Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday news and opinions
Looking Ahead
Taxes, It's the Economy, Financial
Unions
Big Government, Corruption, Politics, Budget Battle
EPA, Big Government, Agenda 21
ObamaCareTax
Terrorism, Foreign Policy
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism
Taxes, It's the Economy, Financial
- Higher taxes do not equal more revenue, example #85902479…
- We're Heading For Economic Dictatorship
- New Obama stimulus: hiring subsidies
- Second look at tax hikes on everyone?
Unions
Big Government, Corruption, Politics, Budget Battle
- White House Uses Secret Service to Shield Goldman Sachs CEO from Press
- Report: Obama’s “fiscal cliff” offer to Republicans calls for $1.6 trillion in new taxes and end of debt ceiling in exchange for … nothing, basically; Update: McConnell laughed out loud
- Boehner's Press Conference
- Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges
- Krauthammer: Republicans Who Cave on Entitlements and Buy Obama’s Promise Are Fools
- Ignore GDP and the Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Is Already in Recession: ECRI’s Achuthan [VIDEO]
- Ugly Q3 GDP Confirms Personal Consumption Collapsing; Headline "Growth" Driven By Government, Inventory Accumulation
- Speaker Of The House Shocked That President Who Likely Left Two Heroes High And Dry In Benghazi Proves Incapable Of Keeping Phone Call Secret
- The Incestuous Bleeding of the Republican Party
- Wind Power Fiasco: Call Your Congressman
- Wavering: Obama Signs Anti-Carbon Tax Bill
- The Showdown Begins: Calpers Sues Bankrupt City
- Washington Proposes $1 Trillion Bailout for Delinquent Student Loans
- WH: Obama’s “not particularly concerned” about whether Rice misled the public
- US: Yeah, that UN Internet-control proposal isn’t going to fly with us
EPA, Big Government, Agenda 21
Obama
- Appeals court issues injunction against HHS contraception mandate
- WSJ: Yep, the feds are totally unprepared to launch ObamaCare exchanges
Terrorism, Foreign Policy
- Canadian PM Harper, heir apparent to the free world, stands up for freedom, personally intervened to stop 'Palestinian' terror statehood bid at UN
- A REAL War On Women
- UN votes to recognize Palestine as non-member state
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Law Enforcement budget discussions in the news
With the 2013 county budget coming up for finalizing (discussed here in a previous post), the Union-Bulletin has printed a series of items opening discussions on the budget for the County Sheriff.
Briefly, that budget has been a point of concern for the Commissioners, especially given the cost overruns by Sheriff Turner in his 2011 budget, and the sharp disagreements between the Commissioners and Sheriff Turner during the 2011 run up to completing the 2012 Sheriff Budget. Those resulted in an editorial by the Union-Bulletin on December 9, 2011, titled "Meetings between Commission, sheriff should be public".
(That editorial can be viewed here, if you don't have an account with the Union-Bulletin.)
The two articles are linked below (registration may be required, if you have used your monthly quota of free views).
The discussion concerning the requested budget increases is a difficult one, given the revenue decrease, as noted by the Union-Bulletin on November 22 (No easy answers for budget gap), a projected $1.9 million county wide budget gap, and several as yet incomplete labor contract negotiations. As noted in that article:
If you are interested in attending the Commission meetings, for either information, or to offer your opinion, the public meeting are held each Monday, 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM, or you can check the county calender here.
Briefly, that budget has been a point of concern for the Commissioners, especially given the cost overruns by Sheriff Turner in his 2011 budget, and the sharp disagreements between the Commissioners and Sheriff Turner during the 2011 run up to completing the 2012 Sheriff Budget. Those resulted in an editorial by the Union-Bulletin on December 9, 2011, titled "Meetings between Commission, sheriff should be public".
(That editorial can be viewed here, if you don't have an account with the Union-Bulletin.)
The two articles are linked below (registration may be required, if you have used your monthly quota of free views).
The discussion concerning the requested budget increases is a difficult one, given the revenue decrease, as noted by the Union-Bulletin on November 22 (No easy answers for budget gap), a projected $1.9 million county wide budget gap, and several as yet incomplete labor contract negotiations. As noted in that article:
A worst-case scenario would have elected officials and department heads having to deal with increased labor costs in 2013 with the money they’ve been allotted in 2012, commissioners said. With no other place to cut expenses, layoffs may be the only option.The budget is set to be completed in December. Short of a major increase in revenues for the county, the question facing the Commissioners is balancing the budget for the entire county. The Sheriff either has to live within what he gets, or somehow takes something out of another county agency's budget. This is a very difficult problem for all concerned, especially considering the cash flow problems discussed at the special meeting in October (discussed here in a previous post), and unplanned but inevitable emergency needs.
