"MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent "gag order." The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I "broke in" to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me...The public will judge whether reporters who can't get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist." - James O'Keefe 1/29/2010
Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that their adversaries are idiots. But American liberals, to a degree far surpassing conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while conservative positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological and unworthy of serious consideration. Indeed, all the appeals to bipartisanship notwithstanding, President Obama and other leading liberal voices have joined in a chorus of intellectual condescension.
THE discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.
Barack Obama has banned the Bush-era term “war on terror” and dithered about sending extra troops to Afghanistan, but across the border in Pakistan, the US president has dramatically stepped up the covert war against Islamic extremists.
Newsvine as a whole never ceases to amaze me. I have on so many occasions done my best to keep an even temper when it comes to commenting and writing. Yes, I admit I do dabble at times in the controversial but I also try to at least keep the debate reasonable.
Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words “not true” during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address? He objected to the president’s saying the ruling reversed a century of law.
The president touched off a controversy when he broke with tradition – and decorum, his critics said – by criticizing the court’s recent campaign finance decision in his speech with six justices in attendance and bound by their own tradition of not reacting to what is said. Justice Antonin Scalia once said he no longer goes to the annual speech because the justices “sit there like bumps on a log” in an otherwise highly partisan atmosphere.
“With all due deference to the separation of powers,” Obama said, “the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections.
“It seems clear from Alito’s questioning when the court heard argument in the case that he was taking issue with the president’s assertion that the court reversed 100 years of law, rather than with Obama’s reference to foreign influence, which also has generated some legal debate.
At the September argument, Alito suggested to attorney Seth Waxman that 20 years was the appropriate time frame, encompassing two high court decisions that upheld limits on corporate spending in campaigns.
Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) election has been shown to be “a joke,” the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Thursday.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) castigated Brown for having pushed to be sworn in ahead of schedule to permanently fill the Senate seat left vacant by the congressman’s father’s death in August.
“I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, after passing a $787 billion now $862 billion stimulus package, the largest spending bill in galactic history, he unveiled a manifesto for fundamentally restructuring the commanding heights of American society — health care, education and energy.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republicans’ standard-bearer in 2008, is facing a surprisingly strong primary challenge from the right, evidence that even party leaders aren’t safe from the swell of conservative activism heading into the 2010 midterm elections.
Mr. McCain hasn’t faced a serious challenge since joining the U.S. Senate in 1987. But seven months ahead of the primary, he is using tough-guy tactics and calling in conservative chits to fend off J.D. Hayworth, an ex-congressman and radio host. Mr. Hayworth, who lost his House seat in 2006 and who is best known in Arizona for his opposition to illegal immigration, has seized the Tea Party mantel of low taxes and small government.
There’s always been a disconnect between what Barack Obama says and what he does, but for the last few weeks, the president’s rhetoric has been wholly detached from reality.
Many pundits predicted that after the Massachusetts massacre Obama would swing toward the middle, adopt a conciliatory approach and adjust his policies and priorities to reflect the mood of the nation.
Instead, the president jutted his chin a notch higher in the air and launched into campaign-style attack mode. His statements range from outrageous to audacious and risk throwing Washington into total gridlock. It’s a risky strategy that ought to worry Democrats who this fall will face an electorate weary of political bickering.
In expansive remarks at a law school in Florida, Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday vigorously defended the Supreme Court’s recent campaign finance decision.
And Justice Thomas explained that he did not attend State of the Union addresses — he missed the dust-up when President Obama used the occasion last week to criticize the court’s decision — because the gatherings had turned so partisan.
Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.
One sign that Washington, D.C., had been home to Obama Mania was the number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise. Every street corner, it seemed, had Obama wares or Obama wear for sale. Now, however, most of the winter caps for sale are not emblazoned with the Obama logo. T-shirts depicting our president as a dunking Michael Jordan, a victorious Muhammad Ali, or saber-baring Luke Skywalker yes, these shirts all existed are nowhere to be found.This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington’s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama’s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama Store is boarded up.
Parents in this struggling village above Haiti’s capital said Wednesday they willingly handed their children to American missionaries who showed up in a bus promising to give them a better life—contradicting claims by the Baptist group’s leader that the children came from orphanages and distant relatives.
The 10 Baptists, most from Idaho, were arrested last week trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without the required documents, according to outraged Haitian officials, who have called them child traffickers.
BARRY: ”The topic is politics. It is much more difficult to get a conversation focused on how are we going to help people than a conversation about how is this going to help or hurt somebody politically. And that’s what the American people are just sick of. Because they don’t care, frankly, about majorities and minorities and process and this and that. They just want to know: are you delivering for me?”
Ok, it’s official. Our President is an Idiot. People in socialist countries don’t care. But this is America, where free citizens are OBLIGATED to be politically literate.
Editor’s note: Huffington’s use of “lizard brains” is not intended as a simple insult — it is her scientific analysis.
Arianna Huffington February 10, 2006: Deep in the brain lies the amygdala, an almond-sized region that generates fear.
When this fear state is activated, the amygdala springs into action.
Before you are even consciously aware that you are afraid, your lizard brain responds by clicking into survival mode.
