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There were five forms of governance that migrated from theory to reality in the 20th Century: Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism. The common denominator among them was unprecedented control and regulation by the State over human activity. It is delusional to think that the totalitarian impulse expired with the 20th Century.
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Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it’s worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich’s former political opponents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrich’s ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand. It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses. Afterwards, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter. And then, after it was all over and Gingrich was out of office, the IRS concluded that Gingrich did nothing wrong. After all the struggle, Gingrich was exonerated.
…Gingrich was exonerated. The Washington Post ran a brief story on page five. The Times ran an equally brief story on page 23. And the evening newscasts of CBS, NBC, and ABC — which together had devoted hours of coverage to the question of Gingrich’s ethics — did not report the story at all. Not a word.
“I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that’s not a solution is a waste of time.
“If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down.
“We either save this country or we do not.
Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data:
Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued — or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
..”Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring,” said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.
State, local governments set to see record job cuts, layoffs – State and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs in the third quarter, the first time the blood-letting has risen into the triple digits, according to IHS Global Insight.
Congress Mulls Cuts to Food Stamps Program Amid Record Number of Recipients – More than 44.5 million Americans received SNAP benefits in March, an 11 percent increase from one year ago and nearly 61 percent higher than the same time four years ago.
Obama Botches Toast to the Queen – The president kept going … as the awkward moment played out. The Queen looked ahead as the UK anthem played.
President Obama Has No Idea What Year It Is – It was really nice until he got the date wrong by three years. Granted, 2008 was a great year for him, and we might try to live it for as long as possible, too, if we were him.
The Game Of Chicken: Collision, Blood and Bones – In my view, the 320 level on the CRB was more than enough to trigger the switch, and it corresponds with the first riots in Tunisia and then Egypt. If the Fed continues its purchases, we can calculate that each new $100 billion of Treasury purchased will add about 5 percent to the commodity index and $7 to oil. It takes four weeks for the Fed to purchase $100 billion in Treasuries. What a game of chicken being played out and right before our eyes! You can sense the collision, flying glass, blood and bones at almost any moment.
Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success – In Obama’s world, success mean taxpayers only lost as much as $84 billion.
One-Third of a French Fry Short of a Big Mac Meal:
So, consider: if you were to go on what the Democrats consider a starvation diet, and “slash” your calorie intake to exactly the same degree that the Republicans’ $6 billion cut has “slashed” the federal budget, you would do the following. Go to McDonalds and order a Big Mac Extra Value meal. Eat the Big Mac. Drink the Coke. Eat 86 of the 87 french fries. Carefully take the last fry and bite off two-thirds of it. Put the remaining one-third of one fry back in the bag.
Obama’s Tribute To Big Government:
State Of The Union: If President Obama’s intention Tuesday night was to shift the inspiration away from the forces arrayed against him, his hour-long paean to government spending failed. “Sputnik” has crashed.
Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech of the summer of 1979, in which he seemed oblivious to the American spirit, ended up in the judgment of history as the archetype of his presidency. Barack Obama may have just done the same thing to himself with the “Sputnik Speech.”
The Abiding Faith Of Warm-mongers – The weather turns cold and wet? It’s global warming, they say. Weather turns hot? Global warming. No change? Global warming. More hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? You guessed it … This is what global warming is really about — wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate.
Keith Olbermann quit Twitter because of me:
Olbermann had no problem with describing the notoriously unruly Anonymous as “online activists,” and yet, when online activists who happened to be feminists took issue with him, well … they’d gone FRENZIED! They were like sharks in the salty sea water of Twitter, thrashing and chomping at Keith Olbermann’s tender, online flesh!
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Sady Doyle destroys Olbermann and Michael Moore in this one article. Those two should pack their bags and move to Cuba…
‘Obama unlikely to last his first term’ – A US analyst says US President Barack Obama is unlikely to end his first term as there are serious efforts by American officials to remove him due to his incompetence … “Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern … he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem.”
Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, ‘No New Deficit Spending’ – When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion … Pelosi, the 60th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has added more to the national debt than the first 57 House speakers combined.
Fools Rush in Where Europe Rushes Out – As of this writing, France is paralyzed. By the time you read this, it might be in flames … In Britain, where politics is more polite but the problems are perhaps just as dire … In Greece, well, the less said about Greece the better … In broad terms, all of the policies Obama and the Democrats have pushed are the sorts of policies the British, the French, and other Europeans had for years, even decades.
WOW: The 8/28 conservative rally versus the 10/2 liberal rally.
Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare:
..Ignagni, the recipient of the letter, says, “It’s a basic law of economics that additional benefits incur additional costs.”
“Congress shall make no law,” reads the First Amendment, “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
Sebelius’ approach is different: “zero tolerance” for dissent.
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Scarlet letters for the auto industry – Once upon a time authorities might have stigmatized the likes of Hester Prynne with a scarlet “A” to express their moral disapproval. Now authorities reserve their opprobrium, and unflattering letters, for SUVs, vans and sport cars and the motorists who desire them.
Obama’s failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war:
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