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Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry........ The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September. Even more stunning, the 46% who are Very Angry is up 10 percentage points from September.

As Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Dalai Lama told Sky News he believed the award was "a little early". He also cautioned the US president against relying too much on his advisers. The Dalai Lama told Sky News: "I think if you are realistic, it may have been a little early but it doesn't matter, I know Obama is a very able person. "Sometimes these individual persons rely on different advice from different people so like former President Bush junior, as a human being I really love him, really wonderful person, very honest, very truthful....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has a higher approval rating among Israelis than is widely believed, undercutting arguments he has lost Israeli public support for new peace efforts, a poll said on Thursday. The poll by the Washington-based New America Foundation found that 41 percent of Israelis had a favorable rating of Obama against 37 percent who rated him unfavorably. Despite this, 55 percent of Israelis polled said they thought Obama did not support Israel against 42 percent who said he did -- a reflection of the "complexity of views" about the U.S. leader as he presses both...

As one who has made a career out of criticizing government and exposing the various predations of government, one would think I would be intelligent and wise enough not to expect that entity we know as "good government." In fact, given that I am quite familiar with the entire socialist calculation debate and have assigned numerous papers covering that subject to my MBA students, it should have dawned upon me by now that "good government" is an oxymoron at best and a delusional term at worst. Yet I must admit that whenever I see government doing something that is outrageous...

National aid budgets dedicated to reducing global poverty would be raided to establish a “climate fund” to help developing countries to adapt to climate change, under a British plan tabled yesterday in Copenhagen. Money earmarked for education or health would be diverted into projects such as solar panels and wind farms. The proposal has angered developing countries, which are demanding that all the money in the climate fund be additional to the 0.7 per cent of income that industrialised countries have pledged to give as overseas aid.

onservatives recognize that social order is hard to achieve and easy to destroy, that it is held in place by discipline and sacrifice, and that the indulgence of criminality and vice is not an act of kindness but an injustice for which all of us will pay. Conservatives therefore maintain severe and -- to many people -- unattractive attitudes. They favor retributive punishment in the criminal law; they uphold traditional marriage and the sacrifices that it requires; they believe in discipline in schools and the value of hard work and military service. They believe in the family and think that...

Each of us makes mistakes. Sometimes they’re little mistakes, but sometimes they’re very big. Sometimes they have serious consequences. Sometimes they are open and obvious for the whole world to see. Or, to paraphrase the Apostle Paul, “Some electorates’ sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some electorates they follow after.” So it is with the unfortunate decision by the American electorate to choose Barack Obama as our President. This is proving to have been – as many a Cassandra had warned – a big mistake. It’s more than just a bit iffy whether the nation’s collective wallet...

The majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, refused on Tuesday night to provide any details about the preliminary agreement among a group of 10 Democratic senators to resolve a bitter dispute over a proposed government-run insurance plan, or “public option.” But in a brief interview as he climbed into his black S.U.V. to head home for the night, Mr. Reid insisted that the proposal could unify his caucus, even as he acknowledged that most Senate Democrats had not seen it yet.

Monday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions a danger to public health and said it will begin to draft and enforce regulations. Even the EPA realizes these moves will be a disaster for the US economy (and to our own selves as one of those gases, CO2, is what humans ad to the atmosphere every time they exhale). Rasmussen asked American "likely voters" what they thought about the EPA announcement and reaction was split 41% to 41%. But the EPA can write and enforce their regulations without the consent of Congress. When...

We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate.

Copenhagen: Scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) insist that global warming is a reality despite the controversy arising the stolen emails of climate scientists. As to skeptics’ allegation after the emails hacked from climate scientists were revealed, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chair, defended its studies by saying that “the IPCC procedures are very robust, very reliable, and completely transparent.” “We have a variety of data set that we access, and they all corroborate the conclusions that we have arrived at,” Pachauri said. Pachauri said his panel will “look into” the issue of the hacked e-mails to see...

