Steve Wynn on Fox News Sunday

I don't own a TV so I listen to Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace online. If it's a really good show, I'll watch later on Fox News Sunday's Hulu channel. This was a really good show.

Steve Wynn, the CEO of Wynn Resorts, was on discussing jobs with Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm...

Wynn: Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. The only thing that creates an increased standard of living is giving someone a job, the demand for their labor -- whether it's you and I, Chris, or anybody else. The people that are paying the price for this juggernaut of federal spending are the middle class and the working class of America.

…soaring rhetoric and great speeches with or without a teleprompter aren't going to change the truth, and the truth is the biggest enemy, the biggest obstacle that working middle-class America has is government spending.

Granholm: It's just so simplistic to say that! With all due respect, I mean, to say that government has never created a job or increased the standard of living. You know, I mean there -- there are a lot of people who are grateful that in this country we have a minimum wage. There are a lot of people who are grateful that they have access to Medicare and Medicaid. And I hope that we get access further to additional health care for those who are uninsured. I mean, there is a balance here. To say that government is all evil... This is a democracy. It's the greatest country in the world.

Wynn: I didn't say that at all. I'm saying that the source of government revenue, the source of well-being in this country is employment. That allows companies to pay taxes, employees to pay taxes. That's the source here and it's gotten out of focus.

Granholm: I agree with you.

Wynn: Okay. That's my point, Governor. I'm not making any other point. And, believe me, ma'am, I've got 20,000 employees. I've had as many as 150,000 families that I've been self-insuring. There's nothing "simplistic" about my approach to this problem.

Wow, he really handed it to her -- nothing against governor Granholm; if any other statist had been in that chair the results would have been the same.

Steve Wynn is my new hero and, I think, radio listeners everywhere will agree that he has a great voice. If you missed it, catch it. If you saw it, it's worth seeing again.

Watch: Hulu - FOX News Sunday
Rush Limbaugh: Wynn Schools Granholm on Jobs

The Boy Scouts are a Dangerous Gang

Thank God officials are on the ball and getting these dangerous hoodlums the hell out of our schools.

First this...

6-Year-Old Suspended for Bringing Knife-Fork-Spoon to School.
Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school, a folding spoon, fork and knife. Zachary wanted to use it to eat his lunch.

And, one day later , this...

Eagle Scout Suspended for Keeping a Pocketknife in his Car.
Matthew Whalen follows the Boy Scout motto, he's always prepared. He keeps a sleeping bag, water, a ready-to-eat meal, and a 2-inch pocketknife locked in the trunk of his car. The knife was given to him by his grandfather, a police chief in a nearby town.

"Rules are rules as any fool can see" - Kris Kristofferson

China Celebrates 60 Years of Communism

"Tanks and other heavy weaponry rumble across Beijing behind goose-stepping troops as China celebrates 60 years of communism."

Happy Commie Birthday China! Here's a little video tribute to your glorious accomplishments -- congratulations.



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U.N. Speech Summaries

I've finally made it through last weeks U. N. addresses to the general assembly thanks to C-Span and unemployment. I know most of you don't have the time or the intestinal fortitude to listen to this kind of bull-crap so, as favor to my friends and family, I provide this brief synopsis.

Barack Hussein Obama - President of the United States of America:
"America was bad, now it's good, I am here, I am America's redemption, I - I - I - grovel - grovel - grovel."

How much self-aggrandizing and groveling can one person do -- at the same time!? I was amazed at the all of the "I," "Me" and "My" that came out of this man's mouth. Barack Obama is a pussy*. [Video]

Muammar al-Gaddafi - Leader and Guide of the Revolution (Dictator) of Libya:
"I love you Obama, My African Brother. I hope you don't get shot like John F. Kennedy." (followed by over an hour and a half of absolute insanity).

