Nancy Pelosi lays her cards on the table: she's going to confiscate your 401(k), your IRA, and everything else she can lay her hands on

It's true: Democrats are plotting the confiscation of your 401(k) and IRA retirement plans. Don't believe me. Believe Nancy Pelosi.

...We’re talking about addressing the disparity in our country of income, where the wealthy people continue to get wealthier and some other people are falling out of the middle class, when we want to bring many more people into the middle class.

But that disparity is not just about wages alone, that disparity is about ownership and equity.

It’s all about fairness in our country.

And we believe the healthcare bill is about jobs, the energy bill is about jobs, the education bill is about jobs, certainly the Recovery Act is about jobs...

And when people have those jobs, we want them to be able to bargain collectively. (Applause) We want to pass the Employer Free choice act as well...

If you had any doubt whatsoever that the modern Democrat Party is socialist at its core, Pelosi's talk to the union bosses should disabuse you of that naive notion.

The Democrats are socialists. They are true believers. They're radical sixties retreads.

Consider that France is, at this very moment, suffering from convulsions and gridlock as its unions revolt against hiking the retirement age from 60 to 62. How'd you like to retire at 62? Well, the out-of-control unions think that's radical. And France represents a preview of our future with the unholy alliance of Democrats and union bosses.

The complete shutdown of France's refineries and a rolling transportation strike that has disrupted life for almost two weeks couldn't have come at a worse time for the country's economy... On Friday, France's environment minister Jean-Louis Borloo estimated that about 20 percent of France's service stations had run out of fuel, down from 40 percent earlier in the week before the government began unblocking depots.

If you'd like to surrender to the first counter-revolution in American history -- the Left's direct attack on the Constitution and America's founding -- then don't vote on November 2nd.

Remember all of the anxiety.

All of the angst.

All of the pain.

Remember it.

Rally your family, your friends, your neighbors and everyone you know.

This is it. The Republic hangs in the balance. Nancy Pelosi just said as much.

Pond Scum lobby worried that Harry Reid is giving it a bad name

Look up 'pond scum' in the dictionary and you may see the man who is attempting to tie amnesty for illegal aliens to a defense appropriations bill.

That's right: while we have men and women on the battlefield, a Democrat is once again playing politics with bullets, body armor and MREs.

This Democrat is trying to attach stealth amnesty -- that will encourage illegal immigration -- to a defense appropriations bill.

This Democrat is, for lack of a better term, pond scum.

[Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid has announced he’ll attach a DREAM Act amendment to the defense appropriations bill:

This work period, the Senate will consider the Defense Authorization bill. Along with critical support for our national security forces around the world, this legislation will address two other important issues that are long overdue.

Passage of this bill would overturn the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ rule for our armed forces. We will finally send a loud and clear message that everyone who steps up to serve our country should and will be welcomed regardless of sexual orientation.

We are also offering an amendment to pass the DREAM Act. This amendment will ensure that millions of children who grow up as Americans will be able to get the education they need to contribute to our economy. Students who come to America before age 16 and who have been here for five years should be able get their green card...

What is "The DREAM Act"? You'll love this:

S. 2075, the DREAM Act of 2005: Need a reward for sneaking into the country and then evading the police for five years? Well, how does amnesty and in-state tuition sound?

If my kids sneak out of the country and then back in, can they get the in-state tuition deal?

S. 2075 would grant in-state tuition and amnesty to illegal aliens under the age of 21 who had been physically present in the country for five years and are in 7th grade or above. Such a reward for illegal immigration serves as an incentive for more illegal immigration.

At what point can we stop questioning the Democrat leadership's patriotism and simply declare them enemies of the state?

Or is that too 'right wing'?

Bruce Bartlett: Dead Wrong on Tax Hikes

Bruce Bartlett is a Republican economist who served in the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations. While his history is that of a supply-sider, his recent writings -- including a column for this month's Forbes ("Fiscal Responsibility Requires Higher Taxes") -- indicate Bartlett has fully detached himself from reality.

Even with the economy flat on its back, Bartlett advocates raising taxes. What Bartlett fails to take into account, like so many misguided souls, is that economics is not a zero-sum game. Consider the following chart that compares historical tax rates to federal revenues as a percentage of GDP:

Put simply, raising taxes simply disincents productivity, drives businesses offshore and reduces innovation.

Barlett also gives currency to the preposterous notion of a Clinton-inspired economic boom.

During Bill Clinton's administration, Democratic economists got religion on deficits. They believe that his 1993 tax increase sparked an economic boom.