WASHINGTON — A growing number of Americans have lost confidence in President Barack Obama's handling of the economy, despite the apparent beginnings of a recovery, according to a poll out Wednesday. A Quinnipiac University survey found that 54 percent of respondents disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy, compared to 41 percent who approved. The finding was Obama's "worst score ever on this issue," the pollsters said in a statement. They said it also showed erosion of support even from just a month ago, when public opinion on his handling of the economy earned a 52-43 percent approval rating. For...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declare carbon a toxic pollutant Obama pulls end run As I wrote here yesterday, I believe the feeding frenzy currently taking place at the Copenhagen trough will result in the ultimate global governance of every man woman and child on the planet. A climate treaty may not actually be signed and agreed upon by the 192 countries whose representatives are currently living LARGE on caviar and limousines at the conference, but the rules such a treaty might impose will still take effect. The main reason to believe this will happen is that President Barack Obama has...

General Lee weighs in on troop deployment inside the homeland:" I never thought I would live to see the day when a president of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country."" I assume this army would be used to invade those areas of the rebellion and subdue it by force"?-Lee" ...the rebels have been most effective in changing the sentiments of various legislatures.."- Blair[ what's known as making your voice heard]" The presidents call for 75,000 volunteers [troops] to subdue the rebellion in the cotton states, has done nothing to ameliorate the crisis, it has only...

Democrats are all for "freedom," as long as it comes from them. Read the fine print in the image at the link.

Our Constitution is not being defended from enemies, both domestic and foreign. In fact our enemies are being appointed to key positios of power in the Obama government. Our friends both domestic and foreign are being attacked and demonized by one world government conspirators with unlimited funding stolen from our own nation, which has been bled dry. We watch helpless, as Obama prepares to attend the pseudo religious, one world government, gathering of bogus green science in Copenhagen inorder to end our status as a free and independant nation. We watch helpless as the Trojen Horse of socialism and tyranny...

Here's one for those who believe that the tea-party movement is "astro-turf." Despite the long recession and a banking industry that teetered on the abyss last year, America still believes in the free market system. In fact it seems as if one of President Obama's unintended success stories is that he has driven more Americans to believe in the free market system. A new Rasmussen poll reports that 76% of voters say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government. That is up from 70% a year...

/begin my translation N. Korea: Two Executed by Firing Squad for Using Others to Swap Old Bills for New 2009.12.08 09:24 There is a report that two businessmen were executed by firing squad, which was carried out off the public view. They tried to get around (strict) rules for currency swapping. Quoting its source inside N. Korea, Open Radio for N. Korea, which broadcasts into N. Korea, reported on Dec. 7 that two businessmen in the city of Pyongsung, who had old bills totaling 11 million Won(N. Korean currency unit) from their sales, tried to convert them into new bills...

Definition: The irony that the most transparent administration in history does all of its governing behind closed, partisan doors. An image of what it looks like is at the below link.

WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large federal programs, Medicare and Medicaid, in exchange for dropping a government-sold insurance option from health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, several lawmakers said Monday. Under the potential trade-off with party moderates, near-retirees beginning at age 55 or 60 who lack affordable insurance would be permitted to purchase coverage under Medicare, which generally provides medical care beginning at 65. Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor, would be open to all comers under 300 percent of poverty, or slightly over $66,000 for a family of four....

“If we succeed in winning health insurance reform we will have breached the gates of the status quo. We will demonstrate that fundamental change is possible. Into that breach will flow a wave of progressive change.” Big Government is reporting that the entire strategy for forcing Obamacare down our throats, was written by the husband of Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) convicted felon Robert Creamer, who wrote his heathcare strategy manifesto while he was in precision. Even the strategies for selecting the opponents of the President's plan to target with propaganda were selected under this plan. Creamer was convicted in 2006 and...

COPENHAGEN – The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. Negotiations have dragged on for two years and only recently have shown signs of breakthroughs with new commitments from major emitters such as the United States, China and India to control greenhouse gas emissions.