No time to assess the situation, no time to look at the facts, just fight, flight or freeze.
Fear paralyzes our reasoning and literally makes it impossible to think straight. Instead, we search for emotional, nonverbal cues from others that will make us feel safe and secure.
Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he is scheduled to be sworn in Feb. 11, “there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date.”In a letter from his lawyers to Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, Mr. Brown argues that the results of the special election in Massachusetts on Jan. 19 are not in doubt and he should be able to take the seat right away.
At first glance, bump-the-show sounds like a reasonable response to “Bump,” the show — a new, faux-reality Web-based docudrama featuring actors trying to decide whether to have an abortion.Think Jerry Springer meets Oprah meets “American Idol” meets Dr. Oz meets . . . America’s conscience. For the decision to abort or not to abort is up to you, dear audience.
Fox News had its best January in the history of the network, and was the only cable news network to grow year-to-year.
FNC also had the top 13 programs on cable news in total viewers for the fifth month in a row, and the top 13 programs in the A25-54 demographic for the first time in more than five years.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had hoped to orchestrate a grand gesture by trying suspected mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants in federal court in downtown Manhattan.
Symbolically, the civilian trials would be a few blocks from where the World Trade Center’s twin towers collapsed in 2001 after hijackers crashed airliners into them, and in the same neighborhood where lives were upended by the tragedy and health harmed by breathing in smoke, ash and dust.
The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping for a ‘politically binding’ agreement to be agreed that would set the stage for the rapid adoption of the legally binding treaty. After the failure of the summit to agree to even that much, the movement went into a rapid decline.
The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.
Tuesday night found me flipping back and forth between FOXNews and MSNBC. What a contrast! FOX was putting forth the view that the Scott Brown victory Tuesday night was a reaction by the people to the Obama/Democratic agenda, particularly the health-care-conformity bill and spending in general. On MSNBC, Chris Mathews and Richard, uh, Rachel Maddow were spouting off to Keith Olbermann (with each name mentioned this just gets better and better). Maddow went on a tirade about how this was a message to Democrats that the people were tired of the waiting and they want this health care bill passed now! This was all said in-between Olbermann’s rhythmic sneering.
The question I have here – is Maddow the fool or is she right and it’s Democrats across the board (at least in Massachusetts) who are fools? Among the Maddow snarl, coupled with her trademark, ‘Look at me, I’m being sarcastic to make a point” smile, her words spoke volumes about the way these far-left radical commentators see the people, even their own. That, or it’s just empty garbage that sounds good on the surface.
According to her, Democrats want health care reform NOW! And they accomplish that by voting in the Republican and ruining the 60 seat majority? Are these people that stupid or is it that Maddow thinks they are that stupid? These people so upset about inaction that they would wound their party’s control and raise the power level of the other party that wants this bill to go away completely? And they collectively decided this two weeks after the Senate passed their version and less than two weeks before the election (about when Martha Coakley’s numbers began the tumble)? As Congress was working on it?
Wow. That’s [insert sarcastic snarl-smile here] just freakin’ brilliant!
The foolishness of her position is exposed by another side to the election impact. Senator-elect Scott Brown’s win appears to have led to a deliberate slowing down of health care. The White House and other Democrats have been real careful, almost thoughtful, in making it known that Brown’s certification shouldn’t be delayed and that the health-care debate shouldn’t continue until he is seated. I am impressed. When I heard Democrats sent Al Franken’s lawyer to Massachusetts Tuesday morning, I was gunning up for a fight and for another reason for independents to jump off the Democrat ship.
That’s who Democrats would further alienate if they were to play games and delay Brown’s seat. Independents. The majority of those who voted on Tuesday. The group that ultimately decides elections.
The truth of the matter is, Scott Brown’s win on Tuesday breathes a huge sigh of relief throughout the Democratic caucus. The worst thing that could have happened would to have had Coakley win by sliver. Key Democrats like Jim Webb have insisted that the heath care debate not proceed until Brown is seated. Why? At a time when Republicans are completely locked out of legislative proceedings? They have options to try and circumvent any Republican influence yet they are suddenly passive.
It’s a win-win for reasonable Democrats – or those who see their careers getting railroaded this coming November. They can scale back or restart (or abandon) health care reform and can now blame it on the Republicans. They don’t have to fight (or at least appear to fight) for it anymore. They can throw in the towel and the Maddow/Olbermann wing of the party will be upset for a while, but they will possibly cool the heads of many mainstream Democrat and independent voters. All the while, they can scale back or give up other big government agendas and blame the failures on Republicans. Any cost savings and gained market confidence from not spending all of this money with a little Republican influence on economic policies might lead to some indications of economic recovery. Which Democrats, being the party in charge, can easily take credit for.
So they’ll get good marks for not growing government as fast as they had hoped because of Republican interference in the people’s affairs which in turn, causes them to not achieve their promises, thus it’s the Republican’s fault!
Even with a lazy press sympathetic to Democratic causes, Democrats have taken a beating this year from the public. They are tired. They are weary. And they are scared.
As well they should be. If not of the current political climate, then at least be afraid – very afraid – of Rachel Maddow.