“It’s not that we (commissioners) are telling them to cut people,” Dozier said. “If they (elected officials and department heads) can find a place to cut without layoffs, then do it.”
At Monday’s discussion, county Treasurer Gordon Heimbigner said county officials need to take on strategic planning to decide what are the “bare essentials for each office and where do we want to be in four years?” He said that just as federal officials have warned of being “close to a fiscal cliff, so are we.”
If you are interested in attending the Commission meetings, for either information, or to offer your opinion, the public meeting are held each Monday, 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM, or you can check the county calender here.
Monday news and opinions (updated)
Big Government
Corruption
ObamaCareTax
Education
Taxes
Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset
Second Amendment
Unions, It's The Economy
Politics
*: Updates
Corruption
- Democrats Vote The Mentally Disabled
- Our laboratories of democracy are moving toward one-party rule
- Unrestricted drones for me but not for thee?*
Obama
- Obamacare Meets Reality. Reality Wins.
- Federal Courts Split on Religious Liberty and Obamacare
- A Physician’s New Reality: Patients Ask Me to Break the Law*
Education
Taxes
- Surprising No One, Lindsey Graham Pledges To Violate Prior Pledge
- GOP Lawmakers Break Tax Pledge To Avert Looming Fiscal Crisis
- Examiner Editorial: Yes, you can balance the budget without raising taxes*
Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset
- The LIVING HELL of Socialism- in Photos
- The Politically Correct Guide to Racism for Idiots
- Rahm Emanuel to America: Do It the Chicago Way
Second Amendment
Unions, It's The Economy
- Failure Of Walmart Walkout Underscores Union Decline
- Morgan Stanley’s Doom Scenario: Major Recession in 2013*
Politics
*: Updates
Sunday, November 25, 2012
The First American Communists
The author calls them Socialists, but that detail is immaterial when one considers that our current leadership has forgotten the words of George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it":
Further reading on the subject may be found at:
It’s wrong to say that American was founded by capitalists. In fact, America was founded by socialists who had the humility to learn from their initial mistakes and embrace freedom. One of the earliest and arguably most historically significant North American colonies was Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. As I’ve outlined in greater detail here before (Lessons From a Capitalist Thanksgiving), the original colony had written into its charter a system of communal property and labor. As William Bradford recorded in his Of Plymouth Plantation, a people who had formerly been known for their virtue and hard work became lazy and unproductive. Resources were squandered, vegetables were allowed to rot on the ground and mass starvation was the result. And where there is starvation, there is plague. After 2 1/2 years, the leaders of the colony decided to abandon their socialist mandate and create a system which honored private property. The colony survived and thrived and the abundance which resulted was what was celebrated at that iconic Thanksgiving feast.Read the rest, and pass it on.
Further reading on the subject may be found at:
- Account of the First Harvest Feast and Thanksgiving
- How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims
- The Pilgrim Story: Vital Insights And Lessons For Today
- Pilgrims Beat 'Communism' With Free Market
Wa-Hi Bond Committee meeting Scheduled
From the Walla Walla Public School District web site:
The proposed bond is for $48 million, with a $21.6 million match from State funds, for a total cost of $69.6 million. Details on the proposed improvements to Wa-Ha are here.
Walla Walla Citizens for Schools has named Craig Sievertsen and Shannon (Murdock) Bergevin co-chairs for the Walla Walla High School Bond Committee. Sievertsen and Bergevin will organize activities to help educate the community regarding the Walla Walla High School bond election scheduled for February 12, 2013.
Sievertsen is a 1991 graduate of Walla Walla High School. His father Al Sievertsen was a teacher, coach and assistant principal at Walla Walla High School spanning 40 years. Craig Sievertsen is the Senior Vice President and Manager of Small Business and Consumer Lending at Banner Bank in Walla Walla. He and his wife Julie have four school-aged children.
Bergevin is a 1987 graduate of Walla Walla High School. Her father George Murdock was Deputy Superintendent for Walla Walla Public Schools before taking a Superintendent position in the Pasco School District where earned Washington state Superintendent of the Year honors in 1997. Shannon Bergevin is the owner and operator of Express Employment Professionals in Walla Walla. She and her husband Robert have two school-aged children.
Sievertsen and Bergevin have planned the first Citizens for Schools meeting. The public is welcome to attend.
