Political Digest for August 30, 2012

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Must Read: Do You Care More than Paul Krugman Cares? By John Goodman

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/do-you-care-more-than-paul-krugman-cares/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-26920

Excerpt: At a conference at the Vatican I attended some years ago, Nobel laureate Gary Becker gave the opening speech. I found what he said quite remarkable: “The greatest beneficiaries of capitalism are those at the bottom of the income ladder. That’s why I favor capitalism. Were that not the case, I would not be in favor of capitalism. Milton Friedman feels the same way.” I was so struck by this comment that I wrote it down and have kept it all these years. In general, people who are right of center do not tend to talk all that much about their concern for the poor. Or is it that they just get drowned out by all the bleeding heart noise on the left? In any event, the evidence for Becker’s core observation is overwhelming. What brings this to mind is Paul Krugman’s latest attack on Paul Ryan: (This is a must read, as it helps make the compelling moral case for free enterprise, property rights and limited government. I have long said that progressives care only about feeling good about having good intentions and being for the right things; but not at all about the results of their policies on real people. There are endless examples, from banning DDT to save the birds while killing millions of black, brown and yellow kids with Malaria to supporting black rule in Zimbabwe, with a resulting drop in black life expectancy from 63 to about 36. [Now that they want to feel good about green energy, they don’t care how many birds die in eagle-chopper wind farms!] ~Bob.)

Hillsdale College Course on the Constitution

Just signed up for a 10 week online course beginning September 4, taught by Hillsdale College on Constitution 201 “The Progressive Rejection of the Constitution and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism”. The course will provide an in-depth look at American progressivism—its historical roots and principles; its rejection of America’s founding principles and Constitution; its political successes in the New Deal, the Great Society, and recent years; the ongoing debate between progressives (or modern liberals) and conservatives; and the constitutional revival. The course is free of charge to all who wish to register, although there is a suggested donation of $50 to help cover expenses...the $50 is a tax write-off. If you are interested in this course go to: www.constitution.hillsdale.edu Progressive thinking is a danger to our way of life! You can fight this progressive movement through education and factual information. –GBH

Iranian warship transits Suez with arms for Assad

http://times247.com/articles/egypt-passes-weapons-filled-iran-ship-through-suez-to-syria

Excerpt: Egypt has again allowed an Iranian Navy ship to pass the Suez Canal toward Syria. A senior official said the Egyptian Navy approved the passage of an Iranian ship loaded with weapons to move from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The official said Egypt dismissed a request by the United States to stop the Iranian ship at the canal. (How’s that soft-power, foreign policy reset working out, Barack? The Muslim Brotherhood holds us in contempt. They will take our money and use it to destroy freedom. ~Bob.)

Occupy RNC Protesters Chant "Obama is a ****ing Traitor,' "We are the Insurrection."
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/08/28/occupy-rnc-protesters-chant-obama-is-a-fking-traitor-we-are-the-coming-insurrection/
Excerpt: I’m not sure how serious we should take them, as these are the idiots who’ve already had to beg cops for water because they didn’t bring enough.

21st century nuclear… for beginners

http://bravenewclimate.com/2012/08/28/21st-century-nuclear-for-beginners/

Excerpt: The content covers generation IV technology, safety, radioactive waste, sustainability and carbon emissions of uranium supplies, small modular reactors, and economic competitiveness compared to other low-carbon energy options. The overarching context is nuclear as a solution to climate change. That's what Ben and I really care about, after all. (Note that we offered this series gratis as a community service -- we are educators, after all, and to us, dissemination of evidence-based knowledge is its own reward). (These folks have done a wonderful job of compiling information and making it available. The six articles (9 pages total) cover most of the objections of the anti-nuke crowd and refute their arguments easily (of course, since this is based on evidence rather than feelings, don’t expect to change any of their minds….), and do it in easily understood terms. SACOME stands for South Australian Chamber of Mines and Engineering, a professional site for those interested in mining/engineering. Following the links in the original article can be confusing, so here is the link directly to the story referred to: http://www.sacome.org.au/images/stories/Nuclear_Series_SA_Mines__Energy_Journal.pdf. Worth printing if you have a person-of-interest to show it to. Do keep in mind, these folks are true believers in Catastrophic Global Climate Change Caused by Humans; but that doesn't invalidate their knowledge of nuclear technology. Ron P.)

Jeff Flake wins GOP Senate nomination in Arizona

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/29/jeff-flake-wins-gop-senate-nomination-in-arizona/?wpisrc=nl_politics

Excerpt: Rep. Jeff Flake won Arizona’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday, easily defeating self-funded businessman Wil Cardon. He will face former surgeon general Richard Carmona in the general election. (I met Flake when he spoke at an Illinois Policy Institute luncheon here in Chicago, and was impressed. He used to run the Goldwater Institute. He’ll be a valuable addition to the senate. ~Bob.)

Rep. Schweikert tops Quayle in Arizona's member matchup
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/246333-schweikert-tops-quayle-for-republican-nomination-in-az-7

Excerpt: Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) defeated fellow freshman Rep. Dan Quayle in their member-vs-member primary. Quayle called him to concede, the Arizona Republic reports. The Associated Press has called the race.

Worth Reading: A Better Way to Track Unemployment

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22304&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Reports of lower unemployment rates are often misleading because they don't take into account several factors such as discouraged workers -- those that have not looked for work in the past four weeks - and people whose unemployment benefits have dried up, says R. David Ranson, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. Recent encouraging reports about the reduction in the unemployment rates are the result of misleading definitions of what unemployment is. A better avenue of calculating the rate of employment would be to check the ratio between the employed and the population of the working age. The complement of the ratio between the employed and the working age population, called the not-employed rate, is equally objective, and supplies a transparent indicator of improving or deteriorating labor market conditions. The not-employed rate also includes those that are in the military, full-time home care-givers, the retired, those in school, etc. Nearly 60 percent of the civilian population of working age was employed as of June 2012. However, 41.4 percent of the population was not-employed as of June 2012. Before the recession, the not-employed rate was at 37 percent, meaning the not-employed rate must drop nearly 5 percentage points to justify a claim of complete recovery.

Worth Reading: Hard Facts: An Energy Primer

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22308&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The Institute of Energy Research recently published Hard Facts, an energy primer that seeks to correct myths that shroud current debate surrounding energy. Domestically, the United States has enough of fossil fuels to last for centuries.

Skateboard​ing into Victimhood Superstardom

http://pjmedia.com/blog/skateboarding-into-victimhood-superstardom/?singlepage=true

Excerpt: An L.A. television station's inflammatory reporting has brought forth a new star into the victimhood cosmos. Oh how comforting is the mantle of victimhood, how rosy and flattering is the light that so often shines on those who wear it. And how willing are some to shine that light no matter how tenuous the claim to victimhood may be.

79% of GM’s sales last month was government purchased

http://pushbacknow.net/2012/07/12/79-of-gms-sales-last-month-was-government-purchased/

Excerpt: Remember how Obama keeps telling us how he saved GM, and how our economy is getting better, it seems the car company he bought is being saved by Govt employees using our tax money to buy new cars. 79% of GM’s sales last month was government purchased. … Americanvision says “That’s like you setting up a lemonade stand for your kids. You buy them the lemons, sugar, cups and pitchers – and then buy most of the lemonade yourself.” (Lot of comments knocking the math in this piece. Judge for yourself. ~Bob.)

