Giving Thanks

"The utopian compares America to utopia and finds it terribly wanting. The conservative compares America to every other civilization that has ever existed and walks around wondering how he got so lucky as to be born or naturalized an American."

A clearer picture of the current president

Stanley Kurtz offers evidence of who the current president is, who were the major influences in his political development and his attempts to disguise his views and agenda.

The historical left

Yes, the left has been at it for years. Here's another perspective.

It ain't pretty

Andrew Thomas provides another look at the unsavory characters across the aisle.

Who is the fool?

From Prager Zeitung, a German language newspaper published in Prague:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."

"The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.

It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

An Inconvenient Truth - Copyright Laws

Renowned leftist Michael Moore has been found to have lifted an entire story from the Knoxville News Sentinel including video without bothering himself to credit the actual source. In the past Moore has taken a bold stand against copyright laws, claiming he doesn’t care if people download his movies for free. Perhaps Moore recognizes the value of his work. As a result, Moore apparently feels free to take anything he wants from other artists, writers, and photographers and use them for his own purposes.

Aside from having no respect or recognition for laws that may inconvenience them, the Left never has any original ideas. Everything oozing out of them is recycled twaddle from the happy Halcyon Stalin Days and again during the 1960’s drug haze. The same burned out bunch of morons have repurposed themselves and taken over the government. Heaven help us.

Economic malaise

The top 1% of income earners in the U.S. pay more in income taxes than the bottom 95% combined. That is official IRS data, as accurately reported by the Tax Foundation. But leftists continues to mindlessly repeat the brain dead, neo-Marxist, Democrat party mantra that "the rich are not paying their fair share." What would a fair share look like?

Kos Pollster Fired for Faking Data

From the American Thinker: DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas has admitted that some or all of the surveys the site conducted through Research 2000 may be faulty — even fabricated. As Captain Renault said in Casablanca, "I'm shocked, shocked!"

Grounded Flight?

Lessons from the national health care debate

What have we learned?

• Americans are engaged in a serious national debate about the role and size of government, in which the advocates of government-dominated health care are significantly outnumbered and vastly outmatched in enthusiasm.

• The Democrat Party's commitment to abortion rights is even more central to its identity than health care reform. The Speaker's initial concession - preventing federally subsidized health plans from covering abortion - was made for show. Congressman Stupak Stupak believes that the Democrat leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance. Their position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered. Those who support the Senate bill are participating in the largest expansion of federal involvement in abortion since the Hyde Amendment limited that role in 1976.

• The president and congressional leaders are not serious about entitlement reform. The unfunded liability of America's current entitlements is more than $100 trillion. Medicare will eventually require a massive infusion of cash under a congressional entitlement fix. Both the Congressional Budget Office and the Medicare actuary have pressed the point that Medicare savings can either be used to pay future Medicare benefits or to finance new spending outside Medicare — not both.

The passage of this legislation would decisively confirm an image of the Democrat Party that many have worked to change: partial to big government, pro-abortion and fiscally reckless.

fly now pay later

From Irwin Stelzer at the Weekly Standard:

Americans overwhelmingly say that their main concern is jobs, and that they are satisfied with their current health care arrangements. In response, an allegedly chastened President Obama “pivoted,” and says his primary concern from now on will be job creation, which will take priority over his controversial plan to radically change the nation’s health care system. Yet, last week he backed a $15 billion job-creation bill, which passed the Senate, and a $1 trillion health care bill. Since the federal balance sheet is already under huge pressure, this set of priorities tells us that the Obama administration intends to concentrate available resources on transforming the economy — a long-term, permanent restructuring of the health care and energy sectors that was planned long before the failure of Lehman Brothers triggered the financial mess Obama inherited.

Illinois Politics

The Illinois Democratic Party has taken quite a beating lately. Most recently, it's Scott Cohen, who won last week's Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor--by 26 points!--but who was forced to drop out of the race yesterday.

Cohen's dream became a nightmare after his surprise win, when reports emerged that he was arrested and charged in 2005 for domestic battery. Cohen was accused of pushing his girlfriend's head against a wall and holding a knife against her throat. The charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court on the date of the hearing.

Moreover, the girlfriend in question had been arrested for prostitution.

You can't make this stuff up.

And Barack Obama was considered a genius in the Cook County Democrat Party

Why Fear Big Government?

Victor Hanson spells out some of the subtle (and not so subtle) aspects of having the government getting bigger. We all need government for defense, security, and infrastructure. But the larger the government at local, state and national levels, the more dangerous our lives become, particularly when put into context of the liberty that our founders envisioned for us.

J.C. Watts culinary tastes

You gotta love JC Watts. From his article in Review Journal:

The president dismisses his lack of success by claiming he has not communicated his message enough. Really? I don't care how many news conferences you have, how many speeches you give, or how much money you spend on public relations, if the dog food is bad, the dogs won't eat it.

My theory on why he left politics - an honest man can't make money there.

A British MP's take on the big chill

Godfrey Bloom has a few choice words on the weather this winter and the recent conference in Copenhagen. Curious, I haven't seen this on any American television.

MSM reads the electorate

The recent upset win by Scott Brown in Massachusetts brought out the best in the MSM. The bias found in many media outlets, both in print and on TV, has gotten so brazen and over the edge that it can actually be entertaining. Compare and contrast: when a liberal wins an election the electorate is described as happy, hopeful, excited, satisfied, fulfilled. When a conservative wins an election the electorate is angry, sullen, throwing a temper tantrum, uninformed, and dissatisfied.

Update: Add "poor, dumb, manipulated bastards" to the most recent descriptions of the Massachusetts electorate. (Source: MSNBC)

Democrats voting

Imagine Chicago voting practices being exercised in Massachusetts. If radio talker Ed Shultz had his way it would happen. According to Shultz

"I'll tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote 10 times - I don't know if they would let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah, that's right - I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. Because that's exactly what they are."

Well, that's both an interesting admission and insight into a liberal's approach to elections. You've got to give him credit for being honest. Consider this: if a little law breaking is a good idea, how about you totally break the law and imprison or even kill your political enemies to prevent them from power? It's a slippery slope particularly when you adopt the approach that the ends justify the means.