Citizens for Schools Meeting
- Monday, Nov. 26
- 6:30 p.m.
- Whitman College (Memorial Building Room 328)
For more information, contact Craig Sieversten at: 509.301.5205 or Shannon Bergevin at: 509.522.1326.
Another school bond in the making
If your property taxes go to the Walla Walla Public School District, you might be interested in this:
WALLA WALLA — The Walla Walla School District is looking to form a committee that will study facility needs at Lincoln High School, with the goal of making a recommendation for improvements.
The Walla Walla School Board has called Lincoln a top facilities need, but has stopped short of seeking money for any improvements in the form of a bond. The district is instead focusing on a bond to remodel and improve Walla Walla High School. The Wa-Hi bond, which would raise $48 million locally, will go to voters in February.The district is continuing to look at Lincoln, however, with the plan to more specifically identify the school’s needs. Questions about whether the school should remain at its current location, or be remodeled or torn down and built anew, have yet to be answered clearly.The district is unsure whether there is strong community sentiment toward preserving the 1920s buiding (sic) on Fourth Avenue. It is also unclear whether Lincoln students would be better served in a new location.The Lincoln committee would look to answer all those questions this spring.
The rest is at the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin site, which requires registration or payment to access. Fair use prevents a complete copy&paste of the article.
The article does note that the committee will be selected in December, with the first meeting in January. Unstated in the article is how the committee will be chosen, and from what body the members will be chosen from. The district web site notes that the committee findings will go to the school board in June 2013.
If you wish to contact the school district, here is their contact page.
Indeed, none dare
The money quote:
Don't go running to a judge when this doesn't pan out. The courts do not overrule changes in government policy just because citizens find their promised free lunch isn't forthcoming. Nor will it be fruitful to appeal to politicians' sense of "fairness." Politicians can be relied on to do what will get them re-elected. And, believe it or not, that is the good news.
The rest is here.
Sunday news, opinions, and thoughts
Looking Ahead
ObamaCareTax
Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset
It's The Economy
Big Government, Corruption
Obama
Socialism, Communism, Liberal Mindset
- The Left’s Race Baiting Is Bewildering If You Argue Rationally
- Congressional Black Caucus Discovers Entire English Language is a Racist Code Word
It's The Economy
- Chief Economist: Quantitative Easing a Ticking 'Time Bomb'
- 'Vulture Capitalism' Not Responsible for Hostess Demise
Big Government, Corruption
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Washington State has the lowest estimated increase.....
.......but that's a mixed blessing.
With the election behind it, the 112th Congress has a couple of months during the lame duck session to turn its attention to pressing fiscal issues. Large changes to both taxes and spending are scheduled to take place at the end of the year unless Congress acts.[1] On the tax side, the biggest potential change is the expiration of all Bush-era and Obama tax cuts.
Additionally, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) has yet to be patched for the current tax year, let alone next. Congress could pass a retroactive patch (which it has done in the past) that would apply to the current year as well as next year; however, if it does not, the AMT exemption level would revert to what it was twelve years ago, and certain credits (such as the Child Tax Credit) would no longer be allowed against AMT liability. If this were to happen, millions of middle-class taxpayers could see a substantial tax increase, which for some could be even larger than the change from the end of the Bush-era tax cuts.
Finally, the 2% temporary cut to employee-side social security payroll taxes is also scheduled to expire at the end of this year—a potential third tax increase that would affect the vast majority of taxpayers.
And this does not include non-payroll taxes.
So, buckle up. It could be a bad time, tax wise. The only positive aspect of this is the irony that the top 5 states went for the Democrats.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!
Enjoy this period of giving thanks for what we have, and for the company of friends and family. If you're traveling, stay safe!
Blogging will be light the next few days while I do the same.
Blogging will be light the next few days while I do the same.
I can only agree with the lady...
....when she writes:
...I know the horror of it is going to be on my mind as we all take some time to reflect on what we have to be thankful for over the coming all-American holiday — because one of the very highest items on my gratitude-list is not having been born into the crushing, wretched misery that always accompanies institutionalized communism.And this is why she wrote that: Communist China can’t plug the leaks in the Great Firewall fast enough
Tuesday news & opinions (National)
ObamaCareTax
The Constitution, Bill of Rights, Big Government
Second Amendment
Looking Ahead
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
It's The Economy, Financial
Foreign Policy
Media
Unions
The Constitution, Bill of Rights, Big Government
- Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
- States deciding what to do with their pieces of the energy pie
Second Amendment
Looking Ahead
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
It's The Economy, Financial
- Democrats have own fiscal cliff issues
- Our Dust Bowl Economy
- CHART: America's Road to Collapse
- 2013 Looks a Lot Like 1937 in Four Fearsome Ways
Foreign Policy
- CBS: "Office of the DNI" cut al-Qaeda and terrorism references from Benghazi talking points
- Obama warns Egyptian President Morsi to rein in terrorists in Gaza
Media
Unions
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tuesday News and Opinions.....with some thoughts
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
The Constitution, First Amendment, Second Amendment
Foreign Policy
Taxes, It's The Economy, Financial
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism, Education
ObamaCareTax
Media
Politics, Elections
Unions
- EPA won't waive ethanol mandate for gasoline
- Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts
- Yikes: The Federal Housing Administration isn't looking too good, is it?
