Truth and Freedom vs. Tyranny
and Propaganda
Sabotaging America: Incompetent or Intentional?
"Everyone is entitled to
their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts." --
Daniel Patrick Moynihan … Well, here are
some basic facts about how the country is faring with Barack
Obama in the White House. Take a look at the numbers,
sans commentary, and make your own judgment about whether Barack
Obama deserves another term in office.
(1) Real median household
income is down $4300 since Obama took office.
(2) The percentage of unemployed workers who've been out of a job for more than
a year is over 30%. (3) The country has had the longest streak of +8%
unemployment since the Depression under Obama: 39
months and counting. (4) In 2011 under Barack Obama, nearly one out of every seven Americans was on food stamps. That's a 70 percent increase from 2007.
(5) Fifty percent
of new college graduates are underemployed or unemployed.” Click on
the link below to see all of the15 facts. (5/19/2012)
“Earlier
this week Obama
administration officials were caught red-handed adding policy facts about their
boss into almost every single official presidential biography (since Calvin
Coolidge) listed on the White House
website. As a result, the Karl Rove-backed Super PAC American
Crossroads released a web ad Friday hammering the administration for using
such contemptible tactics to promote their economic and legislative agenda.”
Click on the link below to watch the ad. (5/19/2012)
“Today, May 16th, in an attempt to do the job that the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to do for 1,113 days, Senate Republicans forced votes on five budget proposals. As expected, all five budget proposals failed, with not a single Democrat voting for any one of them. FreedomWorks issued a Key Vote notice in favor of the budget resolutions being offered by Senators Toomey, Lee, and Paul ... President Obama’s budget proposal, S.Con Res. 41
, which was introduced by Senator Sessions of Alabama in order to give the Democrats a chance to vote on the President's plan to dramatically raise spending and taxes. Unsurprisingly, the Obama budget received zero votes from either party, as it is absurdly unsustainable and indefensible. Roll Call Vote 97.” (5/16/2012)http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/max/kev-vote-on-republican-budgets-in-the-senate-see-h?source=M20
“When I asked him [Romney]
about the unfulfilled promises from previous Republican presidents to reduce
the size and cost of government, it produced his longest answer: ‘I'm in this
to get America right. I'm absolutely convinced that the future of liberty, not
just for us, but for many in the world, depends on America changing its ways.
And we are going to have to dramatically cut back on the scale and influence of
government, or else we're going to become a second-tier nation, unable to
defend ourselves and defend our liberties and the liberties of friends around
the world.’” (5/15/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2012/05/15/romneys_stellar_performance/page/full/
“Bankrupt solar company Solyndra is the poster child for Mr. Obama’s
green misadventures, and representative of the wider wreckage his policies have
caused. In the past several months, the following green companies – which
received state or federal funding guarantees – declared bankruptcy or laid off
hundreds of workers to avoid bankruptcy: Ener1 (renewable energy storage
battery technology components), Abound Solar Manufacturing (solar panels),
Beacon Power (energy storage), Evergreen Solar (solar panels), SpectraWatt (silicon solar cells), and Solar Trust of
America (1,000 megawatt solar plant). The sheer volume of this waste is
astounding ... Against this backdrop of waste, crony capitalism and failure
arrives Mr. Obama’s opponent Mitt Romney, who represents
something else entirely: private sector success at Bain Capital. Founded in
1984 by Mr. Romney and two partners, Bain has risked billions investing in
hundreds of companies across America … The Romney/Bain formula works because it
starts from a different point and produces a different result. Bain risks
private capital on private ventures to create private jobs and private wealth.
In contrast, the Obama/Solyndra
formula risks public money on private ventures and creates no private jobs or
(non-union) wealth … In stark contrast, unlike Solyndra,
Bain Capital is still in business and despite the recession, it is poised to
invest in companies and produce jobs as a result. The reason why is simple: the
Romney/Bain formula works; the Obama/Solyndra formula does not.” (5/15/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidmalcolm/2012/05/14/solyndra_v_bain_capital/page/full/
“In The Hunger Games,
the young heroes of the film were literally trying to survive the
big-government, nanny-state ordered ‘death panel’ competition created to
thin-out the freedom seeking herd of human sheep who foolishly thought their
destiny should be in their hands and not that of the government … At one point
as they televise the games into a huge theatre of wealthy and protected
government supporters, it’s impossible not to see the vacuous and superficial
faces as a collection of every single demographic group that blindly supports Barack Obama. While comical, it’s
also more than frightening in its reality. As bad as The Hunger
Games is for Mr. Obama’s ‘I’m better than you,
so I will think for you’ Big-Government image, The Avengers is worse.
Much worse. The basic plot of The Avengers is that the
freedom-defending Superheroes have united to try and stop the totalitarian,
big-government loving Loki from subjugating all of human-kind … Says Loki to
the cowering crowd now kneeling before him: ‘I come with glad tidings of a
world made free - from freedom. Freedom is life's great lie’ … Bingo. The Obama-Alinsky philosophy in one liberty-destroying
sound-bite … If you need further proof that President Loki…sorry, I mean Obama…wants the government to do all of your thinking, look
no further than the virtual woman he and his campaign have just created. Her
name is ‘Julia,’ and in the world of Barack Obama, from birth to a future ‘death-panel’ end, the
nanny-state dictates her decisions. Aside from being a truly weird and creepy
creation, ‘Julia’ is an insult to all women as the President and the Obama campaign tell them, ‘Don’t worry, we, your
government, will do the thinking for you.’ The Avengers is a well made and
very entertaining movie. But more than entertaining, it has inadvertently
lifted the curtain to reveal a truth the left would prefer to keep hidden. That
truth being that Loki does exist and that his big-government beliefs can be
found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (5/12/2012)
“This week the Obama reelection campaign released an ad called ‘We're
Coming Back.’ It's a blatant rip-off of Ronald Reagan's 1984 ‘Morning in
America’ ad that pointed out how much stronger, prouder and better America had
become during my father's first four years. The Obama
ad claims that we're on the road to recovery and says the president is working
hard to finish the job he started. It's not supposed to be funny. But there's
one serious problem with the Obama ad -- after four
years of his reign of errors things are not getting better. And he has no new
ideas, just the same bad Big Government ones he's been pushing -- more taxes,
more spending and more regulation … Ronald Reagan turned the country around the
right way. He lowered taxes, cut regulations and got the government off the
back of businesses and out of the way of the American people. After four years
of my father's administration, Americans could see real signs of improvement
and a hopeful future for the country. That's why RR was re-hired. After four
years of President Obama, our only hope is that in
November he is fired.” (5/12/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2012/05/11/only_obama_is_better_off/page/full/
I went to sleep each night
listening to my wife sob as she went over in her mind what she'd seen during
the day -- the empty shelves in the state stores, the burly KGB types watching
our every move … such was life in the workers' paradise. But tonight we were
free, and the next morning we would be leaving … Now it seems one blind man
from the village of Dongshigu in Shandong Province
deep in still Communist China has confounded the best laid plans of two world
powers. Just by saying what he pleases, just by acting like a free man in his
own country … the Hon. Hillary Clinton contented herself with tangential
allusions … ‘This week has shown again,’ she said at one point, ‘that we cannot
wall off human rights from our bilateral relationship.’ Ya
think? Did it take until last week for so elemental an observation to sink in …
Thoreau was mainly amused by how easily confused supposed power can be when
confronted by just one free man. ‘I saw,’ he concluded, ‘that the State was
half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that
it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect
for it, and pitied it.’ Pity poor Hillary, with all her prestige and titles and
press coverage, suddenly reduced to stammering by the power of one free man.” (5/12/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2012/05/12/the_power_of_one_free_man/page/full/
“Americans need to be
liberated from the government’s message that it will provide for them and meet
all their needs. This is blasphemy. Nothing is free. While the governments is
promising health care, economic opportunities for all, redistribution of
wealth, etc, Americans need to awake from their slumber and realize that their
hard-earned taxpayer money will be used to fund these ‘free’ opportunities.
There are many people that rely on welfare and social services, and the
government has compelled them to stay just where they are. These people must
liberate themselves from their belief that it’s ok to stay on welfare and live
off the expense of other taxpayers. It is time for individual responsibility.
Time for people to realize that you do not have to stay in your current
predicament, but that you can arise from the ashes of economic bondage and
enhance your opportunity, such as home ownership, entrepreneurship, etc.
Americans must liberate themselves from the shackles of government expansion.
The government does not have the right to tell you what doctor to go to, what
car to drive or how to spend your money. If Americans do not speak up and let
their voice be heard, they will continue to live in political Egypt, slaving
themselves only to see the government deepen their economic woes … While the
government is bankrupting Social Security and Medicaid, manipulating citizens
with the Federal Reserve, and expanding its power over the private sector, what
will you do? Will we continue to cling to a government that depends on China
and Saudi Arabia for oil instead of decreasing our dependency on foreign oil or
will we remain silent? It is time for our minds to be liberated. It is time for
us to hold our elected officials accountable. The longer we are silent, the
less chance we have of becoming truly liberated.” (5/2/2012)
“For each of his economic
failures, Obama has a scapegoat—‘speculators,’ the ‘top one percent,’ or his favorite, the Bush tax cuts of
2003. At various times, he has blamed these tax cuts for his weak economy, for his deficit, for allowing the rich to avoid paying their ‘fair share’ of taxes, and for harming middle class incomes. On each of these points, the
president’s claims are the exact opposite of the truth, as is shown by his own
government’s statistics. (See table) … Rather than increasing the deficit by
reducing revenues, the Bush tax cuts actually
increased revenues, reducing the deficit … Did the Bush tax cuts
allow ‘the rich’ to avoid their ‘fair share’ of taxes? On the contrary, the
Bush tax cuts actually increased the share of total income taxes paid
by the wealthiest Americans … If President Obama
really wants to grow the economy, increase revenues, shrink the deficit, shift
more of the tax burden onto the rich, and raise middle-class incomes, he must
learn from history. If he really wants what he says, Obama
must cut taxes.” (5/1/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51166
“And after ignoring concerns
about constitutionality for over three years, Democrats are now watching the
Administration of their party Leader, Barack Obama, struggling to answer serious questions before the
Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The left’s disregard for the limitations of
government has been apparent for decades … But now a moment of truth is staring
all Americans in the face, as the Supreme Court will soon determine if the
government can force you to buy something, along with determining whether or
not the distinction between ‘citizen’ and ‘non citizen’ (as in Arizona’s
illegal immigration law) matters any longer … The fact is that when Presidents
and members of Congress dismiss the Constitution as Mr. Obama
and his party have, the only thing standing between the individual citizen and
the raw, brutal force of governmental power is the Supreme Court
itself. The American founders understood some things about the history of
the world, as it existed leading up to our nation’s birth, and they recognized
the natural human tendency of those in power to control and ultimately
brutalize those beneath them. This is why our Constitution stipulates that
we are governed by three co-equal branches of government (not just one or two),
and why those branches intentionally create a ‘check and balance’ between each
other … Who would stand with Obama in a campaign of
Supreme Court bashing … Put them all together, and you’ve got a critical
mass of Americans who neither care nor understand a wit about history, ‘limited
government,’ the U.S Constitution, or the Separation of Powers.” (4/30/2012)
“Armendariz then shared his bloody analogy: ‘It was kind of
like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean.
They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys
they saw, and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really
easy to manage for the next few years ... So, that's our general philosophy.’
Echoing President Obama's ‘punch back twice as hard’
treatment of his political enemies, Armendariz
explained to his underlings that ‘you hit them as hard as you can, and you make
examples out of them, and there is a deterrent effect there’ ... In other
words: Suck up, fly left, or face prosecution. The goal isn't a cleaner
environment. The goal is political incitement of fear … Tyrannical actions, of
course, speak louder than weasel words. And the record shows that Obama environmental overlords run amok … Vice President Joe
Biden is right about Obama's ‘big stick.’ Too bad
he's using it to beat down America's domestic energy producers and wealth
creators instead of our foreign enemies.” (4/27/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=51138
“There are three big ideas … competing for humanity's allegiance:
Leftism, Islamism, and Americanism. I argue that the American value system … is
the best system ever devised for making a good society … ‘Liberty’ means the
individual must be as free as possible. And this is only possible when the
state and government are as small as possible. The freer the state is to do
what it wants, the less free the citizen is to do what he wants … ‘In God We
Trust’ means that a good society is only possible when the great majority of
its citizens feel morally accountable to a God that is morally judging and a
religion that is morally demanding. If men are to be free, they must control
themselves. And if a moral religion doesn't control them, the state will try to
… nationalism that is rooted in liberty and God-based morality -- is part of
the American values system … These magnificent American values are applicable
to virtually every society in the world. But Americans cannot export values
they do not themselves know or believe in. And that is why I have devoted so
many years to writing ‘Still the Best Hope.’ Because Abraham Lincoln was right
when he said that America is the ‘last best hope of earth.’” (4/24/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2012/04/24/why_america_is_still_the_best_hope/page/full/
“Call it President Obama’s Committee for
the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and
Human Services Department. Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private
sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama
win another term. A massive amount of it, too — $8.3 billion. Yes, that’s billion, with
a B. Here is how it works. The most oppressive aspects of the ObamaCare law don’t kick in until after the 2012 election,
when the president will no longer be answerable to voters. More ‘flexibility,’
he recently explained to the Russians … But certain voters would surely notice
one highly painful part of the law before then — namely, the way it guts the
popular Medicare Advantage program … Obama can
temporarily prop up Medicare Advantage long enough to get re-elected … diverting the money to a
blatantly nonexperimental purpose to serve his
political needs. A Government Accounting Office
report released this morning shows, quite starkly, that there simply is no
experiment being conducted, just money being spent ... Congress should
immediately launch an investigation into this unprecedented misuse of taxpayer
money and violation of the public trust … If he’s not stopped, Obama will spend $8 billion in taxpayer funds for a scheme
to mask the debilitating effects on seniors of his signature piece of
legislation just long enough to get himself re-elected.” (4/23/2012)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/an_billion_trick_ImTBFfz7MeuZLJY7JzXEIJ
“When these Americans ‘invested,’ even government officials still understood
that word to carry the first meaning ascribed to it in Merriam-Webster's
dictionary: ‘to commit (money) in order to earn a financial return’ … So, when Obama told his campaign contributors in Palm Beach Gardens
that today's Americans needed ‘to invest in the future the same way that our
parents and our grandparents and our great-grandparents invested in the
future,’ did he mean it? Of course not. Obama has
coined a new and fraudulent meaning for ‘invest.’ It is when government takes
and spends someone else's money … To complement the new meaning he has given
the word ‘invest,’ Obama has also given a new meaning
to the word ‘spend.’ It is when government allows someone to keep their own
money. In his weekly address on Saturday, Obama said
‘we can't afford to keep spending more money on tax cuts.’” (4/18/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2012/04/18/creators_oped/page/full/
“Opponents must keep fighting it on all fronts. The most
important front right now is to ensure that states do not create the health-insurance exchanges Obamacare
needs in order to operate. Refusing to create exchanges is the most powerful
thing states can do to take Obamacare down. Think of
it as an insurance policy in case the Supreme Court whiffs … without state-run
exchanges, the feds can’t subsidize private insurance companies. That by itself
could cause Obamacare to collapse … Obamacare does not and cannot mandate that states create
exchanges … That’s why every conservative and free-market group, including
the Heritage Foundation and the American
Legislative Exchange Council, has advised states to refuse to create an exchange
and to send all related grants back to Washington. Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas,
and Wisconsin have already done so. If the
Court strikes Obamacare down, state officials who
refused to create an exchange will look prescient. If not, they will be
positioned to drive a stake through its heart.” (4/18/2012)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295773/no-obamacare-exchanges-michael-f-cannon
“President Obama admitted this week that
the ‘Buffett Rule,’ his plan to raise taxes on wealthier Americans, is ‘a
gimmick’ … Actually, raising taxes wouldn't scratch the surface of the
gargantuan fiscal and financial mess he has created and that now threatens
America's economic security. The revenue from his Buffett Rule tax increase has
been estimated at about $47 billion, a thimble full of what may be needed to
pound his huge $1.3 trillion budget deficit into submission. It wouldn't even
pay a fraction of the interest on his ballooning $15 trillion debt. Yet he's
made this pathetic excuse for an economic and fiscal agenda the centerpiece of
his campaign for another four years … he wants to distract voters from his
failures on the economy by playing the class warfare card … What this economy
needs right now is a strong dose of tax reform that that lowers the oppressive
35 percent tax rate on corporations, reduces the capital gains tax rate even
further to give business investment a booster shot, and lowers marginal income
tax rates for the middle class. That's what Obama's
very own bipartisan budget-cutting commission proposed in a plan that would
have cleansed the tax code of needless exemptions, deductions and loopholes,
only to be given the cold shoulder by the White House.” (4/16/2012) http://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2012/04/13/obamas_plan_to_raise_taxes_ignores_fundamental_economics/page/full/
“The most dangerous trend for the country over the last several
years isn’t the GDP trendline or the unemployment
rate. No. It’s rather how liberals- especially Obama-
have devalued and degraded words into having different meanings than their
original intent ... Today, for example, the word ‘justice’ no longer has a
moral or absolute value ... ‘Justice’ demands that race and gender become a
determining factor in the outcome of everything- court proceedings, elections,
tax reform and the debate about entitlements … So, the word ‘racist’ now means
any person who stands against destructive, progressive ideas, like confiscating
wealth … Obama
is using language carefully to corrupt our ideals … ‘It was
tried in the decades before the Great Depression. It didn't work then. It was tried
in the last decade. It didn't work,’ Obama said about
free markets and income growth. He says this despite objective evidence that
the ‘free markets’ that we have had under each administration prior to Obama’s have been responsible for the steadiest increase in
average income in the history of the world. We have had a century of
prosperity. And Obama calls it ‘greed.’ Obama says it doesn’t work.” (4/13/2012)
“Unlike
military service, teaching education classes does not usually involve having
people shoot at you. In fact, it would never happen if liberal educators were
familiar with the research showing that concealed weapons permits reduce crime
and should therefore be valid on campuses. Of course, most tenured educators
don’t know this because they do not keep up with research after they get tenure
… No one really wants to follow the kind of people with whom you associated in
your prime. Your crowd has always hovered about a half a step above Charles
Manson. And your crowd is only slightly better groomed. It should be
self-evident that no one really deserves to follow you when you board a plane
in an American airport. It makes good sense that you should board dead last.
Nonetheless, you seem to question why our military are allowed to board before
teachers like you board. The answer is simple, Bill. But, fearing you may still
miss the point, I’ll print it in big, bold letters: Soldiers bomb our
foreign enemies. You, on the other hand, bomb your fellow citizens.” (4/12/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2012/04/09/the_frequent_bomber_program/page/full/
“I’ve sat by and watched progressives attack
our liberties, our Constitution and our way of life for long enough. No more …
I am asking you to join me in never, EVER using any product or service from ANY
company that sides with or caves under pressure from those who seek to silence
us. And avoid any company that supports their hate-machine monetarily … When I found out this week Arby’s
and Walgreens joined the boycott of Rush, I vowed never to patronize
them again. Although me not patronizing them means nothing, us not patronizing
them might. Our individuality has been weaponized
against us because the Left and the companies who pull their ads from Rush know
we don’t engage in boycotts. It’s time we change that, or we will keep losing
ground and eventually lose our voices … If they want to side with those
who view our thoughts as something to avoid, something to silence, why should
we give them a dime? If we make an example of companies that side with fascists
against liberty, others will take notice and fewer will cave to fascism.
Thankfully, in their bravado and desire to fundraise by showing how effective
they are, these fascists compiled a list of companies who’ve chosen their side
over the consumers who’ve made them viable companies. Note this list and avoid
… Maybe you’re thinking, ‘Fascism is such a nasty word!’ Well, it is. But it’s
also accurate. They prefer to call themselves ‘progressives’ now ...
Progressives are the embarrassed children of fascism who changed their name
solely because Hitler used it. But a name change is all it is. They still share
the same philosophy, concepts of the role of government and, all too often, hatred
of Jews. We can no longer sit back and simply take comfort in the virtue of our
ideals. We risk losing too much. It’s time to stop feeding the beasts who side
against us and with those who seek to silence or intimidate us. Only when
siding with fascists starts to hurt their bottom line will they stop doing it.”
(4/9/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2012/04/08/not_another_dime/page/full/
“Principles of leadership
... are the foundation stones upon which all other things rest. They are
formed out of unselfishness, morality, virtue and personal moral restraint. Historically, everywhere we look we
see that America was founded on such principles. They were not just adopted by
our Founders; they were lived. That is what a study of the lives and character
of our Founding Fathers, of men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, John
Adams and Patrick Henry tells us … As America’s leaders they did not preen,
dodge and weave, find fault, assign blame or avoid responsibility. It is
cowardly for a national leader, who on his own has failed to lead, to pass that
failure on to the American people … From noon on inauguration day until the
present time, presidential actions should have focused on encouraging economic
growth, reducing the size and spending of the federal government and keeping
the government out of the way of private business. Somewhere tucked into every
speech given by every member of the administration should have been mentioned
the need for a balanced budget, job creation and energy independence. Writing
in 55BC, Rome’s great leader Cicero could have had this current administration,
with its lack of sound leadership, in mind when he wrote, ‘The budget should be
balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the
arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to
foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become corrupt. People must again learn
to work, instead of living on public assistance.’” (4/4/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50497
“The numbers of murders are striking: Marxist China 65 million -
Marxist USSR 20 million - Marxist North Korea 2 million - Marxist Cambodia 2
million - Marxist Afghanistan 1.5 million - Marxist Vietnam 1 million … But we
could have seen it coming. Marx was a violent man who unleashed racist and
anti-Semitic assaults on anyone who dared to oppose the use of violence as a
means of creating change … In short, Marx considered both work and the worker
to be beneath him. He lived nearly his entire adult life off of handouts from
Engels, the co-author of The Communist Manifesto. While he was living off of
Engels’ capital, Marx kept a peasant woman around the house and refused to pay
her for her services. Later, he fathered an illegitimate child by her and
refused to provide financial support or even to acknowledge that he was the
father. In other words, he exploited her labor and then abandoned her after she
went into labor. Marx was not a great man worthy of admiration. Nor was Marx a
great prophet. He understood that there would always be men incapable of taking
care of themselves. He understood that they would resort to violence whenever
they did not get what they wanted. He also understood that there would always
be academics who admired gross incompetence and the propensity towards
violence. Marx did not need a crystal ball to arrive at these truths. All he
needed was a mirror.” (4/3/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2012/04/03/for_the_love_of_marx/page/full/
“So
with all that in mind, it is worth explaining, once again, why capitalism is
absolutely, undeniably, unquestionably superior to socialism … Who gets
rewarded in a capitalist society? People who can produce … Conversely,
socialism rewards people for failure … Capitalism
is freedom while socialism is slavery. Socialists often use envy to trick
people into becoming angry at successful people instead of the ones who are
really taking away their freedom … For socialists to gain authority over your
life, your own power has to shrink. The more the socialists take, the less of
their own money the people get to spend. Capitalism reacts to the citizenry,
while socialism tries to control and enslave the citizens. Capitalism will give
you what you want for the right price, while socialism will give you what it
thinks is best for you and tell you that you better like it … how can some
bureaucrat in a central location, who may have no practical experience with
business at all, make wise decisions that impact tens of millions of products
and hundreds of millions of consumers? They can't. That’s why some people have
to wait more than six months
for hip operations under socialized medicine in Britain. It's also
why people used to wait in long lines to buy poor quality toilet paper and
toothpaste in the Soviet Union.” (3/19/2012)
“Standing
alongside men like Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Bishop William Lori
of Connecticut are a cavalry of women, a new sisterhood that challenges the
feminist establishment that has always appeared preoccupied with abortion …
Ironically, it's only this White House that is demonstrating the heavy-handed
mandating of mores, colliding with the freedom of conscience of Americans who
might choose to live differently … The White House is counting on us to be
demure, as they and their allies scare single women into voting Democrat in the
November elections ... We're in a fight for a foundational principle, a first
freedom, and the stakes are too high to give in to the cynical ploy that we're
engaging in a ‘war on women.’ This is a not a war on women, and it shouldn't
become a war on men, either. This isn't a battle of the sexes, it's a fight for
freedom as we've known it -- for the conscience rights we've known before this
administration changed them with the stroke of a bureaucratic pen. And if we
have a fighting chance to preserve the liberty we've enjoyed here as a beacon
for those who suffer under real oppression … we had better be clear and
confident in what were preserving, together, for women AND men -- no matter
what their faith.” (3/18/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/kathrynlopez/2012/03/18/the_war_on_men/page/full/
“Inquiring
minds have noticed a huge plunge in California
Tax Revenue for the month of February compared to February 2011. The
numbers below represent a 22.55% plunge in spite of the fact that this February
was a leap year adding a day to the calendar … California politicians seem delusional in their continued
delusion that high taxes have not savaged the State’s economy. Each month’s
disappointment is written off as due to some one-time event. The more likely
reason tax collections continue falling is that businesses and successful
people are leaving California for the better tax rates available in more
pro-business states. Derisively referred to as ‘Taxifornia’
by the independent Pacific Research Institute, California wins the booby prize
for the highest personal income taxes in the nation and higher sales tax rates
than all but four other states … Vranich considers California
the worst state in the nation to locate a business and Los Angeles is
considered the worst city to start a business. Leaving Los Angeles for another
surrounding county can save businesses 20% of costs. Leaving the state for
Texas can save up to 40% of costs. This probably explains why California lost
120,000 jobs last year and Texas gained 130,000 jobs. California Governor Jerry Brown’s answer to the State’s failing economy
and crumbling tax revenue is to place a $6 billion tax increase initiative on
the ballot to support K-12 public schools. He promises to only ‘temporarily’
raise personal income rates by 25% on any of the rich folk who haven’t already
left.” (3/16/2012)
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2012/03/16/businesses_exit_taxifornia_in_droves
“The
precipitous rise in Barack Obama's
job disapproval numbers stunned the West Wing Monday and shook Democratic
leaders. The president is getting failing scores on all of the politically
pivotal issues: from a weak economy, high unemployment and skyrocketing gas
prices to trillion-dollar budget deficits … Obama
this week reiterated his excuse that there is ‘no silver bullet’ to quickly
boost tight oil supplies that would bring down gasoline prices. Nevertheless,
he could have put oil exploration and drilling policies in place at the start
of his presidency that would have boosted both oil and gas supplies and could
have made us energy independent by now. Instead, his policies and his rhetoric
have been hostile to exploration and drilling, placing moratoriums on offshore
oil development and killing the Canadian-U.S. oil pipeline and the thousands of
oil jobs along with it. Instead, he's been pumping millions of tax dollars into
alternative sources of fuel that are not economically viable … Obama conducted a whirlwind round of interviews Monday with
eight swing-state TV stations, offering a bevy of excuses but taking no blame
for his anti-oil drilling policies. Obama's
presidency is clearly on the skids.”
(3/14/2012)
“The
communist revolutions in the 20th century sought to nationalize the wealth
generated by privately held industries back to the ‘exploited’ workers on whose
backs the profits were supposedly derived. America has made the rejection of
this idea and its support of free market principles the centerpiece of its
economic narrative. However, as a result of our current and proposed tax
policies towards corporate shareholders, our government collects a portion of
industrial output that would inspire envy in even the most rabid Bolshevik …
There is actually a name for our present system: fascism. While fascism and
communism are both forms of socialism, at least the fascists are smart enough
to know that if the means of production are nationalized, employees and owners
won't work as hard, and the government will lose revenue. It's a shame that the
country that was once the beacon of freedom and economic liberty no longer has
the ability to recognize what capitalism actually looks like. Unless corporate
owners are appropriately rewarded for their risks, U.S. corporations will not
regain their lost dominance, Americans will not regain their lost liberty, and
our standard of living will continue to fall. As it stands now, the United
States has become a people of the government, by the government and, most
importantly, for the government.”
(3/9/2012)
http://www.safehaven.com/article/24603/why-buy-the-cow
“When
President Obama took the oath of office three years
ago, he swore to defend the constitutionally-guaranteed rights of all
Americans. There were no asterisks denoting exceptions for health care
providers, religious employers, service members, or military chaplains …
President Obama gave America a preview of his warpath
against organized religion and people of faith when he undid parts of a
President Bush Executive Order protecting health care providers from being
required to perform, participate in, or provide a medical procedure with which
they had religious or moral objection. But in the past month alone the Obama Administration has gone guns-a-blazing, full-force
against both religion and the constitution … This HHS rule requiring religious
entities to act in contravention of their teachings is a clear violation of
their rights to exercise freely their religions. The gag order on Catholic
chaplains amounts to an obvious violation of free speech. Who or what is next?”
(3/9/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/timhuelskamp/2012/03/08/the_obama_abomination
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In a major policy
speech on 12/6/11 President Obama repeated spoke
against economic freedom and in favor of economic equality. History and current
evidence plainly declare that his kind of Economic Equality = Marxism =
Socialism = Loss of Freedom and Prosperity. Therefore, we will continue to
re-emphasize the following previously published article.
Do You Believe In Freedom? (“It’s About Freedom, Stupid!”) by Gene Van Shaar
There is obviously an effort
under way to undermine Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The greatest threat to
life, liberty, and happiness is not intolerance or inequality. It is the
violation of freedom.
Freedom is violated by deception
and force, and by controlling property, production, capital and labor. Many schemes have been devised to steal freedom
and property. The most dangerous are the ones that make it sound good and
beneficial. It is shocking that so many have forgotten two of the most
important principles of civilization: “Thou shalt not
lie” and “Thou
shalt not steal.” These universal
precepts apply to individuals, both rich and poor, and to any group
or government. Those who forcefully or deceptively deprive others of their
freedom and property destroy happiness and prosperity.
Many people
who mean well have been fooled by, “them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) Those who are willing to support the violation of
freedom in order to pursue a mythical utopia were described as “Useful Idiots”
by Stalin.
Consider the following list
of philosophies and types of government:
Marxist, Maoist, Communist, Socialist, Collectivist, Fascist,
Totalitarian, Tyrannical, Statist, Anarchist Mob. Note that even though this is
a diverse group, having some good intentions, they are united in their
opposition to freedom and property rights.
All those who are willing to
violate freedom and property rights, thereby undermining Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, will hereafter be referred
to by the “1984” euphemism, Big
Brother.
Always remember that Big Brother believes he is justified to
lie, cheat, steal or kill in order to gain or hold power. You may think you
will benefit by supporting him as he attacks others (such as “the rich”), but
sooner or later he will come after you.
Current and Future Events:
>Big Brother is attempting to control energy, education,
manufacturing, money/banking, medical care, means of self defense (guns),
transportation, food, water, etc.
>Big Brother is attempting to overthrow freedom by election and
legislation. Voters are tricked by making evil things sound good, making false
promises, and payoffs.
>Big Brother is attempting to overthrow freedom through subterfuge
such as rigging elections. It is urgent to start preventing corruption in all
aspects of the election process, including voting machines, ballot counting,
voter intimidation, fraudulent registration, etc.
> Big Brother is attempting to overthrow freedom by threats,
imitation, violence, and mob action. He has already started ginning up the mob
in the guise of the Occupy Movement.
Mob actions will eventually increase in frequency and severity unless they are
discouraged and properly dealt with.
>Big Brother is attempting
to increase his power through unconstitutional regulations and executive orders
which can cripple the country (and affect elections), including the possible
declaration of martial law based on contrived crises. It is extremely urgent to
start the process of how to deal with illegal executive orders and actions.
Impeachment may be necessary. All civil, law enforcement, and military officers
who have sworn an oath to defend the constitution need to be prepared to deal
with rogue executives.
Patriot Patrick Henry
famously declared, “Give
me liberty or give me death!” Like it or not, we are all involved in
a life and death struggle with Big
Brother. In all nations he seeks to control everything and he destroys
everything he controls. In the last century he enslaved and impoverished
hundreds of millions and caused the death of
over 100 million people. He is incapable of maintaining net long
term surpluses because he devours freedom and prosperity.
Big Brother
can be easily identified but he is hard to defeat. If you have been deceived, disappointed,
or discouraged, now is the time to join the fight to preserve Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Please help circulate this to
everyone who enjoys freedom.
Extensive verification of the
information contained herein can be found at http://www.saywhatistruth.com.
© 2011 Gene Van Shaar
(First Posted
11/6/2011)
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“Sen.
Rand Paul has introduced S. 2122, the Defense of Environment and Property Act
of 2012 which would reform federal water policy to protect land owners. The
bill would redefine ‘navigable waters’ to explicitly clarify that waters must
actually be navigable, protect the rights of states to have primary authority
over the land and water within their borders, prohibit federal agents from
entering private property without the express content of the landowner, among
other things … The federal agency had the nerve to bully Mike and Chantell on their own property. Unfortunately, the Sackett case is not unique. Thousands and thousands of
Americans share similar stories of EPA abuse. The EPA has continuously violated
our fundamental right to private property. Our Founding Fathers would be
ashamed by how dangerously out of control the federal government has become.” (3/4/2012)
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jborowski/senator-rand-paul-fights-the-abusive-epa?source=MAR4
“‘Three-quarters
of likely voters believe the nation’s top earners should pay lower, not higher,
tax rates, according to a new poll for The Hill. The big majority opted for a
lower tax bill when asked to choose specific rates; precisely 75 percent said
the right level for top earners was 30 percent or below. The current rate for
top earners is 35 percent. Only 4 percent thought it was appropriate to take 40
percent, which is approximately the level that President Obama
is seeking from January 2013 onward. The Hill Poll also found that 73 percent
of likely voters believe corporations should pay a lower rate than the current
35 percent’ … This data is important
because it shows the value of framing an issue. Instead of defensively
responding to Obama’s class warfare, proponents of good tax policy
should be making a philosophical/economic point that ‘nobody in America, no matter
how rich or how poor, should have to pay more than one-fourth of their income
to government … And proponents of class warfare should be put on the spot and
asked ‘what do you think is the maximum tax rate anyone should pay?’ Last but
not least, friends of liberty should make the key point that higher tax rates
on the so-called rich are merely precursors for higher tax rates on everyone
else – as even the
New York Times recently admitted.” (2/28/2012)
“It
is not just that President Obama is blindly driving
for ideological reasons the numerical evisceration of U.S. nuclear forces ...
Over time, the practical effect of combining the draconian nuclear cuts Mr. Obama seeks and his failure to arrest and reverse the
atrophying of the obsolescing arsenal will leave us functionally disarmed. Barack Obama’s true colors are
showing. His blind ideology is not only at work in gutting America’s deterrent.
That impulse, not new-found budget discipline, is the driving force behind his
hollowing out of the rest of the U.S. military, too. These data points vividly
underscore, even as they advance, the true Obama
Doctrine: ‘Embolden our enemies. Undermine our allies. Diminish our country.’
Unless reversed, the world will be an infinitely more dangerous place for this
nation and other friends of freedom. It is an astonishing insight into the
President’s commitment to ‘fundamentally transforming the United States of
America’ – in the worse sense of the phrase – that he is willing to take such
steps in the midst of his reelection campaign. Imagine what he would do if the
last vestiges of restraining accountability are removed in a second term.” (2/25/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2012/02/25/blind_ideology/page/full/
“Take a close look, and you
will see that the Obama Administration’s approach has
veered far away from mere incompetence and political expediency. President
Obama, it would seem, has crossed into new territory
and his Administration, unhappy with the constitutional constraints on
Executive authority to direct spending, is now openly violating the
Constitution … Clearly, the Obama Administration and
Secretary Sibelius had to know that the government was already anti-deficiency
(billions in debt) on multiple line items ... One damning statement from
the accountants concerns a $500 million dollar discrepancy (yes-- half a
billion dollars of taxpayer money is unaccounted for in just one line item of
several billion dollars-worth of instances of missing funds) … Team Obama is ducking and dodging these revelations, hoping that
few will understand the significance … What Americans are seeing is fraud and
lies compounded upon more fraud and lies-- and all done, seemingly without a
qualm, to advance left wing ideologies and maintain the deception.” (2/20/2012)
Recently
a convention was held in Las Vegas sponsored by Sheriff
Richard Mack and the County Sheriff Project. Some very insightful and inspiring
speeches were given. Additional information can be found at http://www.countysheriffproject.org. Videos of the
presentations can be found at the link below.
