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Today we get our say. Today we exercise the right to vote given us because of the sacrifices of men and women who have stepped up and answered America’s call for service. The Chicago mob gets thrown out on its ear today. No longer will we have to standby and watch our country trashed and disrespected by the Marxist Democrats. The days of a kowtowing twerp going around the world kissing the rings of thugs and tyrants who hate us and laugh behind our back, and worse right to our face, will begin to be counted down. The momentum is...

We’ve heard the pundits and “experts” who get paid for their “acceptable predictions” give us their ideas about the likely outcome of tomorrow’s elections. Those of us who have followed this cycle know they are using poorly constructed and out of date turnout models. We have been frustrated by the lack of boldness from these people who view this process as not much more than guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar at the church picnic: The winner is the closest to the actual total without going over. With the one bright exception of Dick Morris...

Fundamentals point toward O’Donnell’s victory: Delaware has been boiling for a year By Kevin “Coach” Collins The name Joe Booth might not mean anything outside of the Delaware’s 19th State Senatorial district, but he is an important part of the surge that will bring Christine O’Donnell to victory in November. The fact that Senator Booth is in office is in many ways just as surprising as O’Donnell’s win will be on Election Day. In 2009 the Democrat Senate Pro Tem of the Delaware Senate Thurman Adams died. He had been in office for forty years. EVERYONE in Delaware expected that...

A snifter clink to Michael Cembalest of JP Morgan for his study of Cabinet Secretaries: State; Commerce; Treasury; Agriculture; Interior; Labor; Transportation; Energy and Housing & Urban Development. It puts flesh on that which we all know: Barak “Chicago” Obama sees business as a cash cow to keep the corruption machine oiled. After all, how could Michelle have been paid north of 300k a year for a part time gig at a hospital without some help? And this was before she was proud to be an American!!!! Sinatra could have been singing “Chicago, Chicago, My Kind of Town,” to the...

Isn’t it so satisfying to see a schoolyard bully get knocked flat on his back? Last week’s Arkansas Democrat Senatorial primary gave us just that image to savor. The Big Labor thugs and criminals took it on the chin and their attempt to bully and blackmail Blanche Lincoln failed. The sin Lincoln had committed is her failure to back Labor’s scheme to use the power of the federal government to force unwilling workers to join unions through all but rigged voting without benefit of the secret ballot. We won the showdown Lincoln is an opponent of the deceptively named Employee...

As late as eleven days before the Nevada primary the Washington Post desperately attempted to paint a smiley face on Harry Reid’s reelection possibilities. The liberal tabloid used a Mason-Dixon poll that compared Reid’s chances against the two Republicans THEY thought would were leading the race. The news was great for Harry. He was closer to either of them than he had been to that point! Over the next 11 days Sharron Angle, the Nevada TEA party’s candidate roared ahead and won going away. Putting on a brave face Reid said Angle was to opponent he wanted all along. Oh...

It may seem to the world that Israel stands alone against a juggernaut of Muslim gangsters and will, in the end, cease to exist. If that happens, the Israelis will suffer a catastrophe reminiscent of the recent Hutu/Tutsi horror. The gangsters will, however, not be laughing for long as they will have lost the façade behind which they have hidden for decades. Their real war is against modernity, participatory government and the most basic women’s rights. That will become obvious. All those who failed to support Israel, particularly American Jews that let their jejune contempt for George Bush, morph into...

Joe Biden isn’t only a buffoon he’s a typically cheap liberal who is there for a photo op with our wounded warriors, but doesn’t see the need to contribute to a worthy cause like the Fisher House. On Monday, November 23 Vice President Joe Biden and his wife hosted a well photographed early Thanksgiving Day dinner for two ambulatory wounded war fighters and their families. The Marine and Army Sergeant were recuperating at Walter Reed Hospital and their families were staying at the Fisher House guest facility on the grounds of the hospital. Fisher Houses are private hotel rooms offered...

Here’s the list: #1) 39.68 million Americans on food stamps, projections say 43 million by 2011. #2) RealtyTrac says: 367,056 foreclosures reported in March, up almost 19% from February. #3) The Mortgage Bankers Association reports more than 10 percent of U.S. homeowners missed at least one mortgage payment between January-March, a record and above the 9.1% of a year ago. #4) For the first time in modern history, banks own a greater share of residential housing than all individual Americans put together. #5) Congress is planning to quadruple oil taxes. #6) California needs “terrible cuts” to avoid complete financial disaster....

