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Great photo from blog contributor Dave Hollenbeck in Arizona
Gingrich wins South Carolina primary, Fox News projects
Excerpt: Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, Fox News projects, further scrambling an already volatile primary race that has produced three different winners in three states. Fox News projects that Mitt Romney will place second in the Palmetto State Texas
Excerpt: While Romney seemed totally unprepared for the obvious questions that came his way, Gingrich's months of planning for the inevitable controversy about his marriage shut it down entirely. The same crowd that booed Romney erupted in applause for Gingrich's bold stand. The reaction to Gingrich in the debate hall mirrored the electricity he has been generating all week in what is essentially his own backyard. (I assume Daily Beast's tone of almost-approval is for the internal problems a Gingrich victory would cause within the Republican party, not the possibility that he might actually win. Ron P.)
Excerpt: The South Carolina Republican Party’s mantra is: “We pick presidents.” Voters in Saturday’s primary felt the same way, but their idea of who was most electable differed starkly from their predecessors in the 2012 GOP presidential race. By the end of the contest Saturday, exit polls show Mitt Romney’s reputation as the most electable Republican candidate took a severe blow.
Fox News Hires Soros-funded Activist
Excerpt: Sally Kohn, a former senior strategist at the Soros-funded Center France , who finances the “progressive” movement in the U.S.
Free Meredith Graves
Excerpt: The Manhattan district attorney is reported to be in plea-deal negotiations with Meredith Graves, the nurse who faces serious felony firearms charges after bringing her Tennessee-permitted .32-caliber pistol to Ground Zero, apparently unaware of the fact that New York declines to recognize out-of-state concealed-carry licenses, and that New York City declines to recognize even New York State permits. Ms. Graves, upon seeing the no-guns sign at the memorial, naïvely asked a security guard whether it would be possible to check in her pistol; this attempt to comply with the posted rules resulted in her arrest, and could well result in her being sent to prison — for years.
Why Do Obama Officials Get Rich?: The president’s band of 1 percenters By Rich Lowry
Excerpt: In his signature Osawatomie , Kan.
The Myth of 'Newt the Great Debater' - John Ziegler, American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_myth_of_newt_the_great_debater.html#ixzz1k2dBoKUtExcerpt: We are told that all of the frustration, which media-hating conservatives have been feeling after four years of watching helplessly as the great fraud Obama has somehow avoided being exposed, will be all unleashed in a series of glorious, three-hour, Lincoln/Douglas style debates. By the end of that process, according to the Gospel according to Newt, Obama will have to be carried off the stage by network news anchors as our next president basks in the glow of a nation grateful to having been shown the light of truth.
Proposed Enemy Expatriation Act to Dispossess American Citizens of Their American Nationality by Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson - American Thinker
Excerpt: Things may now be going from very bad to even worse. This January, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Congressman Charles Dent (R-PA) introduced legislation to empower the federal government to dispossess citizens of their citizenship and send them into stateless exile. The fact that reliable weathervanes of the liberal House GOP establishment like Frank Wolf (R-VA) have co-sponsored this bill confirm that this bill is not an outlier.
The Phony Saints of Liberal Land
Excerpt: With one-half of their brains, liberals are convinced they are peaceful, loving, and harmless folk, while the other half is seething with anger, rage, and envy. In fact, scapegoating and lynch-mobbing are what they do naturally. We just saw it with the Occu mobs, with all the top Demagogues telling the world how good and saintly those pooping morons of Wall Street really were. Then the New York Sanitation Dept. crews -- mostly Hispanics and blacks -- had to clean up the tons of poop... It's easy to tell the phony saints. Phony saints are the ones who tell the world how good they are. Real saints just do things.
Mozilla Touts Firefox Impact on SOPA Blackout
Excerpt: According to Mozilla, Firefox users were instrumental in getting the message to Congress. "Ultimately, 360,000 emails were sent by Mozillians to members of Congress, contributing a third of all the emails generated by EFF's campaign site," said Mozilla in a blog post Thursday.
No More 'Women and Children First' - Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
Excerpt: As Kipling wrote: "We're most of us liars, we're 'arf of us thieves, an' the rest of us rank as can be, But once in a while we can finish in style (which I 'ope it won't 'appen to me)." Sixty years later, the men on the Titanic – liars and thieves, wealthy and powerful, poor and obscure – found themselves called upon to "finish in style," and did so. They had barely an hour to kiss their wives goodbye, watch them clamber into the lifeboats, and sail off without them. They, too, 'ope'd it wouldn't 'appen to them, but, when it did, the social norm of "women and children first" held up under pressure and across all classes.