Top 3 Small Business Struggles

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/29/morning-bell-top-3-small-business-struggles/?roi=echo3-12974248020-9553307-56d13f7aac6d188f8bebf64471e2e8db&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Excerpt: Small businesses are getting a lot of focus from politicians, because they are a key engine of job creation—which has stalled in the U.S. economy. A Republican National Convention theme of "We Built It" continued the political debate over the economy yesterday. A survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in July revealed that small businesses' top three concerns were taxes, regulations, and poor sales. A quick look at these top three small business struggles shows they have every reason to be demoralized.

Obama’s most likely ‘paths to 270′ assumed winning Wisconsin

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/obamas-most-likely-paths-to-270-assumed-winning-wisconsin/

Excerpt: Since Ryan’s selection, polls have tightened. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has even predicted Romney will win the state.

U.S. sees signs Israel could use nuclear EMP attack against Iran. By Bill Gertz

http://freebeacon.com/analyst-sees-possibility-of-emp-strike-on-iran/

Excerpt: U.S. intelligence agencies recently reported growing concerns that Israel will conduct a strike on Iran using a high-altitude nuclear burst aimed at disrupting all electronics in the country. The intelligence worries were triggered by recent publication of an article in the Israeli press suggesting the Jewish state should carry out an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack.

Shift in Connecticut Senate Race as Democrat Is Put on the Defensive

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/nyregion/in-connecticut-attack-ads-chip-away-christopher-murphys-lead-in-senate-race.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Excerpt: But a funny thing has happened in Connecticut as the political world has focused on Missouri, Massachusetts, Virginia and the few other states considered likely to determine which party controls the Senate. Battered by Ms. McMahon’s advertisements before he even became the nominee, Mr. Murphy has found himself on the defensive in a race that could add an unexpected wild card into the battle for the Senate.

Great Speech by Obama 2008 Co-Chair: Transcript: Artur Davis' RNC Address: The former congressman and ex-Obama backer says Republicans "have a country to turn around."

http://www.bet.com/news/features/vote-2012/news/politics/2012/08/28/artur-davis-addresses-the-republican-national-convention.html

Worth Reading if you missed it. ~Bob. Excerpt: “To those Democrats and independents whose minds are open to argument: listen closely to the Democratic Party that will gather in Charlotte and ask yourself if you ever hear your voice in the clamor. Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you -- or recklessness? When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? When they tell you America is this unequal place where the powerful trample on the powerless, does that sound like the country your children or your spouse risked their lives for in Iraq or Afghanistan? Do you even recognize the America they are talking about? And what can we say about a house that doesn't honor the pictures on its walls?” (Or watch it here: http://romneyresponse.tumblr.com/post/30457363674/artur-davis-addresses-the-republican-national)

MSNBC abandons GOP convention during every speech by a minority

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/msnbc-abandons-gop-convention-during-every-speech-by-a-minority/

Excerpt: One of the left’s favorite attacks on the Republican Party is that it is the party of old white people, devoid of diversity and probably racist. If you were watching MSNBC’s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday night, you might believe those assertions, since missing from the coverage was nearly every ethnic minority that spoke during Tuesday’s festivities. (Guess this is because MSNBC is racist, doesn’t cover minorities. Or just biased, because minority Republicans don’t fit their narrative? ~Bob.)

Is The Media Coordinating On Race Baiting? Ask John Harris and Politico

http://www.redstate.com/2012/08/29/is-the-media-coordinating-on-race-baiting-ask-john-harris-and-politico/

Excerpt: We should not forget any of this because I do not believe it is any accident that today the Politico has a big story from John Harris about race in the 2012 election.

Convention speech highlights Mia Love’s GOP rise

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/29/convention-speech-highlights-mia-loves-gop-rise/

Excerpt: Mia Love gave a stemwinder of a speech to kick off the prime time hour on day one of the Republican National Convention, a speech that brought the audience to its feet in cheers. Love, the congressional candidate for Utah’s 4th District, is seen as a potential rising star in the Republican Party. An articulate speaker, she is an effective mouthpiece for the party, but she is also a good face as the party seeks to expand its base: if elected, she would be the first black, Republican woman ever elected to congress. (Yeah, but she’s a Mormon, which, unlike “Black Liberation Theology” is out of the mainstream. So I learned from the media, anyway. ~Bob.)

The America I Know by Mia Love

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/the-america-i-know/

Excerpt: Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true — you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn’t make excuses. The America I know is grounded in the gritty determination found in patriots, pioneers and struggling parents, in small business owners with big ideas, in the farmers who work in the beauty of our landscapes and the artists who paint them, in our heroic military and our inspiring Olympic athletes, and in every child who looks at the seemingly impossible and says, “I can do that.” (Every child like Neil Armstrong. Go get 'em, Mia! - Kate. There are report that after her speech, “tolerant liberals” vandalized Love’s Wiki page, calling her a “whore” and a “house nigger.” The left’s war on women and minorities. ~Bob.)

Quotes from The Patriot Post

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"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time." --author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal." --French economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

"President Obama is angry at Mitt Romney for suggesting that college students should 'borrow money from their parents.' Right. You should do what Obama does -- have them borrow money from their future children." --Fred Thompson

"They [were] worried that Tropical Storm Isaac [w]ould hit Florida during ... the Republican convention. But Florida [was] ready for it. Thanks to President Obama's economic policies, many businesses down there [were] already boarded up." --comedian Jay Leno

The Rich Don't Pay Enough? By Walter E. Williams

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/14542

Excerpt: If you listen to America's political hacks, mainstream media talking heads and their socialist allies, you can't help but reach the conclusion that the nation's tax burden is borne by the poor and middleclass while the rich get off scot-free. … According to IRS 2007 data, the richest 1 percent of Americans earned 22 percent of national personal income but paid 40 percent of all personal income taxes. The top 5 percent earned 37 percent and paid 61 percent of personal income tax.

Senator Clarifies Remark Telling Troops To ‘Go Fuck Themselves’, Says Quote Taken Out Of Context

http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/08/senator-clarifies-remark-telling-troops-to-go-fuck-themselves-says-quote-taken-out-of-context/

Excerpt: Senator Linda Lopez (D-29, AZ), a member of the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, was apparently quoted during the interview as saying “the troops should just go fuck themselves.” Lopez continues to claim that her remarks have been “taken out of context” and that she is in fact a huge supporter of the U.S. military. .... In the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting, she told an interviewer that the shooter was “probably a veteran of Afghanistan.“ (Sorry for the language, but it is refreshing to have a Democrat with the courage to say what most of them think. ~Bob.)

A Socialist President Shreds The Constitution

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-socialist-president-shreds.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: He took advantage of a financial crisis to install an army of program czars to implement a bevy of tax-draining socialist programs with costs in the tens of billions. He portrayed himself to the American people as their "savior". He demonized business and the economy fell further. He used deficit dollars to dole out money to his constituent interest groups. He took control of the banks and regulated them so tightly that credit for economic expansion dried up completely and millions of businesses went belly up...or never got off the ground.