I have to be honest here, I didn't make through all of this speech, but, who did? I heard the translator collapsed after about an hour and a half. I later found out that he didn't actually pass out, which is what I presumed, he quit because he just couldn't take it anymore. According to the New York Post, after 75 minutes the translator shouted in Arabic, "I just can't take it anymore!" [Video]

Hugo Chavez - "President" of Venezuela:
"I love you Obama, My Socialist Brother. Smells good in here, it smells like hope." [Video]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - "President" of Iran:
"Death to Israel." [Video]

Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime Minister of Israel:
"Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"

The only speech that made any sense to me... and I'm not even Jewish, although I do hope to get on that Zionist lackey payroll I keep hearing about. [Video]

You can tell a lot about a man from his friends. Mr. President, you have bad friends.

Update: *It looks like I'm not the only one calling the left pussys. Ann Coulter drops the "P-bomb."
Disclaimer: Although I made up the above quotes I believe they accurately capture the spirit of the associated speeches.

Charlie Rangel's Congressional Sclerosis

One year ago, The New York Times called for the resignation of the corrupt NY Democrat Representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Charlie Rangel.

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post writes...

[Charles Rangel] suffers from the degenerative disease called Congressional Sclerosis. Its symptom is the belief that the rules, especially the petty ones, no longer apply to you. This happens over time. It comes with seniority and a sense of victimization that combine to produce the onset of entitlement for goodies to which, in the course of things, you are not entitled. All this is abetted by the righteous belief that everyone else is making money and taking private planes and dipping their tootsies in the balmy Caribbean on a given February Friday -- and so why can't you? You have the power and the staff -- just look at all those people! -- and flunkies who will hold the elevator for you, pick you up at Reagan National Airport and on the other end at LaGuardia -- and you ought to have some commensurate luxuries. This is only right.

That's damned good stuff. I wish I could write like Mr. Cohen.

"Politics is the business of gaining power and privilege without possessing merit." - P.J. O'Rourke

Read More: RealClearPolitics - Charles Rangel: Above the Law?
Related: Michelle Malkin - Unhappy Anniversary, Charlie Rangel

Millions March On D.C.

Millions of conservatives marched on Washington D.C. - yes, millions. Don't believe what you're hearing from the left-wing propagandists and sycophants in the Obamedia. Preliminary estimates range from one to two million.

Here's proof...
9/12 DC Time Lapse Video
9/12 Protest Was Over One Million
Media Credibility Plunges; Aerial Views Shows Millions
NYT Reports Thousands, Daily Mail Reports Millions

That's not counting the millions that marched in other parts of this great country. True Americans are tired of, and angry about big government's takeover of America. It's not racism and we're not the fringe.

We want to pass on the greatness that America is to our future generations, that's true compassion. We don't want to hand our children a third world, debt ridden, socialist state.

It ends here big government republicans and democrats. Heed the call or be swept aside. Can you hear us now?

Wilson Tells Truth - Obama Lies

Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) told the truth when he proclaimed "you lie!" during President Obama's national health care address.

Obama has lied about what he believes, what he's going to do, his healthcare plan and more.

I'm glad someone in government finally had the courage to use the word "lie." I'm tired of euphemisms such as "disingenuous," "not forthcoming," or "inaccurate" when describing the many lies told by politicians and policy makers - It's about time.

Way to go Joe.

Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists

I've been called a Nazi, a racist, a fascist, and now, a terrorist.

Name-calling isn't unusual in politics; lawmakers, politicians and us common folks call each other names regularly. What is unusual however is for elected government officials to call those of us in the general public names, and that's exactly what the Democrats are doing.

As we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic Process, whipped to frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders.

This latest statement comes directly from barackobama.com, a website paid for and operated by the Democratic National Committee.

Barack says the war on terror is over, I realize now that he was talking about those airplane crashing, American killing, suicide bomber al-Qaeda terrorists. It's still open season on anyone that dares to oppose Obama or his government run health care plan - you know - us right-wing domestic terrorists.

I am a bad man.

Read More: Obama's Team Crosses the Rhetorical Line
Related: Nancy Sees Nazis
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Harrison Bergeron

A lesson on guaranteed equality of outcome by Kurt Vonnegut.

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.


Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.


It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. [continue...]