- FBI investigation of Broadwell reveals bureau’s comprehensive access to electronic communications
The Constitution, First Amendment, Second Amendment
- Lawsuit Attacks Billy Graham, Bishop for Saying Vote Pro-Life
- House reps to Obama: About that UN arms trade treaty? Just say no.
Foreign Policy
- America, Israel, Gaza, the World
- Chambliss: WH had to have changed CIA talking points on Benghazi
- House Intel Chair: 'Appointees from Administration' Changed Rice's Talking Points
- David Petraeus: A Good General Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
- The Jacksonian Tradition
Taxes, It's The Economy, Financial
- CEOs to Washington: Strike a Deal—and Do It Now
- Half Your Paycheck To The Government In 2013
- Euro falls versus U.S. dollar after Moody's cuts France credit rating
- Fiscal cliff deal taking shape?
- Investment Falls Off a Cliff
- The 'fiscal cliff' deal we need
- Punked: GOP Already Losing Fiscal Cliff Talks
- IT'S OFFICIAL: Nancy Pelosi Demands That American Small Businesses Fire 710,000 Workers
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism, Education
- Obama: ‘I Wish I Could Impose My Will on Congress’
- With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race
ThinkingVoting With Your Vagina
Obama
- 75% of the costs of Obamacare will be paid by those making $120,000 or less
- Capretta and Levin: Why ObamaCare Is Still No Sure Thing
- The 49ers
Media
- Embattled NYT questions leadership change at the WaPo
- NYT Once Again Unaware of Terrorists in Gaza
- The CBS Evening News Calls Bulls--- on Hamas
- AP reporter slams Obama administration for ‘silent diplomacy’ while people are dying
Politics, Elections
Unions
Monday, November 19, 2012
A failure of strategy, not argument
Here's an interesting counterpoint to the post-election analysis:
"One problem that we should shoot down immediately is claim by the LA Times writer that the GOP is in need of a cure. That's just not the case. We lost by between 300,000 to 400,000 votes in swing states. That's an amazingly close election. It does not represent a repudiation of Republican ideas at all. We lost an election, not an argument."
It's a highly recommended read.
"One problem that we should shoot down immediately is claim by the LA Times writer that the GOP is in need of a cure. That's just not the case. We lost by between 300,000 to 400,000 votes in swing states. That's an amazingly close election. It does not represent a repudiation of Republican ideas at all. We lost an election, not an argument."
It's a highly recommended read.
Monday news and opinons
Looking Ahead
Foreign Policy, Corruption
Budget Battle, Socialism, Corruption
It's the Economy
Politics
ObamaCareTax
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Humor
*: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. Registration required for more than 5 views per month.
Foreign Policy, Corruption
- On Benghazi – Of Course Obama Knew
- Obama 3 Days Ago: And If You Have A Problem With That, You Can Have A Discussion With Me; Obama Today: And If You Have A Problem With That, You Can Have A Discussion With the State or Defense Departments
- WH: Benghazi talking-point changes? Don’t look at us…
- White House Throws CIA Under the Bus
Budget Battle, Socialism, Corruption
- Geithner: We should definitely just get rid of the debt ceiling
- One Possible Option to Prevent the Fiscal Cliff
It's the Economy
Politics
- The big-city president*
- Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud
- Ted Cruz: 'I'm Pretty Certain Mitt Romney Actually French-Kissed Barack Obama'
Obama
- Bible publisher wins third injunction against HHS contraception mandate
- Governors Could Cede Control to Feds by Rejecting Healthcare Exchanges
Liberal Mindset, Socialism, Communism
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Humor
*: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. Registration required for more than 5 views per month.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
You don't say!