While everyone either mopes or celebrates tonight’s GOP upset in Massachusetts, while we focus on the current and ponder the future, while Democrats go through their motions of blaming everyone but themselves, while they plot yet another assault on the democratic process in their furthering efforts to swindle the American people under the guise of health-care…I would like conservatives to take a moment, er – the next 10 months – to consider the positive role everyone played in making this night possible.
Senator-elect Scott Brown (who I suspect may be Senator-elect for a while to come), despite some of the rumblings from the Left and the press, is not a hard-as-nails conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Brown seems cemented in his desire to see the Pelosi-Reid-Obama health-care-conform package quietly buried in the back yard where it belongs. Yet he supported the Massachusetts mandated state-sponsored health-care system.
He is also hardly conservative on social issues. On an appearance on Hannity’s America last week, Hannity asked him about his social issues which Brown dodged and Hannity, to his credit, didn’t make too much about it.
And therein lies the lesson. I’ve grown tired over the last couple of disastrous election cycles where my otherwise smart conservative friends were throwing conservatives who weren’t conservative enough, under the bus. This helped bring in the reign of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and culminated in the right eating it’s own main course of John McCain. Many good conservatives lost elections in 2006 and 2008 because there was an effort at ideological cleansing.
And where are we know? I’ll tell you where we’re at. We’re excited and mobilized behind a liberal Republican who will most likely vote in ways that will upset us from time to time.
That’s not a bad thing. In fact, we need to have this attitude going into November. We need to be more open about supporting Republican candidates who may not pass a conservative purity test. We need to drop our support of some of these fringe third parties that, in the real world, only hurt our side.
And while I admire the tea party movement, please let’s keep it as a movement and not transform it into a political party. I cringe at the thought of conservatives mobilizing as a political force only to get self-absorbed and delusional and think that a third party will help our cause. Please, please, please to the tea party crowd – put your efforts into winning and defeating leftists and concentrate your power in the Republican Party.
This isn’t to say that every Republican is going to be worthy. Obviously there may be situations like in the recent upstate New York Congressional race where the Republican candidate, installed by the local apparatus, was truly a disaster and there was a far more appealing alternative.
But that is really the exception to the rule. In most cases, there are opportunities for us to put forth our conservative candidates through some kind of primary process. But come the general election, your choices in almost all cases will be someone who leans to the right against someone who leans to the left. One candidate will help nudge things in the right direction; the other will help nudge things in the wrong direction.
With too many wrongs, we get trillions of wasteful spending, emboldened enemies, confused allies, government takeovers and on and on and on…
The lesson doesn’t mean to suggest that it’s not natural to feel frustrated or to weigh your principles. But has 2009 alleviated those frustrations? Has the current political environment helped advance your principles in any way? Or have they been threatened like never before?
You’ll never have a perfect party and a perfect candidate is rare. But if conservatives of all stripes can unite behind Scott Brown, then we are that much closer to taking some sense of sanity and self-restraint back to Washington and our wallets.
Our elected leaders have lost their collective minds. That’s my opinion. They have become ignorant to the will of the people. It was made obvious with the lead head line on Drudge today: “DEM THREAT: SENATE CAN PASS HEALTHCARE WITH 51 VOTES”.
The linked article expounds upon the notion that the special election in Massachusetts could result in a Republican victory. And the problem is the Democrats are not paying attention to why.
The “Kennedy Seat” in Mass was one of those standing bastions of Democratic control. Elections in that state were never considered to be endangered. Teddy would hold that seat until he died. Indeed, it was thought that the seat would remain a Democrat seat forever.
But history may change come Tuesday. And while the current Health Care bill may not be the only issue on voters’ minds that morning, it cannot be denied that it is a factor. And that is why I think our elected leaders have lost their minds.
We have a controlling party that has been blasted this past year about the health care reform bills. Nothing that the democrats have proposed has been accepted by a majority of America. Even when some democrats seemed to be listening to the will of the people, their support was bought by the democrat machine. The true nature of Washington politics has been laid bare for all to see in these past few months.
And so, with the evidence of a Government willing to spend with no regard to the taxpayer holding the bill, passing legislation that most Americans oppose, the people are pushing back. Polling shows that a once rock hard Democrat seat may very well swing Republican. But Congress is ignoring the message. Congress is looking at this as partisan politics. Simple difference of opinion between Democrats and Republicans. But it’s more than that. It has gone beyond partisan politics and has reached past the Beltway into the heart of America.
I’m not going to say that a Republican victory on Tuesday is guaranteed. But I will say this: the very fact that it is possible should be giving the Democrats pause, and they should be asking why, instead of maneuvering around it. Unfortunately, congress appears to be locked in tunnel vision, ignoring the people, with their head in the sand.
A victory on Tuesday would mean one thing. Despite the fact that congress is ignoring the wake up call, at least the American people may finally be waking up.
The Alliance Defense Fund is one of America’s best secrets and an organization that we should all support. They are the conservative answer to secular activist groups like the ACLU. The ADF is a coalition of leading attorneys who take on the ACLU and others in defense of America’s founding principles and in particular, our First Amendment liberties. If you give to political causes, please consider the ADF. They are the David to the ACLU’s Goliath and have intervened on behalf of many private citizens, religious organizations and public school districts under assault by the anti-American, politically correct agenda of the ACLU and other leftwing activists. Their lawyers often work pro-bono, relying on donations that typically leave them with a fraction of the ACLU war chest, yet they are highly effective and have thwarted many attempts to undermine freedom, especially in regards to issues of speech and religion.