(2/17/2012)
http://www.youtube.com/user/CountySheriffProject?feature=watch
“The New York Times reported
last week that, with respect to the HHS mandate, ‘In the end, it was Mr. Obama himself who made the decision … calculating that at
the end of the day, the issue of public health access outweighed the concerns
of the religious institutions.’ This is a statement that is both telling and
breathtaking in its arrogance. The ‘free exercise’ of religion is expressly
written into the Constitution. ‘Public health’ is not. No matter. Freedom of
speech is likewise dispensable. In what should be viewed as a chilling
precursor of events to come, Catholic chaplains in the U.S. Army were
forbidden to read the letter from the Catholic Church's military archbishop
in which he criticized the HHS ruling. These are not isolated instances, nor is
the First Amendment the only impediment to the President’s personal objectives.
The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are
under congressional
investigation for the ‘Fast and Furious’ covert operation whereby arms were
deliberately sold to Mexican drug dealers. Memos
obtained in late 2011 show ATF's intent to use those same gun sales to support
erosion of Second Amendment rights and imposition of more gun control
legislation. On January 4th of this year, President Obama
named Richard Cordray to head up his new Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, and three other individuals to vacancies on the
National Labor Relations Board, without U.S. Senate confirmation,
and without the Senate being in recess, in violation of the Appointments Clause
of the Constitution. According to numerous news outlets and sources within the
White House, the President declared that he, and not the United States Senate
would decide when the Senate was, in fact, in
recess. During the 2009 bailouts of U.S. automakers GM and Chrysler, the
President ran roughshod over contract and even bankruptcy law, subordinating
the prior contract rights of senior bondholders to unionized employees … No
longer are we hypothesizing about how Obama’s
interpretation of the U.S. Constitution will manifest itself. Now we know.” (2/16/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2012/02/15/obamas_anticonstitutional_pattern/page/full/
“The Obama
administration's ham-fisted attempt to require that contraceptives and abortifacients be offered to employees of Catholic and
other religious institutions is a serious threat to our civil liberties …
Should government continue to dictate to its citizens how to order and conduct
their lives … This issue was always about more than contraceptives and who pays
for them. It is about individual liberty and whether the government under ‘Obamacare’ has the constitutional right to dictate to
private businesses and church-related entities when such orders violate
conscience and religious beliefs … If the Constitution's protection of
religious freedom is to be annulled, along with the already voided ‘endowed’
right to life written into the Declaration of Independence, by what moral or
legal authority can anyone stop government from doing anything? This is more than
a slippery slope; this is an avalanche and it threatens our most fundamental
rights, without which we morph into something other than the America we have
known.” (2/15/2012) http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2012/02/14/losing_liberty/page/full/
“‘This budget is exceedingly
deceptive and goes beyond anything I’ve ever seen before,’ Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee said during the
conference call. Obama’s budget promises billions of
dollars in new stimulus spending, unprecedented levels of spending and new tax
hikes. Obama wants nearly $2 trillion in new taxes,
including $1.4 trillion in income taxes, $143 billion in additional
inheritances or ‘death taxes,’ and $340 billion in other tax revenue …
According to an analysis released by the House and Senate Budget Committees,
the president’s deficit reduction claims take credit for $2 trillion in savings
already committed to under previous law and another $1 trillion in savings that
was never even requested for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
‘It is bad for job creation, our economy, and America’s seniors,’ said House
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Speaking on the Senate floor, Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the president’s budget is ‘what a failure of
leadership looks like.’” (2/14/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49510
“Despite the president’s
insistence that he is not engaging in class warfare, Norquist
said Obama’s tax increases will affect middle-income
taxpayers by declaring war on small business owners, many of whom file
individual tax returns, as opposed to corporate tax returns … Also criticizing
the president’s budget plan is the group Americans for Prosperity, which said
the proposal ‘spends too much, taxes too much, relies on budget and accounting
gimmicks, and fails to address the nation’s biggest challenges … Like his last
budget proposal that was unanimously rejected even by Harry Reid's Senate, this
budget is not serious, does not address the fiscal crisis we face, and does
nothing to put the country on the path to growth and prosperity.’ Phillips
concluded, ‘President Obama thinks you can tax your
way to prosperity and spend your way out of debt, but the real world doesn't
work like that.’" (2/14/2012)
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Norquist-Obama-budget-taxes/2012/02/13/id/429276
Mr.
Reagan, whose 101st birthday is today, said in 1982: “We don't have a
trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar
debt because we spend too much” … At the core of Mr. Reagan’s success was a
commitment to strong national security, traditional values, genuine federalism
and domestic policies that unleashed America’s entrepreneurial powerhouse. The
major pieces of his economic program were: 1. Reducing Tax Rates -- In
1981, the top income tax rate dropped from 70% to 50%, with a 25%
across-the-board cut in all other brackets. In 1986, the rates were reduced to
two: 15% and 28%. 2. Reducing Federal Spending – Nearly 5% of spending
was cut the first year in FY 1981. Even with the defense buildup to win Cold
War, total spending declined 23.5% of GDP in 1983 to 21.2% in 1989. 3. Deregulation
… His policies reduced inflation from almost 13% in 1981 when he took office to
3.2% in 1983. Over his two terms, 20 million new jobs were added, reducing
unemployment to 5.3% in 1989. Can we do this again? Yes, if we follow Mr.
Reagan’s common-sense policies. The alternative is an unthinkable acceleration
down The Road to Serfdom, described so well by one of Mr. Reagan’s
favorite economists, F.A. Hayek. The Reagan Resolve is a reminder of
America’s greatness and a roadmap to steer us off that highway on which we’ve
been recklessly speeding. (2/6/2012)
“Another
1.2 million people dropped out the workforce, which means that Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) economists can say that unemployment has moved down to 8.3
percent without that messy job-creation thing getting in the way … ZeroHedge says that if you add back in the 5 million people
who have permanently dropped out the labor force, as reflected in the
historical average workforce participations rates, the ‘implied’ unemployment
rate is 11.5 percent and rising, not falling … the reason we're seeing the
unemployment rate drop is because more and more people are dropping out of the
labor force. I know the market wants to rally on this number but remember we
need a minimum of 250,000 just to cover demographic change. So we're almost at
the place where we need to be to reabsorb the nine million people who lost
their jobs during the Great Recession … it means that the economy will miss
about $20 trillion worth of GDP in those ten years, and between $3.4-$4
trillion in tax revenues unless we start to follow pro-growth policies that
lead to job creation for someone other than major Obama
donors.” (2/4/2012)
“In
non-right-to-work states, employees who work in a ‘union shop’ are compelled to
fork over part of each paycheck to a labor organization -- even if they want
nothing to do with unions, let alone to be represented by one. Laws like the
one Indiana is poised to enact simply make union support voluntary … Most
Americans regard compulsory unionism as unconscionable. In a new
Rasmussen survey, 74 percent of likely voters say non-union workers should
not have to pay dues against their will … ‘I want to urge devotion to the
fundamentals of human liberty … No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion,’
insisted Samuel Gompers, the first and longest-serving president of the
American Federation of Labor … [but now] The passion with which Big Labor
fights right-to-work helps explain why so many Americans have abandoned unions.
The labor movement was born in freedom and choice. That's not what it stands
for anymore.” (2/2/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/02/01/righttowork_means_freedom_and_choice/page/full/
“Hard
on the heels of $118 million ‘stimulus’ recipient Ener1 declaring bankruptcy
comes news that another highly-touted ‘green energy success story’ just laid
off two-thirds of its workforce … it’s a real blow to Obama’s
attempt to create American jobs by giving money to foreign ‘green energy’
concerns. Obama bragged about his brilliance in
compelling us to support Amonix during a summer 2010
visit to Las Vegas … Amazingly, Obama’s re-election
strategy involves boasting of his job-creation prowess, and hoping
desperately that voters don’t ask how long those wonderful stimulus jobs
lasted, how many jobs were lost during the Obama
presidency, how much the workforce contracted, and what the private sector
might accomplish when liberated from ideologically-driven central planners.” (1/30/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49174
“Let’s
do some fact checking on President Obama’s corporate
tax comments in the State of the Union. Claim:
‘Right now, companies get tax breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas.’ False:
There are no such breaks. Instead, we punish U.S. and foreign businesses for
investing and creating jobs here … Claim:
‘It is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas.’ False:
We penalize them for locating jobs here … we can derive the simple and logical
solution to our corporate tax problem. We should stop “hitting” companies
with a 40-percent sledgehammer, and cut our corporate statutory rate to
boost investment and reduce corporate tax avoidance.” (1/30/2012)
“His
[SOTU] speech was dripping with flimflam political bromides and shameless class
warfare against wealthy Americans ... rich people aren't to blame for Obama's weak, high unemployment economy. It's his
anti-growth economic policies that are the problem. ‘There are 1.7 million
fewer jobs in the country than when Obama took
office, according to government data,’ the Washington Post reported earlier
this month … Obama's still bashing the wealthy for
all of the economy's troubles, and insisting the rich are not paying their
‘fair’ share in taxes … In fact, the Congressional Budget Office says that the
effective federal tax rate for the top 1 percent incomes is around 29.5
percent. That's double the 15.1 percent paid by middle-class families, CBO says
… So there was Barack Obama
at the House podium Tuesday night, clueless about how to get the U.S. jobs
machine running at full throttle, except to call for more infrastructure
spending in the future and to vow that he's not going to back down from his
failed, financially challenged clean energy projects. Okay, so the last project
at the Solyndra solar panel plant went bankrupt and
cost taxpayers $500 million, but these ‘investments’ will pay off in the
decades to come, he says. Sure. He also called for more public works spending,
and even punitive tax increases on manufacturers that he said will boost U.S.
manufacturing. But a week before, he killed the Keystone XL oil pipeline that
would have put 20,000 Americans to work, many in good paying manufacturing
jobs. The Washington Post's economic columnist Robert J. Samuelson called Obama's decision ‘an act of national insanity.’" (1/28/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2012/01/27/obama_the_flimflam_man/page/full/
“‘Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety,’ said Benjamin Franklin in 1759 … Liberals everywhere were in
full-throat roar protesting George Bush's Patriot Act and his War on Terror in
the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11 ... Today only crickets from the Left
as Obama assaults liberty and freedom of choice on a
nearly daily basis. Consider the list of Obama's
assaults on liberty … Obama's Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) is more arrogantly intrusive than ever. The Fourth
Amendment protection against ‘unreasonable’ searches and seizures has been
repealed at your local airport … ObamaCare is
requiring doctors and hospitals to make records of every aspect of your
personal health, and health history … For use by the ‘death panels’? ObamaCare tramples First Amendment religious freedom by
ordering Catholic hospitals to cover free contraceptives, requiring Catholic
adoption agencies to adopt kids to gay couples … The State of the
Union? Slipping into dictatorship.” (1/27/2012)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49083
“Theology and values are not
the same thing. Traditional Jews and evangelical Christians have quite
different theologies, but they often have virtually identical values. (That is
why this Jew is so supportive of evangelicals and why evangelical Christians
syndicate my radio show.) Conservative Catholics and evangelicals differ on
theology but share virtually every important value. The Founders differed on
theology but rarely on values. It is hard to identify any area of life in which
Mitt Romney's values and life differ in any way from the finest evangelical's
values and life. And with regard to electing a president, that is what
matters.” (1/26/2012)
“The original formation of
labor unions must have seemed like a really good idea at the time. And
certainly, we have heard about all the dangerous workplace conditions that
unions addressed back in the day. So thanks, union leaders from 150 years
ago. The primary purpose of unions today is to fund the Democratic Party. The
secondary purpose of unions today is to provide manpower for Democratic Party
campaigns and causes. The third purpose is the facilitation of Democratic Party
political philosophies in the workplace … The whole collective bargaining
concept fails to recognize exceptional efforts, gifted craftsmanship, and
individual worth … the people who teach our students to be successful in a
capitalist environment should … maintain the perspective that the students‘
parents, the students themselves, and the taxpayers are their customers ... The
public’s dismay is further compounded knowing that most of the union protesters
are supportive of the political philosophy that created the economic mess in
the first place.” (1/23/2012)
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/markbaisley/2012/01/23/unions_bully_model_is_dead/page/full/
“Why has no former grade
school, high school, or college classmate of Barack
Hussein Obama ever been found? I’m sure
his old classmates could have shed light on his personal life, such as his
interests and hobbies. Why hasn’t an old girlfriend emerged to tell about
a wonderful date, or what a great boyfriend he was and how he was so sincere
and understanding? I believe Obama is a Marxist,
in fact, I think he’s a Fascist. Why don’t any of his former teachers come
forward and defend him from statements like mine? As Romney’s Bain Capital job
is examined inside and out, where is the same examination of Barack Obama … This President
evokes uncertainties of both character and behavior every single
day. Statements and decisions that create an almost totalitarian
atmosphere require that questions be asked and answers given. If these
critical inquires are not made by the mainstream biased press, then they should
be made by us, the citizens of the United States … there should be equal
scrutiny, and we must not only ask it and request it, but we must demand it.” (1/22/2012)
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/billtatro/2012/01/21/obamas_ex_girlfriend
“Barack
Obama and modern American liberals are firmly in the
Utopian camp—pursuing a vision fundamentally at odds with limited government
and human freedom. ‘I believe to a great extent we now live in a
post-constitutional country, where much of the Constitution is ignored or
evaded,’ Levin told CNSNews.com ... ‘what I want the public to understand is,
this is not new and it’s going to destroy us … When Obama
was running for office and saying these things--sort of saying them and
sometimes accidentally blurting them out--I would say on my radio show he is
speaking Marx here … And you can hear it in Obama
today with the class warfare propaganda … this phony straw man argument that
Marx and Engels come up with … it is an attack on individual sovereignty, it is
an attack on morality, it’s an attack on the civil society … there are certain
God-given rights that every human being upon birth has. And those God-given
rights are the right to live, the right to live freely, and the right to pursue
your interests. In other words, the right to be unmolested by other people and
unmolested by your government …The fanatics-- which is what Obama
and the Democratic Party have become, fanatical utopians--there is no end to
what they want to do. There is no end to the spending, the taxes and the
regulating …The one thing we know for sure is that the circle of liberty for
the individual gets tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter … what kind of
force lures millions of millions of people and destroys them ... he doesn’t
want to run on his record because we know this stuff can’t work. It’s
impracticable. It’s impossible ... And all you have to do is surrender more of
your liberty, and more of your private property rights, and follow the Pied
Piper over the cliff.’” (1/18/2012)
“Mark
R. Levin’s [new book] ‘Ameritopia: The Unmaking of
America’ juxtaposes the Americanism and constitutionalism of our Founding
Fathers with utopianism, ‘the ideological and doctrinal foundation for statism.’ The flawed and destructive utopian visions of
Plato, Thomas More, Thomas Hobbes, and Karl Marx serve as potent contrasts to
the liberty-enhancing conceptions of John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, Alexis
de Tocqueville, and our country’s founders … Levin defines utopianism as that
which ‘substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for
knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all … A heavenly
society is said to be within reach if only the individual surrenders more of
his liberty and being for the general good, meaning the good as prescribed by the
state.’ He goes on to delve into the ability of utopianism to penetrate a
society gradually and its inherent ‘immorality’ … and the subjugation of
individuality and diversity under the leadership of a ‘mastermind … driven by
his own boundless conceit and delusional aspirations … Levin adeptly contrasts
the aforementioned utopias, in which ‘the individual and his family are
subservient to the state,’ with Locke’s opposition to class warfare and focus
on the importance of protecting individuals’ inalienable rights ... At this
critical point in our country’s history, ‘Ameritopia’
is a must-read for Americans of all political persuasions.” (1/16/2012)
http://www.newsmax.com/JedediahBila/Levin-Ameritopia-America-Constitution/2012/01/16/id/424284
“The
Politico quoted a ‘prominent Democratic strategist’ close to the White
House: ‘Unless things change and Obama can run on
accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney’ … This November’s election might
boil down to a fundamental debate
between the merits of markets vs. central planning and wealth redistribution;
that is where the rhetoric is headed. If I were Mitt Romney, I would be
prepared to carefully explain to Americans what venture capital is, and why
someone with such economic experience is arguably perfect for the White House
given today’s economy. I would bone up on Friedman, Hayek, Mises, Hazlitt, Laffer,
and, most of all, Marx. Oh, and I might Google the word ‘agitprop,’ understanding
that I’ll be thus targeted. If Romney (as the nominee) does this right, he has
a chance not only to win Americans’ votes but to educate them about the free-market
system that has made their nation the marvel it is. An ugly campaign of
class envy could become a valuable teachable moment.”
(1/14/2012)
“We
can endlessly debate whether he is such a devoted ideologue that he's blind to
his policy failures, whether he's willing to sacrifice the economy and the
fiscal integrity of the United States for his perceived higher good of radical
redistribution, or whether he really intends to do harm, but these are moot
questions anymore. Under any of these possibilities, the fact remains that he
is hellbent on accelerating his present course, not
reversing it, on dictating, not working within his constitutional constraints,
much less building a bipartisan consensus … This should send cold chills up our
spines. By ‘change,’ he means more of his unpopular, failed agenda. He has
repeatedly indicated that he is frustrated with the process of republican
government and that he would be much more comfortable as a dictator. He has
also said many times that he believes his goals are so important that he
intends to implement them with or without Congress, through executive or
administrative usurpations. He has done more than talk; he has acted in
contravention of the Constitution and intends to continue in that vein. What he
might do in a second term is frightening to those who believe in freedom and
equality of opportunity, that our current pattern of discretionary and
entitlement spending is not just unsustainable but also guaranteed to destroy
the country, and that we cannot preserve our freedom if we persist on a course
of unilateral disarmament … Ponder his petty partisanship, bullying, demonizing
and class warfare and his frequent invocation of the race card. Can you
conceive of how he'd act as a four-year lame duck?” (1/13/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2012/01/13/everything_is_at_stake_all_right/page/full/
“Romney's
statement about being able to fire people was an arrow directed straight to the
heart of Obamacare … Talking about insurance
providers, he said: ‘I want individuals to have their own insurance. That means
the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means
if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire
people who provide services to me. You know, if someone doesn't give me a good
service that I need, I want to say I'm going to go get someone else to provide
that service to me’ … Obamacare, you will recall,
will be administered by the same people who run the Department of Motor
Vehicles. They will operate under the same self-paced, self-evaluated work
rules that have made government offices the envy of efficiency specialists
everywhere … And no one will be able to fire them -- unless they're caught
doing something truly vile and criminal, such as stealing from patients in
nursing homes. Oops, I take that back: Government employees who rob the elderly
also can't be fired … These are the people who are going to be controlling your
access to medical services if Obamacare isn't
repealed. There will be only one insurance provider, and you won't be able to
switch, even if the service is lousy (and it will be). Obamacare
employees will spend their days surfing pornography, instead of approving your
heart operation. They can steal from you and even physically assault you. And
they can never be fired … Now, wouldn't you like to be able to fire people who
provide services to you?” (1/12/2012)
“Think about Obamacare: It was not just the content of the law which
people hated; it was also the process ... efforts to shove the measure down our
throats stunk of heavy-handedness if not outright tyranny. Obama's
recess appointments were an unnecessary reminder by Obama
that he is indeed a tyrant ... to say that he, rather than the Senate,
determines whether or not the Senate is in session. If these appointments are
challenged in court and if Obama loses, it would do
measurable damage to his election prospects -- not just because of the
appointments themselves but because it is such a stark reminder that our
president is a man who thinks himself and his vaunted goals so important that
the rule of law should yield to his will.” (1/7/2012)
http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/05/obamas-tin-ear-returns
“So what happens if the
current doldrums get worse, producing a deep, prolonged global depression? The Greek
model indicates governments weaken and angry populations get angrier.
Desperation creates a political market for the hucksters who peddle quick and
easy solutions. When Greece first experienced trouble three years ago, Greek
leftists crowed that the time for the workers revolt had finally come, never
mind communism's systemic disaster. Small groups of radicals, whatever their
agenda, can use media to magnify their strength. Nazis did that in the early
1930s. Today, international coordination of demonstrations simply requires cell
phones. Exploitation of ethnic, nationalist, religious and economic resentments
requires a YouTube video. States facing anarchic stress are not only candidates
for debt default, but coups and civil war. Rash dictators or jingoist parties,
seeking domestic support, may unfreeze a frozen war. What a future -- a powder
keg mosaic of destructive little wars, some potentially nuclear. What prevents
global conflagration? The same buffer that, for the moment, dampens passions
over Cyprus: American power and prestige. The global buffer, however, is, well,
less buff. America faces its own crisis made of mounting debt.” (1/7/2012)
http://townhall.com/columnists/austinbay/2012/01/04/creators_oped/page/full/
“Businesses
have had it with poor business conditions in two of the most dysfunctional
states in the union, California and Illinois … Walters quotes business-relocation expert Joe Vranich of Irvine, who notes that businesses typically save
40 percent in costs by leaving California because of lower taxes and more
manageable regulations found elsewhere … Chicago's huge futures exchange owner
CME Group has joined a growing list of companies threatening to leave Illinois
as a result of the state's corporate tax increase earlier this year. Illinois
pushed through the 45 percent corporate tax increase in January, trying to
address one of the biggest budget shortfalls of any state in the U.S. … The tax-and-destroy policies of Illinois and California,
coupled with the the massive public union pandering
in both states got me wondering about respective unemployment rates, state by state
… California and Illinois have many things in common: Harsh business
environments, High tax rates, Both states are among the most pro-union states,
Both states lack right-to-work laws … That California and Illinois suffer from
business flight and high unemployment should not be surprising.” (12/27/2011)
“The economic stimulus
pipeline from Washington to the states is about to run dry. This means many
governors can be expected to ask their legislatures, or voters, to raise taxes
for ‘essential’ programs. To government, all programs are ‘essential’ …
California voters are likely to vote in November on raising taxes. California
is a certifiably insolvent state. It is in deep debt because Democratic
politicians won't stop spending, not because taxpayers aren't paying their
‘fair share’ … All governments should be regularly audited by outside auditors.
Their sole interest should be saving taxpayers money. Any program or agency
that wastes money ought to be updated or eliminated. If taxpayers don't force
big government at the state and federal levels to go on a diet, the bloating
will only continue to the detriment of our economic health.” (12/27/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/12/27/certain_prediction_for_2012/page/full/
“The U.S. Department of
Justice’s sudden flurry of investigations finding massive amounts of
discrimination and abuses by police agencies around the country is
coincidentally occurring at the same time the U.S. Department of Justice is
undergoing a highly publicized Congressional investigation into Fast and
Furious. Law enforcement is a natural target for the left, which often seems to
prefer criminals over the police … This latest round of politically motivated
investigations comes on the heels of the Obama
administration suing Arizona, Utah, Alabama and South Carolina over their tough
new laws against illegal immigration. Those lawsuits are mostly based on
unfounded grounds of racial profiling; Arizona’s law specifically includes a
provision prohibiting racial profiling. The constant barrage of lawsuits is
costing taxpayers exorbitant amounts of money … This is not right. The federal
government should not be suing local governments. It is trampling on the rights
of states and localities to conduct their own business. The Constitution grants
the federal government very limited powers; the Tenth Amendment states that all
powers not specifically assigned to the federal government shall be left to the
states … Launching dubious investigations for political reasons must be curbed.
The U.S. is going bankrupt. Obama is using money we
don’t have to attack targets that will earn him favor with his far left
supporters.” (12/23/2011)
“Milton Friedman was another
truth teller: ‘Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a large number
of the populace that somebody else will pay.’ Do you really think the ‘rich’
don't pay their fair share when the top 5 percent of the wage earners pay more
income taxes than the rest of the 95 percent of tax payers combined … Let's end
with Harry Truman's admission, ‘If you can’t convince them, confuse them.’ In
the coming months, you'll hear how a failed stimulus plan actually worked, how
raising taxes on the people who could start companies and create jobs is a good
idea, and how giving President Obama four more years
of his ‘hope and change’ is better than returning to the founding principles
that made America great. You can laugh or cry. Either way, vote for a return to
sanity instead of European-style socialism.” (12/19/2011)
“What Obama
is peddling to America on tax policy is only the ugliest example of his
well-established rhetorical style of calculated deception. It is based on what
he thinks the average voter does not know and will not know, and can be
manipulated to believe to Obama's political
advantage. For the picture he is painting of the rich getting away without
paying their fair share while working people bear most of the tax burden is the
opposite of reality … 40% of federal income taxes paid by the top 1% was more
than paid by the bottom 95% combined, according to official IRS data. While the
top 1% paid 40% of federal income taxes, the bottom 40% paid no federal income
taxes as a group on net. Today 47% pay no federal income taxes … This is in
addition to America suffering with virtually the highest corporate tax rate in
the industrialized world … Yet Obama barnstorms
America calling for still more tax increases on American business, large and
small, and the job creators and investors on which jobs and prosperity for
working people depend. The galloping regulatory burdens he is now imposing
effectively involve still further tax increases stifling production.” (12/19/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/peterferrara/2011/12/17/our_marxist_wizard_of_oz/page/full/
“According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, since President Obama took office,
the nation has lost 1.9 million jobs … In 2009, the president said on the
‘Today’ show, ‘If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to
be a one-term proposition.’ A few days later in Florida, there was this, ‘I'm
not going to make any excuses,’ said Obama. ‘If stuff
hasn't worked and people don't feel like I've led the country in the right
direction, then you'll have a new president’ … Imagine what Democrats and their
acolytes in the media would say if a Republican president had a similar track
record. One doesn't have to imagine. With a lower unemployment rate and less
debt in the Bush administration, Democrats were relentless in their attacks … Barack Obama assured us he would
make things better … That he thinks he has earned re-election brings to mind
the World English Dictionary definition of ‘hubris’: ‘Pride or arrogance; (in
Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition ... ultimately causing the transgressor's
ruin.’" (12/15/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/12/15/obamas_latest_60_minutes_interview/page/full/
“This week, Congress is
wrestling with more proposals that violate the natural law. One of our fundamental
natural rights is the right to be free from government restraint, absent a
proven case of criminal behavior. This, too, was articulated by the framers
when they wrote in the Fifth Amendment: ‘No person shall be ... deprived of
life, liberty, or property without due process of law.’ This recognizes the
right to be free from restraint by the government, unless the government,
utilizing due process, can make a case against you. That means a fair trial in
your presence, with lawyers defending you and jurors deciding your case under
the guidance of a neutral judge … Yet, your representatives in Congress are
about to authorize the president to violate your natural rights by enacting
legislation that would permit him to use the military to arrest Americans and
restrain them without due process. Even King George III, against whose armies
the colonists fought for freedom, did not have the power to do that. And, just
because Congress votes to make these acts of tyranny legal does not mean they
are constitutional. The Constitution is a higher law than anything Congress can
write; and all that Congress writes must conform to it.” (12/15/2011)
“It doesn’t matter if the
things Obama has done didn’t work, or even – as in
the case of ObamaCare – achieved exactly the opposite
results from what Obama promised. We are morally
obliged to follow such policies in the interest of ‘fairness,’ ‘compassion,’
and so forth, even when their failure is obvious … collectivism … leaves
poverty and rubble everywhere it’s tried, but people – especially young people
– still find its moral arguments compelling ... Capitalism is the
practical expression of liberty. Without private ownership of capital, all
other expressions are merely indulgences permitted by the government …
Recognizing the ownership of property is a vital component of respecting
individuality … The thief is, in a sense, enslaving you. You spent a
certain number of hours to work for money you planned to use for your own
needs, but it turns out you were really working for the thief
instead. Your right to decide how your capital should be invested was
suppressed by force … A free man chooses how to use his time, and dispose of
his property.” (12/14/2011)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48144
“According
to our President's new view of history, capitalism is a theory that has ‘never
worked’ … according to Obama's revisionist version of
American history, we tried capitalism only briefly during our history … This
view is complete fiction and proves that Obama is not
qualified to teach elementary school civics, let alone serve as President of
the United States … The prosperity enjoyed during mid-20th century actually
resulted from the incredible progress produced by years of capitalism …
America's economic descent began in the 1960s, when we abandoned capitalism in
favor of a mixed economy. By mixing capitalism with socialism, we undermined
economic growth, and reversed much of the progress years of laissez-faire had
bestowed on average Americans … History has proven time-and-again that
capitalism works and socialism does not. Taking money from the rich and
redistributing it to the poor does not grow the economy. On the contrary, it
reduces the incentives of both parties. It lowers savings, destroys capital,
limits economic growth, and lowers living standards.” (12/13/2011)
“Today,
under the guise of making the rich ‘pay their fair share(!),’ there is a global
movement for worldwide taxation that is being pushed by the likes of George
Soros, Al Gore, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, European Socialists, as well
as union bosses (and just about every other Marxist group you can
imagine). However, unless Americans realize the effort and its ultimate ends, some day soon, we may wake up under the thumbs of global
bureaucrats demanding that all Americans pay their ‘fair share’ to a global tax
collector … has attracted an array of influential champions
, including … Pope Benedict XVI and the archbishop of Canterbury … However,
regardless of how puny the tax is today, there should be greater concern over
the Robin Hood Tax being the platform from which to build a global structure
for global taxation.” (12/11/2011)
“Oath
Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves,
National Guard, peace officers, fire-fighters, and veterans who swore an oath
to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and
domestic … Below is our declaration of orders we will NOT obey because we will
consider them unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral violations of
the natural rights of the people. Such orders would be acts of war against the
American people by their own government, and thus acts of treason … Recognizing
that we each swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all
enemies, foreign and domestic, and affirming that we are guardians of the
Republic, of the principles in our Declaration of Independence, and of the
rights of our people, we affirm and declare the following …1. We will NOT obey any order to disarm the
American people ... 2. We will NOT obey any order to
conduct warrantless searches of the American people … The above list
is not exhaustive but we do consider them to be clear tripwires – they form our
‘line in the sand,’ and if we receive such orders, we will not obey them ...
not only will we NOT fire upon our fellow Americans who righteously resist such
egregious violations of their God given rights, we will join them in fighting
against those who dare attempt to enslave them.” (12/10/2011)
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/
“Obama misdiagnosed the problems facing America, distorted
the historical record, set up straw men to excoriate, and conflated history and
principles, all to demonize his opponents, divert scrutiny from his record, and
build support for his cause … In his speech, Obama
implied that the free market system, responsible for the most economically
successful society in world history, didn't work … the problem isn't
unregulated capitalism; it's overregulation by unaccountable command-control
administrative bureaucrats … The problem isn't unfettered robber baron
capitalists; it's an overreaching, overbearing, over-intrusive government that
won't let the market work or breathe … Moreover, his representations about the
tax code are simply untrue … None of these facts matters to Obama.
He wants you to believe that we have unregulated capitalism (we don't), that it
is causing our economic problems (the opposite is true) and that we need to
further redistribute income and wealth (when our tax system is already
progressive … He wants to keep us preoccupied with greed and hating each other
so that we won't have the time to focus on the real cause of our economic
nightmare: President Barack Obama.”
(12/8/2011)
“Obama
dropped almost all pretenses and made the progressive case against an American
free market system, which he called ‘a simple theory ... one that speaks to our
rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government ... But
here's the problem: It doesn't work’ … it is refreshing to hear Obama come out and give us a clear picture of this country
in all its ugly class-conscious, unjust, menacing glory rather than veil his
arguments with any of that soothing rhetoric that got him elected last time.” (12/6/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2011/12/07/obama_vs_capitalism/page/full/
“I was reminded, again, of
George Orwell's ‘1984’ and the striking similarities between his Oceania and
the American left's vision for America. Oceania's Big Brother regime had ‘four
Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided,’ the
Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love and the Ministry
of Plenty. Each department was dedicated to the opposite principle suggested by
its title. ‘Truth’ disseminated lies. ‘Peace’ promoted war. ‘Love’ enforced
uniformity of thought. And ‘Plenty’ manipulated the economy to impoverish the
people while enriching the ruling class … Today the left has a Ministry of
Truth, because it knows that twice as many Americans identify themselves as
conservatives than as liberals and so has to disguise its policies to deceive
the majority … Its Ministry of Love is more aptly named the Ministry of
Tolerance, which dictates one way of thinking and demonizes dissenters … The
liberal establishment's Ministry of Truth extends throughout our culture,
having taken over our educational institutions … these academic and cultural ‘Thought Police’
indoctrinate and intimidate students who dare deviate from their thought
mandates. While the rapacious Obama administration
recklessly squanders our national wealth in its lust for power, its ministries
of Plenty and Bipartisanship vilify the wealthy -- who are paying a
disproportionate share of taxes -- for not paying their fair share. The
Ministry of Plenty, while presiding over the destruction of the private sector,
castigates job creators for hoarding all the wealth.” (12/6/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/12/06/the_orwellian_american_left/page/full/
“The answer, of course, is that
‘inequality’ is the eternal wellspring of collectivist power. It is the
dragon that can never be slain, the Grail that can never be seized. It
will always dance just out of reach… and there will always be socialists
leaning over our shoulders and whispering that we must hand over more control
of our lives … We should have matured far past the point of believing that Big
Government wealth re-distribution is the answer. It might collapse the
‘income inequality’ gap, but it always collapses the economy, too. In the
end, only poverty is re-distributed … The socialists will then produce
figures showing the income gap declining, and tell the unemployed, impoverished
remains of the middle class to be happy … while reminding them how much work is
left to be done before true ‘equality’ is achieved, of course … The long march
to ultimate ‘fairness’ will never be over, and no whip you give the
drovers will ever be long enough. Knowing this, why should any free man
choose to place his head in the yoke?” (12/8/2011)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48008
“The problem is, they do not
wish to admit basic truths. Truths like: 1. No one is guaranteed anything in
this life. 2. Success comes through hard work. 3. The world is largely unfair.
4. America is the most fair/advantageous economic laboratory on the planet. If
they understood these basic concepts they would cease whining about the myth of
‘income inequality’ and get their fannies back to their homes and begin efforts
to reinvent, create, produce, and multiply (ideas) … In the free market we
reward innovation, and we let the market handle the lack of it. In America new
ideas have not found their limits, and the need to produce, distribute, create,
and expand will always exist … Occupy really wants something different--they
don't want income equality, because that would require real work--they want
evenly distributed ‘wealth equity,’ regardless of how you went about getting
it. American history--unlike the histories of the socialist empires you pine
for--is filled with people who changed the course of millions of lives, and
because of their creativity and commitment to excellence and hard work they
grew companies that employed thousands, made millions, and some even left
behind plans to continue to change the world long after they no longer walked
among us. Taking a page from such a playbook, would begin to open your
eyes--not to your victimhood, but to the array of potential that you have been too
blind to even see!” (12/6/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2011/12/05/why_income_inequality_is/page/full/
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“Will You Be Able to Protect
Your Family if Politicians Destabilize Society? … About a week ago, I wrote
that people in western nations need the freedom to own guns just in case there
are riots, chaos, and social disarray when welfare states collapse. Much to my
surprise and pleasure, this resulted in an invitation to appear on the National
Rifle Association’s webcast to discuss the issue.
“When Will We Learn that Regulation
Is the Problem rather than the Solution? Sunday … I’ve explained on many
occasions how the financial crisis was largely the result of government-imposed
mistakes, and I’ve paid considerable attention to the role of easy money by the
Federal Reserve and the perverse subsidies provided by Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac.