We Are Still Building This! By Armstrong Williams

http://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2012/08/28/we_are_still_building_this

Excerpt: The theme for this year's Republican National Convention in Tampa is We Did Build That! It's an interesting choice of a theme. There are a lot of options this year: Governor Romney is running against a president who simply hasn't got anything right.

Shedding the Light on the SEIU: Were it not for the internet, you might never know about America’s most notorious union

http://www.redstate.com/2012/08/28/shedding-the-light-on-the-seiu-were-it-not-for-the-internet-you-might-never-know-about-americas-most-notorious-union/

Excerpt: Prior to the beating of Kenneth Gladney, the Service Employees International Union (or SEIU) flew under the public’s radar. Many Americans’ had never heard of then-SEIU boss Andy Stern and his merry band of purple goons*. Since the Gladney beating, however, the SEIU has earned the reputation once held by such notorious unions as the once mafia-controlled Teamsters or Longshoremen.

Mr. Scam Man Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE0M9R1YXH0

Blame It On Bush / The Voters - Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzHAlwEK7a4

"180" Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwI

About Hitler and the Holocaust.

School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/school-asks-deaf-preschooler-change-sign-language-name-191629255.html

Excerpt: Three-and-a-half year old Hunter Spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down. To his family, friends and those who know the Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) language that the Grand Island, Neb., boy uses, that gesture uniquely means "Hunter Spanjer." But to Hunter's school district, it might mean something else. The district claims that it violates a rule that forbids anything in the school that looks like a weapon, reports KOLN-TV. (We are drowning in Political Correctness. I have a hand sign for these brainless bureaucrats… ~Bob.)

Look who's behind 'Voter ID is racist' campaign

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/look-whos-behind-voter-id-is-racist-campaign/

Excerpt: A radical group funded by billionaire George Soros that has a history of biased research is primarily behind a national campaign to paint voter ID laws as racist. The voter ID data collected by the group, the Brennan Center for Justice, has been called into question by experts and has been contradicted by other credible studies. Yet the center’s information is cited widely by news media and even members of the Obama administration.

Berlin: Somali Breaks Wife's Fingers Because She Wanted to Feed Children During Ramadan

http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/berlin-somali-breaks-wifes-fingers.html

Excerpt: Ramadan is over but the war stories keep coming in.

SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden’s death

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/29/seal-book-raises-questions-about-bin-laden-death/?page=all#pagebreak

Excerpt: Bissonnette also writes disparagingly that none of the SEALs were fans of President Barack Obama and knew that his administration would take credit for ordering the May 2011 raid. One of the SEALs said after the mission that they had just gotten Obama re-elected by carrying out the raid. … He says Biden told “lame jokes” no one understood, reminding him of “someone’s drunken uncle at Christmas dinner.”

Worth Reading and Sharing: If the Feds Ran Your Household Budget. By Grant Davies
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2012/02/if-feds-ran-your-household-budget.html

Excerpt: A short while ago my friend Tom - who traded bonds for many decades and knows something about debt - sent me an email that simplified the understanding of the federal debt problem.

Gun-toting 'Barack Obama' robber nabbed, police say

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-obama-mask-robber-20120829,0,7702246.story

Excerpt: According to Riviera Beach police, a man named Marvin McTeare, 22, is the person who robbed a McDonald's restaurant while carrying a gun and wearing a 'Barack Obama'-type mask. (Well, this is racist…oh, wait, McTeare is black…just spreading the wealth around. ~Bob.)

The Liberal Response: Mia’s Wikipage Vandalized, Ann Gets Death Threats, Insults, Smears. By Tammy Bruce.

http://tammybruce.com/2012/08/the-liberal-response-mias-wikipage-vandalized-ann-gets-death-threats-insults-smears.html?utm_content=%23tbrs&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Excerpt: Posted in: Well, the liberal ‘War on Women’ continues and has picked up steam! If you needed more passion for supporting the Romneys what you’re about to see should remind you why our work is so important and why me must succeed. We cannot leave the world to these beasts.

Yahoo News fires David Chalian

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/yahoo-news-fires-david-chalian-source-133662.html

Excerpt: "They're not concerned at all. They're happy to have a party with black people drowning," Chalian said during the ABC News/Yahoo News webcast, in reference to the fact that the GOP convention in Tampa is taking place as Hurricane Isaac makes landfall on the north Gulf coast.

Tweet from Kevin Eder @keder

Few things are more rich than people who voted for Teresa Heinz-Kerry's husband whining about how much money Ann Romney has.

Trace Adkins unveils GOP theme: 'Tough People Do'

http://washingtonexaminer.com/trace-adkins-unveils-gop-theme-tough-people-do/article/2506309#.UD5RTGzCz8B

Excerpt: Ann Romney had just finished her Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night that dished on her patriotic husband Mitt when mammoth blue collar country star Trace Adkins unveiled a new song that could easily be the Romney-Ryan campaign theme song: "Tough people do."

Central Texas mayor dead after apparent attack by donkey

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20120829-central-texas-mayor-dead-after-apparent-attack-by-donkey.ece

Excerpt: A Central Texas mayor has been found dead after apparently being attacked by a 500-pound donkey on his ranch.

MSU student's jaw broken and mouth stapled during attack

http://www.examiner.com/article/msu-student-s-jaw-broken-and-mouth-stapled

Excerpt: A 19-year-old Michigan State University Jewish student's jaw was broken in two places and his mouth stapled shut outside of an off campus house party early Sunday morning. Several bystanders, who reportedly witnesses the attack did not of offer to assist the injured young man. The incident has been reported with caution, as the Jewish student and his family insist the attack was a hate crime, but police said after speaking with two witnesses, they doubt the attack was racially motivated. (Of course not. You can’t have hate crimes against Jews, Christians, whites and Asians. Only against Muslims, gays, blacks and Hispanics—I think that’s the current victimhood pecking order on the left. ~Bob.)

Ann Romney Shines in Tampa, Makes America Fall in Love with Her and Mitt. By Chrystal Wright (Conservative Black Chick).

http://conservativeblackchick.com/blog/2012/08/29/anne-romney-shines-in-tampa-makes-america-fall-in-love-with-her-and-mitt/

Excerpt: Ann Romney just didn’t shine at the Republican National Convention when she spoke Tuesday night, she rocked the hall, owned the stage and won the hearts of conservatives and –dare I say undecided voters.

Marco Rubio Responds to LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. By Kevin Robillard, Politico

http://losangelescitycollege.blogspot.com/2012/08/marco-rubio-responds-to-la-mayor.html

Excerpt: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio agreed Wednesday with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s assertion that the GOP can’t “just trot out a brown face” to solve their problems with Hispanic voters. “Quite frankly, what he’s saying is true for both parties,” Rubio said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Policies matter..."

VIDEO: Protect our girls

http://protectourgirls.com/

Excerpt: WOMAN SEEKING ABORTION: "Oh...it would give me time to just confirm that it's a girl...just cause it would be really awful if we, you know, accidentally aborted a boy...Please sign the petition.

Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada Praises Immigration. By Arian Camp-Flores

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/08/28/gov-sandoval-praises-immigration/

Excerpt: Brian Sandoval, the Republican governor of Nevada, offered a paean to immigrants in his speech at the GOP convention Tuesday night, part of a GOP effort to win back Hispanics alienated by Republican policies and rhetoric on immigration. “We are a nation of laws, a nation of due process and merit and justice for all, and yes, a nation of immigrants,” he said, to applause. “One of the greatest duties I performed” as a federal judge, he added, was to administer “the oath of citizenship for new Americans.”

After $100K 'public relations' payment from teachers union, Media Matters attacked Fox News. By David Martosko

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/29/after-100k-public-relations-payment-from-teachers-union-media-matters-attacked-fox-news/#ixzz24y2oCwQB

Excerpt: A document the National Education Association filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 indicates that the teachers union donated $100,000 to Media Matters For America nearly two years ago, describing it as a payment for “public relations costs.” In the months that followed, Media Matters’ online coverage of teachers unions increased, focusing largely on attacking the Fox News Channel and other media outlets it considers “conservative” in nature. The $100,000 payment was first documented in “Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind,” a book by Citadel international politics professor Mallory Factor published on August 21.

Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to Choose Their Representatives

http://links.heritage.org/hostedemail/email.htm?CID=12981444490&ch=3591F2C992EC07FB56EAA93BD7C79709&h=2b5bf75411cc5164b55ce0229fdc795d&ei=s8gpqQkN4

Excerpt: Even better, Congress and state legislatures should allow workers to choose whether they want union representation, and if so, who represents them—unionized or not. This would give workers the ability to negotiate terms that represent their needs, instead of being forced into a one-size-fits-all contract.

Worth Reading: Liberal Chickens: Virtually every left-wing attack on Bush can legitimately be turned against Obama. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315161/liberal-chickens-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: It could not last — the attendee of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church sermonizing on tolerance; the practitioner of Chicago politics lecturing on civility; the most partisan voting record in the Senate as proof of a new promised bipartisanship; earlier books and speeches calling for hard-core progressivism as evidence of a no-more-red-state-blue-state conciliation. And in fact the disconnect did not last, and Barack Obama finds himself dealing with assorted chickens coming home to roost.

RNC Day One: What's love got to do with it? Michelle Obama's Mirror Blog

http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/08/rnc-day-one-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it.html

Excerpt: With Ann Romney and Chris Christie as the headliners, who would’ve thought that Love would steal the show. No, I don’t mean Ann’s speech, although she did announce right upfront that it was about love. And I don’t mean the Governator’s speech either which was about the relationship between love and respect. I’m talking about MIA LOVE, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah of all places!

'Hitler' clothing store stirs anger in India

http://news.yahoo.com/hitler-clothing-store-stirs-anger-india-133743884.html

Excerpt: The owner of an Indian clothing store said Wednesday that he would only change its name from "Hitler" if he was compensated for re-branding costs, amid a growing row over the new shop. The outlet, which sells Western men's wear, opened 10 days ago in Ahmedabad city in the western state of Gujarat with "Hitler" written in big letters over the front and with a Nazi swastika as the dot on the "i".

Ann Romney Dazzles in Tampa. By Katie Pavlich

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/28/ann_romney_dazzles_in_tampa

Excerpt: Romney spoke directly to a struggling America. She told them personal stories about her struggles with breast cancer, living with MS and raising five children. She spoke of the love her husband has given her through more than 40 years of marriage. “I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an American family.

Obama's Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax by Michelle Malkin

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/29/obamas-sneaky-deadly-costly-car-tax/

Excerpt: While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk. Yes, the same cast of fable-tellers who falsely accused GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of murdering a steelworker's cancer-stricken wife is now directly imposing a draconian environmental regulation that will cost untold American lives.

Judicial Watch: Obama’s CIA Let Filmmakers ‘Deep Dive” Into Classified Material For Bin Laden Film. By Christian Toto

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/08/28/judicial-watch-cia-preferential-treatment-osama-flick

Excerpt: The CIA worked extensively - and preferentially - with the crew of the upcoming movie "Zero Dark Thirty" according to just-released documents obtained by Judicial Watch…. The filmmakers were able to "deep dive" into classified material in order to tell the story of the successful hunt for Osama bin Laden "first" with the direct permission of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The new documents show "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal had plenty of help from the Obama administration which sought a propaganda tool for the vital 2012 elections.

Clint F'n' Eastwood Headed To Tampa??

http://ace.mu.nu/

Excerpt: Here's one reason to think it's real: Clint Eastwood doesn't talk a lot about politics, but one thing that really steams his beans is entrepreneurial litigation, under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The racket here is that lawyers hire disabled people to go to business places, to see if there is any grounds for suit. They're looking for a reason to sue -- to greenmail a business owner and make a quick buck, usually by settlement.

Political Digest for August 29, 2012

The Old Jarhead Blog: Bringing you news and information the MSM is too busy covering American Idol, celebrity affairs and sensational missing person cases to cover. Please forward to friends who need to be informed.

Advice for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone

http://www.amazon.com/Advice-Granddaughter-When-Im-Gone/dp/147004238X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329662198&sr=8-2

All royalties go to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.

Obama Doc '2016' Stuns Hollywood. By John Nolte

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/08/25/Box-Office-Aug-25-2012

Excerpt: Gerald R. Molen, the Oscar-winning producer behind "Schindler's List" and "2016," and Dinesh D'Souza, upon who's book the film is based, should send the corrupt media a fruit basket today. The corrupt media will likely tell you "2016" is a success because of racism and hate, but the real reason people are flocking to it is to try to grasp a better understanding of this awful, divisive, inept, and anti-American failure currently sitting in the Oval Office. (When we saw it in Madison, WI [of all places], the audience applauded at the end. ~Bob.)

‘Obama’s America: 2016′ surpasses box office expectations [VIDEO]. By Taylor Bigler

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/obamas-america-2016-surpasses-box-office-expectations-video/

Excerpt: Obama’s America” is now the highest-grossing documentary of the year, beating out the highly publicized, Weinstein-produced “Bully.”
 

Spate of Documentaries Offers Ammunition to Conservatives. By Ryan Robertson

http://usconservatives.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=usconservatives&cdn=newsissues&tm=406&gps=285_195_1276_819&f=00&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&st=37&zu=http%3A//www.mrc.org/

Excerpt: A spate of right-of-center documentaries are in theaters or on their way. While they’re unlikely to achieve either the critical raves or the (ironic) box office success of Michael Moore’s anti-capitalist drivel, they’re telling the stories the media won’t on subjects ranging from President Obama’s ideology to misinformation about natural gas “fracking” to the experience of black conservatives.

Worth Reading: Risky Business. By Thomas Sowell

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/08/28/risky_business

Excerpt: Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks -- namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something other than a device to deal with risk. By passing laws to force insurance companies to cover things that have nothing to do with risk, politicians force up the cost of insurance. (Oldest political shell game in town: Vote for me, and I’ll give you a benefit and make him pay for it. ~Bob.)