The ADF is representing the defenders and supporters of California’s Proposition 8, the defendants representing the will of the people and the sanctity of the state’s constitution. The plaintiffs in the case are the usual batch of California-based hyper-activists who assert that sexual preference trumps everything and anything in society – history, tradition, common sense, nature and democracy – represented interestingly enough by some well-known Republican counsel.
The citizens of California have now voted twice to recognize and preserve marriage for what it is – the bringing together of opposing genders with the intent of building a stable society and a normal environment for producing and raising children. This now marks the second time that the Rainbow Fascists on the Left have decided that’s not good enough. After the first challenge to the citizenry of California the move to preserve marriage was upgraded from a legal definition (defined in 2000’s Proposition 22 and struck down in 2008), to a constitutional definition, which culminated in Proposition 8 – fourteen words added to the California Constitution that says pretty clearly, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
This is about as reasonable and straight forward as it can get. Marriage has always been an institution designed around opposing genders – that is the essence of marriage, the bringing of a male and a female together. What gay activists are scratching and clawing for today is not marriage but rather self-gratification through the destruction of a core societal function as a means to convince even themselves that homosexuality is normal and wonderful and to demonstrate it, they are going to force it down the throats of every single solitary citizen. As I’ve written in the past, these activists are increasingly becoming the biggest threats to liberty we as Americans face.
What makes this current battle more significant than others in the past is precisely that a judge has even agreed to take on the challenge that a people cannot determine their own constitutions. It doesn’t get much scarier than this. The challengers to Prop 8 and their supporters in the mainstream media are actually calling Prop 8 unconstitutional. Judge Vaughn Walker’s key angle appears to be based on his request for internal campaign documentation in order to determine if there was any intent in the hearts of supporters of Prop 8 to base their support on prejudice. It apparently doesn’t matter that the language in the proposition itself does nothing outside of defining marriage as between a man and a woman or that by extension, a majority of voters in California themselves must then also be prejudiced if it can be determined that the forces behind Prop 8 have anything at all against homosexuals. Vaughn is also relying on testimony from historians and other experts to prove that because homosexuality has never been the mainstream norm that somehow defines the constitutionality of a marriage definition.
How this can translate into unconstitutionality has yet to be explained nor has it been explained how this change to the California Constitution can even be deemed unconstitutional or at the very least, where in the US Constitution it is said that sexual acts in themselves can be elevated over the rights of people and government to determine their own policies and the rules of government institutions. What this translates into is that homosexuality is now more vital and sacred to the condition of America than the people’s own self-governance or determination of what personal choices are deemed necessary and good or destructive and bad and run contrary to the overall health of a society.
Perhaps the biggest issue at stake here is the promise attached to a legal victory on behalf of those opposed to democracy and that is the promise that if a district judge (and ultimately the CA high courts) determines that Prop 8 is indeed unconstitutional, this will in a sense invalidate every law and constitutional amendment in the country. To put concisely, this will determine a nationwide policy of so-called gay marriage, much like Roe v. Wade determined a nationwide abortion policy.
To go further, this kind of action will fly in the face of voter and legislative majorities across the country and elevate the act of homosexuality from a strange and obsessive fetish among a tiny percent of citizens to one of the most commanding and entrenched personal choices we can observe, trickling into our religious institutions, our educational system and into the psyche of every American child. And yes, this will open the door to polygamy and other alternative relationships that will have the legal precedent to demonstrate that marriage is not only between one man and one woman but rather between any parties that feel they are entitled to it.
A ruling on behalf of gay activists will be a ruling against the sanctity of the constitution itself, the bedrock set of principles that Americans could usually count on to be free of overt political influence. To treat a constitutional amendment like your run-of-the-mill legislation will surely render the constitution no more worthy or predictable than your run-of-the-mill legislation.
And that is a far, far greater tragedy than the idea of homosexuals feeling bad about themselves.
Six years after Norway instituted a smoking ban in all public indoor areas, the Norwegian government is taking action to become the first nation to ban smoking entirely (BBC broadcast 14 JAN 2010).
This should come as no surprise as Norway is often emulated by liberals for it’s single payer universal health care system that covers 100% of its citizens with taxpayer money. Even then, Norwegians are given the option of opting out of the government single payer system and paying out-of-pocket, which many do, some of which seek treatment out-of country due to long wait times. This opt-out option was rejected by Pelosi and Reid… who thought it better to fine and imprison U.S. citizens who dare not play along.
To fully grasp the effect universal health care has over an entire population one need look no further than Norway. Their increased efforts calling for a ban on smoking is to reduce health care system costs. Period. It doesn’t get any sexier than that. The government evaluates health care risks and bans (or severely restricts or heavily taxes) those activities that incur treatment costs. It’s that simple. Now apply the smoking ban to salt, alcohol, fat, and to President Obama’s own remarks, “We can’t eat as much as we want… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.’, and you can see the purpose of universal health care. To manage your daily lives… your calorie intake… the re-distribution of calories to feed a global population. You are only entitled to your fair share. Think thats a stretch? Not according to Norway’s Minister of Health;
“Another important global issue is Social determinants of health. Good health is unevenly distributed among social groups in the population. The most privileged people, in economic terms, have the best health. We must take steps to make the distribution more fair.”
