Friday, February 26, 2010

Who Can We Trust Anymore?

That is the question of the day. After that fiasco of a phony Health Care Summit, who can possibly trust the Obama Administration? Who can trust the Dems in Congress? How can we weed out the RINOS in Congress - especially when they hide behind a fake support for the TEA Party Movement like Scott Brown did?

It was once said that getting conservatives together was like herding cats. We know that's not an easy task! It appears that many conservative pundits and talk show hosts aren't in agreement, either. Not a day goes by where some conservative blogger attacks the views of one or more conservative radio or T.V. pundits.

For example, Lame Cherry really has a huge gripe against Glenn Beck! He even calls him "the Obama 5th Column."

Of course, Mr. Lame Cherry has established his opinion after reading Kathy Shaidle's Talk Radio Watch: Beck under fire from fellow hosts for fueling 3rd party.

Excerpts:




RUSH LIMBAUGH

Limbaugh wasted no time criticizing Beck's keynote address, particularly Beck's contention that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties, thereby fueling calls for the creation of a "third party."

Without mentioning Beck by name, Limbaugh said on Monday:

"But to each his own. There are motivations for people who do what they do – and I, as a highly trained broadcast specialist, I think I know what's going on and why various people are doing what they're doing and taking positions that they're taking. But the best way to insure that Obama succeeds is to think that we need a third party. All the momentum that we've got going right now is just going to hit a brick wall if a third party starts, particularly on the basis that there's 'no difference between the two parties.' I guarantee you there's
not a Republican I know, elected or unelected, that would propose anything Obama has."


Speaking of Republican politicians, on Tuesday, Rush declared that Mitt Romney's endorsement of John McCain for reelection was "suicidal."


Interestingly enough, Bill O'Reilly had John McCain's Senate seat competitor, J.D. Hayworth, on his T.V. show tonight. He showed video clips of famous "birthers" such as Orly Taitz and Philip Berg. He played an audio tape of Hayworth discussing the birthers on his radio show program.

Of course, when Hayworth was asked if he is a "birther," he subtly denied it. He mentioned that he allowed callers to his radio show to discuss the controversy over Obama's citizenship status. But when asked by O'Reilly directly, he himself stated that he believes that Obama is a citizen who was born in Hawaii. Hayworth also mentioned the Chester Arthur controversy where it was discovered after the fact that Arthur, having been a vice president, was actually a British citizen. O'Reilly didn't ask Hayworth anything more about that.

It appears that being outed as a "birther" is the kiss of death in politics these days.

Occasionally, I listen to Michael Savage's radio show. He had a greatly informative show the other day where he was discussing a man by the name of Marcuse. [So far, I haven't been able to find the list of Marxist acts that Marcuse championed that Savage was talking about on his radio show. For more information about Marcuse go here, here, and here - (best link IMO).]

Apparently, the man was an instrumental influence in the Frankfurt School of Socialism. [Note: that link is a 56 page pdf *Noted portions below]. Savage cited a list of acts (which are also currently being used by the Obama Administration) that are meant to take over the U.S.A. for Socialism - without violence.

[Update 2/27/10: FYI to all - I neglected to state in the blog post just why Michael Savage discussed Marcuse during his radio show. He shared the fact that besides the Obama crowd's use of "Alinsky's Rules for Radicals" and the "Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis;" Obama and his cohorts have also been following the views of Marcuse - who could be considered a precursor of Alinsky and Cloward-Piven.]

Such tactics used by groups like these are the same thing that Glenn Beck has discussed on his radio and T.V. shows.

But Savage hates Beck.

He also hates Limbaugh - labeling him as "the golfer."

Savage doesn't seem to trust any of the other conservative radio hosts and seems to think that he is the only one who speaks the truth to the American people.

Maybe that's true.

Savage was the only one who told conservatives to beware of Scott Brown. He was right about that. In Brown's first vote, he sided with the Democrats (on the so-called "jobs bill") which is just another stimulus bill without the unpopular baggage of the title, "stimulus."

The following is what Shaidle had to say about Savage:




Michael Savage

Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke to Michael Savage on Monday, to talk about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attacks on her.

Savage asked Bachmann, "Why does Nancy Pelosi hate about you?" and added, "I would endorse a Bachmann-[Mitt] Romney ticket" (FREE audio).

Of course, Savage has been a long time critic of Pelosi, especially her use of military aircraft to ferry her family around the country.

Savage also joined the chorus of talk radio hosts critical of Glenn Beck's speech at CPAC, and he had choice words for Republicans he says are trying "to steal the Tea Party movement" (FREE audio).


If you look at the sidebar at the Youtube site, it appears that Savage is more impressed with Michele Bachmann than he is with Sarah Palin. There is a video there where he "rips into" Palin. I haven't listened to it yet, but will after finishing this post.

Just listened to it. He thinks that Palin is unelectable. He thinks that Obama will get a second term if she gets the GOP nod. He thinks that we need a businessman in the presidency.

Glenn Beck likes Sarah Palin, but I think that he wants her (Palin) to run on a third party ticket. Beck doesn't like the Republicans; although it appears that he hates the Democrats even more! Does anyone reading here know if Beck is a die hard Ron Paul fan? I know that they (Beck and Paul) are both libertarians. But I'm not sure if they are on the same page - so to speak. Apparently, there are liberal libertarians and conservative libertarians.

Savage has harsh words for Glenn Beck. He calls him a phony.

Well, Savage attacks almost EVERYONE at one time or another! I will say this for him. He is good at spotting the "fakers."

Going back to the Lame Cherry blog post. The author wrote:




Glenn Beck is such a persona of the global elite. He gives an interview about being a kindred soul of George Clooney, finds Mormonism a warm and fuzzy religion for little girls, is convinced of global warming, trashed Ronald Reagan and then states he can't remember saying all of that.


He is caught on mic at CPAC in saying the Republicans are as bad as the Democrats.



I can't say that I have ever heard Beck trash Ronald Reagan. If he did, then he was crazy to do so.

Mr. Cherry goes on:




All of this caused a justified outcry, but as Kathy Shaidle only noted in her blog, Rush Limbaugh was the one who had his finger on this in hinting exactly what Beck was up to.

Glenn Beck is part of an effort to create a 3rd party to ruin the Republicans, so a grinning David Brooks Obamite can have Obama elected to a landslide 3rd [probably meant 2nd] term.


Really?

Who can we trust anymore?


