Friday, May 21, 2010

Charles Krauthammer - The fruits of weakness

Charles Krauthammer - The fruits of weakness:

It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran's nuclear program."

Stealth IRS campaign mandates millions of new 1099 tax forms - May. 21, 2010

Stealth IRS campaign mandates millions of new 1099 tax forms - May. 21, 2010:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill took many by surprise when it came to light last month. But it's just one piece of a years-long legislative stealth campaign to create ways for the federal government to track down unreported income.

The result: A blizzard of new tax forms that the Internal Revenue Service will begin rolling out next year."

� D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home - Big Journalism

D.C. Metro Police Escorted SEIU Protesters to Bank Of America Executive’s Home - Big Journalism:

The family of Greg Baer, Bank of America executive, is located in a jurisdiction protected by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), which responded promptly to a disturbance call from his neighborhood last weekend.

According to Corporal Dan Friz, an MCPD spokesperson in Rockville, Maryland, the department received a disturbance call from one of Baer’s neighbors at 4:10 pm last Sunday. Four MCPD units arrived at Baer’s Greenville Rd. address at 4:15 pm. At least two Metropolitan Police Department units from the nearby District of Columbia were already at the scene when they arrived."

Obama's Green Agenda Fueled by Gulf Disaster? - Video - FoxNews.com

Obama's Green Agenda Fueled by Gulf Disaster? - Video - FoxNews.com:

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown still thinks president is using oil spill to promote policy"

FOXNews.com - Top Official Says Feds May Not Process Illegals Referred From Arizona

FOXNews.com - Top Official Says Feds May Not Process Illegals Referred From Arizona:

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities."

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies | McClatchy

Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies | McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., wants the government to finish building the 700-mile fence between the U.S. and Mexico. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wants to end the health insurance industry's antitrust protection. West Virginia's two senators want help with mine and oil rig safety.

They all want to add these things to the financial regulatory overhaul bill that's moving through the Senate, even though their ideas have little or nothing to do with oversight of financial markets."

Obama Turns His Back On the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Obama Turns His Back On the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com:

At a ceremony to sign a bill promoting press freedom around the world on Monday, President Obama refused to take questions from reporters. “I’m not doing a press conference today,” he told Chip Reid of CBS News, “but we’ll be seeing you guys during the course of the week.”

So when the president hosted a “news conference” in the Rose Garden with the president of Mexico on Wednesday, Mr. Reid thought maybe this time Mr. Obama would take questions. Instead, Mr. Obama allowed only a single question from the American news media, calling on a reporter from the New York-based Univision, making it unlikely that he would be asked about Tuesday’s anti-incumbent election results."

Hot Air � Villaraigosa sends non-sequitur reply to AZ Corporation Commissioner on boycott challenge

Hot Air � Villaraigosa sends non-sequitur reply to AZ Corporation Commissioner on boycott challenge:

Yesterday, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce challenged the city of Los Angeles and its mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, to put their money where their mouths are by ending their purchases of electrical power generated in Arizona. In a letter exclusively provided to Hot Air, Pierce questioned how a city-wide boycott of Arizona would work while LA continues to light the city with Arizona electrons. In response, Villaraigosa bravely … ducked the question entirely:"

Hot Air � LA City Councilman blasts AZ law for provisions in CA penal code

Hot Air � LA City Councilman blasts AZ law for provisions in CA penal code:

Before critics of Arizona’s new immigration law make fools of themselves, they should really try to read the bill. And if those critics are officials of other states or cities, maybe they should take a quick tour of their own laws first, too. Kerry Picket at the Washington Times interviewed Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes, who said that he would need his passport to travel in Arizona, but she points out that the very same provisions to which Reyes objects exist in California’s own penal code:"

American Thinker: Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections

American Thinker: Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections:

Lest we forget, Democrats were not given a mandate in 2008 to nationalize General Motors, the insurance industry, and health care. Most Americans want government to be less expensive, less intrusive, and more accountable. Yet despite the looming prospect of electoral dismemberment in November, the Democrats continue pushing a radical agenda: piling up debt and creating new entitlements, with crushing tax increases inevitably to follow. Why the evident lack of concern?

Perhaps they intend to cheat."

American Thinker Blog: The Administration's Re-Bombing Program

American Thinker Blog: The Administration's Re-Bombing Program:

An Al Qaeda thug is caught by us in 2007, released by this Administration in 2009 and goes on to kill 166 more people and planned a huge bombing at the upcoming World Cup. As Doug Ross reports:

Next month's soccer World Cup in South Africa was the target of an Al Qaeda attack according to Iraqi security personnel. The mastermind was reportedly a man who had already killed 166 Iraqis in various bombings -- after his release by the Obama administration last year."

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

San Antonio city manager wages war on sugar | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

FOOD police Alert!