“A central task for the WHO in the years to come will therefore be to guide Member States to develop effective tools and measures to reduce diseases caused by life style. Smoking is a good example.”
But its not just smoking. Norway’s tax on alcohol is the highest in Europe, and possibly the entire world. When, in 2002, Norway’s Progressive Party demanded a 25% cut in alcohol taxes the (then) Prime Minister declared that was entirely out of the question, stating “Its impact would be dramatic in terms of alcohol-related damage to health”.
Norway imposes a 14% value added tax on food and a 25% value added tax on chocolate, sugar, and high calorie/low nutrient foods. Do you see the link? Universal Health Care changes everything… from the air we breathe to the food we eat.
Norway is a drop in the bucket compared to actions being considered by the United Nations. In a 2004 report made by Josef Schmidhuber (Perspectives Studies Unit, Economic and Social Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) he makes the direct link between global diet changes causing a rapid increase in global obesity rates and non-communicable diseases. He goes on to provide policy options which include food price interventions (price hikes); fat food tax; tax on fat people; and disincentives for those who don’t lose weight.
Here are a few excerpts. WARNING: This UN report is very disturbing, and represents the radical agenda of universal health care;
- The exit out of food poverty may be associated with a straight entry into health poverty. This means that, while fewer people will suffer from hunger and chronic undernourishment, more will have health problems related to obesity and NCDs. The impacts will be felt more strongly than in developed countries as fewer consumers in developing countries will be able to afford the needed medical treatment even if they can afford more food. Many NCDs have a lethal impact if left untreated.
- One of the most popular proposals to come to grips with the growing obesity epidemic and associated public health costs has been the proposal of a tax on energy-rich foodstuffs. The first intervention point would be to influence producer prices for food, i.e. interventions at the agricultural producer level. The second intervention point is price interventions at the consumer level.
- The case for food price interventions:
The basic case for food price interventions rests on the notion that higher prices could provide a means to reduce excess food consumption, which is in turn associated with significant societal externalities. Put differently, the price of food energy set by a free market reflects the cost of producing the food rather than true cost (which is the production cost plus the external costs of treating NCDs such as coronary heart disease (CHD) or non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)).
Do you see how disturbing these statements from 2004 are? Not only is this a direct attack on free market food production, it illustrates that these radicals have been planning this for years. Food is too cheap… true food costs should be much higher to include medical costs for treating things like coronary heart disease. It is the governments role to regulate and tax your calorie intake, and to penalize you for taking more than your fair share.
This is the true agenda of the radical left. These nut-jobs look up to countries like Norway and strive to be in lock-step with the UN when it comes to controlling how much you eat, how much energy you use, how much of a footprint you should have on planet earth. It’s an ultimate power grab of your freedom, courtesy of Reid, Pelosi, Obama and their legion of dim-witted drones who are selling America out to the socialized world.
The majority of Americans are sick of this nonsense and are not going to take it laying down. All of this crap can be stopped if government doesn’t control our health care. The bad news is we’re almost there… short of a Massachusetts miracle. And should that fail, all is not lost. This year, at the ballot box, droves of conservative voters will evict these democrats who have opposed the will of the majority. And that day can’t come soon enough.
If you have ever wondered what it means to be a liberal, to think like a liberal, to act like a liberal, to pursue their beliefs and ideals, just imagine a group of people who place themselves equal with God, perhaps believing they were sent by Him to grace humankind in order to fix all of His earthly mistakes. After all, wasn’t that the Lord Jesus’ mantra? Isn’t there a Gospel of Gore in which Jesus carried forth time-honored liberal messages to Rome against capital punishment, global warming, war, capitalism, bonuses, all the while lobbying Rome’s elite to support Universal Health Care, wealth re-distribution, and higher taxation to pay for bigger government… since it is government (not God) that is ordained by God to fix the unfairness of, and what is, planet earth? Didn’t Jesus do those things? Wasn’t his message to eliminate individual free will for obtrusive government?
Some conservatives like to think of liberals as godless, baby killing, anti-war, dope smoking, gay-marriage loving socialist. While that might describe some, “evangelical liberals” are a growing segment within the new democratic party. According to an article published in Newsweek, Young Christians liked Obama much better than Kerry: a third of white evangelicals ages 18 to 29 voted Democratic.These Christians voted for the change that is occurring in America today: Federal funding of abortion, health care as a divine right, carbon credits and the trivial pursuit to save polar bears. They voted for America to befriend oppressive world leaders and the entire Muslim world who actively recruits and harbors terrorists. They voted for the oppression of everyones free will for the sake of nobody’s individual rights. They voted for a false utopia that places faith in the likes of Al Gore, while going against biblical teachings telling them that Heaven isn’t here on earth. They elected a 20-year congregation member from a church who preached the evils of “God-Damn America”, who has carried that message forward by proclaiming “We are no longer a Christian Nation!”.