Individuals and companies purchase liability insurance to protect assets. Ergo, the average homeowner maintains liability insurance against the very small risk of being sued if someone is injured in his home. He keeps liability insurance on his car for the same reason. Most would have it absent any laws requiring it. The average person or couple starting out in an apartment have no assets, and therefore do not worry about home owners liability insurance. There is nothing to attach in the event of a suit, so they do not need it. The same should be true for drivers. The average...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To ensure there will be enough resources to provide for its own legal residents Williamson County Texas has started requiring any indigent person seeking County paid for medical services to produce a valid Social Security number. The County’s Commissioners suspected their local government has been taken advantage of by illegals, and the statistics from the first five months of its fiscal year have proved they were right. Their investigation showed just under 23% of the 1153 indigent people it provided medical services to did not have a valid Social Security number; all but assuring they are not in America...

We are protected from tyranny by our legal system. The The Constitution was written to guard those liberties, with the Supreme Court as its interpreter. The Court, however, has become increasingly political and routinely interprets laws consistent with whatever it views as “fair” or helpful to liberals. The cancerous growth of the Federal Government, in direct violation of the Constitution, is obvious to anyone with an IQ above room temperature. The public has finally awakened to the danger and seems to be prepared to fight back. Not a moment too soon… Expedience, particularly in wartime, or presidential disdain are the...

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has announced her agency’s newly promulgated greenhouse gas emissions regulations for automobiles are only “the first” of their type and her agency will move to “deliberately” to institute regulations in other areas of our lives as well. Last week Jackson said, “These are the first regulations that cover greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Certainly it shows that it can be done, but I think it shows more than that. It shows that it can be done in a thoughtful way that doesn’t turn the economy on its ear, that doesn’t...

During the past few months we have witnessed a sorry spectacle of lawmaking within the U.S. Congress. House Democrats were meeting for the purpose of approving a Senate Health Care Reform Bill. Moderate members appeared to be wrestling with their conscience, liberal members were whining for more entitlements, and some appeared oblivious to the bill’s contents. The monstrous Senate Health Care Reform Bill (over 2000 pages) was crafted by Senate Democrats behind closed doors, without Republican participation, passed by Democrat votes and then presented to the House of Representatives for approval. The bill was terribly flawed, very confusing and, essentially,...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pro-life movement is relegated to having begun after Roe v. Wade. There is no doubt that Christian activists found the decision to be morally bankrupt and led the charge. Americans were generally uncomfortable with the act of aborting an unborn baby but chose to avert their eyes. The ruling was the first to so sweepingly defy the 10th Amendment and crush an individual state’s right to make its own laws. That the ruling was based on a “right to privacy” that existed only in the “penumbra” of the Constitution seemed to pass muster with most Americans. This, of...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1933 FDR, pressing forward with his program of vote buying, signed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act into law. Many banks had failed after the government helped the recession become a Depression. FDR wanted to preen (his favorite pose) about protecting the public, reigning in irresponsible banks and bankers, and use the banks’ own money to finance it. Bank funded FDIC “insurance” suited him perfectly. As with most government programs, the public thought the Federal government was needed to rectify a problem. One need only look to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Insecurity to see that a gullible public...

There has been unending hand wringing about teen drug use, pregnancy, and dismal academic performance. As a garnish, we are also in the midst of an epidemic of teen obesity. There have been unending government programs to “combat” these problems. Some of them may have helped temporarily but most are run by pimps that simply enjoy slopping at the public trough. All of the aforementioned has been abetted by government, particularly the Federal Government. Divorce is a major contributor to this frightening mess as is societal acceptance of out of wedlock births. Consistent with the latter, it is now considered...

EDUCATE, DON'T INDOCTRINATE "I thought she was a Communist," my friend said about her daughter home on break from a university near Chicago. My friend said her daughter's political and social attitudes now were very different than those of her and her husband. After sepending at least 30 years around the higher education crowd, I've done a lot of thinking about what happens to our kids. Only after I retired was I able to put into perspective what I went through and then to try to figure out what was causing so many conservative middle class kids from typically conservative...

So they really are going to surrender and tear down sections of Detroit By Kevin “Coach” Collins Last June this site reported the Obama Administration was in discussions with Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit to tear down large sections of his City. In a clear admission fifty years of Democrat rule had ruined the once great city, surrendering large sections of Detroit to the wrecking ball is actually being planned. Liberal Democrats have spoken the unspeakable: "Forget about trying, lets tear it down." Ripping down sections of Detroit will reap some very clear benefits for Obama and his Party. It...

The Collins Report today notes that Wenzel Strategies, a well thought of, and of course accurate, pollster, reported the above. This is stupendous and when supported by subsequent polls will rock the foundations of the Democrats. Perhaps I should write “further rock” as the entire liberal structure is already precarious. Blacks, who voted for President Obama in record numbers are now divided 62/38 believable. That is a thirty point drop among a group that is as essential as air to national Dems and all Dems in tight races. Native Spanish speakers, who also bought President Obama’s “hope and change”, are...