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Remember when the Gaia worship got under way when we were young? The first Earth Day in 1970 came at a time the green radicals were feeling their oats, which hadn’t yet been considered as subsidized crops for ethanol. There’s a snarky book on the shelves these days that we don’t necessarily endorse. (We don’t care for snarky comments much, unless we’re making them.) This book, 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy, actually has a delightful entry for Earth Day. . .

President Barack Obama has been in campaign mode the past couple of days in Virginia, California, and Nevada. No major contender for the Republican nomination for President of the United States has officially announced their candidacy. And now we have a President who is actively campaigning already. This is what he loves to do: Campaign because this is what he's good at. Read more here at http://national-spotlight.com/2011/04/22/surprise-surprise-obama-is-already-in-campaign-mode/

Voters everywhere are asking the same question: Is Governor Huckabee a conservative or a progressive? Progressivism is a modern marketing package to hide the fact that someone is a liberal. Since liberalism has lost popularity among the voters, this shrewd marketing plan was created to rebrand liberals as “progressives” so some voters might be fooled into voting for someone they would otherwise not support. To find out whether Governor Huckabee is a conservative is simple. Look at his platform and his principles. When he ran to become the nominee of The Republican party in the past, he was the only...

They must not be self-conscious about predicting dire events that never come to pass because the false prophets of global warming doom are at it again. This time, quasi-high priest Ted Turner. Mark your calendars. Turner, the founder and former head of CNN, said “In 20 years, there will be no fossil fuel.” . . .

It appears that state agencies loaned government employees millions of dollars without getting repaid, according to the state controller’s office. Millions in interest-free salary and travel advances have been made to state employees without collecting repayment, according to audits from the controller. . .

Sarah Palin is the voice of America. She is the mother, the daughter and the wife of good and reason. If the feminine spirit and energies were put on earth to guide and protect humankind, that spirit and energy are embodied in Governor Palin. Gov. Palin delivered a speech on Madison Wisconsin’s “Tax Day Rally” April 16, 2011 which places her as the only previously elected official that is willing to articulate the Conservative cause and defend it against it’s Progressive enemies in government and media. First, I must confess that I was put off of Ms. Palin because of...

After watching this NIST video, I feel a lot better about the benefits of having all my personal business tied together through a government-administered national internet ID program. We'll all be able to finally get rid of the frustrating inconvenience of forgetting passwords, and replace it with a totalitarian dictatorship that knows our every move. Sounds like a reasonable deal to me. Besides, when the econazi internationalist police state finally starts getting their gulag program off the ground, I sure wouldn't want the authorities to not know where to find me. And I sure wouldn't worry about the security of...

Donald Trump. Just say the name these days and you'll get a reaction. Liberals seem to hate him. Populists love him, and conservatives are intrigued, but suspicious of him. Right now there's a debate getting started in conservative circles. Is Donald Trump really one of us? He sure talks like one now, but his track record says otherwise....

Today after church I was walking through one of our local parks, and I ran into a friend of mine who happens to be a raving liberal. One of the things I like about this guy is his ability to discuss political issues passionately and listen to a more rational point of view without slipping into violence, or plugging his finger in his ears. Of course, the discussion quickly veered into politics, and his liberal delusions came quickly to the fore. Me: What do you think of Obama's new war in Libya? Him: I'm appalled by it. Me: Wow. We...

Democrats love Planned Parenthood so much they were willing to shut down the entire U.S. government over planned cuts to the organization. If given a choice, they would rather give taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood than pay the men and women who serve America's military. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid drew a line in the sand Friday morning while speaking from the floor of the United States Senate: “I’m not going to be part of that. I won’t do it,” he said about efforts to cut Planned Parenthood funding on the part of House Republicans. Nancy Pelosi claimed the GOP...

I hate the word "fair." It's possibly the most subjective word in the English language, but it's a word I hear tossed around by politicians like a goal for our society to all be "fair", or, more often, as a grumble when things don't go their way. No one likes when things are "unfair", but can anyone define what "fair" is? Nancy Pelosi's comments the other day got me thinking about this, when she said the GOP needs to take back their party and make it the "party of fairness." Aside from the obvious observations, such as why anyone would...

