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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A Radical Notion? Gridlock Makes For Good Government
A number of years ago, I agreed to be the campaign treasurer for a mayoral candidate who was a very nice guy and basically conformed to most of my political views. But that was not the only reason I supported him. The prior years had seen very active mayors who wanted to really get things done. Government grew and taxes rose with no noticeable benefit to the taxpayers. This candidate was perfect since I did not believe he would try to do much at all except maintain the status quo. This article brings back these memories.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Anti-Americanism didn’t start with Bush
The only way for America to end anti-Americanism would be to stop acting in our own interests. Not even Obama can pull that one off, at least not for long, and everyone knows it. The real problem with anti-Americanism is that Americans take it so seriously. We need to act in our own interests while treating our friends fairly and securing ourselves against our enemies. That’s what nations do, and only the unserious worry about whether they’re liked for doing so.
Read it here.
Read it here.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
America’s Work Deficit
Too many American students simply lack the basics. In 2002, a National Geographic-Roper survey found that most 18- to 24-year-olds could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Japan on a map, ranking them behind counterparts in Sweden, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Japan, France, and Germany. And in 2007 the American Institutes for Research reported that eighth graders in even our best-performing states - like Massachusetts - scored below peers in Singapore, South Korea, and Japan, while students in our worst-performing states - like Mississippi - were on par with eighth graders in Slovakia, Romania, and Russia.
My lazy American students
Read follow-up article here
My lazy American students
Read follow-up article here
Employment Losses for November Fudged? Naaaa!
The ADP numbers don't jive with the Labor Dept's report for November. Labor Dept job losses 11,000, ADP's losses 169,000. Remember how happy the Obama camp was and the great press they got. Perhaps "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is not being told. ADP Report
Corruption at It's Finest
In a single evening, Nelson managed to undermine the logic of Medicaid, abandon three decades of protections under the Hyde Amendment and increase the public stock of cynicism. For what? For the sake of legislation that greatly expands a health entitlement without reforming the health system; that siphons hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare instead of using that money to reform Medicare; that imposes seven taxes on Americans making less than $250,000 a year, in direct violation of a presidential pledge; that employs Enron-style accounting methods to inflate future cost savings; that pretends to tame the insurance companies while making insurance companies the largest beneficiaries of reform.
For Sale: One senator (D-Neb.) No principles, low price.
For Sale: One senator (D-Neb.) No principles, low price.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Obamacare’s Constitutional Problems Proliferating
Building the case for a Constitutional challenge of ObamaCare. The leftist majority in the Senate is likely to vote down the DeMint/Ensign constitutional point of order, but the very objection itself will help build a record that courts will look at when determining whether or not Obamacare is unconstitutional.Obamacare’s Constitutional Problems Proliferating
Walter E. Williams :Black Education
This goes along with the previous Detroit video below, and articles on the DC voucher program. The Federal Dept of Education should be abolished, teachers' unions disbanded and control of schools given back to the local governments. Can't do any worse.
Black Education
Black Education
Rep. Parker Griffith Changes Party
Hopefully we can take Rep. Parker Griffith at his word and not just posturing for his re-election campaign. With any luck, this will start a stampede toward conservatism.
Senator Nelson: The man in the mirror
A registered nurse gives her views on the abortion sellout by Senator Nelson of Nebraska. Read it here.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Senate Redefining the Rules to Pass Health Care
The Dems care nothing about the law. They are changing the rules to pass, as a portion of ObamaCare, a rule that will preclude any future reversal of the bill.
US Code Section 201. Bribery of public officials and witnesses
I wonder where the loophole is in this. The courts will probably say no citizen has standing and that the Atty Gen has to initiate prosecution. I'm sure we can count on Holder to follow up, right after he checks on the Black Panther thingy. Cornell Law School US Code
CNSNews.com GOP Senator Calls Democratic Health Care Deals 'Sleazy'
Since Graham's conservative credentials have gone south because of his stand on the Cap & Tax, he is coming out more strongly than others against ObamaCare. Who knows, it may work well enough to get him another term.CNSNews.com
GOP Senator Calls Democratic Health Care Deals 'Sleazy'
GOP Senator Calls Democratic Health Care Deals 'Sleazy'
Monday, December 21, 2009
Health Care “Reform” predictions
Now that it looks like President Obama will get to sign something labeled “Health Care Reform,” what does that means for the United States?
