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Proud Race Card holders include a certain Latina who likes to think of herself as "wise," and a certain President who likes to think of himself as "God." And now they will be forever linked in Race Card lore, following President Obama's interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, in which he claimed that African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience...

The AMA and new President James Rohack sold out its members and its patients with their recent support for ObamaCare. Today the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons called them on it. Boy are they ticked, and who can blame them. This was a bargaining ploy all along.

Check out the hysterical reaction of the DUmmies to the Obama Administration's decision to open up 381 of 17,000,000 acres of Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging. Some of the loons went so far as to attack anyone who pointed out the bigger picture as a freeper. Fun stuff. Kool Aid drinkers of all stripes are losing the taste.

A pretty funny clip of Barney Frank with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Frank, while horribly misguided on nearly every subject under the Sun, is generally a funny guy. Take, for instance, when he's talking about the Democrats new spin of calling the stimulus bill "the recovery bill." Frank thinks it's silly, noting that most people he knows would rather be stimulated than recover. But it doesn't get any funnier, or any more brazen, than attempting to blame the party that has absolutely no control over anything happening anywhere in the world right now for the fact that so...

That's what Nancy Pelosi promised the Dems Congress would be back in 2006. How's that working out? Check this AP story. "House Democrats muzzle GOP on sensitive issues" "Muzzle?" Well, at least I'm sure it's an honest, ethical and open muzzling. Actually, it turns out Pelosi's Congress is not even honest, ethical or open with members of its own party.

When free people refuse to be cowed and actually stand up against statist government oppression of their rights, they usually prevail. Which explains perfectly why this story needs to get out, and why the mainstream media studiously ignore any mention of it.

If you haven't seen the Republicans flow chart, showing the web of bureaucracy that will come into being if the Democrats are able to push this steaming pile through Congress. House Minority Leader Boehner said today that this is how your health care with look under the Democrats plan to destroy healthcare. What ever happened to: Employer ---$--$--$--> You -$-$-$---> Doctor? Some of the varied stops your taxpayer dollars will make along the way from government to the doctor include the Office of Civil Rights, the Office of Minority Health, the Health Advisory Committee and the "Health Choices Administration," which...

Grab your cardigan, we've got all sorts of fun stuff today. First, Obama promises auto workers that they won't be getting their jobs back. Not ever. Then Obama promises greater unemployment in the months to come, in what the media charitably called a "dose of reality." This is on top of Obama challenging all "not to be against us." On what? On making the economy even worse with healthcare reform. If you get a chance, I'd appreciate any responses to the poll at the link. I don't think he can get this done anymore.

Obama Kool Aid drinkers, while still a formidable obstacle to freedom in our time, have dwindled to their fewest number since President Obama took office. Today, only 28 percent of Americans continue to fully qualify, expressing "strong approval" in Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll...

In the aftermath of most American disasters, either man-made or natural, minorities tend to be hit hardest by the effects. The same is true of the Obama presidency, and the effects are being seen already. The policies of the first Black (not to mention socialist) President are impacting Blacks most adversely, both in New York City and nationally. It only seems fair that the demographic that most overwhelmingly supported President Obama in his election bid should pay the biggest price for what they foisted upon our country. Still, isn't it ironic, dontcha' think? Take NYC: "While unemployment rose steadily for...

Links to some of my favorite conservative blog posts over the past two days. Good way to catch up on what you may have missed this weekend.

Now all he can tell us is that "unemployment tends to recover more slowly than other measures of economic activity." Yes, in mismanaged economies. Yes, when the engines of industry are being conducted by the likes of FDR, Jimmy Carter and now Barack Obama. The problem is not the economy Obama inherited. The problem is the President's socialist plans which have combined to make a bad situation worse. Obama wants more time. There is nothing we can do to prevent him from doing what he will for the next 18 months. But we can't afford to give him any more...

In a piece titled, "Finding the Limits of U.S. Power," Alan Cowell of the New York Times notes: "But, diplomatically, the unfinished business lies in North Korea and Iran — twin beacons of nuclear ambition casting a baleful, contrary light onto the frontiers of America’s ability to impose its will on those who see nuclear technology as a portal to respect and influence that would otherwise elude them. And perhaps, in a backhanded way, the real puzzle lies not so much in America’s deployment of power as in the acknowledgment of its limits." In fact, the real puzzle lies more...

President Obama's Porkulus plan will direct $1.4 billion into job retraining and other services for people who have lost their jobs. Given the ever growing number of people who now fit that description, some might be inclined to question whether even that huge amount of money is enough. But it turns out the question is moot, since available evidence indicates that job retraining, much like the President's "stimulus" plan as a whole, doesn't actually work. -- In Michigan, where the unemployment rate in May was 14.1 percent, the nation’s highest, 78,000 people are enrolled in the state’s No Worker Left...

In case you haven't been reading the conservative blogs over the weekend (and judging by our numbers here, you haven't) I've provided links to some of the best and/or most entertaining posts I've read from the past few days.

This week's Rule 5 post not only contains the usual eye-candy, but also a guest essay on PETA by conservative author and radio host Paul A. Ibbetson.

The year was 1994. Nirvana and Pearl Jam had already begun revolutionizing the way bored teenage angst would forever sound. Something called Snoop Doggy Dogg was frequently seen rolling down the street, while smoking "Indo," sipping on Gin and Juice, and getting paid. Nobody could figure out the plot sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and a then-likable Tom Hanks scored his biggest hit with Forrest Gump. Sports were godawful. O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings interrupted the NBA Finals when they decided to go for a nice slow drive in a white Ford Bronco. The Super Bowl was tarnished by...

I think we now know who California's ideological heir to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is. It's current California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass. Everyone is focused on one quote from her LA Times interview, and no doubt this quote is worthy of focus. --- "How do you think conservative talk radio has affected the Legislature's work? Bass: The Republicans were essentially threatened and terrorized against voting for revenue. Now [some] are facing recalls. They operate under a terrorist threat: "You vote for revenue and your career is over." I don't know why we allow that kind of terrorism to...

No aspect of the American economy is so insignificant that Barack Obama won't try to control it. This became even more apparent today, when Obama announced that he will tell you what type of light bulb you can have, and what type of light bulb American businesses are allowed to make. Can anyone really continue to deny that Obama is a socialist? It should be abundantly clear by now that Obama lusts to socialize health care. While I believe great danger lies in government control of industry, it is at least understandable that many Americans think that the federal government...

Note to Tennessee Republicans: You aren't helping things! "Newscoma posted details of a racist email sent from Sherri Goforth, legislative aid for Sen. Diane Black (R-Gallatin). The email depicts the Presidents of the United States with President Barack Obama as a pair of eyes in a black background. I spoke with Sherri Goforth minutes ago to confirm she sent this email. She confirmed she had sent it and also said she had received a letter of reprimand from her superiors but said she will stay on the job." She's going to keep her job? This is appalling. And it just...