Worth Reading: Entitlement Reforms: It is the young, not the old, who will bear the brunt if we don’t reform Medicare. By Thomas Sowell

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315127/entitlement-reforms-thomas-sowell

Excerpt: Let’s stop and think, if only for the novelty of it. If you make any change in anything, you are ending it “as we know it.” Does that mean that everything in the status quo should be considered to be set in concrete forever?

More Obamacare Fiction. By Grace-Marie Turnerhttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314983/more-obamacare-fiction-grace-marie-turner

The Affordable Care Act assumes deep reductions in payments to doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and Medicare Advantage program, totaling $716 billion over ten years. By paying providers less, the trust fund may last a bit longer, but it means seniors will have a harder and harder time finding a doctor to see them as they drop out of the program or stop taking new Medicare patients.

U.S. Military Presence at Republican National Convention, Code Pink Comes Dressed as Pink Vaginas. By Javier Manjarres
http://shark-tank.net/2012/08/26/u-s-military-presence-at-republican-convention-code-pink-comes-dressed-as-pink-vaginas/
Excerpt: I stopped my car as I was driving by their protest to get the footage- the Pinkos were wearing home-made Vagina costumes proclaiming “Read My Lips.” Yes indeed! Pink , human-size vagina outfits. Watch the clip:

Floor fight: Grass roots activists battle attempt to rig GOP convention delegate rules. By Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/27/floor-fight-grass-roots-activists-battle-attempt-to-rig-gop-convention-delegate-rules/
Excerpt: Drew McKissick is a longtime conservative activist and blogger who is in attendance at the Republican National Convention’s Rules Committee meetings. He and others on the ground are sounding the alarm over rules changes that he and many other attendees believe will hurt grass-roots movement conservatives. The battle is being cast by some observers as a narrow fight between Ron Paul advocates and the rest of the party.

 Seal Ad to Excoriate Obama for Bowing to Foreign Leaders. By Ben Shapiro
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/08/27/Exclusive-Next-SEAL-Ad-Excoriates-Obama-for-Bowing-to-Foreign-Leaders
Excerpt: The controversial super PAC Special Operations for America, led by former Navy SEALs, is set to release a blistering new ad against President Obama Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. The ad, titled “Bow to Nobody,” depicts Navy SEALs in combat situations; it then proclaims that they fight so that America will not have to bow to anybody. Then the punch line: the infamous photo of Obama bowing to the Saudi king.

Actor Jon Voight: Obama controlling American media like Hugo Chavez does in Venezuela. 
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/voight-obama-controlling-american-media-like-hugo-chavez-does-in-venezuela/#ixzz24mfbcNVG

Excerpt: “America, guys, wake up. You should be appalled that they can get away with it, that they can attack – the Republican Party is a victim of a bias, of a destructive bias against the Republican Party. It’s been going on for all this time and it’s getting worse and worse. And, now this? Come on, people, stand up.”

Obamacare’s 18 New Tax Hikes
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/20/obamacares-18-new-tax-hikes/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet
Excerpt: Not only did the President and his partners in Congress take $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare, but they also raise taxes by $836.3 billion to pay for it, with $36.3 billion hitting Americans in 2013 alone.

The GOP's '76ers. Matthew Continetti
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/gop-s-76ers_650786.html
Excerpt: "America is more than just a place,” Paul Ryan told the Norfolk, Virginia, crowd during his first speech as Mitt Romney’s running mate. “It’s an idea. It’s the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government.”

What if everyone's wrong? By William Kristol
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-if-everyone-s-wrong_650785.html
Excerpt: But it turns out the public cares about the character and intelligence of those presenting themselves for election. The public also cares about what those candidates say, and what they would do, about a lot of noneconomic issues. The public cares about our troops fighting in Afghanistan, and whether their sacrifices will be in vain or not.

Worth Reading: America's Baby Bust: How The Great Recession Has Jeopardized Our Demographic Health. By Joel Kotkin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/08/21/americas-baby-bust-how-the-great-recession-has-jeopardized-our-demographic-health/

Excerpt: But the 2010 Census showed that in the past decade America’s birthrate slipped below at least one European country (France) and under the pace necessary to replace our current population. Immigration, both legal and illegal, is also slowing, in part due to plunging birthrates in Mexico and other Latin American countries. (As Mark Steyn pointed out awhile back in “America Alone,” the birthrate has been collapsing in the civilized world for sometime. It may have accelerated due to the recession, but it didn’t start with it. Demographic collapse in the West is one of the harbingers of the coming collapse of civilization. The barbarians are out-breeding us. [Spare me your transnational progressive, multicultural platitudes until you choose to live in a non-western country without free markets, property rights and the rule of law—such of these guarantors of freedom as we have left.] ~Bob.)

How Obamacare Robs Medicare and Hurts Seniors

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/28/morning-bell-how-obamacare-robs-medicare-and-hurts-seniors/?roi=echo3-12960482740-9542214-2a2b5f804b40dd70b3fc117027e8b28c&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Excerpt: The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address that his proposed reforms "won't touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a single dime." This is incorrect. Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and uses these "savings" from Medicare to fund other entitlement expansions mandated by Obamacare. Medicare becomes a cash cow for Obamacare, and the Medicare "savings" from payment cuts are not put back into making Medicare solvent. Such massive payment cuts do impact Medicare benefits, as well as seniors' access to those benefits.

'Al-Shabab supporter' Aboud Rogo Mohammed killed in Kenya

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19390888

Excerpt: A Kenyan radical Islamist cleric has been killed in a drive-by shooting in the city of Mombasa. Aboud Rogo Mohammed was on US and UN sanction lists for allegedly supporting Somalia's al-Shabab militants. (Tears just won’t come. ~Bob.)

Kenyan Muslims riot after murder of Shabaab-linked cleric

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/08/kenyan_muslims_riot.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Shabaab supporters quickly organized and attacked and looted two churches, torched a government vehicle and other cars, and killed one person. The man was "slashed to death," according to The Daily Nation. Police have arrested 12 people for their involvement in the rioting, which is still ongoing.

Somalia: Troops Seize Port From the Shabab

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/world/africa/troops-seize-somali-port-from-the-shabab.html?_r=1

Excerpt: Somali and African Union troops seized the port of Marka, Somalia, on Monday from the Shabab as part of a campaign to secure Somalia, which is trying to establish its first effective national government since 1991.

For Putin, Report Says, State Perks Pile High. By Andrew E. Kramer

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/world/europe/for-russia-president-vladimir-putin-report-says-perks-are-piling-up.html

Excerpt: President Vladimir V. Putin is rumored to be among the world’s wealthiest men, with an oil-fed fortune worth tens of billions of dollars. He denies that, vehemently, but a report to be published Tuesday suggests that the dispute may be beside the point. In the report, sarcastically titled “The Life of a Galley Slave,” after the president’s own description of his tenure in office, Russian opposition leaders describe what they call an extraordinary expansion of presidential perks during the 12 years since the start of Mr. Putin’s first term as president — palaces, a fleet of jets and droves of luxury cars. (Obama will have more flexibility to keep up with his pal Putin after the election. ~Bob.)