Buy ammo and canned food for your retirement plan. It’s going to get ugly.
This is what the Old Jarhead says. Read it here.
Buy ammo and canned food for your retirement plan. It’s going to get ugly.
This is what the Old Jarhead says. Read it here.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
A government that is ‘at war’ with its own people
When will radical socialism finally die in the Unites States? When we get back to the basics where man places God, family and freedom first!
Read about one person's steps to regain our freedom, here.
Read about one person's steps to regain our freedom, here.
The Old Jarhead put forth an idea that substitutes for a runoff in an election with more than two candidates, where no one gets over 50% of the vote. This would let third party candidates enter the system without guaranteeing a total loss by electing the least liked candidate.
What we really need is a requirement that to be elected to public office, you must get 50% of the votes plus one. If no candidate gets 50%, there’s be a run off. Expensive? Not if you use a system where people vote for their first choice with a “one” second with a “two” and so on. If no candidate gets 50%, the candidates with the fewest votes is eliminated and his/her votes distributed to the remaining candidates based on the their second choice. Eventually a candidate gets 50% and is elected. (Some folks have trouble understanding this system, but it’s pretty straightforward. I could explain at length, but trust me, it works.)
This would allow folks to vote their heart, conservatives for “Tea Party” candidates, socialists for the Green Party, etc., without knowing their vote for the outsider was helping the major party candidate they disliked most. It would also stop the political game of putting people into races based on their ethnic heritage to weaken the vote for your toughest opponent. But both the Democrat and the Republican establishment hate the idea, because it also would facilitate the growth of third parties. It would be the right thing for the people and for democracy, but like so many “right things” has zero chance of being enacted.
The Old Jarhead
What we really need is a requirement that to be elected to public office, you must get 50% of the votes plus one. If no candidate gets 50%, there’s be a run off. Expensive? Not if you use a system where people vote for their first choice with a “one” second with a “two” and so on. If no candidate gets 50%, the candidates with the fewest votes is eliminated and his/her votes distributed to the remaining candidates based on the their second choice. Eventually a candidate gets 50% and is elected. (Some folks have trouble understanding this system, but it’s pretty straightforward. I could explain at length, but trust me, it works.)
This would allow folks to vote their heart, conservatives for “Tea Party” candidates, socialists for the Green Party, etc., without knowing their vote for the outsider was helping the major party candidate they disliked most. It would also stop the political game of putting people into races based on their ethnic heritage to weaken the vote for your toughest opponent. But both the Democrat and the Republican establishment hate the idea, because it also would facilitate the growth of third parties. It would be the right thing for the people and for democracy, but like so many “right things” has zero chance of being enacted.
The Old Jarhead
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri
Al Gore is not the only climate guru that stands to make billions if Cap & Tax goes through, the foremost "scientist" Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has a larger vested interest in promoting the "Global Warming Farce". Oh yes, his doctorate is in economics, not climate science. A few excerpts from the article from the English paper, the Telegraph:
No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.
Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.
What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.
He also has a profound effect on our EPA as stated here: Dr Pachauri never shrinks from giving the world frank advice on all matters relating to the menace of global warming. The latest edition of TERI News quotes him as telling the US Environmental Protection Agency that it must go ahead with regulating US carbon emissions without waiting for Congress to pass its cap and trade bill.
Something stinks in Denmark, and it is not the herring.
Read the Telegraph article here.
No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.
Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.
What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.
He also has a profound effect on our EPA as stated here: Dr Pachauri never shrinks from giving the world frank advice on all matters relating to the menace of global warming. The latest edition of TERI News quotes him as telling the US Environmental Protection Agency that it must go ahead with regulating US carbon emissions without waiting for Congress to pass its cap and trade bill.
Something stinks in Denmark, and it is not the herring.