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The Influence of the Frankfurt School


Although it is difficult to assess the effect of works like The Authoritarian
personality on gentile culture, there can be little question that the thrust of the radical critique of gentile culture in this work, as well as other works inspired by psychoanalysis and its derivatives, was to pathologize high-investment parenting and upward social mobility, as well as pride in family, religion, and country, among gentiles. Certainly many of the central attitudes of the largely successful 1960s countercultural revolution find expression in The Authoritarian Personality, including idealizing rebellion against parents, low-investment sexual relationships, and scorn for upward social mobility, social status, family pride, the Christian religion, and patriotism.
We have seen that despite this antagonistic perspective on gentile culture, Jewish 1960s radicals continued to identify with their parents and with Judaism. The countercultural revolution was in a very deep sense a mission to the gentiles in which adaptive behavior and group-identifications of gentiles were pathologized while Jewish group identification, ingroup pride, family pride, upward social mobility, and group continuity retained their psychological importance and positive moral evaluation. In this regard, the behavior of these radicals was exactly analogous to that of the authors of The Authoritarian Personality and Jewish involvement in psychoanalysis and radical politics generally: Gentile culture and gentile group strategies are fundamentally pathological and are to be anathemized in the interests of making the world safe for Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy.
As with political radicalism, only a rarified cultural elite could attain the extremely high level of mental health epitomized by the true liberal:
The replacement of moral and political argument by reckless psychologizing not only enabled Adorno and his collaborators to dismiss unacceptable political opinions on medical grounds; it led them to set up an impossible standard of political health—one that only members of a self-constituted cultural vanguard could consistently meet. In order to establish their emotional “autonomy,” the subjects of their research had to hold the right opinions and also to hold them deeply and spontaneously. (Lasch 1991, 453–455)


In the post–World War II era The Authoritarian Personality became an
ideological weapon against historical American populist movements, especially McCarthyism (Gottfried 1998; Lasch 1991, 455ff).

[R]eflecting the congruence between the Frankfurt School and contemporary postmodernism, the enormously influential postmodernist Michel Foucault stated, “If I had known about the Frankfurt School in time, I would have been saved a great deal of work. I would not have said a certain amount of nonsense and would not have taken so many false trails trying not to get lost, when the Frankfurt School had already cleared the way” (in Wiggershaus 1994, 4).
Whereas the strategy of the Frankfurt School was to deconstruct universalist, scientific thinking by the use of “critical reason,” postmodernism has opted for complete relativism and the lack of objective standards of any kind in the interests of preventing any general theories of society or universally valid philosophical or moral systems (Norris 1993, 287ff).34

NOTES
1. Part of this balancing act was a conscious practice of self-censorship in an effort to remove Marxist language from their publications, so that, for example, “Marxism” was replaced with “socialism,” and “means of production” was replaced by “industrial apparatus” (Wiggershaus 1994, 366). The Marxist substance remained, but by means of this deception the Institute could attempt to defuse accusations of political dogmatism.


2. Marcuse remained an ardent Communist after Adorno and Horkheimer abandoned communism. In an internal document of the Institute from 1947, Marcuse wrote, “The Communist Parties are, and will remain, the sole anti-fascist power. Denunciation of them must be purely theoretical. Such denunciation is conscious of the fact that the realization of the theory is only possible through the Communist Parties” (in Wiggershaus 1994, 391). In the same document Marcuse advocated anarchy as a mechanism for achieving the revolution. Yet, Marcuse and Horkheimer never ceased contact, and Horkheimer was an admirer of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization (Wiggershaus 1994, 470) as reflecting the Institute’s view that sexual repression resulted in domination over nature and that ending sexual repression would weaken destructive tendencies.

[8.] The Frankfurt theorists inherited a strong opposition to capitalism from their previously-held radical beliefs. Irving Louis Horowitz (1987, 118) notes that the Critical Theorists were “caught between the Charybdis of capitalism—which they despised as a system of exploitation (whose fruits they nonetheless enjoyed), and the Scylla of communism—which they despised as a system of worse exploitation (whose bitter fruits they often escaped, unlike their Russian-Jewish counterparts).”

[11.] Political conservatism and ethnocentrism are said to be difficult to separate, as indicated by the following item from the Political and Economic Conservatism Scale (PEC): “America may not be perfect, but the American Way has brought us about as close as human beings can get to a perfect society.” Levinson comments, “To support this idea is, it would seem, to express politico-economic conservatism and the ingroup idealization so characteristic of ethnocentrism” (p. 181). Here, as in the case of the discussion of the Ethnocentrism Scale itself, individuals who identify strongly with a dominant majority group and its interests are viewed as pathological. In fact the PEC scale was not as highly correlated with the F-Scale as was the Ethnocentrism Scale (EScale), a finding that Adorno tendentiously interpreted not as indicating that these concepts were not highly related but as indicating that “we are living in potentially fascist times” (p. 656)! As indicated in the conclusion of this chapter, the high correlation between the F-Scale and the E-Scale was a matter of design rather than an empirical finding.


12. The authors of The Authoritarian Personality take a strong moral position against ethnocentrism and political conservatism. Levinson notes, for example, that “The National Maritime Union . . . can take pride in having the lowest [means on the Ethnocentrism Scale]” (p. 196).

G. Beck Show: Nolan Chart Survey

The following is just a copy of the questions. In order to take the survey test and get your individual results, you must go to the website:

Nolan Chart

[Update: Tried to access the above link today and get the usual "HTTP 404 Not Found error message."

Here is a link to
Glenn Beck's website where there is also a link to the Nolan Chart website. I have tried to access the chart site several times this morning, but to no avail.]



[Update # 2: Found out why the chart is inaccessible:

The Nolan Chart website has experienced a major server crash.
Please check back with us in a day or two, to give us time to recover from it. Thank you for your patience and support.]



Meanwhile, you can read a little about The Nolan Chart over at Wikipedia.org .

Also see: Wikipedia: World's Smallest Political Quiz



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Take our quick and easy Nolan Chart Survey!

Click the option which comes closest to your own views for each of the 10 issues listed below. Then click the large button at the bottom of the page. We will score your choices and show how your views appear on the Nolan Chart. We've tried to make the views expressed as comprehensive as possible. There may be some options listed that you may find to be hard to choose between, or perhaps you'll find that none of the options represent your viewpoint perfectly. That's understandable, but try anyway to pick the one that most closely represents your views. We think you will find the results worthwhile.

1. Speech, Assembly, Press, Internet, and Property Rights

(a.) Government should not restrict speech, press, media or Internet. The rights of free citizens who don't violate other people's rights must be respected and protected at all times. Exercise of eminent domain should be extremely limited and its use avoided whenever possible. Private property and privacy rights should be protected at all times.

(b.) Speech, assembly, press, and Internet should be free except when it comes to protecting against terrorism and other threats to public safety. Free speech zones can be established to protect the right of free speech while insuring security at public events. Eminent domain should be maintained in practice, but it should not be available merely as a means to enrich private developers via enforced land transfers.

(c.) Speech, assembly, press, and Internet should be free except when controversies such as global warming have already been settled and legitimate public policies would be undermined by its few remaining detractors. Property rights should be subject to the needs of the government but otherwise should be respected.

(d.) Government should regulate speech, press, media, Internet, and property rights at its own discretion within reason as needed to meet all of government's many obligations.


2. Guns

(a.) The Second Amendment only applies to "militias" (such as the National Guard), and thus there is no specific protection afforded by it to individuals. It should be up to the government to decide the degree to which guns should be regulated for the public good.

(b.) The Second Amendment to the Constitution clearly protects the right of all individuals to bear arms. Government regulation of guns is a violation of the Second Amendment. Having the right to self-defense is meaningless without also having the means to defend yourself. An armed society is a peaceful society, is the best defense against criminals, and serves as a deterrent against government tyranny. Gun control has encouraged society to become lax and negligent in teaching and training on the safe handling and maintenance of weapons by individuals.