San Antonio city manager wages war on sugar | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle:

SAN ANTONIO — City Manager Sheryl Sculley has declared war on sugar.

Well, at least when it comes packaged in cans and candy bars. Sugary sodas no longer have a home in the city's 250 beverage vending machines and unhealthy foods in the 75 snack machines in city facilities are next.

“I asked the staff to remove the high-calorie soda drinks from our vending machines,” Sculley said. “I'm a fitness person, and I care about our employees, and I want them to be healthy. And I think this is a very small gesture.”"

AZ Sheriff To Obama & Holder: Stop "Kicking Us In The Chops?"

The American Spectator : VAT's Next?

The American Spectator : VAT's Next?:

A European-style value-added tax, or VAT, seems to be heading nowhere fast, notwithstanding Delphic pronouncements by Obama administration officials, including the President himself, which seem to keep it open as a real possibility.

The U.S. Senate voted, overwhelmingly (85-13), for a resolution offered by John McCain (R-AZ) which stated that 'It is the sense of the Senate that the Value Added Tax is a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America's economic recovery.'"

A slow-burn bonfire of liberties - Mark Steyn - Macleans.ca

A slow-burn bonfire of liberties - Mark Steyn - Macleans.ca:

At the time of writing, I have no idea who’s won the British general election. At the time of reading, you probably have. But, whatever the result, I doubt it will make much difference to the fate of the United Kingdom, which is in the fast lane of the not-so-slow-burn bonfire of the liberties consuming much of the Western world."

American Thinker: Barack Obama's FCC Information Police

American Thinker: Barack Obama's FCC Information Police:

The President warns us that Americans must beware of 'the craziest claims' and 'arguments' in which 'information becomes a distraction' that puts 'pressures' on 'our democracy.' What was behind Barack Obama's recent remarks to the graduating class of Hampton University? What 'information' must Americans fear?"

American Thinker Blog: Arizona passes law banning multilingual requirement for businesses

My God! These people ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

American Thinker Blog: Arizona passes law banning multilingual requirement for businesses:

from teaching minority/ethnic studies courses advocating separatism, group superiority and subversion of this country, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed

legislation affirming that nothing in state law requires businesses to provide 'trained and competent' interpreters when a customer comes in speaking a language other than English. Assistant Attorney General Michael Walker said that has probably always been the law."

American Thinker Blog: ICCC 4 Opens with a Climategate Surprise

American Thinker Blog: ICCC 4 Opens with a Climategate Surprise:

It’s Heartland’s fourth International Conference on Climate Change and the first since the November revelations of fraudulent behavior by leading AGW-preaching climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU). And at its opening night dinner on Sunday, ICCC IV managed to add a surprising twist to the Climategate saga."

American Thinker Blog: The tip of the Tea Party iceberg

American Thinker Blog: The tip of the Tea Party iceberg:

It's not the tens of thousands of grass-roots conservatives who show up at Tea Party protests around the country that have President Obama and the entire Democrat Party worried - it's the millions of conservative Tea Party supporters who don't show up at those events that have them scared to death.

Picture the Tea Party as an iceberg. Experienced seafaring navigators who travel the North Atlantic will tell you that the exposed tip of an iceberg is not their main concern, it's the huge mass of the unseen iceberg hidden below the surface that poses the greatest danger to their ships."

The Right-Wing Express | Media and Culture | AlterNet

The Right-Wing Express | Media and Culture | AlterNet:

February 7, 2005

Consider that the conservative political movement, which now has a hammerlock on every aspect of federal government, has a media message machine fed by more than 80 large non-profit organizations – let's call them the Big 80 – funded by a gaggle of right-wing family foundations and wealthy individuals to the tune of $400 million a year."

Racial Profiling, So Be It - HUMAN EVENTS

Racial Profiling, So Be It - HUMAN EVENTS:

One hot summer’s day in Georgia I was standing on the sidewalk in front of Fort Benning’s Infantry Officer Candidate School Headquarters talking to a white classmate of mine about a racial flare up of some sort that had happened the previous day down in Texas. Unapologetically he said, “My Pappy back in Tennessee taught me that the reason you Negroes have to ride on the back of busses is because you are inferior.”"

How to Get Blood out of a Burka - HUMAN EVENTS

How to Get Blood out of a Burka - HUMAN EVENTS:

The hits from this White House just keep coming:

“Fulfilling his commitment made last year in Cairo to help deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world, President Obama today kicked off a two-day Entrepreneurship Summit in Washington, DC. ‘We will bring business and social entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries to the United States and send their American counterparts to learn from your countries. Women in technology fields will have the opportunity to come to the United States for internships and professional development. And since innovation is central to entrepreneurship, we’re creating new exchanges for science teachers.’"

California Muslim Endorses Genocide of Jews - HUMAN EVENTS

I heard the audio of this...it was chilling....