Related: The Politics of Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron"

Millions, Billions, Trillions

The looters in Washington D.C. throw these numbers around as if there’s no difference between them. Use a word often enough and it loses its meaning.

How awesome was the last thing you heard described as “awesome?” - not so much, right?

How much is a million dollars, a billion dollars, or a trillion dollars? I wrote them out numerically to try to get a better sense of their true sizes.

One Million Dollars = $1,000,000
One Billion Dollars = $1,000,000,000
One Trillion Dollars = $1,000,000,000,000

That helps a little, but I want a more graphic example. I want to know…

"What does one trillion dollars look like?" and, “How big is an 11 trillion dollar national debt?”

Now that's Awesome.

Related: CNN - Is Trillion The New Billion?
Related: Politico - National Debt Hits Record $11 Trillion.

Anti-Healthcare Hooligans

Democrats and the media want you to believe that right-wing, swastika-wearing thugs are being paid by evil insurance companies to invade and disrupt town hall meetings (that reminds me, I didn’t receive my Zionist check last month).

[pictures and videos of the unruly, right-wing mobs]

The White House instructed its minions to “get in their faces” and “punch back twice as hard” and I’ll be damned if the purple shirts didn’t go out and do just that. Later, that very same evening, several members of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) where arrested for beating up an anti-health care reform activist. They punched Kenneth Gladney right in the face, exactly as instructed.

Before I continue let me define a couple of terms…

Astroturfing - Formal political or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior.

Godwin's Law (modified by me) - As a political discussion grows longer and more impassioned, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 100%.

Democrats honestly believe that these protests are “astroturf” and not a true grass roots movement for two very good (in their tiny little hamster minds) reasons. One - the protesters are dressed too nicely. Every good progressive knows that any officially sanctioned, perpetually aggrieved group would never be so well dressed. Second - they believe that no true American would ever turn down a free government handout.

Conservatives don’t protest much, it’s not in our nature. We’re conservative after all. However, when we do step out in public, for whatever reason, we tend to dress appropriately. Democrats and the media (or anyone else for that matter) just aren’t used to seeing conservatives protest. That’s just what we look like when we go out. Get used to it.

Americans are smart, contrary to Bill Maher’s latest droppings on The Huffington Post, we know that nothing is free, especially if it comes from the government. As P. J. O'Rourke put it, “if you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free.” And the latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office bear that out.

Now, the fact is, most Americans are happy with their health care, but we are a compassionate country and we’d like to see those without adequate health care covered. The problem is that the Obama administration and the Democrat congress have gone too far, they seek too much government control and want to spend too much money.

Oh, I almost forgot about the Nazis. Nancy started it, but it was bound to happen.

Related: Remember When Protest Was Patriotic?
Related: Let's Talk Astroturf
Related: Nancy Sees Nazis

The Forgotten Presidents

From Free Republic

Were there presidents before George Washington? Techincally, maybe not, but the United States of America has had a fully functioning government since at least 1774 and operated as a nation, as we all know, since July 4, 1776.

So who were the duly elected men in charge of the Continental Congress, and later, the Confederation Congress before George Washington's inauguration on April 30, 1789?

Read More: The Presidents Before George Washington

Pravda: The Death of American Capitalism

American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper
By Stanislav Mishin For Pravda.Ru

Here's part of a recent article from Russia's on-line newspaper Pravda. The word is out, American capitalism is dead.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

[...]

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American tax dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin warned Obama not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

The last sentence is, for me, the saddest.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is - the world will only snicker.

Read More: American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper

The Case Against Sotomayor

On May 4th Jeffrey Rosen wrote an article for the left leaning publication The New Republic entitled "The Case Against Sotomayor." The article didn't get much attention until President Obama nominated Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and conservatives started using the article to, well, make the case against Sotomayor. Mr. Rosen came under so much fire from his friends on the left that he's vowed to never blog again.

Read More: The Case Against Sotomayor
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Socialism's "Shared Sacrifice"

Found at The Belmont Club

President Obama's call last year for "shared sacrifice" doesn't extend to federal employees, at least based on the details of his administration's 2010 budget released this week.

