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• Renounce and Denounce the “American Dream” in Order to Teach?

  from Flopping Aces also: Renounce and Denounce the “American Dream” in Order to Teach? Katherine Kersten, reporting for the Minnesota Star Tribune, writes: Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:56am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Turning Bible Verse Into Manifesto for Maniacs?

  from the PVRC blog In an earlier post today, I talked about the bumper sticker catch phrase, “Pray for Obama, Ps 109:8.” Remember what I said about the Left taking it to the extremes? According to Frank Schaeffer (who I’m not sure is really a credible anything, especially not to speak [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:55am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Renounce and Denounce the “American Dream” in Order to Teach?

  from Flopping Aces Katherine Kersten, reporting for the Minnesota Star Tribune, writes: Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:45am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• If you see something, say something — unless it’s politically incorrect.”

  From Michelle Malkin Racial terror in Denver that won’t make national news Chilling details are emerging in the local Colorado press about violent black gangs who have been targeting white victims for months: The Denver Police Department announced today that they have made 32 arrests during a sweep to end a four-month [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:30am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Poll Data

  From Powerline Current poll data are brutal for the Democrats. In the Rasmussen survey, President Obama’s approval index, the difference between those who strongly approve and strongly disapprove of his performance, has hit a record low of -15. Overall, voters disapprove of Obama by 54-45%. That’s no doubt in part because [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:13am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• THE YOUNG TURN AGAINST OBAMACARE

  By Dick Morris Previously, we reported to you that our national polling showed that the under-30 voters were the strongest supporters of the Obama healthcare initiative. While seniors opposed it by almost 2-to-1 and voters 30-64 opposed it by five- to 10-point margins, the under-30 voters backed his program by 58-30. So [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:09am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Why Does Sarah Palin Have a Shot At The Presidency?

  By Regina Sztajer Barrack Obama, the rising star of the Democratic party, has shown himself to be a pushover in the world of diplomacy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t much of a help because she and the president are on different wave lengths. How can any world leaders take [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:04am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• The Coming Deficit Disaster

  from the WSJ The president says he understands the urgency of our fiscal crisis, but his policies are the equivalent of steering the economy toward an iceberg. By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:23am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• A New ACORN Scandal….This Time They Try To Destroy The Evidence & Screw That Up

  Flopping Aces Just more evidence that your common criminal is just plain retarded: On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:22am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• More From the East Anglia Archives

  From Powerline We’ve written about the leaked emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Center here, here and here. Another intensely interesting email thread, which doesn’t seem to have gotten much notice, relates to the fact that the last decade, contrary to the alarmists’ predictions, has [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:19am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Pennsylvania Union Leader Resigns Amid Criticism for Threatening Legal Action Over Boy Scout’s Volunteerism

  from Fox News A union leader in Pennsylvania has resigned after being criticized for threatening legal action over an aspiring Eagle Scout’s volunteer project. Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union’s Allentown chapter, submitted an unexpected resignation letter Thursday, along with a few other employees, SEIU spokesman Matt Nerzig [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:16am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

  By from Rasmussen Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:11am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• OBAMACARE = BIG STATE TAX HIKES

  By Dick Morris Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their health care proposals, the Obama Administration and its Congressional allies hit on a great new idea: Make the states raise their taxes to fund the program instead. Both the House and the Senate bills require that states cover [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:10am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Saturday Night Live: Obama’s Debt

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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:30pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Are we at a Hyperinflation tipping point?

  Following up yesterday’s post on inflation-defense investments, Paul Hsieh and Amit Ghate cite John Mauldin’s weekly newsletter, which notes that the hyperinflation “tipping point” generally occurs when governments have to borrow 40% of what they are spending, which, coincidentally, is exactly where Barack Obama and his printmeister Ben Bernanke have [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Look at That! Salary Board Violates Open Meeting Act! Shocker!

  from the PVRC blog While we’re at it, can we point out that Fred Homan, a senior county official, admits that the Personnel and Salary Board violated the Open Meetings Act. Of course, he only admitted this after Bryan Sears, Patuxent Publishing, starting asking questions. Here’s what he found. “A salary advisory [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Eric Holder’s Motivation

  let’s start with Flopping Aces Attorney General Eric Holder is going to take 5 of the most dangerous terrorists from Guantanamo Bay Prison and try them in a criminal court in New York City. If memory serves, he claims that he talked over this decision with his wife and brother. Governor [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:12pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Three Good Ones from Big Government

  from Big Government Is medicare the real target of health care reform? by Dr. Jane Orient Nobody outside the inner halls of Congress really knows what’s going on in the negotiations on health care “reform. Every now and then, someone emerges from the formerly smoke-filled rooms and throws another 2,000 or so page [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:06pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Crazy, Or Left-Wing? Is There Still A Difference?

