tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47934040531050703012024-03-12T20:56:23.760-07:00RexBobFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald ReaganUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-16839542182848732642011-08-07T07:43:00.000-07:002011-08-07T07:46:47.763-07:00The Sickness Besetting the Country, and the President<br /><br />The Sickness Besetting the Country, and the President<br /><br />by Keith Koffler on August 6, 2011, 11:38 am<br /><br /><br />There is a sickness gripping America, an systemic illness that threatens President Obama more than any particular problem.<br /><br />Because the problems are but symptoms of the illness.<br /><br />Two of the symptoms appeared just in the last few hours: the downgrade of U.S. debt, and the shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special forces.<br /><br />The downgrade is not just an economic blow; it’s a disgrace. The helicopter is not an isolated incident, but consistent with stepped up attacks by a Taliban sensing our eagerness to leave.<br /><br />The illness, perceived by a country that overwhelmingly says things are on the wrong track, is such: This country is out of control, and the president is either incompetent or unwilling to lead it.<br /><br />Other symptoms abound: the abnegation of the U.S. leadership in the world, the rise of China to take our place, the failure to deal with a gnat like Qaddafi, the high price of gasoline, the millions of jobless Americans.<br /><br />The president has both created the illness and failed to cure it, because he has failed to rise above his limitations: He is a leader who has never led anything larger than a Senate office, and he is a liberal ideologue.<br /><br />The credit downgrade is the direct result of the president’s failure to get a handle on the cascading U.S. debt, a potentially existential threat to the nation. Instead of proposing serious solutions, he has actually raised spending, increasing outlays for many discretionary domestic programs and dropping an $800 billion stimulus bomb on the country.<br /><br />And he took a trillion in potential debt reduction off the table when he “paid for” his health reform law, which will inevitably cost even more. This was exactly like someone who is maxed out on their credit cards heading over to Best Buy and coming home with a top of the line 60″ flat screen TV and a state of the art sound system.<br /><br />Like such a compulsive shopper, Obama just had to have it. His ideology trumped any sense of responsible management of the country.<br /><br />Similarly the war in Afghanistan. Presented by the military with the options of increasing troops by 80,000 to get the job done or 40,000 to maybe get the job done, he took 35,000. And just as even this limited number was starting to have some success, he began withdrawing them.<br /><br />If the job is not going to get done, it would have been better to take the option that had been offered by Vice President Biden – ignominious defeat, with the withdrawal of most troops while trying to keep the pressure on al Qaeda. At least we wouldn’t be wasting lives.<br /><br />But the president harbors the traditional liberal abhorrence of anything having to do with war. It just is not in him to fight a war in the brutal manner necessary to win it. And so we have incompetent leadership in wartime.<br /><br />Conservatives will be out in force in 2012 because of Obama’s ideology. But what’s worse for him, independents are turning on him because of his incompetence.<br /><br />Both groups will be responding to the pervasive sickness, that of a great nation suffering indignities and crises it hasn’t experienced since the era of the last failed Democratic president, Jimmy Carter.<br /><br /><br /><br />Related Posts:<br />■Obama Resting Comfortably at Camp David<br />■White House Blames Japanese Tsunami for Economy<br />■President: Michelle Chows at Greasy Spoon “All the Time.”<br />■Live Stream || Obama Statement – Aug. 2, 2011<br />■Obama’s Egypt Policy Leading to an Islamist Takeover<br /><br />Tagged as: Obama<br />.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-53475554706284749122011-03-22T16:41:00.000-07:002011-03-22T16:41:56.762-07:00Breitbart.tv » What Happened to the Antiwar Movement?<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/what-happened-to-the-antiwar-movement/">Breitbart.tv » What Happened to the Antiwar Movement?</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-2900727347548018752010-11-07T08:41:00.001-08:002010-11-07T08:42:04.822-08:00Pictue is Worth a Thousand Words<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TNbW0J92DMI/AAAAAAAAANc/6tI_ou1x3js/s1600/obama+weight.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TNbW0J92DMI/AAAAAAAAANc/6tI_ou1x3js/s320/obama+weight.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536848983415459010" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-12209108690254140332010-11-05T14:51:00.001-07:002010-11-05T14:52:11.064-07:00Coexist?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TNR8aaSy-xI/AAAAAAAAANU/6T3ZYjErSZE/s1600/coexist.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TNR8aaSy-xI/AAAAAAAAANU/6T3ZYjErSZE/s320/coexist.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536186635121785618" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-21696668033551355442010-10-28T11:35:00.000-07:002010-10-28T11:35:14.045-07:00Breitbart.tv » President Obama Debates Senator Obama on Filibuster Rule<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/president-obama-debates-senator-obama-on-filibuster-rule/">Breitbart.tv » President Obama Debates Senator Obama on Filibuster Rule</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-9634197753427313172010-10-22T11:42:00.000-07:002010-10-22T11:42:41.695-07:00CAIR’s Role in Juan Williams Firing May Be Violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act<a href="http://bigpeace.com/asavit/2010/10/22/cairs-role-in-juan-williams-firing-may-be-violation-of-foreign-agents-registration-act/">CAIR’s Role in Juan Williams Firing May Be Violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-40143224947249582012010-10-05T18:20:00.000-07:002010-10-05T18:22:11.252-07:00Who got stimulated?