From Breitbart comes this intriguing headline:
With this fascinating conclusion:
With this fascinating conclusion:
.....these numbers show that many on extended unemployment often turn down part-time jobs or work they may not think pays enough so long as they can rely on federal benefits, which can be a disincentive to look for immediate work.Stop paying people enough money to not work, and they return to the labor force. Amazing, huh?
Imagine that......
The White House says it believes Israel "has the right to defend itself" against attack and that the Israelis will make their own decisions about their "military tactics and operations."As always, read the whole thing.
Sound Advice
From the Freedom Foundation:
So, contact your state legislators (use this handy web site), and let them know what you think about the next budget. Now is your chance to do so, before it's approved.
OK, let’s have a quick show of hands. How many of you have gone from one year to the next without a pay raise?The rest contains a decent proposal for helping balance the budget, and cut spending.....by not increasing spending. But it won't be a popular one.
For that matter, how many have seen your income reduced in a down economy? And although you certainly didn’t enjoy it, weren’t you relieved you still had a job at all when compared with your co-workers who’d been laid off?
Consider then, the plight of Washington state’s public-sector workers, whose employer – like yours, maybe – is having a hard time making ends meet. In fact, based on numbers released this week by the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, the state is projected to take in $900 million less than it expects to spend during the next biennium.
Which isn’t to suggest the state is strapped for cash. In fact, the same projections show state revenue increasing by $1.5 billion for 2013-2015 and by $3.1 billion for 2015-2017.
It just isn’t increasing as the demand to spend it.
So what would it take to bring the budget back into balance? How about asking state workers to share a little of your pain?
So, contact your state legislators (use this handy web site), and let them know what you think about the next budget. Now is your chance to do so, before it's approved.
Sunday news, opinions, and thoughts
Looking Ahead
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
The Constitution, Bill of Rights
Unions, Liberal Mindset
Foreign Policy, Corruption
Taxes, Budget Battle
ObamaCareTax
Elections, Politics
It's the Economy
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
- Answerable to no one
- Claim: EPA Head Used Secret Email to Hide Documents
- Environmentalists pushing a monopoly on logging
- Efficiency: $4 Million Spent to Distribute $12 Million in Food Stamps
- GOP Reaps Its Abandonment of Limited Government
- Number Crunching: Food Stamps
The Constitution, Bill of Rights
Unions, Liberal Mindset
- Some Hostess Workers Feel 'Relief' at Losing Jobs
- Maine’s striking Hostess workers say company’s collapse a strong message of union resolve
Foreign Policy, Corruption
- Harry Reid’s Benghazi Cover-Up
- WSJ: Hillary’s on the hot seat, not Rice
- BREAKING: The president knew the truth about Benghazi
- How Long Can The Left Continue To Defy Economic Gravity?
- The World's Next Genocide
Taxes, Budget Battle
- Gorging the Beast: Tax cuts didn’t starve big government
- Hunch: Obama doesn’t want a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff
- Fiscal Cliff Apathy: Dems Shut Down Senate For Thanksgiving
- Reid and Boehner split over timing for deficit-reduction deal
Obama
Elections, Politics
It's the Economy
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Local news (UPDATED)
- Sen. Mike Hewitt stepping down as state Senate GOP leader
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
- Spending $69.6 million on Wa-Hi too much
- Wa-Hi Bond Fact Sheet
- New oath requirement has some Benton County GOP members resigning
- Walla Walla City Council OKs tax hike
- WA farmers block federal drones and Agenda 21 (Update)
Saturday thoughts, opinions, and news
Looking Ahead
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
Foreign Policy
Taxes, Budget Battle
ObamaCareTax
Politics
It's The Economy
Unions
Liberal Mindset, Socialism
Big Government, EPA, Corruption
- The EPA hearts Big Ethanol
- How America's Middle Class, And Future Pensioners, Bailed Out A Generation Of Overzealous Homebuyers
- FedEx, UPS probed on illegal shipments of prescription painkillers
- House GOP: Hey, who’s up for a few earmarks? Update: Proposal withdrawn
- FEMA: Welfare Masquerading as Disaster Relief
Foreign Policy
- 'Real-time' video shows Benghazi drama, but questions remain
- Screens flicker out across Washington
- Escalation: Hamas aims rockets at Jerusalem
- Bombshell: Petraeus to tell Congress that he knew “almost immediately” Benghazi was work of terrorists; Update: Petraeus, King dispute earlier testimony
- Red Flag Over the Atlantic
- Update: CIA Talking Points Included Strong References To Al Qaeda; The White House Stripped Them Out
- McCain Smashes Obama Back: You're Incompetent or Corrupt
- Susan Rice's miserable record at the UN
- ‘Shirtless’ FBI Agent, A Hero And Conservative
Taxes, Budget Battle
- Murray: Can't guarantee 2014 budget
- Congressional Democrats: We're Fine Going Over The Fiscal Cliff and Plunging the Nation Into Recession
- White House Weighs Plan to Replace Spending Cuts
- NOT KIDDING: The Most Terrifying Obama Quote Ever
Obama
- How’s That Obamacare Waiver Workin’ Out for Ya?
