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!

This morning I listened to a little bit of Glenn Beck on the radio. He opened the segment by talking about how we’ve chased God out of our lives. He made the point that our system of government was based on man’s rights coming from God and that the government was put in place to protect those rights. Today our system of government doesn’t seem to be based on anything.

He introduced Senator Jim DeMint (SC) to talk about the new capitol visitor’s center, which, naturally, was almost $700 million over budget. Senator DeMint said that any references to God in our nation’s history were intentionally omitted from any of the displays at the center. They even carved in a marble column that our nation’s motto is “E Pluribus Unum”, which is a lie. Our national motto is “In God we trust”.

The visitors center has a large engraving that says “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common Oracle but the Consitution.” Whether any of our lawmakers consult the Constitution anymore is debatable. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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.

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.

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.

When the going gets rough the Democrats get bold. So bold that they are now considering doing away with 401k accounts. In their place we would have ‘guaranteed retirement accounts’ run by none other than the Federal Government. Nothing like hard economic times to bring socialists out of the woodwork.

According to James Pethokoukis at Capital Commerce the government would deposit $600 per year into your GRA and you would be required to save 5% of your pay in these accounts, with the government paying a 3% return. Pethokoukis points out that workers would abandon the stock market right at the bottom. This would take away any chance of making back your losses in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Who said it? Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mossulini, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro or Joseph Stalin?

1-The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

2-It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

3-Unity is the great need of the hour.

4-Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

5-Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

6-As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

7-I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here.

8-I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the Almighty Creator.

9-All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Godess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

10-Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

11-This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

12-I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating…because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

13-People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

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If you are an American and you are just so fed up with politics and the economy this year you may be inclined to stay home on November 4^th and rent a movie. I can share your feelings about the state of the nation in many ways. What we should all do is take a deep breath, get out the family album and enjoy a few minutes of fond memories.

Once you’ve had the chance to shake off the hype and spin take stock in the things going on out there that don’t have to do with the candidates and their campaigns directly. Ask yourself what effect the presidential race is having on the country, your workplace, your neighbors and ask what we may have to look forward to in the next four years.

You don’t have to look too far. Just this past week we bore witness to an unrelenting attack on a fellow human being. What did he do? He asked a question. What was so bad about that? You be the judge. Think about it. Could it happen to you? What if you don’t want that new interchange in your neighborhood, or are unhappy with a school board decision? Is it possible that you will get the same treatment? Read the rest of this entry »

The following conversation took place between four people.

#1-Barack Obama wants to require girls to register with the Selective Service. If the draft is ever re-instituted your daughters could be forced to do battle.

#2-That’s awful.

#3-Did you support the Iraq war?

#1-Huh?

#3-Did you support the Iraq war?

#1-Yes, but what’s that got to do with it?

#2-Some girls are tough enough for military service, but a lot of girls are really prissy. Can you imagine that?

#4-A lot of boys are prissy, too.

#1-Walked away. Read the rest of this entry »

Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber who asked Barack Obama why he would raise his taxes, was interviewed earlier today by Neil Cavuto. Needless to say, Obama was not able to change the mind of the plumber who worked hard and saved his money in order to live his American dream.

In case you haven’t heard, Obama replied that he needs to share the wealth. In twenty eight seconds we learned more about Barack Obama than the media’s told us in eighteen months.

Why does it take a plumber from Ohio to expose the true Barack Obama? Someone should give Mr. Wurzelbacher a medal.

Obama the socialist explains to a plumber why he will take the plumber’s money. “It’s not that I want to punish your success, but…..”

He went on to say we need to “Share the wealth.” That’s code for “income re-distribution.”

The plumber learns his trade, gets up early, goes to work, provides a much needed service to his customers and Obama wants to take his earnings and “share it” with others. Nice.

American Interests has an interesting look at how the seeds of socialism have been sown here in America. It happened quite some time ago. It’s no wonder they had to destroy Joseph McCarthy. Is it too late to wipe it out?

In the 1920s, Vladimir Lenin charged a select group of communist espionage officers with a long-term covert influence project: undermine the culture, society, and economy of the United States. Read the rest of this entry »