Read the Telegraph article here.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Stimulus Watch
If you want to know where your stimulus money is going, and how much your city/town is getting, and how many jobs have been created, check this Government Stimulus Site
Friday, December 18, 2009
It Is Not Just About Winning Elections
Winning elections is fine, but how much more vital is it for us to recover at least an equal voice in colleges, media, schools, libraries, and entertainment? What is wrong with us, the overwhelming majority of Americans, demanding not to be consigned to a ghetto or treated by Jim Crow standards? We begin by pointing out the obvious: conservatives are the majority of Americans but almost invisible in our public and private institutions of education, information, entertainment, and study. Read it here.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Pelosi rushes votes to catch plane to Copenhagen
Why do we have a Congress at all. If our elected representatives do not have time to read the bills before voting, we have no representation, just a rubber stamp. How do you impeach an entire Congress? Read it here.
Pravda's Take on ClimateGate
An interesting view from the Russians on global warming. Also, didn't know English version of Pravda existed, surprisingly chic presentation. Pravda's Article
Price Waterhouse Study on Health Care Proposal
Potential Impact of Health Reform on the Cost of Private Health Insurance Coverage
As the above charts illustrate, by 2019 the cost of single coverage is expected to increase by $1,500 more than it would under the current system and the cost of family coverage is expected to increase by $4,000 more than it would under the current system. This amounts to an additional 18 percent increase in the cost of health insurance coverage by 2019.
Where are the cost savings for the majority of people? Fewer doctors, more government control, higher deficits, decimating Medicare, reduced testing, long lines, higher costs; sounds like a no-brainer to me.
Price Waterhouse Study
Ann Coulter's Comments
As the above charts illustrate, by 2019 the cost of single coverage is expected to increase by $1,500 more than it would under the current system and the cost of family coverage is expected to increase by $4,000 more than it would under the current system. This amounts to an additional 18 percent increase in the cost of health insurance coverage by 2019.
Where are the cost savings for the majority of people? Fewer doctors, more government control, higher deficits, decimating Medicare, reduced testing, long lines, higher costs; sounds like a no-brainer to me.
Price Waterhouse Study
Ann Coulter's Comments
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
It Appears to be Wrong to Ask the Reading of the Amendment
We are in crises, so no one should read the 700 page amendment.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Study Finds Ozone Hole Repair Contributes To Global Warming, Sea Ice Melt
It appears that the environmentalists tinkering in the past has exacerbated our perceived global warming and melting of the icecaps today. The SCAR report's revelation that fixing one pressing environmental problem may accelerate another dangerous problem puts efforts to prevent rapid environmental change in a bit of a pickle. As the leaders of the world's nations prepare to hash out future environmental agreements, revelations like this can't help make me wonder how today's solutions might become tomorrows concerns. Read about it here.
Two Major Geothermal Projects Abandoned Due to Induced Quake Risk
Previous articles I have offered stated problems with Wind technology, such as the killing of thousands of birds, including Bald Eagles, in California and the noise causing sleepless nights and even death for sheep and wild animals. Ethanol was touted as a great breakthrough, but it saves no conventional energy and has increased the cost of all products made from corn. This article shows that geothermal is not exactly ready for prime time either. Environmentalists are quick to use alternative energy sources as the solution, but until technology catches up, reliance must be placed on the old standbys, oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear. Two Major Geothermal Projects Abandoned Due to Induced Quake Risk
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Tyranny at the FCC
If you think the press is biased now, just wait until Mark Lloyd, Obama's FCC Chief Diversity Officer, destroys talk radio. Tyranny at the FCC
CBS’s Lara Logan Defends Afghanistan War, Comparison to Vietnam is ‘Crap’
A breath of fresh air from CBS. Lara seems to have her head on straight when it comes to al-Qaeda. Read it here.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
TRACING THE POLITICS AND THE MONEY BEHIND OBAMA’S CAMPAIGN
Could George Soros be involved internationally in a widespread conspiracy to socialize and globalize government? Read it here and here
Socialists Trounce Conservatives In Greek Elections
Socialists Trounce Conservatives In Greek Elections
The Obama 4-year plan to remake America
1. The complete restructuring of our economy in accordance with Obama's socialist construct.
2. The establishment of a federally run Health Care System
3. The reshaping of our military prowess into an obsolete commodity.
4. A gradual consolidation, under the Executive Branch, of authority commonly delegated to the Judicial and the Legislative Branches.