- Gov. Jindal’s letter rejecting Obamacare implementation
- What's Next for Obamacare and the States?
Politics
- Yes, Obama is still an amateur president
- Does Rice have a problem from the Left?
- To Win, Obama Sacrifices House, State Legislatures
- Chris Christie unwraps Mitt Romney's 'gift' claim
- Joke petition on White House website: It’s time to nationalize Twinkies
- Allen West still fighting for recount
It's The Economy
Unions
- Twinkies Maker Hostess Going Out of Business, CEO Blames Union Strike
- Trumka Bashes Hostess As 'Bain-Style Wall Street Vultures'
Liberal Mindset, Socialism
- Another ‘Islamophobic Hate Crime’ That Wasn’t
- Bad news: Turns out it’s sexist and racist to criticize Susan Rice for giving bad information to the public
- Gov. O’Malley to GOP: Remove Tea Party ‘Stench’
- Barack Obama's Election And The Looming Crisis Of Liberalism
Friday, November 16, 2012
Friday news, thoughts, and opinions
Foreign Policy
Terrorism
Politics, Taxes, Budget Battle
ObamaCareTax
It's The Economy
Unions
Media
Second Amendment
Big Government, EPA
- CNN: Petraeus To Testify He Knew Libya Was Terrorism 'Almost Immediately'
- Petraeus replacement to testify CIA never requested military assistance in Benghazi
- WSJ: Petraeus pushed out after defending CIA over Benghazi?
- CBS: CIA talking points for Rice never mentioned terrorism
- Revealed: The shirtless photo that the FBI agent sent to Jill Kelley
- Fat Generals a Sign of China's Weakness?
Terrorism
- TERRORISTS OR WAR-CRIMINALS: Which best describes Hamas?
- Israeli Civilians Under Fire; Hamas Fakes Casualties on Twitter
Politics, Taxes, Budget Battle
- New Democratic shenanigans, same as the old Democratic shenanigans
- Republicans say they will not back down
- Cornyn tells Obama to stop campaigning and produce a deficit-reduction plan
- House Republicans Take Hard Line On Tax Increases
- Two Different Worlds
- Rep. West on possibly running in Georgia: 'No'
- Gallup: Plurality now supports “balanced approach” of tax hikes and spending cuts to reduce deficit
Obama
- Obamacare implementation could spell trouble for Democrats in 2014
- Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation
- This medical device tax is just not going to end well
- Sebelius Again Extends Deadline on Health Exchanges
It's The Economy
- Do Regulations Kill Jobs? Not at All, Says Reid
- Americans still free to use money as weapon against Progressives
- FORWARD! HOPE! CHANGE! Illinois Youth Called a "Lost Generation" as Unemployment Reaches Record Levels
- It's official: Eurozone back in recession
- Oh my: Weekly jobless claims rise to 439K
- Latino Poverty Rate Climbs to 28%; Millions of Racists Take a Second Look At Obama
- BREAKING NEWS: The Economy Sucks
- The new boom: Shale gas fueling an American industrial revival
- Analysis: US To Become Energy Independent By 2035
Unions
- Reward: Obama NLRB looks to give workers’ private contact info to unions
- Hostess CEO gives striking workers Thursday deadline
Media
Second Amendment
- MILLER: Guns blazing since election
- Blaze Magazine Report: Is Gun Control Helping or Hurting Europe?
Big Government, EPA
Thursday, November 15, 2012
How Raising Taxes Will Not Balance the Budget: More Evidence
Alas, common sense is not only uncommon, it's under lock and key at some Federal prison.
Confirmed: Obama is a cult leader
A real book (I guess; it's written, so I guess that makes it a "book") by a... college professor who instructs young students in how to think properly.Read the rest. Even if it's extreme, it's insight to the minds of our opponents, and what they are instilling in people around the country.
She teaches at -- or, rather, collects a paycheck from -- Florida A&M.
Here's her description of her book:
Yes, Barack had worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people, especially those who elected him in 2008. His followers needed to re-elect him to a second term, so that he could continue to accomplish the promises he made, thus, realizing his vision of America as a more perfect political union or “heaven here on earth.”
