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This Administration just doesn't get it, refusing to call the Fort Hood attack an act of terrorism. We are at war, whether they choose to ignore it or not. But on this topic, they remain the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. This should come as no surprise, of course, from the crew that declared an end to the Global War on Terror immediately upon assuming power, but at that time hope remained that it was just political posturing. We now have more than enough evidence to conclude that the Obama administration remains one of the few groups in America that do...

When has someone lived long enough that they are no longer worth certain treatments? We're about to find out the federal government's opinion on the subject. Read the following paragraph and then read it again. Every decision of what to insure or not—when an MRI can be used, or whether a stage-four breast cancer patient can get Avastin or some future expensive drug—will become subject to political intervention over moral disputes or budget constraints. Heretofore, these decisions have largely been made between a doctor and patient. This is the real "right to life" issue. Every single one of these issues...

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty continues to emerge as a conservative leader and a major player among possible Republican candidates to face off against Barack Obama in 2012. He recently started his Freedom First PAC to raise funds for Republicans running in 2010, he has weighed in on Hoffman's behalf in New York's 23rd congressional district, and today he tossed us a gigantic, bloody hunk of red meat. “His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy...

"Benefit" is not the correct word, as Cap and Trade will not be a net benefit to any state, being a direct tax on productivity and business in the name of warding off the scam of man-made global warming. That being said, the Waxman-Baucus Bill, Waxman (D-MA) and Baucus (D-CA), will aid special interests in Massachusetts and California more than it will special interests from other states. A little noticed Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that the pending climate-change bill in Congress would particularly benefit the states represented by its primary authors. The analysis, obtained by The Washington Times, shows...

Imagine you are a New Hampshire inmate facing Obama's economy. Your choices have been limited to the picture on the left and the picture on the right. Which would you choose? People at the lowest levels of society (you know, those quieted voices that Obama claims to represent) have realized that hope for them is all but gone in Obama's America, with some preferring to spend their time in prison to testing their prospects on the outside. "Inmates know that the economy is still weak and the job prospects aren't good, officials say. With no job and nowhere to live,...

Some interesting results from the latest Rasmussen poll on illegal immigration show that voters overwhelmingly support conservative public policy on the issue. "U.S. voters want aggressive action to restrict illegal immigration, but they don’t think immigrants should bear the brunt of the enforcement efforts on their own. Most say the federal government and those hiring illegal immigrants also need to be brought into the discussion. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% say the policies of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally. Only 27% disagree, and 17% are not sure. "

Lindsey Graham is at it again, playing the same game he learned from his good friend John McCain. When will Republicans in Congress realize that they always get a raw deal when they attempt to reach "bi-partisan" agreements with Democrats? One would think Senator Graham would have already learned the nearly disastrous lesson of his support for amnesty in 2006, but a dual op-ed with John Kerry from Sunday on the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill shows that he has not. The worst thing Graham does is agree that man made global warming exists and is a problem. "First, we...

Earlier this week the National Republican Congressional Committee released a statement on Nancy Pelosi's sudden departure from her insistence that the war in Afghanistan was the "real central front" in the war on terror: "If Nancy Pelosi’s failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McChrystal is able to put her in her place." Nancy Pelosi and her fellow democrats responded like, well... liberals. They ignored the facts and made an emotional appeal. They ignored the first part of the statement, and played up the meaningless ending. In short, Pelosi...

Remember when Rush Limbaugh used the term "Gorbasm" to describe how the left in America used to react Mikhail Gorbachev? I ask because in today's Huffington Post, Dan Siegel had what can only be called the first ever public, multiple Moore-gasm while describing the newest hypocritical piece of trash from Michael Moore, the successful, capitalist filmmaker who hates capitalism. In the piece, titled (seriously) Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath, Siegel sets a new standard for leftist hero worship. "Michael Moore has made the most important and urgent political film of our time. In fact, he might have made the most...

