Government Agencies Attack an Honorable Marine and His Family - HUMAN EVENTS

Imagine you are a United States Marine. You can trace your families' proud military service back to the civil war. You have answered your call of duty in a nasty world of unrelenting sand, sleeplessness and the constant threat of I.E.D.s, small arms fire and suicide bombings. After eight years of service you return home as an Iraq war veteran with a flawless military service record. You have a loving family and are still devoted to protecting your country. The only problem is you have an estranged wife who makes repeated wild and disturbing accusations. You have a daughter you love and try to maintain a relationship with, but she is used as a weapon by a bitter woman with a troubled past."

Finding Out - Oliver North HUMAN EVENTS

'It's all unfolding just like you said it would.' This flattering accolade was proffered by a retired military officer this week as we discussed how units loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were pummeling rebel forces in eastern Libya. My friend is a 'contractor' with a company uncharitably referred to around here as a 'Beltway bandit.' He and his colleagues more accurately are portrayed as 'auxiliaries,' and they describe themselves as being 'quietly engaged' in 'peripheral activities supporting our national interests.' Nearly all of the younger ones involved in these endeavors are military veterans of the decade-long fights in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Best Guns for Killing Somali Pirates - HUMAN EVENTS

The scourge of pirates off the coast of Africa is a problem as old as the United States. For historical context, ‚”…to the shores of Tripoli…” in the Marines’ Hymn specifically refers to the Barbary Wars in which the USA went to war against the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa."

Will the Government Shut Down? - HUMAN EVENTS

A federal government shutdown at midnight on Friday has become a very real possibility.

At the White House on Tuesday, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R.-Ohio) told President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) that Republicans want real and significant spending cuts in any deal for a long-term Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government. Obama and Reid refused to accept real and deeper spending cuts, which broke down the negotiations."

Ryan: Debt on Track to Hit 800 Percent of GDP; 'CBO Can't Conceive of Anyway' Economy Can Continue Past 2037 | CNSnews.com

House Budget Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said President Barack Obama’s budget strategy is to “do nothing, punt, duck, kick the can down the road” while the debt remains on track to eventually hit 800 percent of GDP and the CBO is saying it 'can't conceive of anyway' that the economy can continue past 2037 given its current trajectory."

Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program - NYTimes.com

His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show, called “Glenn Beck,” which has been telecast at 5 p.m. on Fox News since early 2009. Mr. Beck’s contract with Fox ends in December."

Hoyer: 'I Don't Want to Pinpoint' Any Spending Cuts | CNSnews.com

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday he would not 'pinpoint' any cuts that Democrats would be willing to make in federal spending, offering only broad figures on an overall reduction."

Washington Post and CBS | Obamacare slush fund | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Nothing like openly buying news media!

Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) — a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans’ money."

Meet Paul Ryan: Football Fan, Deer Hunter, Father, & Budget Wonk | The Blaze

He’s a Green Bay Packers fanatic and a fitness buff, a father of three and a bow hunter not averse to sending emails while stalking deer in the brush."

Gun Owners Have a Right to Privacy - HUMAN EVENTS

If you own a gun in Illinois, take precautions. The state attorney general, Lisa Madigan, wants to release the names of guns owners in response to an Associated Press request. Publication of that list would tell the criminal class where the guns are, which could be useful to two different sorts of lawbreakers: gun thieves who want to know where the guns are and burglars who want to know where they are not."

The Tax Foundation - Tax Freedom Day to Arrive April 12 in 2011; Historically Massive Deficits Increase Burden of Government Spending

Washington, DC, March 30, 2011 - Tax Freedom Day will arrive on April 12 this year, the 102nd day of 2011, according to the Tax Foundation's annual calculation using the latest government data on income and taxes. Americans will work well over three months of the year—from January 1 to April 12—before they have earned enough money to pay this year's tax obligations at the federal, state and local levels.

In the new study Tax Foundation Special Report No. 190, 'Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 12,' Tax Foundation Staff Economist Kail Padgitt, Ph.D., traces the course of America's tax burden since 1900, examines the composition of today's tax burden by type of tax, and calculates a Tax Freedom Day for each state."

Liberal Mantra we are going to starve elderly is all they have....

Are they finally willing to have an adult conversation about our insolvent entitlement programs?

Ha. Fat chance. The likelihood that liberals had an ounce—just an ounce—of sincerity about solving this nation’s unfathomable fiscal crisis before we careen off a cliff went up in the same smoke that billowed from Cheech and Chong’s bong.

