By Ted on
1/15/2010 8:25 AM
Where is John Edwards when you need him? He now has good reason to point out the existence of two Americas, those who pay taxes and those who get payback exemptions from Democrat legislators. First we have special industries being bailed out, then we have special awards to states to buy their representatives votes on health care and now more to select a group of unions who continue getting their payoff. Select unions seem to be the real benefactors of the Democrat privilege, getting special disposition in the Auto Industry bailout and now they are allowed to avoid paying a tax on their high value health care plan. So, if you're not one of the chosen you need to bend over and get ready to receive your hope and change suppository.
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/14/2010 3:33 PM
Answers to Unconstitutional federal actions.
Rather than trying to get the Federal Government to respect state sovereignty, Daniel Baker over at The American Thinker says to use Thomas Jefferson as your guide in his answer to the Alien and Sedition Act. This act ran afoul of the First Amendment when it was used as a way to forbid criticism of the government. Residents of the states should work within their own states to nullify any unconstitutional acts by the Federal Government. The Constitution is basically a partnership agreement between the states, and the Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court is a creation of the partnership, not a party to it (they are our managers and employees, not bosses). Interesting read and makes much sense:
Over the course of the past two hundred and twenty-two years, we have forgotten many of the...
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/12/2010 10:50 AM
Obama is routing the recovery.
This is from Charles Gasparino over at the New York Post. This column reveals a version of Atlas Shrugged for the 21st century. Small businesses aren’t all necessarily going bankrupt or closing their doors and heading for Galt’s Gulch (I’m sure some are), but the well-run businesses are holding their cash tight and laying off workers to survive the attack on capitalism that is the modus operandi of the Obama administration:
The number-crunchers at the Treasury Department have been celebrating what appears to be the end of the Great Recession as told through rising GDP, higher business profits and a buoyant stock market. But owners of small businesses -- the usual engines of economic growth -- are still refusing to hire back workers as they normally do when the economy turns up from a sharp decline.Snip –
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/11/2010 12:34 PM
Obama: The weak horse.
Jed Babbin of Human Events asks, “are we safer or in more danger than we were a year ago?” As he reviews Obama’s first year record, it’s plain to see that we aren’t and the reasons that is so:
…One of the first things the president did on taking office was to ban the “enhanced interrogation methods” ... Snip –
As George Tenet… said: "I know that this [enhanced interrogation methods] program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, said: "High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."...
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/9/2010 4:48 PM
How will Obama’s Chicago Boys win elections?
Hasn’t everyone wondered why Obama and the Democrats really don’t seem nervous about the fact that Americans hate basically everything they’ve been doing in Congress? Aren’t they committing political suicide? Well, I’ve often thought the slush fund they created with the so-called “stimulus” was what they were going to rely on to buy elections. But there is much more than that up their collective sleeves. Ed Lasky over at The American Thinker has also been curious, and he’s dug up a lot in this article:
…the release of the White House visitor logs that showed visits by Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and named by Fortune Magazine as "the most powerful woman in the labor movement.”…
But Anna Burger is far more than an SEIU honcho;...
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/8/2010 11:37 AM
Thermopylae for Health Care.
Quin Hillyer at The American Spectator has written a rousing rebuke to Republicans for not fighting hard enough to keep the monstrosity of Health Care from coming to fruition. He likens it to the 300 Spartans…we must fight. Republicans just do not fight hard enough. Hillyer has some brilliant suggestions for the Stupid Party:
Conservatives want Thermopylae. Congressional Republican leaders instead imitate the Confederate defense of Atlanta -- the one that led a local editor to write that General Joseph E. Johnston's reputation had "grown with every backward step."
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By Deborah Durkee on
1/7/2010 10:37 AM
Our Second Civil War.
Bruce Walker, author of Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the LieandThe Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity, has penned an excellent column on what we’ve been experiencing since the 1960’s and has coupled it with the resurgence of the Left in the Obama administration. He says this Civil War we’ve experienced since the 1960’s must be won. Please read the whole thing for a look back to our recent past and see why we are where we are now. From The American Thinker:
…The 1960s, which ended forty years ago, was the time of our second trial -- our Second Civil War. It is a testament to its ferocity and its reach that the consequences of this internecine war for the soul...
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By huffer_g on
1/4/2010 9:52 AM
Why do you feel excluded?
This presupposes that I feel excluded. There is no answer to this question.
Can you hold 2 seemingly opposite concepts in your head at the same time?
Certainly, you must be able to do this in order to evaluate data. In order to properly do this, you also have to be able to extrapolate and project those concepts into the future and decide which of the two contribute to the long-term survival of those affected by it.
Do the houses in your neighborhood all look alike?
No … some are actually painted.
Does everyone have a manicured lawn?
Most in my neighborhood have sand for a lawn. There may be a tumbleweed or two also.
How do you express yourself creatively?
Mostly I write. Though I do have and IMDB credit.
Do you/ did you color outside the lines?
I tried...but inevitably I had very little control over the crayon.
When did you stop coloring?
About the time I learned to write my name.
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By huffer_g on
1/2/2010 9:33 AM
I recently got involved in a conversation on facebook. Most of my friends are either libertarian or conservative. One person who is of the liberal persuasion took a dissenting view. These questions gave me an insight into the liberal thinking process and hopefully I have been able to jar some of the misconceptions liberals have. Her questions are in black. My answers in blue.
Why are you so threatened? There are many cultures that have relinquished their independence for the security of the state. The nazi and the communist nations are pretty much same ideology and in the twentieth century has killed more than 100,000,000 people. 180,000,000 by governments of all types. Government is not compassion. It is force.
Why can't you envision balance? Balance means: a counterbalancing weight, force, or influence. With the data given above, the drive to individual responsibility, self reliance and a fundamental distrust of government is the balance.
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By huffer_g on
12/26/2009 5:19 PM
Leigh Gallagher recently came from CNBC to become a regular on Cavuto on Business. I watched the show this week and ended yelling at my TV (again)…
You know, just because Leigh came from another financial channel where she read a business news prompter does not mean she knows anything about economics. She obviously does not. Obviously since Dagan Mc Dowell (another Fox business commentator that used to make idiotic statements on this show) got educated and stopped being a stealth blonde, she had to find a replacement to take on that role. Leigh must now be the designated stealth blonde.
She just stated (among other bone headed statements):
"When government spends it does put money in consumers pockets". This is not only wrong it is idiotically so. Government does not not not have any money except for the money that it TAKES from those that actually...
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