  From Powerline Venezuela is sponsoring an international conference of socialist parties in Caracas, which it pretentiously labels the Fifth International. Socialists from 40 countries, representing 50 political parties, are attending. On Friday, Hugo Chavez addressed the conclave. He praised Carlos the Jackal as a hero, describing him as “one of the [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:15pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• The Health Care Vote: A Cheat Sheet

  The link is here. With Ben Nelson now in the “yes” column, there are now two known Democratic hold outs on tomorrow’s health care vote: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR). Landrieu told reporters today that she’ll likely make an announcement tomorrow morning. Lincoln, on the other hand, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:49am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Global Warming Fraud and Conspiracy? It Just May Be So

  From Red Maryland If the hacked emails and data from the Hadley Climate Research Unit in the UK turn out to be genuine—and the director, Phil Jones says they appear to be—then the global warming alarmist movement has some serious explaining to do. The emails appear to reveal a pattern by [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:40am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Want to Know Why Fewer and Fewer Americans Support the Dems Health Care “Reform?”

  The link is here. If it’s the right thing to do why do you need a $100 million payoff? The $100 Million Health Care Vote? By Jonathon Karl ABC News November 19, 2009 3:03 PM What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here’s a case study. On page 432 of [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:39am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• The Obama administration — ask it no questions, it will tell you some lies

  From Powerline Even congressional Democrats are disgusted with the Obama administration’s phony accounting of what the stimulus plan supposedly is accomplishing. Earlier this week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey lambasted the government’s flawed data purporting to show that $160 billion in stimulus spending has created or saved at least 640,000 [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:21am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Straying from the Facts

  AP’s fact check of Palin reaches too far By Greg Marx Over the weekend, there was a bit of a dust-up between the Associated Press, Sarah Palin, and their respective supporters over the AP’s “fact check” of Palin’s campaign memoir, Going Rogue. Much of the discussion focused on the AP’s decision to [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:11am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• OBAMACARE: Senate Cloture Vote Saturday Evening at 8 PM

  Sen. Reid just filed cloture on the motion to proceed to HR 3590, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act. Remember he is using HR 3590 as a ’shell’ to offer his 2,074 page health bill as a substitute amendment. The cloture vote on the motion to proceed will be [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:49am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Senate Health Bill Resurrects Publicly Funded Abortions

  The link is here. Did Obama lie in his joint address to Congress when he said “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions?” cue to 1:28 for “YOU LIE” Last summer and earlier this fall Obama repeatedly claimed that those on our side who expressed concerns about many aspects of the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:45am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Geithner on the Hot Seat

  From Powerline - Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner’s testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration’s mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame on the Bush administration while failing to acknowledge that when the financial crisis developed, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:36am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Jesse Jackson: ‘You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man’

  By Mike Soraghan The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” The [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:30am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Fox News Poll: Approval of President Obama Hits New Low

  by Dana Blanton President Obama’s approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday. An equal number — 46 percent — disapprove of the job he’s doing. Breaking down the numbers by political party shows how sharply split American voters are over [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:26am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• ONE SENATOR’S CHOICE: OBAMACARE OR REELECTION

  By Dick Morris A Zogby Poll this week illustrates the stark choice facing Senate Democrats as they have to decide whether or not to vote for ObamaCare. The poll shows that Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, high up on the list of vulnerable Senate Democrats seeking reelection in 2010, literally faces a [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:23am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Harvard Medical School Dean: ObamaCare Will “Accelerate” Spending & “Do Little To Improve Quality”

  The link is here. The Dean, Jeffrey S. Flier, decimates the the fairytale from the Obama camp: (h/t Roger L. Simon) Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:49pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Reading Bin Laden His Rights

  From Powerline Lindsay Graham frequently drives us crazy, but it can’t be denied that he has his moments. In today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, he took Eric Holder to the woodshed: Graham is right, of course. Under the Obama administration’s policies, if we capture Osama bin Laden tomorrow, the first thing we [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:41pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Fact-Check This, Associated Press!

  By Jack Cashill “I think Obama’s in a league with TR,” observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. “He created his political reputation through the written word.” To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defeated vice presidential candidate, of creating her reputation thusly. One has to wonder, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:38pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Amazing!!!

  NASA Space Shuttle Launch STS-119 3/15/09 Sunset Launch [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:36pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Higher Taxes in Health Care Bill

  Congressional tax experts say industry taxes are $29 billion higher in health bill By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer Congressional tax experts say Senate health care legislation would impose $29 billion more in taxes on health care industries than originally thought. The Joint Committee on Taxation says drug companies, medical device manufacturers and [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:33pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• DOCTOR SHORTAGE

  By Dick Morris Joseph Stubbs, president of the American College of Physicians — the second-largest doctors’ group in the country — confirms that “the supply of doctors just won’t be there” for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is “already a [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:31pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Stimulating Dishonesty

  From Flopping Aces How Obama’s “jobs saved and created” scam has introduced a new level of dishonesty to government statistics! It’s no secret that Obama’s claim of saving or creating 650,000 jobs is an utter fantasy. But now, the sheer dishonesty and bungling incompetence of the effort to hoodwink Americans into believing [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Treason!

  From Big Government Code Pink Founder and Obama Supporter meets with the Taliban Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:19pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Health care Town Hall in Rockville

  From Red Maryland Nick Loffer of AFP-Maryland asked me to pass this along: Health Care Town Hall in Rockville Tomorrow Need to vent over the House vote on health care reform or don’t know exactly what got passed by 220 Congressmen? Join Dr. Michael Gloth of Johns Hopkins and the Glenn Beck featured [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:01pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Al Gore, Ignoramus

  From Powerline Al Gore has made an enormous amount of money by pretending to know something about science. He is by no means the first such charlatan, but he must be one of the most successful. A week or two ago, when we interviewed National Review’s John Derbyshire on our radio [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:52pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Reality’s A Bitch

  by Laryn Bill would reduce senior care Medicare cuts approved by House may affect access to providers A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• CHANGING THE SUBJECT: WHY O NIXED FT. HOOD PROBE

  By Dick Morris As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.” Yet, even as he was posturing against political [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:45pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Tea Party Protesters Assaulted by Illegal Alien Amnesty Supporters in Ft. Lauderdale

  From Michelle Malkin Far Left’s ANSWER goons attack foes of illegal immigration If the black-and-yellow pro-illegal alien amnesty signs in the photos above and video below look familiar, they should. The Workers’ World Party-staffed ANSWER Coalition first used them during the 2006 nationwide illegal alien marches. Well, they’re baaaack. And over the weekend, [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:24am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Why does he hate us?

  Barack Obama’s America-effacing presidency By: Paul Mirengoff On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not to “jump to conclusions” about the motives that impelled Nidal Hasan’s rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood. By the time Obama issued [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:22am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Another Obama Lie:

  From Sweetness and Light From an unfazed Associated Press: Millions will have to repay part of tax credit By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – More than 15 million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:17am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Reprise: Obama’s ‘Empathy’ For Terrorists

  From Red Maryland In one of the “very serious” articles about Mr. Obama, called “Making It,” in the current issue of The New Yorker we are treated to his response to 9/11 as published in the September 19th 2001 edition of the Hyde Park Herald: Even as I hope for [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:04am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• O’Malley Touting Failure as Success

  From Red Maryland Governor O’Malley is fudging the truth on his campaign site and fund-raising appeals claiming Governing Magazine named him “Governor of the Year.” The magazine didn’t name him governor of the year. It named him one of eight “Public Officials of the Year” for 2009. But then again [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:01am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• If I Didn’t Know Any better I Would Swear Obama Hates America!