Before they even had an opportunity to digest what is in Rep. Paul Ryan’s much-anticipated 2012 budget proposal, the Left descended to their rote talking points and demagoguery."

The American Spectator : Paul Ryan's Homer Capehart Problem

Who was Homer Capehart? He was, in the summer of 1962, the conservative Republican who was serving as the senior Senator from Indiana. What was he so concerned about?"

By the Dozens: Unions Stage Not-So-Massive “We Are One” Rallies | RedState

What do you do if you spend tens of thousands to plan hundreds of rallies on the same day and you get ignored? Did you see the thousands of union protesters yesterday? Surely you saw the several million workers that CWA President Larry Cohen said “were going to stop business as usual at work or after work to join vigils, community rallies or marches at statehouses.” You didn’t see them either? Well, that may be because the day of solidarity that the AFL-CIO had been promoting for weeks, to co-opt coincide with the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination was a flop."

American Thinker: Will Ignorance Lead to a Second Obama Term?

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.'"

George Soros - Spooky Dude

Glenn Beck's "Spooky Dude"....and he IS!

New York hedge fund manager George Soros is one of the most politically powerful individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the world―in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes that had held the reins of government for years, even decades. Vis avis the United States, a strong case can be made for the claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more profoundly that any other living person."

House Dem: Change title of EPA bill to 'Koch Brothers Appreciation Act' - The Hill's E2-Wire

I think the entire Democratic Party could be called the "head in the Sand Act....and trust me....this act is getting old...........

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) wants to change the title of a bill that would permanently block Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations to the 'Koch Brothers Appreciation Act,' a reference to the billionaire brothers who are active in Republican politics."

Union ready to sue for pay if shutdown occurs - TheHill.com

Suing under the 13th Amendment....which abolished "Slavery".....me thinks our government workers even on a non-paid work day could never be called "slaves"...this is insulting....


Speaking at the National Press Club, John Gage, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said his union would consider filing a claim under the Constitution’s 13th Amendment in the event of a shutdown since some workers would have to work without pay to keep vital operations up and running."

Verizon customers exposed in massive U.S. data breach - Yahoo! News

Think about this when you consider Obamacare would put all your medical records in Government databases....subject to same breaches.

Customers of Verizon Communications had their email addresses exposed in a massive online data breach last week, according to an email to customers obtained by Reuters.

In what could be one of the biggest such attacks in U.S. history, a computer hacker penetrated the online marketer Epsilon, which controls the customer email databases for a broad swath of companies."

Paul Ryan's Budget vrs. Obama's

The gray line is where we were at the end of September 2010 ==>that’s our target. The blue line is the Obama administration’s baseline budget. As you can see, it sails off into the stratosphere. This is the budget plan the Democrats are defending."

Paul Ryan Explains $6.2 Trillion Budget Cuts to Glenn as Gov’t Shutdown Looms | The Blaze

It’s a bold plan to slash government spending. But so far, it’s falling on deaf ears.

Republicans in the House today unveiled a new plan to cut $6.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next 10 years. Spearheaded by House Budge Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the proposal is meant to provide a framework for government spending and fiscal responsibility."

March Madness: U.S. Gov't Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue | CNSnews.com

The U.S. Treasury has released a final statement for the month of March that demonstrates that financial madness has gripped the federal government."

Congress makes first major dent in health care law - Washington Times

The changes are complex and don’t affect the fundamental operations of the health law, but Republicans said they are symbolic nonetheless because they mark the first repeals of significant provisions from Democrats’ signature legislative achievement under President Obama."

Our Dangerous Attorney General - HUMAN EVENTS

Eric Holder should’ve never been confirmed as attorney general. Any man who would, as he did, urge President Bill Clinton to grant clemency to 16 members of the Puerto Rican domestic terrorist outfit FALN (a Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) was not only unfit to be America’s lawyer, but he himself should have been investigated."

All-Female, American Squadron Flies Bombing Mission Against Taliban – Meet ‘Dudette 07’ | The Blaze

Does this qualify as ‘breaking the glass ceiling’ from above?

One wonders what Afghanistan’s Taliban troops would think if they knew the American F-15s dropping bombs from high in the sky were flown by an all-female crew? The entire crew of ‘Dudette 07’ happens to be female, from the pilots and weapons officers to the mission planners and maintainers."

Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback | FrontPage Magazine

Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda."