At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge.

Executive branch employment - 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department - is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There's little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

Meanwhile, according to Forbes' layoff tracker, there have been 558,087 layoffs since November 2008 at large public companies; even local school districts aren't immune. That's just a sliver of the total unemployed, which government data estimate to be 8.6 percent of the workforce, or an alternate method of reckoning that counts discouraged workers puts at 20 percent.

Read More: It's A Good Time To Work For Uncle Sam
Related: Sacrifice Chuck Todd

Obama's War On Capital

From National Review Online

Obama’s first 100 days have occasioned a number of dispiriting moments, but yesterday’s attack on Chrysler’s bond holders represented a new low. In a speech announcing the company’s bankruptcy filing, President Obama blasted “a group of investment firms and hedge funds [that] decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout.” That is nothing short of a lie. The consortium wasn’t holding out for a bailout. It was holding out for a bankruptcy.

The administration tried desperately to keep Chrysler out of bankruptcy court; in the process, it demonstrated exactly why that institution is so valuable. Obama’s auto task force attempted to browbeat Chrysler’s creditors into taking a terrible deal in order to spare the United Auto Workers union as much pain as possible. The large banks, which owe their continued existence to the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), caved and agreed to take a massive haircut on their secured Chrysler debt. But a group of smaller firms, calling themselves “The Committee of Chrysler Non-TARP lenders,” refused to play ball.

In a statement released yesterday, the firms pointed out that they would be shirking their fiduciary duty to their investors if they did not hold out for the best possible deal. For them, the best deal is bankruptcy. In bankruptcy court, secured debtholders (bond holders) take priority over other creditors. The administration’s plan called for secured lenders to get in line behind the UAW.

For resisting this expropriation and following the law, the non-TARP lenders were publicly denounced as vicious Benedict Arnolds by a sitting American president. “I stand with Chrysler’s employees and their families and communities,” Obama said - not “those who held out when everybody else is making sacrifices.” He stands, he said, “with the millions of Americans who own and want to buy Chrysler cars.” If millions of Americans wanted to buy Chrysler cars, the company wouldn’t need the president of the United States to be its pitchman.

Read More: Obama Declares War on Capital
Related: White House Thuggery

McCarthy's Letter to Holder

From National Review Institute

Dear Attorney General Holder:

This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases. An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.

The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants - or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.” I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith. Nevertheless, it is quite clear - most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany - that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States). Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues. I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people. Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.

Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers - like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy - may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct. Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.

Beyond that, as elucidated in my writing (including my proposal for a new national security court, which I understand the Task Force has perused), I believe alien enemy combatants should be detained at Guantanamo Bay (or a facility like it) until the conclusion of hostilities. This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case. Yet, as recently as Wednesday, you asserted that, in your considered judgment, such notions violate America’s “commitment to the rule of law.” Indeed, you elaborated, “Nothing symbolizes our [adminstration’s] new course more than our decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay…. President Obama believes, and I strongly agree, that Guantanamo has come to represent a time and an approach that we want to put behind us: a disregard for our centuries-long respect for the rule of law.”

Given your policy of conducting ruinous criminal and ethics investigations of lawyers over the advice they offer the government, and your specific position that the wartime detention I would endorse is tantamount to a violation of law, it makes little sense for me to attend the Task Force meeting. After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.

For what it may be worth, I will say this much. For eight years, we have had a robust debate in the United States about how to handle alien terrorists captured during a defensive war authorized by Congress after nearly 3000 of our fellow Americans were annihilated. Essentially, there have been two camps. One calls for prosecution in the civilian criminal justice system, the strategy used throughout the 1990s. The other calls for a military justice approach of combatant detention and war-crimes prosecutions by military commission. Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism - a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people.