(c.) In general, I support the right to bear arms. However, it is prudent to have government regulate arms via registration requirements and other regulations to ensure that mentally unstable people can't get guns and go on shooting rampages.

(d.) Gun control is essential and must continually be made stronger if we're ever going to reduce and hopefully eliminate gun violence in this country.

3. Homosexual Marriage

(a.) Gay rights should be supported by passing laws which protect gay marriage, including civil statute alternatives to gay marriage. All government benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy should also be granted to gay couples.

(b.) The government should pass laws that favor whatever view the majority of the population supports regarding homosexual relationships, including homosexual marriage.

(c.) There should be no laws regarding either heterosexual or homosexual relationships among consenting adults. Marriage of any kind is a private, contractual matter between free, private individuals that should not be regulated.

(d.) Homosexuality is an abomination, is banned by the Bible, and should be illegal in all cases.

4. Foreign Policy

(a.) A strong defense requires playing an active, interventionist role in world affairs. As the last remaining superpower, we have a moral duty to police the world at any cost, or else we will surely pay the ultimate price. If we don't militarily wipe out terrorism, the terrorists will wipe us out. We must resolve to win no matter how long it takes. It's better to strike now than to pay later for our inaction.

(b.) America should play an active role in world affairs. We need to move toward more world government, particularly when it comes to issues such as global warming. The war on terror should rely heavily on diplomatic action. Military intervention should be used when there is a threat to our sovereignty, but this position can and should be reversed whenever public opinion turns against it.

(c.) The role of our government, and the role of the United Nations, should be constantly expanded to help ensure that all of the world moves toward democracy. Complaints that government is too big already are simply counter-productive and should be ignored.

(d.) "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none," said President Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address. America's interventionist policies over the past 100+ years have done little or nothing to reduce international instability, have led us into an endless series of wars, and have cost us dearly in American lives and money. The best defense of our borders is to defend our rights and liberty, not to sacrifice them while constantly growing our gigantic military, led by a parade of Presidents who repeatedly stick our nose into other countries' affairs.

5. National ID Card

(a.) There should be no national ID card. Period. The issuance of required National IDs controlled via interconnected databases will effectively end all privacy in this country.

(b.) We need a national ID card in order to prevent events like the attacks of 9/11 but without intruding too far into the personal privacy of the innocent.

(c.) National ID cards should be permitted but greatly restricted in scope because the potential for danger to personal liberty is present.

(d.) I'm not at all concerned about having a national ID card. Only the guilty need to worry.


6. Corporate Welfare

(a.) The government has a duty to ensure that all individuals have food, clothing, and shelter and should also invest in private industry whenever it deems such investment to be in the public interest.

(b.) End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business.

(c.) Government involvement is necessary where private industry can't do the job all by itself. As an example, agricultural subsidies should continue to support small farmers.

(d.) Corporate welfare should be eliminated for big business, but the social safety net for individuals should be retained.


7. Trade and Money

(a.) Trade that isn't fair isn't free. Fair trade practices should be enforced as needed to ensure free trade while maintaining reasonably open borders. The Fed's policies should be revised to help the poor rather than the rich.

(b.) The government should involve itself in the regulation of trade as needed to ensure a healthy economy at all times. The Federal Reserve system has made our money supply the most stable in all history.

(c.) End government barriers to international free trade. The regulation of trade tends enrich selected interest groups and industry captains at the expense of everyone else. We must move away from the inflationary approach of the Federal Reserve by re-adopting a hard money approach and dissolving the Federal Reserve system. Ever wonder why prices of everything (including real estate) keep going up over time? The Federal Reserve system is the culprit. President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Federal Reserve Act into law regretted his decision three years later saying, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."

(d.) Trade should be free in general, but it should be controlled as needed to ensure that our borders are protected against outside threats. Monetary policy under the Fed has generally been good for our economy. Hard money can't keep up with a modern economy.


8. Social Security

(a.) Social Security should be maintained and protected by the government, although we do need to offer individuals an alternative government-managed solution if they so choose.

(b.) Social Security is a vital part of the social safety net and should be properly funded and protected at all times. If necessary, make big business and the rich pay for any shortfalls.

(c.) Government has an obligation to provide for people in their twilight years, and Social security is a proper expression of governmental control. The system is sound and does not need anything more than minor adjustments from time to time.

(d.) Let people control their own retirement and they'll retire richer and better off. The Social Security system is already bankrupt, despite what the politicians and bureaucrats keep telling us. Allow individuals to choose for themselves whether to opt out of the Social Security system. If we force everyone to remain in its pyramid scheme, the end result will be disastrous. We must act now before Social Security becomes completely insolvent.


9. Health Care

(a.) Government regulation of health care is the main cause of the health care industry's upward spiraling costs. The FDA, EPA, Medicare, and a host of other bureaucracies have created mountains of regulations that have led to the deaths of thousands and even millions of people who were denied needed treatments and resources. The cost of creating new treatments is also out of control because of this regulation. The only way to make health care affordable again is to get government out of the health care business.

(b.) Health care costs are spiraling primarily due to lawsuits. We need to place caps on these suits while avoiding socialized medicine. Where possible, we should reduce regulation to save money. The rising cost of health care is primarily the fault of big government politicians and lobbying groups.

(c.) Government regulation has gone a long way toward making health care universally accessible and safe, but there's a long way to go. We need universal health insurance to ensure all Americans are adequately protected.

(d.) Private enterprise has failed to deliver satisfactory health care. Government's role is clear: fix the problem.


10. Taxes, Spending, and the National Debt

(a.) There should be no limits placed on the ability of government to raise sufficient revenue to do all the jobs government should be doing better, as expressed via majority rule.

(b.) Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more. This will have an incredibly positive impact on the economy starting at its very lowest and smallest levels. The national debt must be paid down rather than endlessly increased, or we'll soon face national bankruptcy.

(c.) The budget should be balanced and fully funded at all times, rather than actually cutting spending on a permanent basis. As needed, the national debt should be expanded to ensure that there is sufficient funding for government operation and military growth needs. Occasional, temporary tax cuts should be offered in token amounts to keep the taxpayers mollified.

(d.) We should be emphasizing the good that government can do to help people without getting all wrapped up in the costs involved. By spreading the load, such good can be spread out fairly and evenly. Progressive taxation helps ensure that the rich don't live at the expense of the poor. However, we want to make sure we don't place too much of a burden on the middle class.

[Note: I just tried to take the test at the site and it didn't work. I will try again later and reveal my results in a comment post.]

Summit Aftermath [Added links& photos]


Differing opinions abound about what the Health Care Summit accomplished. And, more importantly, what it didn't. I came away from viewing most of the back and forth between Obama, Republican leaders, and Democrat leaders thinking that the Republicans FINALLY were able to get their message across - loud and clear - to the American people. It appears that David Gergen agrees with my assessment:

Gergen at CNN: Republicans Just Had Their Best Day in Years (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago
The Party of No – No More
Republicans finally got to present their plan to America and America liked what they saw. This dog and pony show was a huge mistake for Obama and his cronies. Republicans came to ...

How gratifying it is to learn that others see yesterday's "dog and pony" show as a huge mistake for Obama and his progressive cronies!



