Not everyone believes the economy’s going to get better in 2009. Noriel Roubini thinks we’re in for a prolonged recession. 2008 could end up looking like a good year. Shudder!

Move over Paris, there’s a new celebrity in town. Barack Obama’s the biggest celebrity in the world and the tabloids love him. We can expect more swooning and drooling from the media in 2009.

Don’t expect the media to suddenly become honest or unbiased in 2009. They’ll continue their slanted reporting of the Israel/Hamas conflict and Barack Obama will continue with his free pass from the media. There’s no doubt Cuba’s fifty years of oppression and tyranny will be overlooked while myths and outright lies will make the news.

Newspapers will jump aboard the bailout bandwagon. How can Obama and the Dems not fork over our money to them after all the free advertising?

Cheers!

It’s the time of year when people like to focus on the positive. Things aren’t all bad!

Although politicians are behind the 8 ball on the issue, it looks like 2008 was the year Global Warming was Disproved. Isn’t that great news? We’re not all going to fry!

We may be in for a few rough years, but Americans are resilient. We’ve survived all the (failed) socialist programs brought to us by the political class. We’ll survive this, too.

If you simply need a good chuckle, Burt Prelutsky provides it with Wit And Wisdom Through The Ages. My favorite was G. Gordon Liddy describing a liberal as “someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”

I hope you can find a silver lining and have a happy, safe and healthy New Year!

Obamanomics - 1930’s Style: What’s old is new again. Welcome to 1930’s Keynesian economics.

Ray Kelly’s Wiretap Alarm - Democrats play politics with the lives of Americans.

Here Comes the Great Man Complex: How many monuments to Barack Obama will be erected in the next few years (on our dime)?

US Could Take Stake In Big 3 - Does this mean that if I, a taxpayer, become part owner of Ford Motor Company, that when my lease is up I can just keep my little Escape?

Climate scientists say 2008 will be coolest year of the decade - Guardian

Obama’s Environmental Test - Wall Street Journal

Wisdom - American Thinker

Parallel Lives - National Review Online

Mumbai - A message for America - Americans have been assured that the horror and terror that exploded across television screens from Mumbai in late November will not affect our own sense of security. Such assurances are as disingenuous as they are comforting.

The Obama Presidency begins to emerge - Obama has declared himself president in all but name. He has gone so far as to call for his policies to be put in place even before being inaugurated.

Freedom and the Left - Most people on the left are not opposed to freedom. They are just in favor of all sorts of things that are incompatible with freedom.

The Most Overlooked News Story of 2008 - Have you noticed lately that mainstream media are giving less attention to the war in Iraq, especially concerning our troops’ progress?

Same Old New Deal -

Not only do we not need a new New Deal, it is exactly what we don’t need. Things are looking better already. Why do anything that could make things worse?

It’s Not the Cold War -

If we don’t beat back the Islamo-fascist ideology we’re in big trouble.

Obama Tries on WOT Rhetoric -

Obama’s finally talking the talk on the War on Terror. The question is - will he walk the walk?

Free Market vs. Socialism: Take the Challenge -

When governments get out of the way people prosper. Why is that so hard to grasp?

Fox News Owner Issues Edict to End Critisism of President-Elect -

Great, the one news source that wasn’t in Obama’s back pocket is now right there. Let’s hope there is no edict to start the drooling praise of Obama we’re getting from every other major media outlet.

The other day I was looking through the papers my seven year old son brought home from school. There was a Thanksgiving assignment and he did a good job listing the things he is thankful for, Mom and Dad, friends, food, home and books. I was happy to see he included the military in the list. At the young age of seven he understands that the US military protects us so we can enjoy all of the other things on his list.

Even in these tough economic times there’s still so much to be thankful for. The terror attacks yesterday in India are a reminder that we haven’t had a terrorist attack here at home in more than seven years. It’s time to sit back and count our blessings, as there are so many.

If you want to know who our Founders thanked on Thanksgiving you should read What Every Child Should Know About Thanksgiving by Newt Gingrich. Just a little food for thought.

Best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy holiday! Enjoy!