  Does Obama Hate America? By-Regina Sztajer He is constantly saying to those abroad we are not a good country and the kind people whom we think we are. God rest the soles of those men and women who fought and died in order to save their nation and nation’s abroad for [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:24pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Reality Check

  First from Flopping Aces They say C-SPAN will last forever. Naked Emperor News posted a flashback YouTube video showing then minority house speaker Pelosi proclaiming ‘absolute outrage’ over the Republican leadership not allowing members of Congress three days to read a bill. Money Quote from Pelosi: “A vote for the motion to [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:50am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Trying KSM: Why? part 2

  From Powerline Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania last year during the campaign, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the “principle of habeas corpus, that a state can’t [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:42am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Evil Exists and Must Be Presumed in Time of War: The Case of Terrorist Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan

  From Red Maryland The case of terrorist Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who on November 5 murdered 13 people and wounded 33 more as he fired upon mostly weaponless victims at Fort Hood, is reflective of the perfect storm of the undeserved and unpatriotic sympathy dictated by the precepts of political [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:33am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Gun-Ho, Twilf, Bad News: Media’s Long Knives Unsheathed on Palin

  by Laryn The long knives of the media have truly been unsheathed for Sarah Palin of late. Exhibit A: demonstrating all the class and balance of its owner Al Gore, the failing “Current TV” network slimed the erstwhile Vice Presidential candidate with some genuinely nasty references. Days after announcing another huge layoff, [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:22am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• By Dick Morris President Obama’s decision to ...

  By Dick Morris President Obama’s decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in New York City along with four others accused of helping destroy the World Trade Center and attack the Pentagon on 9-11 paints a bulls-eye for terrorists right on New York City, their favorite target. Now Obama has [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:16am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Obama Endangers America again for his Political Agenda

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  It’s bad enough Obama is making the troops in Pakistan wait months and suffer further casualities because he cannot find a plan to suit his politcal agenda. Now there is this cr@# from the most radical president ever: Flopping Aces reports that the little O wants to try war [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:11pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Breaking: Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran

  NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:33am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Acorn claims Jerry Brown will Whitewash Investigation: Fault Will Be Found With Filmmakers

  by Capitol Confidential On October 15th, local ACORN spokesman David Lagstein was the special guest of the East County Democrat Club in El Cajon, CA. Lagstein is ACORN’s chief organizer in the San Diego area. The meeting was held at Coco’s Restaurant, a very public venue. Because of ACORN’s close ties [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:32am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Breaking: Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran

  NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:18am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• “Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing

  Substitute “US Government” for Obama and the Democrats, and you get the truth as Bloomberg reports that Emerson Electric, the massive $21 billion manufacturing conglomerate, is raising the white flag and moving offshore. Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr said the U.S. government is hurting manufacturers with regulation and [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:17am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Why Was the “News” Media So Reticent to Call Fort Hood Shooting a “Terrorist” Attack?

  First, from Flopping Aces Was it to shield Obama or because they preferred to use the incident to bash the military? Or both? Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter made no secret of his radical Islamic views. He passed out business cards with the acronomyn SOA indicating he was a “soldier of [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:15am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• When Does Life Begin?

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:11am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• The Times Explains

  From Powerline We and others have written a lot about the obfuscation surrounding Nidal Malik Hasan’s massacre at Fort Hood. The New York Times chimes in with an article that could have been written by a parodist, titled “Complications Grow for Muslims Serving in U.S. Military.” The source of those “complications” [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:08am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Barack Obama — By The Numbers

  by laryn 8 - The maximum level of unemployment predicted by the Obama administration if the $787 billion stimulus package was approved. 17.5 - The current national under-employment rate (U-6), which some experts believe represents a real unemployment rate of 22%. 26 - The number of times President Obama used the word “I” [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:05am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Obama as Commander in Chief: Too Weak to Make the Tough Decisions

  Winning wars against countries that attacked you are just not on the liberal agenda. Official: Obama won’t take any current war options WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:36pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Tropical Depression Ida Brings Much Needed Rain & Casts Further Shame on Global Warming Alarmists

  First, from Flopping Aces The 2009 hurricane season is another in a line of record low hurricane years! What’s left of Tropical Depression Ida is passing overhead as I write. With barely a breeze but some much needed rain she is a welcome end to the 2009 hurricane season. A year which [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:34pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• A Red-Ink Train Wreck: The Real Fiscal Cost of Government-Run Healthcare

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Jail Time For Not Buying Health Insurance? All Fine Says Pelosi

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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:25pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• P.C. in the U.S.A.: A deadly, bipartisan infection

  by Michelle Hey, you know how President Obama constantly carps about having inherited all the nation’s worst problems? Well, there’s one problem he did indeed inherit from the Bush administration — but it’s a problem he won’t acknowledge because it indicts the wretched excesses of the Left. The problem [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:24pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Code Pink sinks to a New Low

  by Laryn Code Pink deliberately targets kids from military families Imagine you’re a youngster, a child of a parent who serves in the military. You are invited to “trick or treat” at the White House on Halloween night. As you are standing in line, a parade of goblins and ghosts passes by. But [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:11pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Obama’s Foreigh Policy: Pre-Emptive Surrender

  We’ve written with some frequency about President Obama’s misguided policy towards Russia, which Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal aptly describe as “trying to accommodate Moscow’s sense of global entitlement.” In practice, as Kagan and Blumenthal point out, this has meant “ignoring the continued presence of Russian forces on Georgian territory, [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• “That’s not a crime to call up al Qaeda, is it?”