These evangelicals have substituted the gospel for an all powerful–godless government who claims to know better than God, especially in matters of controlling global temperature. In their wisdom of preaching global warming (a naturally occurring phenomena) they stand, jaw agape, unable to explain the past ten years of global cooling, resorting to coverups while 2010 goes on record as one the coldest in recorded history. These muted evangelicals are voiced over by Barack Obama, who proclaimed: “We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost”. That statement is godless government in action… one that enslaves the population to science who resorts to theories, like chaos theory, as a means of explaining the unexplainable, or the divine.
What these young liberals have forgotten is that God didn’t make any mistakes on planet earth and the activities of man. He designed an imperfect world to be ruled by imperfect people, full of pestilence, war, oppression, tyranny, and unfairness on every level. He designed diseases and every ailment known to man. He did this not to punish us, but to encourage individual free will in pursuit of divine salvation. That the physical world can never match the spiritual world on any level. Never once did He ever hint that government is, was, or should be, the solution for correcting anything that He created.
There is no excuse evangelical liberals have for supporting, or voting for, a radical socialist agenda aimed at destroying the American way of life. A way of life that was founded on Judea-christian principles, that is now being wiped away by a godless government whose sole objective is to obtain even greater power over it’s citizens under the name of soft-tyranny. The kind of tyranny that will throw you in jail for not buying health insurance. The kind of tyranny that promises to jack-up your energy costs as penalty for keeping warm on a cold day. The kind of tyranny that chides its citizens for keeping thermostats at 72 degrees, while the Chider-in-Chief sets his much higher (Obama hypocrisy: Your home heating compared to his). The kind of tyranny that says Americans are too arrogant and must be cut down to size, while ignoring every good deed this nation has ever produced.
These are just a few examples of Evangelical Liberal Tyranny… rather, Christians casting lots for an earthly utopia. These Christians have blurred the message of individual spiritual salvation with collective government solutions. A toxic tango of dancing with the devil.
Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight
First and foremost I do not condone the actions of Tiger Woods. That said I do feel the media as well as many people are over reacting about something that should be between him and his wife. For the past month all I have been hearing about is Woods and the many affairs he had. Hell, it seems it took a kook with a bomb in his panties to get people focused on something other than Woods and his affairs. Is it me or does it appear the liberal media has made a bigger deal about Tigers many affairs than it really was?
Thinking back it appear this is all the media. Whenever the media has a chance to sling mud on anyone who at one time could be construed as a decent person they attack as a shark attacks when blood is in the water. Circling the carcass until there is little left. That coupled with the fact that the whole Tiger affair took our eyes off the real story which is the Democrats pushing a sub par health care bill down our proverbial gullets. Most Americans it seems are easily distracted, and when a star the caliber of Tiger Woods is set for a big fall most cannot wait to see the train wreck. So what better way for the liberal media to hide the fact Americans are being hornswaggled than to put an American icon in his place. As the affair tally grew a piece of legislation that will affect most if not all Americans was being bought and sold by the corruption in Washington. Millions no…. billions of dollars in payoffs to Senators from states like Nebraska, Louisiana, and Vermont to vote yes to a bill they would not have voted for otherwise where handed out. All the while most Americans eyes where being diverted to Woods.
Finally, I have noticed a trend here. Could it be that the media and the Democrats are somehow in cahoots with one another. Unless one went looking for it we heard more about Woods, Octomom, Balloon Boy, Adam Lambert, or Kate Gosslin than we did about Cap and Trade, the Stimulus, unemployment, Climategate, or the Democrats hiding behind closed doors to push a health care reform bill very few really want. It almost appears the media is trying to dumb down America pushing unimportant news while important news is going on. To coin a phrase from the President this is a “teachable moment”, Americans need to wake up before they wake up in country they barely recognize and they wonder where it was lost. Thinking back it was probably lost somewhere between the “Beer Summit” and Adam Lambert swapping spit with a male musician.
I seriously am wondering what is so bad about this commercial. Not only was it not controversial, but there was no mention of abortion, God, or any of the things that tend to get liberals unhinged. I actually thought the commercial was nice (probably the best thing about the Superbowl IMO). The sad fact is I think these people look for reasons to come unhinged. Other than the words “Who Dat” and bringing up Katrina whenever the Saints where brought up the complaints about this commercial where probably the most annoying facet of this years Superbowl. It will be interesting to watch today to see what the pro-abortion crowd says about the ad.
MSNBC has exposed the real power behind Sarah Palin – her own Cheney if you will. The most sinisterly powerful First Dude in American history, Todd Palin. This was exposed after MSNBC obtained Palin-related e-mails via Alaska’s public record laws that showed among other things that Todd Palin had access to the internet. It also frustratingly demonstrates that Todd Palin may not be the knuckle-dragging fish-sniffer they were hoping he was.
Assuming MSNBC provided the most scandalous examples up-front, it appears that Todd…well, played a role in his wife’s gubernatorial apparatus (I thought Hillary Clinton was the most powerful ‘First Dude’ in history). The AP, commenting on MSNBC’s expose, acknowledges that the vast majority of what MSNBC calls “e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials” were received by Todd or copied to Todd. E-mails sent by Todd appeared to be general questions or acknowledgments on various matters, not representing some kind of fiendish shadow-power behind Sarah Palin.