Make Up Your Mind, Newt - Mark Steyn, National Review Online
Excerpt: Jonah, Andy, I’m with you guys. Does Newt have an “open marriage” with John King? He gets to slap him around on TV, but after the show he’s all kissy-kissy with him? I’ve sat through too many third-rate nights on Broadway not to recognize the difference between cheap manipulative ersatz indignation and the real thing. More fool the crowd for rewarding him for it.
Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Survivor - by Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish Blog
Excerpt: Whatever else Newt Gingrich is, he's a survivor. The establishment sank him once over Paul Ryan and he came back. It sank him a second time over Bain and once again he's back. A much hyped interview with his ex-wife hardly touched him no matter how often Drudge pushed the story. With Perry out and Santorum lagging despite his apparent win in Iowa
VIDEO: Allen West Challenges Journalists: "When are you going to go ask Harry Reid: "What's Up With That [Fiscal Insanity]?"
Excerpt: Allen West to Journalists: '[Harry Reid] stands for fiscal insanity...and I would ask you one simple question, each and every one of you people behind the cameras, with your pens, pads and recording devices, when are you going to go over to Harry Reid and ask him, "What's up with that?" [Allen West is challenging the journalists in this video, but the text on the Fox News page does not mention that. The Fox page makes it seem as if AW is talking to Harry Reid. No. He is talking to the journalists. He is saying to the journalists: "When are you going to go over to Harry Reid & ask him, "What's up with that fiscal insanity?" - Kate]
A GOP Candidate's Bitter Ex-Wife Receives More Coverage Than a Video of Obama Dining with Terrorist-Supporters By Lauri B. Regan
Excerpt: As I watch the media circus surrounding Marianne Gingrich's interview regarding her relationship with her ex-husband and GOP candidate, Newt Gingrich, I am once again reminded of the double standard afforded to the Democrats and Barack Obama in particular. Coming on the heels of the Herman Cain melee in which the press had a field day parading one accuser after another before video cameras, it is difficult not to repeat the question of why the Democrats get a free pass. Why are calls for Mitt Romney to release his tax return not met with calls for Barack Obama to release his college transcripts—something that is just as customary for presidential candidates?
Elections leader wants probe of 900 dead voters
http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNational/Article_2012-01-11-Voter%20ID/id-cb88852f7e254974a41324d5ca8d7f1d
http://hosted2.ap.org/ALDEC/TDNational/Article_2012-01-11-Voter%20ID/id-cb88852f7e254974a41324d5ca8d7f1d
Excerpt: "If you have voted after you are dead, there is a good, strong possibility that you did something illegal," he said to reporters after speaking to the panel. "At that point in time, it comes out of my hands and goes into legal hands. ... It's not my job to explain that." Marci Andino, executive director of the state Election Commission, said the DMV analysis and claims, if true, would mean the election process has been compromised by illegal activity. (No SC
Amazing: It's easy to judge why this inexperienced lawyer will get on the bench: Dan Degnan may not have the credentials, but he has a powerful dad by John Kass
Excerpt: Though short on courtroom time, the fifth candidate did have something more valuable: oodles of political chops. And he had the Mount Olympus of political hack jobs, executive director of the Cook County
Amazing: When a bad thing is a sure thing, even a mobster can cop a plea by John Kass
Excerpt: Soon the FBI was digging for bodies near Scalise's suburban home, and this prompted his then-attorney Anne Burke — the wife of the Chicago ward boss and the future (and current) Illinois Supreme Court Justice — to insist that Scalise had nothing to say to the feds. "The FBI has been trying to get him (Scalise) to talk consistently over the years," Burke told the Tribune in 1988, saying her client was subject of FBI "harassment." She added, "On all occasions he has refused to talk to them." (So, one of our Supreme Court Justices was an attorney for mobsters? Gee, you learn something new every day here in the Land of Obama
Rep. Allen West Calls Obama 'Weak' on Iran
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/205309-rep-west-we-should-tell-iran-game-on
Excerpt: “Right now he’s not conveying any kind of strength whatsoever,” West said of Obama. “If I were sitting at the White House I would say two words to Iran
Greenpeace's Forest Policy is Unsustainable - James Delingpole, Telegraph UK
Excerpt: Here is a guest post from one of my environmental heroes, Patrick Moore. The reason he's an environmental hero is because, unlike so many campaigners in the green movement, he doesn't believe that in order to save the world its necessary to destroy Western industrial civilisation. I highly recommend his superb book Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout which describes how he lost his faith in the organisation he co-founded: Since I left Greenpeace, its members, and the majority of the movement have adopted policy after policy that reflects their antihuman bias...