  First, from Flopping Aces Clueless Chris Matthews: “See - we have a problem,” Matthews said. “How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he’s an Islamist until he’s made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• How Brown Wants to Screw You

  First From Red Maryland How Brown Wants to Screw You Perhaps the best explication of how rent-seeking corporations use government regulation to stifle competition. And what are the result of all this socialist, anti-competition, economic policies? US Beating Europe…..In Numbers Unemployed The left got what they wanted….we’re like Europe now: Unemployment is now higher in the [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:28pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Who?? What???

  by Laryn The president spoke at Fort Hood today. This portion of his remarks is noteworthy for what it doesn’t mention: It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know — no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:13pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Why Do Western Liberals Support Eastern Illiberals? Bill Clinton Endorses Turkey’s Islamist Regime

  By Barry Rubin Without realizing it, Westerners constantly empower Islamism and other reactionary forces in the Muslim-majority countries. Here’s a good example, thanks to a Turkish reader, Okan Altiparmak. Speaking at the Bosphorus Conference in Istanbul, November 2, 2009, former President Bill Clinton thinks he’s being a nice, genial, non-arrogant, sympathetic [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:11pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• It’s Up To The Senate To Act Like American’s

  By- Regina Sztajer American’s in mass across the nation have taken to the streets to appose national health care but our legislatures have turned a deaf ear. The House voted in a bill of 2000 plus pages by a slim margin and they cheered. What most American’s don’t [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:59pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Lets Examines the Political Correctness That Killed 13 Americans at Fort Hood

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  Why is the Obama Administration so reluctant to call Islamist terror by it’s name? First, from Flopping Aces Obama can’t be bothered by Islamic terrorism By Ralph Peters New York Post Nov. 8, 2009 …A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:12am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Victicrat

  On a Lighter Note: Also Bush or Obama: The Quiz 1. President Bush was famous for lacking “intellectual curiosity”, while President Obama has been called “the smartest guy ever to become President.” Which one reads more books, Bush or Obama? 2. Bush was often considered to be in the grip [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:08am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Lets Examines the Political Correctness That Killed 13 Americans at Fort Hood

  Why is the Obama Administration so reluctant to call Islamist terror by it’s name? First, from Flopping Aces Obama can’t be bothered by Islamic terrorism By Ralph Peters New York Post Nov. 8, 2009 …A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:55am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• WE CAN WIN IN THE SENATE

  As Sean Hannity is fond of saying: “Let not your heart be troubled.” We can still beat the Obama program in the Senate! Obama needed the momentum of House passage to help him in the Senate where the real challenge lies. There, we have several Senators who might well vote no: [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:54am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Ralph Peters Examines the Political Correctness That Killed 13 Americans at Fort Hood

  from Flopping Aces Why is the Obama Administration so reluctant to call Islamist terror by it’s name? Obama can’t be bothered by Islamic terrorism By Ralph Peters New York Post Nov. 8, 2009 …A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our government, [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:12am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Paul Rahe: Obama’s gestures, part 4

  by Powerline Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes on the celebration of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today from which President Obama has chosen to be absent: Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To those in my generation, this seemed an [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:03am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Hope, Change, Cynicism, Pants Afire

  From Red Maryland While in no way is the fight to stop Obamacare over, Saturday’s quote historic unquote passage of the House healthcare bill did settle one thing—if only for those who weren’t wise to it already—Obama is a liar and a cynic: “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:57pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• WE CAN WIN IN THE SENATE