“Question for Leftists: What
Happens When There’s Nothing Left to Steal? … More than two years ago, I
explained in a TV interview that the looters and moochers should be careful
that they don’t kill the geese that lay the golden eggs. After all, parasites
need a healthy host. The collapse of Europe’s welfare states should be a
wake-up call for these people …” (12/5/2011)
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“Uncomfortable, but not quite
in a panic, I opted to try the closest drug store, fifteen minutes away, rather
than endure a an emergency room ordeal at the nearest hospital, 25 minutes
away. Fortunately, the Walgreen’s had a supply of over-the-counter
Primatene Mist, still legal for sale through the end of December. Two days
later, in the leisure of fully operating lung capacity, I investigated the matter,
including a phone call to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s
website includes the explanation, ‘Primatene® Mist inhalers use CFCs, which
decrease the earth’s ozone layer.’ The representative whom I reached by
phone was not willing to argue the validity of the environmental claims …
Environmental activism, fortified by a willing and corrupt court system, is the
liberals’ Rx of choice in controlling the people … Not so fast, all you
skilled, hard-working, hopeful, self-reliant and unemployed Americans. On
November 11, President Barack Obama
announced, to the euphoria of environmentalists, that he would delay the
Keystone XL approval decision until after the 2012 election. Killing tens
of thousands of American jobs while maintaining dependence on middle-eastern
oil … So, there you have it; two examples of privately funded commerce seeking
to bring enormous improvement in the quality of life for Americans, both
dispatched in a haughty, sadistic manner … As my perceptive wife expressed, ‘It
seems that the environmentalist has developed a taste for inflicting pain’ …
Obviously, we need to toss Barack Obama
and Democratic Senators out of majority rule in 2012 … For millions of us,
it is personal.” (12/4/2011)
http://www.luxlibertas.com/obamas-decisons-are-killing-me-really/
“Essentially,
this legislation would enable the president to divert from the criminal justice
system, and thus to divert from the protections of the Constitution, any person
he pleases. And that person, under this terrifying bill, would have no recourse
to a judge to require the president either to file charges against him or to
set him free. Can you imagine an America in which you could lose all liberty --
from the presumption of innocence to the right to counsel to fairness from the
government to a jury trial -- simply because the president says you are
dangerous? Nothing terrified or animated the Founders more than that. The
Founders, who wrote the Constitution, had just won a war against a king who had
less power than this legislation will give to the president. But to protect
their freedoms, they wrote in the Constitution the now iconic guarantee of due
process. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution says, ‘No person shall be ...
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law’ … If this
legislation becomes law, it will be dangerous for anyone to be right when the
government is wrong. It will be dangerous for all of us. Just consider what any
president could get away with. Who would he make disappear first? Might it be
his political opponents? Might it be you?” (12/1/2011)
“In
the great struggle between liberty and collectivism, the latter has always
enjoyed a strategic advantage. Liberty fights a never-ending struggle, but
collectivism has an endgame, a point of no return. Stated in its simplest form:
once 51% of the population is dependent upon the government, its growth can
never be halted, because those who place a high value upon economic freedom
will always be outvoted by the dependency class … Have we reached the point of
no return, where Democrats can cobble together a political perpetual-motion
machine from those who work for the State, those who depend upon the largesse
of the State, and those who worship the State? I have the sense we’re a
few elections away from the optimal launch date. Obama’s
excesses have jump-started this new political strategy out of
desperation. The middle class is still too large, and too keenly aware
that the Democrat future is a death trap. The methods necessary to cloud their
senses in 2012 will be… what’s the word? Divisive.” (11/29/2011)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47792
“Not
being able to expand one’s business is an unfortunate thing. But being harassed
because you dare to speak your mind about current economic conditions is
something different … It tells us that Americans have lost sight of even the
most basic principles of both economics, and the ‘right to free speech’ … For
them, Bill’s ‘right to free speech’ (and yours and mine as well) ends, where Barack Obama’s agenda begins …
What the President and his antagonistic supporters seemingly fail to understand
is that the more belligerent they become with business owners, the less
productive those businesses become … Americans have a big decision to make in
the year ahead. Will we give President Obama another
four years to have his way with us? Or will we affirm the right of each
individual in our country to find their own way – even Bill the crane shop
owner?” (11/28/2011)
“Overall, the Obama Administration imposed 75 new major regulations from
January 2009 to mid-FY 2011 … In contrast, there were only six deregulatory
actions by the Obama administration … ‘More
specifically, the total cost of federal regulations has increased to $1.75
trillion,’ writes the federal government’s own Small Business Administration. Heritage
reports that that’s nearly twice the amount that the government collects
annually in individual income taxes. Ouch! The costs are a hidden tax, not just
on the rich, says Heritage, but on everyone equally. But because regulations
prevent the creation of new jobs, it hits the poor and middle class
particularly hard … It’s not hard to figure why the Obama
administration is creating jobs at a post-war low.” (11/26/2011)
“In Israel, author George
Gilder points out, Arabs were wealthier on the West Bank of the Jordan River
and in the Gaza Strip than any Arabs in the world ... This, in territories
administered by Jews that had no oil ... Despite vast oil revenues in much of
the Arab world, Gilder notes in his important book, The Israel Test,
the Arab peoples who live in these countries are poor ... Gilder sees a direct
link from attitudes toward Israel, attitudes toward Jewish excellence, and attitudes
toward free enterprise itself … Gilder challenges us to ask ourselves what we
think about excellence—that of Jewish achievers and all those others who excel.
Do we resent their achievement? Do we attribute it to some evil conspiracy? Do
we want to drag them down? Or do we want to emulate them, study, work hard,
invent, create, and share our own ideas? Gilder writes: ‘With wealth seen as
stolen from the exploited poor, the poor in turn [are given] a license to
dispossess and kill their oppressors and to disrupt capitalist
economies. This is the foul message of Franz Fanon, Hamas, al-Qaida,
Hezbollah, and the academic coteries of Chomsky, Zinn,
and a thousand Marxist myrmidons across the campuses of the world … The idea
that suicide bombing is a tolerable policy that can be extenuated by alleged
grievances is preposterous. It is the violence that makes necessary the police
measures that render economic progress impossible, particularly for the groups
associated with the attacks. By justifying violent attacks on a civilized
democracy -- and then condemning the necessary retaliatory defense -- leftists
would allow no solution but tyranny’ … Barack Obama’s intellectual world is one in which Fanon, Chomsky, Zinn, and those neo-Marxist thinkers hold sway. Only free
societies can create enough surplus wealth to support such dissident scholars …
But such societies—in the U.S. and Canada, in Western Europe and in
Israel--will not survive if they do not understand and protect the very
foundations of their own freedom.” (11/25/2011)
“A series of Supreme Court
decisions acknowledged the limits of reach for the Clean Water Act. Most
notably, the Supreme Court clarified that federal jurisdiction did not extend
to wetlands and other ‘waters of the United States’ under the Clean Water Act …
This of course isn’t stopping Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson from moving forward anyway … Want to
see how the EPA can use this type of authority to mess
with law-abiding, tax-paying citizens … But this is about clean water, not
federal land grabs, right … Yet, the government … won’t be [satisfied] until
they have control over all
water in America.” (11/23/2011)
This a great short and powerful
video: “In today's exclusive special report Gary Franchi
is joined by Former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack. They discuss the County
Sheriff Project, a movement that will compound the effort to push back against
an over reaching Federal Government, a movement that needs your support.” (11/22/2011)
http://rtr.org/videos/2/34806/special-report-county-sheriffs
The book The County Sheriff - America’s Last Hope by Sheriff Richard Mack
is highly recommended. It is available at http://sheriffmack.com
“To suggest that a nation
‘conceived in Liberty’ can tolerate a handful of Washington bureaucrats telling
several hundred million citizens what health insurance is and forcing them to
buy it is beyond absurd. Perhaps what the ongoing saga of American history is
about is the struggle to understand and apply our operating manual – our
Constitution – in a manner consistent with the principles of our nation’s
founding … Nor would we have concluded that our financial crisis was caused by
too much freedom rather than too much government. Now we’ve hamstrung our whole
financial services sector with ill conceived new laws while the government backed
entities that caused the whole thing – Fannie and Freddie – remain standing
unscathed, still sucking up billions of taxpayer funds and paying their
executives million dollar bonuses. How about a government that wastes hundreds
of millions of taxpayer funds in uneconomic ‘clean energy’ ventures and then
rejects a pipeline project that would deliver millions of barrels of oil,
create tens of thousands of jobs, and their only request from government is a
permit? It’s obvious what’s wrong today. We’ve either forgotten what being
American means, or we no longer care.” (11/21/2011)
“Yesterday, in comments on
the floor of the Senate, the Democrat Leader said
the following: ‘While it's
proper to guard against and remove onerous regulations, and we need to do that,
my Republican friends have yet to produce a single shred of evidence that the
regulations they hate so much do the broad economic harms they claim. That's
because there aren't any’…
4,200 new rules or revisions are in the pipeline … the Small Business
Administration estimated that federal regulation imposed a $1.75 trillion
annual cost burden on the economy. Further, according to the Heritage
Foundation the 75 new major rules put in place in just the first 26 months of
the Obama Administration added $40 billion more in
expense to American businesses. We really don't think Reid is naďve enough
to believe that ever increasing amounts of regulation have no adverse
consequences to the economy. That leaves only willful denial or an
outright willingness to lie as the only other possible explanations for his
contention. We'll let you pick which it might be.” (11/17/2011)
“Kagan's
need to recuse herself is, first and foremost, based
in the rules of the Court itself: According to 28 USC 455, a Supreme Court
justice must recuse from ‘any proceeding in which his
impartiality might reasonably be questioned.’ The law also says a justice must recuse anytime he has ‘expressed an opinion concerning the
merits of the particular case in controversy’ while he ‘served in governmental
employment.’ For Kagan to say that she has had no
opinion on Obamacare while serving in a official
capacity to craft and/or defend the legislation is simply a lie.” (11/17/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/tonykatz/2011/11/16/justice_kagan_must_recuse_herself
“And
what would we lose in the Dark Ages Obama and his ilk
are promising us? First, we would lose the greatest work of political,
theoretical and economic freedom ever created, the U.S. Constitution. Obama and the people he has put in power do not like the
Constitution; they can barely tolerate the Congress and the Supreme Court. To
them, the sooner this ‘antiquated’ document is relegated to the trash pile of
history, where it should have been since long ago, the better. The rights of
the individual, in deference to the rights of the collective, would be lost,
thus making the United States of America anything but what it was supposed to
be ... Difference of opinion will no longer be allowed, and divergence from the
leftist agenda will not be permitted ... It is a purposeful Dark Age meant to
bring about stultifying (at best) statist uniformity for us all that will not
only destroy America utterly and completely, but it will bring an age to the
west that could put in place a Dark Ages for all time.” (11/15/2011)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47315
“Remember when Nancy
Pelosi said ObamaCare would ‘create 4 millions of
jobs – 400,000 almost immediately.’
Don't hold your breath. Now that businesses have had time to ‘find out
what's in it’ as the former Speaker of the House invited, instead of job
creation, jobs are actually being destroyed by the provisions of ObamaCare, just as concerned critics predicted.
A study by the NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Businesses,
predicted 1.6 million jobs would be destroyed by 2014 when ObamaCare
would be fully implemented, mostly within small businesses … Ironically, Pat
and Jon Stryker, the billionaire grandchildren of the company's founder and
orthopedic surgeon Homer Stryker, have invested
millions of their inherited fortunes electing Barack
Obama and Democrats who passed the legislation that
is destroying jobs and increasing costs at the company that made them
rich. Pat and Jon are ranked among the richest
people in America by Forbes, and like to identify their occupation as
‘philanthropist.’ We doubt the Stryker employees who get fired will
appreciate the result of Pat and Jon's political ‘philanthropy.’" (11/15/2011)
“Economic
theory is perfectly acceptable. But in the real world, economic reality
is much more important. Yet in a recent Associated Press news story, reporter
Charles Babington seems to have confused theory with reality. After noting that
most of the GOP candidates are pressing for lower taxes and less regulation,
Babington clucks that these steps aren’t likely to work. “Mainstream economic
theory says governments can spur demand, at least somewhat, through stimulus
spending,” he
wrote. “The Republican candidates, however, have labeled President Barack Obam’s 2009 stimulus
efforts a failure.” Let’s consider Babington’s assertion. It’s certainly true
that “mainstream economists” think government can stimulate demand. That’s a
perfect description of Keynesian economics. But there’s no need to turn to
economic theory to see what the 2009 “stimulus” bill has wrought. In the
real world, the 2009 stimulus efforts are a failure … Let’s think of spending
this way: The planet recently welcomed its
7 billionth person. If we could get each to kick in one dollar, we’d just
about cover what the U.S. government will spend today. Just about. Our
government spends some $10
billion, today and every day. In reality, that’s how large our spending
problem is. We won’t solve it overnight, but we will have to cut spending, and drastically,
if we hope to solve it at all. Otherwise, economic theory aside, we’re heading
for a painful reality.” (11/15/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/2011/11/14/economic_theory_meets_reality/page/full/
“Though
the top 1 percent pay 40 percent of federal income taxes and the bottom 50
percent have, in some years, paid nothing, the rich must be made to pay more.
That's an appealing argument to many, but one that would have horrified our
founding fathers. For from the beginning, America was never about equality,
except of God-given and constitutional rights. Our revolution was about
liberty; it was about freedom … all those revolutions that triumphed in the
name of equality were marked by mass murders of the old ruling class, the rise
of a new ruling class more brutal and tyrannical, and the immiseration
of the people in whose name the revolution was supposedly fought. Invariably, ‘Power
to the people!’ winds up as power to the party and the dictator, who then act
in the name of the people. The most egalitarian society of the 20th century was
Mao’s China. And that regime murdered more of its own than Lenin and Stalin
managed to do … And here is the unvarying argument of the left since Karl Marx:
If you give us power, we will take from the rich who have so much and give it
to you who have so little. But before we can do that, you must give us power.
This is the equality racket. As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: ‘The sole
condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme
power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe
you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is
simplified, and reduced ... to a single principle.’ When they come preaching
equality, what they want is power.” (11/11/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2011/11/11/the_equality_racket/page/full/
“Not only do the American president and his
mouthpiece not know that the proverb "God helps them that help
themselves" entered the American conscience by one of the Founders of this
nation, Benjamin Franklin, but -- more importantly -- they have no inkling that
it instructs self-reliance, not government dependence. In short, Obama and Carney got the proverb's origin and meaning
completely, absolutely, fully wrong. They took a liberating maxim from one of
the nation's Founders and processed it into a state-enslaving command from God.
This compounded foul-up is perfectly emblematic of the Obama
style of governing ... In light of the president's comments, I feel
compelled to include a final quotation from Franklin as a warning. This will be
the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men
who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them
cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion
of ignorance that tyranny begins.” (11/5/2011)
“What
we should be worrying about is economic mobility … You will notice that the
Occupy Wall Street crowds -- and the progressives who support them -- focus on
bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They
have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral
and unhealthy for society. The economic systems they cheer on would coerce
downward mobility for the sake of equality but ignore prosperity for the people
they claim to represent. If progressives were interested in mitigating
inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit
of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and
pick winners in the name of imagined ‘progress’ … they would support lifting
barriers that inhibit markets and make life difficult for entrepreneurs and
businesses rather than spreading the destructive notion that life can only be
‘fair’ if we rely on dependency and entitlement and tear down those who have
more.” (11/2/2011)
“The blame-Bush meme doesn't
pass the laugh test anymore, and the tsunami excuse is embarrassing and
pathetic. His effort to blame Republicans is similarly absurd on its face
because he did get his agenda through … So, how about his continued assault on
the rich -- his fail-safe scapegoating device … The
rich are not under-taxed, as objective statistics and empirical data
demonstrate. Not one of the problems plaguing the nation today has been or is
being caused by the rich, and punishing them will make the economy and our debt
problems worse. Nevertheless, Obama is ramping up
class warfare, trying to turn Americans against one another by stoking the
flames of envy and greed. He's even encouraging civil unrest among the Occupy
Wall Street protesters. Have we ever had any other president do such a thing? Obama blames the rich for problems he's causing … Why?
Simply because that's what demagogic community-organizing, Marxist-leaning Alinsky disciples do -- and it's disgraceful.” (11/1/2011)
“The Blaze has presented
details on the people inside the OWS movement as well as those believed to be
supporting it with money, material goods (sleeping bags, non-perishable foods,
etc.), organizational skills, and even storage space. We have named names from
the White House to the American Nazi Party, we have shown connections to
several unions (like SEIU, UFT, and TWU) and pointed out the organizers like
the Working Families Party and ACORN. This morning we ask you to consider the
recently posted Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors, and
sympathizers put together by intrepid blogger Zombie.
‘Local’
supporters:
Communist
Party USA
The
American Nazi Party
Revolutionary
Communist Party
Black
Panthers
Nation
of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan
CAIR
Some
big names in the political world have also lent support to the cause:
President
Barack Obama
Vice
President Joe Biden
Nancy
Pelosi
International
Leaders and Governments:
Iran’s
Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei
Hugo
Chavez
Revolutionary
Guards of Iran
The
Govt of North Korea
Communist
Party of China
Hezbollah”
(11/2/2011)
“The Vatican's Frightening Call for an End to Economic Freedom … its
criticism of capitalism goes beyond the Council’s past commentary on economics
to call for nothing less than the abolition of economic freedom and the
establishment of a new world economic system managed by the United Nations. The
plan, while couched in terms of a voluntary change for greater world good,
would actually require that nations surrender their sovereignty to a new world
body endowed with the authority to tax and manage all movement of capital
between counties … Gone would be the constitutional protections of freedom,
life, and property that Americans now enjoy. In their place would be rules set
by a new world governing body run by countries like Iran, Cuba, China, and
Saudi Arabia. If the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is any
indication, implementing the Vatican statement would achieve exactly the
opposite of the desired result.” (10/27/2011)
http://www.newsmax.com/Viguerie/Vatican-Economic-Freedom-Catholic/2011/10/26/id/415766
“Obama
refuses to learn from his mistakes and continues to obsessively push a spending
agenda even Senate Democrats refuse to pass (budget, jobs bill, etc.) … Obama has been the architect of one failed, costly program
after another. His scorecard as president doesn’t beckon lots of HOPE. Here’s a
smattering of highlights:
With a record like this, it’s
hard to fathom how Democrats can keep propping up Obama
and his failed agenda.” (10/27/2011)
“Muammar Gadhafi's
death last week prompted the Obama administration to
trumpet the President's competence as Commander-in-Chief and the superiority of
his ‘small footprint,’ ‘lead-from-behind’ approach to waging war over the more
traditional - and costly and messy - one pursued by George W. Bush. The bloom
came off that false rose on Sunday when Mustafa Abdul-Jalil,
the chairman of [Libya’s] National Transitional Council, repeatedly declared
his government's fealty to shariah, Islam's brutally
repressive, totalitarian political-military-legal doctrine. Among other things,
Abdul-Jalil said shariah
would be the ‘basic source’ of all legislation. Translation: Forget about
representative democracy. Under shariah, Allah makes
the laws, not man. In short, the result of Mr. Obama's
$2 billion dollar expenditure to oust Gadhafi is a
regime that will be led by jihadists, controls vast oil reserves and has
inherited a very substantial arsenal … A similar transformation can be
expected, later if not sooner, of any shariah-adherent
political movement … Add to this litany an emboldened and ascendant China, a
revanchist Russia once again under the absolute control of Vladimir Putin, a
Mexico free-falling into civil war with narco-traffickers
and their Hezbollah allies on our southern border and you get a world that is
fraught with peril for the United States. Matters are made infinitely worse by
the prospect of the U.S. military being hollowed out by reckless budget cuts …
The question the American people will want answered is not only ‘Who lost the
world?’ but what will they do to get it back?” (10/27/2011)
“For
those people worried about the overthrow of the social order, the establishment
of dictatorship, you’re too late. It’s already here. And no, this is not an
exercise in rhetoric … Who gave loans to students that they would never be able
to repay? Not Wall Street. Not greedy millionaires and billionaires. The
millionaire and billionaire Democrats, led by Obama,
did of course. They applied the same unsustainable math to the secondary
education sector that they used in the real estate market in order to saddle
future generations with a crushing private debt burden; as if it wasn’t
enough already that they have saddled future generations with a crushing public
debt burden … An army of regulators has descended upon American business,
politics and society as a whole to remind us all who now has the great power to
punish us when we step out of line. The easiest way to create a
dictatorship is to create laws that you selectively enforce. And what else is
government by regulators then selective enforcement … An army of regulators has
descended upon American business, politics and society as a whole to remind us
all who now has the great power to punish us when we step out of line. The
easiest way to create a dictatorship is to create laws that you selectively
enforce. And what else is government by regulators then selective enforcement?”
(10/27/11)
“So what is Obama’s plan to reverse the tide of indebtedness and fiscal
insolvency? He wants to spend more and raise taxes. However, the
reality is that at $6-8 billion in debt per day … there aren’t enough Warren
Buffets to tax in order to solve the problem. In fact, if we confiscated
all of the income from the top 1% of taxpayers, we would only net $938 billion
dollars … and proceed to lose all future revenues in subsequent years … The
golden goose is dead ... Many of the presidential candidates have touted their
ideas of trimming ‘waste, fraud, and abuse.’ While those ideas are
laudable and imperative, they are also woefully insufficient. We will
never salvage our children’s future unless we eliminate full departments,
institute market reforms for retirement and healthcare, and shut down much of
the welfare state.” (10/25/2011)
http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/10/24/barack-the-15-trillion-man/
“That
being said, since Democratic Party is running a 2012 campaign centered around
one of the Seven Deadly Sins, envy, they’ve worked hard to create a number of
myths that someone needs to address … Many people incorrectly believe that the
rich are getting by without paying taxes and if we somehow forced them to pay
their ‘fair share,’ all of our problems would be solved. That's simply not true.”
(10/25/2011)
“Yet by action and by word,
your administration keeps putting up barriers to job creation … your
administration’s recent
proposals on the matter still ignore the needs of job creators ... For
example, take your administration’s expansion of regulations governing U.S.
businesses. In this tough economy, every American business is facing higher
costs and lower profits. They don’t need more artificial expenses handed down
by government regulators … Since you came to office, it seems that every
federal agency has been taken over by activists more committed to pursuing an
ideological agenda than helping create a corporate climate conducive to jobs.” (10/25/2011)
“Readers might not agree with
every angle of the authors' conclusions, but no investigator of world
civilizations can deny the exceptional origin, history and nature of the United
States of America. The Stewarts make a statement in the book that sums up most
patriots' feelings about our country: ‘No man is perfect, and neither is any
nation. Yet, despite our weakness, we are still, as Abraham Lincoln said, the
best nation ever given to man. Despite our faults, this nation is still the
last, best hope of earth.’ How contrary those sentiments appear to be to those
of our current president, in light of his global apologies for America, lack of
spirit for American exceptionalism, denial of
America's Judeo-Christian majority and promise to ‘fundamentally transform the
United States of America.’ President Barack Obama has kept that promise. He is carrying out his agenda
and mission. And if he's allowed another four years in office, I believe there
will not be a remnant of our republic that he and his administration will have
not overturned.” (10/17/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2011/10/18/8_miracles_that_saved_america/page/full/
“But such perfervid comments
take on a clearer meaning when viewed in a more appropriate context: George
Orwell’s ‘1984.’ That is, somehow certain voices of liberalism today sound less
like traditional partisan pep-talks and resemble more Oceania’s ‘Two-Minute
Hate’ sessions, where party members screamed at a giant tele-screen
filled with the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, one of Big Brother’s objective
enemies … As applied to today, Orwellian liberalism’s increasingly vicious
attacks against the Tea Party and Republicans perform the same function, which
is to preserve the current liberal power structure by blaming others for its
failures. High unemployment, failed foreign policies, high energy prices,
horrible housing markets, disastrous federal deficits—they’re all the fault of
liberalism’s enemies.” (10/17/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/marvinfolkertsma/2011/10/18/americas_orwellian__liberalism/page/full/
“In his latest work, ‘It Is
Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal
Freedom,’ New York Times Best-Selling Author Judge Andrew Napolitano
urges Americans to boldly oppose an increasingly tyrannical government … The
American government is dismantling personal freedom, Napolitano argues. To
illustrate his claim, he heavily explores the idea of natural rights – rights
innate to all humans … He sees human history as a conflict between tyranny and
personal freedom … This book is not simply an inflammatory criticism of recent
political policies. It is an examination of America’s founding principles, an
application of those principles to current situations and a call to action …” (10/17/2011)
http://townhall.com/columnists/marycrookston/2011/10/18/the_case_for_freedom/page/full/
“Instead, he'll continue to
milk his militant class-warfare theme, hoping to shift our focus from the
unemployment, economic stagnation and thunderous debt he's orchestrated to our
baser instincts of jealousy, greed and envy. For those stubbornly slow on the
uptake, I ask you: Could it be any clearer now what Obama
meant when he promised that he was going to fundamentally change America? Those
moralizing idealists might have had a plausible excuse for their obtuseness
before, but they can no longer be blind to Obama's
grandiose scheme to restructure America … Obama knows
he's stoking the flames of class warfare almost every time he opens his mouth
today. He knows that the lion's share of his economic policies are not even
geared toward promoting economic growth and prosperity. They are designed to
grow government and increase its control over our lives … Sorry, with their
decades-long track record of failure, they no longer get a pass for their
allegedly good intentions. Obama is a human wrecking
ball … In 2012, American voters are going to have a clear choice of whether
America will restore itself as a glorious land of individual liberty and equal
opportunity or continue down Obama's suicidal path of
poverty and tyranny.” (9/30/2011)
“It can’t be about him. It
cannot be about his polices. On the same day Joe Biden declares the economy
belongs to Barack Obama,
Obama passes the buck. This time it is directly to
the American people and American businesses. It’s not him, you see ... We don’t
have the competitive edge we once had because we have a President who spent two
years deciding the government would grow the economy and the government would
take over the auto industry and the government would take over the healthcare
industry and the government would pick the winners and losers in the economy.
The American people and American business has not gone soft. They’ve gone out
of business. Barack Obama’s
administration has been hostile to the financial industry, hostile to the oil
and gas industry, hostile to the coal industry, hostile to the insurance
industry, hostile to the service industry, hostile to pretty much every other
sector of the economy that is neither part of the public sector nor wholly
dependent on the public sector.” (9/30/2011)
“It’s
just the usual harassment that the Obama
administration gives industry when they have a disagreement with a key Obama constituency such as unions that are all mobbed up.
Re-write the rules, send investigators in, bury them in document discovery and
government lawyers until they cave … The construction industry has shed 2.3
million jobs …
This is what a trillion
dollars of shovel-ready stimulus has bought the American people. By the mob,
for the mob, of the mob … Oh, so now I get it: The White House … will attempt
to get the Internal Revenue Service to go after homebuilders. The IRS will use
supposed violations of independent contractor rules that allow homebuilders to
hire independent contractors at a straight hourly wage, without subjecting them
to payroll taxes and union membership.
… So now we have the Obama administration hooking up the Department of Labor
with the IRS to join together union muscle to shakedown homebuilders, mafia
style. Oh, you thought Obama meant job
program? No, no, no: That’s mob program.” (9/29/2011)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19044
“Economic freedom is the key
... at this late date in human history, it shouldn't be necessary to rehearse
the abundant evidence. Look at the various indexes that correlate economic
freedom with economic growth. The healthiest economies are those with the most
economic freedom … and those countries with the least economic freedom have few
real jobs and no prosperity. Unfortunately, most politicians still don't
understand -- or have no incentive to understand -- that economic freedom, and
therefore less government, creates prosperity.” (9/28/2011)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46484
"Legislating your way to
full employment is as fantastical as prancing unicorns and the Tooth Fairy.
It's impossible. The only employment created by legislation are government
jobs to staff all those new agencies and bureaus. And naturally, those jobs
must come with some task, some responsibility ... Governments don't create
value, they destroy value. And the only way for more jobs to be created
and money to start flowing again is for the market to perform its function
matching willing buyers and sellers, producers and consumers ... The future
is about creating value: what problem can you solve that's so important to
someone else that he/she would be willing to pay you for it, or trade for
something that you value?" (9/20/2011)
http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/is-this-a-jobs-super-committee/
“The latest anti-business Obama policies appear in a just-released Executive
Order 13495, a
new rule to be enforced by the Department of Labor … For small businesses,
Executive Order 13495 is perhaps the most damaging action yet to come out of
the Obama Administration. First, in our country, a
business has the freedom to hire the workers it thinks are best suited to
ensure the company's success. The new Team Obama
contracting rule tramples over that basic, capitalist principle by requiring
any company which wins a federal contract to hire the employees that the
government identifies … Obama seems simultaneously
unaware of the damage he has done and continues to do, even as he issues
platitudes and half-baked thoughts about the need to create jobs.” (9/14/11)
“In fact, Obama
doesn't meditate, cogitate, contemplate or deliberate about job creation,
because he thinks he's already got it figured out. The only thing he's doing is
strategizing how best to convince the people, against all their reason and
instincts, that his failed policies will work if he keeps trying. Meanwhile, he
continues to wreak havoc on the market with his onerous tax, regulatory and
administrative policies ... Just more smoke and mirrors … Consider also the
EPA's new ‘Transport Rule,’ which could destroy thousands of jobs, and its
ozone regulation, which Cantor suggests could cost ‘upward of $1 trillion and
millions of jobs in the construction industry over the next decade.’ Other
administration gems include its ‘new maximum achievable control technology
standards for cement,’ which may send thousands of jobs offshore, and the
National Labor Relations Board's unconscionable action in preventing Boeing
from opening a plant in South Carolina.” (8/26/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/08/26/the_job_wrecker_in_chief/page/full/
“But, the latest analysis by the Small
Business Administration (SBA) calculates that compliance with federal
regulation costs a staggering $1.75 trillion annually
- and, that is a 2008 pre-Obama Administration
estimate. That does not include the 75 new major rules generated by Obama in just his first 26 months at an additional burden
of $40 billion according
to a study by the Heritage Foundation. Worse, still
to come are the impending clean air rules from the EPA, new derivative
rules, net neutrality rules, the new CAFE fuel mandates, and the avalanche of
rules mandated by ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank
legislation. The government admits there are 4200 new rules or revisions
already in the pipeline. Sunstein's announcement is
like finding a man drowning under Niagara Falls and ‘saving’ him by
removing a cup of water. It is further evidence of the complete
detachment from reality by this Administration, and an insult to the
intelligence of working people and employers alike …” (8/25/11)
“When I decided to write
about mobs, it was a relatively peaceful period. But as long as there is evil
in the world, mobs will never be finally defeated ... Mobs are always the same
-- destructive, left-wing and without any clear cause … Like Satan, mobs are
good only for destruction and chaos. The putative ‘cause’ is always incidental.
As Jesus said, ‘They hated me without a cause’ … Liberals love mobs because
rioting and anarchy is their path to power. Making sound proposals based on
facts and logic is not their metier. Issuing
impossible promises to the easily fooled is their specialty ... They champion
any mob that will increase their political power. Liberals promote welfare
dependency, class warfare, endless government programs staffed with public
sector workers, street protests, coddling criminals and physical attacks on
their ideological opponents.” (8/20/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45599
“Through taxation and
regulation, the Democrat candidate for President is killing American
jobs. The effort is so pronounced, so pervasive and so relentless, that it
is time to call it deliberate … The Environmental Protection Agency is
competing to do more than any other federal agency to destroy the most jobs and
drive up the cost of living for every American … Obama
outlined his plan to respond to global warming, promising that ‘under my plan,
electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket.’ This is a campaign promise
that Obama is committed to keeping. Following the
debt-ceiling fiasco, Obama promised to ‘pivot’ to the
priority of job creation. He would do well to remember the old advice
given to physicians. First, do no harm. And We the People would do well to
remember another old piece of advice. By their fruits you shall know
them. The fruit of Obama's actions is the
destruction of job creators and jobs. It is deliberate.” (8/13/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45458
“Nobody in the left-dominated
media bothers to note that in the last years of the Bush presidency Democrats
controlled the Congress and thus had a death grip on the nation's economy,
having complete control over the nation's purse strings. They spent and spent
and spent … It wasn't a Bush Congress that jammed the incredible costs of Obamacare down the throats of the American people … It's
simply common sense to understand that spending money one doesn't have in the
hopes that the future will provide the needed funds is something like believing
that some beneficent tooth fairy will come up with the money in the future. Now
the president and the national Democrat party have suddenly discovered a
scapegoat for the latest economic mess they have thrust upon the American
people. They insist that the credit-rating downgrade was the fault of the tea
party trying to control the nation's purse strings. I'm not kidding. They
really expect us to swallow this whopper as the gospel truth. They expect us to
ignore the fact that the millions of tea party members are simply Americans
deeply and sincerely concerned about the nation's economy and the tendency of
the government to spend their hard-earned tax money on whatever scam strikes
its fancy. It's time to place the blame for our economic malaise where it
belongs -- on the shoulders of the Obama
administration and the Democrats in Congress. Tea party members have been the
voice of reason, not the wild-eyed terrorists portrayed by the left's crazy
spin doctors. What would have averted the credit-rating downgrade and the
subsequent turmoil in the markets? Precisely the spending cuts advocated by the
tea party.” (8/11/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2011/08/10/blame_obama/page/full/
“But if Bachmann and Iowans
believe the problems America faces are essentially simple rather than complex,
they are right and Newsweek is wrong. America's key problem is plain: We have a
federal government that has reached beyond the constitutional limits on its
power and is spending more than the nation can afford. The solution is also
plain: Push the federal government as much as practically possible back toward
its constitutional limits, thus reducing its size and cost. What is complex is
the problem faced by politicians -- especially, but not exclusively, Democrats
-- who have built their careers by coddling constituents who have become
dependent on government largesse. These politicians must find ways to explain
the nation's deepening fiscal crisis, and pose plausible-sounding solutions to
it, without threatening to reduce the redistribution of other people's wealth
to their voters.” (8/10/11)
“We were mindless enough to hire
someone who detests capitalism and free enterprise to oversee our economy, why not
hire someone who hates to cook to run our kitchen? And now we profess to be
surprised at how things turned out … I’m going to help turn things around right
here. And to make things more difficult, I’m going to do this without cutting
spending or raising taxes … Ready? Here we go; step-by-step …” (8/8/11)
“The spendaholics
continue squeezing the turnip in an effort to extract still more revenue, and
are shocked – positively shocked – that the country finds itself in this
predicament. Well what on earth did they think was going to happen? When you
continually spend more than you take in and refuse to change your ways,
disaster is inevitable. At some point the well will run dry, but the bills
still have to be paid. And when they aren't, your credit rating suffers and your
sources of revenue dry up. You reach the point where you are forced to make
adjustments. It's not that complicated. For years, our government appears to
have been in denial about the natural laws of money and finance ... But denying
that natural laws exist doesn't suspend their effect. You can deny the law of
gravity, but if you jump off the Empire State building you will soon discover
that your personal opinions about the matter are irrelevant. One natural law
that operates in all arenas is ‘that which a man sows, he will also reap.’ In
the financial realm, that means if you sow profligacy, you reap poverty. No
amount of rhetoric or blame shifting will change that.” (8/7/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/kenconnor/2011/08/07/on_sowing_and_reaping/page/full/
“And it also goes without saying that
everything he’s done since taking office has made the economic situation in the
nation worse, whether you’re looking at actual job numbers or overall lack of
confidence business owners have in the future of our nation. Even a rat in a
maze will adjust his behavior sooner or later, especially when he keeps hitting
the wall that doesn’t open up and give him the reward. But Obama
is hell bent on destroying our economy, making decisions that even a first year
economics student would find ridiculous.” (8/7/11)
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/heidiharris/2011/08/07/the_rat_in_obamas_maze/page/full/
“Forget
President Obama’s 40 percent (and still falling)
approval rating. That just means that less than 45 percent of those surveyed
have no clue about the direction of the country. Or, those same people support
the president’s weakening of America. And please spare me the worn-out excuses
that it was Bush’s fault, or things are bad because it was worse than he
thought … I care more about the nearly 15 million people who can’t find a job
that they are capable of doing because this economy is stalled, while this
president just gives another speech. Ending the shuttle program, weakening our
ballistic missile defense systems, the retreat in Afghanistan, the debacle in
Libya, the energy crisis, the spending and debt crisis, our anemic economic
growth, and the painful unemployment rate are the results of weak leadership
and failed policies.” (8/1/11)
http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?MUkZ--94bI-k1F7g9
“Indeed, how many times have
we heard the mantra that communism and Nazism represented the two extremes of
the political spectrum, left and right, respectively? This never made sense to
me, as I knew that conservatism championed political and economic liberty and
that communism and fascism were the direct antithesis of these. I am thankful
that my friend Jonah Goldberg has written the definitive work on this subject
and set the record straight, in his scholarly and entertaining ‘Liberal
Fascism.’ I strongly recommend it … Both communism and Nazism are evil
totalitarian systems characterized by enormous power in the central government
… no one can deny that communism, in practice as well as theory, is a form of
socialism … Likewise, Nazism and fascism, by definition, are socialist systems,
with the state owning or controlling the major means of industry and production
… Liberals can definitely identify with communism … But they also have far more
in common with fascism than conservatives do, given their penchant for
centralized governmental power and too much state control over business and
industry, as we've seen most strikingly under President Barack
Obama. As political theory and actual practice
throughout history demonstrate, both communism and fascism are left-wing
political and economic ideologies — as far as they can be from the right wing
of the spectrum.” (7/8/11)
http://www.newsmax.com/Limbaugh/liberals-fascism/2011/07/08/id/402882
“By
refusing to accept tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling,
Republicans are behaving like ‘fanatics,’ writes David Brooks of The New York
Times … Other columnists charge the GOP with holding America ‘hostage’ by
refusing to accept tax hikes to avert a default on the debt. What to make of
this hysteria? The Establishment is in a panic. It has been jolted awake to the
realization that the GOP House, if it can summon the courage to use it, is
holding a weapon that could enable it to bridle forever the federal monster
that consumes 25 percent of gross domestic product … Behind the GOP opposition
to tax hikes is the party's word given to the country that elected it in 2010 …
Why would it agree to raise taxes on the private productive sector when federal
spending, now at a peacetime record of 25 percent of GDP, is the problem … What
school of economic thought -- Keynesian, supply-side or monetarist -- says
raising taxes in a slumping economy is the recipe for a return to prosperity?
There is no such school … What of the charge that the Republican House is
holding America hostage, blackmailing the nation with a suicidal threat to
throw us all into national default if it does not get its way? This smear is
the precise opposite of the truth. The Republican Party has not said it will
refuse to raise the debt ceiling. It has an obligation to do so, and will. The
House has simply said it will not accept new taxes on a nation whose fiscal
crisis comes from overspending ... It is the establishment that is resorting to
extortion, saying, in effect, to the House GOP: Give us the new taxes we
demand, or Obama will veto the debt ceiling and we
will all blame you for the default … The GOP should stand its ground -- and fix
bayonets.” (7/7/11)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/08/an_establishment_in_panic_110501.html
“Obama’s vision of relegating free citizens to serf status
under an all-powerful government is un-American at its core. He has sold this
dangerous doctrine via prolific lies, distortions and class envy. But socialist
economics always fails since it violates human nature. Obamanomics
is no exception. The proof is in the rotten pudding he’s served up consisting
of a prolonged recession, high unemployment, staggering debt and an incoherent
foreign policy … The $1 trillion stimulus has failed, and Obama
wants to increase taxes to expand government even more. Surveys show that
people are not buying it, and Obama’s response has
been to try to distract from this sorry record by deploying socialism’s pet,
the green dragon of envy … But abetted by a media that’s a megaphone for Obama’s Marxist economics, this kind of socialist tripe
plays well among left-wing-dominated unions and people dependent on working
people’s dollars seized by our confiscatory tax system … The whole socialist
scheme envisioned by Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi
and Chuck Schumer is immoral. It is not only un-American but it violates
America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. This is not just a polite disagreement …
But socialism’s lure goes deeper than envy. By replacing God’s rules with man’s
own, it frees man to pursue any vice he desires, no matter how perverse ...
It’s no accident that the same people promoting unlimited abortion, homosexual
‘marriage’ and pornography are pressing for more and more government. They know
that destroying moral foundations creates rich soil for government dependency
... Socialism is at bottom a rebellion against God and God’s clear words
regarding morality and economics. You can find them all over the Bible, but
especially in the Proverbs and in the Apostle Paul’s admonition that if you
don’t work, you don’t eat ... America’s great hope is that enough people now
see the financial and moral abyss, and will not follow Obama’s
green flag of envy over the cliff.” (7/7/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2011/07/07/dependency_or_independence/page/full/
“‘When
the chief justice read me the oath,’ President Franklin D. Roosevelt said to a
speechwriter, ‘and came to the words support the Constitution of the United
States,' I felt like saying: 'Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it
… [not] as a barrier to progress and democracy.' FDR's statement vividly
illustrates the Big Divide between (most) Republicans and Democrats, free
marketers and collectivists … It's the line separating those who believe in the
power of individuals from those who believe in the power of government … Soon,
the 50 percent of voters who pay little or no taxes will march into the polling
booth, many pulling levers, pushing buttons and punching chads
to vote themselves a raise -- at somebody's else's expense. If the Supreme
Court permits the ObamaCare mandate, anything goes …
So now what … This is a time when we change course, when people rediscover
American exceptionalism and the wisdom of the
Constitution and say, ‘Enough.’ If not, Greece awaits.”
Great two-minute video giving
facts about economic freedom. (7/7/11)
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/06/this-needs-to-be-edited-into-a-tv-ad/
“A quick review of Obama's speeches reveals his most common euphemisms seem to
show a pattern of deception, obfuscation and misdirection … Here are some
samples … Investment is the president's word for government spending ...
Working People … only union members are working people and deserving of
special preferences and consideration … Paying Their Fair Share ... What
Obama really means is that entrepreneurs and other
successful business owners are not paying high enough taxes, and that all of
the money they earn should be ‘contributed’ to the government for wealth
redistribution to those that Obama considers worthy.
Of course, Obama’s supporters, the bulk of whom do
not seem to pay income tax, are, according to this definition, already paying a
fair amount of tax (zero). It is the rest of America that is not paying their
‘fair share.’” (7/6/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2011/07/04/obamas_misleading_vocabulary/page/full/
“So how did things get this
bad for Greece? As IMF negotiator Poul Thomsen said
of the country last year: ‘(Greece's) revenues have declined significantly,
while spending, especially on wages and entitlements, has risen sharply.’ There
you have it: the definitive formula for an economic meltdown … The world is
witnessing, in real time, the total collapse of a socialist system to the point
that the conservatives are now ahead in the country's polls. But it's now a
case of too little, far too late. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, Socialist
governments ... always run out of other people's money.’ Greece was spending
beyond its means by injecting cash into a public-sector system that wasn't
producing anything of real value on which it could turn a substantial profit.
When this system slid into the negative, Greece borrowed on credit until its
credit rating tanked and it couldn't get loans like a regular country … So
where do defenders of freedom turn when they see how socialism has turned them
into slaves of communism? To the free market and the private sector they've
been up until now taxing into oblivion in the interest of spreading the wealth.
You can't make this stuff up … Dark humor aside, the Greek case should serve as
a reminder to Obama, America and every other country
led by someone trying to spend their way out of economic trouble that it will
always lead to things getting much worse. And, as Sarkozy
and Merkel have now effectively acknowledged, the free market is the best
solution to economic difficulty.” 6/22/11)
“So, in the generous spirit
of bipartisanship, here are ten ways that we can give liberals exactly what
they SAY they want. 1) There are far too many people in our prisons who have
been failed by our society. That certainly isn't their fault. That's why we
need to release a few million prisoners into halfway houses in liberal neighborhoods.
2) America needs to lead the way in alternative energy; so it should be illegal
for liberals to power their homes with anything other than windmills and solar
energy. On the upside, since this will mean a lot of time in the dark, these
liberals will gain the added bonus of being able to get back to nature. 3)
Bodyguards for liberal politicians, celebrities, and athletes shouldn't be able
to use guns. After all, people don't kill people; guns kill people -- so by
removing the guns from those bodyguards, those people will be safer than ever!” 6/22/11)
“The
Government Can” video. Very entertaining. (6/20/11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
“You might have thought the
idea of a planned economy went out with the fall of communism, or at least of
the late unlamented Soviet Union. That was a couple of decades ago, but even
though empires collapse, the assumptions on which they were based persist. Now
the need for a planned economy turns up as the unspoken premise of, of all
things, an American presidential debate. Bad ideas don't die; they just mutate
and emerge in a different era and environment, often enough incognito, their
ideological origins unrecognized … What may have been the greatest economic
expansion in this country's history, the explosion of American economic growth
during the latter part of the 19th century, took place without an over-all
government plan. How about that … They had something better than a planned
economy to rely on: a faith in freedom and in themselves. No matter what
obstacles they might encounter or challenges they would have to meet. Or
however painful the setbacks. Through it all, they didn't just talk about the
spirit of freedom; they lived it.” (6/18/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2011/06/17/the_not_so_great_debate/page/full/
“And
you thought things couldn't get worse on the housing front. The U.S. housing
market is in the worst shape since the Great Depression, and now the Obama administration's solution is to impose new rules that
would banish 60 percent of current homebuyers from the market … The proposed
rules would put an end to the American Dream for much of the middle class. As
Urban League president Marc Morial said,
‘Homeownership, as we know it, could be a thing of the past’ if the proposed
rules take effect. But the damage extends beyond depriving individuals of the
opportunity to buy a home -- it will ripple throughout the economy. There is no
question that the depression in the housing market is costing jobs, and not
just the obvious ones in construction ... inability of many people to sell
homes has reduced American geographic mobility to historic lows ... But the
real problem with these rules is what they will do to the overall housing
market. Without buyers, home prices will continue to plummet. There are already
too many unsold houses on the market, about twice the number you'd expect in a
healthy environment. And the administration's solution is to drive millions of
credit-worthy buyers from being able to purchase them? These Obama administration rules could turn what increasingly
appears to be a double-dip economic recession into a full-scale depression.” (6/10/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2011/06/10/killing_the_housing_market/page/full/
“America’s
Community Organizer-in-Chief grew up surrounded by parents, grandparents, and
mentors enamored of communism. Not surprisingly, Obama
was drawn to the world of communist-sympathizing thug Saul Alinsky,
a fiendishly brilliant man who devoted his life to destroying ‘the system.’ Alinsky wanted to bring down American capitalism and
democracy in order to drag the country kicking and screaming into a socialist
nightmare … And if it wasn’t already obvious more than two years into President
Obama’s term of office, radical left-wing community
organizers (like Obama) want to destroy America as we
know it … America is now on the verge of a spectacular financial collapse
partly because of the destructive actions of Obama’s
former employer ACORN, its allies in the labor movement, a constellation of
taxpayer-funded leftist pressure groups, and radical organizers nationwide. For
four decades Obama’s favorite activist group, the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been extremists’
preferred vehicle for wreaking havoc on society ... As a lecturer at the
University of Chicago, Obama taught Alinsky’s ogrish organizing
techniques, which involve intimidation, blackmail, and violence targeted at
corporations and governments … it matters because nearly 40 years after his
death, Alinsky’s values and hoodlum ways permeate the
heavy-handed Obama administration, which hasn’t
hesitated to nationalize entire industries, flaunt court orders and the rule of
law, and habitually ignore the limits on government power provided in the
Constitution. Both Alinsky and Obama
are openly contemptuous of the American system.” (6/9/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44040
“When
people start talking about capping or halting or managing economic growth, what
they really mean is capping, halting and managing freedom … Economic growth is
an enemy of all central planners for the simple reason that growth jumps the
guardrails … it takes power from the planners. In order to herd people back
onto the official path, planners must tell them that what exists outside the
guardrails is too terrifying to contemplate. ‘Beyond here there be monsters’ is
the posted sign at every guardrail. For the record, America has more forests
than it did a century ago. Our air, water and food are cleaner than at any time
since industrialization. That is not because we lived simply, but because we
pursued economic growth and accumulated the wealth and expertise to mend our
problems. Over the long run, the same pattern holds true for every country that
embraces economic growth.” (6/9/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2011/06/10/simply_madness/page/full/
“Responsibilities
are the flip side of rights … Yet, if you ask people what their
responsibilities as Americans are, you'll usually get vacant expressions and
maybe a mumbled statement about jury duty or paying taxes. With that in mind,
here are a few basic responsibilities that you, I, and all of us have as
Americans. 1) It's your responsibility
to pay your own way … 2) It's your responsibility to take care of your children
… 3) It's your responsibility to look out for future generations of Americans …
4) You have a responsibility to be an informed voter … 5) You have a
responsibility to support and defend the Constitution … 6) You have a
responsibility to put America first … 7) You have a responsibility to be a good
person. As Samuel Adams noted way
back in 1779, A general dissolution of principles and manners
will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the
common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when
once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to
the first external or internal invader. Honesty, honor, godliness,
industry, respect for the law, morality, and truthfulness are the wheels on
which our entire republic rides. If the American people are no damn good, then
no matter how well the Constitution is written, how well we're governed, or how
much good fortune comes our way, we are doomed as a nation.” (6/8/11)
“There are a lot of things,
large and small, that irk me. One of them is our tendency to evaluate a
presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic credentials. When Obama threw his hat in the ring, people thought he was
articulate and smart and hailed his intellectual credentials ... By contrast,
the intellectual elite and mainstream media people see Sarah Palin as stupid, a loose cannon and not to be trusted with
our nuclear arsenal. There was another presidential candidate who was also held
to be stupid and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal who ultimately
became president -- Ronald Reagan. I don't put much stock into whether a
political leader is smart or not because, as George Orwell explained, ‘Some
ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ All the evidence
that I see is that academics and intellectuals have messed up the world … My
vision of a good presidential candidate is a person with ordinary intelligence
but great respect and love for our Constitution. Maybe Palin's
and Reagan's respect and love for our Constitution qualified them as dumb in
the eyes of the mainstream media, intellectuals and academics.” (6/8/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/06/08/irksome_things/page/full/
“While I have always been
wary of and have written about his dishonesty, after the speech the president
delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that
was chock full of lies, deceit, and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most
dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever
witnessed. That performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies
and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media … The question
becomes is he a compulsive liar or a sociopath … What I say about Barack Obama I do not do lightly,
but because I fear greatly for this country and can, not only from personal
experience but in my dealing
with others, recognize those failings in a person whose only interest is
himself and his inbred radical ideology, which as its lynchpin desires to
transform the country into a quasi-totalitarian state by any means possible …
he may well be the most dishonest and disingenuous occupant of the Oval Office
in history, and will do more damage to the nation than all his predecessors combined
… While the future of the country depends on dramatically altering the economic
and governing landscape, it cannot do so unless the opposition politicians and
average citizens forcefully challenge
and respond to the lies and machinations of Barack Obama and his allies without fear of what may be said about
them or to them.” (6/7/11)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_mendacity_of_barack_obama.html
“Palin’s
point about our inability to afford these subsidies is obvious to anyone who
glances at the current national debt. Her imperative to ‘allow the free market
to dictate what’s most efficient and economical for our nation’s economy’ is a
separate, but equally important, point. Even if we could afford these subsidies, they are crippling the efficiency of
the free market, and they are offensive to the moral basis of capitalism: the
freedom of choice. Free choice requires honest information. Fraud is a form of
compulsion, because it robs the victim of his ability to make an informed
choice … Government subsidies … are issued to ensure the survival of products
and companies which have failed comprehensively in the free market. They are an
attempt to force you to purchase
certain things, by using tax money collected through compulsive means to
support industries that cannot fairly attract your business through free-market
competition. Poor government ‘investments’ don’t drive Uncle Sam out of
business – they merely oblige him to seize more of the peoples’ assets to fund
further adventures, or run up the deficit to continue imposing ideology in
defiance of free-market truth.” (6/5/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43848
“I believe that the long
train of abuses and usurpations from Washington are due, in part, to their lack
of appreciation for what money is … Whether it is acquired in exchange for
labor, talent, software, food, or housing -- money represents value developed
or inherited by the citizens. When the governed consent to taxation for
funding commercial infrastructure and defense, they are expecting a reasonable
return on that investment. When bureaucrats with no appreciation for capitalism
get ambitious with their utopian dreams, the effect is an environment of
unnatural law that imposes itself on the farmer, the mechanic, and the rancher
… Don’t panic. The election season of 2012 has begun. And it is our
right, it is our duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards
for our future security.” (5/22/11)
“And
of course, intimations of Obama's plan to woo and
appease the jihadists appear throughout the speech … US short term interests,
like for instance preventing terrorist attacks against itself or its interests,
will have to be sacrificed for the greater good of bringing the Muslim
Brotherhood to power in democratic elections … Then there is the way Obama abandoned US allies Yemen and Bahrain in order to
show the US's lack of hypocrisy. As he presented it, the US will not demand
from its enemies Syria and Iran that which it doesn't demand from its friends …
If you can't favor your allies against your enemies then you cannot defend your
national interests. And if you cannot defend your national interests then you
renounce your right to have them. As for Iran, in his speech, Obama effectively abandoned the pursuit of the US's core
interest of preventing nuclear proliferation … In short, every American who is
concerned about the security of the United States should be livid. The US
President just abandoned his responsibility to defend the country and its
interests in the interest of coddling the US's worst enemies … Conceptually and
substantively, Obama abandoned the US alliance with
Israel. The rest of his words - security arrangements, demilitarized
Palestinian state and the rest of it - were nothing more than filler to please
empty-headed liberal Jews in America so they can feel comfortable signing
checks for him again.” (5/21/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2011/05/20/obamas_abandonment_of_america/page/full/
“Now, just days after Glenn
announced the rally in Israel the United States sides with the Palestinians,
all but inviting anti-Israeli sentiment to build even more in the Middle East.
So the question remains – is Glenn spying on the President to get future intel? Or is it something else — like Divine providence …
‘Earlier this week if I would have said to you, do you see any way that we
don’t stand behind Israel? You had an inkling that this president was going to
do this, but no way. No way. The people in Israel didn’t believe this. Now we
are on the wrong side. It’s official, gang. We’re on the wrong side.’ ‘I think
this is going to take courage to stand and not because it’s a dangerous place
but because this is a moment that you are going to have to stand before God and
say, ‘If, God forbid, the world blames the Jew, the world blames Israel, I will
stand with Israel.’” (5/20/11)
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/05/20/spying-or-divine-providence/
“What kind of surreal world
are we inhabiting where the political party that is trying to address our debt
problem is on the defensive at the hands of the reckless party that chooses to
mock, demagogue and delay? The national dialogue, at least the one being
choreographed by Democrats and their amen chorus in the liberal Beltway media,
has been distorted beyond measure. We are asking the wrong questions and
getting the wrong answers. Let's focus on the real problem. We are in a
national debt crisis -- present tense; this is not something that might occur
in the future … So, the media shouldn't be asking the Republicans whether they
intend to play brinksmanship with the debt ceiling, suggesting that if they
refuse to raise the limit again they'll cause the United States to default on
its obligations and plunge into a financial catastrophe ... Obama
and the Democrats should be asked why they continue to perpetuate the myth that
Republicans are going to force a default on our national obligations if they
don't agree to raise the debt ceiling. Democrats know the government won't
default on its obligations because the interest on the debt represents but a
small fraction of the budget. It is other expenditures that will have to be
delayed -- something that's unthinkable to these rapacious spenders. But since the
liberal press is not going to do its job, the Republicans and the alternative
media need to do it, with considerable frequency and volume. Obama and his Democrats need to be placed on the defensive.
They are the primary drivers of this spending; they are the obstructers of
entitlement reform, and the national debt continues to burn while they fiddle.”
(5/20/11)
“One of Dictionary.com's
definitions of blackmail is ‘to extort money from (a person) by use of
threats.’ Substitute ‘taxpayers’ for ‘person’ and you have what the White House
and congressional Democrats are doing with the debt ceiling … The public -- or
at least the half of us who pay our tax bills so that the other half can take
it and so politicians can keep themselves in office -- ought to be awake to
this scam. It makes convicted Ponzi scheme
practitioner Bernie Madoff look like a piker …
Possibly the most profound remonstrance concerning debt came from Thomas
Jefferson, who said, ‘I place economy among the first and most important
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve
our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we
run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities
and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the
government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring
for them, they will be happy.’" (5/19/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/05/19/blackmailing_taxpayers/page/full/
“On the other hand, the
Netanyahu government and Congress are calling for a US aid cutoff to the
Palestinian Authority. With Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization, now
partnering with Fatah in governing the PA, it is illegal for the US government
to continue to have anything to do with the PA. Both the Netanyahu government
and senior members of the House and Senate are arguing forcefully that there is
no way for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians now, and that the US must
abandon its efforts to force the sides to sign an agreement. The Israeli and
congressional arguments are certainly compelling. But the signals emanating
from the White House and its allied media indicate that Obama
is ready to plough forward in spite of them … Unlike his predecessors, Obama’s interest in the Palestinians is not opportunistic.
He is a true believer. And because of his deep-seated commitment to the
Palestinians, his policies are even more radically anti-Israel than the
PLO-Fatah’s. It was Obama, not Abbas,
who demanded that Jews be barred from building anything in Jerusalem, Judea and
Samaria. It is the Obama administration, not the PLO-Fatah,
that is leading the charge to embrace the Muslim Brotherhood … All of this
brings us to Netanyahu and his trip to Washington next week. Obviously Obama’s decision to upstage the premier with his new
outreach-to-the-Arab-world speech will make Netanyahu’s visit more challenging
than it was already going to be. Obama is clearly
betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still
more concessions of land and principles … But Netanyahu doesn’t have to give
in. He can stick to his guns and defend the country. He can continue on the
correct path he has forged of repeating the truth about Hamas. He can warn
about the growing threat of Egypt. He can describe the Iranian-supported
butchery Assad is carrying out against his own people and note that a regime
that murders its own will not make peace with the Jewish state. And he can
point out the fact that as a capitalist, liberal democracy which protects the
lives and property of its citizens, Israel is the only stable country in the
region and the US’s only reliable regional ally. True, if Netanyahu does these
things, he will not win himself any friends in the White House.” (5/17/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/carolineglick/2011/05/16/obamas_newest_ambush/page/full/
“But
as many of us knew all along and warned, Obamacare
will not increase access to care. It will inevitably lead to rationing, and
rationing, by definition, means reducing care. The major difference is that
under Obamacare the state will decide who gets what
care -- a bureaucratic, emotion-free board of ‘experts’ called the Independent
Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) … There are other access-limiting provisions in
the law. The premise of increasing accessibility is just the excuse to confer
on Big Brother control over health care and many other aspects of our lives, like
so many other ostensibly well-intentioned liberal programs. We needn't prove
the imminence of a death panel to demonstrate that the foundational premise of Obamacare -- increased access -- is based on a lie and thus
the case for it falls. What remains standing are all the negative aspects of a
socialized medical system: loss of freedom, reduction of quality and choice of
care, waiting lines, and a severe compromise of the personal relationship
between physician and patient.” (6/17/11)
“When
a struggling family is paying $5 a gallon for gasoline, and the President told
people this past week that America is providing more domestically drilled
barrels of oil a day ‘than at any point in history,’ but the truth is our
production is roughly half of what it was in 1970, they tend to be annoyed, not
amused … Out of both sides of his mouth, and seemingly simultaneously he
insults the very small businesses who are the only ones equipped to help him
fuel a recovery. He insults the idea of profits--which are necessary for higher
employment to come into play. He insults efficiency which is needed for growth
to occur. And he insults stewardship which keeps companies from going bankrupt.
He then ‘cherries’ this sundae by pledging that it will require a few years
before a recovery will be felt. Then in complete intellectual suspension he
tells the crowd to follow him, because he will take them to the promised land …
In fact it can easily be proven that if Barney Frank, the Congressional Black
Caucus, Fannie Mae, and Freddy Mac had all been put in check in their efforts
in 2003 and 2005, the housing crisis, that led to the banking crisis, that led
to the investment crisis... etc. would've never come about … President Obama came into power promising to raise their tax rates,
punish those who were successful, add increased burden through other financial
penalties via cap and trade. He also of course wanted to add the penalty for
not participating in Obamacare that would exact an
$8,000 per year fine for every employee a small business opted out of the
program. When small businesses drive practically everything in this nation day
to day, making life difficult for them causes everything in the economy to slow
down as well.” (6/14/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2011/05/14/obama_no_recovery_for_years!/page/full/
“Obama
has been making ‘gutsy calls’ all over the place! In full campaign mode, he's
been deploying his administrative agencies to do favors for his big
contributors, to the detriment of ordinary Americans. Last week, Obama made the gutsy call to threaten public schools that
are asking students for proof of residency … Also last week, an immigration
judge made the gutsy call to disregard the federal Defense of Marriage Act --
passed overwhelmingly by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton --
and allow an illegal alien to stay in this country based on his ‘marriage’ to
another man. He based his ruling on the gutsy decision of Obama's
attorney general to challenge the ordered deportation of another illegal alien
just days earlier, citing the alien's gay marriage to an American … Then Obama made the gutsy decision to sue Arizona to block a
state law requiring secret ballots for union elections. Who's benefiting here
-- and who's being harmed? The union bosses will be happy, but American workers
will now be subjected to union thuggery coercing them
to vote for the unions … Two weeks ago, Obama's
National Labor Relations Board made the gutsy call to file a complaint against
Boeing for attempting to build a new airplane production plant in South
Carolina -- a right-to-work state -- and demanding that the plant be opened in
Washington state -- a dying Democratic pro-union state. Suing Boeing for
building a plant in South Carolina will certainly help Obama
raise lots of campaign money from labor unions. Unfortunately, more Americans
workers will be unemployed when Boeing and other companies give up on building
plants in America and move yet more of their operations offshore. But the Obama administration is gutsily
punishing right-to-work states -- even states that merely require secret
ballots in order to obviate coercion by union thugs … Obama
is doing what's in his and his party's self-interest, rather than concerning
himself with the mass of American citizens. He is using his executive authority
to reward gays, illegal aliens, do-nothing government employees, far-left union
bosses, abortion industry executives and global warming kooks ... Democrats blithely act as if big labor,
pro-illegal-immigration, pro-government union policies combined with massive
government red tape and huge socialist programs will have no effect on jobs.
They incessantly repeat ‘gutsy call’ for ‘you'd have to have been brain-dead
not to make the call to kill bin Laden,’ hoping the Democratic Party will
suddenly seem macho. Then, after a few weeks of robotically chanting ‘gutsy
call,’ they can get back to their true passion -- destroying jobs -- at which
point they will robotically chant Bush's name to explain why millions of
Americans have lost their jobs under Obama.” (5/12/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/05/11/more_gutsy_calls_from_obama!/page/full/
“‘… the Obama
administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would
require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based
on how many miles they drive’ … In other words, they’ll blow hundreds of
millions of tax dollars designing a computerized, wireless monitoring system
that can be forcibly installed in every American vehicle, to monitor how much
we drive, and compute an exciting new tax based on the results uploaded to the
IRS … Like all taxes, the Movement Tax
would become a new instrument of control over an increasingly less free population. It would swiftly be
riddled with exemptions for activities the government finds virtuous … It won’t
take long to create a constituency that demands
GPS and mapping functions be added to the monitors and linked to IRS
computers … The damage to our economy from a dramatically less mobile
population of workers and consumers will be enormous … and, of course,
‘unexpected’ … Tell me again who the radicals are: the people who want to bring
this deranged government under control by refusing to raise the debt ceiling,
or the people who want to create a new $200 million government agency to study
the feasibility of installing a government tracking system in each and every
one of the millions of vehicles parked in American driveways.” (5/5/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43334
“That’s our outgoing Central
Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta speaking to NBC Nightly News anchor
Brian Williams regarding the information obtained that led to the take down of
Osama Bin Laden. When Williams asked Panetta if water-boarding was part of the
‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ Panetta said ‘that’s correct. Let’s
go back to the videotape shall we? Joe Biden on ‘Face the Nation’ in February
of 2010, when asked about water-boarding by host Bob Schieffer,
said: ‘Its not effective.’ President Obama in a speech at the National Archives in May of 2009:
‘I categorically reject the assertion that these are the most effective
means of interrogation…What's more, they undermine the rule of law. They
alienate us in the world.’ Operation Neptune’s Spear was an unequivocal
success on all fronts. I just wish the Administration could be honest and admit
that the policies of the Bush administration are why we finally nailed Osama.” (5/4/11)
http://content.eaglepub.com/?kaPg.dUl7t-w1V1ztkib5ielsVwqANMRk
“Obama's
regulatory tsunami began during his first month in office and has continued
relentlessly since. Each week, new, more intrusive rules are rolled out,
some through Executive Order, but many issued from federal agencies, often
without any fanfare or publicity. In every month since his inauguration,
President Obama has heaped regulations on
unsuspecting Americans, non-profit organizations, large and small businesses …
Their range, their grasp and their intrusiveness into American life is
staggering … This ubiquitous level of federal governmental involvement in
almost every aspect of the lives of American citizens seems anti-Democratic and
certainly anti-liberty. The Obama Administration
does not seem to understand that federal regulations have a cost, both in
implementing and reporting as well as a cost in lost opportunity. Many of
these regulations are shrouded in smugness …” (4/25/11) http://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2011/04/25/obamas_regulatory_tsunami_more_destructive_than_taxes/page/full/
“In my book ‘Crimes Against
Liberty,’ I described President Obama as dishonest,
hyper-partisan, a bully, a narcissist and a hard-core left-wing ideologue.
Anyone who thinks my description is exaggerated or too harsh didn't hear his
Wednesday speech on the budget … His speech was insulting, misleading, reckless
and disgraceful ... Ryan said he'd never seen a president give a speech that
stooped to this level of partisanship, demagoguery and distortion … Obama said the problem is that the rich don't pay enough ...
Americans, especially the wealthy, are taxed enough. The top 1 percent
of earners pay about 38 percent, and the top 10 percent almost 70 percent.
Hiking their taxes would decrease, not increase, revenues … [Obama] is an incorrigible, militant statist who will not
stop of his own volition, so he must be defeated. If this latest performance
doesn't awaken the lingering Obama apologists to the
full extent of his aversion to solving
The charts and videos
(evidence) given in the link below explain why high taxes, big government, and
socialism just don’t work. (4/15/11)
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/04/14/tax-cuts-vs-tax-hikes/
“President Barack Obama, the
confiscator-in-chief of your constitutional rights is at it again. As we’ve
come to expect, when President Obama tramples on the
Constitution it’s usually under the guise of some noble cause … When our
Founding Fathers gave the Senate its advice and consent role, they clearly
intended for the Senate to be a mainstay against Presidents loading the
government with cheerleaders, political operatives, or in Obama’s
case, radical anti-First and Second Amendment Presidential supporters.” (4/14/11)
“5 Things That Will Happen To
You When
“Which
branch of government has taxing and spending authority is not a matter of
rocket science, but people continue to make these statements. The only
explanation that I come up with is incurable ignorance, willful deception or
just plain stupidity; if there's another answer, I would like to hear it … I
have a one-time fix to give us some breathing room to make reforms. The federal
government has huge quantities of wasting assets -- assets that are not
producing anything, 650 million acres of land -- almost 30 percent of the land
area of the
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2011/03/16/continuing_stubborn_ignorance/page/full/
“Rep.
Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership
in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had
hidden in ObamaCare … Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla.,
likened ObamaCare to a 2,700-page haystack in which a
lot of needles are still being discovered ... The Pelosi bunch's strategy was
devious and highhanded. They bypassed the customary appropriations process …
Congress, in its constitutional role, can completely stop this secret funding
of discretionary funds … It is an insult to the U.S. Constitution, which gives
the House the power to originate all revenue bills, and to current and future
Congresses, for ObamaCare to try to handcuff Congress
in regard to future appropriations up through 2019. We are fortunate that
Bachmann is smart enough to figure out the cost of the secret money in ObamaCare.” (3/15/11)
“There’s nothing complicated
about the fiscal crisis on the horizon. Even assuming the rosiest scenario
– a robust recovery from our current malaise, along with interest rates holding
at historic lows – the government’s own numbers tell us that by 2020 we’ll be
paying nearly $1 trillion per year just in interest payments on the national
debt. That’s quite a brick wall we’re about to hit. But it’s not as bad as the
coming collapse of the major entitlement programs. Social Security and
Medicare are underfunded by an astonishing $111 trillion … It is this
cartoon version of government at which we must take relentless aim. It is
beneath the dignity of Americans to believe they’d be a heap of helpless and
pathetic nobodies without the constant supervision of the political
class. But that is the subtext of all the debates over the federal budget
… But it is false – and grotesquely so – in every particular, as I argue in my
new book, Rollback.” (3/10/11)
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/03/09/our-wise-overlords-are-just-here-to-serve-us/
“We are engaged in a great
national struggle between bondage and liberty. Bondage is based on falsehoods
and lies.
“I wouldn’t bring this up
except Sherrod
Brown is calling Jim DeMint and Scott Walker “nazis”
except they, just like Sherrod Brown, are not Nazis … It might shock Sherrod
Brown, who shows no signs of being familiar at all with history, that the Nazis
also supported universal
healthcare, expanded
animal welfare laws, support of
healthy, organic foods and vegetarianism, a minimum
wage, progressive
taxation, and tight
gun control — policies Sherrod Brown supports too … Just to re-emphasize,
the Nazis and Soviets loved labor unions. They loved them so much they made
them part of the state apparatus.” (3/4/11)
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/03/03/senator-sherrod-brown-d-oh-meets-hitler/
“Religious tolerance is the ‘final
freedom,’ which both summarizes and enables all the others. Organized
religion can only be conducted in concert with freedom of speech, property
rights, and freedom of assembly … The compromise of religious freedom always
imperils democracy. As the exercise of religion comes under assault,
every essential liberty of the faithful is denied. It’s not long before the
followers of a persecuted religion cannot own property, participate in
government, express themselves freely, or expect equal treatment under the law.
A just government derives its power from the consent of the governed … The
oppressive power of the government is powerfully restrained by the concept of
an authority that predates and transcends it. Our Bill of Rights begins by
forcing the State to concede the existence of a power greater than
itself. This humility is what makes ‘inalienable’ rights possible. A
‘right’ granted at the discretion of the government is a gift that can be taken
back.” (3/3/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=42106
“How much fuel your car
burns. What type of light bulb you buy. How much energy your appliances use.