"The terrorists today have the will to destroy us, but they don't have the power. We have the power to eradicate them, but we must now show that we have the will." - Benjamin Netanyahu - Sept. 14th, 2001 The United States has often been referred to as the world’s only super-power, but what does it really mean? The potential of a nation is only that. More often than not, the destiny of a nation is determined by will power and unity rather than potential or physical power. Potential will be realized only to the extent of the will and...

WASHINGTON – Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated. The EPA will announced its findings at a news conference Monday. The announcement is timed to boost the Obama administration's arguments at an international climate conference — beginning this week — that the United States is taking actions to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation. Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released...

Or at least it may not be for much longer. The Anchoress takes the weak-kneed Peggy Noonan and shows her how it’s done. Considering Noonan was so quick to hike up her skirt and hop aboard the empty-rhetoric-fueled Obamessiah train last fall, it’s hard to take her seriously about anything these days, but at least she inspired this brilliant post. The ending, of course, is the coup d’état. Believing that the rest of us, now disillusioned, are no longer clinging to romantic ideals of honor, or truth or nobility, these always-restless First Children, devoted to deconstruction, believe they are about...

In the 1980's, the twentieth century's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, frequently spoke about the dead hand of liberalism and the deleterious effects it had on our society, our economy and our country. He drove the Democrats nuts. Eventually, George Soros (the current benefactor of Barack Obama) and his friends ran a full-page ad in the New York Times imploring President Reagan to stop using the term 'liberal' as a pejorative. Reagan responded by looking directly into the next camera he could find and saying: "Liberal! Liberal! Liberal!". The crowd roared its approval.

In 1977, John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, co-authored the 1,000 page book “Ecoscience” with Paul and Anne Ehrlich. One section, titled “Population Law,” cited the radical group Zero Population Growth and said “it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” “Few today consider the situation in the United States serious enough to justify compulsion, however.” I ask, who's Constitution are you reading Dr Holdren? The idea that there could be a...

"One of the traditional ways of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine" Ronald Reagan Trust me, you'll want to forward this brief clip on to your friends, folks. Narrated by Reagan himself. I miss him so!

MILAN (Reuters) - Countries with mounting public debt jeopardize the sustainability of their economic recovery from the global financial crisis over the next several years, the OECD's new chief economist said in a interview in an Italian newspaper. This growth is the result of public support policies of various types, it is not supported by private activity," Padoan said. Padoan said the debt accumulated by some governments to kick-start economy may become unsustainable, with one reason being the aging of populations. The effects of governments' actions would be felt next year, but private sector demand would be "insufficient" even in...

The Energy and Climate Change Secretary says politicians face a "huge challenge" to convince people that action on global warming should be a priority, ahead of crunch UN talks in Copenhagen. Ed Miliband said voters needed persuading that action would be good for the economy and be fair to vulnerable people, admitting: "There is a mountain to climb on this, globally and nationally." But he said there was "as close to a scientific consensus as possible" that global warming is happening and is man-made. Ahead of the fortnight of negotiations, which will culminate in a summit attended by dozens of...

Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen. The ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper found 52 percent of respondents thought humans were largely responsible for modern day rises in temperatures, but 39 percent said climate change had not yet been proven to be man-made. A further seven percent did not believe climate change was happening at all. Meanwhile, 23 percent thought climate change was "the most serious problem faced by man", with 58 percent...

The trouble with the current administration is that they believe their ideas are the solution to our problems; what they fail to realize is that the American people are the solution.After years of solutions from the left, too many Americans have lost the grit and determination of past generations. They have become a collection of "have nots". Some no longer feel the sting associated with dependency in adulthood and easily buy into the hope and change fraud of government solutions to their predicaments. Our recent financial woes have made productive people, the "haves", weary and worried about a future with...