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Most journalists never notice liberal bias for the same reason that fish don't notice water -- it is all around them, it is all they've ever known, and they take it for granted. --Robert McCain

Hamas’s Corruption. By Jonathan Schanzer
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/hamass-corruption/

Excerpt: The regional standing of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction born in 1987 as a Muslim Brotherhood splinter group, has undoubtedly been buoyed by the meteoric rise of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. But a potentially bigger factor has been the precipitous decline of its rival, the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority government, led by the secular Fatah faction.

The Mideast’s Vanishing Christians

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/the-mideasts-vanishing-christians/

Times are tough for Christian communities across the Middle East.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was putting it lightly when she said that Coptic Christians “are deeply anxious about what the future holds for them and their country.” And her words captured the plight not just of Copts in Egypt but also of panic-stricken Christians across the Muslim-majority Middle East. (religious Cleansing is standard in Muslim majority countries. Been going on for a long time, aided by transnational progressives. Going to get worse, as we lack the will to oppose Islamic Supremacists. ~Bob.)

Mourning in America

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=_YXqf_6ug54&vq=medium

Share this ad. ~Bob.

Charlie Crist Gay? Former Governor Allegedly Paid Men To Cover Up Affairs

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/charlie-crist-gay-affair-_n_1582591.html

Excerpt: Allegations surfaced on Friday that former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist paid two men to conceal gay affairs. The charges were revealed in documents obtained by local station WTSP, relating to the investigation of former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer.

Charlie Crist continues political makeover with Barack Obama endorsement

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/26/2969064/charlie-crist-continues-political.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

Excerpt: Crist’s opinion piece is the latest in a series of political steps in which he appears to be inching closer to becoming a Democrat and potentially challenging Gov. Rick Scott in 2014. That would complete a metamorphosis for a politician who once called himself a “Reagan Republican and a “Jeb Bush Republican.”

Obama gains coveted personal injury lawyer endorsement [Reader Post] By: DrJohn

http://floppingaces.net/2012/08/27/obama-gains-coveted-personal-injury-lawyer-endorsement-reader-post/

Excerpt: You remember Charlie Crist. He used to be a Republican Governor of Florida. Then he thought he’d become bigger than the GOP in Florida and had his ass handed to him by Marco Rubio:

Farewell To A Fallen Comrade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6TRTBZUMM

Don't know if you have ever seen this short video. It shows the soldiers of 2/1 RNZIR Battalion performing their Unit haka, powerfully acknowledging the lives and feats of their fallen comrades as they come onto the Unit's parade ground. –MasterGuns

Oath Keepers to Place Billboard Outside Ft. Leavenworth to Protest Small Wars Journal Article Demonizing Tea Party as Future “Enemy” of U.S. Military

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/08/18/oath-keepers-to-place-billboard-outside-ft-leavenworth-to-protest-small-wars-journal-article-demonizing-tea-party-as-future-enemy-of-u-s-military/

Excerpt: Oath Keepers is putting up a billboard right outside the main gate of Ft. Leavenworth Kansas to respond directly to the Small Wars Journal article by Leavenworth instructor Colonel Kevin Benson which paints the Tea Party movement as a future military opponent during domestic CONUS operations by the U.S. military.

Run on Vietnam's biggest bank highlights threat to economy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9501953/Run-on-Vietnams-biggest-bank-highlights-threat-to-economy.html

Excerpt: The deliveries of truck loads of money and queues outside branches of Vietnam’s biggest lender, Asia Commercial Bank, ready to withdraw their cash almost as quickly as stocks were replenished were an eloquent expression of the fears stalking the county’s banking system. (Not even the Communists can do capitalism right anymore. ~Bob.)

CNBC host Kudlow: Obama would rather ‘punish’ the wealthy than ‘fix the economy’ [VIDEO]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/cnbc-host-kudlow-obama-would-rather-punish-the-wealthy-than-fix-the-economy-video/

Excerpt: Larry Kudlow, host of “The Kudlow Report” on CNBC, warned of a recession if current tax rates for all income brackets expire and the planned automatic spending cuts take effect. He also told The Daily Caller that President Barack Obama would rather “punish” the wealthy than deal with America’s current economic challenges.

McMahon By A Nose In Close Connecticut Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama Tops Romney By 7 Points

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/connecticut/release-detail?ReleaseID=1790

Excerpt: Connecticut likely voters put Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon on the right side of a 49 - 46 percent too-close-to-call U.S. Senate race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. (GOP Senate candidate ahead in CT? Huge upset if it happens. ~Bob.)

DOJ Sends Voting Monitors To Arizona

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2012/08/doj-sends-voting-monitors-to-arizona.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: Well, we learned today that Black Supremacist Attorney General Eric Holder is sending an army of Department of Justice "voting monitors" to Arizona to monitor our Tuesday primary elections. Never mind that he never prosecuted the Black thugs that drove off white voters in the last election; he's going to make sure Arizona election officials give illegal Mexicans the chance to vote for their "Open Border/Amnesty candidates.

Media's One-Sided Coverage Is Clear Evidence Of Bias. By Michael Ramirez http://news.investors.com/article/623715/201208271910/one-sided-media-coverage-shows-bias.htm?p=full

Excerpt: The date was June 15, 1992. In an elementary school in Trenton, New Jersey, reading off a flash card that had been prepared by the teacher, the special guest counseled the child writing potato on the blackboard, "You're close, but you left a little something off. The 'e' on the end." The media reacted swiftly and relentlessly. (This article starts off with how bad things are with the media's continuing love affair with Obama. Or you can read a follow up article at

 http://news.investors.com/article/623712/201208271910/major-media-rigging-election-for-obama.htm?src=SeeAlso --Del)

Worth Reading: Planned Parenthood: Using Your Tax Money to Promote Obama. By Steve Aden

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/27/planned-parenthood-using-your-tax-money-to-promote-obama/

Excerpt: Birds of a feather flock together, especially when one bird is funneling hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the other. Case in point: Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and the Obama administration. The administration oversaw the transfer of nearly half a billion dollars to the abortion giant last year, and now Richards has announced a Planned Parenthood bus tour in support of Obama’s re-election campaign.

Mann versus Steyn: popcorn time! By James Delingpole

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/

Excerpt: Today I'm launching a fund and I wonder whether anyone would like to contribute. Please, I implore you all, PLEASE chip in to help finance Professor Michael Mann's suit for defamation against sinister, right-wing Canadian climate-change denier Mark Steyn and the fascist-denialist organ for which Steyn writes, National Review Online!

Muslim extremist nabbed for deadly kidnap

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/August/27/negor4.htm

Didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Philippines police said they had arrested a Muslim preacher on Saturday for taking part in a mass kidnapping by Muslim extremists in 2000 in which a Catholic priest was killed.

Alarm as hundreds of children under age of 10 married in Iran

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9500484/Alarm-as-hundreds-of-children-under-age-of-10-married-in-Iran.html

Excerpt: Iran has experienced a dramatic growth in under-age marriages that has seen the number of girls being wed before the age of 10 double in the space of a year, officially-compiled figures have revealed. (Now don’t go all Islamophobic on me. What’s a little Allah-sanctioned pedophilia when you are celebrating the beauty of multiculturalism? ~Bob.)

The Transitional Voter: Winning the Actual ‘Bitter Clingers.’ By David Steinberg

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-transitional-voter-winning-the-actual-%E2%80%98bitter-clingers%E2%80%99/

Excerpt: If you have undergone a Left-to-conservative philosophical switch, you should recall the progression of your “moderate” period, those months or year or two you preferred the label “Clinton Democrat.” You preferred this to the more accurate “Clinton-dragged-kicking-and-groping-by-Gingrich Democrat,” or didn’t realize this was the case and chalked up Clinton’s pragmatism to his apparent-only-to-liberals brilliance. )I wouldn’t know. I volunteered for Nixon in 1960 as a 14-year-old, Goldwater volunteer before Parris Island in 1964. ~Bob.)

Covering Up the Real Storm that Has Destroyed Cuba. By Henry Gomez

http://pjmedia.com/blog/covering-up-the-real-storm-that-has-destroyed-cuba/

Excerpt: The Weather Channel is simply the latest media outlet to agree to a Faustian bargain with the Castro regime.

Marco Rubio: 'Obama can't run by saying things have gotten better.' By Sean Sulllivan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/26/marco-rubio-obama-cant-run-by-saying-things-have-gotten-better/

Excerpt: Responding to President Obama’s charge that Mitt Romney has adopted extreme positions, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Sunday that the president is leveling his attack because he lacks the record to run for reelection by pointing to improvements in the state of the country.

Mia Love Speech at Republican National Convention to focus on "the America I know." By Lisa Riley Roche

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865561314/Mia-Love-convention-speech-Its-the-America-I-Know.html

Excerpt: “My parents immigrated to this country with $10 in their pockets and the hope that the America they learned about really did exist. When tough times came, they didn’t look to Washington. They looked within,” she said.

Saudi Arabia: Calls for monitoring of mosques after mosque found manufacturing explosives.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/saudi-arabia-call-for-monitoring-of-mosques-after-mosque-found-manufacturing-explosives.html

Excerpt: Mosques can be monitored in Saudi Arabia, but there cannot be any monitoring of mosques in the U.S. Oh, no. That would be "Islamophobic."

Outgoing NY Times Public Editor: Progressive World View ‘Bleeds Through’ Paper. By David Taintor

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/new-york-times-public-editor-liberal-bias.php

Excerpt: In his final column as public editor of The New York Times, Arthur Brisbane accused many at the paper of sharing “political and cultural progressivism.” This left-leaning worldview, the outgoing ombudsman argues, “virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.” Brisbane sees it manifest itself in topics the Times covers, including Occupy Wall Street and gay marriage. Those stories “erupt” in the newspaper “more like causes than news subjects,” Brisbane added. (Wow! A reality check…from all the leg tingling. –Barb.)

New York Times scrubs story mentioning CIA’s funneling arms to Syrian rebels

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/08/27/new-york-times-scrubs-story-mentioning-cias-funneling-arms-to-syrian-rebels/

Excerpt: The story in question is an article published in today’s Times by Steven Erlanger, “France Urges Syrian Opposition to Form New Government“. Since earlier today, the article has undergone at least eight different revisions. Most notably was a mention in an earlier version that stated the CIA was funneling arms to the Syrian rebels:

Axelrod-Endorsed IL Congressional Candidate Accused Of Being Tax Cheat. By Tony Lee

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/27/Axelrod-Endorsed-IL-Congressional-Candidate-Duckworth-Accused-of-Being-Tax-Cheat

Excerpt: Illinois congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat and a candidate the Obama campaign likes to tout, has been accused of being a tax cheat after a Chicago newspaper suggested she illegally claimed homestead exemptions on two properties from 2007 to 2010. Illinois state law allows for taxpayers to claim only one such exemption, on the property that is their primary residence. Even worse, during those years, Duckworth was actually living in Washington, D.C. and not in Illinois. (well, she’s a democrat. Tax cheating is expected. ~Bob.)

Samuel L. Jackson Upset God ‘Spared’ GOP From Hurricane, Quickly Apologizes

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/08/27/jackson-upset-god-spared-gop-hurricane

Excerpt: Looks like Hurricane Isaac will spare Tampa - and the Republicans gathering in the Florida city for the GOP's campaign convention. "The Avengers" star Samuel L. Jackson, who dubbed the Tea Party racist and said he voted for Barack Obama because of the politician's skin color, took the news pretty hard. …Jackson's apologetic mood didn't last long. (Link has tweets, profane. –Barb.)

RNC crasher: Democratic Convention Chair Antonio Villaraigosa makes appearance inside convention zone. By Caroline May

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/rnc-crasher-democratic-convention-chair-antonio-villaraigosa-makes-appearance-inside-convention-zone/#ixzz24okVd2Yv

Excerpt: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the Democratic National Convention, made an unlikely appearance near the Republican National Convention Hall Monday afternoon. Armed with Democratic talking points, Villaraigosa argument for keeping President Barack Obama in the White House was focused largely on demonizing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, who are set to formally accept their party’s nomination this week. (I hope the RNC sends Allen West to the DNC. –Barb.)

Voight: Obama controlling American media like Hugo Chavez does in Venezuela

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/voight-obama-controlling-american-media-like-hugo-chavez-does-in-venezuela/#ixzz24oiLNhtZ

Excerpt: Award-winning actor Jon Voight told The Daily Caller at the Republican National Convention that he thinks President Barack Obama’s administration has “taken over” the mainstream media in a manner similar to how leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez controls media in his country.

Army willfully ignores Islamic motivations behind Afghan killings of US troops. By Andrew G. Bostom

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/army-willfully-ignores-islamic-motivations-behind-afghan-killings-of-us-troops/#ixzz24oeQnNz8

Excerpt: US soldiers … reported pervasive illicit drug use, massive thievery, personal instability, dishonesty, no integrity, incompetence, unsafe weapons handling, corrupt officers, no real NCO [non-commissioned officer] corps, covert alliances/informal treaties with insurgents, high AWOL rates, bad morale, laziness, repulsive hygiene, and the torture of dogs (“given the standing of dogs in Islam.”). Perceptions of civilians were also negative stemming from their insurgent sympathies and cruelty towards women and children. (Warning. Describes acts with children by Islamists to be “tolerated.” –Barb.)

California OKs bill shielding undocumented immigrants

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-OKs-bill-shielding-illegals-3814325.php

Excerpt: California state legislators passed a bill Friday that seeks to protect undocumented immigrants charged with relatively minor crimes from being deported. The bill, by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, would prohibit local police from detaining anyone on an immigration hold if the person is not charged with or has not been convicted of a serious or violent crime.