What's even more damaging to the debate is that Obama & cohorts will most likely choose to use the reconciliation method of ramming through ObamaSCARE HELLcare with only 51 votes in the Senate. This is an even bigger indication that the progressives are deliberately tone-deaf to what the majority of Americans DON'T WANT!



GOOD! Let them all die and bury themselves in their own political graves! They will be voted out of office soon enough. And, since the HELLcare benefits would not even start until 4 or 5 years down the road, I am hopeful that this disastrous bill could be repealed when the Conservative adults take over Washington D.C. in both 2010 and 2012.



The American people HAVE HAD ENOUGH of the terrible and obstinate ways of Obama's progressive Marxism!

What's more, Obama ruined any sense of bipartisanship when he lectured Republicans (and took WAY too much time from the forum attendees) after almost every one of their well thought out objections to HELLcare. The fact that when Rep. Cantor brought the mammoth paged HELLcare bill to the event - it irritated Obama - makes Barack seem quite childish.

Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
Obama scolds Rep. Cantor at summit for paper prop - Obama scolds Rep. Cantor at summit for paper prop Feb 25 02:18 PM US/Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama scolded Virgina Republican Rep. Eric ...
45 minutes ago

How much more controlling can this idiot Obama get?

I wanted to be able to write:

"Today, for the first time in my adult life I am proud of Obama."

But I can't write that...and mean it! Why? Because Obama himself RUINED any chance of being bipartisan towards the Republicans. As I had feared (and many others felt the same way), Obama was trying to use the forum to persuade some Republicans - any Republican - to vote for the HELLcare bill. Then, he could claim - see? This is a bipartisan bill!



I REALLY hope that the Summit had the opposite effect on some of the DEMOCRAT leaders who were considering voting "yes" for the nuclear option . I hope that they now see how destructive it would be to their careers. I hope that they now see how many people IN THEIR OWN PARTY don't want this government takeover of health care!

Hat Tips to all links.

Paul Ryan: Health Care Gimmicks Smoke Mirrors Ponzi Scheme (Video Transcript)
posted by maggiesnotebook@cox.net (Maggie Thornton) at Maggie's Notebook - 1 hour ago
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) used Obama's own stats to show the deception, gimmicks, smoke and mirrors, and a Ponzi Scheme in the Democrat health care bill. Video and transcript below. Paul Ryan Gimmicks, s...



Five Biggest Liberal Lies from Yesterday's Healthcare Summit
posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 1 hour ago
Yesterday's Democrat drone-fest was, thankfully, punctuated by some of the most cogent Republican arguments on healthcare that have yet been aired. Now we're finding that, in addition to being ceaselessly ...



David Axelrod Says The American People Want Dems To Invoke Reconciliation; The American People Say, ” No We Don’t”
posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb - 30 minutes ago
Who does Axelrod think he is, speaking for the American people? Especially on a day when a poll comes out, showing a clear majority of us sees the government as a threat to our rights? This Frank Luntz foc...



[I don't know who is more arrogant and out of touch with the American people. Axelrod or Obama??]

Change!… Majority of Americans Say Current Government Is a Threat to Citizen’s Rights
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 1 hour ago
A majority of Americans say the current government is a threat to citizens’ rights. CNN Politics reported A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, accordi...



[Ya got that right!! Just goes to show that Progressivism isn't about freedom, liberty or citizens' rights - it's more about control.]

Video: Boehner Confronts Obama On Abortion Funding In Health Care Proposal
posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb - 2 hours ago
At the health care summit, yesterday, Rep. John Boehner told Obama to his face that his health care proposal uses taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. Note that Obama doesn’t deny that what Boehner says is t...



[My original reason for never being able to vote for Obama is highly evident in the lies and distortions that Obama is guilty of on the subject of abortion.]

HOPING we can CHANGE this Nation back to America
posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 3 hours ago
Well, here's some encouraging news - fully 56% of those polled by CNN think that the government is a threat to citizens' rights. In fact, the more I think of it, unless armed men just stormed your office, ...


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Update 2/26/10 at 7:00 P.M. PT

Last, but certainly not least is this post over at Legal Insurrection. It wins for the "Best Blog Title" regarding the Health Care Summit:

Health Care in Spinsville

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Health Care Summit [Update 1]

Like millions of other Americans, I am glued to the television this morning listening to the Health Care Summit. I thought that Lamar Alexander had the best opening speech of all of the leaders there, so far. Unfortunately, his most important request was ignored by Obama. He asked Obama to state, right here and now, that the "nuclear option" is off the table. Obama did not answer that question. Perhaps he will at the end of the summit? Who knows.

Even one of their own (meaning, the Democrats) is urging Congress not to do the reconciliation (a.k.a. the "nuclear") option.

Fox News: Doug Schoen - The Reconciliation Option -- Don't Do It Democrats

Schoen's Conclusion:

So long as President Obama gives up the threat of reconciliation, he still has a chance of passing reform and helping his Party hold on to both chambers of Congress. The White House Summit is a great opportunity to start this discussion. Americans want Washington to act on health care. They just don't want a partisan bill.

The talking points brought up by other Republicans were really good and informative, too. The argument over what the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) actually said about the real costs of the bill passed by the Senate will be is still being bantered about between the two parties during the Summit. Obama wanted to "table" that particular argument, claiming that he was right and the Republican leaders, who quoted from the actual CBO paper, are wrong.

Fox News has live coverage of the event both on T.V. and online.

The following are some blogs that you might want to visit:


Gateway Pundit
Reid Tells BIPARTISAN Summit – It’s OK to Pass Obamacare Without the GOP - Nice bipartisanship, Harry! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told attendees today at the bipartisan health care summit that it’s OK to pass Obamacare with...
5 hours ago

Pelosi: Obamacare Is About Jobs (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 21 minutes ago
Oh brother… Pelosi tells the Blair House Project this morning that Obamacare is really about jobs. Of course it is. Via Breitbart TV Speaker Pelosi said Obamacare will create 400,000 jobs immediately. If t...

Live Blogging The “Blair House Project”
posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb - 1 hour ago
The Obama Health Care Summit, or as Congressman Pete Sessions called it yesterday, “The Blair House Project” has just begun. Chris Dodd set the tone for the meeting, yesterday, making this charming quote a...

Live Blogging Health Care Summit
posted by maggiesnotebook@cox.net (Maggie Thornton) at Maggie's Notebook - 2 hours ago
AI'll be live blogging the health care summit off and on today. Less than two minutes into President Obama's opening remarks, he told the story he has told everytime he talks about health care: I take abou...

Live Health Care Bi-Partisan Pretendathon From the Blair House (Video Link)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago
(This post was updated and bumped- more recent postings below) The Blair House Project Live—- President Obama hosts members of Congress at the Blair House today in an effort to reach a compromise ram his h...

Whoa! CNN Poll: Only 25% Want Dems to Pass Their Nationalized Health Care Bill
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 3 hours ago
And, this comes from CNN? Only 25% of Americans want the big spending democrats to pass their nationalized health care bill. CNN reported: Although the overall health care reform bills passed by the House ...