Why is it a great day for the children of Washington, D.C., you ask? Because with the coming passage of the 2011 budget bill, President Obama will sign into law one of the most successful education programs in Washington, D.C. history: The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The program — which was started during the Bush Administration to provide low-income District students with money to attend private schools — was closed by Democrats in 2009, largely because of pressure from the Teacher's unions. The House recently passed a Boehner-authored bill last month — the SOAR Act — to reauthorize the program...

I don't know if Donald Trump is going to actually run for President. If he does, I'm not at all clear on whether I'll support him. In fact, right now my vote is Sarah Palin's to lose, but all of the attention being focused on The Donald's possible run for office shouldn't distract conservatives for appreciating what's really going on. What's really going on is that Donald Trump is performing a great service for our nation, and I, for one, want to thank him. The Donald's increasingly intense attacks on Obama's (in)eligibility for office, and the questions surrounding his past,...

It makes no sense to me. Democrats routinely vote against their own long-term interests, sending people into elected jobs with what seems like a mandate to tear things up. After all the courage and tenacity shown by Governor Scott Walker in his showdown with the public employee unions whose high pay and rich benefits are bankrupting the state, the unions poured millions into bringing out their base - Democrats who are willing to vote for their own impoverishment. Amazingly, it looks like the unions were successful in selling Wisconsin-ites on an anti-fiscal responsibility platform:...

Jon Stewart is right. While demonizing unions Conservatives all too often over look the total destruction that Corporations have waged on the American economy and the American Middle Class (see 4:49min video) I am not newcomer to the argument that Corporations are ungrateful, unpatriotic out of control entities that have abused America and the American people to maximize their profits. (see previous posts below) Everything that is wrong in America today can be blamed on an out-of-control corporate environment that will do anything and everything for the sake of the bottom line. Profit!—Alaphiah (source) *** America is bleeding. For decades,...

In a Facebook note, Sarah Palin compared Bill Maher to "an annoying little mosquito found zipped up in your tent" and encouraged conservatives to not get distracted by the petty, vulgar attacks of liberals like Maher. The problem with mosquitos, however, is that many carry diseases like encephalitis, dengue fever, and malaria. In Maher's case, the diseases are ignorance, hate, and radical liberalism. On Friday, the foul-mouthed little man demonstrated the height of his intellectual capacity yet again by referring to Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin as bimbos, and attacked John Boehner by saying: "John Boehner wears bronzer and goes...

Tampa Court Allows Sharia Law The 13th Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Nielson ruled that a civil suit between the “Islamic Education Center of Tampa” and four of it`s trusties be settled, not in a court of law, but under “Ecclesiastical Islamic Law”.

"Real Time" host Bill Maher challenged Rep. Keith Ellison on his Muslim religion. Maher cited several passages from the Quran that call for violence, especially against the infidel. Rep. Ellison countered with passages for the Quran that called for peace and tolerance. Ellison attempted to blame radicals separate from Muslims or Islam. However, Bill Maher’s point is correct the so-called Ideologues, which Rep Ellison referred to, draw from the Quran for justification for hate against America and American interests.

Make no mistake that the events of the past few weeks in Madison, Wisconsin will go down in the history books alongside such precursors to great upheavals as the Boston Massacre and Harpers Ferry. Only five weeks after Jared Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others elicited calls for a new civility in American politics, Wisconsin’s Democratic state senators fled Madison, lighting a fuse that now threatens old greasy rags accumulated for decades in the garages, basements, and tool sheds of American civics and government. Rather than work within the procedural rules of Wisconsin’s elected body, these senators...

After weeks of rangling and protests, Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republican passed the legislation to virtually end collective bargaining in the state. Halted by the quorum need to pass fiscally related bills in the Wisconsin Senate, Republicans split off the legislative language regarding collective bargaining into a stand alone bill, which did not need a quorum. The Wisconsin Senate passed the bill this evening. Democrats are outraged by the 'nondemocratic' nature of such a maneuver. T