Wednesday stories, commentary, and opinions

The Constitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment

• Churches Challenge IRS: Ban on Discussing Politics Unconstitutional
• Paul Ryan Address Catholics: Obama Has 'Attacked' Church Throughout Presidency
• Is America Becoming a Banana Republic?
• Eliminating the Electoral College Would Corrupt Our Elections
• Obama Supporters: Vandals and Thieves (Warning: Language content!)

Politics, Elections

• Video: The incredible shrinking President
• Obama: I’m Only Going To Win If ‘Everybody Is Almost Obsessive’
• Suffolk pollster: We’re not polling Florida, Virginia, or North Carolina anymore, because Romney’s going to win them
• Hey, how come Jay Carney's not holding televised press briefings anymore?
• Obama Supporter Brags About Illegal Foreign Donations on President's Own Website
• Obama Campaign Scrambles to Kill Illegal Online Fundraising Story
• The day polling died
• Obama 'believed he had BEATEN Romney' in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparation
• MSNBC: Why can't Team Obama stop talking about the debate?

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Financial, It's The Economy

•  Good news: IMF lowering expectations for global economic growth
•  Just a reminder: Obamanomics has flopped
•  A Highway to Nowhere

EPA, Big Government

• Report: EPA having trouble keeping up with the hydraulic-fracturing boom

Offered as a form of bi-partisanship

 

Source: S. Weasel

Elections may come, and elections may go....

....but Agenda 21 remains a problem that we need to understand and address.  Given the press and urgency of the elections, that's been the focus for posting of late.  But here are a couple of good articles that are both good recaps, and contain new information:

• Agenda 21: A Global Economic Disaster in the Making
• Agenda 21 Part II: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Invading a Town near You – With Your Permission

Tuesday Cartoons

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Quote of the Day

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin, from his writings — 1758

Tuesday commentary and news

Politics and the elections

• Romney to deliver foreign policy speech amid big questions on Libya, global economy
• More polls: Romney now within three points in Michigan, two in Pennsylvania
• Is Obama overrated as a candidate?
• Updated election forecasting model still points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says.
• Pew poll: Romney erases eight-point deficit, now leads by four among likely voters
• Chuck Todd: The enthusiasm gap is real — and a real problem for Obama
• ‘THE MANTLE OF LEADERSHIP’ – Text of Mitt Romney’s Speech at VMI
• As Predicted: Now That Obama Is Losing, Democrats Play the Mormon Card
• Biden Takes 6 Days Off Campaign Trail
• Why Obama Will Lose All Three Debates
• Battleground Poll: Romney Up 16 with Independents, Up 13 In Enthusiasm
• Obama Kicks Up Character Attacks After Debate Drubbing
• Ohio Poll Analyst: Voter Turnout Modeling Predicts Big Ohio Trouble for Obama

Media

• CBS's Lara Logan: Obama Is Lying to America
• Dems Out Andrea Mitchell as Partisan
• Wake Up Media, the BLS Has Been Fudging Its Numbers for YEARS

It's the Economy, Financial

• World City America: Obama Administration Torpedoing U.S. Flag Cruise Industry
• Gibbs: Welch 'embarrassed himself' over comments on US jobless rate
• Global Food Prices Set To Soar--Again
• Economic Ignorance Accelerates
• George Will Quotes Cato Study Showing IPAB Is Even Worse than Romney Says
• Another Interesting Thing I Would Never Have Known
• Europe’s Richer Regions Want Out

 Big Government, Taxes, ObamaCareTax

• Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers
• Obama Claims Repealing ObamaCare Would Benefit Insurers. In Fact, They Stand to Lose $1 Trillion
• Another Obama green-subsidy recipient under criminal investigation

Unions, Education

• What the critics of ‘Won’t Back Down’ don’t understand
• New York Teacher Live-Streams $75,000 Do-Nothing Job
• Rally Planned Tuesday Morning for Bullied Pro-Romney Teen

Foreign Policy, Terrorism

• Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy
• Former U.S. security team leader in Libya: We told State we needed more security there, not less
• Murdered ambassador sent cable warning of threats on day of Benghazi attack

Liberal mindset

• Twitter Explodes After Black Actress Endorses Romney as the ‘Only Choice for Your Future’
• Liberals Beginning to Realize They’ve Overestimated Obama’s Popularity?
• Change

Illegal campaign donations accepted by Obama campaign

Again.  As happened in 2008.  Related stories:

• Website "Obama.com" Redirects Visitors To Obama's Official Donation Page, Despite 68% of Its Visitors Being Overseas And Presumably Ineligible to Donate To An American Campaign
• The Illegal-Donor Loophole
• Obama bundler tied to Chinese government?
• Claim: Obama campaign illegally solicited foreign donors via social media website
• Obama Campaign: That’s Not A Donation Scandal, It’s A Judas Priest Reference
• Obama Campaign Has No Security to Bar Illegal Foreign Donations

Quote of the day

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Federalist No. 62 — 1788

Monday Cartoons

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Monday news & commentary

Political, elections

• Obama Meltdown Beginning? Plus: Romney Campaign on ‘$5 Trillion’ Lie
• After debate failure, Obama consults most trusted adviser
• FOREVER SIX: The Traits of a Narcissist
• Letterman suggests Romney didn't pay taxes, calls him a "felon"
• Why he's falling apart
• The Winning Answer
• Elmer Williams Critiques Snoop Dogg’s Voting Rationale

 It's The Economy, Financial

• CBO Confirms Fourth Consecutive Year of Trillion-Dollar Deficits Under Obama

Big Government, Taxes, ObamaCareTax

• THE BUSH-OBAMA DEBT CHART: "As God is my witness: I never thought that it would get this bad"
• NYT: CA gas prices “often high because of regulations”
• Gov. Brown Orders 'Emergency Steps' to Increase State Gas Supply
• Human Exceptionalism
• New Shotgun Shells Found To Pump Into Zombie ObamaCare?

First Amendment, Unions

•  Pro-Romney Student Bullied by Union Teacher, Gets No Support from Union

Foreign Policy

• MELTDOWN: Intel Community Blasts Obama for Removing Amb. Stevens' Security, Lying About Al Qaeda and Covering Up Its Epic Failures
• Cover Up: Obama Administration Yanked a 16-Member Special Forces Team From Benghazi, A Month Before Attack
  (And A Month Before The Calender-Predictable Arrival of September 11th)