Thursday news, thoughts, and opinions
Foreign Policy
ObamaCareTax
Looking Ahead
It's The Economy, Financial, Taxes
Politics, Corruption
Media
Communism, Socialism
- Kristen Powers: Why Did Obama Send Out Someone To Give a "Presentation" On Benghazi Who He Now Says Knew Nothing At All About Benghazi?
- Breaking: Petraeus to testify on Benghazi attacks; Update: Petraeus offered testimony
- "Come After Me:" Obama Offers Rehearesed Tough-Guy Message on Benghazi, But Avoids Actual Answers
- Krauthammer: White House 'Held Affair Over Petraeus's Head' For Favorable Testimony On Benghazi
- Graham: I'm "dead set" against promoting anyone involved in Benghazi debacle
- Heckuva Job, Susan Rice!
- A MILLION ISRAELIS HAVE 15 SECONDS TO FIND SHELTER: Any other country would have turned Gaza into the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Obama
- 5 Ways To Protect Yourself Against Obamacare
- Doc Shortage Could Crash Health Care
- Catholic bishops pledge defiance on HHS mandate
Looking Ahead
It's The Economy, Financial, Taxes
- Great news: October deficit higher than October 2011
- The fiscal cliff: Will Obama, Congress cut budget deal?
- Reid: Social Security really isn’t part of the problem, you know
- Stocks Down Another 1+%; NASDAQ's Cumulative Drop Since Mid-September Is 10.6%
- French CEOs: So, we're kinda' drowning over here...
- Mark Levin: Fiscal cliff? We’re facing the COLLAPSE of our society and Republicans need to “wake the hell up”
- Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff
- Obama Campaigning: $3 In Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes; Obama at Debate: $2.5 in Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes; Obama's Actual Plan: $3 In Taxes For Every $1 In Cuts
Politics, Corruption
- The Senate's first order of business: Polar bear carcasses
- Barack Obama tacitly admits Eric Holder is as guilty as sin about Operation Fast & Furious...
- More Hispanic Voting Myths
Media
- Politico: ‘Hard questions await Obama at news conference’
- Hilarious Video: McCain shuts down reporter after "dumb" Petraeus scandal question
Communism, Socialism
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
"I am relieved at the outcome of the election"
Read The Rest. It is well worth your time to do so.I am relieved.
Now that a week has passed, and people have processed things a little, I can admit publicly what I have to date only said to a few close friends.
I am relieved at the outcome of the election.
This is not to say I am pleased. Regardless of what he said while addressing the University of Notre Dame, Barack Obama has amply demonstrated his willingness to ignore the rights of religious entities to exist and to operate—in ways that go well beyond formal acts of worship—according to their founding precepts. His administration has demonstrated its continued intention to “fundamentally transform the United States of America,” as he put it on November 1, by expanding the reach of government.
As the president might say, “make no mistake”: We do not come back from this election, and by “we” I mean America as we have known it; not with the present culture.
At National Review Online, Charles C. W. Cooke writes eloquently of this truth, but where he feels despair, I feel set free. This election has shattered, finally the illusion that if “good conservatives just keep fighting,” somehow “another Reagan” was going to come along and restore the “shining city on a hill”. For too long I have watched friends remain enthralled to the notion that a single man or woman equipped with rhetorical skills, a bit of spine, and right-thinking would be able to resurrect what is remembered by some modern conservatives as a golden age.
Wednesday opinions, thoughts, and news
ObamaCareTax
Media
The Constitution, Bill of Rights
Politics
Elections
Taxes, EPA
Socialism, Communism
Looking Ahead
Foreign Policy
It's the Economy
- Is Obamacare too much work for the Obama administration?
- Wal-Mart Employees to Pay More for Health-Care Plans
Media
The Constitution, Bill of Rights
- Re-elected, Obama takes aim at religious liberty
- Teachers Face Investigations for Anti-Obama Messages
Politics
- Scott Walker for Speaker of the House
- Yep: Eric Holder to stay on as Obama’s attorney general
- Obama, Progressives Renew Wary Embrace
- Reid short on votes for filibuster reform?
- BESIDES FEWER HANDOUTS, THAT IS: The real reason Romney lost?
