At the bottom of the hour on Good Morning America Diane Sawyer reverently read a passage from an essay Barack Obama wrote three years ago. It’s kind of creepy. Why don’t members of the main stream media just come right out and say they will no longer report news? They should just state that for the next four years they will do nothing but cheer on The One. They may actually gain some credibility.
Justice Clarence Thomas has placed a discussion of Barack Obama’s citizenship on the December 5th docket for conference, meaning a discussion of the merit of this particular case.
A commenter at America’s Right, who has been the leading source of excellent information on the various lawsuits, is requesting that we write directly to the Supreme Court: Read the rest of this entry »
There’s been much speculation about the direction Barack Obama will go when he ascends to the Presidency. Some believe he may take the moderate route, a la Bill Clinton. Others believe he’ll take the liberal route, a la Jimmy Carter, while others fear he will try to quietly and incrementally pass leftist legislation with the aid and cover of the main stream media.
The way things are shaping up, it appears he may take the full throttle lefty route, possibly starting with nationalizing health care. According to the Wall Street Journal, the selection of Tom Daschle to head HHS, and last week’s release of a health care policy blue print by Senator Max Baucus, are strong signs that we’re headed toward a national health care plan. Read the rest of this entry »
When Barack Obama vilified George Bush and warned of the dangers of four more years of Bush policies he also promised to change Washington. He promised a new day, hope, and to sweep away the old politics that plagued the government. With those pledges came a general euphoria and the media proclaimed the coming of “The One”, the world’s president. Foreign leaders lined up to welcome America’s change. They apparently felt Obama’s election signaled a better world.
Not so today. While the left rejoiced, Kenya celebrated, Oprah cried, and the media patted themselves on the back and made plans for ensuring his success, Obama, months away from taking office, began to show his true colors. Names like Podesta, Daschle, Clinton, and Holder have been penciled in to the key staff positions. We already knew we were in trouble when he picked his vice-president but who could have expected this line-up? Read the rest of this entry »
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.
Why would the federal government even consider bailing out a corporation that has made horrible business decisions for years? GM should go bankrupt and re-organize under new management, at least that’s what Michael Levine writing for the Wall Street Journal thinks. I agree.
At least one United States Senator has some common sense. Sen. Jim Inhofe proposes a freeze on the “bailout” funds given to Secretary Paulson. That’s a fine idea. No more bailouts!
If you like conservative talk radio, you may want to consider satellite. It looks like the left is gunning for making right wing talk show a thing of the past on terrestrial radio.
Do you remember Barack Obama denouncing lobbyists? Funny, isn’t it that he’s hiring a whole host of lobbyists to work on his transition team?
What does HIllary Clinton have on Barack Obama that makes him willing to offer her the job of Secretary of State?
Now I remember what I didn’t like about Mike Huckabee. What’s up with him?
You probably won’t read about it in your local newspaper or hear it from the MSM, but the issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate has not been resolved. Which just makes one wonder, why won’t he just produce the darn thing?
The election is over and Barack Obama is going to be the 44th President of the United States of America. With any luck, he understands that the election result wasn’t about spreading the wealth or turning America down a more socialist path.
At a campaign event Barack Obama accused those who don’t want to ”spread the wealth” of being selfish. Naturally, nobody in the main stream media questioned such a statement. There was no analysis because they accept the premise. If you are not happy to pay more of your income so it can be given to others they believe you are selfish.
But what of the recipient of the products of the labor of another? Isn’t that person selfish? How is that person morally superior to the producer?
The “spread the wealth” system removes the incentive for both parties. Whatever you call it - socialism, communism, Marxism - it’s been tried time and again, with results ranging from suppression (of ideas, innovation, progress) to horror and democide.
American exceptionalism is not the product of equalization of outcomes, quite the contrary. American exceptionalism is the result of freedom, the freedom not only to succeed but also to fail. Let’s hope our President elect gets the message. You can send him the message by clicking here.
Too bad Good Morning America didn’t think to interview, or talk about, Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers before the election. Cuomo asks a few tough questions, but I wish he were a little tougher. He didn’t bring up the fact that Bill Ayers has called himself a communist. He didn’t bring up the fact that the Weather Underground’s plan was to take over our country and send Americans to re-education camps and eliminate those Americans who refused to be re-educated. Ayers defended his past acts because (in his view) the US was killing innocents and he didn’t do enough to stop it. Too bad Cuomo didn’t follow up with this question “Why weren’t you protesting communists, who were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of innocents?”
I’m so happy I wasn’t the only one who noticed the way the Dow shot up after George Bush’s speech praising capitalism. Larry Kudlow noticed, too.
Here’s one of several great passages from Bush: “At its most basic level, capitalism offers people the freedom to choose where they work and what they do … the dignity that comes with profiting from their talent and hard work. … The free-market system also provides the incentives that lead to prosperity - the incentive to work, to innovate, to save and invest wisely, and to create jobs for others.”
In other words, free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity.
Where has this George Bush been hiding? Maybe the Republicans should have had him out giving speeches like this one before the election. Heck, it couldn’t have hurt. It may even have helped to stabilize the markets. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Check out this podcast interview of Rahm Emanuel’s plan for mandatory civil service. The idea is to require yound adults between the age of 18 and 23 to complete 3 to 4 months of “universal civil defense training.” He described this obligatory service as “a common experience” that will “give people a sense of what it’s like to be American.” Emanuel scoffed at the interviewer’s concerns about barracks and uniforms. There was no mention of any exceptions for people who have to work for a living.
The “national civilian security force” Obama’s talked about sounds a lot like Emanuel’s plan.
H/T Hot Air
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats are gunning for a bailout of the US automakers. They simply can’t wait to get their paws on the US Treasury and start intervening in the economy like we haven’t seen since 1929. If you think Bush was bad, just wait, because you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Jeffrey Lord recalls the disastrous consequences of government intervention on the economy in his The American Specator article The New Adventurs of Wonderboy. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama’s Transitional Economic Advisory Board looks like a who’s who of past economic scandals. Jonathan Weil at Bloomberg.com points out this bunch brings us more of the same. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama’s first exercise in diplomacy as President-elect was not a stellar success. As the leader of the party whose rhetoric turned President Bush into public enemy number one, Barack Obama went to visit his self proclaimed political enemy.
Always gracious, President Bush welcomed the President-elect to the White House, in the hope of ensuring a smooth transition for the sake of our country. The two men sat down for a private meeting. No aides were present, the conversation was meant to be confidential.
Within hours of their meeting Obama’s aides leaked details of the meeting to the press. This smacks of playground politics and reveals a stunning lack of maturity and disrespect for the office to which he was just elected. Lord help us all if this is a sign of things to come.
Now that the long campaign is over, perhaps Mr. Obama can take the time to meet with Miss Manners for a few pointers. Impudence may be a good way to win an election, but it will not serve him well as leader of the free world.
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.
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