California Muslim Endorses Genocide of Jews - HUMAN EVENTS:

A Muslim student at the University of California at San Diego last week endorsed a new genocide of Jews. Although one can only imagine the media hue and cry had a conservative student said this, the liberal media has not found Jumanah Imad Albahri’s statement fit to print. However, the UC-San Diego chapter of the Muslim Student Association did feel it necessary to issue a “clarification,” which only muddied the waters further and raised questions about the prevalence of Islamic anti-Semitism and supremacism among Muslims in the United States."

Offshore drilling agency refuses to send witness to Senate oil spill hearing - The Hill's E2-Wire

Can you IMAGINE what would be going on if GWB did this? HA!

Offshore drilling agency refuses to send witness to Senate oil spill hearing - The Hill's E2-Wire:

The federal agency that regulates offshore oil drilling declined to send a witness to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s hearing Monday on the federal response to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said."

Monday, May 17, 2010

American Thinker: The Left's War on Free Speech

American Thinker: The Left's War on Free Speech:

The left pretends to be the biggest champion of free speech. When the New York Times wrote articles about how our government was tracking the activities of terrorists, journalistic behavior which directly endangered the lives of Americans by providing intelligence information to those terrorists who are at war with us, the sanctimonious left insisted that this newspaper was simply exercising its constitutional right of free speech and free press."

American Thinker: Why Conservatives Love the Founders

American Thinker: Why Conservatives Love the Founders:

A Salon writer wonders, 'What's the conservative fetish with the Founding Fathers?'

It's because we read history, my sadly ignorant friend. So did the Founders.

History is full of Obamas, and the people who idolized such power-hungry self-glorifying narcissists. The Founders understood human history in their very bones, because they read history from the Bible to the Roman Empire, Europe's bloody and tyrannical history, and the Americas."

American Thinker: Climategate Taxpayer Fraud Investigation Draws Ideological Heat

American Thinker: Climategate Taxpayer Fraud Investigation Draws Ideological Heat:

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has used the power of government to seek documents from the University of Virginia regarding its former professor and Climategate figure of 'hockey stick' fame, Michael Mann. Mr. Cuccinelli is investigating whether Professor Mann engaged in fraud to obtain taxpayer money to fund his research."

RealClearPolitics - Video - Bill O'Reilly Vs. Glenn Beck On Miranda Rights

RealClearPolitics - Video - Bill O'Reilly Vs. Glenn Beck On Miranda Rights:

Bill and Glenn shoot it out over interrogating captured terror suspects."

RealClearPolitics - Video - Krauthammer: Obama's Oil Leak Rebuke Was "Unpresidential"

RealClearPolitics - Video - Krauthammer: Obama's Oil Leak Rebuke Was "Unpresidential":

Charles Krauthammer: 'For the president, as always, to hover above the issue and the problem and to hurl Zeusian bolts from above at everybody except himself is really unpresidential.'"

CNSNews.com - The Federal Fat Police: Bill Would Require Government to Track Body Mass of American Children

CNSNews.com - The Federal Fat Police: Bill Would Require Government to Track Body Mass of American Children:

(CNSNews.com) - A bill introduced this month in Congress would put the federal and state governments in the business of tracking how fat, or skinny, American children are."

My Way News - Rubio says country relying too much on government

My Way News - Rubio says country relying too much on government:

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio told an anti-gay marriage group Saturday the country is relying too much on the government, in part because of a breakdown of family and faith values over the last 50 years.

'You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government,' Rubio said. 'Every time a problem emerges, increasingly the reaction in American society is 'Well what can government do about it?''"

RealClearPolitics - Video - AZ Governor, Palin Criticize AG Eric Holder For Not Reading Law

RealClearPolitics - Video - AZ Governor, Palin Criticize AG Eric Holder For Not Reading Law:

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today launched an effort aimed at educating the country on the federal governments failure to secure our nations southern border and its failure to address the human tragedy that is occurring as a result."

Bush's Deregulatory Agenda 'Gone Too Far,' Says a Times....News Story?

Bush's Deregulatory Agenda 'Gone Too Far,' Says a Times....News Story?:

The red tape is rolling again with Obama in the White House, and the Times' Eric Lipton celebrated on Thursday: “With Obama, Regulations Are Back In Fashion.”

In a burst of rule-making, federal agencies have toughened or proposed new standards to protect Americans from tainted eggs, safeguard construction workers from crane accidents, prevent injuries from baby walkers and even protect polar bears from extinction."

Ho Hum: NYT Strangely Sanguine About Job Loss During Obama Administration

Ho Hum: NYT Strangely Sanguine About Job Loss During Obama Administration:

Thursday's front-page story by economics reporter Catherine Rampell from Jacksonville, an entry in the paper's “The New Poor” series, took an oddly sedate tone with a subject usually frought with emotional appeals: “In a Job Market Realignment, Some Workers No Longer Fit.”

Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.

Period."