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It had to happen eventually. And it finally has. Osama bin Laden is in hell where he belongs, where seventy-two very un-virginal demons will tear his flesh for all eternity. And it came the best way: by the trigger fingers of individual heroes, rather than by the faceless push of a button to activate a missile by a Predator drone. It is fitting that bin Laden died at the hands of Americans who got to look him in the eye as they facilitated his journey to the eternally burning trash pit in the sky. And just to add some icing...

Obama's ten day India Trip, to the sung to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas:" On the first day of vacation my taxpayers sent to me:the coconuts removed from the treesOn the second day of vacation my taxpayers sent to me:forty big jets and the coconuts removed from the trees On the third day of vacation my taxpayers sent to me:6 armoured cars34 warships and the coconuts removed from the trees On the fourth day of vacation my taxpayers sent to me:1 aircraft carrier500 agentspersonal chefs and the coconuts removed from the trees On the fifth day of...

“The Universal is to be found in the State...The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth...We must therefore worship the State as the manifestation of the Divine on earth, and consider that, if it is difficult to comprehend Nature, it is harder to grasp the Essence of the State...the State is the march of God through the world...” -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, as quoted in Popper, Karl R., The Open Society and its Enemies, 4th ed., 2 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963, vol. 2, p. 31. "...the State 'has the supreme right against the...

When I heard that the Democrat leadership was playing politics by inserting the amnesty-granting DREAM Act into a bill ostensibly to fund our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, I hoped Republicans would block it. So you can only imagine how I felt when I learned that the Democrats decided they weren't being ideological enough in their partisan politics, and added a provision forcing the military to embrace homosexuality whether it hurt national security or not. What Democrats wanted to do was force Republicans to either vote for the bill, or be the side that "opposed funding our troops." And the...

We keep seeing the same liberal argument being played over and over again. As the mainstream media seek to make their case to the American people that the Bush tax cuts should expire, one of the primary strategies being employed is to claim that Republicans are refusing to "pay for" their extension of the tax cuts. And that therefore the Republicans will hike the deficit. The problem is that it's a false premise, based on a static conception of human behavior that refuses to take into account the fact that people's behavior changes depending upon how much of their money...

The American people are now finally beginning to realize the fact that "Democrat" actually stands for "Demonic bureaucrat," rather than having anything whatsoever to do with "democracy." Let me quickly set a beautiful recent illustration for you: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick had just been asked by an interviewer about the Glenn Beck 8/28 "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. He was asked, "Are you troubled that it was there when it was and where it was?" And Democrat Deval Patrick, the author of the "Just Words" speech that Obama pirated with such stunning success that it...

National Review has a record of Obama's pretzel twisting flat-out LIES. We should review them as Obama gives his speech celebrating the troops coming home. First, let's listen to Obama administration spokesman Vice President Joe Biden: I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. Now first see how Obama massively contradicted himself, all while...

Have you heard? America's birth rate is lower than at any time in the last last 100 years. There seems to be something profoundly wrong with Obama's central message of hope and change. There is something profoundly wrong with Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America. 22/08/2010 Recession effect? US birth rate lowest in 100 yrsMilkwujee [sic]: The US birth rate has dropped for the second year in a row, and experts think the wrenching recession led many people to put off having children. The 2009 birth rate also set a record: lowest in a century. Births fell 2.7 per cent last...

A pretty good (certainly not completely objective, but by today's horrendous standards of objectivity pretty good) article by Mary C. Curtis sets up the dilemma of Glenn Beck's "8/28" rally at the Lincoln Memorial: Glenn Beck Rally in D.C. Saturday: Honoring MLK's Legacy -- or Hijacking It?Forty-seven years ago today, hundreds of thousands of Americans joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and witnessed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech, which summed up the hopes of generations. Today, crowds are repeating that trek – by bus, train, car and plane...

If there was ever a "Let them eat cake" administration, this one's it. I like the hilariously cynical "Newsflash" part of this ABC News title. It brings out the massively disconnected look of contempt for the "forgotten man" in Obama's eyes. "Wave at all the little nobodies, daughters, wave at all the little nobodies. Emperor worship is all they have left to live for."Breaking News: President Obama Says “I’m Having a Great Time” On Vacation August 25, 2010 12:42 PM Last night President Obama and First Lady Obama dined at State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard. Their...

I have said it again and again: the quintessential defining essence of liberalism is hypocrisy. And it's not just in the big picture, in which 'to be a liberal' means 'to be generous with other peoples' money.' It's in everything they say and do, like that little bit of yeast which works its way through the whole batch of dough (Galatians 5:9). Today we have AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka showing us what a particularly vile species of hypocrite liberal looks like: Trumka: 'Palinism' an 'ugly word' By MATT NEGRIN | 8/26/10 10:23 AM EDT Updated: 8/26/10 3:01 PM EDT AFL-CIO...

Are you sick of Obama and the left unrelentingly blaming Bush for everything that is happening going on two years after he left office? Do you think that Obama will ever man-up and actually become responsible for his presidency? Me too, and me neither, respectively. I went more than a little off on a liberal who dredged up this demagogic rhetorical garbage: 2010/08/20 at 8:24 pm In Europe people laugh at us leaving in false dreams, wall streets spending false money, Bush starting a false war etc. America is the land of dreams, how come? Idiots like George Bush can...

Here's the latest story of judicial abuse: SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge overturned California's same-sex marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if gays have a constitutional right to marry in America. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. Gay couples waving rainbow and American flags outside the courthouse cheered, hugged and kissed as word of the ruling spread. Despite the favorable ruling for same-sex couples, gay marriage will...

One could conclude - based on rhetoric alone - that George Bush never left office, and Obama never actually ascended to the presidency. After all, according to the Obama narrative, only one man is responsible for anything these days. And that man is George Bush. Obama isn't "responsible." He's completely irresponsible. Obama has never once taken the "The Buck Stops With George Bush" sign off of his desk. Since we all know that the buck stops at the highest political office, and since we all know that Obama keeps passing the buck off to George Bush, we can therefore know...

Here's Rush Limbaugh on July 1 predicting LeBron James would sign with Miami and explaining why he would do so: RUSH: If things are on schedule, representatives of the New York Knicks are meeting with LeBron James who today becomes a free agent in the National Basketball Association. Now, many of you are saying, "Oh, come on, Rush, stick to the issues. Football's bad enough, golf's even worse, now, we gotta talk NBA?" No, we're not talking NBA. The New York Knicks and the New Jersey Nets both want LeBron James. The Cleveland Cavaliers want him to stay in Cleveland,...

This case of voter rights abuse was already won, and all that remained was the sentencing. And then suddenly - at the last moment - someone under Obama-appointed Attorney General Eric Holder came in and dropped all charges. New Black Panther leader Samir Shabazz stood outside the door of a voting location clad in a threatening uniform and bearing a police-style baton. Several witnesses testified that he made a number of threatening racially-charged references. He's not guilty in Obama's hopey-changey America. Because overt acts of racism are fine, as long as the perpetrator is black and the victims are white....

General David Petraeus earned the legitimate title of "hero" for his incredible work in leading the surge-based turnaround in Iraq. A work that Democrats did everything they possibly could to undermine and destroy. When General Petraeus came to Washington to appear before Congress to defend the progress he'd made in Iraq, the leftist MoveOn.org greeted him with the title, "General Betray Us," which ran at a vastly discounted rate by fellow liberal attack dog The New York Slimes. Hillary Clinton told General Petraeus that his progress report on Iraq required "a willing suspension of disbelief," all but calling Petraeus a...

We can put two data points together to arrive at a rather obvious conclusion: Data point 1: Obama is holding border security hostage to his obtaining his socialist-open-borders-amnesty-for-illegals-perennial-Democrat-voting-base agenda. Data point 2: the Obama administration demands "fair wages" for undocumented illegal immigrants. As for data point 2, here's the latest word from Team Obama: Sec. of Labor, Hilda Solis: "Every worker in America has the right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not." Can't believe that such naked "workers of the world, unite!" Marxism would come out of the mouth of an Obama cabinet member??? Here's the video. Mind...

I'm sure you've seen those TV ads for prescription drugs that are offered to treat a relatively minor problem, but then come with a long list of nasty side effects that make one wonder why anybody would take that drug. The prescription seems far worse than the disease. To put it in a nutshell, ObamaCare is rather like Saturday Night Live's "Happy Fun Ball." It isn't FUN like Happy Fun Ball, of course, but it does have that same list of toxic and deadly side effects that just goes on and on. Here's a dramatic re-enactment of the SNL Happy...

Just over a year ago on February 12, Barack Obama spoke to Caterpillar employees at the plant in East Peoria, Illinois, and said the following: "So what's happening at this company tells us a larger story about what's happening with our nation's economy -- because, in many ways, you can measure America's bottom line by looking at Caterpillar's bottom line." In that address, Obama provided us with a barometer, a measure, a way to know whether legislation is good or bad in microcosm. And judging by Obama's VERY OWN STANDARD, his health care legislation is absolutely terrible: John Deere, Caterpillar,...