Bartlett and the "Democrat economists" assert that some sort of magical policy measure, orchestrated by Bill Clinton, resulted in huge value creation and attendant economic growth. These pundits -- and many others -- have forgotten two tiny, inconsequential drivers of the stock market during the Clinton years:

First, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Freaking Web.

The web was released as a free service by the CERN research facility in 1993. Out of this technology arose trillions in market capitalization (even today, after the end of the tech and real estate booms). Companies like eBay, Google, Yahoo, and Amazon emerged, transforming global commerce.

Second, another immense boost to the economy was delivered by the "Year 2000" computer remediation effort (or "Y2K"). A huge repair investment -- estimated at between $300 billion to $500 billion -- occurred in the late nineties as governments and companies rushed to make their computer systems "Y2K-compliant."

Any serious observer recognizes that the economic surge of the nineties was the result of the invention of the web along with the Y2K remediation effort. These events had about as much to do with Clinton's stewardship of the economy as I have responsibility for the invention of the Fudgsicle ®.

Put simply, a trained dolphin could have been President during the late 90's tech boom. Come to think of it, even a philandering, disbarred former attorney who sold missile secrets to the Chinese for campaign donations while allowing terrorists to relentlessly attack U.S. interests could have been President.

Either way, the tech boom would have happened.

Bartlett continues:

Everyone knows that fiscal discipline must be restored eventually, or we will face truly horrifying consequences--defaulting on the debt, nonpayment of Social Security benefits, a collapsing dollar, and double-digit inflation and interest rates. Everyone also knows that this will involve a combination of higher revenues and lower spending. The idea that we can restore fiscal health only with spending cuts is childish...

Cutting hundreds of billions in outlays can be accomplished easily. There is no need for HUD. For the Departments of Education, Labor, Commerce, the EPA and a myriad of other bureaucracies that arose in the wake of the New Deal and Carter-era radicalism.

Reducing taxes increases risk-taking, entrepreneurship and innovation. It promotes capitalism and free trade. It spurs hiring, grows new industries from whole cloth and improves the quality of life for all.

Reducing taxes while slashing spending on needless bureaucracies is a necessity for the country's economic health. It's a pity that a former Reagan-ite like Bartlett seems to have forgotten this crucial lesson.

Ronald Reagan's 2012 Address To America

For 9/12: a must-watch.

Part I

Part II

Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters

Little-remembered homily from Ronald Reagan's state funeral

I don't know what conservatives are complaining about when they observe that the Kennedy grandkids were trotted out at his public funeral ceremony to pimp socialized medicine. It's not the first time such an event has been politicized. Why, don't you remember this brief prayer from President Reagan's funeral service?



Let us pray.

Dear Lord, we beseech you to instill in all persons of this great land...

...an abiding desire to respect the rights of the individual as envisioned by this nation's founders.

To enact a flat tax, which protects the individual's private property from unjust confiscation by an out-of-control federal government.

To promote the continued development of a missile shield, which will make our nation immeasurably safer.

And to slash the size and budgets of federal bureaucracies by 20% or more, as they exceed any powers granted by the Constitution.

And it is only fitting that these policies are enacted immediately in honor of President Reagan's passing.

Let us say... Amen.


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Your end-of-year Reagan fix

Always inspiring.

• The Reagan Wit • Reagan 2008 Tribute at RNC • "Tear down this wall" • Reagan Oval Office Farewell • Reagan advises Obama supporters • "Government is not the solution..." • Reagan on the age issue • Morning in America ad • Reagan responds to Sam Donaldson • Reagan's 1980 RNC Speech • Reagan's impromptu speech in 1976 • Reagan in 1964

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Top Reagan Quotes
Ripped off from: Denny.

"Rendering... nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete"

There's this:

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, March 23, 1983

and then there's this:

...a group of countries, led by Israel and the U.S., had been working since 1981 on a mega-secret project to develop and deploy a weapon system that can neutralize nuclear weapons. The highly advanced, space-deployable, BHB weapon system, code-named XXXBHB-BACAR-1318-I390MSCH, has extraordinary potential and is a key part of the West's deterrence strategy. For the past twenty-five years, the project and the scientists involved in it were kept in strict secrecy and their existence denied. The scientists rejected Nobel Physics prize and Nobel Peace prize nominations and have been repeatedly and deliberately the subject of intense military disinformation through the media in order to divert attention from their highly secretive work... ...Although we have only limited information, it appears that Iran's rapidly developing nuclear capabilities could be neutralized and rendered obsolete, as could the capabilities of other rogue countries... -- Thomas McInerney, Paul Vallely writing in Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror