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.

Bill Maher, Barack Obama and the Truth About American Exceptionalism

Exceptionalism

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.
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Engineers, Scientific and Social

Read it here. Engineers, Scientific and Social

Course on Constitutional Law

Course Details

CO2 - The Polutant

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

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DeMint to offer anti-earmark trading measure; Will Reid allow a vote?

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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.

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

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.

This is Your Christmas Tree - The One with Mao and Drag Queen Ornaments

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.

Detroit - Liberal's Nightmare

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

Ensign, DeMint to Force Vote on Health Care Bill Unconstitutionality

DeMint and Ensign are taking a stand for the Constitution. I'm liking these guys more and more.

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'

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.

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.

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.

Hope & Change, Gangsta Style by Kevin McCullough

Great summary for the first year.

The Chicago Way

Judge Napolitano on the Difference Between Rights and Goods

Judge Napolitano

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

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.

Laughing At The Left

Laughing

Merry Christmas Poem - By Sen. Kit Bond

An Interesting Interview About Palin

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

2012 "Victory or Death!"

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.

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.

Completely Reckless, Completely Irresponsible

Where it stands. Healh Care - Mitch McConnell

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

Tim Pawlenty - A Rising Star?

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

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.

Tea Party Effect - Rubio vs. Crist in Florida

Chuck Schumer - A Class Act?

Video: East Anglia CRU’s below-standard computer modeling

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

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.

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

Dinesh D'Souza on “Life After Death: The Evidence

Interesting interview. I guess most of us over-the-hill folks are interested in this subject.

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.

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...

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.

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

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