When Big Business tells the federal government "yes, tax us more please," you can be pretty confident something shady is going on, and that the consumer will not be the beneficiary of it. In this case it's ownership of major energy providers backing the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill, the proposal that would effectively cap American productivity by trading on fear of global warming. In the past few weeks both Exelon, the nation's largest gas and electric utility, and PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) have backed out of the Chamber of Commerce over the business lobby's refusal to bend over...

Has the New York Times finally seen the writing on the wall and decided to take what it can get and avoid further political damage to the Obama administration? It looks that way. Today's edition features this article by Nelson Schwartz on the Swiss model, the only European plan that does not feature a fully government-run health care option: Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens. But the system here does not remotely resemble the model of bureaucratic, socialized medicine often cited by opponents of universal...

Excellent segment from Beck's show yesterday. Of course, Obama would never appear on Beck's show, so Beck uses Obama's past words to challenge the President's recent lies.

The Dems, with help from MoveOn.org (seriously, move on already) and ACORN plan to mobilize on health care this week. How's this for a "grass roots" effort? The plan for a series of grass-roots demonstrations Tuesday to promote President Obama's health care agenda calls for tightly scripted events.. Health Care for America Now (HCAN), which is backed by a coalition of labor unions and liberal groups including ACORN and MoveOn.org, organized the protests to target insurance companies and drafted the plan, which describes the demonstrations as part of its "insurance enemies project." The document, a copy of which was obtained...

I suppose it's only fair. Judging by the Times' plunging stock value and rapidly shrinking readership, fans of conservative talk radio are not fans of the paper. But this is a little over-the-top, even for this discredited fishwrap. Call It Ludacris: The Kinship Between Talk Radio and Rap "Hour after hour, rant after rant, it is a feast of words and feverish emotion, interrupted only by regular commercials and the occasional call from the awe-struck fan. I’d heard these voices before, but only in sound bites. When you don’t own a car and don’t tune in at home, you probably...

This is just about as good as it gets... The Orange County ACORN office has shut its doors. I just spoke with the landlord at the office complex in Santa Ana, California, where local ACORN hacks provided services. The building-owner said she had just spoken with ACORN officials at the Los Angeles office. The group announced intent to vacate the premises this morning; personnel would be coming to Santa Ana to clear out their effects at an undisclosed date. The reason? It's an internal reaction to news of the recent ACORN scandals. According to Douglas, about a dozen anti-ACORN protesters...

...But can Nancy Pelosi stand for such a half measure, for putting the socialist paradise off for a few years? Her recent actions suggest not. While Obama administration officials have made various and sometimes contradictory remarks about the public option, Pelosi has been consistent. “A bill without a strong public option will not pass the House,” Pelosi said in statement last Thursday. “Eliminating the public option would be a major victory for the insurance companies who have rationed care, increased premiums and denied coverage.” If Pelosi chooses to stick her guns on this, she will destroy any chance the Democrats...

Yeah, keep telling us that the Reagan Revolution is dead. They'd like that, but the Revolution lives on in today's town halls. This nails what Obama and the Dems are trying to do on health care. Here's some of it in text. Video at the link. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program... One of the traditional methods of imposing...

Yeah, keep telling us Ronald Reagan is dead and his revolution finished. That's what they would love to think, but they're seeing Reagan's Revolution continuing in our town hall meeting. This absolutely nails what Obama and the Dems are trying to do on health care. Here's a sample of the monologue. Video at the link. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the...

As Rush Limbaugh said on the air today, forget about death panels, Great Britain has birth panels. Here's the story from the Daily Mail: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds. The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000. Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity...

Good video of Glenn Beck making the same call a couple months ago, for those who may have missed it, at the link... We heard the F-Bomb thrown around early and often in regard to former President George W. Bush. It's refreshing to see someone use the word accurately, with full understanding of the meaning of the word. Enter Rush Limbaugh on his broadcast today. RUSH: So back in April, Obama said, "No, no, no, no. I'm not going to do that. I want to go forward," because he knows the American people do not want to investigate the Bush...