Not Everything Can Be Too Big To Fail: When the government starts picking and choosing which large financial institutions to ‘rescue’ the result is moral hazard and unintended consequences.

Obama Priority is to Remake America: I’m not sure if this is the sort of change people had in mind on November 4.

Obama: Country Facing ‘Economic Crisis of Historic Proportions’: There he goes again, more scare tactics and false promises. I did find it interesting that the two and half million jobs he’s promising aren’t supposed to appear until 2011, after the mid-term elections. Hmmm.

3 Scenarios for the Obama Years: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Not to try to frighten anyone, but it’s best to go into things with our eyes wide open. Randall Hoven believes Obama may go with ‘the ugly’. We can hope for the best but should expect the worst and not take our eyes off the ball.

Orwell’s Children - Bruce Walker remembers Jonestown, Nazi Germany and the Soviets.

We are drifting into the sort of horrific future he described. Too many of us for comfort or solace have become just like the denizens of Jonestown: Orwell’s children — a new generation of creature enraged into constant militancy against eternal enemies, oblivious to the notion of a Blessed Creator, melded into the consciousness of the party hive, divorced from history, hypnotized by images, inoculated against reason, stripped of family, and existing only to serve the cause.

Obama Lexicon - It looks like we’ll be adding a whole bunch of new words to our vocabulary.

First there was Obamamania. And the media declared it good. Now that the senator from Illinois is our president-elect, we have to ask the question: What comes after Obamamania? And we don’t mean what does he stand for. That would require responsible, objective journalism.

Camille Paglia, a Democrat who supported Barack Obama, wonders why the media didn’t probe Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers. She also continues to admire Sarah Palin, yes, that’s right. A pro-choice female Democrat who believes Sarah Palin is good for feminism. Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps you don’t want to read The Death of the American Idea by Mark Steyn. We keep saying we’re a center-right nation, yet we’re on a constant move to the left, no matter who is in office. Is it too late?

I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they’ll be routed in two or four years’ time. The President-elect’s so-called “tax cut” will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those that are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole. By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American idea - which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation without representation” is a great rallying cry. “No representation without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it’s unsustainable and you’ve got to give some of it back? Read full article.

Is collectivism now the norm in America? In his acceptance speech Barack Obama said “We are not just a nation of individuals.” I pray he’s wrong, but I’m afraid he may be right.

The Washington Post admits their Obama bias. But, hey, it’s okay. Read story.

All you Bush bashing liberals should read this piece by Randall Hoven. Bush gave you all more than you could have dreamed but you were all too blinded by your hatred to recognize it. Moderate Republicans should read it too, lurching left has never helped the party. Maybe we’ll learn our lesson.

Conservatives wondering what to say to their gloating liberal friends should read this. The best one is “I’ll make sure to afford the same respect to Obama as you did to Pres. Bush” but there’s plenty more.

Obama picked a peach of an economic advisor in Jennifer Granholm. Read about her dismal record here. Let’s hope this isn’t an omen.

Jonah Goldberg questions the wisdom of change for the sake of change. He also wonders about the push to have the lazy and uninformed vote in great numbers. Read Election Questions No One Asks

At dark thirty hours here in Britain I sat in my cozy kitchen and watched John McCain cap a lifetime of service with dignity and honor. With his concession speech he had fulfilled his duty as a presidential candidate who had failed to gain a victory. Once again America had witness a milestone in the transfer of power of the greatest nation on earth. No bitter words, no calls for reprisals or accusations of foul play. Here was a man who for over half a century had walked the walk showing America what true depth of character looks like.

I then went to the cupboard, removed my crystal ball, and dusted it off. I did not need to watch Barack Obama’s victory speech. I’ve heard it over and over since the DNC convention in 2004. Weary of four years of campaigning and two years of campaigns I made my way up to bed with foggy visions of the past floating in my mind. All those promises made and broken, all of the hope and all of the fear that inevitably follows in the footsteps of a presidential election. Later this same day I knew I would wake up in the same world in which I put my head down with certain knowledge that some things never change. Read the rest of this entry »