liberty need to offer an alternate vision of the future or the Progressive who are seeking to prove that the only problem with all former attempts at a regimented collectivist corporate state was that they weren’t the ones implementing the 5 year plan will win by default.

Higher Yields: The Only Farming Answer
   Food piece by Dennis T. Avery (9/5/10)

CHURCHVILLE, VA - Is the Green Movement finally ready to face the global need to triple crop yields over the next 40 years - and drop its dedication to land-selfish organic farming?  Maybe yes, and none too soon.  The planet’s wild biodiversity is at stake.

Jobs Report Reflects Fear of Obama Policies
   Employment/Jobs piece by Offsite (9/5/10)

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor issued a sharp response to the August jobs report issued today, saying that the policies of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are instilling fear that cripples the economy.

Teen: Security Told Me To Remove U.S. Flags
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (9/5/10)

A high school student in Northglenn is upset that campus security told him to remove the large American flags flying from his pickup truck because it might make others uncomfortable.

Labor in America Does Not Pay
   Progressivism piece by Offsite (9/5/10)

Working used to be a proud expression of manhood. Since the days of “Rosie the Riveter”, mothers and daughters joined the work force in mass. Building infrastructure, developing commercial enterprises and producing an endless assembly line of goods led to the greatest expansion of the middle class in American history. In a mere fifty years of planned and coordinated downsizing and out sourcing, the only outcome from honest work is the sweat from your brow. Folks still expend energy and labor at tasks, but few earn a living wage from engaging in industry or commerce.

Letting Leftists Limit Language
   Progressivism piece by Bruce Walker (9/5/10)

Every time I hear a conservative speak of “capitalism,“ I cringe.  In fact, when I am compelled to call those men and women who cherish liberty and believe in the God of Jews and Christians by the odd term, “conservative,“ I realize just how far we have let leftists limit language, and so, to limit our power to converse and even to think.  Every serious concept of political thought has been consciously misnamed by the enemies of freedom and faith. 

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Public unions seek national monopoly
   Unions piece by Offsite (9/4/10)

Today, Big Government, not the private sector, is Big Labor’s bread and butter. That’s why union officials push relentlessly for higher taxes and bigger government and seem completely unconcerned that the policies they advocate will slash overall private-sector job growth in future years.

Labor Union Leaders More Like Tyrants
   Unions piece by Offsite (9/4/10)

Amid Labor Day’s parades and picnics, union bosses will bellow Monday about workers’ rights and the alleged greed of management, especially inside big business.

Hearings Scheduled on Confiscation of Private Retirement Accounts
   Socialism piece by Offsite (9/4/10)

On August 26, the US Department of Labor issued a news release (1).  It lists the agenda for the joint hearings being held with the Department of Treasury September 14-15, 2010 on what is euphemistically called “lifetime income options for retirement plans.“  The hearings are being conducted by the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Tea Party Movement Tames The NRA
   Politics piece by J.J. Jackson (9/4/10)

The National Rifle Association has learned a powerful lesson.  That lesson is that they are not the all powerful group they thought they were whose members jump at their mere request.  Whether or not they will retain this lesson for use in the future however?  That will remain to be seen.

Friday, September 3, 2010

The Revolt of the Bourgeois
   The Republic piece by Offsite (9/3/10)

The much-analyzed speeches at the Glenn Beck Lincoln Memorial rally weren’t as notable as what the estimated 300,000 attendees did: follow instructions, listen quietly to hours of speeches, and throw out their trash.

Northrop Grumman Introduces Y2K!
   Computers piece by Guest: Michael R. Shannon (9/3/10)

Conservatives occasionally wonder if anyone would notice should the government just go away one morning. This is not an attractive prospect for elected officials and Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling had a personally scary experience in relation to just that topic when he was stranded in Italy last spring due to a volcano eruption.

Lt. Col. Allen West: A Voice for the Leavenworth 10
   Military piece by Guest: Paul A. Ibbetson (9/3/10)

Is somebody watching over you today? Is there someone somewhere that is willing to put your well-being ahead of theirs? Those are powerful questions that we seldom ponder here in America. Why? The answer is that safety, security and most importantly freedom, the delicacies sought in so many places in the world, are things we in America nonchalantly pile upon our plates daily like hungry diners at an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord. Say what you will, but the reality is that even in the worst of times we really have it good. However, America, the magnet for so many people of the world, has been maintained and has flourished by the blood of the American soldier. The soldier’s willingness to fight and if need be, die on foreign soils against vicious enemies for the nation’s survival is often underestimated.