With polls showing little support for his proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care delivery system, President Barack Obama is now trying to pitch it as a remedy for high unemployment—the number one concern of most voters, according to most surveys. “Those who’ve been accusing me of ignoring the unemployment problem haven’t been paying attention,” Obama contended. “Health care reform will create thousands of jobs.” “First, we will be hiring people to scrutinize proposed treatments to determine whether the prospective patients really need it and whether society can justify the investment of scarce resources on the health of the applicants,”...

The health care bill, aka Socialized Medicine, is going to pass in one form or another unless We the People do something about it. Since they ignored the Tea Parties and the DC 9/12 rally, short of armed resistance, the only thing that will make a dent in their thick skulls is the loss of their political careers in Washington as of the next election. If they vote for the health care bill, they will be on the “They voted for it” political Hit List. Thereafter, We the People, will do all in our power to wholeheartedly support whomever runs...

Faced with an “obesity epidemic“, that has dramatic consequences for medical costs, pundits have proposed different solutions, ranging from excluding obesity from health insurance, government-run prevention campaigns, higher taxes on junk food, or higher premiums for fat people. The possibility of greater government involvement in medicine with the passing of ObamaCare puts this debate in a new light. If the government decides who gets money for medical treatment, the question of whether fat people deserve medical treatment will become a political issue. The question of who "deserves" treatment is only conceivable in a welfare state. In a free, capitalist society,...

The Green Movement which is designed to break American industry and reduce the country to a Third World category is for the purpose of degrading us to a level where we will have to rely on other industrial countries such as China and India for products and energy necessary for the survival of our population. If we have to rely on imported products and services for everything we need we will have to accept the ideal of integrating into a world body because we will not be producing anything.

In recent months, there has been a good deal of discussion of change in the United States. Sadly, over the last two centuries, the direction in which this country has been changing seems to be away from liberty and towards more control. The present changes are hardly unprecedented and certainly not unforeseen. In this essay I will examine two authors, Hilaire Belloc and F.A. Hayek, who present a useful analysis of our present situation. In 1912, Hilaire Belloc published The Servile State, in which the Englishman prophesied that the world was moving to a reestablishment of slavery. This book made...

Senate Democrats will offer an amendment this weekend to curb the pay of executives at health insurance companies that benefit from federal subsidies, fueling the growing feud with the powerful industry. Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have sponsored an amendment that would prohibit health insurance companies from deducting more than $400,000 in executive compensation per individual. The cap would apply to companies that earned 25 percent or more of their income from Americans who buy insurance from government-created exchanges.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's options for spurring job growth may be limited by out-of-control budget deficits, but he is warming to moves by his congressional allies for a jobs-boosting bill. Taking his defense of the economy on the road, the president scheduled appearances Friday in Pennsylvania to showcase innovative businesses following Thursday's White House jobs forum. That event combined cheerleading and brainstorming as Obama exhorted more than 100 CEOs, academics, small business and union leaders and local officials to focus on new ways to get businesses hiring again. At the forum, the president spoke favorably of an expanded program...

Barack Obama's choice of corporate executives to headline his jobs summit Thursday provides a window into Obamanomics: If business wants to thrive under Obama, it had best get cozy with government. Executives from Boeing, Siemens, Disney, and Dow were among those headlining the summit. These companies all depend on government aid or regulation for their profits. In this way, they were fitting icons for Obama's economic vision. Boeing, for instance, might be the corporate welfare king of America. To begin with, Boeing has an entire federal agency dedicated primarily to subsidizing it: the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Ex-Im...

***Video***Howard Dean speaking in Paris France April 5, 2009 explains how the Democrat Party uses double think to justify their contradictory position on Capitalism and the perpetual campaign of Barry Hussein Soetoro. What is double think you ask? Double think as described in the George Orwell book 1984 by Winston Smith the novel's protagonist... Dean explains how Democrat Political hierarchy no longer rejects Capitalism out of hand. No, Democrats believe that they can have the best of Capitalism and Socialism. Call it a hybrid Socitalism or Capocialism. Democrats use the Orwellian concept of double think to create the impossibility of...