Revealed: JoinTheTeaParty.us took $469,000 in donations, spent none of it on candidates | The Raw Story

According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosure forms, JoinTheTeaParty.us took in approximately $469,000 in donations this year and spent roughly half its budget on marketing, with the rest going to distinctly non-political avenues."

‘Cut it or Shut it!’: Tea Party Says No to Budget Compromise at DC Rally Today | The Blaze

Jenny Beth Martin looked out on the rain-dampened crowd along Constitution Avenue and pointed over her shoulder at the Capitol.

“They heard us, but they’re not listening!” Martin, a tea party leader, told members of the movement that helped put Republicans in charge of the House last November.

The crowd booed."

YouTube - President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012

"President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012"

Marshall County Tribune: Op/Ed Column: Valentine: Ayn Rand's vision comes to big screen (04/01/11)

If you feel like we're living in strange times, you're not alone. Many cannot escape the feeling that this country has turned a wrong corner into a bad neighborhood. Too many things are looking unfamiliar. America has seen its ups and downs but there was always the underlying sense that we would get back to who we were. Talk these days is of 'a new world order' where America is no longer the dominant force in the world and many in this country are celebrating it."

Tucson shooting victim honored with statue - US news - Life - msnbc.com

You think of Christina-Taylor Green when you see the patch of dirt where she scooped grounders at second base in Canyon del Oro Little League. You think of the youngest victim of the Tucson shootings when you see the batter's box where she knocked line drives."

‘Geoengineering’: Global Warming Crowd Contemplates Tricks to Tweak Our Climate | The Blaze

OK....it's official...my head exploded again......who ARE these guys?

Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall’s old brick walls, where British saboteurs once secretly trained, four dozen international thinkers pondered the planet’s fate as it grows warmer, weighed the idea of reflecting the sun to cool the atmosphere, debated the question of who would make the decision.

The unknown risks of “geoengineering” — in this case, tweaking Earth’s climate by dimming the skies — left many uneasy."

Beck Tells O‘Reilly Why Trump Is Making Him a ’Little Uncomfortable’ | The Blaze

After initially teasing O’Reilly by claiming that he was “dismissive” of Trump, Beck began his analysis in a positive light, calling Trump “a guy who gets things done” and someone he “really respects,” but still confessing that he has “made me a little uncomfortable recently.” O’Reilly rebutted by approving of Trump’s harsh language on China and the economy, which was precisely what concerned Beck"

Dean Scream Payback: Right Running Things Is a Threat to Country & Equivalent to Burning Down Buildings; Tea Partiers Have Deep Problems; Fox Is Propaganda & MSNBC Is Factually Correct | The Blaze

YyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHHHHHhaaaaaaaaaaaa! Here we go again!

Dean Scream Payback: Right Running Things Is a Threat to Country & Equivalent to Burning Down Buildings; Tea Partiers Have Deep Problems; Fox Is Propaganda & MSNBC Is Factually Correct"

Stop ATF's Anti-Gun Zealots - HUMAN EVENTS

For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the 'community organizing' in the world couldn't curb. The Supreme Court struck down Chicago's individual firearms ownership prohibition last year, but the same anti-gun zealots who put Windy City citizens' lives at risk remain in power."

Government's Stealth Takeover of Food - HUMAN EVENTS

Been to the grocery store lately? Prices are up and food packages are shrinking. Call it stealth inflation.

There's no hiding the skyrocketing price of gas that hits you in the face every time you fill up the tank. But food? Last year's steep rise in the price of wheat, corn, coffee, and chocolate is now rippling through the food chain, but the food industry is working overtime to mask food price inflation."

Obama Cried, Kids Died - HUMAN EVENTS

Humanitarian' seems to be the Democrats' new word for 'absolutely no national interest.'

The Democrats were not so interested in a 'humanitarian' intervention against a much more brutal dictator in Iraq. But, of course, taking out Saddam Hussein, a state sponsor of terrorism who harbored one of the perpetrators of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, would make Americans safer."

Barack Obama's secret dinner with Samantha Power, Lee Hamilton, and Indra Nooyi - By Laura Rozen | The Cable

At a quiet dinner meeting late last week in Washington's Ronald Reagan Building, President-elect Obama reached out to outside foreign-policy experts, trying to resist the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him.

Late afternoon last Thursday (Jan. 8), scholars and staff at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars noticed an unusual upgrade in the security of the top floors of their building, which also houses USAID, the EPA, a public food court, and some foreign television stations. The Wilson Center hosts high-level people all the time, but this security detail was of a different order, sources said."

Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State? | Irish News | IrishCentral

I'm American Irish...and I have NO desire to see her any further up in the Obama Administration than she is. I've read up on her...and she and her Husband worry me a great deal - I don't care if someone is Mars Born...just so they love this country and it's Constitution....

No Irish-born person in recent history has had such influence on a president. Power, now 40, moved to the US from Ireland at age 10."

Scott Brown blasts Dems’ checkup - BostonHerald.com

This is how we battle in the arena of ideas.......

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown — an upstart Blue State Republican in the cross hairs of national Democrats — is lashing out at the party’s opposition researchers, accusing them of prying into his family’s private health insurance records, and demanding that they stop fighting dirty."

Sensitivity Training? Female U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan ‘Encouraged’ to Wear Hijab | The Blaze

OK...sorry...I have a REAL problem with this...it seems everywhere we look we are being "encouraged" to be Muslim sensitive....STOP!

Female U.S. soldiers are being “encouraged” to wear headscarves in Afghanistan in an effort to get closer to the locals, according to The Daily Caller.

Major Kyndra Rotunda, the executive director of the Military Law and Policy Institute, says that being “encouraged” to do something in the military is tantamount to being “ordered” to do it, putting the servicewomen in a touchy situation."

Now the claim in GOP wants to murder children...

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM....we're all gonna die!

During testimony delivered before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee Wednesday, Shah told federal lawmakers that Republicans’ budget bill would kill at least 70,0000 children. Not coincidentally, Shah is depending on full funding to continue the administration’s “Feed the Future” global aid campaign."

Two Beheaded: Florida Koran Burning Triggers Massacre at UN Office in Afghanistan | The Blaze

However....this is a religion of Peace......

Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 UN staff, beheading two foreigners, when they overran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst-ever attack on the UN in Afghanistan."

War Loving Ed Schultz Confronted By Anti-War Writer | WRKO.com

It's great to hear the antiwar left tear into people like Ed Schultz, liberals who are supportive of an aggressive US president because Libya is a Democrat's war. Schultz tries to tell Jeremy Scahill of The Nation that the key is President Obama went to the UN for authorization, but Scahill points out huge inconsistencies in this argument."

American Thinker Blog: Bitter irony of socialized medicine

The government simply cannot do this. This isn't their job. This is not what the Founders intended...welcome to the future of Obamacare....

A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation - at her own hospital.

Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.

But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery."

American Thinker: The Golden Anniversary of a Bad Amendment

The Constitution, despite what leftists think, has always been able to 'grow' without the arrogation of ultimate power by the Supreme Court. Article V provides two ways to amend the Constitution. Amending the Constitution requires a very strong political consensus and as a consequence the Constitution has only been amended twenty-seven times."

American Thinker: What a Difference a War Can Make

Hypocrisy, thy name is....Barry......

How times have changed! The United States isn't the imperialistic, blood-for-oil war machine that it was just a few years ago. We've shed the 'I ride alone' image and become acceptable in the world community. Every charge levied against the United States following the Iraq invasion is yesterday's news and America can again wage a just war. All we needed was a change of party at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

Ann Coulter Brings Conservative Rebuttal to University of Wyoming | CNSnews.com

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter shrugged off a few hecklers and took aim at liberals and President Barack Obama during her University of Wyoming speech, viewed by some a response to the controversial appearance at the school last year by a former 1960s radical."

Investigations Find ‘Unprecedented’ Political Review of FOIA Requests by Homeland Security Department | CNSnews.com

Washington (CNSNews.com) – A political review of open records requests smacks of “Nixonian” tactics by the Department of Homeland Security, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Thursday."

NYT: Fannie, Freddie executives earned millions - Business - U.S. business - The New York Times - msnbc.com

Regulators have approved generous executive compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-backed mortgage finance giants, with little scrutiny or analysis, according to a report published Thursday by the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency."

Stephen Moore: We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers - WSJ.com

We have become a Nation with a horrible sense of entitlement...and that will be our un-doing. I'm in manufacturing, and every day I feel our industry under assault. As though WE are the enemy.

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government."

Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success - Washington Times

Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about taxpayers' profitable 'investment' in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things.

Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to."

Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Rate at 10.0% in March

However, When GWB was at 5.5% - it was too high......

Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 10.0% in March -- down from 10.2% in mid-March and 10.3% at the end of February, but above the 9.8% at the end of January. U.S. unemployment was 10.4% at the end of March a year ago."

Problem: Census worker won't take 'no' for answer - chicagotribune.com

But they're not too keen on the American Community Survey, a more in-depth, ongoing questionnaire the Census Bureau conducts to compile information on area demographics, consumer patterns and economic issues.

In particular, the Scotts did not want to answer questions they found too personal, such as inquiries about their income, when they left for work and their health."

American Thinker Blog: Bengladesh: Fourteen Year Old Girl Raped, Charged With Adultery, and Lashed to Death

A tragic example of Sharia perversity from Bangladesh provides gruesome context to the previous blog on the alleged rape victim in Libya, and her ominous predicament.

Below are the salient, if repugnant details, reported by CNN."

Breitbart.tv - Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was ‘A Mistake’

If he supported this in ANY form....he'll NEVER get my vote - admitting "Mistake" or not.......talk about an economy killing control grab in ANY form!

Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was ‘A Mistake’"

Breitbart.tv - Barney Frank: Bachmann ‘Cuckoo’, Tea Party Doesn’t Understand Constitution

Wonder if he carries the constitution in his back pocket as we do...better yet, wonder if he's ever read it!

Barney Frank: Bachmann ‘Cuckoo’, Tea Party Doesn’t Understand Constitution"

The News Tribune (Lite) - Calif. drought officially ends after snowy winter

More Global Warming...............

A drought that loomed over some of California's most fertile farmland officially ended Wednesday after a winter of relentless mountain storms that piled snow up to three stories high and could keep some ski resorts open until the Fourth of July.

More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the Sierra Nevada high country so far this season, second only to 1950-51, when 65 feet fell, according to records kept by the California Department of Transportation. And more snow is possible in April, raising the prospect of an all-time record."

Freshmen take aim at Harry Reid - Marin Cogan and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Freshmen House members are taking a hard line against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the politics of passing a temporary spending bill—with one freshman vowing not to settle for a “split the baby strategy” on spending cuts."

U.S. support order, defection could buoy Libya rebels - Yahoo! News

Libyan rebels massed for a counter-attack against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the east on Thursday, both buoyed by and wary of news of covert U.S. support and his foreign minister's defection.

'We are beginning to see the Gaddafi regime crumble,' rebel spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said in the eastern town of Benghazi, while stopping short of welcoming fugitive foreign minister Moussa Koussa, a former spy chief, into the rebel fold."

Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award | POLITICO 44

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool."

Obama in 2002: Toppling Brutal Dictator a ‘Dumb War’ | CNSnews.com

Hypocrisy, thy name is Barry....................

President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed."

In Libya Interview, Sawyer Asks Obama About Praying Like Lincoln and 'How Much Do You Think Kentucky Will Win By?'

It's OFFICIAL....my hair is ablaze.....................AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

The broadcast evening news anchors all got ten minutes with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon in New York City to press him about contradictions in his Libya policy, ceding authority for foreign entities and how he’s a hypocrite after his criticism of President Bush for unilateral actions and not getting congressional approval, but instead they simply prodded him to provide arms to the rebels and pushed him to take action in Syria."

Brokaw Feels for Obama: No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to Face So Many Problems

What?! What?!.......What - 9/11 doesn't count? Or the Tsunami in Indonesia, Two Shooting Wars, Katrina, Economy meltdown.....Oh Hell, if these supposed "Professionals" say it only the way they want - does that make the truth disappear?

Tom Brokaw appeared on Tuesday's Today show to offer his analysis of Barack Obama's Libya policy, as well as his sympathy for a president who has experienced more 'unexpected circumstances' than any Oval Office occupant has seen in his 'adult lifetime.' Today co-host Matt Lauer prompted the former NBC Nightly News anchor to tell the audience what he told him right before going on air - that he couldn't 'recall a time where a president has faced a confluence of events, like the confluence of events taking place right now.'"

The American Spectator : My 2011 MLB Predictions

He was pretty darn close last year - personally like his top pick!

One of my favorite things about baseball is predicting what will happen in the season to come. I spend a great deal of my time in the off-season thinking about next year. In 2010, my predictions were a mixed bag. I thought the Seattle Mariners would win their first World Series."

The American Spectator : Wrecking a Nation

Here's how the economic and political system of a nation is destroyed.