What kind of health plan you have. What do they have in common? Meet your hidden
master: regulations … increasingly boil down to a long list of rules governing
nearly every aspect of life. In fiscal year 2010, according to a recent report
from The Heritage Foundation, the Obama
administration adopted regulations that will cost more than $26.5 billion a
year … Tax bills are just part of what you pay for government. Federal
regulations cost the average American household some $17,500 per year. It’s
time Congress put a stop to this expensive meddling. Rolling back the $26.5
billion in rules added just last year would be a good start.” (3/2/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/edfeulner/2011/03/02/ruled_by_regulation/page/full/
“President
Obama’s decision today to abandon the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA) is both outrageous—as a matter of Justice Department policy
and constitutional law—and a miscalculation … President Obama
is engaging in a disturbing power grab that, if taken to its logical conclusion,
would allow him to undermine any duly enacted federal law that he doesn’t
personally agree with … Of course, the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment
would be quite surprised to learn that they had made same-sex marriage a
constitutional imperative … Apparently, President Obama
has now taken that authority upon himself … This is not the first time that
President Obama has shown he is willing to do an end
run around the other branches of government in pursuit of his political agenda
… Obama has just handed his successor a perfect
excuse to effectively repeal or cripple ObamaCare by
refusing to defend it in court … After abandoning DOMA, Obama
has no moral authority to argue that, because ObamaCare
is the law of the land, all government officials must enforce it …” (2/24/11)
http://www.redstate.com/curt_levey/2011/02/23/defense-of-marriage-act-obamacare-and-kagan/
“The
Things not to believe — “We have to pay for those tax cuts: ... We have to pay for expenditures, like flying the Obamas around on their zillions of vacations and the
taxpayer funds we poured into GM and Chrysler to bail out the unions. However,
allowing people to keep more of the money they earned isn't an expenditure ...
tax cuts stimulate economic growth … The rich aren't paying their fair
share: To begin with,
no matter how much the Left envies, hates, and vilifies the rich, taxing them
into oblivion still won't fix our problems … Closing the more than $1
trillion deficit Obama’s spending would produce in
2020 by taxing only the rich would require a top income tax rate of 134 percent
…
How can the rich not be ‘paying their fair share’ when we already
have the 2nd highest corporate
income tax in the world and ‘25% of income earners pay
86% of the income tax burden?’ As you're pondering that,
consider that roughly 47% of Americans pay no
income tax at all. So whatever else you want to say about the rich,
they're paying more of their ‘fair share’ than at least 47% of Americans.” (2/22/11)
“Welcome to the reckoning. We
have met the fiscal apocalypse, and it is smack dab in the middle of the
heartland. As
There is an Inverse
Relationship Between the Size of Government and the Scope of Freedom. As
Government Expands, Freedom Contracts … Lots of tax money is necessary to sustain a
big government. The money used to feed the American government comes from the
American people. When the government requires more of our money in taxes, less
is available for the people. With less money in their pockets, they have fewer
choices available to them. They have less freedom to make decisions than they
had before the government took their money. And as government grows bigger and
bigger on a steady diet of tax money, it occupies a bigger and bigger presence
in the lives of its citizens, thereby limiting their freedom even more. (2/21/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/kenconnor/2011/02/20/bloated_budgets_endanger_freedom/page/full/
“The Wisconsin showdown is
the inevitable result when insolvent state governments confront the unyielding
demands of public unions … As long as we allow public sector unions to exist,
they will be at war with the American taxpayer … and unions are quite willing
to trample taxpayers, and their children, in orchestrated stampedes to maintain
their power and benefits, no matter how dire the financial situation … Governor
Walker should take a page from the handbook of
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41851
“When
peaceful Iranian students were protesting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stolen election in 2009, we didn't hear a
peep out of Obama … The fact that liberals support
democracy in Egypt, but not in Iraq or Iran, can mean only one thing: Democracy
in Egypt will be bad for the United States and its allies. (As long as we're on
the subject, liberals also opposed democracy in
“Liberal politicians love to
describe government spending as ‘investment.’ President Obama has been beating this term into the ground since his
State of the Union speech, actually going so far as to claim the funds he would
use for “key investments” don’t even count as ‘spending’ at all … As you can
see from the budget he just submitted, Obama thinks
his resources are effectively unlimited. He has already increased the
national debt by forty percent in just two years, and he plans to double
it over the next ten years ... Along the way, he would jack up a broad array of
taxes on every corner of the private sector … Notice, for example, that all the
‘key investments’ Obama talks about would involve
throwing huge new sums of money at organizations that have already failed
comprehensively … A
fund manager who proposed such ‘investments’ to his shareholders would be escorted
from the building by security. The activities Obama
touts as investments are precisely the things government should not be doing. The
results of genuine capitalist investment blow the doors off wasteful programs
run by irresponsible socialists, every single time.” (2/16/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41826
“We also learned that Obama's deficit for 2011 would not be the outrageously
obscene $1.5 trillion the Congressional Budget Office revealed last month,
which was already substantially above last year's $1.3 trillion, but a
staggering $1.65 trillion. With their signature audacity and cynicism, White
House officials dubbed the administration's 10-year plan a ‘down payment’ on
future deficit reduction. I'm not sure that even George Orwell could wrap his
arms around such sophistry. To call an enormous increase in an already
gargantuan budget deficit a ‘down payment’ on anything (other than this
nation's imminent financial ruin) does violence to the English language. The
administration would have us believe that its enormous deficits are the new
base line and that as long as we keep deficits at, say, $1 trillion, we are
moving toward balancing the budget -- wholly ignoring that our national debt
would be increasing by $1 trillion every year … In other words, using his own
metric, he's thrown in the towel on ‘winning the future,’ even while making it
his 2012 re-election slogan. And people wonder why some speculate as to whether
he's wreaking this havoc on purpose.” (2/15/11)
“To betray vital military
secrets of this country's oldest, most steadfast and most powerful ally, behind
the back of the British government, is something that should set off alarm
bells. Following in the wake of earlier betrayals of prior American commitments
to put a nuclear shield in Eastern Europe, and the undermining of
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/02/09/undermining_allies/page/full/
“Essential liberties are
transcendent, surpassing any demand from fellow citizens… even when the State
acts on their behalf. A ‘right’ that can be infringed according to the
designs of the State, or the demands of a majority, is not a right at all, but
an indulgence. A ‘right’ is also not a prize to be won during a political
contest … The power of the State breaks upon the eternal rock of the people’s
absolute rights … if no right is absolute, the power of the State has no
limit. There must be a basic building block of liberty: a right that
cannot be compromised or subdivided, a border that no amount of political
support can empower the government to breach.”
(2/8/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41665
“Is there anything about the Obama administration that doesn't reek of discriminatory
application and enforcement of laws and the arbitrary and capricious abuse of
power? Obama's best defense against the charge that
he's doing outrageous things is that to correctly accuse him of committing
these actions makes one look like a kook. Viewed alone, they are quite
disconcerting. Taken together, especially with levels of audacity and arrogance
that would impress any tyrant, they are immensely troubling.” (2/4/11)
“Uncontrolled
government spending is far worse than previously projected just a few months
ago, driving the federal budget much more deeply into debt, which threatens our
economy and our future standard of living … Obama won
the presidency in part by attacking the deficits and debt under the Bush
administration. But in 2007, the year before the recession hit, Bush's federal
budget deficit was a tame $161 billion and total spending was a relatively low
$2.7 trillion -- or less than 20 percent of GDP. This year, with a supposedly
recovering economy, spending under President Obama is
nearly $4 trillion, or more than 25 percent of GDP, and the deficit is expected
to soar well over $1.5 trillion … Two years into Obama's
spendthrift presidency, that fiscal threat is worse than ever before, severely
undermining the future financial security of every American and our country's
national security, as well.” (2/4/11)
“Socialism
– the abolishment of private property – sometimes advances at the point of a
gun. At other times, it advances by co-opting the language of freedom … A free
society with free people and free markets runs on incentives. Socialism always
depends on coercion … Socialism seizes and perverts the biblical notion of
charity, turning it into an excuse to empower the state … and because it so
violates human nature and natural human relations rooted in the family,
socialism is at war with normalcy itself. Hence the Obama
Administration’s warm embrace of abortion, homosexuality and confiscatory
taxation, all enemies of the family. Men do not naturally place the needs of
strangers ahead of their own families. In fact, the Bible warns that it’s a sin
not to provide for one’s own … Both the Nazi-Fascist version of socialism and
the Communist Party version emphasized the primacy of the state over the
individual, the family and the church, ultimate control of property, crushing
dissent and controlling the press. They were two sides of the same coin, even
though they bitterly hated each other … A common myth perpetuated in academia
and the media is that a straight line axis would put the Nazis on the far right
and the communists on the far left, with America somewhere in between. But the
communists and Nazis are both, in fact, on the far left of the axis. On the far
right would be anarchists, who believe in no government.
http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertKnight/2011/02/01/socialism%E2%80%99s_state_of_the_union
“Here's a modest proposal for
liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful,
law-abiding private companies whose values don't comport with yours … Over the
past month, several progressive activist blogs have waged an ugly war against
Chick-fil-A. The company's alleged atrocity: One of
its independent outlets in Pennsylvania donated some sandwiches and brownies to
a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which happens to
oppose same-sex marriage … The fearsome ‘muscle flexing’ isn't being done by
innocent job-creators selling chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. It's being
done by the hysterical bullies trying to drive them off of college grounds and
out of their neighborhoods in the name of ‘human rights.’ Remember: These were
the same tactics the left-wing mob used in
“None of these efforts have
been hindered in the least by the exposure of the ‘climate change’ fraud.
It’s become a religious crusade, immune to logic, scientific evidence … The
edicts of this grim religion will now be enforced through billion-dollar
lawsuits. They know the public has been turning decisively against them,
and their ability to enforce their will through politics is almost gone, at
least in the United States … The fanatics can’t win elections any more, but
they don’t have to, if they can win a few crucial billion-dollar junk-science
lawsuits … This legal movement, if it succeeds, would represent nothing less
than the end of capitalism. It would create a mechanism for courts, and
the certified ‘experts’ who turn up at trials, to siphon a bottomless stream of
money out of the private sector. It would, in essence, criminalize
industry itself … These pressures will build inexorably toward a
future in which only government-controlled corporations can engage in
industrial production. This system has a name, and it is not ‘capitalism’
… Freedom is impossible when lawful behavior can be criminalized at the whim of
mercenaries and fanatics.” (1/24/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41347
“Pressure
was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing
confusion over whether President Obama was born there
… But it became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified
listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had
made in the state archives and not a birth certificate. And in the same
interview Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth
certificate for Barack Obama
may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of
Health … Abercrombie was asked: 'You stirred
up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers
and your plan to release more information regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
How is that coming?'” (1/22/11)
“Suppose a quiz show host
were to ask: ‘What country enjoys the most economic freedom?’ Most Americans
probably wouldn’t even hesitate before answering, ‘The United States.’ They’d
be wrong. In fact, according to the 2011 ‘Index of Economic Freedom,’ the
http://townhall.com/columnists/EdFeulner/2011/01/20/restoring_economic_freedom/page/full/
“Paced by
http://townhall.com/columnists/HowardRich/2011/01/20/states_of_insolvency/page/full/
“Calling George Bush ‘Hitler’
and Republicans ‘Nazis’ became such a regular occurrence that it became jejune
during the Bush years. Whether it was Sandra Bernhard saying, ‘The
real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs’
or … It wasn't enough to oppose the war in
“Facing
huge budget difficulties, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been showing other
states how to survive -- namely, by taking on the government-employee unions …
As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that sooner
or later ‘you run out of other people's money.’ When the states come calling,
the House must say, ‘No.’ What's more, it's time to amend the federal
bankruptcy laws to create a procedure for state bankruptcies -- allowing states
to abrogate their municipal-union contracts from the school-board level on up.
States, in bankruptcy court, should be able to reorganize their finances so as
to put themselves back on a stable footing … Giving insolvent states the power
to break their union contracts would alter dramatically the balance of
political power all across the nation. No longer would municipal unions have
the financial ability to underwrite the Democratic Party. Gone from our
politics would be $200 million that the American Federation of Teachers, the
National Education Association, SEIU and AFSCME together spent on political
action in the last election cycle. Government would be returned to the people. (1/14/11)
“The folks who brought us the
‘Defend Public Education’ actions last March in California, Wisconsin, New York
and Michigan are planning a new round this year and will be drawing on the
‘energy’ created by the violent, destructive riots in Europe … As many as one
million people will show their solidarity with those ‘in the firing line of the
government’s cuts,’ according to a statement posted on a public employee union
website. The pro-big government radicals are in the planning stages of
something similar in the
“I could provide dozens more
examples of the persecution and, in many cases, ‘cleansing’ of Christians in
what we have come to call the Muslim world. If the situation were reversed, if
such a war were being waged against Muslims, it would be the top story in every
newspaper, the most urgent item at the U.N., the highest priority of all the
big-league human rights groups. What we have instead is denial … Class
conflict, not religious extremism, she added, is the correct explanation for
the tragedy. The assailant who gunned down Taseer …
exalted afterward: ‘I have killed a blasphemer!’ He did not say: ‘I have killed
a member of the bourgeoisie’ … I offered a similar analysis on Sean Hannity’s program on Fox last week, prompting ‘Media
Matters’ and several other leftwing blogs to accuse me of attempting to start a
religious war. Somehow, these bloggers failed to mention that those attacking
Christians call themselves ‘jihadis’ – meaning
warriors who fight for Islam. The crowds that gathered in front of the destroyed
Egyptian church shouted ‘Allahu Akbar! – Allah is
greatest!” Is this message really so hard to interpret? … There is abundant
evidence to suggest that most Muslims do not want to live under al-Qaeda,
Taliban, Hezbollah or Hamas rulers. They do not want to live under a mullahocracy. I remain convinced that most Muslims do not
want to be at war with the West – with Christians, Jews, Hindus and others.
Which leads to this question: How do moderate and tolerant Muslims fight the
tyrants within their community? How do they avoid being killed if they dare
speak up in defense of their own freedom and rights – much less in defense of
religious minorities, ethnic minorities and women?” (1/14/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CliffMay/2011/01/13/the_war_against_the_christians/page/full/
“The
real threat the Big Lie poses to society comes when it is not stopped in its
tracks, exposed and trashed for what it is -- a lie -- but rather accepted,
accommodated and, indeed, treated as if it were the truth … what's worse than
the Big Lie itself is the failure to reject and expose it -- the failure, in
this case, to identity the lie as a naked influence operation to mute
conservative political expression. This failure is the crime Republicans are
guilty of each time they stoop to defend themselves within the phony terms of
the lie itself … It's not a civics lesson that's required to bring the Left to
‘reason.’ Where there are no facts, there is no reason, and any painstakingly
logical arguments against disreputable falsehoods only further extend the
charade … A great unmasking is what's needed here. Having twisted an
unspeakable crime into a gag for their opposition, the Left must be called out,
and it's the job of the Right to do it. Otherwise, as with every Big Lie,
silence turns everyone into a Big Liar.” (1/14/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2011/01/13/tragedy_exposes_the_big_lie/page/full/
“When conservatives
campaigned against pornography and ‘music’ that encouraged violence against
women and racial epithets, they were told a healthy First Amendment required
that even the most offensive speech be tolerated. It was the same argument used
to allow the burning of the American flag at political protests. But the Left
is intolerant of speech it disagrees with and so wishes to censor what it cannot
overcome with superior argument.” (1/13/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2011/01/13/the_liberal_empire_strikes_back/page/full/
“The left's immediate
reaction to the Arizona shooting proves, again, that it will not forgo any
chance to exploit a tragedy (‘crisis’) … Liberals decry conservatives for their
allegedly irresponsible, hateful, inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric and, in the
same breath, demonize conservatives with irresponsible, hateful, inflammatory,
dangerous and unsupportable rhetoric … In all likelihood, this terribly
sad and tragic event was not politically motivated at all, at least not by
either particularly conservative or liberal ideas. What is political is the
left's unconscionable scheme to exploit the tragedy for political gain by using
it to demonize and silence opponents and intimidate them from effectively
blocking Obama's radical agenda.” (1/11/11)
“‘I don't think anyone in this
town believes that repealing ObamaCare is going to
increase the deficit,’ said an exasperated House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
after the third question from the media about the Democrats’ talking points …
Boehner’s report documents the fiscal and economic consequences of ObamaCare on the nation. The economic consequences include
an estimated 650,000 jobs lost. Also, the report says the health care law when
fully implemented will cost $2.6 trillion and add $701 billion to the deficit
in the first 10 years … ‘Only in Washington does not spending a trillion
dollars and not growing the size of government equal an increase in the deficit
… The Democrats have a suspended reality,’ said a Republican aide.’” (1/7/11)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41039
“The interviews illuminate
the lie that lies at the heart of the socialist fairy tale and illuminate why
that lie engenders mass murder and misery wherever its earthly incarnation occurs
… For leftists, the commitment to socialism is the priority—and truth can and
must be sacrificed on the altar of that commitment, just like the millions of
human beings that socialism has extinguished can be as well. The top calling
for leftists is to impose historical amnesia on the mass murder and misery that
their ideas have produced. That way it is easier to repeat the mass murder and
misery all over again … Showdown With Evil will help readers crystallize
the malicious impulses that rest in the hearts of not just jihadis,
but in the hearts of the self-styled progressives in the West who purport to
care for humanitarian and progressive values, when in fact their entire agenda
is to destroy true humanitarian and progressive values. In arming themselves
with this knowledge, readers will also be able to equip themselves with the
intellectual weapons they need to take a stand for the freedoms our enemies are
so relentlessly working on taking away from us.” (1/7/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulKengor/2011/01/06/vv_qa_showdown_with_dr_jamie_glazov/page/full/
Bibi had offered some fellow farm laborers some water.
They refused to drink it because Christian hands apparently make water unclean.
An argument followed. She defended her faith, which they took as synonymous
with attacking theirs. Later, she says, a mob of her accusers raped her. Naturally,
a Pakistani judge sentenced her to hang for blasphemy … And Governor Taseer, who bravely visited her and sympathized with her
plight, had 40 bullets pumped into him by one of his own bodyguards … A group
of more than 500 leading Muslim scholars, representing what the Associated
Press describes a ‘moderate school of Islam’ … not only celebrated the murder,
but warned that no Muslim should mourn Taseer's
murder or pray for him. They even went so far as to warn government officials
and journalists that the ‘supporter is as equally guilty as one who committed
blasphemy,’ and so therefore they should all take ‘a lesson from the exemplary
death’ of Salman Taseer. If
that's what counts for religious moderation in
http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2011/01/07/islams_hijackers_and_hijackees/page/full/
“Alone
among the world's 195 nations, only
http://townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2011/01/07/israels_enemies_within/page/full/
“Based on the bogus
information and assumptions the administration and Congress fed the CBO in
order to make Obamacare appear budget-neutral at the
outset, the anomalies that have been brought to light since, and the negative
consequences the law is already producing, Nancy Pelosi's statement that
repealing Obamacare would do violence to the debt and
deficit is delusional at best and an outright lie at worst. The mainstream
media will continue to carry the administration's water on this monumental ruse
…” (1/6/11)
“The
need to repeal his radical agenda is ever more apparent as it unfolds further. The
legislative enactments were bad enough. But now Obama
is using his executive authority to implement anything he couldn't get through
even his Democrat-dominated Congress … So how do we roll all this back? We need
to use the tools at hand. The three bills Obama must
pass are our leverage. The Republican House needs to demand rollbacks in his
legislative agenda and curbs on his executive actions as the price for
permitting the government to operate. It will not be time for the
faint-hearted. The conservatives seeking to block arbitrary expropriation of
vast segments of our private sector will be accused of irresponsibility and
worse … On Obamacare, Medicare cuts, enforcement of
the individual mandate, health care rationing, administrative imposition of carbon
taxes, FCC controls over talk radio, card check and spending cuts rather than
tax increases, Americans side with the GOP position against the Democratic/Obama agenda … But the central mandate for the Republicans
in the House is to fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Hold firm. Don't blink. Don't
give in. This is our best chance to save our political and economic system.” (1/5/11)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2011/01/05/how_to_defeat_obama/page/full/
“Meanwhile,
Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up
to engage in a defiant end run around Congress by attempting to impose
cap-and-trade-type regulations by administrative fiat after Obama's
failed attempt to shove this nightmarish disaster through Congress ... In
November, Obama's political theology took a
shellacking at the polls, but he marches on, undeterred, in his quest to
implement an agenda that is anathema to the great majority of Americans and
devastating to our Constitution, our economic prosperity and our individual
liberties.” (1/1/11)
“Sarah Palin
deserves an apology. When she said that the new health-care law would lead to
‘death panels’ deciding who gets life-saving treatment and who does not, she
was roundly denounced and ridiculed. Now we learn, courtesy of one of the
ridiculers -- The New York Times -- that she was right … This rule will
inevitably lead to bureaucrats deciding who is ‘fit’ to live and who is not …
All inhumanities begin with small steps; otherwise the public might rebel
against a policy that went straight to the ‘final solution’ … Do you see where
this leads? First the prohibition against abortion is removed and ‘doctors’ now
perform them. Then the assault on the infirm and elderly begins. Once the
definition of human life changes, all human lives become potentially expendable
if they don't measure up to constantly ‘evolving’ government standards.” (12/30/10) http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/12/30/she_told_us_so/page/full/
“Liberals
never tire of discussing their own generosity, particularly when demanding that
the government take your money by force to fund shiftless government employees
overseeing counterproductive government programs … Elected Democrats crow about
how much they love the poor by demanding overburdened taxpayers fund government
redistribution schemes, but can never seem to open their own wallets. The only
evidence we have that Democrats love the poor is that they consistently back
policies that will create more of them.” (12/30/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/12/29/liberals_give_til_it_hurts_you/page/full/
“… A year after the Climagate scandal decisively exposed the fraud of global
warming, and acting in the face of a new Republican House that does not look
kindly on climate change flim-flams, the Obama Administration is preparing to enforce their ideology
through EPA greenhouse gas regulations. So much for the latest ‘hard pivot to
jobs,’ announced only five days ago by President Obama. These
EPA regulations are guaranteed job-killers, dropping a huge new tax on … every
business that uses energy … Americans concerned about their economic future,
and weary of global-warming fatwas that destroy
productive businesses while making people like Al Gore into billionaires,
should make every effort … It’s imperative to hold a good old-fashioned
inquisition, and purge global warming fanatics from every level of our
government. When your state representatives come up for re-election, ask
them a simple question: ‘Do you favor sacrificing American jobs and prosperity
to battle the threat of man-made climate change? If they answer ‘yes,’
blow them away at the polls without mercy.” (12/29/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40865
“Think about the First
Amendment to our Constitution that reads: ‘Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.’ How many of us would prefer that the Founders had written the
First Amendment so as to focus on fairness rather than freedom and instead
wrote: ‘Congress shall make no unfair laws respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the fair exercise thereof; or abridging the fairness
of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble in
a fair fashion, and to fairly petition the Government for a redress of
grievances’? How supportive would you be to a person who argued that he was for
free religion but fair religion, or he was for free speech but fair speech?
Would you be supportive of government efforts to limit unfair religion and
unfair speech? How might life look under a regime of fairness of religion,
speech and the press?” (12/29/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/12/29/free_or_fair/page/full/
“While liberals often want to
take other people’s money and spend it the way they think is proper, liberals
are, on the whole, hypocritically far less generous with their money than
conservatives that they demonize are. Countless studies point this out, yet the
false notion and stereotype that conservatives are harsh and do not care about
others stubbornly persists, most likely because such false memes are propagated
and perpetuated by the liberal members of the mainstream media.” (12/29/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40857
“It’s funny that the
administration still refuses to admit that unions are the antithesis of
private-sector job creation. In fact, it seems the only way unions create jobs is to buy
politicians who steal other people’s money, then reward the union bosses with
taxpayer dollars and government-approved discrimination.” (12/28/10)
“What we are discussing is
the difference between allocation and rationing. The difference
between them is freedom, and it is the reason why allocation works, while
rationing always fails over the long term … When a politician tells you he
wants to give you something for ‘free,’ he really means it will be
rationed. The currency of the State is compulsion – it has no other
resource. Its money is extracted from taxpayers by force. Its
mandates are implemented by force. The use of force to control
distribution of a limited resource is rationing. It can be prettied
up with flowery language and high minded promises - and of course a stiff
measure of hatred for those who resist having their resources taken away to
fulfill the promises of the State - but its nature does not change. The use of
force to distribute any resource inevitably causes the supply to
contract. We’ve already seen this with ObamaCare,
as countless insurance policies have been canceled by employers or providers,
and benefits have been restricted. There is no incentive to produce
greater amounts of a resource the State controls through compulsion … Freedom
is a crucial component of prosperity, which flourishes nowhere in its
absence. Voluntary cooperation, in response to free-market incentives, is
the only way to reduce cost and increase supply. The government
cannot compel either of those things to happen, although sometimes it can
pretend otherwise for a little while, through massive and inefficient spending
of compulsory taxes … Obama-style socialism can only
exert force to suppress demand, by convening ‘death panels’ of one kind or
another.” (12/27/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40821
“The
package includes a Constitutional authority rule, which the Tea Party strongly
advocated and was in the GOP ‘Pledge to
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40755
“With
the new Republican power in
“Collectivist and
totalitarian rhetoric is always transformative in nature. The State
forever promises to elevate its people through the magic of shared dreams,
because it needs people who are willing to pay any price for a taste of that
magic … If its bold plans don’t work out as promised, it was probably our fault
for being so inadequate … Note also how the journey towards submission to the
State is always presented as a thrilling adventure: ‘dreaming about the boldest
things,’ ‘the audacity of hope,’ and so forth.” (12/23/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40770
“Our Founding Fathers had
quite a different view of ‘the American way,’ of course. In 1816, Thomas
Jefferson wrote: ‘To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and
that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order
to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry
and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the
guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired
by it.’ But like a success inhibitor injected into the body politic, Obama's policies have only served to suppress growth,
punish ambition and discourage profit-maximizers.” (12/17/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/12/17/america,_the_crab_bucket/page/full/
“Margaret Thatcher once
observed that ‘the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of
other people’s money’ … Well, ninety percent of our deficit is due to
spending. There is no possible way to tax ourselves out of that hole, any
more than
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40624
“A mere nine years ago, 12
Democratic senators voted for the current tax rates, as well as for a complete phaseout of the estate tax … When did lifting the top
marginal income tax rate paid by the rich -- currently at 35 percent -- become
a matter of morality, justice and decency?” (12/16/10)
“But being gullible about
government hurts everyone. Government is force. When it sells us bunk, we have
to pay even if we don't believe in or want it. If we don't pay up, men with
guns will make sure we do.” (12/14/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/12/15/why_do_people_believe_in_fantasies/page/full/
“It's a testament to the power
of propaganda and the appeal of emotion over reason that a system that has
produced the greatest prosperity in world history is castigated on moral
grounds, while those systems that have proliferated abject misery, poverty,
tyranny and subjugation are hailed as morally superior … The left doesn't seem
to comprehend the indispensability of private property to liberty or the
necessity of liberty to achieve prosperity. To them, it is not individuals
operating in a climate of liberty who produce prosperity. Government produces
(or magnanimously permits) the creation of wealth … Leftists pay lip service to
America's founding ideal of equality of opportunity but honor instead the
un-American idea of equality of outcomes.” (12/14/10)
“I am amazed when I hear not
just liberal Democrats but also some Republicans being suckered into the belief
that ‘the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers, these millionaires and
billionaires’ should see their tax rates rise. It is class warfare, yes. More
importantly, it is not true … But let's get back to that overwhelming majority
of the highest tax bracket that liberals are so eager to see punished … This
tax class is made up of the small business owners, doctors, and small retail
and manufacturing entrepreneurs who collectively employ nearly half of the
nation's workforce … Even while they have been balancing the economic viability
of their enterprises on their own backs and out of their own pockets, they have
had to watch as the bailed-out banks have made fortunes … the next time you
hear someone talk about taxing the ‘millionaires and billionaires,’ you will
have these facts and can make clear to them that their desire to ‘spread the
wealth’ would only guarantee years more of economic misery. Maybe that's what
they want.” (12/12/10)
“The final trend that the
media in
http://townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/2010/12/11/why_latin_america_turned/page/full/
“Writing for the Wall
Street Journal today, Sarah Palin unfurls the
fiscal ‘road map’ prepared by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and likes
where it leads … There is a school of economic thought that suggests it’s
essentially impossible for any government to indefinitely sustain spending
beyond the 20% threshold, as the recessive effects of excessive taxation and
spending cause the economy to begin deflating … It’s important to see one of
the most popular figures in the conservative movement throwing her weight
behind a carefully thought-out set of proposals like Ryan’s ... Ryan’s
ideas are also consonant with a lot of interesting things Mike Pence has been
saying lately. The common liberal knock on the Tea Party movement in general,
and Sarah Palin in particular, is that they have no
ideas, only complaints and sound bites. Palin
expresses her own concrete proposals on a regular basis, and now she’s signing
on to the reinforced concrete of Paul Ryan’s comprehensive plan. As
Americans watch the Democrats dissolve in a petulant meltdown over their own
childish demands, economic fantasies, and utter irresponsibility, they would do
well to learn that people like Palin, Ryan, and Pence
are the adults in the room.” (12/10/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40501
“Of
the 6 billion people on Earth, 2 billion try to survive on a few dollars a day.
They don't build businesses, or if they do, they don't expand them ... they
don't lift themselves out of poverty. Why not? What's the difference between
them and us? Hernando
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/12/08/why_do_the_poor_stay_poor/page/full/
“My
initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and
you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it's
easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and immoral. Immoral acts are
those that violate self-ownership. Murder, rape, assault and slavery are
immoral because those acts violate private property. So is theft, broadly
defined as taking the rightful property of one person and giving it to another
… The only way for Congress to give one American one dollar is to first,
through the tax code, take that dollar from some other American. It must
forcibly use one American to serve another American. Forcibly using one person
to serve another is one way to describe slavery. As such, it violates
self-ownership … Some might argue that Congress forcing us to help one another
and forcing us to take care of ourselves are good ideas. But my question to you
is: When congressmen and presidents take their oaths of office, is that oath to
uphold and defend good ideas or the U.S. Constitution?” (12/8/10)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2639261/posts
“If North
Koreans were pandas, would we have let them suffer so … Stopping Pyongyang’s
nuclear-weapons program is rightly a priority because of the threat it poses to
the
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/254729/save-north-koreans-jonah-goldberg
“We
have written on numerous occasions that the Obama
Administration is controlled by union bosses. Throughout the administration,
union bosses have planted their people in order to do their bidding to help
unionize
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/12/05/a-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/
“Few
displays of phony generosity and bogus earnestness are more irritating than
watching a stinking-rich tycoon advocating that others shell out more in taxes
… Let's just call it what it is, though. We may still live in a free,
capitalistic society, but taxation policy has long been instilled with
progressive moral purpose. Taxation is the most accessible and politically
viable way to ‘spread it around’ … Right now, the top 1 percent of earners pay
more in income tax than the bottom 90 percent. (The top 20 percent pay almost all
federal taxes.) … Perhaps the most damaging aspect of it all, however, is that
progressive taxation creates an irresponsible electorate.” (12/4/10)
“It's
not just the debt and deficit, stupid. It's the size, scope and bloat of the
federal government. Here's my plan … Fund current and near-term
liabilities by selling federally owned land. The federal government owns more
than one-fourth of the land in
“Barack Hussein Obama is a
practitioner of many nasty and nefarious things as our President, but none are
more destructive to our nation and its endlessly fascinating and largely
glorious past than his frequent practice of revisionist history. The term
revisionist means actually, well, lying … The truth had nothing to do with
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40141
“When
people can get the same return with less effort, most people make less effort.
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/11/24/happy_starvation_day/page/full/
“What
we need now more than ever is a flat tax or the FairTax.
Why? First, because the Internal Revenue Service is an unconstitutional system
that is totally overreaching and overpowering for our republic, as well as a
bureaucratic nightmare for anyone caught in its auditing web. It has no checks
or balances; it can't be held accountable by we the people. Secondly, as it
stands, the present tax code penalizes productivity and cripples entrepreneurs
and our capitalist economy. As The Heritage Foundation reports, the top 10
percent of income earners pay 71 percent of income taxes, and more than a third
of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all; 47 percent pay no federal
taxes.” (11/24/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40003
“But
the attempt to wrongfully and unlawfully detain people who attempt to exit the
screening process should not be tolerated. If a person plans on flying, is
standing in line, and sees the rough way in which TSA has been instructed by
the administration to fondle genitals, or to gaze at all-too-descriptive x-rays
and they wish to quietly eat the cost of their ticket and remove themselves
from the humiliation that hundreds of travelers are now on record experiencing,
they are constitutionally allowed to do so … President Obama
and the TSA have a fundamental problem. They treat all Americans as though we
are all terrorists … In Israel you can carry liquids on to the plane, they
don't do electronic strip searches, they don't perform sexual assault (the
unwanted touch of any individual against any other person's genitals) on their
travelers, and they have a perfect security record for several decades now. All
of this while being the number one target for terrorist activity in the world.
So why are we willing to levy $11,000 fines, unlawful detention, and arrest
against our own people if "We The People" refuse to be photographed
naked, or have our genitals handled against our will and in several documented
cases quite roughly … We're not pleased, and we're not kidding.” (11/23/10)
“A
president’s role, Pence said, is not to transform but to bear the weight of
decision and requires humility and incessant attention to what is set forth in
the Constitution … ‘We are a people not to be ruled and not to be commanded.’
He contrasted this view with a statement from President Obama’s
transition team when they spoke of Obama needing to
be ‘prepared to really take power and begin to rule, Day 1.’ Then, without
referring Obama by name, Pence listed several
‘don’ts’ for the presidency that touched on some of the controversies in the
current occupant’s first term: don’t bow to kings; don’t criticize the
Constitution in foreign lands; don’t argue the case against the U.S., but the
case for it; and when you go to war, you go to win ... But Pence still did not say whether he would
run in 2012 for the presidency or for governor of Indiana … limited government,
a pathway towards a balanced federal budget, and policies that support American
values and the troops.” (11/20/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ElisabethMeinecke/2010/11/20/mike_pence_on_the_presidency
“More than one million
Americans have escaped the clutches of the Democrats' destructive federal
health care law. Lucky them. Their employers and labor representatives wisely
applied for Obamacare waivers earlier this fall and
got out while the getting was good. Now, it's time for Congress to create a
permanent escape hatch for the rest of us. Repeal is the ultimate waiver …
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, at least
111 waivers have now been granted … It's all about control. If central planners
can't dictate what health benefits qualify as ‘good,’ what plans qualify as ‘affordable’
and how health care dollars are best spent, then nobody can. The ultimate goal,
of course: precipitating a massive shift from private to government insurance.”
(11/17/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/11/17/dude,_wheres_my_obamacare_waiver/page/full/
“Tea Party members believe in
small and limited government. What’s so great about smallness and limitations?
The answer does not go without saying: Big governments, governments with
unlimited powers, inevitably threaten individual freedom – always have, always
will. And freedom is a value for which Americans for centuries have fought and
died; a value most Americans still hold dear – though, distressingly, others
now seem to regard the idea of liberty as quaint. Tea Partiers are fiscal
conservatives. They see excessive taxation as harmful to economic health -- as
did Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, no slouch when it comes to such
matters. They would halt the burgeoning of a privileged, unaccountable and
increasingly powerful government bureaucracy. They want elected officials to
view themselves as civil servants -- not rulers. They would remind them that
they are not in high office primarily so they can be philanthropic with
taxpayers’ money.” (11/12/10)
“In going to
“The Obama
administration thinks it knows best how to run health care, the banks, and the
auto industry, so why not post-secondary education? And the best way to do so
in Obamaland is to limit choice, which is exactly
what the Department of Education has proposed in new rules affecting student
loans … It is the kind of micro-managing and social engineering that the
administration favors when it comes to problem-solving in every arena. Whatever
the issue, the Obama-ites believe they know better
than everyone else what is good for people … The administration should be
making it easier, not more difficult, for Americans to receive the training
they need and want. And they should let Americans decide for themselves which
programs best serve their needs. Instead, they're closing doors to opportunity
for those students most in need.” (11/12/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2010/11/12/closing_the_doors_to_opportunity/page/full/
“Results of the recent
elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with ‘public
servants’ who act as if they are public masters. This went beyond the usual
objections to particular policies. It was the fact that policies were crammed
down our throats, whether we liked them or not. In fact, laws were passed so
fast that nobody had time to read them. Whether these policies were good, bad
or indifferent, the way they were imposed represented a more fundamental threat
to the very principles of a self-governing people established by the
Constitution of the
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/11/10/political_judges/page/full/
“Yesterday, Steven Hayes was
sentenced to death by lethal injection in a state that has only executed one
person since 1960. For most people, the only shame is that his death won’t come
quick enough. Not so for death penalty opponents, who spend more time bleating
for monstrous criminals than for their victims. When Hayes is finally strapped
to that gurney, there will no doubt be candlelight vigils, where
criminal-coddlers will spout canards about capital punishment. We know what
they’ll say. They’ll say the death penalty does not deter murder. We don’t know
that, since it’s never actually been studied. This is a statement of personal
belief, not fact. What we do know is that the murder rate soared when the
Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in 1972 … Finally, they’ll say the
death penalty is barbaric. If it’s barbaric to execute someone who has been
granted an attorney, formally tried, convicted, and had his conviction upheld
after decades of appeals, I’m happy to live in a nation of savages. Is death by
lethal injection too cruel a punishment for a man who raped a woman before
suffocating her in a trash can? Or a man who burned a child alive in her bed,
surrounded by stuffed animals? Only if you have no sense of justice.” (11/10/10)
“Liberals have been seducing
Americans out of their liberties for decades with false promises of security.
Prior to Obama, we were on a slow march toward statism, but now we are on a rapid gallop. That's mostly
what next week's congressional elections will be about. Ordinary Americans are
horrified and outraged that Obama and his enablers in
Congress are fundamentally transforming America from a beacon of liberty to a
bankrupt socialist state … They are acting outside their constitutional
authority, in defiance of the rule of law, to achieve political ends they --
not the public -- desire. They are ignoring the express will of the people and
treating them like ill-informed rubes whose opinions aren't worthy of serious
consideration, only phony placation. They are implementing a policy agenda that
is substantively depriving us of our liberties across the board … But how can
good intentions any longer be fairly attributed to them, when the results of
their policies are so uniformly disastrous …” (10/29/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/10/29/liberals_at_war_with_liberty/page/full/
“For
all its sweeping and scary provisions, ObamaCare is
not nearly as important as the way it was passed. If legislation can become
laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those
laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is
completely undermined … Other actions and proposals by this administration
likewise represent moves in the direction of arbitrary rule, worthy of a banana
republic, with only a mocking facade of freedom. These include threats against
people who simply choose to express opinions counter to administration policy,
such as a warning to an insurance company that there would be ‘zero tolerance’
for ‘misinformation’ when the insurance company said that ObamaCare
would create costs that force up premiums. Zero tolerance for the right of free
speech guaranteed by the Constitution? … The headstrong, know-it-all
willfulness of this administration, which threatens our freedom at home, also
threatens our survival in the international jungle, because Obama
seems determined to do nothing that will stop Iran from going nuclear … We have
a strange man in the White House. This election is a crossroads, because either
his power will be curbed by depriving him of his huge Congressional majorities
or he will continue on a road that jeopardizes both our freedom and our
survival.” (10/29/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/29/a_crossroads_election/page/full/
“If those we send to
Washington next week remember that what matters most isn't just the economy --
but also preserving, protecting and defending our Constitution and our people
-- this president's agenda and his hopes for re-election are toast … Every
American commander in chief should know who our allies and enemies are, ought
to be able to define victory in war, and must be willing to protect our
borders. Obama has proved himself unable or unwilling
to do any of those. Congress, through the power of the purse, can make them
happen. Winning the war in Afghanistan isn't as elusive or as difficult to
describe as our present commander in chief has made it seem … Obama's strategically unsound commitment to begin
withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan next July virtually pushed the Kabul
government into an embrace with Iran's brutal theocracy … Instead of using our
tax dollars to press a court case against the governor of Arizona for
attempting to stop drug dealers, human traffickers, gun smugglers and money
launderers from invading the state, Congress needs to insist that the Obama administration protect our borders.” (10/29/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2010/10/29/what_matters_most/page/full/
“Now there has been a huge
upsurge of awareness among Americans that we are broke. The president and his
Democrats have rung up more debt than all the presidents who came before him.
And that debt comes just as the cost of entitlements is coming due for the baby
boomers. What has President Barack Obama done about it? He has brought down on the American
people Obamacare. He saw how unpopular it was. His
favorable ratings in the polls steadily declined, but he went ahead anyway. Now
his favorable ratings are down to 37 percent, and he keeps on hollering. Come
Tuesday, he will have only the White House staff on his side … Had the liberal
press not encouraged the worst in the liberal politicians, the tea partyers might not have been aroused to their present pitch
of civic-mindedness. The liberals might have been able to muddle along building
up debt. But the liberals came in with their wholly unfunded stimulus program, Obamacare and regulatory reforms that have impeded growth.”
(10/28/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2010/10/28/the_coming_struggle/page/full/
“‘We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna
reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us …’ So, there you have it. He denigrates you and me
because we won’t support an unabashed amnesty program. And as a result, he
labels us as ‘enemies.’ Moreover, he wants to shove us to the ‘back of the bus’
come January. I thought this was the President who was going to build consensus
… If the history books weren't biased enough already, then they should look
back at these 23 months as a collection of the most un-American and divisive
events in the history of the nation. And no, Mr. President, we weren’t the ones
causing those events. From the Beer Summit to the legislative bullying,
power-plays, and denigrations of our own states—such as Arizona—that was all
you, Mr. President. (10/28/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39622
“As
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2010/10/27/why_socialism_breeds_racism/page/full/
“With
Obama so intent on punishing ‘the wealthy,’
producers, and small businesses even at the expense of hurting everyone else
(for example, with his insistence on increasing capital gains tax rates despite
acknowledging it would decrease revenues), nationalizing health care despite
its now-proven severe fiscal shortfalls, handing out $50 billion more in
stimulus money though the first $868 billion was a bust, and continuing his planned
trillion-dollar-plus deficits as far as the eye can see, how can anyone believe
he's interested in reducing the deficit and national debt? … We've already
heard Obama's defiant words on the subject in clearly
refusing to accept responsibility for the deficits, the debt and the miserable
state of the economy, for which Dubya will always be
to blame, even if things are 10 times worse than when Dubya
turned over the gavel to ‘O’ … Obama's take is that …
things would have been much worse if he hadn't implemented his bankrupting
agenda ... Be honest; can you imagine Obama or his
fellow travelers nodding their heads in agreement to this gem of wisdom from
Sir Winston Churchill … ‘Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery’?
(10/26/10)
“If the Democrats win:
-- The American people have
announced, consciously or not, that they support the Democratic Party's
‘fundamental transformation’ … of
“The
most bone-chilling finding by Team B is that
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39504
“O'Donnell
wiped the floor with Coons, moderators Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian, and the idiotic
http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/10/20/chris_coons_lied,_granny_died/page/full/
“Contrary
to the president’s assurance, unfortunately, the health care reform legislation
is already causing a substantial increase in medical insurance premiums … The
long-term economic impact of ObamaCare is even more
ominous … companies are expecting premium costs per employee to skyrocket. This
will further reduce the competitiveness of American labor. Companies will have
less money to invest in their American businesses, thereby creating even fewer
jobs … Pelosi may have unintentionally taught Congress and the American people
a lesson. Read a bill and understand the impact of the bill before you pass it
… in its haste to control 20 percent of the economy represented by health care,
it has passed a ‘Jobs Reduction Act.’’ (10/21/10)
“One
of the greatest sources of confusion and deception is the difference between
leftists, progressives, socialists, communists and fascists … What goes
unappreciated is that socialists and communists have produced the greatest evil
in mankind's history. You say, ‘Williams, what in the world are you talking
about? Socialists, communists and their fellow travelers care about the little
guy in his struggle for a fair shake! They're trying to promote social
justice.’ Let's look at some of the history of socialism and communism. Nazism
is a form of socialism. In fact, Nazi stands for National Socialist German
Workers' Party. Nazis murdered 20 million of their own people and in nations
they captured. The unspeakable acts of Adolf Hitler's Socialist Workers' Party
pale in comparison to the horrors committed in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR). Between 1917 and 1987, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and
their successors murdered, or were otherwise responsible for the deaths of, 62
million of their own people. Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Tse-tung
and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese. The
most authoritative tally of history's most murderous regimes is in a book by
“Among long-time politicians
who are being seriously challenged for the first time this election year,
Congressman Barney Frank of
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/22/is_barney_frank_part_ii/page/full/
“We are in the era of
Democratic Extreme Girls -- Big Nanny handmaidens who demand control of your
children, your health care, your energy use, your pocketbook and your news. And
that's just for starters. If you think President Obama
will move to the center after the midterms, think again.” (10/20/10)
“There is, perhaps, no better
testament to how far this nation has drifted from the principles of individual
liberty, free markets, and private property than that those proponents of real
reform of the Social Security system are now looked upon as radicals …
progressives shout that privatization, which really means giving private
citizens ownership and control of their Social Security dollars, will lead to
disaster. Such pronouncements are really an example of the old political game
of saying one thing while doing another. In neighborhoods outside of
Washington, D.C., this is also known as lying … The great irony is that what
conservatives are really saying is that workers should be allowed to own the fruits
of their labor. What a radical concept!” (10/18/10)
“President Obama loves to make up things that are patently untrue,
like every economist agrees his $800 billion economic stimulus ‘has done its
job,’ the economy ‘is moving in the right direction,’ and the Bush tax cuts
caused the trillion dollar deficits. The facts say otherwise, but he is never
challenged by the news media for his repeatedly dishonest myth-making. Here are
some of his worst offenses … But if you expect Obama
to change his deviously dishonest ways anytime soon, don’t hold your breath.” (10/14/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39385
“Pity the poor entrepreneur
and small business owner in
http://townhall.com/columnists/LuritaDoan/2010/10/11/obamas_huge_new_tax/page/full/
“When Obamacare
was debated, we free-market advocates insisted that no matter what the
president promised, the laws of economics cannot be repealed. Our opponents in
effect answered, ‘Yes, we can.’ Well, Obamacare has
barely started taking effect, and the evidence is already rolling in ... The
laws of economics have struck back. Health insurers Wellpoint,
Cigna,
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/10/06/congress_cant_repeal_economics/page/full/
“Believe it or not, with jobs
falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10
percent, President Obama is out on the campaign trail
bashing businesses and promoting class warfare ... He’s slamming the Chamber of
Commerce for allegedly using foreign money in campaign ads, even though there’s
not one shred of evidence of this … Of course, Obama
never mentions the unions, including the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and all their
foreign money from their big international affiliates … It’s as though Obama is from another planet, completely disconnected from
the political reality as we march toward November 2.” (10/13/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryKudlow/2010/10/13/earth_to_obama/page/full/
“If you doubt the prescience
of Ayn Rand [Atlas Shrugged], turn to page 744
to read about a doctor who no longer practices his profession. When asked why,
he replies ‘I quit when medicine was placed under State control many years ago.
Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of
skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion
that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal
of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the
fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing
their wishes at the point of a gun.’ If you don’t think vast numbers of doctors
feel this way, you have not spoken to any. If ObamaCare
goes into effect as passed in 2010, you will soon see droves of doctors living
by this creed … Each week, my son and I cherished the opportunity to discuss
issues that are timeless and yet have never been as relevant as they are today.
And each week, I saw the boy who used to ride on my shoulders become a true
man, not only in body and age, but in mind ... Sharing such a vital book with a
loved one made the effort totally worthwhile, and absorbing again the
philosophies of Ayn Rand made this an experience that
will live with me forever. ” (9/27/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBialosky/2010/09/27/a_shrugged_summer/page/full/
“In
the end, he [Obama] repeated the same arguments he's
been making for the past two years … In fact, history shows just the opposite.
Cutting personal income and business tax rates has brought in more revenue as a
result of stronger economic growth … Obama, still
playing the class warfare card … But a soak-the-rich economic policy isn't going
to create a single job or start up a new business. This requires capital and
investors who are willing to risk it on new enterprises … Unbelievably, Obama blames the recession on the 2001-03 Bush tax cuts …
Worse, Obama believes [or pretends] you can raise
taxes in a recession on the one sector of the economy that produces most of the
jobs and much if not most of the capital investment to fuel economic growth.
Sucking another trillion dollars out of
“But with their in-your-face
excesses, their outright dictatorial abuses of power, their displays of utter
contempt for the will of the people, and their recklessly destructive policy
agenda, they've awakened another slumbering giant: mainstream, grass-roots
“The Tea Partiers have a radical agenda! This oft made charge is extremely odd. After all,
what are the issues that keep coming up over and over and over when you talk to
Tea Partiers? They want to get spending under control, fear that the federal
government is getting too big, and they want to stick to the Constitution. Not
only are none of those radical beliefs, the overwhelming majority … agree … So
maybe the real problem isn't that the Tea Party is ‘radical.’ Maybe it's that
“In
“The political elites in both
parties don’t get it. Nor do the mainstream media. But the tea-party movement
is stopping Obamanomics dead in its tracks. And it
will overturn the Keynesian big-government planning effort now in full force in
our nation’s capital. The tea parties are Reaganism
reincarnate, and then some. It’s all there in the Contract from
“The
stunning results of yesterday's primary contests should be frightening not only
to the Democrats, but to those Republicans in name only - RINOs - whose actions
have been more or less barely indistinguishable from the Democratic party's
deranged left wing. Both the RINOS and their Democratic counterparts have been
showing sneering contempt for the voters for a long time and they are about to
pay dearly for it … It is now the Tea Partiers who are speaking for the
nation's Republican voters. And they are speaking on behalf of good old
fashioned American values.” (9/16/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2010/09/16/a_great_awakening/page/full/
“As
we have seen, shariah explicitly seeks to replace representative
governance with an Islamic state, to destroy sovereign and national polities
with a global caliphate. ‘If shariah is thus viewed
as an alien legal system hostile to and in contravention of the U.S.
constitution, and as one which dictates both violent and non-violent means to a
capable audience ready to act imminently, then logically, those who seek to
establish shariah in America—whether by violent means
or by stealth—can be said to be engaged in criminal sedition, not the protected
practice of a religion.’” (9/16/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39004
“So
all rhetorical barrels were leveled at Boehner, and when the president was
finished ... John Boehner didn't have a scratch on him. In fact the Democratic
troops not only did not rally to the flag, they ran farther and faster from Obama. The president proposed massive amounts of new
spending on top of the mountain of debt he and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have
already rung up. The president insisted on a massive new tax on employers and
small business owners who are already paying most of the country's income taxes
… Boehner has admitted that there will be a need for speed when and if he gets
the Speaker's gavel, but he won't provide any targets for the president and his
gang to shoot at. Their destructive policies are and will remain the target.
Boehner and the GOP doesn't need a manifesto. Their manifesto is, simply,
‘repeal and replace' stop the spending and the apologies. And that is enough.” (9/12/10)
“Having
plunged the nation into a deep financial crisis with his wild and unrestrained
spending of money we do not have -- on things the nation does not need --
President Obama is now proposing to spend even more,
claiming that this time it will work … To make matters worse, he wants to
heavily tax the very taxpayers who create jobs by investing the money he wants
to wants to confiscate through taxes. If that doesn't make any sense to you,
you are one of the growing number of Americans who are beginning to believe
that the president is seeking to impose a socialist system upon this nation.
Think about it. The best way to destroy an economic system is to destroy the
economy. That will enable you to replace the destroyed system with one that you
favor. And if everything you do vis-ŕ-vis the economy seems right out of Karl
Marx's playbook, then the system you want to impose is a Marxist one.” (9/10/10)
“I never expected President Barack Obama to be promoting my
new book, ‘Crimes Against Liberty,’ but that's virtually what's happened with
his recent speeches on the economy. It's as if he's determined to validate
every premise I assert in Crimes Against Liberty. All the elements are there:
his thin-skinned narcissism, his deceit, his militant partisanship, his bullying
and his dogged adherence to his disastrous policy agenda against all evidence
of its failure and against the express will of the American people. His
full-throated class warfare was on clear display. … He also engaged, as usual,
in scapegoating, demonizing and bullying groups of
people instead of discussing the merits of his policies … Amazingly, Obama's stated prescription to jump-start the economy now
is to spend another $50 billion of money confiscated from the private sector
for infrastructure improvements. This is becoming cartoonish … And he has the
audacity to complain about being mistreated. ‘They treat me like a dog’? You
mean they treat you like you and your party have been treating Bush for 10
years, including your slanders in your speeches this week?” (9/10/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/09/10/barack_obamas_5_cacophonous_notes/page/full/
“Islam demands ‘respect’ with
an intensity and strategic purpose well beyond other beliefs … As we have
witnessed in Cartoon Rage, Pope Rage, Commode Quran Rage, ‘Fitna’
Rage, More Cartoon Rage, etc., ‘respecting’ Islam in fact means exempting this
religious-political ideology from ‘slander,’ ‘defamation,’ any mockery,
criticism, analysis, resistance, denunciation or rejection -- or else. And we
all know what ‘or else’ means -- or else murder and mayhem … In this narrative,
the actual bad actors are absolved of both volition and blame … with the
non-Islamic world assuming all responsibility -- all guilt -- for the actions
of barbarians who pillage and kill at the drop of, well, a Quran … Repeat after
me: The Constitution trumps Islamic law.” (9/10/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/09/10/the_constitution_trumps_islamic_law/page/full/
“This is the dismal economic
environment that Obama and the Democrat-run Congress
has created in the past two years. More spending, bigger government and higher
taxes, especially on the people who invest in our economy the most and the
businesses that create most of the jobs. In the 1980s President Reagan neatly
described the government's economic policies before he came into office this
way: ‘If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops
moving, subsidize it.’ Reagan's characterization of the government's approach
to the
“With this administration, what
we're seeing is not just an arrogant contempt for the cognitive ability and
will of the American people but also a cynical determination to manipulate its
will through indoctrination, selective suppression of speech, and trickery.” (9/8/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/09/03/obamas_burden_of_being_so_bright/page/full/
“President Obama has never had to make a living; he has never had to
face the consequences of his behavior, whether that behavior is hanging out
with terrorists, doing cocaine, or attending a racist church for 20 years. He's
never been held accountable. Finally, he's being held accountable. He doesn't
like it, so he's rhetorically urinating in the middle of the living room. Obama, like a bad puppy, acts badly because he doesn't
recognize that he's not in the true position of authority. The American people
stand above him. He is a public servant, a servant of our will. He seems not to
believe that -- in fact, he thinks that
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2010/09/08/why_we_treat_obama_like_a_dog/page/full/
“It didn’t take generations
but only a couple of years for a majority of Americans to begin to realize that
instead of messianic healing, Barack Obama is inflicting unprecedented injuries on
http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankTurek/2010/08/30/crimes_against_liberty/page/full/
“As
Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is
following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/obama-s-agenda--overwhelm-the-system-95716764.html
“This new nation, “conceived
in liberty” two-and-a-quarter centuries ago, followed the blueprint laid out by
its Founding Fathers and within a few short generations became the richest,
strongest, most freedom-loving nation the world has ever seen. Meanwhile,
nations which were built on counter-ideologies of collectivism, government
control, censorship and command economic planning have failed spectacularly –
at a tremendous human cost. In recent decades, however, politicians of both
parties in
http://townhall.com/columnists/WilliamWilson/2010/08/30/the_real_radicals/page/full/
“It’s
hard for our politicians, who are busy spending our money and raising our taxes
so we can pay them to protect us, to grasp that there is a private economy in
our country with private businesses that earn their living serving consumers.
And that when regulators start telling them what to do, businesses must find
alternative ways to provide their services and earn a living or shut down …
It’s good that our politicians are getting our financial affairs in order for
us. Proof that we can rely on them is that our government debt is now almost
60% of our GDP and projected to reach 100% by 2020. Standard & Poor’s has
just indicated that the AAA rating of US government bonds may have to be
reduced, showing that the United States is now a credit risk.” (8/30/10)
“The Warlord favors either
the Fair Tax or a flat tax over the present income tax system. He promises a
very different kind of change than what we have seen under the current
administration. Maybe that is why just last week Democrat Mike McIntyre opened
their debate with a lie about the intentions of candidate Ilario
Pantano. The entrenched incumbent claimed that the
Warlord intends to raise taxes by 23% - an allusion to his opponent’s openness
to the Fair Tax bill. Mike McIntyre knows the Fair Tax replaces the income tax
rather than adding 23% to the existing income tax. He is not ignorant. He is
being willfully dishonest. Apparently, there is greater honor among Marines
than among career politicians … When a civilian is accused of murder he is
innocent until proven guilty. When a Marine is accused of murder he remains
guilty after proven innocent.” (8/30/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/08/30/warlord_for_congress/page/full/
“While
campaigning for the presidency, Senator Obama
traversed the country preaching, among other things, his economic doctrines.
And the recurrent themes from these economic messages were quite clear: A) our
nation’s greatest enemies were not terrorists or hostile nations, but American
corporations; B) American oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, insurance
companies, and businesses that ‘shipped jobs overseas,’ were among the worst
fenders; and C) victory over these enemies would not be achieved until he,
himself, could control these various sectors of our economy … Our President has
demonstrated that, for him … it’s about seizing power over private affairs, and
he will achieve that power by what ever means
necessary. Slumping economy or not, the truth is abundantly clear: our
President is achieving precisely what he intended.” (8/26/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2010/08/22/is_this_what_obama_intended/page/full
“Yet
if, in fact, federal spending can boost the economy, it ought to be in
overdrive by now. It’s not. So what’s holding things back? It could be death by
a thousand cuts. Or, to be more specific, death by thousands of pages of
regulations … Over-regulation doesn’t work ... Uncertainty makes business
leaders (and all of us) tentative. Our country can have heavy regulation, or it
can have steady job growth. It’s time to choose which path to pursue.” (8/26/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/RichTucker/2010/08/21/heavy_regulation_or_job_growth/page/full
“Islam not only seeks to
order the spiritual realm inhabited by a Muslim and Allah, it lays out a
doctrine to control every believer's behavior … as well as the public life of
the collective. Doctrinally, Islam is thus ‘doubly totalitarian’ … Under Shariah, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech are
outlawed … Indeed, tolerance is doomed if it is extended to the intolerant,
something philosopher Karl Popper worked out in the last century. ‘Unlimited
tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited
tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a
tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant
will be destroyed and tolerance with them. ... We should therefore claim, in
the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.’" (8/27/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/08/26/do_not_tolerate_the_intolerant/page/full/
“Given
Islam’s enslavement of women … we’re hearing crickets from the virulent vixens
of the lovely Left who vie for women’s rights … Nope, the fems’
fixation remains on Palin. Palin
is the threat. Palin is the She Devil. Palin is the one who gets the nasty jabs—and not Islam and
the potential spread of Sharia from sea to shining
sea … So, my question is this: From an equal rights standpoint, why in God’s
name do you, the Liberal ladies who are supposedly so earnest for fair
treatment for the fairer sex, go after Palin and not
the women’s rights-refusing Imams who think Sharia is
the shizznah?” (8/26/10)
“In
fact, throughout the crowd could be seen signs with just the word ‘shariah’ lettered in dripping, blood-red ink. The prospect
that the tide is beginning now to turn in our generation's War for the Free
World can be found in those signs. They bespeak a recognition of the danger
posed by the brutally repressive, totalitarian and anti-constitutional program
that is espoused by the authorities of Islam. Shariah,
the law of Saudi Arabia and Iran, is what Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf,
the prime-mover behind the Ground Zero mosque, says he wants to ‘bring to
America’ … Specifically, the public is learning of the obligation on shariah's adherents to impose this toxic program everywhere
via jihad - holy war, waged by violence or by stealth ... Thanks to the Ground
Zero mosque controversy, Americans are also getting a crash-course on the
preeminent perpetrator of the stealthy form of ‘civilization jihad,’ the Muslim
Brotherhood. While its tactics may differ from, say, al Qaeda's, the
Brotherhood's objectives are identical: the supremacy of Islam and the establishment
of a theocratic ruler, the Caliph, who is to govern worldwide in accordance
with shariah.” (8/26/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2010/08/24/the_end_of_the_beginning_on_shariah/page/full
“It
is not just evil people who would dismantle
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/08/20/dismantling_america_part_iv/page/full
“One
way of circumventing the people is to rush legislation through Congress so fast
that no one knows what is buried in it … Yet another ploy is to pass laws
worded in vague generalities, leaving it up to the federal bureaucracies to
issue specific regulations based on those laws … Quite simply, we are being
played for fools … This country has been changed in a more profound way by
corrupting its fundamental values. The Obama
administration has begun bribing people with the promise of getting their
medical care and other benefits paid for by other people, so long as those
other people can be called ‘the rich.’ Incidentally, most of those who are
called ‘the rich’ are nowhere close to being rich … There was a time when most
Americans would have resented the suggestion that they wanted someone else to
pay their bills. But now, envy and resentment have been cultivated to the point
where even people who contribute nothing to society feel that they have a right
to a ‘fair share’ of what others have produced. The most dangerous corruption
is a corruption of a nation's soul. That is what this administration is doing.”
(8/25/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/08/18/dismantling_america_part_ii/page/full
“But
laid-off, unemployed and endangered Americans in the health care sector, the
auto industry, and the oil, mining, gas, and fishing industries are no doubt
wondering: What's wrong with returning to the days when we had jobs and steady
paychecks … The White House has invested mightily in creating a propaganda
infrastructure to tout its ‘jobs saved or created.’ Taxpayers need a full,
transparent accounting of how many jobs Team Obama
has destroyed.” (8/25/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/08/25/the_white_house_war_on_jobs/page/full
“This is an important insight
since we know from uncontested evidence submitted by the government in the
largest terrorism finance trial in U.S. history - the Holy Land Foundation case
- that the Muslim Brotherhood's mission in America is ‘destroying Western
civilization from within’ and ‘sabotaging its miserable house by their hands
and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is
made victorious over all other religions.’ What on earth is the President of
the
http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2010/08/16/obamas_teachable_shariah_moment/page/full
“It's
not enough that the White House is moving to lock up hundreds of millions of
acres of land in the name of environmental protection. The Obama
administration's neon green radicals are also training their sights on the deep
blue seas. The president's grabby-handed bureaucrats have been empowered
through executive order to seize unprecedented control from states and
localities over ‘conservation, economic activity, user conflict and sustainable
use of the ocean, our coasts and the
“Have
you heard of the "Great Outdoors Initiative"? Chances are, you
haven't. But across the country, White House officials have been meeting
quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring
untold millions of acres of both public and private land. It's another stealthy
power grab through executive order that promises to radically transform the
American way of life … This power grab, masquerading as a feel-good,
all-American recreation program, comes on top of a separate, property-usurping
initiative exposed by GOP Rep. Robert Bishop and Sen. Jim DeMint earlier this
spring. According to an internal, 21-page Obama
administration memo, 17 energy-rich areas in 11 states have been targeted as
potential federal ‘monuments.’ The lives of coyotes, deer and prairie dogs
would be elevated above states' needs to generate jobs, tourism business and
energy solutions.” (8/19/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/08/13/how_obama_is_locking_up_our_land/page/full
“It
is insufferable (and will not long be suffered) to be lectured to and imposed
upon by a ruling class that loathes our nation's history, values and
accomplishments ... Now that we who cling to our liberty know we are a majority
-- and potentially a very large majority -- we are aroused to the defense of
our ancient rights -- and we will not slacken in our efforts until that
repulsive plan for transformation has been expurgated from the body politic
…" (8/19/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2010/08/11/we_socialists_vs_we_the_people/page/full
“In
his remarks at the event, former Reagan administration ambassador Alan Keyes
spoke of ‘rampant exploitation of the history of black Americans’ by the Obama administration, using race as an instrument of
political war to enslave all Americans … The aim of the ‘Obama
faction’ Keyes said is to re-institute slavery, this time to government. ‘What
did it mean to be a slave?’ he asked. ‘Your master guaranteed your food,
your clothing, your shelter and a job … It simply means that we shall all
become slaves on the government’s plantation. It simply means that we
shall all sacrifice the dignity that God intended for us when he endowed us
with those unalienable rights that are the basis for government by consent,’ he
added.” (8/9/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38465
“Incremental revisions just
won’t do. This 2,400-page law is the biggest entitlement since the Great
Society. A wide-ranging program that puts one-sixth of our economy in the hands
of politicians and bureaucrats can’t be fixed through a little tinkering.
Lawmakers need to scrap the measure in its entirety … Time is of the essence. Obamacare works like a one-way ratchet. Dismantling the
huge new bureaucracies established by the measure will be effectively
impossible once they’ve taken root … This fall, Republicans will attempt to
persuade the American people that they deserve to be put back in power. Exhibit
A in their case should be a pledge to immediately repeal Obamacare.
Scrapping the health-reform package in its entirety is the only way to prevent Obamacare from doing irreparable damage to the country.” (8/9/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38460
“Runaway federal spending
isn’t likely to be brought under control as long as the major entitlements –
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – remain out of control. The number of
entitlement beneficiaries is growing faster than the number of taxpayers,
entitlements account for more than half of federal spending, and unfunded
liabilities (obligations not covered by payroll taxes) exceed $100 trillion.” (8/9/10)
“To understand Obama's failure at financial reform, you only have to
analyze his rhetoric. At the same July 21 ceremony he boldly proclaimed about
the bill, ‘It demands accountability and responsibility from everyone.’ Problem
is, on its face this statement is a bold faced lie. Fannie and Freddie have
been neither fixed nor reformed and both are bleeding the taxpayers daily.” (8/7/10)
“Instead, Haitians themselves
explain, most aid agencies spend much of their energies trying to justify their
own existence rather than helping Haitians help themselves. There are important
lessons here for
http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/08/04/end_poverty_export_capitalism/page/full
“In ‘Myths, Lies and
Downright Stupidity,’ I bet my readers $1,000 that they couldn't name one thing
that government does better than the private sector. I am yet to pay. Free enterprise
does everything better. Why? Because if private companies don't do things
efficiently, they lose money and die. Unlike government, they cannot compel
payment through the power to tax … Roads are one example ... It also turns out
that government roads often run more smoothly when drivers have more, not less,
freedom.” (8/5/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2010/08/04/private_enterprise_does_it_better/page/full
“Suppose gambling becomes
legal for an Olympic event such as the 100-meter sprint. I wouldn't place a bet
on an Asian or white runner. Why? Blacks who trace their ancestry to
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/08/04/is_profiling_racist/page/full
“What kinds of economic
policies (and what kind of governmental philosophy) have resulted in growth,
prosperity, and financial strength, and what kind of approach has led to
economic stagnation and deterioration … ‘Reagan campaigned for president on
an economic recovery program with four specific components. The first was
across-the-board reductions in tax rates to provide incentives for saving,
investment, entrepreneurship and work. The second component was
deregulation to remove unnecessary costs on the economy … Third was the control
of government spending ... fourth component of the Reagan recovery plan was
tight, anti-inflation monetary policy … We know such policies work because they
turned around in just two years an economy far worse than today's’ ... the Obama administration's economic policies do not include any
of the four Reagan components ... We are stuck going in exactly the wrong
direction on economic policy’ ... The only way that such an approach
makes sense is if you believe that government is a wiser steward of the
American people's money than the American people themselves – it only makes
sense to those who prefer ideology over reality.” (8/3/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2010/08/02/ideology_v_reality/page/full
“Yesterday's
federal court decision to enjoin enforcement of the
“Come in. Make yourself
comfortable. What's that? You are a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple
the national debt, destroy a health care system that the overwhelming majority
of Americans were happy with in a way that creates a massive and infinitely
complex new entitlement, bailout the banks and car companies, and ‘stimulate’
the economy with an $862 billion boondoggle that hasn't created a single
private-sector job? Your president is suing the state of
“But the key to the unfolding
Democratic disaster are the president's policies. Voters are rejecting TARP,
the stimulus, the takeover of GM, Obamacare, wild
deficit spending and vast deficits, pending massive tax … Voters are disgusted
with the waste and the mismanagement, the incredible special interest
self-dealing, and the apparently boundless arrogance of Team Obama generally and the president's studied indifference to
facts specifically. The federal fiasco that was and remains the response to the
Gulf spill didn't help either, and the threat that EPA will simply take the
power to regulate missions that Congress hasn't given it adds to the growing
voter anger. (7/30/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2010/07/29/a_u_turn_election/page/full
“Anyone with a lick of common
sense will tell you that when you are in a hole, you need to quit digging.
Continuing to dig will only create a larger problem. Do schools teach this?
Even President Obama's national debt commission recently told him that his
continuing spending orgy is digging
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38222
“Indeed, the corruption and
dysfunction of the Obama Democrats are bringing
so-called ‘progressive change’ to a halt. But why would Waldman – and the
progressives, generally – ever think that concentrating more and more economic
resources into the hands of fewer and fewer people (this is what happens when
government takes-over huge chunks of the private sector economy, as Obama has been doing) would NOT lead to more corruption …
there is no historical basis for this assumption … This is why conservatives
believe in the free-market economy ... where market competition provides a
check-and-balance to bad behavior.” (7/25/10)
“The Wall Street Journal documented
in a recent report how the Obama Administration
misrepresented in ths crucial 30-Day Safety Report
the views of the seven engineers who did not recommend a moratorium on
deepwater drilling … ‘If the Obama Administration
purposefully manipulated the views of known experts on deepwater drilling and
deceived the public, there should be serious consequences. The current
moratorium on deepwater energy exploration is costing Americans their jobs and
causing significant economic harm to a region that cannot afford more
hardships,’
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38207
“Gassis
… wants to see the Sudanese truly take responsibility for a new country.
Knowing human nature, he considers it the only way, ultimately, to change the
face of
“Context, by definition,
includes surrounding words, related circumstances, and vital background
information. To ignore these while quoting a few words arranged in apparent
order is to move from context to pretext. The words cease to mean what the
person has really said, but instead are manipulated to other ends … words become mere weapons. That’s how we get
propaganda. It’s the kind of thing historian Lauro Martines wrote about in Fire in the City—Savonarola and
the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidStokes/2010/07/25/its_the_context,_stupid/page/full
“This is what ‘racism’ has
come to in
“The
taxing and regulating has only just begun … The liberal wing of the Democratic
Party is dismantling the America we have known and loved and transforming it
into something it has never been: a socialist state. If we let them do it,
there will be no forgiveness, no excuse and no going back.” (7/20/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/07/20/our_big_mistake/page/full
“Employers are not hiring
because they know they will soon be paying not only higher taxes but also more
health care costs or penalties. Depreciation allowances for investment in
equipment will be lowered from $250,000 to $25,000, which means businesses will
do less investing. Our ability to compete in the marketplace, of course,
depends on our advanced research and development. New taxes will hit R&D
hard, which means more slowdowns and more outsourcing overseas. The expiration
of the Republican tax cuts will impose the largest tax hikes in history,
affecting all taxpayers. The nearly 50 percent who pay no taxes will also be
hurt by more loss of jobs. There is only one antidote for these depressing
prognostications. On Nov. 2, American voters will have the chance to choose
real change from Obama's failed
“One
has to jack up one's imagination to try to come up with dumber decisions from
our flagrantly corrupt, out-of-control government than those occurring daily in
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38118
“The Obama
Administration and its executive and legislative minions … are rapidly
dismantling our freedoms while completely ignoring the Constitution … These are
not good men who are accomplishing this extraordinary feat; these are men, and
women, who are driven by a provenly unworkable
statist system implementing a destructive redistributionist ideology to work at
warp speed to rid our nation of the determination of the individual to be supplanted
by the collective dependency on the increasingly powerful state … And from
Thomas Paine: ‘The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the
noblest causes’ … The America that Obama and his ilk
are ‘fundamentally transforming” is becoming as totalitarian and as
state-controlled as any of the most despotic communist and socialist regimes in
history. Obama and his people wield their power
with the worst of intentions for the United States and its citizens, and though
they still find it necessary to consistently lie to the American people about
what they are doing, while being treated as serious leaders by the sycophantic
press, we can see for ourselves the effect of Obama’s
policies … It is even more terrifying when we can see what Obama
has done in a slender year and a half.” (7/15/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37968
“The grassroots grumbling is
not just about money. It’s about freedom. The people are justifiably annoyed
that their pockets are being picked; but they know that the loss of their
God-given, Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms is as grave a concern. The past
eighteen months have been a brutal assault on liberty. As government grows,
personal freedoms shrink … ‘The moral foundations of economic conservatism are
precisely those of social conservatism, namely, respect for the human person,
which grounds our commitment to individual liberty and the right to economic
freedom and other essential civil liberties’ … The mainstream media and the
political elites may not have made the connection yet; but freedom is at the
heart of this grassroots insurrection. And they are ignoring this at their own
peril.” (7/15/10)
“Opponents of the Obama Administration’s over-reaching policies may think
there’s little hope for either a partial or complete reversal. Best-selling
author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. argues to the contrary. Nullification:
How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century gives citizens
hope that states already possess the tools to rein in oppressive new laws. The
nullification process isn’t untested. It’s been used effectively
throughout American history to restore the government to its proper balance.” (7/18/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38178
“The time has come to revisit
nullification, the quintessentially American mode of resistance against federal
lawlessness that Thomas Jefferson urged as an essential ingredient of our
political system … The Tenth Amendment Center, for example, is sponsoring a
tour of
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37967&s=rcmp
“Professors Cole and Ohanian argue that FDR's economic policies added at least
seven years to the depression. Where do the trillion-plus dollars come from
that Congress and Obama are spending in an effort to
stimulate the economy … The only way government can spend a dollar is to tax or
borrow it … In the case of a tax, one should ask what would that taxpayer have
done with the dollar had it not been taxed away. He would have spent it on
something that would have created a job for someone … Between 1787 and 1930,
our nation has seen both mild and severe economic downturns, sometimes called
panics, that have ranged from one to seven years. During that interval, no one
considered it to be the business of the federal government to try to get the
economy out of a depression because there was no constitutional authority to do
so. It took
http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/07/14/a_failed_obama_hero/page/full
“This is what we’ve got
today. Pinheads with power who think they know the last detail of how the world
works and what it is going to look like, not just over the next couple years –
but years down the road … Doomsday scenarios dominated thinking about energy in
the 1970’s. It led to major government interference in these markets that just
made things worse. Reagan became president in 1981, cut taxes, cut spending,
and decontrolled oil prices. Within a couple years, oil prices dropped to a
third of where they were, and stayed there for 15 years ... The biggest
problems our country has today relate to government planning gone awry. The
huge solvency problems we have with Social Security and Medicare all relate to
assumptions these government planned systems were built on that turned out to
be false. Now we have only to watch and wait as the disaster that will follow
our new government takeover of our heath care unfolds. Every opportunity for
new, creative solutions that would emerge from a free market has been squashed.