There are differences in these various proposals. But their proponents, and adherents to both the military and civilian justice approaches, have all agreed on at least one thing: Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted. We have already released too many jihadists who, as night follows day, have resumed plotting to kill Americans. Indeed, according to recent reports, a released Guantanamo detainee is now leading Taliban combat operations in Afghanistan, where President Obama has just sent additional American forces.

The Obama campaign smeared Guantanamo Bay as a human rights blight. Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year. The President did this even though he and you (a) agree Gitmo is a top-flight prison facility, (b) acknowledge that our nation is still at war, and (c) concede that many Gitmo detainees are extremely dangerous terrorists who cannot be tried under civilian court rules. Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried. Consequently, the Detention Policy Task Force is not an effort to arrive at the best policy. It is an effort to justify a bad policy that has already been adopted: to wit, the Obama administration policy to release trained terrorists outright if that’s what it takes to close Gitmo by January.

Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities - like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance. I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees. According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training. Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from the United States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law.

I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness. But I can decline to participate in the charade.

Finally, let me repeat that I respect and admire the dedication of Justice Department lawyers, whom I have tirelessly defended since I retired in 2003 as a chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. It was a unique honor to serve for nearly twenty years as a federal prosecutor, under administrations of both parties. It was as proud a day as I have ever had when the trial team I led was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award in 1996, after we secured the convictions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his underlings for waging a terrorist war against the United States. I particularly appreciated receiving the award from Attorney General Reno - as I recounted in Willful Blindness, my book about the case, without her steadfastness against opposition from short-sighted government officials who wanted to release him, the “blind sheikh” would never have been indicted, much less convicted and so deservedly sentenced to life-imprisonment. In any event, I’ve always believed defending our nation is a duty of citizenship, not ideology. Thus, my conservative political views aside, I’ve made myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to Democrats and Republicans, who’ve thought tapping my experience would be beneficial. It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.

Very truly yours,
Andrew C. McCarthy

Tea Party Protest

"They've had enough of Democrats forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab for more wasteful spending instead of working together to make the tough fiscal decisions Americans are forced to make each and every day. They've had enough of seeing their hard-earned tax dollars wasted on pork-barrel spending that won't create jobs, rebuild their savings, or get our economy moving again. And they've had enough of Congress and the White House mortgaging our children and grandchildren's future by saddling them with mountains of debt destined to bankrupt our country." - House Republican Leader John Boehner

Read More: Anti-Tax 'Tea Party' Protesters Turn Out in U.S. Cities

Rightwing Extremist

From The Washington Times

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

The nine-page document was sent to police and sheriff's departments across the United States on April 7 under the headline, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment."

It says the federal government "will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months" to gather information on "rightwing extremist activity in the United States."

I guess this means Texas is a Terrorist State.

When Judge Andrew Napolitano was asked what he thought about this DHS Report he replied, "We gave to much power to Bush and now Obama has it."

Read More: Federal agency warns of radicals on right
Power Line: Watch Out For Those Crazy Right Wingers!
American Thinker: Rightwing Extremism and Information Warfare

Obama's Socialist Climate Czarina

From FOXNews.com

Carol Browner, President Obama's climate czarina served as a member of a socialist organization whose mission is to enact progressive government policies.

Browner's name and biography have been deleted from the website of Socialist International, a group of social democratic, socialist and labor parties.

Browner worked on Socialist International's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which argues that the global community must work collectively to address environmental policies.

We are aware that essential tasks still lie ahead which we can master only through common action, since human survival increasingly depends upon the joint efforts of people around the world. It is the people of the world who should exercise control by means of a more advanced democracy in all aspects of life: political, social and economic. Political democracy, for socialists, is the necessary framework and precondition for other rights and liberties.

A more advanced democracy? Thank God we're a republic... right?

CPAC Highlights

Here are some of my favorite moments from the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Niger Innis of CORE gave a rousing speech. I wish there was some video, but I couldn't find anything.

I really enjoyed Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer's presentation of their new film "Not Evil Just Wrong." It's a hard look at what environmentalism has cost the world. They cover the full gamut from the ban on DDT to global climate change.