Neil Armstrong, Obama's NASA: A Small Step for One Man. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49058

Excerpt: Armstrong had proposed not only future investments, but along with other astronauts had sensibly proposed retaining the space shuttle program until they were ready, instead of scrapping the shuttle program and distributing viable shuttles to museums. Armstrong was critical of the Bolden regime at NASA that had stripped the space agency of its best people and its ability to conduct manned space exploration or even reach the International Space Station without begging passage on Soviet Soyuz tubs. “The reality that there is no flight requirement for a NASA pilot-astronaut for the foreseeable future is obvious and painful to all who have, justifiably, taken great pride in NASA’s wondrous space flight achievements during the past half century,”

Obama versus Jesus: Black Christians Must Decide. By Lloyd Marcus

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/obama_versus_jesus_black_christians_must_decide.html#ixzz24rWoRT00

Excerpt: My brother brought my 84-year-old black dad from Baltimore. That evening, Dad said, "Everything I heard today is true. But, because of racism I suffered in my youth, I can not turn against Obama." At that time, I respectfully gave my hero, my preacher dad, a pass.

A noble heart embiggens the smallest planet. By Tom Chivers

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100178319/a-noble-heart-embiggens-the-smallest-planet/

Excerpt: A few months ago a reader, Victoria Edge, wrote a letter to the Telegraph saying: "As the arrow on my computer hovered over a picture, the instruction 'click to embiggen' appeared. What endless possibilities the English language has."

Why Science Can't Replace Religion. By Keith Kloor

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/08/24/why-science-cant-replace-religion/

Excerpt: After one participant suggested that non-religious people could still be spiritual, [P.Z.] Myers nearly retched: Whenever we start talking about spirituality, I just want to puke. I hope Myers didn’t have too much to eat before reading the headline from this week’s commentary in Nature: “Sometimes Science Must Give Way to Religion.”

CBO Appears Immune to Embarrassment. By Curtis Dubay and J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/24/cbo-appears-immune-to-embarrassment/?roi=echo3-12950779164-9532356-d42d1c13ff9d46151158d6557ebe9493&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest concocted quarterly estimate on President Obama’s failed stimulus. CBO’s findings are as preposterous as its 11 previous studies of the stimulus, discussed here, here, and here. The story doesn’t change, because CBO’s faulty analysis doesn’t change. Each time CBO does an estimate, it is begging the question, because it is using the same models to evaluate the stimulus’s effectiveness as it did to predict how the stimulus would impact the economy before Congress passed it.

Barack Obama, Global Has-Been: The president would rather be loved than feared. He is neither. By Bret Stephens

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577615300669832384.html

Excerpt: But we have an election on, the outcome of which will decide whether one man's mediocrity becomes a whole nation's destiny. Mr. Obama is now the world's leading has-been, trying to revive a career on the strength of a talent that was greatly exaggerated to begin with. But a country that's willing to reward mediocrity with a second chance risks becoming a has-been itself.

Chris Christie Says: "Enough Chicago ward politics!" By Andrew Malcolm

http://news.investors.com/article/623578/201208271108/new-jersey-chris-christie-rouses-california-republicans.htm

Excerpt: Monday turned out to be a sunny day as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a fiscal conservative who's balancing his state budget without new taxes, sympathized with California Republicans who confront what Christie called "a political retread" in Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to raise state taxes. "I mean, that guy won the New Jersey primary against Jimmy Carter when I was 14," Christie said to loud laughter.

Socialism Kills, Venezuela Edition. By Walter Russell Mead

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/08/27/socialism-kills-venezuela-edition/

Excerpt: On Saturday, 39 were killed and more were injured in an explosion at Venezuela’s Paraguaná Refinery, one of the largest in the world. This is only the latest in a string of accidents that the state owned oil company, Pétroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), has racked up in past years. The New York Times reports that—once again—faulty state supervision of the facilities is to blame:

An American General "Excuses" the Murder of American Servicemen in Afghanistan as due to "Religious Stress"!

http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-american-general-excuses-murder-of.html

Excerpt: In what can only be described as a pitiful attempt to distract Americans from the obvious truth which is being written, and rewritten in American blood multiple times per week, General Allen excused the actions of Afghanistan's "True Soldiers of Allah". He very publicly declared that the "stresses" endured by ANA and ANP troops who participated in the month long Ramadan fast, have contributed to the very existence of "insider" attacks. Apparently, for the General, this is an acceptable explanation for "vetted" Afghan's to turn the weapons Americans have given them, against their benefactors.

Dead Voters and Dying Democracy? By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dead_voters_dying_democracy_mZiteqXrMHygrJhVFYOTxL#ixzz24reWuX6m

Excerpt: Americans will fight and die for democracy, but when it comes to the actual business of elections, stuffed ballot boxes and cemetery voters are the subject of jokes more than outrage — though a democracy in which elections are decided by fraudulent votes created by corrupt politicians is no democracy at all.

Paul Ryan's Intellectual Muse: The wisdom of Hayek is exactly what this country needs right now. By Richard A. Epstein

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/126521

Excerpt: Fortunately, [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt quickly met with some determined intellectual resistance. In 1944, when Roosevelt unveiled his “Second Bill of Rights,” Friedrich von Hayek, an Austrian economist, political theorist, and future Nobel Prize winner, wrote The Road To Serfdom. That book rightly became a sensation both in England and in the United States, especially after the publication of its condensed version in The Reader’s Digest in April 1945. (I recommend Hayek’s book. ~Bob.)

Obama's Lead In Iowa Is Evaporating Astonishingly Quickly

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-romney-iowa-poll-public-policy-swing-state-2012-8?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics

Excerpt: President Obama's lead in Iowa is slipping quickly, according to a new survey from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling firm. Obama's lead is down to just 2 percentage points over Mitt Romney — 47 percent to 45 percent — which is down 8 points in just three months.

Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner

#ObamaNewStateNames Oceania. Birthplace of Julia. Duh.

Flashback to 2008: Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist. By Jerry Bowyer
http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/03/obama-fabian-socialist-oped-cx_jb_1103bowyer.html

Excerpt: Fabians believed in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect "fundamental change" and "social justice" was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites. Before TV it was stage plays, written by George Bernard Shaw and thousands of inferior "realist" playwrights dedicated to social change.

My Post-Election Predictions from 2008

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7362663422037727028#editor/target=post;postID=7167759248625546563

Not bad, if you ignore the last one. ~Bob.

Air Force chief urges creation of African NATO

http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/africa/246151-air-force-chief-urges-creation-of-african-nato

Excerpt: The commander of U.S. air forces in Europe urged African nations to pool their air assets in a NATO-type structure to more efficiently take on terrorists and traffickers, Reuters reports. (Great idea. The incompetent led by the corrupt, funded by the destitute. That would be US taxpayers, if you didn’t get it. ~Bob.)

Worth Reading: Iran Drives Spike in US Arms Sales. By Ted R. Bromund

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/28/euros-sell-more-arms-than-u-s/

Excerpt: Much of the demand for the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty is driven by the wars of Africa. So from 2008-2011, who actually delivered more arms to Africa, the U.S. or Italy? The answer (Table 17), the Italians, by a factor of three ($105 million for the U.S., $300 million for Italy). Over that same period, who delivered more arms to Latin America, the U.S. or minor European suppliers? The Europeans, by $2.4 billion to $1.4 billion.

Brazil Allows Three-Person Civil Union. By Charles C. W. Cooke

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315203/brazil-allows-civil-union-between-three-people-charles-c-w-cooke

Excerpt: A notary in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has sparked controversy by accepting a civil union between three people.