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TKvPKihmeeI/AAAAAAAAANM/UdQ3W7GT45c/s1600/stimulas.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 147px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TKvPKihmeeI/AAAAAAAAANM/UdQ3W7GT45c/s320/stimulas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524737147873425890" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-18862508954345332412010-09-28T08:51:00.000-07:002010-09-28T08:51:24.707-07:00Breitbart.tv » Rev. Wayne Perryman Details the Racist History of the Democratic Party<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/rev-wayne-perryman-details-the-racist-history-of-the-democratic-party/">Breitbart.tv » Rev. Wayne Perryman Details the Racist History of the Democratic Party</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-79309245323410242392010-09-28T08:49:00.000-07:002010-09-28T08:49:07.635-07:00Breitbart.tv » Gov. Christie to Opponents of Education Reform: ‘I’m Coming’<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/gov-christie-to-opponents-of-education-reform-im-coming/">Breitbart.tv » Gov. Christie to Opponents of Education Reform: ‘I’m Coming’</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-59384486796872368092010-09-27T13:42:00.000-07:002010-09-27T13:42:48.321-07:00Communists to Be Welcomed at Progressive March<a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/communists-to-be-welcomed-at-progressive-march/">Communists to Be Welcomed at Progressive March</a><br /><br /><br />Check this out. 2 Oct. rally in DC. See who is funding/leading the effort.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-76073933350637299722010-09-25T17:31:00.000-07:002010-09-25T17:31:52.744-07:00Former CIA Spy in Iran: ‘Ahmadinejad knows precisely what he is doing’<a href="http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/09/25/former-cia-spy-in-iran-ahmadinejad-knows-precisely-what-he-is-doing/">Former CIA Spy in Iran: &#8216;Ahmadinejad knows precisely what he is doing&#8217;</a><br /><br />When is this White House going to understand that it is Ok for Muslims to lie?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-10513960795273946052010-09-25T11:39:00.000-07:002010-09-25T11:39:13.579-07:00Guess the MSM Just Didn’t Do Its Job<a href="http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/25/guess-the-msm-just-didnt-do-its-job/">Guess the MSM Just Didn&#8217;t Do Its Job</a><br /><br />European Socialism Works? Bill Maher is a Socialist!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-45551461081477984412010-09-22T10:52:00.001-07:002010-09-22T10:53:18.269-07:00Reagan vs. Obama<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TJpCg59BOHI/AAAAAAAAANE/DyXynv2hVlA/s1600/Reagan+vs.+Obama.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TJpCg59BOHI/AAAAAAAAANE/DyXynv2hVlA/s320/Reagan+vs.+Obama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519797426375964786" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-17705441116284913342010-09-22T05:31:00.000-07:002010-09-22T05:32:30.831-07:00Live like Kingsfrom The Weekly Standard:<br />Al Gore owns four homes, one boat, and gorges on kilowatts while urging the world to make small carbon footprints. John Edwards crusades for the destitute while building a palace. John Kerry promotes higher taxes while dodging those on a $7 million yacht he bought in a recession. Michelle Obama urges young people to reject high-paying jobs in the business world for nonprofits and community service, while indulging a taste for designer couture, expensive vacations, and designer sports sneakers, which she wore while feeding the poor.<br /><br />What’s wrong with these pictures? Two things. First, the hypocrisy undercuts the moral authority, and makes it ridiculous. Second, it’s a mega leap up from what looks from the outside to be not that much more than upper-middle-class comfort—nice house in town, nice country house, nice small sailboats, nice American cars—to the mega-rich level of yachts and multiple mansions, available to only a very small fraction of the upper crust: rock stars, sports stars, film stars, nouveau-riche captains of industry, and others not known for their modesty, balance, and sense of restraint. Live on a level accessible to some of the people you govern, and you send the message that you are a citizen. Live like a king, and you send the message that you think you are one, that you see nothing amiss in appropriating far more than what your politics say is your share of the universe; that you are entitled because you are worth more than others, that this is your due. Someday, Democrats should sit down and ask themselves how they came in such a short space of time to produce so many marquee figures who wanted to talk like French revolutionaries while living like French royalty. Ask Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, or the Bushes to spend $7 million on anything, and they would have had heart attacks. Ask them to buy a yacht during a recession, and they would have been aghast.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-31689293206196872382010-09-20T16:57:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:57:47.541-07:00The FactsTo President Obama and ALL 535 voting members of the Legislature,<br /><br />It is now official you are all corrupt morons:<br /><br />A.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke. <br /> <br />b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke. <br />c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.<br /> <br />d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.<br /> <br />e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.<br /> <br />f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.<br /> <br />g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.<br /> <br />You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-45900380390799843892010-09-16T12:29:00.000-07:002010-09-16T12:30:07.761-07:00OxymoronsThis morning, while enjoying my first pot of coffee and waiting for the sun to show itself, I got to thinking about the oxymoron contained in the name of the Democratic Socialists of America (you know, that obscure little anti-American group that counts 82 members of Congress in its membership). So I went to their website.