The Power Behind The Sarah
In one example that MSNBC touts as Todd receiving “background checks on a corporate CEO” (muhahaha!), if you actually read the e-mail the scarce information appears to be mostly public information anyway.
The real scandal is that he used Yahoo! for his e-mails…
Here is what I want to see while watching the Superbowl next weekend.
As with most anything I must say there is something I really don’t want to see this year during the Superbowl.
As you might know this years Superbowl and CBS is not without controversy. People have complained about CBS and their choices in what commercials to air. People have had issues with an CBS airing an alleged Pro-life commercial being aired, and others are upset at the decision by CBS to not air a video by gay dating site ManCrunch.com. To be quite honest I am a bit shocked by how CBS is handling this situation and find it a bit refreshing that they have decided this. Maybe my shock is off track and the people at CBS realize family values are still important to many people who will watch the Superbowl. And in the whole scheme of things no matter how much it upsets these fringe groups it is CBS’s call on what they will and will not air. In the end as with many things people will be upset and will complain about the decision too bad it is not their decision to make.
For those of you sick to death of the sickening crush MSNBC has for President Obama take a look at Chris Matthews as he once again awkwardly shows his love for President Obama.
First off only a Liberal would get away with such a comment without the disgusting howl of the race baiters beating down the door. Next most Americans I know don’t look at this as a black or white thing anymore. In fact that novelty, to most I know, wore off before he was sworn into office. The fact of this is MSNBC and Matthews to be specific seem intent on injecting race into everthing they cover. He used the word “post-racial” my question to Matthews is how in the world can we become this “post racial” utopia when we are constantly being reminded by the MSM that race is an always issue? Once again a host on MSNBC says something stupid and once again I am reminded just why I would rather have my eyes burned out by a hot poker or even better water boarded than spend more than 3 minutes watching these tools. Hey Matthews after I watched this video “I forgot you where a reporter/newsman”…
Here is my problem with this. First off, “pro choice” should be just that pro choice. By choice I mean they should show all sides of the issue and should have no problem at all with this commercial of one woman “choosing” to not have an abortion. She chose to have Tim and isn’t that what pro-choice should mean? It is apparent there seems only one choice these groups want to push and that choice is abortion. I applaud both CBS and the Tebows on their choosing to run this add. All the “pro-choice” crowd is to me and many these days is pro-abortion.
SCOTUS this week finally found their copy of the US Constitution and did what George W. Bush predicted they would do several years ago: strike down McCain-Feingold campaign finance ‘reform’. Putting aside all of the theoretical whining from the legislation’s supporters, what this does in real terms is help bring the money and the wheeling and dealing out of the shadows and back into the open.
McCain-Feingold did nothing to stem corporate and other special-interest influence in Washington. Nothing. It seemed that while we didn’t want Microsoft influencing the very political process that was attempting to destroy it time and time again, private citizens with unlimited wealth like George Soros and Mark Cuban were funding armies of 527’s and other political organizations whose sole purposes were to run propaganda wars against candidates they wanted to defeat.
Who, under this system, had more influence? George Soros or the tens of millions of Americans who work for corporations that were barred from representing their employees via their own interests?
Meanwhile, President Obama pretends that special-interests were a thing of the past until this SCOTUS ruling.
Corporations represent us far more accurately than incumbent bureaucrats in Washington – empty political rhetoric is not a substitute.
I could write a long politically charged article, sure to raise the hairs on the back of the necks of many liberals.
But I think the headline says it all.
Even before the first vote was cast, the liberal machine started pointing fingers to get a head start on the blame game should Coakley lose. And as the votes were being cast, the White House liberal lap dog Gibbs began the “play it down” regurgitation, looking much like Baghdad Bob (”There are no Marines in Baghdad!”) or a South Park Officer Babrady (”Okay folks move along, nothing to see here, move along!”), playing down the impact on the President’s agenda should Brown win.
Excuses are being made, published, expounded upon, analyzed, and argued. They’re blaming this loss on everything except the truth: Voter Anger.
You can call them “Tea Baggers” if it makes you feel good. But they just served it to you piping hot with all the steam of an angry voter. And they just showed the rest of the nation that it can be done. Look for this historic event to be repeated.
Earl Gray. One lump of sugar, with a touch of lemon.
I’ll start out being honest – I could care less whom two consenting adults marry. But something about what is going on with Prop 8 has me set aback. Proposition 8 for anyone who might have been in a coma the past few years is the “California Marriage Protection Act”. In other words it pretty much defines marriage as an act between a man and women. It was voted on in California in the 2008 election.
In looking it up I see the state of California voted “Yes” to Proposition 8 52.24% to “No” 47.76. In other words the majority of the voters in California oppose gay marriage. So my question is this, what is Unconstitutional about a majority people voting for marriage to be only between a man and a woman? Where do people who oppose Prop 8 get off saying the votes of the majority can be trumped by a group of judges? We have seen this before where the opinion of a group of judges trump the will of the majority.
Finally, call me crazy but this seems another case of liberals and thier ilk pushing something that affects very few if us to keep us from seeing the real issues (the economy and unemployment).