And then there was Rush, the man that doesn't need a last name. You've probably heard what the MSM has to say about his appearance but I think Jim Blazsik put it best with this post.

If you want to measure how effective a person is in communicating conservatism, you watch for three things:

1) The reaction of dedicated conservatives - need I say more?
2) The reaction of the liberal media - freaked. The more liberals whipped themselves up into a frenzy, the more threatened they feel. Just look at what they did to Sarah Palin. They have a hard time with ideas, instead of just having a "message."
3) The reaction of wimp Republicans - embarrassing. Michael Steele insulted conservatives and of course Rush Limbaugh - he better clean this up quickly.

Read his entire post here…

You can, and should, watch Rush's speech here…

My Name is Bruce Kelly, and I hope Barrack Obama Fails.

CPAC

The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway and you can watch via the Fox News Live Stream.

Investors Fear Socialism

From Investors Business Daily

The freeze-up of the financial system - and government's seeming inability to thaw it out - are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what's in store once this crisis passes.

And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it all possible.

It isn't only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party is favored to take the White House. It's that he'll also have a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.

Throw in a media establishment dedicated to the implementation of a liberal agenda, and the smothering of dissent wherever it arises, and it's no wonder panic has set in.

What is that agenda? It starts with a tax system right out of Marx: A massive redistribution of income - from each according to his ability, to each according to his need - all in the name of "neighborliness," "patriotism," "fairness" and "justice."

It continues with a call for a new world order that turns its back on free trade, has no problem with government controlling the means of production, imposes global taxes to support continents where our interests are negligible, signs on to climate treaties that will sap billions more in U.S. productivity and wealth, and institutes an authoritarian health care system that will strip Americans' freedoms and run up costs.

All the while, it ensures that nothing - absolutely nothing - will be done to secure a sufficient, terror-proof supply of our economic lifeblood - oil - a resource we'll need much more of in the years ahead.

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Let me remind you of this exchange between Barack Obama and Charlie Gibson during the Democratic debate in Philadelphia back in April of 2008.

GIBSON: In each instance, when the capital gains tax dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.

You see, it's not about increasing revenues to the Treasury, it's about Marxism, wealth redistribution, and punishing those that make whatever Barack Obama believes is too much money.

Facts on the Financial Crisis

From News Busters

Since the current financial crisis is taking place under a Republican administration it is easy for people to automatically blame Republicans. The media have happily pushed this misconception too. Facts the media ignore are things such as the very groundwork for today’s problems being rooted in legislation created by Jimmy Carter , or that in 2003 President Bush proposed “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis" that was blocked by Democrats on party lines. However, the media don’t report these very important and significant facts and so it is no wonder that the GOP takes the brunt of the blame in this recent CNN poll.

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Fannie and Freddie Meltdown

From Investor's Business Daily Editorials

Clinton-era corruption, combined with unprecedented catering to affordable-housing lobbyists, resulted in today's nationalization of both Fannie and Freddie, a move that is expected to cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

And the worst is far from over. By the time it is, we'll all be paying for Clinton's social experiment, one that Obama hopes to trump with a whole new round of meddling in the housing and jobs markets. In fact, the social experiment Obama has planned could dwarf both the Great Society and New Deal in size and scope.

There's a political root cause to this mess that we ignore at our peril. If we blame the wrong culprits, we'll learn the wrong lessons. And taxpayers will be on the hook for even larger bailouts down the road.

But the government-can-do-no-wrong crowd just doesn't get it. They won't acknowledge the law of unintended consequences from well-meaning, if misguided, acts.

Obama and Democrats on the Hill think even more regulation and more interference in the market will solve the problem their policies helped cause. For now, unarmed by the historic record, conventional wisdom is buying into their blame-business-first rhetoric and bigger-government solutions.

While government arguably has a role in helping low-income folks buy a home, Clinton went overboard by strong-arming lenders with tougher and tougher regulations, which only led to lenders taking on hundreds of billions in subprime bilge.

Market failure? Hardly. Once again, this crisis has government's fingerprints all over it.

And you want the government to run the healthcare system?

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