- Earth to GOP: Get a Grip
- Poll: Blame GOP for cliff diving
- Republicans Pan Potential Kerry, Rice Nominations
- Bobby Jindal: The GOP Can't Stay Stuck On Stupid
- RE: Bobby Jindal And The Conservative Movement's Line In The Sand
Elections
- The myth of 141% turnout in St. Lucie County, Florida
- Your daily jolt: An invitation to Allen West from the Ga. GOP
Taxes, EPA
Socialism, Communism
- Obama To Unleash Racial-Preferences Juggernaut
- CBS's Nancy Giles: Whites Oppose Abortion 'To Build Up the Race'
Looking Ahead
- Time to cut a deal on immigration
- MUST READ: We Have Lost
- The Edge of the Abyss
- The new dark age: Across Europe, free speech and democracy face their biggest threat since the Thirties
- Defining conservatism up
Foreign Policy
- Feinstein: I’ll subpoena CIA about Petraeus trip to Libya after Benghazi attack
- WE KEEP ALL OF THE SCANDALS STRAIGHT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO: Today's U.S. Foreign Policy Update
- Germany Turns Its Back on the World?
It's the Economy
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The conservative European view, redux
Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon:
This quote actually dates back to April 2010, but is no less valid today than back then. It's something to keep in mind for the years ahead.
Source: Republican Party of Oneida County.
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."
This quote actually dates back to April 2010, but is no less valid today than back then. It's something to keep in mind for the years ahead.
Source: Republican Party of Oneida County.
Did anyone from Walla Walla attend?
Read the rest here.This Saturday, the Midwest Marxist Conference was held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The event was teeming with teachers who spoke about the new found bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union. The all-day event, which collected money to support Chicago Socialists and featured a communist bookstore, provided students on-campus along with the radical left community to plan the next phase in their activism.Becca Barnes, a Chicago Teachers Union teacher and organizer with Chicago Socialists, proclaimed at the beginning of the conference that “the struggle here in the United States has entered a new phase. Nowhere have we pointed the way forward more clearly than here in Chicago with the teachers union strike.”After the opening plenary, breakout sessions addressed more specific topics like the history of the Democratic party, education, and case studies in Russia. In these sessions, speakers continued to celebrate the use of education as a mechanism to insert Marxism into public institutions. In one session, the idea of targeting their message to students, even over “the working class,” was debated.
If you think that the Republic is dead.....
....then you should read The Frogman's Prophecies. A partial quote:
And then decide.
...... it seems to me that some of you, in the emotion of that unexpected electoral defeat, forgot this simple fact: America is always outnumbered.Read the whole thing. Including the last line.
This unique nation, founded not on feudal or religious fault lines but on a radical philosophy of individual freedom isn’t the norm in this world: it is an anomaly. If you needed a quick and simple reminder on the basis for American exceptionalism, there you go.
America is always outnumbered and, until the rest of the world sees the guiding light and builds shining cities on America’s model—if that day ever comes—America will always be outnumbered.
Yet it doesn’t matter: America’s strength isn’t in numbers, it’s in her soul.
And then decide.
Tuesday news & opinions
It's The Economy, Big Government, EPA
Budget Battle, ObamaCareTax, Taxes
Election (National and State)
The Constitution, First Amendment, Second Amendment
Patriotism, Core Values
Foreign Policy
Socialism
Corruption
Budget Battle, Obama
- Budget cutters target ObamaCare subsidies as fiscal cliff approaches?
- Will Obama Tax the Internet?
- Axelrod: Talk of mandate foolish except when it comes to tax hikes, or something
- Sen. Murray: Dems would let Bush-era rates expire before taking ‘unfair deal’
- Will multiple states’ non-cooperation be too much for ObamaCare?
- More Californians Will Flee State After Recent Tax Increases
Election (National and State)
- Why is ballot counting so slow in Washington state?
- The Republican Party Failed Conservatives
- The Republican Clown Car Campaign
- Triumph of the Moochers?
The Constitution, First Amendment, Second Amendment
- Attorney: Gov’t wants to confine religious freedom
- Louisiana Citizens to Gun-Grabbing Judges: Come and Take It
- Secession petitions filed in 20 states
Patriotism, Core Values
- No.
- GOP may be at serious tipping point
- High School Hockey Teams Told to Dump National Anthem
- Group turns to social media to rally support for Papa John's amid liberal backlash
Foreign Policy
- Marijuana Laws: Growing Outcry in Latin America Over Colorado, Washington Votes
- Benghazi on front burner in Congress this week
Socialism
- Obama Won't Fight For Gay Marriage His Second Term
- Politico wants conservatives to stop reading alternatives to Politico
Corruption
- Gee, why do you think the Obama administration waited until after November 6th to mail these letters?
- Ace of Spades: Eric Holder Is Obviously Lying About the Petaeus Affair
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