<br /> <br />The following jumped right out at me:<br /> <br />"Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically—to meet public needs, not to make profits for a few. To achieve a more just society, many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed through greater economic and social democracy so that ordinary Americans can participate in the many decisions that affect our lives."<br /> <br />Hmmmmm.<br /> <br />I recall that back when I was a wee bern in grade school one of my dedicated teachers began my indoctrination. Mr. Patton often advised the class that the success of a democracy depended upon, among other things, an educated electorate. As he taught on various topics he relentlessly pounded into our malleable minds the importance of our nation's history -- what made it great and what made it work. His focus has never left me.<br /> <br />Apparently a lot of the DSAs heard the same mantra -- education=success -- and to ensure the success of their agenda they began, long ago, to populate the public education system with educators from their ranks. Ergo, Mr. Patton's formula for the continued success of our nation is, well, history, and it has been replaced with promises of how great things will be for everybody if we radically change the way America does business and redistribute the wealth. That they have succeeded is quite evident and horrifying to those who adhere to the true democratic principles shared by the Founders and Framers and reiterated so often by Mr. Patton.<br /> <br />We recently saw the public benefits of the DSAs statement above when a once poor black woman had the opportunity to spread some of that redistributed wealth around as toured Spain and spent her nights in $2,500 a night hotel suites. Which teaches me that democratic socialism still benefits only "a few" -- only it's a different few than ones they decry on their website. <br /> <br />I thank God that M/M America are increasingly aware of the depredations being visited on our country by the DSAs and taking action to turn this ship around. The results of Tuesday's primaries offer a glimmer of hope for the America we here in the At-Large knew and loved<br />Ray ClaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-36672959961129511222010-09-13T13:40:00.000-07:002010-09-13T13:40:52.515-07:00Breitbart.tv » Destroying the ‘Predominantly White’ Myth About the Tea Party<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/destroying-the-predominantly-white-myth-about-the-tea-party/">Breitbart.tv » Destroying the ‘Predominantly White’ Myth About the Tea Party</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-88779709939441543812010-09-11T14:29:00.001-07:002010-09-11T14:30:55.884-07:00You Post the Caption<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TIv03NtoOxI/AAAAAAAAAM8/NmgZvZQfMuQ/s1600/obama+umbrella.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/TIv03NtoOxI/AAAAAAAAAM8/NmgZvZQfMuQ/s320/obama+umbrella.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515771398056327954" /></a><br /><br /><br />We really smart man? No wonder we have not seen his college transcripts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-68541630437434950512010-09-08T05:21:00.000-07:002010-09-08T05:21:24.526-07:00Boxer Tied to Dubious Waters Cash-for-Endorsement Scheme<a href="http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/09/07/boxer-tied-to-dubious-waters-cash-for-endorsement-scheme/">Boxer Tied to Dubious Waters Cash-for-Endorsement Scheme</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-73946955375940013802010-09-07T17:39:00.000-07:002010-09-07T17:39:32.817-07:00Another Stimulus, Another Bailout - Exchequer - National Review Online<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/245745/another-stimulus-another-bailout?sms_ss=blogger">Another Stimulus, Another Bailout - Exchequer - National Review Online</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-6444407926006930522010-09-07T10:07:00.000-07:002010-09-07T10:07:59.370-07:00Political Fables<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/07/political_fables_107026.html">Political Fables</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-9646138426869545772010-09-06T12:38:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:38:46.227-07:00New Zeal: The Islamization of Paris#links#links<a href="http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/09/islamization-of-paris.html#links">New Zeal: The Islamization of Paris#links#links</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-26969082560083356052010-09-04T17:12:00.000-07:002010-09-04T17:12:32.125-07:00I Am America<object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0heL2Czeraw/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0heL2Czeraw?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0heL2Czeraw?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-34965180203812846942010-09-03T11:35:00.000-07:002010-09-03T11:37:01.944-07:00Breitbart.tv » Howard Dean to European Socialists: Let’s Work Together for ‘Global New Deal’<a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/howard-dean-to-european-socialists-lets-work-together-for-global-new-deal/">Breitbart.tv » Howard Dean to European Socialists: Let’s Work Together for ‘Global New Deal’</a><br /><br />If they don't like be called "Socialists", why do they do this?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793404053105070301.post-83879532130007154612010-08-30T13:48:00.000-07:002010-08-30T13:50:35.483-07:00Jobs<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/THwZRxoxRAI/AAAAAAAAAMs/yxDQA1YVf-w/s1600/jobs.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 184px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1N4a-SJJlHI/THwZRxoxRAI/AAAAAAAAAMs/yxDQA1YVf-w/s320/jobs.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511307837167453186" /></a><br /><br />Here is the "Change" Obama promisedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0