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Victor Davis Hanson asks why so many Americans are depressed. Suggesting five themes that might provide an answer, he thinks it might be more than the economy that explains our state of mind. I agree, but none of Dr. Hanson's themes accounts for my despair. I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can't keep up and I can't stand...

Frank Rich says this might be Pres. Obama’s Katrina moment. That would make Tim Geithner PBO’s Mike Brown. Which in turn might make some people’s blood run cold to hear the president say of Geithner, during his 60 Minutes interview broadcast this evening, that: “he is doing a terrific job.” [snip] Whereas in the case of Katrina, Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco bore much of the blame, in this case it is Geithner alone who apparently pushed to make the AIG bonuses, the ones that PBO has called an "outrage," legal. That's what the president calls a "terrific job"? View...

HAHA! Obama's teleprompter has it's own blog! Get the inside scoop how it's taking the pressure of force feeding words to empty suit and head Obama http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/

There is a new brand of Orwellian brainwashing or thought reform emerging on Internet chat room websites whose apparent purpose is the use of subtle coercive techniques to change the beliefs of one or more people for political purposes in the religious culture wars but couched as some sort of religious confession or catharsis. Think of the adroit blending of George Orwell's Double Think, social psychologist Solomon Asch's conformity experiments, the manipulative Delphi Technique, and the use of religious confession all rolled into one. Let's call it the New Blog-Think, Wiki-Think, or Religious Lib-Think. Recently, a minister at a Christian...

SarahPAC today sent out the following e-mail update: As Washington, D.C. partisans continue to fight and bicker over "politics as usual," Governor Sarah Palin is working every day to reform government in Alaska and fight for the conservative values we all cherish. It's been a busy few weeks for Governor Palin. Like many Americans, the Governor is praying for the many families in Alaska that are struggling in a difficult economy. Not content with waiting for the federal government to sort through the mess, Governor Palin is working each day to restore Alaska's economy and put people back to work....

Warsaw Ghetto. Darfur. Katrina. Some people call it the sky falling, SHTF, or in the words of the President, Catastrophe. I call it the worst case scenario. Since the November 4th mistake, The Dow is down 2000 points. Even more since the 2006 elections put the Socialists in charge of the economy. Reasonable people are now alarmed into buying guns for the first time in their life, with a president telling them catastrophe is possible.

Where is a good unbiased host to set up a blog? I keep hearing about google censoring or removing them.

I have a new website and blog and that I think readers of FreeRepublic might be interested in. It’s called GlobalVillageIdiot.org.For more than a decade I made my living as a Hollywood screenwriter, until I wrote a politically incorrect screenplay called Global Village Idiot -- a pro-American, anti-environmentalist comedy feature film -- that got me kicked out of Hollywood. After I spent many years in exile away from the movie business, the script won first prize in a contest that was looking for scripts that celebrated traditional American values. Now I’ve created a website to sell the screenplay. You can...

Liveblog: Ft. Myers, FL townhall 1:12 p.m.: Wrapping up. President is shaking some hands and greeting the crowd. 1:10 p.m.: Question from an enthusiastic young man named Julio who says he has worked for McDonald's for four years but hasn't seen his benefits improve. Answer: Tax cuts will help you keep more money, and the ARRA will make health care coverage and college tuition more affordable. "For young people like Julio who have so much enthusiasm and energy, we have to make sure we are giving them opportunities." 1:07 p.m.: Question: How can you help with infrastructure and transportation? Answer:...

You may not have heard much about it, but there's a quiet movement afoot to reassert state sovereignty in America and stop the uncontrolled expansion of federal government power. Almost half of the state legislatures are considering or have representatives preparing to introduce resolutions which reassert the principles of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and the idea that federal power is strictly limited to specific areas detailed in the Constitution and that all other governmental authority rests with the states. -excerpt- There's a lot of excitement about these bills, but there are also a lot of misconceptions,...

Yes, Islamic law really does forbid conversion. Let's just hope Saudi blogger Hamoud Bin Saleh doesn't receive Muhammad's preferred punishment for apostates: beheading. Arresting converts and critics is exactly what you'd expect from our "partners" in the War on Terror, isn't it? But would you expect Google's blogspot platform to go along with Saudi Arabia's request to ban Saleh's website? You. Bet.

Limbaugh Responds to Obama [Byron York] According to an account in the New York Post, President Barack Obama yesterday told Republican leaders, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." With George W. Bush now off the stage, it may be that Obama and some of his fellow Democrats view Limbaugh, and not John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, or any other elected official, as the true leader of the Republican opposition. This morning I asked Rush for his thoughts...

Show this video to your liberal friend (everybody has at least one congenital idiot in his social circle). Islam revolves around a psychopathic child molester and mass-murderer. They are like one really big Manson family when you get right down to it. See video here

This was posted a day or two ago and is a reminder that we need to freep this poll to keep Andrew Sullivan, the jackass who runs the Daily Dish blog that started the Trig is not Sarah's child BS, from being rewarded with any kind of award for reporting such garbage. You can only vote once a day, but we need to vote everyday as he is still leading over Hot Air, the only conservative site in the running.The poll closes Tuesday, so vote each day. Just click on BEST BLOG and wait for it to load, then click...

Please excuse the vanity, but a lefty Weblog is currently crushing several conservative blogs in the 2008 Weblog Awards (Small Blog Category). I would love you to vote for my blog (Exurban League), but feel free to vote any of the fine conservative blogs represented. Thanks! Click here to vote. (You may vote once per day, per computer.)

As perhaps one of the vilest pieces of dog excrement in the country, the admitted Marxist, terrorist Bill Ayers will be spared no insult and will receive no quarter, no mercy, no forgiveness from anybody here. The Huffington Post should be ashamed of itself for giving a platform to a man who bombed a judge's house while children slept inside, bombed the Capitol, and bombed the Pentagon. Of course, the dilemma is whether to discuss or link to the piece at all, thereby rewarding HuffPo for its bold P.R. move and giving Ayers a greater audience for his Commie dogma,...

I’m not sure whether it’s the 4:30pm timing or the fact that Rahm Emanuel is in Africa that’s my favorite part of the Obama team’s Blago internal review “drop and run” scenario. Really, as others note, the MSM is so placid the Obama team probably could have gotten away with releasing it outside the holiday rush and even answering some questions. But this approach only adds to the “transparency in name only” phenomenon and will irritate a few of the more conscientious reporters. (We note that we already have gone from “no” contacts to “no inappropriate contacts with Blago” with...

I knew that there was something odd going on, when I woke up at 7am on Tuesday and found that over 200 e-mails had arrived in the seven hours that I had been in bed. It turned out that my article on world government had been “Drudged” - ie put on the much-read Drudge Report and this had set off a torrent of e-mail traffic. The pace of comments - and their vituperative tone - persuaded the blog-masters here to shut down the comments section on that article pretty quickly. But this had the unfortunate effect of encouraging people to...

Evidence Suggests Somebody on Team Obama Knew What Blago Was Doing... Obama defenders will no doubt argue that Obama has no connection to the Blagojevich scandal, citing the FBI and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's emphasis in yesterday's press conference that the President-Elect is not implicated in this scandal. But that's what makes yesterday's "it would be inappropriate to comment" stonewalling from Obama so bizarre. He said nothing beyond that it was a "sad day." There was no glimpse of anger at the governor, no sense of betrayal in the tone of his words. He spoke as if Blagojevich had been...

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