5. The legal prohibition of aired dissent
This is the 4 year agenda of the Obama administration and he is well on his way of achieving these objectives, through Czars, EPA, elimination of missiles in Europe, Americorps, etc. Read the full article here.
2. The establishment of a federally run Health Care System
3. The reshaping of our military prowess into an obsolete commodity.
4. A gradual consolidation, under the Executive Branch, of authority commonly delegated to the Judicial and the Legislative Branches.
5. The legal prohibition of aired dissent
This is the 4 year agenda of the Obama administration and he is well on his way of achieving these objectives, through Czars, EPA, elimination of missiles in Europe, Americorps, etc. Read the full article here.
The Employee Meeting...
Common sense is hard to come by, but this small business owner has the balls to tell it like it is to his employees. The Employee Meeting...
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Poll Republican Establishment Types Would Prefer You Ignore
The Rasmussen poll shows SC's DeMint with a 61% favorability rating among independents, while Washington establishment’s favorite Republican, Lindsey Graham, only has a 55% favorable view with SC independents. Who’s message is resonating with the middle and attracting new voters to the party (growing the tent)? Conservatives. Read it here.
Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN
And you thought ACORN was dead. What would Obama and the Democrats do without ACORN and SEIU. We have a bunch of weasels in Washington who can never ever again be trusted to do what is moral or right for the American taxpayer. Read about it here.
Grand Jury Presentment- A case against President Obama
I'm not at "birther", but for those of you who are, this is the current status. It doesn't seem so "cut and dried" after reading this article.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
If you were not scared about our economy and way of life, you will be when you read about the Cloward/Piven theory. An excerpt: The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.
Guess who graduated from Columbia University, yes, our socialist President Obama.
The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
Guess who graduated from Columbia University, yes, our socialist President Obama.
The assumption that Obama will need the nation to prosper in order to protect the 2010 mid-term election incorrectly assumes that he esteems free market capitalism. He does not. Rather than win through superior ideas and policies, the Democrat plan for success in the mid-term elections is to win by destroying political opposition.
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
House panel passes college football playoff bill
As legislation goes, this is pretty trivial, but, as in the case of all the other bills being passed, it is an instance where government is intruding into unconstitutional areas and taking away our freedoms. Even scarier, this has the support of both parties. House panel passes college football playoff bill
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Democrats Commit Political Suicide -- In Three Steps
Let us all hope that we can change. Democrats Commit Political Suicide -- In Three Steps
Copenhagen's political science by Sarah Palin
An Op-Ed piece, by Sarah Palin in the Washington Post, summarizes the Copenhagen climate summit's quandary and suggests a step back in light of revelations of political malfeasance in the scientific community. Copenhagen's political science
Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel
Mao, Lenin, Hitler all got to the youth to create their fascist and communist and socialist societies. See what is coming to a school near you. Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel
Oh, No You Can’t: Kids Deprived Voucher-Supported Education Obama’s Kids Enjoy
I've written about the DC school voucher system a few times, but it still amazed me as to why Afro-Americans still support Obama and the Democrats. It is obvious, from this one example, that they care nothing about educating the children. All they care about is supporting the teachers unions and retaining their votes. Obviously, they feel that if they keep poor people in poor schools the people will never shed the bonds of government, thus perpetuating the vote for Democrats. The voucher system in DC has been proven to work and is very popular among minorities. The poor should wise up and vote for those who truly want to make the American Dream available to them. This program should be funded and expanded, something Republicans have been trying to pass for years. Read about it here.
Primrose path By Armstrong Williams
Socialist policy is alive and well on our soil. We don’t need to look to the failures of Euro and other countries. Look at how socialist policies are bankrupting our own economy.
This is the theme of "Primrose Path". A line that got my attention was "Instead of looking far off into the future to block future socialist policy, why don’t we look at our economy with a microscope and begin weeding out the inefficiencies of socialism?" Maybe this should be the basis for the next "tea party" revolution.
Primrose path
This is the theme of "Primrose Path". A line that got my attention was "Instead of looking far off into the future to block future socialist policy, why don’t we look at our economy with a microscope and begin weeding out the inefficiencies of socialism?" Maybe this should be the basis for the next "tea party" revolution.
Primrose path