The Obama Watch
The Blair House Witch Project - The middle distance between truth and error is still error, but Barack Obama can't even get there. He is the self-appointed custodian of "common ground" ...
6 hours ago

Daily Thought Pad
Video Flashback: Dems Howl with Rage Over Nuclear Option
17 hours ago

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Some new links:

JammieWearingFool
ABC News To Obama - You Lie! - Earlier today during the so called healthcare summit there was a back and forth between the TOTUS and Sen Lamar Alexander on whether health insurance premium...
5 minutes ago

Nice Deb
Video: Fireworks Between McCain and Obama During Health Care Summit - After McCain spends time complaining about the process, a petulant Obama alludes to “talking points” (everything Repubs say is a “talking point”), and tell...
1 hour ago

Expose Obama
Obama’s Healthcare Summit… Watching the Clock - Republicans are watching the clock closely as Democrats have talked for nearly twice as long as they have so far this morning. Before Democratic Rep. Jim C...
1 hour ago

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

News Roundup


There are SO MANY GOOD AND IMPORTANT BLOG POSTS out there today! I am simply going to list them. You will notice connections between what was written in The Heritage Foundation letter previously posted and many of the topics chosen for discussion:

Big Government
ACORN Official: Gangster Group Will Be Bankrupt Soon But Fake Spinoff Groups Will Carry On The Corruption - The ACORN crime syndicate is not going away anytime soon, but it’s going to look different. ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end but...1 hour ago

[You know the old saying..."Fool me once?"]

New Zeal
Obama Caught Blatantly Lying About ACORN - Watch the body language...11 hours ago

[Now you know why I often label Obama as the "Liar in chief."]

VotingFemale Speaks!
ACORN’s alias con game for money and power - Did you notice? …when a Socialist ‘Brand’ gets in trouble, the Democrat Party throws that brand away by giving it an alias in the belief that American Vote...23 hours ago

[Fool me twice...shame on me.]

Gateway Pundit
Mark Levin: Obama is “Biggest Disaster in American History” (Video) - Conservative radio host and author Mark Levin believes Barack Obama is the biggest disaster in modern American history: Even Jimmy Carter is distancing him...3 hours ago

[So...when will the necessary IMPEACH OBAMA signs start increasing?]

Nice Deb
Beware The Fake Tea Partiers and Lefty Wannabes - First they ignored us. Then they laughed at us. Then, they lashed out. Now, they want to be us. It’s as if the left has finally decided, if you can’t beat ...9 hours ago

RFFM.ORG
Scott Brown & Four Other Republicans Help Pass Stimulus 2: Sorry, "Jobs Bill" - by Daniel T. Zanoza, Executive Director I am not an economist and I don't play one on TV, but something strange went on in the U.S. Senate yesterday. The leg...23 hours ago

[Turns out I was correct not to trust abortion-supporter Scott Brown!]

JammieWearingFool
DoD's Missile Defense Agency Logo Looks Awfully Familiar - Here's a look at the old logo:Now from the MDA home page we have a new logo.Does it remind you of anything?We won't put our missile defense in Poland to prot...54 minutes ago

Team Obama Honors Islam With New Missile Defense Logo(?)posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago Is there a reason that Team Obama made their new missile defense logo look like a mix between the Obama campaign logo and the Islamic star and crescent? The Washington Times reported on the strange new logo.

[The Obama File states: "There is no doubt that the blue crescent is a stylized Islamic symbol. Just another Obama coincidence? I don't believe in coincidences."]

[Be sure to read these other headlines over at The Obama File]:
1. Marching Toward Martial Law (video)
2. Obama's Policies "Not American"
3. Arizonans Want To Verify Citizenship Of Candidates
4. Obama Begins His Assault On Your Life Savings
5. 8 Lies In Obama’s Healthcare Reform Proposal [Definately read this one!!]
6. Obama Advisor Defends Sharia And The Overthrow Of The U.S. Constitution
7. And So Does This Obama Appointee

[And these two! Helps explain the existence of that Islamic crescent new defense logo...and, I agree with what The Obama File author concludes:]


I call for Dalia Mogahed's immediate dismissal. While our country's men and women, sons and daughters, friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers are shedding their blood on foreign soil, being maimed and slaughtered while fighting to defend of our liberties, our rights, our freedom, our Constitution, and the very foundation of our way of life, an official connected to our own White House is sitting down next to known, vocal, avowed enemies of our Constitution and our nation, giving them aid and comfort, defending Sharia law as an overthrow of our Constitution, and having it broadcast all over the world on Islamic television.It is an absolute outrage. Neville Chamberlain's fawning appeasement of a madman was nothing compared to such blatant, mutinous sedition, carried out over the imprimatur of the White House and under the auspices of our own Commander in Chief of our armed forces -- who are dying under his direction at the hands of the enemies his "advisor" defends!Where is the Justice Department? Where is Congress? Where are the investigations and hearings? Their inaction makes a mockery of our Constitution and the highest laws of our land.

New Obama Logo/Islamic Crest DoD Patches? posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 1 day ago
Check out the snazzy new logo designed for the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency. It appears to be a mixture of Obama's campaign logo and an Islamic crescent. This is one of those things that ...

The Marriage of Terrorism and Nuclear Capability posted by null at American Thinker - 9 hours ago
Few people think about the implications of an Iranian nuclear umbrella providing a cover for terrorism and subversion.

[Makes that new Obama defense logo all the more disturbing...doesn't it?]

Figures. White House Muslim Envoy Is a Radical, Too… Lied About Supporting Terror Suspect (Video) posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 1 day ago
President Obama’s envoy to the Islamic bloc, Rashad Hussain, acknowledged Friday that he was accurately quoted in 2004 as calling the treatment of activist Sami al-Arian, then facing trial for supporting a...

Newly Released Documents Show That Nancy Pelosi Lied About Waterboarding (Video)posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 13 hours ago
On April 23, 2009, the Far Left Speaker denied she was told that waterboarding or other “illegal” interrogation methods were being used on terrorist detainees. She lied. Today Speaker Pelosi stood by her l...

[Now you know why I often label her as "Nancy PeLIARsi!]

Worst. Congress. Ever. Posts 10% Approval Rating posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 9 minutes ago
Worst. Congress. Ever. The Pelosi-Reid Swamp reached a grim milestone today with the lowest approval rating ever recorded for a Congress in Rasmussen history. Rasmussen reported: Voter unhappiness with Con...

[The 2010 Elections will be the biggest CHANGE in history! Vote the non-conservative bums out!!!]

Video: Eric Cantor- Obama’s Health Care Proposal Meets Definition of Insanity posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb - 18 hours ago
Ya gotta love it: Awesome…. Hat tip Weasel Zippers

41% Favor Obamacare; 56% Oppose — Dems Plan to Ram It Through Anyway posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 22 hours ago
A majority of voters still oppose Barack Obama’s plan to nationalize the health care industry. Rasmussen reported: Voters still strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and c...

Obama Health Care Bill Pays for Abortion posted by maggiesnotebook@cox.net (Maggie Thornton) at Maggie's Notebook - 1 day ago
Barack Obama - the one with two pre-teen daughters living in the White House...the daughters he did not "want punished with a baby," has added taxpayer funded abortions back into the health care bill that ...