  By Dick Morris As Sean Hannity is fond of saying: “Let not your heart be troubled.” We can still beat the Obama program in the Senate! Obama needed the momentum of House passage to help him in the Senate where the real challenge lies. There, we have several Senators who might well [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:54pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself: Miller Profiles Whisler

  from the PVRC blog From our good friend, Ann Millier at the Examiner.com: Steve Whisler makes his much anticipated announcement of his run for County Council in District 1 on Monday, October 19. Steve presents a pragmatic, objective, no-nonsense approach to problem solving. And, in a district that has seen some [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• The radioactive boy scout:

  When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor By Ken Silverstein There is hardly a boy or a girl alive who is not keenly interested in finding out about things. And that’s exactly what chemistry is: Finding out about things–finding out what things are made of and what changes they [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:48pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• “The Axis of Idiots”

  J. D. Pendry, Retired Sergeant Major, USMC This retired USMC Sgt. Major has his Stuff together. Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:11pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• “Obama, Obama, You Are Either With Them Or With Us.”

  Asks Iranian Pro-Democracy protesters. Guess who he is picking? [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:58am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• After the Health Care Bill

  Yes, the Health Care bill passed the House Saturday 220-215. One Republican voted for Pelosicare: GOP Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana. Since he was elected, Cao has backed the S-CHIP expansion, the $108 billion IMF bailout, and the omni-waste spending bill. And he voted to rebuke GOP Rep. Joe [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:48am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• OBAMACARE ENDORSEMENTS: WHAT THE BRIBE WAS

  By Dick Morris As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the ‘09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these — and the other endorsements — his package has [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:28am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Two from Laryn

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  Fort Hood Suspect Has Ties to 9/11 Mosque The Telegraph reports Nidal Malik Hasan attended the same mosque where three of the 9/11 hijackers worshiped: “Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:25am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Reality Raises It’s Head and the Media Wakes Up About the Obama Administration’s Middle East Failure

  By Barry Rubin There’s something big happening in the air regarding American media coverage of the Obama Administration. With the Washington Post in advance, the New York Times waking up the tiniest bit, the Los Angeles Times trailing far behind, and a lot of other newspapers getting tough, reality is seeping [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:23am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Remember this Date: November 2, 2010

  Health Care Bill Passed: 220-215 Michelle notes that the Dems erupt as only people who just got a lot closer to getting their hands on a good chunk of the U.S. economy can. “Free health care that costs well over a trillion dollars” One Republican, Anh Cao, voted yes. One [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Quick Bites for Sunday

  Saint Cronkite: Journalism’s Twice-Blemished Icon Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood Owens Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in first hour in Congress Obama’s delayed empathy George and Laura Bush Visit Victims of Fort Hood Shooting In Private [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:21pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• They are Voting on the Socialized Health Care bill tonight!

  Want to stop them? Call them Now! Remember: PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Friday, November 06, 2009 Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:42am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

  JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Friday, November 06, 2009 Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:34am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Just How Bad is Obama’s Foreign Policy?

  by Powerline Below John refers to Israel’s seizure of weapons from Iran bound for Syria and Hezbollah on board the Francop. The weapons seized on the ship included some 3,000 rockets of various types, as well as 60-millimeter mortars, 7.62-rifle Kalashnikov-ammunition, F-1 grenades and 122-millimeter Katyusha rockets. The ship’s cache was [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:33am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Just so you Know:

  Unemployment has reached a 26-year high of 10.2 percent. So When will the Stimulus bill be considered a failure? [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Our Brain Dead Country

  The Headline of the Day, from the BBC: Shooting Raises Fears For Muslims In US Army Right now the body count stands at: Non-Muslims 13 Muslims 0 by David Horowitz A Muslim fanatic with an Internet [...] [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Still Not a Terroist Attack to the MSM

  by Instapundit Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. On NPR I heard — I can’t find the story on their website yet — that he had given a presentation on the Koran at a professional conference where he claimed that unbelievers should be beheaded, burned, etc. to the discomfiture [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:52pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• Classy: White House Thugs Now Threatening Democrat Strategists Who Appear on Fox

  by Laryn The Obama Thug Machine is officially out of control. At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  by Robert Farrow

• PBS Ombudsman: ‘Sesame Street’ Fox News Slam Crossed Line

  by John Nolte Earlier this week, Big Hollywood’s Stage Right broke the story of a ”Sesame Street” episode which referred to Fox News as “Pox News” and “trashy.” In response to the episode, PBS also received a number of complaint letters from viewers which prompted a reply from PBS Ombudsmen Michael [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:45pm EST
  by Robert Farrow