In the Presidents mind the Buck stops… well, nowhere. Ten days after President Obama announced a “Systemic Failure Occured“, the administration is preparing the public for a “Shock Report” detailing intelligence failures that could have prevented the Christmas Day attack. Despite these systemic failures no one in the administration is being held accountable or fired for claiming the “system worked“.
Somebody please inform Janet that allowing the fox to enter the chicken coop is a massive failure in the minds of all farmers.
Throw in Gibbs and what we have is White House antics competing with Key Stone cops, all beating one another over the head with belly clubs while running around in circles.
If photo ops of our President getting angry and saying things like “I will not tolerate (failures)”, “This is unacceptable”, “We screwed up (Gibbs)” then where is the accountability Mr. President?
Somebody please tell Obama to call the Smithsonian and send over Truman’s infamous desk top sign “The Buck Stops Here”. And for Gods sake, have it facing the President.
This I fear is what millions of American seniors have to look forward to if Reid, Pelosi, and Obama get their way. Americans need to rally even harder and push these jokers out of office before they destroy the country as we know it.
Thanks to Al Gore and Gordon Brown for this important Global Warm er…… Climate Change moment at the Copenhagen Summit. Watch as Al realizes “The Inconvenient Truth” that Gordo has led him to …… a closet. This proves just how intelligent Gore and Brown really are. Let’s call it the blind leading the blind. Thanks guys for the laugh let’s hope your failures continue.
Bill O’Reilly was recently asked on Good Morning America to grade President Obama. Averaging the criteria, O’Reilly gave the president a generous C, down from the B he offered up in April.
Switch to Prez-O himself. Oprah asked him to grade his presidency and Obama responded with a quick and confident, “Solid B+”.
Sorry, I’ve been out of the leftwing public schools for a while but when you grade yourself just a hair away from an A, aren’t you saying that you just missed doing the best possible job that could be done? I understand that Obama’s strategy is (and has been to) blame all of his problems on that guy who left office almost a year ago, but really. Solid B+?
He should give himself an F in modesty (if that were possible). The question is…does he really believe it? If he’s been honest then that must make him delusional. The scariest thing we could have is an egomaniac in the White House who actually believes all of the ‘walk-on-water’ hype that helped put him in the Oval Office.
Let’s hope he gets asked this question next year. I’m scared to see what a C looks like…
More Looney-Toons from Berzerkeley, CA: now pro-abortion activists are sending coat hangers to members of Congress who opposed said abortions being funded by you and me against our wills. As usual, the debate on the pro-abortion side is never about the specific issue at hand but always diverted into some bastardized version of the issue.
Pro-abortion activists won’t acknowledge the problem that most Americans have – even moderate pro-choicers – with using tax dollars to fund this controversial act that is in opposition to the concept of ‘health-care’. Pro-abortionists argue that by not including abortion in with government subsidies and so-called public options, we are preventing poor women from seeking abortions.
Ok, then it’s simple: we cannot proceed with government take over of health care. Anyone without an ulterior motive should respect that Americans shouldn’t have to pay for something elective that they oppose on every conceivable level.
This idea doesn’t prevent or outlaw abortions. Since over 90% of all abortions are elective…pay for it yourself! Start a charity organization; petition Planned Parenthood; ask clinics to perform abortions on sliding income scales.
But leave me out of it. And stop sending stupid symbols like hangers to politicians lest you expect them to send back severed baby limbs as an answer.
I sometimes wonder if anyone bothers listening to our leaders anymore. During his acceptance speech laying claim to his unearned peace prize, Obama said this;
“The instruments of war have a role to play in preserving the peace”
Now war is many things. It has been described as a “necessary evil”, ”A last and final resort”, ”A means to defeat tyranny”, and other terms that are meant to associate war with the sheer terror and finality that it brings. But never in my life have I heard war described as an instrument of peace.
Traditional instruments of peace are terms and actions that prevent war. ”Walk softly and carry a big stick’, “Peace talks”, “Peace treaties”, “Peace through Power”, and other terms that are meant to associate peace with the threat of overwhelming force or through bilateral negotiation.
War does not preserve peace. They stand in total opposition to one another. The Presidents statement is a dangerous one. It justifies war against unpeaceful acts. And perhaps this explains Obama’s silence over China’s crackdown in Tibet, Xinjiang province, and weak positions in Afghanistan and Iran. Obama actually supports military action against civil unrest. And we should be warned.
The worlds predominant spokesperson for the Scientific community has spoken. The earth’s interior is “millions of degree’s”.
O’BRIEN: …to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
NOBEL LAUREATE GORE: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy – when they think about it at all – in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot.
We need to stop addressing Al Gore as “Al Gore” and assert his rightful title as the “Scientific Community Spokesperson”. Maybe then, real scientist would begin to object to the nonsense coming out of this man.
Senator-elect Scott Brown (who I suspect may be Senator-elect for a while to come), despite some of the rumblings from the Left and the press, is not a hard-as-nails conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Brown seems cemented in his desire to see the Pelosi-Reid-Obama health-care-conform package quietly buried in the back yard where it belongs. Yet he supported the Massachusetts mandated state-sponsored health-care system.
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