[ObamaSCARE HELLcare resurrects it's ugly head once again. It just won't go away...]

Even an "Anarcho-Communist" Can See Obama's Fascist Tendencies posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 1 day ago
EC loves callers - even self-described "anarcho-communist" callers. This call shows that even leftists are alarmed at Obama's huge government power grab, and along the way EC explains to this leftist how a...

[And people like GMPilot can't seem to see any link between communism and fascism? Hmmm... He must have missed Glenn Beck's documentary.]

The Post & Email
Add One More to Obama’s Impeachable Offenses - WHITE HOUSE ALLEGEDLY TRIED BRIBERY IN SENATE RACE News Summary by Harry Hunter (Feb. 24, 2010) — Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) has stated on tape that he ...1 hour ago

[Perhaps there is still hope that the usurper will be exposed in court and removed from office! Can't happen soon enough - IMO.]

A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers
Court Grants Motion for Leave to File Overlength Brief in Kerchner Appeal - On January 19, 2010, I filed the Appellants' Opening Brief in the appeal of Kerchner et al. v. Obama et al. which is currently pending in the Third Circui...1 day ago

A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers
Court Grants Motion for Leave to File Overlength Brief in Kerchner Appeal - On January 19, 2010, I filed the Appellants' Opening Brief in the appeal of Kerchner et al. v. Obama et al. which is currently pending in the Third Circui...1 day ago

[Posted that one twice to be sure you see the importance of reading about it!!]

BREAKING: SON OF HAMAS LEADER WORKED FOR YEARS AS DOUBLE AGENT FOR ISRAEL’S SHIN BET posted by joelcrosenberg at Joel Rosenberg's Weblog - 2 hours ago

Last week, I mentioned that I had just finished one of the most powerful books I had ever read about a Radical Muslim leader who has come to faith in Jesus Christ….having signed a non-disclosure agreement,...

[More evidence that Jesus Christ is our only TRUE HOPE in defeating Radical Islam!]

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Some Conservative Intellectual Wisdom & Blogs You Must Read!!


The letter from Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. - President of The Heritage Foundation which provides leadership for America.

Dear Christine,

The left has been outrageous for many years. But now that they control both the White House and both houses of Congress, they are acting dangerously.

Not only are they trying to shove their radical, destructive agenda down America's throat, but they are carrying out an all-out assault against conservative leaders, conservative media, conservative ideas - in fact, all conservatives, period.

Their intentions were exposed by a highly influential leftist shorly before the election last year. Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, probably the most widely read leftist website, wrote:

...we have an imperative to take advantage of a historic opportunity to break the conservative movement's backs and crush their spirits. In the White House, that means getting Obama a broad popular and geographic mandate for change. In the House, that means annihilating the Republican caucus and working toward a 100-seat Democratic majority. In the Senate it means getting to a 60-seat filibuster proof majority.


"Break the conservative movement's backs." Crush their spirits." "Annihilating the Republican caucus." That pretty much summarizes their agenda.

I've written you before as a Heritage Member about the tremendous threat the left presents to us. The events since President Obama took office have shown that my fears were well founded. The extreme left is doing all it can to exert its influence in ways that could damage America far into the future, perhaps forever.

You'd think their ambitions would be undermined by the recent election results in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. But they are still pushing to get as much of their agenda accomplished as they can while they hold power - and they've done enough to damage America for years.

There's the destruction of the free-market economy - the exploding spending and deficits, the unprecedented government takeover of vast segments of the economy, the heavy-handed regulation, the attack on productive citizens along with the subsidizing of irresponsible ones, the favoritism towards some at the expense of others, and a hundred other things.

And the constant apologies for America's history and principles, the weakening of our national defense, the groveling to dictators, the closing of Guantanamo, the attempts to hand over our sovereignty to international institutions, and the lack of spine in standing up to our enemies.

Then there's the ongoing attempt to make criminals of Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, and of CIA agents who carried out their jobs with approval from the highest levels of the Justice Department.

Liberals are thus making policy differences into crimes - a perilous path on which to put America's politics.

And the left's campaign to "break the conservative movement's backs" goes even farther. They have the means and the intention to silence conservative voices. In fact, they got a head start during the presidential campaign.

In September 2008, a group aired ads critical of then-candidate Barack Obama in Missouri. Government attorney there warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made "false" statement about Obama.

The Obama campaign called for a federal criminal investigation of another group when it ran ads showing Obama's ties to William Ayers. And they emailed their supporters telling them to jam the phone lines and send protest emails when a journalist who was researching Obama's connection to Ayers appeared on a radio talk show.

Now there are the ongoing attacks on conservative leaders, institutions and ideas - the attempt to marginalize Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other media figures, the demonizing of grassroots Americans who protest government policies as Nazis and racists, the passing of national hate speech legislation that is sure to be applied selectively.

Congressional leaders such a Nancy Pelosi have long made their support known for the re-instatement of the Fairness Doctrine, a move calculated to shut down conservative talk radio.

And Mr. Obama himself testified as a senator at a hearing in support of "localism" - a rule the FCCA could enforce at any time that would cripple syndicated radio shows, meaning all the nationally broadcast conservative talk shows from Rush Limbaugh to William Bennett, from Laura Ingraham to Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

He installed as Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission a man named Mark Lloyd who has stated his determination to implement localism, and has praised the way Venequela's Hugo Chavez shut down opposition media.

That's just on of President Obama's ominous appointments. Thanks to conservative journalists and talk-show hosts, several government "czars" have been exposed a far-left radicals, and a couple have even resigned. But that's a drop in the bucket to the leftists who are now keep in the bowels of the bureaucracries, to remain there for decades to come.

It wasn't so long ago that the fringe left was just that - a fringe. But radical groups like MoveOn and radical websites like the Daily Kos are now fully a part of the mainstream left, and thus a strong influence on what Congress does.

And thanks to their enablers in the media, their ideas have spread throughout American society. A few years ago only a small radical fringe of conspiracy theorists ventured the idea that the 9/11 attacks were a plot by the Bush administration. But in 2007 a Rasmussen poll found 35 percent of Democrats believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.

I'm writing to tell you that we need to take all these people seriously - the fringe left, the "respectable" left, the media left, and the left in Congress and the White House. They are on their way to destroying everything you and I hold dear about our country. This is why I'm working with my colleagues at The Heritage Foundation, America's leading conservative organization, and together we are asking for your help in fighting back against the left.

I believe you are one of the special few who have shown yourselves willing to step up and help out when it counts the most.

This conflict with the left has been going on for more than 40 years. Liberals succeeded in taking over so many American institutions that they thought they'd all but won the culture war.

Since September 11, 2001, the divisions in our society have deepened with every passing day. Through their friends in the media and on campuses, liberals have promoted their delusions about America, the free enterprise system, and traditional values, and have made serious inroads into the American people's resolve in the face of our enemies. And now the left is in power.

If they have their way, we will surrender in the war against radical Islamist terrorism, giving our enemies free rein around the world and eventually here at home.