The bureaucrats now reign.” (7/12/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2010/07/12/prosperity_requires_humility/page/full
“U.S.
financial and rhetorical support for the Kenyan constitution has some members
of Congress calling for an investigation … ‘The U.S. shouldn't be interfering
with this process, and we have serious questions about why the Obama administration is promoting a constitution which
allows abortion on demand and waters down protections for religious freedom’ …
‘The U.S. is drifting unconsciously, haltingly, inconsistently toward a foreign
policy that actively promotes the state coercion of Islamic strictures’ … ‘the
U.S. has both a moral responsibility and an interest in protecting human rights
anywhere.’ And maybe even more so in Kenya, where opponents of the
abortion-expanding, sharia-mandating bill have been
threatened and killed for saying ‘no.’ Dissenting government officials have
been arrested for their leadership in protest … But President Obama and the West say they know best. Sound familiar?” (7/10/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynLopez/2010/07/09/trouble_in_kenya/page/full
“With the simple preface,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", the novel
idea of constructing government solely as best servant to the People and their
God given privileges was born … At his core, the Statist is a parasite who
requires a subjugated public to advance himself. Unlike the rugged
individualist who advances by grit and determination, the Statist assembles his
power through propaganda that pits those rugged individualists in society who
have achieved, against the sloth groups who have been convinced that
achievement is an accidental occurrence falling upon those who have been
‘lucky’ … Today the United States recognizes Constitutionality of the
Constitution, based not at all upon the words of the document, but upon the
urges and inclinations of those who have seized power by appealing to the
largest voting bloc. (7/10/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37863
Well
done video about freedom (7/13/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE
“The lesson learned from this
discussion is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear … If you had asked us
three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would
have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of
law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society would be
evaporating just like it did in Castro's
“Pearce does not mince words,
saying this lawsuit is a matter of the Obama
administration's abuse of power to advance its ‘nonenforcement
mentality and agenda … It's outrageous, what (the administration is) doing.
This is about an agenda. This is a president that is acting like a dictator.
This is a president who is ignoring the rule of law and siding with lawbreakers
over the citizens of this country and the citizens of this state while damage
is being conducted every single day. Every single day!’ … God bless the states
and our state officials for opposing this tyranny.” (7/9/10)
“This week, Justice Department
whistleblower J. Christian Adams came forward with damning public testimony
about how Obama officials believe ‘civil rights law
should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced
against blacks or other national minorities.’" (7/9/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/07/09/whitewashing_black_racism/page/full
“Berwick is
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37938
“In a deeper sense, most of
the $800 billion Democrats stuffed into their so-called economic stimulus and
jobs bill went into federal and state government agencies and programs. There
were few federal departments and agencies that did not get a chunk of this
money to fatten their budgets, with very little, if any, effect on economic
growth. In other words, Obama's big spending stimulus
was a fraud from the beginning ... But somehow Obama
was able to sell this snake oil medicine to the voters, and to a lot of
economically illiterate journalists, arguing that tax cuts do not work and are
even detrimental to the economy.” (7/7/10)
“The First Amendment does not
say, ‘The people shall have a right to freedom of speech.’ It says, ‘Congress
shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech.’ Likewise with ‘the
right of the people to keep and bear arms’ … These are not rights the
government creates -- they are pre-existing rights the government is bound to
respect. There is no other way to make sense of the Ninth Amendment: ‘The
enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the people’ … ‘It has always been widely
understood,’ the court explained, ‘that the Second Amendment, like the First
and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right’ that was
considered ‘one of the fundamental rights of Englishmen.’ Constitutional
interpretation aside, Kagan's reluctance to endorse
the concept of pre-existing rights was troubling because without it we cannot
draw moral distinctions between legal regimes. How can we condemn a dictator
for legally authorized oppression, or say that our own Constitution is better
now that it bans slavery than it was when it tacitly approved the practice? The
traditional American answer is that people have certain rights by virtue of
being human, regardless of what the law says.” (7/5/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JacobSullum/2010/07/07/natural_reluctance/page/full
“The
right to private property was one of the central issues involved in the
American Revolution. The colonists’ cries of ‘taxation without representation’
were but protests of what they saw as an unjust taking of private property …
Indeed, the question of private property remains a central part of our national
political conversation. The political rhetoric may not always reflect it, but
if one scratches the surface of arguments surrounding universal healthcare;
entitlements; budgetary deficits; business regulation; cap-and-trade, or even
abortion, one will find an argument involving the God-given right to private
property … The founders were then of the same mind as John Locke, who wrote in
his ‘Second Treatise on Government:’ ‘The great and chief end therefore, of men
united into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the
preservation of their property’ … John Adams perhaps put it best when he said:
‘The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred
as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to
protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’” (7/5/10)
“…
“‘President
Barack Obama has no
intention of growing the U.S. economy; he simply wants to control it’ … Over
these past 18 months, our U.S. federal government has been actively pursuing
all of these economic redistributionist agendas – taking wealth and opportunity
away from certain groups of Americans, and redistributing those things to
certain other groups – and judging by current opinion poll data, the vast
majority of Americans are not happy with these types of agendas being forced
upon them. Yet this radically different vision of America didn’t just simply
‘happen’ – we, collectively, empowered it, and brought it upon ourselves, by
electing Barack Obama to be
our President, and by electing his party as the majority in the Congress ... If
we are to return to an American vision of independence and personal
responsibility, we’ve got to choose more wisely in the future, and in order to
do that we’ve got to start paying closer attention to those who want to be our
leaders … For two years, Senator Obama traveled the
country, taking about, in no particular order: A) raising taxes on oil
companies to get even with them for their so-called ‘windfall profits;’ B)
using the power of government to ‘reign-in’ executive salaries; C) raising the
capital gains tax rate; D) using the power of government to ‘crack-down’
(whatever that means) on both the insurance, and pharmaceutical industries; E)
raising income tax rates on high-income earners (his definition of ‘high-income
earner’ has been raised and lowered repeatedly); and E) using the power of
government to fulfill that elusive promise of making both healthcare, and a college
education, ‘universal.’ None of these ideas spell out ‘prosperity’ for the
American people, but they do entail handing-over more control of our private
affairs to Barack Obama.
And that is where things stand today …” (7/4/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2010/07/04/our_independence_or_obamas_control
“A
delegation of 20 black mayors representing the National Conference of Black
Mayors arrived in
"... an Obama administration response that is leagues beyond inept.
It is proactively incompetent and obstructionist, as though it is determined
not to let this crisis go to waste – but to prolong and intensify the
environmental and economic calamity, to advance its political objectives:
shutting down offshore leasing and drilling, bringing the US oil industry into
the automotive-banking-housing-healthcare sphere of federal control, forcing a
massive shift to costly renewable energy, and ramming cap-tax-and-trade through
Congress. How else can anyone explain the litany of bureaucratic decisions
..." (7/3/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2010/07/03/obamas_deliberate_katrina
“Are
we fit to be free? That’s the big question for Americans to decide in election
year 2010. Above the chatter of daily headlines, beyond the jockeying of
parties, two opposing visions of human nature vie for expression in the
political choices we will make. One vision sees mankind as endowed with liberty
and equality by our Creator, individually capable of self-determination in most
areas of our lives, and inherently (if imperfectly) responsible in choosing for
ourselves and taking the consequences.” (7/3/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2010/06/21/the_big_question_of_2010
“Many say that the situation
in
“This is not another book on
the dangers of Islamic terrorism, but a wake-up call to Americans who might be missing
the overarching goal behind that ‘tactic,’ a goal shared by the hard left in
this country: the destruction of ‘the freedom culture’ on which America was
built … For those who would nevertheless accuse McCarthy of hyperventilation, I
commend to you his chilling description of then-Sen. Obama's
six-day trip to Kenya, during which he rallied support for Raila
Odinga, the ‘anti-Western, radical Leftist
presidential candidate’ who sought to impose Shariah
in Kenya. If that doesn't connect the dots for you and convince you, at the
very least, of the reasonableness of McCarthy's arguments, you may well need a
reality check. ‘The Grand Jihad’ is a must-read.” (7/3/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/06/22/please_read_the_grand_jihad
“Quite frankly, if we hadn't
passed a single new law since the start of Bush's second term, we'd probably be
considerably better off as a nation. When most new legislation passed in
“If
Wal-Mart, or any of the millions of producers who are in it for money and
profits, were to deliver the same low-quality services, they would be out of
business … The big difference between entities that serve us well and those who
do not lies in what motivates them. Wal-Mart and millions of other businesses
are profit-motivated whereas government schools, USPS and state motor vehicle
departments are not … In the market, when a firm fails to please its customers
and fails to earn a profit, it goes bankrupt, making those resources available
to another that might do better.” (6/16/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37500
“The
regime's constitution is deception … The North Korean criminal enterprise has
one main goal -- the accumulation of hard currency, used to support its
lifestyle and to purchase military hardware. It gains currency through
narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting, the sale of arms and nuclear technology,
and a successful extortion racket. The mafia muscle, in this case, is 1.5
million soldiers, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and some 13,000
artillery tubes aimed at downtown Seoul … rewarded and encouraged extortion,
proliferation and destabilizing North Korean tantrums … The most fragile thing
about the North Korean regime is the structure of deception that supports it …
We should test if the North Korean regime can survive the collapse of its
lies.” (6/16/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2010/06/16/kingdom_of_lies
“The
other day it came out that Reuters had published doctored photographs
related to the recent Gaza Flotilla incident. The images were “cropped” in
order to make the good guys look bad and the bad guys look better … [Helen
Thomas’] words dripped with venom reminiscent of Nazi propagandist Josef
Goebbels … What do we learn from these two seemingly unrelated yet actually
similar stories? Well, we are reminded that the age-old hatred of the Jewish
people is alive and well—and everywhere. Distortions, twisted images,
word-pictures, and invective abound in a kind of Neo-Philistine effort to mold
and mobilize the Goliath of world opinion against the ever-diminutive David …
Sadly, it’s nothing new. The Protocols of the Elders of
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidStokes/2010/06/13/usual_suspects_islamism_and_anti-semitism
“Yet, another lesson – for
President Obama, and all the rest of us – is that our
President’s disposition towards economic matters is, to put it simply, very
destructive. President Obama seems to naively assume
that wealth creation is essentially a guaranteed thing, and the big question
surrounding the economy is how wealth will be distributed, and to whom … Barack Obama’s attempt to ‘speak
into existence’ a solution to the oil spill crisis could end up exacerbating
yet another looming crisis – unemployment and a sluggish economy – while doing
nothing to contain the spill itself ... This illustrates one of the greatest
tragedies of the Obama presidency: our President’s
harshest, most angry, most aggressive words are usually aimed at free
enterprise. It’s difficult to imagine our President ever claiming to have a
“boot on the throat” of Islamic terrorists, or
“Formally known as Resolution
of Disapproval, Murkowski’s effort would negate EPA’s so-called ‘Endangerment
Finding’ that effectively gives the agency regulatory authority over manmade
greenhouse gases in the name of combating global warming … If Congress does not
step in to block EPA, the agency can use the Clean Air Act as a blunt tool to
widen its jurisdiction into almost every nook and cranny in our lives. Every
sector of our economy -- transportation, power generation and manufacturing --
would be subjected to EPA’s bureaucratic reach … The upcoming vote on
Murkowski’s resolution is fundamentally about our representative democracy:
Which government body determines the fate
http://townhall.com/columnists/TomBorelli/2010/06/05/murkowski_resolution_could_block_epa_power_grab
“‘Whether it’s a soft tyranny
or a hard tyranny, it’s time to put our foot down. If we don’t stop this train
that’s headed for a cliff right now, we won’t have the country we grew up in’ …
[says] Thomas a native Nebraskan who founded her website in November to promote
grass-roots political activism. The Democrats aren’t listening to the people,
she says, adding, ‘I’ve never seen anything like it ... We’re either going to
be self-governed or ruled.’ Hopefully citizens will take out their frustrations
in November ‘and make sure people who aren’t listening will have a new job,’
Thomas says. As for Liberty Central, it inspires citizens to action on behalf
of five major principles.
Limited constitutional government
Individual liberty
Personal responsibility
Free enterprise
National security” (5/26/10)
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/virgina-thomas-democrats-tyranny/2010/05/29/id/360531
“Liberals have a learning
disability when it comes to the impracticability of socialism. They are so
steeped in the seductive lies of false compassion that no amount of logic,
history or everyday experience registers. Thus, they continue to burden the
market system to an unsustainable level … Conservatives believe, generally,
that economic and political freedoms are interconnected and that socialism,
beyond the obvious, constricts and eventually smothers political liberties.
(Hat Tip: Friedrich Hayek.) They believe that our rights are a gift from God
and that it is both immoral and counterproductive for a central government to
confiscate a major portion of some people's work product and transfer it to
others. Nor is any man entitled to moral bragging rights for presiding over
government-coerced theft … In their insatiable desire to rearrange the seating
around the economic dinner table, they're converting the dinner hall to the
Titanic and the dining room chairs to deck chairs. With their ever-expanding
government and increasing regulatory control, they are sapping the lifeblood
out of this country -- and bankrupting it. Even if they can't agree that
stealing people's work product is immoral, can't they see that the end result
of that confiscatory act is overall financial destruction …” (5/26/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/05/25/theyre_all_obama_liberals_now
“As another sign of the
troubling philosophy of leaders in Washington to tax more to spend more, this
week they plan massive tax hikes on job-creators and economic development
engines that will harm us all … The time is long past due for Washington to pay
its bills not on the backs of taxpayers, workers, small businesses and
investors. This tax hike is worse than kicking the solution to our economic and
fiscal crisis down the road; it’s crushing it.” (5/26/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37177
“Forked-Tongue-In-Chief … Because President Obama is a liberal he cannot simply come out and say what he wishes he could, for if he did, he would be impeached. But behind the mask of attempting to sound moderate, reasonable, clean and articulate (Biden's favorite qualities) lies a shadow of his meaning that may sound like something on the surface and to most ears who hear, but mean something completely different to the President himself. He is misguided at best, or a deceptive traitor at worst...” (5/24/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2010/05/23/forked-tongue-in-chief_at_west_point
“‘It's not the incumbents,
stupid. It's how they voted. It's what they stand for.’ No incumbent who voted
against the Bush/Obama bank bailouts, the ‘stimulus’
package and ObamaCare lost his or her job. Voters
hate the bank bailouts. They hate the government takeover of car companies.
They do not believe that the $800 billion stimulus package stimulated anything
but bigger government. They reject ObamaCare and
think it's costly and likely to worsen health care. Incumbents who voted for
these things now face the music … Voters see this administration as a bunch of
leftist, redistribute-the-wealth,
we-know-better-how-to-spend-your-money-and-run-your-lives-and-manage-your-businesses,
smug busybodies. They see an administration that raised the debt and deficit in
a year and a half to European-like levels that threaten present and future
prosperity. They see an administration that believes fighting global warming
takes precedence over jobs and productivity.” (5/20/10)
“President Obama wants to transform our free-market economy into a
government-controlled economy. He wants to transform our family-centered
society to a government-centered society. He wants to transform our national
philosophy founded upon the primacy of the individual and the supremacy of God
to one founded upon the primacy of the “collective good” of society and the
supremacy of the central government … We also prove how key parts of the Obama agenda are unconstitutional … In all these ways, Mr. Obama is subverting the U.S. Constitution … wielding powers
far beyond those granted to him by the Constitution and seizing power that the
Constitution denies the government from ever possessing, trampling on the
liberty of Americans in the process.” (5/12/10)
“In normal times, his commitment
to working the interstices of the two parties on behalf of getting something
done would be both admirable and useful. But … I was delighted to see him lose
because the next Congress is going to need a lot of a certain type of
politician — and Mr. Bennett is not that type. We need determined men and women
who share the view of us shocked and appalled Americans that we are in crisis —
and that we cannot wait until 2013 to stop the madness and start the rollback.
Winning a majority of Republicans in November without electing a majority for
radical, immediate rollback will be essentially as good as losing.” (5/12/10)
http://www.newsmax.com/TonyBlankley/Obama-NewYorkTimes-David-Brooks/2010/05/12/id/358786
Ann Coulter is informative,
insightful, and a great writer with the sharpest sense of humor in the
business. Be sure to check “PATRIOT LINKS” and “READING FOR
RIGHT-WINGERS.”
“If Obama’s
team has its way, life in the
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36854
“Leftists see humankind as
one vast utopian beehive in which individual bees exist, only to serve what
national socialist Adolf Hitler called the Volk, The People, or international
socialist Vladimir Lenin called The Masses or The Proletariat. The morality of
the American right is individualist and anti-collectivist, which is why
leftists believe that conservatives and Republicans must be either destroyed or
silenced and absorbed by force into the collectivist politically correct mental
monoculture of the Borg. In their morality, leftists are remarkably like
Islamist radicals. Islamists want the entire world ruled by a monolithic
Caliphate theocracy, another flavor of collectivism. And to achieve such
domination over others, both leftists and Islamists are willing and eager to
use both coercion and deceit.” (3/5/10)
http://newsmax.com/LowellPonte/healthcare-Obama-Democrats-ElectionDay/2010/03/05/id/351755
“Dealing with an emergency
effectively requires decisive leadership. On that important test, President Obama failed miserably. Of course, the liberal mainstream
news media has given the President a pass. If a Republican President had
neglected such a crisis for so long, there would be a media firestorm.” (5/6/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36850
"The Obama
White House is on an insatiable control binge. No private space has been left
behind -- not your grocery aisles, not your children's TV shows, not even your
refrigerator. Give the first lady this: She has an uncanny knack for wrapping
her self-interests in the mantle of self-sacrifice and public service. It's the
Obama way." (5/12/10)
“In Scott Rasmussen’s
mid-April poll, Chuck DeVore runs better numbers
against Barbara Boxer than does Fiorina and only one
point less than does
http://www.redstate.com/rabbidovfischer/2010/05/06/the-demon-sheep-of-zion/
The law of “conservation of
power” is particularly timely now as the President steps away from the idea
that Americans should have the power, for example, to decide how to spend their
net income after taxes. Health care reform includes the requirement that
we purchase health insurance or be fined for not purchasing it. This
absolutely takes away some of the economic decision-making (i.e. power)
of each citizen. And that individual quantum of power, multiplied by the
approximately 307,000,000
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/39561/
“The current leadership in Washington
operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether "affordable
housing" or "universal health care" or anything else -- and not
concern themselves with the repercussions -- since they have the power to
simply force individuals, businesses, doctors or anyone else to knuckle under
and follow their dictates. Friedrich Hayek called this mindset ‘the road to
serfdom.’ But, even under serfdom and slavery, experience forced those with
power to recognize the limits of their power. What this administration -- and
especially the President -- does not have is experience.” (4/20/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/04/20/the_limits_of_power
“‘Laws of the federal
government are to be supreme in all matters pursuant to the delegated powers of
U.S. Constitution. When D.C. enacts laws outside those powers, state laws
trump. And, as Thomas Jefferson would say, when the federal government assumes
powers not delegated to it, those acts are 'unauthoritative,
void, and of no force' from the outset,’ said the analysis … ‘It's time to
remind the federal government that We the People are in charge and not the
other way around,’ said Boldin. ‘Following the Constitution
every issue, every time, without exceptions or excuses requires us to resist
federal overreach and keeping our health care decisions where the Founders
assured us that they'd be and where they belong – close to home.’" (4/20/10)
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=143165
“We are all experts. We are
all media creators now. We are all the campaign. Our audience is a large circle
of people and we're at its center … If you want to make a difference in 2010,
now's the time to start reaching out to all those people to spread the word.
They are your constituents — your electronic precinct ... think of yourself as
a publisher. The job of the campaign staff, and the candidate, is to produce
ammunition in the form of issue positions, statements, and campaign material.
Yours is to fire it off, distributing it to the right people ... So it's up to
the grass roots — which means us. Don't wait for instructions. Don't look for leaders.
Take politics into your own hands and mobilize your precincts!” (4/15/10)
http://newsmax.com/Morris/Morris-campaign-elections-2010/2010/04/15/id/355864
“Even this past week, I had a
sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives (a Republican, no less)
tell me privately that President Obama is just
‘naďve’ … Yet the time for “assuming the best” has expired with President Obama. He has already demonstrated far too many times
during his brief presidency that, individual liberty be damned, his objectives
are to expand his own control over American life, while reducing our nation’s
economic and military prowess internationally.” (4/12/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2010/04/11/obama_in_the_nuclear_world_the_enemy_is_war_itself
“I believe that one of the
greatest obstacles facing opponents of the socialist agenda of Obama Democrats is this misguided insistence that we always
have to give them the benefit of the doubt — as if it were virtuous not to be
vigilant in safeguarding our sacred liberties. Only if we first recognize and
then clearly speak out against what they're truly about will we have any chance
of stopping their suicidal blueprint for America … Willful blindness has
destroyed many nations from within (and without) and is well on the way to
destroying us. Those who would pat themselves on the back for being too kind to
call it as they see it — or for sanctimoniously condemning those who are
calling it as they see
it — should reconsider … In the words of the great Edmund Burke, ‘All that is
necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ He might have
added, ‘Or say nothing’ … The best interest of this nation … depend[s] on their
reversing the masochistic path of bankrupting spending, retreating in the war
on terror, and surrendering to the culture of death being forcibly imposed by
moral relativists. It depends on rekindling the fire of liberty in our hearts.
Can you imagine Patrick Henry saying, ‘Give me nice legislators or give me
death.’" (4/11/10)
http://newsmax.com/Limbaugh/Limbaugh-Obamacare-Pelosi-Obama/2010/04/09/id/355236
“… we once again face a
totalitarian ideology bent on our destruction. What, then, is this
ideology? It has been given many names in recent years, including political
Islam, radical Islam, fundamentalist Islam, extremist Islam and Islamofascism. There is, however, a more accurate
descriptor - the one its adherents use. They call it ‘Shariah’
… Fortunately, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world do not wish to
live under a brutally repressive, woman-demeaning, barbaric and totalitarian
program. Such Muslims are potentially our allies, just as those who do adhere
to Shariah are our unalterable foes … Indeed, Shariah offers non-believers only three choices: conversion
to Islam, submission (known as dhimmitude) or death
... Our enemy is not ‘violent extremism,’ or even al-Qaeda alone. Rather, it is
the millions of Muslims who - like the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and their allies
- adhere to Shariah and who, therefore, believe they
must impose it on the rest of us. (4/11/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2010/04/09/the_real_reason_they_hate_us
“We don't have to wait until
we have a Republican in the White House to rid this nation of the shackles of Obamacare. We can do it next year if we win simple
majorities in one or both houses of Congress … they will have the capacity to
zero fund Obamacare, appropriating not a dime for it
in their spending bills.” (3/31/10)
http://newsmax.com/Morris/morris-healthcare-defunding-house/2010/03/30/id/354293
“Our research has shown that
President Obama’s health approach is financially
unsustainable and will ultimately lead to health care rationing, a lower
quality of care and a greater degree of dependence on government. We deplore those
outcomes and are committed to making the intellectual case for this law’s
repeal … The President has made a habit of using conservative talking points
when trying to sell a liberal ideology because he knows that this is a
center-right country that rejects his agenda when articulated honestly.” (3/31/10)
“The foundation of economic
activity and policy is private property. All action requires the use of
property and all economic policy is about how people can legally use their property.
To benefit from the division of labor, we must be able to exchange our
products, which requires private property. Private property is definitely
Scriptural. The Bible explicitly prohibits theft, fraud, moving property
barriers, debasing money, violating labor contracts, as well as coveting. These
prohibitions apply to both citizens and rulers. In my text, I apply this
conclusion to issues such as confiscatory taxation, government subsidies,
business regulation, and monetary inflation.” (3/28/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DrPaulKengor/2010/03/27/qa_god,_socialism_and_the_free_market
“It's really about freedom,
or lack thereof … The anti-Obama folks believe the
president is imposing a massive federal presence that will erode personal
freedoms.” (3/28/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BillOReilly/2010/03/27/the_freedom_factor
“Simply, it’s an intolerable
act by government that’s inconsistent with freedom and liberty. Sen. Jim
DeMint (R.-S.C.) has pledged to work for repeal of ObamaCare
… “The battle for healthcare freedom is not over and I will introduce
legislation this week to repeal this healthcare takeover.’ Legal attacks on the
mandates and other unconstitutional provisions of the bill are underway …
Any effort for this Congress
to attempt to forbid future congresses from repealing ObamaCare
is unconstitutional … We have a new Intolerable Act. ObamaCare,
including intolerable provisions that should be subject to legal, legislative
and electoral attack. The effort is underway.” (3/25/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36151
“But the time for commentary
and dialogue is over. The final hour has come. Our Constitution is on life
support, and the federal government is pulling the plug ... As there is before
an impending death or brewing storm, there's a hush at the moment, but most of
us sense that there's something very, very wrong on the horizon ... If you
encouraged, affirmed, endorsed or voted for Obamacare
in any form, expect a dark cloud to precede your exit as we vote you out of
office.” (3/25/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36156
“The people now attempting to
govern us with an iron fist are Marxist-leaning in terms of not only the policies
they support but also the ruthless tactics they employ to enact those policies
into law ... What remains, in plain view, is a narcissistic, arrogant and
inflexibly ideological man who is determined to cram his socialist agenda down
our throats by whatever means necessary — irrespective of the legality of the
procedures he utilizes, the truth of the words he speaks and the will of the
people ... Obama and his congressional cronies are
systematically subverting the Constitution to advance their agenda. They have
tried every trick in the book to pass Obamacare, such
as lying about many substantive provisions in the bill and their inevitable
effects on quality, price and choice … the Constitution's safeguards to limit
government will only work if the ruling class remains honorable. If it
continues to ignore its constitutional restraints and no one holds it
accountable, the Constitution will degenerate into meaninglessness and be
powerless to preserve our liberties. Indeed, as fiscally devastating as Obamacare would be, cost is not the most important reason
to oppose the monstrosity. Obamacare is about
government versus the people. It is about achieving that tipping point from a
free market economy to a socialized one and from constitutional self-governance
to something far less democratic.” (3/17/10)
http://newsmax.com/Limbaugh/Limbaugh-Obama-healthcare-economy/2010/03/16/id/352824
In a swindle that would make
Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a
substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of
people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already
record-breaking federal deficit. (3/18/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/03/16/talking_points_vs_realty
“First, we know that
President Obama and the Democratic congressional
leadership could not persuade a majority of Americans of the wisdom of their
plan -- and have largely ceased to try … The most visible Democratic domestic
priority of the last 40 years must be smuggled into law, lest too many
Americans notice. Politicians claiming the idealism of saints have adopted the
tactics of burglars.” (3/18/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2010/03/17/democrats_true_colors
If Obamacare
passes “… physicians' fees will be slashed 21 percent and hospital
reimbursements for Medicare patients will be cut by $1.3 billion. Tens of
thousands of doctors and thousands of health care institutions … will refuse to
treat Medicare patients … In effect, the elderly will experience a doctors'
strike against Medicare patients … Congress, being Congress, will probably seek
to postpone the cuts until after Election Day. But in doing so, they would
expose the deficit-reduction and cost-containment features of Obama's bill for the fraud that they are … Either poison --
the cuts or the deficit -- will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of
House and Senate Democrats.” (3/20/10)
My bill will solve nearly
every problem allegedly addressed by ObamaCare -- and
mine entails zero cost to the taxpayer. Indeed, a free market in health
insurance would produce major tax savings as layers of government bureaucrats,
unnecessary to medical service in
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36080
Sarah Palin:
“To [White House Press Secretary Robert] Gibbs and [Senior Adviser David]
Axelrod and [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel
and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and Mr. President: It’s time that they stop
lecturing, and start listening to the American people … But everyday Americans
know better. And we’re not taking it anymore. We’re not believing everything
the ‘lamestream’ media is spewing at us, and that the
White House wants to twist and pivot around … We know better, because we know
real history, and we know what works.” (3/15/10)
http://newsmax.com/Headline/palin-healthcare-media-democrats/2010/03/13/id/352558
“I'm not advocating that we
be uncivil or mean-spirited, but that we have the guts to tell the truth, using
difficult-to-hear language when necessary. I dare say our failure to speak
frankly and boldly has a lot to do with the horrible predicament we're in this
country. Speaking a little more truth to political correctness would be
helpful. But the left's tactic of whining and crying foul at anything it
chooses to be offended by, echoed by genteel enablers on the right, intimidates
many from expressing truth for fear of public condemnation … The upshot is that
hard-hitting conservatives are condemned for telling the truth, which serves
the best interests of people and the nation, while liberals are given a pass
for telling outright lies that damage the national interest.” (3/13/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/03/12/heads_liberals_win,_tails_we_lose
“In ‘The March of Folly,’
Barbara Tuchman asked, ‘Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to
the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?’ Her assessment
of self-deception – ‘acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be
deflected by the facts’ -- captures the conditions that are gripping President Obama and the Democratic Party leadership as they renew
their efforts to enact health-care reform … If it passes, however, Democrats
will face a far greater calamitous reaction at the polls. Wishing, praying or
pretending will not change these outcomes.” (3/9/10)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102904.html
“Health care was the
cornerstone in changing an entire way of life; of making people completely and
utterly dependent, even for their
lives, upon Big Daddy Government. It is pervasive and takes over
every aspect of life; a life that is no longer truly free … You see, people have forgotten or they choose to forget,
that equal opportunity does not magically guarantee effortless equal
results. Nor is it meant to.
Our republic was built as a testament to the human condition of free will. It
allows for unlimited success and, with that, sometimes comes failure. That, taking risks, is the
mother of invention and what has made us what we are today … They symbolize the
antithesis of that. In diametric opposition to natural instinct, they seek to
turn individual success and enterprise into a punishment. Into a failure.” (3/9/10)
“So, while unemployment
hovers near 10 percent, and the economy reeks of a relentless hangover, Obama would vacuum up to one third of a trillion dollars
from the productive sector and pump it into an increasingly hated entitlement
scheme.” (3/6/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35922
“Listening to him, you might
actually be fooled into thinking that he's the outsider pushing against the
machine rather than the president pushing against the increasingly vocal -- and
obvious -- voice of the people. And the people are shouting, ‘Stop!’"
(3/6/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35923
“First is the president’s
revolutionary agenda which aims to change
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35819&s=rcmp
“These governmental officials
are now able to tell every American citizen what he or she can or cannot do in
just about every aspect of his or her lives: not just the significant decisions
you used to make about your lives are taken out of your hands, but the most
miniscule, as well … It is no longer something that we fear may happen in an
unimaginable future under a radical totalitarian rule - what has just been
described is the here and the now … It is beyond the time for us to emulate our
founders and recapture the spirit that made our forbearers free just over 220
years ago. The greatest man in our nation’s history would demand nothing
less from us -- he would not have allowed our strongly fought for freedoms to
be taken from us.” (3/3/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35828
“The abuse of federal
political power to intervene in areas such as Americans' private health care
could exist only in a nation that no longer holds its leaders accountable to
its constitution and that has governmental leadership that regards itself as
above its people and its constitution. Sadly, I was listening to an interview
the other day in which President Barack Obama described the U.S. Constitution as ‘an imperfect
document ... a document that reflects some deep flaws ... (and) an enormous
blind spot.’ He also said, ‘The Framers had that same blind spot.’ In so doing,
the president established a rationale and justification for disregarding the
Constitution. Even worse, he placed himself above the Constitution …” (3/2/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2010/03/02/obama_vs_the_10th_amendment
Interesting video and web
site: "These people are our enemies." (2/28/10)
“But the Democrats think it's
a good strategy to call the Republicans ‘The Party of No.’ When it comes to Obamacare, Americans don't want a party of ‘No,’ they want
a party of ‘Hell, No!’ or, as Rahm Emanuel might say,
‘*&^%$#@ No!’" (2/26/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35785&s=rcmp
“The GOP won the day so
convincingly that even the traditional media had to praise the party for
talking issues. Contrast that with Barack Obama who scowled, berated, lied, and harassed the
attendees — not to mention filibustered them. In the most ironic moment of the
day, Barack Obama lectured
Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor on having the Democrats’ 2,700+ page health
care bill on his desk at the meeting.” (2/26/10)
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/25/the-sham-wow-summit/
“Is Mr. Biden a revisionist
or just oblivious? You decide.” (2/26/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35689
“For the next month, every
day, I will begin laying out the record of why Bob Bennett must be removed from
office by the voters of
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/23/save-the-date-march-23-2010-we-begin-taking-back-the-gop/
“Indeed,
let's not forget that this is the guy who scolded opponents of his nationally
bankrupting agenda with: ‘I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a
lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the
mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking’ … Oh,
yes, and he's going to impose controls on health insurance premiums, as if
there exists an omniscient central government that can best determine prices --
and as if such command and control models have ever worked in the history of
the world. Now is not the time for Obama's opponents
to get complacent. We face --
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35756
“Employing
the same ‘scare tactics’ and distortions he condemns his critics for allegedly
using, Obama wrongly accused the majority of
reversing ‘a century of law’ that could allow our elections to be ‘bankrolled
by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.’ Not even
close ... Either he's incapable of understanding the ruling, he is misinformed
by his lawyers, or he willfully distorted the truth in front of a national
audience …” (2/8/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2010/02/08/justice_alito_dissents
“‘I have seen more of
President Obama than I have of my wife,’ said the
caller from
http://townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2010/02/05/president_say_anything_does_so,_again_and_again
"Americans are waking up
with a whopping Obama-hangover, and it's not a pretty
sight … Barack Obama's
hypocrisy is bubbling to the surface and his well built facade is crackling and
crumbling ... Obama lied in the State of the Union
about a Supreme Court decision, claiming it eliminated 100 years of precedent
and would allow foreign businesses to contribute influence to American
political campaigns. And without batting an eyelash, Obama
deceitfully claims that 'our healthcare plan does not fund abortions.'" (2/6/10)
http://townhall.com/columnists/FloydandMaryBethBrown/2010/02/05/watch_obamas_actions,_not_his_word
“Boycotting
debates, kicking journalists off a campaign jet, planting questions from friendly
media during presidential news conferences, freezing adversarial media out of
interviews, singling out individual journalists to scold them publicly —
they've all been part of Team Obama's efforts at
manipulating and intimidating the media.” (1/17/10)
http://newsmax.com/Headline/obama-ailes-fox-hannity/2010/01/18/id/346721
“Last
week the Presidesnt promised that ‘the buck
stops’ with him on terrorism. I don't believe him. Not just because
he's famously weak on terrorists, but, thanks to the Obama
economy, no one has a buck left to pass.” (1/17/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35240
“
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35195
Book
review: “The Rap: ‘Capitalism is founded on greed and the survival of the
fittest’ … The Reality: ‘Capitalism is the world’s most humane economic system,
promoting the democratic values of a free and open society: hard work,
cooperation, generosity, charity, and devotion to the rule of law.’” (1/17/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35203
"The short answer is
that the administration is wrapped up in such a fantastic level of public
deception, that they are no longer capable of keeping track of all of the lies
they're telling the American people." (1/17/10)
“To Obama and the elites around him, the
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35127
“So,
let's connect the dots.
http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2010/01/11/terrorism_and_health_care_-_connecting_the_dots
“Think about it. Obama promised at least eight times — memorialized in video
recordings — that he would air healthcare debates and negotiations on C-SPAN
for all to see … Now, his highness is not only not going to air the
negotiations on television, but he and his party are making sure to negotiate
behind closed doors, period … When pressed to respond to the open-and-shut
claim that he deceived the people in promising a transparent process, he simply
says … that he isn't going to be bothered to discuss it.” (1/9/10)
http://newsmax.com/Limbaugh/Reagen-Obama-healthcare-pelosi/2010/01/08/id/345780
“Tired yet of the congressional
charade and the bogus beneficiaries of health care? I'm done; I've had enough.