Over a thousand sensitive emails and documents from Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were published online in late November without CRU’s permission. Some of their content suggests that the data used to support the theory of human -caused global warming have not been accurately represented.[1] The leaked emails have surfaced in time for the United Nations summit on climate, set to commence in December. Most of the emails are mundane, but some contain dialogue between scientists about adjusting climate data to support the man-made global warming hypothesis. The university is currently investigating the information...

Venezuela's currency fell sharply against the dollar in black market trading Thursday, reaching a two-month low as worries over bank nationalizations prompted Venezuelans to trade in their bolivars for greenbacks. President Hugo Chavez ordered the seizure of four small banks over the past week, and on Thursday said they would be nationalized. The day before, he threatened more bank seizures, leading to a run on some banks as people started guessing which ones might be targeted. The specter of a liquidity squeeze hitting the country's smaller banks is starting to appear, fueling dollar demand. In afternoon trading in Caracas, the...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chávez threatened to nationalize his country's entire private banking system, even as he reassured Venezuelans their money was safe in local banks. Addressing the nation Wednesday, two days after the government shuttered two small banks and temporarily took over two others, the populist president said his government was looking into potential problems at other private banks, rattling Venezuelans and markets."We have our radar fixed on another group of banks and yesterday I spent nearly 10 hours studying" them, Mr. Chávez told an audience of supporters in a speech carried by all the country's television networks....

The president was in the enemy camp Tuesday night — at least that's what those on the left are saying about Obama's speech at West Point. Enemy camp? They also added that it was a "strange venue" for the speech. Where should it have been? At ACORN? SEIU? But the left may be onto something because that crowd did not look... how should I say it? Thrilled? The cameras even caught one cadet falling asleep. And they had pretty good reason to be annoyed. After the president apologized (again) for America's mistakes; blamed Bush for everything that's gone wrong; bragged...

Colossal spending and regulatory programs impend, based on the Al Gore conventional hysteria that unreduced carbon emissions will destroy the earth. This will eventually be seen as one of the modern world’s most inexplicable descents into public-policy madness. The basic relevant facts are that carbon emissions are not the principal, nor even a measurable, factor in global warming, and despite dire forecasts and ever-increasing carbon emissions in the world — especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40 percent of the world’s population, expand by 6 to 10 percent each year — the world has not grown...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday said his government may target more banks for state intervention, sparking investor jitters two days after his government shut four private banks. Venezuelan benchmark bonds fell by the most in three months and the cost to insure Venezuelan debt shot to its highest since July amid what one analyst called "significant distress" in the financial system. Authorities closed four small banks on Monday owned by a wealthy businessman with close ties to the government, citing internal irregularities. That brought hundreds of worried depositors onto the streets, and sparked talk among Venezuelans...

Via Jim Neidner at BlogTalk Radio. A lot of ink has been spilled, or bites used, as it were, railing against Cap and Tax. But the ghost of Christmas future in the form of Lord Monkton tells us that the real scourge of the left is the Copenhagen Treaty. If signed by Obama and ratified by the Senate, the treaty would subject our country to the tyranny of an unelected World Government that would control all businesses in the developed world and, in the process, bring our economy and our freedom to their knees. This is a great video. Spread...

RomneyCare is big government forcing its will on a formerly free people. It's anti-American, anti-free-markets, anti-Liberty and unconstitutional. Listen to the Reagan tape. RomneyCare is the socialism he's talking about. RomneyCare = ObamaCare. No difference. Government is not the solution, it IS the problem!! Free Republic will not support gun grabbing, abortion pushing, gay rights pushing, big government socialist RINOS!! In fact we will actively campaign AGAINST them!! Free Republic is a pro-Life & Liberty small government conservative site for pro-Life & Liberty small government conservatives!! Take a freaking hike if you don't like it. RINOS be damned!! Hope this...

"We are going to have both, and which proportion of each should we have to make this all work."