Inside America, if they have their way, they will nominate and confirm only judges who conform to the left's agenda...from dismantling anti-terrorist programs to barring sports teams from saying a prayer to eliminating our Second Amendment rights.

If they have their way, the government will continue to take over more and more of the economy in the name of fighting the recession,...impose crushing regulations on business...put your health care under government control...dismantle our domestic energy production...and pass rules and regulations controlling the very details of your life.

If they have their way, we will treat our enemies in battle like Americans with full constitutional rights...give the UN authority over our national security...and end the intelligence and surveillance programs that have helped to keep us from attack since 2001.

And sad to say, they have long outdone our side at mobilizing the media and other institutions to get their way.

Over the last few years, with funding from billionaire George Soros and other wealthy liberals, the left has devoted tens of millions of dollars to building what the Washington Post called "a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades." Their goal is to help institutions "equipped to take on prominent think tanks on the right, including The Heritage Foundation."

As we have repeatedly seen, the left will say anything to win. They will make up lies about their opponents, deny things they've done and said that are a matter of public record, and distort conservative policies to convince people that their prosperity and freedom are in peril unless the country moves far to the left.

They resort to insults in place of reasoning, as their reaction to Sarah Palin shows. During the presidential campaign a Philadelphia group of Obama supporters shouted "Let's stone her." Leftist web stores sold "Abort Sarah Palin" bumper stickers. An artist created a picture to go with his slogan "Mother I'd Like to Punch" - a man slugging Sarah Palin in the face.

The Heritage Foundation has played a big role in defending and promoting conservative ideas and policies - and in fact some of these radicals have attacked us by name.

One leftist web site called us a "propaganda operation disguised as scholarship." It continues, "In our view, The Heritage Foundation with its offshoots is the single most pernicious influence in politics in the United States of America today."

If by "pernicious" they mean that we're influeincing America in a conservative direction, we'll wear that label proudly!

And now it's essential that we intensify this work to a level we've never reached before.

We need to push for strong policies in the war with radical Islamist terrorists, pointing out how wrong the left is when they side with Europe and the United Nations against their own country, when they insult ordinary Americans, when they push for weakness in the face of our enemies.

We need to identify and ooppose the political correctness in our institutions - including the armed forces - that allows radical Islamist terrorists to remain in place until they commit an act of violence.

We need to defend and explain the free-market economy, and how our current econimic problems were caused far more by government interference than by lack of regulation. We need to show the disastrous results whenever governments take over important segments of the economy. We need to remind people of the entrepreneurial roots of our long history of economic growth, and identify high taxes and other policies that are destroying jobs and prosperity.

We need to continue to proclaim and explain our support for judges who belive int he Constitution, and for giving schoolchildren a true picture of America's history and greatness.

Heritage experts are on TV dozens of times each month, and in newspapers hundreds of times, explaining the policies and point of view you and I believe in, and telling the truth to the American people. We had more than 2,000 radio and 1,000 TV appearances last year.

We have ongoing promotional partnerships with talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, getting our research and our ideas out to a larger public than ever before.

Rush recently said, "The Heritage Foundation is a group of smart thinkers and scholars, excellent writers, and they churn stuff out faster than you can keep up with it: How to move the country forward, how to provide information that people can digest and then spread to others." [Note from Christine - this is EXACTLY why I'm typing this letter out here at my blog!]

And at least as important as our defenses of conservative institutions, people, and policies, we're attacking the problem at the root - by working to change the climate of moral relativism, and to give young people a true sense of the greatness of America and of our founding principles. Just one example: We have distributed more than 3 million pocket Constitutions over the last two years.

We're standing up for Western civilization and proclaiming it superior to other cultures such as those that allow no dissent, repress their women, and worship death. We're doing this in our media appearances, in our op-ed columns, and in the facts, figures, and analyses we give our allies in Congress and elsewhere as intellectual ammunition.

As Ronald Reagan said, there's no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. You don't always see our tag-line on our efforts, but many of the facts and analyses you hear elsewhere originated here at Heritage.

As a Member of Heritage's Board of Trustees, I have sent you this letter in the hope and the belief that as a patriotic Heritage Member you will join us in our fight.

It's absolutely necessary to fight bvack against the danger posed by the radical left - to fight against a socialist econmy, and for lower taxes, opening up land for oil and natural gas exploration and giving Americans more fredom and responsibility in their own lives.

It's necessary to support the war on radical Islamist terrorism and not allow it to be watered down by those who would rather please the UN and European governments than to protect America.

It's necessary to fight against the moral relativism that has led to this split in America - between those who see clearly that we have enemies who want to destroy us, and those who think that we are worse than any of our enemies.

And it's necesary to fight against proposed judges who believe that their role is to create new rights and privileges based on what the cultureal elites want to impose on the rest of America, instead of to follow the law and the Constitution.

Most of all I hope that you want to help do something to restore our country to a place where our fellow citizens are not ashamed to call right and wrong by their names, where we honor America's great history and her unique contribution to the world, and where we understand that somethimes we have to fight our enemies for our survival.

The Heritage Foundation relies on the support of Member like you.

The leftist groups I've described are supported mainly by limousine liberals, Hollywood moguls, billionaires like Soros's friends and the like.

In sharp contrast, Heritage is supported by over 580,000 Americans, some on fixed incomes, mostly middle-class citizens who have to think carefully about where they spend their money.

Christine, I know you are not a billionaire like George Soros or a wealthy Hollywood ideologue like Barbra Steisand. Heritage and I are grateful for every dollar you give, because we know it comes from your heart, and you are sacrificing to support the principles and ideas you believe in.
[A]nd of course, every extra dollar you give adds to our effectiveness in standing up for America and American values, getting our ideas out to where they count, and discrediting the radical, destructive ideas of the left.

Sincerely yours,
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President

*******

I would like to encourage all readers to join The Heritage Foundation. Please send your contributions to:

Edwin J. Feulner, Ph. D.
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Avenue NE
P.O. Box 97057
Washington DC 20077-7315

http://www.heritage.org/

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Update 2/24/10

There are SO MANY GOOD AND IMPORTANT BLOG POSTS out there today! I am simply going to list them. You will notice a connection between The Heritage Foundation letter posted above and many of the topics chosen for discussion:

Big Government
ACORN Official: Gangster Group Will Be Bankrupt Soon But Fake Spinoff Groups Will Carry On The Corruption - The ACORN crime syndicate is not going away anytime soon, but it’s going to look different. ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end but...
1 hour ago

[You know the old saying..."Fool me once?"]

New Zeal
Obama Caught Blatantly Lying About ACORN - Watch the body language...
11 hours ago

[Now you know why I often label Obama as the "Liar in chief."]

VotingFemale Speaks!
ACORN’s alias con game for money and power - Did you notice? …when a Socialist ‘Brand’ gets in trouble, the Democrat Party throws that brand away by giving it an alias in the belief that American Vote...
23 hours ago

[Fool me twice...shame on me.]

Gateway Pundit
Mark Levin: Obama is “Biggest Disaster in American History” (Video) - Conservative radio host and author Mark Levin believes Barack Obama is the biggest disaster in modern American history: Even Jimmy Carter is distancing him...
3 hours ago

[So...when will the IMPEACH OBAMA signs start increasing?]