They've tried to pull a fast one on us for the last time. Those corrupt crime
bosses we call congressmen have caused enough damage. It's time to push for
some serious housecleaning this next election. In November 2010, all 435 House
seats will be open for re-election, and one-third of the Senate seats will be
open for re-election, as well. The time is now to eject the unconstitutional
and corrupt congressmen, and it's time to let them know what's coming.” (1/5/10)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35075
“With
the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally
altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to
protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named
Interpol ... this action has far reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty
of America … This order has potentially created the new civilian security force
that Obama proposed during his campaign … This order
shows blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution. While Obama
is extending due process rights to terrorists he is weakening those same rights
for American citizens … Obama's executive order has
done more to weaken civil liberties than the much maligned Patriot Act. The
silence in the mainstream media on this issue should scare all freedom loving
Americans. Obama just signed away parts of our
precious legal protections.” (1/1/10)
“So, for instance, Obama thinks that by raising
taxes, increasing
spending, and weakening
the dollar he can restore prosperity just as effectively as Reagan did by cutting taxes, slashing spending, and strengthening the dollar.
Well, he’ll find out soon enough that he can’t.” (1/2/10)
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/how-to-survive-the-reign-of-the-anti-reagan/
“The public is scared to
death — not about the ebbs and flows of the economy in the short term, but
about the very survival of the country — because of the reckless spending policies
Obama is deliberately pursuing and the other
"elements" of his destructive agenda … Obama
didn't undertake his radical agenda to turn America into a full-blown socialist
state because of ‘the size of the problems (he) inherited’ … Those battles were
undertaken not to improve the economy, but to consummate, in substance, a Cold
War victory for the communists after they had otherwise been defeated … The
fainthearted among us can blanch at the suggestion that Obama
is a Marxist — and accuse me of name-calling or incivility — but my intention
is not to inflame. It is to communicate the truth in accurate terms to help
people understand the magnitude of the threat we face by this assault on our
liberties … He is planning on deficits in excess of a trillion dollars from
here forward … The country cannot sustain this. The public knows it and is
outraged and horrified by it.” (12/29/09)
http://newsmax.com/Limbaugh/Limbaugh-Obama-economy-healthcare/2009/12/29/id/344866
“The
American people oppose Obamacare by almost two to one
in the latest CNN poll … Public opinion is against the bill because of its
obscene costs in higher taxes, burdensome debt, anti-freedom mandates,
rationing and reduced care for seniors. The American people have awakened to
the fact that Obamacare is transformational
legislation that will drag us against popular will into European-style
socialism … Universal health insurance will be achieved by forcing young people
to pay the additional costs (insurance for the youngest third of the population
would rise by 35 percent) and by restricting and rationing care for the elderly
… The Senate bill even has a four-page section artfully written to enable ACORN
to get federal health care grants.” (12/29/09)
“Obama
responded by distancing himself from this new birth of freedom. First,
scandalous silence. Then, a few grudging words. Then relentless engagement with
the murderous regime … Yet so aloof has Obama been
that on Hate
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34997
“Let me be clear: political
correctness is a form of cowardice that leads to brain damage. It concerns
itself with feeling good instead of thinking clearly and actually doing good
... Political correctness is ultimately about stepping on the throat of common
sense and strangling the life out of it ... Until America returns to a policy
of bold, unabashed truth, logic, honesty and common sense, the rest of our
financial and social problems will continue to escalate … I believe with all my
heart that General Patton would tell us that the first thing we need to do to
save America is to kill political correctness.” (12/24/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34933
“Thus, for those in the
political class to further increase the size of government and government debt
as a percentage of GDP is grossly irresponsible. It is almost as if they had a
death wish for the country … If the administration and Congress do not soon
reverse course, the cost of servicing the debt will quickly drive the U.S. to
the fiscal tipping point ... Once the tipping point is reached, government will
shrink one way or another, because there will be no way to fund the previous
bloated state. Who will be most hurt? Those most dependent on government.” (12/23/09)
http://newsmax.com/Rahn/fiscal-debt-ireland-germany/2009/12/23/id/344458
“According to the latest
Rasmussen tracking poll, 55 percent of voters nationwide are opposed to the
healthcare bill and 41 percent favor it. But
http://newsmax.com/JackieGingrich/Gingrich-Cushman-Healthcare-Nelson/2009/12/24/id/344591
“Any government that controls
health care has total mastery of its population. Our government must not be
given that mastery; our founding principles reject such mastery. It's time to
exercise a bit of backbone in defense of our values -- more backbone than we
exercised in electing a bunch of power-hungry liars and thieves to high
office.” (12/22/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34980
“Where does this leave a mom
and dad with two children and an annual income greater than $88,200? It leaves
them without employer-based health insurance and facing a federally mandated
$15,000-per-year insurance bill … there will surely be a popular rebellion …
When that happens, the liberals will not say: We made a mistake. We never
should have forced families out of their employer-based health insurance and
required them to purchase a $15,000 policy. They will say: We told you so. We
cannot trust these greedy insurance companies. We need a single-payer system so
the government can provide everyone with health care. Just like they did in the
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34982
“How do we save the planet? By
giving them power and money … The West is disappearing into a New World Order,
and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope.”
(12/22/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34947
"But as if
the global warming movement didn’t already appear sufficiently disingenuous and
“hoaxy” before the U.N. Gathering, the Dictator of
Venezuela showed all the cards in Copenhagen ... Chavez made it very clear that
the agenda is not to reverse the “warming” of the planet, but rather, it is to
squash the free market economy wherever it exits, and to re-distribute the
world’s wealth." (12/21/09)
"When you
slice through the blather about marooned bears and melting ice caps, oceans
rising and cities sinking, global warming is a racket and a crock. It is all
about money and power.Copenhagen has always been
about an endless transfer of wealth from
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34896
"The right
to bear arms is essential to liberty itself. It’s an insurance policy,
enshrined in the Second Amendment of our Constitution to make sure
“Everything
in modern culture seems to deplore the straight and promote the crooked. People
who wish to promote the tawdry, and the commerce that makes many of them a fine
living, brand those who seek to remind others of eternal truths as ‘fanatics’
and ‘fundamentalists.’ But there are casualties to such behavior, much as there
is collateral damage to an out of control Congress that spends money as if we
had it in the bank while mortgaging our country to foreigners, many of whom
wish for its destruction. What is wrong with such people? Why won't they see
the consequences of errant behavior? It isn't that they can't. They can. But
they have chosen not to, which is worse than not seeing.” (12/15/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/12/15/shameless
“If they permit significant
reduction of this monstrous debt that they are deliberately expanding
exponentially, they lose their main excuse to implement their socialist
schemes, which are born from the chaos and fear they've generated. So when you
hear them talking about debt reduction, look at their actions, not their words
— except for their unscripted, candid statements.” (12/11/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/limbaugh/Obama_healthcare_economy/2009/12/11/297635.html
“This naked assertion of vast
executive power in the name of the environment is the perfect fulfillment of
the prediction of Czech President (and economist) Vaclav Klaus that environmentalism
is becoming the new socialism, i.e., the totemic ideal in the name of which
government seizes the commanding heights of the economy and society. Socialism
having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a
brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went
straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the
environment ... This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing
oppression and inequality but saving the planet ... Congress should not just
resist this executive overreaching, but trump it: Amend existing clean air laws
and restore their original intent by excluding CO2 from EPA control and
reserving that power for Congress and future legislation.” (12/11/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34790
“Growing government, as was
done with the stimulus, inevitably depresses the private sector and job
creation. Shrinking government and reducing government jobs is healthier for
the economy, but this option was never seriously considered.” (12/5/09)
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/12/column-mr-president-heres-how-to-lift-our-economy.html#more
“The U.S. economy has lost
more than three million jobs since the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ became law …
A recent survey found that fewer than one in ten Americans believe the
‘stimulus’ has helped create jobs … With the help of the trillion-dollar
‘stimulus,’ the Obama Administration spent more in
its first 100 days than all previous presidents have combined. The national
debt has topped $12 trillion for the first time in
“You have to wonder if anyone
in the Obama administration understands these most
basic of economic truisms. I doubt it. Very few fans of Marx, Lennon or Mao get
it. Ivy League economic theory is one thing. Experience is quite another. As
far as I can tell, no one in the Obama cabinet has
ever owned and operated a small business. They have no practical business
sense. They are not producers. They are the other thing.” (12/1/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34613
“As I consider these many
freedom robbers and the political culprit enabling them all, two thoughts
repeatedly come to my mind. The first is from Daniel Webster, who said, ‘The
contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.’
I believe we are in the fight of our lives -- since the Revolution itself --
for American freedoms.” (11/24/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34555
“I’m a former police officer,
and I have hard time with civil disobedience, but if it comes to the point
where our religious liberty is at risk, I’d not only participate but would
encourage people to resist.” (11/21/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/wuerl_colson_christian/2009/11/21/289471.html
“The
healthcare bill is Exhibit A to demonstrate that a majority of Congress is now
clueless when it comes to economic sense or understanding about how the
http://www.newsmax.com/rahn/healthcare_reform_bill/2009/11/17/287180.html
“One
country,
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34361
“It
is clear wealth accumulation for the average citizen starts with freedom.
Freedom begets knowledge, which begets stability via the rule of law, which
begets a flourishing of human development and initiative, which begets economic
prosperity.” (11/10/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34347
“Except
the problem is that voting for Obama a year ago was a
fashion statement .. but .. the Obama fad leaves you
with higher taxes, a reduced retirement fund, no job and a one-year wait for an
MRI.” (11/4/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34274
“Does
the
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/11/03/can_the_tenth_amendment_save_us
“There
are some ways in which the real costs of medical care can be reduced but the
people who are leading the charge for a government takeover of medical care are
not the least bit interested in actually reducing those costs …” (11/3/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/11/03/the_costs_of_medical_care?page=1
“It
is instructive that so-called progressives want to gain control of the state in
order to bring about social justice. However, whenever this effort has been
successful the progressives or radicals end up rewarding themselves and
impoverishing those they claim to represent.” (11/3/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/herbert_london/social_justice_london/2009/11/02/280688.html
“In
this nation, our right to own private property requires a right to make
contracts concerning that property. The right to voluntary promises involving
goods and services is essential to a free society … Meanwhile, predictably, the
Obama cavalcade of czars ignores the real culprits of
the subprime meltdown.” (10/26/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/hirsen/Obama_Wall_Street_pay_cut/2009/10/23/276147.html
“If Barack Obama had campaigned on
what he has actually done in his first 300 days in office, would he have been
elected?” (10/13/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2009/10/13/if_obama_had_told_us_before_his_election
“The
Obama Administration has now actually co-sponsored an
anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations … the President of the United
States has given his imprimatur to this tyranny; the implications are grave.” (10/8/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33869
“…
the White House and the left in Congress will be using headlines like the one
from the New York Times this morning to claim that Obamacare
will reduce the deficit. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Baucus
bill is the only version of Obamacare to get anything
close to a deficit neutral nod from CBO and even that is done through creative
deception. When it is combined with these other bills, Obamacare
is certain to become an even greater budget buster once again.
But the left’s entire strategy is to move fast so that a true CBO cost estimate
of what Congress is actually voting on never happens.” (10/8/09)
The
day that Obama’s “star turn as planetary visionary”
trumped an opportunity to help prevent nuclear war ─ “At the time, we had
no idea what Sarkozy was fuming about. Now we do …
adolescent mindlessness … What do our allies think when they hear such
nonsense?” (10/4/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33801
“You
can’t read the bill because they refuse to put it in writing. And you’d
better not oppose it because the government will try to muzzle you … The plan
is simple, bold and outrageous: Keep
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33682
“Let’s
review what’s been going on in
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/09/20/obama-harrassment-of-honduras/
“We
already have Government Banking and Government Motors. Now we can have the
Government Press.” (9/21/09)
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/09/20/obama-i-think-i-could-use/
“The
aftermath of Joe Wilson shouting out ‘You lie’ at a shameless liar in the midst
of a shameless lie about health care has turned out to be one of the most Orwellian
moments in recent memory.” (9/15/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/09/15/10_more_you_lie_moments_on_health_care?page=1
“Asked
if they agree or disagree that the federal government should require all
Americans to purchase health insurance or face a fine … 70.2 percent said they
disagree, and only 18.5 percent agree … Some Republicans have called for
provisions allowing Americans to purchase health insurance from providers
outside their state as an alternative to Obama's
proposed government-supported "public option" insurance plan.
Respondents said they favor such provisions by an overwhelming margin, 82.8
percent to 6.9 percent.” (9/14/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_healthcare_zog/2009/09/14/259999.html
“Listening
to a Liar … The only reasonable alternative seems to be that he wanted to get
this massive government takeover of medical care passed into law before the
public understood what was in it. Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012
before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be.” (9/8/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33439
“Next
week's speech by President Obama to the Congress will
be full of the increasingly tiresome rhetoric of crisis and sacrifice. But it
won't be talking about the plaintiffs' lawyers and the costs they impose on us
all. And it certainly won't be demanding serious reform of the tort system as
part of the "reform" of health care. And therein is all you need to
know about the merits of Obamacare … So we all know
it is a giant exercise in hypocritical politics of the worst sort.” (9/5/09)
“Liberals
never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. ‘Abortion’ becomes
‘choice,’ ‘communist’ becomes ‘progressive,’ ‘communist dictatorship’ becomes
‘people's democratic republic’ and ‘Nikita Khrushchev’ becomes ‘Barack Obama.’" (9/2/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33390
“For
you newcomers to planet Earth, everything that does not exist in infinite
supply is rationed. In a free society, people are allowed to make their own
rationing choices.” (8/26/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33300
"We're
seeing the Chicago-ization of politics … That's how
they play the game. They will use any method they can to attain power and then
hold onto that power … Freedom of speech applies to all speech, even those from
the right …" (8/23/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/beck_boycott_fox_backlash/2009/08/23/251369.html
“Why
are the communities of
“I
cannot repeat this strongly enough--his willingness to view doctors with such
contempt and disrespect sickens me …” (8/22/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2009/08/23/whats_with_obamas_obsession_body_parts
Lies
About National Health Care (8/19/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33213
“The
unfairness of this assessment and the impossibility of its implementation is
surely obvious: none of us “owns” anyone else’s time or creativity, and none of
us have the right to demand free access to it. To claim otherwise is a form of
indentured servitude.” (8/17/09)
“Sorry,
but there are just so many times a person can say the exact opposite of what he
means and retain a shred of credibility.” (8/14/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33147
“…union
members who arrived [in
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_healthcare_errors/2009/08/14/248158.html
“When
average Americans are not allowed to express dissent without having their
motives being purposefully perverted, our democracy is truly at
risk.” (8/12/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33098
“Thuggery is the instinctive reaction of those who seek
power for the sake of power. They don’t care what voters want, they don’t care
what is good for the country. They are concerned with securing and keeping
power.” (8/10/09)
http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/08/10/republicans-take-on-capone/
“The
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) works to prevent the truth from
being lost or secreted away.” (8/10/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32961
“Government
medicine has proved an excruciating disaster in the
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33041
“Cornyn also sent a letter to the White House yesterday
voicing concerns over efforts to intimidate folks and stifle free speech by
requesting American citizens forward to the White House email and other
communications that oppose the Democrat government takeover of health care.”
(8/6/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33034
“The
guy is doing his best to destroy our industries with Cap and Trade; bankrupt
our economy with trillion dollar stimulus bills; bring Cuban-style socialized
medicine to America; turn a blind eye to nuclear-armed enemies; fund a criminal
organization like ACORN with taxpayer dollars; allow the DNC to take control of
the census; threaten to silence the opposition through the so-called Fairness
Doctrine; and do everything but fly the hammer-and-sickle from the roof of the
White House, and yet let him be photographed holding hands with Michelle and
the kids, and millions of us seem ready to give him a “Well done!” and a
friendly pat on the back.” (8/4/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2009/08/03/even_wide_awake,_im_having_nightmares?page=1
“But
even lacking an ideology, the administration does have a doctrine. The defining
principle of President Obama's foreign policy is
engagement with
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/07/29/the_obama_doctrine_on_its_deathbed
“You
could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the thesis of my latest book, Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America,
than the black president of the United States attacking a powerless white cop
for arresting a black Harvard professor -- in a city with a black mayor and a
state with a black governor -- as the professor vacations in Martha's
Vineyard.” (7/29/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32920
“There
are many victims in the Gates case. Most of them are, ironically, black. Joseph
Crowley and the police departments of the country will survive intact. Many
African-Americans, however, will continue to think that they are entitled to
resist police, to blame "white society" for their problems, to peg
shortcomings on "institutional racism" rather than personal
irresponsibility.” (7/29/09)
“Because
people listen to her, she poses a serious threat to the left, which understands
that controlling both houses of Congress is an essential element in their plans
to remake
http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/palin_obama_maher/2009/07/28/240992.html
“What's
utterly horrifying is that our president – the leader of the free world – would
even think, if only for a moment, "Hey, I just gotta
have that Planetary Regime guy in my administration!" … Obama's über-extremism continues
to astound. The mainstream media can't cover it up much longer, and they're
finally starting to get that.” (7/27/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MattBarber/2009/07/27/is_there_a_co-pay_with_forced_abortion
“That
is not "bringing down the cost of health care." It is sticking
somebody else with paying those costs. So is taxing "the rich." So is
passing on those costs to your children and grandchildren through government
deficit spending.” (7/23/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/23/magician_politics?page=1
“Even
two decades after the collapse of liberals' beloved
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32831
"The
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJgPuNAh60
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_melinda__061207_sheriff_richard_mack.htm
“So,
as you behold the unfolding of this controversy that now has trapped the White
House, and you hear Professor Gates’ and his surrogates’ charges that white
racism is why he was arrested, take this word of advice from someone who saw
this academic weirdo close up: Consider the source.” (7/27/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32859
Continuing
Pattern of Disregard for Law? (7/23/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_parking_tickets/2009/07/23/239549.html?s=al&promo_code=8407-1
“It
is clear from her record that she has drunk deep from the well of identity
politics. I know a lot about that well, and I can tell you that it is dark and
poisonous.” (7/18/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32756
“This new record deficit came only months after then-candidate Obama twice looked
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/07/20/barack-obamas-deficit-spending-doublespeak/
“With
all of these programs and more, their driving aim is not only to acquire power
for the sake of acquiring it but also to use government to impose their values
on us and, effectively, destroy our personal liberties.” (7/16/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/limbaugh/Obama_healthcare/2009/07/17/236892.html
“In
the Declaration of
http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2009/07/17/socialist_america_sinking
“It defies logic and
experience that we will save money and deliver better health care by expanding
government control and spending.” (7/20/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/07/20/government_health_care_plantation_looms
“Immoral?
Tax-and-Death? Let me explain.” (7/16/09)
http://www.frc.org/alert/help-stop-obamacares-moral-disaster
“Surely
it is mere coincidence that
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/Obama_healthcare_racism/2009/07/17/236996.html
“As
I believe she put it, ‘The question here is our liberty.’ Increasingly,
thoughtful Americans understand the Obama era in
these terms. With the government suddenly looming so large in the life of every
American, it is time for us to consider what is a singularly American
possession: individual liberty.” (7/9/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2009/07/09/saving_liberty
“That
Obama finds himself in camp with Castro's
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32574
“Reminded that there were
members of Congress standing up in the debate and talking about the terrible
things that are happening now as a result of global warming, Singer said:
“That's all eye wash. That's not true. That's simply hype.” (7/4/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/global_warming_hype/2009/07/03/231842.html
“The
Obama administration doesn't want to hear
inconvenient truths about global warming. And they don't want you to hear them,
either.” (6/26/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32476
Obama vs.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32404
“Are you comprehending this,
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32395
“But
average global temperatures peaked in 1998 and since have fallen slightly, even
as carbon dioxide levels continue to climb … Thousands of scientists say CO2
has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate crisis …
Actually, it’s the most flagrant attempted con-job and propaganda campaign in
US history.” (6/20/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/06/20/us_governments_climate_con-job
Sharia
Strangling Free Speech (6/20/09)
http://townhall.com/Columnists/DianaWest/2009/06/18/sharia_continues_to_strangle_free_speech
“Rewarding
political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the
downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.” (6/19/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/06/19/the_obamacare_horror_story_you_wont_hear
Letter:
“You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will.” (6/17/09)
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26742/
“The
Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA) provides no real free choice to workers or
employers, but does ensure both union bosses and their mismanaged pension
programs are rewarded and subsidized.” (6/17/09)
“Via
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/06/16/5_myths_the_left_has_created_about_itself
“The
Founding Fathers were specifically blocking the type of centralized power that
President Obama is currently exerting.” (6/11/09)
“We
know that prosperity can not be brought about by
taxing, borrowing and spending trillions of dollars. We know that leveraging
the future tax dollars of our children and grandchildren is immoral, unethical,
and should be illegal … We know that GM and Chrysler will ultimately fail
because they are now being run by the federal government and the labor unions.
We know they are hopeless.” (6/11/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32229
“Mr.
President, I am deeply disturbed that you would offer such a distortion of
truth in the hopes of creating a lasting peace. A lasting peace cannot be
created out of lies, distortions and half truths ... Why did you hide these
views from the American public during the recent presidential campaign?” (6/10/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_holocaust_museum/2009/06/10/223863.html
“Whether
Barack Obama actually is a
Muslim or simply plays one in the presidency may, in the end, be
irrelevant. What is alarming is that, in aligning himself and his
policies with those of Shariah-adherents like the
Muslim Brotherhood, the President will greatly intensify the already-enormous
pressure on peaceful, tolerant American Muslims to submit to such forces - and
heighten expectations, here and abroad, that the rest of us will do so as
well.” (6/12/09)
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18087.xml
“Lady
Justice is now protected by a security force armed with billy
clubs and lawyers who serve the cause of protecting the re-election of Barack Obama over the rule of
law.” (6/6/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32176
“The
accusations made news, but with another dismissal of an ethics charge last week
against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the former
Republican vice-presidential nominee has quietly been cleared of every ethics
complaint filed since the torrent of allegations began in 2008 … ‘It is
regrettable that the ethics process has been diverted for partisan purposes by
some, but it is also commendable that the board remains focused on the
law.’"
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_charges_dismissed/2009/06/08/222621.html
(6/8/09)
“And
right there, in plain print, is the beginning of medical care rationing … These
decisions will not be medical but financial. They will not be based on a
doctor’s opinion of what his or her patient needs, but a bureaucrat’s and an
accountant s opinion of what the new health care system can afford. And you
will not be able to bypass their rulings and pay for this care yourself.” (6/8/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/morris/dick_morris_health_care/2009/06/07/222524.html
“I, Barack … a system where the state controls the means of
production as a means of controlling the people.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32128
(6/3/09)
“That
kind of empathy would for all practical purposes repeal the 14th Amendment to
the Constitution of the
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/05/27/sotomayor__empathy_in_action
“The
President’s attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it to a
labor union that delivers money and votes for him … Shaking down lenders for the
benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and abuse of power.” (5/13/09)
“Union
officials invested very heavily to elect Obama and
now that investment is paying dividends by the truckload. As ALG News has previously
chronicled, the Obama payback to unions began
immediately after he was sworn in and is continuing.” (5/19/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31893
“But
there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone always pays. Until
they can't or don't anymore.” (5/14/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31861
“Call
me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening
period of government tyranny in our nation's history.” (5/9/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31789
“In The
Road to Serfdom, Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek explained that socialism
and fascism are really a common system based on the belief that central
planning is superior to individual liberty and market capitalism. So it matters
little whether the Obama administration is moving us
towards socialism or fascism. It certainly is moving us away from market
capitalism and limited government and towards central planning.” (5/3/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31652
“The
public is being convinced that another success of markets and freedom is really
another failure requiring government to distort market incentives and reduce
freedom …” (Spring 2009)
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1192&theme=home&page=1&loc=b&type=cttf
The Rising Thugocracy
(5/3/09)
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/05/02/the-obama-thugocracy-has-arrived/
“The
nine-page report, titled, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political
Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” is full of
warnings about American citizens who share any of my background or subscribe to
the beliefs above. It is one of the most alarming documents produced by our
government that I have ever read.” (4/17/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31504
“Have
we really come to this? Has Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels
been reborn and recruited by the Obama administration
to scare the heck out of the American people with absurdities such as this
whacked-out document?” (4/17/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31495
An open letter to President Obama
(of questionable origin) expresses one citizen's outrage. (4/17/09)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/ihavehadit.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/letter_to_obama.htm
“Two-thirds
of Americans want our petroleum and nuclear energy developed. They want jobs,
security, economic recovery, power that works 24/7. But their rights are being
trampled on, by partisan totalitarians whose decrees violate
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2009/04/11/obamas_red_sea
“Every old ideological
conflict eventually becomes new again. So it is with today’s battle between the
forces of socialism, called “fairness” by its advocates, and the forces of capitalism,
labeled “liberty” by its supporters.” (4/8/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2009/04/08/the_second_french_revolution?page=1
“If Adolf Hitler or Josef
Stalin had done any of this, Americans would have gone crazy.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/OliverNorth/2009/04/03/et_tu,_barack
(4/3/09)
“Liberals lie incessantly.
That's not to say that there aren't conservative liars or truthful liberals;
there are, but for liberals, lying is the rule, not the exception.” (3/31/09)
“The
current gang of political punks, scoundrels and crooks in
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31104
“Nationally,
45,000 army troops and police are committed to this war that
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?fc_c=1373983x2878958x70780961&id=30966
“…
intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy
and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And
they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure
is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the
most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.” (3/6/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/03/06/obamas_big_bang_agenda?page=1
“Aping the techniques of
Adolf Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, the president and his henchmen
in the innards of the White House sought to divert the public's attention from
their already massive spending programs, and the threat they pose to future
generations, by pointing fingers at straw men.” (3/5/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2009/03/05/the_tiger_is_not_dead
“We
must stand shoulder to shoulder with states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas,
Indiana, and West Virginia in demanding that the federal government immediately
“cease and desist” its usurpation of our liberties.” (3/4/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30917
War On Prosperity (3/3/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2009/03/03/waging_war_on_prosperity
“Dear American liberals, leftists,
social progressives, socialists, Marxists, Obama
supporters, et al:”
http://www.retrievertraining.net/forums/showthread.php?t=35989
(3/2/09)
“We should
all be extremely concerned for our nation.” (3/2/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChristopherMerola/2009/03/03/above_his_pay_grade
“One
of the unanswered questions during the presidential campaign was how Barack Obama could listen to the
anti-American, anti-capitalist ravings of his minister for 20 years if he did
not believe in those teachings. Now we know the answer: At least when it comes
to capitalism and the power of the profit motive, President Obama
does believe in what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright had to say.” (3/2/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/Obama_tax_capitalism/2009/03/02/187298.html
“The problem with President Obama's agenda is that it is built on
serial fantasies, fantasies which ignore the real benefits of things
such as nuclear power and oil exploration. The president's talk was
well phrased and beautifully delivered, and deeply disconnected from the
realities of economic growth.” (2/25/09)
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/f845bd1b-f30b-4dad-9429-5ed1b5afa7cc
“Regardless of the specific
reason behind each of the resolutions in the 11 states, all of them direct the
federal government to ‘cease and desist’ in its reckless violation of state’s
rights … For this federal expansion will not stop unless we stand in its way
with courage in our hearts and the Constitution in our hands.” (2/23/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807
“If Barack Hussein Obama has nothing to hide, what’s the problem? The more he resists, the more you have to
wonder.” (6/7/09)
http://www.westernjournalism.com/wcjflashad.html
“Freedom of speech no longer
exists in the nation that gave the world the Magna Carta.
It has been replaced by Islamist tyranny.” (2/17/09)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30722
“Today’s
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/kasparov_obama_russia/2009/02/16/182363.html
“Here's the reality: 95% of the time, if not more, when people
yowl about racism, sexism, Islamophobia, homophobia,
hatred of the poor, the environment, old people, etc., it's not true. Worse
yet, most of the people doing the shouting KNOW IT'S NOT TRUE. They're merely
crying wolf for political gain because they believe they may benefit personally
from it -- or in the case of organizations like the NAACP, La Raza, GLAAD, CAIR, NOW and the alphabet soup of other
groups that make a living off of having grievances, because it keeps them
rolling in money and publicity.” (1/26/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/01/27/fight_back_against_the_tolerance_fascists
“This is dangerous stuff” (1/22/09)
“But Madoff's
scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the
government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.” (1/7/09)
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/01/07/madoff_is_a_piker
"You cannot legislate
the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one
person receives without working for, another person must work for without
receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government
does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work
because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half
gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to
get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." (The late Dr. Adrian Rogers ,
1931 to 2005)
Trying to Spend Our Way to
Prosperity (1/31/09)
http://www.silverbearcafe.com:80/private/12.08/goodnewa.html
(video by Fred Thompson)
Power Grab (1/7/09)
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/pelosi_house_rules/2009/01/07/168864.html
“Those who leak or sell
government secrets are traitors, pure and simple.” (12/19/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29979
“Wow! It’s a good thing
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29848
“But the problem is not just
ignoring the Constitution. The problem is ignoring common sense.” (12/6/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/12/07/where_have_you_gone,_sheriff_taylor
“I hope I am wrong. But if
right, and we have reached a tipping point, where the people who produce real
products and services are outnumbered and outvoted by those who do not, then we
can only wonder how long it will be before Ayn Rand’s
prediction comes true and the lights really do go out.” (12/1/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29699
“Political correctness is a
façade constructed in opposition to reality and sold as “tolerance.” Because of
this, its purveyors are given to moral relevance and all who reject it are
branded as “intolerant.” When properly implemented, it stifles our ability to
think clearly.” (11/21/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29578
“Fantasy driven clowns like
the idea of believing they are getting something for nothing.” (11/21/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29591
Big Lies That Poison (11/29/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29681
RINO Season (11/12/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29458
Economic Ignorance (11/4/08)
Why Obama’s Socialism
Matters
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_socialism_matters_1.html
ACORN Thug Thizzle? (10/8/08)
“Their pretexts are
laughable, their authority nonexistent. No constitution declares that any court
has such a right.” (10/12/08)
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-12-1.html
Had Enough? (10/7/08) (article)
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/10/07/dont_go_wobbly;_follow_sarah?page=2
(article)
Who To Blame For The Bailout Blues? (10/1/08)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431302,00.html
(article)
“…the Marxist dogma many of
them embrace with near-religious fervor.” (9/24/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/reagan/economic_bailout/2008/09/24/134073.html
(article)
Veering Away From Capitalism? (Posted 9/23/08)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425903,00.html
(article)
“In the end, tolerance for
mistakes is a prerequisite for all freedom. Without the power to make
(allegedly) bad decisions, none of us have any power to decide at all.” (9/11/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28488
(article)
Lights Out On
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
(article)
“More people have been a boon, not a bomb.” (8/21/08)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,408381,00.html
(article)
“It’s amazing that some smart
conservatives still cling to the “winning-by-losing” strategy, refusing to
surrender the lunatic idea …” (10/22/08)
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2008/10/22/the_consequences_of_defeat
(article)
Voting Democrat (6/18/08)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/06/18/why_im_voting_democrat (article)
Five Liberal Myths (6/20/08)
Leave
Us Alone (Posted
6/4/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/norquist_mccain/2008/03/10/79179.html
(article and book)
By
Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them (Posted 6/3/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/Peter_Schweizer/2008/06/02/100864.html
(article about book)
Carter A Danger To Global Stability (Posted 4/25/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/reagan/jimmy_carter/2008/04/25/90914.html
(article)
The Center For Individual Freedom (Posted 4/11/08)
http://www.cfif.org
(website)
Campaign Finance Laws Limit Free Speech and Political
Options (Posted 2/20/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25115
(article)
Wrecking the Economy (Posted 1/22/08)
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/recession_looms/2008/01/22/66364.html
(article)
Rick Monday Saves Flag (Posted 8/15/07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjfOSe22WIo&mode=related&search=
(video)
Business & Media Institute
http://www.businessandmedia.org/
(website)
Free Speech Under Assault (Posted 12/28/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24176
(article)
10 Differences Between Conservatives and Liberals
10 More Differences ...
Is George Soros A Threat To Democracy? (Posted 1/5/08)
http://ibdeditorials.com/series4.aspx
(article)
The Worst President? (Posted 1/5/08)
http://ibdeditorials.com/Special3.aspx
(article)
A Global Intelligence Briefing To CEO's by Herbert Meyer (2007)
http://usawakeup.org/global.htm
(article)
Dismal Record of Pelosi Congress (Posted 10/23/07)
http://www.newsmax.com/reagan/democratic_congress/2007/10/18/42098.html
(article)
Growth of Government
Thought Control
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2007/05/04/leftist_thought_control
(article)
Free Speech: Follow the Coercion (Posted 8/30/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=17692
(book interview)
“Those foreign leaders so admired by Democrats for
hating George Bush and loving Saddam Hussein are being replaced by rulers who
pledge their friendship to the
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20645
What’s Happening to
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21241
(article)
The Future of
http://www.usawakeup.org (website)
Social Security Problem Is Real Inconvenient Truth
http://www.freedomworks.org/newsroom/media_template.php?issue_id=3520
(article)
The Fair Tax (Posted 12/1/07)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2007/11/27/the_fairtax_--_the_truth
(article)
Sicko Propaganda For Socialized Medicine
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21227
Kid Haters? "The goal appears to be to expand this
entitlement program into a precursor of universal, government-mandated
healthcare." (Posted
10/6/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22710
(article)
Does the Rule of Law Rule the House? (Posted 10/6/07)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22632
(article)
Anti-American, Pro-Communist Feminists (Posted 9/8/2007)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22177
(article)
Two New Books Answer Religious Questions (Posted 10/20/07)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2007/10/20/how_to_shut_up_an_atheist_if_you_must?page=1
(article)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Historical Section
General David Petraeus
Betrayed for Political Power? (Posted 9/16/07)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296827,00.html
(article)
Top 10 Things President Bush Should Do Before Leaving
Office (11/28/08)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29624
Shrinking Deficit
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2007/07/16/the_incredible_shrinking_deficit
(article)
Leftist Hate of Bush and Rove (Posted 8/23/07)
Inane Allegations
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20032
(article)
One Hundred and Forty Pardons
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288392,00.html
(article)
Pardon My Hypocrisy
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21431
(article)