Every price increase of just a dime per gallon of gasoline at the pump extracts approximately $5 billion from the pockets of U.S. consumers over the course of a year."

Obama Cuts in Line and Gets an iPad 2 | NBC Bay Area

A CNN photographer also reportedly saw the president playing around with an iPad in the Oval Office shortly after Mr. Obama dined with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in the Bay Area in February. The dinner took place before the iPad 2 was unveiled.

Is it possible that Jobs gave the president a campaign donation of an iPad 2 as a parting gift for choosing him as a dinner guest?"

Obama's Libya address ratings down from previous speeches | Inside TV | EW.com

Perhaps because he puts you in a coma with his vacuous rhetoric or sets your hair on fire with his hypocrisy?!

President Obama’s speech viewership keeps on slipping.

Monday night’s policy address on Libya delivered 25.6 million viewers, continuing the president’s trend of declining ratings for his issue-oriented telecasts."

Project Gunrunner: Obama's Stimulus-Funded Border Nightmare - Opinion - PatriotPost.US

Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy. It's bloodstained government malfeasance overseen by anti-gun ideologues -- and now anti-gun ideologue Attorney General Eric Holder will 'investigate.'

Welcome to Project Gunrunner. Prepare for another Justice Department whitewash."

PatriotPost.US- Questions about our own nuclear power

Before a 9.0 axis-shifting earthquake damaged the nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives endorsing the construction of 200 nuclear power reactors in the U.S. by 2040, tripling current megawatt generating capacity. H.R. 909, co-sponsored by 64 Republicans, also endorsed the completion of the spent fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada."

Bill Maher | Sarah Palin | cunt | Report: Bill Maher doubles down -- calls Sarah Palin the 'c' word | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

I personally think the guy is just vacuous and NOT funny - this just proves my point....must have missed that civil discourse memo...again....and again....AND AGAIN!

Despite being criticized and even rebuked by the National Organization for Women, HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher isn’t stopping with his slurs directed at female conservatives. And this time, he went after Sarah Palin once again."

Former Organizing for America staffer | FOIA requests | Department of Homeland Security | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

How's that transparency thing workin' out? Imagine if GWB did this....HA!

New emails and testimony from Department of Homeland Security FOIA officer Catherine Papoi reveal that a former Obama campaign staffer repeatedly asked Papoi and her team to redact portions of “politically sensitive” documents, as well as portions of documents that were already publicly available."

Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi & Her (SEIU, AFL-CIO) Political Operative Son | RedState

Hypocrisy - they name is SEIU....today anyway....this is just such a target rich world these days!.

On Friday, unions scored a temporary victory to maintain their ability to collect union dues from Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi (the same judge who refused to order striking teachers back to work in February) issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the implementation of Wisconsin’s new law governing public-sector unions."

STRATFOR-Obama's Stance on Lybia

Prior to President Obama's address justifying a U.S.-European coalition in Libya Monday evening, leaders from around the world have sounded off in both support and condemnation of the intervention. In Russia, for example, Prime Minister Putin criticized it heavily as a medieval campaign."

Read the Wis. Gov’s Op-Ed the NYT Refused to Print | The Blaze

The greatest danger lurking in our country today is the "Drive By Media"...they are the most powerful people on Earth - if we let them be....

These are uneasy times in Wisconsin. Not only is the state recovering from almost a month of mass protests, but today a judge heard arguments about whether or not the state’s new collective bargaining law was a) legal and b) already in effect. And through it all, the media has become as much a part of the story as Gov. Scott Walker. So today, Walker exacted his revenge — a little."

Stephen Lerner Doubles Down on ‘Economic Terrorism’ Plan in New Op-Ed | The Blaze

Lerner writes that “This can be our moment.” In the op-ed, Lerner outlines his campaign to “stoke simmering discontent into concrete, concerted direct action to challenge corporate extremism.“ This is a campaign that would sow ”the seeds of a movement that turns the tables on them [Wall Street].”"

Original Pigford Claimant Calls It One of the ‘Biggest Conspiracies Against the U.S. Treasury Ever’ - Big Government

This story is important to pass on. The media is just squashing it!

It’s back to business on our investigation of the Pigford story – the ongoing fraud that needs your help and attention to make it stop. The mainstream – with a few exceptions like John Stossel – are ignoring the story of the one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history because it doesn’t fit their narrative. The good guys are the real farmers who faced discrimination at the hands of the UsDA and the people, mostly conservative at this point, trying to bring their story to light. The bad guys are the trial lawyers, politicians, race hustlers and those inside the USDA who profit by lying to the public about how the Pigford settlement is a ‘victory’ for black farmers."