Nice Deb
Beware The Fake Tea Partiers and Lefty Wannabes - First they ignored us. Then they laughed at us. Then, they lashed out. Now, they want to be us. It’s as if the left has finally decided, if you can’t beat ...
9 hours ago

RFFM.ORG
Scott Brown & Four Other Republicans Help Pass Stimulus 2: Sorry, "Jobs Bill" - by Daniel T. Zanoza, Executive Director I am not an economist and I don't play one on TV, but something strange went on in the U.S. Senate yesterday. The leg...
23 hours ago

[Turns out I was correct not to trust abortion-supporter Scott Brown!]

JammieWearingFool
DoD's Missile Defense Agency Logo Looks Awfully Familiar - Here's a look at the old logo:Now from the MDA home page we have a new logo.Does it remind you of anything?We won't put our missile defense in Poland to prot...
54 minutes ago

Team Obama Honors Islam With New Missile Defense Logo(?)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 2 hours ago
Is there a reason that Team Obama made their new missile defense logo look like a mix between the Obama campaign logo and the Islamic star and crescent? The Washington Times reported on the strange new logo.

[The Obama File states: "There is no doubt that the blue crescent is a stylized Islamic symbol. Just another Obama coincidence? I don't believe in coincidences."]


[Be sure to read these other headlines over at The Obama File]:

1. Marching Toward Martial Law (video)
2. Obama's Policies "Not American"
3. Arizonans Want To Verify Citizenship Of Candidates
4. Obama Begins His Assault On Your Life Savings
5. 8 Lies In Obama’s Healthcare Reform Proposal [Definately read this one!!]
6. Obama Advisor Defends Sharia And The Overthrow Of The U.S. Constitution
7. And So Does This Obama Appointee
[And these two! Helps explain the existence of that Islamic crescent new defense logo...and, I agree with what The Obama File author concludes:]

I call for Dalia Mogahed's immediate dismissal. While our country's men and women, sons and daughters, friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers are shedding their blood on foreign soil, being maimed and slaughtered while fighting to defend of our liberties, our rights, our freedom, our Constitution, and the very foundation of our way of life, an official connected to our own White House is sitting down next to known, vocal, avowed enemies of our Constitution and our nation, giving them aid and comfort, defending Sharia law as an overthrow of our Constitution, and having it broadcast all over the world on Islamic television.

It is an absolute outrage. Neville Chamberlain's fawning appeasement of a madman was nothing compared to such blatant, mutinous sedition, carried out over the imprimatur of the White House and under the auspices of our own Commander in Chief of our armed forces -- who are dying under his direction at the hands of the enemies his "advisor" defends!

Where is the Justice Department? Where is Congress? Where are the investigations and hearings? Their inaction makes a mockery of our Constitution and the highest laws of our land.



New Obama Logo/Islamic Crest DoD Patches?
posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 1 day ago
Check out the snazzy new logo designed for the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency. It appears to be a mixture of Obama's campaign logo and an Islamic crescent. This is one of those things that ...

The Marriage of Terrorism and Nuclear Capability
posted by null at American Thinker - 9 hours ago
Few people think about the implications of an Iranian nuclear umbrella providing a cover for terrorism and subversion.

[Makes that new Obama defense logo all the more disturbing...doesn't it?]

Figures. White House Muslim Envoy Is a Radical, Too… Lied About Supporting Terror Suspect (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 1 day ago
President Obama’s envoy to the Islamic bloc, Rashad Hussain, acknowledged Friday that he was accurately quoted in 2004 as calling the treatment of activist Sami al-Arian, then facing trial for supporting a...

Newly Released Documents Show That Nancy Pelosi Lied About Waterboarding (Video)
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 13 hours ago
On April 23, 2009, the Far Left Speaker denied she was told that waterboarding or other “illegal” interrogation methods were being used on terrorist detainees. She lied. Today Speaker Pelosi stood by her l...

[Now you know why I often label her as "Nancy PeLIARsi!]

Worst. Congress. Ever. Posts 10% Approval Rating
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 9 minutes ago
Worst. Congress. Ever. The Pelosi-Reid Swamp reached a grim milestone today with the lowest approval rating ever recorded for a Congress in Rasmussen history. Rasmussen reported: Voter unhappiness with Con...

[The 2010 Elections will be the biggest CHANGE in history! Vote the non-conservative bums out!!!]

Video: Eric Cantor- Obama’s Health Care Proposal Meets Definition of Insanity

posted by nicedeb at Nice Deb - 18 hours ago
Ya gotta love it: Awesome…. Hat tip Weasel Zippers

41% Favor Obamacare; 56% Oppose — Dems Plan to Ram It Through Anyway
posted by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit - 22 hours ago
A majority of voters still oppose Barack Obama’s plan to nationalize the health care industry. Rasmussen reported: Voters still strongly oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and c...

Obama Health Care Bill Pays for Abortion
posted by maggiesnotebook@cox.net (Maggie Thornton) at Maggie's Notebook - 1 day ago
Barack Obama - the one with two pre-teen daughters living in the White House...the daughters he did not "want punished with a baby," has added taxpayer funded abortions back into the health care bill that ...

[ObamaSCARE HELLcare resurrects it's ugly head once again. It just won't go away...]

Even an "Anarcho-Communist" Can See Obama's Fascist Tendencies
posted by evil@evilconservativeonline.com (Evil Conservative) at Evil Conservative Radio - 1 day ago
EC loves callers - even self-described "anarcho-communist" callers. This call shows that even leftists are alarmed at Obama's huge government power grab, and along the way EC explains to this leftist how a...

[And people like GMPilot can't seem to see any link between communism and fascism? Hmmm... He must have missed Glenn Beck's documentary.]


The Post & Email
Add One More to Obama’s Impeachable Offenses - WHITE HOUSE ALLEGEDLY TRIED BRIBERY IN SENATE RACE News Summary by Harry Hunter (Feb. 24, 2010) — Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA) has stated on tape that he ...
1 hour ago

[Perhaps there is still hope that the usurper will be exposed in court and removed from office! Can't happen soon enough - IMO.]

A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers
Court Grants Motion for Leave to File Overlength Brief in Kerchner Appeal - On January 19, 2010, I filed the Appellants' Opening Brief in the appeal of Kerchner et al. v. Obama et al. which is currently pending in the Third Circui...
1 day ago


A Place to Ask Questions To Get the Right Answers
Court Grants Motion for Leave to File Overlength Brief in Kerchner Appeal - On January 19, 2010, I filed the Appellants' Opening Brief in the appeal of Kerchner et al. v. Obama et al. which is currently pending in the Third Circui...
1 day ago

BREAKING: SON OF HAMAS LEADER WORKED FOR YEARS AS DOUBLE AGENT FOR ISRAEL’S SHIN BET
posted by joelcrosenberg at Joel Rosenberg's Weblog - 2 hours ago
Last week, I mentioned that I had just finished one of the most powerful books I had ever read about a Radical Muslim leader who has come to faith in Jesus Christ….having signed a non-disclosure agreement,...

[More evidence that Jesus Christ is our only TRUE HOPE in defeating Radical Islam!]