Pleading the Fifth: Gunwalker Witness Refuses to Testify
Excerpt: Cunningham’s intention to broadly exercise his rights by providing nothing more than his name and title provoked a scathing response from Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa: The assertion of the Fifth Amendment by a senior Justice official is a significant indictment of the Department’s integrity in Operation Fast and Furious. The former head of the ATF has previously told the committee that the Justice Department is managing its response to Operation Fast and Furious in a manner designed to protect its political appointees. This is the first time anyone has asserted their Fifth Amendment right in this investigation and heightens concerns that the Justice Department’s motivation for refusing to hand over subpoenaed materials is a desire to shield responsible officials from criminal charges and other embarrassment. (It may be worth pointing out the Fifth Amendment gives no protection for laziness, inconvenience, ineptitude, or embarrassment. It only protects against self-incrimination. It is possible a deal may be worked out—or imposed—that would allow or require testimony with immunity. Ron P. Well, those things are protected by the Commerce Clause. At least, they claim everything else in the world is covered by it, so I assume.... ~Bob.)
Excerpt: I live in California California California
Will Iran
Excerpt: Last week, Tehran circles tipped a “top secret message” from President Obama to Iran
But let’s start with what everyone agrees about the letter:
Franklin Raines, Ghost Defendant
Excerpt: Obama adviser Franklin Raines is glaringly absent from an SEC lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives for defrauding investors. How convenient. Raines first plunged Fannie into the subprime abyss as its chairman and chief executive from 1999 to 2005 while cooking the mortgage giant's books to score fatter bonuses for himself and other Democrats on its board. (Actually, Raines claimed he was advising Obama, not clear he really was. And worse than him was Jim Johnson who got it all going at Fannie, walked away with $100m. Not that Raines shouldn't also be in the dock. I recommend the book Reckless Endangerment. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Just one problem, though. Brewer may have jumped the gun months ago, but cartel beheadings have become a reality in Arizona Arizona governor spoke, the first grisly cartel beheading occurred — in Arizona Chandler
Supremes slap racial bean-counters
Excerpt: The US Supreme Court yesterday handed down a unanimous decision in three consolidated cases involving redistricting in Texas
Congressman: Marines in urination video should be punished but not charged
Excerpt: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) said Wednesday the Marines shown in a video apparently urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan Iraq and Afghanistan
Justice Department blinks in battle against Sheriff Joe
Excerpt: In its developing battle with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over alleged violations of the civil rights of Hispanics, the Justice Department appears to have blinked, backing away from an earlier threat to take the Arizona
Press Digs for Dirt with a One Sided Shovel
Excerpt: Reporters are digging for dirt on the Republicans. They’ve already made several earth-shattering discoveries. Like Mitt Romney is paying exactly the amount of taxes the law requires And that the second ex-wife of Newt Gingrich still holds a grudge.
Excerpt: France Alain Juppé , France's foreign minister, said the unarmed soldiers had been victims of an "assassination," and President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered an immediate review of security for troops training Afghan soldiers.
Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church
Didn't get the "Islam is a religion of peace" memo, I guess. ~Bob. Excerpt: A Muslim mob attacked Copts today in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly
Christians in Syria
Excerpt: Damascus Syria
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. --James F. Cooper
MSNBC's Bashir Superimposes Republican Candidates In Front Of Confederate Flag
Excerpt: Witness the low stunt Bashir pulled to open his show today, on the afternoon of the South Carolina Israel
Excerpt: Barack Obama’s 2008 Iowa New Media Director was arrested Friday for attempting to use the identities of Secretary of State Matt Schultz [a Republican], and/or his brother Thomas, with the intent to falsely implicate the Secretary Schultz in illegal or unethical behavior. Zach Edwards, 29, of Des Moines Chicago
The pen is mightier than the sword but I always keep a sword handy in case my enemy can't read.
Showtime at the Apollo By Maureen Dowd
Obama losing the Hard Left? She must be a racist. ~Bob. Excerpt: Times have been bad and sad, and The One did not turn out to be a messiah, just a mortal politician who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents. The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America , not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has suffered the second embarrassment over oil imports within the space of a week. Brazil , whose offshore deposits of oil were sought by the Obama administration, has signed contracts with China
Excerpt: Hundreds of angry Libyans on Saturday stormed the transitional government's headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi
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