North Jersey towns object to solar panels - NorthJersey.com

Well, if nothing else, ET will have something to home in on when landing.....can't wait to see what a good Northeaster does to them....

The large rectangular solar panels that PSE&G has been installing on utility poles across North Jersey are not winning style points from residents and local officials, who call them hideous, an eyesore, even 'ugly as hell.'"

Budget Talks Sour, Dems Blame Tea Party for Stalemate as Deadline Looms - FoxNews.com

Do these guys even understand the "Tea Party" isn't a "Party" at all...it is a state of mind. A deep seeded belief in our Founders....in freedom....in smaller government. Basically a deep belief in the tenants of the Constitution...the Bill of Rights. I thought this is what our elected leaders swore to uphold????

The Capitol Hill rhetoric reached new levels of ugliness Tuesday as negotiations over some semblance of a federal budget gave way to finger-pointing, with Democrats blaming Tea Party freshmen for a potential government shutdown and Republicans calling those claims a fantasy."

Obama and Thought Control | FrontPage Magazine

Time and again, “catch phrases” are used amongst national security leaders. This includes military, political appointees, and even our own President. Key terms are used to control our own thoughts. More and more are popping up and most recently, the greatest catch phrase of all is beginning to circulate the internet: “Kinetic Military Action Promoting Humanitarianism.”"

Presidential Pettiness | FrontPage Magazine

In the less-than-gracious way President Barack Obama compares himself to his predecessors and other mere mortals, we’ve come to expect oblique swipes at President George W. Bush."

Cash for Clunkers 2: The Return of Government Motors - Washington Times

Car can't prove itself in the open COMPETITIVE marketplace? Oh...I hear Atlas Shrugging again....and again.....and again.......................

Ready for another cash for clunkers program? It looks like General Motors is attempting to replace it's own consumer incentives with tax payer money. The car company, bailed out of bankruptcy in 2009 by the American tax payer, appears to be turning the government into an automatic rebate provider."

Lejeune Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast | abc11.com

No boots on the ground....???

Twenty-two hundred Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune are preparing to deploy off the coast of Libya in northern Africa. They said goodbye to their families Monday afternoon, and they'll be leaving in the days ahead."

AP‘s ’Fact Check‘ Hammers Obama’s Speech | The Blaze

I have to admit - I don't watch Presidential speeches. Even when I like the guy. I'd rather some spontaneity these forums won't allow.
However, last night I broke my rule and watched President Obama. The hypocrisy literally set my hair on fire! Understand, I don't necessarily disagree with some of his actions. And, if in the course of events surrounding Iraq, we gave GWB a pass with regard to certain matters, then Obama deserves the same consideration.
However.....the rank, utter hypocrisy of "his" administration vrs. that of GWB and reasons for their respective military actions set my hair on fire. I can admit...he almost matched John Forbes Kerry in the utilization of the word "I".

There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama’s statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending people under attack there by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces."

New Zeal: "Responsibility to Protect" - The End of National Sovereignty As We Know It?

Why Did U.S. President Barack Obama order a military attack on Libya? Why did he seek the permission of the United Nations Security Council, but not that of the U.S. Congress - as he is constitutionally obliged to do?"

Senator Rockefeller coal | Senator Rockefeller fiddles while the coal industry burns | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

A plan to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions is gaining momentum, but Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is playing the spoiler to the growing bi-partisan effort to stop the federal agency’s power grab."

Environmentalists obstacle | clean energy production | NIMBY | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The Obama administration has set a target of having 80 percent of America’s electricity come from “clean energy sources” by 2035, but ironically one of the biggest obstacles to this goal could come from within the environmental movement itself."

Ironically-Named ‘Smart Meters’ Prove to Be a Dumb Idea | The Blaze

Headaches, insomnia, tinnitus, DNA breakdown. . . These are just a few of the myriad problems mentioned when people talk about the constant bombardment of EMFs or electromagnetic frequencies, a huge by-product of the new Smart Meters being installed by public utilities around the country."

Wade Rathke’s Startling Admission: ‘Economic Terrorism’ Engineer Stephen Lerner Is Still on SEIU Payroll | The Blaze

On Sunday morning, The Blaze posted a story about the “return” of ACORN on the world-wide scene. While reading through some of the background material on that story, I noticed something significant."

Protest the Quakertown School District's protection of a radical teacher | Facebook

Unless we, as parents and grand parents keep a vigilant eye on what's happening at school...this will continue to happen. My granddaughters talk to us often about what goes on. My youngest granddaughter Alexis ( something in the name?) is a fierce defender of the Constitution. We taught them early!

Please come out to support our CCG member Glenn Rickabaugh, as he protests the District's protection of a radical teacher in his attempts to indoctrinate high school students, including Glenn's daughter Alexis. Dr. Stevens, a QT High School teacher, in his Health class, has questionned why our country should be run according to a 400 [his mistake] year old document written by rich, old white men and has stated that the 2nd Amendment has no place in today's society since a society is always safer when its citizens do not have the right to bear arms."

Obama and small business | A small businessman's plea to Obama | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

If you are small business and/or employed by one - all I can say as one is AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!

So why is Obama trying to tax us to death? Why do small business owners feel demonized and punished? Is it Obama’s goal to drive us out of business? Or is Obama simply inexperienced, incompetent and clueless about business and how it works?"

Sarah Palin | Bill Maher | Bimbos | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

The present Captain of his "ship" is clueless...except I think Biden is more like the Skipper and well, we all know who Gilligan is......

“I love this,” he said. “If Bachmann and Palin both get in, that’s two bimbos, and then there’s Mitt Romney, a millionaire, Newt Gingrich, a professor. We just need a Skipper and a buddy and we got Gilligan’s Island.”"

Media Matters | Fox News | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

If Fox is the de-facto head of the GOP...then what is CNN? Notice we don't have to sabotage CNN....they do all the work for us!

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” read a 2010 memo by Brock that was acquired by Politico. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”"

Media Matters' war against Fox - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

Of course, when you have no new ideas, no game plan to fight in the arena of ideas, don't want your sneaky little world exposed by Beck and Co., why not scorched earth policy. Good Luck...we are out here watching YOU!

The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”"

ACORN Returns! Sets up Shop Internationally in Egypt, South Korea, and Prague | The Blaze

Trying to stay ahead of "Them" is turning into a giant and never-ending game of Smack a Mole!

Though ACORN shuttered its US operations last year, when its funding dried up as a result of being ambushed by conservative activist James O’Keefe, the outfit’s community organizers are taking their progressivist vision to the international market. ACORN International has just set up offices in South Korea and Prague, according to NOLA.com.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall still a fresh (and happy) memory for many Czech residents, ACORN’s Prague division has ironically decided to call itself the ACORN Comrades Club."

American Thinker: President Bush Runs the Gauntlet to Visit Christian University

While I was briefly amused by the screamers on the sidewalk, two things struck me: President Bush hears this vitriol everywhere he goes, and these people have nothing better to do on a random weeknight than scream at their fellow Phoenicians"

American Thinker: Even Worse than British Unions

Viewers from 'across the pond' are watching with keen interest, as the elemental struggle between Republican politicians and the public sector unions is played out. With, on the one hand, a sense of 'deja vu', and on the other, a feeling that, for once, the old country is in better shape, British observers can see clearly the similarities in circumstances, but also the (primarily legal) differences, between our two countries."

American Thinker: Can We Save America?

The founders of the United States were aware of the failings of mankind and as a result tried to establish a government structure which mitigated those traits. That structure is still in place, but are there national leaders willing to risk their ambitions in order to tell their constituents the awful truth? That the future of the United States is dependent not only upon immediate changes in fiscal policy, but more importantly the people and their leaders must re-constitute American society wherein honor, integrity, self-reliance, restraint, and respect for one's neighbor are paramount. These attributes will also ultimately solve the nation's long-term financial woes and insure the future. Unless the country does so, it will inevitably join the likes of Rome and other nations on the ash heap of history."

Reporter held in closet by VP's people

Reporter Scott Powers was the designated 'pool reporter' for the vice president's Wednesday visit to the massive Winter Park, Fla., home of developer and philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. The veep hadn't arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled chicken Caesar and garden vegetable wraps.

Not so for Powers. A 'low-level staffer' put Powers in a storage closet and then stood guard outside the door, Powers told the DRUDGE REPORT. 'When I'd stick my head out, they'd say, 'Not yet. We'll let you know when you can come out.''"

Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene - Political Punch

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country.

On “This Week,” ABC News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper asked Gates, “Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?”"